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Special simplified bird - crows celebrating pride month!

Happy pride month! Expect more pride birds soon :)

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That telenovela starts with Romano as a kid, revealing what his childhood upbringing was like, and his brother relationship was like. And then we see a time skip to when he meets Spain.

these are the vibes I get from hetalia ships

GerIta: buddy cop action comedy

FrUk: classic period piece romance

Also FrUk: absurdist sketch comedy

USUK: box office blockbuster

Asakiku: mystery cult classic

Ameripan: high school sports drama

RusAme: psychological thriller

Also RusAme: dark comedy

Rochu: indie family drama

Spamano: 12 season telenovela

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This is so wholesome

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Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare classic

Sir Ian McKellen (Getty)

Sir Ian McKellen will open a brand new production of the Shakespeare classic Twelfth Night featuring all trans and non-binary performers.

The Lord of the Rings star, 86, will join in on the one-night only rehearsed reading by the theatre group Trans What You Will in July.

Staged at London’s The Space Theatre, the reading will be broadcast globally via a livestream. All profits are going to the UK-based trans charity, Not A Phase.

The performance will take one of Shakespeare’s most well known and gender-fluid works and reimagine it through a trans lens.

“With mistaken identities, cross-dressing, and declarations of love across shifting gender roles, Twelfth Night has long explored the complexity of identity,” a press release reads.

“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.”

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Phoebe Kemp, who is directing, has said: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance, it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”

The performance, which will take place ahead of London Trans+ Pride, has also been billed as “a joyful act of protest and pleasure activism, celebrating gender diversity at a time when trans representation remains under threat.:

Twelfth Night – A Rehearsed Reading by Trans What You Will is set to take place on 25 July 2025 at The Space Theatre. Tickets to attend in person are available here. Tickets for the livestream are available here. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available.

-- Pay-what-you-can livestream?! I love you, Sir Ian!

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the brush bronzewing is a small pigeon endemic to southern australia. shorter and stockier than it’s close relative, the common bronzewing, it shares the notable ‘rainbow’ iridescent pattern on the wings, found in both sexes. these birds feed primarily by foraging on the ground for seeds, berries, and insects. unlike many other pigeons, they do not congregate in large groups, and are often found as single birds or in pairs.

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Lilo and Stitch presenting an accurate representation of Hawaiians perspective on luaus held by tourists. 

#what’s sad about this is that this is actually what Hawaiians had to do when the western culture took over #a luau was a sacred practice #until the westerners took the concept and had the audacity to change it into a time to stuff your face with food and put on grass skirts and coconut bras and dance the hula #and when they had these events, they didn’t even let actual Hawaiian people in #so to make money to take care of themselves, the Hawaiians were hired to work in these disgraceful events to clean up after the tourists like slaves only to make less than a buck #so good job disney for doing your fucking research and educating these people #sadly, this still goes on even until today and it makes me sick

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The book trailer to my fanfic that I may or may not ever get around to write it. I started writing it ages ago then started over from scratch and well, it’s still a work in progress. Anyways, “28 Month Pirate” / “28 Month Hai Tac” is a platonic Piratalia x F! Viet! Reader or a Hetalia x F! Viet! OC fanfic. For the keywords: Piratalia, Hetalia x Female, Vietnamese Reader or Original Character. The main character can be identified as either Y/N or Thuy. 

Even if the fanfic may never come to life, at least making this movie trailer was fun. Yes, there will be a majority of Pirate! Portugal, Spain, and England. Later on, France and Netherlands and select number of your fave Hetalia characters will show up, including a surprise appearance of someone that you might guess?? Wink wink nudge nudge? 

Technically, Vietnam and reader/Thuy are not Vietnamese since the story takes place during the Le Dynasty and the Dutch maps reads either Tonkin or Cochinechina. Historical things. 

⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

☆彡 See my edits in full size on my Tumblr and VK. 

Credits below! Not in chronological order. 

Solo Portugal: World ☆ Stars manga - Chapter 428 https://www.tumblr.com/hetascanlations/685296012116508672/hetalia-world-stars-chapter-428-original?source=share, Art by @kuraudiart on Tumblr, commission for on Causitav on DeviantArt / mylofall on Instagram https://kuraudiart.tumblr.com/post/644874259259424768/pirate-portugal-this-is-a-colored-doodle

Solo England: Ayaka＠nico3a on Pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/23311273, https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/28768714 

Solo Spain: espino on Pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/92309156, @yaqamole Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/yaqamole/677621542377701376/insert-the-pirates-who-dont-do-anythingfrom?source=share

Duo P+E: @rosesandalfazemas on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/rosesandalfazemas/757839423262031872/your-eyes-have-the-color-of-the-seas-lad-same?source=share

Duo E+S: Himaruya’s blob, 2009 Dec 31

Duo S+P: Spain art by tumblr vampelune (now dead link, refer to @porcellune) ; Portugal art by @romatito on tumblr

Trio: Hima-san’s blog, 2014 Nov 25

Scotland: @pyrokitten-284 on tumblr, shared on Hetalia community https://www.tumblr.com/communities/hetalia-community/post/773673675238080512/inspiration-struck-and-i-drew-this-man-last-night?source=share

Romano: @lore-55 on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/lore-55/755189282070740992/wtf-is-this-quality-day-one-spamanoweek2024?source=share

Ned: Hima’s blog, 2013 Nov 30 

Vietnam, sea: @bighugelargebig on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/bighugelargebig/749013324601196544/jai-entendu-la-mer?source=share

VN, pink: Chimco0k (current username @0ndaybia) on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/0ndaybia/760488993176584192/its-her-day?source=share | @chimco0k

V, duo: Hima’s blog, 2013 Nov 08

[Backgrounds]

Solo Portugal: Photo by Daniel Burka on Unsplash 

Solo Spain: Photo by Tahir Osman from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-round-glass-window-on-wooden-wall-11724841/, Photo by Martin Martz on Unsplash 

Duo E+S: Photo by Fabian Wiktor from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/seaside-994605/

Duo S+P: https://pixabay.com/photos/sailing-ship-port-summer-mast-7725132/ Image by WinterSa on Pixabay; Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/wintersa-32922768/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=7725132">Sascha Winter</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=7725132">Pixabay</a>

Trio: Photo by Everett Bowes on Unsplash 

> Hat: Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash 

[Stock videos]

Waves crashing – Video by Mario Krimer: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-sea-wave-crashing-against-a-rock-in-slow-motion-14902912/

Boat wake – Video by Kelly  from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/wooden-boat-traversing-a-river-3978645/

Bubbles 🫧 – Video via Videvo https://www.videvo.net/video/scuba-bubbles/2715/#rs=video-box

Brush pen – Video by C ay: https://www.pexels.com/video/focused-woman-writing-with-traditional-brush-29955520/

Ship, ride – Video by ArtHouse Studio from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/ships-sailing-in-the-ocean-4571675/

Ship, aerial – Video by Arpan Bhatia: https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-footage-of-a-pirate-boat-in-the-sea-10094924/

Post-credit: “Pirate Goes To The Fog” by Grey_Coast_Media https://mixkit.co/free-stock-video/pirate-walking-through-fog-22460/ < https://elements.envato.com/pirate-goes-to-the-fog-7GDLFTX?utm_source=mixkit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=elements_mixkit_referral_31JULY2024

[Stock photos]

Crow’s nest: Image by Michael K from Pixabay – https://pixabay.com/photos/pirate-ship-sail-masts-sea-ship-2254096/ 

Helm: Photo by Dmitrii Eliuseev on Unsplash 

Banister, maybe taffrail: Photo by Olga Nayda on Unsplash

Shrouds: Photo by Tanner Mardis on Unsplash

Hook: “Swordfight between Peter and Captain Hook.” Illustration by Francis D. Bedford for the 1911 edition of J.M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan.' https://fineartamerica.com/featured/8-barrie-peter-pan-1911-granger.html 

[Title card] Photo by Ylanite Koppens: https://www.pexels.com/photo/rope-on-a-map-14436274/

Song: Chikyuu Marugoto Hug Shitainda \ Let’s Hug the Earth  https://www.tumblr.com/hetalia-music/652288051110985728/song-chikyuu-marugoto-hug-shitainda-short-version?source=share

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓇼 ⋆.˚ 𓆉 𓆝 𓆡⋆.˚ 𓇼

(｡･ω･｡) thanks for making it to the bottom

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I got a very silly question for pagans and anyone with a good connection with their godphone. Just humor me for a moment.

What does Zeus, Thor, and any thunder-related deity think of "You Are the Only One" by Sergey Lazarev?

It's just another love pop song, but the chorus mentions "Thunder and lightning".

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consistent advice I heard: walk with intention to not get targeted.

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i hope this is satire. pls say this is satire. or rage-bait.

anyways, Alton Brown had explained the difference between stock and broth. Stock is cooking bones in water until you get that meat water you know as stock. Broth is when you add stuff to stock to make a soup. And if you see "Bone Broth" in your local grocery, it's a marketing gimmick. It's just stock, but under a marketing friendly eye-catching name.

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One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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the fact that i know almost all of these ships and why they exists. i'm in too deep.

and also, @littlesistersti. check this out.

I haven't been in the Transformers fandom that long but so far this is my experience:

I couldn't come up with anything for the bottom row so it's just completely gone XD

unlike in most other fandoms, surprisingly many wlw ships make sense so it was hard to choose D:

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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If you’re european and can vote please sign!

In any case, share as much as you can (to friends, family, outside of tumblr if you can!)

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a JOKING conversation we had a couple days later:

My sister, Norse pagan: Zeus is more likely than Hermes to say that.

Me, Agnostic and Supportive: Why? because of brothers compared to uncle-nephew relations?

Me and my sister just chatting about different Greek-Roman mytholgies and those who appeared in them. and the cultural context behind them. (There was mentions of Poseidon, Medusa, Hermes, Ares, Zeus, Ovid.) Sprinkle in some pagan/ Hellenistic discussions here and there.

Me: And then-

Me:

Me: My brain suddenly said "Poseidon, the original monster-fucker." and I'm just STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP

My sister, Norse pagan: HA!

My sister, Norse pagan: If that was a godphone, that's probably Loki, Hermes, or Zeus.

Me, Agnostic and Supportive: *is not pleased at the humor and genuinely worried about the outcome*