#the coolest of all the states

[apilgrimpassingby]

Alaska Native Orthodox Saints

St. Jacob Netsvetov, Enlightener of Alaska (1802-1864)

Feast Day: 26th July

The son of a Russian fur trader and an Aleut mother who was the first Alaska Native to become an Orthodox priest and spent the rest of his life preaching the Orthodox faith in Alaska; by the time he died, he had created an alphabet for the Aleut language, exorcised demons and baptised well over a thousand people. The full story is here.

Troparion: Righteous Father Jacob, adornment of Atka and the Yukon delta, offspring of Russian America, flower of brotherly unity, healer of sickness, and terror of demons, you offered yourself as a living sacrifice to bring light to a searching people. Pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved!

St. Olga of Alaska/Olga Michael/Olga of Kwethluk (1916-1979)

Feast Day: 10th November

A Yupik matushka (priest's wife) known in her village as a midwife, charity distributer and firm yet compassionate presence, canonised for the miracles associated with her post-mortem; in particular, a sexually abused woman who experienced a vision of St. Olga that proved particularly healing. The full story is here.

Troparion: By your righteous deeds, you were revealed to the world as an image of the perfect servant of the Lord in Alaska. By your fasting, vigil and prayers, you were inspired in your evangelical life. You fed the hungry, and you cared for the poor. You served as a midwife, and you brought babies into the world. You nurtured children, and you clothed all those in need. Now, O Holy Olga, you stand at the right-hand of Christ the Master, and you intercede for our souls.

St. Peter the Aleut, Protomartyr of North America (unknown - 1815)

Feast Day: 24th September

A young Suqpiaq ("the Aleut" is a misnomer by a monk who wasn't good at distinguishing Native groups) man who was one of the first converts to Orthodoxy in North America. He was captured by the Spanish in a raid, and tortured in an attempt to make him convert to Roman Catholicism; he refused, and the tortures eventually killed him. When St. Herman of Alaska (the chief evangelist of Alaska) heard the story, he cried out "Holy New Martyr Peter, pray to God for us!" The full story is here.

Troparion: Today Alaska rejoices and America celebrates, for the New World has been sanctified by martyrdom. Kodiak echoes with songs of thanksgiving, Iliamna and Kenai observe the Festival of Faith. The apostle and martyr Juvenaly is glorified and Peter the Aleut is exalted by his voluntary sacrifice. In their devotion and love for the Lord they willingly endured persecution and death for the Truth. Now in the Kingdom of Heaven they intercede for our souls.

Troparion for the Synaxis of All Saints:

Adorned in the blood of Your Martyrs throughout all the world, as if clothed in purple and linen, through them Your Church cries out to You, O Christ God: “Bestow Your bounties upon Your people, grant peace to Your habitation, and great mercy to our souls.”

[missmisnomer]

Orange County SoCal Miku coming in hot!!

🛹🌴🌮🌅

[mammalsofaction]

Love that the dwampyverse has a binary scale of how supportive an older sibling in hiding sibling shenanigans. On one hand you have Kevin Grant Gomez, who goes out of his way to help hide Gretel's superhero adventures. And on the other hand you have Candace Flynn Fletcher, who goes out of HER way to BUST her brothers for their invention adventures.

And then you have Sarah "Eh, whatever shit happens to my little brother is clearly none of my business" Murphy, stuck very firmly in the middle. If they didnt each live on three different points of the Tri-State Area across town, I genuinely believe they would be the best of friends.

[randomtheidiot]

Your worth as a U.S. state can be determined based on whether or not you have a state fossil.

[seraphimskater]

btw this hyperfem pink blog is not only transfem-friendly, it's transfem pandering, transfem hugging & smiling & making friendship bracelets. I am waving at u like HI HIIII HI!!!! omg hi!!!! and putting flowers in yr hair

[roseyboy]

i have never been this happy and may never be again 🍄

[creaturefeaster]

What’s the farthest you’ve traveled out of your hometown? My sis is currently on her way to Washington D.C for a field trip, we live in Ohio and from here it’s about a 9 hour drive

A few different directions. I live in the very NW parts of Washington State, and I've been down to Arizona a few times in my life-- about 22-24 hours worth of driving. That's probably the furthest distance-wise I've been. (Although I also used to live in Texas, I am taking this question in relation to where I live currently.)

I've been pretty high up into B.C. (Canada) a few times as well, and into the islands too where ferrying can take quite a few hours.

Oh! And in about a month, I will be visiting two states I've never been to before-- Into Montana and Wyoming to visit family. Really excited to go through the Rockies, I've only ever seen them from a distance in Idaho. This will be the second longest distance traveled for me, as it takes about 16-17 hours to get to our Wyoming destination.

I probably elaborated a little more than you asked for, but I really love traveling!

[captainmvf]

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Testing making videos in the shorts/tiktok format.

Anyway, I tweaked Ti Gold and her story a bit. What's happening in the video is purely hallucinatory or noncanon. Ti Gold is hard to explain since she was an animatronic before her exoskeleton was burned away yet her AI at the time was perfect enough for her in gain sentience and emotions so she became something similar to a ghost after her 'death.' She considers herself something both more and unnatural. After all, no one has ever heard of a robot becoming a ghost. Mike and Val are also back.

Wonder how they got like that...

[troonwolf]

it does genuinely annoy me tbh that everytime someone wants to vague nonsense about me to discredit me or make me seem bad, they have to leave out and make up random stuff which always reveals their ableism and queerphobia

eg. this person just doesn’t like what I have to say about syscourse on my blog, so they blocked me and made a big self-righteous post about how having reclaimed slurs on my blog makes me a “fucking weirdo”

then when they receive pushback for this they switch it up to “omg he has a MANIFESTO on his pinned about a topic I disagree with”, revealing what the actual problem was to begin with. the slurs were literally not the problem and were used as an excuse to paint me as scary and violent.

but presenting it as “this mentally ill cult survivor has a syscourse post as their pinned so they don’t have to keep talking about it, and is also a trans man who reclaims slurs for himself” would be a lot different from “this FUCKING WEIRDO wrote A MANIFESTO about SYSCOURSE. WHY would they even care omg they must be a violent scary person!”

but as a person with DID who is a cult survivor it’s very obvious why I would “care that much about it.”, especially if you bothered to read the posts and not just see that a person with DID is talking about something you disagree with, so now you have to turn the ableism up on them

you can obviously disagree with me but this isn’t how you go about it lol. you could have blocked me and just put “people who use slurs dni” without any explanation or statement made about it instead of trying to make me seem like a violent crazy person for not living up to your standard of survivor/queer.

also to make things clear: literally all I did was reblog a post on my dash about a cool dragon competition, from an OP who had no dni and still doesn’t, and they vagued me by calling me a “fucking weirdo” and likening my actions to that of a school shooters. (”manifesto” is a very loaded term to be using against a trans person right now but ok.)

[mozki]

if only i had water and food i couldve stayed at our guy fawkes celebrations all fuckin night what a beauty!!!!<3 im so happy to be meeting my housemates friends theyre all so lovelyyyy and so many randomers and different groups of friends joined our fire and a bunch of ppl brought shitloads of fireworks????and sparklers and marshmallows??? very beautiful evening damn i needed that !!!! gorgeous peeps gorgeous sparkles in the sky lots of smoke inhaled and giggles had. yippeee <3

[halluciniwaynia]

listening to wtnv in 2024 makes me understand immediately why tumblr over a decade ago thought this shit was the coolest thing ever. it casually but flawlessly parodies the us surveillance state, ultra-militarized police forces, inane human resource bureaucracies and the blasé of the suburban middle class all within the span of three episodes with a very tongue in cheek slice of life format that doesn’t sound possible on paper but is executed absolutely absurdly well

[shingodzillaa]

Just found out I can buy a Daihatsu Hiyet mini truck for like less than 15K if I get it shipped from Japan!!!!

[mothric]

with everything being what it's been this week i think it's important to state emphatically that my life is genuinely so much better for having trans people in it. my trans friends are some of the coolest kindest people around and I dread to think what kind of person I'd be without them. if you don't have any trans friends I hope you get the opportunity to make one or two or several and let them expand your world and I hope that you care for them in turn. I love you trans men I love you trans women I love you nonbinary friends you are all beautiful handsome radiant and cool

[pastempomat]

and other thing i really love everybody i talk to here on tumblr but i'm so afraid of doing something wrong so i pull away bc i can't stand losing someone i like and admire

[linuseer]

I'm tired of people defining Aang as this boring little vanilla guy. Aang helped Katara destroy a factory. He participated in Toph's scams. He shrugged off Katara's theft of the waterbending scroll and heartily laughed at her jokes about it. He was delighted by the Painted Lady ruse. He mastered airbending at twelve and the avatar state at thirteen. He snooped around the old ship after Katara said it was booby trapped and dared her to follow and stepped up to take the blame when it went badly and then surrendered himself to protect the village because he knew he could hand everyone on that ship their asses and escape. He outright lied to two communities that had been bickering for a century to get them to stop. He egged on Katara when she decided to throw hands with Pakku. He wants to ride every big animal in the world ("they don't like being ridden but that's what makes it fun" -unhinged take). He has sick burns for everyone which are doubly funny because they're almost always unintended as such. He threw a clandestine dance party in the nation that banned dancing and thought he was dead and wanted him dead. Before that he corrected and argued with teachers, beat a bully without lifting a finger and then brought his teenage friends to pose as his parents. The whole Bonzu Pippipadaleopsicopolis the Third thing. The being idiots with Sokka in Ba Sing Se thing with the bowing and the busboys disguises. He rightfully asked "what's cosmic power compared to a girl". Let's add all the badass stuff he does as a bender and as the Avatar up to and including energybending and the conversation with Koh the Face Stealer. That time in The Chase when he finished the fur trail and then decided to just sit down, sleep deprived, to wait and face whoever it was chasing them. Aang is one of the funniest and coolest characters I've ever seen and he deserves more respect. Absolutely unhinged kid with immense powers and the world is lucky he's goofy and has a good heart.

[sainzzsturns]

pool time ⋆⁺₊

f. colapinto x reader

franco invited you to spend winter brake with him in argentina, with his family. you gladly accepted, not really looking forward to any cold days far from him in europe.

so there you were, after a couple touristic days, where franco showed you all the coolest places in buenos aires, now in his family’s backyard, laying on the sunbed, book in hand.

you weren’t really playing attention to it though, looking only at franco playing with his younger nieces in the pool. a couple giggles escaping when he teased them.

franco was naturally very charismatic and charming, and especially with kids he was so caring and gentle that it was magnetic watching him interact with them.

you watched his niece get on his shoulders, franco helping him do a backflip from up there. or the way he would hold the younger kids that couldn’t swim properly yet, making sure they were okay.

after some time of playing with them nonstop, he got tired. taking advantage of some food getting ready in the barbecue his uncle was managing, that got all the kids to get out the pool to eat, he also left, heading towards you.

he sighed, laying beside you on the sunbed.

“tired, baby?” you giggled, hand going to his hair. you almost complained at him being wet, but in that moment you were more than in love with him, everything he would do was charming in your eyes.

“god- these kids have infinite energy..” he replies, laying his head on your chest.

the heat warming him up from the previously cold pool as he closes his eyes, draping one arm over your stomach, making the moment even cozier.

you laid comfortably, stroking his hair while reading your book, which now had your full attention.

“you’re not hungry, fran?” you suddenly remembered he hadn’t eaten in a while, and the usual franco would be salivating at the sight of a grill.

“hm?” he opened his eyes, waking up from his light napping state.

“hungry?” you repeat.

“yeah, but i’m too lazy to get up” he whined, causing you to chuckle.

“i’ll get you something, don’t worry” i pat his back, moving to get up.

“no, don’t leave, you’re so comfortable…”

“i’ll be right back, amor”

he nodded, blushing lightly at the spanish term, which you had probably learned from the amount of times he called you that.

you kissed his cheek before walking away, not before turning around after feeling a gaze on your bottom. i squinted, furrowing your eyebrows as if feigning a scolding, earning a chuckle from him.

you chose a couple slices of meat you knew were franco’s favorites, along with some garlic bread and cheese for yourself.

you sat back down beside him, handing him the plate. both of you just sat in a comfortable silence for a while, franco sat against the backrest of the chair, knees up as you sat beside his legs, resting your cheek on his knee.

“afternoon nap?” franco suggests after setting the empty plate aside.

“absolutely” you giggle, always eager for some relaxing time, especially with your favorite boy.

i gets up, extending a hand to take you up to his room.

as he opens the door you already yawn, looking forward to the nap.

“ah-ah-ah… in this tiny bikini you had on the whole day, you really think you’re getting away with it” i chuckled, pushing you gently onto the bed…