orange

@stilloranged.bsky.social

please call me orange! // (formerly stilloranged and orangecrushed on twitter) // robotmango on tumblr // orange_crushed on ao3 // she/her // 30+ 🔞

fucking jfk. i've been at half a dozen different airports this week and stuff has moved pretty well and now it's like haha great, you arrived on schedule! perfect. sit here on the tarmac for an indeterminate amount of time because we don't know where to put you. welcome to america, fuck off

i took a tour today with a very nice kid and was like. hmm. so i goosed the batsignal and talked about a friend of mine and his partner and the kid lit up and got even friendlier and we had the most amazing day

i'm in a "beijing"-themed hotel (but not in china) and i have to be honest when i walked in last night after twenty hours of airplanes and highly varied airport vibes... my body saw hanging scroll landscapes and caoshu script and instantly relaxed

i love purchasing an airline ticket with a normal layover and then discovering at check-in that one of the flights is (now) being "operated" by another airline, so i'll have to go through immigration and baggage claim and then BACK through security just to take the second half of my flight

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

the dialect quiz was like I Diagnose You With New Jersey—clearly because it wants to physically fight me in the wells fargo center parking lot—Or Possibly Rural... Illinois? so thanks for that bit, dad. keeping me statistically illegible

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.