#i've watched it every year since 2012 you can't do this to me now 😭

[korrasamibottles]

Long tag game!! Thanks @nova-leaf @lilrobinbird for tagging me💖

How many tumblr accounts have you had before this one?

Just one! I made it in 2012 to look at Walking Dead and Supernatural gifs and eventually it just turned into a personal blog. I met two of my best friends there!! Unfortunately I'm locked out of it for now because I decided to be a responsible internet enjoyer and changed all my passwords and I uhh. I can't remember what I changed it to. And the email I used to sign up 12 years ago is long dead. So that blog might be gone forever. Life is a highway I'm gonna ride it all night long etc. etc.

How long have you been in fandom?

I had really intense Supernatural and MCU phases back in the day, and binged TLOK and ATLA in 2015 after the Korra finale (I watched Korra first and then atla, and I maintain that's the best way to do it😌) but I never really participated in the fandom, like I never talked to anyone or made anything. So I'm gonna say I've been in fandom since summer 2023 when I made this blog to post my tlok fic (couldn't post it on my old one. My face is/was all over it. You understand.) Everyone I've interacted with here is like. Shockingly nice. Idk why I expected to be beaten with hammers but umm it didn't happen so thank you all for that💖

Your favorite trope in fiction?

AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED!!!!! Also rivals coming together to fight a common enemy and then maybe coming together in a different way.....? That's good too.

Your favorite random fact?

There are vast, delicate fungal networks in the earth beneath our feet right now as we speak :) They wrap around tree roots and spread far and wide, connecting multiple trees with each other and allowing them to share water and nutrients. This is especially helpful for saplings, which often aren't able to get enough sunlight to make their own sugars. The fungal network helps ensure the survival of young trees, and in exchange it gets a share in the nutrients being passed between the trees!!!

Your favourite game or kind of game?

Saw trap.

A place you’d like to visit? (If carbon emissions, logistics and money weren’t in question)

Oh god literally anywhere. I want to get marinated in every culture and environment I think that would blow my mind in the best way. I do want to make it to Italy specifically at some point in my life because apparently I have cousins there? But then again what if they're weird and I don't actually want to meet them.....

An animal you’re irrationally afraid of?

I can't really think of any? As a kid I was terrified of big dogs, but that fear is like 99% gone now. Sometimes other people have their dogs off leash in the woods and I gotta say. I Do Not Like It when they come running up snarling barking jumping with their hair raised at me. But the vast majority of dogs are I encounter are nice, and when they aren't I just try to ignore them and keep walking lol.

What’s your favourite season?

Autumn 10000% and then winter. Then spring. Then summer. I hate being hot.

A smell that brings you nice memories?

So maybe this is weird but I really like the way horses smell? I was a farm girl growing up and always loved horses....a horse bit the top of my head once...a different horse broke my arm......still love them.

(If you’re ok talking about food. If not, delete this part) What’s your favorite food from where you were born? And what’s your favorite food from some place else?

My mom's Italian so it was all pasta all the time growing up...lasagna😭 Also chicken cacciatore but the pasta isn't the main event there. But yeah. Pasta tomato garlic basil.....I'm there babiee.

I'm also obsessed with Indian food and there's a place near me that has a vegetable korma that makes me cry.

What’s your favorite drink (if you drink alcohol, alcoholic and non-alcoholic)?

I don't drink alcohol anymore but I loooooooved rum & coke. Also hard cider.

As for regular drinks. I am 75% fruit juice by volume at all times.

Do you give your pets random table scraps?

My cat is a huge freak who turns her nose up at human food like she's literally too good for it. Sometimes I'll offer her a piece of cheese and she'll lick it, but that's it.

I don't know who has and hasn't been tagged already so if you want to do this. Do it🫵

[residentraccoon]

My personal ESC winners (2021-2010)

And not just a regular winner post cuz I'll include all of my winners. Oooohhhhh

As if I don't talk too much already lmao. Just wanted to list all of my faves of every single year bcs I freaking love ESC and talking about it.

• 2021: Måneskin - Zitti e buoni (Italy) 🇮🇹

What can I say? These guys are awesome and totally rad, they had a great fuckign show and their energy is super chaotic, if this isn't perfect then idk what it is. And Italy just really deserved to win after having so many good songs but never scoring past 2nd place. Props to them <3

My runner up: Voila (France) 🇫🇷

• 2020: The Roop - On fire (Lithuania) 🇱🇹

Oh how I love quirky out of the box entries, they were my absolute favorites and I was so sad they didn't get to be on stage anymore because of illustrious covid19 :) Another country who underperforms, and they had a real chance that year to score Lithuania's best result since 2006. F in chat.

My runner up: Repondez-moi (Switzerland) 🇨🇭

• 2019: KEiiNO - Spirit in the sky (Norway) 🇳🇴

Yeah, I said it before a bajillion times and won't elaborate more, when I first heard this song I immediately got out of depression and my life had a new meaning. Plus I really love Keiino and their personalities, been following them since 2019 until now. Long story short, love them so much, and I'm still happy for their televote win.

My runner up: Arcade (Netherlands) 🇳🇱

• 2018: Studio version: Yianna Terzi - Oniro Mou (Greece) 🇬🇷; Live version: DoReDos- My lucky day (Moldova) 🇲🇩

Oh what do we have here? Not one but two winners? Yeah, can't believe either. Greece would be my pick, only the studio version. It's just so beautiful and ethnic, very soulful and divine. A real tragedy this didn't live up to the live version, it came off as empty and underwhelming...

Moldova would be my 2nd pick. Just like the other fans, I didn't like this when it first came out, because I thought it sounded like a typical wedding cheap trash song also known in my country as muzică lăutărească, which in my opinion back then should stay away from this contest because it brings a bad rep to our countries. Yep, what the hell, me. But as soon as I saw the stage show and the magical wall, it won me, and grew on me every single time I watched that video of their live performance. Geezus, can Moldova teach us to elevate our entries with amazing live performances? It would help us so much. Thx in advance bros.

• 2017: Joci Papai - Origo (Hungary) 🇭🇺

Me, a Romanian tm having a Hungarian winner should be illegal (/j), but holy shit, this was a true winner's performance for me. Still, I love it as much as Yodel it, but in terms of stage performance and emotional delivery, this wins. Heck, I love that dancer (which is also Joci's wife, how cute <3 ) and the background design. This is perfect.

My runner up: Yodel it (Romania) 🇷🇴

• 2016: Iveta Mukuchyan - Lovewave (Armenia) 🇦🇲

What a genius stage show. Great effects, wonderful build-up, amazing vocals. This song was killing the stage, and I knew it will be my fave since I've first listened to the lineup of 2016. The violin in the bridge gives me chills every time.

My runner up: If love was a crime (Bulgaria)

• 2015: Loïc Nottet - Rythm Inside (Belgium) 🇧🇪

I'm a certified Loïc fan, tell me how can he sing so well laying on the ground. Like oml, that whole performance was a-fucking-mazing and flawless. Also his expressions give me life 😂

My runner up: Goodbye to yesterday (Estonia) 🇪🇪

• 2014: Sanna Nielsen - Undo (Sweden) 🇸🇪

Want to make me cry a Niagara? Play this song at any given time. Also the crowd singing along with her...powerful 😭

My runner up: Hunter of stars (Switzerland) 🇨🇭

• 2013: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops (Denmark) 🇩🇰

Beautiful flute song, this is so soothing to listen to. The clear winner of that year for me. Nothing else to add more 🧡

My runner up: I feed you my love (Norway) 🇸🇯

• 2012: Loreen - Euphoria (Sweden) 🇸🇪

A classic 👏👏👏 the choreography, the vocals, the synthpop sound, it's amazing. The thing is that it kind of grew off me in the past year, like I listened to this so many times lmao 😅 I still love it but I don't feel to praise it as much as I did once. Still an undeniable icon of this contest for sure.

My runner up: Crno I Belo (North Macedonia) 🇲🇰

• 2011: Raphael Gualazzi - Madness of love (Italy) 🇮🇹

Yes I know I said in the 2011 top that Germany was my winner but I take that back, I love both equally but if I really have to choose, I have to give the win to Italy, because this song really is the definition of madness. Love this wacky artistic feel it has. This should have totally won that year, and it was so close 😭😭

My runner up: Taken by a stranger (Germany) 🇩🇪

• 2010: Paula Seling & Ovi - Playing with fire (Romania) 🇷🇴

Chaotic king and queen of Romania, and a total icon of ours at this contest. I cannot not love the piano for two and power vocals. My absolute winner, even if it's my own country. Idc. Forget the Lena vs Manga war, I'm team Romania all the way. 🔥

My runner up: We could be the same (Turkey) 🇹🇷

#my personal winners #txt