it seems that a lot of times people telling someone to “get therapy” envision the ideal outcome of this to be essentially like lobotomizing the person in question

"go get made normal by the normalmakers"

On the Sofa (1902)

by Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933)

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im no longer warning people about the sixties sfx in tos instead grabbing them by the shoulders and screaming there are aliens made of bubble wrap and latex and so much glitter. most of the episodes are blatantly filmed in southern california or three rotating sets featuring either pink orange or blue rocks. people jump off walls and pirouette when they get "punched". the ship beeps. a lot. too much for realism. spock goes into heat. dont worry about it. the point is there is no BUT. im not going to say "its very silly but its fun" ENOUGH! it's silly AND it's fun!!!!you will learn to love it all because when was the last time you looked at bubble wrap and a back garden and saw another world? remember how much fun it was? do you want to try again?!?!! do you want to play!!!!

The amount of utterly shameless camp in TOS is something not a single other entry in the Trek franchise has ever been able to replicate. Obviously-styrofoam boulders, a small dog dressed in a teeny alien costume, every vivid-colored and strangely-cut jumpsuit known to mankind and then some, everything glitters including things that shouldn't glitter, random Abraham Lincoln, aliens are just Some Dudes with dark eyeshadow patchily smeared all over their faces... ... and it somehow became one of the more influential shows in the history of television. Some of those episodes, with the camp, and the cheese, and the styrofoam, and the glitter, and the jumpsuits, manage to touch on social topics that were not only incredibly relevant to the time they aired, but (unfortunately) continue to be extremely relevant to this day. Some lines hit like a goddamn bullet, and some are casual fun. Some feel like a gut punch, and some are lighthearted and amusing. And the thing is, on first watch, you will never know which episode will have what. You go into an episode and there's glitter and nonsensical costumes and everyone's quoting Shakespeare, and you think, 'oh, this is gonna be a silly one', and then boom, you've got an episode about eugenics, genocide, PTSD, and fanatical serial-killing. You start an episode and everyone's acting like an idiot, and Spock's laughing and swinging in trees and locking lips with some jumpsuited lady, and you're like, oh-ho, that's hilarious— and then you get Kirk antagonizing Spock with horrible insults, and Spock ultimately revealing that being drugged was the first time he's ever felt happiness and it's just a slap to the face. TOS is stunning social commentary and deep, emotional topics dressed as mindless, silly campiness, and it is utterly unapologetic about it.

Paintings of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli

The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874)

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

medieval heart-shaped prayer book in a medieval painting and in real life

Sometimes I see a book review that's like "THIS BOOK 👉 📖 is SICK 🤢 and TWISTED 😵‍💫 Not only are there TORTURE SCENES 😵🩸 against WOMEN 🙋‍♀️ (anti feminist much????! 😡) but also SEX 🫂 VIOLENCE 🔪 and RELIGIOUS TRAUMA?? 🙏⛪ (random???? 🫥🤔) I would NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK 🙅❌ to ANYONE ‼️‼️ it is PERVERSE 🤨 and WEIRD!!! 😱 I did NOT expect this from THIS BOOK!!.! 😤" and the book is titled The Twisted Pervert's Guide to Torture and Lesbian Nun Sex

I'm just a simple girl with simple tastes, and I'm craving a loumand The Nanny AU where millionaire Louis de Pointe du Lac accidentally hires newly single Armand to take care of Claudia. Then we have 6 seasons of Armand dressing in increasingly slutty outfits in an attempt to seduce Louis into marriage

Like, consider the possibilites

Period-/Fantasyfilms + dancing

various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley & The Bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Mia Goth as Claire Frankenstein & Elizabeth Harlander in Frankenstein (2025)

'Parisian' Leonid Arkadyevich Tseitlin

The opposite of a haunting is something very lonely, Katie Maria /// there's a little girl in my head, @heavensickness /// Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party (1964) by Norman Rockwell /// Changing, Liv Ullmann /// found photograph with my words /// what they don't tell you, @tryworks /// Anne with an E, A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good (3x07) /// Time Travel by Emhahee /// Second Wave (2023) by Amy Dury /// Katie Maria

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

Celestial Glass Globe created by Swedish Sculptor Edward Hald, circa 1929.