Festa Junina or Festa de São João
Translating literally, June Festivities or Saint John’s Festivals is a celebration on the months of June and July in Brazil. It originated from European midsummer celebrations and includes some similar traditions like a large bonfire (that seems to make a lot more sense in the southern hemisphere because it happens during winter months) and also a dance derived from palatial European court balls, modified and redefined with new meaning, related to popular and rural themes and paired with brazillian “forró” or country music.
Dressing up and dances
Traditionally everyone wears plaid shirts/dresses, straw hats, painted on gap tooths, very blatant blush on cheeks and lots of painted freckles, girls wear their hairs in pigtails and boys paint on moustaches and beards. This is the stereotypical exaggerated rural look, and is more common for kids to dress this way, while in parties with mostly adults it’s more common to just wear plaid shirts, a straw hat and do some make-up.
The dances are choreographed but very standard between places, with someone announcing vocal cues for specific dance steps, switching partners, doing coordinated group moves and sometimes ending in a mock wedding.
Traditional food
Now, the best part of it all, my favorite thing from this time of the year, THE FOOD!
The traditional foods are super delicious and mostly made out of corn, like corn cakes, cural, pamonha, but there’s also peanuts, specially sweetened peanuts, popcorn, sweet or salted, caramelized apples, quentão, which is a warm spiced drink, that may or may not be alcoholic and is one of my favorite things.
I’ll try to update the thread with some recipes later or maybe just talk more about food, but I can’t promise I actually will.
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Going to be my most anti natalist post
spoiler, suicide
Genuinely like, how many people do there have to be who just fundamentally hate their life and the fact they were born at all before people stop having fucking kids? Like there’s gotta be a threshold right, where if like 90% of the people you knew hated that they were born at all and did not enjoy existing people would fucking chill, right?
I don’t enjoy being trans, there’s an ever present discomfort solely because of some random bullshit not working properly in the womb. And this is far from the only case! There’s lots of shit that can go wrong for a person and leave them like this. Why the fuck do people have kids and shit when they could end up being a miserable bastard like me? Like if I made another, innocent being experience this much pain I’d blow my shit right off. How fuckin gross is that right, to make little old me deal with all the pain and suffering life brings. Making me grapple with my mortality.
I guess I don’t understand why people don’t think about the suffering their child is/might have to go through? Why would you want kids when they could grow up to be as miserable as this.
Even perfectly normal things people deal with cause me an immense amount of suffering. I don’t understand it and I don’t like it. If there was even a smidgen of a chance they’d go through 10% of this I would not have a kid. I don’t think an innocent being deserves this.
above + dysphoria
Like fuck. I hate work, I hate school, I’m apparently shit at making friends. My body sucks, my voice sucks, I have to voice train which sucks. I have to completely make myself. I’m not good with other people. I’m detached. I am forced to transition. Deal with everything that brings. Society is shit. Miserable and suffering. Even minor bullshit. Everyone has a job but how many have thought of killing themselves instead of having to grind away forever.
Why do I have to exist and why do people force more people like me to exist. Or, or, people in even more suffering.
voice training +above
Okay one more thing VOICE TRAINING MAKES ME WANT TO KILL MYSELF HOLY SHIT. THAT SHIT BY ITSELF IS ENOUGH
Why the fuck couldn’t I have been okay to do it earlier. I’d already have made progress. And I just can’t. Genuinely enough to make life miserable for me.
And if people really do have worse lives then me then wtf are we doing?? Why have you kept fucking having kids if none of us have what we need???
Whatever I’ll try to stop posting now.