Random thoughts on kpop lyrics

[cannabiscomrade]

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

[neko-setsuka]

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

[bloglikeanegyptian]

award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

[bloglikeanegyptian]

baraa is currently fundraising to get her family of 12 out of gaza. she is a friend of mine and this is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. the egyptian government is currently charging upwards of 5,000 USD per person to get to cairo through the rafah border:

Help Artist Baraa and her Family in Gaza, organized by Baraa Awoor

I urgently reach out to you in a time of crisis. My family, consisting of twelve… Baraa Awoor needs your support for Help Artist Baraa and

[arunneronthird]

imagine being a gotham villain just living a peaceful life and suddenly here comes a vigilante with an actual gun

[soyoumusik]

And that’s why it’s my favorite

[bubzila-gem]

i have a friend from ukraine and she sometimes tells me folk stories and she is so pissed every time someone says carol of the bells is an american song so here’s some history from wikipedia: 

The original folk story related in the song was associated with the coming New Year, which, in pre-Christian Ukraine, was celebrated with the coming of spring in April. The original Ukrainian title translates to "the generous one"[4] or is perhaps derived from the Ukrainian word for bountiful (shchedryj),[3] and tells a tale of a swallow flying into a household to proclaim the bountiful year that the family will have.[5]

With the introduction of Christianity to Ukraine and the adoption of the Julian calendar, the celebration of the New Year was moved from April to January, and the holiday with which the chant was originally associated became Malanka (Ukrainian: Щедрий вечір Shchedry vechir), the eve of the Julian New Year (the night of January 13–14 in the Gregorian calendar). The songs sung for this celebration are known as Shchedrivky.

The song was first performed by students at Kiev University in December 1916, but the song lost popularity in Ukraine shortly after the Soviet Union took hold.[5] It was introduced to Western audiences by the Ukrainian National Chorus during its 1919 concert tour of Europe and the Americas, where it premiered in the United States on October 5, 1921 to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall.[3] The original work was intended to be sung a cappella by mixed four-voice choir.[5] Two other settings of the composition were also created by Leontovych: one for women's choir (unaccompanied) and another for children's choir with piano accompaniment. These are rarely performed or recorded.

[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

The original Ukrainian version is older than almost any Christmas carol still sung today.

I can’t speak the language, but from what I can tell by looking at the lyrics the original words would have sounded absolutely beautiful.

Many Americans are familiar with Carol of the Bells from the rockin’ awesome “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. TSO were inspired tales from the Bosnian War and created this piece of music in which two songs war with each other (it’s really a beautiful story). They specifically selected Carol of the Bells because of its connection to Eastern Europe and its great age.

And that’s why it’s my favorite.

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Oh!

[ashfae]

I already loved Carol of the Bells and now I love it even more.

[niceneckcatherine]

There are so many recordings online of the Ukranian you just have to type in the actual name.

https://youtu.be/0UmvUy1LziE

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[kemafili]

Breaking bad themed taco stand close to my house

[kemafili]

I never walk past this street but today I did and I could finally share this with you guys

[creaturelingart]

i've drawn plane dragon. but what about train dragon.

[creaturelingart]

[creaturelingart]

requested additions

[the-motan]

@amtrak-official

[queer-as-city-folk]

Oh my good they are amazing

[tvheadfalls]

hey you. indie creator. get rid of the corporate execs and the imaginary writers room in your brain. the cynical youtube reviewers and disney fans who want sanitized uwu gays probably are never even gonna be even slightly aware of your existence. write those unrelatable blorbos and those messy themes and that weirdly sexy violence. you have no one to answer to but yourself. give yourself what you want and maybe some day, some 3 random lesbians from the internet whose interests you have somehow exactly hit will look at your thing and think its pretty cool, and in the end thats all you ever needed

[slavicafire]

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

[lepurcinus]

My art refs be like: "rabbits are plantigrade, never stand on their toes and move by hopping"

-Rabbits not giving a shit about your "laws of science":

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Tumblr got a sister app called Jumblr. Everything was basically the same, but people only posted bad jokes and reblogs were called rejests.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Jeans Tumblr

[christmas-winter]

[dumbusahana]

daydreaming about having enough energy to do things

[sprinkledsalt]

I know this makes the anti-voting fandom big mad but this is only happening because Murphy was re-elected by a thin margin in November 2021, bucking a 40 year trend of Democratic governors losing re-election in NJ, because enough people voted for him

[sprinkledsalt]

Remember, people who have a victim complex about voting:

[sprinkledsalt]

Time to update the good ol' pinned post:

[shadesofmauve]

2024 isn't even here yet, and we're already screaming at each other about presidential elections and how you shouldn't compromise or you should compromise or your third party vote counts or doesn't, and, as usual, forgetting that there are both primary and general elections and they work differently.

ALWAYS:

Vote your IDEALS in the primaries

Vote DAMAGE CONTROL in the general

(I'm so tired)

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

[enigmaticpink]

Modern fandom went awry when people stopped learning how to avoid content that upsets them and instead starting actively seeking it out.

I mean this in the kindest, most loving way possible, but babes you'll be so much happy when you stop focusing on what other people are doing and instead focus on what you like.

You'll never be able to stop people from liking what you hate, and the best way you'll find any peace of mind is properly utilizing blocking, blacklisting, and muting tools. Take it from someone who used to run a shipping discourse blog, fandom is supposed to be what you enjoy, stop focusing on things that upset you.

[rhys-ravenfeather]