I feel like it's important for all of you to know that the original placeholder name for my Kai playlist so that I could easily find it was supposed to be "Hot water burn baby", because that's a funny, stupid, but easily recognizable name, right?
Well, I was creating it at 3am while horribly sleep deprived, so what I actually ended up typing was "burn water Hot baby", and it has remained as such the entire time
“In the end, what started as a simple discovery on Tumblr became a powerful moment of community and solidarity, reminding us all that love knows no bounds” indeed.
De liefde is een schatkist die de mens graag wil bewaken
Maar de liefde is geen code die je met geloof kunt kraken
or, translated (which doesn't have the same ring to it imo):
Love is a treasure chest that mankind wants to guard
But love is not a code you can crack with faith
from Froukje's cover of Same Love
but wait, there's more!
Wie ik uiteindelijk in mijn armen draag
Gaat mijn draagkracht te boven
translation:
Who I'll end up carrying in my arms
will go beyond my strength
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En weet je, je kunt wel schreeuwen tegen doven
Maar ze moeten eerst maar zien en dan geloven
translation:
And you know, you can yell at deaf people
But they have to see it before they belief it
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Wie je hart sneller doet kloppen, of dat nou een man of vrouw is
Heeft te maken met of hij of zij de juiste mens voor jou is
translation:
Who makes your heart beat faster, whether that's a man or woman
Has to do with whether he or she is the right human for you
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Aantal jaren later, ik keek in haar ogen
Dit moet dezelfde liefde zijn die me heeft bewogen
translation:
A few years later, I looked into her eyes
This had to be the same love that moved me
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Maak rustig kennis met de liefde
Het wordt ooit een keer vertrouwd
translation:
Calmly get to know love
It'll get familiar some time
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Waar je ook in gelooft, wees aardig voor een ander
Want de tijd zal niet veranderen zonder dat jij verandert
Soms weet je niet beter
Moet een gedachte rijpen
Maar verplaats je in een ander en probeer het te begrijpen
Onder alle angst is er de liefde die we delen
En er is veel kapot gegaan, maar ook tijd om te helen
Tijd om te voelen dat we goed genoeg en wenselijk zijn
Tijd om te zien dat alle mensen menselijk zijn
translation:
No matter what you believe in, be kind to one another
Because times will not change without you changing
Sometimes you don't know any better
A thought needs to mature
But put yourself in someone else's shoes and try to understand
Beneath all the fear there is the love that we all share
And a lot has been broken, but there is time to heal too
Time to feel that we are good enough and wanted
Time to see that every human is human
I know it'd be funny if Dream of the literal endless didn't know how to use a phone, but I think it'd be so much more humorous if he did.
Like, he comes back from his little snow globe gaff, and the first thing he sees is all these nobby humans with magic rectangles in their hands and he's like, yahuh, you're coming home with me. Precedes to spend the next week figuring that shit out and when he eventually gets the kick up the arse from Death to go and visit Hob, he just sits down, whips out an iPhone and asks for the man's number with all of the confidence of someone who actually has a contact list.
Like, shit, imagine he uses apple pay?? The god of Dreams buying his fancy little tescos-own tiger bread to feed the pigeons, with apple pay. Where's that scene Neil, whereeee?
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
Damian, handing Bruce a piece of paper with a very neat calendar on it: father, I will be taking a step back from my participation in our nightly patrols. I have carefully considered factors such as, but not limited to, school tests, most likely days for breakouts and when other people will be available. Here is my schedule.
Bruce: any particular reason you are stepping back from Robin?
Damian: I have reached an acceptable age and am by far mature enough, so I will be participating in Ramadan this year, father. Afterwards I will pick my duties up as normal, but with changed sleeping and eating patterns, this is the most logical step for now.
Bruce, who grew up with a jewish mother and christian father who were intent to raise him on some weird mix of the two, then a second father who was atheist, proceeded to lose his entire way in any form of religion due to losing himself in his teen years, took in Jewish boy, then a catholic one with religious trauma, then an atheist one who had no idea how to even approach the idea of religion, followed up by a pagan girl and already making seven different mental lists of things he will need to research, how to add aspects of Islam into their weird family holidays and trying desperately to show his support for his son: ....hnn