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084392 · 11 months ago
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the artificial heroes story taking place hundreds and hundreds of years into the future. past when the pmd2 future took place...pmd2 celebi being there to help too
her telling them the history of humans in the pmd world at some point....
and vaguely how she "had partners who are no longer by my side but...theyll always be with me. and they wouldnt want me to let the future go down like this" and her being there to help hoopa
hoopa trying to save space once they started noticing it messing up in places...palkia telling them they have to fix it bc its taking all of him to keep everything and himself in check. and if space goes down completely they both do. it wont just be a fight w unbound hoopa but w a primal palkia if things really start messing up...
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semothekat · 1 year ago
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i jsut found out about firefox focus,, and while it does seem really good, the only thing that throws me off is that there are no tabs… i need my tabs..
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bookishfeylin · 1 year ago
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Black History Month… ending like this…
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1337wtfomgbbq · 2 years ago
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Andre Darrigade who was proclaimed the most courteous of he professional cyclists receives as a reward his weight in oranges.
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five mandarin oranges weigh exactly as much as him <3
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tipsandtrixx · 1 month ago
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YOU WTAHC OVERSIMPLIFIED!??!?!?!?!? LIKE THE HISTROY GUY WHO VERY RARLEY UPLOADS!,!,?!
YEAH!!! I'm a huge history nerd because I have that kind of auadhd that means I have to know as much stuff as possible or I mentally explode so name a history channel with a sassy narrator that talks about niche history and I probably have watched it lol.
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mystic-maniac · 2 months ago
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haha so funny story I tried typing this and it deleted EVERYTHING and im really not looking forward to typing these all again anyways here are a few of my smiler headcanons!! (Mostly backstory/what happens in the future stuff)
Trish/Dan:
• they're dating... oooooh
• after the part 4 ending, trish was able to snap out of her correction-infused daze (which left her traumatized) and was now terrified of the smiler and anything to do with it. she trashed the project despite dan not wanting her to
• dan tried to find more info about the ministry and miles (much to trish's displeasure) and got marmalized in the process.
• trish was devistated. she loved dan, but she wasn't sure how the relationship would continue. all dan would talk about is how great correction was and how badly he wants her to do it to, all being really triggering for trish.
• eventually trish gets corrected as well, and both of them live their lovely corrected relationship.
• also this is them 10 years later:
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Miles/Dr. Kelman:
• miles is the son of dr kelman
• miles had really angsty teenage years and was really depressed, which really scared kelman
• when miles was in his late teens, kelman tried everything to find away to cure his son's sadness
• it took a while but eventually kelman found the smiler, a god-like creature. the smiler gave kelman much advice and he eventually started the ministry of joy
• miles was the ministry's first victim paitent, and the rest is histroy :D
there you go enjoy!!
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my-japanese-corner · 5 months ago
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Japanese History Words
将軍 (しょうぐん)
they were a pretty big deal ~
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Shōgun: Officially this position was called 征夷大将軍 (Hiragana: せいいだいしょうぐん, Romanji: seii taishōgun) As we know, Japanese love their abbreviations, Shōgun (将軍, means army leader). Kanji Breakdown: 征(せい, sei) means to "conquer" or "subjugate" 夷(い, i) means "brutish" or "unsophisticated warrior" 大(だい, dai) means "big" or "great" [meaning of this kanji changes based on context] 将(しょう, sho-u) means "commander" or "leader" 軍(ぐん, gun) means "armed forces" or "troops"
Essentially, 征夷大将軍 means Commandar in Cheif of Army Against the Barbarian Forces [or Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians]
They were the millitary rulers appointed by the Emperor of Japan in the periods spanning between 1185 - 1868. Generally, Shogun were the de-facto rulers of the country. The last Shogunate of Japan was the 徳川幕府 (Tokugawa Shogunate) also known as the Edo Shogunate. There were total of three shogunates established in Japan: 1. 鎌倉幕府, Kamakura Shogunate (1192–1333, overthorwn during the Kemu Restoration, re-establishing the Imperial Goverment rule until being overthrown by the Ashikaga Takauji and his offspring forming the 足利幕府) 2. 足利幕府, Ashikaga Shogunate (1336–1573, overthrown by 織田信長, Oda Nobunaga, a damiyo) 3. 徳川幕府, Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868, disbanded in 1867)
Now of course, the history of each other these shogunates and famous shoguns require many, many posts to over!
As always, Gintama has inspired me to learn more about Japanense culture hehe. Hopefully this was helpful to you as well :)
Please feel free to add onto the post with histroy facts and other interesting stuff :D
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ao3feed-tf2ships · 4 months ago
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No more Regrets
read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/63827425
by JesiJess
Take's place durning the end of the 7th Comic at the Smissmas Party, where Spy feels he lacks the ability to connect after everything but doesn't realize those around him want to keep connected more than ever. Spy will get a lot more than gifts this Smissmas.
 A idea I've had for awhile since I read the 7th comic. And I know I am not the only one that has done a 7th comic shipping focused fanfic, I still wanted to get it out. :)
Words: 6514, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English
Fandoms: Team Fortress 2
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, M/M
Characters: Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Spy (Team Fortress 2), Scout (Team Fortress 2), Medic (Team Fortress 2), Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Scout's Children (Team Fortress 2)
Relationships: Sniper/Spy (Team Fortress 2), Scout's Mother/Spy (Team Fortress 2)
Additional Tags: tagging the focus characters only, but everyone is in there, takes place at the end and after comic chapter 7, Comic Spoilers, Wholesome, Happy Ending, writing my own ending for fun, spy regrets and might be depressed, can work it out with sniper, Kissing, Nothing explict, smismass, canon and past relationships mentioned, even though other ships are not tagged, heavy and medic are husbands in my eyes, soldier and zhanna of course are a happy family too, this is just my hc ending for my ships, sniper and spy love each other very much, crushing mention, spy is kinda dumb, spy is confident and lacks it all at the same time, spy will be a wonderful grandpa, use my own hc names for sniper and spy, non canon events in histroy, other canon stuff still there, scouts ma still gone tho :c
read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/63827425
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water-mellie-seeds · 3 days ago
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its like! so frustrating finding military histroy fascinating. because for me its like. well things fight all the time right? and its this interesting thing of like theres always some suprise theres never any kind of like absolute this group wins no matter what because theres so many fucking things that can happen in the world.
like whats interesting to me is the how do you do this. like lions pick out specific things to chase to eat right. now what if they like spent generations learning and teaching other how to most effectively capture lrey to eat. thats what i find this interesting. because its not some game with clear defined rules right. like with chess its limited to the board. but with this jts like well you can just fucking decide oh no were gonna go and like run back and get a bunch of rocks and then go halfway back to our position and have half our guys pelt them with rocks while the rest shoot. anything can be decided to be done.
like my interesnt in this stuff is from a perspective of like theoretical right. like for a similar thing itd be like the way the olympics are about pushing the absolute limits of what people can do right. i find that interesting to some degree right like what is the absolute best someone can be at this. but i dont want to ever fucking do that cause id have to decidate my whole life to it.
and thid stuff is the same as an idea as a like oh wow interesting if youre surrounded and have weaker forces you can do this to weaken the enemy and get away and possibly even succeed. you know. its interesting as a like thinking of it like a game right. i dont want to ever have to actually do those things and dont think anyone should be doing this stuff but from a tactics thing of like okay if you wanted to get in there how would you.
I do think this is why there ARE So Many games that cover the topic of military stuff and wars and such. I think thats something a lot of people feel too. Like there's an inherent interest for sure, to see what can be gotten away with so they can emerge victorious against someone else or a group of someones and it would be GREAT if that sort of violence Was confined to interactive fiction, because it Is genuinely interesting how things can play out when there's no rules. Anything can be a weapon. Anyones life can be ended by almost any object if done the right way. Id say war is inherently lawless which would naturally be of morbid interest.
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crows-junk-pile · 8 months ago
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HIIIII I'VE SCROLLED A BIT THROUGH UR OC TAG AND SAW U SAY U HAVE A BUNCH OF TMA ONES could I hear more about them? or do u have specific posts about them already?
OKOKOKOK SO I HAVE TAGS FOR MY OCS NAMES BUT I HAVEN'T REALY POSTED A BUNCH ABOUT THEIR STORIES/LORE AND A BUNCH OF THEM ARE KINDA SEPRET FROM TMA NOW BUT HERES THEIR NAMES BASIC DEAL AND ENETIE STUFF! I have a lot of characters thats why theres a cut lol. The tags for their names are just oc-[their name] ie oc-nike or oc-atticus. same goes for all my ocs.
Atticus Webb
16-17
He/Him The Buried
Angsty, anxious gothic boy. Hes so Poe bsd core lol. Best friends w/ Kip and Raz, hes the most responsible. He's are usually covered in dirt and mud. Works in a graveyard and build coffins & stuff.
Chrissy I fogot her last name lol.
28
She/Her
The Spiral
Old techintion at the arcade Kip works at. Her story is just Cabnt Man by Lemon Demon. "Haunts"(Terrorizes) Kip & Co. Weird spiral ghost who just fucks around.
Julia "Jules" North
14-16
She/Her
The Lonely
Adopted child of the Norths(they suck btw), an infuncal tech family, was sent to boring school and has been there from 2 years. Said bording school is trying to fuck up the kids their and make them avatars and shit. She gets completely isolated at school and eventually runs away and joins the agency that Nike works at. She hates being alone and usually just sits and listens to music where ever there are people around as she's also not the best at talking to people as she had nobody to talk to for 2 years.
Kip Ellenor
18-19
They/Them
The Eye
Their pretty chill and like coding, video games and general tech stuff, big computer nerd. Best friends w/ Atticus and Raz. Works at an arcade as a technician and starts getting terrorized/haunted by Chrissy. They've got a cool camera
Nike Oxley(She has a lot of stuff that i will not get into here bc she is from a campaign i was in for 8 months)
19-21
She/Her
The Vast
Works as a part time detective at a supernatural agency. Had a near death experience when she was 12 has been fearing and “on the run from death”(to quote her) sense then. She is mildly suicidal but also wants to keep hanging out with her friends idk how to make that make sense. Her friends are probably the reason why Nike is still alive. She is really good at putting on a happy face and getting people to think she's fine and does this a lot.
Roslyn "Raz" Graves
Looks and acts like a 16-15 year old
She/It
The Stranger
***Her current lore is that she's a just a living doll and her old lore is that she was a normal human but durning the story she is kidnapped, skinned, killed, had her skin and soul put on/in a life sized living doll by the circus of the other, escapes and is fucked up. Her old lore is very dark I have now realised. Jesus Christ
She's the funnyjokes person of her friend group and has a bit of "humans are so weird" disease. Best friends w/ Atticus(younger childhood friends) and Kip.
Saffron Jenkins
18-19
She/Her
The Corruption
She has moths hiding in her body ready to bust out and take over her. She does not know about the moths as everybody just thinks it's a health problem that causes her weird pain. She tries not to worry about it and works at a flower shop. I'd imagine she also likes surfing
Tamar I forgot his last name also lol
18-19
He/Him
The Lonely
His mom had a histroy w/ Peter Lukas thats spread down to him. Kip's coworker. Him and Saffron are apartment-mates.
Thats all folks! Most of their updated stories aren't connected to TMA lore and theres a lot more to most of them than what I put here but thats the briefest way I can describe all of them lol feel free to message me if you want me to go on another rant. I also have a bunch on non-tma ocs that are in the same universe that these guys are in now.
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7ndipity · 1 year ago
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Hellooo! Happy new year, I wanted to try doing the shipping game and I did submit a different one earlier but I didn't like it so I'm submitting another one (SORRY!!!)
Pairing: romantic
Zodiac: Gemini
MBTI: INTP
Likes: Cats, Rainy days, candles, sleeping, collecting stuff, making art, researching random stuff, cooking, romance and horror movies.
Dislikes: Passive aggressive people, loud spaces, hot weather, insects, conflict, screaming, feeling over-stimulated.
Just relationship needs or likes:
Skin ship, more specifically just random touching and keeping a hold of eachother.
Princess treatment, BUT I will most definitely give it back because I love spoiling people and just being overly sweet.
Someone who will listen to me talk about my interests for hours and even look into it!!!!!
Someone who can help me be careful and will constantly reassure me because I'm honestly very selfless, don't take care of myself and I'm insecure so I'd find it very helpful having someone basically be my rock and be there for me <3
Now, random stuff about me:
I'm an introvert. I don't like going out, have a low social battery and I'm insanely shy so I avoid social events often.
I love anything art so music, paintings, photography, architecture, etc. I find it so beautiful :)
I'm not currently majoring in anything, but I do plan taking up psychology because I find it so interesting and eventually I want to become a therapist to help people who have been in my situation before.
My love language is quality time and psychical touch.
As I mentioned before I am an introvert and don't like loud spaces, but I myself am actually very loud and I feel as I can be very obnoxious at times LOL.
that's pretty much all I can think of, thank you for doing mine and I hope you're having a wonderful day so far! You're one of my favorite writers and enjoy your work a lot :) ILYY 🤍🎀
I would ship you with Yoongi and Jimin! They're both more introverted and homebody types, as well as being into really casual skinship, so I think you'd click well in those aspects.
Yoongi’s a very grounding and reassuring person, and is very big on acts of service as a love language, so I think he would naturally want to look after you. He's also is interested in like everything?! Like histroy, art, music, architecture, you name it! So he would totally be up for just talking for hours about whatever's interesting you atm.
The same goes for Jimin too, he has a lot of different interests, and he would love just laying in bed talking for ages. Also princess treatment is just soo Jimin tho, he would 100% love spoiling his S/o, but he he would also be very protective of you and want to always make sure you're okay(plus, Libras are supposed to be really good matches for Gemini)
Hope you like this!💜
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dragonofthestone · 2 years ago
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[aaaaaa can't believe I found the Flight of Dragons book on this used book site - Thriftbooks honestly kinda wild what you can find they have sell both new and used books
For those unaware Flight of Dragons is a 'fictional speculative histroy book'
Basically all about the what if dragons really did exist and how they would have lived n stuff. Closest similarity I could guess is maybe kind of like the Dragonology-ish
Am gonna find ways to incorporate stuff from that book into Tim you bet your ass I will some how, probably.
Dickinson states he got the idea for his "pseudo-scientific monograph" after looking at one of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books:
This one had a bulky body and rather stubby wings, which obviously would never get it airborne, let alone with the two people it was carrying on its back, and all its own weight of muscle and bone. Obviously any lift had to come from the body itself. Its very shape suggested some kind of gas-bag. I thought about it for the rest of the journey, and on and off for a couple of days after, and at the end of that time had managed to slot everything I knew about dragons – why they laired in caves, around which nothing would grow and where hoards of gold could be found, why they had a preferred diet of princesses, how and why they breathed fire, why they had only one vulnerable spot and their blood melted the blade of the sword that killed them, and so on – into a coherent theory that explained why these things were necessary accompaniments to the evolution of lighter-than-air flight
Quite amused at his whole inspiration coming from looking at someones drawing of a dragon and going "but how?" ]
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mechawriterperson · 20 days ago
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“thanks.” AMB Y/N kindly said as he grabbed his Chocolate Milk.
“Thank you.” Both Lendon and Jeff said as they slurped their Root Beers.
As the four refreshed in their drinks. AMB Y/N looked at Mech and asked.
“Why did you sound shocked earlier. Did you get a “damn I didn’t know that” expression because you learned something shocking from your history homework while I was exposition dumping about my boring world. Because if so, please tell me about those Egg Generals during their Kindergarten years. I bet that sounds more interesting than the stuff from my world. I bet it’s way cooler than events like Sloth Inventor Y/N using her Thalassocnus Mech Space Ship that was the size of a Galaxy, just so she can chase after some Y/N chick she dated. Or the time Cartoon Kid Y/N took down an empire within a montage of zany forms of manipulation, deception, and unpredictability. Or when the time Samurai Ninja Y/N defeated the Vampire King by imprisoning him in a Solar Eclipse. Or the 100 Trillion year war Emperor Demon Y/N started to try and get a better Universe for the Y/N’s. Or when Kaua Akua Y/N fought a Universal Government ran by God Complexes with his Ohana. Or that time Dimensional Conquer Y/N killed the God Y/N’s of the 12th Dimension, hence ending the 12th Dimension which started the beginning his terror across higher and lower finite Dimensions. Or when Angelic Demon Y/N killed the-“ AMB Y/N was cut off by Jeff flying behind him covering his mouth.
“Buddy please stop, you’re boring us to death.” Jeff said.
“Yeah, no one wants to hear that type of overly dramatic and political stuff. Am I right Mech.” Lendon said as he nudged Mech with his elbow.
“Yeah sorry about that Mech, I’m come from a very boring and uninteresting Universe. So please tell us about those Egg Generals and their life in Kindergarten.” AMB Y/N said to Mech.
“Yeah that history your learning sounds so fascinating.” Lendon said with a smile.
“Yeah like what got those Egg Generals interested in War mongering when they were in Kindergarten?” Jeff said getting enthusiastically.
“The suspense is killing me. Which is ironic because I can’t die easily… sadly.”
“So Mech, will you tell us?” Lendon asked.
The three looked at Mech and smiled getting closer to him. Eager for what he has to say.
“No pressure Mech, you don’t have to tell us if you want.” AMB Y/N said honestly.
“Yeah, for a person we’ve only known for a few minutes.” Jeff said.
“You are a very interesting person, so what do you say?” Lendon calmly said.
The three sat back down waiting patiently and kindly for Mech to respond, giving them a kind smile.
"well um... you see, what i'm writing isn't exactly my own histroy but rather i'm writing stories... and creating universe's... out of the pages i write out of my journal." *I rub the back of my head* "You see whenever i have an idea for a story i write it out and once i tear the page out of the journal, i can make it into a universe. However i'm not a god this is a journal exclusive thing, i can't casually make universe without it.
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theberriesncream · 3 months ago
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hey there! dot anon again. i was originally just going to ask you about wikilus (and by extension his relationship with barry. you've caught my attention with the spectrum buddies stuff. (i am also autistic! and i approve!)) buuuuuuuut. i don't think i've asked you anything about your swap au! i've never seen somebody come up with that for g&b. tell me all about it. also also. the shopkeeper in our execution does have a canon name (as far as i'm aware from the our execution discord server). he's called finn! i'm happy to see another fellow our execution fanatic who's also a g&b fan! anywho. show me all your walls of text.
DOT ANON HAS APPEARED!
U missed u a lot! About Wikilius I kinda have two versions of him. Wilfred and Wilbur.
Wilfred is just The "original" Wikilius a guy who has been compile what's happening in my g&b fanon.
And Wilbur is a Guy from this era that uses "Wikilius" Alias online who also complies what happend with the Blight and the diseases form Our Execution, Last Dawn and Proyect Untone. (It's hard to explain but all I am going to Say he is French and he is probably a Mapper and Contryballs fan and the lore about Wilbur is... confusing actually. I have Multifandom and Crossover Autism.)
That's all u need to know actually.
Okay about the G&B NPC Swap AU, I never expected ppl have genuine intrest on them actually. I have random ideas that I don't usually give the enough time to shine. I kinda made it bucz I thought it would be so cool and well... it didn't catch the intrest of my followers. I will still make content about it don't worry dot anon.
The thing is that not only the Nationalities Swap, but their deaths are different and they also Swap have the same personalities they have in the popular fanon.
Kurtis is the lovley father figure that is happy all the time.
Josef is the arrogant meanie guy that has a restless bitch face 24/7.
Bardil is Kurtis' sidekick and he is quiet. (He is non-verbal autistic that's why and no, Bardil and Kurtis are not related in this AU and Jack and Josef neither.)
Jack is dumb and goodie-two-shoes guy that can be an asshole at times.
But their relationship is similar to my fanon. The four are brothers in arms who fight zombies from hell and maybe a bit of 🏳️‍�� around
Keep in mind this versions are inspired by how I saw most ppl interpretation of the NPCs. I also add bits of my fanon into this. I am planning to make the American Ferryman Swap places with The Scared French Soilder. Probably the only npcs that won't change places are the ones inspired by IRL ppl of obvious reasons and Bubbles and Wikilius won't change places but there are changes about them.
I don't really have much to say or do for know doe.
If anyone is interested on drawing the Swap NPCs they're all free to do so!
Also about Finn. Yeah- I am hyperfixated over Histroy but Zombies Roblox games. I need a game that is about any Latino American War or about the Mexican-American war that has zombies bucz I think that's asking to much for me. Thanks for clearing him! I hope he doesn't die and we have more NPCs there that I I hyperfixate on.
Sorry if this is was ambiguous and all. I kinda have an art and writer block and I am not in the mood to explain.
But anything of u Dot anon!
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gatheringbones · 4 years ago
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["On September 9, 1992, the first day of school in New York City, I scrounged a token and took the subway out to Middle Village, Queens, with Amy. Most of the school district was racially mixed, with shops as likely to have Mexican tortillas as Turkish preserves, or cartons of kimchi. Middle Village, though, was a mostly white working-class neighborhood that couldn't boast much except a cemetery housing Lucky Luciano and Don Carlo Gambino, and the Long Island Expressway.
We were the most interesting thing to happen there in ages. And while we would have made a splash if we'd come in black leather and raising our fists like the Black Panthers or ACT UP, the Lesbian Avenger Concept Committee decided what we really needed was Sousa. Sousa, and lavender balloons reading "Ask about lesbian lives." It was ridiculous, absurd, delightful, though I wouldn't have admitted it then.
Jenny Romaine, an artist Amy knew from Performance Studies, pulled together a brass band, kitting them out in the knee socks and plaid skirts of Catholic school uniforms. She herself carried a big brass drum. Some Avengers wore T-shirts that read, "I was a lesbian child." I turned one down, saying I couldn't afford it, but refused even when Ana Simo, that mild-mannered Cuban playwright, offered me a discount. I still cringed at the word lesbian.
When we were all there, the sixty of us marched down Metropolitan Avenue to the elementary school, P.S. 87, singing at the top of our lungs, "Oh when the dykes, oh when the dykes, oh when the dykes come marching in." We revised a few other Dixieland standards and proclaimed, "We are family, I've got all my sisters with me." One banner read, "Teach About Lesbian Lives" and another "The Lesbian Avengers." Somebody clutched an enormous bunch of the balloons, which had created a ruckus at the printer's, who kept misspelling l-e-s-b-i-a-n. We were met with disbelief, anger, fear, a few approving nods, but mostly the typical New Yorker's disinterest. Like them, I pretended I was totally cool with it. Hell, I did this kind of thing four or five times a week. No big deal. Like it was no big deal that when we got to the elementary school, the cops came with their big blue arms and shiny shoes and tried to get us to leave.
At the civil disobedience training session, Maxine Wolfe explained it was perfectly legal to have a picket and hand out flyers. It was a public sidewalk, for crying out loud. And she'd been doing demos since the sixties, first for worker' rights, then women, then people with AIDS. But who knows what cops will do? Nothing, as it turned out. Maybe it was our unshakeable knowledge of our rights, or how we continued singing, handing out balloons, giving interviews and flyers, while our negotiators negotiated with them. Or maybe they just took one look at this group of relatively innocuous females in knee socks and plaid skirts and thought, "What the heck. It's New York. Let's go get donuts."
More than one kid go their first lesson in the real world when an Avenger handed them a balloon and their red-faced mother grabbed it away. No way is my little Sean or Antonio or Karen going to be like that. As for the Xerox of our alternative alphabet— A for Acceptance, Action, and W.H. Auden; B for James Baldwin, Rita Mae Brown, and boycotting bigotry— some got tucked into pockets, others pointedly ripped into shreds. Though not in front of me. I stayed with the other picketers tracing that tiny oval on the sidewalk and avoiding confrontation. Maybe I held a sign for a while, feeling goofy and embarrassed, as I always did, at so much emotion being displayed.
The weather was nice, anyway, one of those perfect fall days with dark blue skies and white fluffy clouds that did not send forth lightning bolts or hail or anything at all to kill the lesbians. Nope, nobody died, there in front of the schoolyard. Neither were kids converted, or perverted, or particularly traumatized except when their angry moms grabbed their shiny balloons and let them float away. We just signaled to the world that we existed. We'd been kids ourselves in school. The only thing different about us as adult lesbians was a few additional years. And self-awareness. Which was just beginning on my part.
Funny, I write that like it's nothing. Just signaling to the world we existed. When it was like setting off a bomb. What else could it be? Lesbians plus elementary schoolchildren.
We left en masse when the last student entered the school. In those days, bigots would sometimes haunt queer demos, grab a few stragglers, and beat the crap out of them. So, together, Avengers set off for their day jobs, or classes, or coffee shops. The media dykes went to send more press releases. And I remember at the next meeting, Maxine or Ana or somebody arrived triumphantly waving copies of Newsday and other rags that had covered the demo. We'd done it. We'd launched the Lesbian Avengers, and the city had taken note."]
Kelly Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life As A Lesbian Avenger, University of Minnesota Press, 2014
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arcadequeerz · 3 years ago
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Detention is such a good game.
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