#27/10/2023

[ahalliance]

rapid fire french rayou strikes again (transcript below the cut)

[Video transcript:

[ENG] Etoiles: I— I’m speedrunning it [Mario Party], but it’s like—

[FR] Etoiles: The next person to bust my balls by saying, ‘he’s going to miss the Ascension [French competitive event happening this Saturday 28/10]’ even though my plane is at six PM, you bunch of morons, it’s not because ZeratoR [Ascension event organiser] said once that I’d miss my plane that I will miss my plane, because what you guys don’t understand is that a plane doesn’t get missed if you arrive three hours in advance, and the last time I missed the plane was because my corresponding flight was one hour and a half [late]!

[ENG] Etoiles: I was just saying to my chat that I love them :)

Tina: Awhhh

Foolish: See, once again I have a feeling maybe that wasn’t—

End Video Transcript.]

#qsmp irl #etoiles #étoiles #foolish gamers #tinakitten #jay rambles #jay clips #27/10/2023 #a taste of one of Etoiles’ epic french tirades (you have not seen half of it) #they’re already incredible in English but dude gets so much more aggressive in French lmfaooo #also wanted to clip this bc foolish’s face is sending me . deer in the headlights looking mf #i feel like if Etoiles ranted at him in French with a similar tone he’d just freeze #also tina was so cute here :] she leaned forwards to try and read chat bc she initially thought he was reading a msg #im so invested in tina and foosh’s french arcs tbh #wish there were a bettee translation for casser les couilles tbh . bc bust my balls is literally accurate but it kinda lacks the pizazz #casser les couilles has . i think im just more partial to french swears in general

[vhscorp]

Vu tout ce que nous avons traversé ces dernières années et l’état du monde aujourd’hui, je me demande si nous parviendrons un jour à retrouver un peu de paix et de bonheur…

V. H. SCORP

#retrouver #paix #bonheur #citation #v.h.scorp #27/10/2023

[nathandiary]

I made a ton of prints today to decide which paper I needed to buy for my poetry book project. I decided to go with the tan Rives paper because it’s thick enough to use for handbinding

#27/10/2023 #studyblr #art student #printmaking #relief print

[ghozteevee]

Some pregame shenanigans for my Shuichi sees ghosts au. The ghost messing with him is called Hanako.

#inktober #inktober 2023 #danganronpa #drv3 #shuichi saihara #danganronpa au #ssg au #shuichi sees ghosts au #oc #i finished this yesterday but i got customers before i could post it.... #so double post today #eevee does draw #eevee rambles in the tags #27/10/2023

[kralovna-ne-stesti]

Ráno jsem si myslela, že to bude príma den.

Pršelo. Nevadí. Nasuším křížaly, dojdu do krámu, udělám polívku...

Těsto na chleba v lednici sice vykynulo, ale po celý dopoledne se z toho nevzpamatovalo. Chleba se nepovedl, jakože ani trochu.

Klienti na pěst. Umírala jsem u každýho jednoho a myslela, že vyskočím z kůže.

Pes zlobil. Tak, že jsem to přestala dávat a tekly mi slzy.

No nic, z toho nepovedenýho chleba udělám krutony k česnečce, ha!, to jsem eko-bio-ró, že ho nevyhodím (jako jo, jsou to krutony, ale z nevyběhlýho těsta, žádná sláva).

Venku to chvilku vypadlo, že snad sněží, ale byl to jenom déšť s mlhou. Pěkný.

Cestou z krámu jsem se při pohledu na jednu líbající dvojici, uprostřed ulice, rozbrečela.

Jo, aha, zítra je úplněk, no, to dost vysvětluje...

Další (menší) nervový zhroucení.

Vysmaženou slaninu do polívky jsem skoro celou snědla. Samotnou.

Pouštím relaxační hudbu a jdu si míchat bylinky do koupele.

Myju vanu. Myju sebe. Vybírám kameny, přenáším solnou lampu, ladim relaxační hudbu na mobilu.

Jo, to byl fajn nápad. Moc příjemný, přestože koupele a horkou vodu nemám ráda.

Kapky na nervy, meduňkovej čaj na nervy, a spát, prosím.

No, někdy to prostě nevyjde. Problém ale je, že to není chyba toho dne, nebo konstalace, nebo kdo ví čeho. Chyba je v tom, že jsme si vytvořili očekávání. Očekávání, který často nemá ani zrnko zakotveno v něčem opodstatněném. A taky nás, vytváření domněnek, jedna z dohod, ničí.

#pátek #tak úplně nevešel jak jsem chtěla #no co už #27/10/2023 #ze života královny #česky

[iliasphotography]

#Youtube #27/10/2023 #Βόλος #Θεσσαλία #Ελλάδα #Πλημμύρες 2023

[friend-quotes-revival]

Me: *while trying to think of the word ambience*

Me: "It's like decoration for music"

#friend quotes #my friends are dorks #i'm a dork #27/10/2023 #shit we say #shit i say

[astraltrickster]

Given that my post about why you are not obligated to blog about Current Events (whatever they are at any given time) is going around again, I'd like to say the same thing from a slightly different angle and state what you ARE obligated to do.

You are still not obligated to blog about ANY specific subject, no matter how serious, no matter how urgent, no matter how grave. You never will be. The impact of social media on real world atrocities has the potential to be great, but it is cumulative. No one is going to die in a ditch somewhere, barely uttering the tragic final words, "if only...if only...tumblr users wormhentaiafficionado and mothmanbutthole...posted about how sad they are...then maybe things would be different..." - nor are policymakers going to change their minds because some tweet has 749,845 cumulative likes and retweets instead of 750,000. Make no mistake, if you have the energy to be sharing these kinds of things, it can be good to do! We live in a society, it's always good to help where you can, even if all you can do is show public support for people who are hurting - but if you can't do that, for any reason, you're not obligated to. Period. End of.

What are you obligated to do?

1. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Social media accounts are not most people's entire lives. Just because someone isn't blogging about whatever tragedy is occurring does not mean they don't care. Sometimes it does mean that, sure, and that sucks - but not only are you not going to change that by yelling at them, sometimes it means they care too much. Sometimes it means they're closer to it than you assumed and need a moment to think about something else, anything else. Sometimes it means it's not safe for them to be blogging about it, be it due to abusive family potentially finding out, being at risk of getting fired and quite possibly dying of poverty sooner rather than later, or even taking very illegal direct action that they do not want to be linked to on record in even the vaguest possible way. Sometimes it means dealing with it is their day job and they're on the internet after a long and exhausting day of trying to make things better. You don't know. You'll never know unless they decide to tell you. No one owes you that explanation. You are obligated to make peace with that fact.

2. Slow the fuck down.

Listen. When bad things happen, from natural disasters, to manmade horrors beyond our comprehension, it's only normal to get scared and desperate to do something, anything about it. That heightened emotional state is very vulnerable, and because of that, there will always be people out there looking to take advantage of the chaos for ulterior motives - and no matter how good your intentions, and in fact no matter how right you are in your values and at the core of your strategy, you will never be immune to garbage-in-garbage-out. Misinformation can be deadly, even in the hands of someone who means well. You need to pause long enough to sort out the garbage. You need to learn to fight the impulse to trust every single post that tells you that your share/comment/etc. is URGENT and WILL mean the difference between life and death for someone, somewhere. Do your fact checks. Scan for dogwhistles before you end up passing around a post that implies [insert group that is marginalized in most of the English-speaking world but has hegemonic power in some other part of the world and is committing some atrocity there] is coming after you next if you stay silent. Vet charity and advice links before you accidentally send scared, desperate, and vulnerable people to a scammer - or worse, hand them over to a honeypot operation or give them a recipe for poisonous "medicine".

Or, to put it another way, you are obligated to make an attempt to stay informed enough to avoid making things materially worse. You are not obligated to doomblog. In fact, doomblogging can be antithetical to your obligation to not make things worse. Choosing neutrality in times of great tragedy and injustice is bad, yes, but you should immediately be wary of anyone who says that simply not blogging about a subject - let alone not sharing a specific post - is inherently "choosing neutrality".

So remember: breathe. Be careful out there. Mourn for the people that whatever atrocity has this or my other post circulating has taken from us or will take from us, and do your best to be kind to the people who are still alive - and remember that kindness includes using social media responsibly.

#current events #internet safety #serious tag #on 10/27/2023 - this post brought to you by the fact that i've seen multiple people #who i know mean well #pass around full tilt new world order conspiracy propaganda shit because it was hidden in support for palestine #i don't mean ''israel is committing genocide'' i'm not denying that #that is very much happening and it's horrifying #but i mean full on ''(((They're))) controlling the whole world's media to cover it up and you're next if you don't share this post #you're the last bastion of hope we have if we don't want to lose all we hold dear all over the world'' level shit #and it was honestly enough to make me dissociate #but i leave it generic because i know it will be relevant to something else in the future #and like. bruh. generic timeless question. if you'd rather people be passing around misinformation that does more harm than good #up to and including - and i cannot stress this enough #anything from SCAM CHARITIES to CRYPTO HATE PROPAGANDA to POISON RECIPES PASSED OFF AS MEDICINE #than just...not using this ONE aspect of their lives to talk about [INSERT ISSUE HERE] #....do YOU care? or do you just want an excuse to FEEL like you're helping by micromanaging strangers?

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

The Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth - O2 Academy Bristol (November 27, 2013) by Adam Gasson

After 11 years of not finding a single photo from this show, I found these yesterday! I can not begin to express what this means to me, I nearly cried and I couldn't sleep last night. I was still a rather new fan and this was my first time going to a show in the UK, the first show I went to see with a friend, and my first time meeting that friend, too. And these above photos are SO GOOD! Not much was preserved from this show at all, there was no recording allowed (no charcoal drawings either), and to my knowledge not even the full setlist for this specific show was preserved anywhere. So better late than never, but here's what I remember (with some help from these photos!) and the things I've puzzled back together:

If there was opening music or an opening act, i don't recall, but Russell entered the stage alone. It was dramatic and impactful, and it went quiet as he gave an intense stare into the audience and did a drawn out "ahhh" into the microphone. After a little moment of quiet, it turned out the microphone had been connected to a sequencer which now started repeating "ah ah ah ah ah ah". Suspense, excitement. Russell added: "Hold, hold, hold, hold". (...I was definitely freaking out.) While that started looping on top of the ah ah ah sequence, he made stop signs with his hand as we all listened. A few repeats passed. "I'm getting mixed signals, mixed signals - mixed, mixed, mixed signals".

^ the only seconds of this show I recorded as I didn't yet know it wasn't allowed - security signed at me and I put the camera away. It was fine. (Here's a recording of it made during the US tour later that year - recording seemed to be less frowned upon at that point.)

I don't recall when Ron entered the stage at this show, whether it was during the song or after, but what a way to open! And what an amazing song choice!

The performance that left the biggest impression on me at this show though was Nicotina. It was a choice I didn't see coming, but also the way Russell sang it! Falsetto heaven. (Sadly not a single video is to be found of Nicotina from this tour. But for your falsetto heaven needs, I hope you can find a video of Here In Heaven that they also performed on this tour, because that will also kill you.)

As everyone here probably knows I am quite big on Bergman, which at the time was heavily promoted during the tours, and, the excerpts they played on this tour were different from what they played during Two Hands One Mouth! They played "I Am Ingmar Bergman", The Studio Commissary (my favourite song on Bergman), Limo Driver (but sang by Russell, and HOW!) and "Oh My God". (Here's a video of it from one of the American shows. It's extremely good. People who've been around for a while have seen me lose it over this video many times.)

The most unexpected song choice was probably Katherine Hepburn. Me and my friend had been joking for absolute months that we were going to see Sparks and they'd play Katherine Hepburn (as if that would ever happen, we were obsessed with that song though!). And here we were, and they were playing Katherine Hepburn right in front of our eyes. (What is reality.)

Falling In Love With Myself Again had me losing it over the organ sounds, always a fan of Ron on organ, and I LOVE that song. Russell sang a line in my direction (I died), and he managed to throw another line at me during Those Mysteries ...I died a few times that night. As you might expect. That was kind of the whole THOM/TROTHOM experience anyway. Lots of dying. But the variety of dying where you end up in heaven. (You're at a Sparks show after all.)

They wrote a song especially for this tour, which was not released but only ever played live: Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth. What a thing to experience! A very dark song, but wonderful. (REVENGE! REVENGE REVENGE!)

At the end of the show Ron took a photo of Russell with the audience. I don't really remember that happening, but the photo exists and it really was not a thing they did often back then. We had been a good audience :)

Here's all the songs that were probably played that night in random order:

Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold., B.C., Good Morning, Here In Heaven, Academy Award Performance, Those Mysteries, Falling In Love With Myself Again, Big Boy, Nicotina, Popularity, This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us, excerpts from The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, Tryouts For The Human Race, Katherine Hepburn, Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth. They likely also played The Number One Song in Heaven, When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' and Suburban Homeboy. (I see mentions of How Are You Getting Home? and How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? in setlists for this tour as well, which they very well might have played but I very sadly have zero memory of ever hearing those songs live.)

This tour had a real air of mystery, possibly even more so than Two Hands One Mouth, as the lack of existing footage definitely adds to it. But luckily some of it *is* out there, and I am so grateful for these photos :) On top of the songs I especially mentioned above, I would also advise people to look for recordings of Tryouts For The Human Race and Popularity from this tour, because the arrangements are probably not going to be the way you expect them to be. And as you might expect: B.C. is stunning live. (I could start a whole rant about Good Morning and Suburban Homeboy live but I think I sufficiently screamed about both in my personal notes on THOM the year prior.) Final note: I know Russell had some sort of dance move for Big Boy because me and another friend couldn't stop talking about it for months. I don't remember what he did, but both THOM and TROTHOM were wonderful for Russell dances <3

#I really needed to get that out of my system and onto the blog :) #I may do one of these posts for all shows I've seen at some point. #(I know I've yet to put my notes from 2023 on here and I've been working on them!) #sparks #sparks (band) #russell mael #ron mael #the revenge of two hands one mouth #trothom #bristol #november 27 2013 #2013 #10's #i was there #I put the whole story under a read more so that you don't have to deal with that if you just want to look at photos :) #tour notes

[neoyi]

COMIC YOU CANNOT FUCKING DO THIS TO ME. IT HAS BEEN EIGHTEEN YEARS.

#comics #neoyi talks #I'm only 27 pages in and this comic is already a fucking 10/10 #I have LONGED for this fucker's return #I cannot believe in the year of our lord 2023 that this is now officially fucking CANON #WELCOME BACK KING HERE'S YOUR CROWN

[glimmerofawesome]

#ashley lawrence #chelsea women #chelsea fcw #chelsea v barcelona #april 27 2024 #uwcl 2023 2024 #72:10

[zipzapi]

Woof

#ben 10 #ben wolf #blitzwolfer #ben tennyson #27 February 2023

[undertale-writing-times]

Hii!! I just found your writing and I love it so much!!! Could you do Stretch / an afab nonbinary reader (who openly goes by they/them) & they wear a binder. Like they are out on a date or something and reader compains about their back and Stretch finds out they wear a binder, and reader freaks out but Stretch is like 'i don't love you any less because you bind'.

I'm just figuring out my gender, and I just got my first binder but im worried about telling people. Thank you !🌻

Sure ^3^ I hope you enjoy it!

Stretch would find out that you wear the binder, and look up a few things before telling you that he knew. Once you started to freak out, he would say "Hey, hey, it's okay! I don't love you any less because you bind. You're my datemate, and you binding isn't going to change that…" he smiles, taking your hands into his own and brings them up to press a 'kiss' to your knuckles.

He understood that humans were always uncomfortable by that sorta stuff, and that was something he didn't really understand? Monsters didn't exactly HAVE genders? Like… they did, but they also didn't. Since they were magic, they could change a bit. With skeletons their ectos could be male, female, or anything else!

Stretch is what humans call a demi-boy, if he remembers right? Uses He/him and they/them, so he understands feeling upset... but he loves you for you, and would love you no matter what you do.

#undertale alternate timeline #undertale alternate universe #undertale au #undertale imagines #undertale ask blog #undertale headcanons #Stretch #Underswap #Underswap Papyrus #Nonbinary Reader #10/27/2023

[penelope-scott-news]

New Instagram Stories!

sorry for having to just screenshot them, my downloader stopped working ;(

#official news #post update! #instagram #10/27/2023 #penelope scott

[ghozteevee]

I was humming the Over the Garden Wall soundtrack as I did this

#inktober #inktober 2023 #the beast #over the garden wall #eevee does draw #27/10/2023

[fiveseatisthepowerhouse]

“Here is history,” the river whispers. “Do you want to be a part of it?”

This is my third time in Philly and the sight of Boathouse Row still sends a thrill down my spine.

In college Dad Vails was our “championship.” Everything we did, we did with Philly in mind. In January, 1250 meters into a 2k erg test, coach would start describing the grandstand upstream of 3 angels. I grew up as a rower on stories of Vesper and Olympic training camps.

3 years ago I didn’t know how I was going to get myself back on the water. Philly was so impossible, it doesn’t even count as a pipe dream. Yet here I am, watching singles launch from Boathouse Row while I wait for the rest of the team to arrive. The river is calling and finally I get to answer it.

Ready. Ready. Row!

#HOSR #boathouse row #rowing #crew #inspo #I hauled a camera all the way from Detroit for the singular purpose of getting this picture #I will print it and hang it inside front of my erg #my first time in Philly I came as an alternate and support staff #my second time was with the disaster double. we skegged on the way to the start. #*knocks on wood* #Tomorrow I will race the Schuykill #10/27/2023 #1k or bust here we come #Philly #Philadelphia #mine #me