#jerkfest

[diabetesnscoliosis]

Honestly the over focus on gay men and drag in "radfem" communities is really frustrating.

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

Scar Tissue

Summary: Joe wouldn't reach as far to give himself a parent of the year award, he wasn't even a parent to begin with, but he'd say that he did well by giving you your space, never invading only following when invited.

Pairing: Joe x afab!Reader

Word Count: ~ 2.5k

Content Warnings: Mentions Of PTSD, Night Terrors, Trauma-Induced Tics, Emotional Constipation, Canon Typical Violence, Mentions Of Self-Inflicted Harm And Depression, Explicit Sexual Imagination 18+!, Angst, Oh The Yearning

A/N: “But, Tam! You can't just shamelessly sexualize a character murdering in cold blood in a 90-minute film about SA and PTSD!” Hush, child, and watch me.

Tagging: @somepallings @queer-crusader

you can’t win ‘em all

who knows how much longer

i’ll lay on the floor

touch me til i vomit

i’m not scared of god

i’m scared he was gone all along

- Inbred By Ethel Cain

Thick fabric ruffled in a pitch-black bedroom. Calm yet shallow breaths accompanied the quiet ordeal of a fuzzy blanket moving as you slipped underneath its warm cover and felt the cold coming from the inside slowly fading from your chest.

You shimmied back until the curve of your spine was flush against Joe's front - you knew he was awake just as much as you were; actual, real sleep being a sparse blessing.

“Night terrors?” It wasn't the first time and certainly wouldn’t be the last for you to leave your sweat-soaked sheets behind to find shelter with him.

“You?” You answered his question without really answering.

“One should think that shit's gonna leave you alone at some point. Can't understand why the old noggin is having a jerkfest over it every other night.” Joe muttered quietly yet not any less disgruntled, the prolonged lack of proper rest only feeding into the rougher parts of his character.

“Do you still smell it, too? It's the sweat and stale cigarette smoke for me. Sometimes hints of piss.” The memory rippled through your body in an uncomfortable jolt, causing that little tic to go off from the nape of your neck straight up into your head as it flinched to the side for a split second.

“Hey…”, Joe immediately jumped on it, the inherent need to soothe what you had been burdened with dragging his tired body into motion, “I'm here…showered and smoke-free.”

To prove his somewhat humorously annotated attempt to shush the still lingering nightmares right back to where they came from, he wrapped one arm around your waist, holding you close enough for the gentle wafts of laundry detergent to softly engulf you.

“Don't give them your time, they're not worth it. So many brighter things to think about.”, Joe practically wrapped himself around you, shielding you from everything he possibly could, his chin carefully resting against the crown of your head, “What do you wanna eat tomorrow? What's the next movie you want to go and see? What's up with your friend Rose? Didn't she wanna throw a party or something?”

The onslaught of rapid-fire questions sought to flush your synapses like a cold rinse through a soap-clouded bathtub circling the drain before eventually trickling into the sewers.

“I want pasta. The current cinema program is garbage and Rose already cancelled her own gig because she's sick. Next question.” It spilt from your lips with sharp precision, making Joe behind you laugh out briefly.

“Oh-kay…let's stick with the pasta then. What pasta? I'm good enough to manage a halfway decent sandwich, help me out here.” It was a bit stupid, perhaps a bit weird as well to talk about pasta in the middle of the night after having been terrorised by haunting nightmares yet again.

However, the silliness of it all was what got you through it eventually, what helped you to work your face enough to allow that ghost of a grin to tug at the corners of your lips and for distraught thoughts to narrow down on something entirely else.

“Hm..”, You pondered over possible culinary desires for a moment whilst your body gradually settled down, sinking into the mattress and against Joe as uptight tension left your muscles, “Some with tuna, tomatoes and shittons of garlic…and chili.”

You pictured the plate laden with spaghetti and sauce in your mind, an empty stomach switching gears as the thought turned a bit too tangible.

“I go to the store and cook and you see if you can fix my camera, deal?” The words blubbering from your mouth turned slightly slurry, audible enough for Joe to know that he’d sufficiently bothered you trivialities to the point your thought had stopped grasping at the buzzing livewire that was trauma.

“Sure, deal.” He reciprocated, listening to your breaths turn more steady and drawn-out.

He didn’t dare to move just the slightest bit until gentle snores trickled from your lips and hummed against the the thick duvet. It was every other day he had to actively remind himself that you weren’t just made out of porcelain - you’d long grown into your one person and ever so often the passage of time rapidly caught up to him.

Joe had helped you through high school and college, your intellect very much not being the issue at hand but rehabilitating you back into society had taken its time and its toll. However, by now, he simply felt at ease, as much as a man with his history could, and even allowed himself a little moment of pride. The ex-marine was proud of you for shouldering the weight of your memories every day anew and he was proud of himself because you - the coffee-stained, beige file that had been the case of you on his desk - finally felt like he’d been able to make a dent, a change, just something in a world that swallowed whole and only spat out bones sucked dry off all their marrow.

The tip of his nose hovered right above the top of your head. his lips almost touching the strands of hair flowing down as he inhaled the apple-scented shampoo. Washed, fed, cared for - all things you’d been in severe lack of as he’d stormed this “establishment”, fueled by the rage of a thousand suns that had come crashing down upon seeing you cowering at the side of a ruffled bed, an oversized Care Bear t-shirt hanging like a wet towel from trembling shoulders as you’d stared right back at him, frightened and dragged into a corner enough to be ready to kill or severely mutilate at the very least.

No one should be familiar with that exact expression on someone's face but especially not a hardly 14-year-old teenager, laden with experiences enough to fill about three lives to the brim.

There'd been this wicked, silent understanding as you'd looked at the blood dripping from his hands, the blood of your tormentors. You'd imprinted on Joe in that very moment, stuck to him like a duckling for more than you just the way out of the front door, until he'd come to terms with the fact that you'd stay with him - fake birth certificate, fake ID, fake CPS documents in abundance; there was hardly anything he couldn’t get his calloused hands on through shady contacts and knowing someone who knew someone who knew someone.

It had taken you all the time that had been necessary to get you accustomed to having privacy again, your own room with an adjoined bathroom. Some days, Joe hadn't seen you at all - the only thing he'd ask for was an occasional text message stating that you were okay or in need of something.

The requests had changed from a bag of potato chips and bottles of diet coke to pads, tampons, a razor and nail polish, resulting in a big, burly man finding himself between feminine hygiene products and make-up.

Had it been uncomfortable and ridiculous? Yeah, a thousand times yes, but he'd give any amount of awkwardness to see you chipper, a happy swing to your steps as you walked down the stairs to grab some breakfast, eyes beaming as you quietly presented freshly painted nails wrapped around a spoon shoved into a cereal bowl.

There'd been on-and-off times with your mutism, just like with anything else. Some weeks you spent your days basking in the sun in the yard and then again others hiding away, only emerging to eat and wave your hand at him to let him know that you were doing the best you could right now.

Joe wouldn't ever reach as far to give himself a parent of the year award, he wasn't even a parent to begin with, but he'd say that he did well by giving you your space, never invading only following when invited.

Later on, there had been episodes that turned much darker, nights where you'd woken him from light sleep, tears streaming down your face and pooling at a clenched jawline as you confessed about having lost control.

Thinking about it - Joe slowly splayed his hand over your stomach, a thin, skin-warm layer of cloth separating his palm from welts of now pale scar tissue. He could've never been angry at you for this. Actually, he could understand it just fine, hating your own body so much because of what sick people had done with and to it. Getting swallowed by the need to mutilate the skin that remained stained no matter how many times you scrubbed yourself red underneath a steaming shower - none of that a stranger to Joe.

For now, those things had settled down. During college it really felt like you'd come into your own fully, making friends, going out and coming back home somewhat tipsy on weekends. You had graduated, entertained a part-time job at the local library you enjoyed working, yet, some nights, Joe wondered what would be next.

You'd never come home with someone else besides your iron-tight circle of close friends. You also didn't exactly appear to entertain the idea of moving out anytime soon and, by all means, Joe would never push you to any of those things, however, he found himself wondering, caring about your future in a way that left an uncomfortable aftertaste on his tongue.

The ex-marine had spent years building a trigger-free environment for him, but most importantly for you - open and clean rooms, a locked front- and backdoor, he'd quit smoking - an environment not sterile but again, trigger-free… the only monster hiding in his closet.

Joe had started feeling it rearing its ugly head about a year ago. It must’ve been there a little longer than that but had kept itself well hidden away from prying eyes on nights spent with excruciatingly meticulous introspection and whenever Joe started thinking about it for a bit too long, it started pulling and tugging at him with long slender fingers, causing thoughts to drift into a twilight zone between dreaming and vivid fantasy.

Thought about being with you in a different way clawed their way up his spine to bite him into the neck that he felt the need to hang low in shame and silent atonement the days after. No matter how hard he tried to keep the images at bay, they came back swapping over, wrecking through him in gradually more grotesque variations until he either took care of it himself or decided to stand beneath an ice-cold shower until his muscles hurt.

Against better judgement, tonight was no different: The very moment Joe’s hypervigilant senses started drifting off into calmer waters, his body took over, shamelessly doubling down on letting him sense the warmth emitting from your body next to his, the apple-scented shampoo getting infiltrated by hints of sweat and that unique smell that clung to you and only you, that smell by which he could differentiate you between hundreds of people with his eyes blindfolded if he ever had to.

His teeth drilled themselves into the sensitive tissue on the inside of his cheek as you inched closer, getting comfortable in your sleep. He wanted to, everything within yearned and yelled at him to, but there was no way he’d allow himself to just pull you against him. It always started off innocent, the tantalizing idea of placing a few tender kisses into the crook of your neck slithering into his mind to get a foot into the door for what was about to follow.

Just tiny little bits of affection that carried a different flavour to test the waters and see if you’d like it, if you’d shove yourself closer in a nonverbal plea for more. A tainted rush of inevitable arousal gathered at the pit of his stomach, disgust and shame turning it to twist in every possible direction at the very same time. The hand he held resting against your front threatened to twitch as the touch, separated by soft fabric, turned to feel like his entire palm was set on fire. It was nonsense, yet Joe was genuinely afraid of burning you with the flames that were eating away at him again.

He’d do whatever you wanted him to - tear the whole city down and leave nothing but scorched earth and dying embers - just to know you with him until the end of days, however, simultaneously, this closed-off and eternally muzzled part of him wanted nothing more than to ravage you in every way possible, eat you alive and swallow whole.

Joe could very well see it play out behind closed eyes, the wretched fantasy of him letting fingers dip down south, maybe letting them slip past the loose waistband of your pyjama shorts or perhaps just sneaking along the curves of your things along the fuzzy cloth; intricacies he usually switched and played with when he found himself alone in the dark and not with your shoulders flush to his chest that was struggling to keep his hammering heart contained.

His body betrayed him and for a brief moment he caught himself begging to gods he didn’t believe in that you were sleeping soundly enough that all of this went straight past you; not even the embarrassment crushing through him like a tide enough to kill the throbbing erection straining against his sweatpants. Maybe he should just castrate himself to make it all stop, to be able to be with you without being that looming black shadow you weren’t even aware of.

You were too good for this, too good for someone with such a crippled soul. No, you should go out there and meet someone your age, fall in love, have silly coffee shop and cinema dates instead of spending every damn day in the nimbus of memories in a house that must reek of past trauma no matter how hard the both of you tried to brush it under the rug.

Perhaps it was time for Joe to suggest looking for a flat, a place you could fully call your own. He doubled down on the thought to punish himself for being just another man.

[womendeservehumanity]

I said I was gonna make one big mega post on those sysbm losers who make it their life’s mission to terrorize bw but honestly there’s too many and there’s too much to unpack for it to be in one post. So I’ll just highlight a few specific people. I honestly feel like I’m crazy bc it seems like only black women know about these weirdos. They dedicate so much of their lives EVERYDAY to degrading and arguing with black women. They truly do hate us. And all I can ever think of when I see these accounts is a black woman birthed these males. Imagine risking your life to birth very thing that hates you. What a slap on the face. And it’s not as though these men had terrible moms and they’re why they’re like this. Most of them talk about how their mothers are exceptions. Their sisters as well. How you could have black women in you life that you love (or love as much as possible bc some of these mfs are sociopaths) but justify you and other men like you, of which don’t see your mothers/sisters as one exceptions, hating black women to this degree is beyond me. these men mock black women dying during childbirth, due to femicide, due to policy brutality, etc. how do you conceptualize that when you have women in your life at risk of that same plight???

But anyways this is one of the accounts I’ve seen a lot on Twitter bc he’s insanely chronically online. This is a hobby for him. He’s one that has no problem mocking black women dying.

The likes…. Mind you the person that originally tweeted this is a gay man and all the quotes are a black woman hating jerkfest

I mean it’s not as though he would’ve been any nicer if he knew it was a gay man. Look how he regards gay black men. This is something I see a lot in sysbm circles. They’re insanely homophobic but especially towards gay black men. I guess because their existence “effeminates” them. They call them “dahmer’s lunch” or “dahmer’s nugget” because the serial killer and cannibal Jefferey dahmer primarily targeted gay black men and that’s funny to them. These men have nothing but hate in their hearts

One person in his replies after he falsely identified a young black girl as the poster of a rage bait account that was making weird racial posts when she was simply one of the many women and men that weird ass account was using to make tiktoks. I won’t show it because that girl who did NOTHING has been subjected to enough already and I hope she’s not aware of it. But this was his reaction to that false notion.

I mean what can you even say to explain this type of hatred. How does this happen?

Anyways his reprehensible tweets about black women aren’t enough to get him suspended because look at the state of twitter but I reported a tweet of him encouraging someone to “end it” and so hopefully that’ll do the job. I feel like I’m alone in all of this and in seeing this hatred. Radfems are always there to find posts targeting white women and talking about how people use them and the word “white” to get away with misogyny and while I agree am I supposed to believe they’re the only ones the internet targets or even targets the most? Where are y’all when it comes to shit like this? Because it’s not super niche

Also one of the many reasons why I’d rather 🔑 myself than birth a male. Imagine this being what he ends up doing with his life

[jungleindierock]

Parsnip - The Light

Indie Rock quartet from Melbourne, Australia, Parsnip share their latest music, The Light is the first taste from their forthcoming second album Behold, which is set for release on the 26th April 2024. The band are comprised of Carolyn Hawkins on the drums, Paris Richens on the bass and vocals, Rebecca Liston on keyboards and Stella Rennex on the guitar and vocals. Parsnip formed in early 2016 in Melbourne after meeting at Geelong's Jerkfest.

[bostonska]

🎟️🗓️ July Ska Shows in Greater Boston 🗓️🎟️

Fri Jul 7 UB40 @ Chevalier Theatre, Medford Sat Jul 7-8 Boston JerkFest Feat. Luciano Thu Jul 20 Attractors, Riki Rocksteady @ Lizard Lounge, Cambridge Sat Jul 22 Goldfinger, Big D, SHJ @ House of Blues Sat Jul 22 Pressure Cooker @ Lizard Lounge, Cambridge Fri Jul 28 Long Beach Dub Allstars, The Agents @ Alchemy, Providence Sun Jul 30 Beres Hammond @ Chevalier Theatre, Medford

Tickets and more at https://www.bostonska.net/

[izafoodie]

Celebrate Caribbean food at the Boston JerkFest: July 1-2 - Boston.com

Celebrate Caribbean food at the Boston JerkFest: July 1-2  Boston.com http://dlvr.it/TG5Sc8

[sadtransboyi]

one of the worst parts about EDs is that they're incredibly competitive. very difficult to discuss with other ppl bc it always inevitably becomes a jerkfest of who was sicker or did the most disordered thing. it's just a trademark of the disease like i am not claiming to be immune it's just one of those things that sucks

[brookston]

Holidays 7.12

Holidays

Alkanet Day (French Republic)

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Day of Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Villages

Different Colored Eyes Day

Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, Illinois)

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

Fjord Day

Founder’s Day (Rhodesia)

Hijab and Chastity (Iran)

International Cabin Crew Day

International Day of Combating Sand & Dust Storms

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Lawyer’s Day (Mexico)

Malala Day

National Cancel Culture Awareness Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

National Keder Day

National Rodeo Day

National Tyler Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

712 Day (Iowa)

Shonen Knife Day (Japan)

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Tube to Work Day (Boulder, Colorado)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

World Paper Bag Day

World Penis Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

International Cava Day

Michelada Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Pani Puri Day

Independence & Related Days

Granda Aŭtista Duklando de Sophia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Pacificonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Pibocip (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

2nd Friday in July

Collector Car Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

French Fries Day [2nd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

National Motorcycle Day [2nd Friday]

Wayne Chicken Show begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

World Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Worldwide Art Day [2nd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 12 (2nd Week of July)

Kilburn Feast (Yorkshire, England) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Sea Festival (Jūras Svētki Sākas; Latvia) [2nd Friday]

White Cloud’s Birthday & Tatanka (Bison) Festival (North Dakota) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning July 12, 2024

Art of Wine Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas)

Ballard SeafoodFest (Ballard, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Baltimore Washington One Carnival (Baltimore, Maryland & Washington, D.C.) [thru 7.14]

Bospop (Weert, Netherlands) [thru 7.14]

Boston JerkFest Rum & Brew Tasting (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 7.13]

California State Fair (Sacramento, California) [thru 7.28]

Copper Country Strawberry Festival (Chassell, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Corn & Clover Carnival (Hinckley, Minnesota) [thru 7.13]

Dine L.A. Restaurant Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 7.26]

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 7.21]

Famous Food Festival (Deer Park, New York) [thru 7.14]

Farm Toy Show (Metropolis, Illinois) [thru 7.13]

Halal Ribfest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Hanover Tomato Festival (Mechanicsville, Virginia) [thru 7.13]

Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament [Kaltenberger Ritterturnier] (Geltendorf, Germany) [thru 7.28]

Loveland Loves BBQ, Bands & Brews (Loveland, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

McLoud Blackberry Festival (McLoud, Oklahoma) [thru 7.13]

New Jersey State Barbecue Championship (Anglesea, New Jersey) [thru 7.1]

North Carolina Blackberry Festival (Lenoir, North Carolina) [thru 7.13]

The Odessa International Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 7.20]

Ohio Brew Week (Athens, Ohio) [thru 7.19]

Parke County 4-H Fair (Parke County, Indiana) [thru 7.19]

Pori Jazz (Pori, Finland) [thru 7.20]

Rib & Wing Festival (Seven Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.14]

Square Roots Music, Craft Brew & Local Food Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Trempealeau Lions Catfish Days (Trempealeau, Wisconsin) [thru 7.14]

Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy) [thru 7.21]

The Wayne Chicken Show (Wayne, Nebraska) [thru 7.14]

Whiskies of the World (Dallas, Texas)

Wireless Festival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 7.14]

World’s Largest Wild Rice Festival (Deer River, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Feast Days

Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Artology)

Amedeo Modigliani (Artology)

Andrew Wyeth (Artology)

Carl Lundgren (Artology)

Day Sacred to Dikaiosune (Ancient Deity for Justice; Everyday Wicca)

Donald E. Westlake (Writerism)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Eugène Boudin (Artology)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Gaulbert (Christian; Saint) [Foresters, Parks, Park Rangers]

Germ (Muppetism)

Henry David Thoreau (Writerism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Martyrs)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

John the Iberian (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Max Jacob (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 7 (Shamanism)

Mr. Screech (Muppetism)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

The Old Dances (For Yama, Buddhist God of Death & the Underworld)

Pablo Neruda (Writerism)

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paisios of Mount Athos (Greek Orthodox)

Requiem in D Minor, by Gabriel Fauré (Mass; 1900)

Solstitium VIII (Pagan)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Take a Walk in the Woods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus, Bishop of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

We Come to the River, by Has Werner Henze (Opera; 1976)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year (Everyday Wicca)

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Sam Spade (Radio Series; 1946)

Alice Wins the Derby (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Amateur Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Booby Socks (Phantasies Cartoon; 1945)

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (Film; 1941)

By the Sea (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. Tuchman (History Book; 1978)

Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1965)

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (TV Game Show; 1976)

Fighton’ Pals (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The High Window, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1942)

The Hunter, by Richard Stark (Novel; 1962)

I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke, by The New Seekers (Radio Jingle; 1971)

Last Date, by Floyd Cramer (Song; 1960)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League — Gotham City Breakout (Animated Film; 2016)

Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome (Film; 1985)

Monk (TV Series; 2002)

Northern Exposure (TV Series; 1990)

Oz (TV Series; 1997)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

The Playful Pup (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Road to Perdition (Film; 2002)

Rock-a-Bye Bear (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1952)

Rupert the Runt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Salt Water Tabby (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

She (Film; 1935)

Silverado (Film; 1985)

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1977)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Film; 1961)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

Herman, Hermine (Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 194 of 2024; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 7 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 5 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 14 Red; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2024

Moon: 37%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 23 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.12

Holidays

Alkanet Day (French Republic)

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Day of Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Villages

Different Colored Eyes Day

Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, Illinois)

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

Fjord Day

Founder’s Day (Rhodesia)

Hijab and Chastity (Iran)

International Cabin Crew Day

International Day of Combating Sand & Dust Storms

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Lawyer’s Day (Mexico)

Malala Day

National Cancel Culture Awareness Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

National Keder Day

National Rodeo Day

National Tyler Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

712 Day (Iowa)

Shonen Knife Day (Japan)

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Tube to Work Day (Boulder, Colorado)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

World Paper Bag Day

World Penis Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

International Cava Day

Michelada Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Pani Puri Day

Independence & Related Days

Granda Aŭtista Duklando de Sophia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Pacificonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Pibocip (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

2nd Friday in July

Collector Car Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

French Fries Day [2nd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

National Motorcycle Day [2nd Friday]

Wayne Chicken Show begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

World Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Worldwide Art Day [2nd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 12 (2nd Week of July)

Kilburn Feast (Yorkshire, England) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Sea Festival (Jūras Svētki Sākas; Latvia) [2nd Friday]

White Cloud’s Birthday & Tatanka (Bison) Festival (North Dakota) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning July 12, 2024

Art of Wine Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas)

Ballard SeafoodFest (Ballard, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Baltimore Washington One Carnival (Baltimore, Maryland & Washington, D.C.) [thru 7.14]

Bospop (Weert, Netherlands) [thru 7.14]

Boston JerkFest Rum & Brew Tasting (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 7.13]

California State Fair (Sacramento, California) [thru 7.28]

Copper Country Strawberry Festival (Chassell, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Corn & Clover Carnival (Hinckley, Minnesota) [thru 7.13]

Dine L.A. Restaurant Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 7.26]

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 7.21]

Famous Food Festival (Deer Park, New York) [thru 7.14]

Farm Toy Show (Metropolis, Illinois) [thru 7.13]

Halal Ribfest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Hanover Tomato Festival (Mechanicsville, Virginia) [thru 7.13]

Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament [Kaltenberger Ritterturnier] (Geltendorf, Germany) [thru 7.28]

Loveland Loves BBQ, Bands & Brews (Loveland, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

McLoud Blackberry Festival (McLoud, Oklahoma) [thru 7.13]

New Jersey State Barbecue Championship (Anglesea, New Jersey) [thru 7.1]

North Carolina Blackberry Festival (Lenoir, North Carolina) [thru 7.13]

The Odessa International Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 7.20]

Ohio Brew Week (Athens, Ohio) [thru 7.19]

Parke County 4-H Fair (Parke County, Indiana) [thru 7.19]

Pori Jazz (Pori, Finland) [thru 7.20]

Rib & Wing Festival (Seven Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.14]

Square Roots Music, Craft Brew & Local Food Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Trempealeau Lions Catfish Days (Trempealeau, Wisconsin) [thru 7.14]

Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy) [thru 7.21]

The Wayne Chicken Show (Wayne, Nebraska) [thru 7.14]

Whiskies of the World (Dallas, Texas)

Wireless Festival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 7.14]

World’s Largest Wild Rice Festival (Deer River, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Feast Days

Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Artology)

Amedeo Modigliani (Artology)

Andrew Wyeth (Artology)

Carl Lundgren (Artology)

Day Sacred to Dikaiosune (Ancient Deity for Justice; Everyday Wicca)

Donald E. Westlake (Writerism)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Eugène Boudin (Artology)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Gaulbert (Christian; Saint) [Foresters, Parks, Park Rangers]

Germ (Muppetism)

Henry David Thoreau (Writerism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Martyrs)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

John the Iberian (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Max Jacob (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 7 (Shamanism)

Mr. Screech (Muppetism)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

The Old Dances (For Yama, Buddhist God of Death & the Underworld)

Pablo Neruda (Writerism)

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paisios of Mount Athos (Greek Orthodox)

Requiem in D Minor, by Gabriel Fauré (Mass; 1900)

Solstitium VIII (Pagan)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Take a Walk in the Woods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus, Bishop of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

We Come to the River, by Has Werner Henze (Opera; 1976)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year (Everyday Wicca)

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Sam Spade (Radio Series; 1946)

Alice Wins the Derby (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Amateur Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Booby Socks (Phantasies Cartoon; 1945)

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (Film; 1941)

By the Sea (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. Tuchman (History Book; 1978)

Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1965)

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (TV Game Show; 1976)

Fighton’ Pals (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The High Window, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1942)

The Hunter, by Richard Stark (Novel; 1962)

I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke, by The New Seekers (Radio Jingle; 1971)

Last Date, by Floyd Cramer (Song; 1960)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League — Gotham City Breakout (Animated Film; 2016)

Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome (Film; 1985)

Monk (TV Series; 2002)

Northern Exposure (TV Series; 1990)

Oz (TV Series; 1997)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

The Playful Pup (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Road to Perdition (Film; 2002)

Rock-a-Bye Bear (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1952)

Rupert the Runt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Salt Water Tabby (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

She (Film; 1935)

Silverado (Film; 1985)

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1977)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Film; 1961)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

Herman, Hermine (Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 194 of 2024; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 7 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 5 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 14 Red; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2024

Moon: 37%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 23 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 31)

[coollikeacaterpillar]

I knew my econ class was gonna be a capitalist jerkfest. but they literally have an example in the textbook where a company hires uneducated workers, the workers try to unionize, the CEO FIRES ALL OF THEM, then the company proceeds to become a billion dollar company and they frame this as a good thing. I'm fucking done

[izatrini]

Jerkfest adds Soca heavyhitter Destra to this year’s lineup - NOW Toronto http://dlvr.it/SpnNdS

[hoticedeejay]

Jamaican independece celebration 2019

[theaave]

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[stylebartv]

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[masum1985]

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[balancecheat]

My jeans.