#when i went it was only Spanish

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

“they’re saying only 1% of people die of covid so why are you worried?” ok then. not looking at any sources, let’s go off that statistic for this post. note: we’ve lost over a million people and counting in the united states alone.

i’ve seen some estimates saying 10%-30% of people end up with continuing symptoms (fatigue, brain fog, etc) after the end of infection, which could mean tens of millions of people. however, if even only 2% had persisting symptoms and we go by that 1% death statistic, that could be 2 million people living with some form of long covid impacting their daily life.

don’t wanna listen about covid? ok, let’s compare it to another disease known for its lasting symptoms and its “long” form: polio.

polio could be asymptomatic, but symptoms presented as flu-like if there were any. all things considered, paralysis was rare in comparison to infection numbers. i’ve seen a lot of polio statistics, and some say only 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) polio cases resulted in paralysis, though this seems like a rough average between the three variants. still, there were tens of thousands of cases of poliomyelitis paralysis. 1952 alone had over 20,000 paralysis cases reported, and that’s one year of many polio outbreaks (the most well known u.s. outbreak was 1948/49-1952).

just because a percentage seems low does not mean the damage is minuscule. be knowledgeable about how information is being presented to you and what the actual impacts are. small numbers do not equal little harm.

#im so tired of people who don’t know shit about disease trying to talk about it #although the cdc is supposed to know things and they’re only spouting bullshit too so who fucking knows #sometimes i wish public policy went with the polio route of ‘scare the shit out of people about this disease to keep them safe’ #because the management right now is complete bullshit #anyway hi i spent years researching disease as a hobby and took an epidemiology class with a semester focusing on polio #i could compare covid to the spanish flu pandemic too but that would be another post #anyway im tired of this bullshit. viruses have the potential to wreak havoc on the body and covid is a prime example. the studies coming out #and the anecdotal experiences of many should be worrying to you and you should be avoiding it at all costs. you will not get lucky every #time against disease. knowledge is power especially when talking about disease #other source if y’all don’t think the research + study were enough and want me to have first hand experience seeing the disease progression: #my dad died of covid. i watched that disease wreak havoc on every part of his body as it progressed. it was absolutely terrifying and #exhausted his body to where his heart couldn’t keep up anymore. this isn’t a fucking cold #coronavirus #my post

[bahoreal]

ok paris trip! cheeky summary :-) (limited by image count lol)

we went up to the artists streets bc i wanted to see the big church and i was fully charmed by the buildings, different areas have very different charms to them. i took a lot of photos of fragments of buildings like these two. i always take pictures like this, the charm of a city comes through in the life reflected in ordinary houses

also big church. pretty. i dont follow Christianity but they sort of went off with the architecture

TWO pyramid selfies for your viewing pleasure. i didnt know there was an upside down one as well! i also did a really bad job at aligning my hand to the pyramids ndjshdjddn

louvre. i love a statue. miss venus was so incredible in person.

this was my second favourite statue(tte?) in the louvre. after miss venus. its from mexico 300-400AD and its a little fella with a WARRIOR INSIDE.

and on the final day we went to the eiffel tower. the scale of it is always insane to me, they have this other teeny eiffel tower built near it which looks big when youre next to it. then the further away you get the scale of the real eiffel tower becomes evident (its in the second photo, on the right behind the trees)

tumblr has limited me to 10 photos :( so not pictured: me getting immediately addicted to petit déjeuner with cafe créme, the teeny apartment out of the city centre we were staying, with a bistro where a guy gave me a free shot of limoncello because it was my birthday:)) the fancy dinner we went to, the selfies i took with liberty leading the people (!!!!), the little video i took blowing a kiss to spain, photos of other tourist-y and less tourist-y areas, the 100 other louvre photos i took 😂

#literally only there for two days total - arrived Friday afternoon left sunday afternoon - but packed in a lot! #my dad lived in france and speaks fluent french which was helpful bc i decided on the last day that i wanted to get crepes #and the highest rated place we could find only had french menus and the staff preferred to speak in french #i struggled with the basic baby french i know but its difficult for me cos i havent studied it since iw as like 12?13? #so when i reach for french my brain usually goes to spanish or if i rly dont know the word. chinese. its embarrassing #the number of times i wanted to ask where the bathroom is and my brain went zai- no donde- no ou - yes! #clown wig: ON #.jtxt

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Excerpts from Ze's NY Times interview

#🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #he misses his fam so much 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #interesting that Kyrylo is learning spanish #so its russian Ukrainian english and now Spanish #so ze is now learning english with sasha and Spanish with Kyrylo 😄 #the part about him being so exhausted he can only read 10 pages max because he falls asleep 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #also now its fiction he reads #he went from nonfiction books to fiction books #probably a much lighter read #it somehow always hits deep in the heart that ze no longer makes plans for his future after the war #we went from vacation and sitting by the sea and drinking bear and fishing with kyrylo to ... nothing and lets see and who knows #i cant help myself but this gives a weird feeling #almost like he doesnt expect to be still be there when victory comes?! #i dont know just ... interesting ... that this changed so much #well at least he could say at the end he wants time with his family and dogs ❤️ #so dogs...they must have gotten a new one then #or sasha and Kyrylo adopted one of the guard dogs 😄

[nobodieshero-main]

goth kerenian's kiss each others eyelids in greeting. btw.

#i dont know if i've ever actually told you guys the continent is called 'kuerenia' but yeah that's been its name for years #i wasn't sure about it for a long time which is why i've just been calling it 'the continent' but it's based off of a spanish word #'querencia' which has more than one meaning but the one i went with is like. its a metaphysical thing #like a homing instinct or a favourite place #and that's very much what nobodies hero was to me when it first started out. it was my favourite place to be and to daydream within #so it felt fitting at the time #and it's just sort of stuck as the only other name for the world they live in #BUT YEAH GOTH KIDS #i love figuring out the different ways goth kids can be goth in a fantasy realm #like how in nevmones they'll wear poppies and in omos they'll wear stars to represent vietua #its fun #worldbuilding

[da-proti-toku-grem]

feeling like a total asshole today 👍

#an aunt's mom passed away yesterday night #i didn't really know her that much just spoke to her a few times for the typical merry christmas & happy new year you know #so when my mom told me i felt bad for my aunt bc i knew they were really close but i don't feel SAD #but my parents seemed to be like so shocked and sad and my little brother even started crying #and i felt absolutely nothing #idek what my mom saw in my face but she went like 'don't you feel anything?' and like wtf am i supposed to feel #like. i'm sorry for my aunt and everything but i just????? #that already made me feel like an absolute asshole but now we have to go there (like 2hours away by car) #and because i am an adult now i *have* to go to the funeral home (?) today and to the funeral tomorrow #and i REALLY don't want to and thought it's making me so fucking anxious bc i haven't been there since my grandma passed away 2 years ago #i really don't want that feeling that i felt back then to come back #not right now #not when i've been starting to feel a bit better this past week #but i'm already failing at that because they started to come back the moment i was told i have to go #and i feel like a fucking asshole because my aunt's mom literally passed away and she (and her whole family) must be heartbroken right now #and all i can think about is that i'm anxious #i'm anxious to go back there. i'm anxious just thinking that i'll have to express my condolences to people that i don't even know #i'm anxious because i'll have to TALK to people and at least try to look a bit SAD but i can't just fake it #bc if i don't look sad my brain tells me that i'm an asshole that doesn't have feelings like apparently everyone around me has #but if i fake it my brain tells me that i'm an asshole bc why tf do i have to fake my fucking personality #why can't i just express my fucking feelings like normal people do and the only thing that i know how to do is fucking complain #like. i know i rant a lot here but it's literally the only place where i talk about my feelings #i NEVER talk about my feelings with anyone because idk HOW to do it #i have like a million things in my mind that i want to tell my mom or my therapy for example but when i finally convince myself to do it #i just CAN'T. the thoughts won't leave my mouth because i don't know how to phrase them properly #so nothing ever leaves my mind unless i make a post here bc apparently writing my thoughts in english (my 2nd language) #is easier than talking in spanish #and at least if i write them here they don't just stay bottled up in my mind #but i'm too tired of myself and my stupid brain that tells me that i do everything wrong :/ #i'm gonna shut up now bc i once again reached the tag limit

[kamuro-junrenka]

So ive been obsessed with this minedai fanfic for a few months now and i asked the author i could translate it bc i read it like a million times and i wanted to do something with it and they gave me permission and man i really recommend translating fics bc you start appreciating things more and bc you have to read it very slowly as you translate and you imagine the scenarios way better, its actually very fun

#i actually didnt really care about mine and minedai when i played y3 i was like. Huh. Is This It #so i went into ao3 searching for fanfics because clearly there was something about them i was missing and i found this absolute masterpiece #and i Understood. #and now mine and daigo are the only things in my brain #but also yea if you know more than 1 language i highly recommend translating fics you like that youve read a trillion times it gives it a #whole new perspective and its great #i also learned that while english has so little words its so much easy to convey small and subtle things that its impossible to convey in #spanish which is the language im translating the fic into #im going to post it on ao3 since the author is cool with it but i know no omes going to read it lol theres no spanish sub for any game #except 7 i think #not really yakuza but literally no one i know would care about this shit #not that anyone here would care either lol but this account was made with the intention of posting whatever yakuza related thing is on my #mind idc #rant

[berryblu-soda]

i think the most annoying thing abt loving urban fantasy and school settings and having a lot o my blorbos in them is, like, i´m *HOMESCHOOLED????* have been since 4th grade, but still the school i went to probably isnt a good frame of refference. so im lest just completely lost and looking for refferences is practically impossible, bc *WHO DIDNT GO TO SCHOOL??* amirite???

so i´m low key scared i´ll write something just completely uninformed which will be noticed inmediately by everyone, and i´ll be put in a cage in the plaza and get tomatos thrown at me :((

#dsfjhdhhsgd #shut up sheo #i dont think the school i went to was a good frame of refference bc it was just *so* messy #it literally closed down #the structure was a 1 floor house that was later turned into 2 floors #so the second floor had weird inclinations (yk; from where water used to drain when that thang was a *ceiling*) #and class structure wise we had 2 teachers; one for spanish and one for english #both doing regular school curriculums... #we were supposed to have art and pe teachers but they *never* showed up #regular blackouts by the end also #there were so few students thatt my class (14 people) was the biggest #also one time they organized a movie day thing and tried to play srek 3 on a projector #shrek 3 was still in the cinema... #anyways; vaguely weird school #another day at recess a girl from my class had a palm tree trunk fall in front of her??? and mess up her forehead???? <- left a scar #idk man there was a termite problem #... and a lizard problem #(eating the termites) #i only noticed the lizard one bc the big fans in the recess area didnt work; the switch to turn them on was crooked and if you looked insid #there were a couple hatched lizard eggs! #okok HOW did this turn into a school traumadump session aahsajshuajsh

[still-got-no-idea]

No mames porque soy así

Claro, es que- no se

No se nada de porque es tan difícil a decir ‘no’

No se nada de eso!

Bueno, ahora tengo dos biblias

NO QUIERO HACER ESO PERO JAIFSINASJKNFAJKFNSJA

SE VEAN MIS ZAPATOS QUE ESTAN GAY Y ESO ES COMO SE HACE?????

Ahora tengo algo para leer, pero todavía wey

#aster talks #aster speaks spanish #sometimes i only know how to express myself in spanish #especially when there’s other people around #BECAUSE FUCK I CAN’T SAY THIS SHIT OUT LOUD #…so yeah my mexican ass has 2 bibles now #and i’m going to get some other book #because i can’t fucking say no #so i’m just here mildly freaking out in spanish #because what else am i gonna do? #some old guy saw me taking pictures of bees and was like ‘you should have a bible’ #and i was like ‘sure i got time before my class’ #and then some other guys were like ‘hey you wanna hear this thing?’ #and i was like ‘yeah sure i got time’ #and now i’m wishing i were less of someone who just went ‘yeah i got time lol’ #NO ES MI CULPA #BUENO SI ES PERO NO-

[endofbeginings]

Since i started watching f1 ive had very few dreams about it (which is rare because i dream a lot and the things i watch constantly come up) but fernando is Always in them..... to be fair if someone is haunting me in my dreams freddy krueger style it makes total sense that its him right

#yesterday i dreamt that i met him at mcdonalds and we were the only ppl that spoke in spanish so we talked a lot #and when i went to take a picture somehow i opened my gallery and it showed a picture of fernandos ass💀💀 #we knew it was him bc of the samurai tattoo #and he just bursted out laughing and he payed for my meal #meet cute or whateva.... #what does the dream actually mean tho #f1 #own post #fernando alonso

[fulane-de-tal]

white people are literally so batshit insane bonkers how are you saying these things genuinely where is the though you've lived here your WHOLE life how have you never heard of one of the most important locations in the city...

#je parle #like there's no way these people really are saying these things seriously #um i can't go there isn't it like dangerous? girl it's one city over #getting there takes so much time... you literally said you went there once when you were little with your dad #you tried to get there during rush hour baby it's not our fault you've not googled the times to get there #jesus fuck #your parents are more excited about you going to an undermaintained jam theme park than they are about #you going to a different city full of art culture music life that is also YOUR CLOSE FRIEND'S HOMETOWN who you've heard express how much it #would mean to them to go with you #like mother fuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #white people #ifucking hate them #especially considering you're NOT an immigrant you lived here FOREVER you don;t know the second most spoken language in the region and yo #u want me to be the token mexican in the family teaching the kids spanish etc what do i exist in a fucking vacuum #am i only mexican when in relation to what i can provide #am i only mexican when no one wants to go with me #am i only mexican enough when i'm the only mexican you know? #what if i was browner? what if my hair was longer? what if i was named after my grandfather? huh? what if i was a practicing catholic #and not a mexican jew #what if i was just a jew? would it be easier for you #it would be maybe easier to try to include me when you have fewer marginalized identities #GRA GRA GRA

[chqnified]

I found a use for me having spent 11 years of my life learning Chinese. I can actually understand WayV lyrics

#Youth with you #and that's great. #tbh i also was able to watch without subtitles when they came out. #also yuqi's accent is >>>> #rambles tag #i only say this now because the only wayv song I'd properly listened to for ages was love talk. but the English version lol #and then i remembered they had bops I'd barely listened to so i went and re-listened then was shocked i understood the majority of thelyric #one of my friends said she'd find me even hotter if i did Duolingo. so. uhm. i re-logged into my 7 year old Duolingo account #i basically skipped all units to the very last big unit test in Chinese (think there's 57 levels?) passed first time lol #oh then j did french. passed level 197 (? think it was that. the last one) after the 3rd try. #the pain in the ass thing about the french one is the translations can be translated multiple ways but not all are accepted 🙄 #also idk where tf me àcènts go like wtf. #anyhow. my goal is to finish those last units and get the final trophe 🤩 like yeah i already knew i was fluent but still #i also re-started korean and started greek because at one point i did try to learn greek #and Spanish but. kind of. can't be bothered with Spanish. because it reminds me of being 6 again. and i hate that lmao #i can't believe i tried to learn korean 6 years ago. has it been that long since i gave up lmao #i re-learnt to read <3 i can read just slowly now. #anyhow. idk what I'm talking about anymore #said friend said im peak hot in society now. it worked lmaoo #going to attract everyone with my 2 day Duolingo streak 🤩

[albeckett]

ok sorry like im sure there are funnier memes in spanish but this is top to me i think about it allllllllllllllllll the time hes always in my head. tuve fe. QUÉ? QUÉ??????

#at first i only understood it by reading the copypasta version because i absolutely couldn't understand it spoken AKSJGJAER #its so funny. you see he went to the movies but they only had the fast and the furious 6 which is a very foolish and stupid film #and then he went to watch the DVD that this guy sold him but it was dubbed in spanish from SPAIN dude. spanish from spain #also SPOILERS but this was a comedy skit so dont worry the other dude isnt being like yelled at out of nowhere #also at the end when hes like por que weon like the sadness in his voice sdjklfljksdjlf. tenías ahí weon...... #ANYWAY

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i've always been extremely jealous of kids whose school / high school is a historical building, they are so lucky for that

#i still remember when i went to visit el escorial with my school and we saw some kids entering the school that is located IN THE MONASTERY #IN THE FUCKING MONASTERIO DE EL ESCORIAL ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS OF SPANISH RENAISSANCE #insane #also that one castle that was now a high school in segovia i think it was???? absolutely unhinged behaviour #i'll choose my kids school only based in the building is pretty or not 😌

[livvyofthelake]

remember despacito? that was so. 😬. the state of pop music was so dire in 2017 we had to resort to a song that featured justin bieber…

#i’m going to say something. i literally think that song was only as popular as it was because it was like the first time white americans #heard a song in spanish and we went a little too hard with it #like it would have been popular anyway cuz it was a fun song (for 2017) but it like. OVERTOOK everything. it was HUGE. #i’m so happy i wasn’t in a spanish language class anymore when that song dropped. you just know teachers everywhere we’re playing it daily #like remember how justin bieber said he didn’t even know all the words to the parts of the song he didn’t sing #(because he literally didn’t write it he’s a fucking feature) #and it became almost like. a badge of honor to be like ‘well EYE know all the words 😏’ and katy perry did that thing #and it’s like no you don’t!!! i was in high school spanish with you i know you don’t speak this language there’s no way you know all the #words to this song…. there’s no way john. we both flopped in spanish 2 i was there. you do not know all the words to despacito….. #it was so weird it was like. virtue signaling to like a song. #like it was a fun song but maybe not that fun. remember it featured justin bieber. #beth.txt #can i be extra real with y’all if a moment. i don’t even know what ‘despacito’ means. 😐 #is it ‘slowly’? i know i looked it up like ten times back in the day cuz i kept forgetting. think that MIGHT be it. but i don’t KNOW that.

[nya-vivi]

Oftentimes I have the social awareness of a plant, and can be a bit inconsiderate on text. So I make it up by being excessively enthusiastic on my next messages.

#i told a friend that i didn't mind watching a film (we didn't have real plans) but the form i used in spanish can also mean 'i don't care' #and i only realizes that when he left me on read (he answered a few hours later tho) and the conversation went well after that #but the hours i was like 'oh i hope he didn't thought i meant i don't care'

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

https://tiermaker.com/create/our-flag-means-death-shipps-15253051

There is something deeply wrong with me. Fortunately that thing is not Izzy Hands related.

#I would have liked to also rank Fang/Ivan and Jim/Spanish Jackie #and for that matter doug/mary and mary/evelyn #but alas I did not make this chart #OFMD #Our flag means death #The only reason Izzy was able to crack the good catagory is because I'm obsessed with Calico Jack #but the fact that Steddy hands went up 5 catagories when Izzy was removed and jizzy beard went up 3 catagories when izzy was removed #I don't hate Izzy I just think he's lame #Like he's too repressed and I find that repulsive in a man #I think Calico Jack could fix him actually #Like he wouldn't make him better but he would loosen him up a little #I know people like jack/izzy because Jack wouldn't make him better #but from where I'm sitting moving from Lawful Evil to Neutral Evil is actually an improvement #My kink is when Chaotic characters drag their lawful partners over into the neutral allignment right next to it kicking and screaming #anyway #Jack might actually decide to intentionally not loosen him up because its funnier if he stays fucked up #enough about that #Fang and Ivan would go up 2 catagories if Izzy was removed by the way