Raes Reading Corner

Book reviews, queer writer and a lover of many fandoms (In search and willing to trade musical boots - currently looking for Donal Finn and Dylan Wood in Hadestown!). It has been a while since I used this account but I'm hoping to get back into it! 🏳️‍🌈 They/

[raesreadingcorner]

Not one Jack Wolfe Hadestown bootleg is off NFT yet so unless you've filmed it yourself, you obviously don't care about the rules or etiquette of trading and that doesn't make you a very compelling person to trade with

I never properly traded before. I was gifted the video I have and was told it was okay to trade, and I thought, after seeing other people trading the exact same video, that it was okay. I have seen other people trading it openly without any say of NFT, so I hope you are also saying this to them and not just me, who literally only came back on Tumblr with some blind hope of getting a bootleg that was recorded last year...

[raesreadingcorner]

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Book review)

My Review of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy! This review has been written since December... Oopsie!

“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?” Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died CW for book: eating disorders, parental manipulation, abuse (verbal, mental, physical and overall child abuse), mental health disorders mentioned including schizophrenia, child manipulation, sex mentions and details, Jennette Mccurdy’s book is an open and honest conversation of how she…

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[starkidlabs]

Can’t wait to see my Spotify wrapped too Artist be ‘Ensemble’ or ‘Various Artists’

[catchymemes]

[null-works]

It already is.

[arabellesicardi]

[meanplastic-deactivated20140215]

me in 70 years

[headrubs]

how many elmos must die

[koriinku]

101 elmos

[typette-deactivated20150825]

cruelmo deville

[voodooya]

🖤.

[sandersstudies]

You CANNOT serve from an empty vessel but go off I guess

[i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing-de]

OP what does this mean?

[sandersstudies]

When your friends are hungry, you cannot serve them from an empty breadbasket, no matter how good your intentions. When they're thirsty, you cannot serve them from an empty pitcher, no matter the effort you put in.

We have to stock ourselves with good things before we are able to give them away, and if we are too exhausted to make bread, we must rest before we can make it to serve our friends. If we are too hungry to serve, we must eat some bread ourselves first.

It's a metaphor for emotional exhaustion. When we wear ourselves down it makes it difficult or impossible to help the people around us, and all the effort and good intentions in the world can't make up for the fact that our vessels are empty. It's hard to not want to serve when our friends are in trouble, but trying to serve from an empty vessel often leaves both of you floundering.

On the contrary, when we care for ourselves and are kind to our body and mind, we are full vessels, and serving the people around us becomes easier. That's why it's important to take time for ourselves once in a while, to refill ourselves with good things.

[cluegrrl]

In the event of a sudden pressure change, put on your own oxygen mask before helping a companion with theirs if needed.

[ailithnight]

I have never seen this concept so perfectly and eloquently articulated.

You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

[noonlight-stims]

source

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

though I still love Chronicles of Narnia the older I get and the more I learn the clearer it becomes to me why it would have driven Tolkien completely insane

[off-brandhipster]

The Santa part almost ruined their friendship

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

Tolkien: you can’t just patch random things together because you like them, everything has to fit together in a dense textural weave of reasonable causes and effects

Lewis: and then the witch from the other dimension turns the fox to stone for having a contraband tea party …

[intjint]

Tolkein is the nerd that complains that characters’ costumes and weapons are impractical and Lewis is the nerd that thinks the designs fuck

[bespectacled-ghost]

[djo]

i need you guys to understand that stealing my gifs and using them for your silly little text posts isn’t a form of flattery and it’s actually really annoying and very discouraging especially because a lot of you don’t even have it in you to support my original post to begin with

[wizardpotions]

if were realistically going to be anti twitter users here we need to get rid of the "textpost put over an image" format of posts, tumblr should revolve around its reblog system to keep posts attached to the OP.

the reblog feature exists for you to make it about your blorbo without stealing the post.

[wizardpotions]

the reblog is tumblrs greatest feature where the lifespan of a post is infinitely longer than posts on twitter, but reuploading on a site with a built in easily used share function is twitter user behaviour.

[mossbawn]

irish ppl on my dash brought up culchies unprompted and are now trying and failing to describe what a culchie is to americans. i can help. it's like a redneck except different. my dad was a culchie but then he moved and he wasn't... my scottish mum would say teuchter. how do i describe a teuchter. it's like a culchie but not quite the same

[mossbawn]

a culchie is not necessarily a farmer. when in dublin, everyone not from dublin is a culchie. culchies sometimes argue among themselves about who is and isn't a culchie. if the nearest road to your house has a strip of grass up the middle then you're probably a culchie. do you know what cutting turf is

[thismustbetheblog]

The 10pm Ryanair flight out of Manchester landing 2 hours late in Dublin Airport

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Aww bless the toy show, what else could endlessly confuse my non Irish mutuals so beautifully, what else could make me laugh cry cringe with all my being? To Irish Tumblr who got it to number 1 <3. Beidh craic maith againn arís an blian s'chugainn, a chairde 🇮🇪💚

[gxldenthor]

he put that sonic jumper on for the tumblr gang . he did it for us

[thesunsethour]

bestie who is ryan tubridy

ames i’m SO glad you asked. this is him ⬆️

basically ryan tubridy is the host of Ireland’s Late Late Show (hes a bit of a bore tbh) but once a year he hosts the Late Late Toy Show, the best invention of modern ireland.

it started years and years ago to basically advertise toys for christmas by getting kids to play with them on air. now there’s a whole country wide charity appeal that always raises a couple million euro which is just insane considering we’re a small enough country. but the basic premise is the same: get a bunch of cute kids on tv in christmas jumpers and have ryan interview them about their toys

okay backstory complete and on to this fucker

every child tries to bully him. every single child. tonight alone a boy in a spider-man costume shot a projectile at him and a little wizard girl threw a spongebob teddy at him. somehow ryan is simultaneously great with these kids and also utterly exasperated all of the time. also the nations favourite inside joke is that to get through the chaos of a three hour show and 3953 kids he just gets really really high

also couple years ago he tried to open a bottle of fanta and said fuck live on air

please google some clips i cannot express to you how insane this show is

[ceezocico]

now Irish tumblr hibernates for the rest of the year, occasionally appearing to make a little joke or two. as a treat