#The cemetery holds 49ers and colonisers (oops I meant pioneers) confederate Mexican-American and “Indian” war soldiers 🤢

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SoCal gothic is like missions haunted by the ghosts of genocide, crumbling eastside graves full of dirty men like Doheny and Mulholland, rotting Victorians in redlined neighborhoods, & studio backlots that abut mausoleums where the sound of old films play in the ghostly night. Development deals cut with USC on the site of destroyed native villages, patriotic monuments on the site of forts + battlefields where Californios were slaughtered by American conquerors, Edwardian public schools filled with asbestos where the lights turn on by themselves.