#and learning the local history

[doesnotloveyou]

i love newcomers to this site. they always reblog the oldest posts that i liked back in 2014 so i can unlike them instantly!

[communistkenobi]

It’s so funny when liberals lecture communists about not knowing how anything works, that we need to grow up and face the real world etc, while publicly demonstrating that their political imagination is so deeply impoverished that they genuinely believe the only thing the leader of the most powerful country on the planet in all of human history can do is block a slightly more fascist guy from taking his place every four years

[mcytblrconfessions]

dude monolingual english speakers don't know what they're missing out on, i started watching qsmp and my entire world opened up. i started understanding when people talked in portuguese and spanish and french around me, i started connecting languages, i became a better person, i deadass just feel like i got smarter, my crops were watered, skin was cleared etc etc. i'm so extremely serious, i understand if you don't want to get into qsmp especially after all that shit, but you all need to get into something that's not in your native language especially if you only speak english. like start looking for popular spanish-speaking youtubers or something. expand your worldview. get bilingual. become cooler.

[wodniars-void]

Do you guys wanna hear about my little au where Subject X (Skuld) and Bragi's ghost become friends?

They're the "what the heck happened to you kids" gang :3

[mondglocke]

Writing Stories and Building Worlds is great, i'm currently building a Urban Fantasy Story and now im listening to documentaries about the history of german cities and how different famous buildings were built just so i can fantasy-fy them.

[merry-death]

So much of the talk about voting/not voting this year is about the presidential election, and at this point, I know I don't have anything to say that could change anyone's mind. However, PLEASE vote down ballot and do your research on every one of those votes.

If you, like me, live in a place where you have 3 pages of just judges to vote on, I know that seems daunting to look into, but there's also probably several lawyer groups who have assessed the judges' qualifications and behavior. If you're in a big enough city/county, there's probably even a group dedicated just to gathering those ratings and tracking reversals of rulings, controversial rulings, etc.

Not only could those judges be someone you have to stand in front of someday, so you want to be sure they're unbiased and good at their job, but you also might find out some interesting things. Mostly about corruption or bigotries, but if you're lucky like me, maybe one of the most respected judges in your county is also a successful mystery novelist and now you have that as a fun fact

[destinywillowleaf]

besides legends arceus causing the whole "oh riley is actually really old (and at one point went by rye)" braincell it also led to other Fun Ideas about ancestry and dealing with who people expect you to be contrasting with who you really are :) especially with marley's japanese name (mai) becoming the english name for her ancestor and thus joining rye in being the stat trainer ancestors who share the same name origin as their present-day descendants/selves :) :) (also they were specifically made a team in the BDSP battle tower which might not mean much but i'm thinking about it now anyway)

[faeryclown]

Verity

n. a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance

[vynnblr]

homemade masala chai is SO MUCH BETTER than anything else do not trust starbucks or teabags go make some real masala chai you will not regret it

[ceramicbird]

the belobog history and culture museum event is so funny because i don’t want to do anything else. why would i want to do simulated universe or calyxes or whatever when i can play Museum Management Simulator

[literally-just-there]

So anyway did you guys know panini albums already existed in the 19th century ?

[diony-svs]

Mothman this mothman that MOTHMAN IS AN OMEN OF DESTRUCTION

[monsterdogboy]

someone remind me to do a haul post at some point 🍃

my cool queer goth/punk uncle is moving and gave me a bunch of stuff from his collection he’s been building since the 80s of just weird creepy shit including a lot of weird art pieces he made involving baby doll heads, scary clown pipes, and a taxidermy bat that is older than me

[rotationalsymmetry]

I don’t know if this is what you are looking for exactly, but I enjoy writing for Postcards to Voters because they focus on non-presidential races. I am currently writing postcards against an anti-choice constitutional amendment proposition in Ohio.

I wish more people would do things like that, instead of making posts that guilt trip people for not being excited enough about voting for the Blue sexual harasser instead of the Red one.

Thank you for your highly sensible response.

I guess there's a thing where "just because someone takes 15 seconds to shoot their mouth off online about something that's annoying them doesn't mean they have the time/energy to do anything actually constructive, even more so for the people who took .5 seconds to hit reblog now on someone else's shooting their mouth of post" but I think it would be strictly better for people to spend that .5 second exerting a smidgen of self control and going "either it's actual GOTV or it's not, and if it's not I'm going to not reblog it."

And as the election is over a year away...I don't think "vote blue no matter who" is actually a Get Out The Vote action at this point in time. It's annoying enough when people do it in person but at least then there's occasionally some chance of having a reasonable discussion about it, but on social media between people who don't really know each other? Ha snowball's chance in hell.

(I haven't done Postcards to Voters the last couple years, but I did around 2019-2020 or so and they are fairly low barrier to entry as long as you have stamp money, super introvert friendly, you can be as creative or non-creative as you want to be, and as you can do it from your home on your own schedule pretty darn spoonie friendly as well. As well as covid-safe. And yes, there's a big focus on local/state campaigns, which warms my participatory democracy loving little heart.) (ughh sounds like an important campaign maybe I should pick this thing up again.)

[headworld]

IM THE TOURIST

[owen-not-carvour]

Most interesting fact you know?

these 5 words have me a Lot more stressed than they should Wow- (it’s like all my obscure knowledge goes away when i’m asked)

I gotta make sure I give y’all a good one soooooo

tbh idk here’s one abt my almost hometown that I think is cool though.

in mobile, al there used to be (as in around the time of the founding-early 1700s) these gangs that were basically the unofficial government. like they were lowkey the mafia and what they said went so the Actual gov (or whatever colonial equivalent they had at the time) just had to listen to them otherwise they risked facing their wrath themselves.

however these guys (i think i remember this right…) were actually not that bad! like, as usual, the government Sucked (partially bc it was like. legit incomplete) and if they even Had a police force, as per usual, they also sucked… so. enter These Guys! they would actually track down criminals who were let off and kill/torture/punish/Whatever them instead!

so people were like scared of them but because they were basically the only ones solving legit problems,, they were also respected.

best part, some of them were called the Buckets of Blood (which is a Sick name) and as more time passed and mobile became more developed, these gangs actually deviated and formed what became some of the earliest mardi gras orders and associations! (there was some other Actual History that happened in between this and that but. i don’t remember that much)

anyway that’s probably a lot more than you wanted but. there’s a Fact. :)