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Something Wicked This Way Comes is set in rural Illinois and when the movie came out I saw it in Illinois with someone raised in rural Illinois and he was all like, "Mountains? Seriously. Mountains?"

it’s been four years since I last watched through all of Hannibal & I still think about the episode set in West Virginia where they’re literally at the beach. The beach in Grafton WV. A town notably 1,000 feet above sea level & roughly 200 miles from the nearest seawater

Like….was it supposed to be a lake….

is this perhaps what someone at NBC thinks a lake in the Appalachian mountains looks like

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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A slice of cheese

Another slice of cheese

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No. I'm surprised. The state capital fifty miles away, but not here.

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they call it "baltimore" but it's actually "south metropolis"

it’s been four years since I last watched through all of Hannibal & I still think about the episode set in West Virginia where they’re literally at the beach. The beach in Grafton WV. A town notably 1,000 feet above sea level & roughly 200 miles from the nearest seawater

Like….was it supposed to be a lake….

is this perhaps what someone at NBC thinks a lake in the Appalachian mountains looks like

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has anyone counted how many episodes Hawkeye juggles in it's at least 2 (Hawkeye and GFA)

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A Fascinating Book I'm Reading

One of the best non-fiction reads I've read in a while, it's not a military history book, but details specifically the Confederate government, culture, society, the legal system, and economy.

What I find most fascinating about the book was just how fucked up the Confederacy became even from the early outset. Especially in terms of law and order. Due to the incredible manpower demands most men of military age either enlisted or were later conscripted into the army. This resulted in severe manpower shortages at home. When this happened, the system of slavery the Confederates were fighting for became a grave liability as there was no one left to control the millions of slaves that populated the south. As a result, whole plantations of slaves would run away and form free communities in the wilderness, surviving by pillaging plantations and farms, or robbing travelers on highways. In Louisiana there was a slave town hidden deep in the swamps that housed 2,000 people! At the same time thousands of Confederate soldiers were deserting as the war started going bad. Many soldiers found that their homestead and family was falling apart in their absence, so they deserted. These deserters were declared outlaws, and as a result many banded together, formed groups, and made a living as bandits and marauders.

At the same time many officers in the Confederate army who were garrisoned in specific places became de facto military dictators and warlords over the territory they controlled. They often disobeyed the law and refused to carry out orders issued by the Confederate government, but due to manpower shortages and the disorganization of the government there was little that could be done to reign them in. Often, these warlord Confederates acted as bandits, pillaging the territory they controlled not just for food and necessary supplies but for valuables as well. In many cases, whole towns and even counties rebelled against Confederate military authorities as they were sick of being pillaged by warlord Confederates. A good example was Jones County, Mississippi which actually seceded from the Confederacy as a result. Often, these rebel towns and counties survived by banditry and became marauders themselves just to make a get by.

According to the author, by 1863 much of the rural south was in a state of lawlessness and anarchy with the countryside controlled by bandits, marauders, independent towns or counties, pro-Union enclaves, and military warlords. Like bruh, this would be a good setting for an open world RPG game, perhaps something set in the Red Dead Redemption Universe.

Anyway if you are a Civil War buff I highly recommend this book.

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expecting bugs bunny for trick or treat

by J.E. Larson

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hey i've been like pretty low on money the last few months, which has generally been surprisingly fine (though definitely stressful) but i'm now at a point where it's potentially about to get difficult. while im excited to finally about to be debt free i currently also have an open bill for legal fees im late on that's almost an entire months worth of my current regular income (which is only around 800-1000 USD).

any donations on my ko-fi (and especially monthly subscriptions) would help me tremendously with getting over this hump next month and allow for me to continue and expand my work (the big article im working is already like 3 months of work by two people and over a hundred dollars in expenses).

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i feel like people really underestimate catholic trauma. like my catholic school literally gave us tests on why we should feel guilty for eating and sleeping in general, literally made us recite prayers where we insisted we were worthless, and told us that the only alternative to being catholic wasn't just a general "burning in hell" but was straight a description of graphic torture taken from some old doctrine. like literally i know some people raised catholic have probably never heard of this shit but my school went deep into catholic doctrine and teachings and this is genuinely what a lot of die hard catholics believe.

like a sin i was told to confess when i couldnt think of any sins to confess (at 10 years old) was like "did you eat any candy this week? yeah you should confess that. it's an indulgence that's unnecessary to keeping you alive, so that's a sin"

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[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. Erin, Abby, Patty, and Holtz of Ghostbusters stand on a skyscraper roof at night in uniform and with their proton packs. Something loud and offpanel is saying, "The choice is made." Abby is saying, "What? No! I didn't make any choice! Erin?" Erin says, "No!" Abby says, "Patty?" Patty says, "Hello no." Abby says, "Holtz?" Holtz doesn't say anything. Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

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Thanks for reading.

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45. Kerchnk

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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I never kept notes like I did for The Once and Future King once but I'm pretty sure in one series reread I noticed dates given in several of the volumes which set the series variously in a range of about a hundred years from about 1830.

(This is not even to mention the internal chronological inconsistencies, the most egregious being Post Office and Circus each with a line in passing in their opening pararaph to the effect that the events of the other have already occurred)

However a quick surfing on a couple of historical persons whom I remember to figure or appear in the stories (in one book Sir Robert Peel is stated to have "just invented" policemen; the Green Canary meets Paganini) does support an early nineteenth century view.

They could have met Moby Dick during the voyage home from Spider Monkey Island in the shell of the great snea sail snea snail sea snail.

#what this means for me is that Tommy Stubbins is too old to make a cameo on Blood of my Blood

Really? The apprentice and biographer of the man who went to the moon, and rescued the oldest giant tortoise in the world, seeking the secret of biblical longevity? "Too old", only seven or eight decades later? Though I spose he might be using a new name by then...

Excuse me the Voyages of Dr Doolittle is set in 1839??? That's... that's way earlier than I was expecting

Middle aged Tommy Stubbins could have been one of Walter Hartright's shipmates on the Honduras expedition. Frankenstein's Creature could conceivably find a home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh if the arctic terns were favorably enough disposed to point him in that direction

John Doolittle could be on speaking terms with that f*kin whale

(Realistically I am not convinced Hugh Lofting is overconcerned with historicity or continuity, given that the New Woman can apparently make herself an ecological menace in West Africa in the 1820s)

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@man-and-atom said:

Two options : on Firefox, click the little “Reader Mode” icon that appears in the addres bar (a schematic page with lines of text). Then you can copy and paste. On any browser, I would expect “View Source” to work, but actually I get a bizarre error page instead. In lieu of that, if you have a command-line tool like wget, you can request the page and download it directly into a local HTML file which you can then do with as you please.

Thanks. The reader mode button worked; I'm going with that.

Today I set out to start adding Mom's La Femme Nikita fanfiction Shooting the Moon to her AO3 account. I was planning to copy-and-paste it from fanfiction.net because that's the only copy I can find online or off. But I can't select the text. Anyone know what's up with that? If I made a login could I do this?

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something