#The Restoration

[themightyhumanbroom]

Where I stand on the ages of the characters is that Cream, Tails, Kit, Charmy, and Belle are kid-coded and the rest you can fuss with the ages a bit. Mainly because the Restoration is like two degrees away from being a paramilitary organization and the thought of kids running it is appalling to me.

[sparows-world]

I made what I think is my first real Sonic OC, I'm not sure though.

Mido is a Holland lop Bunny from an alternate universe where the restoration wasn't able to cure the metal virus, but also didn't fall.

There is many changes in this universe on how the virus works, the the events, and the solution.

Go ahead and ask me for what the story is behind this universe, and or behind Mido.

I will get the general basic things for you.

Mido is distant from people, hard to make long-term friendships when your friends keep turning into zombots.

Mido is biologically female, however they prefer non-binary pronouns. (Why did I make them non-binary if I'm going to say that they're biologically female? That's because it plays a role in how the character Acts.)

Mido was born during the outbreak, and and never got to know their parents to begin with. All they knew was the restoration, and that was perfectly fine with them.

Mido had a wispon that resembles a bubble gun (originally it was going to be more similar to a handgun but I figured bubblegun would have been more fitting).

When they join up in an experiment they're injected with an antivirus, not a cure per se but it does prevent the victim from turning into a complete zombot unlike the original virus. The antivirus itself does have some quirks, enhancing mobians to be even more supermobian than usual including stuff like enhanced brain processing power so on and so forth.

Reason why not everyone takes this antivirus is that there's a good chance that you could end up a zombot instead of a supermobian.

I got the idea of using a virus to stop a virus, kind of like how an unmovable object collides within unstoppable Force.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask, just know I might not be able to answer everything immediately. I might take time to actually tell you things, this is likely because I'm busy with real-world stuff or didn't get the notification.

[star-critter-2-sonic-hq]

I need someone in the Restoration to drag an entire piano into the Restoration and get everyone to sing along to this song

[banji-effect]

I took advantage of the long weekend to visit West Rock State Park, and discovered this great confluence of at least two of my interests: regicide and megaliths!

[oakappleday]

The royal "scandals" nowadays can't hold a candle to the grandeur of what Charles II got up to just in his off hours. RETVRN:

The now Duchess of Richmond, however, soon returned to court, where she remained for many years; and although she was disfigured by smallpox in 1669, she retained her hold on the king's affections.[4] It is certain, at least, that Charles went on to post the Duke to Scotland and then to Denmark as ambassador, where he died in 1672. It is however speculated that the duchess of the King may have had an affair. Samuel Pepys recorded in May 1668:

(..)he is mighty hot upon the Duchess of Richmond; insomuch that, upon Sunday was seen, at night, after he had ordered his Guards and coach to be ready to carry him to the Park, he did, on a sudden, take a pair of oars or sculler, and all alone, or but one with him, go to Somersett House, and there, the garden-door not being open, himself clamber over the walls to make a visit to her...

[maypoleman1]

29th May

Oak Apple Day/ Whit Monday

An Oak Apple. Source: Wikipedia

Today is Oak Apple Day and, in 2023, also Whit Monday and the late May Bank Holiday in the U.K. Oak Apple Day, also known as Restoration Day, has been celebrated since the 1660s to mark the resoration of the Stuart monarchy under Charles II, after England’s ill-fated experiment with republicanism. The oak apple was held, along with compliant birds, to have helped disguise the fugitive king when he climbed the Boscobel Oak to escape searching Roundhead soldiers after his defeat at Worcester by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army. Thereafter wearing an oak apple on this day denoted one’s Royalist sympathies. The day took off as a set of festivals because it also enabled the return of many late May traditions that the Commonwealth government had banned as being suspiciously pagan. The most obviously pre-Christian survival that takes place today is the Castleton Garland, in Derbyshire, in which girls dressed in white dance in a procession led by the Garland King who leads the parade through Castleton, accompanied by a Garland Queen, dressed in seventeenth century costume. The King’s bottom half however comprises a garland adorned frame of which he is relieved when the procession reaches the church and the vegetation is hoisted up the church tower, along with branches of oak. The girls then dance round the maypole. The whole event, despite its Stuart disguise, is probably a pagan May Day practice, with the Garland King being a version of Jack-in-the-Green.

Whit Monday was an altogether more riotous affair after the solemnities of Pentecost, but most traditions have now transferred to the late May Bank Holiday. There are many late spring fairs, Morris dancing and processions, including the appearance of the horse-god survival, the Hooden Horse, at the dances of the East Kent Morris in Charing, near Ashford in Kent.

[dutchs-blog]

Restoring The Smallest Clockwork

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[cromwellrex2]

The Restoration: ‘As to things of State - the King settled and loved of all’

The Compromise Settlement of Charles II

King Charles II by John Michael Wright. Source: Wikipedia

FOR MANY former supporters of the Parliamentary cause, the Restoration must have been hard to take. For all the warm words of the Declaration of Breda, it must have felt to those that had followed John Pym, Arthur Heselrige, Oliver Cromwell and John Lambert, and especially the comrades of John Lilburne, that their own world had been turned upside down. For the Restoration, in so many ways, was precisely that. Not only was Charles II settled on his throne which in truth, by 1660, all but the most ardent republicans believed was the only way out of the constitutional impasse the Commonwealth had found itself in, but the House of Lords was re-established; the Church of England, including a hierarchy of bishops was reintroduced; the New Model Army was abolished and even the Divine Right of Kings was reinstated. It must have seemed to the advocates of the Good Old Cause that all those years of tumult, death and revolution were for naught: the Monarchy and all its works was back with a vengeance.

And of course, there was indeed vengeance. As described last time, the regicides that were still alive were pursued mercilessly by the new government, even the dead not being safe from the King’s wrath. In addition, the so-called “Cavalier Parliament” consisting of triumphal Royalist MPs, presided in many respects over a victor’s peace. The disestablishment of the New Model Army was, after the executions of the regicides, the most visible sign of a restored monarchy. The Army had been the instrument of Charles I’s defeat and the constant protector of the Commonwealth, and it had also been a major political player that forcibly dissolved Parliament after Parliament. To see this formidable military force that had destroyed the Royalist armies, crushed the Scots and ended the Irish Rebellion, simply disappear was no clearer sign that not only was the Parliamentary cause dead, but that the gravest threat to the Stuart regime was also no more - and without a shot being fired. The successor regiments that later became the Coldstream Guards and the Royal Horse Guards, comprised the core of a 7,000 man militia, loyal solely to the monarch - a situation that Charles I had long craved. These regiments would become the basis of the standing British Army, whose oath of loyalty remains to the monarch - an echo of the settlement of England’s civil wars.

Charles’ religious settlement was, on the face of it, a restoration of the Anglican Church in its prewar form. Episcopalianism was back, including in Scotland, supported by a new Book of Common Prayer. Bishops were also readmitted to a restored House of Lords, where they sit still. Despite Charles’ Breda promises of religious toleration, the Solemn League and Covenant was repealed, and the cause which had spurred the Scots into rebellion and war against the King’s government in the late 1630s was effectively suppressed. Although Charles himself was personally quite tolerant of different religious persuasions, including notoriously, Roman Catholicism, his Parliament was not. The confident Cavaliers remembered how hard the Presbyterians had tried to enforce their version of Protestantism on the three kingdoms; how the rule of the Major-Generals had tried to squeeze all joy out of Christian worship and, recalled with horror, the republicanism and threat to land ownership that millennial sects, sheltering within the ranks of the Levellers, had tried to introduce. A number of anti- Puritan bills were passed, most notably the Corporation Act of 1661 (which excluded non-Anglicans from public office) and the Five Mile Act of 1665 (which banned non-Anglican ministers from their former livings). These Acts effectively excluded Presbyterians and other low church groups from participating in the new political or religious establishment. This led ultimately to these disenfranchised faithful into forming their own churches. They called themselves Nonconformists and Dissenters, eventually formalising themselves into the various strands of Methodism. Within these churches the spirit of anti-Royalist and Anglican sentiment remained, leading ultimately to eighteenth century radicalism and part of the impulse that fuelled the desire for independence within Britain’s American colonies.

Scotland was freed of military occupation and its Parliament restored, but government garrison troops remained and Scotland never recovered the independent swagger it had enjoyed earlier in the century when it was able to interfere in the affairs of England and influence the outcomes of the civil wars with easy confidence. With its government impoverished and subservient, its independent military strength non-existent, its religion subordinated and the fault line between Highland and Lowland populations exacerbated by the civil wars, Scotland was a shadow of its prewar self. The days of routine Scottish invasions of England were over forever. In less than fifty years, Scotland’s mercantile class, faced with bankruptcy following catastrophic economic decisions and ill-advised colonial adventures, would petition the English Parliament and Crown for an Act of Union, granted in 1707, which would make the United Kingdom a political, as well as a monarchical, reality.

In Ireland, Charles’ government was focused and ensuring rebellion did not recur and made great efforts to rehabilitate, and reconcile with, the landowning Old English aristocracy and breaking the religious solidarity with the Old Irish rural workers and peasants that had driven so much of the rebellion’s early success. Charles’ own pro-Catholic sympathies helped this process, but he also did little to restrain Scottish Protestant settlement in the north and west, thus sowing the seeds of a sectarian conflict that would get ever more vicious over the next three hundred years.

But the Restoration was not absolute and Charles did not intend it to be, whatever the attitudes of the Cavalier Parliament. Charles had not spent half his life prior to his return on the run in order to simply repeat the mistakes of his father. Although not the constitutional monarch envisaged by George Monck, Charles nonetheless attempted to rule in partnership with Parliament. For Charles, his Divine Right to rule was a device to secure his legitimacy, not a principle by which a king should govern. There were several political factors that caused Charles to eventually dissolve the Cavalier Parliament in 1679, but new elections were held immediately. Unlike his father, Charles was never tempted by Personal Rule and was rarely in dispute with his Parliaments, unlike his predecessor governments. Parliamentary rule was solidified under Charles’ settlement in a way unimaginable in the years leading up to the civil wars.

Similarly, for all the anti-Puritanism of his regime, there was no systematic persecution of dissenters and no legal requirement for his subjects to adopt the new Prayer Book or the Anglican Communion. In Ireland, the ferocious oppression of Catholics and Irish self-determination was still in the future, and that would be driven principally by Protestant settlers, exacerbated significantly by the renewal of civil conflict in Ireland in the late 1680s. Charles was a cautious and astute man. His love affair with particularly, the English, population, had significantly dissipated by the end of his reign, but all his subjects, whatever their views of his government, were grateful to him for ensuring peace was maintained and that the conflicts that had led the inhabitants of the British Isles to fight and kill each other for years, were not reignited.

The immediate view of history, that lasted well into the nineteenth century, was that he British civil wars and the republican experiment were anomalies, best forgotten. The skill of the Stuart and Hanoverian regimes in suggesting the civil wars were no more than a family quarrel, quickly forgiven and forgotten, is the reason why there is no direct link between the proto-socialism of the Putney Debates and the the later Radicalism of the eighteenth century. Issues such as land reform and universal suffrage were effectively barred from public debate for 150 years.

Charles’ later reign did contain conflict and there was even a Radical attempt to kidnap the King at one point, but the most dangerous issue was that of the succession. A new political Parliamentary party, with a sneaking admiration for the Good Old Cause, called the Whigs, was formed determined to prevent the accession of Charles’ brother the openly Roman Catholic James, to the throne given the absence of a legitimate heir to Charles. A staunchly Royalist group which became known as the Tories formed to oppose the Whigs and support the Stuart succession. Thus the contours of future Parliamentary debate and factionalism began to take shape.

In February 1685, Charles died. There was, in the event, no challenge initially to James ascending the throne as King James II. However, the new monarch resembled his father in a haughty attitude and political ineptitude. The conflicts that drove civil wars would be reprised and, once again, absolute monarchy would be the loser.

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: The Restoration by Pam Green

The Restoration (Sully Parkway Book 3) Kindle The Restoration by Pam GreenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars<Isn’t it amazing? What God can do? This is a full-on restoration of marriage, relationships, outreach, and some full-on Jesus moves. I love how the spirit moved on Mr and Mrs Landsdowne throughout this story.View all my reviews Amazon He lives by the book—or his own version of it—and makes everyone…

[judahmaccabees]

[themightyhumanbroom]

*How the Restoration members play Helldivers 2*

Lanolin: The Shot Caller and min-maxer extraordinar. But when people deviate from the plan she tilts harder than a league of legends player losing their promos.

Tangle: Having the most fun. Pulls off some seriously clutch plays but dies a lot from not noticing enemies.

Whisper: Absolute crackshot but spends most games trying to keep Tangle from using up all their reinforce budget.

Jewel: Always brings jump pack and doesn't like fighting terminids for reasons I hope are obvious.

Amy: Likes topping people off with ammo and supporting people with the Stalwart. Immensely frustrated there are no melee weapons.

Surge: Runs off alone and either dies immediately and slinks back to the rest of the team humiliated or clears half the map by herself. There is no in between.

Kit: Permabanned from hacking the servers so he could get more super rare samples.

Belle: Frighteningly good at the game. Weapon of choice is the Slugger shotgun. Dies exclusively from happenstance.

Duo/Mimic: Drops airstrikes on Whisper at the funniest opportunities, then claims it's an accident.

[iveremade]

“Good luck. And DON’T fuck it up.”

[nardacci-does-art]

I meant to draw this back when I did this other doll comic as another side, to show a doll that had been cared for instead of abused, but somehow I wasn't able to finish it till like 10 minutes ago, anyway I did it *confetti*

[oakappleday]

Charger in the Toft style, with slip-trailed decoration of Charles II in the Boscobel Oak, c. 1685