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[karsoliar]

Helaena and Dreamfyre ✨

(This is my first time making a dragon)

[useless-catalanfacts]

With festa major season coming to an end, I leave you with this beautiful video of how it's celebrated in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia).

Festa major (called festes patronals in some areas) is one of the most popular holidays in Catalan culture, especially in the Southern half of Catalonia. Each town or city holds it on the day of their patron saint and the days around it, which means that each place celebrates it on a different day. Most festes majors happen between June and September, but there are others spread throughout the year.

It's celebrated with a lot of traditions on the streets that bring the community together. Even though it might vary from place to place, generally it goes something like this:

On the weekend before the day, there's the correfoc (the devils' dance and fire beasts from the town invite the ones from other towns and go around the streets).

Even though a few other events might have happened on the week before (such as the "spoken dances"), the festivity proper starts on the patron day's eve at noon with a bang: a loud kind of fireworks (called traca or mascletà or other names depending on the area). These are long lines of little explosives put together with a string, usually set up in the main square. Everyone gatheres around and the firecrackers are set off, with a string of loud sounds to let everyone know that the holiday starts. When it ends, everyone claps and cheers and the church bells ring.

Immediately after the firecrackers, the dance groups start the parade. It's important to know that they are not professional dancers, they are people from the town who sign up to learn the dance they like. These are traditional festa major dances, each group accompanied with their band of musicians. Each group learns their group's music, dance and clothes from the previous generation. They can change from area to area and from town to town.

On that night, there are fireworks and free concerts.

The next day, there are more parades of the dances. For lunch, families meet to have a meal together. In the afternoon, there are more dances again.

In many places, a diada castellera is held. The castellers (traditional Catalan "human towers") groups from other cities and towns are invited to perform in the town square.

You can see many of the dances that are widespread (with local variations in the clothing, choreography, and music) across the Southern half of Catalonia in the video.

You can also see one of the variations done in Vilanova i la Geltrú. There, the holiday starts by hanging a Catalan flag from the most visible point in the city: the church's bell tower. Vilanovins do this as a sign of celebration, because festa major is an icon of Catalan culture but, same as the rest of Catalan culture, it has had to endure a lot of hardships. Thanks to the fight of many people, Spain's attempt to ethnocide the Catalan people didn't succeed. Even though we had to keep speaking our language and celebrating some of our holidays in secret during Franco's fascist dictatorship of Spain (1939-1978), most of it has survived and still thrives, once again in public.

The song used in the video is one of the songs danced in the holiday. It's a traditional song from Catalonia and Occitania which we call "la polca d'Ours" (in Occitania they call it "la dansa de l'ors").

This beautiful video was made by Crispetes Films filming the 2024 holiday. It was posted by Festa Major Vilanova i la Geltrú's Instagram page.

[lemonlimestar]

writing a new cassie fic instead of finishing my multiple wips so i get to reshape how her narrative is handled in early tt03 from the ground up

[shakiralegends]

😲​ LOCURA TOTAL POR SHAKIRA 😲​

Shakira anunció la semana pasada una extensa gira por Latinoamérica que la traerá nuevamente a Argentina el próximo 7 de marzo en Campo Argentino de Polo. “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” visitará Argentina, Chile, Brasil, México y países como Perú que no fueron parte del tour anterior.

👉 La artista marcó hoy un récord absoluto agotando en tan solo 40 minutos la Preventa Fans para su esperado concierto en Argentina.

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Top 5 First-Time Watches of July 2023 1. Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan) 2. Persuasion (2007, dir. Adrian Shergold) 3. La Syndicaliste (2022, dir. Jean-Paul Salomé) 4. The Road Dance (2021, dir. Richie Adams) 5. When You Finish Saving The World (2022, dir. Jesse Eisenberg)

[beadickel]

---> Playlist Tag

Regras: 1. Vá em sua Playlist favorita 2. Deixei no Aleatório 3. Publique aqui as 7 primeiras músicas que apareceu

(se quiser, marque 2 amigos para fazerem o mesmo)

Adoro esses jogos de playlist, pra compartilhar as musiquinhas que gosto e tenho escutado 🎶

A playlist em questão é a No Repeat, criada automaticamente pelo próprio Spotify. Gosto de ouvir as músicas através dela, já que é ali que ficam armazenadas as músicas que mais tenho escutado no momento 🙃

Vou marcar os divos @vazio-copo @formiguitta e @sleepyheadnat

[redeyesgeatsdragon24]

Witch ship is your favorite

[thisisrealy2kok]

Ruki Vverh Pesenka Arround The World La La by Greenpickles987🇺🇦

Mashup of “Pesenka” (1998) by Ruki Vverh and it’s most famous cover, “Around the World (La La La La La)” (2000) by A Touch Of Class/ATC.

[partynthem]

life’s SO fucking fun

[heavencasteel420]

Maybe Nancy Wheeler Can’t Win needs a through-line where she tries to get kicked off the party-planning committee for erratic behavior but every effort leaves her more entangled within the committee.

[karsoliar]

Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen, son of King Aegon II Targaryen and Queen Helaena Targaryen.

He is so tiny and I want to put him in my pocket.

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People from Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia) celebrating their city’s festa major (local festivity). Each town and city has their own festes majors, set on a different day depending on their patron saints. Festes majors are one of the biggest festivities among Catalan traditions, which are celebrated with traditional dance and music. Though there are festes majors throughout the year, most of them are in summer.

Photos by Ajuntament de Vilanova i la Geltrú on Flickr.

[jasonraish]

Infinity! A Japanese-American dance duo must choose between their passion or their lives as WWII concentration camps begin to rise in the U.S. Based on a real life dance duo Toy and Wing. A sad story forcing us to look at the shameful Japanese concentration camp history in the US. Director Benjamin To contacted me to make the key art poster for his short film and we settled on an American in Paris inspired vintage poster treatment. One Sheet size 27x40″. Staring Olivia Cordell and Jonathan Tanigaki

INFINITY! has been officially selected to make its world premiere at one of the biggest short film festivals in the world, the LA Shorts International Film Festival July 19-27, 2023. Congrats to the cast and crew.

[beeapocalypse]

shanny image for sizing. new funny spacebug idea for alamanni its dedicated to the preservation of the memory of every world it visits and roots itself down to take in every sensation of a location for a couple years b4 shifting to a new place to begin anew. the tubes are like mouths that can taste+smell and it subsists off of subterranean critters that get caught up in its '''roots'''

[kitsunabi]

Writing is an experience.

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It's always nice to see pokémon getting along and having a good time! There's more to training your pokémon than battling, you have to make sure to give them ample dance time too! Look at Sentret and Togepi go!

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