#jan celebrates

[rejectingrepublicans]

Very short YouTube video of the Trump’s watching the Jan 6th Insurrection. Don Jr was live-streaming while Kimberly Guilfoyle was dancing. Mark Meadows was all smiles with Jr. Ivanka and Eric were watching a live-feed from the Capitol with Traitor Trump.

[the-star-rigel]

i think its so sick that the dsmp was hundreds of thousands of people watching the same thing from their isolated respective homes they couldnt leave, that the community it built was virtual because it was a time where being together could only be done virtually, and that the people who started it did so because they couldn't be together in person. dream and george wanted to be together is how it starts, do you get it? the yearning of wanting to be with the people you loved was the heart and soul of 2020. its ironic that "go outside" is so often directed at minecraft fans because the dsmp was made and watched by people who literally couldnt. its so fucking sick. everyone involved just wanted to be with their friends. the way the server ended with ctommy and cdream realizing they couldve been friends. the way it all ends with tommy and dream realizing they cant..

[transgenderuwo]

STOP: it's not the goddamn year of the dragon yet

Hold on posting your goddamn culturally Christian ass solar new year greetings that clumsily use east Asian lunar new year elements. We gotta do this song and dance every single time because y'all still refuse to do any research. Lunar new year is never on January 1; it is ALWAYS after solar new year. Lunar new year 2024 is on February 10th – save yourself some embarrassment please you're better than this

[nylon-squat]

Jan Smithers

[leopardom]

third (and last) nordic tour potato quality photo dump, this time from Tampere ✨

22/09/23 - Tampere, FI

[diltonsstrangescience]

I am mad. I’m mad that the Time Police writers insisted on girlfriendifying our aromantic king. I’m mad.

But I also want to enjoy these comics, so I’m ignoring how mad I am. I’m pretending this is the one universe in the multiverse where Jug is allo and actually falls in love for real. It’s fine. I can tenuously tolerate it for the sake of time travel.

And despite everything… I do appreciate that (so far) allo Jug still acts like himself. They haven’t butchered his personality in order to give him romance plots.

Jug still remembers and acknowledges his own criticisms of Arch’s romantic pursuits. Just because he’s in the same boat now doesn’t make him forget his opinions. He’s not blinded by love, he’s just as rational as ever.

Jug thinks about how his choices will affect the emotions of the people he cares about. He understands the unfairness of Arch-style love triangles, understands that it’s not good to bounce between relationships like this. Unlike Arch, he actually wants to make a choice and commit to it, and he does so relatively quickly.

They have not forgotten Jug’s love for food. Dating people doesn’t suddenly become the one important thing in his life, and sometimes he prioritizes food above the people he’s dating. He even met one of these girls through her father’s restaurant—I’d like to assume they have a shared interest in cuisine, and bond over this.

So like… I’m obviously not thrilled about this romantical turn of events. But all things considered, they could have done a lot worse. This is actually more okay than I was expecting.

I do have to say though, if the writers were that determined to make Jug fall in love with a freckled redhead named Andrews, they jumped through SO many hoops to avoid the most obvious way to go about that.

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Madonna 1985

[padiduys]

CLOSED tysm for the req!

700 followers celebration

WHAT DE HELL 700 Million followers in the year of my corrupt country officially increased their Value Added Tax from 11% to 12% 2025 anyway It's been a while since I did req so send me any pairing that I rarely draw and I will try to sketch them out for you.

Notes

- I will prioritize mutuals and non-anon

- Not accepting wbbonso coz I draw them like once a week already

- I will start drawing in 2th of Jan

- Accepting until 12th of Jan (might change)

- It will only be sketches

[darkcreamz95]

🌙 Raya/Eid starts today so of course I have to draw the JO bois wearing Baju Melayu or Baju Raya~

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If you are celebrating, Eid Mubarak to you! Or as we say it in Malaysia, Selamat Hari Raya~

[myenterpriseisparked]

Okay, okay. I've seen several very anti-Threshold-Day takes floating around in the last year and I'm kinda getting sick of it.

Regardless of how you feel about Threshold as an episode - be that the quality of the ep, the storyline, the themes, whatever - Threshold Day isn't really about Threshold itself. I mean, yes, it is a day celebrating that episode, but the actual point of Threshold Day is community. It's a day where people band together to make memes and tell jokes and overall have fun. It's a day where you send random salamanders to your friends and go "omg tommy p???" It's a day where you appreciate the cool art and fics people make and leave encouraging comments. It's a day for Fun. Everyone gets to be in on a giant inside joke and enjoy that feeling. Everyone gets to commit to the bit. Not to sound all "here's the real meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown," but, in a very serious and literal sense, that's what Threshold Day is really about. Community.

And it's okay not to enjoy the episode! It's okay not to want to participate in the fun! Seriously, it's OKAY. You don't have to join in! But when you sit there and go "I cannot fathom how all these people like this episode and they're all wrong to be making memes and celebrating" you're missing the point and you start to ruin the very harmless fun everyone else is having. You are not on a moral high-ground for not enjoying a meme or a dumb internet holiday. You are *especially* not on a moral high-ground when you try to make other people feel bad for enjoying something that, again, is so incredibly harmless and ultimately about having fun as a community.

Again: it is fine to not enjoy Threshold. But I see so many posts throughout the year where people seem to be flaunting the fact that they are not like everyone else and hate the episode, the holiday, whatever. I see people talking about how much they wish Threshold Day would go away and it's really, really not cool. Your horse is not higher than mine for not being down to clown with your mutuals, your friends, about a silly Star Trek episode.

[official-boobies-posts]

always was, always will be aboriginal land ❤️💛🖤

[lesmisletters]

made these to celebrate the end of the book!! pinky promise me you'll only use them if you read the whole thing (/j)

congrats y/n!!

[overlyinvestedinlife]

Celebrated George Russell winning the Belgian Gp just for him to be disqualified hours later for being overweight and for him to get absolutely dogpiled on for having the audacity to try a different strategy

Celebrated Jannik Sinner winning Cinci only for a doping incident to be revealed the next day and for him to be dogpiled on more than multiple domestic abusers

[trexalicious]

A scathingly brilliant piece from Jan Moir...🤣

Like a cavalry galloping to the rescue of their wounded leaders, former and current employees of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex rushed into print this week to big up their bosses.

In the pages of Us Weekly, an influential American showbiz magazine popular with teens and teen-moms, print and online readers were breathlessly informed by Team Sussex that Prince Harry was a super-great guy, no airs and graces, just a regular dude, rah-rah-rah.

Meanwhile, what about girlboss Meghan? According to those who worked for her and lived to tell the tale, she was completely marvellous, too. No, really. Pass me that halo and let her duchessy love light shine.

For she was kind and thoughtful. She made great gourmet snacks. 'Some of my favourite memories,' said former Archewell president Mandana Dayani, who lasted 18 months until she left in 2022, 'were during our weekly meetings in her Montecito home, where Meghan always served the most incredible lunches and her latest beautiful concoctions.'

I am imagining exquisite delicacies such as 'vegetable soup' and 'green salad', ­possibly even a delightful 'egg‑based ­omelette' sourced from the in-house ­rescue chickens.

As the Sussex staff detailed the ­positives for posterity, it was hard to determine the true nature of their ­relationship with their bosses. Attorney-­client, doctor-patient, jailer-inmate, star-civilian, duchess-serf?

And was it my imagination or were the outpourings of these worker drones ­reminiscent of the rising hysteria of ­someone chained to a radiator in the basement of Archewell Towers, hoping to get home by Christmas?

According to their parti pris gibberish, Meghan was a Tinker Bell of titbits, a Mother Teresa of munificence; this gift-giving goddess who lavished staff with bow-tied presents and on-brand sharing and caring.

'When I adopted my dog, the next day I had a luxury-brand leash and new collar on my doorstep,' said one former staffer, who amusingly thought the gifts were for her pup.

'They want to take care of us,' one ­current employee told Us Weekly. 'Meghan will do things like: 'You mentioned on the call your skin is bothering you. I put together a kit for you.'

Is that being kind and helpful? Is that tending to the pimpled lame – or a tacit message to up their game?

For those of us who have spent a ­lifetime working in offices and assorted workplaces, alongside good bosses and bad, the thought of a superior sending you a tub of wrinkle cream or some self‑improving unguent, well, it just makes me want to die.

But listen, there is more. Meghan, said one staffer, is known for giving credit where it's due.

'If you're in a meeting and a great idea is referenced, she makes sure to give props [respect and appreciation] to the person who generated the idea,' they said. 'And after a big trip, every employee gets a personal email thanking them for their contribution in making it a success.'

An email! Oh, how lovely. Isn't this low-level respect the very least a valued member of staff deserves?

These fawning responses in Us Weekly came in riposte to a ­damning article in The Hollywood Reporter, which stated that the Duchess's 'terrible behaviour' was the root cause of the high ­turnover rate of staff at the couple's Archewell company.

The report in the entertainment industry bible earlier this month claimed that many of those who work and have worked for Meghan are 'terrified' of her. It included quotes from sources calling her a 'dictator in high heels' who ­'belittles' people and has reduced 'grown men to tears'.

I should point out here that Us Weekly is to the Sussexes what Pravda was to Stalin and what The Guardian is to Labour MP Jess Phillips – a blaring bugle of uncritical support. So, we heard in great detail about Archewell team visits to the couple's ­Montecito mansion, where Meghan gave everyone ­baskets of flowers, fruit and eggs to take home. So darling of her! She also passed on her ­children's hand-me downs. Is there no end to her generosity?

One employee even told Us Weekly that despite Meghan's reputation as a mini tyrant, they had 'never' heard her yell. Instead, the Duchess gave her staff 'clear direction and is ­solution-oriented' – which makes her sound like a rather lovely and amenable bottle of glue.

And when it came to hiring staff, another raving Archewell acolyte insisted that the Duke and ­Duchess of Sussex always 'picked the best of the best from every field and watered the seeds for them to flourish'.

But what are Harry and Meghan growing for posterity out there in California – an Archewell empire or a damp squib? Seeds, ­solutions, eggs . . . what the hell is going on?

Of course, these accusations are nothing new to royal-watchers in the UK. The Duchess of Sussex has long been dogged by reports she promotes a toxic workplace environment, along with repeated accusations of what her lawyers insist to this day we must call ­'difficult' behaviour. In 2021, reports that the former actress had allegedly bullied and reduced staff members to tears at Kensington Palace were dismissed by the Sussexes as a smear. Yet it is no secret that the couple have lost 18 employees to date in their short time as a ­company entity in both the UK and the US.

One new American-based source blames 'unbearable' and ­'condescending' Meghan for the alarming 'churn and burn' rate. These rumours just won't go away – but the big difference this time is that it is US news outlets that are making the claims.

Maer Roshan, co-editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter, said he stands by the story after a backlash that included one ­Sussex source saying the claims were 'fabricated'.

Former and current employees of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex rushed into print this week to big up their bosses.

Roshan told Access Hollywood: 'Our reporter talked to a very high-up source who works for the couple and said: 'Everyone is ­terrified of Meghan.'

'Duchess Difficult is a nickname that has trailed Meghan Markle for quite a few years. What is new is that this notion, since coming to America, that a lot of these rumours were manufactured by the Palace – the reporting that we did suggests that probably isn't true and there is still this ­undercurrent of fear.'

Many of you might remember Prince Harry, in his high, tight, aggrieved voice, telling the world in his various documentaries and interviews that: 'There is a ­hierarchy of the [Royal] Family. You know there is leaking, but there is also ­planting of stories.'

Even The Hollywood Reporter, a neutral observer, now raises an eyebrow at this. This is devastating for the couple whose reputation has survived so far by ­blaming their difficulties on the Royal Family and the British Press, instead of examining their own alleged bad behaviour.

Just a few issues ago in Us Weekly, the Duchess of Sussex was smoothing down the pleats on her kilt of no-guilt and telling everyone that she was opening 'a chapter of joy' in her life and that everything was hunky in her dory.

But now – yet again – the ­Sussexes are back at square one; expending time, energy, favours and friends in defending themselves against the indefensible.

We have been here before, we are back here again; swimming against this avalanche of bad press, slaloming though the ­snowdrifts of snark.

It makes me think, was this westward flight by the Sussexes – this bridge-burning journey into what they presumed would be a better, kinder world, patrolled by powerful friends such as Oprah and billionaire Tyler Perry – ­simply fuelled by a lust for praise and admiration that they felt was their due?

Yet no longer can Meghan and Harry present themselves to the world as a couple under siege, a pair of self-righteous smirkers who felt themselves to be the ­victims of racism and bullying.

The Hollywood Reporter has described them as 'poor decision-makers' who 'change their minds frequently', and added that Harry was a 'very charming ­person' but 'very much an ­enabler'. The poor fool.

Duchess Difficult and the ­Enabling Prince? It sounds like a ­terrible Harry Potter novel, only now there is no magic spell to make this fresh stink vanish into the Californian air.

[a-hiking-fish]

This big baby is 6 today what the heck