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The Pacific Northwest is fucking Perfect

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shoutout to people with simultaneously great and terrible memories. like oh yeah i remember in perfect detail that random story you told about the banana costume from a year ago but all of novemeber? completely blank.

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LOL

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Almost like some 60’s loony toons character

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HAUHGUHAUHSUHGUDISHGGHUDHSG

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It’s weird how every planet in Star Wars has the same gravity

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This is probably the best ukulele playing I’ve ever seen.

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HIS HAIR?

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A Russian patrol discovers Japanese soldiers who have frozen to death, in Manchuria (1905)

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I’m an 18 year old journalist/writer who is documenting the reality of life in Belfast. I feel that the coverage of Northern Ireland has been by-and-large dominated by the political situation and the DUP/Sinn Fein. There’s been very little consideration for what everyday life is like now, 20 years on since Good Friday and peace supposedly came to the province, whilst there have been a handful of books written they too are more reflections on the past. There too is the occasional news article reflecting on the progress, but the occasional news article doesn’t do this place justice. Therefore, I’ve been tramping my way around Belfast (All sides of it) documenting the things I see and hear; the murals, the housing conditions, the small details of everyday life in the City Centre and so on. Equally, a city is made up of its people and so I’ve been interviewing a wide variety of people from the city (or near enough to it). At time of writing this, I’ve interviewed over 30 people at time of writing and have got at least 20,000~ words worth of observations (15,000 of which have been typed up). However, I have also begun doing a great deal of additional research on both the areas I look at and the province as a whole. This’ll end up forming a prologue of sorts which will explain how and why Northern Ireland is the way it is. Other tidbits of information will worm themselves into the main body itself, to ensure that it’s not just the random observations of an 18 year old, but rather something with substance to it. Of course it’s not cheap to do, I don’t live in Belfast so I need to bus my way in there when I can, feed myself in there cos I’m in there for 12 hours on the days I’m there and also any other transport costs  (Trust me, you don’t want to double-back and walk another 3 miles back to the city centre in sweltering heat when a bus stop is right in front of you) I’ve applied to countless jobs and that’s been fruitless, so right now this project is coming out of my pocket entirely with no recompense. So I’ve made this patreon to help me fund the project. Of course, the more money I can raise the more I will be able to do with the book. I hope I’d be able to travel to Derry and stay there for a few days to get some material there, as well as other cities and towns across NI as well as the ever-overlooked rural areas. 

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“How did I look?”