#Boston Facts

[o-the-mts]

St. Botolph's Day

Happy St. Botolph's Day!!! June 17 is the feast day of Botolph, a 7th-century English monk. Actual historical details of Botolph are sketchy, but he had a lot of churches named after him and one church in Lincolnshire became the center of "Botolph's Town," shortened to Boston.

A lot of the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony were from the Boston, England area and named their new hometown after it, which is deeply ironic because the Puritan's were staunchly against "papist" practices like naming places after saints.

Today, June 17 is a legal holiday in Suffolk County, Massachusetts (my kids even got the day off from school until a few years ago) but not for any reason to do with Botolph. June 17, 1775 was the date of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, MA and so the day is commemorated as Bunker Hill Day.

People also connect the date 6/17 to Boston because the city's area code is 617.

The Boston Celtics won their most recent NBA Championship on June 17, 2008 and if all goes well, they could win another championship tonight!

[camthecatchameleon]

i know everyone’s doing super cool cultural miku and i’m sure this specifically has been done already but i couldn’t pass up the chance

[catominor]

A 1964 illustrated Satyricon, translated by William Burnaby and illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor

[marzipanandminutiae]

speaking of tearing down old buildings though

one of my fondest wishes is to dynamite City Hall and Center Plaza and rebuild Scollay Square 2.0: Bitches It Has Even More Ornamentation On The Buildings, And Also We Are Giving The Businesses Back To the Descendants Of People Who Got Forced Out To Build Your Stupid Brutalist/Minimalist/Whatever Paen To Gentrification-Masquerading-As-Progress

same view in 1906 and 2020. like what the fuck (and no, that is not "dense housing"- it's offices for posh companies. with chain stores along the bottom, like CVS)

[jojotichakorn]

i love how the show made sure 1) to show us that for once boston was extremely reluctant to make sexual advances on someone and atom absolutely did all the work, and then also blamed boston for not wanting to see him again, despite the clearly established boundaries; and 2) to explicitly frame the fact that boston as a gay man (particularly a promiscuous gay man) is seen as predatory by having chueam verbally frame the situation as the classic deeply homophobic "homosexual preying on the young and inexperienced and turning them to the "homosexual lifestyle"" idea (reflected in anything from 1961's "boys beware" short to the current "protect children from drag queens" moral panic), and y'all are STILL somehow saying that boston is at fault here, just because he is a shitty friend and a selfish person. like i'm sorry, but a leap from these honestly regular human traits to literal blackmail and sexual assault is not as obvious and easy as some of you seem to think.

[riggerbison]

NEO TRAI as BOSTON

in ep. 1 of ONLY FRIENDS (2023)

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that the smoot is a unit of measure named for Oliver R. Smoot, an MIT student who as a fraternity pledge was forced to measure the Harvard Bridge using himself as a ruler. A smoot is equal to five feet, seven inches. (x)

[gunsatthaphan]

*narrator voice* turns out, he did.

[jerswayman]

pre-game ritsies for luck (please)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #989

Papa Bear is friends with Keith Lockhart, the conductor of the Boston Pops.

Source:

Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf. 2001.

[iwantoceans]

“Hearts are lethal weapons. Did you hold mine and feel threatened?”

[jtspaderstills]

my litol bean again🤏🏻🐻

[loserdudes]

A dream come true.

[down4caitlin]

Crazy how people are still trying to make some type of discussion like it’s not obvious, that little “politics” shit needs to go Caitlin Clark will win ROTY even if some of this crazy ass, non watching wbb “fans” like it or not and yk what is really bad for this upcoming college players to disrespect cc like this some of them will make de league and are probably going to get demolished by her so I understand their fear but you know what keeping it real I’m sooo excited for this half of the season to start… bc it’s only gonna bet better from here on. Haters need to be ready, this is Caitlin Clark’s league y’all just weren’t ready for this type of motion.

[grison-in-space]

Yesterday, Tribble had a dental to remove one cracked carnassial tooth which turned into removing twelve teeth with cracked roots and root fragments (!) and also a gingival mass (!!) underneath her crappy ass incisors. (Vet thinks it's probably a function of gingival irritation but the mass has been fully excised and sent for pathology anyway; I'll hear back about that one in a week or so but I'm trying not to worry about it.)

I suddenly suspect I know a lot more about why Tribble has always been a reluctant chewer and biter. Dammit. (My vet assured me that she'd had no idea until she had to X ray her jaw to find all the fragments of the carnassial, but I still feel bad.)

Anyway, it's Tribble's thirteen birthday / twelfth gotcha day next week, and I am plotting birthday mush recipes. None of that is the problem.

The problem is that Matilda is Worried.

She was fine until Tribble came home sore and bloody mouthed and tired, at which point she insisted on carefully sniffing Tribble from nose to tail, several times over, and then checking over her periodically for the rest of the evening. Tibbs did not want to go alongside for the first couple of trips outside because she's sore, and Matilda kept going back to stare intently at her and make unhappy noises while Tribble sulked and ignored her.

Okay. Mildly annoying for everyone, but okay.

Except that at bedtime, Matilda fretfully woke up humans every goddamn hour or two to check on Tibbs. You know. In case we could fix it, or we didn't know. If Tribble was distressed that would have been one thing, but she just slept through it on her cozy heated orthopedic bed.

At one point, I am informed, she was offered Ball in case that was what she wanted, but no: she wanted to go make sure Tribble was okay. Ball is the highest reward in her universe at the moment, so that was... significant.

I'm glad you care, Matilda, but oh my fuck I am so tired

[wonderfultoweird]

Currently reading my dear friend Phoenix's ( @alienfuckeronmain ) newest book Thorngale and loving it so far. Saw a pretty sunset and couldn't resist some pics. If you are heavy into depravity, disgust, and all things gothic horror then you should check it out. I will say this book has very "dead dove" type content but really it just fits itself very well to traditional gothic literature tropes (recently read Wuthering Heights and it did have like. some batshit crazy stuff in there so I'm really just expecting more of the same). I love Phoenix's work and I love how she writes horror. My life would not be the way it is now without her ♡.

Here's the summary on the back :)

In their neglected, decaying family estate on the cliffs of the northern Cornish coast, two Anglo-Catholic brothers grow up in parasitic isolation during a time marked by the decay of English nobility. The elder, Alexander, is equal parts devout and sadistic, lording over Francis, the younger, as his tormentor and God. Oscillating between dreamlike fragments from their insular childhood to their final, sharp descent to madness in 1928, Thorngale is a chilling gothic horror tale of obsessive love and fatal devotion, written with the cutting, claustrophobic spiral of an ever tightening concertina wire.