Gia Screams 📣 - Blog Posts
realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"
everyone please read this and share if you can.
Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.
i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.
and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.
three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.
this is not natural.
unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.
when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.
links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):
link for non-brazilians (paybox)
link for brazilians
pix assufrgs
will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.
endless series of women in motorsports:
Giovanna Amati (July 20th, 1959, Italy) is an Italian racing driver, best remembered as the most recent woman to have entered a Formula 1 World Championship race. From a wealthy background, she started her racing career in Formula Abarth series before moving up into Formula Three between 1985 and 1986, later competing in Formula 3000 (1987). In 1992, Giovanna became the fifth woman to drive in Formula when she signed for Brabham. She took part in the first three races of 1992 for Brabham-Judd, but didn't qualify for any of them, and was replaced by Damon Hill until the Hungarian Grand Prix when the team went bankrupt. (for @effervescentdragon)
I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.
the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.
you know how the argonauts used Orpheus to play music past the sirens so they wouldn’t die?
It would be hilarious if in season two when Percy and Annabeth are on the Queen Anne’s Revenge and Percy just puts in AirPods and you hear nothing but Shake It Off Taylor’s Version for the next four minutes as annabeth is screaming for the sirens and Percy is trying to keep her on the boat.
my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god
Neurotypicals will be like “I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you’re able to think about or focus on, but that’s not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on.” And then demand that they aren’t ableist. I’m tired.
They took the crown, but it's alright
nothing makes me happier than knowing that young disabled kids are going to watch pjo and find themselves in these characters and in this world the same way i did when i was young and undiagnosed
rick riordan really did just send his gays to superhell but like in an ally way didn't he
Thinking about being a demigod as a metaphor for neurodivergency
Thinking about demigods fighting monsters no one else can see, thinking about the mist, how mortals just can’t see it. Thinking about Mrs Dodds, and how everyone told Percy he was crazy for remembering her. How ableism and insults are just so typical in places like a high school and yet if you’re neurodivergent and remember it years after school, you’re called crazy and obsessed because “it wasn’t that bad” and “you need to move on”. How Nancy Bobofit called Percy special. How Chiron (a centaur) was the only teacher to be actually nice and understanding of Percy, since he too wasn’t a mortal. How mortals can’t see the monsters and swords, how they can’t see the struggles we face and our defense mechanisms/ways to cope. How demigods just trying to defense themselves against monsters are seen as “evil” or a threat by mortals, because they can’t see than the reason they made that thing explode was to survive, than the bump on their car wasn’t actually made on purpose, but by a monster throwing them against it. How the world is dangerous to demigods, how they always have to stay alert, how there was always something off about them growing up. How they might have known they were demigods since a young age, or if not demigods, they knew something was different about them. Like Annabeth, who kept attracting monsters and decided to run away at just 8. She knew, her father knew, her family knew. There was no point in hiding it, no point in pretending it wasn’t there, everyone could see it. Thinking about Percy, how his mom knew, and how she made sure to help Percy no matter what, how she never cared. Thinking about Leo, who didn’t know until he was a teenager, who figured out on his own, who’s childhood was traumatized by his powers, how being a demigod completely ruined what would have been a lovely childhood. Thinking about Percy’s time in school, thinking about the demigods having adhd and dyslexia, thinking about how “their brains are trained for ancient greek/latin” and how they have trouble understanding what everyone else can easily read. Sure, it’s dyslexia, but it can also be something else. Their brains are not trained for neurotypical social cues, that’s not a language their fluent in, they have their own language, which neurotypicals can’t understand. How if they tell someone they’re a demigod, they won’t believe them, and think they’re weird. How it’s not something they can mention unless around the right people (other demigods, gods, mythological creatures, or parents of demigods kids, which in this scenario, is anyone with a connection to neurodiversity). How the parents sometimes are aware their kid is a demigod (like Sally), because they know the other parent was a god, in this scenario, they’re aware of the possibility of a neurodivergent kid because they slept with a neurodivergent person. Except sometimes they don’t know the other parent is a god, they don’t know their kid is a demigod. How someone can have neurodivergent kids, who’s neurodivergency is passed down from their other parent, except the other parent is not diagnosed. How, even still the neurodiversity community, there’s still stigma and stereotypes. How they treated Nico, even if he was just like them, simply because he didn’t fit. How the more visibly demigod you are, if you’re the child of one of the big three, the more monsters you attract, the more dangerous life becomes, how the moment a demigod realizes they're a demigod, they can't hide it, they attract more monsters, there’s no turning back.
Thinking about being a demigod as a metaphor for neurodivergency
Percy really step foot on Olympus and went:
Percy: 🫵YOUR DAD is fucking up my sleep schedule AND YOU BETTER GET THERAPY YOU LITTLE-
Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.
percy after making a goddess choke on her own poison
my favs pics of 'the eras tour' ♡
Anakin Skywalker Playlist:
Everybody Knows by Sigrid
Padmay 2018 | Day 20: Mythology Parallels | Anidala + Tupi Mythology
Guaraci, the sun god, once grew tired of his eternal job and had to sleep. When he closed his eyes the world fell into darkness. To brighten the darkness while he slept, Tupã – the creator of the skies – created Jaci, the moon, to illuminate the night and bring softness and charm to the world. Jaci was a goddess so beautiful that when Guaraci saw her light, he fell in love with her. Enchanted, he went back to sleep so he could see her again. But when the sun opened his eyes to admire the moon, everything lit up and so Jaci went to bed, fulfilling her mission. Guaraci then asked Tupã to create Rudá, the god of love and its messenger. Love, who knew no light or darkness could unite them at dawn.
The FNAF movie and 1989 album is all that’s rattling around my little head right now 🐻✨
rb and share in the tags the first song you heard in 2024
art tips
don't call what you create "content". regardless of what it is. that's the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is
I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don't call yourself a "content creator". you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician
you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind
I made an updated quiz about which Taylor Swift album you are. This one includes 1989 TV! Put your results in the tags! 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤🩷🤍🤎💙
the first 3 taylor swift songs you see will describe your 2024
Any excuse to show my kitties are very welcome :)
Today has been so very bad
Accepting all spare cat photos, nontraditionally cat-shaped cats accepted
Getting an author reply to a fic comment is just the best feeling. Like a celebrity stopping to sign autograph
