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good-to-drive · 1 year ago

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SO I managed to get the iconic millennial PC game The Oregon Trail 5 (a la “you have died of dysentery”) working on my laptop, and for obvious reasons* I'm fascinated by both The Beatles and the Donner Party so naturally I've decided to take The Beatles on the Donner Party route. *I'm a big fan of suffering.

They're leaving Independence, Missouri in June 1846 just like the Donner-Reed Party, and are headed for what is now California. John is in charge (I imagine he wouldn't go otherwise) so if/when he dies it's game over.

(btw I don't want to clog up anyone's dashboard so you might want to block the tag 'the beatles oregon trail 5' bc I'll tag everything with that.)

#the beatles oregon trail 5 #sorry I took the picture with a potato screenshots crashed the game #I mean it's 22 years old and I'm running it on windows 11 so that's fair #the beatles #the oregon trail #the oregon trail 5 #the donner party #the donner-reed party #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr

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burningchandelier · 2 years ago

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No matter which one wins, everybody loses!

#I got polls this is how I am celebrating #disasters #the great fire of rome #mount vesuvius #pompeii #the black death #the plague #the donner party #cannabalism #earthquake #fire #titanic #the great molasses flood of 1919 #boston molasses flood #hindenburg #the great smog #chernobyl

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citizen-zero · 5 months ago

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it honestly is wild though that the Donner Party and the Franklin expedition both happened at roughly the same time. possibly even the very same year. that’s just funny to me. truly the world’s fair of survival cannibalism.

#the terror #the donner party #personal #erika's blog and bar #in one case it was entirely avoidable and in the other it might’ve been avoidable but there’s just no way to tell for sure

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queenoftheimps · 2 months ago

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Idle thought, but watching The Terror and reading all the analyses of its themes around hubris/colonialism/greed and how it leads to desperation under tragedy makes me think someone could probably make a pretty fascinating series about the Donner Party

#the terror #the terror amc #the donner party #cw: cannibalism implication #it's definitely not exactly the same vibe #there's no mystery about what happened because some of the Donner party made it out alive #but those themes around one crucial mistake snowballing into tragedy + Mother Nature's revenge + hubristic colonialism is all there

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vanhelsingapologist · 11 months ago

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I don’t give a fuck. donner party personality quiz be upon ye.

#the donner party #happy holidays #they started cannibalizing in February #so we’re close to that happy anniversary #Quizzes #personality quiz #what months of hyperfixation culminated in and then I never looked at Donner related shit again

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regionalpancake · 3 months ago

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getting a “Just Eat” youtube ad during a documentary on the donner party is wild

#🎶did somebody say just eat?🎶#regrettably- yes.#the donner party #tw cannibalism #(what a tag!)

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lindseymcdonaldseyelashes · 8 months ago

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The Donner Party (2009)

#christian kane #the donner party #clayne crawford

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kingcrustable · 5 months ago

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#the donner party

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disasterwriter · 1 year ago

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Sorry, I can’t hang out today, I have a party :(

The party in question:

#don’t talk to me ever again im gonna be mentally ill for the next 2.25 hours #donner party #the donner party #the lore lodge #ghost rambles #video essay #history #us history

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turtleislandhistory · 7 months ago

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May 12, 1846

The Donner Party leaves Independence, Missouri, en route to California.

#the donner party #us history #american history #may #1846

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nox-corvus · 11 months ago

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AAHHHH NEW HYPERFIXATION TIME!! ^w^

#american murder song #the donner party #us history #music

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skeleton-klng · 1 year ago

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If I had a nickle for every time anti-indigenous racism led a bunch of white people to eat each other in an inhospitable environment I'd have at least 3 nickles.

Which is actually a pretty disturbing amount.

#jk #I've almost finished The Terror 2018 #the tragedy of the essex #the donner party #there's probably more I know #the franklin expedition

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citizen-zero · 5 months ago

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ahhh, 1846—a great year for North American survival cannibalism!

#the donner party #the franklin expedition #the terror #personal #erika's blog and bar

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ghost-of-diogenes · 2 years ago

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