#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!!

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[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.

[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...

[witherbythesword]

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[theclosetedskeleton]

Im tired but i know i CANT fall asleep tonight because I have some school thing to go to in the morning and ik i wont be fucking functioning if I go to sleep and wakeup at 8am so my safest option is staying up all night and drinking caffeine 💥💥

[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

[thegreatbeyondmp3]

dinner went really well!! i almost wish i could've stayed longer, but i have work tomorrow and i cannot be getting home as late as I would've had we gone to get drinks

[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!!!!

[headspace-hotel]

i've been watching the trump rally at madison square gardens on youtube and its fucking unreal. first guy to speak is some comedian with the most bitter and humorless little laugh and he's just throwing out every boring, cliched racist joke he can think of ("latinos have so many kids, they don't pull out, they come inside...like they came in our country!" yes he actually said that) and the crowd response is like lukewarm at best at any of them.

Then the guy is like "yea trump got shot in the ear...which if you think about it is literally the coolest place to get shot" and the crowd is like literally silent

and then the next guy comes out and he's a painter and he gives a little speech about how everybody said he was never going to make it as an artist because he was conservative and didn't bow to the woke left. And now he's going to do a live painting which is like okay.

So he starts painting on this big canvas and pretty soon it's clear that he's trying to paint an american flag or like part of an american flag, and he's blocking in colors like purple, red, white, blue, orange okay and at first it seems like he could go back and blend it all in and make it look really good but then he starts just like smearing all over the canvas with his fingers and it becomes apparent that the painting just looks like ass actually and it's going to look like ass for the foreseeable future

So then he like, peels back some masking tape or something that was on the canvas revealing a cutout of a black and white image of Trump...hugging the empire state building?

What

[bpdamandayoung]

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