#11/01

[evesfairytale]

happy birthday todoroki shouto !!!

[blondebrainpowered]

[solifloris]

sir you have my everything sir

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Can’t sleep, and, as is my wont, I fell down a horrifying internet rabbit hole,* this time about September 11, 2001.

I was in seventh grade French class, in the Hudson Valley region of New York, when I got a call from the front office that my mom was there to pick me up. Steven B. commented: “a lot of people are getting picked up this morning!”

My mom was crying, she tried to explain what had happened, but I think my brain kind of rejected what she was saying. I didn’t really get it/appreciate what happened until I was 19 or 20, when I was a collections management intern at the 9/11 Memorial Museum before it opened to the public.

That’s when I finally Got It and everything I’d been repressing. Every year after that I would watch the live news footage from that day on YouTube.

It haunts me, not just because of what happened, but because of what it led to. How much pain, how much grief, how much suffering and war and genocide could have been averted if the FBI and the CIA hadn’t been locked in a power struggle? Where would/could the country be politically if the two orgs had compared intelligence and intervened?

As a historian, I think it’s important avoid binary thinking like “oh a, b, and c happened and that’s why Elon Musk is staging a coup.” It’s obviously much more complex than that. What’s occurring in the USA Federal government is the result of decades of careful GOP planning and strategizing and if we can isolate a cultural moment that “led” to it, it would be the election of Ronald Reagan, and even that is far too simplistic.

Idk, I’m rambling. I don’t consider myself to be old, but it’s almost like I refused to grasp what had happened that day in 2001 because I was cognizant of the fact that something massive, something of global historic import, had just gone down, and my 12 yo brain couldn’t deal with it.

But now I’m 35 and I saw history. And that was the end, I think of the world the Baby Boom generation raised their millennial kids to thrive in.

At some point I binge watched Fringe, and that shot where it’s revealed that Leonard Nimoy is in the parallel universe because the camera pans out and it’s revealed that his office is in one of the WTC towers? I couldn’t breathe for a minute.

*once in grad school the rabbit hole was the genocide in the Balkans in the 90s and everything I read that night is seared into my brain.

ETA: I’m intentionally not discussing that things I saw and learned working for the museum, and my feelings about the deaths which occurred that day. It feels almost…unholy to talk about that stuff online. I don’t believe in god or a higher power, but “holy” is the only word that makes sense there.

[dragonpyre]

Me: hey, need to ask you a historical question

Friend: shoot

Me: did you guys have flip phones in the early 2000's?

Friend:

Friend: fuck you

[omniscientviewmaster]

meet the felt

[32lice]

i had a dream i sat with the felt at a diner booth so i had to redraw it (my pov i guess)

[f1archives]

Ollie Bearman finishes P10 in sprint qualifying - Brazil, 2024 (📷 Kym Illman)

[vhscorp]

J’aime le mot « amants », il porte en lui les notions de passion, de secret, de mystère, de corps enlacés, de désir partagé, de complicité, d’âmes-sœurs qui se sont trouvées, qui sont liées l’une à l’autre et qui ne cessent de dialoguer, unies quoi qu’il advienne…

V. H. SCORP

[lance-thunder-reporting-live]

Good morning Amity Park, I'm your ghostly weatherman, Lance Thunder. Today's Friday, November 1, and there's a 0% chance of rain. Highs are in the low fifties, and the lows are in the mid forties.

Very few ghost attacks occurred last night. Overall, there were 7 attacks, two from humanoid ghosts and five from animal ghosts. The Fentons stopped one attack, The Red Huntress stopped four, and Danny Phantom, who was seen yesterday for the first time in days stopped two. Minimal damage occurred.

Jack and Madeline Fenton’s ghost safety class at Casper High has been permanently replaced with a low stress art class.

The Fentons will be driving today.

[the-daily-felt]

Day 55

[blondebrainpowered]

The Twilight Zone - episode: Living Doll, Nov. 1, 1963

GIF by radiantz

[gotham-ruaidh]

Tribute in Light.

View from Brooklyn.

September 11, 2024.

I love my city.

[terastarst0rm]

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[dailynaeleon]

HI I MEANT TO DO ONE FOR TODAY BUT I PROCRASTINATED!!!! 😭😭 THIS IS THE LAST MAKOTO TEXTPOSTS SET I HAVE UP MY SLEEVE TAKE IT FOR NOW

[omniscientviewmaster]

third itchy was stolen from @txistugay because i hate that guy a lot 🖕