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#hatsune miku#miku hatsune#vocaloid#vocaloid fanart#my art#THE LITTLE MIKU IS KYRGYZ MIKU#since her birthday is on kyrgyzstan independence day
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"she would not wear that" ok but she can look a little cute for her birthday
HAPPY PEKO DAY!!!@!
#danganronpa#dr2#danganronpa 2#sdr2#goodbye despair#peko pekoyama#artlying#my art#also happy birthday to my grandma!! and congo independence day yay#what a busy day#i wouldve done more for Her but i didnt have time..for aforementioned reasons
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i love being a big sister ><
#my sister works really close to me so when i finish i sometimes pop by and give her food#and it’s so nice to see her face brighten up a little when i come in#normally when i come home from work i peek into her room before i go into mine#and she always looks kinda skrunkly in her bed if she’s been home all day#so it gives me cute aggression LMFAO#she’s not telling me where she’s taking me for my birthday and i can’t help but feel bad bc she’s paying 😭😭😭#she’s very much an independent little lady but i can’t help but dote on her ahhaahhahajagabakahh#chitchatting ᵔᴗᵔ#there’s this one hoodie she has that’s kind of fuzzy#so she looks like a little bear#and i cannot contain my cute aggression with this one#so whenever she wears it i kind of yank her hoodie up like how you lift a kitten by the scruff of their neck
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it's my birthday so i made a low effort meet the artist for fun ft. my new fursona lol
#i say new fursona as if i ever had any actual one but then everything changed bc of one picrew. now this is my fursona (a lynx)#lynx bc it's a wordplay with my name. but only the diminutive of it. also lynxes are just cool cats#when i say picking up stuff in the wild i mean that i have a mini nature museum in my cupboard lol. including a box full of rocks#also my birthday is on poland's independence day. so it's always free! tho this year it's saturday anyway#my art
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TODAY WE CELEBRATE
(my dog's birthday, I mean)
his name is Obi and he's six and I wish to share his joy with all of you 🥰
#anyway happy birthday to the best boy in my life#best doggo#shockingly enough i did not name him obi#pure coincidence that he got paired with me#a feral owk fan#service dogs#could say something about the relationship between independence day being his birthday and the amount of independence he's given me#the sentiment is there#multiple sclerosis
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i know this has been done already but since u reblogged a post about it i would absolutely kill for your take on if karolina found shiv scheduling her grief instead of tom 🙏
first off, thank you so much for the ask, and sorry for the long long wait!!
secondly, i've cheated a bit - this was supposed to be a part of the fic that i'm currently writing, but i've had to cut it. I'm really fond of it, though, so I hope you like it :)
it's a much milder take than i'd envisioned, and in the context of an established relationship i definitely would've made it angstier, but i think it fits somewhat close to canon
read below <3
'Indulged child' — seven letters, starts with an S or the healing properties of the NYT Games app
Karolina steps into the meeting room, tension already melting off her shoulders, and almost trips on the poorly installed carpeting when she spots Siobhan sitting at the end of the conference table. Her head is bowed, cradled between her hands, so Karolina can’t see her face.
“Oh, sorry.” she blinks, stopping a few feet away from the table. “I didn’t know you had the room booked.”
Karolina watches as Shiv turns her head, attempting to cover the fact that she’d been crying. She wipes hurriedly at her nose, and only meets Karolina’s eyes after she’s composed herself.
“It’s fine.” she shrugs. “I’m done anyway.”
Then, Shiv rises from her chair quickly and begins clearing her things off the table before Karolina has the chance to say anything. She hasn’t brought many things: some pens, a notebook that’s been opened on a blank page, a pack of tissues, Shiv’s tablet—just enough knick-knacks to make it seem like she’d been working. Shiv’s back is turned to Karolina so she can’t see all of the table, but she knows it couldn’t take more than a few seconds to gather everything.
Still, she stays silent, watching the lines of Shiv’s shoulders like landmines, like birds about to take flight. As if reminding herself of their existence—and reminding herself to control them, she pulls her hands closer to herself.
“Are you—”
“I’m good.” Shiv cuts her off. She finally turns to face Karolina, her things now stacked on top of each other in her hands. “It’s all yours.” she nods towards the table.
Karolina takes a tentative step forward as Shiv starts making her way out of the room. As she approaches the table, she spots Shiv’s phone lying face down. She sets her things on the table, before turning to Shiv.
“Oh, Shiv, I think you forgot—”
As she calls out, the phone begins ringing. She picks it up, turning it around to see the timer notification flashing on the screen.
“Were you meditating?” she frowns, cracking a smile.
She reaches to hand Shiv the phone, pretending not to see the tiny trail of blood pooling at the base of her thumb nail.
“No.” Shiv swallows. A beat. “Crying, actually, yeah.”
She clears her throat, tilting her head as if challenging Karolina to say anything. To throw a punch.
“I—I’m so sorry, Shiv.” Karolina blinks, barely croaking the words out. “I’ll let you—”
“It’s fucking fine, Karolina.” Shiv snaps. “Take the goddamn room. I’m done.”
Her eyes are red-rimmed, and the hand she’s raised to silence Karolina is just shy of shaking.
“I’m just hiding out from Kendall.” Karolina sighs, rubbing the bridge of her nose. “He keeps asking me for feedback on his pitch but all it is, is just—buzzwords.”
She catches the faintest smile flash across Shiv’s face, which spurs her on.
“Dynamic. Innovation. Convergence.” she coos, raising her brows and shaking her hands in front of herself like an old-timey snake-oil seller.
That gets a full-fledged chuckle out of Shiv, and when Karolina drops her hands and sets her face into a familiar scowl it erupts into real laughter. She lets Shiv enjoy this brief reprieve, before gesturing to the room.
“So please, take the room. I have my assistant blocking it as important, so it’s yours for the next hour. I can hide out someplace else.”
She doesn’t give Shiv a chance to refuse, grabbing her things and turning to leave before Shiv takes a step forwards, blocking her way.
“I’m not going to sit here and cry for an entire fucking hour.” Shiv scowls, shaking her head. Then, she nods towards Karolina’s bag and the laptop peeking out of it. “What were you gonna do while you were hiding?”
“Catch up on work, probably, I don’t know.” Karolina pulls her lips into a tight line. “Maybe a crossword?”
“Crossword?” Shiv raises a brow. She looks Karolina up and down, frowning. “How old are you, again?”
“Right, sorry—” Karolina sucks her teeth, raising a pointed brow. “I assume the last puzzle you were able to solve came on the back of a cereal box?”
“Well, yeah, because after that I got real hobbies.” Shiv shakes her head, her grinning. “What, d’you play those hidden object games, too? Look for tiny fucking keys in those weird drawings?”
Karolina looks down as her cheeks start burning. Shiv catches it, and bursts into laughter.
“Oh my god. Karolina, no.”
A part of her wants to believe she’s only doing it for Siobhan’s sake. That she’s humoring the other woman as an act of kindness—some version of an apology for not extending any kind of support after Logan’s death. But she’s apologized enough times in her life to know one rarely finds delight in the act of apology, so when her eyes meet Shiv’s and she lets her lips turn up into a smile, Karolina knows the real reason she hasn’t left the room already is much simpler—she doesn’t want to.
“What hobby should I pick up, then, Siobhan?”
“God, there’s so many.” Shiv’s cheeks puff out. “Let’s see…”
She starts listing what Karolina guesses are her ideas of a pensioner’s hobbies: gardening, knitting, pickling, making jams—getting all the way down to walking around parks and standing all still and creepy to watch pigeons.
With each finger she uses to enumerate, Shiv’s grin widens. Karolina nods her along, pretending to be impressed until Shiv runs out of ideas.
“Or just volunteer at an elderly home.” she shrugs. “I’m sure the ladies would love to have you over for canasta.”
“Mhm.” Karolina nods, pursing her lips. “I’ll think about it.”
They sit in silence for a brief moment, neither making a first step.
“So, uh, can I see one?” Shiv finally asks.
“See what?”
“One of your crosswords, nerd.” she chuckles.
“Oh.” Karolina blinks. “I mean—really, Shiv, I can let you be—” she points to the door.
“Well, I don’t feel like crying anymore.” Shiv clears her throat, cutting her off. “And I don’t feel like going back out there yet, so… Unless you’re, you know, very private about your… crosswords.”
Karolina rolls her eyes. As she turns around to rummage through her bag for her tablet, Shiv steps closer until she’s right behind Karolina. When she leans forward to put her own things back on the table her arm brushes against Karolina’s. From up close, Karolina can distinguish each thin trail of blood wrapped around the irises of her eyes, and the blue shadows creeping up from under her concealer.
In the months after her own father’s passing, Karolina remembers going through them like candies.
Each week, she would reach into the bottom of her bag and pull up crumpled up receipts for concealer, whiskey, and the occasional lottery ticket—her dad’s guilty pleasure.
She used the same numbers each time, just like he'd taught her: each of their birthdays, twenty-eight, and eleven.
On the last ticket she bought, she put down the date of his death: seventeen, three, twenty, eight, then twenty-eight, and eleven.
It won her $10 that she never bothered to cash in.
So, she knows what it’s like—the make-up, the perfectly timed crying breaks, the split ends, the furrowed brows. The way it would hit (and still does, sometimes, on rainy days) so suddenly it would leave her breathless, like something had dislodged itself within her chest and all day long she’d have go on with her business as if that horrible rattling wasn’t ringing in her ears and reverberating inside her entire body like a war drum.
Karolina knows what Shiv is going through, but she also knows that grief is like a fingerprint. That it belongs so intimately to the person going through it. Defined by the very matter of their being, and from the moment it has formed—defining them in return.
So she doesn’t offer an apology, or a hug or, worse, advice. Instead, she sits down and waits for Shiv to do the same. When she does, Karolina turns on her tablet and opens the crossword app with her upturned hand stretched out towards Shiv, palm open and fingerprints exposed.
Then, Karolina begins explaining the basic rules of crosswords.
#shivlina#shiv x karolina#karolina novotney#siobhan roy#succession fic#im feeling funky w my writing rn ://// this mammoth fic is beating my damn ass#karolina nyt games app stan??? more likely than you'd think#i didnt write that particular date month first because i'm not a heathen#so its march 17th 2008#i chose the date randomly but according to birthdayjamz dot com the most popular song that day was 'love in this club' by usher#and you know what they SHOULD be makin love in the clubbbb#and 28.11 is czechoslovak independence day#NO ONE gets between a european dad and his 'lucky' lottery numbers (everyone's birthday or the day their favorite team qualified for uefa)#my fics#prompt fill
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Happy Birthday to this beautiful man 🌶️✨
#happy birthday smooth operator#formula 1#f1#formula one#Carlos sainz#if I have to celebrate a SPANISH MAN on the month of my country’s Independence Day then I’m glad it’s Carlos
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big holidays are so insane heres this thing that throws a wrench into your schedule whole months ahead and youre stressing and wasting money into performing to some nebulous standard its never good enough and then on the day you spend it with people you probably dont like. And everyone expects you to be cummingggg over this
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Scientists: want so badly for adult children who are friends with and/or still dependant on parents for money or a roof to be Bad that they are intentionally looking for detriment in the study results
Study results: so overwhelmingly positive they can't actually find the data needed to twist the narrative
Scientists: >:|
#i read an article#the article was pro kid/parent friendship and dependance bc MANY studies have shown that's beneficial to both sides#but people want SO BADLY to believe the fiction of Independence and it's necessarity that they think parents who still#care about and frequently talk to their grown kids are causing codependency and setting them up for failure and like#not inherently#living with my mother was super beneficial and i still would be if he wasn't anti ever living in MO again and i anti livinf in TX until#it's again a state i can comfortably live in as a trans person#like if i lived with my dad and step mom there'd be reason to question bc while he's gotten better she's just as bad#and expects me to sit down and take emotional abuse and revisionist history from my father's memories of abusive days#whereas dad will thank me for calling him out once he gets over the understandable moment of hurt in realizing what he thoughr was helping#one of his kids was actually hugely painful and detrimental#but also me asking my father for money isn't a danger to my independence it's a sign of the failure of the system#it's not a ''failure to launch'' it's a 'the system and economy are so broken it is literally impossible to get on your feet on your own'#like come off it#look at other societies and multigenerational homes#are they suffering for it? no! then why would we be????#like if you raise a child and all but evict them from your life when they're 18 then like. do you actually love them? do you actually care?#or did you feel like children was an obligation and now it's over and they only matter for holidays and birthdays?#bc the latter is much more of an issue than adult kids '''''boomeranging''''''
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yeah sure whatever its my birthday but its also VENEZUELAN INDEPENDENCE DAY 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪
#p#ty to the person who rbd a post about birthdays telling me my birthday and their independence day are on the same day. i love you
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It's my 33rd Birthday!
It's my birthday! I still don't understand how I'm 33 now. Time really flies!! Also happy 4th of July!! 🇺🇸🎇🎂💖💕🎀
#4th of july#july 4th#independence day#america#usa#birthday#my birthday#33rd birthday#over 30#scp 425
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HAPPY BRITHDAY MY COUNTRY HAVE APH AMERICA AND 4TH OF JULY MIKU (og art not mine I just added the American stuff of the 2nd photo)
#usa#aph hetalia#aph america#4th of july#happy 4th of july#4th of July Miku !!#we love them#my country !!#shitpost#united states#yassss#happy birthday#america#idk man#send help#fireworks#july 4th#july 2024#fourth of july#independence day#countryhumans#???#screw canada
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I can't wait to be made fun of by my entire family for not drinking alcohol 🙂👍
#i made the decision when i was 13 and ive never questioned it#ive tasted a little bit of alcohol anyway and i hate it so what am i missing out on. nothing#my brother has always made fun of me and judged me for it#and hes very..... he thinks hes very cool bc he buys expensive whiskey. you know#my family aren't super strict like you cant touch alcohol a second before you turn 21 so maybe theyve already noticed??#but it will be very obvious once i actually am 21#and everyone is gonna .. have opinions about it#especially my uncle . who loves making fun of me any chance he gets#so im sure he'll have a field day 😀#also my birthday is the same time as independence day and my whole family has a pool party the first weekend of july bc of that#(independence day not my birthday)#but its always within a few days of my birthday#and a summer independence day pool party a few days after your 21st birthday is a great time for alcohol !!!1!1!!1#is what they will all say
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IT'Z MY BIRTHDAY!!! YIPPIE!!!
F0r my birthday y0u must draw sissel gh0st trick B^3
If y0u want that iz...
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it’s not that I think I’m never going to get married. it’s that I am never going to get married the way I thought I would. I am not going to fall in love with a nice young man, get married in a whirlwind of youth and optimism, and have ten kids. I am not going to learn who I am as an adult as part of a team, with my partner by my side. that story is currently going on with my college friends who are celebrating fifth anniversaries and having second kids, but I missed the start of that timeline and it went on without me. I am not going to have that story, I cannot. I am not young and naive enough. I have already grown into who I’m going to be by myself, figured out adulthood and built my own habits without a partner. I cannot have ten kids, I literally don’t have enough years of fertility left. and there’s no conveniently single male friend waiting, Gilbert Blythe-like, in the wings of my life who could turn things around quickly so that I could even begin to catch up. my story will be something else - might be meeting someone in my thirties or forties, probably falling in love slowly because of the trust issues, and maybe having two or three kids, maybe adopting more. it’s a fine story. it could probably make me very happy. but it’s not at all the story I thought I’d have. I always wanted my mom’s life, and I am not going to have it.
#a version of this has been in my drafts for something like three years#I’m posting it because it’s why the movie made me so sad#and because maybe other people are weighed down under this today too#idk my sister and her husband and daughter have been staying with us for a couple weeks#and I love seeing them#but I worry that I’m just way too set in my ways to ever have that now#I worry that I am so used to being by myself and doing what I want to do#that there’s too much selfishness in me now#that the same self-assured independent qualities which make it hard to fall in love#would actually make me a bad wife and mother#and that’s what I’ve been thinking about for the last two weeks!#happy birthday to me#in which cate tells stories#discount chocolate day
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Happy Birthday to the most benevolent Goddess! Did you know that Napoleon shares a birthday with you? What a lucky guy!
Thank you anon! Yes yes, he is lucky, ha! But I am far luckier because I have wonderful followers like you!!!
#i also share a birthday with Julia Child#and Ben Affleck#and the independence day of india#and one of my elementary classmates#and one of my cousins#happy birthday
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