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Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today
fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
It’s the golden potato back at it again with the good luck!!!
Unpopular opinion: not everything that makes you uncomfortable is bad. Sometimes discomfort means your worldview is being challenged. It’s okay to sit with discomfort and think about where it’s coming from.
#Frankly some of you need to be uncomfortable more often#Me too probably idk
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
Happiness Will Come To You.
when tho
When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March
reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!
Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck
this worked last night lets go for round two
Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle
I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..
Must always reblog
Sometimes you just need to watch again. Instant serotonin.
I love that his only regret about this is him not having done the routine in heels.
I wonder if this is what sealed the deal for Zendaya. Cause I get it.
When I WATCHED this one on tv, y'all!!!!! I loved watching LL’s reaction! I don’t think ANYONE was prepared for it, cuz I know I wasn’t.
And the young man does ballet!!!
The key thing is he NAILS the routine and does it seriously, it’s not a joke choice. He does it with passion.
Completely agree with the above comment. This is what makes it so much better than some of the other performances that people consider good. (I’m particularly thinking of Channing Tatum’s performance here.)
Tom Holland didn’t seem like he was dressing in women’s clothes and dancing like a woman as a lighthearted gag done for laughs. Even if that’s what he intended (I have no idea), once he was out there on that stage, he played it seriously. He went out there and delivered a serious performance. It was intense, and he injected his legitimate (not exaggerated for laughs) sex appeal into the performance.
He was brilliant.
He was fucking epic!! No one has topped this!! @b3autyfuldisast3r @letsby @cockslutpadalecki @evansrogerskitten happy hump day ladies 😍😝
I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.
dude.
$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.
This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.
Out of respect for the Queen's funeral:
GPs are closing
Surgeries are cancelled
Funerals for non royal citizens are cancelled
Food banks are shut
People are kicked from holiday parks and forced to find accommodation in a foreign place
Protesters are getting arrested for holding signs
Billions will be spent on the funeral whilst people freeze in their homes and children starve
I've only been looking into news articles and restrictions for five minutes... I'm sure there's much more.
But oh don't worry, it's out of respect.
I’m a Type I diabetic. Please reblog this.
so i’ve seen this around a lot and i always felt like the version i listened to just. didn’t have everything? sO! i edited together my three favourite versions of the tik tok sea shanty! enjoy!!
(listen with headphones if possible!)
(yes i know the ending is bad oKaY-)
You know, I want to see someone explain this in 20 years to music history scholars.
Not because it’s a stupid thing or a dumb thing—I think it’s wonderful and lovely that it exists—but because it’s so RANDOM. “In 2021, this one song specifically gained a following such that people across the globe, who had never met, began to sing it and harmonize together, and other people then stitched their videos together to make entire choruses.” “Okay, but why?” “…..because it was the cool thing to do.” “Okay, but why did it become cool?”
Answer that. ANSWER THAT. Why did it become cool? There is zero reason a 200-year-old sea shanty should be a meme, much less a meme people are taking SERIOUSLY. (Listen to these folks. There’s not a parody in the bunch.)
Like. Just. “We made this giant beautiful thing BECAUSE.” Because why? Because. That’s why. Just because.
I want to see that explained to students and scholars of history who insist there must be a reason for everything. Yes, yes, there was a viral video, but that’s just the catalyst. Why Wellerman? Why not the latest Megan Thee Stallion? Or perhaps more to the point, HOW Wellerman, ALONGSIDE the latest Megan Thee Stallion? What is it that made so many people latch on to this song? WHY?
I do. I want to be a fly on the wall for this. We have, functionally, modern recordings of what this would have genuinely sounded like on a ship, because of this meme. That’s amazing. But what’s the why? And how do you explain “because”?
Because the most human thing in the world is to find a way to connect and play with each other, and Tic Tok is the biggest, easiest form of that connection in a pandemic. Which is why it’s being taken seriously; the game is no fun if you smash it. People won’t let you connect if they don’t trust you.
Lockdown was the biggest public creativity I’ve had in decades. Not just because I was home, but because the deep driving urge to go “See me. I’m here. I have something to offer. I’m alone but I have skills to share to give, let me give them. See me. I need to be a part.”
Humans are social animals.
The other thing is that it’s NOT completely random, it’s not even very random; it’s just that the things that factor into its appearance and creation are spread so widely due to our (new-ish) ability to connect as a community across the entire world that it SEEMS random from up close, AND it couldn’t have been precisely predicting in advance.
Pirates are not a new thing; we have media about them, recently pirates of the caribbean and black sails both being fairly well known pirates media. Ren faires often feature pirate material. There’s been a lot of talk about “pirating” media lately because of the recent uptick in streaming services wanting to all have their own thing. There’s people trying to hitch laws about pirating onto COVID relief bills. There was a recent release of a video game that was popular, I believe it was the Assassin’s Creed one, that featured pirates AND sea shanties, introducing a lot of people to the idea of sea shanties, who could then spread it to others, that was probably one of the major catalysts in a previously simmering pot (the other major one being COVID-19).
And the thing about sea shanties is that they are supposed to be sung as a group, the way most popular music isn’t really made to do. Why not Megan Thee Stallion? Because those songs aren’t created specifically to be sung by a group. You can sing them too, and you can sing them in a group, but they aren’t created specifically with being sung as a group in mind. They’re meant to be sung along to rather than sung together.
Okay, but then why not something like campfire songs?
Because campfire songs are meant to be sung in a group, usually with kids, but not particularly made to bring together a community that is facing a lot of isolation (which is where COVID-19 comes in). I mean, camping is sometimes “isolated” but often they are camping at a grounds where there are other, discrete groups of campers nearby, and even if they are actually alone, most people singing campfire songs are not isolated more than a weekend, or a week or two, and MOST camping is pretty close to a community where people could go, and MOST camping songs are not meant to be sung repeatedly. They’re fun to sing once or twice, but imagine singing them on repeat for 3 months. I don’t know about you but that is not really my idea of a good time.
A group of pirates on a ship, they’re a group, but they’re also a community. They are a job and a family in one. And, IMPORTANTLY, they are isolated for LONG stretches of time together, in a place where the only friendly social contact they have is one another and the only songs they have are the ones they know themselves. And the shanties they sung were meant to bring them together, often for a task (sometimes that task was not murdering each other out of boredom or stress), and to remind themselves that even on days where they can’t see a single other sign of human civilization as far as the eye can see in any direction, they are not alone.
And THAT particular, specific sense of community is HIGHLY appealing to people that have been stuck in one form of stressful isolation or another for MONTHS, almost a year at this point. Think back to the beginning. I can’t be the only one who remembers videos of people singing from their balconies together during the early lockdowns. I can’t be the only one who remembers the story of the night howl. People are desperate to reach out and say “Am I alone?” and just as desperate to answer “No!! I am still here! Are there others??”
So take a bunch of people who have been isolated for a long time (like pirates on the sea), with a good possibility that they’ve recently been exposed to a novel, fun concept (sea shanties) through a game (something more people probably played than usual because of the isolation), which they have potentially shared/spread to friends (because they are GOOD songs), and give them easy access to a single person singing one of these songs (a CATCHY song with easy, rhyming words and a good ONE-two-three-four beat, which humans love) that they are all now aware is meant to be sung as a group (which calls upon their nature as social creatures!!) or see others joining in as a group (because monkey-see-monkey-do is a HUGE human behavior phenomenon), and then give them a way to be included in this group with minimal effort (tiktok), as a way to feel connected to a wider community (those that view their inclusions) and have fun at the same time (which is DESPERATELY needed in a world where things are otherwise majorly crap)…
Well, is it any wonder? Maybe the exact, particular song is a bit random, because it could have been any shanty, but even that’s not particularly surprising either since it’s a shorter one (that fits in with Tiktok’s time limit) with easy lyrics (and a REALLY easy, repeating chorus, so it’s quickly learned) and it has a good, solid beat. Whoever first picked it may have chosen it “randomly” or may have narrowed it down from those type of criteria. You’d have to ask the first person to post.
Maybe people 20 years out wouldn’t be able to piece enough together, but right here right now, it seems like a fairly obvious culmination of events. Maybe not a predictable one, but one that, looking back, makes sense. Something something, Hindsight is 2020 right
No this isn’t an excuse to put this on my dash again what are you talking about
I love seeing people be people and I’d like to add the following for consideration. Yes, sea shanties are meant to be sung in a group (sailors still use them btw), yes they’re repetative and easy to pick up, yes the tune is simple, yes TikTok is basically the perfect platform for a thing like this to spread, and yes we’re all starving for human connection right now and this is ideal.
But also the words.
The overall song is about a whaling ship doggedly chasing down a whale, which (taken literally) is not all that relateable. But the chorus? The part that we sing as a group?
Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin’ is done We’ll take our leave and go
This song is about a group of people working together to do something unpleasant, and they don’t know when it’s going to end. The chorus is about the hope that it will soon be over, and the good things that await when it is.
Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin’ is done We’ll take our leave and go
And that is a big mood.
Excellent addition, and reminds me to add that a) more than just pirates sang sea shanties, many sailors did (and do!) sing shanties, b) there’s apparently a singing group called The Longest Johns that has been singing shanties and becoming popular (likely because it’s a novel, fun genre of music for the average person that is not a sailor, and because they sing them while streaming a pirate themed game called Sea of Thieves) and this is one of their songs, and c) I just learned of this whole TikTok Shanty thing a few days ago and haven’t had any time to sit down with it, so this was all just off the top of my head. I’m sure anyone looking farther into it would be able to find a LOT more connections and causation or at least correlation that could account for sea shanties (and THIS shanty in particular) becoming a “sudden” thing.
Another fun thing with this? The song doesn’t end. Not really. The last verse goes like this: As far as I’ve heard, the fight’s still on The line’s not cut and the whale’s not gone The Wellerman makes his regular call To encourage the Captain, crew, and all (chorus repeats as long as you feel like) The crew of the whaler are in a potentially never-ending situation. The whale isn’t gone, it’s still pulling the whaler. The ship could potentially be in a never-ending ghost-ship situation, which hooks in REALLY well to the ‘no it’s STILL not over’ feeling we’ve got going right now. Also stan The Longest Johns they’re amazing. They’ve been playing that particular Assassin’s Creed game on their youtube, too!
You people.
You people specifically are the ones who I want to see explain this. Print this shit out and save it because it is damn good shit.
There’s one more thing that the Wellerman song has that most Never-Ending Ghost Ship tales don’t, and that’s the Wellerman himself. So long as the supply ship from Weller Bros. keeps making his regular call, the crew isn’t entirely cut off, either from land or from hope. There’s still contact, there’s still that regular touch from the places left behind, there’s still that promise that we’ll see them all again, when we take our leave and go.
#i might have reblogged this before but this one has new commentary
You don’t have to explain
Re-blog this if:
- you’re gay - can read - support gay people - want to hold a match between your fingers as you wander the halls of an ancient castle because it’s your only source of light amidst the ghosts of people long past - are an antelope - or want a chocolate bar.
No one will know which applies.
Something really shitty has just been passed by the UK goverment.
A new bill that is stripping out human rights has been passed and we need to fight it before it costs lives. The new Human Rights Bill has made nazi Germans esc changes that will effect you or somone you love.
The most notiable parts being:
-If you are admitted to hospital with a disability or chronic condition a doctor can put a DNR do not ressusatate on you and you can’t appeal it.
-They are stopping woman from being able to move fowards with assault charges
- They are making it impossible for victims of terrorism to get justice. They won’t let people like the victims of  the hillsborough disaster hold the people responsible
Please do your own research if you must but we can’t let this happen!
There a petition to sign that’s already half way there so please share it around and tell ppl in the UK what is happening.
 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607712
The proposed Human Rights Act reforms must be withdrawn. The Government must not make any changes to the Human Rights Act, especially ones t
I would really REALLY appreciate it if my American followers come bring some recognition to the UK’s plight rn too.
POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!
Finally, some good news.
👉🏿 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/health/abortion-pills-fda.html
This is so great because if anyone is caught impeding or messing with these deliveries, it’s MAIL, that makes it a FEDERAL crime, whoever fucks with these packages gets charged FEDERALLY, they face up to five years in prison.
[ID: A tweet by @ nytimes that reads, "Breaking News: Women can get abortion pills by mail for pregnancies up to 10 weeks without seeing a doctor in person, the FDA ruled. The decision comes as the Supreme Court considers whether to roll back abortion rights or even overturn Roe v. Wade." Attached is a link to the article and a screenshot of the title and subtitle of the article. The article was published Dec 16, 2021. The title reads, "F.D.A. Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail" and the subtitle reads, "The decision will broaden access to medication abortion, an increasingly common method, but many conservative states are already mobilizing against it." /end ID]
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064598531/the-fda-could-permanently-lift-some-restrictions-on-abortion-pills
Adding a link that isn’t blocked by a paywall
The agency's decision to ease access to the drug mifepristone comes at a time when abortion rights are being increasingly restricted nationw
Resources for anyone that ends up in a restricted state:
Aid Access - they can send you the abortion pill even if you live in a restricted state.
PLUS, you do not have to be pregnant to order them. You can order to have on hand, in case of an emergency.
Aid Access supports women who cannot otherwise access an abortion or miscarriage treatment and protects their human rights.
Repro Legal Helpline (reprolegalhelpline.org) -
Some of the things they can help with above.
Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline (mahotline.org) -
They have a ton of information, and resources in one place.
Also, if you find yourself in a restricted state, you need to be careful of how and with whom you are talking about it. You need to use safe, encrypted messaging and calling.
I also recommend removing any biometric information for unlocking your phone. Use a PIN or password instead of a fingerprint or facial recognition.
Friendly reminder that this blog is pro-choice and if you don’t think everyone should have full control of their own body, then kindly unfollow me right now and go to hell
BOOST!
Aid Access supports women who cannot otherwise access an abortion or miscarriage treatment and protects their human rights.
Oh wouldn’t this be tragic if word of this spread out everywhere possible?
Oh no…my hand slipped…
Remember if you live somewhere where this is an option you need, you need to be keeping a healthy stock of pregnancy tests and using them regularly to catch the pregnancy early enough. It is incredibly common for people to only find out well past 10 weeks. Of course that can be expensive so look for the paper strip type that doctors use, not the bulky plastic types typically advertised for home use if you can. And dont fall for marketing gimmicks with pregnancy tests, they all work about the same, you don’t need a digital screen and if in doubt do another test tomorrow.
(Also do your test first thing when you wake up for best results)
I would HATE for anyone in Texas to ACCIDENTALLY read this…
The dollar store carries pregnancy tests and they’re just as accurate as the ones from the pharmacy, fyi
