#noah canales

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

Noah Schnapp is more powerful than the United States government

[renard-dartigue]

Spider Goth - Noah Walker

He's a ballet teacher who was bitten by a radioactive spider and bonded to a symbiote named Vice.

His primary hometown is Miami so because there aren't as many tall buildings to swing from, he often leaps around on rooftops and even swim! (Though he doesn't particularly enjoy the murky water. Vice on the other hand loves it, to Noah's dismay) He's more active at Night.

I'll explain more about him another time heh.

[thisphantomlife]

Songs Hozier has covered

Bowie - Changes, Young Americans (see also Trinity Orchestra section)

Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover, Raspberry Beret, Jungle Love

James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street

The Beatles - Blackbird

John Lennon (Donny Hathaway version) - Jealous Guy (at the goldenplec block party with Zaska)

Ariana Grande - Problem

Warren G - Regulate (mashup with Problem)

James Blake - Retrograde

Tom Waits - Strange Weather

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

Stevie Wonder - Living for the City, As

Sting - 7 Days

The BeeGees - To Love Somebody

Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (that thing)

Amerie - One Thing

Skip James - Illinois Blues

Muddy Waters - Catfish Blues

Van Morrison - Caravan, Sweet Thing, Domino, Brown Eyed Girl, Saint Dominic’s Preview

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Fun - We Are Young

Paul Simon - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Sam Smith - Lay Me Down

Destiny’s Child - Say My Name

Britney Spears - Toxic (snippet)

The Band - The Weight

Otis Rush version of Willie Dixon and the Big Three Trio - My Love Will Never Die

The Talking Heads - Burning Down the House (Instagram live messing around with friends)

The Staple Singers - Let’s Do it Again

The Weather Forecast 🤪

Ed Lewis - I Be So Glad When the Sun Goes Down (Instagram snippet)

Mavis Staples - Eyes on the Prize

Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby

Traffic (song originally by Traffic, Andrew covered the Joe Cocker version) - Feeling Alright

Christmas Songs - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus is Coming to Town (with others at the Xmas Eve Ball 2015)

Traditional Irish songs - My Lagan Love, The Humours of Whiskey, I Am Stretched On Your Grave, The Rolling Wave (on the low whistle), The Parting Glass, The Lonely Jig (on the low whistle)

(Live) Collabs - that are not Andrew’s own songs

Alvin Youngblood Hart - Illinois Blues

Maren Morris - The Bones, My Church, Girl, The Tree

Annie Lennox - I Put a Spell on You (Screamin Jay Hawkins cover)

Tom Odell - Another Love

Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude

Allison Russell - Requiem, Stop Dragging My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty cover)

Brandi Carlile - The Joke, Walk On (U2 cover), The Weight (The Band cover)

Jamala - Walk On (U2 cover)

Mavis Staples - The Weight (The Band cover), Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (with Our Native Daughters, Jason Isbell and Phil Cook)

Boygenius - Salt in the Wound

Alana Henderson - Ae Fond Kiss (poem by Robert Burns)

U2 - When Love Comes to Town

Tori Kelly - Blackbird (the Beatles cover)

Mumford and Sons - Guiding Light, Awake My Soul, With a Little Help From My Friends (Beatles cover, with other artists)

Lake Street Dive - Everyday People (Sly and the Family Stone cover)

Rachael Price - Rental Love

Victoria Canal - Swan Song

Elwood (his dog) - Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John and Kiki Dee cover, Insta snippet)

All the artists at Love Rocks NYC 2022 - Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan cover), Feeling Alright (Traffic cover)

Brian Kennedy (and others) - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Nina Simone cover)

His Dad - The Weight (The Band cover at MSG)

Zaska, Wyvern Lingo, Loah - Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder cover)

Eabha McMahon - Bright Blue Rose (Jimmy McCarthy cover)

Brittany Howard - Feeling Alright (Joe Cocker version cover)

Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome, The Weight (The Band cover)

Christmas Eve Busk 2015

Bono, Glen Hansard - When Love Comes to Town, Every Breaking Wave

Glen Hansard, Imelda May - The Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover)

Christmas Eve Busk 2017

Glen Hansard, Coronas, Imelda May, Liam O Maonlaoi - So This is Christmas (John Lennon cover), The Aul Triangle

Music Groups

Nova Collective - (original songs) Tuile, Closer, Quick Bossa

Zaska - (original songs) In Your Own Sweet Time, Different Light, She Gunk Gunk Dunk A Funk, Oh Yeah

Anuna - with Andrew on lead vocals: The Raid, La Chanson de Mardi Gras. With Andrew in the choir: Jingle Bells, An Uaithne

The Wiggles - Cherry Tree Carol with Anuna

Trinity Orchestra - songs covered with Andrew on lead vocals

~ Queen - Somebody To Love, Don’t Stop Me Now

~ Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage

~ Pink Floyd - Time, Breathe, Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Money

~ Michael Jackson - Earth Song, Black or White, Smooth Criminal

~ David Bowie - Heroes

*This list may not be complete. It only contains songs that can be found online.

Please let me know if any songs are missing so I can add them 🫶

I’ve not included the songs he sang snippets of on that Song Association interview

[voydcat]

Another round of Rumble characters, another round of voice acting brainrot. Still by @spicymancer .

Sophie: Jennifer English (EN), Ayane Sakura (JP)

Sister Leona: Maria Canals Barrera (EN), Urara Takano (JP)

Shaoxing: Courtney Steele (EN), Fairouz Ai (JP)

Noah: Jessica Straus (EN), Maaya Sakamoto (JP)

[inspofromancientworld]

Non-food Gardens

While the change to settled agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution initially focused on food crops, it wasn't long until people began to keep gardens that were for pleasure and/or medicinal in nature. The ones that we remember are those that were set up by rulers.

By Noah Wiener , Hanging Gardens of Babylon … in Assyrian Nineveh - http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/hanging-gardens-of-babylon-in-assyrian-nineveh/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57158048

One of the oldest, though it may be a thing of legend rather than strictly history, is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which are supposed to have been built by Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigned between 605-562 BCE, for his wife Queen Amytis, who missed the green of her homeland of Media. The first record that we have of them is from 290 BCE by a Babylonian priest named Berossus. They've also been attributed to a legendary queen Semiramis. Some now think that they are actually the gardens of Sennacherib, who reigned from 704-681 BCE, in Nineveh. Part of the reasoning for this is that the the gardens in Nineveh have been found in the archaeological record, Babylon was used for many cities, even Nineveh itself, because it means 'Gate of the Gods' and was seen as a proper name for the place where the king reigned, and Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar left quite a bit of documentation and only Sennacherib records building them, including describing the screw system to bring water up to the gardens. They were considered a year-round lush green oasis that also spurred improved water supply to Nineveh to keep the gardens blooming.

By Chamal N - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4499684

In Sri Lanka, the remains of a fortress called Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (which means Lion Rock and is written in Sinhala as සීගිරිය and in Tamil as சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி). With in this fortress is one of the oldest gardens in the world. There are three sections in the gardens, water, cave and boulder, and terraced gardens. These gardens are well preserved and we can see the planning of the gardens. These gardens were inhabited probably going back to prehistory, possibly as far back as 3000 BCE. In the 3rd century BCE, Buddhist monks began to occupy the area. In about 477 CE, King Kashyapa killed his father and took the throne. To have a more secure capital, he built a city on the top of the 200m tall rock, including the gardens. Many of the conduits in the water gardens are still working and help move water, especially during the rainy seasons.

By This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60935732

Egypt had a rich culture of gardens, which probably started as a blend of fruit orchards and vegetable gardens, which gradually added flowers, ponds, and shade trees. These gardens were kept and tended in time with the rise and fall of the Nile, with the flooding of the Nile, then with canals or with water carried from the Nile in buckets. Pharaohs like Hatshepsut and Ramses III brought plants back from conquests to plant in gardens. In the New Kingdom (1552-1296 BCE), pleasure gardens moved began to be kept by the upper class, not just the ruler. They also began the practice of botanical gardens, which are a type of garden meant for education, research, conservation, or education. They even created models of gardens to be put in tombs of those who passed. A lot of work and knowledge went into keeping gardens in ancient Egypt, from carrying water, through to the manual propagation of date palms, and to protecting the garden from weeds and invading birds.

[industrations]

omg you listen to the oh hellos !! can i ask what are your favourite artists / bands or songs ??? :))

I do!!

the last few days I've been constantly listening to Hozier's new album because oh my god that man is something else. I swear to god he inspires me so much.

But next to that I listen a lot to Florence and the machine, mother mother, the amazing devil, fleet foxes, the front bottoms, David bowie. There's more but my memory is shit.

I'll put a few songs here that I'm listening to under the cut because my adhd/autism brain likes to hang on to a handful and just listen to them over and over.

[thistleandthorn-events]

Stonewall Prep is excited to bring you this year's summer trip: Venice Italy! There will be plenty of excursions and things to do, as well as down time to explore everything Venice has to offer. We will be leaving August 1, and returning to the school on August 11.

This trip is not optional. All students and staff will attend, as well as townspeople coming along to assist with supervision.

RULES.

Everyone must be in their assigned rooms between the hours of 11pm and 6am.

No student is allowed to leave the hotel alone - they must have another student or staff person with them at all times.

Excursions and scheduled events are not optional.

Remember you will be in the 'real world' so be mindful of appropriate attitudes and respect with higher marks

ROOM ASSIGNMENTS.

Everyone will be staying at an all inclusive hotel in the City Center with the following amenities: bars, restaurants, pools, hot tubs, sauna, spa (with massage, skin care, nail care), and game room with video game set up, pool tables, dart boards, etc. Rooms are suites with two bedrooms each containing a king bed, kitchenette, pullout couch and private bathroom.

ROOM 1: Hiram Lodge FP Jones

ROOM 2: Sam Evans Diego Torres Kurt Hummel Owen Evans Violet Evans

ROOM 3: Robin Gardner Dallas Evans-Gardner Kat Sullivan Gunner Rose Beau Rose Alejandro Lodge

ROOM 4: Max Roarke-Wood Sebastian Smythe Rebecca Roarke-Wood Elliot Smythe (NPC)

ROOM 5: Madeline Beiste Dexter Wells-Beiste

ROOM 6: Roman Lodge JB Jones Ross Berry Delilah Jones Evan Wilde

ROOM 7: Oz Chang Annabeth Blossom Michael Chang Sawyer Evans Stacey Evans Kyle Keller

ROOM 8: Hunter Clarington Veronica Lodge Archer Clarington Amelia Davidson Sky Evans Jamie Prescott

ROOM 9: Ivan Carvalho Noah Andrews Charlie Fabray Archie Andrews Buck Wilde

ROOM 10: Parker St. James Jughead Jones Teddy Cohen-Chang Matt Fabray Reggie Mantle

ROOM 11: Danny Andrews Nate Mantle Daisy Blossom Ollie Smythe Marcia Fogarty

ROOM 12: Gwen Morgan-Daniels Javi Fogarty Kyla Clarington Austin Fabray Joe Berry

ITINERARY. Reminder, excursions are mandatory. Any time not mentioned in this itinerary are "free days" at the hotels or within the city of Venice as long as you're with at least one other person.

Aug 1: Travel from Ohio to Venice Aug 2: Gondala rides on Grand Canal from 12pm-3pm Aug 4: Opera at Teatro La Fenice from 8pm-11pm Aug 6: Tour of Doge's Palace (museum, architecture, Bridge of Sighs) from 10am-12pm Aug 9: Tour of Peggy Guggenheim Collection from 11am-1pm Aug 11: Travel from Venice to Ohio

OOC: Please message us with any concerns or questions. Also, ALL PLOTS MUST BE APPROVED by admin. Especially anything triggers, world-involved, or dealing with effects on multiple people.

[wehavecometoanend--maybe]

got tagged by my dear @burningdragoncollector 🩷🥰

Rules: Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

teenage dream - olivia rodrigo

butchered tongue - hozier

燈 (akari) -崎山蒼志 (sakiyama soushi)

there it goes (acoustic) - maisie peters

spezialz - king gnu

dial drunk - noah kahan

letter to an old poet - boygenius

青のすみか (ao no sumika) - キタニタツヤ (kitani tatsuya)

swan song - victoria canal

back in my body - maggie rogers

tagging: @chthonickore @girlgregorsamsa @joelletwo @deluxinn @transjjester @helpfulbug @bitevangouine @averagelonelypotato @strawberrystorms @emoyuuta

[littlefreya]

I love your work!!!! I dunno if you're still taking asks ... but I have this thought I cannot shake.

I feel like Captain Syverson's middle name is Frances. His first name is something like Noah or Lucas or Austin.

And everyone calls him Sy, obviously. Except for you. You call him by his first name. And when he makes your blood boil mad, you break out his full name. And the look on his face, like a little boy being being caught with his hand in a cookie jar, when he and his army buddies are too rowdy at your place for a late night bonfire, and you break out his full name in front of them. And it really turns him on.

😍😍

Hey dear Anon, sorry it took me so long to answer. Life has been busy with adult stuff.

The thing is, I already wrote this bit about a year or two ago and I used the name Frances, so I assume you might have read my story before and forgot (it happens sometimes, don't worry😌)

Otherwise, funny coincidence. :)

"As vexed as you were, you took a deep breath. With a smile creeping on your lips, you tightened your canal around him and milked around his cock, making him twitch in response. “Two can play that game, Captain Logan Frances Syverson.” You taunted. Sy growled and pressed slightly more into you until you felt his sack graze your delicate, engorged flesh. "

The full story is here. I hope you will enjoy.

[cffabioblog]

Grabacion en RCA Studio B Nashville

Referencia:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDewI1…

(© De Cadence Records / Michael Anthony / Michael J. Logiudice y Paul Kaufman. Alls Rights Reserved.)

El Video de referencia...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3HU3…

(© De TJL Productions.  Alls Rights Reserved.)

Versión:

Desde el Famoso RCA Studio B, in Nashville, Tennesse, vemos con un Ren Hoek de productor muy molesto y Beifong en la sala de mezcla y edición del estudio durante la grabación tipo cover de "Poetry In Motion" de Johnny Tillotson, pero de peor forma, como... "Chucheria En Movimiento" con Un Johnny Poeta (Che Copete). Dirigida Por Squidward Tentacles en la Dirección Orquestal, Miriam de Turning Red, afirmando las partituras del director, las del piano, un clásico, Jenna, del filme Balto De Universal junto con el Pianista Chileno SIR Valentín Trujillo.

En la Batería, pero no se nota, a cargo de SIR Ringo Starr, Bill Clinton como Saxofonista, Henry Hugglemonster, Berth y un delicuente muy peligroso como Guitarristas, Frei en el Contrabajo, Mr. Gus de Uncle Grandpa, Bunta de ShinChan, Red Guy de Cow & Chicken, Droopy y Johnny Bravo como Violinistas. Harold de Billy & Mandy, en la Tuba, William "Bill" Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive del King Of The Hill manejando el Clarinete, el Fagot, El Oboe y la Tromba, Merida de Brave en el Trombón, y "El Chacal De La Trometa", obvio, con su Trompeta.

Doña Treme de Condorito, Heather de Dragons de DreamWorks, Han Hill del King Of The Hill, muy enojado y Makoto Kino de Sailor Moon en el coro.

Nota: para esta ácida cover de dicha canción, se duro 2 días y medio de grabación, es debido, a que hubo que hacer 1633 Takes, la Take N° 1634, fue la definitiva y perfecta.

Despues de ello, tuvieron que grabar las 990 Takes del Tema... "Disney's Princess" en ves de "Princess, Princess..." del Johnny Tillotson.

El Dicho Tema..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ9YH2…

(© de Johnny Tillotson / Barnaby Records. Alls Rights Reserved.)

Copyrights

Red Guy

© David Feiss. Alls Rights Reserved.

Mr. Gus and Johnny Bravo

© Cartoon Network / MAXDiscovery. Alls Rights Reserved.

Harold

© Maxwell Attoms. Cartoon Network / MAXDiscovery. Alls Rights Reserved.

Droopy

© William Hanna / Joe Barbera / Hanna-Barbera / Cartoon Network / MAXDiscovery. Alls Rights Reserved.

Henry

© Disney / Noah N. Alls Rights Reserved.

Berth

© Sesame Workchop. Alls Rights Reserved.

Ren Hoek

© Viacom / Nickelodeon / John K. Alls Rights Reserved.

Toph

© Viacom / Nickelodeon / Di Damartino / Konyesco. Alls Rights Reserved.

Squidward

© Viacom / Nickelodeon / Steven H. Alls Rights Reserved.

Bill Fontaine And Hank Hill

© Disney / FOX / 21'Th Century / Micke J. Alls Rights Reserved.

Doña Tremebunda

© WorldEditords / Pepo.  Alls Rights Reserved.

Jenna

© Universal. Alls Rights Reserved.

El Chacal

© Canal 13 / Univision / Mario K. Alls Rights Reserved.

Makoto Kino

© Naoko Takeuchi / Toei. Alls Rights Reserved.

Heather

© DreamWorks Animation. Alls Rights Reserved.

Miriam Mendelsohn

© Pixar / Domee Shi. Alls Rights Reserved.

Merida

© Pixar / Brenda Chapman. Alls Rights Reserved.

[brookston]

Holidays 3.17

Holidays

Buy Women Owned Day

Camp Fire Girls Day

Children’s Day (Bangladesh)

Day of Comics & Comic Books (Spain)

Doctor-Patient Trust Day

Ennensaii (Kyoto, Japan)

Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, MA)

Glider Day

Kustonu Diena (No Planting Day; Ancient Latvia)

Mobilization Employee Day (Ukraine)

National Children Day (Bangladesh)

National Muay Thai Day

National SBCD Day

National Slime Day

Patrick Star Day (SpongeBob)

Psyche Asteroid Day

Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Day (Philippines)

Rubber Band Day

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Day (Bangladesh)

Social Care Day of Remembrance & Reflection (UK)

St. Carl’s Day (Sacrilege Brewing)

St. Patrick's Day (a.k.a. ... 

Corned Beef & Cabbage Day

Green Ribbon Day

Irish Coffee Day

Irish Stout Day

Lá Fhéile Pádraig

St. Catrick’s Day

Submarine Day [also 4.11]

317 Day (Indiana)

Vanguard I Day

Violet Day

Wood Anemone Day (French Republic)

World Maritime Day

World Shale Energy Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Irish Coffee Day

Irish Stout Day

National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day

National Irish Beer Day

National Irish Food Day

3rd Sunday in March

American Chocolate Week begins [3rd Sunday]

Buzzard Sunday (a.k.a. National Buzzard Day) [Sunday after 15th]

Root Canal Awareness Week begins [3rd Sunday]

Silly Sunday [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 17 (3rd Week)

American Chocolate Week [3rd Full Week]

Clutter Awareness Week [3rd Full Week]

Consider Christianity Week [begins 2nd Sunday before Easter]

International Goof Off Week [3rd Full Week]

Jobs for Teens Week [3rd Full Week]

National Agriculture Week [3rd Full Week]

National Animal Poison Prevention Week [3rd Full Week]

National Anonymous Giving Week [3rd Full Week]

National Bubble Week [1st Week of Spring]

National Button Week [3rd Full Week]

National Clean Out Your Closet Week [3rd Full Week]

National Fix a Leak Week [3rd Full Week]

National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week [3rd Full Week]

National Introverts Week [3rd Full Week]

National Poison Prevention Week [3rd Full Week]

National Surveyors Week [begins 3rd Sunday]

Passion Week (thru 3.23) [Week before Holy Week; Christianity]

Passiontide (thru 3.30) [Passion Week + Holy Week]

Schools Library Media Center Week [3rd Full Week]

World Folktales & Fables Week [3rd Full Week]

Independence & Related Days

North Albania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Republic of Abrus (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Venice Republic (Declared; 1848)

Festivals Beginning March 17, 2024

Austin Fringe Festival (Austin, Texas) [thru 3.24]

Kegs & Eggs Bar Brunch Block Party (Atlanta, Georgia)

NIOP Convention (Palm Springs, California) [thru 3.19]

St. Patrick’s Day Festival (Dublin, Ireland)

St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Birmingham, UK)

St. Patrick’s Day Parade (New Orleans, Louisiana)

St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Feast Days

Agricola (Christian; Saint)

Alexius of Rome (Eastern Church)

All Snakes’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Damballah’s Day (a.k.a. Damballay Weddo; primordial snake of life Iwa; Vodou)

Dave the Dog (Muppetism)

Feast of the Blessed Leprechaun (Church of the SubGenius)

Gertrude of Nivelles (Christian; Saint)

Hans Namuth (Artology)

Jean Baptiste Oudry (Artology)

John Sarkander (Christian; Saint)

Joseph of Arimathea (Western Church)

Kate Greenaway (Artology)

Liberalia (Ancient Roman festival of Liber Pater)

The Martyrs of Serapeum (Christian; Martyrs)

Mikhail Vrubel (Artology)

Noah Entered the Ark Day (Middle Ages Christianity)

Patrick of Ireland (Christian; Saint) [Ireland] *

Paul of Cypress (Christian; Saint)

Shabbat HaChodesh (שַׁבָּת הַחֹדֶשׁ) [25 Adar]

St. Patrick’s Day Excuse (Pastafarian)

Tacitus (Positivist; Saint)

Trefuilnid Treochair (Feast of Triple Bearer of the Triple Key; Ireland)

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Forgiveness Sunday (Orthodox Christian) [Last Sunday before Lent]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [16 of 60]

Premieres

The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone (Novel; 1958)

American Hot Wax (Film; 1978)

Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero (WB Animated Film; 1998)

Beezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary (Novel; 1955)

Bound for Glory, by Woody Guthrie (Autobiography; 1943)

Bowery Bimbos (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Break Like the Wind, by Spinal Tap (Album; 1992)

Breathless (Film; 1960)

The Champion of Justice (Might Mouse Cartoon; 1944)

Circle of Friends (Film; 1995)

Dial “P” for Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1965)

Erin Brockovich (Film; 2000)

Final Destination (Film; 2010)

Fletch Lives (Film; 1989)

Goofy and Wilbur (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

Gym Jam (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Iron Fist (TV Series; 2017)

iZombie (TV Series; 2015)

The Little Princess (Film; 1939)

The Magician’s Elephant (Animated Film; 2023)

Maiden Voyage, by Herbie Hancock (Album; 1965)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series; 2017)

Minx (TV Series; 2022)

Naughty Number Nine (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, by Frederic Chopin (Piano Concerto; 1830)

Plane Crazy (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Purple Haze, by Jimi Hendrix (UK Song; 1967)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (Film; 2023)

Son of a Son of a Sailor, by Jimmy Buffet (Album; 1978)

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, by Will Durant (Book; 1926)

Thank You for Smoking (Film; 2006)

This Year’s Model, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1978)

Traffic Troubles (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, by Patrick Hamilton (Novel; 1935)

V for Vendetta (Film; 2006)

William Gibson (Writerism)

William Tell, by Friedrich Schiller (Play; 1804)

Yakety Yak, recorded by The Coasters (Song; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Gertraud, Gertrud, Patrick (Austria)

Domagoj, Gertruda, Hrvatin, Patricija, Patrik (Croatia)

Vlastimil (Czech Republic)

Gertrud (Denmark)

Gerda, Gertrud, Kärdi, Kärt, Kerli, Kert, Kertu, Ruta, Ruuta, Truude, Truuta (Estonia)

Kerttu, Kerttuli (Finland)

Patrice, Patrick (France)

Gertraud, Gertrud, Patrick (Germany)

Alekos, Alexios, Alexis, Gertrude (Greece)

Gertrúd, Patrik (Hungary)

Patrizio, Teodoro, Wanda, Vanda (Italy)

Gerda, Ģertrūde, Karīna (Latvia)

Gendvilas, Gertrūda, Patrikas, Varūna, Vytė (Lithuania)

Gjertrud, Trude (Norway)

Gertruda, Harasym, Jan, Patrycjusz, Patryk, Regina, Rena, Zbigniew, Zbygniew, Zbyszko (Poland)

Alexie (Romania)

Ľubica (Slovakia)

Patricio (Spain)

Gertrud (Sweden)

Oleska (Ukraine)

Paden, Pat, Patrice, Patricia, Patrick, Patsy, Patti, Patty, Trish, Trisha (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 77 of 2024; 289 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 11 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 8 (Geng-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 7 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 7 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 17 Green; Threesday [17 of 30]

Julian: 4 March 2024

Moon: 59%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 21 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Socrates]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 88 of 89)

Week: 3rd Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 28 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Fearn (Alder) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 3 of 13]

[dorothygale123]

LAST TIME ON CHINESE MYTHOLOGY KAI!

The water god Gonggong was a sore loser and decided to make everyone suffer because of it, destroying Mount Buzhou with his thick head and causing the heavens to fall. Luckily, the great goddess Nuwa was able to repair the sky with a combination of molten rock and severed limbs, but the mortal world is still in great peril.....

Ah, the flood myth. A staple in most Indo-European myths from Noah to Utnapishtim. The widespread prevalence of such a specific myth structure implies there was an actual flood of massive proportions in that part of the world, and here we see evidence that it may have gone as far as East Asia. Most flood myths are focused on the idea of a cleansing apocalypse, with the gods becoming angry at how sinful humanity is and wanting to start over. While there are versions of the Chinese flood myth with this same inciting incident, many also blame Gonggong knocking down the heavens as the cause. For our purposes today it doesn't really matter how or why it happened, just that there's water everywhere.

According to one of my sources, the flood actually takes place directly after the debacle with the 10 Suns, which had gotta be a real kick in the teeth. Like, we just got rid of the unbearable heat and yeah, we did want water, but not THIS MUCH! As a side note, perhaps this can give a bit of context as to why Gonggong and Zhurong were fighting. It may have had something to do with the devastation caused by the suns and how to fix it, with Gonggong losing and then trying to do things his way anyway in the most needlessly destructive way possible.

Anyway, no matter the reason there's water water everywhere and not a drop to breathe, so humans are unsurprisingly drowning. Seeing this, the human emperor decided to try and find someone who could help. Nuwa was apparently taking a nap or something after fixing the sky, so he had to find someone else. He ends up going to this guy named Gun, apparently the grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Gun get the idea to go to the heavens and steal some divine dirt, much like Prometheus. However, also like Prometheus, he's caught and punished for his theft. Even worse, he doesn't even get to use his magic dirt and full on dies. Yikes. Supposedly his executioner was Zhurong, who started this whole mess in the first place by fighting with Gonggong. Great work bud, super helpful.

Luckily, Gun's death wasn't the end as he was apparently.... pregnant, I guess? Because after his corpse had been sitting there a while a healthy baby boy popped out, ready to take on the world! This boy was Yu the Great, a significant Chinese culture hero and mythical Emperor. Due to his achievements later in this myth, he is also called Yu the Engineer.

So Yu is born out of his dad's corpse, and apparently even though Gun was executed for stealing the magic dirt it wasn't actually confiscated, so Yungets his hands on is pretty quick. Either that or the current ruler of the heavens just... likes Yu more, I guess? And gives him some magic dirt. I think it would be cool if Nuwa snuck him some of the stuff becuase she thought the ruler of the heavens was being stupid and she didn't want the humans she'd created to all die becuase of the stick up his butt. Either way, Yu has some and starts spreading it around. Wherever the dirt touches the flood waters, it creates new land for people to stand on. He uses the new land to make dams, likes, and canals to guide the waters to the ocean.

In some tellings, Yu uses a large staff to measure the waters as he controls the flood. This is yet another possible origin story for the Ruyi Jingu Bang that Sun Wukong stole borrowed from Ao Guang. This is why some scholars speculate that the Monkey King is the reincarnation of Yu the Great. Personally I'm not that into it and prefer Wukong to just be his own special kind of wierdo, but it's a legitimate theory. You decide whether you like it or not.

Anyway, the flood waters recede and humanity can finally get back to their normal life.

For real this time.

Probably.

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[nocompromise-noregrets]

five good things

I figure it's about time for one of these, cos it's been a bit of a couple of weeks (lost data has been a theme...guys, if you're not aware, MS Office has now disabled autosave unless you're saving to OneDrive, so we're back to the bad old days of 'save early, save often' which I only discovered once it LOST MY UNI ASSIGNMENT which I hadn't saved yet when it CLOSED TO UPDATE WITHOUT MY INVOLVEMENT, and failed to save it ANYWHERE because now you have to use OneDrive or nothing at all guys)...ANYWAY. Here are (at least) five good things to perk me back up again.

It's my birthday a week tomorrow! Hooray! I'm hoping for a better one than last year (kind of lost to the pit of despond for both me and the missus) - we're going to go up town on the Saturday and have dinner at the fancy French place that lovely Tom the manager from our local now works at, and go to the brewpub on the canal, and generally have a lovely time. I'm slightly hampered by my birthday coinciding with both the Six Nations rugby and the Cheltenham horse racing festival (we live near to Cheltenham) so you can't move in any of the pubs for rugby and racing, neither of which interest me one bit, but still. Hoping the brewpub will have brewed their regular spring beer 'Walls Layoff' which is the most gorgeous Belgian wit-inspired wheat beer.

I'm off work next week and the week after, double hooray! I can feel myself nearing the end of my tether again (SO TIRED ALL THE TIME) and I'm hoping two weeks off will reset the old brain. Planning a Hobbit/LotR extended editions marathon, lots of writing (especially for Barduil Month, coming soon on @bi-widower-dads, give us a follow!), studying and planning my end-of-course assignment. (we have to compare two texts and I'm thinking of doing extracts from the 17th-century history of the family and estate, written by the estate steward for the education of the heir to the title, at job number 2, and the introduction to the catalogue of the medieval part of the archive written about 20 years ago by a very learned medievalist, to see how they're similar and different linguistically *nerds out* the other option would be to collect instances of the scripts to the LotR movies that weren't taken from the books and analyse them against the bits that were, but I don't know if I know enough of them, I need a minimum of 500 words of each...but I know there are bits that people now think are by Tolkien that are actually by Fran and Philippa...does anyone have a handy-dandy list by any chance, or know where I could find one?)

I've rewritten what I lost on Friday (thank you scrivener) and a bit more - it was in fact only 1700 words, not 2700, I just couldn't count after a few gins and some frantic, desperate frustration. Feeling a bit inspired on this bit of Break You at last, hooray, although I'm sure I'm going to run up against all the plotlines again sooner or later. I don't do plot, you guys, how did this happen?

It was Alpenfest week at Lidl last week, so I've stocked up on wheat beer, florentines, sausages (no currywurst this time though wtf, glad I brought some back from Germany), pretzels, and other delicious German and Austrian food. Keeps me going through the year until the next one in about September XD

I can now follow about 80% of what's going on on German TV with German subtitles on, although that drops to about 60% without the subs (although my very fluent German friends say they still use the English subs on English-language stuff, which makes me feel better about stuff). I've discovered the delightfully silly WaPo Bodensee about the water police on Lake Constance, in which not an episode goes by without them speeding along in their boat, shades on, long ears metaphorically fluttering in the wind (this only makes sense if you've seen Eddie Izzard's absolutely genius skit about Noah's Ark, in which Noah puts all the long-eared animals on the sides of the Ark so that when they're going along at speed their ears all flap in the wind XD ), and have been watching my beloved Großstadtrevier and Morden im Norden in which one of the police guys rides a Triumph (Triumph riders unite! \m/ \m/) and the crew all unite on the dock outside for a beer at the end of every episode once they've solved a case. I love them and their tropes and characters very much indeed.

I finished my most recent assignment and handed it in on time; I don't think I've done very well, but it was the best I could do in the circumstances - I really struggled with it, and with the concepts in that bit of the course. I'm not alone, though, almost everyone is finding it hard, and according to our tutor this is a particularly difficult level 3 course - so that kind of helps. It's really interesting, even if I'm not familiar with it all enough to be able to apply it 'in the wild', but I might keep it going with some other textbooks after the end of the course, because I'd actually like to learn more, I just can't cram it into my head while the course is going on.

There are flower buds all over my peach trees in the back garden. :D :D :D Spring is nearly here at long last.

It's nearly bike weather! I cannot WAIT to get out there on this glorious beastie again (on the right, the one on the left belongs to the missus).

I'm still working out, since November, with the irrepressibly perky Chloe Ting - doing weighted programmes because weighted exercises are the only ones I don't hate, and because I figure focussing on getting strong is a good way to trick myself into doing exercise (and because it's good for the osteoporosis, sigh), and slowly but surely it's having results. Muscle definition is beginning to happen, and I'm definitely stronger than I was. Hooray.

Oh yeah and BARDUIL MONTH on @bi-widower-dads (big thank you to @herawell for coming up with the tag that inspired the blog title!) which is coming up in April. 30 days of prompts (which are looking AWESOME) and hopefully lots of fic, art, and general creativity! :D :D :D

Right. That's quite enough for now. Anyone who feels that doing this might benefit them, please feel free to nick the idea, by the way. I came up with it years ago, and I'm not nearly frequent enough with it, but I do find that sitting down and coming up with five good things about what's going on at the moment, no matter how small, does make me feel a little bit better about stuff.

I'm off to work on the next unit of my uni course, and hope that it's less sodding difficult than the last one...

[boko3678]

noah is directed by siri,

using it to get people to guess a number between 1- something (eg.50) , and saying if their number comes up they have to do a punishment.

eg. run to the building opposite the canal and back in 7mins.

[nusta]

In questi giorni sto guardando una serie di video di interventi e interviste di Yuval Noah Harari per capire un pochino il suo approccio (non ho ancora letto i suoi libri, ma mi ha incuriosito il successo che ha riscosso) e devo ammettere che nonostante metà delle cose che dice io le avessi già sentite altrove negli anni passati, è una bella palestra mentale quella che propone e ha un modo molto efficace di sintetizzare alcuni passaggi logici. Dopo un po' ho cominciato a riconoscere alcuni esempi a cui è affezionato, ed alcuni passaggi quindi risultano un pochino ripetitivi, ma devo ammettere che finora è stato un autore interessante da scoprire.

Mi segno a promemoria alcuni dei video che ho visto, e forse vorrei riguardare, e che consiglierei; nel suo canale ce ne sono anche di più brevi, ovviamente, ma negli anni ha avuto l'occasione di fare diversi interventi in diverse circostanze, al di là delle presentazioni dei suoi libri, e personalmente i dialoghi con interlocutori particolari come Russel Brand (e i teenager del pubblico) e Natalie Portman sono quelli che finora ho trovato meno "ingessati" e ripetitivi.

In lista ho pure una conversazione con Neil Gaiman sul potere dello storytelling e sono proprio curiosa di vedere questo confronto.

[orsassur5]

O Twitter, atualmente rebatizado como X, foi fundado em março de 2006 por Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone e Evan Williams. A plataforma se destacou por seu formato de microblog, permitindo aos usuários postarem mensagens curtas, conhecidas como "tweets", com até 140 caracteres inicialmente, ampliados para 280 em 2017.

### Primeiros anos e crescimento inicial (2006-2010)

**2006-2007: Lançamento e popularização**

- O Twitter começou como um projeto paralelo na empresa Odeo, um serviço de podcasts.

- Em 2006, Jack Dorsey publicou o primeiro tweet: "just setting up my twttr".

- A plataforma ganhou notoriedade no festival SXSW em 2007, onde as instalações de grandes telas exibindo tweets ao vivo ajudaram a atrair atenção.

**2008-2010: Expansão e desafios**

- A base de usuários do Twitter cresceu exponencialmente, mas a plataforma enfrentou desafios técnicos significativos, incluindo frequentes falhas de serviço.

- Durante este período, eventos globais como as eleições presidenciais dos EUA em 2008 e os protestos pós-eleitorais no Irã em 2009 ajudaram a estabelecer o Twitter como uma ferramenta poderosa de comunicação em tempo real.

### Período de consolidação e inovação (2010-2015)

**2010-2012: Novos recursos e IPO**

- Introdução de funcionalidades como o "Retweet" (RT) e "Hashtags" (#), que se tornaram elementos centrais da experiência do usuário.

- Em 2013, o Twitter realizou sua oferta pública inicial (IPO), valorizando a empresa em cerca de US$ 31 bilhões.

**2013-2015: Expansão de conteúdo e parcerias**

- O Twitter começou a integrar mais multimídia, permitindo a inclusão de imagens e vídeos nos tweets.

- Parcerias com empresas de mídia ajudaram a promover conteúdo ao vivo, como eventos esportivos e debates políticos.

### Desafios e transformações (2016-2022)

**2016-2017: Desinformação e críticas**

- Durante as eleições presidenciais dos EUA de 2016, o Twitter enfrentou críticas severas por seu papel na disseminação de desinformação e notícias falsas.

- Medidas começaram a ser tomadas para combater o abuso na plataforma e melhorar a segurança dos usuários.

**2018-2020: Mudanças na liderança e foco em segurança**

- Jack Dorsey retornou como CEO em 2015 e permaneceu até 2021. Sob sua liderança, houve um foco renovado em saúde da plataforma, incluindo o combate ao discurso de ódio e bots.

- A pandemia de COVID-19 destacou ainda mais o papel do Twitter como um canal de informações em tempo real.

### Aquisição por Elon Musk e renomeação (2022-presente)

**2022: Aquisição por Elon Musk**

- Em abril de 2022, Elon Musk anunciou planos para adquirir o Twitter por US$ 44 bilhões. A aquisição foi concluída em outubro de 2022.

- Musk prometeu transformações significativas, incluindo a redução de moderação de conteúdo e a implementação de um modelo de assinatura.

**2023-2024: Rebranding para X**

- Em 2023, o Twitter passou por uma rebrand, sendo renomeado como X. A mudança marcou uma nova direção para a plataforma, focando em tornar-se uma "super app" que integra diversos serviços além de redes sociais.

### Impacto e legado

O Twitter/X desempenhou um papel crucial na formação da comunicação digital moderna. A plataforma foi instrumental em movimentos sociais globais, como a Primavera Árabe e o movimento Black Lives Matter, destacando seu poder como uma ferramenta de mobilização e informação.

Apesar dos desafios, incluindo questões de moderação de conteúdo e sustentabilidade financeira, o Twitter/X continua a ser uma plataforma central no ecossistema digital global. A aquisição por Elon Musk e o rebranding para X sinalizam um futuro de transformação contínua, onde a plataforma busca redefinir seu papel e expandir suas funcionalidades além do microblogging tradicional.