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reboottechblogs · 11 months

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killerandhealerqueen · 4 months

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新年快乐!🐉

Happy Chinese New Year!🐉

Wishing you a prosperous year of the Dragon! 🐉

#happy chinese new year #the picture of me on the left is from my second lunar new year festival last sunday #the picture of me in the green is from today #literally had no idea there was a festival this evening when my friend and i went out to eat sushi for my early birthday dinner #so i have gone to three different chinese new year festivals in the past two weeks #which is honestly great #because i haven't celebrated chinese new year in almost 6 years since i moved to the mainland #because in college there really wasn't a place to celebrate chinese new year #and then in grad school there wasn't really an asian district around to celebrate at #so i am soaking in all the new year prosperity i can fucking get to make up for it #(i used to celebrate it all the time when i lived in hawaii)#(i am 1/4th chinese just fyi though i REALLY don't look it)

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icelynodette · 2 years

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Hawaii To The Mainland Part 2

#youtube #Hawaii To The Mainland Part 2 #Hawaii #Boylan's Happily Ever After #Icelyn Odette #Moving 2022 #Hawaii Life #Moving From Hawaii To The Mainland #Moving From Hawaii After 3 Years Part 2 #Moving From Hawaii After 3 Years #3 Years In Hawaii #Hawaii Moving #Oregon Moving #Moving From The Islands To The Mainland

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three--rings · 10 months

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Most people don't have any understanding of what has been lost in Lahaina Town. Not just lives and property, but an entire town.

Most people hear "a city/town in Hawaii" and they picture probably resorts. And there are plenty of resorts nearby. But those are all fine.

Lahaina was an old whaling town dating back to the original colonization by white settlers. Before white people arrived, it was the capital of the island, where the high chief ruled, including Kamehameha the Great. The buildings are old, wooden, and crowded together. Obviously that was a problem in the face of the insanely fast wildfire.

But these weren't mansions, Mc or otherwise. It was a tourist town, a destination for cute, spendy shopping and dining, full of art galleries. (OMG THE GALLERIES. There was so much ART lost. There was original Dr. Seuss art in one gallery when I was there in January. That's gone now. Etc.)

But the people who lived and worked in Lahaina were mostly working class, working retail and restaurant jobs, living in old apartments and small houses. Lots of elderly, lots of non-white in a wide range of ethnicities, old hippies who have been there since the 60s and 70s. Yeah they were probably a little better off than people who drive in from other places to work in West Maui, at least because their property was high value, if they owned. But they lived without A/C, hung their laundry on lines, biked to work, called in sick to go surfing when the waves were up. There was a Chinese cultural center and a Buddhist temple, two different structures, if that tells you anything. Multiple museums housing historic items and cultural centers.

And the town will be rebuilt, in some form, I imagine. Or re-developed, more likely. People who are now homeless, who can't afford to rebuild or pay for two residences while the recovery happens will be bought out by deep pocketed developers. If they rebuild Lahaina Town I'm afraid it will be Lahaina Town tm by Disney.

Another fake paradise for tourists with lava rock from the Big Island. Another bit of Hawaii swallowed by capitalism and climate change.

I'm not painting everything about Lahaina as it was as perfect. Front Street was an often gaudy display of brand names and hucksters out to shovel in the tourist dollars. And of course the politics of Hawaii are incredibly complex and fraught in so many ways. I'm just a mainlander haole. I will never live on the islands, despite my family there constantly asking me to move. But I've spent more time there than anywhere I haven't lived, almost all of that time in West Maui.

My mom works in a building that is not there anymore. She just described that job to me as "the last job she'll ever have" as she's 79 and very happy with working two days a week selling t-shirts to cruise ship people. My brother has worked in a gallery on front street for the last ten years.

I don't know. A city of almost 15,000 permanent residents is just gone. 50 or so are confirmed dead, in some horrific circumstances from what I hear.

My mom says people are just walking around with thousand-yard-stares, aimless, clutching cell phones trying to get signal (there isn't any, but you can get lucky and get a call through. Some texts are going in but not out.)

So I don't know folks. Keep those people in your thoughts. If you can donate, I think this may be a good place because it's going to lots of local orgs on the ground: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

I keep thinking of new sad things.

Anyway I'm going to leave you with a picture I took while strolling down Front Street one evening.

#maui fires #lahaina fire

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izzymarksthespot · 3 months

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My mind's just come up with Hawaii 5-0 EdIzzy/Steddyhands au (let's call it Barbados 5-0) with Ed as ex-Navy SEAL with daddy issues and unhinged ideas (like Steve), and Izzy as a cop from the mainland who moved to Barbados to keep Ed from killing himself (like Danny, they're both angry little men 🤭).

Stede's the governor they're both sleeping with so he lets them do as they please and they can get away with anything 😈

#i've been actually laughing my ass off on this all morning #so many similarities it's hilarious #🤣🤣🤣#izzy hands #edward teach #stede bonnet #steddyhands #edizzy #stizzy #ofmd #our flag means death

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sepdet · 10 months

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(I don't usually break copyright for journalists, who deserve to make a living through their writing the same as other authors, but this paywalled article mentions a few native Hawaiian relief efforts that need funding)

Native Hawaiians organize aid for Maui fire victims as government lags

Reis Thebault, Washington Post [12Aug 2023]

LAHAINA, Hawaii — The boats kept coming. One by one, cruisers and catamarans eased toward the beach in Kahana, a small and tightknit neighborhood just north of Maui’s hardest-hit areas.

Each one was laden with supplies: generators, propane tanks, trash bags full of clothing and ready-to-eat meals. And each one was greeted by two dozen people, the first among them wading waist-deep into the ocean to retrieve provisions from the boat and pass them down the chain, which wound its way to shore.

[Hawaii utility faces scrutiny for not cutting power to reduce fire risks]

The entire operation buzzed with urgent efficiency. But this was not the National Guard, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency, nor state or local government. This was scores of residents, led mostly by native Hawaiians, who had battled immense grief and unreliable communications to coordinate a large-scale disaster relief effort serving everyone in need after Tuesday’s ruinous Maui fire.

And this, a parade of boats that brought desperate locals thousands of pounds of supplies, was one of many.

“There’s no government agency helping us — this is it,” said Jareth Lumlung, a native Hawaiian who helped arrange the de facto donation hub. “This is our home, our community.”

[Live updates on Hawaiian wildfires]

In the days since a ferocious wildfire decimated whole swaths of Maui, including the historic west island town of Lahaina, those who live here have said they’ve received little help from the county and state, small entities which are struggling to respond to an unprecedented calamity.

For people whose cultural traditions have been threatened by American colonization and the state’s embrace of tourism and development, government help was never expected. Instead, the community has relied on itself.

Many, native Hawaiians in particular, see the absence of visible official support as a continuation of long-standing frustrations and pain, which began with the destructive arrival of Europeans and lives on in struggles over water rights.

The displacement of native Hawaiians is a particularly acute concern now, as much of the island has been targeted for gentrification, driving up the costs of living and forcing many native Hawaiians to move to mainland cities like Las Vegas.

[After five hours in ocean, Maui fire survivor is ‘blessed to be alive’]

Government officials have said they were focused on putting out the flames, housing and feeding survivors in evacuation centers outside the burn zone, protecting damaged areas, clearing roads in and around the town and helping to restore essential utilities. Some of the aid is out of reach of survivors, however, because they lack transportation or working phones to alert them about services. In Lahaina, the private efforts have been more visible, survivors said.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) estimated that nearly all of Lahaina had been destroyed. But in Kahana, the town’s spirit remained completely alive.

“If you take away all Hawaiians, there’ll be no more Hawaii,” Lumlung said. “It’ll be just a place. This is what it’s all about right here. We’re all raised the same way; this is something that’s just naturally instilled. You don’t have to be asked to do these things.”

Residents gather at Napili Plaza in Lahaina, Hawaii, to connect to Starlink satellites to contact their loved ones on Friday. (Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post)

The supply boats began arriving on Wednesday, as first responders were still battling the blaze and recovering bodies amid burned-out homes and businesses. Two days later, they hadn’t slowed. On Friday, they began arriving early, and volunteers had tents set up to sort the goods: a pile of men’s pants here, a pyramid of diapers there and vast mounds of bottled water.

“We lost everything. We lost our town,” said Jerica Naki, whose home in Lahaina was destroyed. “That’s why we’re here.”

On this day, the volunteer boats largely came from neighboring islands, Oahu and Molokai, northwest of Maui in the Hawaiian archipelago, traveling far on choppy seas. Naki was helping sort donations and she described an emotional whirlwind, from escaping with nothing to seeing a staggering amount of volunteer support for those who have been displaced like her.

[These maps show where wildfires are burning in Hawaii]

“A lot of us are born and raised here,” Naki said, looking around as the chain of volunteers hauled in boxes of tinned sausage. “There’s a l xd ot of pride in Lahaina, so it hurts, a lot. But this is all we have here now, each other, and we’re making do.”

As the response has worn on, the greatest needs have shifted. There is now plenty of nonperishable food and bottled water. Generators, fuel and Starlink satellite internet systems would be most useful, volunteers say.

Sheryl Nakanelua knew instinctively where she needed to go when she fled her Lahaina home as flames spread. She made her way to Kahana and set up a tent across from Lumlung’s house, where she’ll stay until her family is let back into her subdivision, one of the few that was spared.

“This is our family place, it’s home,” she said of the Kahana neighborhood. “This is the best part to be at. It’s what’s keeping us positive.”

Other such spots have popped up. Napili Plaza, once a destination for groceries, ribs and tattoos, is now a donation drop-off center. And some 100 cars lined up for free gas near the town’s former railroad station. Coordinating the boats and other donation sites is a massive task that involves maddening games of phone tag in a place largely without cell service and requires a relentless dedication and extensive Rolodex.

Residents like Zane Schweitzer have both. Schweitzer, whose family has lived around Lahaina for generations, has spent nearly every hour of the last 48 working his walkie-talkie and phone, frantically arranging aid from around Maui, Hawaii and the mainland. Working with the Oahu-based youth nonprofit Na Kama Kai, he helped coordinate one of Friday’s largest deliveries.

Officials said most of Lahaina, the historic town in West Maui, was destroyed when hurricane winds pushed fires to the coast.

On the south side of Lahaina, in Olowalu, Eddy and Sam Garcia are transforming their groundbreaking sustainable farm into a shelter for those who have lost their homes. The married couple, who themselves have lost farmland and fruit crops worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, are setting up temporary housing, a massive solar power system and a satellite internet connection that they’ll open to anyone who needs it.

“In the immediate moment, people need shelter, they need food, they need water, they need a place to get on the internet so they can look for their loved ones,” said Eddy Garcia, who grew up in Lahaina. “We’re shifting all of our attention to trying to feed and house our neighbors.”

The Olowalu farm is uniquely well-prepared to handle this sort of disaster. Run by the Garcias’ nonprofit, Regenerative Education Centers, it was already operating off the grid, with its own power, plumbing and food. The nonprofit has launched a fundraiser to help pay for the fire effort, which will continue as long as there’s a need.

The property, even after being raked by the fire’s severe winds, is verdant and shaded by tall mango trees. On Friday, volunteers and staff readied the farm to fill any needs. They butchered and smoked a wild pig, set up new solar panels and scoured the internet for portable toilets. Eddy Garcia whirred with adrenaline, his satellite-connected cellphone ringing every few minutes with someone offering help.

For locals like him, helping his neighbors is not only about their survival, but about preserving the island’s identity and keeping it livable for those whose families have been here for generations.

“It’s not about these giant hotels on the beach and all the big companies, but trying to take care of local people,” he said. “This is not a visitor’s destination spot, this is the kingdom of Hawaii. That hit the heart of it in Lahaina. It hurts to even talk about it.”

His phone rang again and he stood up to leave.

“I’m like a ball of rubber bands right now,” he said, “and the only thing keeping me going is I got to organize these things.”

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[More photos and links to the latest news in and after article]

#maui fires #lahaina #relief efforts

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incorrect-jojolands-quotes · 2 months

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here's a little jojolands conspiracy

Jodio's father being forced to leave Hawaii is more intwined with Usagi but not in the way that you think. (I know I made a theory about Usagi being the owner of the parrot on the bus but this is something entirely different).

tl;dr: Usagi and Jodio's fathers were best buds. Jodio's father trying to help his friend led to the mess we know now.

Basically, Usagi and Jodio's fathers were childhood best friends. They were both raised in Hawaii with similar circumstances and had their own rag-tag group of friends; it was those two that were the closest however. After high school, both fathers had different ambitions: Usagi's father went into construction on O'ahu while Jodio's father moved to the mainland go to college. They kept letters, went on occasional trips together, and briefly lost contact before reconnecting just when Jodio's father decided to move the family back to O'ahu. There, he reconnected with Usagi's father and learns that both were hired by Howler for outsource construction and insurance administration respectively.

Howler tends to outsource a lot of their stuff as an infrastructure company, so Usagi and Jodio's fathers began working for them via their own companies. Both the construction and insurance companies want to have the best relationship with Howler as possible, and Jodio's father particularly was in charge of overseeing the insurance stuff for Howler and a couple of their partnerships (i.e. the bus company); that's how high up he was.

Like many infrastructure companies and businesses that require physically demanding work, Howler is no stranger to workplace injuries and the legal aspects of it. So, having to deal with OSHA violations, accidents, and potential deaths is often dealt with as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. Part of why they outsource their construction work is to minimize their involvement in accidents that may occur and have the minutia of payouts and blame lie on the companies they hired instead. This is where Usagi's father's death comes in.

Usagi's father died tragically from being hit by a bus that coincidentally belonged to one of Howler's partnerships in the process of being merged into the corporation: a local Oahu bus company that coincidentally belongs to the bully that later attacks Dragona. Because this bus was also under Howler, they couldn't just have the contracted company deal with the mess and therefore used Jodio's father's insurance company to see how much they can get away with not paying out the Alohaoes. In other words, Howler wants to pay the minimum amount and possibly screw over the Aloahoes knowing they don't have the resources or emotional energy to fight over getting a low payout.

However, Jodio's father knew what they were planning to do to the Aloahoes and couldn't stand being complicit in screwing his late best friend's family. So, used his power to make sure the Alohaoes were paid every cent they deserved and basically "screwed" Howler with the insurance pay. (By screwed, they lost a few million and it took a bit of work from PR to have people forget it happened). This strained the relationship between his insurance company and Howler to the point where the latter threatened to break their contract with the former. Neither could do anything towards Jodio's father legally, who tried his best to "lie" about how he wasn't able to give them the lowball offer they wanted to give and he could use this as a blip in his near-perfect track record. To prevent the Alohaoes from being further involved, he cut contact with the family and made it so it was a random insurance agent that handled their payout. The plan to introduce his kids to Usagi as friends was also abandoned.

While this helped the Alohaoes greatly and he still oversaw Howler's insurance stuff, he starts being treated badly at work. The higher executives pressured his co-workers and team to give him the cold shoulder under false rumors that he was not the great employee or team-player he gives off. Jodio's father began missing out on promotions/raises, getting iced out from work activities, and he's sometimes forced to take on other workloads. This puts a further strain on his marriage, as Barbara Ann mentioned, but he refuses to tell her what had been going on; it was his thing to ensure his family from the cruelties of the world, which is sometimes interpreted as him being aloof and not as involved as a parent, and he was a workaholic to begin with due to ensuring his children get the best education they can.

When the bus experienced the arson attack, media and police claim the culprit is unknown. However, Dragona's bully wanted a final jab and, while hospitalized, claimed Dragona was the arsonist. There was clearly no evidence besides Dragona being coincidentally not there that day in school, and the police weren't inclined to take a bribe at the time, but Howler and the insurance company catches wind of this. Still bitter about what Jodio's father did, they worked with the bully's parents to come up with fabricated yet convincing evidence against his child. They threaten him to take the blame and pay 10x the claim (since it was a little more than the money he had Howler pay to the Alohaoes) or they would give the fake evidence to the police and have Dragona arrested. The insurance company, seeing that their top employee was in controversy and not wanting their business to lose more profit because of it, also forced him to resign.

Jodio's father knew his child would never do such a thing and that the evidence was all fake, but he accepted the resignation and the debt for Dragona's sake. Part of why he's not able to take the kids and Barbara Ann was them still holding onto that fake evidence and claiming they can always send it into the police if he fails to finish his payments or tries anything to take his children with him; in other words, the Joestars are almost like hostages in Hawaii. He also didn't want Dragona to feel guilty or that they were at fault for the mess.

So, that explains what Barbara Ann meant when she tried to explain to her children why their father had to leave yet the circumstances were absurd.

Two things to add:

What if the bus death was planned and Usagi and Jodio's fathers were punished for investigating the lava rock?

Does Usagi know about this? Will he ever know?

Anyways, what do y'all think?

#the jojolands #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #jjba part 9 #jojo part 9 #jojolands #jjba jojolands #jojo theories #jojolands theories #jojo headcanons #jojolands headcanons #jodio joestar #dragona joestar #barbara ann joestar #kinda like how the moms were close in jojolion now the dads were close #i'm just imagining they had the idea that their friends would become close #particularly they wanted dragona and usagi to be close due to their age #it's unknown how much they've told their families about each other #jodio's father is rather tight lipped #but i like to think usagi's father talked a lot about jodio's father but never mentioned the name #especially since the joestars are now going by their mother's name instead of their fathers #random fandub mention: i managed to get a VA for Jodio's father and he's irl dad of Jodio's VA

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mybeingthere · 11 months

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Jennifer Pochinski is an American figurative painter whose work is characterised by the sensuousness of paint. Relationships, the male-female power dynamics and autobiographical elements are key themes in her work.

She was raised in Hawaii and received her BFA from the University of Hawaii in Painting in 1991. Much of her young adulthood was spent traveling and living on the mainland USA and Europe. She settled in Greece early 2003 to raise her two daughters. In 2007 she received a degree in Interior Architecture from AKTO in Athens. Then after 11 years in Northern California, Pochinki moved to Providence, Rhode Island to pursue a more creative and conducive environment for painting.

She has also exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles and Seattle. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review and Huffington Post and American Art Collector.

"Since moving back to the US from Greece in late 2010, my preoccupation has been with figuration. My ideas are inseparable from the process. I only paint things that are very personal. At least that is where they start; and they go on their own course almost immediately. I try to approach painting in its purest form. My gut leads me more than my eye. So my work tends to be about whatever is working for me at that moment and also whatever is not working. Going through these motions daily in painting makes me braver in life. My work merely reflects daily attempts at self actualisation."

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citrussmootee · 3 months

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some more yapping from me my bad !!!!!!!!!!!!

more info on my dolly mc insert that i might just turn into an actual oc if im gonna keep yapping about her anyways... sorry im kinda noodled brained rn im trying to stay up since my classes are at 7 am anyways and its already almost 4 am and i slept half the day yesterday(today MAN idk.)

i feel like her family immigrated to the US (hawaii i think? so maybe her childhood was there until they were somehow forced to move mainland) when travel was allowed, to do that thing that most filipino people do when going overseas to work ( to provide a better life for their family back in the homeland) so she's either likely third gen or second gen? basta. ingana rawr a lot of young single men went to the US historically, so im unsure if she was born in the US from marriage with an unnamed american or if shes from fully filipino parents ill think about it more in the morning after i fully comprehend this research paper im reading about it.. unfortunately i cant find much information right now about the history of asian people and flapper culture, apart from the icon and legend anna may wong, so im just going to go about this as carefully as i can (and maybe try to put more effort into digging up more sources GRRRRRRRRR) basic information..... name: chesa dorothy (DOLLY get it im so smart akshoeally.) aquino she goes by dorothy most of the time since its the more american sounding name... thinking emoji also alastor and dorothy sound so cute.... im going NUTS age: im thinking 25-27 ??? im not sure how old al is here honestly height: rawr 5'3" filipino gene debuff idc SEA lady core.

another note: little details on her rn that i like is that im so happy i actually get to incorporate flowers into her hair since it was popular to do that at this time period with ribbon flowers, but i wanted it specifically to look like sampaguitas which i are an homage to her parents home country even if shes never seen it and of course her love for pearls WAHHHHHUHUDDDDDDDD AHHHHHHHHH murag pearl of the orient moment :9 im so tempted to have her be called mutya (pearl) as a nickname since i think her pader wouldve love calling her that huhuhuhuhuhu (dead parent/s assignation that led to her flapper lifestyle ?? eyes)

idk im gonna rot about it more in literal jazz class later, i cant wait to go back home so i can actually draw on my screentab UGH my pen tab in the dorm just doesnt cut it sometimes the pen pressure is all over the place but i want to draw WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH (dies)

#evetalks #oc rambling #oc #hazbin oc #reader insert oc #waterver #art #my art #i genuinely love research.#i like fashion too UGH #it just melds together now im rotting over it #huge yap text

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johnniestheme · 7 months

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simon and stellas lore

heavily based off the hawaii pt ii album by miracle musical

(early summer)

determined to impress his deadbeat father, simon sails off to hawaii on a fishing trip. he finds himself caught in a storm which destroys his ship and leaves him washed up on the beach with nothing but the clothes on his back. stella finds him and gets him help. the octangulas offer simon a place to stay, in return for working on the small family orchard.

(late summer now, simon and stella have established a relationship together)

the city holds a yearly ball to celebrate the end of summer. simon asks stella to go with him and she agrees. after a while they sneak out the back and run off to "their spot"

(an abandoned stone lookout on a cliff, with a view of the ocean)

as they jog through the forest together, simon catches his foot on a small branch. not realizing her date is currently on the ground, stella keeps running. simon scrambles up and immediately starts yelling out her name. his shouts grow more frantic as he hears a scream in the distance. blood seeps from her chest as he finds her collapsed on the stairs of the lookout, a knife sitting not far from her body. he gives her one last quiet goodbye before running off to the local police station for help. the group of men follow him to the spot of her murder, and simon is detained as one of the officers notices the blood on his hands.

uuruurgghhh the court stuff is boring but basically the evidence is stacked so high against simon that he decides to plead insanity for what he assumes will be a lighter punishment. he is sentenced to electro shock therapy (before anesthesia was common) and is to be shipped off back to the mainland of the states to spend the rest of his life in an institution.

(mid/late winter)

simon escapes after months of enduring the torture of the asylum. by the time he got out, the electro shock therapy had done a number on him. he forgot almost everything about him or his life, including stellas death. he only knows that he longs for someone, and that someone is in hawaii. determined to find her, he steals a small wooden rowboat, planning to sail off back to hawaii to find her.

with absolutely no plan or preparations, simon takes off in the dead of the night. his mental health worsens the longer he is alone at sea, considering hes slowly starving to death.

(this next part is planned to dsism, down to the very second, but ill try not to be too wrapped up in their every move)

in the middle of the third night, simon hears the sound of the water stirring. lifting his head, he sees stella standing over the water, looking no different than the night of the ball. she reaches out her hand, and as he grabs it, he is suddenly in his suit. the feelings of hunger and worry wash from his body. he doesnt feel tired anymore, just at ease. they dance on the water, and slowly up into the clouds, where they reside happy in heaven together

the end :3

and just to clear a few things up:

-the story is set in the 1960s

(in the original ref sheet drawings it says 1940s but my dumbass forgot hawaii wasnt a state until 1959)

-i have 2 versions of my hpii story. the first one (this one) is less realistic and has a few unnecessary changes because i just decided i wanted to

the second one is my hpii movie concept ideas. the movie concept is pretty similar with 2 exceptions.

1: its more realistic (stellas last name isnt octangula, the court system is more true to life ect ect)

2: it sticks to the album better

-last thing to know is im dyslexic so pretty please ignore the grammar mistakes. because of the built in spell check, spelling isnt usually a problem, but i do sometimes overcompensate with my punctuation, so theres probably a few out of place commas out there.

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nora-and-sebastian · 27 days

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Writeblr Introduction

They told me I had to do Social Media but I said no, no, no Until I checked out Tumblr and realized I could like it here. I could just noodle around and be myself.

About me:

Hello, my name is Megan and I am writing under the pen name of Megan Penney

Ancient & New - Especially new here on tumblr so if you tag me for a game I might have to ask you to explain the rules to me

Recently moved back to the mainland after living on the Big Island of Hawaii for 5 years. (I had to move back because we could no longer afford to live there but I look forward to moving back some day.)

Writing: Supernatural Urban Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure, Southern Gothic Ghost Story

Mostly read Fantasy, especially Fantasy Adventure & Non-fiction

Currently reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

WIPs:

Whispers and Shadows - The first book in a supernatural urban fantasy book series. Nora is an obscure Seattle novelist, and Sebastian is her snarky sentient crow BFF. They discover a shadow man occupying an abandoned speakeasy in the basement of an old mansion. Currently working on final revisions and hope to self-publish soon.

The Stones of Kiriath-Kitron - A Fantasy Adventure about a recluse with a traumatic past who is forced against her will by a geas to accompany a man on a doomed quest. I’m about ⅓ of the way through with this one.

Dancing With The Dark - A Southern Gothic Ghost Story about a malignant narcissistic woman who is in love with her own mental illness. The protagonist is her twelve year old daughter. Only a couple chapters into this one.

Untitled - Just for fun, I’ve started a litRPG adventure written in second person (you/your) present tense. The protagonist’s has awakened from a coma and his best friend is telling him (and readers) the protagonist’s story.

Poetry:

Poetry is my first love to the point that I have often said that Poetry is my Religion. It is, what I call, Intimacy at a distance. Here is one of my poems:

Between Worlds

Except by this distance How can one know Those fragile spaces Closeness hides from view The nearness only felt Far-off between worlds A greatening abeyance Stirred in sleep Brushes warm and hush Against the skin A lost continent Outstretched In its lostness Become vast Enough to hold in thought All suggestion

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chatceux · 10 months

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my blurry meme feelings about haoles on tiktok trying to talk about tourism in light of the fires on maui. Nevermind that it's untrue that hawaii's economy actually depends on tourism, or that we couldn't move away from it eventually. nevermind that rich people from the mainland keep buying houses and land to spend the summer or whatever while hawaii has one of the highest per capita populations of unhoused people

#maui #tourism

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aikoiya · 8 months

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LoZ - Euryhaline Zora & Coastal Rito Port Town

I have an idea for a new settlement in Hyrule.

This is a result of an adventurous Zora woman falling in love with an equally adventurous Lurelin man. However, both had desperately wanted children of their own, but obviously couldn't have them. Neither were opposed to adoption, but they still want what they want. Then the little Lurelin man remembers an ancient story of the Hero of Time.

And part of that story had been about a magical mask that could turn the wearer into a Zora. The story had spoken of a distant land across the sea to the east & falling into another world.

So, while not totally believing it, they figured that the journey would be worth it at least.

Anyway, they sort of commandeer a monster pirate ship, gather a crew, & set sail to lands long forgotten.

Only to discover a new land named New Hyrule, ruled by another Hylian Royal Family, where people rode along on long, metal carriages chained together, the one at the front seeming to billow out smoke, & moved down large minecart tracks. The people also seemed able to capture images with wooden boxes that produced those images on pieces of paper almost automatically. Not even the Purah Pad could do that & while not as advanced as the Pad, it seemed that these "Pictoboxes" were low-cost enough & made of cheap enough materials that a decent number of people could own one if they wished. They didn't even seem all that complicated to make if you knew how!

It was certainly a great surprise, as these individuals claimed that their ancestors had ventured there from the Great Sea in the west to found a new kingdom inspired by the old legends of a sleeping kingdom beneath the Great Sea.

The unlikely pair informed the king of the time that there was no Great Sea in that direction, only their home country of Hyrule, which was founded 10,000 years ago, which comes as a shock.

This is how it was discovered that the legendary kingdom was, in fact, real & that King Rauru had merely refounded a new iteration of the kingdom based on what was considered a myth at the time.

Anyway, this began the process of a new & great alliance.

Turns out that the 2 Hyrule Royal Families were indeed related by blood, though so distantly that it didn't even really matter anymore.

But that wasn't what the pair had come there for. They set off to find the doorway to another world & found it they did. They fell into the terrifying world & began to search high & low for the desired mask. Which this world was filled with. In the end, they found themselves aiding a number of people before acquiring the Zora Mask as a reward.

Anyway, the unique mixing of Termina's old Sea Zora with Hyrule's new River Zora results in euryhaline Zora able to survive in both the ocean & rivers.

Their appearance ends up resembling that of the Twilight Princess Zora, though with more color variation. Their main color remains that sort of silvery-blue or faded teal shade of the old Zora, but with vivid accent colors much like the new Zora. However, they do seem to retain the new Zoran sizes.

The males tend to have the more utilitarian webbed fins of the green River Zora, while the females tend to have more betta-like fins.

A bit like this in style. Not my art. Though, with more variety of colors for the accents & following the specifics that I listed above.

These Zora later make a settlement on Eventide Island & create a new Domain called Koholint.

I'm also making Koholint a chain of islands much like Hawaii with Eventide being the smallest & closest to the mainland & their capital being on an island named Windfall. The other islands are Outset Island, Gale Island, Greatfish Island, & Dragon Roost Island. The domain is called Koholint, but the whole of the island chain are called the Koholina Archipelago. Koholina being the Lurelin word for "to choose joy."

Later, some human/Hylian Lurelin residents begin to live there, as well as a small faction of Rito that eventually adapt to the climate, becoming more water birds. They come to be known as Coastal Rito.

While the island's architecture resembles a mix of Zora's Domain, Rito Village, & Lurelin Village, with the commercial district & Rito & human/Hylian residences being on the island itself & the Zora's residences being underwater, the colors of the stonework resembles more the inside of the Face & Color Dungeons from the new Link's Awakening remake. With some definite influence from Lurelin & the Rito.

The Zora homes will mostly retain a Zora's Domain architecture, but with definite influences from Hindu & coastal Greco-Roman design aesthetics. On the other hand, the island architecture will use more wood & take on the more Maori aesthetic with coastal Hindu influence. Though, both will have definite influences from each other. (I guess what I mean when I say Hindu inflence is a look like what you see with Skyward Sword's Ancient Cistern. So, some definite Buddhist influences. At least as far as design.)

They don't really have a king, more so a Chieftain as the culture there tends to take more influence from both the Rito & Lurelin, which both tend to be more tribal.

The overall result ends up being a mix of Polynesian, southern coastal Native American, & coastal Hindu with some ancient coastal Greco-Roman influence (even Atlantis-like) for the underwater sections of the settlement. As well as in their formal fashion. Though, again, even when showcasing these Greco-Roman features, they still showcase an overall fusion of the many cultural influences as a whole.

There'd likely also be a tiny bit of Caribbean & Okinawan inspiration in there too.

They'd also have various Polynesian weapons such as the mutitude of types of Lei'o'manō (sharktooth weapons) for a Lurelin weaponry. As well as stuff like an Ulimasao (paddle-club used to end wars & usher in peace) & an Aufana (bow). Not to mention fishing & hunting spears too.

Likewise, the Coastal Rito will have invented a wooden double-limbed bow called a Pālua Lima Pana. It is a high-performance bow with a lot of power behind it & was inspired by the bow used by Karina, the Goddess of Love & Passion. Who the Faronites refer to as Kalina.

Either way, I feel like they'd eventually become a fishing & port town.

LoZ Cultural Masterlist

#loz #legend of zelda #eventide island #zora #zora culture #rito #rito culture #lurelin village #lurelin culture #koholint island #windfall island

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icelynodette · 2 years

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Moving From Hawaii After 3 Years Part 1

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1americanconservative · 9 months

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https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1695140094561362042?s=20

Maui Resident Blows The Whistle On FEMA & Red Cross Over Response Of Lahaina, Maui Hawaii Fires The Red Cross STOPPED SUPPLIES COMING IN

This is the REAL STORY, not what you hear from mainstream media. “They closed the roads. There was no aid for the people there. First day, second day, third day, nobody shows up. I'm still running supplies in.” “Where was the county, where was the state, where was the Red Cross. There was no aid for the people there. First day, second day, third day, nobody shows up. I'm still running supplies in. By the fourth day, they open up the road. I come home, I say, great. And at the same time, they shut the road down again, stopping supplies from coming in. I heard a story about a person that they loaded up the containers and containers of food and supplies did reach Lahaina. By the second day, I think it was. But somehow the Red Cross put a stop on it. So the containers were just sitting there at a hotel in Kaanapali. The guy who found out put it out on the internet and told the people there, hey, you suffering, go get it. Don't wait, go get it. So I guess that's how some of the looting started, but it's understandable. Molokai, we're all about action. More action, less words. Politicians more about words than action. Sometimes too much education, you lose common sense along the way.

And it's true. Common sense tell you, at the roadblock, cars showing up, trucks showing up, loaded down with supplies. Common sense tell you, let them through. Give them an escort. Let them through. But nope, they stopped everything, bruh. Four days, bruh. No food, no water, no supplies, no help. All they wanted you to do was leave. But as you know, in disaster areas, when they come in and they want you to leave, you go to a shelter. FEMA...

Red Cross comes in, helps you, gives you money, and you move on. People never return back. So a lot of the Hawaiians don't want to leave, bro. They don't want to leave. They know what's going to happen. Big money, real estate, going to come in, offer them money. They'll never come back. Some days I did up to two boat trips, but most of them I just stayed there and helped along the way. Shuttling food and supplies from Maalai'a, where they had the roadblock into the into Kahana into the danger zone. Yes, it was all out of my own pocket. I'm not even worried about being paid back or anything. I'll go as long as I could. And then my wife put it, I put it out there that, you know, I can do more if people help me with gas. And a lot of people started donating money for gas. And some people from the mainland, I never even know. Just donated. So that was awesome.

It was the local people with family and friends in Lahaina that banded together. Kamae Alcon, the Mana'i Boys. Big shout out to the Mana'i Boys, bro. We see friendly market donate. Everybody just pulled together because a lot of friends and family all in line. All I wanna say about donations, that if you guys wanna donate, don't donate to the Red Cross. Don't donate to organizations out there that think they're gonna help. Donate to the local people there. There are people there that are starting their own shelters, and taking care of the people there. If you want to see your money go to the people of Lahaina, the Hawaiians, the locals, and not to some politician's pocket, donate to the grassroots foundations of Lahaina.” DEWs, Direct Energy Weapons

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Vanessa Lachey's kids might be growing up in the digital age, but they won't be on social media anytime soon.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the NCIS: Hawaii star, 43, shared that she doesn't let her three kids — sons Camden, 11, and Phoenix, 7, as well as daughter Brooklyn, 9 — on social media and she doesn't know when she'll change her mind on the topic.

"I actually signed a pact when I was on the mainland with the school that we wouldn't let our kids have phones until they were in sixth grade," Vanessa tells PEOPLE. The family of five has since moved to Hawaii, where the actress films NCIS. "I've since left that school, but I still believe in that."

Noting that the mainland school's rule expired when students graduate sixth grade and son Camden will enter sixth grade next fall, Vanessa says she's started to think about whether she'll change her mind.

But because of her family's lifestyle, Vanessa says she doesn't believe her kids need a phone yet. "I just don't think they need it at this point," the proud mom explains. "They go from our house to school, and look, everyone's different. If you have a kid that needs it for communication, I get it. And I also do not judge."

She adds that it also might be different for her family since she and husband Nick Lachey are in Hollywood.

"But also there's just me being in Hawaii and really seeing life here and seeing them thrive without all of that," Vanessa says. "I mean, my son, shoes are optional at his school, and it's because the kids are grounded. They go to school and their feet are in the grass and the classrooms, some of them are outside."

As for whether Nick and Vanessa's kids watch them on television, the mom of three says that they don't normally let them see their parents on screen.

"No, they don't watch our shows. They do watch NCIS: Hawaii because they know so much about [it]. And I actually come home, if I'm cut, I'll come home with the wound so they can touch it," Vanessa says. "They pulled off the scar so they can see, 'This is fake, Mommy's fake. This isn't blood, this is fake. It's a movie.'"

"So for that, I'm grateful that they can watch it, but I don't think that they've ever seen anything else we've done."

While her kids have seen some of their dad's performances on The Masked Singer, Vanessa says they have yet to watch any of Love Is Blind, the reality show she and Nick co-host on Netflix.

"Other kids at the school talk about it," she says of the hit reality TV series, "so that is probably another layer that Nick and I have in our parenting that maybe other families don't. But I think that just keeping them grounded and reminding them that we are Mom and Dad first is all we can continue to do."

"And they just see us as Mom and Dad. And I've asked them, 'Does it bother you?' And they're like, 'No, because you're my mom,' and I love that."

#vanessa lachey #ncis hawaii #interview

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