#*jaia

[icepandawarrior]

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DAY 13: PRY THEM OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS

[correctshadowhunters]

jace: raise your hand if you don't like me. clary: and what do we do if we like you? maia, both hands in the air: raise your standards.

[aquietgirlsmess]

It's a shame that Shadowhunters was based on a book because honestly I would loved for the show to explore Jace & Maia some more.

[sierraoregonsky]

I take a lot of pictures of my dog Jaia.

Here's Jaia in the autumn leaves.

[neishroom]

first harvest fest after rocky and harvey passed away... + family updates

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shoutout to my pookies for sending me their sims!

shani by @simsadilla + lalita by @planetpxls

[sprolden]

i cant believe maia's butterfly tattoo was actually in the books??? remembering #jaia on this day. the single most insane yet perfect decision any of the writers on that show ever made. not sure what compelled them to make that a thing but it sure as hell did what they intended it to do and more. truly a moment for the history books

[dxisiesdukes]

love being back and forth between the dorm and her family’s place she’d gotten used to, but never failed to effect her. being the older two of the group, on daisy’s seldem free days she often found herself wanting to wander into her room when she wanted company, only to find it empty. they rarely were split up for variety and schedules, but sometimes deiji looked forward to the one on one time with her. she loved jinnie to death but the vibes were different, laid back, mature in a different way. 

she often, shed the mask a little bit with the other around. felt less like a leader and more like an equal, a friend of sorts though deiji wasn’t actually sure if any of her connections were real or a reflection of the mask she’d held on since she was young. jaia was, buzzy, thunderous in a way. nice and calm but grey  clouds that made daisy feel...blanketed in an ambiance she could relax in.

finally looking up from her phone her chair, eyes peering around the pins that held the water waves they were trying to cement to her forehead for their appearance. “i think i prefer the late night talk show-y type stuff better.” she said those eyes directed to the vocalist. her london-er drawl curving and rounding out her words. deiji reached for the pile of snacks in front of her, picking up a bag of chips for them both and tossing it over to jaia’s station. “do you think they’re gonna gab on about our scandals and dating life and know nothing about our music, or only know about our brand deals, and still know absolute shite about our music?” deiji added with a laugh as she sat back in her chair, pulling the top of the bag apart. 

♡ → w/ @jcias​ in ‘and then there were two,’

[ludwighumboldt]

@psychadell

two characters who understand each other like no one else does and therefore hurt each other like no one else can

[icepandawarrior]

💕 (14/?)

[correctshadowhunters]

jace: we should normalize not loving family members. maia: you could just say, "i hate my dumb fucking uncle" or whatever. talk like a normal person!

[neishroom]

zion's wife, janelle randomly passed away

[inthewindtunnel]

Italoconnection

Ft. Jaia Sowden

Just Like Water

[useless-catalanfacts]

The caparrots (big-headed figures used in some Catalan traditional holidays representing stereotypes or characters) in the town of Alcúdia (Mallorca, Balearic Islands) during the town's fair.

The characters represent some characters from Mallorcan culture. In order of appearance in the video:

The two knights represent King James I the Conqueror and the Moorish King. James I was the king of Catalonia-Aragon who conquered Mallorca in the year 1229. Before, Mallorca was an Islamic kingdom since the Islamic conquest in the year 903. With James I's conquest, the island was repopulated with settlers from Catalonia, for this reason he is seen as a founder figure of modern Mallorcan culture. The Moorish King figure represents the king who retreated to James I's conquest. For this reason, the dance performed by these two caparrots ressembles a fight.

L'amo de so na Moixa ("the owner of Moixa house") is a character from a folktale who was a very lazy man. One day, he had to carry a flour sack to his home but he was so lazy that, instead of lifting the weight to put the sack on his donkey, he decided to throw the flour to the wind, believing that the wind would take it to his house.

Na Pixedis bruta ("dirty Pixedis"). This is the stereotype of a girl child whose mother wants her to behave in a ladylike way. She dresses her well and wants her to be polite and clean, but the child gets dirty playing on the streets and eats with her fingers getting all her face dirty.

Sa Jaia Tonina ("Grandma Tonina") is a character from Mallorcan folktales. She is a fairy disguised as an elderly woman. She wears traditional Mallorcan clothes and hands out sweets to children.

En Gori dolenteries ("naughty Gori") represents the stereotype of a child who misbehaves. He does so many stupid things that he has grown donkey ears. The more asinine things he does, the bigger his donkey ears grow.

Maria Enganxa ("Maria Hooks"). Character from Mallorcan legends who we talked about before in this post. She is said to live in wells and cisterns and has a hook with which she catches children who wander off too close to the wells.

En Tòfol mentider ("Lying Tòfol") represents the stereotype of a child who tells lies. He has a horn in his forehead representing the saying that liars grow a horn.

Ramon Llull: a writer and Christian theologist from the Middle Ages and one of the most important theologists in Europe's history, as well as one of the most important writers in Medieval literature and Catalan literature as a whole. He lived in Mallorca and has left a strong impression for all these centuries. There are animals coming out of his head representing one of his most famous books, titled The Book of Beasts.

The villagers of Guinyent: Guinyent was one of the Medieval villages whose union created Alcúdia. They carry brooms to (jokingly) hit the people who do bad things.

Caparrots figures have been used in Catalan festivities since at least the 1700s (and some documents show their existence in the 1500s, though they don't seem to be widespread then). But new caparrots are created, since this tradition is very widespread and alive. The ones you see in this video were made in the early 1990s to dance every year in Alcúdia's fair. They were commissioned to Josep Fluxà, one of the best artisans in making caparrots.

Video by SUS Mallorca. Information about each character from Alcúdia City Council.

[ludwighumboldt]

@radiotorn

Hiiii ^_^ please no blunt damage against me

[spacespheal]

Inktober day 11: Vella Quaresma

Vella Quaresma, also known as Jaia Quaresma (in Mallorca) and Àvia Quaresma (in Menorca) is the representation of Lent in the Catalan Countries, her name translates literally to "Old Lady Lent" or "Grandma Lent".

Lent, in Christianity is the 40 day period between Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday. It's a time of fasting and abstinence, mirroring the 40 days Jesus spent alone in the desert. In Catalonia it's tradition to not eat meat and instead eat fish, specially on fridays.

Vella Quaresma, as said before, is the representation of Lent and the opposite of "Rei Carnestoltes" (King Carnival), who's a character who presides all activities during Carnival just before Lent. While Rei Carnestoltes represents fun and transgression, Vella Quaresma represents abstinence and penitence.

Vella Quaresma is represented as an old woman dressed in common people's clothes with seven legs. She's normally holding either a) a cod and a basket full of chards, b) a cod in each hand, c) a cod and a skillet or d) seven "arengades" (sardines salted with brine). Her seven legs represent the seven weeks of Lent, and at the end of each week a leg is cut off.