#history verse

[captainkirkk]

Barkugou becomes so famous that people are more excited to meet him than either of his pro hero parents

[j-kahnwald]

Turn Washington’s Spies AU

Jonas Kahnwald grows up on a German farm with his two parents. When his father kills himself and his mother leaves for another man, Jonas joins the army and sails to fight in the war in America. He fights with the Hessians, on the side of England, until he one day meets a young woman who opens his eyes to his role in the war. Realising that he actually wants to fight for the freedom of the American people he deserts and joins the Patriot army.

[bold-embrace]

I couldn’t get the idea of miles g having hello kitty pjs out of my head I had to make a whole comic about it

[humanitypostsunrise]

I saw this today and thought I’d share.

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[le-regrems]

This scene got me and my Silbling cracking, we were the only people besides one lady in cinema that laughed at it. Because it's true, British did steal all of their stuff.

[seenthisepisode]

“jensen wouldn't be able to differentiate between me and cas” misha my dude jensen is not even able to differentiate between dean winchester and himself so

[facts-i-just-made-up]

what is a bagel, really?

As a Jew of Polish descent, I was always told that in medieval times, Jews were deemed unworthy of the richest tasting foods that Poland of the era had to offer. The most flavorful things Poland had back then were bread and water, so Jews were forbidden from drinking water or baking bread. Now, Jews have a knack for eating unconventional bread products, having survived 40 years in a desert eating only stale Pita Pit leftovers known as "Matzo."

So it was that the Jews would boil the water instead of drinking it, and put the dough in that boiling water instead of baking it. In order to survive without water to drink, they invented Manischewitz Concord Grape Juice, and shortly after invented Irritable Bowel Syndrome as a result.

People thought they were nuts for these culinary substitutions, hence the term for the shape of the common bagel, a "Dough Nut." These toroidal not-technically-bread foods became popular across the globe, not only among Jews, but also among New Yorkers, some of whom were also rumored to be Jewish but no confirmation of a Jewish population in New York has yet been discovered.

Also there is something called "Lox," but this is a PG-13 rated blog so I won't be explaining where that comes from.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Podcast Elections: ACAB Edition

The introduction to this poll has been moved to the Voter's Guide (under the cut) due to length. Please ensure you are registered to vote in your local elections, should you be eligible.

*There is no lesser evil when the institution itself exists to exploit, oppress, and enact violence. I refuse to vote in this race, but I will vote in other races on the ballot.

Elections are coming up in the USA. I'm used to voting about twice a year, and understand how few measures and candidates are truly exciting to vote for. There's a lot of maintenance (renewing bonds and levies, voting against limitations to abortions, etc). Most candidates have significant flaws and even the ones who seem promising will probably fail to meet their campaign promises. It's boring but important. To me it seems that the dramatic races and measures are usually more threatening (so we vote against it) then promising (so we vote for it). City Council, County Chair, School Board, Water District, Library Board, and so on are all highly important, but candidates' platforms can be opaque, or there can genuinely be no good options. But if we want clean water, good education, freedom to read, an attempt at affordable housing, etc., then we need to care about these positions.

But then there's the elections that never feel good. The elections for who gets to lead the people we allow to murder with little consequence. The people in charge of institutions that I would rather be destroyed. Obviously there's the big one, but frankly due to the electoral college, the state I live in, and partisan races usually coming down to Party over Policy, voting in that election feels incredibly ineffective (but I do it anyways).

Another institution I don't like voting for is the County Sheriff, but at least my vote feels more influential here. As this is a nonpartisan position, this will be a runoff election. That means if no candidate gets greater than 50% of the vote we will hold another race between the top two candidates the following week.

[seraphim-eternal]

My soul is sorrowful, even unto death.

Matthew 26:38

[valtsv]

my prediction for shrue's arc this season btw

[humanitypostsunrise]

I saw this today and I thought I’d share.

God speaks to us through the Quran.

If you want to speak to your creator, he is there waiting for you to turn open the page.

[theophan-o]

Antin I. Manastyrsky (Антін І. Манастирський, 1878–1969), In the Steppe

Ukrainian Cossacks on a vintage postcard, published in Lviv, 1916.

[whaliiwatching]

you want it? come and get it

[moronkyne]

David who gets the nicknames that he calls Angel from his mom

His mother used to call Gabe all of the same things, all of the same ways…all of the same cringe-love comments

[lights-at-night]

hi everyone do any of you want to know more about the vaguely canon-compliant history i concocted in my head for the saint electric