i know i’ve talked about this before but it’s really insane when you were passively suicidal for two decades and out of the blue you catch yourself saying shit like “i’ve been trying to eat a lot of fibre because i don’t want to risk colorectal cancer in my 40s” like okay … 40s are part of the plan now?
The Paranatural Summer Ladies Event will be running from Monday June 15th through Sunday June 28th.
The official tag for the event is #pnatsummer, so make sure to use it so I can find what you make! I will, of course, be checking the main tag just as often, but the tag helps me keep track of things.
Below the readmore is a text version of the calendar, as well as the suggested themes for each day. Please remember: you do NOT have to feel obligated to follow the themes or partcipate every single day!
If you have any questions at all, the inbox is always open =D
June 15th: June Pucket- Twilight, Sepia, Fireworks, Motorcycles, Bleeding Hearts
June 16th: Mina Zarei - Moths, Energy Drinks, Old Toys, Movies, Spiderwort
June 17th: Isabel Guerra- Sodapop, Sports, Sunshowers, Neon, Xeranthemum
June 18th: Principal Pleezdo/Vice Principal DuNacht - Picnic, Summer Break, Contrast, Tea, Anemone
June 19th: Shred Eagle - Stakeouts, Fast Food, Road Trip, Wings, Rhododendron
June 20th: Rosemary Baxter - Late Nights, Cats, Beach Day, Martinis, Oleander
June 21st: Violet - Pastel, Apple Juice, Rollerblading, Fashion, Mallow
June 22nd: Shrike - Reflection, Moon Phases, Sailing, Cryptids, Asphodel
June 23rd: Penny Spender- Milkshakes, Rabbits, Prismatic, Masks, Orchids
June 24th: Lisa - Coffee, Monochromatic, Graveyards, Ouija Boards, Nightshade
June 25th: Valerie Day - Strawberries, Mosaic, Diners, Memories, Sundew
June 26th: Suzy Starchman- Photography, Vaporwave, Pink Lemonade, Will ‘o Wisps, Coreopsis
June 27th: Boss Leader & Consortium - Tarot, Doorways, Costumes, Shadows, Zinnia
The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.
The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"
For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.
The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people”