#9 11

[imisstevansm]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥😩

[castielsprostate]

2024 poolverine: boyfriends, bffs, best bubs, soulmates

2011 poolverine: bffs, best bubs, the only two people that truly understand them

2001 poolverine: oh my god they hit the fucking pentagon

[one-time-i-dreamt]

An old unreleased Owl City song and its music video were leaked, and Adam Young got cancelled for it because the video was just 3 minutes of him dancing in front of footage of 9/11 and other disasters.

[phoenixyfriend]

(There's an extra answer at the bottom that should have been 2nd instead of 12th, but I can't edit it in)

*NYC metro area is NYC, Long Island, about half of NJ, and several counties in CT and the absolute bottom of "upstate" NY. You can look up a map if you're unsure.

**That is to say, you were a journalist, worked in international relations, were in an airline as a pilot or flight attendant, and so on. Basically, you were told with urgency because everyone knew you were going to be involved in the ramifications for the foreseeable future, regardless of WHERE you lived.

EDIT: Someone pointed out that this doesn't include the Pentagon, so those of you in that zone can hop in on metro area.

"Nearby" means Canada, and MAYBE Mexico or the Bahamas. I'll leave it up to you to decide for the Caribbean, but Europe does NOT count.

I was just under six years old and it's one of my earliest clear memories because I was living in Queens at time, so it impacted almost everyone I knew very directly. I had been really excited that morning because it was my friend's birthday, and all that excitement got quashed as inappropriate because of the Events.

[mysharona1987]

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Me: Hey look this load sticker says '9/11' haha

Boomer Coworker: Thats was a national tragedy [we're canadian] Millions died! [maybe check those numbers]

Me: Yea I know I watched it happen live when i was 14. It was during my english class 10 minutes after my bully pantsed me in front of the everyone. Then after school when I tried to tell me parents about it they pointed at the t.v. and told me to "get some perspective"

Boomer Coworker: jesus...

[beavillains]

Doctor Who Episode

The doctor and his companion step out of the Tardis. The Tardis landed in a alleyway. The Doctor runs back in to check their location. Coming back exclaiming;

Doctor: This isn't New New York... Just New York.

Companion: The first one?

They start walking towards a busier street.

Doctor: No, the first York is in England.

The doctor stops walking. Looking uncomfortable suggests;

Doctor: Let's go.

Companion: Why what's wrong?

the Companion looks at a man using an old phone then at the low rise jeans a teenager is wearing then their eyes trail up to the skyline. The Twin Towers.

Companion: What year is it?

----------------------------------------------------

I originally wrote this so you could imagine your favorite doctor but i couldn't miss the (9) 11 joke. I'll write a full episode if people like this little piece.

[sjw-irritant]

[dance-sex-artpop-tech]

[gamer2002]

[k-zit-the-oooze]

[pitiflangas777]

HAPPY BDAY TO MY HORRIBLE AND GAY SON!!!! 11! 11! 1!! 1 i hope he explodes 💥💥

silly

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was at summer camp, looking through a cart of free books and one of them was a book created by LEGO, titled "9/11 Rom-com".

[phoenixyfriend]

[Personal rambling about my relationship with an event of recent history. This is not meant to reflect anyone else's feelings on the subject, just my own. If you reblog, please engage in good faith.]

[TW: discussions of 9/11 and its effects]

One of the side-effects of watching a lot of videos on the topic of architecture, especially in NYC, is getting really strong, complicated feelings rising back up about 9/11.

I was living in Queens when it happened, and not yet six years old. I was young, but a few moments of the day it happened is pretty clear in my memory. I was too young and not connected directly enough to the event to really understand what was going on at the time, but it was very nearby and had very strong impacts on my life both immediately, and going forward.

(After all, I had to fly inter-continentally just to see my grandparents, and I had younger siblings. Any family from Serbia needed to apply for a visa to come over to visit us, and most of them didn't speak English. Imagine how difficult airports are, right after that, if you hadn't experienced it yourself. This doesn't apply to just New York, but it does apply to me.)

Anyway, the memories are pretty shaky but definitely there for me. I was lucky enough to not have anyone who died in the event or the aftermath, but my surroundings were pretty heavily impacted due to proximity, and I imagine there's a lot that happened that I don't remember because my parents shielded me from it.

The thing is... I was still there. I still remember it, and I feel a sense of connection to the way NYC chose to rebuild after, the ways it worked to commemorate the dead, etc. I was too young to be involved and, for a time, too distant--I lived in Colorado for six years, starting '07.

It's still the city that's defined much of my life, either while living in it or living on LI, which isn't NYC but is in its shadow in all ways. I've lived in or near NYC for over half my life.

So when I look at New Yorkers reacting to the event or commemorations of it, I get it. New Yorkers erecting monuments and having strong feelings about 9/11 makes sense. Of course the people who live here and were directly hit by it have strong opinions! It was a major event! Of course city residents went feral with anger when a random luxury housing unity tried to build higher than One World Trade Center. You don't just... choose to be larger than a building that was designed to commemorate one of the greatest tragedies in the city's recent history, especially not when that building's height is already symbolic, being exactly 1776ft tall at the spire.

It might seem stupid, but I get it. I understand why NYC residents were furious at the idea, given how contentious the supertalls already are.

I understand why, over twenty years on, the rebuilding is still ongoing. I understand why 2, 5, and the Perelman Performing Arts Center have taken so long, and are still years away from completion. Nobody wants to get this wrong.

And the reason it gets so complicated is because there's this stark difference to my feelings on how the average American, and also some New Yorkers, it's true, might use 9/11 as a tragedy to fuel their racism and xenophobia and jingoistic warmongering.

This isn't my tragedy, for all that I was in its shadow, saw the smoke rising and felt the echoes of it across my childhood. I didn't lose anyone in the attack or the aftermath, and I wasn't part of a minority group targeted in its wake. I was only ever on the fringes... but it was still my city, you know?

When I was in high school, I lived in Colorado. We were discussing the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources in class. The teacher used 9/11 as an example, saying that everyone in the room was a secondary source, because we were alive and saw the events unfolding on television, but we weren't there, just getting the information secondhand from the news.

I raised my hand, and said I lived in New York at the time, just across the river, and the teacher acknowledged that I was significantly closer as a source than most of the class.

I don't call myself a primary source on this. I wasn't even six, yet. My memories have faded with time, and I wasn't as close as many were.

But there's still a pride in NYC and in the rebuilding, in the way that the city bounced back. It's not so much about the architecture and rebuilding, for all that its symbolism is important and meaningful in its own right. It's more about the smaller businesses that were impacted by the destruction of a large section of the financial district, the local delis and bodegas, the hot dog carts at Bowling Green, and the wider economy hit by the ripples of the event, which definitely did affect everything in the metro area, not just the immediate surroundings.

So it's not my tragedy, really, but it is New York's.

And there's a specific kind of distaste and rage in me when I see it co-opted. When I see the average American call it 'our' tragedy. 'The nation's' tragedy.

It's not. It's not yours to use for your violence and hate for what you call Other.

I don't feel suspicion when New Yorkers hold on to the symbolism of the event, and snap back at corporate interests that try to disrespect the memory of it. This is New York's tragedy, and it makes sense for New Yorkers to feel strongly about it.

I sure as hell suspect everyone else that tries to claim it, though.