#i love holidays

[thrivingafterdark]

Can you tell Mommy what you’re grateful for?

Is it the special cuddles we have every night? Where Mommy teaches you how to make her feel good? Are you grateful for your place between my legs?

Maybe you’re grateful for your bubble baths? I love playing with you and all your bath toys! Bonus that you always smell good enough to eat afterwards.

Oh! I know! It’s got to be all the marks Mommy gives, right? That bruise from last week’s playtime…the phrase I wrote on the inside of your wrist…the bracelet you can’t take off that matches mine? Those are what you’re most grateful for, right, sweetheart? You like being reminded how very mine you are.

…or was this what I’m grateful for?

[brooklynsspiderman]

Hey Spider-man! How was your day today? We're ya out beating up the villain of the week as usual? If so, which one!? Would love to compare notes on which villains we get :0

Ngl today i woke up at like 3 bc i was out last night (and was procrastinating english hw) went out on patrol, got my ass beat by a gang and so i went home and cried (it didn’t hurt physically, just hurt my feelings 🥰🥰)

[gemmahale]

Annoyed my Casper shirt doesn’t fit anymore because that is my go-to work outfit for Halloween. Settled on a purple buttondown and an orange tshirt and black denim skirt.

Also irked that my earrings are still ….somewhere in the garage. And I’m not convinced I won’t need to repierce holes for them because it’s been….five years? 😬

I have a whole swath of holiday appropriate garb and I can’t use any of it. 😭

Next year I’m making the Let’s Boo-Gie sweater (designer website - not Ravelry). I have to.

Image from Yarn Love Yarn.

Or maybe the Pumpkin Patch Sweater (Ravelry Link).

Image from Bad Wolf Girl Studio (Ravelry Link).

If I had gotten that pumpkin skirt from Maya Kern instead of dithering until it sold out, I would also have been sufficiently prepared.

Oh well. The nice thing about holidays is that they always come back around.

[aamaranthiine]

Morning c; My whole work week, which is just 3 days because I get the 4th and 5th off, is pretty much empty. Gonna definitely try to use this time to work on the rest of my starters and drafts for my queue <3

[cloudishmagma]

Bld comic I felt like doing cuz I was feeling kinda sad lol

Anyways its kinda corny but I tried

James ---> @hotpinkmoon

[nitr0m-nik]

My sister's boyfriend is here, and oh my God bro all he does is talk about himself. I want to actually scream. he talks SO LOUD, and over everybody!! pls make it stop !!!!!!! 😀😎☺️😝 like, my sister tries to talk to him, and he either completely ignores her or talks over her. He's a complete narcissist 😀😝😀😝😀😝😀😝

[mourningsaint]

8 minutes to Christmas, Happy Holidays everyone

[travel10-1]

Wonder of the Seas you are beautiful 😍

My 7 night cruise from Barcelona around the Mediterranean was absolutely amazing. Although I did love the real destinations, you always have to class a Royal Caribbean cruise as one of the destinations🤩

Central park is absolutely STUNNING so many varieties of plants and flowers which are real and are taken care of by the onboard gardeners 🪴 🌺

Follow for the rest of my trip🤩🤩🤩

*This trip was back in September, Wonder of the Sea’s is back in the USA*

[tangredont]

December recap

[artistkaila17]

My mini Christmas Tree. 🎄 🎃 🦃

I did like a Nightmare Before Christmas, like the holidays doors in the woods meets Thanksgiving parade look.

There mini ornaments from different years that had candy with them and I made the glittery light ornaments from dead Christmas light bulbs and glitter, made them a few years ago.

Also I kept one of my ghosts for the tree topper, makes me think of Christmas song with the lyric “tells of ghost Christmas stories”.

[mintytrifecta]

[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all (blank) a very pleasant (blank)" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant rosh hashanah". In front of Bugs there is a jar of honey, a stack of apples and pomegranates. In front of bug's mouth there is a shofar.]

[eatingmarkerz]

angel

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

[diet-cokette]

honestly, so happy it's valentines month..

this fat tuesday will be valentines themed. pink candy, heart shaped food, pink/red/white everything honestly

[o0kawaii0o]

Ace Attorney x Hades

[gotham-snark]

Damian's had a rough time lately 😨 go hurt some bad guys with your dad