#Quarantine Life

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

My apologies for the lack of posts today, but 2024 has marked the year that COVID finally caught up with me, and I am officially down for the count. My Tumblr post queue has run dry, and I don’t have the energy to find or create more content right now. ☹️

So, in honor of Fuzzy Friday, today’s post is all shots I’ve taken of Luna around the apartment this week. Hooray for the pets who keep us company on our road to recovery! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

FYE, here’s some bonus snoozy action:

#Awwwww #Fuzzy Friday #COVID #quarantine life

[estellaestella]

Damn you, Covid!

Will i never get my makeup skills back? You know, as someone who does photoshop edits with a mouse i should be able to do a better job of colouring inside the lines. But here i am rushing out with wonky lipstick. Just gonna keep my head down and hope it isnt too visible 😬

#quarantine #quarantine life #make up

[spreadfire1]

🤗🐮🐄 Cozy cows catching the first sunlight. 🖖😊 Bonus text: Would you like to wake up to this view too? Granted, it is neither a turquoise-blue ocean with a white sandy shore nor a majestic mountainscape in the alps. No exotic rainforest or savannah safari tour. No sunrise over the New York City skyline and no sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge. But it is enough. It is down-to-earth, rural, and real. To me, it is home, which gives it an additional flair, connected with memories and emotions. There are so many ways to look at this. For example psychologically, or from an economical or ecological standpoint, etc. Do we always need more, better, bigger? When is it enough? Shouldn't we be content and happy with what we have, and be grateful for it? Maybe more people are currently realizing that during times like these, where public life and travel are restricted. (repost from December 2020)

#contentment #minimalism #minimalist lifestyle #overindulgence #greed #capitalism #keeping up with the kardashians #keeping up with the jones #enlightenment #mental health #self awareness #covidー19 #quarantine life #social isolation #social distancing #covid lockdown #covid pandemic #happiness #peace #mindfulness #home sweet home #complacency #complaining #gratitude #grateful #instant gratification #less is more #writeblr #poets on tumblr #poets and writers

[chickennuggetpurveyor]

My monstera is doing really well and is MASSIVE. You know what that means. 👀

#quarantine life #I'm so bored #These photos are going to be spicy

[trappedinshanghai]

Hello world. 2022 May 19

Hi.

I am a kid living in Shanghai.

I have lived here my entire life and until recently I have considered it as the best city on the planet.

With everything that has happened in the past two months and everything that has changed, I am feeling conflicted, to say the least.

I want to use this to not only spread awareness on and share with the world the absolute shit show that is Shanghai in 2022, but also to chronicle my experience as teenager living through this potentially pivotal point in history.

For reasons such as China's strict censorship, I will remain anonymous.

Warning: This blog will not always be eloquently written. I am angry and sad and frustrated. This will be my outlet.

You can expect to hear a lot more from me.

--A Kid Trapped in Shanghai

#shanghai lockdown #covid19 #pandemic #omicron #covid restrictions #lockdowns #shanghai covid lockdown #shanghai covid outbreak #shanghai covid news #shanghai covid restrictions #china news #teenage years #fuck covid #covid life #quarantine #quarantine life #my life in a nutshell

[bryonyashaw]

3 years ago (March 2020) we were all in the midst of Lockdowns, restrictions, mask wearing & Tiger King - all due to the unprecedented Coronavirus flung into our lives.

The first lockdown was implemented across the UK in March 2020.

The first coronavirus cases in the UK were reported in January 2020. By the end of March 2020, 4,426 people in the UK had died within 28 days of testing positive with Covid-19.

On 16 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the Government would be implementing measures intended to halt the spread of the virus. The first lockdown began in England on 23 March 2020. Similar measures were implemented in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at the same time. The lockdown saw the closure of non-essential high street businesses, schools, indoor sports venues and other activities. People were advised to work from home where possible and to avoid public transport. The NHS also advised anyone aged 70 & over to stay at home as much as possible and to practise social distancing.

The first/second/third lockdown resulted in the majority of children and young people being educated at home. My kids were off school and I remember the day I picked them up from school and telling them they won't be at school for a bit... What turned out to be a bit, turned out to be months! Which they were happy about to be fair.

The Government announced a series of schemes intended to support people during the lockdown. This included a financial support package for businesses affected and a furlough scheme intended to help companies retain staff.

It feels like yesterday but also feels like it was years ago - I don't know the full economic, mental health impact & other health outcomes for the past few years but from my experience I can say it changed our lives but we got lucky and I feel very fortunate we maintained our health. Sure, there were things the kids missed out on, for example, my daughter missed out entirely on year 5 & 6 then started at secondary school when schools opened, it was a massive change but during lockdowns we were blessed to be able to have Lockdown with my family so the kids & I had support.

Years on I hope everyone is healing

#life during lockdown #lockdown #covid19 #coronavirus #Lincolnshire family #yourblendedfamily #bryonyperfectlyimperfect #life during pandemic #social distancing #home school #lockdown education #lockdown life #quarantine life #isolation #plague #pandemic parenting #single parent #blessed #coronavirus pandemic #health #stay home #unlimited britain #throwback 2020 #my wild lands #family adventures #dear diary #sahm #pandemic life #stay at home

[leahslibrary]

When illness knocks you down, the only logical thing to do is curl up with a childhood favorite! Covid has kept us home so naturally I reread my favorites. Winnie the Pooh has been one of my favorite childhood stories. What are yours?

#childhood memories #bookstagram #books and libraries #Winnie the Pooh #quarantine life #leah’s library

[sensadefra]

Social networks make people believe in fake things, nobody's life's perfect as they show just by a post.

#lifestyle #vida #life #writing life #quarantine life #amor #cosas de la vida #hope

[fenori]

some bettos feat. bettel 2 and the jester's gambit

#bettelful #gavis bettel #holostars #hololive #tempus #vtuber #art #doodle #that first one i drew while feverish and quarantining for covid in another country #LMAO #also the twin streams give me so much life i cant wait for chess chaos #meme

[feral-teeth]

Smosh - omg thanks to the brainrot not only has my hyperfixation with them help my art, they have helped me get out of my years long writing hiatus

(Some I haven’t even posted yet!! Or even be able to post because of how much I’ve drawn - And there are sooo many WIPS that are all smosh)

#I can also thank the owl house and nimona during quarantine to help me w my art #smosh #feral teeth smosh art #feral teeth art #art #my art #smosh fanart #and fandoms significantly help me with improving my art cuz I’m never not thinking about new ways I can draw them as I watch you know> #? #spencer agnew #shayne topp #amanda lehan canto #shaymien #damien haas #frank n furter #courtney miller #angela giarratana #keith leak jr #erin dougal #the Erin drawing I did was like so out of my comfort zone idk how to describe it #like I put my all into drawing it #cuz I was so inspired by her and the post that she made #same as Courtney’s Saturn one and the explode one #feral-teeth art #feral-teeth smosh art #being autistic is like #I’m bored without a hyperfixation #and when you finally get back into one #it takes over your entire life #and eats you whole

[whetstonefires]

“The Justice League and the Avengers are very different teams”

In what respect? Like, how would you say both teams differ in terms of overall function, how they respond to threats, how they’re viewed by their respective publics, etc?

😂 who even are you?

anyway, these two teams have been reformed and rebooted so many times and are the flagships of the two juggernauts of their industry, so their natures have evolved and influenced one another heavily over the decades as you see armies tend to do in prolonged warfare, so there is probably not one single statement you could make about either one that's always true.

it would be crazy to try to explain the difference in diegetic terms, because those aren't goalposts they're hockey pucks. the difference in kind exists at a publishing level.

fundamentally, the Avengers was designed to rest, in narrative terms, on everyone's personal relationships and neuroses, and develop soap opera subplots and office drama around how these intersected with each other and various villains. because in the 60s Marvel was launching the Big New Thing which was heightened naturalism and relatability in comics.

(spiderman and the whole genre of underdog superhero who can't catch a break rather than slyly winking at the audience as the world looks down on his secret identity, not knowing how impressive he really is, dates to this pivot of Marvel's. both Superman and Captain America did the latter in their early days, which is highly dissonant from Cap and Bucky looking at them today, but Cap was retired from print for like 20 years and got heavily rebooted for the new age.)

they had an actual mansion they could all live in, and many of them did, for a solid chunk of time early on. there's a reason people swung so hard for the 'everyone lives in stark tower' scenario foreshadowed at the end of Avengers (2012)--that's how the Avengers are! you bang the action figures together and give them angst and bonding about it!

they fractured repeatedly under the weight of all that drama (because psychology and because stories that don't end are unable to make any narrative sense, and breaking up a team is honestly a half-decent substitute in the Eternal Now of big comics) and at this point the current avengers is much more impersonal and even pays salaries, like basically the commune-underwritten-by-rich-buddy has reincorporated as an NGO.

but it still runs on the same types of narrative tensions mostly--huge epic stuff will be happening, but the Avengers tension comes down to whether everyone really hates T'Challa this month for that thing he did. and what this is doing to group cohesion.

the Justice League on the other hand was not built for character-driven story.

they've done plenty of them, after it became the done thing, and even imitated the Avengers and did the diegetic collapsing and reforming arcs and so on. but it's not fundamental to how a Justice League runs; you could do a super long run where the interpersonal tensions never rose above B-plot status and it wouldn't be tonally dissonant.

it would be weird for many of the Justice League to live together--when a character is shown living in Justice League facilities it is usually to signify that they are isolated and don't have a life and this is Bad. the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord dominated era was deliberately aping the Avengers imo and came out weird as a result, and Lord turning out to be a mind-controlling supervillain was not unrelated to how weird most people felt it was.

the Justice League is like. joining a club rather than a frat. like being on the board of an NGO, rather than taking a full-time job there.

you know? the type of commitment is different. the level of intimacy is different.

cap and iron man's relationship has generally played out primarily in the context of their positions within the Avengers, even though it spills into their own titles, while superman and batman have had entire joint books just for them, and their friendship has not usually been allowed to take up much page time in Justice League issues. because that would be indecorous.

commercially speaking, Justice League is first and foremost an easy-buy showcase for high-profile hero characters and anyone you want to burnish up by displaying adjacent to them.

They've totally gotten messy with it over the years but like. I think the seminal Justice League internal dramas were 1) that time Barry Allen killed the guy who'd killed his first wife and was about to kill his second one and they put him on trial 2) that time Wonder Woman killed a dude who told her under truth compulsion that the only way to stop him from mind-controlling Superman to murder people was to kill him and they put her on trial 3) blah blah Batman paranoia exploited by eeeeevil (barely counts imo) and 4) that extremely oogy time it turned out the Justice League had been using magic to forcible reform criminals and erased Batman's memories of this being a thing when he found out and objected because ethics wtf.

That last one was sufficiently story-breaking they started pretending it hadn't happened as quickly as possible. Which was amazingly quickly considering Identity Crisis was the basis for things like killing off the presiding Robin's remaining parent. They actually soft-reset the whole world fairly soon after by timeskipping over most of a year and being like ahem anyway the past is in the past. And then the universe just kept serially ending for over a decade, so it's been weird.

Justice League has reliably gotten a shiny coat of polish with every reboot tho lol.

(Still not over the way they were like, okay we're wiping Green Lantern back to Hal but now we don't have the token black guy everyone who saw the cartoon expects, let's promote Cyborg people know him because of that other cartoon, ah shit he doesn't work without a partner to do bits with. well we can't put garfield logan in the justice league it's too prestigious, he's from the doom patrol for a reason, yeah i know we've had folks like plastic man shut up this is a Cool Sexy new reboot where Superman and Wonder Woman are fucking, we're not using friggin beast boy. how about Captain Marvel? yeah ok shazam is An Silly Joker now and besties with this 20 year old who may or may not know about his elaborate cognitive situation. i don't actually think they put even this much effort into it but otoh maybe they debated really hard and this was the compromise.

........actually vic could probably work up a decent oppositional patter with eel o'brien ik they were never gonna use plastic man but i don't hate it.)

Right. There was a point.

Obviously I'm probably missing a few big dramas here, but the point is DC was trying to keep up with the fantastic dysfunction of the Avengers because if it bleeds it leads, but even in the Dark Age they could not dive in groin first without tarnishing valued brands. The Justice League is simply not built to tell the same types of stories that the Avengers are.

In Justice League stories the narrative will typically be split in focus to a varying degree between the problems created by the villain and the personal emotional situations--the problems--of the heroes. Usually the villain leads and provides the emotional stakes. Only occasionally, overall, do problems between the heroes rise to the same level. Even when they're having them canonically in some other book Justice League tends to be ruled not the right place for that.

Secret identities are traditionally kept to a minimum in the League and League stories, though what this means in practice has gone through some shifts.

This is not just the difference between DC and Marvel house styles, though of course that's part of it, nor is it the League being older, because it isn't by any significant amount. It replaced the Justice Society of America in 1960. Other teams, even the Titans to an extent which was just the junior wing of the League at first, were allowed to get more into the grit sooner, and have the experimental story of Speedy's career-ending heroin problem happen and intra-team dating drama take the foreground, and all that. Doom Patrol was all about the dysfunction, god.

But the Justice League is simply not designed to be that kind of a team book, and when it's occasionally written that way the seams usually creak.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #despite racing to the bottom of the pit in many ways #dc has never stopped being fundamentally more conservative than marvel #somehow even now that marvel is disney owned #like partly that's just dc being in internal meltdown mode #but also like the incredible hulk got to be a hellacious horror comic under disney etc #soon i will be out of quarantine and these asks will stop working #comics #damn i spent so long writing this shit i almost lost my duolingo streak #i need to make different life choices #i'm putting away laundry and going to bed

[casualbuckley]

New fic just dropped! The Buddie hockey AU that I've somehow been working on for four years.

"You should see the other guy," Diaz smirks.

His lip is busted, and it looks like he might have a black eye when all is said and done. His hand is wrapped in gauze, and he winces a little as he flexes it.

“You didn’t have to do that,” Buck says.

"Yeah, well. Everyone seems to want a piece of you." Diaz says, and Buck thinks his brain is short-circuiting.

#buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 #this fic took years off of my life and it's only 15k words #I started this shit in quarantine #and now it finally sees the light of day #thank god

[bellamysgriffin]

this is in no way in defense of ariana grande’s ex husband or whatever bc idk anything but between this and joe alwyn, everyone acts like the only reason fame could interfere in a relationship is if the guys masculinity is too fragile to handle someone being more important than them. like that could be true but like having to take security everywhere you go, even though it is necessary, is a very big demand and definitely changes the kind of life that you live

like, let’s not pretend that being the significant partner of a very famous person doesn’t require you to live a certain kind of life that might not work for somebody.

#idk i just read that things changed post quarantine when #their lifestyle was affected by her fame #and then i saw like a hundred tweets comparing him to joe and mocking them both #and yeah MAYBE they felt threatened #but you might want to live a more private normal life and it can be difficult to reconcile that #with a partner who is in a different places and is choosing a different lifestyle than you #dana rants

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

Fitz:

Also Fitz, immediately after all this: oh the Fool is gone forever and I missed my last chance to convince him to stay and we didn't even get to say goodbye and he left me a heartbreaking poem that makes it clear he never wanted to leave me in the first place and a carving imbued with the most intimate memories imaginable - well, good thing I have exactly zero thoughts or feelings about any of that I'm like so 100% fine and I'm good actually a horse can't wear two saddles anyway so giddy up Molly I'm a-comin and don't worry I'm definitely not irrevocably damaged by the events leading up to me returning to you, it's totally fine that I lost my mind and defied the fates to bring my beloved back from the dead only for him to abandon me right afterwards I'm gonna be so normal about that for the next twenty years or at least I assume if I don't talk or think about it whatsoever it can't hurt me and trust me I know from experience that repression always works haha so yeah omg love you Molly I'm so glad we get this happily ever after and I promise there are no gaping holes at the core of my being everything's gonna be just fine :)

#i felt as though i were bleeding to death my life trickling out of me. but anyway where's molly at #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #fitz and the fool #realm of the quarantine #the fool #rote #turns out I'm never getting over this #i feel about as sane as Fitz right now

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

If anyone’s got some reassurance to spare, I am Having A Day, and it looks to be shaping up to spill into the weekend.

#I’ve been in Covid quarantine for four years #and Big Changes are afoot #and I am feeling very small and stunted #very out of practice with anything but this small life #(and lmao I will STILL have to maintain Covid quarantine through the whole process I’m sure glad the pandemic is ‘over’ haha)

[sanitizarium]

every day the disease gets worse (considering making a pokemon sideblog for shiny hunts etc)

#ripley.txt #i mightt.. do it.... #shiny hunts have unironically taken over my life #this is all i do in my free time anymore #n e ways. would anyone be interested in that... i need to quarantine my autism