#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!

[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.

[mischiefbuckley]

who else was in a gifted program in elementary/primary school and is now severely depressed and anxious

[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

[suenitos]

no i’m with you like i don’t really think thanksgiving should be celebrated like it is but it’s cute to me thinking about george going to the dramily festivities

exactlyyyy the history of it icks me out way too much like fuck no but as an excuse to be with family ONLY i guess ever so slightly not evil. and well yeah that last part too yas

[idalenn]

The further I go on this outline the more I come to realize that Lillian would, just, not suffer Fordola. Or Yotsuyu. In fact, she'd be up there with Hien champing at the bit to see them hang; except she couldn't be persuaded by Gosetsu to let them live - to let them atone - and would openly criticize Hien for changing his mind.

[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 ?

[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.)

[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. :)

[illiadofrecollection]

I wanted to write some extra extra horrible Armand/Daniel book/series blend fanfic to test if I could write erotic horror basically, but was hit by a writer’s block. So I’m instead trying to figure out what it would actually have been like to be a, what? 20? year old American journalist in the USA in 1973.

The Vietnam conscription only ended in January 1973! This seems like something that would have influenced Daniel even if ‘a full-time student making satisfactory progress toward a degree’ he might get a deferment by studying (wiki). Protests against the war were everywhere. An aspiring journalist would likely have reported on them, maybe participated in some way.

an event right there in San Francisco in 1972 (shortly before the interview) ‘October 14. The "Peace March to End the Vietnam War" was held in San Francisco. This "silent-march" demonstration began at City Hall and moved down Fulton Street to Golden Gate Park, where speeches were given. Over 2,000 were in attendance.’ (wiki)

1972 is also the year of the first reports on what would become the Watergate scandal. Mildly relevant to a young journalist perhaps?

of course the 70s also featured a lot of gonzo journalism, and the kind of young journalist who visits bars to record people’s stories and score drugs might be a Hunter Thompson fan? It happened to me: I tried writing a Anne Rice horror fic and instead convinced myself to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 😔

Dick Leitsch’s Guide to Seventies Gay Slang seems useful. gay bar setting anyone.

still stuck :(