#it’s only gonna get worse lol

[fedyenkas-main]

not the song AND him together im gna cry

[bacchuschucklefuck]

pygmalion and galatea for aroace people

you should tell your friends what I look like, riz gukgak.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[ghostoffuturespast]

12 July 2024 - Friday Field Notes

Some baby American Robins that I took on my cell phone camera. There's three of them I believe. I'm very excited to watch them grow up! Really missing the Barn Swallows I helped rescue last year. Hope they're raising broods of their own and shitting in apartment breezeways.

I almost took this week off for the field notes because I didn't really have all that many photos from the past work week to share and it's my birthday today but... My partner was kind enough to give me my bday present early.

I've been wanting an actual camera for a while now.

Managed a quick stroll through my neighborhood and took it out for a test drive. There's a lot of buttons and switches and I still need to figure out how to use this thing lol. Telephoto lenses are super heavy so I may have to see about getting a tripod too. (And a smaller lens when I don't need to shoot long-distance.) But we've got some Sunflowers, Red-Winged Blackbird, Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, Common Grackle, Narrowleaf Cattail, and a Western Kingbird!

I'll probably still post my cell phone shots because I'm not lugging this nice thing to work but expect some more higher quality blurry photos in the future.

[visualtaehyun]

I keep finding ZNN's very different approaches in how they talk with the press and fans so fascinating. They're both used to getting teased and being asked personal questions of course. But where New is usually the type to imply, cutely and sassily show off, teasingly state "I'm not telling 🙂‍↔️", try to downplay, and getting endearingly teased by fans and reporters-- P'Zee jokes too, absolutely, but he sometimes casually and intentionally slips out more info than New would ever share lol but then he can also get really sincere and serious like at the end of today's interview (clip below). I'm also thinking about the countless times he's asked fans not to scream when all they're doing is taking care of each other (e.g. P'Zee wiping New's sweat for him), like all he wants sometimes is for the public to take him/them seriously.

Anyway, here's an update of sorts on the Much Discussed™️ kisses during NuNew's 1st concert (translations below the clip again, translated to the best of my ability but still keep in mind I'm not a native speaker 🙏)

NN: Behind the fan, I... the time I was wondering and brought my face closer, "Eh?" When he did [🪭💋], I guess I was a bit stunned but not much. But- the second one when he suddenly asked... I didn't think he'd ask... like- (Z: Yeah) somewhere with as many people as this.

Z: Because [unintelligible] shy/embarrassed.

NN: Right.

🗣: Shy

🗣: Have you stopped wondering yet? ×2

NN: ...

🗣: At first you were wondering but after the cheek/sniff kiss, did you stop wondering?

NN: Uh, well-

Z: After the sniff/cheek kiss, nhu criedddd

NN: 😸 ...well- no- ah- /shy shy shy

Z: 😁 & 🗣: 😂

🗣: Yeah, why did you cry?

Z, in reaction to whatever the male voice joked about: Don't tease nhu ×2

NN: Why did I cry? Because, like, what Hia said was so touching.

🗣: Ahh profound

NN: Hia spoke movingly and that was emotional (Z: Right) in terms of my feelings at the time because I'd been practicing for the concert... really hard and extensively, very tiring/tired (Z: Absolutely), and wanting it to turn out well. And me and hia have been walking this path together for a long time now, too. Hia has been part of every single step and journey of mine. When hia spoke, it moved me, and then hia suddenly asked to sniff/cheek kiss, even though- before this, hia has never- never, like- done... in a public place/in public at all. (Z: Yeah) So, I was, like- ...happy and also embarrassed. I just started crying all of a sudden, I didn't want to cry.

🗣: You just said 'never done this in public at all' (🗣: Uiii) meaning that- aside from this, there is something happening~

NN: 🤭

Z: There is ×2 [confirming - Yet Again. - that they often sniff/cheek kiss]

🗣: /acting like fujoshis lmao while NN giggles and Z tries to steer back to the sincerity of what this means to him/them

Z: I feel it [sniff/cheek kisses] is-

🗣: /more noises and yapping

Z: I- I/We're giving encouragement, meaning it's a way to show love and give encouragement.

🗣: Ahh~

[chibishortdeath]

Simon doodles I drew at like 1 AM or so recently. In an absolutely genius move, my dumbass started getting sleepy and decided to draw him being sleepy too about it instead of just going to bed 💀💀💀💀💀. Literally thought about The Guy before I realized I could (and should) go sleep

[screamin-abt-haikyuu]

I find it funny how thousands of people followed me because of the jealous series, probably expecting more content of their favs, only to see me 99.99% of the time be like:

I'm sorry in my defence I wrote it in my bio

[valewritessss]

Finally deleted MyFitnessPal off my phone for my own personal sanity

[3416]

if the leafs sign max domi for a raise and any extended period of time, they really are THE dumbest organization in the league

[filthforfriends]

I know that we mustn't judge people by the meme pages they follow but couldn't help feel a little weird about damiano following a meme page making misogynistic and fatphobic jokes some of them even homophobic... I usually dont go through anyone's following list but i was trying to find the page of a Japanese artist that Damiano used to share posts onto his story from, a few years ago. I stumbled upon this meme page instead.

No, no. In this house we absolutely judge people by the meme pages they follow. Especially on their public, professionally curated, extremely popular insta.

Anon, I was fully ready to go spelunking for you. I scrolled to the very bottom to see what garbage he liked at age 16 which was totally unnecessary. Because he just recently followed ravidememe! Who posts some stuff like this:

But a whole lot of mainstream misogynistic, toxic, and woefully unoriginal shit like this:

And occasionally something truly abhorrent like a Napalm joke.

Apologies for the google translate. The page is Italian so I’m sure I’m missing a lot of problematic cultural references too. But this one I got:

“Milanese women” = women from Milan. Damiano’s ex of 6 years is from Milan and moved to Rome to be with him.

P.S. I will only respond to claims that this is solely the translations fault if you can give me a thorough explanation for each instance.

[coquelicoq]

crying laughing @ this edition of le fantôme de l'opéra that my dad got me for christmas it's just. i don't know how to describe it. every page is a scan of a page of the 1926 edition, with like 1-2 inches of margin around it??? and the letters are so small and the scan is not of very great quality so it's kind of hard to see the words?? interspersed with scans of pictures but some of them are upside down??? there's one page where the scan didn't really work in the upper left corner so it's just totally black???

the back of the book says

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces œuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.

(my rough translation: This publication is in line with a policy instituted in conjunction with the BNF (National Library of France) for the conservation of important works of French literature. In service of this goal, Hachette Livre and the BNF are offering a catalogue of unavailable titles digitized by the BNF which Hachette Livre will print upon request.)

so like this is on purpose but i have so many questions. first of all why the margins. okay i guess that is my most important question. why not just make the book correspond to the size of the pages in the original? or, if the size of the book is fixed, you could at least size up the images to use as much of that wasted space as possible, no?

i want to say how ridiculous this is and how there's no market for it but there clearly is one because i asked my dad to get it for me! i'm the market!! i told him to buy this edition because it was the only french-language print edition i could find to buy in the us for less than $50 (outside of amazon because fuck amazon). but like, why is that the case? the full text of this book, in plain text which could easily and legibly be printed, is available for free on the internet. why isn't there some publisher who's just printing that out and binding it? seems easier to do than printing scans. not to mention a lot easier to read!!

(to see what i'm talking about, go to the hachette BNF webpage for this book and click on feuilleter to download a sample of the pages in PDF)

[winnie-the-monster]

Colin “heart eyes” Bridgerton

[sanchoyo]

haven’t been on much bc my dog has been sick :( between seizures and an infected tooth we’ve been having a Time trying to get everything fixed (this started around the holidays so our vet has been very booked up…we have been like 3-4 times in the past 4-5 weeks OTL does not help it’s like an hour drive there, so that’s been exhausting) now his new seizure meds are making him sick (was hoping it was like, just an adjustment period thing but he’s been sick for a week and having concerning symptoms…) if I’m not on a ton or slow to replying to messages it’s bc I’m working as much overtime as my job will give me bc Vet Expensive and mentally drained obvi 😞

[novmbr2nd]

what if you pRAYED TO GOD every night as a child and even thought an angel might be there for you when you needed FAITH but it turned out HEAVEN HATES YOU and laughed at your prayers.

[spider-man-2o99]

Just wanted to say that I have been thinking of you and pre-emptively empathizing with the nonsense you are no doubt being flooded with and the psychic damage it must be causing. Keep stanning the king ignore the weirdos <3

thankg u.,, i feel like ive been trapped in a fuckign . Torture Labyrinth these past coupl days . but. wwe will. We Will Yet Persist onwards w/ our hand on the left wall till we;re either out or at the center i swear 2 fucking GOD,

[skitskatdacat63]

Lmfao my mom was getting on me abt not having enough to do this upcoming semester so I decided ah okay I'll add another class. And that's perfectly fine. But the one I picked results in the majority of my schedule being generally unaffected and still lax, but my Thursday being absolutely fucked.

For reference, on every other day I'd spend like less than four hours in class/commuting(anywhere from zero hours to almost four), but Thursday, its almost 9 hours combined 😭 which is like fine with me, but I think ill despise thursdays after this, AND MY BIRTHDAY IS ON A THURSDAY :(