i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers
i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i
I say things like “I’m not interested in sports” I really have to give a caveat to explain I really mean “sportsball”, those mass media team sporting events that lead to white privilege riots and fill the pockets of millionaires and billionaires. Because this? This is incredible, just the athleticism, what bodies can do, female, male, young or adult, differently abled…just awesome.
I do not watch figure skating for reasons. This is absolutely beautiful. They are so well physically matched, they are like one being. Neither tries to outshine the other. Go watch it.
…holy crap. Talk about in sync with each other.
holy shot how even?!
1, this is worth a view because it’s gorgeous skating.
2, someone stop me because I don’t know nearly enough to work my way through an Awaken the Stars ice skating AU.
I used to watch a lot of figure skating (and though I was terrible at it, I did figure skate for a while). This is one of the most fluid and lyrical routines I have ever seen. I didn’t hold my breath, even though it seems like the kind of routine where you’d want to, because it was just so flowing that I had to inhale and exhale along with it. Glorious. I’m sort of sad I cancelled my cable now, because I definitely want to watch more of this pair. Good thing for youtube!
To all of my california friends who can’t miss fireflies because they haven’t ever seen them.
^ what? do they not have fireflies in CA??????????
Nope! They don’t really live west of the rockies. The first time I saw them in Ohio, I thought I was hallucinating.
The fireflies were the most fantastic part of my first visit to America. I was with my BF and my roller derby team and we were in one of those yellow schooll buses being taken back from the tournament venue. I spotted some lights in the bushes and pointed it out… then we all lost our minds!!! As it got darker we saw there were SO MANY! Our American hosts couldn’t believe how crazy we were for them… but there is nothing even remotely like this in Scotland, it was like being in a fantasy movie or something. I’ll never forget them.
I love them so much! They come out part-way through my Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop (now taking applications! Pat Cadigan returns as special guest author this year!) each year, and it’s such a joy to introduce these little delights to people from parts of the world where they can’t see them.
PS: In Minnesota, we called them “lightning bugs.”
We had them in Norfolk, Virginia when I was a kid. Same time of year as the junebugs, but those are in the daytime.
Ok but imagine being an Irish immigrant coming to America for the first time having never heard of them and just…nope nope nope Don’t Go In Those Fields The Fairies Fucking Followed US I Thought We Would Be Free Of This Nonsense
fireflies are so sweet and harmless and gentle. they’re not afraid of you, and will perch on you if you happen to be where they are when they feel like sitting down. when it’s hot out, i take my daily walk in the evening just as it’s getting dark, which is prime firefly time. sometimes several of them land on my hat and get a ride.
every year we get a few coming into the house through the air conditioner vents, and they hang out in my room and twinkle for me as i fall asleep. then in the morning i try to find them and put them outside. they’re usually in the curtains. they look like slender little drab beetles with cute dot eye faces in the daylight. turn the lights out and they’re like PARTY TIME? and start blinking their little rave light butts.
just moving along like everyone else 