#midweekblues

[pulquedeguayaba]

Tagged by @galacticstar , thanks for the tag!

rules: bold the ones that are true and tag 15 people to do it.

appearance. i’m over 5’5” // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings // i have at least one tattoo // i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair // i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles // i paint my nails // i typically wear make-up // i don’t often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

hobbies and talents.i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing (doesn’t mean I’m good at it) // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

relationship. i am in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

aesthetics. i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colours // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favourite season

miscellaneous. i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy Mexican food // i can drive a stick-shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs

Tagging (no pressure): @hereforthelizardsex @michaelmandog @jeremyfrail @edmy @like-a-million-suns @midweekblues @headaches-and-coffee @coked-out-euro-trash and whoever else feels like doing it

[selfconsciousfangirl]

9 people you’d like to know better:

Thank you @carrotcakecrumble for the tag 😘

Last song:

Currently watching: nothing. The tv/movie watching part of my brain has been missing for months. If you do please send it back. I miss it so.

Currently reading: Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: the voyage of the Nimrod by Beau Riffenburgh. The more I read about polar expeditions, the more I realise it’s a miracle people actually survived a polar expedition. Disaster and poor organising all over. Can’t look away.

Current obsession: medieval illustration, fountain pen ink only so I can stop myself from buying a pen before the new Sailors are released in august and slowly rebuild my lost/stolen collection.

Tagging (only if you want): @gayiconjamesflint, @unnecessaryligatures, @tigerballoons, @prettypangolins, @snippedhazard, @narastories, @zegalba, @midweekblues and you! yes you

[puneet07]

From the funny one to the organized one, which type of office friend are you? 😂 Tag your squad! . . Contact: 9821599301 . . #techlogicsoftwares #officememes #DeadlineMemes #OvertimeMood #MidweekBlues #HumpDayVibes #BossHumor #MicromanagementMemes #WorkBestieGoals #BreakRoomTalk #WorkSnacksBeLike #CubicleConfessions #OfficeDrama #bburao #trendingmemes #relatableofficereels #funnytrendingvideo

[pulquedeguayaba]

Thanks for the tag @hereforthelizardsex !

Tagging (no pressure): @galacticstar @igneousghoul @midweekblues @like-a-million-suns @edmy and whoever else feels like doing it

5 favorite characters poll - tag game

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

@o-bromio thank you so much for the tag!

Tagging (no pressure if these aren’t your thing!): @the-fear @pulquedeguayaba @valentinsylve @samwhump @athymelyreply and anyone else who wants to!

[cannellaeluce]

I'm SO glad you watched (and liked) The Expanse. I discovered it by chance... ok, for Jared Harris reasons. And it stole my heart. Ok, mostly Camina Drummer did. Anyway, I finished it a few weeks ago and I'm still processing.

Since you've also watched Black Sails, I wanted to ask you: parallels? Maybe? Mostly Flint vs Drummer? (or actually, Nassau Vs the Belt) But somewhat opposite narratives? I don't even know if you could call them parallels or if it makes any sense to relate/compare the two shows. BUT the brainworms are real.

I can't really elaborate right now, so feel free to ignore this if it doesn't make sense 🤣 i just wanted to leave this here, just in case.

What a great ask! I feel like I'm gonna ramble a lot to get to my point, but I'll try and make your question justice =)

So, disclaimer: I adored The Expanse; I deeply deeply enjoyed it, and came to passionately care for its characters, so on so forth. But one thing that I learned the hard way is that it is better for me not to compare any show I like to Black Sails, because what that comparison ends up doing for me is usually to point out how incomparably good Black Sails is above anything else ever.

Now, does this mean that I didn’t think about possible comparisons between the two shows? Hell no. And I do believe that there is something good to be said there about the character work both shows made, both in terms of individual arcs – it could be argued that Camina is a Flint who’s been given Max’s arc – and in more general terms of how nuanced and thought-provoking and subtly progressive the characters in both shows are; how we’re allowed to explore the emotional backlash of every single choice they make; how their psychology feels grounded and real even through all the war and grief and loss they’re all constantly facing. And yet…

And yet, if I look at the overall philosophy of these shows, at their deeper meaning, at the deeper story they tell about the state of the world, I can’t help but feel that The Expanse is yet another narrative convinced that Civilisation is the good guy, and that in the dark there be dragons. There are physical incarnations of Civilisation that may be corrupt, sure: we spend the whole of the first seasons fighting them and outgrowing them. But in the end, the biggest enemy humanity has is a dragon born of darkness, and the best shot humanity has is to come together to fight for Civilisation, and against the dragon.

Now, do I blame the Expanse for this? Absolutely not; were it not for Black Sails, I would not think it possible to have any show articulate the revolutionary idea that there is freedom in the dark once we illuminate it. It’s Black Sails that sets the bar too high; the Expanse is thought-provoking and subtle and progressive in its own ways. I just think that those ways are better found in the character work. Which means that I’ll revel in the thought that the character of Naomi even exists: a marginalised woman who’s a brilliant engineer and who’s allowed by the narrative to put her own survival and shot at happiness before her motherhood, without it depriving her of her capacity for love. I’ll rejoice at thinking that we got a male hero such as Holden: a quiet, physically frail man whose strongest suit is his deep compassion for others and whose arc is fulfilled by him letting go of power. I’ll stand in awe in front of Camina Drummer, pirate queen extraordinaire, a marginalised queer woman who’s allowed to fight and love and lose and emerge from her all encompassing grief unbroken, unbent, unbowed, wielding unimaginable power with which to protect her people. And I could go on raving about Avasarala, the literal more powerful person in the universe being a woman of colour who so easily exudes authority and assertiveness through her every move that she could single-handedly end sexism and racism by the simple act of standing in a crowd and commanding it; or about Bobby Draper of my buddy Amos or anybody else, really.

These are the things that I’ll keep thinking about when I think about the Expanse. Whenever I’ll want to have my mind blown by the thought that we are many and they are few to fear death is a choice and they can’t hang us all – I’ll rewatch Black Sails.

[classichorrorblog]

Has any horror movie ever made you cry?

[colorfulwhispers19]

Feeling really unfocused, tired, frustrated and anxious rn.

[pulquedeguayaba]

Thanks for the tag @hereforthelizardsex !

Put 5 songs you actually listen to:

1. Lost in Paradise - Ali (tysm jjk)

2. Nails - Saint Levant

3. Departure - Masatoshi Ono

4. Der Kommissar - Falco

5. Rock El Casbah - Rachid Taha

Tagging, no pressure: @edmy @like-a-million-suns @hyperboreus @midweekblues and whoever else feels like doing it :)

thanks for the tag @etoilesombre ! Still thinking about your most recent fic oh man

RULES: put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people.

HOT TO GO! - Chappell Roan

How to Ruin Everything (Patience) - Bayside

Charleston Girl - Tyler Childers

the Pattern - The Narcissist Cookbook

C'est Comme Ça - Paramore

no pressure tags @klainelynch @panicroomsammy @hereforthelizardsex @queerstudiesnatural @explorne5ever @codenameindigo @aim4dream @o-bromio

[bcbdrums]

I recorded @midweekblues outstanding lyrics.  One take, no practice.  I know it’s flawed.  If folks like it, I’ll make a serious attempt.

@midweekblues I’ll delete if you want.  I couldn’t figure out how to reblog your post and attach the audio; I’ve never done this before.

Also, I did this: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUU4PHj/

[seacollectsrivers]

Hey, I don't know how far up north you live but, how do you feel about the length of days in summer where you are? I have a feeling that everyone talks about how dark it is in the winter months but I wonder how it feels to live with sooo much daylight in the summer? Do you like it?

i don't live far north at all by norwegian standards, but in the height of summer there is never a true night here, more of a perpetual twilight during night which lasts about 3 hours maybe?

i genuinely love it. i love the timelessness of it, and there is nothing like walking home after a night out and it's either twilight or the sun's coming up. for me it's just an essential part of summer - i always got thrown the times we spent in mediterranean countries during summer, bc it always felt like the day just suddenly ended?? like boom it's 10pm the sun is Gone.

mind, i quite like winter days too!! but there has to be snow, because snow lights everything up (not an exaggeration! there is a stark difference between a snowless winter night and one with snow).

midnight sun is a different beast. obvi mostly this comes down to what you're used to, but the few times i've spent up north north (within the polar circle), midnight sun has just completely thrown me off. it is literally daylight 24/7, and (when you're unused to it) it fucks with your brain a little haha.

like, it never gets dark down where i am (which is about the same latitude as the Shetland Islands, IIRC?) but there is still a clear distinction between 2am and 2pm. Not So up north.

TL;DR: Yes, I like it very much, and it just kinda is what it is because I've lived like this for 25 years hehe.

[pulquedeguayaba]

9 people you’d like to know better:

Thanks for the tag @midweekblues !

Last song: this absolute banger of a song ⛵️

Currently watching:

Mad Men and enjoying it a lot, definitely deserves and needs more than one viewing. One of the most emotionally complex series I've seen, and it's usually so subtle, kudos to all the cast.

Currently reading:

A book by this Argentinian social scientist on the current rise of the right, very interesting.

Also waiting for The South Pole to arrive to read it side by side with the diaries of the expedition.

Current obsession:

Some Norwegian explorer

Tagging (no pressure):

@jeremyfrail @michaelmandog @coked-out-euro-trash @cuntboysupremacy @karlavhh @edmy @galacticstar @seraphtrevs @killshanemacgowan and whoever else feels like doing it

[chiropteracupola]

For the spring asks :)

Changes, Light, Ocean?

Changes - what signals the changing of the seasons to you? 

Winter to spring: “nice” days exist but are generally really windy, birch trees have their leaves again, sky is cloudless and actually blue for once

Spring to summer: sunny days with the perfect balance of warm and windy, glorious foggy mornings that never stick around past 10:30

Summer to fall: everything is very bright and warm, but in sort of a crisper way than usual, air tastes dry, EVERYTHING IS SUDDENLY ON FIRE OH GOD

Fall to winter: things have mostly stopped being on fire, first rainstorms of the year, the people on this one street near my house take down their thirty or forty ghost decorations from the trees and put up their thirty or forty light-up wire stars...

Light - night owl or early bird?

I think I’m more of a morning person overall, but that might just be because it’s the one time when I can get stuff done without interference from anyone else.

Ocean - what’s your favorite sea creature?

I definitely have a fondness for both leafy sea dragons and moon jellies, but also I really do love a leopard seal. 

[dreamers-queen]

8, 10, 18 for the ask meme?

How do you mark your spot in a book?

I have a little collection of bookmarks for “traditional” books, but mostly I read ebooks now so I don’t really need to mark my spot every time 

What would your non-perfume/cologne signature scent be?

Popcorns and the sea

What’s your clothing colour palette?

Mostly “neutral” colours like black, white, blue but sometimes I wear “brighter” colours too :)

Thanks for asking! ♥

[jakidoodles]

Mag-check sa ta.✔️ #midweekblues #kinabuhisamaestra #gutomperosmilegihapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CieLSwUpAh4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[seacollectsrivers]

Alohaaa! For the tarot asks: the Hierophant, Strength and Temperance?

the hierophant: do you believe in ghosts?

eh.... not really hah. maybe in a very abstract way but i don't believe in hauntings and lingering spirits, no. some part of me wants to, kind of? and the part of me that's scared of the dark definitely does fdjhdk.

strength: what is your dream occupation?

nothing!! although, if i could be a freelancer without all the stress that comes with that, i would. writing personal pieces, maybe some art stuff. but honestly to be honest, i don't have a dream occupation :V i'd like to do away with the whole system altogether hahaha

temperance: can you describe a strange dream you’ve had?

one time i dreamt that Neil Patrick Harris played spider-man in a really shitty production? everything was shot inside a studio, but they forgot to greenscreen the ceiling so it was very obviously a studio ceiling, even when the scenes were "outside". at some point a whole scene is just greenscreen, no background, for about 3 frames. according to the note i wrote when i woke up "a lesser known comedian with pink hair played the bad guy".

oh, and in another dream a friend of me sent me a book where she'd written "could you hear the fountains last night? i was trying to speak to you" which WOOF.

(send me tarot asks :) )

[pulquedeguayaba]

Obrigado for tagging me @headaches-and-coffee

Favourite colour: black, green and blue

Song stuck in my head: The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness - The National

Last song I listened to: Vy från ett luftslott - Kent

Three favourite foods: green enchiladas like my mum makes them with lettuce, vegetable spring rolls, pasta with pesto

Last thing I googled: Xuxa 😆

Dream trip: Lebanon, India and Pakistan, and Antarctica

Tagging (no pressure) : @michaelmandog @coked-out-euro-trash @karlavhh @jeremyfrail @midweekblues @hereforthelizardsex @galacticstar @edmy @like-a-million-suns and whoever else feels like doing it :)