#April 1-30

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

APRIL Celebrity Birthdays & Events

All Month Long: Autism Awareness Month | Black Women's History Month 

April Birthdays

Aries Stars (Mar 21-Apr 19) 1: Kellee Stewart 2: Nikki Thot, Amber Gray 3: Catherine Lough Haggquist, Jaimi Gray, Sarah Jeffery, Young MA 4: Lorraine Toussaint, Jill Scott, Khadi Don, Maya Angelou 6: Simona Brown, Lauren Ridloff 7: Billie Holiday 8: Skai Jackson, Dej Loaf, Femi Taylor 9: Jazmine Sullivan, Bianca Belair, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tanerélle 10: Dana Heath, Jasika Nicole, April Weeden-Washington, Zuri Adele, Madison Shamoun

11: Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Summer Walker 12: Imani Lewis, Janee Michelle, Retta, Suzzanne Douglas, Tracy Camilla Johns 13: Marci T. House, Precious Mustapha 14: Da Brat 15: Ester Dean, Samira Wiley, Jordan Chiles 16: Valarie Rae Miller, Kron Moore, Ebony Obsidian, Tanya Moodie, Jojo T. Gibbs

Taurus Stars (Apr 20-May 20) 21: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Imogen Faires  24: Francheska (Hey Fran Hey), Reagan Gomez Preston, Jeanté Godlock, Joséphine Jobert 25: Gina Torres, Jayden Rey, Leyna Bloom 26: Debra Wilson 27: Lizzo 28: Aleisha LaNaé Allen, Simbi Khali, Cheslie Kryst, Madge Sinclair 29: Shahadi Wright Joseph, A'zaria Carter, Jo Martin 30: Jemima Osunde

April Events: 

African American Women's Fitness Month | Celebrate Diversity Month | National Deaf History Month (March 13 to April 15) | National Minority Health Month | Sexual Assault Awareness Month | Stress Awareness Month 

1. ANNOUNCEMENT: WE DO NOT CELEBRATE APRIL FOOL’S DAY HERE, Personal Day of Rest | 2: World Autism Day | 3: National Find a Rainbow Day 6: International Asexuality Day 9: National Unicorn Day | 11-17: Black Maternal Health Week | 16: Emancipation Day (April 16, 1862, not to be confused with Juneteenth, the Black American Texas celebration that they made national) | National Cat Lady Day | 20: Easter, National Look Alike Day 22: Earth Day | 24-30: Lesbian Visibility Week | 26: Lesbian Visibility Day, Alien Day (The Franchise) | 28: National Superhero Day

30: Black Femme Character Dependency Anniversary: 

59 tags 04/04/2025 | 67 tags 04/06/2025

[why-the-heck-not]

the saturday-sunday night diabolical "life is falling apart"- to do list followed by a mad scramble

[unpretty]

very funny watching claire saffitz recreate cosmic brownies like, "no one is forcing me to do this. i want to be here. no one is holding my loved one's hostage. i am having a good time. i would not rather be making french pastries in my beautiful cabin. i love challenges, and stress. please do not make me eat another cosmic brownie."

[ldshadowdoodles]

[160] You were the brightest shade of sun when I saw you /lyr

-🌷

[pequodyaoi]

its vietnamese liberation and reunification day!

[chotachica]

I roll w plulalie really REALLY hard even if it doesn't seem like it and it's merely because the way their dynamic has been going on as for now its EXACTLY just like how me and my now boyfriend used to be AND kinda even how we first met. I saw him once on the school hallways and immediately got a "crush" on him, like one of those "we are in different classes we will never know eachother he would NEVER like me also he's so cool so it's utterly impossible and delusional" type of crush. Go figure we actually fucking met at an anime convention a month after through me meeting another friend who lives in a whole ass different city and strictly knew from Instagram but apparently was ??? Their childhood best friend ????? And he also apparently just went to the con to accompany them to meet this random person (me) they had talked to through Instagram ????????? Fucking wild actually. Anyways we started talking after this and ended up hanging out all summer then somehow got put in the same class next year????? I spent the whole time talking to anyone who knew us about how GREAT he is and SO COOL and pretty and everything and how out of his league I was. That btw I still think I am I don't know how I pulled that. We spent all school year sitting together and annoying the fuck out of everybody else in the class by being the most obliviously in love motherfuckers ever to the point a fucking bet was made. No seriously one day at the almost end of the school year after we finally started ACTUALLY dating we shared a little kiss and instantly a round of cheering and a "YALL OWE ME 5 MOTHERFUCKERS" was heard. We didn't even knew any of these people. Oh also he was the one who got into Nevermore first and then after reaching like chapter 50 sent me the link like "please read this theres this failure ass catboy who is basically you i need you to acknowledge this shit" and made me read it. he was right in me and pluto being the same fucking person btw also he identifies A LOT w Eulalie too, as a cute little fact

[aeolianblues]

WHY IS PRODUCE PRICED LIKE THAT

[msbarrows]

I really need to stop procrastinating on Thing A Day posts, because the more of them are backed up the harder it is to get myself to sit down and catch up. Over a week's worth of them this time, argh.

Anyway... a lot of gaming and crocheting, as usual. I've almost finished the hoodless hoodie, I'm down to weaving in the ends now. It's heavy and very warm. I am amused that last fall I finished a warmer weather sweater just as the cold was setting in, and now I've finished a cold weather garment just as things are warming up again. Great timing there on when to start these projects, past self.

The gaming was mostly Lord of the Rings Online, mostly spending this week gradually re-buying and re-decorating houses (now that they re-enabled that in stages starting last Monday). Between running around the various characters who were holding onto the inventory of all my houses from before the server move, plus hitting up various vendors and barterers for additional decor items, and all the arranging and re-arranging of things, I've spent many hours since Monday doing nothing but decorating, as if I was playing the Sims. And am not done yet, I've got several rooms (and an entire small hobbit smial) that I've barely started in on yet. There'll be photosets of some of the bits I'm happiest with later.

The weekend before last was spent binging my way through a new expedition in No Man's Sky, the Relics expedition, which was mainly focused on collecting fossils and assembling them into displayable critters. Now that I'm mostly finished with the LotRO housing stuff I'll probably spend at least a little more time in NMS doing post-expedition things such as building a nice base somewhere to decorate with skeleton critters. Maybe an entire museum of a base, given the collectible nature of a number of other in-game items, such as the glitch items from strange worlds, and ruined bits of structure from the new ruined worlds.

And a summary of daily stuff, as much as I can reconstruct it all:

Mar 28 - Baked a load of oatmeal molasses bread. Apparently I started my food diary entry for this day and then blanked on completing it, so I have no idea what I made for supper that night. Though I do remember it was the day I got a lift downtown from the brother (actually leaving the house!) so I could do things like pick up my prescriptions, and top up my phone at the post office. Box of yarn arrived in the mail, so I was able to resume work on the hoodie, and have even more of a yarn stash for future projects.

Mar 29 - Just me for supper, I had leftover corned beef hash. This was the day spent playing in NMS.

Mar 30 - Made a pizza for supper. Didn't make a bunch to freeze this time, just a singular pizza, with extra cheese, sauce, and pepperoni going into the freezer for future use. Spent a bunch of time in LotRO deciding what houses I wanted to buy, when it wasn't just "the same address I had back on Arkenstone".

Mar 31 - Ran a couple loads of laundry. Bought a Belfalas house in LotRO and spent the evening decorating it. Supper was chili with rice and a salad.

Apr 1 - Partially cleaned the bathroom. Fried some mild Italian sausages, served then with fried onion & roasted garlic mashed potatoes, as well as a steamed mix of squash, corn, and green beans. Bought an Eastfold house in LotRO and spent the evening decorating it.

Apr 2 - Baked some fish fillets and oven fries, made a salad. Bought a Lyndelby house in LotRO - which I didn't have yet but was already thinking of doing pre-server-move - and, yes, spent the evening decorating it. Take the decoating as my usual gaming activity for the next few days as well.

Apr 3 - Made pork fried rice with cashews and pineapple. Yummy! Bought a deluxe and small Bree-land house on Peregrin for my characters on main and 2nd account to use, and a Falathlorn kinhouse on Glamdring for one of the alt kinships.

Apr 4 - Soup from the freezer, with rice donuts for dessert that I specifically made extra rice yesterday to make today. Bought a deluxe and small smial on Glamdring for main and 2nd account to use (happily both in the same neighbourhood I used to be in on Arkenstone - the only case where I was attached to the original neighbourhood as well as the street address). Also a kinhouse in the Thorin's Gate housing area for my other alt kinship, again the same address and neighbourhood (nice, but I would have been only mildly disappointed if I'd needed to purchase in a different neighbourhood to get the street address I wanted there).

Apr 5 - Made a small pot roast, and since we didn't have enough potatoes left to boil or mash, served it with pierogies instead. Also fried mushrooms and steamed squash-corn-green beans. Finished off most of whatever decorating in LotRO I still had items for, and got my main character back to questing (she is so far behind the current end game content - at least 2-3 expansions back if I haven't lot count).

Apr 6 - Ran a load of laundry. Turned the leftover pot roast and some other leftovers into a small pot of beef barley soup, just enough to throw a container of it into the freezer and have the remainder for lunch. For supper I prepared meatball subs and a salad.

...and that's me caught up. For now. Until later today.

[goodluckeddie]

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[mythgirlimagines]

April Schedule

BLOG RULES/FANDOMS

Fic Updates:

Where the Heart Is, Wednesdays (masterlist here)

Ask Box:

Open!

Queue is running

Posts of Note:

My Ao3

DVHS chapter one

If the Supernatural were Natural

My 2025 bingo

How MMJ Would Sing Fly to the Sky

[kaz-oooo]

So glad I’ve reached a point in my life where the only maths I know how to do is the most basic multiplication and figuring out the time dilation in DSMP limbo.

Anyway Ghostbur’s been in limbo for 83 years, 4 months and 13 days.

[nguyenfinity]

Another project, a dozen drawings based on 3 rules you set for yourself!! mine were flower heads, shows the sky somewhere, and they're all different times of day

[roseverdict]

i've fixated on the sticks for the past 7 months and i also just finished watching the first half of rottmnt s1 and also the movie, and i have come to the following conclusion:

this venn diagram is almost completely just straight-up a circle

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

[musicconcertfiend]

Coachella 2005 Poster & Lineup

Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1

The event is help in late April, early May.

Saturday April 30

Coldplay

Bauhaus

Weezer(2001)

The Chemical Brothers(1999, 2001, 2002)

Wilco(2004)

Keane

Snow Patrol

Rilo Kiley

Café Tacuba(2003)

Doves

Sage Francis

the Raveonettes

Bloc Party

Mercury Rev

Fantomas

Hernan Cattaneo(2003)

Spoon

Zap Mama

DJ Peretz

Jamie Cullum

M83

Ambulance LTD

Four Tet

MF Doom

Josh Wink

Amp Fiddler

Tiga

the Kills

UNKLE James Lavelle

the Secret Machines

Boom Bip Swayzak

DJ Marky

Immortal Technique

Jean Grae

Razorlight

Katie Melua

Radio 4

Buck 65

Nic Armstrong and the Thieves

Eisley(2003)

the Sexy Magazines

k-os

Sunday May 1

Nine Inch Nails

New Order

Bright Eyes(2004)

Gang of Four

the Prodigy(2002)

Black Star

the Faint

Roni Size(1999, 2001)

Armin Van Buuren

the Arcade Fire

Pinback

Roots Manuva

DJ Krush

Z-Trip(2001, 2002)

Thrice

Junkie XL

M.I.A.

British Sea Power

the Dresden Dolls

Miss Kittin

the Fiery Furnaces

Ben Watt

Aesop Rock (2003)

the Perceptionists

Jem

Autolux

Donavon Frankenreiter

Sixtoo

Tegan and Sara

Stereophonics

the Bravery

Matthew Dear

Diplo

Subtle

Beans

Shout Out Louds

the Futureheads

Sloan

Kasbian

the Blood Brothers

Matmos

Wolf Eyes

the Locust

Gram Rabbit

Smokestacks

Zion I

Midlake

[marimuntanya]

Praise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April soft in flowered languor, April cold with sudden anger, Ever changing, ever true — I love April, I love you.