#But they're also so earnest about it

[almea]

#RWBY #Blake Belladonna #Yang Xiao Long #Bumbleby #rwby spoilers #It's so fucking cute how they're both a little shy about being so open about how much they adore each other #But they're also so earnest about it #otp: bumblebee #For my own tagging purposes #I'm pretty sure this is going to look like shit on mobile

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

#red said #also there are posts and tweets like THIS IS JUST FOR MCU FANS #like please go on demonstrating how you've adopted 'mcu fan' as a shorthand for 'person who likes films i don't' #or 'person who likes films that are popular' #because the defining features of mcu films are that they're high budget irony poisoned derivative works #targeted at a broad audience so aiming to be accessible and inoffensive #and it really seems. like 'accessible' is the part of that you object to #bc EEAAO is a highly original A24 indie film with a 14.5m budget which is NOTHING #it's made mostly with practical effects and sets #and most importantly it's beautifully painfully earnest. it's never trying to shy away or go Hey Look How Silly This Is 😏 #everything is driven by its earnest desire to talk about specific themes #i think the people comparing it negatively to mcu films are stuck on the fact that it's about a multiverse and it's got jokes #and colourful action scenes #but they miss that the referential jokes (like racacoonie) and setpieces aren't the point of the film

[wispforever]

when you want to kiss ur partner on his gd mouth but the intimacy is too much

#naruto #kakuhida #kakuzu #hidan #hidakaku #it would probably help if hidan just slowed tf down #but he's also embarrassed that he's nervous about it #so he just goes for it every single time #then they both have to sit on opposite sides of the camp for 18 hours LMAO #theyre like anyway. have a nice day #stupid emotionally repressed imbeciles #neither of them have ever known love #of course they're incapable of ONE (1) singular act of earnest affection #how could they cope #dies #SLOW DOWN HIDAN #its not his fault. kakuzu would never initiate

[marcusagrippa]

so i finally finished the october horse

#that was one of the books ever. it did make me more unwell about those guys which is. something. #(the way they're written DOES feel very much in love and vaguely homophobic at the same time i understand now) #colleen absolutely insisting octavian was a big sad earnest grey eyes long blonde hair twink but also an evil evil little snake in disguise #was pretty funny but i did disagree with some of the stuff relating to him #not that i am an authority on that in any way as i have not even been interested in rome for six months yet #overall it was ?? a book ?? i enjoyed it quite a lot tbh - dont know enough about the conspirators yet to commen #t on their characterisation but it did feel a little Off sometimes #and the caesar worship was. irritating. idk ithink it would have been better if she'd given him diarrhoea like dio did #but. fan overall i like d it quite alot it was fun. roman revolution time now boy (got it from the library today so excited) #guys tag #read ing #mor

[blujaynoodles]

Indigo's Magical Girl Transformation™ starry form, before and after I added the effects. Obviously this does spoil the 'what's in your pants' joke but honestly they're not, like, actually private or secretive about their anatomy, and also I just think a naked little guy with a gun is funny

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #gnome #druid #circle of stars #nudity #ALSO the way I finished the flintlock makes it look like some kind of deepfried jpeg with filters on it?? but I drew it I swear :') #man their starry form was the punchline for a shitpost so I kind of phoned it in #but I wish I hadn't cause I Don't Love It and it my mind's eye it looks SO extremely cool lol I should revisit it in earnest #I feel like a lot of people have lots of OCs that lowkey just exist to be cool and have cool aesthetics but Indy's my only one #I've played them once! and though I'd very happily play them again they're also just fun to think about aesthetically #a pirate for kethri to kiss? indigo. actually just anything pirate related? indigo. cool starry druid shit? indigo babeyyy #my OCs #indigo #(oh any pronouns btw)

[katierosefun]

step 1 of watching suits: haha fun plot! look at this little guy pretending to be a law school graduate. yeah this won't have any consequences whatsoever

step 2 of watching suits: oh this little guy and that bigshot lawyer have some good chemistry. yeah they're both committing a crime by having him work at this new york big law firm but it's fun :)

step 3 of watching suits: they're actually facing consequences to their actions now, but oh god i don't want to see either of them lose. yes, they did something terrible but don't we all want to feel a bit special. don't we all feel stuck. doesn't our own ambition swallow us whole. don't we feel insanely loyal to the person who gave us everything. we're going down together. if you go, i go.

#caroline watches tv #suits #anyways. biting them. shaking them. #staring at the characters and laughing nervously because yes i know that they're doing awful things #but also i feel so much for them #i do feel quite a bit for mike because it's like. that frustration of knowing you could have been someone but then something happened #and you were shunted out of a life that you always wanted to have. and you're scrambling to get it back. you're trying so hard. #and when someone presents it to you on a silver platter. yeah you're gonna take it. #and also like. harvey. #like. yes he's morally grey or morally bankrupt (depending on who you ask) but it's like. you're this giant of an attorney who never loses #and you recruit this guy who you know is lying but you're never going to give up on him. you don't want anyone to leave you but you also #don't know how to ask anyone to stay. #which isn't much of an excuse for like. helping commit fraud. #but also. harvey can pretend he doesn't need anyone but the most pathetic truth is that he needs people so badly #and he has no idea what to do with that. #and tbh. i think when he saw mike. he saw a glimmer of something real and earnest and immediately decided to keep him. #and there's so much irony in that? the most genuine person he's ever known is also someone who's going to defraud an entire law firm #something tragic about that but also something so intriguing. anyways i'm normal about this show #i'm normal about them. etc.

[vzajemnik]

im such a guy that needs to kill himself sooooo badly

#🗞️ #why cant i just be earnest and honest and also why does my existance bring me so much shame #i wanna text my parents and tell them that i wanna see them but i know theyll be very distant esp my mom when they see what i look like now #like i wish i had closure from them and i wish it was unconditional and i didnt need to change my whole appearance just to get it #i truly dont know what to do now. like i wanna go visit them so i dont kill myself but when im there im gonna get so unimaginably lonely and #more miserable than ever before #so i just sit here and do nothing and i dont respond to them so in turn they're worried about me and i feel even more guilty

[theghostofashton]

kurt and blaine both say things that really stand out to me in this ep and i want to talk about them both so... let’s start with kurt’s “seemingly fine on the outside, but headed for certain disaster”. that’s....pretty accurate foreshadowing of what’s to come for klaine. and it’s interesting that kurt has this observation, because it indicates that he knows there are deeper issues going on, but there’s something preventing him from addressing them. i’ve talked before about kurt’s hesitancy in communicating how he really feels, but in this ep, it feels significant that he was honest with elliott, and he did open up in a way he usually doesn’t. 

and that’s interesting, bc something else i noticed was during the conversation in the loft, as blaine says they need to look at the situation honestly, that it isn’t working out, kurt kinda....folds into himself? he looks really disappointed and upset at the truth of blaine’s words. it’s like he doesn’t want to face that things aren’t working, doesn’t want this thing he holds so precious to him to be complicated or difficult, but it is. i think that’s what’s hard for kurt. being in a relationship is not always what it looks like in a romcom, and he’s having trouble adjusting to the harder parts. he’s grasping for control, and desperately in need of boundaries, but doesn’t know how to communicate that. 

speaking of boundaries, blaine’s “i guess i always think of boundaries as walls, instead of places to grow” says...a lot about where he’s coming from. i have also talked about blaine’s tendencies toward people pleasing and his need to be needed, which absolutely make his feelings toward boundaries make sense. a boundary places limits on things in a way that could prevent him from what he tries to do to feel needed, and i get why that makes him uncomfortable. 

i know some people aren’t fans of the fact that he moved out, but tbh, this is why i think it works, and why it was needed. blaine thinks of boundaries as walls, and he needs to learn to see them as places to grow. that’s difficult to do without.....creating some boundaries. blaine admits that they haven’t had this conversation until now, haven’t discussed if it would be the best thing for their relationship, and it really brings me back to what kurt said, that things may be fine on the surface, but disaster is looming. they’re still trying to live in not a fairytale, per say, but a world in which things are okay because blaine’s in new york and they’re living together and they’re engaged and everything is fine. but there’s so much they both have left to talk about, so much they’re holding in and hoping will just dissipate. and that’s really what breaks them for the second time, this keeping quiet and trying to be okay, bc there are a lot of things, both individually and as a couple, that they aren’t dealing with. 

#.....there is so much in this ep i honestly struggled trying to figure out what to pull out for this post #i have so many other things i want to talk about so if anyone wants to send asks and chat about this ep i'd love it #i am so sorry if this is incoherent i definitely rambled too much lol #also ik this post was a lot of talk about foreshadowing and what's to come but i think it's so interesting to see how they built up #to the s6 breakup #basically they're both doing their best but not talking is ultimately what's gonna hurt them the most #and i find their struggles so earnest and i love how hard they're trying #relationships are hard lmfao but i love watching them ultimately figure it out #anyway god i am glad to be back in the nyc arc i love this set of eps #klaine #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #klaine thoughts #glee #gr1 #nyc arc thoughts

[magdaclaire]

the thing is that ellenmissouri makes me feel insane

#because like ellen is (to me) trapped in the roadhouse by the expectations she put on herself at a young age and a legacy and her daddy's #ghost and mary and missouri are the first girls in the life she knows very well and they're friends on the phone #always on that damn phone [talking about a landline with a rotary] #ellenmissouri #i might be the only person in that tag but i've never checked so don't quote me #but anyway it's all about being a young seer (talking about miz now) and no one ever believed you off face and then you meet mary campbell #and you tell her you're a psychic and she says okay wanna meet my friend #and the friend is the most important person in the world (ellen harvelle) #and ellen is autistic (i have autism and this is my supernatural) and has my Terribly Earnest autism trait #so everyone is very subterfugial around miz bc she reads minds and ellen is just. wow girls are pretty. need to do my job. chronic pain. #daddy issues. she's very simple in that way #and when your mind is always busy with other people i imagine that a person as quiet as ellen (like in vibes) would be very refreshing #and also just ellen's directness... #ellenmissouri makes me crazy

[unproduciblesmackdown]

nonzero people podcasting about goosebumps the musical & it’s never enough. neither extensive enough nor enthusiastic enough & that’s coming from me which is the entire explanation for the assessment. 

on the same topic but a completely different point, i was just appreciating how extra fun i always find understudy buddy to be. and obviously i would like to think that maybe tina & the unit that is brooke & zeke are like, more neutral to amicable after the show lol. tina is a lot of fun as is, like, automatic shoutout to any character just being like, getting in the way being offputting / a pain and all powered by one’s own intensity, that’s fun & funny & who among us? and like yeah she’s also definitely doing the mean girl thing like, in the song as mentioned lmao like please, rein it in. and maybe she will, but then when other suspects are being kind of crossed off the list just before thee play she manages to just be regular supportive towards brooke, so that’s promising lol. and also just shoutout to the Fun of a lively antagonistic role, great stuff, delightful number for her there, and sure helping ramp things up. and zeke and brooke not just showing up for this one horror musical (also i would love to shoutout zeke’s plight there lmfao like, the experience of original readers of poto where the twist is “nah it’s not a phantom it’s just some wet pathetic guy” like he’s so hyped to be The Ghost Lead and then he’s like oh god i’m a romantic lead in a hole & i’m five & it’s embarrassing & i even know my counterpart irl (the bestie) like i guess technically the role’s a ghost by the end & good for the mystery mask wearing element being exciting still) but that they were unnamed ensemble members in guys & dolls & saw that through, they’re bringing support & appreciation for the theatre, & on the flipside tina might just enjoy the theatricality & attention from it but she was having a great time informing everyone that on top of their haunted school it’s a specifically haunted (cursed) play, so maybe she can also relate to zeke and brooke’s horror genre appreciation. and she might warm up at all to zeke when he’s cleared about the fact he wasn’t trying to prank their efforts into oblivion, at least to the same degree she can manage to provide regular supportiveness to brooke when it comes to it. and on the one hand, despite brooke and zeke sure seeming like that hell of an established unit like probably just have their [socializing at school] foundation covered by hanging out w/each other, they could let brian in on that easily enough for something of a triumvirate, but now not only are they bffs since 5ever who love a genre together, they sure had an Adventure in emile messing up by [you never try to scooby doo villain your way through it] but also doing it all wrong where they think You’re the danger here & that you’re going to murder them, plus it’s scary for real exploring the darkness elevator underground tunnels anytime, but also now they have this off the shits experience with that new guy friend who was a ghost for real. kind of its own bonding element & maybe you wouldn’t exactly let anyone else in on it, much less like, tina lmao. she might be interested in The Legend but she was also super interested in telling everyone all about it, and idk, difficult and weird to explain, thing it’d all be quite the stuff to process for one lol like sure we love drama and ghosts and attention too but it’s A Lot. ghosts are real and i online dated one except across time rather than space and he was just some guy hanging out and i also hung out with him sometimes but then in the end it got weird b/c he was the suspicious understudy all along and this role is really not coming through....but also hey, could talk about it all eventually, and tina’s got plenty of context already. next year’s cast n crew party for the last show, be like hey guess what, b/c we’re solidly amicable now also

plus being extracurricular buddies like, ms. walker head in hands dealing with these three menaces lmao....although zeke wasn’t Really up to that much, tina’s sure committed to the show, etc. and it’s like, being a student or teacher or anyone else at a middle school is just always gonna be like that. could really be worse, she can handle it. and maybe she can know of the lore also, she’s out here engaging in irl drama and lore about like avenging her grandmother’s theatrical aspirations, or none of this would be going on lol. get used to these three and actually they’re reliable really, maybe tina will have learned to better accept not getting the dream role, which will be an easier time for everyone. but it’s just always gonna be a handful lol but all these kids were also all about putting on the play too, actually, yes maybe some problems arose from messing around with the platform but they could’ve been worse problems (queues of ghosts in line for their turn at finally achieving one last goal of performing their part in this one damn play lol) and does seem like it’s engineering issues inherently rather than Just messing around backstage unsupervised which isn’t often otherwise going to be fatally risky, and maybe just give people a rundown about the riskiness of things that Isn’t emile’s botched effort where he mostly just made children afraid of Him. like idk, i did shop class throughout middle school, we avoided injury w/successful cautionary rundowns. brian’s one other last goal could’ve been about safety measures, but whaddaya gonna do. anyways point is, hanging out after school for theatre purposes and having an understanding and bonus patience affordance with the teacher in charge of this and maybe everyone gets to know the Real Ghost Story or maybe it’s zeke & brooke’s personal inside secret, it was already a shared adventure for all involved even if they didn’t get the Full story the way those two did, all of them are up for Drama and for Horror, they’re good to go. and good for them

#goosebumps the musical #like let's do a play by play of the show And this kind of meandering musing about any and all elements lmfao #funny when the [just some guy] was clearly not at all intending to murder them but so far as they know he might've. which yeah terrifying #and their Real Ghost was a just some guy new friend. brian truly just hanging out like yep what's up everyone. yeah i'll paint a set #and i can't get over book brian being all the more just So Nervous in general lmao that's like his whole thing #like is this some extra anxiety you get when you die & then have been a ghost abt it? maybe. or maybe he's just already like that. #either way lol. i Love how they talk abt maybe encountering an actual ghost via the platform & brian's like omgg nooo stopp ;m; too scary #if you're a kid who would've been scared of ghosts then....just b/c you happen to be one yourself. still like omg no stopppp #but zeke & brooke aren't too overly terrified of this possibility of Real Ghosts though it Is clear they're both scared in the abyss there #like. yeah fair. you're like eleven and that is scary for anyone and does involve various elements of not insignificant danger #and it's more fun when they Aren't utterly unfazed by everything happening in the story ofc. which they are not #and who knows maybe zeke's a bit put off about actual ghosts lmfao like he Did get ghost attacked. whoops #hopefully as simply disorienting as alarming rather than like yeah i had a whole fight for my life back there while gradually smothered #things that have you looking up folklore abt ghosts' breath stealing ability. like fatally or just a lil sip... #well i don't know. where is the fog patch haint warding tradition recited humorously from perhaps my grandma as the lore source there lol #not online i suppose. go figure. anyways theatres & ghosts & superstitions? already going on. the ghost light for sure. just add some more #and be all the more earnest with it lol. hey why do you always say ''brian no more of that shit please i don't care if you wanna be man 7'' #might still be more like ''i hope emile who's an alive guy out there doesn't try to kill me :/'' lmao fr.... #maybe he makes himself scarce a while but returns also. kids probably wouldn't tell a soul so long as he doesn't try to scare them abt it #kind of difficult to ask these children straightforwardly to just not say anything to anyone once they know you're here but #they probably don't wanna go exploring back down there again. did that. just don't haunt the plays or seem like you'll kill them #and like who knows maybe a lot of ghosts w/goals hanging around & they're generally Just Ppl in gb situations thusly #your new friend even if they're really more Mortal than you for the temporariness of it all; ideally #given that they Do have some goal to fulfill & then they'll peace out a ways. really hardly the worst gb style of situation to be in #it's the drama & mystery & theatrics....& the fun of like layers of genre awareness lol. you like horror & you know you're kinda in A Story #the play; the play having a mystery history & possible curse; school's haunted; someone's sabotaging you; fake janitor; suspicious behavior #and a couple of protagonists who are liable to go looking for some degree of trouble for the fun of it.... #anyways what a setup. lot going on lol. lot that Did go on. including the show; congratulations to everyone just about

[sternbilder]

@shamisense OH +++++1 HARD SAME

personally I don't mind daily or near-daily contact (since once I settle on a partner my intention long-term is to live with them and have to see them every day anyway), but even with someone I'm dating full-on text conversations every day or a constant asynchronous stream of texts with an expectation for quick reply would get exhausting for me very quickly and was one of the many reasons some of my previous relationships have been absolute nightmares for me

thankfully I think I finally may have met someone who is more my speed but I FEEL you that it's like #therearedozensofus and it's def not always easy to find

fwiw now that it's something I'm hyperaware of I've found that most dates are actually super receptive to talk about this if you just ask directly, like "how often would you prefer to text/call/meet up, and what does that look like for you in the early stages vs. a committed relationship?" it's been kind of very easy to weed out people who were obviously looking for much more frequent communication than I was tbh within like 1-2 dates

#shamisense #Reply #was literally just thinking about this actually bc coincidentally i also just had a tough conversation about this with my person #bc they mentioned kind of offland early on in the talking phase that they were Not a Good Texter™ #and even though i am like that too i had such a hard time believing them bc I've been brain poisoned by all my past relationships #so i was like No. surely if they're not initiating texts there is something wrong and they don't actually like me that much. #and also *i* must Perform Normal Texting Rituals to show that i like them back too and am putting in an effort even tho i don't want to #but after having like an actual earnest discussion with them it turns out that no they really ARE just like that and WERE serious about me #and i was making assumptions about them that were super unfair AND tiring myself out for no reason and god they were so much more #generous about it to me than i honestly deserved #so now actually texting them is much less stressful and more fun bc the pressure is off and I can just enjoy the conversation without #worrying so much about the pace! #and we also compromised by agreeing to meet in person more frequently/hang out more casually since we're getting to be a bit more serious #but yeah communication preferences are. such a huge part of compatibility that I can't IMAGINE #putting myself through another relationship where we didn't align on this

[alexandriteobscuraarchive]

Bingo for Alphinaud?

Meme

#kyven #;;ask response: ooc #I get so fuckin tired of the red - blue jokes and everyone comparing him to his sister!! so fuckin tired!!!! #they're both wonderful characters who've undergone engaging and earnest development and people need to stop pitting them against each other #I would fucking die for him---and my lala would too!---in a heartbeat #not picking the adoption one bc I'm not gonna infant code him---people do that enough and we should be better about it #mainly bc they clearly mean it in a derogatory way #and again *one of* the best in the game as a whole; #....I'm also one of the only people who don't ship him with Esti/nien dfafdadfsdasfadsad #that's not to say the ship is bad or unwarranted just....no. I view the dynamic differently

[leatherbookmark]

aaaauuuuggghhhhh this video (warning: choi san choi sanning) is not only a great (and lethal) choi san sampler but also proves why ateez performances fuck: it's the drama, babey!!! all the stuff they've apparently been criticized for -- the shaking, the weird expressions that border on scary/possessed -- are incredibly captivating and simply fun to watch. it's interesting. i'm not going as far as to say that if you don't look at least a bit freaky then what the fuck are you doing on stage, because there's a plenty of performers that kill their audience with slow, elegant and fully controlled movements. but it's like -- there's coming out on stage to sing and dance, and there's performing a character/a story/an emotional journey. and atz very often (not always) do the latter! when the demon line lads pull those intense faces, roll their eyes, do lightning fast switches between crazy laughter and serial killer face, i can't help but think they're seeing something else besides the stage lights! there's a story, there are events, there's Stuff. it's just like playing a role. i feel i've said it before, possibly even more than once, but having lively, emotionally intense (i'm still not over inception) performances in times when earnestness is ~cringe~ is really cool.

#shrimp thoughts #and i mean. atz obviously care about looking pretty and cool as well. they're idols. lbr. and iirc from the showterview some of them though #the pirate concept was cringey as well so it's not like they're the sole beacon of earnest performance in the sea of posers who only #care about being pretty and cool BUT it's like with actors. and like. even people here on tumblr dot com act as thought actors who get v #into their characters and spend a lot of time in their characters' head to get a good grasp on them are 'crazy' or whatever but that's the #Good Craft baby. seeing actors excitedly talk about their characters makes me want to watch the thing right away! it's the ultimate #advertisement because it shows that there's something to bite into! there's layers textures! stuff to get excited about! #yknow like those lotr/hobbit movie appendices that make you want to do all those jobs because the way everyone talks about working #on this movie is so interesting and exciting. there's MEAT and JUICE #and i mean yeah sometimes you just gotta do something for cash! and it's fine! or sometimes the actors have two separate boxes in their hea #that don't really mix their contents and it's also fine but excitement! excitement and engagement are what gives me LIFE #even a shoddy thing done with passion will always be better than an expensive sparkling gem that's performed and immediately forgotten

[maddy-ferguson]

thinking about that person who was saying that lucaya made them blind to how bad gmw was and that they were scared to look back on their rina days in a few years and think the same thing about hsmtmts

#very funny #i mean it's a show called hsmtmts #like my first thought was bestie i don't know how to tell you this #but what i actually think as someone who doesn't think hsmtmts is particularly good except for when it is it won't seem as bad #as gmw because it's sillier like on purpose? #and they're not like glee with the tackling every sensitive issue under the sun in a way that's questionable to say the least #gmw was very earnest and a lot of it just...did not age well #i was old as hell watching that show (i was like 14-15) and i did see some of the flaws that are now obvious to everyone like i #remember watching gm commonism (yeah) and being like what kind of cold war usa propaganda is this........also remember being like smackle #being autistic is good👍 i don't know if i realized the characters being that weird about farkle possibly being autistic and then him #not being autistic and then them making his gf who's exactly like him autistic and it being positive that time was weird. still don't know #why they would do that like um. okay. #joshaya hate was a yes. the love triangle and maya 'becoming' riley storyline was always hated by me. because it was very bad and made no #sense. but anyway #i disliked hsmtmts season 2 as the episodes were coming out so i'm not gonna say that's gonna age well but people who like rina aren't #usually the biggest fans of that season #but like some of it is cringe now so of course it will be in like 10 years. but ykwim they're more self-aware #even though some of it is still bad #and like i say: brf slt

[iamthekarmapolice]

mic the snare's deep discog dive on coldplay.....they were my favorurite band in the whole world between 2010 and late 2011 and this video is bringing back so many memories. their music meant so fucking much to me

#i'll defend their first 4 albums with my life. they're good and there's nothing wrong with being earnest and sincere!!! #the rock critics were all suffering from irony poisoning then thats their personal problem #but then everything they've released after that with the exception of 'charlie brown' 'hurts like heaven' and 'magic' is trash. t r a s h #the reason i lost interest late 2011 was because thats when 'every teardrop is a waterfall' and 'paradise' dropped and they sucked #also i was really into lotr around the same time so in my head coldplay kind of soundtracks a lot of lotr #i can't hear 'lost' without thinking about aragon #music is such a time machine their music really makes me feel like it's 2011. so many small moments i can remember so vividly

[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

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