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ramblingeekette · 2 years ago

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One thing that seems uniquely Wiscosin is how hyped everyone gets in the spring when the sturgeon spawning run starts. Like everyone flocks to specific points along the main rivers to watch these funky lake dinosaurs get it on.

#personal #like its a family event. people bring their kids to show them nature at work.#but also. the local officials will post gaurds at various spawning points because sturgeon spawn along the rocky edges of the river #and people will and do crawl down the riverbank to pet those funky dinosaurs as they get their freak on #like i have vivid memories as a kid at the Shiocton spawn area of my dad helping me crawl down the rocks and having me pet some of them #this is a normal thing here and by jove ita hilarious when you really think about it #though it is cool when theyre by the dams because then they do the dramatic leaps in the air like salmon do going up river #ahhh that wisconsin life #i know some other states have lake surgeon too but ive never seen the spawning season hyped up like it is here loool #just part of living by the great lakes #midwest life is great

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heymacy · 10 months ago

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CHAPPELL ROAN: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Mini Documentary) [x, x] ╰┈➤ "This job allows me to do and be whoever I want because there's no boundaries. And that was like, the point of it all, you know? To be anything I wanted."

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chipsahoyforyaboi · 6 months ago

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❤️ Big T*ts Big Heart ❤️

Favorite shirt at the moment for sure

Taking asks until I fall back asleep

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scottspencer4011 · 7 days ago

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Expanse

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mother-lee · 3 months ago

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schoolhouse, Fort Morgan, CO. circa 1915.

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shutterandsentence · 4 months ago

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Wildflowers and Wine Country

Photo: Petoskey, Michigan

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tiptoeing-the-fractures · 4 months ago

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Piper<3

#kampys ocs #midwest emo girls #static apparition #working titles for this #anyway have some character sheets for piper<3 #uh for those who read tags.. shes the protagonist shes pretty great has a midlife crisis and upheaves her entire life at risk of being the #family disappointment but she does so anyway ya know the usual.#original character #artists on tumblr #id in alt #charater design #if you want a voice claim listen to thats physics baby by pool kids and thats how piper sounds in my head yayyy

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bacchuschucklefuck · 6 months ago

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but also literally the fact that jack manhattan stands up the hotel gift shop like right after/before she gets mad at liv. Paula baby be an adult. I love to watch them all spiral but i really do hope we get a liv confrontation moment

miss paula "slams screens down laptop style the moment she sees something she doesn't like to confront on them" donvaldson we can one day get there together I believe in you

#not art #ngl I also hope she never gets a win I hope if she and liv comes to a head liv wins soundly #I know thats not how emotional conflicts work but I just think liv should get this one. shoplifting from walgreens is epic #I get the impression before her time at the mall paula's life is very like. uneventful. like she finds it great overall but like every othe #adult of that generation I've seen straight married she was glossing over some fault lines to get to be a ''normal upstanding citizen''#and the fault lines get deeper and things fall apart and she refuses to confront that it's something long in the making #it's instead this disaster that came upon her and her family out of nowhere and thus the Worst Thing On Earth #her life's irrevocably upended when she's already a decent streak of perceived stability into it. and now she loves order and justice #or not! I'll admit on sight I'm not as familiar with the Midwest Gothic and adjacent genre as much as uhh #East/SEAsian Parent Who Is One Child Out Of The House Away From Joining A Cult genre #maybe thats why paula fascinates me lmao #I say she should keep losing bc I think an arc of accepting that life is chaos and people are more important than rules would be #great for her. esp with her being in her late 50s. but also just bc she's SO good when she's cringefail. Im so sorry women #she Should explode at liv and she Should be so wrong. she's spiritually my cody for nsbu. I love her. lets get u some initiative ma'am #nsbu spoilers

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goldenstarprincesses · 1 year ago

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Honestly, as much as a love the Gilded Age and glitz glamor of the wealth it shows...what has really caught my attention is the plotline unions and mills

I am once again starting my campaign for Hollywood to create a mini series based on the Progressive era

And I want it as dark, gritty, a realistic as possible.

#my life-long obsession has been the progressive era #so many good things occurred but so many people and populations were left out of the conversation/legal changes #I truly think the progressive era was top 5 most important times in American social and legal history #probs only next to the Civil War and the Great Depression #Civil Rights movement and the 1970s movements which were inspired by the civil rights moment #HBO honestly would be able to do this imo #they did a great job with this and with John Adams #I'd love to see it set in the Midwest #like in Detroit or Chicago #the gilded age #historical drama #historical drama tv #hbo #the progressive era #not hetalia #american history #pro union

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misqnon · 3 months ago

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#microphone effect #vent ahead ->#im. really lonely #i miss loving someone.#i miss having a partner.#stuffing my head full of fandom bullshit to distract myself only works for so long yanno #found some old letters from my ex and read them against my better judgement.#good god. we were so in love. that breakup took me by surprise so horribly #i still cant quite comprehend it. and its been over a year #over a year of me being alone and realizing i dont want to be anymore #but im stuck here. in shitville rural conservative midwest. with not many great options for a gender-confused super nerd #still embarrassed about the state of their life at the age theyre in #its just great. /s #anyways i feel really bad. think i need to have a good cry

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nowheresville-dakota · 11 months ago

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Welcome to South Dakota

Great Faces . Great Places

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crossbackpoke-check · 1 year ago

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15 questions + 15 friends (tagged by my beloveds @whitenikes & @acheronist 🥰💕 thank you thank you!!)

1. Are you named after anyone?

technically yes… i’m named after a character in a book but my mom has never been able to remember what book 🫡

2. When was the last time you cried?

i don’t usually log frequent crier miles but i definitely cried in december (??) watching the music video for “amelia” for a variety of reasons

3. Do you have kids?

nope! i do refer to my students as my kids sometimes on accident and have freaked out more than one person by saying “my kids” lmao

4. What sports do you play/have played?

currently i play rugby, although i grew up playing a lot of sports—i did volleyball, basketball, track, and danced competitively (which is probably the sport i miss the most)

5. Do you use sarcasm?

me? using sarcasm? never :) here i usually don’t because it doesn’t come across the same over text and irl it’s usually just with people i’m comfortable with and know will get it

6. What is the first thing you notice about someone?

oooo outfit maybe? voice? context dependent for sure

7. What’s your eye color?

legally, hazel. illegally, whatever color the nearest person to me says that they are at the time

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

happy endings :)

9. Any talents?

(insert the quinn hughes 😬 on the bench reaction meme please i’m trying ok!!)

i can bake pretty decently! athletic if that’s a talent? i would love to learn how to do more artsy things (got a crochet kit & paint with watercolor sometimes)

10. Where were you born?

michigan 🧤<- not a mitten but i’d show you where i’m from on it if i could

11. What are your hobbies?

reading, although i never have as much time to read as i want to (send me book recs please)… i count sports as a hobby and i just got a really pretty new puzzle! also, obviously, hockey.

12. Do you have any pets?

yes!!! i have a canary and a society finch (orville and duncan), a hypo corn snake (apollo! he has hearts on his head!), and two cats (john watson and effie). in the future i’d love to have a dog again, since i just lost him this past summer

13. How tall are you?

moritz seider (5’3”)

14. Favorite subject in school?

real hot girls speak german 💅 it’s either that or biology but i feel like that’s little bit of a cop out

15. Dream job?

re: the cop out above, dream job is working as a veterinarian for a zoo! so it makes sense i love biology lol

tagging @songsandswords @kj-op @hiding-from-reality-56 @catboy-mahura and anyone else who’d like to and hasn’t done it already!!

#liv in the replies #i don’t always do tag games because i am Shy but i am going to Make An Effort y’all i promise #assorted random comments:#the amount of googling i have done to try and figure out what book i was named after so i could read it… it’s a curse #you can have it in the tags because i didn’t want to put it in text but i am a SAP i will cry about/to medias a lot easier than my life #and generally i really only cry when i’m hormonal l m a o wish it weren’t so #i am a great lakes girlie now & forever midwest kids are doing alright. can’t imagine living somewhere w/o lakes although the ocean’d be ok #i did however make it a goal to read a book every day that i was on break and we did that!!! my other goal did not get accomplished #(finish a fic) because i was like oh i’ll have so much time!!! and then bam i worked like. 40h weeks lmao. every time :))))#hopefully today i’ll write though if i get everything figured out for [redacted] and i keep forgetting i still have tomorrow too #the most important part about my pets is that orville & duncan (birds) are questionably gay for each other :) &are EXACTLY like their names #me vs my anxiety that i am Bothering People when i tag them: FIGHT #please know if i didn’t tag you but you would’ve done this i love you with my entire heart i just got scared i would be bothering you 💕#but also like. tell me so i can tag you next time without fear because i love learning about my mutuals 🥺 y’all are the coolest #tag game

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victim2autopsy · 1 year ago

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Because of the storm my tvs signal went out so now we're watching spiderman: into the spiderverse on DVD using my Xbox 360. Storms aren't all that bad.

#seriously though this is epic #spiderman and intense thunderstorms #life is great #bad news: shitty weather #good news: shitty weather #midwest weather #weather

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arborescent-shadows · 1 year ago

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ok while we are at it again!!! People here are bad at making bread!!! It's not that hard to make very basic bread!! it's ok to cheat with quick rise yeast or make milk bread. But everyone here is adding sugar to bread!! not pumpkin bread or like a sweet bread. i mean like sandwich bread. sandwich/savory bread should taste good on its own or with butter! you dont need to add sugar if you do it right!!!

also it's OK to stop putting random shit in your pasta salads!!! Some veggies and spices wont hurt you!!! stop adding jello and marshmellows to savory things!!!

#adventures trying food on the great plains like.....you people cant cook #went to a bbq and bonfire with coworkers and everyone loved the food and it was the worst potluck food ive had in my life #step up ur cooking game #i thought my nan made bland food but at least she uses like salt bay leaf pepper paprika etc in everything #i think i just dont like midwest food

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yay-depression · 2 years ago

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thinking unhappy thoughts at 1 am except these can’t even be categorized into the “no feelings past 4pm in winter are real” bc it wasn’t inherently a negative thought it was a positive thought which upon saying aloud sounded really fucking sad

#i was thinking about how nice it was to meet someone i met this past week #and how great it felt and how i felt like we clicked so instantly #and then i was like #‘huh wonder why most social interactions feel this good to me?’#and then i realized the difference was that this person actively introduced themselves to me and started conversation #as opposed to just about 90% of the social interactions i partake in which involve me sitting alone and being ignored #until i stand up and try and butt into some of my friends conversations in some way #anyways just thinking about how very few people seem to want to interact with me #nothing like real world experiences feeding into the deep-seeded belief i have that i’m inherently unloveable #and also that i’m inherently annoying but everyone is just too nice to tell me #i am not joking when i say i genuinely have trauma from being a neurodivergent person in the midwest #going from a life of ‘if people don’t like me they will tell me’ to ‘everyone seems to not like me but won’t say anything’#as a child was a traumatic experience and created intense feelings of inadequacy and trust issues #which i was already really vulnerable to bc i was emotionally abused as a kid #so combine having a dad who says everything you do is wrong no matter how hard you try #with friends who refuse to say what you’re doing wrong but will hold grudges against it and will be mad at you for it #but every time you ask them they say ‘no we’re not mad!’#plus literally like a decade of me trying to make friends in this fucking hellhole of a town and getting basically nothing but laughed at #and you can see why having a good social interaction for once is actually really fucking upsetting #because HOLY SHIT is that what life is SUPPOSED TO BE??#you’re telling me most interactions i have with people make me feel bad not bc i have social anxiety but because i’m giving it 110%#and i’m getting back maybe 10%???#anyways it’s wishing i didn’t live in this shithole place with these shitty people hours #and wishing the world was fucking nicer to me when i was a kid bc it was so rough for 13 year old me for no goddamn reason #every day is another day of realizing i literally didn’t have a time in my life when things weren’t falling apart #until i was literally 17 #kristen

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shutterandsentence · 2 months ago

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"In October, any wonderful, unexpected thing might be possible."

--Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Photo: Michigan

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