#summer 2024 recap

[magicalwildlifeknittingthing]

Mission-Tripping, Summer-Camping, & A Notable Birthday // July 2024

Hello everyone, I hope you’re having a lovely morning, afternoon, or evening! I was away for most of this month, so it feels like it went by in a blur. From counseling at a summer camp to planning some landscaping work, this month held so many wonderful and fulfilling moments! >> Special Happenings << – The Fourth of July – For the fourth year now, my friends have been getting dinner at a…

[isawthesainz]

F1 2024 Summer Break Recap

A definitely-not-complete round up of the summer break drama

Monday 29th July 2024

Carlos Sainz announces that he will be joining Williams from 2025 onwards on a multi-year contract. Alongside teammate Alex Albon, this will be the first appendix-less team in F1 history

Wednesday 31st July 2024

Alpine announces that Oliver Oakes will join as the new Team Principal after the summer break. The current Hitech Grand Prix Team Principal will move from his duties in F2 and F3 to replace Bruno Famin at Alpine

Motorsport Italy reports that Jack Doohan will become Pierre Gasly’s teammate in 2025, and that Alpine will make an official announcement in the coming days

Thursday 1st August 2024

It is announced that Red Bull Sporting director Jonathan Wheatley will leave the team to become Team Principle of the Audi F1 project

Friday 2nd August 2024

It is reported that Mattia Binotto is considering 19-year-old F2 rookie Gabriel Bortoleto as a candidate to join Sauber next year

Tuesday 6th August 2024

It is reported that Adrian Newey has signed a four-year deal with Aston Martin, worth $100 million, and is expected to be announced in September

Wednesday 7th August 2024

It is reported that Aston Martin are looking to sign Max Verstappen for 2026 as Adrian Newey is set to join the team

Thursday 8th August 2024

Autosprint, an Italian publication, reports that Andrea Kimi Antonelli will be confirmed as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement at Mercedes for 2025 at Monza

It is announced that F1 will hold talks with Rwanda next month regarding a possible Grand Prix on a permanent track

F1 owners Liberty Media is to be investigated by the United States Department of Justice following its handling of Andretti's now-rejected application to join the F1 grid. The American corporation has been informed of an antitrust investigation by the United States Government, specifically the Department of Justice, into its handling of Andretti's application to join the F1 championship

It is announced that an appeal of the verdict delivered to Christian Horner following an internal investigation earlier this year has been dismissed

Saturday 10th August 2024

Helmut Marko reveals that there is an escape clause in Carlos Sainz’s contract with Williams, which will allow him to leave if he receives an offer from a higher placed team

Sunday 11th August 2024

Oscar Piastri reveals he completed the last two races of the first half of the season with a broken rib

Tuesday 13th August 2024

Valtteri Bottas posts that he is on a ‘secret mission’. The photo on Instagram shows him sitting in front of an Audi R8 with his race number 77 on it. Could he be joining Audi in 2026 as Nico Hulkenberg’s teammate?

Thursday 15th August 2025

Peter Bayer reports that’s Yuki Tsunoda will be considered for a Red Bull seat next season if he continues to perform well

Saturday 17th August 2024

It is reported that Gabriel Bortoleto is a serious contender for the second seat at Audi in 2025 alongside Nico Hulkenberg. Fernando Alonso visited the Sauber motorhome during the Belgian GP weekend - Gabriel is signed to Fernando's A14 Management agency

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Helmut Marko says that Liam Lawson will be in one of the Red Bull or VCARB cars new season

[birdletss]

Here’s my art year in review! Had a heavy comic-making summer, drove myself crazy with MFA portfolio art, and ended the year with some self care drawing. Take care tonight everyone!

credit for template:

[youritalianbookpal]

Top 10 reads of 2024

I haven't been as active here in 2024 as in other years, but I still feel like sharing my top 10 fo the year. No idea how, but I managed to read 52 books overall - the goal was 49 and I honestly thought I wouldn't reach it... Let's see which books were the best of the bunch to me :)

Kallocain by Karin Boye

Extremely beautiful dystopian novel. I feel like this is what people think 1984 is when they get disappointed by it (I'm saying this as a compliment). It's the story of a scientist who lives under an oppressive totalitarian state, and discovers a potent truth serum. 10/10, would recommend to everyone ever to read this.

2. Summer by Ali Smith

Don't ask me why I began reading the seasonal quartet from the last book, but so far this is the only one I read and... I loved it. It made me emotional in all the best ways. This has raised the stakes for the other three books of the series (I plan on reading Autumn in 2025 but why knows, might take me another two or three business years to actually do it).

3. All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

I think I should tell you that I picked up this book by chance from my mom's bookcase - as usual she knew she read it and remembered nothing of it. This novel felt like a slap in the face, and I don't understand how people can't always remember it after having read it. This is the story of an immortal man who regrets his immortality, and somehow it's an in-dept analysis of humankind's mortality and... I don't know how else to describe it if not the aforementioned slap in the face. Absolutely majestic.

4. The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappé

This book should be mandatory in every school but alas. I don't think it's a good recommentation for people who never approached the subject of the history of Palestine, but I think it could still prove extremely useful to people who are interested in the topic - and let's face it, we all should be.

5. Act your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Took me ages to finally finish the Brown sisters series, and I loved this third instalment just so much. I think Eve and Jacob are a great exaple of well written enemies to lovers - or whatever "sorry I accidentally run you over with my car, let me help you run your B&B" is supposed to be. It's my favorite trope and it better be done like this more often.

6. Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I think I'll remember this novel for the wrong reason - it's so far the only book by Moreno-Garcia I didn't give 5 stars (I gave it a 4.75 so I should really just shut up). But I really enjoyed it, as it's written well, the characters are compelling, and it takes place in a moment in the history of Mexico I didn't know much about, which made it a good reason to do further research, something I always like. And, may I say? It has one of my favorite endings in all the Moreno-Garcia books.

7. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine ed. Sai Englert, Rosie Warren, Michal Schatz

Extremely upset I didn't have access to this while I was writing my Master's thesis (don't care if it has been published 2 years after my graduation ok). Please read this if you can.

8. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

First book I read completely in 2024 and it was GREAT. I spent the year looking for Bloodmaker at my usual bookshop, but I will end up having to order it on their website. I need to know how the story goes, ok? This book wins the Best Plot Twist of the Year award to me (which means it's the best written, the one with the best build up, and not done for shock value).

9. Bite by Bite: Nourishment and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders, which I read a couple of years ago, is still one of my favorite books. This is basically the food version of it, so how could I not love this one too? it's so caring, so loving, so beautifully written: I can't ask anything else from a book.

10. Our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield

I'm not good with books that scare me. This scared me just enough to be able to finish it and still be so full of dread I could cry. If you're not a whimp like me you will probably think this is very tame, but to me the not knowing will always be more upsetting than the knowing.

Honorable mentions

I decided to put in the top 10 only books I read for the first time last year, but it was also a year I allowed myself some re-reads, which I think still deserve to be mentioned. Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo was maybe even better than I remember it, and I remember loving it dearly on the first read as well. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which I listened to as audiobooks but read ages ago, cemented themselves as some of my favorite classics.

[veropiaa]

This is some 2024 year recap/rewind , dat is quite cool in my opinion 📼

[just-anka]

August! The last few days of the hike, hike recovery (read: five days in the middle of nowhere, Sweden, spent sleeping and watching olympic climbing and basically nothing else), the long way home via Stockholm and Berlin, more hike recovery at home, a quick return to Zurich for Luki's PhD defence (end of an era!), and then more recovery because I'm somehow still exhausted, with some prep for September travel and enjoying the last of summer in our mountains mixed in ☀️

[the-luckylion-181]

2024 SUMMARY

Series/Movies I Rotated Through Autism/ADHD Hyperfixating On:

(nevermind the fact that Keith David plays a snarky black cat who knows a spider demon in two of them LOL)

Songs I Discovered And Played Nonstop For Weeks:

Most WTF statements that, if someone had told me on Dec 31st 2023 would be true for me by the end of the year, I would’ve thought they were pranking me:

-I convinced my suuuper overprotective parents to let me go on my first out-of-state trip without family and just my friends (to Disney World)

-I took a week of ski lessons and am now officially better at skiing than I am at ice skating (can’t skate at ALL but am halfway decent at skiing now)

-I took a business law class and not only finished with an A but was also the only student to get a 100 on one of the 3 exams

[kelsocelso92]

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[eatsless]

also hi everyone i'm back from field school and i have internet again!!

my summer recap so far:

-been interviewed by 2 newspapers

-had 1 hot water tank explode and flood my apartment

-found 1 secret camera in my apartment (freaky!!)

-1 girl got murdered and dearmed 5 min from my apartment (scary!!)

-went to 5 state parks

-went on 1 hike

-got food poisoning at least 4 times!

-walked on one of the tallest bridges in the world and didn't throw myself off!!! (no suicide for me!!!)

-relapsed my eating disorder (aka it got Bad again)

-got a new starbies cup (sky blue soft touch tumblr)

-had a lake day

-saw a fireworks show

-spent almost $300 at build a bear

-finished field school with an A!!!!

[hashiramascells]

[murraycommasarah]

rounding out june getting ready for july

[musakillers]

Recap of My summer on Youtube Music 🎧

[captain-joongz]

summer recap/favourite fics/fic recommendations for the first half of 2024

Professor Rapline by @joonsmagicshop

♡ professors! joon, hobi and yoongs x f!reader, professor x student relationship, the rapline takes turns on reader, namjoon centric, smut smut smut

backtrack by @mapofthesea

♡ producers!jimin and yoongs x assistant!reader, studio sex, situationship, reader gets absolutely railed and it's accidentally recorded

Masked miracles by @remedyx + Shadows we trust by remedyx + Boyfriend for hire by remedyx + Trouvaille by @spookyserenades

♡ these series' were already mentioned in my previous recommendations list, but i cannot stress this enough - go read them, they're absolutely amazing!! i will literally never shut up about these and i'll put them on every fic rec list i make until the end of time :D

Golden boy by @kpopfanfictrash

♡ pornstar!jin x f!reader, neighbours au, it's very sweet and funny, absolutely amazing smut

fast lane by @yminie

♡ racer!jin x pitcrew!reader, slowburn but so fucking worth it, kookie gets hurt but it's for character development, e2l/annoyances 2l, smut

midnight by @miniminimermaid

♡ yoongi struggling with burnout and reader helps relax him, soft sex, body worship

Sugar rush ride by @lo1k-diamonds

♡ producer! yoongs x producer!reader, coworkers au, reader is bratty and yoongi is a little shit, mutual pining, smut

A new rhythm by @sluttywoozi

♡ producers! yoongs and jihoon x yoongi's gf!reader, virgin!jihoon, soft sex, they help woozi lose his v-card, allusions to possible poly

three tangerines by @kithtaehyung

♡ brother's best friend!yoongs x f!reader, fuckboy!yoongi, reader asks him for help in the bedroom and gets everything and more, some angst

The early shift by @hobidreams

♡ barista!yoongs x barista!reader, coworkers au, e2l, angsty but gets sweet, yoongi is struggling and reader tries to help, smutty smut smut

love roulette by @whatifyoulivelikethat

♡ producer!yoongs x jin's bff!reader, a bet gone... right??, slowburn, humour and fluff, they help each other, smut, reader has a noona kink and nobody lets her breathe

noise complaints by @jkstompers

♡ producer!yoongs x bassist!reader, neighbours au, reader is in a rock band, smut

strike a chord by @snackhobi

♡ pianist!yoongs x f!reader, reader gets stood up and instead listens to bar musician yoongi, slowburn, smut

Illicit favours by @yoongiofmine

♡ producer!yoongi x writer!reader, bff2l, virgin reader needs help with writing sex scenes, shenanigans ensue, mutual pining, idiots in love

Tricks of the trade by @stutterfly

♡ shopkeeper!yoongs x f!reader, body swap au, jin is a deity of chaos, awkward flirting cause they don't know hot to talk to each other, misunderstandings, sexual tension and smut

Performance evaluation by @kookscrescent

♡ fuckboy!yoongs x f!reader, college au, one night stand?? au, reader asks yoongi to tell her whether she's bad in bed, yoongi is a little shit but what's new

Bad idea... right? by @joonsmagicshop

♡ college party au, e2l, sexual tension, tae is a little bit of a douche but hobi makes it all better, smut

a word from our sponsors by @ugh-yoongi

♡ podcast co-hosts joon and reader, they read smutty fanfic of themselves, sexual tension, f2l, humour, smut

porn director drabble by @badbtssmut

♡ director!tae x pornstar!reader, tae shows reader's co-star how it's done, public sex, dubcon in a way

Risk management by @chateautae

♡ investment banker!tae x f!reader, s2l, sexual tension (i mean, who could blame her it's tae), smut, window sex

petty by @hamsterclaw

♡ rich kid petty criminal!kookie x lawer babysitter!reader, reader is in charge of making sure kookie doesn't get in trouble, idiots in love, sexual tension but with feels, smut

Redamancy by @gimmethatagustd

♡ alpha!tae x omega!kookie, a/b/o, imprinting, scenting, older tae (*cough* daddy), s2l, love at first sight, smut

Like a river by gimmethatagustd

♡ alpha!tae x omega!yoongi x alpha!joon, a/b/o, unexpected heat, college professors coworkers au, semi-public sex

The love witch by gimmethatagustd

♡ demon!tae x romance blogger witch!yoongs, incubus tae, "how to summon a boyfriend" au, s2l, modern fantasy, smut

(actually you should go read everything jai has put out, she's incredibly talented and i love like every fic she's ever published)

My library | ATEEZ fic recs

[bioware]

June was a big month Dragon Age fans, here's a quick recap to make sure you're up to speed:

Same game, new name! Defy the gods in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.

Game release fall 2024.

Seven new companions, each with their own rich story.

Lead the Veilguard as Rook, Dragon Age’s newest hero. Select your race and class, customize your appearance, and choose a faction backstory.

Return to Thedas in our 20+ minute gameplay reveal.

Connect with fellow fans on our BioWare Discord server

Important questions like “Can we romance the skeleton?” and “Do noodles exist in Thedas?” answered in our Developer Q&A.

Your first look at environments, characters, skilltrees, and the new customizable combat Ability Wheel from in-game screenshots.

Need more? Check out the GameInformer cover story.

More to come all summer!

[romanticize-until-you-drop]

2024-07-26

Finally got myself out of the house to do some work for my internship, just making a presentation script for my research showcase in 2 weeks! Beautiful weather and absolutely delicious tea.

Will do a summer recap soon! I have so many photos I haven’t posted and things I haven’t shared.