#Liberation Weekend

[worryingthing]

Another post about an online radio station, this time: Vintage Obscura.

This is a station that plays reddit sourced and curated tracks with under 30,000 hits/listens on youtube, and nothing from after the year 2000. I haven't spent a lot of time with this station, but I have enjoyed everything they've played this past half hour. I love messing around with radio.garden to try to find new things and just generally hit the sweet spot stride of vibing to something while I get boring repetitive work tasks done.

Anyway! I am so hesitant to declare any sort of stasis, but work has been okay. As in I have had it for four months and I am entering my fifth. I just took my first out of town trip with my partner to Washington DC this weekend to attend Liberation Weekend. It was such an incredible weekend, one that wore me out but also filled me up. I left feeling really restored and also a little in awe of how good and comfortable I felt the whole time. I tend to get socially exhausted, and before the trip work had been absolutely bat shit insane with annual mailings (think like $3,000 dollars worth of postage going out in like... 3 days, or 1000s of pieces of mail). I was so extremely stressed out about going that I didn't let myself think about it really, like pre-anxiety of thinking it through. I got off work at 3 on Friday, went home and packed as calmly as I could (we got lucky with the weather!! and life is easy when my wardrobe outside of work is linen dressed and a denim jacket/sneakers/sandals). We took the Amtrack to DC which I did enjoy, especially over the stress of air travel and driving. My college best friend lives in DC so he picked us up and we stayed our first night at their house before going to a hotel a couple blocks from the venue the next day.

The show was so amazing in a way that ONLY going to another city to hang out with all your friends can be. Faith/Void crushed it, Big Girl was so so good, Ted Leo made me weep because it was the first time I had ever heard "Me and Mia". When you're standing behind your closest friends/partner and they're all shout-singing along their arms to this pre-chorus, how can you not weep?

But do you believe in something beautiful? Then get up and be it! Fighting for the smallest goal, to get a little self-control I know how hard you try, I see it in your eyes

Really feels like this sums up what I have been working towards, awkwardly and difficultly, but still. Later this month will be two years in Queens, two years since divorcing my life from my former life. I have a great weekend with my partner and got to hug BOTH of my best friends and support an amazing cause and have new experiences and meet some cool people and have good conversations and be in love and all that. A+ start to Pride I'd say.

Oh yeah, the song, it's good. Really good. You should put it on on a Sunday morning or when you're about to cook a meal and doing meal prep. Enjoying your life and finding yourself and finding the things you love beautiful is important, if not all you can really do in this current environment to stay sane. Ok, hard work and staying curious pays off? Keep on keeping on.

[imclou]

can't believe fnaf brought me out of art hibernation man what a turn of events

[b0tster]

local bunny climbs scaffold to check out queer liberation march, notices camera, smiles 🏳️‍🌈😛✌️🏳️‍🌈

[youngpettyqueen]

“Original Tools”

[millenniumbreak]

Clips from Friends at the Table: Palisade. Contains spoilers up to Episode 52.

Song: Bury the Body and Tell No One by The Great Vorelli

CW: Discussion of mass murder, eating people.

Transcript below the cut

-PSD 29-

Austin (as Gucci): I thought we could move a few hearts. I thought we could change a couple minds. [small sigh] I thought we could spill some blood. I knew we could spill some blood. I thought we could get a few more years. Really, I thought we had a few more years and we’d pull them towards something else. Concessions. I thought elections somewhere. [Ali laughs quietly] I thought- // I didn't know we could cut their heads off. [chuckles] And now I don't know what tomorrow looks like. I'm a little afraid, Brnine.

Ali (as Brnine): [sighs] Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I'm in this until it’s finished.

Austin (as Gucci): Until it’s finished? [exhales]

Ali (as Brnine): Yeah.

Austin (as Gucci): Me too.

-PSD 04-

Sylvi: I think I’m just like, staring at // I’m picturing this thing face down, the cockpit. // There’s glass of the cockpit on, like, bloodstains and shit. // But so, we get her just like staring at that for a little while, and then... //

Sylvi (as Coriolis): Thisbe, can you take a picture of me?

Sylvi: Oh my god.

Sylvi: And then poses in front of the downed mech.

-PSD 23-

Austin: Scientists and soldiers who are not…who are just, like, the wounded and the people who are resting and stuff like that who are not able to fight //

Janine: I kind of would love to communicate with that group at the same time and be like, “If you just stop and chill out, we’re not gonna kill you. Just stop.” // I don't think we have an intention of killing a bunch of scientists.

Austin: Sure // They pause to hear you out, or at least some of them do. Uh, Cori, you could kill them all right now, no problem. [Janine laughs]

Austin: Actually thats-

Sylvia: I flipped a coin, and I'm killing them. [Keith laughs]

Austin: You're killing them! Fuck! [Ali laughs]

Janine [crosstalk]: Okay!

-PSD 47-

Austin: I think it’s “I’ll join Millennium Break if…”

Janine: “I can eat people.”

Austin: “…you let me—” Yeah, absorb…

Dre: Eat people, yeah.

Austin: Eat people. Yum, yum, yum. Which, you know, Brnine, you can just say no to. //

Ali: Yeah, I—yeah. I mean, I don’t know… do I reject this offer? I don’t know that I do that. [uncertain wavering] Eh, I don’t know… I mean, it seems fair enough, right?

-PSD 50-

Austin: They need that to stay alive, and to like, keep their glass from getting brittle. //

Keith: Fuck 'em //

Janine: So, this isn’t actually kidnapping, then, this is like mass murder on a slow scale. //

Keith: They’re—sorry, they’re—if I win, they’re dead.

Austin: I don’t know that it’s like a “they’re dead immediately” thing, but I do think…

Keith: No, I mean, I’m dooming them

-PSD 52-

Austin: Hoping that they—like at first, it starts with like, hey, I'll turn myself in if you give me access to the Unction goo I need to live. And then eventually some people just start turning themselves in. You know, someone has the idea that's like, well, they're not going to let me die in prison. If they are going to put me on trial, they'll give me the goo I need to live until trial at least. Now, will this, will Righteousness’ crew do that? I don't know, but I think that that just starts happening.

-PSD 55-

Austin: I've said this before, but like Palisade at its heart, was meant to be kind of a corny, hopeful season? The dice did not always play out that way

-TRANSCRIPT ENDS-

[tsparrisx]

Weekend 🥰

[t13shoots]

memorial day in DC

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[helixobesity]

HEY

Just got back from Pax East and wanted to share this Hades deskmat I got

:)

🌀💿🌀💿🌀💿🌀

[gameclam4]

watch out i’m becoming a birder

[doctorweebmd]

accidentally* brainstormed a very complete outline for chapters 4-8 for eih, which should theoretically take us through Part 1. which is. you know. a godsend or whatever.

*accidentally meaning i was just eating delicious pancakes and the thoughts happened. usually its me crying screaming and shitting myself in front of an empty word document where ideas manifest. this is notably much more pleasant.

[otamotone-dnp]

about to vent in the tags real quick gonna be annoying and emo sorry in advance

[phagodyke]

thinking abt the touden siblings got me sniffling and weeping....

[chesacakeripper]

Additionally, I am now at the stage of tattoo healing that I and everything I touch resembles the bottom of the big sinks in the art rooms at school

[ultraviolencced]

the bombs that were dropped on rafah during the tent massacre were made less than 10 minutes from my house.

i’m so fucking horrified and angry my shitty city is responsible

and city council still has the audacity to say it’s not a local issue

[whitejelly3]

yaar itni jaldi weekend khatam bhi hogya. bas ek aur hafta jhelna hai yeh sem🥲🥲🥲