#lockdown activities

[bugsbenefit]

forever annoyed by the wannabe activism that got so much worse during the pandemic that so many younger people seem to primarily abide by now. where almost all their "action" is online-based and heavily focused on media consumption and "problematic people". it drives me so crazy. i don't know how to tell you that going after a musician or actor or comedian because of their views or statements is the least productive form of activism and i honestly wouldn't even count it as such. if you want to call yourself an activist you actually need to ACT. not just talk online about how person xyz is evil and be done for the day, or say book/movie xyz is problematic and then log off, that's not enough, that doesn't actually DO anything

call local officials, go to protests, talk to people at your uni/school, boycott brands. hell, even talk to your parents about what's going on in Palestine, or other current events, many older people have conservative views, not because of inherent bigotry, but because they don't have enough information and grew up in a media propaganda bubble. or just talk about ongoing events online, keep the pressure on the public and don't let people lean back and forget. all that are actual forms of activism

i'll never stop being mad at the new wave social media wannabe activism that lets people think they're done with their Activism Activity of the day if they called timothee chalamet or noah schnapp a bad person. girl, yeah they are, but actually do Anything else too, that's not the activism you apparently think it is😭

#something something the lockdown forced people to be online instead of in local in person communities #so a lot of young people never learned how to actually do activism properly and only know the performative online outrage one #same reason why so many young queer people are so out of touch with queer culture and community honestly #i just need people to talk to real people in their area about things like activism and queerness so bad #organized action only works if local people organize and act 😭

[aimeedaisies]

Princess Anne visiting the Trawden Forest Community Centre, Shop & Library in Trawden, Lancashire on 10th April 2024

#the little boy showing off his scout badges 😭🥹 #nostalgia #i was in the scouts when i was younger 🥰 #also the little one looking at anne in the 5th photo #this looks like a brilliant initiative #the village bought the local conveniences after lockdown so they didn’t go into disrepair and it is volunteer led! #granny mode activated #princess anne #princess royal

[raytorosaurus]

ngl i lowkey missed this type of economy in recession where one of them breathes and everyone flocks to tumblr, summoned by various gcs or dms or changes in atmospheric pressure, to flood ur entire dash with a million slightly differently formatted screenshots of the same thing

#back in lockdown times this even applied to frank but he's too active to get this much hype currently #altho. i don't miss the Stupid discourse every time gerard did a comics interview lol #*

[m0ose-idiot]

I'm not going to dip it again!

Pat and his eggs 🥚👻🤍

#yeah i bought a lil breakfast tray off wish ah ha ha #can't stop won't stop #bbc ghosts #mooseidiot crochets #eggs #jim howick #charlotte ritchie #kiell smith bynoe #sneaky degopunk art in there again! #crochet #six idiots #amigurumi #during lockdown I started buying stuff off wish & sending it to myself like I was an animal in a zoo & now I can't seem to want to stop lol #getting mail was my enrichment activity #lol #pat butcher #alison cooper #mike cooper

[wolfoftonight]

Turtle pile!!!!

Character credits: Lark, Lockdown, Magpie, Kafka, Bee, Jasper, R, Mazie, Human, Onyx, Creative belonging to the Creative Bunch, Pao belonging to Glowbug, Argo belonging to Kangie, and Verne belonging to Jules.

#digital art #anthro turtle #anthro cat #fake photograph #going unhinged with this #I don't know how long I was actively drawing #but I had the concept for this less than 48 hours before I finished the final drawing #me? #turtle!lockdown #cat!lark #turtle!mazie #turtle!bee #turtle!jasper #turtle!pao #turtle!kafka #turtle!onyx #turtle!magpie #turtle!R #turtle!human #turtle!creative #turtle!argo #turtle!verne

[direwombat]

wip poll winner!

tagging those of y'all who interacted with that poll post (tysm for your votes): @madparadoxum, @deputyash, @strangefable, @adelaidedrubman, @aceghosts, @gaeadene, @cassietrn, @neverthesameneveranother, @socially-awkward-skeleton, @inafieldofdaisies, @voidika, @jillvalentinesday, and @ivymarquis

the whitetail ot3 won with seven votes, but because i'm so nice (and lack control) here's almost twice that many sentences :) not pictured is jacob having fun taunting eli by reminiscing about their...history together :) :) :)

“Oh, Eli,” Jacob says with a condescending click of his tongue. “I have something you want, and if you do as I say, I might even let you have her.” Eli’s blood runs cold. His hand grips his radio so tight his knuckles go white. “You listen to me, you son of a bitch. You hurt a single hair on her head and I’ll --” “Yeah, yeah, you’ll put me in the ground yourself,” Jacob says dismissively. “The shelter at Hunter’s Pass.. One hour. Come alone. I catch even a whiff of your lemmings, and I promise you’ll never see your precious Deputy ever again. Do I make myself clear?” “Crystal,” Eli grits between clenched teeth.

#if there's one thing my followers seem to like it's werewolves and threesomes #not that i blame y'all. i also like werewolves and threesomes <3 #to y'all who voted for the werewolf au pls don't worry i am actively working on it #sorry katc. we're on werewolf lockdown for the foreseeable future #and the whitetail ot3 will probably happen while working on the werewolf au #hokay. gonna finish eating. rb what i've been tagged in. and then gonna dive back into the werewoof au #my writing #my fic

[dogpantry]

#yeah. #healthcare is. #i wish i could explain how i love my career #but hate the system it lives in #i’m so tired. all the time #i can’t explain this kind of tired? #every day is something new. something sad. something awful #there have been two active threats against the hospital that required a lockdown #in just a few months. and i can’t even come home and talk about it all #because i can’t dump the daily trauma on my spouse or friends #i’m exhausted haha

[where-is-my-whump]

In aller Freundschaft S26 E35/36

#whump #unconscious #head injury #waking up #shot #in aller freundschaft #lockdown #active shooter #waking up from coma #operation #passing out #losing consciousness #held hostage #hostage situation #collapsing #loosing consciousness #whumpedit

[bleaksqueak]

Well, I feel a bit like a Dumb of Ass. Maybe you remember me hurting my back some months back and that slowing my art production down? I never *fully* recovered from that. It would get better, but then it would flare back up if i so much as blinked wrong (or slept in a Very Normal pose - like for example, a cactuar pose or Hail unto Gloria (Gloria a Las Plagas, maybe even). I've been fortunate my whole life not to ever deal with back, arm, shoulder or hand pain despite the lifestyle of drawing like a manic art weasel, so it turns out, due to that, I might not have known how to deal with back pain after hurting myself... and for extra stupidity points, "it's just a mild thing, so I need to rest, it's not worth a special doctor visit and complaint" ... so guess who took resting too far on top of far reduced physical activity o nthe heels of lockdowns and got into a severe inactivity loop that trapped them in a recurring pain loop due to it. (Hint: It Were Me) SO UH. PSA, DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. Good news is I'm doing something about it because I reached my breaking point of annoyance over being Slowed Down and Achey. My brain going 90 miles a minute and wanting to slather everything down does not mix well with a body LARPing as a bedridden victorian urchin boy: "Oh, what tragedy.... A Breeze [Contorts Into Pain Pretzel]"

The rest of the good news (but also maybe the sad part) is just after getting back to doing basic stretching and getting back into exercise break routines, I already feel way better with way less pain. My back/neck/traps had become a giant (and possibly sentient) knot.

#This is also me grumbling about how frustrating it's been to be slowed down on my usual art output #Always been able to get my ideas out like lightning and then one back injury later around my birthday and I've been in molasses hell #Got so caught up in being confused why it wasn't getting better that I forgot about that whole Use it or Lose It thing #tldr dumb stupid dumb #I say that in an affectionate way bc it's important to knuckle yourself in a loving way instead of actually beating yourself up over it #I'm just glad that I'm starting to feel actually better and that my back is feeling less and less like a limp noodle #my health has never been stellar but i've always liked to be physically active #but no more dogs to take on runs and lockdowns and straining my back turned my think meat into mush and decided Lets Become as Potato #Anyway hi how are you guys

[brother-emperors]

Do you think that Antony would have killed Caesar himself anyway? And he was just annoyed that he didn't get to do it himself first ?

nah, Antony feels more like an opportunist. He was probably angling to be set up as Caesar’s heir, and would’ve kept with it since Caesar was the leading man in Rome and that’s the most advantageous partnership to maintain, but there’s a sort of undertone to some of his behavior that feels like he was starting to hedge his bets. This makes the conspiracy to kill Caesar a situation to take advantage of instead of something he personally would have initiated (especially since he turned down one from Trebonius but also “neglected” to mention the whole thing to Caesar)

but also I mostly read biographies on Antony for Herod the Great, so absolutely do not take my word for it: I’ve never even finished reading Plutarch’s biography on him

#Octavian is much the same as Antony in this regard and it’s a major blind spot that Antony struggles to come out on top of him #I had to think about this one for a minute. I’ve been re watching Beyond Evil and all active brain space has been replaced with that #Antony? Don’t know him. I’m on a Dongsik lockdown #ask tag

[hella1975]

hello i just read twice as many stars i am going FERAL the way azula takes pride in her younger years despite knowing it was a toxic environment vs zuko HATING what he was when he was younger oh oh oh i love fire siblings you have ruined my month this fic is all im going to be thinking about

NOT TO MENTION THE OCS. THE OCS! YOUR OCS! why would you put us (and yourself) through this torment pls have mercy but also i love your brain i wish i could express this in a coherent way but gosh truly your writing is phenomenal.

i think its a lil funny that ive been meaning to read the art of burning since i first watched atla in like peak lockdown bcs everyone and their damn mother recs this fic but i didnt want to venture into a fic thats unfinished but then recently with atla renaissance with the live action i was like ykw fuck it if everyone's singing its praises i have GOT TO READ IT but also then i saw that it was like 10 chaps away from being finished so i thought might as well wait a bit longer but TAMS WAS SUCH A GOOD CONCEPT I COULDNT RESIST U DONT UNDERSTAND THE URGE and i am so glad now that i did bcs i am: obsessed and im finally FINALLY GOING TO READ TAOB WISH ME LUCK

GIGGLING AND BLUSHING RN

this is so so kind, im so glad you like it so far!! and specifically the comment about my ocs I AM KISSING YOUUUU this ask is singlehandedly gonna get me back to writing tams i mean it <3 and good luck w taob!!! you will need it god bless x

#sorry to my atla people ive got the most ATROCIOUS writers block atm like it's not been this bad in timeeee #to the point im barely even getting through dog teeth despite actively being hyperfixated on it like do u know how insane that is #the bitch who wrote 300k words in lockdown bc of a hyperfixation is struggling to write despite having a hyperfixation. i need a doctor #BUT i do mean it i miss tams in particular bc at least the taob crowd know updates take ages whereas tams i liked being more #consistent and frequent with. I PROMISE THERE WILL BE SOMETHING SOON #and this ask genuinely has reminded me how much i love that fic. tams in my future? tams in my future please queen? #ask #tams asks

[discworldwitches]

i never rly thought about how some people wouldn’t do earthquake drills. like obviously it’s not as frequent in other places but i just never rly thought about it.

#also just recalled the lockdown drills were just as much for an intruder/active shooter as it was for bears appearing on school grounds

[nicenight]

the person i've started seeing recently came over to my place for the first time and they brought me a slice of pecan pie they made themselves from scratch 🥺 they used to be a baker when they lived in their home state and it so shows, it was SUPER good. i'm supposed to be seeing them again at their place tomorrow and i'm going to bring them one of the spider plants i've been growing (out of the dozens I already have lol).

#m text #okay so....i've been emotionally unavailable and reclusive for years now lol exacerbated heavily by lockdown unfortunately and i'm only just #now breaking out of that rut by getting out of my comfort zone and actively trying to meet new people in my area #and i didn't expect to hit it off so quickly with someone SO cute too....i'm having a lot of fun :^)

[feraecor]

"Flaer is out there trying to find him now, Azus...if any one can find Satan, we know its Flaer...but that's probably as good as its going to get right now."

"I know...you have to know how appreciative I am of this. Considering everything that is going on...I know you need to worry about the children too."

Lilith sighed, patting Azus' cheek gently. "You are family too, Azus. I know how worried you are right now, with Pythius and Satan...the family is almost all accounted for, even the Corrupted ones. They are contained for now on Gaea and there is not much we can do to help them."

The demon prince runs his hands through his hair with a slow exhale. "How is Zaz...? Is the compound completely shut down now...?"

Lili winces. "Honestly...it was only a matter of time. Once one of the great grandchildren came back with the Corruption, it spread everywhere...the last contact we had from him was the day after Pythius."

"We're containing the spread to parts of Pythius' domain as much as possible...let us hope it does not get worse."

#{Azus -drabble-} #{Lili -drabble-} #~smol interaction between Azus and Lili #~they were both active and I wanted to do a semi update on San's missing status and the status of some of the Dresiae #~essentially Zaz's compound is now on lockdown and Lili's children are scattered as always #~there was no point in trying consolidate them all to one area cause there's too many of them #~so all of her children and the generations are hunkered down in whatever realms they are in #~though a good majority are in Gaea #~San's status as corrupted isnt comfirmed but its assumed at this point #{q}

[sophism]

went + found my professor’s (who was leaked in the Zionist group chat) LinkedIn… so now things are clicking for me lols

#his activity over the past few months. also I remember when I was in his class there was some kind of an incident #but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was I just remember he was rude about it #it was also during the really long lockdown

[gender-haver]

All things that I've done/had happen to me

#to clarify the lockdown wasnt due to an active shooter (I dont think- I think someone had robbed a store nearby or something?) and they only #let me in cause I was with my dad who worked there #everybody else was forced to wait in their cars I think #polls #poll #hyperspecific poll