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[epersonae]

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The Colorado River delta was essentially destroyed by first the Hoover Dam and then the Glen Canyon Dam - only a tiny fraction remains of the original wetlands, and many (most?) years the river doesn't even reach the Gulf of California.

[send me an emoji and I will send you a fun* fact about my special interest(s)] *“fun” is kind of relative here tbh

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument across two states.

Till, 14 and visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, four days after a 21-year-old white woman accused him of whistling at her. His body was dumped in a river.

The violent killing put a spotlight on the U.S. civil rights cause after his mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, held an open-casket funeral and a photo of her son's badly disfigured body appeared in Black media.

The national monument designation across 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) and three sites marks a forceful new effort by the President to memorialize the country's bloody racial history even as Republicans in some states push limits on how that past is taught.

"America is changing, America is making progress," said the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., 84, a cousin of Till's who was with the boy on the night he was abducted at gunpoint from the relatives' house they were staying at in Mississippi.

"I've seen a lot of changes over the years and I try to tell young people that they happen, but they happen very slow," Parker said on Monday in a telephone interview as he traveled from Chicago to Washington to attend the signing ceremony at the White House as one of approximately 60 guests.

Tuesday marks the 82nd anniversary of Till's birth in 1941. One of the monument sites is the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till's funeral took place.

The other selected sites are in Mississippi: Graball Landing, close to where Till's body is believed to be have been recovered; and Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, where two white men who later confessed to Till's killing were acquitted by an all-white jury.

Signs erected at Graball Landing since 2008 to commemorate Till's killing have been repeatedly defaced by gunfire.

Now that site and the others will be considered federal property, receiving about $180,000 a year in funding from the National Park Service. Any future vandalism would be investigated by federal law enforcement rather than local police, according to Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi.

Other such monuments include the Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty and the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison.

Biden, an 80-year-old Democrat, will likely need strong support from Black voters to secure a second term in the 2024 presidential election.

He screened a film recounting the lynching, "Till," at the White House in February. Last March, he signed into law a bipartisan bill named for Till that for the first time made lynching a federal hate crime.

A Republican field led by former President Donald Trump has made conservative views on race and other contentious issues of history a part of their platform, including banning books and fighting efforts to teach school children accounts of the country's past that they regard as ideologically inflected or unpatriotic.

"This is an amazing, teachable moment to talk about the importance of this story as an American story that everybody can share in now, particularly at a time when people are trying to rewrite history," said Christopher Benson, president of the non-profit organization the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Institute in Summit, Illinois.

“We have a memorial now that is not erasable. It can't be banned and it can't be censored, and we think that's a very important thing.”

[heavenlymorals]

Some artists that I think Arthur would really like cuz I'm kinda bored(aka, an excuse to show art history):

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925):

John Singer Sargent is an icon and his composition is legendary. He wasn't that focused on very intense detail as he was with form and it's amazing what he was able to do. Eye catching, yet unrendered. Realistic, yet simplistic. Though he paintings were phenomenal, I think Arthur would enjoy his charcoal portraits the most, though. They are so beautiful and I feel like Arthur would be fascinated by how Sargent was able to use tones to give the allusion of detail rather than actually drawing out the detail. I think Arthur would adore how Sargent made them feel so real with how simplistic the composition is.

Thomas Moran (1837-1926):

Thomas Moran is a landscape artist whose main muse was the vast American frontier. His most famous paintings are that of Yellowstone National Park and the gorgeous Grand Canyon. His oil paintings are colorful and vibrant and have so much emotion to them. Given that Arthur is often outdoors and is super connected to nature, he'd probably really enjoy Moran's oil paintings of higher elevation like canyons and mountains.

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889):

Alexandre Cabanel is a portrait artist who created some of the most iconic oil paintings to have ever graced our eyes. His academic style of painting focused a lot on detail and precise rendering, unlike Sargent. Given the general gloominess and the melodrama of his oil paintings, I feel like Arthur would really like the figures that Cabanel painted, especially considering how emotional they are. Arthur, being emotionally repressed, might connect even more with them because of it. Cabanel was a damn genius.

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1825):

I know some of y'all are like "what the hell is Civil War hero and US President Ulysses S. Grant doing on this list?" Well, cuz he was a pretty dope artist too. In the few drawings we have from him, his main medium seems to be watercolor and his watercolor drawings are really unique. They focused more on composition than detail and they remind me so much of Arthur's own drawings, except they are in watercolor rather than lead or charcoal. I think Arthur might also enjoy how personal they all feel and how simplistic.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910):

Homer was an impressionist painter whose main muse was the everyday man and woman. His oil paintings are vibrant and full of life as they depict the everyday life of workers rather than people of leisure. Unrendered strokes from the brush put so much personality into the paintings and even life. Beautiful and bright paintings, all of them, but I feel like Arthur would connect most with the ones that depict land rather than the ones that depict water.

[tarragonthedragon]

random bystander: magneto! what are you doing! you're a campaigner for civil rights! yes you use destructive and sometimes murderous methods but you have no reason to throw a bus load of orphans into the grand canyon!

magneto: excellent point! you see, I recently completed one of my plans to perfection, resulting in the total destruction of the latest sentinel program in a collaborative effort with the x-men

bystander: .... that sounds like a good thing for you? not seeing how this leads directly to the bus load of orphans?

magneto: well, we went out to celebrate, and iceman told me he always knew there was good deep within me. I put up with that from charles, I'm not taking it from his toddlers

bystander: you know what that's fair enough but this seems like an overreaction

magneto: I mean, I was going to wait until the x-men got here to save them, obviously. you did call them? xavier institute, option 8 for "magneto on his bullshit again", not 6 for "suspected supervillain activity"?

[abbatoirablaze]

Shameless, Season 3 & 4 Master List

Seasons 1 & 2

Things never stay the same in the Gallagher household. At least, not for long anyways.

After you graduated high school, you helped your sister raise your five younger siblings. And things were like that...for a while. But then you ended up marrying your best friend.

Tony Markovich.

And yeah...things were pretty great there for a while too.

Until they weren't.

And now, you're living under an alias with your son...so that your husband doesn't know where to find you. And to be honest, ever since your dad disappeared...things have been going pretty well.

And then you met him.

Charlie Peters.

Who knew all you needed was that brooding version of sex on two legs to turn your life back into one big drama fest.

Season 3

Chapter 1: Oh How Things Change

Chapter 2: El Grand Canyon

Chapter 3: The American Dream & May I Trim Your Hedges

Chapter 4: The Helpful Gallaghers & The Sins of My Caretaker

Chapter 5: Cascading Failures

Chapter 6: A Long Way From Home & When There's A Will

Chapter 7: Frank The Plumber, Civil Wrongs & Order Room Service

Chapter 8: Survival Of The Fittest

Season 4

Chapter 9: Simple Pleasures & My Oldest Daughter

Chapter 10: Like Father Like Daughter & Strangers On A Train

Chapter 11: There's A Rub & Iron City

Chapter 12: A Jailbird, Invalid, Martyr, Cutter, Retard, and Parasitic Twin

Chapter 13: Hope Springs Paternal, The Legend Of Bonnie and Carl, & Liver, I hardly Knew Her

Chapter 14: Emily & Lazarus

Seasons 5 and 6

[amethystfairy1]

hello internet stranger,

i am in love. you've infected both me and my sister with your brainrot and captivating fics, we've talked about it non-stop the past few days, so naturally we have some questions.

But first, i want to ask what your boundaries are w/ fanart and writing. i've already drawn a couple pieces, are you alright with me posting them, and what should i tag them with? Also, i'm feeling very inspired to write more zed and tango for the travelling thieves au, is that alright if i take your ideas and just yoink them? Im not planning to post whatever i write at this point :P

anyways, moving on, i have a few world-building questions for you, starting w/ traveling thieves:

how does the mercenary guild and hits system work? Can anyone put a hit out on anyone, or do they have to be a wanted criminal? also, how does gem choose her targets? i like to believe she has some sort of moral compass in picking, but knowing the world they live in, i can't be certain

this is less of a question, but i don't see how the world can be resolved. For ttsbc, the obvious solution to the undercity folk living freely is that they overthrow the overcity government or just remove the laws keeping them banned. Sure, it'd be difficult, but from what we've seen, most people don't actually have strong prejudices against the undercity, they just vaguely believe they're evil, which can be very easily disproved. For traveling thieves, it's completely different, because not only is the discrimination in the government, it's in the people themselves; merely changing the laws would not change how people see hybrids, so how can that be fixed? My best solution to them all getting a happy ending is that they run away and found their own civilization where all hybrids can be free, but it doesnt seem like a likely scenario

again, not really a question, but I'm so so so happy in the latest fh piece that they looted the bodies of their attackers. the first time i read it through, i was practically screaming at the screen, telling them to grab the loot and weapons before they continued

next, ttsbc:

4. how do the mobs work? do they act like any normal animal, in that they just kinda exist and happen to be very hostile, or do they follow minecraft mob mechanics and spawn into existence from nothing when the conditions are right? could they theoretically all be exterminated? do all of them dislike light, like the zombies in the cleo bdubs fic? if they do, why are they making their way to the overcity?

5. how did the undercity become a thing? Was it just always there, or was it manmade? did hybrids and mutants always live underground? are the pits really bottomless? and if so, is the world a globe, or is it flat? i understand you might not have thought very deeply about these things before jumping in, but my sister and i were theorizing about different answers. i figured the undercity isnt manmade just like the grand canyon isnt manmade, it just came about through natural processes, and mutants and hybrids just evolved(?) seperately from humans, underground, which is a whole other can of worms with the science behind that. an idea about the "bottomless" pits has to do with physics. at the center of the earth (if it were hollow), you wouldn't feel gravity because it would pull on you equally in all directions. so maybe the bottomless pit really just leads to the center of the earth, and you're not really falling forever, you're just suspended in the center forever lol. not falling, but not hitting the bottom, either

anyways, this was a really long ask (i hope thats ok), and i still have more to say, but i'll leave it there for now. again, i love the angst, and have a wonderful day. im gonna try to get some work done, but it probs wont happen with all the brainrot XD

Hello hello! ✨

I'm so honored that you and your sister are enjoying my AUs and fics so much! That you've been talking about them and theorizing over them is so awesome to hear! Knowing that they've become something fueling discussion is super cool!

I LOVE IT ALL! Fanart/fanworks/fanfic I wanna see all of it! I would absolutely love it if you would post your fanart! Please use either the (#traveling thieves au) or (#through the sky blue cracks) depending on which AU it is for and mention me in the post (@amethystfairy1) so I can see it! And of course you are welcome to write fics based in my AU or using my characterizations, in fact I'd love it if you did! It's the best thing to hear that my writing has inspired someone else to get creative! I know you said you had no intentions of posting it, but if you ever do, please use the same hashtags here if on tumblr, or if you use A03 list the appropriate fic/series as inspiration and please credit me in the notes if you don't mind! I'm looking forward to seeing anything either fanart/fanfic related that you've created!

ONTO THE QUESTIONS 🏃‍♀️

The mercenary guild is basically like the underground/illegal version of the adventurer guild, and they'll take any jobs that the adventurer guild won't. Blackmail, assassination, smuggling, you name it. Gem has something of a moral compass, but it isn't exactly the strictest thing in the world. We learn when she meets Mumbo in Grian's wing preening fic that she is on her way to assassinate a noblemans son, and while that is a bit of a wink wink nudge nudge if you can figure out who that son is, exactly, it's still Gem agreeing to kill a teenager who is guilty of little more than pissing off the wrong person. Cruel world and all.

Perhaps that's exactly point? 😌 With Traveling Thieves, I did not set out to make a world that could be resolved or escaped from...the whole point is that it is cruel and inescapable, and the best you can do is continue to protect yourself and those you care about...and even then, you might fail to do that. You might be set up to fail in a sick system that would never give you a chance in the first place. And the best you can do is try to put the pieces back together in the aftermath. I don't want Traveling Thieves to resolve in any traditional sense of the word...for where that'll lead all our various characters, well, you'll have to wait and see. 🤔

Loot that body LOOT THAT BODY NOW 💃

They're like your typical minecraft mobs, they spawn in places with low light levels! We've also got some homebrew monsters that I've come up with, such as the bird-men, that we will be meeting as time goes on. Certain monsters such as zombies do avoid light, but there are plenty of monsters will go above bedrock just like certain monsters in minecraft can survive in the sun, like creepers and endermen. No, they can never be exterminated because of how they spawn!

The pits aren't bottomless, we've seen the bottom after all, where Pearl, Jimmy, and Grian were in the Depths! It is a natural chasm beneath the bedrock, and the various caves and tunnels stretch are incredibly huge and diverse, so while everything connects back to the main cavern of the under-city that's so huge, there are also other caves and tunnels where other groups live that we will be learning about eventually, such as the blaze-born pyres or where Cub is from in the Deep Dark!

It is completely totally 100% ok! I love getting long asks like this that give me the chance to develop and worldbuild the AUs and mention some details that might never really show up within the fics themselves! So by all means send more questions and thoughts! And I'd also love to see the fanarts you mentioned if you still are up to posting them, I can't draw so anything anyone draws that has anything to do with my AUs makes me incredibly happy! 😆

Thanks so much for coming by! 💖

[rabbitcruiser]

World Donkey Day 

Visit a petting zoo, or simply do some research into the underappreciated, stalwart, useful and intelligent beasts of burden known as donkeys.

World Donkey Day is a show of respect for one of the most enduring and respectable animals in the Equidae family. Throughout history, it has served throughout the world as both a mount and a beast of burden in some of the most challenging terrains and forbidding climates, and has done so with pride and endurance. It’s unsurprising that these beasts’ success is due in part to their stubborn nature, and World Donkey Day honors them for this along with their other, perhaps more laudable, traits.

History of World Donkey Day

Two subspecies of the donkey, the Somalian and the Nubian, were bred together to produce what we think of as the modern Donkey. Available evidence points to the Donkey having been working alongside humanity since 4000 BCE, most likely in Nubia, as a more versatile and resilient pack animal than the ox they were presently using. Since then they have been bred and transplanted all over the world as cultures moved, and the world expanded, and can now be found just about everywhere.

They’re also the progenitors of the sterile mule, a cross-breeding of horse and donkey that results in a breed with the strengths of both. Sadly mules are almost entirely sterile, and the exceptions so rare that no breeding stock of pure mules has ever been able to be achieved, in part due to there having yet to be recorded a case of a breedable mule stallion. Strangely, there have been cases where female mules have birthed what are, for all appearances, pure horses when bred with a horse.

Without the help of donkeys, it is hard to imagine that the modern world could ever have come into existence. These hardy pack animals provided civilization with the motive energy needed to generate wealth, well before the advent of steam power or electricity. For that reason, many people consider donkeys just as fundamental to our society as writing, pottery, and metallurgy.

World Donkey Day is all about celebrating their stoic spirit and individual charm. These creatures aren’t afraid of a hard day’s work. In fact, they more or less invented the concept. Donkeys pull carts, operate mills, and carry cargo for miles and miles, well after other species would have given up. For that reason, they have a special place in our hearts. They’re willing to put in the effort (for no pay) all to serve us – their grateful human masters.

World Donkey Day is the brainchild of Raziq Ark, a scientist whose interests primarily concern desert animals. Around ten years ago, he noticed that nobody was celebrating the humble donkey for its efforts in helping people all over the world improve their quality of life. In recognition of all this hard work, he set up a Facebook group, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the species all over the world. Eventually, the idea to set up a World Donkey Day emerged in 2018, and we’ve been celebrating it ever since.

The concept drew widespread attention in the media. The Daily Express, for instance, ran an article covering ten facts that people don’t know about donkeys. Did you know that a female donkey is called a Jenny? Ark also has thousands of followers on his Facebook page, all showing their support for this amazing creature.

Donkeys have played an essential part in human history. Ark says that they are a “precious genetic resource and a great gift of nature.” You can’t get higher praise than that!

How to celebrate World Donkey Day

The best way to celebrate World Donkey Day, depending on where you are, is merely to research these incredible beasts and the role they had to play in the world. If you’re somewhere you can take a Donkey Ride tour like the Grand Canyon or tours of certain abandoned mines then that’s an even better way to become acquainted with these adorable long-eared equines. World Donkey Day reminds us that we owe a large part of our success on this planet to these fellow travelers on the starship Earth.

There are plenty of other ways that you can show your support to donkeys all over the world and improve their wellbeing. Many of them are in constant pain and need attention fast. Often their owners are too poor to pay for a veterinarian, so it falls to the rest of us to take up the slack. Donating to a donkey charity, therefore, is a great way to show your support for these fabulous creatures directly. Currently, there are a handful of nonprofits working hard all over the world to deliver medical attention to neglected and abused animals. These charities use donated money to provide much-needed treatment to donkeys in their hour of need.

Donkey abandonment is another major issue. Many owners will dump their donkeys at the side of the road if they can no longer afford to take care of them. The animal must then scavenge for food to survive. Giving to a donkey charity, therefore, can provide these victims with shelter where they can live in safety and peace.

Donkeys are beautiful, but neglected creatures. World Donkey Day is a chance for everyone who cares about these animals to highlight their plight and do something practical about it. Are you in?

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[collapsedsquid]

Days after the election, with the electoral count at 267 for Trump and 260 for Biden, it was clear that (as in the House) the outcome would also be determined by Arizona and its 11 electoral votes. The tally in the Grand Canyon State showed that Trump was temporarily ahead by 65,554 votes with more than 340,000 ballots outstanding (mostly mail-in with some provisional). As those were counted, media outlets speculated that Trump’s lead would evaporate. Lawsuits were filed to determine the Arizona result.42 Significant leftist street-violence unfolded in the major cities across the country—with additional pressure in Arizona assisted by the MORENA party in Mexico. One wildcard that clouded the final outcome of the presidential election was that the FBI, in response to unvalidated claims of racial intimidation at the polls, launched civil rights crimes investigations in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Pending the resolution of the investigations, intelligence officials requested that state officials tasked with election oversight stop publicly reporting updated vote tallies. In states where elected officials were primarily Democrats, personnel promptly complied with these requests, which posed a unique threat to Trump’s apparent victory in Democrat-led Wisconsin. Ultimately, the Supreme Court of the United States found that the federal government did not have standing to intervene in state -run elections. The FBI later found that most reports of intimidation were false.

Heritage foundation seemingly predicting that Biden would scheme to stop vote-counting early which seems weird both in reality and in their weird paranoid fantastical view of how the world works as I understood it.

[csny]

Alaska: Igloo, Kodiak bear, Iditarod sled dog race, Denali

Hawaii: pearl harbor, pineapple

washington: Space Needle, apple, mt st helens, rainier national park

oregon: roses, lighthouse, crater lake, oregon trail, hiking

california: redwood tree, white water rafting, gold, golden gate bridge, silicon valley, yosemite national park, wine country, sierra nevada mountains, hollywood, joshua tree

nevada: silver, las vegas strip, hoover dam

idaho: gemstones, potatoes

montana: rocky mountains, glacier national park, grizzly bear, bison

wyoming: yellowstone national park, old faithful geyser, bucking bronco

utah: great salt lake, zion national park, skiing

arizona: lake mead, grand canyon national park, montezuma castle, turquoise, saguaro cactus

new mexico: pueblo, yucca plant, carlsbad caverns

colorado: rocky mountain national park, columbine flower, elk

north dakota: oil, wind energy

south dakota: crazy horse memorial, the badlands, mount rushmore

nebraska: chimney rock, bald eagle, train

kansas: tornadoes, dodge city, sunflower

oklahoma: tomato, wheat, osage shield

texas: cattle, prickly pear cactus, oil refinery, the alamo, NASA Johnson space Center

Minnesota: lake of the woods, wolf, deer

iowa: prairie grass, corn

missouri; Hog, gateway arch

arkansas: razorback hog, banjo

louisiana: crayfish, mardi gras, jazz music

wisconsin: dairy

illinois: Willis tower, tractor, lincoln

michigan: copper, iron ore, automobile manufacturing, motown

indiana: Car

ohio: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tires

pennsylvania: street mill, liberty bell

new jersey: constitution

maryland: blue crab

virginia: mount vernon

north carolina: wright brothers national memorial, tobacco farm, great smoky mountains national park, appalachian mountains

south carolina: fort sumter

georgia: peanuts, peach

florida: oranges, kennedy space center, alligator, everglades national park

alabama: cotton, civil rights movement

mississippi: magnolia

tennessee: country music

kentucky: horse racing

west virginia: coal

new york: apple tree, financial market, statue of liberty

massachusetts: american revolution

vermont: maple syrup

new hampshire: fall colors

maine: acadia national park, moose, lobster

And don’t make me repeat it!!!!!!!

[monsterfloofs]

🎹for Le Space Slug (the canyon one who's name I forgot again) Or Castor5!

SPACE SLUG!? SPACE SLUG!? DKDKDKDKDKCKD POOR ORTH, THAT IS THEIR FOREVER NAME NOW IT IS UNESCAPABLE!! I AM SORRY BUDDY BUT YOU DO LOOK LIKE A CUTE SEA SLUG I’M SORRYYYYYY

Ahahaha X///D Sulky slug aside

What are their hobbies?

Orth is very much like the humans on Earth really, they spent a long time peering at the stars and the planets and wondering what life looks like there. They had a soft spot for Earth for a while, watching it’s little civilizations grow, empires rise and fall until it reached it’s present day state.

Curiosity and lonilness being the biggest factors for why it tried to squeeze itself down to a smaller scale in the first place. Like a gentle giant that is the last of it’s kind. No other creature is like it, and they have drifted through the universe being not only alone but too grand to even be comprehend by smaller beings.

I think Orth tried to communicate before to other races but… it didn’t go so well, unfortunately.

Orth now though, gosh, they are so spoiled. They have someone they can talk to all the time. (And probably do wake their hooman up at night with questions) They can kind of indulge in human pasttimes, reading over their buddies shoulder.

They quite enjoy books and television. They enjoy listening to stories and soaking up as much information as they can.

(I am gonna write for Cas too just because 💖💖💖)

What are their hobbies?

Cas does enjoy listening to / reading those ultra sappy alien x human romances 👁️👁️✨ okay so he did pick on the protag. for enjoying those but then he also got hooked when he was sneaking onto their account so— you know, he still pokes fun at them though PSH!

Cas, is one of those bots who is severly smart and is very much a jack of all trades! He knows coding, he enjoys languages, (and really REALLY enjoys abusing this knowledge for his own amusment) Cas also has a lot of mechanical knowledge, he tinkers with his own self and weapons on occasation, can fix star cruisers, (and has hot wired a good few of them.)

He also likes learning as much as he can, except with Orth’s case it is a lot more curiousity. Cas is curious yes, but he makes good use of what he learns and pulls it into practice as soon as he gets a handle on a new skill. He enjoys puzzles and enjoys finding new and innovative solutions to tackle problems.

Cas’ brain doesn’t sit still very well either, if he doesn’t find something to keep it entertained well… hijacking some top tier security system will be on his list of fun puzzles to defragment. XDDD

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

i've been saying this for years. this is an essential aspect of the spiritual character of america. the conquest and taming of america was a profoundly spiritual process.

the first americans land on the east coast. the land is difficult to tame at first but abundant once we learned her ways. population grows. we spill over into the great lakes and appalachian regions. then comes the daunting task of crossing the continent. the further west you go the worse it gets.

starts off as lush and fertile prairies and numerous rivers. then becomes drylands and badlands and deserts. then large continent-spanning mountain ranges and grand canyons. harsh blizzards, thunderstorms, tornadoes, etc.

imagine you're among the first pioneers making this trek. you left civilization and abundance for desolation, having no clue what awaits you. every turn is more calamitous than the last. you're bordering on starvation. members of your party have long died from disease or skirmishes with the natives. it has been hell and only getting more hellish.

and then you cross the sierra nevadas (or the aptly named death valley) and what do you see? california's fertile valleys and the majestic pacific ocean. a paradise on earth overflowing with abundance and plenty and a mild climate and eternal sunshine.

the journey across america was a spiritual crucible and the promised land awaited you at the end.

[herrscherofmagic]

So apparently, in Honkai 3rd Part 2, Luoxing (Mars) not only has a world history written in the in-game texts, but it also had four continents that all correspond with real-life locations on mars:

Phoenix (Phoenicis Lacus)

Elysium

Lunae (Lunae Palus)

Arcadia

There's also further reference to areas such as the Muryas grand canyon (Marineris?), and the volcano Olympus (Olympus Mons).

(more rambling below the cut)

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This is a pretty low-effort post, but I want to try and see if I can come up with some more in-depth analysis based on the in-game texts.

Since the Luoxing names that Mihoyo chose are so close to our real-life names for these places on Mars, with the aid of our IRL maps of Mars and the in-game texts in HI3rd, I think there's enough info to roughly draw out a map of what ancient Luoxing's geography was like.

Not only that, but the texts also have both a world timeline (think millennia, from ancient era to modern era) and a "Great Eruption" timeline (the changes right before and right after the destruction of the Luoxing civilization). So I kinda wanna try and make a unified timeline as well.

Honestly... I've really grown to like Part 2. And I hope that by taking the time to do this sort of analysis, maybe I can raise awareness of these underrated parts of the Part 2 worldbuilding and story?

I have hope that we're going to learn more about the history of this world through the Part 2 story since there's a good chance we'll be exploring other bubble worlds that contain bits of the history of Luoxing.

So, maybe now's the time to get put on the thinking cap and start planning out some theories before we get too much extra info, just to see how wildly wrong they'll be later lmao

[katiajewelbox]

Women’s History Month March 2024

Discover a bouquet of women botanists and plant scientists from history!

Barbara McClintock

Why does Native American flint corn (Zea mays) often have a multicoloured mosaic pattern of kernel colours? The biological answer is transposons or “jumping genes”! Dr. Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was the American cytogeneticist who discovered that certain genetic loci can change position on chromosomes, a phenomenon called “transposition”, using multicoloured corn as the model organism between 1948 and 1950. McClintock courageously pursued her calling as a biologist despite societal attitudes discriminating against women in scientific careers. She went on to win the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work on transposons.

Janaki Ammal

The first woman to earn a PhD in botany at a university in the USA was actually from India! Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was born in Kerala, India, to a family of civil servants. She travelled to the USA via scholarships for Asian students and earned both a Masters degree and PhD from the University of Michigan by 1931. At the John Innes Centre in the UK, she co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945). Later in her career she worked on breeding superior varieties of sugarcane and eggplant in her home country.

Estelle Leopold

A botanist interested in both the past and the future of plant life, Estelle Leopold (January 8, 1927 – February 25, 2024) pioneered the use of fossilised pollen and spores to document environmental changes over vast time periods. Her research uncovered connections between climate change and evolution plus extinction of plant species, including trends of the central regions of continents experiencing more species turnover than coastal areas. Her work as a conservationist led to the protection of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, and she also helped prevent the building of dams in the Grand Canyon as well as oil shale development and the transport of nuclear waste in the Pacific Northwest.

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On this day:

A GRINGO IN MEXICO

On December 16, 1913, Ambrose Bierce wrote an allusion-laced letter to his literary secretary and confidant, Carrie Christiansen. The letter said, "I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose which is not at present disclosable." Determined to continue his life of adventure and controversy to the end, the seventy-one-year-old caustic journalist, master storyteller, and ladies' man set out to observe, first hand, the Mexican Revolution and meet the notorious Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit turned general. Bierce disappeared into the unknown and is listed as deceased in 1914.

Bierce was born with a passionate and unpredictable disposition. At fifteen he had his first mistress, a woman of seventy. During the American Civil War, he enlisted three times in the Union Army, going from drummer boy to first lieutenant. Unfortunately he sustained a head wound, which turned him bitter and suspicious. Settling in San Francisco, he hobnobbed with the underworld, eventually marrying and having a family. His wife and two grown sons predeceased him; one son died in a murder-suicide triangle, and the other died of pneumonia after a rift with Bierce, who then had the son cremated. Bierce kept the ashes in a cigar box on his desk and sometimes added cigar ashes to the box. He became famous as a writer in the newspaper empire of William Randolph Hearst.

Pancho Villa allowed the asthmatic Bierce to ride with his army, even though Bierce hadn't been on a horse in thirty years. When questioned about an argument in which Bierce allegedly called Villa "nothing but a bandit" and Villa sent gunmen after him, Villa merely shrugged. Theories about Bierce's fate range from him dying in the siege of Ojinaga, blowing out his own brains at the top of the Grand Canyon, working for England's war minister, being committed to a California asylum, and being held captive in a Brazilian jungle village.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[jesuisgourde]

okay so i’ve managed to have a pretty good spread of nonfiction subjects/genres this year. so far i’ve read:

-A Simple Story: The last malambo by Leila Guerriero - Latin American studies/sociology -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - mythology/literary theory -Chroma by Derek Jarman - art criticism/art history/autobiography -The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - travel/adventure -Sacred Sex by Robert Bates - poetry/mythology anthology -The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes - addiction treatment -The Criminal Child and other essays by Jean Genet - essays on various topics -Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer - biography/Holocaust history -At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman - queer biography -Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm - psychology - Countdown #3 by Aldo - political/civil rights essays from the mid-60s -Fabulosa! The story of Polari by Paul Baker - queer history -The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant - environmentalism/US history -Fire The Bastards! by Jack Green - literary criticism -Opium by Jean Cocteau - drug autobiography -Worker-Student Action Committees May ‘68 by Fredy Perlman - French history/leftist politics -Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher - political science -One Day In My Life by Bobby Fisher - autobiography/Irish history -Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee - transgender autobiography -The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko - art criticism/art philosophy -The Sex Revolts by Simon Reynolds - music history/criticism

y’all should give me suggestions for nonfiction genres/topics i’m missing and also suggest some good titles if you know any!