#mother's day 2020

[jasontoddssuper]

You want me to go meet up with my mom?The thing that killed Jason Todd?

#HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY DJDJDJDJDJF #also please don't say the words 'm*mmy issues' on this post i beg😭 #jason todd #robin #red hood #batfam #teen titans #ditf #utrh #ditf 2020 #rhato #rho #wfa #teen titans:damian edition #dead sidekicks force #as per always my jason is afro-dominican a bi trans man and adhd autistic mdd #letters from summer #pop post 🌟

[mybrainproblems]

hello, i'm finales georg...

i don't want to further clutter up the notes on this post while responding to the tags below but the persistence of the "finale is short/scenes are missing/extra ad break” conspiracies drives me absolutely bananas when i've watched the finale ten times and have posted about this A LOT trying to clear things up. (disclaimer that yes, i'm a goddamn destiel shipper but i care about Facts above all.)

ok but this is weird because i'd swear the episode was shorter (11 missing scenes!) but okay. maybe we all mandela effected ourselves into #beleving that. because it felt shorter. but i will die on the hill that it had another ad break. i understand this person has the thing #recorded with ads so i am thinking maybe different ad breaks in different idk time zones??? #because the finale did air an hour earlier in canada so maybe idk i am reaching here but maybe different states or whatever had different #ad breaks??? as for the last minute changes - wasn't the cover band asked for permission to use their version of carry on like a week before #the thing aired??? so even if the episode was 42 minutes and had no additional ad break - which i am side eying but lets say all was normal #i will always say they were changing thing until the absolute last minute (carry on my wayward son X 2 #the crew on the bridge which is not only giant 4th wall breaking but also wow they really got all those people in one place in times of #covid???) #anyway. tinfoil hat stays on sorry guys :/ (via @officialmisha)

short and snarky: there are plenty of real and sourced examples of network homophobia and scripted/directed destiel scenes being cut to point to. we don’t need to make this stuff up just bc the finale wasn’t what we wanted. so it’s not the mandela effect — it’s ppl repeating a conspiracy/rumor bc it supports their narrative and it’s easier and more fun to repeat something that supports a narrative they already believe (misha or something destiel was cut) vs the boring act of fact checking.

longer circumspect answer with links bc like many ppl i am in my debunking era and i rewatched "roblox_oof" last night.

like i said. i've watched the finale ten times. i’ve gone over the episode with a fine toothed comb and posted a detailed breakdown of timing marks on my blog. it’s actually extremely obvious where the ad breaks are once you know roughly where to look for them (they have a longer fade to black instead of a quick cut scene change). there’s no room for extra ad breaks and i think this conspiracy/rumor persists in part bc the episode feels so sparse in terms of cast and the fact that the episode’s momentum hits a barn post (and rebar) less than 20min into an hour-long programming block.

also i’m begging ppl to actually look at that timing mark post. it’s very straightforward and i spent a lot of time on it. i don’t care if ppl plagiarize it at this point if it means this conspiracy stops. i've got almost every second accounted for.

the "eleven missing scenes" that you're thinking of are probably from the finale script of questionable authenticity that @spnscripthunt acquired back in 2021 which can be found here. it's dated as the “final draft” from 11 sep 2020 and filming on 15x20 wrapped on 10 sep 2020. as noted at the bottom of this superwiki page "[the] script came from someone claiming to have been the person who did the closed captions for the show in Russia. There are some indications that it possibly may not be authentic, but this has not been confirmed."

if we go with the possibility that this was a transcript meant for subtitles, the "omitted" scenes were probably written but never filmed since it's the "final draft" and not a color revision (blue, green, yellow, etc). unfortunately, i’ve lost track of where i read it and a preliminary duckduckgo search isn’t bringing it up bc there's a program for script writing called final draft, but iirc the “final draft” version of a script is a transcript of what was filmed (e.g. there are parts of that 15x20 script that ended up being deleted scenes on the DVD). spnscripthunt also has an example of a confirmed final draft for 09x02 (funnily enough, also a dabb-penned ep). if anyone can confirm with a source that i have the purpose of the “final draft” version designation wrong, please let me know! i love being proven wrong with Facts.

i do want to acknowledge that the two “final drafts” do look different from each other and the 15x20 one doesn't look like a “real” final draft script since it lacks the revision/versioning dates that a script would normally have on the cover page. it could be that it was intended for subtitles; there's the chance it's been re-typed to anonymize it if there was anything indicating who the "owner" was, tho that seems a wee bit cloak and dagger to me. and again: it's considered of questionable authenticity. there are some things that don't quite line up but oh dear god i don't want to get even further out into the weeds than i already am.

i won't disagree that it's weird as hell that neoni only got asked about using their cover seven days prior to the episode airing (tiktok here). my personal theory is that they were hoping to get a more expensive song (maybe a zepp song, idk) and didn't manage to secure the rights in the end. again: this is pure conjecture on my part! but i could absolutely see someone working on the show hearing neoni’s cover and liking it and then maybe they were using it as a placeholder until it got down to the wire and they had to make a call/send the ep to networks. because yes, it is baffling they played a song and then a cover of it with only a 40 second break between. (i do actually really like the neoni cover! the placement is just weird and i think it could have worked if they had the kansas version at the beginning and closed with neoni's full cover.)

as to the 4th wall break COVID stuff: robert singer talked with variety magazine about filming the last two episodes and the logistics of filming during a pandemic. whether they should have been filming during a pandemic is a separate discussion but their use of office vs set pods, strict quarantining and daily testing meant that they had zero positive tests in the month they were filming (18 aug to 10 sep). so given all that, i personally don’t think it’s totally out of pocket to have everyone standing outdoors on a bridge for maybe an hour to get a drone shot of them together. (i won’t get into incubation periods and viral load, but if everyone tested negative that day and every day for a month prior, it was a fairly low risk scene to film outdoors and for all we know everyone was masked until the last possible second. there were plenty of outdoor masked protests in 2020 that weren't superspreader events.)

and before anyone brings up “but misha was in vancouver!” i know someone who looked into it and they said no dice, nothing matched up between the backgrounds in those pics and places in vancouver. his statements about “us” going back to set over the summer were pretty generic in hindsight and “we”/"us" could be him or the spn crew generally. unfortunately i’m not able to find those tweets but the use of “we” was likely so as not to give away he wouldn’t be returning to set. (bc we were absolutely casbaited!) and bc it comes up a lot: the "onion field pic" was from when they were filming 15x17 and was not taken while filming 15x19 and 15x20.

besides, it would be ridiculous to go through the financial and logistical headaches of bringing someone into the country to film during a pandemic, only to cut their scenes in the end! honestly, the script is pretty tight when the scenes are given so much breathing room! the only thing i could see being further cut down is The Monologue and even then, i don’t think there was any intent to cut it down given it was filmed in fairly long takes.

i’ve said it many times before, but i believe the finale was fucked long before they returned to set. walker got the green light in sep 2019 and it was being marketed heavily as a “follow on” show to spn given jared’s involvement. the demo they were courting for walker has little to no overlap with the demo for destiel fans — why would they want a finale that catered to a demo they weren't interested in courting? we just went through a historic double strike that exposed so much of the rot of business interests overriding creative vision. this isn't completely unfounded conjecture.

i will not apologize for the length of this bc i wanted to be thorough, but i do want to give context that i think the reason these conspiracies and rumors grind my gears so much is because anyone can fact check all of this. the truth is out there and absolutely none of it is that hard to find. the most time consuming/difficult part of this was finding someone who had a DVR’d copy of the finale from when it aired live and they actually found me themselves after i’d been low key asking around for a year!

and like. i get it. conspiracies are fun. but there are so many sourced instances of network homophobia and destiel being cut that it's like. why is this something folks are hanging onto? the cw is notorious for having upper level meddling with finales bc there's a follow-on show they want to shuffle fans along to and spn is no exception.

#this is my personal bugbear / debunking hill to die on #it's so easy to disprove and has been disproved for so long at this point and it just keeps. on. getting. repeated. #finales georg #destiel #spn #unfortch most destiel folks don't venture outside the ship harbor and this has been LONG debunked by w/incest blogs #as in like. days after the rumor first started circulating in nov/dec 2020. (and it takes next to nothing!) #i'm a more recent arrival to the fandom (feb 2021) which i think gives me a bit more distance being able to watch the finale 10 times lol #but like. it is RIGHT THERE. folks don't even have to watch the ep. just pull it up on netflix/DVD/whatever to see the runtime. #the 'new post' button is right there. screencap my post and dismiss the effort i've put in somewhere i don't have to see it. #fandom debunking #i heard tommy tallarico was the first american hired to work on supernatural (his mother is very proud)

[joansblondells]

Grace Van Dien as Ellie Lansing in LADY DRIVER (2020)

#gvd #grace van dien #gvdedit #lady driver 2020 #dailywomen #femalegifsource #filmedit #userladiesblr #gvdsource #poking around graces insane assorted tv-movie core filmography #god truly gives his hardest battles to his gvd warriors #keeping it real w you lot. skimmed the film for mother. i am not watching all that #actually looks very sweet lol maybe one of these days #op #feeling the sick urge to make a full multi gif set of her in this!! arghhhhhh!!!!! #2am posting again.. who else up giffing they grace🤨

[jirachibaby]

Happy mother's day (US)!

Made this for my mom <3

#mothers day #happy mothers day #killed my wrist but it was worth it #it's a redraw from an old 2020 piece which was a redraw of a 2018 piece lol #digital art #unicorn #pony #unicorns #fantasy creatures #artists on tumblr #digital artist

[sunnykeysmash]

I used to follow HIMYM as it was airing back when I was like 13 and it severely rewired my brain and now I consume sunny as if it were the exact same genre and no one can stop me

#macdennis will give us the serve of getting together and divorcing too <3 #don't ask me about the forbidden himym sunny parallels i don't even remember them. i know i had them #but it's a secret 2020 me holds #btw thats HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER for the unfamiliar #favorite character at 13 barney stinson favorite character at 23 dennis reynolds. i haven't aged a day! #iasip #always sunny #it's always sunny in philadelphia #himym #when i say sunny is a romcom this is what i mean

[sad--tree]

well shit. just checked out the lineup 4 bluesfest this year and i may have 2 actually brave the crowds 4 once. there might just be enough ppl id wanna see to make it worth it, altho tbh matthew good is almost enough for that on his own lol coz like. matthew good!!! that's the music of my freakin childhood man!! (*the most canadian sentiment ever)

#but also: ben howard; orville peck; charley crockett; mother mother #and of course. motley fucking crue. for some reason. i mean why not right? lol #ftr no i dont know why its called bluesfest when theres so much non-blues. they DO have blues its just. theres a lotta other stuff. #idk. perpetual mystery here in the nations capital. #i REALLYYYY wanna see matt good tho i was supposed to in 2020 and he CANCELLED instead of rescheduling like every1 else 😭 #still might go to mtl in april to see him tho. festival sets are just Not the Same lbr #NOW i just gotta see if any of the artists i wanna see are on the same days..... pls..... so much more cost effective.... #my whole life ive lived here and ive never been 2 bluesfest. maybe thisll be the year that changes #hmmm. $280 for a 'pick any 3 days' ticket is Not Bad At All.... definitely gonna b Pondering this further.... #tho $410 for a full pass is also not terrible. relatively speaking bc tgats is still Not A Small Amount of Money #not sure the full lineup is worth that 2 me tho #HMMM #anyways hey bluesfest. why the FUCK is your website so bad my god the scrolling lag good fucking lord. what the fuck are u DOING back there #also also. on the topic of music festivals. i KNOW its not coming back but.... heavy mtl return W H E N 🥺😭🙏🔥 #i just. wanna go 2 a metal music fest. w/o breaking the bank and/or subjecting myself to festival camping. which i refuse 2 try by myself. #not that we really have that sorta festival here at all but it seems the Really Big european ones are like that and uhhh. #it just seems like A Lot to do that solo. for a first time doing smth. #ANYWAYS !! still contemplating whether i want 2 spend altogether Too Much Fucking Money to see metallica and iron maiden later in the year #like on the 1 hand its A Lot Of Money plus id have to travel (edmonton 4 metallica; mtl or TO 4 maiden) #on the other hand. those guys arent gettin any younger. and the FOMO is unfortunately real af when u never know if theyre gonna retire #or like. DIE. (ok ok or like. idk break a hip or smth lol) ( they arent THAT that old just. u kno. fear.)

[pastelpaperplanes]

Literally this

the internet remains undefeated I am HUMBLED

#the rarest of pairs #it takes the crown #but also has the stupid little jester hat too bc holy shit is there no better CRACKSHIP #(I’ve gotten some asks about hey wtf is megahead EVEN #it’s bulkhead/megatron #and their glorious fan kid named Bunky #BLESS YOU EVE #took the crack kid community by storm in 2020 #there was FANART there was FANFIC deadass I think it became a cult for megahead #literally the best couple weeks to witness #long story short: megahead is the worst shipname ever and Ailey bc of that did a lovely handful of people made it their duty #soley bc** #to let everyone and their MOTHER spread the word of megahead and bunky #ah the good days. LMAO) #RAREST OF MEGS PAIRINGS #all for some shits n giggles #SO MUCH FUN THO #asks #cursed

[nikkidiary-orangecatty]

꧁༺ Nikki’s Diary ༻꧂

꧁༺ Nikki’s Diary ༻꧂

P.1-2 :: 🤰👩‍👧🌸🌺🌹💐🌻🌷

I just met a very young child who came to buy flowers, and asked the clerk, "Can I wrap the ones for my mother in a more beautiful way ?"

Then he hopped away like a little sparrow holding the roses he bought, which made people feel happy.

Happy Mother's Day to every mom 🌹

P.3-4 :: 💍👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻👗💖✨

Wedding dresses don't necessarily only appear at weddings, when you want to take pictures, coming-of-age ceremony, graduation, travel... as long as you like., You can wear it at any time. ❤

What unforgettable memories do you have about wedding dresses ?

P.1-2 :: 🤰👩‍👧🌸🌺🌹💐🌻🌷

ฉันเพิ่งพบเด็กน้อยที่มาซื้อดอกไม้ และถามพนักงานว่า "ฉันห่อดอกไม้ให้แม่ได้ไหม"

จากนั้นเขาก็กระโดดออกไปเหมือนนกกระจอกตัวเล็กๆ ที่ถือดอกกุหลาบที่เขาซื้อมา ซึ่งทำให้ผู้คนรู้สึกมีความสุข

สุขสันต์วันแม่ แด่แม่ทุกคน 🌹

[ 10.05.2020 ]

P.3-4 :: 💍👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻👗💖✨

ชุดแต่งงานไม่จำเป็นต้องปรากฏเฉพาะในงานแต่งงานเท่านั้น เมื่อคุณต้องการถ่ายรูป งานรับปริญญา รับปริญญา ไปเที่ยว... คุณอยากใส่เมื่อไหร่ก็ได้ ❤

คุณมีความทรงจำเกี่ยวกับชุดแต่งงานที่ยากจะลืมเลือนไหม ?

[ 20.05.2020 ]

#Nikki’s Diary #Nikki’s Weekend #Nikki’s Important Day #Mother Day #Nikki’s Diary 2020 #Nikki’s Weekend 2020 #Nikki’s Important Day 2020 #Mother Day 2020 #Shining Nikki #Nikki ​3D #Nikki Up2U 4 #Nikki 4 #Orangecatty #Nikki Diary Thailand #05.2020

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: March 27, 2023

Lyrics:

The fact that Meghan Trainor is literally mother right now

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me (you listen to me)

Stop all that mansplainin', no one's listening

Tell me, who gave you the permission to speak? (Speak)

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me (shh)

M-m-m-mister big boy, pullin' up in your big toy

Sayin' all that blah-blah-blah, makin' all that big noise

'Cause you're so frustrated, emasculated

'Cause you got your shit called out by this little lady (my baby)

Yet your opinion's so strong even when you're wrong (when you're wrong)

Bet that feels like power to you (that feels like power to you)

Must've forgot who you're talkin' to

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me (you listen to me)

Stop all that mansplainin', no one's listening (shh)

Tell me, who gave you the permission to speak? (Speak)

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me (you listen to me)

You just a bum-bum-bum (bum-bum-bum), bum-bum-bum (bum-bum-bum)

You just a (you just a, bum-bum-bum), hey (bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum)

Y'all need a masterclass from my man, learn how to satisfy like he can

Ain't tryna control me and own me like an old man on C-SPAN

Bet you wish you could wife this, stay mad, that's priceless

You with your God complex, but you can't even make life bitch (bitch)

Yet your opinion's so strong even when you're wrong

Bet that feels like power to you (that feels like power to you)

Must've forgot who you're talkin' to

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me (you listen to me)

Stop all that mansplainin' (hey), no one's listening (shh)

Tell me, who gave you the permission to speak? (Speak)

I am your mother (I am your mother), you listen to me

You're just a-

You just a (you're just a-, you're just a-, bum-bum-bum), hey

You just a bum-bum-bum (bum-bum-bum), hey

(Shake-shake) ladies shake your (bum-bum-bum), hey (bum-bum-bum)

Shake that bum (bum-bum-bum), bum-bum-bum (bum-bum-bum)

Songwriter:

Pat Ballard / Sean Douglas / Meghan Trainor / Gian Stone / Justin Trainor

SongFacts:

👉📖

#Youtube #Spotify #Meghan Trainor #Mother #hit of the day #music #music video #video of the day #youtube video #chaos radi o #good music #2020s #2020s charts #2020s music #2023 #pop #dance pop #lyrics #songfacts #336

[kyliebrightsun]

| Happy big brother day! (Pt. 1)

A little three part fic I wrote for Mother’s Day but was too shy to post, so here it is now, I’ll post the other parts soon if you guys want them!

(Part 2?) (Part 3?)

-

“It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow”

Dot looked up from her book to give her immediate older sibling a confused look, wakko was laying on the floor looking at the ceiling, the expression on their face conveyed that they were thinking about something important.

“Ya?.. what about it?” She asked, intrigued but puzzled, as far as all of them were aware they didn’t have a mom or dad, so Mother’s and Father’s Day were holidays her and her brothers never celebrated, so why wakko was talking about it now is beyond her.

Wakko rolled over onto their stomach and looked at her

“Well, I was thinking about how the only actually person we’ve ever had close to a mum is yakko, and..” they stopped for a moment, fidgeting with the ends of their sweater sleeves

“…and?” She prodded, urging them to continue talking,

“And i was thinking why don’t we celebrate Mother’s Day for yakko?” They concluded with a small smile.

She blinked and mulled that over in her head, wakko was right about that, yakko was the closest thing they’ve ever had to a parent, sure he didn’t act like one all the time but he did care for them and love her and wakko just a much or more than a parent would, even if he didn’t say it often.

She remembered all the times he would comfort her and wakko after nightmares and tell them bedtime stories and sing lullabies, how any time they accomplished something no matter how small he’d cheer them on as loudly as he could, or when they were still fresh off the page and stuck in the tower he taught them how to write and read among other things, she smiled, ya yakko got on her nerves sometimes but she loved her brothers, and yakko definitely deserves some recognition for all he’s done for them.

Wakko was still looking at her waiting for a reply, grinning she put her book down on the couch cousin next to her, rolling off onto the floor to sit next to wakko “that sounds like a great idea wak!” Hearing that she agreed, wakkos tail started wagging happily and they nodded, tongue flopping as they did and began giving ideas

“Ya! We could give him breakfast in bed!”

“Oo we could make him a card!”

“And Let him relax and do nothing all day!”

Her and wakko passed ideas back and forth for a while, ranging from picking him some flowers to stealing buying him something really expensive (though both of them knew he would try to make them return it) eventually they had a small list compiled “m’ sure we could do all of this for him, he’s gonna love it!” Wakko announced happily skimming the page they had decided to brain storm on, dot nodded but than thought, next month there was also Father’s Day.

She frowned slightly at that, what were they supposed to do on Father’s Day then? Should they wait? Besides, yakko identified as a male, maybe Father’s Day would be more appropriate? But when had they ever cared about or acknowledged gender specifics?

Wakko noticed how she didn’t respond and looked up, their tail stopped wagging slowly seeing her expression, their tongue poking out as they frowned too,

“What’s the matter? Think he won’t like something?”

She shook her head and sighed “no.. just remembered that Father’s Day is next month”

Wakko looked confused as to why this was a problem, before they seemed to understand and their expression wilted “oh..” they said quietly, looking back down at their list with a forlorn look to their face

She flopped onto her back after another sigh and spread out like a star fish, what were they supposed to do now? All there awesome plans were going to have to wait a whole month! and she hated waiting, she wanted to do them tomorrow.

Her and wakko sat in silence for a bit, wakko seems to be deep in thought again, she was about to just tell wakko that they could wait a few weeks when they spoke up

“What if we just made them big brother days?”

she propped herself up on her elbows to look at them

“Big brother days?”

“Ya! Two days in a year not counting his actual birthday, where we do whatever people do on Mother’s and Father’s Day!” Wakko smiled, tail starting to wag again,

After a beat, She grinned widely again and jumped up from her spot on the floor

“That’s a great idea!” Why hadn’t she thought of that first?! That’s exactly what they needed, wakko got up off the floor with her and started to flap their hands around, glad they had found a solution, and began following her as she walked towards the tower door

“Let’s go wakkorino! We got some flower picking to do!”

-

#me? writing things? wow #and a three parter no less! #meant to post this on Mother’s Day but got shy so here it is now #yakko is best big brother #and he needs to get acknowledgment for practically raising his sibs #animaniacs fanfic #animaniacs #animaniacs 2020 #animaniacs 1993 #yakko #yakko warner #wakko #wakko warner #dot warner #yakko wakko and dot #straight up fluff #sorry if this sucks 😅 #you may be wondering why I chose Mother’s Day #answer is yakko literally acts like a mother hen sometimes

[jesuisgourde]

i would. like to stop doing things every single day. and being stressed.

#we have been in the ''moving out/moving in'' stage since the 21st #and it just has not stopped #every day off i've had has been packing or cleaning or setting up the house or running around buying things we need #also while we were out buying things for the house today my mother texted me to tell me my cat is dying #he's over 18 years old and his health has been slowly deteriorating so it's not exactly a surprise #but it's still upsetting because he was My Cat when i still lived with my parents #like he'd sleep with my every night and was more responsive to me than other people #but he's suddenly getting worse fast and now he can't see out of one eye due to some sort of fungal infection or something #i'm very glad i went home in 2020 and got to see him for a month

[zukkaoru]

going through my google docs and it turns out i remember strikingly little from 2020..

#i found two separate docs from assignments that Must have been for my intro to creative writing class and i literally don't remember #writing either of them #and i found another piece that i scrapped that referenced a bunch of things that happened march-june 2020 and i forgot about most of them #the badminton boundary line scars!! how could i have forgotten about those!! #also i referenced someone named anna and i have actually literally no idea who i was talking about #i assume some old twt mutual but ?????? i literally don't know #anyway mental illness really can cause memory problems. that's crazy #wish i'd written down more bc who knows what else i've forgotten #like actually i think most of what i remember of 2020 are the things i have written/physical reminders of.. #i remember logging back into tumblr bc i'm here. i remember writing fics bc they're on ao3 #i remember the mother's day photos at church bc we have the photo printed out at home #i remember driving around aimlessly for hours bc i still have the playlist i listened to #but the badminton boundary line injuries didn't actually scar and my midnight snacks lasted only as long as it took to eat them #anyway this is not what i was hoping to discover in my google docs but that is okay! #hello grace here

[septimus-heap]

Literally I think my parents must be a little bit insane to still think they're good parents. They pushed me to the point of being actively suicidal not even 2 years ago like hello????

#sep talks #tw suicide #found out recently that my grandpa has depression and my great grandpa likely did too #my great grandpa died from being hit by a horse and cart and it is heavily suspected that it was a suicide #my grandpa is only alive today because he takes antidepressants #like you'd think!! With a family history like that!!! That they'd perhaps take their child's mental health into consideration a tiny bit!!! #my uncle has depression as well iirc. Like good lord #like literally the only reason I made it through 2020 was bc I was sneaking around behind my parents backs and lying to them #idk. I just think it's kind of funny #I've pretty much stopped caring abt my parents now. They're just some ppl I live with until I can leave and then we'll never talk again #but honestly....they still think they're good parents???? Really???????? #anyway this post inspired by my mum getting stroppy abt me 'ruining mothers day' #I sure hope it's ruined!! Hope it's bad enough u decide to kill urself!!!! Lmao!!! #I'll delete this later probably just needed to say it somewhere #I'm fine btw. I don't feel great rn but I haven't let my parents send me down a spiral of self loathing in a good long while #and I don't intend to start again now

[kateandthediamonds]

Tbh KP are never good with Mother’s Day when it comes to Catherine and if it’s not a new photo I hope it’s a behind the scenes pda moment

A BTS PDA!!!! Like for The Earthshot Prize! A dream!!! However I really really doubt we’ll have something. I prefer not to expect anything and then be surprised

#at least they posted something for Mother’s Day in 2020 and 2021 #same for Father’s Day #anon #ask

[tsrepdenver]

Do ever just think about how Taylor decided to announce and release Folklore all within like a 12 hour period

#because that day was sooo unhinged #my body was frozen in time #same thing with evermore being announced like mother was feeding us so well I’m 2020 #she still is feeding us but you know differently #folklore #bethany rambles

[mariacallous]

It is over and everything is lost. This is the refrain repeated by Armenian families as they take that final step across the border out of their home of Nagorno-Karabakh.

In just a handful of days more than 100,000 people, almost the entire Armenian population of the breakaway enclave, has fled fearing ethnic persecution at the hands of Azerbaijani forces. The world barely registered it. But this astonishing exodus has vanished a self-declared state that thousands have died fighting for and ended a decades-old bloody chapter of history.

On Saturday, along that dusty mountain road to neighbouring Armenia, a few remaining people limp to safety after enduring days in transit.

Among them is the Tsovinar family who appear bundled in a hatchback littered with bullet holes, with seven relatives crushed in the back. Hasratyan, 48, the mother, crumbles into tears as she tries to make sense of her last 48 hours. The thought she cannot banish is that from this moment forward, she will never again be able to visit the grave of her brother killed in a previous bout of fighting.

“He is buried in our village which is now controlled by Azerbaijan. We can never go back,” the mother-of-three says, as her teenage girls sob quietly beside her.

“We have lost our home, and our homeland. It is an erasing of a people. The world kept silent and handed us over”.

She is interrupted by several ambulances racing in the opposite direction towards Nagorno-Karabakh’s main city of Stepanakert, or Khankendi, as it is known by the Azerbaijani forces that now control the streets. Their job is to fetch the few remaining Karabakh Armenians who want to leave and have yet to make it out.

“Those left are the poorest who have no cars, the disabled and elderly who can’t move easily,” a first responder calls at us through the window. “Then we’re told that’s it.”

As the world focused on the United Nations General Assembly, the war in Ukraine and, in the UK, the felling of an iconic Sycamore tree, a decades old war has reignited here unnoticed.

It ultimately heralded the end of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway Armenian region, that is internationally recognised as being part of Azerbaijan but for several decades has enjoyed de facto independence. It has triggered the largest movement of people in the South Caucasus since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Azerbaijan has vehemently denied instigating ethnic cleansing and has promised to protect Armenians as it works to reintegrate the enclave.

But in the border town of Goris, surrounded by the chaotic arrival of hundreds of refugees, Armenia’s infrastructure minister says Yerevan was now struggling to work out what to do with tens of thousands of displaced and desperate people.

“Simply put this is a modern ethnic cleansing that has been permitted through the guilty silence of the world,” minister Gnel Sanosyan tells The Independent, as four new busses of fleeing families arrive behind him.

“This is a global shame, a shame for the world. We need the international community to step up and step up now.”

The divisions in this part of the world have their roots in centuries-old conflict but the latest iterations of bitter bloodshed erupted during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh Armenians, who are in the majority in the enclave, demanded the right to autonomy over the 4,400 square kilometre rolling mountainous region that has its own history and dialect. In the early 1990s they won a bloody war that uprooted Azerbaijanis, building a de facto state that wasn’t internationally unrecognised.

That is until in 2020. Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, launched a military offensive and took back swathes of territory in a six-week conflict that killed thousands of soldiers and civilians. Russia, which originally supported Armenia but in recent years has grown into a colder ally, brokered a fragile truce and deployed peacekeepers.

But Moscow failed to stop Baku in December, enforcing a 10-month blockade on Nagorno-Karabakh, strangling food, fuel, electricity and water supplies. Then, the international community stood by as Azerbaijan launched a 24-hour military blitz that proved too much for Armenian separatist forces. Outgunned, outnumbered and weakened by the blockade, they agreed to lay down their weapons.

For 30 years the Karabakh authorities had survived pressure from international powerhouses to give up statehood or at least downgrade their aspirations for Nagorno-Karabakh. For 30 years peace plans brokered by countries across the world were tabled and shelved.

And then in a week all hope vanished and the self-declared government agreed to dissolve.

Fearing further shelling and then violent reprisals, as news broke several Karabakh officials including former ministers and separatist commanders, had been arrested by Azerbaijani security forces, people flooded over the border.

At the political level there are discussions about “reintegration” and “peace” but with so few left in Nagorno-Karabakh any process would now be futile.

And so now, sleeping in tents on the floors of hotels, restaurants and sometimes the streets of border towns, shellshocked families, with a handful of belongings, are trying to piece their lives together.

Among them is Vardan Tadevosyan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s minister of health until the government was effectively dissolved on Thursday. He spent the night camping on the floor of a hotel, and carries only the clothes he is wearing. Exhausted he says he had “no idea what the future brings”.

“For 25 years I have built a rehabilitation centre for people with physical disabilities I had to leave it all behind. You don’t know how many people are calling me for support,” he says as his phone ringed incessantly in the background throughout the interview.

“We all left everything behind. I am very depressed,” he repeats, swallowing the sentence with a sigh.

Next to him Artemis, 58, a kindergarten coordinator who has spent 30 years in Steparankert, says the real problems were going to start in the coming weeks when the refugees outstay their temporary accommodation.

“The Azerbaijanis said they want to integrate Nagorno-Karabakh but how do you blockade a people for 10 months and then launch a military operation and then ask them to integrate?” she asks, as she prepares for a new leg of the journey to the Armenian capital where she hopes to find shelter.

“The blockade was part of the ethnic cleansing. This is the only way to get people to flee the land they love. There is no humanity left in the world.”

Back in the central square of Goris, where families pick through piles of donated clothes and blankets and aid organisations hand out food, the loudest question is: what next?

Armenian officials are busy registering families and sending them to shelters in different corners of the country. But there are unanswered queries about long-term accommodation, work and schooling.

“I can’t really think about it, it hurts too much,” says Hasratyan’s eldest daughter Lilet, 16, trembling in the sunlight as the family starts the registration process.

“All I can say to the world is please speak about this and think about us. We are humans, people made of blood, like you and we need your help.”