Tag: gif exception

Source unknown – Title unknown (201X)

Immature people
falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a
prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help
each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with
freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is
ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only
immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they
were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot
stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They
don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to
stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature
person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it.
When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life
happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet
tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one.
Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is
no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom
and love.
                   — Osho (via theceesupreme)

The first step is to say, ‘God,’ and nothing else; the second is intimacy; and the third is to burn.
                   —
Attar, Essential Sufism, edited by James Fadiman and Robert Frager (via blackshivers)

Source: thegreatrite

Source unknown – Title unknown (201X)

My thought with this was originally merely to add one of those diagrams of what areas of the tongue register what kinds tastes. However, as it turns out, that notion has been thoroughly debunked.

First off, there’s no longer just bitter, salty, sour and sweet. There’s umami–which refers to something that is savory (I always think of it as the craving you get for a veggie burger cooked exactly to your preference.

Also, apparently these days they are thinking that fat may actually be a sixth factor contributing to taste.

Interestingly, it’s theorized that receptors designed to register sweetness are binary–they only register whether something is sweet or not? Whereas something that is bitterness has a vast spectrum of distinct variations.

Source unknown – Title unknown (201X)

There’s this notion in acoustics called the Precedence effect.

Given two identical sounds in rapid succession, the two distinct sounds fuse into what is perceived as a single tone.

Interestingly, as long as both sounds can be heard before there is any echo, the sound will always be heard as if it is emerging from the first source, even if the second source is positioned on a drastically different axis.

I think there’s something similar with the notion of pornography. If an initial reaction to something is instinctively a knee-jerk, clutch the pearls OMFG, that’s pornographic, then I think the tendency is to lump whatever follows into the same category. Like that’s not something I think about that’s something I don’t care to see or want to jack/jill to.

Unlike acoustics, however, the porn precedence effect isn’t a result of biology, it’s a product of acculturation. I’ve always found it more interesting to ask questions like

What about this do I find arousing? What do I find off-putting? Why?

This leads to the questions what is done well? vs. what could be done better?

I think this is interesting because my first thought is not that this is pornographic. And it’s interesting that not seeing it immediately as porn widens the scope of my reactions to it.

I think about things like mutual desire, consent. How’s she’s presented completely in the frame–bearing in mind that this has almost certainly been cropped from a horizontally rectangular orientation.

(It’s also a bit sloppy. His arm is blocking her light but that mistake somehow contributes a great sense of personal agency and given her position and movement within the frame–which is compellingly dynamic–there’s no way this could’ve been shot from a different angle so as to not interfere with the light.)

This conveys a feeling of tenderness in intimacy for me which I think is as rare as it is adorbs.

Source: sex101

Source unknown – Nacho Vidal & Kristina Rose (2015)

This position is apparently called The Amazon. SWOON.

This gif? As much as I’m always harping about #skinnyframebullshit, I will admit there’s room to argue w/r/t still photographs/images. There’s not when it comes to video–go horizontal or stay your ass home.

Also, I had not seen the scene this is from before deciding to post it. I have subsequently seen enough of the video to know that it’s both too extreme, sexist and seemingly unconcerned with consent to be something I’m ever going to be into. Still, I do think this is gif is sexy af and the segment of the larger clip it’s from is slightly less obnoxious than the rest of the video.

Source: plumeti-and-sex