#paraday

[girlofhoneyandglass]

I wanna do a paraday and I'm bored so tomorrow it is lol

feel free to ask any questions related to my paras or asks the paras directly!

For the day, I'll pin the list of paras to my blog so you guys have a list

#my paras<3 #maladaptive daydreaming #paraday #paracosm #my paras

[acircusfullofdemons]

MaDD Events/Challenges

I get too nostalgic sometimes lmao 🥲 if you remember any of these then...uhm...I guess we're the senior citizens of the Daydreaming Community! Part of me wants to make something like these again, but the logistics are too much to think about right now.

PARADAY

Paraday was created by @sunshinemadd (and possibly @maladaptive-dreamer ?) and was a one-day event in which a MaDDer let their para(s) "run" their blog. Throughout the day, the MaDDer would make posts, answer questions, etc. as if their para(s) were doing it instead of them. It was also common for some to make whole blogs for their paras, which were called "parabogs". As someone who participated in both, I can safely say that all of it was just RPing as your paras lol.

Unfortunately, the creator has since deactivated and finding posts pertaining to the event is hard. So far, I've only been able to find this post pertaining to it, which includes tips on how to go about it. I also found this doc that organizes all/most of(?) the participants (including me!)

From my memory this was very short lived, around Feb-Mar of 2019 I believe.

PARAMAY

Started by @madd-utopia [source], Paramay is a monthly challenge that's supposed to mimick Inktober, inspired by Paraday. It was supposed to allow MaDDers to share info about their paras through art, writing, moodboards, etc. Paramay was hosted on the blog @paramay-challenge and ran from 2019-2021.

SEPARATEMPER

Like Paramay, Separatemper was a monthly challenge that let MaDDers share info about their paras thanks to a prompt list. Despite the similarities, the Separatember creator wasn't aware of Paramay until after the fact [source]. I wasn't able to find who started it, as the original Separatember blog has since been deactivated. That one ran from 2019-possible 2020?

There is another Separatember blog, @separatember, which is run by @daydreaming-memories. It was more of a general prompt blog than solely for Separatember, however, and never got the chance to do an official prompt list before becoming inactive. It ran from 2021-2022.

#maladaptive daydreaming #immersive dayadreaming #actuallymadd #madd history #luka.txt #paraportal #madd events #paramay #paraday #separatember

[elephantkingdom]

#ace attorney #kay paraday #miles edgeworth #sebastian debeste #pompompurin #sanrio muffin #sanrio #sanriobagel #ok #okay #ace attorney investigations

[3puck]

https://www.instagram.com/paradai_phuket/ PARADAi Craft Chocolate Phuket

#puck #3puck #PARADAi #Chocolate #Phuket #paradai_chocolate

[craigfernandez]

#Paradais #Fernanda Melchor

[senatortedcruz]

cannot recommend fernanda melchor enough if you’re a disturbing book hound like me

#read Paradais yesterday and was like oh only one graphic incest rape scene?

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Paradais | Author: Fernanda Melchor | Publisher: New Directions (2022)

#books #Paradais #Fernanda Melchor

[punch-media-digital]

In today's hospitality news, elevate your afternoon tea experience with the PARADAi Chocolate Afternoon Tea set, a collaboration between JW Marriott Bangkok and boutique Thai #chocolate maker #PARADAi, all served in a classic portable chocolate box. More at https://punchmedia.co.th/2023/02/elevate-your-afternoon-tea/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Co1rZ1RL655/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#chocolate #paradai

[cyberbullyinc]

hurricane season by fernanda melchor……. do u guys pinky promise ur gonna read it?🥺

#paradais is so good too but 1. idk if theres an english version and 2. hurricane season is on another level

[booksthatfart]

#paradais #fernanda melchor #farts

[charlesandrewseaton]

The "See's Candy" of Thailand, so good. 😋 #thailand #paradai #chocolate (at Surat Thani, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5t1sqvDhr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thailand #paradai #chocolate

[mioritic]

Ștefan Dimitrescu (Romanian, 1886-1933)

"Portretul soției" ("Portrait of the artist's wife"), 1921

Muzeul de artă din Iași

Claudiu Paradais, Ștefan Dimitrescu (București: Editura Meridiane, 1978)

#ștefan dimitrescu #my scan #romania #romanisme #1921

[elephantkingdom]

A wooden plank raft made by hand, like an oar that needs to be rowed, and tracking on the river.

#ace attorney #larry butz #phoenix wright #dick gumshoe #lotta hart #adrian andrews #kay paraday #intp #istp #estp #entp #enfp #esfp #mbtitoon

[goodbysunball]

Best of 2023

Toledo, OH, Dec. 30, 2023

It's going to take years to unpack the last few months of 2023. Whatever mental trauma is inflicted upon those removed from the situation in no way approximates the devastation and inhumanity occurring daily to millions. That the US is funding it all, and institutions and businesses domestically are punishing those who speak out about it, is sickening and terrifying. The latest Lulu's email newsletter wrote more eloquently about it all than I could, and plainly calls for empathy at the end: "Be good in a bad world."

And we do that, pretending things are normal for the sake of others, our kids, our partners. But things are not normal, and that pressure forces other changes, because while we can to some degree control what happens within our lives, there's no fix for seeing (let alone experiencing) dead, maimed children regularly on Instagram, victims of bombings without caution or consequence. A sense of powerlessness pervades. What we can do is keep talking, sharing and banding together. Being good in a bad world.

Some notes:

Lots more instrumental, or nearly instrumental, music than usual this year on my list, which tracks with the current climate. Music without words, or without discernible words, leaves space for thoughts to become untangled, sure; but a lot of what’s highlighted below felt more transcendent than meditative.

I still listen to rap quite a bit, but very few new songs I heard stuck around past a few days. Call it malaise from living in an era where every other song on the radio has a trap beat. Starlito dropped a clunker, which shouldn't have shocked me but did, and it personally felt significant. Maybe it’s indicative of the old guard’s demise, but hopefully it removes a wall and allows me to engage with newer rap music better. That being said: Veeze's Ganger was head and shoulders above everything else; billy woods' short verse on "As the Crow Flies" made me gasp the first time I heard it (and I also loved ELUCID's verse on "Baby Steps"); and I listened to The Jacka's The Jack Artist most of all.

Of all the books I read this year, two books by Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season and Paradais, stood out. Melchor’s prose is incredibly powerful, bleakly funny and vicious in equal measure. The sharp, frank assessments by characters in often ludicrous situations feel like a product of the contemporary but imbued with some ancient wisdom. Shout out to Julia S. for the new and notable South American literature tips.

In the midst of holiday/short day doldrums, amidst endless bleak news reports, it was difficult battling back cynicism to listen to anything, especially back to all of these records and tapes listed below. It ended up being oddly therapeutic, highly enjoyable and maybe necessary, the same as when I force myself out to shows when it's easier to stay home. That feeling chips away at the notion of this list-making exercise as futile, for me certainly, but hopefully also for you. Thank you for reading, and I hope you find something you like, too.

And so:

LP

Lewsberg, Out and About (12XU)

Equipment Pointed Ankh, From Inside the House (Bruit Direct Disques)

The Native Cats, The Way On Is the Way Off (Chapter Music)

Water Damage, 2 Songs (12XU)

VoidCeremony, Threads of Unknowing (20 Buck Spin)

Emily Robb, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection (Petty Bunco)

CIA Debutante, Down, Willow (Siltbreeze)

Olimpia Splendid, 2 (Fonal/Kraak)

Nusidm, The Last Temptation of Thrill (Bruit Direct Disques)

Incipientium, Underg​å​ng (Happiest Place)

Witness K, s/t (ever/never)

Leda, Neuter (Discreet Music)

12"/10"/7"/CS

Chrome Cell Torture, Laugh Then Lie 7" (Scarlet)

Joe Colley, Acting As If 10" (Substantia Innominata)

Disintegration, Time Moves For Me 12" (Feel It)

Life Expectancy, Decline CS (Iron Lung)

Gabi Losoncy, Lieutenant single-sided 12" (self-released)

Peg, We Know Who You Are and Everyone Is on the Lookout CS (No Rent)

Romance, Seven Inches of... 7" (self-released)

Sial, Sangkar 7" (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Slow Blink/Stomachache split CS (Hectare)

Howard Stelzer, oh calm down you're fine CS (No Rent)

Troth, Idle Easel 12" (Digital Regress)

Mark Van Fleet, Vordenal CS (Refulgent Sepulchre)

Stress Positions at the Pilot Light, Dec. 9, 2023

Shows

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano duo at Jackson Terminal, Knoxville, TN, April 1

Hell & My Wall at DRKMTTR, Nashville, TN, April 7

Cyberplasm, X-Harlow & FKA Ice at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN, May 18

Lewsberg at JJ's Bohemia, Chattanooga, TN, September 27

Stress Positions & Utopia at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN, December 9

Five songs favorably commented upon by my 3 y/o daughter*

*Something that happens so rarely that I try to take note when it does

Dua Lipa, "Levitating"

Martin Frawley, "Heart In Hand"

Mount Trout, "Hang Around"

Witness K, "In Knots"

The Young Senators, "Ringing Bells (Sweet Music) Part II"

#Lewsberg #Water Damage #12XU #Equipment Pointed Ankh #Nusidm #bruit direct disques #The Native Cats #Voidceremony #Emily Robb #Petty Bunco #CIA Debutante #Siltbreeze #Olimpia Splendid #incipientium #Leda #Witness K #Troth #Gabi Losoncy #Veeze #Joe Colley #The Jacka #billy woods #ELUCID #iron lung records #La Vida Es Un Mus #Best of 2023

[sillycyan]

I would love to do a paraday type thing, but I know no one would actually see it and I know damn well I don't talk enough abt my sillies for anyone to care (￣▽￣*)

#IF ONLY THERE WAS LIKE A DISCORD OR SOMETHIN FULL OF PPL WHO YAP ABT THEY PARAS AND ARE SILLY FUNNY HAHA #cyanismaddagain

[portraitofglue]

december consumption

these are forms of media that i frequently associate with december

books

Devotion, Patti Smith

A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin

After Dark, Haruki Murakami

The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe

Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick

Untold Night and Day, Bae Suah

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor

articles/essays

Everything Visible Is Empty: Toshio Matsumoto, Stuart Monro-Mousse Magazine

As a city, Hong Kong confounds. The sheer aggressiveness, people jostling for trains or shouting from afar, somehow feels more intimate than unsettling.

A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty, Julian Lucas-NYT

(on Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor)

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves, Alan Glynn-Lit Hub

Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald De Andrade

Strange Fruit: the first great protest song, Dorian Lynskey-The Guardian

poetry

The Denial of Death, Louise Glück

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

A Quiet Poem, Frank O'Hara

Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope

I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, Yehuda Amichai

Last Curtain, Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

#ref #reading list #december #poetry #book recs #recs #dark academia #words #quotes #patti smith #wendy cope