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This is why I am not allowed to watch period dramas anymore

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it’s obviously trendy to hate on america but I genuinely need ppl to understand, especially going into the next four years, that over half of AMERICANS did not want this. we’re protesting, we’re advocating, we’re educating. but our government will not listen to us. you do not need to tell us that our country is an imperialist war machine or make jokes about school shootings or about our healthcare system. we know. we are actively being exploited for our time and our bodies by the capitalists that want to bleed us dry. they do not see us as humans to help, but cattle to profit from. and they are in charge. there is plenty to make fun of. maga, elon musk, trump, etc. but some of you truly lack empathy. underprivileged vulnerable communities make up the majority of this country and we are suffering and will continue to suffer as we descend farther into a fascist state disguised as an oligarchy

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My desire to stay informed on the current state of American politics because I live here vs. my desire to remain mentally stable for longer than five minutes: Unstoppable force vs. immovable object

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I have this character

And he has a name

The name is one that showed up in a dream because I keep having these super vivid dreams that would me great story ideas

(This is the third time. I mean, thanks gods of inspiration, but this is getting out of hand)

But thing is

My subconscious did not take the time to look up “common male names in the Roman Empire” and as such his name is very anachronistic

But I’m also really attatched to it

But I am a sucker of accuracy in historical stuff and this will bother me

What do I do?

I mean, I would rather have some weird stuff in his backstory to explain it than change the name

But I don’t know how to finegal my Roman soldier to be named Ajax

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So

I have a new story idea

And I have no plot

Just three characters and a vaugue concept

But I did watch an hourlong documentary on the anchient Roman military today

So I do have that going for me

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For a while, I thought that the “marriage of convenience” troupe was when two charcaters got married and then stayed married but also stayed friends and it did not get romantic

I was very disappointed last year when I was informed this was incorrect

So, I don’t know if what I was thinking of exists because it probably doesn’t happen much, but I decided I need it in my story and have added it into one of mine

(Why yes I am aroace why do you ask)

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my fantasy world has 12 gods, five languages, and a detailed political system. my plot? two idiots arguing in a forest for three chapters. priorities.

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You know

In my first watch of Downton Abbey, I thought Tom’s comment that he could manage being the estate agent because “my grandfather was a farmer” seemed a bit absurd

But I have recently come to realize that I, the granddaughter of a farmer (and not like an active one either; he has done no farming since before the 1970s) seem to know a lot more about agriculture than most people in my suburban area

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mē, tangō leviter Miētte cum latus pedīs meī: Miētta, dēmovēre ut nōn incurrere in tē

Miētte, cum oculōs ēius magnōs: tū CALITRĀS Miētte? tū calitrās corpus ēius sīcut follis? ēheu! ēheu! carcer prō Mātre! carcer prō Mātre prō Singula Mīlla Annōs!!!!

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Oh my goodness how did I forget about the angst gay footman?

Downton Abbey really is the best show. You can watch it alone. You ca watch it with your friends. You can watch it with your grandma. It’s sweet. It’s funny. It’s dramatic. You can watch it seriously. You can watch it snarkily. You can watch it and learn about how a great Edwardian house was run. There are great characters. There are characters that we all love to hate. There are pretty dresses

It is just the best show

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My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

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Love knowing a ton about random history stuff because then in my gaslight fantasy story I can include lots of Weird Victorian Things like hair work jewelry and other stuff that I keep needing to put notes in the margins to explain to my friend

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Sophia, the Boston woman from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: what is a stay at home girlfriend, if you please?

me: well, it's a woman who's financially supported by the man she's dating, and she lives with him and usually keeps house and cooks for him

her: and they're not married?

me: well, no; hence "girlfriend" rather than "wife." I know that may alarm y-

her: oh calm down I know about Kept Women. he has no legal tie to her, though? she has no sort of standing with him in the eyes of the law? only his word that he'll follow through?

me: yes

her: and remind me again- you don't have to be financially dependent on a man anymore, right? there are more than like three careers open to women that will let you support yourself at a decent level now? and society isn't pressuring you 24/7 to get married and stop working outside the home?

me: yes

her: so these women. CHOOSE to be dependent on a man. who could leave them at any moment without legal consequence. because they don't like their jobs. the jobs, while imperfect, that let them live on their own, answerable to no-one

me: yes

her: that had better be some absolutely amazing jewelry they can pawn off if he leaves them, then

me: it's usually not

her: THERE'S NOT EVEN SECURITY JEWELRY?!

me: oh by the way they blame feminism for "having to work"

her:

her: I became fully dependent on my in-laws who hated me, after my husband died two years into our marriage, because I was a 23-year-old orphan with no marketable skills in any avenue besides Running A Household and the only men left unmarried in my social circle were widowers thirty years my senior. I also couldn't establish lines of credit as a widow because the merchants said my husband dying so soon meant that I didn't have stable enough income. and that was entirely legal

me: yeah

her: I'm going to go slam some doors please do not bother me

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Not mine but they sure are going somewhere

These creatures sure are going somewhere

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I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov

This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.

This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn

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in a rare moment of current events levity, Trump's attempt to declare that ~there are only two genders~ defines gender as the sex you are "at conception"

except

everyone's female at conception

fetuses that will become AMAB don't do that until a few weeks in

so by their own logic, all the conservative shitbags just declared themselves women