lumos

This is a personal blog. 21, pansexual panromantic Poly. pronouns are they/them please. This blog is 18+ Commissions are open please message me for details. background image by shy--bae,. next cons ???

[theburialofstrawberries]

moana, singing softly and walking down the parted seas: i have crossed the horizon to find you…i know your name…..

me, a bonafide emotional dumbass on my 73rd fuckign rewatch:

[gaysuggestions]

netflix and…rest your head on my thigh while I run my fingers through your hair continuously

[hymnsofheresy]

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

[covington-shenanigans]

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

[hymnsofheresy]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

[hachama]

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

[hymnsofheresy]

um woah

[cutecreative]

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

[fromchaostocosmos]

In Ladino

[naamahdarling]

It got better

[lenaleaderoftheresistance-deact]

Also people keep putting it on Christmas albums? Like not only is it a Jewish song, holiday albums are pure cheese. Hallelujah is about losing faith. It’s like putting Losing My Religion on a Christmas album because it has the word Religion in the title.

[criminallynerdy]

I…had no idea this was a traditional Jewish song. That makes me all the more confused on why it was used in Shrek 1 the way it was.

[randomthingsthatilike1]

more fitting in shrek than on a Christmas album it’s not like any of shrek makes sense already

[adulthoodisokay]

i enjoyed this very much, thank you andrew huang.

[awkward-helga]

So that’s what a unicorn sounds like

[supersugoiboi-deactivated202010]

welcome to the hotel california

such a lovely place

such a lovely face

[ommanyte]

I want a pangolin Pokémon :(

[ommanyte]

[ommanyte]

[iamthesweeper]

i cant wait till she tries to figure out why pineco is a bug type

[ommanyte]

[forthegothicheroine]

I feel torn about tumblr’s love of southern gothic.  There’s a lot of cool stuff in that genre to be admired, but I feel like sometimes those posts (especially when made by people who don’t live in the south- and hey, neither do I) come across as “aren’t poor people spooooky?”

[marzipanandminutiae]

As a born-and-raised southerner, I was surprised to discover this literary convention because a lot of modern southern gothic fantasy written by southerners focuses on old-money families who turn out to be [witches/werewolves/vampires/etc]. I didn’t encounter the “scary redneck mountain people” variant in non-fantastical media until later, and it baffles me because the modern southern elite are TERRIFYING.

Endlessly smiling hypocritical senators in tacky palatial houses with wives who espouse “traditional values” while being poisonously sweet and cutthroat? Those make much more frightening antagonists for gothic heroes/heroines to fight. If you live in the south you will probably never meet backwoods demon sibling-spouses but you’ve definitely seen the void staring out of a “Live, Laugh, Love” picture frame.

[jewels-verne]

ACCURATE

[frankensteinshimbo]

Tumblr inherently misunderstands the function of Southern Gothic literature and has appropriated it for its pervasive almost supernatural poetic style. They don’t understand its themes, why it was written, or how to properly write it. Actual Southern Gothic literature is not as melodramatic as one might think and it isn’t about aesthetic style points. It’s style is actually scathingly sarcastic in a nearly caustic way, and it’s meant to amplify structural violence by turning upstanding members of society into villains. It does make the poor grotesque at time, but in the same novel also redeems them by showing how societal ills have painted an unfair picture.

Southern Gothic is a genre for the poor, the colored, the queer; it’s not about signs that say “Hell is here” or forcing tired stereotypes that fundamentally misunderstand poverty, racism, and homo-/transphobia onto the South in a sweeping sensationalist way. Appropriated Gothic Americana aesthetic takes the voice from Southern authors who want to talk about real systemic wrongs and evils in a way that provides accurate social commentary.

That’s not to say that the neo-gothic Americana style that Tumblr has no merit; it’s just difficult as a southern writer to watch people play around with serious topics for the sake of dramatic aesthetics and not realize that they’re being harmful and sort of mocking a tradition that they haven’t bothered to really study. 

[forthegothicheroine]

30k comments in and somebody finally understood what I was getting at.

[spacespectrum-deactivated202010]

my armenian father getting angry at a squirrel

[cornchipz-revival]

“you are. stealink…. my nuts…”

[beaswellgirl]

I love Gordon Ramsay so much.

He comes from a very poor family. His father was an alcoholic who beat him and his mother (he once poured hot tea over her and put her in hospital several times), his brother is a drug addict, he literally built an empire out of nothing.

He credits his mother as his biggest inspiration and often has her cooking in his shows.

When he left his first restaurant he pulled a successful Jerry Maguire - the entire kitchen staff went with him. That tells you what he’s like to work with.

He was one of the first to give a restaurant to a female chef.

He went to prison (Gordon Behind Bars) and taught inmates to bake and they opened a bakery (Bad Boys Bakery) that is still running. He hired one of them when he got out.

He did documentaries about the cruelty of shark hunting and cocaine. (when he discovered cocaine was used by his staff he didn’t fire anyone but made sure they are offered treatment)

His kids are a treasure.

He is always ALWAYS kind to servers.

When one of his partners (Marcus Wareing) wanted to leave they got into a fight and settled it in court, they no longer speak to each other but this is what Marcus said about him after the fight: 

I feel bad that the first association to him for a lot of people is this shouty TV chef when he’s truly a wonderful person. 

Oh and then there’s this:

this entire episode 

[furball891]

Also the whole season 3 of Master Chef with the blind chef Christine Ha. Through the whole season we see Gordon working as her eyes: describing what the dishes look like, what the ingredients should feel like etc. He even describes her wedding photo to her (which her husband sent to her with a letter), which is like the sweetest moment ever. And when she made some beautiful pie but doubted herself on what it looked like, Gordon made sure that she could HEAR the perfect crust on the pie.

[lifeasillustrated]

Water terrarium

[thepeaktrans]

Real talk: boys are so fucking cute. All boys btw. Cis boys, trans boy, intersex boys, gay boys, bi boys, pan boys, nonbinary boys, ace boys, aro boys, queer boys, literally all boys

[brittneysqueers]

Black boys, brown boys, Asian boys, Latino Boys, NWPOC boys, Indian Boys, Native American Boys, White Boys. All boys.

[muffintop-malachite-deactivated]

ALL THE BOYS

[kbearluna-deactivated20200602]

someone: They/them as a singular pronoun just isn’t grammatically correct. same person: but to each their own me: 

[de-is-me-deactivated20180626]

can I have this on a t-shirt

[komidart]

post-practice kisses

[ratspotting-deactivated20180430]

We have what? Fifteen total minutes of Death Stranding content? Anyway Hideo Kojima controls my life.

[luxferens]

Oh, yeah.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Just a heads up Patreon has plans to change their pricing model and its caused a lot of users to drop donations

I thought I should explain this on this blog because this is the only blog I have that regularly gets monthly patreon donations and its good to spread this information.

Patreon slammed after pitching fee hike as boon for creators

I’m not here to encourage you to donate or not donate to my patreon for this blog, I just want to explain what’s going on:

If you like my blog and want to continue donating to me, I’m grateful, but if not I can also understand that. I’ve already lost one monthly donor this month, probably because of the change in structure which heavily punishes those who make multiple donations.

If you want to support my Canadian Politics blogging you can do so here.

If you think these proposed changes will hurt your chances of supporting my blogging in the future, I can look into other websites I can use instead. I’ve seen patreon users online who are already losing a fair amount of monthly donations due to this:

If you could share this so other Patreon creators are aware of these coming changes I’d appreciate it. This has the potential to negatively effect a lot of artists, bloggers, and creative people online who depend on donations just to survive.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

UPDATE: Patreon has backtracked on its promised changes, and now says it will not implement them:

More information here:

We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change.

You can leave them feedback at the link above on what you recommend they do in the future.

[grump-music]

I’m glad this resolved in a positive way. This shows just what the power of speaking out well, and loud can achieve. I personally have never used Patreon as a donater or as a content creator, but I understand it’s importance for content creators out there.

I know there are more important things out there at the moment, but speaking out for EA, and Bungie to backtrack too. Don’t be afraid to speak out, and stay informed. We don’t want any more crying racist kid stories.

[3d-bear]

Nintendo Consoles Through the Generations 

Had the idea of “what if I did models of the Nintendo consoles as if they were rendered on themselves?” and I did just that!

I plan on uploading timelapses of the process for each one. I have other timelapses on my youtube channel right now! Check it out, if you’d like!  

Click here view my Youtube channel! 

[vaatividya]

This is really, really clever.