#important days

[willwoodhiatuscounterr]

222 days since Will Wood went on hiatus!

[kleinstar]

" It's Maid day!!! "

" I know what I'm going to wear to work.... !"

[itslarsyouguys]

Happy ten years

[ctrlbass]

30.12.2024

piano routine

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡I've done some online exercises for bass clef identification until I got completely exhausted from today. so it wasn't more than 7 minutes.

other things I did today

while mom and grandma went to funeral services to get everything prepared, I got sent to kindergarten (my ex gf's house). the entertainment for kids (=me) was great... a lot of cats to play with and some of the cats really wanted my attention, so my black clothes were all in fur. I told A. about all of these crazy events and family relations, then shared pomana with her. I showed her dollmakers from 2007, then I helped her hang out the laundry. I watered all of the plants on the second floor and helped her with other minor things. she couldn't come up with what to do for me and I really wanted to help. then we took some dumb uquiz quizzes.

A. gave us a ride to the funeral services, and mom told me to wait with A. in the car, because they were supposed to wait. I was so relieved, because I remember how cold it was to wait outside before the funeral of grandpa's brother... me and A. talked and played with some makers on picrew.

then A. gave some of us a ride to the cemetery. while wives of my grandpa's brothers were saying to her to go and that they'll take a bus, I whispered to her to stay. I'm so glad I did it, turned out to be really important.

I got called to look at my grandpa and hold a candle. he was a bit scary. I thought I wouldn't be able to cry, but I did. in fact, I was the only one crying. there were only five people. everyone understands that grandpa's life was nothing but suffering at this point, so for him, it's a relief. but I remembered some things that we did a long time ago... that we wouldn't be able to do anymore even if he was alive. also, our neighbour kept walking with a candle and muttering prayers but it felt kinda weird, we specifically didn't order a priest since grandpa was an atheist, and she was into dark magic of some sort. idk, I don't trust her.

there was a lot of mud on the cemetery, we forgot that we could wear plastic bags... I got annoyed at the neighbour again, because I was trying to put a wreath and she tried to 'help' me. I told her off rudely that I'll do it myself, and she was like okay okay! right, it says from daughter and granddaughter here, it's me who's putting it, or mom. I'm worried I offended her, we told grandma to tell her sorry if me or mom were rude to her this day, I was sad, and mom was in such a hurry...

the grandpa's grave position in the cemetery is so lucky, it's right near his brother with two graves between them.

then we had kutya and some wine, I just had water. some other rituals that I'm tired of writing down.

we had trouble cleaning our shoes from all of this mud before going to A.'s car... we gave her 500 uah for petrol as a thanks, even though I couldn't thank her enough. she was waiting for us all this time. when wives of grandpa's brothers found out, they started complaining "poor girl" and etc. like I'm tormenting her, but she was the one who suggested it (even before I asked) and she didn't want to leave by the unknown road all by herself... I see no point in feeling sorry when you can just be thankful for what she has done for us.

and that's a good thing I asked her! because by being done so early, we had a chance to leave to the city today and not to wait for the new year's eve. all thanks to A.! well, and people who agreed to hold a funeral today. me and mom left on the bus to the city. some soldier who was there helped me get up on the bus, offering his hand. then I was looking at my phone and he gave me... a bottle with coca cola? "don't worry, it's sealed". I said thanks because I was so confused, mom told him "but you probably need it more?" (and she's right, I don't like drinks like these), but he just gave it to me?? we thought well, he's just very nice. but he was very talkative during the trip... and kept asking why is no one talking (it was evening, everyone's tired and wants home). we thought he was drunk. but then mom overheard the driver saying that he's finding it weird that this soldier is so talkative, they usually keep to themselves. I was worried, what if it's a spy? but he got checked and everything seemed ok. but there were some other weird things about him... I won't write too much.

on the tram, I saw a woman who reminded me of some woman whom I respect. that's all I can tell, like I can't even remember who is the woman that I respect, not by appearance, not by anything. all I know is that it's a down-to-earth woman in her forties who doesn't take anyone's bullshit and that she has these highlighted side-swept bangs. who is this?? I can't remember!

[krispytm]

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2028.

[purgatorypicnic]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEIRD AL!

[rvllybllply2014]

First time election voters psa

You are not allowed to wear your candidates gear not even a hat pin, you will be turned away and have to change outfits

Make sure you have a valid id at least in Missouri look up your states requirements

Phones might be allowed in booths but once again check with you state, most say that you can’t take a picture of your ballot

Candidate canvassers are not allowed within several feet of the polling station entrance varies by state so be sure to look it up for your state if they are breaking the law report them to polling station workers

It is public information that you voted but it’s private about how you voted, ie nobody will know unless you tell them

If you mess up on a paper ballot you’re allowed to request a new one

If using a machine and it malfunctions alert the poll workers

Polls close at 7:00pm but as long as you are in line before then, stay you have the right to vote

If any issues arises during voting contact your state’s election board to file a comlaint

Most importantly happy Election Day and vote like your life depends on it because it does

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

On this year women's day, all we could think about are Palestinian women in Gaza.

Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.

“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.

Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.

Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.

Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.

According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.

There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.

There have also been repeated cases of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian women by posting videos and pictures of themselves rummaging through personal belongings in Gaza homes, making derogatory comments and posing with women’s underwear.

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[willwoodhiatuscounterr]

169 days since Will Wood went on hiatus

[kleinstar]

" Guys today is good butt day - give some love to good ones in your life today ok? "

[ctrlbass]

28.12.2024 (everything is terrible)

<the day my grandpa died>

piano routine

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡played A major legato and staccato on 90, then C major the same way (but not more than 3 minutes I think) - 10 minutes

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡played one easy song with a metronome, then another one without and started trying to remember how to play the last one. my sight reading skills are way better than they were back then! but there is still SO much room for improvement even for simple songs. I also replayed the piece that I am learning now.

other things I did today

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏I got up after 10 am, so I didn't do much… I cried at breakfast in front of my family because of everything that's going on with my grandfathers. I was texting [redacted] a lot though, and we discussed details of what I've been struggling with. I'm afraid that I'm developing one disorder that usually develops right about my age… I don't want to self-diagnose, but for now everything adds up. and I hate it. I have enough undiagnosed mental problems, and this is something that would be devastating to find out. I don't want to be that way, I really hope it's something temporary and not what I'm thinking, otherwise... everyone would hate me...

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏I was rude to stepdad today because I thought he was dictating how I should present myself. I apologized later and it turned out it was just a misunderstanding, but it still felt so weird that he played the victim right after I was crying this morning. he left the room and then at one point my mom suddenly did too, and I started having such intense feelings of rejection and being hated...

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡decorated the christmas tree for my parents with what they gave me. I also took some toys for my own tree in the process and perhaps it seemed too greedy, but these were the toys that my mom gave me for st. nicholas day last year...

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡logged in life makeover

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡went to pick up package with the gift from my godmother. there was a new year tablecloth, a soft blanket for bed with deers and rabbits, a hair mask, a hand lotion, a rainbow body scrub, and two snail (!!!) facial masks

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡styled my own model in life makeover

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡I started drawing mindlessly while thinking of [redacted], then mom came in tears and I instantly realized what's all of it about. grandpa has died. we hugged and cried together, but at one point she told me to calm down... but I fell to the floor and cried there. it all happened in less than 5 minutes. and then I felt nothing. it... happened. it had to. I continued mindlessly drawing.

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡mom told me to decorate my own christmas tree, because we're going to be in another town for the funeral before new year and I won't have the time... it felt weird doing it right after crying about grandpa's death. I just decorated it the way I did last year. and I have a bigger tree than my parents... I asked for it specifically. I'm pretty selfish.

leisure

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡watched regular show

ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡watched summer camp island

[eggsdoodz]

it’s more than okay !!!

[malenjoyer]

He’s shy

[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

[emberglowfox]

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