#Exploring new countries

[winter-paladin]

Watched all the Fallout TV today.

If you aren't familiar with the series then it's probably fine to watch. It was okay. It was just the games thrown into a blender and getting lucky it worked out.

As someone deep in the lore from fic writing, it was annoying to see lore ignored. The writers needed to play the games or look at any of the multiple wikis available.

And I'm just... so sick of the BOS. Like that's the only faction Bethesda knows exists. It's boring at this point.

Fallout 5 guaranteed to have the BOS because Bethesda no longer has any creativity and it is their cash brahmin.

#fallout #fallout tv series #fallout tv show #bethesda #It had its good moments #But it didn't feel like anything was achieved #Probably the point #Just there's this whole country to explore in the franchise with a new story and they didn't take any chances #Nothing felt “cool” to watch #The airship's entrance was more impressive in Fallout 4 #Went in with low expectations as one should with 2020s Bethesda #Expectations managed

[erinsintra]

pink and purple go so hard. they should make more flags with those colours. lets make new countries as an excuse to do it

#currently making new countries with purple on their flags #for worldbuilding i mean #i'm not gonna join an independence movement man i have stuff to do #fyp #fypツ #memes #tumblr fyp #explore #explorepage #funny #hilarious #fypage #foryou #meme #dumb shit #shitpost #shitposting

[miawashere]

international law

for those that don’t know, international law is defined as the norms of law which are valid for all states, according to ejil.org. international law includes treaties and policies that are set for the protection of human rights, war, the environment, and more. international law is very important for all leaders of the world to follow, and allows for there to be some sort of harmony between other countries.

#discover #law #lawyer #usa #history #lawblr #high school #explore #passion project #equal rights #country #arab countries #australia #laws #geography #america #international #india #nato #nato news #european union #russia #lawsuits #lawsuit #law school #law student #legal #fraud #ethics #regulation

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

I've somewhat made a horror movie blog (not on tumblr) so now I need to figure out what to post there. There's several topics I'd be interested in exploring, but idk how to make them sound interesting or good

#also need to find the time and motivation to edit what ive written and write new things #one topic I've researched before and wpuld be cool to talk about is the horror space sequel thing #since like several franchises just randomly have space sequels and i've spent hours reading about it bc i thought it was really interesting #and also really strange how its kind of a thing #id also be interested in talking about obscure movies #I've been watching some more obscure japanese and korean horror films lately and maybe i could talk about that #bc the more obscure movies are very rarely talked about #like everyone talks about the grudge and ringu and train to busan and audition #but i really like the more obscure moviee too. not just from those countries but others too #and it'd be cool to maybe explore them more? #idk #i dont want to do like reviews bc im terrible at reviewing movies (i guess maybe mini-reviews would be doable but not long ones) #I'll have to figure it out more but i do want to make a horror blog #I'd try my hand at a yourube channel but i hate video editing ngl so blog (for now) it is #oh also i wanna talk about lesbian/sapphic rep in horror!!! lesbians in horror are always my favorite thing ever so i love watching them #I've seen quite a few and i could maybe try talking about that too?

[the-everqueen]

"few things trouble you" tfw your creator (who is not YOUR creator, who did not recreate YOU, but is as much your lord shaper as you are your former self) sees you for what you really are but listens anyway

(from nightmare country, issue #5)

#sandman #nightmare country #the corinthian #daniel hall #dream of the endless #this single issue gave me so much hope for the dream/corinthian 2.0 relationship #that no one bothered to really explore in the now ret-conned dreaming comics #and that were displaced onto new-character Ruin in the waking hours comic

[alternativeulster]

swiftie mutuals please know that i still love you i just cant help but be a hater

#my opinions on ts are complex #like i think she's an insanely good and hardworking performer #you cant ignore the amount of work it takes to perform something like her eras shows #AND i think that when she puts her mind to it she can really knock it out of the park with a great song #every album has at least one A+ song #like genuinely i think anti-hero was her best ever lyrically #and she's at her best when she leans into the sappy over the top vibe like w love story or ybwm #my main problem with her is ofc her excessive private jet use #i understand that shes too famous to fly commercial bc she'd get mobbed #but when travelling within a single country she could at least be using road travel #anyway #wrt her music my main issue is that a good 80% of it is very... bland #she doesn't really do anything new or push any boundaries artistically #just plays it safe #and her lyrics can be genuinely awful when she takes herself too seriously (1830s but without all the racists) #and that sucks bc when she DOES decide to explore a new concept or play a character #she generally makes something interesting and fun! #blank space was fun bc it was a play into the media's constructed narrative about her #reputation was. a choice. but i'll defend it for being something different and actually taking a risk #this is a long ass tags ramble but i guess my point is #shes a pop singer. shes a pop singer who makes catchy pop music and thats okay #but she has a habit of taking herself too seriously and trying to be a deep meaningful 'poet' type songwriter like phoebe bridgers etc #which is just. not at all what she's good at #her music needs an ounce of self awareness to be good but her new album completely lacks that #sigh #dont ever get a diploma in music theory worst mistake of my life

[whentherewerebicycles]

omg this basil-ginger veggie stir fry with braised tofu was INCREDIBLE I can see this becoming a staple in my quick weekly dinner rotation. I used this recipe but doubled the sauce (except for the sugar), added a bunch of extra veggies + ginger + red pepper flakes + scallions, and made the tofu in the air fryer (my beloved). YUMMMMMMM. I want to check some labels as I suspect that the sauce mix might have a lot of sneaky added sugar (how else could it be soooo rich and decadent) but yeah this one is a KEEPER.

#jes cooks #woks are incredible how did I let mine go unused all this time #also I feel like apart from Indian food I have explored so little of other Asian cuisines #my SIL recommended this blog and I am psyched that the first recipe is such a winner #maybe I’ll make a recipe from each country in Asia for my remaining new recipes in 2023 #also I’ve never lived in a place with so many different ethnic grocery stores #is that a dated term? international grocery stores? #anyway I can get literally any ingredient for any national cuisine within a 5 min drive of my house #it’s amazing and I intend to take full advantage

[taikanyohou]

ughhhh if only discovering new music could be classed as a professional hobby 😔.

#its one of my faaaave hobbies to indulge in if only i could talk about it and make it sound all professional like 'yeah i have an entire #blog dedicated to sounds i love and like and wish to encapsulate and store in one place that then becomes my happy go to place #and says so much about my personality and what i listen to and the energy it gives me and how discovering new music #has made me listen to so much of different cultures and countries and languages #that i couldnt ever do so before and even within my OWN cultures (indian and pakistani) ive LEARNT SO MUCH!!! #such as how sound changes overtime throughout history but some elements stay the same #how good folk music can be if you just pay attention to it and are willing to give it a try #how the east mix elements of the west into their music but still keep it sounding eastern #but v modern too so that its a relatable listen for a westerner but still firm to its eastern roots #how multilingual songs have become! how much that says about an artist trying to express themselves and their identities! #how stories are told how concepts are explored how religion is used as a way to devote something to someone close to you #how much you learn just by opening up yourself to new music and sounds!!!! how you can build entire playlists around fictional media #and characters based on the songs you hear and how you can make the two things crossover and overlap. #how that enhances your experience of consuming media!!! and makes the song and piece of media even more symbolic to you.' #ughhhhhhhh 😔😔😔😔😔. #faiza talks

[whoisthatmovinginthedark]

The Yi Bang-won, Seo Hwi and Nam Seon-ho love triangle (if that's how one likes to see them as. I do) truly has so much to make it extra delicious.

By the end of everything, one has killed both of the other's fathers. One killing is a later revealed secret that doomed the love before they even met, and the other killing was to spare another of them the torment of having killed the father of someone they love.

One of their fathers has held hostage and killed another's sister, which made the two families enemies to each other.

The same father also poisoned the one who lost his sister, destroying his health.

All of them have nearly fatally stabbed or tried to kill each other at some point.

Everyone has betrayed one another in some way.

The ultimate choice as to who will eventually be the one left behind happens during a scene in which one is pointing a drawn arrow towards another who has his sword pointed at the third one's throat.

Everything ends with two of them dying in each other's arms by the third one's command, while he cries and laughs a joyless laugh alone.

Yet the love is there, all the way to the end, even during the kill command. There's so much affection. Saving a life. Nursing to health. So much chemistry. Obsession. If I can't have you, no-one can. I'd rather you hate me than feel nothing towards me. I'd rather make you hate me than let you be in danger. Feelings that won't fade no matter what horrors may happen.

#my country the new age #I watched some episodes today and #the drama might have it's weaknesses (as most things do) #but it sure has some of the most characters for me #and leaves so many possibilities to explore the character dynamics and what might have happened during those moments we don't get to see

[monotonous-minutia]

I spent like a week working on this like it was some kind of school project.

anyway here's a thing I made.

#orpheus and euridyce #greek mythology #music #playlist #i spent three days just making the icon #when you talk about a tale as old as time it's these two #like the TWO earliest surviving operas being about them? #researching pieces i found so much music from so many countries across so many genres #there's something so inexplicable about this story that keeps us drawn to it #yes bc I Am Me this playlist consists primarily of classical opera folk and indie #but there's A Vibe #and just some of the prettiest sweetest love songs i've heard #this is a happy playlist btw #there are some lovely sad compilations for them #but i wanted to focus on the happiness in their love before the tragedy hits #gluck/calzabigi and mitchell ruined me for this story but it's been fun exploring other versions as well #will probably continue to add to this as i find new things #lots of baroque on here :D

[brb-on-a-quest]

if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn't matter, let's get to know the person behind the blog !

A wizard is never late answering her asks, nor is she early, but she answers precisely when she means to.

I rolled relatively low on my constitution stat, and now most of my friends question how I'm still alive after (almost) 22 years of existence. (Am functioning well and in a good spot, don't worry).

I am decent on my intelligence stats as I study psychology and Spanish at my university. I even get to tutor a bit through one of the school programs that I'm heavily involved with (mainly spend a lot of time making memes and procrastinating doing my homework).

When I'm not working on my academic main quests (sigh), my sidequests (hobbies) often include journaling, hanging out in one of the rooms on campus with people, or reading (currently working my way through The Aeneid for school and also 1984 cuz free amazon book and I'm enjoying it so far.) I'd like to be able to crochet but only to the point where I can make those little stuffed animals I see everywhere to add to my growing collection of things that keep me happy (I kind of have many magpie tendencies)

#I also like DnD #and fandoms #really just fandoms #this is the 3rd time ive been half tempted to make myself a joke dnd 5e character sheet for the memes #thank you all besties #also i like traveling and actual adventuring! mainly that means exploring my town/cool restaurants/meet new people #bc i can't really drive without a car on campus #but i like doing things #farthest place i ever got to go is England. I want to do Spanish speaking country but things cost money and i am in college #brb-asks

[sandumilfshou]

some choice photos from my road trip around the south island/te waipounamu in aotearoa new zealand 💛

(pictured: glenorchy, wānaka, gillespies beach, milford sound/piopiotahi, cathedral caves, southernmost point of te waipounamu)

#why has it taken me literally 28 years to explore the other island of my own damn country #photography #nature photography #new zealand #aotearoa #te waipounamu #nz #nz photography #roadtrip

[sendingsoftlove]

I’m gonna go ahead and say happy new years everyone! I’m going to bed early since I went to bed late last night. I hope that this new year is good to all of us.

Manifesting and wishing that all of your goals and dreams can come true.

Peace & Love Always,

- Eden 🌞🦋🕯️🧡🫧🪬🥳🫶🏾

#fypツ #fypage #fyp #explorepage #explore #sunset #country #happy new year #2024 here we come #positive vibrations #positive mindset #brand new day #self love #feeling motivated

[alborde]

having your first full(ish) time job be a fixed-time position in a foreign country is such a weird thing in regards of starting to find your own little thing as an adult

#like #probably some of this only applies to me specificallt #but #balancing new found independence #having the time money and space to explore new things #with the knowledge that in less than three years you'll have to move to a new country/city (bc im not finding another position in my field #that will give me a visa here) #and taking that into account regarding what you can invest in or not

[timeisacephalopod]

I saw a post the other day that kinda pushed back on the way all coming of age movies are about sexuality and all high school stories basically center around who wants to fuck who and how that's like. Not really all coming of age and high school stories should offer since you know. Youth isn't about who you have a crush on and probably coming of age stories in particular should be far more diverse in subject matter than they are.

Honestly as someone who, when I was 'coming of age' age, hated coming of age stories and still do for the exact reason listed above (see the weird scene in It where we all sexualize a 13 year old girl because boys have crushes and surely there's no other way to portray this than feeling a child up with a camera to demonstrate boys have ~feelings~ Bev gets no equivalent scene because she's the object of affection rather than the subject feeling desire) I also wish there was diversity in those stories. And coming of age stories about adults- we don't stop going through huge life moments that change everything forever, but back to kids. When I was a kid I could have desperately used a coming of age story where the character has a sick and dying parent who does die by the end of the story and what happens after that. Granted I did just fine without it, but even without being asexual it's always irked me that coming of age stories don't seem to appreciate that kids have way larger problems and way better stories to tell then first crushes and first kisses for shit sake give kids who went through what I did as a kid some kind of story about what happens when your parent gets cancer and how complicated that is and stop assuming the biggest thing that happens around puberty is discovering sexuality that, if you were queer, you probably already noticed what you felt wasn't in a coming of age story anyway.

#winters ramblings #id actually LOVE to see a coming of age story about an immigrant child moving to a new country #and have the coming of age center around THAT instead of these bizarre vaguely adult explorations of sexuality #that honestly ive never related to anyway like maybe the allos get it but even THEY deserve more diversity in stories #SURELY even your local allos have a dad dying of cancer they desperately need to know what to do with #like deadass a therapist told me at 26 i was robbed as a child because of what i went through and i STILL cry when i think of that #but no coming of age is all sex shit because children according to adults dont have real issues #which tells me adukts writing the stories are MASSIVELY privileged or stunted by execs or straight up assune kids wont watch #a REAL coming of age story. also i want a coming of age story about a 40 year old who is going through a career change #and the struggles that come with late career change. the benefits of a late career change. all the complicated family goo around all this #just give me decent stories that arent too focused on fycking RELATIONSHIPS for once. have them there sure i dont care #but for FUCK sakes can we stop pretending a 13 year olds biggest concern us who they have a crush on?? #my dad was DEAD and i knew only one other person who lost her mom way younger than me at 8 #we did not understand each other and how could we when our situations were so different. BOTH of us were so highly alienated #because NO ONE not even each other could relate to a lot if the people around us. the only thing we DID have in common #was the sick feeling we got when someone would bitch about their parents having fair expectations or not giving them literally everything #we both had an 'at least you HAVE parents to hokd you to reasonable standards and all you do is SQUANDER it' even if our feelings werent #faur to our peers anymore than their feelings were fair to us. wheres the coming of age story about THAT #tell me a story about a 16 year old whos mom has been dead HALF her life already like my friend. i was lucky enough not to deal with that #until i was 24. she deserved better out if high school and coming of age stories too. believe it or not kids have REAL lives and problems #and im SO tired of no one writing anything but some sad kids books about it even if the books are SOMETHING to start with #like for shit sakes must NICEthat the worst thing YOU went through was realizing you had a sexuality but my queer ass #ALWAYS knew i was different and highschool highlighted that a BUNCH so unless we're exploring aroace teens that doesnt appeal either #great yet ANOTHER story about straight teenagers because THEYRE the ones who need guidance on how to express themselves #like they dont see strsight people storoes and sexuality EVERYWHERE plus the ACTUAL opportunity to date in high school #that most queer kids dont get or dont get in the same way. why is THAT the only story being told when its the most saturated and BORING #and also ignores that kids have REAL issues and NO angency. explore THAT. do ANYTHING but yet another fucking coming of age story #about straight kids having crushes on each other and thats IT like come on SERIOUSLY

[stellafortunae]

At some point, I really should take the time to actually write out how Andrii's universe works, especially with the next update happening soon... At least establish what the timeline is, since it's already been established that his Dottore doesn't follow the same timeline.

#ooc #I've also finally got it figured out too #for the most part #fun fact and only partly related 4.0 is actually going to be dropping literally the day before my birthday #I get to explore a whole new country for my birthday hell yeah