#got this one from my grandmother i think

[holmesoldfellow]

1984 Soviet copy of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе," published in Minsk. It features "The Sign of the Four" ("Знак Черырех") and 17 short stories ("Рассказы"), including "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" ("Тайна Боскомской Долины") and "The Final Problem" ("Последнее Дело Холмса"), each with a small illustration at the beginning.

While a number of translations of Watsons name use Ватсон, this copy uses the Уотсон cyrillization.

#need to get my hand on a ukrainian copy tbh #got this one from my grandmother i think #sherlock holmes #holmes #acd holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #soviet holmes #soviet book #book illustrations #шерлок #холмс #шерлок холмс #записки о Шерлоке Холмсе #vintage book #book cover #illustration

[lordsardine]

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#okay like sue me. sometimes i google 'neioo' just because im a nosey bitch and want to see if anyone is talking about my fics #(i just got a comment on awh and like it makes me nostalgic etc. whatever. wanted to see if anything posted somewhere prompted it) #and i havent done this in a while #so please tell me why. WHY am i cited in someone's fucking PhD dissertation #yes the paper overall is about fandom and examining hetalia in particular so it's not like out of left field #but there are two fics total cited and mine is one. AND also there is a post from my fucking neioo blog cited??? #like my book announcement one?? #and neither of these are cited directly in the dissertation just at the end #so now i feel like im going a bit insane but like okay #i have work i need to be doing and i was reading this fucking dissertation instead #wish i could turn to 15 year old me and be like 'hey there champ. you know that fic series youre day dreaming in your head #that you don't want to write down because you think no one will read it #good stuff. anyway. one day it'll be cited in a dissertation #oh and your grandmother will have read it. have a good day' #...............well. now i need to focus back on work

[jewishbarbies]

resisting the urge to get in bed and fuck up all my organization bc i made it look too comfy

#g talks #the quilt is from either a great aunt or great grandmother (can’t remember atm) #and the tmnt blanket is from my dad’s childhood bed set #the dresser to the left was my mom’s growing up #and the dresser on the right (not quite pictured) was my grandmother’s #every but the sheets and my squishes came from someone else #very little in my room is new #i really like throfting bc it’s fun to connect with those items #my recliner is hella thrifted and it brought such good vibes into my room #like the place just felt lighter and more positive #also not pictured is the giant peep plush at the end of my bed #finally got my hands on one at my local walmart after a couple years of looking #I think pancakes’s tank is also hand-me-down #lots of family items in here #mine #/mobile

[boomerang109]

i am an incredibly sentimental person and lately i find myself remembering items i once had and wondering what happened to them and mourning them

#no because this was just a silly little post about a dinosaur piggy bank I had #but all of a sudden I just remembered meeting my great grandparents who passed when I was pretty little #i remember meeting my great grandpa specifically I think #and he had all these glass trinkets #and he let me pick one #and I picked this beautiful girl in a pink dress and she was a music box #and I don’t know what happened to her #she broke i know that #for years she was just a skirt that played music #from my siblings running in the house and it shaking my shelves and her falling (from being too close to the ledge ig) #but i don’t know if my mom made me get rid of her when we moved?? #I don’t remember having her in our second house #and certainly haven’t seen her since then #ugh my heart has been hearting for objects from the past #i used to have my grandmas cape and I finally asked my mom if she still has it #and I’m almost positive she’s going to have thrown it away and it like literally was the most gorgeous thing #and like the idea of it having been donated #like yes I’m very happy for whoever got it obviously #but. i grew up wearing it to school. it was made by my grandmothers hands. i want it. i want it I want it I want it #(I used to work myself into fits as a kid being sentimental about objects and then convincing myself I was spoiled cause you know ‘I want it #‘ isn’t a great narrative. so then I would sob because of that. it was a fun time.) #anyway I’m supposed to be unpacking but I’m just so full of nostalgia and also overwhelmed by unpacking despite the fact that I don’t have #anything to be overwhelmed by yet since I haven’t gone to actually get my stuff lmao #life of a boomerang

[music-for-them-asses]

It's so dumb, but it'll be 90 F here today and I'm still wearing long jeans and a 3/4 sleeve shirt to hide my tattoos from my grandma. Idk it was so instilled in me growing up not to offend her or disappoint her. Trust me, I know it's my life, and it's dumb, but disappointing my parents/grandparents is a thing I still need to get over. Ughghhhh. I'm gonna talk about it with my therapist though and see if next time I visit I'll be confident enough to not care.

#personal #I'm pretty sure every cousin has at least 1 tattoo #my sister has SEVERAL and both arms and one leg now #when I got my calf tattoo my mom was like 'But what will your grandmother think/do?' #and I straight up told her that it's not my problem if she is offended by it because it's my body and my choice #maybe because I'm from a conservative family that really enforced authority and respecting your elders #as if it's my pricked if they get offended because they don't like tattoos

[hallasimss]

not something i usually talk about here but i had a little breakthrough in the family genealogy research today and istg i felt something over my shoulder. like an ancestor or something i'm not even kidding

#* mine. #( * bhm. ) #hallasimss #( * like. generally i'm ambivalent on the concept of ghosts i don't really think they hang around like that. maybe they do maybe #| they don't who knows really but the sh*t i felt. the sh*t i f*cking felt opening up that document to scroll through the list #| of slave names and their countries/tribes of origin from a plantation i was looking into owned by people with the same #| last name as my maternal grandmother before she got married and had my mother. there's Igbo and Kongo and Mandinka and Fula #| and Yoruba and Senegalese and Caplaou [town of Grand-Lahou from the Ivory Coast] the longer the list got the more i broke out in chills #| idk. idk i just f*cking felt it i can't explain that. like i was in the right place and they had been waiting for me to find them #| even though i still haven't narrowed it down to specific names in the list yet #| still a little shaken. might have cried a bit closed the tab opened up CAS cried again the whole works. nine days left in BHM #| but they're making sure i don't forget this one God. the strength of my people. )

[k1rishiki]

ok fr last one but there's actually a bootleg of my school's anastasia and i'm linking it bc you all NEED to understand that my infatuation with this one girl's voice which started when i was in the 6th grade and still hasn't really worn off isn't based on nothing

#brielle's the one in the n95 mask (the video is too grainy to actually make out any of the ensemble's faces but she stands out) #and i'm the in my 'teenage tboy's diy first short haircut' era in every scene she's in #apart from everything abt the girl who plays anya. the tea on everyone else is that our director liked the boy who played gleb's voice so #much that she actually lowered some if not all of his parts to be in his range. the guy who played vlad was a total diva and uhm. the phras #'peaked in high school' has been tossed around at him a lot. and the fact that he came back to sub the year after he graduated isn't helpin #his case. also he pressured the girl who played anya's grandmother into wearing old age makeup + spray her hair grey bc he decided he was #going to wear it and since she's supposed to be older than him she had to too and used to waltz into the girls' changing room whenever he #wanted. everyone was like super shocked during auditions though bc we all thought he was a shoe-in for dimitry esp since seniors get #priority casting bc it's their last chance. but at callbacks (we had singing auditions via video and dance auditions in person and callback #were tacked on to the dance auditions) he kinda flubbed his song and then this freshman. who was with us via google meet bc he literally ha #covid at the time absolutely blew him out of the water and i remember walking away w brielle like 'holy shit [first name] [last name] just #lost a part to a freshman' (he's the kind of person you just have to full name otherwise it sounds wrong). that said i do think he made a #much better vlad then he would've made a dimitry and while he is. a lot. he's always been nice to me and i did briefly idolize him and his #stage presence way i did anya's singing voice but that faded when i got into hs and started actually observing his prima donna ways #(the one production we were in together before in middle school we didn't have any scenes together). the girl who played the grandma #actually shouted me out in cast circle and that's the only time that's ever happened to me. also i'm p sure her dad is/was dating someone m #dad and by extension myself work with so that's. Oh My God. like she (the one who works for my dad) brought him w her to a comedy show as i #think her bf but i'm not 100% sure and when he found out what school i went to he mentioned his daughter went there and despite the fact #that i basically have a script for when people ask me that question bc i do NOT pay attention to most of my fellow students and don't know #anyone i was like 'holy shit' bc i actually did. hm what else. the guy who played the tsar and i used to shittalk bad period dramas #backstage during the first part of act 2. also during the press conference scene i need you to picture all the bolshevik soldiers and #romanov royals doing the macarena behind the curtain bc that was absolutely what we were doing back there. speaking of the press conference #the really high singing w/o a clear source was actually anya standing behind the curtain on the other side of the stage bc she's the only #one who physically could sing the part. also in regards to the bolshevik soldiers. we were originally supposed to have wooden rifles but fo #some reason our director took them out so we had to just walk menacingly towards the romanovs. you can't rlly see me that well in that scen #but that jacket would NOT stay closed and for 2/3 performances i had to awkwardly hold it closed the entire time. luckily the one that was #filmed was the one where i was smart enough to bring safety pins and also saved like all of the ballerinas bc their costumes all started #falling apart at once backstage. #romeo.txt #theatreposting

[ranger-kellyn]

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#i've never been sure what emotion i'd feel once my grandfather passed #at first it was numb #i talked to my sister a little bit since she was there with him and she told me how it all happened #and it was the goofy bittersweet thing she said they all agreed on that finally got me to cry the first time #'You know he's just up there feedin' the dogs' she said with a sad laugh #'when he passed they all came running for him yellin' out 'George is home!' #and honestly. yeah. #Growing up on the farm we had countless dogs--and every single one of them knew he was a sucker for table scraps #my second cry came from thinking about how he's getting cremated and not only is he going back to chicago #but my grandmother's ashes will too #finally she gets to go to the resting place she was supposed to be in all these years #she gets to go be in the mausoleum wall finally with her mother #cried again typing that its a fucking roller coaster #death tw

[izzy-b-hands]

shout out to ND for making it incredibly hard to get caught up on COVID boosters; I think that may be why this time having COVID is kicking my ass so hard

#text post #i at least have been getting up to go downstairs but today i don't even want that and i hate that #my throat is killing me and there is Zero energy in any limbs and i slept for shit #bc apparently at this stage i should have been sleeping sitting up to help the throat (i am sitting up in bed now aksnfkgn) #butterscotch weed hard candy do ur work and numb my throat a bit pls #it keeps it from hurting as much and my god i have never been more grateful for weed aksndkfng #thank travis for travis but instead it's thank ppl who fought for legalization for it being legalized #i feel so lazy!!! sitting in bed!! gnashing teeth and frustration!!! #there is i think? a woodpecker outside tho and that's so cool #bc the last one i saw and heard was at my great aunt and great grandmothers place while they were both still alive #they claimed to hate the guy but after the fake owl didn't scare him off he just got to Stay aksndkfng #aunt Betty and great granma pls lend me some strength here bc im a Baby TM when sick like this aksndkgngn

[unopenablebox]

went to blick today.... didnt buy anything except a couple of $1.29 flexible rulers but just going to blick is really a great experience. highly recommended if youre stressed

#what i really wanted were new needle gauges (ive been using an ancient susan bates one i got from a friend of my grandmother #which is unfortunately both heart shaped and unwieldy and easily lost) #but have settled for just rulers #since the yarn store is closed today. #box opener #looking at colored pencils.... thinking Bookbinding Thoughts (Unrealizable)....whats not to like

[fagrights]

made a comment while we were all standing outside smoking after group today that its really cool we get to have this horrible ass air quality right now and do 2x damage to our poor shitty lungs then this guy idek his name tbh slapped me on the back so hard i thought i was gonna fall over but i think that meant he thought it was funny

#then he called me a wimp cause i only had one and im like my man im not supposed to smoke AT ALL anymore #i just woke up. #i might have come home from that stupid place and got drunk and then made french fries and passed out #i want a burrito so bad #my mom starts work tomorrow #my grandmother keeps thinking that kids are coming over all the time and messing up her stuff. thjere are no kids #my cousin keeps calling me crying aboout his graduation party next week #im stressing. #not lying about the air quality tho thats sucky i walk outside and think im being poisoned

[confinesofmy]

getting home from my first easter without my mom after spending 12 hours with the fam and eating a hot pocket as a late dinner bc i didn't feel comfortable bringing home a plate earlier... something needs to change.

#spent all of yesterday calling around trying to find out when it would be and what i should bring #didn't succeed at all so i didn't make anything bc of the uncertainty which is INSANE this is one of three holidays that i'm always #supposed to cook something for #my grandmother is scaring the shit out of me talking out of her head #she didn't even celebrate easter at all so i quite honestly assume she's dying that's so strange #set an alarm to wake me up early today after a bad night bc. well. i still needed to find out when the family holiday is 👀 #when i got through the answer was '30 minutes from now i was just fixing to call you' #i can't live like this lol #i'm not describing the rest of the day because i don't want to think about it for a long time #it was just bad and i felt bad and no one knows i felt bad and if i tried to explain it i wouldn't succeed #the fact that they didn't know i was feeling bad is damning enough tbh #i was 'crying in the sparse moments i was alone' bad #i've cried 5 times today #adam talks too much

[a9saga]

tbt - big bang - sober // two years ago this song brought me a lot of comfort after my grandmother died. this one was a long time coming.

#the world was such a bleak place i finally got into bigbang #a development which i am grateful my grandmother never had to see #i had been thinking of a cnblue song or also maybe zutter #but nah this is the one #far and away my favorite song by them although i am a pretty casual fan #where's that album gdragon said he was working on two years ago #we got still life and still... crickets since it seems #its ok i spent a long time thinking how i wasnt ready for The Discourse after bigbang comes back from hiatus #after all that shit with seungri as well after bts became the biggest fucking thing in the world #cause these guys eclipsed kpop before bts got to their prime #i digress #ive been posting fewer songs lately that makes me a little sad #im not sleeping well this past week ive been on my laptop for hours dude i need to eat breakfast #i have a snow day today #wishing all of you the best #q'd 2/28 #bigbang #big bang #kpop #tbt #song rec #shut up kaily

[arctic-hands]

Pleasantly surprisingly, Ferrero has apparently made progress in going fair trade and getting sustainable palm oil, so I bought a small jar of Nutella to try out again, and the cocoa in it didn't give me a migraine. No idea why but goddamn Nutella is good

#I took the gamble because I had some a few years ago with no consequences #i don't remember why I risked it to try but still #i was worried maybe I've grown more sensitive in the years since but nope #normally anything not white chocolate gives me god awful migraines #something I inherited from my grandmother #it's weird I can't find out the cause it's just a migraine trigger #one time when volunteering at a nursing home I was too shy to turn down the chocolate ice cream my supervisor was so eagar to give me #and while reading the book in book club I began to slur my words like I was drunk. the migraine was that bad and getting worse #upon leaving for the day I was physically stumbling. it was awful #but yay nutella doesn't do that #I used to love Ferrero Rochers as a kid before this quote/unquote allergy developed #I only ever got them on special occasions like holidays #I thought they were rare but you can get them in any candy aisle lol #anyway Nutella tastes like Rochers and that makes me happy #I'm not going to eat Rochers because I think it's the cocoa solids that set me off and those have solids #anyway rambling in the tags #France was right Nutella is worth rioting over #food

[iloveyoumorethansoup]

I texted my roommates from last year asking if any of them had taken one of my baking pans and they all said they hadn’t seen it so I texted one that wasn’t in a group chat and she’s like oh yeah it got left behind and since we knew it was yours and you left we threw it out. Like. What???

#if y’all knew it was mine why didn’t you text me first?? #like literally how long would it have taken to text me #i would have come back for it #and to make matters worse it was my grandmothers #also my one roommate took a mug home bc she knew it was mine so like. I don’t know why they didn’t think to give it to her? #i would’ve paid to have it mailed or to just have been held on to #also to just text me and be like oops sorry! it got trashed. like man that hurts #and the rest of my roommates to just pretend it never happened #damn. that really sucks #also I literally came home from winter break and showed them the pan and told them how excited I was that I finally had it again #so they knew it was mine. knew I loved it. and didn’t even tell me #also my ra was the last person to leave and she absolutely knew it was mine #she also couldn’t stand me. so I’m quite sure if she saw it she’d really make sure it got thrown away #soup talks

[esyra]

After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.

Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.

Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.

By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.

When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.

Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.

Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue sky—she hasn't seen the clouds for a while.

Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be alive—I'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.

For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.

Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.

That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 years—get used to it!

So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.

People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.

Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People, a book on Israel's arms and surveillance technology industries, said: "Israel has kept the occupation because it's a laboratory for weapons."

They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.

Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #may allah protect them #may almighty allah see our pain #hopefully she'll message me tomorrow