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New stress dream unlocked!

Dreamt I was driving and my gas light was on even though I knew I’d just filled it up. It was so real I was shocked that my car is, in fact, not running on empty.

In other news I have one class left for my first grad school course, which we speed-ran in three weeks and maybe I might be burnt out?

#rin does grad school #i’m so tired

hawnks

30+ year old women are the backbone of this website

drbased

reblog if you're literally 30+

elodieunderglass

🫡

polyhedric-dimension

Who are you when you're not performing?

mirkwoodest

Hey, fellow fantasy nerds, I invite you to vibe along to this lesser known early 2000s fantasy banger

mirkwoodest

Don’t mind me, I’m just getting emotional about the way trans elder and renn faire musician Alexander James Adams conceptualizes his relationship to his pre-transition self, Heather Alexander:

“Heather was a changeling. In 2006 she was called back to faerieland and Alec, the child in whose place she had originally been left, was released after beating the faerie queen in a fiddling contest. Thus, Alec now carries on Heather’s musical legacy as her appointed heir.”

God…. good for him :’)

mirkwoodest

This tag is the highest honor I could ever receive.

genderqueerpond

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!

Okay, here I am with my promised addition:

Here’s a remake of the aforementioned fantasy banger, done post-transition with his band Tricky Pixie (SJ Tucker and Betsy Tinney)

And my favorite cut of the same…

Here they are doing the ballad of Tam Lin!

Another iconic fantasy banger

And the song version of Alec winning his legendary fiddle duel with the faerie queen — which has WON its first round in this marvelous “obscure song bracket” so please do come back to vote for it in round 2, as well as Winter’s Tooth, which has also won its first round!! (and my further recommendations and infodumps on these posts)

Also OP congrats on choosing perhaps my FAVORITE picture ever to illustrate this perfect post, but please also look at these

If you look up “trans joy” in the dictionary you get these pictures of Alexander James Adams

(yes, these are the same picture but look again – no they are not! HE HAS AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT VESTS LIKE THIS, IS THIS NOT THE ICONIC BEHAVIOR OF ALL TIME )

taonf

Magic is what we make of it and I want it to be strong and supporting of our spirits! — Alexander James Adams

Alexander James Adams creates music, art, and video reflecting fantasy and faerie tales with the intent of making this world more magical. Guitar, Fiddle, Mandolin, Whistle, and Drums all help his voice to tell stories and sing songs that inspire through the age old tradition of bardic skill. Flavoured from Celtic roots, his creations are growing and changing to reflect the old wisdoms combined with the new ideas of folk lore and fantasy as it applies to the world around us.

Alexander James Adams – Faerie Tale Minstrel and Storyteller of Myth and Magic

theatreism

And brother, thus begins the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice

coffebits

Replaying those hard levels as an adult and doing them first try…

lilapetrichorwinteryrogue

why would you do this to me

sabreurs

[ID: two screenshots from dimension 20. brennan says, "You can't just love people by showing that you're useful. Sometimes you have to actually just love them." end ID.]

onekisstotakewithme

having online friends who are busy is just like. I LOVE YOU. I miss you. YOU GOT THIS. I'm giving you space to work. I LOVE YOU.

onekisstotakewithme

reminder to everyone i haven't talked to lately: I love you. we'll be fine. I LOVE YOU. I am waiting for you. I hope you are well. I love you.

godshideouscreation

deadpresidents

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

"In the fourth vote, the ballots overwhelmingly shifted" to Cardinal Prevost, Cardinal You of South Korea said.

Cardinal Müller sat behind the American front-runner in the Sistine Chapel and noticed that he seemed calm. Cardinal Tagle, who sat next to Cardinal Prevost, noticed him taking deep breaths as votes amassed in his favor.

"I asked him, 'Do you want a candy?' and he said, 'Yes'," Cardinal Tagle said.

During one of the votes, Cardinal Tobin, as he held his ballot high and put it in the urn, turned and saw Cardinal Prevost, whom he had known for about 30 years.

"I took a look at Bob," Cardinal Tobin said, "and he had his head in his hands."

-- A fascinating inside-the-Sistine-Chapel look at the Conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, via the New York Times.

I love the image of one Cardinal offering candy to another Cardinal who is trying not to hyperventilate because he realizes he's about to be elected Pope.

queerofthedagger

mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her

visenyaism

j'adore le franglish content le code switching c'est tellement fun je sautille from a language to another like a gazelle et toi aussi tant que tu voudras :)

OUAIS baby we are so fucking back. franglais est parfait parce que americans get mad AND it sends evil psychic vibes à l’académie française. The phrase “qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” came out of my mouth this evening and i think that might be the pinnacle of human language. i love being annoying

turnabout

“qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” is gonna stay with me for a minute.

bubblegum-magnesium

afloweroutofstone

Documenting the Damage: 100 Harmful Policies from the First 100 Days of Trump's Second Term

The second Trump administration has had the busiest first 100 days of any US presidency in nearly a century. Since January, I've been keeping a spreadsheet documenting 900+ policy changes and political developments. I then bundled many of the most important changes into 100 topics areas and wrote a summary of each of them, providing a semi-comprehensive account of the tremendous changes to US politics which have occurred.

PDF version of the full report

Website version of the full report

Medium versions:

Introduction + Part I: Democracy and Government

Part II: Civil Rights and Liberties

Part III: Economy and Public Services

Part IV: Environment and Energy

Part V + Conclusion: Foreign Policy

ms-demeanor

Folks, this is an incredible piece of journalism reflecting a tremendous amount of research, effort, and thought.

It's completely free, brilliantly made, and I am incredulous that it had been so narrowly shared on Tumblr.

I am in awe of what Brett has done here. Please click through and read at least some of this because I think people are really missing out on what an incredible tool this is.

It's a quick reference, it's an archive (it's SO rich in sources and references), it's an explainer, and it is a point-by-point means of de-normalizing the trump administration to anyone in your life who thinks things aren't that bad.

ms-demeanor

Part of what both trump admins have done, and that the second one has been very, very successful at, is running a shock and awe campaign of things that are so overwhelming and awful that people check out because they can't maintain attention for the continual hammering of information. What Brett has done here is an absurd feat of attention, keeping on top of the tidal wave and breaking it down so that we can see the actions of the administration in plain black and white without the feeling of being pummeled by increasingly panicked news stories.

There are a ton of things to panic about, to take immediate action about, to be outraged about - you shouldn't feel guilty about missing an HHS rule change while you're protesting ICE or having your gender erased - but part of why this document is so impressive is that it DID keep track of those changes and rollbacks that are blips in the news cycle, and it did so pretty much in real time. The fact that it was completed so soon after the first 100 days is staggering, and it's so incredibly useful to have this as a reference NOW instead of as a retrospective five years after the fact.

Really. Seriously. This is so fantastic. Please take a look at it.

It's not comforting, it IS alarming, and it is nonetheless one of the most approachable and motivating in-depth pieces of political journalism I've ever seen.

#to read