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i've combed through all of april 1926 but the only source i can find is the 1999 article that the 2021 article cites. Very frustrating. It's possible the source wasn't the Herald, but I've looked through both proquest's Canadian news database and Peel's Prairie Provinces and come up empty. oh well. time to see if i can find some nice fashion catalogues while I'm here I guess.

the good news is

the calgary herald cites one of their own articles for this thing I'm looking for in April 1926

the bad news is they don't bother to give an exact date and the OCR search does not recognize the title for whatever reason

so i have to search for "water" for the whole month

and need I remind you that old timey newspapers are 90% clickbait ads for digestive pills Simply Dissolve in Water!!!! TTATT

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i am not exaggerating look at this

the ocr is having a rough time with all these ads hahahaha

the good news is

the calgary herald cites one of their own articles for this thing I'm looking for in April 1926

the bad news is they don't bother to give an exact date and the OCR search does not recognize the title for whatever reason

so i have to search for "water" for the whole month

and need I remind you that old timey newspapers are 90% clickbait ads for digestive pills Simply Dissolve in Water!!!! TTATT

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the good news is

the calgary herald cites one of their own articles for this thing I'm looking for in April 1926

the bad news is they don't bother to give an exact date and the OCR search does not recognize the title for whatever reason

so i have to search for "water" for the whole month

and need I remind you that old timey newspapers are 90% clickbait ads for digestive pills Simply Dissolve in Water!!!! TTATT

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i'm like, agonizingly slowly putting together some imagery and research for an ask (or a combination thereof) so here are some young Calvins somewhere between the late 20s/early 30s. I still struggle with drawing children a lot but it helps to get an idea of the kinds of clothing of the time, I think.

ideally i'd like to get this one done before the end of the month but I keep getting these little setbacks so I won't hurt myself over it, promise!

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you guys are NOT prepared for this proposal from 1946 to "Put Edmonton on the Map" you just aren't.

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you guys need to see what Calgary Parks wrote about this bitch

"how is being back in the city of championmontons" oh fine fine just fine [starts crying]

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Happy Stampede Again (and also world watercolour month!). It sounds like the electorate has spoken and demand some worm poutine for Calvin! (Ed has an ube ice scramble off the KDays menu)

also, apologies for the typo - I meant to write Southern African (as mopane worms are eaten in more countries than South Africa!)

This took me most of the day to draw (I've been struggling to get painting due to being distracted by a lot of "haven't been home in 6 months" chores, the temperature going up, and the general mental miasma that comes with finishing two major projects and feeling burnt out over it... but finishing this is a good sign and I'm excited to do some more painting, even if I can't corral my brain into attempting the prompts.

It still feels sooo messed up to draw blue!Calvin but I must persist. (anyone want to take a stab at coordinating more outfits for him...?)

anyway, maybe the runners up on the poll will show up for dessert, we will see.

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"how is being back in the city of championmontons" oh fine fine just fine [starts crying]

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I'm thinking it would be fun to have a poll on what cursed stampede food to draw calvin trying this year but there's so many I'm having a tough time narrowing it down

I would have put the tongue but there's no picture, alas :/

but by the way, the k-days menu is also up so check it out and start thinking about what he might end up sharing with ed hahaha

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Happy Stampede!

for better or for worse, Deadward is back, baby (and he's referencing track four of Jason Kenney's Hot Boy Summer which meets the definition of a song that's definitely not work safe)

we're not going to talk about how the two main federal political party leaders are "from" edmonton and calgary (weird times man)

if calvin had a nickel for every time this type of "me and calgary go way back yes i definitely haven't accidentally worn a cowboy hat backwards before" politicking happened well. he'd have a hell of a lot of nickels.

(believe it or not i was going to draw an entirely different comic about the stephen avenue revitalization but this happened instead)

let's all now stare at drumheller who has the opportunity to do THE funniest goddamn thing

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happy belated pride etc etc mwah mwah

i have read a lot of things about us-centric pride celebrations and this kind of tension between stonewall being a world watershed moment and also overshadowing queer histories of places outside the us so this is my little gesture here on my little alberta blog to that nuance

here in Edmonton, we have traditionally celebrated Pride in accordance with Stonewall in June (although we did do May for a few years. It wasn't actually to coincide with our own major police raid which was at May 31 at the very end of the month, it was actually for gay choir coordination reasons, hahaha). However, since 2018 we have sort of ended up spreading Pride throughout the summer rather than having the parade, so it's still evolving.

anyway. on that note, today is my last day formally studying queer history for work so... a little bittersweet. I may be involved in future projects but it's time for me to move on to other things. but i have a LOT in my head about alberta queer history and lots of resources for anyone interested so uh. hit me up if ever you are curious. I'm hoping a lot of the stuff I've written will get published online soon (and you'll soon be able to grab physical copies of the map in certain businesses on whyte!) you can also see some of the work i did at fort ed again this year.

as always

Montreal / Étienne - @randomoranges

Van / Vernon - @orcanadian-blog

and everyone else lives here~ happy pride

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POV YOU'RE TEXTING MCDAVID AND YOU HAVE ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT STYLE

idk what ed is more happy about, the affirmation or that yego.death is back after so long

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like edward, i have forgotten how to draw anything other than hockey (and i haven't drawn in like a week due to these deadlines and burning the candle at both ends before my contract expires, and not drawing that long makes me physically itchy.)

but at least i was able to fix up my tablet driver and force myself to get used to drawing with my normal tablet again for the first time in 6 months! hooray! :)

sigh... when will i ever be able to draw klondyke mike...

oh well. edward can't have the precise gender bending he wants this year BUT in good news, today the court of qu- kings bench granted the injunction against the alberta government's ban on gender affirming care, which is a huge win for trans and gender diverse folks and especially youth across the province <3 it's far from the end of this fight but for now, happy pride berta

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Everything is awesoooome everything is cool when you're part of a team

Bonus

I never even got a lemon draisaitl doughnut...

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SOS (save our Skinners)

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geez it's like calvin doesn't understand we're in a trade war right now

[oh and congrats to drai and mcjesus for taking us to the olympics in milan]

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Rat patrol... Please ... I'm begging you I'm dying