#calm sunday

[learningsanctum]

April 28th, 2024

A quick recap from my Sunday, which was fairly monotonous if not for my best friend's visit. I didn't see her for almost five months and it was absolutely lovely to catch up with her and getting to know "wassup" in her daily life!

My birthday was on January but the present she bought me (the pocket watch on the picture above) only arrived one month later, right after both of our routines changed and we stopped seeing each other frequently, even living on the same city, then things got chaotic and work started to require a lot more of me then I initially foresaw making me reschedule and postpone every time we agreed on meeting.

I invited her over to lunch since the weather was nice, which gave me the perfect excuse for me to cook since lately I haven't been having the time and cooking is absolutely soothing to me! It also gave her an excuse to eat something cooked by me which - and I quote - in her opinion is "the awesome cooking". I just think her opinion is not that reliable, you know? Eight years of friendship and I think she knows the right thing to say to me - oh, so romantic.

Over lunch we talked about some recurring problems of ours searching each other's aid or advice leading my friend to say a word I hadn't heard in ages: colhão.

Colhão simple translation would be testicles. However, it is an expression - ex.: "you gotta have colhão" - that means you that you have to have courage and stand up for yourself. Be brave. And I'm sure it is related to the old perception that only the man is courageous while the woman is delicate but I'm not going down this path... this time.

I let it pass by, we kept going with our conversation but something told me that wasn't something I should let go this easily. Although not very religious I do keep some costumes and beliefs with me that act like a compass to me most of the time. When me senses tell me to pay attention to something I obey - most of the times.

One day later I would be hearing the word again while talking about the same issue with other friends. Mina 0 | Mina's senses 1.

I didn't study much because I had her over for the afternoon and ended up not having anything else that is relevant to mention to do.

For more sunny, not warm not cold, breeze weathers like this last Sunday.

[mothtral]

robin had betrayed him.

how else would his dear assistant know of his weakness for sweets?

it wasn’t obvious at first. under the excuse of bringing sunday his sister’s latest gifts from afar, you would set a plate on top of the report he needed to review, and insist he take a break.

just for a few moments, mr sunday, you would say. you know your sister would frown if she could see you right now.

sunday would wager that it actually was orders robin gave you behind his back, now that she was beyond penacony’s reach. his reach.

so he let you barge into his office with snacks and drinks, ‘robin was sure you’d like it!’ let you dictate when he would pull himself out of the hole he was burying himself in for the family. of course, if he was taking a moment to rest, then so should you, his dear assistant.

it escalated until you were bringing him desserts from their local bakeries on penacony, using the flimsy explanation of, ‘oh, robin said you liked this before! she hasn’t sent anything recently, but i didn’t want you to go without a treat after a long day in your office.’ and instead of only enough for one, you brought enough for two, and perhaps extras for sunday to take home later.

it was on a rare ‘day off’ that sunday walked past a bakery he recognized by the symbol, the same one on the boxes you would carry into his office if there wasn’t time to grab a plate. it’s your favorite to visit. when sunday returned to his home, there was a small bag with a logo stamped on it clutched in his hand.

you obtained joy from supplying him with treats and pockets of mundanity meant for respite, why can’t he do the same for you?

[ineed-to-sleep]

*me immediately after going through a terrifying and traumatic experience* haha yeah I guess it was rough but I'm fine now like I'm totally chill. It was kinda funny actually if you think about it

[demonic-werewolf]

"This episode [of Doctor Who] was stupid..."

*Whacks you over the head with a rolled up newspaper* That is the POINT you numpty!!! They are all stupid and silly!! It's just that sometimes they are also very poignant and people get confused and think they're supposed to be all serious and meaningful all the time!! They are not!!! This is the Silly Little Wizard in Space show!!! The fact that the Doctor & co will occasionally say some very deep and profound shit is just a bonus!!!

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Empire of Death and Adoption: A RANT

You know what? I'm not over it. I don't think I'm ever gonna be over it.

I (semi-jokingly) said after Yaz was ignored and the complicated relationship Thirteen had with gender was boiled down and ignored to two or three flippant mentions of it in The Star Beast where the Doctor seemed to have NO understanding of the complexities of gender that it seemed that Rusty had not seen Thirteen's era. That he had read a summary of events and rolled with it.

Now, after the way that adoption was treated in Empire Death, I'm dead fucking certain that he didn't. And that if he did, he didn't understand the emotional core of those stories.

As someone who is adopted, I'm gonna be honest. I'm pissed with the way that it was handled in Empire of Death after how it was handled in the Timeless Child arc. Now, I'm not some consummate Timeless Child defender or anything, I still have mixed feelings about the twist, but the way that it was handled by the Doctor I really did like. The way that the Doctor had questions and wanted to know the truth about herself and was furious that she had been lied to but that after thinking about it and figuring herself out a bit, put aside the fob watch with her memories aside because what mattered, what had always mattered, was what she made of herself. What the Doctor had always made of themself, the family that they built, patchwork and broken but still so desperately, fiercely loved.

And then in Empire of Death it's all about Ruby finding her "real mom." Not her bio mom. Her real mom. And it fucking spat in the face of not just the Timeless Child arc but every found family theme echoed throughout Doctor Who before it. Sarah Jane telling the Doctor that he had the biggest family in the world. The Doctor's "fam." Every moment where the Doctor's family became these humans and their short, beautiful lives and the family that they made for themself.

You can have multiple real parents. I have an adoptive parent and step-parents and a mom who both birthed and raised me and all of these people are real parents. All of them matter because they all make me me.

Get the fuck out of here with that reductive "real parent is bio parent" bullshit, AND CALLING CARLA HER FOSTER MUM INSTEAD OF HER ADOPTIVE MOM EVEN THOUGH SHE IS ADOPTED, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT REDUCES HER BLACK ADOPTIVE MOTHER BENEATH HER WHITE BIOLOGICAL MOTHER, TELL ME YOU DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE THEMES OF THE DOT AND BUBBLE EPISODE YOU SAID YOU CARED ABOUT RUSTY.

[umlewis]

lewis hamilton, p3, during the post-race press conference, hungary - july 21, 2024

[mewnia]

Yesterday’s Tales of Sunday went to Misella from Tales of Crestoria! Ended up having some family stuff come up, so I wasn’t able to post in time. But here she is!

[johbeil]

Oasis of calm

Lüneburg, Germany. Leica R5 with 50 mm Summilux on Silbersalz 50D film.

[gunsatthaphan]

he really thinks it's okay to post this.

[b1adie]

the sandpit is making me imagine sunday agonizing over 3d modeling now tbh. sunday voice i hope blender dies and goes to hell today

sunday voice OH GREAT AEON OF ONE THOUSAND FACES I BESEECH YOU. BRING THE WRATH OF YOUR ETERNAL CENTURION DOWN UPON THIS WRETCHED PROGRAM

family member voice Erm mr sunday why don’t you take a break from that and go make the soldiers in the sandpit kiss each other again for a while

[seagull-scribbles]

☔️ It’s time to loose your self loathing, excuse yourself, let hope in ♥️

[ancientsstudies]

The weekends always feel too short.

ig credit: its_alless.

[piquuroblox]

attacks you with star skin astro doodles

I call him Fruitstro cuz Fruity + Astro and that skin makes him look fruity

do i have permission to just throw astro drawings at you every time i like how they turned out :whimsy:

(📒✏️)

YES YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO THROW THINGS(astro) AT ME. people do that a lot anyway

HIS LITTLE BLUSHHHHEHEJHEJEHWHD AWWWWWWWWWW WTEEHHEHEHE IIKM,M GONNA CRY EVEYRHWRETEET

STAR SKIN. NOBODY CAN MAKE ME HATE YOU ASTRO STAR SKIN.

[art-emide]

Tanta meraviglia 💚🗺️

[rninies]

oh lord have mercy

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: the final wip wednesday :’)

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