#rural Kent

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No4 Bluebell Cottage Shoreham Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Beautiful row of old cottages in Shoreham as you walk towards the river Darent path on the north downs way AONB

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Jor-El: I made Kal-El a Kyrptonian combat suit out of nanotech so he can go out and fight crime.

Martha Kent: not without something to cover his junk he isn't.

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TIMKON + BEING KINGS OF THE OLDER BROTHER TEENAGE DIRTBAG AESTHETIC

I’ve watched a Star Die by Daddy and the Long Legs//X//X//X//X//X//X////Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel

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Dode village was wiped out by plague, but her parish church survives

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Smallville kind of makes me wish I'd grown up on a farm surrounded by corn and with meteor addled neighbors in rural kansas

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As a profoundly altruistic individual who hates harm, how do you think Superman can justify not being a vegetarian? Would cruelty against animals in a world where necessity to eat meat instead of alternatives isn’t necessary?

I’m going to try not to spend too much time on this one 😅

Basically… he’s a farmer… and a scientist… and both know that eating meat =/= animal cruelty, so, yeah, I don’t think he has too much of a problem with it. Is a lion eating a gazelle animal cruelty? A wolf eating a deer? It’s just life, and a huge part of respecting life is understanding that everyone and everything lives and dies and that’s just the natural order of things. One could say Clark’s most alien feature is the fact that his super-powered nature disrupts his own ability to die and participate in this natural cycle (if we’re going off the idea that he’s immortal), but it’s this understanding and placement outside of the natural order that helps him respect it all the more and recognize that some creatures are going to eat other creatures. All that being said, he definitely advocates for careful and loving handling of livestock and does all he can to advocate against wasteful food production/usage. There’s also a slew of other economic, social, and conservationist reasons why he’d be accepting of not being a vegetarian, but I don’t want to get into it.

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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Championing Working-Class Voters in Washington State

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: A Voice for Working-Class Voters It’s not always enjoyable to proclaim, “I told you so.” For two years, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat hailing from a predominantly rural and conservative district in Washington State, has been vocal in her critique of her party’s tendency to overlook the concerns of working-class voters. This message…

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Shoreham Village Kents AONB by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Shoreham, an idyllic village in the Darent Valley..Steeped in history, Shoreham boasts a rich tapestry of tales that date back centuries. Evidence of its ancient past can be seen in the remnants of medieval buildings, charming old cottages, and the iconic Shoreham Castle. Take a stroll through the cobbled streets, and you’ll feel as though you’ve stepped back in time, with every corner revealing a story waiting to be told.

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Imagine keeping your balance while picking hops ten feet in the air..

Hop pickers on stilts in Faversham England 1920

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Eastern Shore Town Hall

Image ID: Eastern Shore Town Hall. Maryland Department of Disabilities is gathering input from the disability community to create the next State Disabilities Plan and determine priorities for the next plan. Share your thoughts and experiences! To the right is a photo of disabled people with varying disabilities. You can download the PDF here via Google Drive to share with your networks and…

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((This playlist is not exclusively midwest emo and is my desperate plea for more people to listen to the flat stanleys))

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Scotney Castle in Kent is a rare example of a moated manor house

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The gardens of historic Hever Castle are in their springtime glory.

Spring is sprung! Photo from Hever Castle, Kent.

The first Tulips burst into bloom in my garden about a week ago, and yesterday I spotted the first Bluebells.

It has been the wettest winter in Kent for nearly 200 years. It has also been one of the warmest.

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Anyone who says that Kal-El the last son of Krypton is a human more than a Kryptonian is wrong and misses half the tragedy of the Superman.

Kal-El isn’t human. Not really, that’s what’s tragic. Since he was a baby he has had more power than any human, but at the same time he’s had Krypton stolen from him. He’s the child of a world that doesn’t really exist anymore, he’s only left with what little was sent with him in a pod. That’s why so much of the Phantom Zone villains is so tragic for him, because they are like him, they can tell him who he is, but he’s not willing to do wrong to get that. They’re what’s left of his society and they’re the worst of it.

More than that though he speaks Kryptonese, he keeps Kryptonian practices like the Day of Truth alive, he uses the name of the Kryptonian god in his speech, he is Kryptonian, but he’s also not. His culture has been stolen from him, he can’t know the exact traditions of Krypton, he can’t know the slang and their inflections and the jokes or the puns they’d make, he can’t know what lullabies they sung to their children, he can’t know what the food they ate tasted like, because Krypton is lost.

Then there’s Kara and Kandor.

Kara, who grew up on stories of Krypton before it’s destruction, who knows the lullabies and the slang and the jokes but only in the terror of an unending abyss, only in the confines of a spec of dust hurtling through a vast and hostile environment that holds almost all of what remains of Krypton barraged by radiation and asteroids and monsters, a last desperate attempt at survival for their people as their population was slowly whittled down to nothing until she alone remained fired off in the only means of escape her home had left.

She can’t tell Kal how the fruit on Krypton tasted or how the moons looked (there was only one moon by the time she was born), she cannot remember these things from her brief childhood on Krypton before Argo was launched into space.

And Kandor. They cannot give Kal what he’s seeking. It is a city run by a mad machine, a city that has all the life and culture stolen from it and turned to what that machine feels it should be based off a textbook. A city of people trapped forever in that bubble unable to escape, unable to tell Kal of his home. Unable to see Kal as little but their savior. Kandor is like an amusement park version of an ancient culture. It has been scrubbed clean and simplified for the tourists.

Superman isn’t human, he doesn’t consider himself human, if he did you’d lose the tragedy and the point.

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Superman meeting Santa is actually the cutest thing I've ever seen.

[ID: Pages from the Batman- Santa Claus: Silent Knight comic series. Superman has his laser vision activated and looks furious as he says, "You never said-- that you knew." His laser eyes disappear as he says with a stunned, almost stricken expression: "Santa."

A dragon can be seen in the background as he begins to float down and says, "Hi, sir, I'm--" Santa Claus says, "Kent. Rural route 38, Smallsville. You wrote me when you were six." Superman, surprised, asks, "Wow-- You remember that?" Santa replies, "You asked for 'a new coffee maker for Ma and Pa.' And something about how you thought coffee was yucky, but they love it."

Superman, touched, says, "I can't believe you read my letter..." In the background, the dragon is looking at them menacingly, and Blue Beetle shouts, "¡Eyyy! Supes! ¡Hola! Back here!" End ID]

Credit to @princess-of-purple-prose for the description. Thanks for writing this up! I didn’t think to add something like this but if it makes it more inclusive I’m happy to add it! Everyone deserves to see Supes being a cutie pie.

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Polish neonazi who has spent their entire life in Canada and has never set foot on Polish soil: We Poles are just so glad that the evil Soviet Union is gone now so we can venerate our national hero, Władysław the Jew Smiter, without censorship.

Ordinary Polish guy: Idk man it kinda sucks that western financial firms came in and bought all our national industry and our social services are shit now and the picture of "upward mobility" offered to us is going to the UK and picking tomatoes in rural Kent while the inbred grandniece of the architect of the Bengal Famine films herself cracking a whip over our heads for her #girlboss motivational instagram account, and the main outlet for that frustration is catholic christofascism. Maybe it wasn't so bad before the fall of the SU (all of this is in polish so anglophones can't understand it and don't care to translate it)

smug liberal whitey, to me: Don't you hysterical darkies see? ex-soviet people are Glad the soviet union is gone! Look at what all polish people are saying, which in the english language is entirely sentiment one and not sentiment 2!