#projectcananda

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i decided to open a new blank doc to go at the ruperts land thing from a different angle just for fun and i’m already suffering from scope creep because. yknow. balancing characters all with their own unique histories that i could go super in depth on each but that’s not the point.

so for the sake of avoiding scope creep lets establish what this is and isn’t if i actually ever do bother to do anything about it

- dominion day was about the founding four provinces that Did join confederation AND the two that did Not; likewise ruperts land is about the provinces and territories that came out of the nwt (3 in the 19th century, 3 in the 20th)

- so, back in iamp the ruperts land fam was treated as siblings even though they were never established as such by sherry. this treatment bothers me for a lot of reasons and it’s not a reading that i bring with me because i just feel like its an extension of the Canadian tm view of a place that was full of very different people lumped together for convenience and colonization. i do treat them like found family, sure, but they are ambiguously related because again its. a Lot of different people and cultures that kind of are treated in canadian history as “land we Wanted and land we don’t care about but need to have or else”

- the reason i bring that up is that in nwt’s bio she’s referred to as everyone’s big sister, and you could take that in a literal or a metaphorical sense. i Personally like the idea that part of her character arc was being alone and independent since ‘birth’ and then her like. mellowing out and learning to actually take care of others as she encountered them. so her relationship with NT is completely different from how the others remember her growing up lol, with nunny she is like you’re sure you’re ok? are you eating enough at home? and yukon starts talking about how when she was growing up it was just nonstop chores and occasionally fighting lol.

- i think the central focus of this story is how nwt is hella ambiguous, i don’t think she came into the world knowing who her people were, she knew that there were people like her but they already had meaning. so it’s kind of the story of her getting definition (mostly from others but i think she finds herself too)

- like its also obviously the story of the others but mostly its about her. and how. right after all the drama and politics of dominion day. she was literally. bought. and the others just appeared as part of the package deal. and that sets the tone for all of western and northern canadian politics up to now, and a particularly big elephant in the room is the numbered treaties.

- ALL THIS SAID i know i have a tendency to lose sight of the big picture because i am so invested in this history and its somewhat personal to me so i need to not do a deep dive. i have to sort of imagine it from an outsider perspective too, so the next thing i need to decide is how to tell the story and what questions to answer and what questions that just get hinted at or asked without being directly addressed. one of the smaller ones that still is pretty big is what is the difference between a province and a territory, and while i want to be cynical about it i guess that’s really the root of the story im telling at the end of the day

- i was initially going to do it chronologically and pick up from where i left off with dd but it occurred to me it would actually make more sense to bookend it with more contemporary history, because again Nunny’s relationship with confederation is also entirely different from the rest of rupert’s land. so really i’m also structuring it around her too.

- anyway that’s enough rambling for now shout if you have questions and i’ll do my best to answer. none of this is or should be considered Canon it’s just how i personally view the history so [radical guitar solo] nothing matters! :)

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rhinocio replied to your post: Hypothetically, if someone were to try and revive...

In a less articulate but no less passionate way, I have to agree with Hapo on this one. While lots of good came out of the IAMP

(WHOOPS I HIT ENTER) there was also a Metric Shit-Ton of work and conflict and time that went into it, and we only got as far as we did because our director dedicated her every waking moment to the project. It's not something to take on lightly, nor would I necessarily recommend it.

yes TAKE IT FROM RHIN who is also an IAMP old timer and objectively our most beloved VA (i dont make the rules its just true). but im serious, i think the I Am Nova Scotia video is one of our most enduring because it was a passion project you had complete creative control over and when we tried to reboot it was like the Most Requested Thing we try to do. And now Windex and I have an invisible swear jar for mentioning I Am New Brunswick which is a thing we tried to do once, badly. 

also speaking of waking moments im still a little bitter that in both incarnations of the project, decisions would just get made in central canada at 6 am Alberta time and 5 am BC time and i would just literally Wake Up to Drama sometimes (just like the actual gorram country lmao). Like its these logistical things no one thinks about when you’re working with people from all over the place.

but yeah fool me once with nostalgia shame on you fool me twice and... well. we’re all fools. shame. yes. how about you all just draw me pictures of bertie boy and my golden girl instead.

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2C Cal

the face he makes when notley gives him another present jkjk

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fluffy-moose replied to your photo “I’ve been making sounds that are not human and saying your leaf is not...”

Can we have red head Bonnie and Ben and Blonde Joel and Annie? XD

IT'S HAPPENING