Trans Megathread from June 15th to June 21st (thelemmy.club)

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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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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago

You know if you stare for not all that long at the sky, youll see shooting stars. They're way more common than I ever thought they were - provided its a clear sky and youre far enough away from bright artificial lights at night. They can be pretty much anything, random rocks, comet tail dust, interstellar dust, stuff thats been hanging out since our sun was a baby, just chunks and they dont have to be large to streak across the sky because of the sheer speed they crash in to our atmosphere. Every once in a long while a big asteroid hits a moon or a planet with enough force that it can knock chunks of that planet into orbit - and eventually it can make its way here too. If theyre big enough they can even make it to the ground on Earth. Theres rocks here on Earth right now from Mars, some of em are even in museums.

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