#baltic pride

[imaginal-ai]

"Happy Pride 2024" (0002)

(More of The Celebrating Pride Series)

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Shoutouts to Key West Pride, Baltic Pride, Milwaukee Pride, and New Orleans Black Pride Weekend, to name a few!

For more info: IGLTA Pride Calendar

[voetballers]

“And I’m not afraid of this world after all” - source

[peemotikeskus]

Plakatite töötuba 6. ja 8. juunil || Sign Workshop on June 6th and 8th

FB üritused || FB events: 6. juuni || June 6th: https://fb.me/e/XBaBUcVl 8. juuni || June 8th: https://fb.me/e/1cr9QnPkC

🇪🇪 Tule tee meiega plakateid 10. juunil Tallinnas toimuva Baltic Pride rongkäigu jaoks! Meil on kohapeal olemas mitmeid kunstitarbeid, aga võid ka enda materjale kaasa tuua.

🌈 Kui Sa Tallinnasse rongkäigule minna ei saa, tule julgelt lihtsalt meiega kunsti tegema.

🕕 Töötoad toimuvad 6. ja 8. juunil kl 18.00–20.00 Tartus Peemoti keskuses.

💜 Meie projekti (ja seda üritust!) rahastab EMP toetuste Aktiivsete Kodanike Fond, mida vahendab Avatud Eesti Fond koostöös Vabaühenduste Liiduga.

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🇬🇧 Come and make signs with us for the Baltic Pride march on happening in Tallinn on June 10th! We have a lot of art supplies available at the centre but you can bring your own materials along as well.

🌈 If you cannot attend the march in Tallinn, you are welcome to come and make art with us nevertheless.

🕕 The workshops take place on June 6th and 8th at 18:00–20:00 at Behemoth's centre in Tartu.

💜 The project (and this event!) is funded by the Active Citizens Fund of the EEA Grants, operated in Estonia by the Open Estonia Foundation in consortium with the Network of Estonian Non-profit Organisations.

[amymon-arachne]

I bought this rainbow variegated yarn with the intention of making pride-themed projects awhile back and I’m trying it out now.

Obviously, the drawback is that you can’t control the order of the colours, so I’m not sure the pride theme is coming through, but I still like it.

It’s not actually easier than warping 7 different colours, since you still have to cut and tie on in the same places, but this way I don’t have to juggle 8 balls of yarn. I can also do patterns with fewer or more pattern threads.

[ximenasleave]

Estonia is legalising gay marriage in 2024! 🌈

[misfit-among-the-angels]

Been tagged by @the-starless-abstract to post six selfies from 2022, thank you!

2022 almost killed me and I'm not exaggerating. My mental state got even worse.. But i also had some amazing moments and these pictures are from some of them. Beginning from spring-time at High Tatras, to my third Iron maiden concert (in my hometown), to Masters of rock festival and then witnessing Pride in Frankfurt. Then back to High Tatras but in late summer and finally seeing Bavarian Alps in autumn. A lot more i couldn't include as that would probably take me to have ten pictures instead of six but this will do.

Tagging: @lollobendix, @mantyjenlintu, @distantsonata, @dumbbabyelfbitch, @my-sxe-world, @kvlt-cvnt, @fra-helviti, @that-one-sad-transbian, @wilderwinds, @backdoor-conquistador, @ahalal-uralma, @rickythelvl20fighter, @asylumsammet, @flower-crow, @moss-wizard, @thecolombianviking, @mercifulempress, @wizardwinterwolf, @viking-badger, @scarsoftheshatteredsky, @vedrividia and @heartless--madness

[austeregreen]

Let's drink to everyone we're not allowed to love. Let's drink to the days when we're allowed to. Let's drink to the hope.

[sadclowncentral]

you sail!! tell us more about that. i did a course and got a licence last year but idk what to do with it now except for go online and look up people going on those long as hell trips from gdynia to mallorca and Yearn

I sail indeed!! my dad and my brother have been/are professional sailors respectively, so that sport is taken very seriously around here, and i basically grew up on sailing boats. i never became as good as my brother, who does international racing and is a captain now, but I pride myself in being a good navigator and being great at anything on the foredeck except the spinnaker, so i can stand my own. me and my brother have this beautiful boat right here, the VILA!

she is a Cayenne 42, twelve metres long, an absolute beauty but definitely not built for high sea voyages we take her on throughout the baltic sea (we bought her from lake constance, where the wind is not that strong, so she was rigged for much fairer seas) and is therefore the ship equivalent of a nervous horse - one wrong move and she tries to throw you off - but once you get attuned to that, she is one of the fastest boats i have ever been on, and that is saying something.

we spend on average a month a year on longer voyages and go racing every wednesday, so i am definitively spending a lot of time sailing, but it's absolutely worth the money, sweat tears and pain of shipyard time, and general chaos, because there is nothing on this earth better than having a beer in one hand, sheet rope in the other, staring out at nothing but blue skies and bluer water, waiting for the next maneuver. nothing.

[focsle]

I've seen you answer a few asks about whaling history before, so hopefully I'm not offbase asking you questions out of the blue? But anyway, how did people bathe (or keep clean if not by bathing) during long sea voyages?

Not off base at all! Out of the blue whaling history questions are some of my fav asks to receive; I find them thrilling. I can’t help but write an essay every time.

It was particularly hard to keep clean on a whaler, and whalemen were often disparaged by those in other maritime professions. In 1839, naval Lieutenant Charles Wilkes said of the crew of the whaleship America, 

“I have seldom seen at sea a more uncombed and dirty set of mariners than his crew.“

J.E. Haviland of the Baltic, 1856, complained of besmirching his journal pages with the grime that he was unable to scrub off his hands after tarring the rigging, self consciously saying:

“My hands + clothes would look beautiful for a ladies Parlor. I see they even collor the paper but I cannot get the tar out. The Old Man says he intends to have me tar down the rigging a few days before we get in New Bedford so that I shall not forget too soon that I have been a sailor.”

General ships’ work  such as tarring could be messy, but a whaler’s work was even messier. When trying out blubber it was futile to attempt maintaining any semblance of cleanliness during the process. William Abbe of the Atkins Adams, 1859, said that during boiling, a watch would turn in to their bunks a few hours rest, merely ‘after wiping off your bare body with oakum to take off the thickest of the oil”.

But the gore and oil wasn’t forever. After the particular job was done the ship would be meticulously cleaned, and the whalers would tend to themselves too. As Herman Melville wrote,

“The crew themselves proceed to their own ablutions; shift themselves from top to toe; and finally issue to the immaculate deck, fresh and all aglow, as bridegrooms new-leaped from out the daintiest Holland. Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics; propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle. To hint to such musked mariners of oil, and bone, and blubber, were little short of audacity. They know not the thing you distantly allude to. Away, and bring us napkins!”

Haviland expressed gratitude in getting a chance to get clean after all the work of boiling blubber was done:

“I feel much better to day I have given myself a good wash + a clean shave + got in all clean clothes. You would not have known your own son if you could have seen him yesterday. I was nearly black with smoke + dirt. (with shame) I say it was the accumulation of 2 months dirt + 4 months beard. Everything looks as clean + bright as it did before we took the whale”

Being able to bathe was such a highlight that Abbe titled one of his journal pages “Washing myself!!” With TWO exclamation points!

“I write with pride in my fastidious journal that this morning I washed my face + hands with castile soap + fresh water — when shall I do the like again? When shall I write the pleasant and comfortable fact that I have shaved? The future and fair weather only can tell.”

The ship’s slop chest—its general store—had toiletries for sale, often at a very high premium. Whaling account books show men buying pounds of oil soap for their own personal stores. The fresh water was often rainwater collected for this purpose, rather than the casks set aside for drinking.

“This has been a rather squally day,” wrote Mary Lawrence, whaling wife who accompanied her husband on his ship Addison in the 1850s. “Considerable rain has fallen, and everybody on deck is using an abundant supply of rainwater for washing purposes.” She also added, though this is speaking of laundry rather than bathing, “Having stopped up the scuppers, the use the whole deck for one grand washtub.”

They’d use the sea, too. John Martin of the Lucy Ann, wrote of bathing via rain and sea whilst near the equator on January 24th, 1842.

“Towards noon the rain came down in torrents. The weather being sultry the watch on deck shipped off their shirts to it. John the boat steerer went entirely naked with the exception of a handkerchief tied around his privates. In the afternoon it cleared away, when I asked permission from the Captain for the crew to take a bathe over the side. He said we might do it if we rigged a studding sail over the side, which was soon done & all hands that could swim were to be seen jumping from different parts of the ship. Some went out to the end of the flying jib boom & jumped off there. Even the dog was thrown overboard & got his share of washing. I like bathing at sea but for one thing, and that is sharks. I always have a fear that one might be hovering about and give one a nip before he was aware of it.”

It was challenging for whalers to keep clean by nature of the job, but man when they were able to they really seemed to revel in it. For many of them it was more than just a bath; it was a symbolic return to a home they were long away from, or to the man they perceived themselves to be back on shore, or of a society that they felt cut off from in their line of work.

If you’re interested I also wrote a thing about doing laundry on whaleships too, yonder!

[flagwars]

Flag Wars Bonus Round

[mariacallous]

I need more people on here to talk abt the good and beautiful people of latvia electing a gay president!!!! This pride month

HELSINKI — Latvian lawmakers on Wednesday picked the country’s long-serving popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight vote.

The 100-seat Saeima legislature elected Edgars Rinkēvičs, the country’s top diplomat since 2011, as president to serve for a four-year term. He received 52 votes, one vote more than required to win. Incumbent Egils Levits, Latvia’s head of state since 2019, didn’t seek re-election.

Rinkēvičs, who announced in 2014 that he is “proudly” homosexual, will be the first openly gay president in the Baltic nations

[positivexcellence]

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[misfit-among-the-angels]

My vacation in Frankfurt was graced by Pride so it's me being lowkey festive because every month is Pride month when you're gay. 💜💜

[gamchawizzy]

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favorite followers 🖤

HEEHEHE oki!!

I like the way I worldbuild!! I've only talked to @/s0yuzsauce about my stories in their entirety, but I take so much pride in them! Honestly asking anything about my OCs and their customs or towns and I'm sure to be able to blabber about them!

I like my place on the internet rn! It sounds a little odd but I used to be very worried about popularity on the internet a few years back. This was mostly due to being surrounded by people who made it too much of a big deal, but right now I'm very happy being able to take it slow and interact with people at my own pace. I feel very blessed to have good friends here (incl. you!) and be able to yap on and on about my interests without feeling like I have to compete! I'm at peace with where I am and I'm glad I didn't let all of that stuff get to my head entirely.

I like my willingness to try new things all the time! I always love new opportunities to do something new. I don't get too bored very easily because I can just fill my head with thinking about stories or worldbuilding, but doing new things, tasting new food, cooking new recipes, going to places, learning new languages and skills...these are all exciting to me!

I like my hair! Right now it's a bit short since I shaved for fun sometime back but I KNOW I look good with any length of hair. Sometimes I bleach it and dye it fun colours and it boosts my confidence more! Lately I've been keeping it natural just to see how my growth is like when uninterrupted. I also love my body hair! My thick brows too. My country's beauty standards prefer people to not be so hairy, but I don't care! I walk out there like a full on werewolf and I FEEL great! I hope I can grow out a beard soon though to complete the look ahahaha

Lastly, I like having a very diverse music taste! I cannot limit myself to few genres - i can't think about genres even at all! I'll happily listen to anything and I don't understand people who look down on certain music just cause it's uncool or mainstream or whatever. My playlist will consist of vocaloid, billboard hits, pirate metal, baltic folk, rap, broadway, eurobeats, horror game osts, oldies, hyperpop... literally everything! I also love compiling playlists! I will gladly make playlists for any vibe I want and even about my OCs and stories!

(small preview of all the playlists i cannot stop making)

I'm a little too shy to send this to my followers, so uhhhhh BOOP I TAG ANYONE WHO READS THIS FEEL FREE 2 BANDWAGGIN

[auberylis]

Decora outfit for baltic pride parade ☆

About 7000 people showed up, wow! This and the recent gender neutral marriage law hearings give hope that we will actually get somewhere in there rights wise. Also, someday i will learn to smile with my eyes, but trust me, i am smiling behind the mask lol

(Pretty much all clothes are acdcrag for everyone curious about affordable and quality eyesore clothing!)