#fly free 2023

[earnmysong]

@goddesspharo and @somethingaboutsewing hit me up to list my nine favorite first watch movies of last year. thankssssss, darlings! in turn, if they wish, i pass the baton to: @scarletslippers, @ericsariels, @cashewdani, @hondagirll, or anyone else who feels inclined!

nine favorite first watches of 2023:

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

Theater Camp

Barbie

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Waitress: The Musical

Elemental

Shazam!: Fury of the Gods

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived

Friday Night Lights (2004)

[arielluva]

using the dream i had where utena had white streaks in her hair as inspiration, i made these designs!!! i wanted to keep them recognizeable, but also have more fantastical elements to them. i dont know if their (mostly utena's) outfits make too much logical sense, but since they're inspired by a dream, do they have to be?

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_922 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

T P U S

[kenmaiii]

still havent drawn anything for blacktober yet >_< if any of you have any characters you want me to doodle/re-imagine i'd be open to try no matter the fandom!

panels/screencaps are fun to edit too

[stuntghoul]

Due to inflation, nine inch nails are now to be known as eleven inch nails, sorry guys ://

[colucana]

MAGLUCK WEEK. FREE DAY

“Playful little raptors”

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Done with Magluck week, it was fun!!! Will have to add these to the folder of things to paint

Days:

Rivals / Soulmates / Elves / Dreams / Family / Future / Free day

[peace-and-light-poetry]

"So, I hear you're ......"

It was a thing they started to do A bit of playful teasing about Each other's ages

There's a year's difference

It started when one turned 20 The younger one going, "So, I hear you're 20!" The older one would retort

"So, I hear you're 19!"

It happened again Five years later This teasing betwixt sisters

So, I hear you're 25!" "So I hear you're 24!"

Five years became ten

"So, I hear you're 35!" "So I hear you're 34!"

And then five again

"So, I hear you're 40!~" "So I hear you're 39!"

This would continue Five years more

"So, I hear you're 45!" "So, I hear you're 44!"

Playful ribbing As the years passed As their hair started to gray

So, I hear you're 60!" "So I hear you're 59!"

Teasing each other About their respective ages With only a year's difference

"So, I hear you're 80!" "So, I hear you're 79!"

Until the very end "Hey, Sis, so, I hear you're…."

She couldn't bring herself to finish Not at first, no, but she could bring herself to smile The memories of their ribbing came back

"Hey, Sis, so, I hear you're 102!" And she heard her sister's voice go "And, so, I hear you're 101!"

[justanotherdrfan]

It’s lights out and away the W14 goes! 🚦🚀

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Song of the Moon (2022-2023)

Movie：月歌行 EP01-40 Song Of The Moon #Zhang Bin Bin #Xu Lu | Song Of The Moon | iQIYI

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tFjeXAo2s

[mikec137]

Frauenfeld, Switzerland, June 2023

[earnmysong]

3 & 11 for your YE meme!

thanksssss, friend!

musical artist i started listening to this year: the only person who fits this description is dua lipa! all other regulars in the rotation are old friends. ever since 'barbie', though, dua and i are well-acquainted and i have high hopes for the future! not to mention, i adore her current hair color an inordinate amount!

something i want to do again next year: i did a really cool lesson on how nature can positively impact anxiety and stress for my work-ready kids last spring. we finished off by making bird feeders out of cardboard tubes, honey, and seeds. everything ran super smoothly, the kids were engaged the whole time, and i'm looking forward to the sequel come march or april. [i don't typically recycle many lessons, but this is definitely worth making an exception!]

[devilfruitdyke]

i love people talking about gendered sports but it becomes increasingly obvious they dont know shit

[jordanas-diary]

sarah the absolute queen only racing 50s and her breaking the 50 free wr in a semi after winning the 50 fly ? i love this woman

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

[the-quiet-fire-of-defiance]

The Māori tino rangatiratanga [sovereignty, self-determination] flag flying alongside Palestinian flags. The tino rangatiratanga flag is black at the top and red at the bottom, the two colours separated by white lines forming a koru (spiral). The Palestinian flag has three horizontal stripes (black, white and green) with a red triangle on the left.

"Pro-Palestine protest at Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Rarotonga"

A young child holding an ili (Samoan woven fan) that says Samoa for Palestine

A young boy holds a sign reading Justice the seed, peace the flower / Ko te mana whakaaiko hei kākano, kia puawai mai te maungarongo. Beneath is artwork of a fist breaking free from chains below blooming flowers.

Left: the 1975 Māori Land March. Right: the 2018-2019 Palestinian Great March of Return.

If we want to free Hawai'i... [Hawaiian flag] we must also free Palestine [Palestinian flag]. Credit to @ainamomona

A young Māori boy holding a sign that reads MANA MOTUHAKE [independence/autonomy] 4 PALESTINE

A Fijian woman holding a sign that reads Food is not a weapon of war! Stop starving Palestinians! Behind are two more signs. One says CEASEFIRE NOW and the other says DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT GAZA

A group of Fijians holding candles and wearing shirts that read STOP THE GENOCIDE

Left: a diagram of Palestinian land loss between 1946 and 2009. Right: a diagram of Māori land loss in the North Island of Aotearoa between 1860 and 2000.

A sign reading TANGATA WHENUA [indigenous people] FOR PALESTINE [tino rangatiratanga symbol, Palestine flag symbol]

Three Pasifika people holding signs. The first says MAI LE VAITAFE AGA'I I LE SAMI! [Samoan: from the river to the sea] FREE PALESTINE! The second sign says FROM OUR PASIFIKA OCEAN TO THE RIVER TO THE SEA FREE PALESTINE. The final sign shows the Palestinian and Tongan flags and says 'OFA KI PALESITAINE [Tongan: Love to Palestine]

A group of Pasifika holding signs and banners. They say "HOW MANY MORE KILLINGS IS ENOUGH FOR YOU?" "KŪ'E! KŪ'E! [Hawaiian: Resist! Resist!] PASIFIKA STANDS WITH PALESTINE" "'OFA KI PALESTINE" "FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE" "WHERE IS YOUR HUMANITY?" "SAMOANS FOR PALESTINE" "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" "KŪ'E KŪ'E KANAKA WITH PALESTINE" "FREE PALESTINE CEASEFIRE NOW"

A West Papuan man holding two signs. The first says WEST PAPUA STAND WITH MYANMAR. The second says WEST PAPUA STAND WITH PALESTINE

Two signs. The first says PACIFIC ISLANDERS FOR PALESTINE. The second says #FREE PALESTINE #FREE WEST PAPUA #FREE CONGO #FREE SUDAN

A Palestinian flag decorated with Samoan patterns. Words say 'AGA'I MAI LE VAITAFE E O'O ATU I LE SAMI FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA #Sāmoans4Palestine

A tweet from Tamatha Paul (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Awa) on 29 June 2023. Another big win this week, courtesy of @Just4Pal and @nikau4poneke, we [Pōneke Wellington] will be Sister Cities with the Palestinian city of Ramallah 😍 Free Palestine!!!

A Pasifika woman holding two signs. The first says FREE PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE END THE APARTHEID! END THE BLOCKADE! END THE ETHNIC CLEANSING! CEASE STATE SANCTIONED VIOLENCE! CEASE COLONIALISM! BOYCOTT ISRAEL! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! The second sign has pictures of Palestinian and West Papuan flags. It says pacific islanders stand in solidarity with Palestine! #FREEWESTPAPUA #FREEPALESTINE CEASE COLONIALISM

A sign that has the tino rangatiratanga flag at the top and Palestinian flag at the bottom. It says Mai te awa ki te moana [from the river to the sea] MĀORI LAW STUDENTS For a FREE PALESTINE

A Pasifika woman holding a sign decorated with Pacific symbols. It says LONG LIVE PALESTINE - PASIFIKA 4 PALESTINE - FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

Another Samoan fan. This one says PALESTINE WILL BE FREE