#posted may 16th

[thottyoptimusprime]

Final post and that's it. Chaka is here! Been here since May 6th. We got married over zoom yesterday morning. All that's left to wait for is her work visa which will take 5 months to a year to finalize. All we'll need is money for her to pay ID fees for social security card, visa card, Ohio identification. Transportation/bus fare for the next few months. Toiletries. Winter clothes of which she's not looking forward to.. Food isn't a problem because we volunteer at Food Not Bombs.

$1,221/$3,000

[sopuu]

HAPPY LET PAPYRUS SAY FUCK DAY 🎉

[audio source]

[notlikeotherbirds]

If Jonathan Harker was blogging this shit online, people would tell him to get his CO levels checked bc that sounds a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning

[piningpebbles]

the dream smp journey: attempting to make the lore of the dream smp more accessible.

so back when i first wanted to get into the dream smp i had absolutely no idea where to start. i asked some people and they told me pretty much “look up dream smp + [insert youtuber name] and start there” and so i did, but i quickly came to realize how much i was missing from the story by not seeing all the different points of view.

so i decided to make my own playlist.

it was just for myself at first, but as i got more obsessed with the story, i also gave the link to some friends of mine so they could have the full experience, and they loved it. so i kept updating it.

my goal was to try and make a capsule of the entirety of the lore on the dream smp across almost every single POV, because while i do appreciate those who make recap videos, they always miss something and it’s usually with peoples’ POV who aren’t considered to be “main characters” which sucks because one of my favorite things about the dream smp was how everyone was their own main character with their own individual storyline you could get invested in.

i’ve seen every single video in the playlist, and did my absolute best to discern what should be included and what didn’t need to be. 

for instance, while i personally enjoyed streams where they’d just goof off, this is a lore-centric playist so i didn’t include all of them unless one of the jokes or such gets mentioned/becomes important later on. or if there is a lore event happening but two people have almost identical streams to one another then i decided between the two of them which one to keep. or if the cc themself made an edited version of their experience, i would decide whether to go with that or keep the original vod

it’s far from perfect. i tried to keep up with it as long as i could I STILL HAVE VIDEOS IN MY WATCH LATER THAT I PLANNED TO ADD but simply put while the dream smp storyline got longer and longer it became harder to keep up with. i watched pretty much all the streams when they happened but failed to update the playlist accordingly so right now it has almost everything up until ”Hitting on 16.”

i always wanted to finish it before i posted it, but i’ve been seeing people talk about how they miss the experience of watching the dream smp and while i obviously can’t provide the full interactive experience that the dream smp offered as it came out, i knew i couldn’t just keep this in my back pocket and thought i could at least offer a good chunk of the experience for you guys to still be able to keep!

here’s the playlist, spanning over 300 videos.

there’s also a semi-canon playlist (not nearly as thorough) for events that get mentioned by the cc’s a lot or are just cool to have and i wanted to include them somewhere so here it is also!!

to go along with it i also made a masterpost (can you tell i love making lists) which is what every single video on the playlist is supposed to be (and was last i checked, but videos get taken down every so often so there might be a couple missing here and there).

i hope to update this one day and have it fully finished, but with my schedule (full-time college student babyyyy) and simply the hundreds of hours of content i’d need to sift through it just seems impossible (and frankly just really intimidating) to challenge alone right now. so i also wanted to give this to the community to maybe be able to do what i couldn’t!

my hope with this is that if someone in a year or two (or whenever really) is interested in the dream smp they won’t have to sit through recap videos and instead can watch the real thing in a single playlist connected to the doc. my dream is for the masterpost and the playlist to go hand-in-hand, being like a guide people can follow that would also link to other moments and lore that is saved but just not avaliable on youtube, so we don’t have all these moments just lost to time.

i want to make this collaborative, i’m hoping this will maybe spark others to share what videos/moments they have saved and stored with each other for the dream smp and maybe together we could complete this thing somehow!! make the playlist and masterpost i dreamed of (the one right now is scuffed, but at least it’s something). the dream smp is one of my absolute favorite pieces of media out there and i want to share this with people but (as you can probably tell) i have no idea what i’m doing!! any step to help make the story more readily accessible is a good one, though!

i know i’ve missed things but i’ve done my best. and while not the perfectly polished thing i hoped it would be when i sent it out to the world maybe it could be a good building block for the community to use. so please share this!! reblog it!! all that jazz!! i want this to be for everyone!!

anyways, this is a long post. but the whole reason i got into the dream smp in the first place was because of the awesome fan content i saw and this crazy and creative community and i want to be able to give back, if i can.

[wonder-worker]

"Anne Stanhope was a devoted and loyal wife and mother. She was also a politician, a committed religious reformer, and a survivor of Tudor intrigue. It was her actions and her connections at court that saved the Seymour family from ruin throughout the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Her activities as a patroness of religious literature distinguished her from many of her contemporaries. Anne also worked with both of her husbands – but with Edward Seymour in particular – to form influential political partnerships. [...] The Duke and Duchess of Somerset’s struggle with Thomas Seymour in the late 1540s, however, set the groundwork for Anne’s unfortunate historical image. Almost immediately, writers and historians slandered her reputation. She became a stereotypical “bad wife” – proud, nagging, vengeful. By looking beyond this image, however, scholars may now view Anne Stanhope’s story in a more balanced light."

-Caroline Elizabeth Armbruster, '"A woman for many imperfections intolerable": Anne Stanhope, the Seymour family, and the Tudor court', (MA thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2013)

[ifindus]

Norges Skål

The song was written in 1771 as a drinking song for the “Norske Selskab”, Norwegian students in Denmark. It was confiscated and banned when it was tried published because of the strong Norwegian patriotic contents, and was not officially published until 13 years later, in Trondheim 1784, 30 years before Norway became independent.

Gratulerer med dagen! Ha en god 17. mai 🥰

Listen along here.

A modern recording of the song here and Norwegian lyrics under.

Norges Skaal.

For Norge, Kjæmpers Fødeland, Vi denne Skaal vil tømme, Og naar vi først faae Blod paa Tand, Vi sødt om Frihed drømme; Dog vaagne vi vel op engang Og bryde Lænker, Baand og Tvang; For Norge, Kjæmpers Fødeland, Vi denne Skaal udtømme!

Hver tapper Helt, blandt Klipper fød, Vi drikke vil til Ære; Hver ærlig Norsk, som Lænker brød, Skal evig elsket være! Den vrede Livvagts Vaabenbrag Forklarer trolig Nordmænds Sag. Hver ærlig Norsk, blandt Klipper fød, Vi drikke nu til Ære!

En Skaal for Dig, min kjække Ven, Og for de norske Piger! Og har Du en, saa Skaal for den! Og Skam faae den, som sviger! Og Skam faae den, som elsker Tvang Og hader Piger, Viin og Sang! En Skaal for Dig min kjække Ven, Og for de norske Piger!

Og nok en Skaal for Norges Fjeld, For Klipper, Snee og Bakker! Hør Dovres Echo raabe: "Held!" For Skaalen tre Gang takker. Ja tre Gang tre skal alle Fjeld For Norges Sønner raabe Held; Endnu en Skaal for Dig mit Fjeld, For Klipper, Snee og Bakker!

[boygirlctommy]

i couldnt upload the audio like a normal person so heres this. gonna try to animate to it tomorrow :P

[bryan360]

No “On This Day” posting for today.

🐰👊💥May: A mermaid workout, huh? I couldn’t remember the last time we’ve been doing it before. 🤔 Nevertheless, it was a unique experience way to exercise underwater….unless you’re part sea person.

🇵🇷Me: Also, another day for another “Take-a-Taste” review from my Filipino pal. I’m no stranger of having some takeout/chinese takeouts, so it was good for him when trying out these things before being stuffed. 😋👌

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Post Malone and Lainey Wilson at the ACM Awards from Ford Center at The Star on May 16, 2024 in Frisco, Texas.

[cookinguptales]

Promoting the Patreon survey I made just one more time before I make some decisions and the page goes live. Thank you so much to the people who've already answered. Your answers gave me a lot to chew on.

I'm thinking Wednesdays as publication days, so I think I'll launch the Patreon this Wednesday the 8th as well. If you want to have any input on potential rewards and tier levels, lmk in the next two days or forever hold your peace!

As for the story itself... My likely start date is May 15th, but I also don't want to rush this edit. So if I need an extra week or two to shine things up, I'll take it. If I push it back, it'll only be until the end of May at the latest. Still, though, May 15th is my projected date to begin posting.

On the start date, whenever it does finally turn out to be, the first chapter will go on AO3 and the first two chapters on Patreon. One historical essay (more of a foreword, really) will also go live both here on tumblr and on Patreon at that same time. From then on, chapters will go live on Wednesdays and historical blog posts/writer commentary will be posted throughout the week. It will take roughly five to six months to serialize, and then an ebook will be made available through Patreon.

That's the plan, anyway.

I'm going to be making a free tier on Patreon if you just want to get news about the story in your inbox, and I'm also planning on creating a tumblr specifically for the story for organization purposes. More info on that next week, I suppose.

Thanks for your support so far. This all feels kind of crazy, but at the same time, I'm hoping that you all really enjoy taking this journey along with me. 💜

[pearl-kite]

laurus nobilus - laurel

Fadeless affections; fame; glory; praise; prosperity; strength

delphinium - little larkspur - 💀

Airy; big-hearted; fickleness; levity; lightness

gladiolus - sword lily

Generosity; integrity; remembrance; strength; vibrancy

The yearly redraw of something I drew of Akos in 2019. I didn't think I'd be able to improve on Akos much so I put too much effort into the background. I like gold :B

2019 vs 2021

2020 exists on this blog but I don't like it, so if you want to check it out you have to go an extra step o3o;;;;;;

[sonias-shityblog1]

THANK YOU JESUS, my older brother said yes for buying me a macbook for my fifteenth birthday :D (also some 2000s haircuts magazines 🔥)

[leejeann]

Girl help I agreed to an order of crocheted bags back when I was still lowkey hyperfixated on crochet but now the fixation is like a normal level so it got taken over by my worse habit of procrastinating until the last minute

[catboygraystripe]

im gay for old men but not the hot old men at least not by your standards. i think theyre hot tho. ooh mama

[ijust-want-todie]

Honestly, how could expect anyone to love me when not even my own parents do.