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dixiedrudge · 7 months

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They Created a Desert and Called It Peace - Today In Southern History

17 February 1865 On this date in 1865… Federal General William Tecumseh Sherman, after taking Columbia, South Carolina, allowed his drunken troops to burn almost the entire city to the ground. None of the federal arsonists were ever punished or brought to trial. Other Years: 1690 – French explorer Henri de Tonti visits the Natchitoches Confederation near what is now called Natchitoches,…

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canisalbus · 1 year

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Sorry but we were speaking about history in a part of one of my classes and when the Vatican came on. I had to draw the sad dog man.

Machete is now immortalized in my class notes. It’s in spanish by the way, which is kind of funnily appropriate considering latin is very close to spanish.

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#augh that's adorable!#“Vaticano” -> -> cue sad dog man #he doesn't seem very happy to be there #I've said this before and I don't really know why #but I keep finding the idea of people drawing little Machetes in post-it notes pieces of scrap paper and class notes #endlessly charming #it's so cute #it sparks joy #thank you!#Spanish and Italian are fairly closely related they're both descended from Latin and I think that's terribly nifty #I'd like to believe Machete speaks or understands Spanish at least passably #mostly due to continued exposure and for having a knack for languages #Spain was an influential superpower in the 16th century and also intensely Catholic so he ends up working with Spaniards on a regular basis #and he strikes me as a kind of person who would like to know what they're saying to each other even if he kept it to himself #not to mention that Spain has an extended history of ruling parts of Italy #the southern half of the country in particular #including the places where he grew up #gift art #nerium-aquifolium #own characters #Machete

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alliluyevas · 7 months

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is Virginia a southern state debate reignited 10 dead 167 injured

#I don’t understand why this is a debate. I think it’s an inarguable yes and I don’t know why so many people are arguing no #I mean I do know the answer it’s bc I live in nova which is full of transplants and is definitely not culturally southern (anymore) but #a) if you look at the state’s history it is absolutely part of the south b) the non-nova part of VA is definitely still The South

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edwards-exploit · 5 months

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The Bournemouth Belle, and The Last Shunter.

More OCs! SteamNav and Missus are rather new so some info might be subject to change, and they were AU versions of certain characters (3 points if you guess who) buuut they spiralled into new characters. SteamNav is tranquil fury incarnate, trying to take control of his life after so long being something humans have tinkered with and throwing herself into making Incredibly Bad Descisions; and Missus can and will judge your (engine) sins, but she keeps losing at poker and that's why Sodor is so damn haunted. If anyone has any more questions or just want to help me brainstorm send me an ask and I'll answer :]

#live from tidmouth #creative on the mainline #ttte #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #thomas & friends #ttte oc #ttte oc steamnav #ttte oc missus #missus is NOT engine devil shes just the one who shunts you to engine heaven or engine hell accordinf to folklore #theres other reaper like figures in engine folklore esp worldwide. in indonesia where many steam engines left in depots got scrapped illegal #*illegally the reaper figure is a lot more ominous. humanoid figures with cutter torches.#irl general steam navigation is still being restored and unrebuilt to her original shape #which is taking a LONGASS time. shes been purchased from barry in the 80S.#I imagine she's going stir fucking crazy. and she has a documented history in her own website btw #did you know that br warships are from the western region. made in swindon. THEYRE GREAT WESTERN ENGINESSSS #and apparently the great western railway and the southern railway had rivalry #which makes any animosity duck and thomas had a bit funnier in hindsight. literally gwr and sr behaviour

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acepalindrome · 4 months

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I love regional horror, but I wish I knew more about it from places outside the US. Like I know the common features of Japanese horror, but are there certain features or themes of scary stories from Hokkaido versus Kansai? Are there German cryptids that are associated with Berlin versus Bavaria? Is there a particular brand of horror from Siberia? Or the Andes Mountains? I want to know these things!!!

If you’re from somewhere outside the US, are you aware of any regional horror traits from where you’re from? Like are there local cryptids, or are there certain features in scary folk stories? Horror is genuinely fascinating to me.

#im from the us south and i love southern gothic #i want to know more about stuff like that!!#what are the features of scary stories where you’re from #and how are they shaped by the history and culture of that place #i wanna take a whole graduate level college class about regional horror

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lettersiarrange · 8 days

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Has time always moved this fast? I'm genuinely asking. In 200 years we went from Bridgerton to AI. The everyday lives of people in each of these eras feel like universes apart. I'm no historian, but it seems like the everyday lives of people between 1500 and 1700 weren't that different.

Have humans throughout time immemorial reflected on life 30 years ago, 100 years ago and commented on how vastly different it was? It feels like we're running at a breakneck pace in the modern era. The It Gets Better project was founded in 2010 because gay people were so universally ostracized that lgbt teen suicide rates were off the charts. And while we're still pretty far from full LGBT equality, openly having a problem with gay people existing is a pretty fringe opinion now that's fairly universally frowned upon, even in the southern US.

I'm pretty sure the first time a woman wore pants in congress was in the 90s.

Culturally, technologically, resource-wise, it feels like every 5 years we leap 5 decades forward. Is it just our own preoccupation with the era we live in that makes this moment feel so significant? Or are we actually moving as quickly as it feels?

I know people have always laughed at the grandpa's who complain "when I was your age...", but has the gap ever been this wide? Or is there truly something special about now.

#before someone @s me about *but some people still disapprove of gay people existing!!!*#i know. I'm from the south.#but even southerners know it's no longer something they're allowed to talk openly abt because doing so will make people think they're crazy #they may privately have a problem with gay ppl existing and say so amongst friends family and church #but nowadays it's the kid who's weirdly hung up on jimmy having a boyfriend who's uncool and strange. no one else has a problem with jimmy #even the radical conservatives are aware they ostracise themselves by throwing a fit abt gay people existing #that's why they're so fucking mad. that's why they're fighting so fucking hard. their opinions haven't changed #and 15 years ago they were on the side of the majority and now their opinions make them weirdos #they're evil but i kinda get why they feel like it's everyone else going crazy around them and not their own opinions that are the problem #again. there may yet be some spaces and schools in the US where it's still weird to be gay. but i would say that is the outlier #anyway that's not really my point i just know this site doesn't have reading comprehension #I'm genuinely curious as to whether time always feels like this or if it's us #yes every century has wars and pandemics and dynasty changes that impact history #but it kinda feels like the experience of a pandemic in 2020 with a smartphone and doordash is pretty significantly different than #the experience of a pandemic in 1500. 1300. etc. which maybe felt a lot more similar to each other.#and not to even mention the rapid changes in fashion!!!

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kyistell · 8 months

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I hath come to humbly ask thee for Texas hc’s 👁️👁️

*do not feel forced or rushed to answer this!!*

It's not been almost a whole day, I don't know what your on about. Seriously though sorry this is late, I wanted to get it done yesterday but sadly I do have a friend who also likes hockey so, anyway ENJOY!!!

Texas-

He can sing and play the guitar really well

Big ol’ stargazer, was very sad when he realized that the StateHouse wasn’t in the best location to stargaze

He doesn’t agree with a lot of what happens in his state, not that he has much of a choice but if asked in private he makes his opinion pretty known

Will occasionally drink a glass of oil, yea know, for the funnies, the other states are absolutely disgusted, even the ones with oil drilling

He’s never actually done drugs, like it was very tempting at one point but he never actually tried it and doesn’t plan too

Owns a dirt bike and bought a few other southern states one as well to do races

He’s smart, but specifically the stupid kind of smart, the kind of smart that got a super collider built but dumb enough to not be able to convince the government to keep throwing money into the project (this is real, this did happen and I love it so much it’s so interesting)

Manipulative bastard (affectionate??)

He doesn’t always dress like he’s a cowboy from the deep south, he actually has a lot of what the NE states call “normal people clothes”, he just prefers to dress like what he is, a gay cowboy

Whore (affectionate)

Was the one who started the southern Minecraft server, mainly so he could bomb Oklahomo legally

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ambassadorquark · 2 years

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you could absolutely have come up with grosser american food for that poll lmao. honestly reading it is making me question if the British food poll even contains anything actually disgusting or if it’s just stuff i haven’t had before. like i know your ass is not trying to tell me biscuits and gravy, which is literally a flavorful sausage and sauce over one of our great nation’s finest breads, is so gross people from other countries should be making fun of it. like i bet there’s places that make a jellied eel or whatever the hell that i would meal the fuck down and enjoy thoroughly. maybe we should love and share with each other.

#beep boop #also not gonna get into the weird implications of listing so many southern foods bc like cmon now you know your history i hope!

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actual-corpse · 2 months

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I'm gonna start exploding people with my mind if they keep fucking MOCKING SOUTHERN ACCENTS

I'm fucking sick of being assumed to be a bigoted racist freak simply because of the way I sound.

It's disgusting and classist when you mock my accent...

VERY often poor people are depicted with a thick southern drawl... and often with that southern drawl comes racism and homophobia like....... YOUR IMPLICIT BIASES ARE SHOWING ASSHOLE.

#yall do know that this accent comes from the way Africans spoke right?#like...#using the southern accent to portray poor and uneducated people is so fucking disgusting #you all are aware that poc are disproportionately affected by socio-economic disparity *ALONGSIDE us poorer white southerners like.. **#**it hits the POC much harder though since racism makes it much harder for them to receive help like #im so fucking tired of it #southern culture was built on the backs and blood of the Africans stolen from their homes... our food and our accent comes from them whether #anyone wants to admit it or not #all of our history includes them... you cannot escape the influence #im mad and im tired #you're disgusting #stop get some help #fuck you

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araiz-zaria · 21 hours

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Happy ULTRA BELATED Birthday Ole Tommy 🥺💙😭✨ you were truly too kind to your ingrate sisters

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dixiedrudge · 1 day

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Battle of Wahab's Plantation - Today In Southern History

21 September 1780 On this date in 1780… Militia Colonel William R. Davie launched a surprise attack on a Loyalist camp, which included elements of the British Legion commanded by Banastre Tarleton at Wahab’s Plantation, in present-day Union County, North Carolina. Tarleton was absent and his troops fled with heavy losses. Other Years: 1863 – Confederates under General Braxton Bragg stampeded…

#Know Southern History #September #Today in Southern History

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spacemancharisma · 11 months

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not to be aggressively southern on main but ppl who think that singing with a twang and saying yeehaw to whatever beat they threw together automatically makes it a country song or even a country fusion………… this is simply not the case

#also making fun of country music is just not it man #like yes absolutely most mainstream stadium country artists are embarrassing bootlickers pandering to the least common denominator #but the genre as a whole has a very rich and diverse history and the way ppl throw it under the bus is the exact way they throw #all southern folks under the bus for the fact that they think we’re all backwards and bigoted #and I’m just. I know I’m not articulating this well but like #country music is an art form as much as any other genre and throwing on a cowboy hat and butchering an accent you’ve never heard irl #is just hollow and comes across so strongly as one big joke where the punchline is ‘some people sing like this unironically!!#and those idiots actually like it!!’#and I’m not even much of a country fan but it’s so clearly malicious towards southern and rural cultures that it’s just #come on. be better than this. be better than them.#personal

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carcinized · 2 years

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whenever anyone says anything like “America has horrible food & they dont know how to cook bc theyre such a young country and they suck” its just so obvious that they dont know anything about cuisine or common sense its just so funny to me like

#like /i/ dont know a lot about cuisine but if uou watch anyone who does its INSANE how much good food + history america has #and how like 99% of it is either like derived from native cultures or black folks (southern food especially) or immigrants during the 1900s #and then its like this dish came from trying to use up all scraps during the Great Depression ! this dish came from etc etc etc!#and its a beautiful mishmash of cultures wnd styles and needs and its just so obvious that uou dont know fucjing anyting whrn uou say that #& its like yeah america is young but the people who live here very much still have cultural history 😭 how dumb do you have to be istg #tobin talks

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kidrat · 5 months

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guys I love them so much

Toby, Lou, and Tzipporah from left to right. minor characters under the cut lol this is a post for meeee

Top row: Toby's friends Josh, Spencer, and Aisling

Middle row: Tzipporah's little sister Yael. Her love interest Sturdy

Bottom row: Toby's parents Alexei and Ruby. His girlfriend Daisy. Who is dead! That's definitely not just Lou pre-transition!

#Sturdy should have a choppy shag. straight haired ellen ripley.#i just chose the closest thing that was giving gay. also dont think they'd wear traditional clothing much but she DOES wear that colour lot #and none of the other outfits worked at all #also CONSIDERED giving Toby the little blue and white striped tshirt bc he Would...#but thought w the cigarette he might look too french #hes not. hes eastern european and jewish/space southern american #if ur interested toby and aisling (at 17/18) and tzipporah and josh (twenties)#were both victims of well why not relationships. theyre all still friends #tzipporah avoided josh for like three years but the breakup was amicable she's just like that #also if ur interested ruby and alexei run ruby's family's farm #mostly sheep :)#aisling's family are in horses #i dont think the other two of toby's group were brought up *on* farms but they know what theyre doing in that regard #josh works for aisling's family and spencer studied mechanical engineering #tzipporah did history with french #and then moved to a planet where no one speaks it. after The Traumas #lou barely has high school level education #toby was happy being a farmer pre Space War #but in another universe he might have gone to college sometime in his twenties and done men. (badum tsshh. he'd have done philosophy)#louniverse

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dreamsweet · 10 months

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i think it says a lot about how evangelicals have really lost the plot when it comes to christianity because they think the upside down cross is evil…it’s literally the cross of st peter like he was sentenced to death via crucifixion and asked to be crucified upside down bc he didn’t think he deserved to die the same way jesus did

#esp southern baptists don’t know the history of the early church bc they’re so focused on biblical literalism and ignore everything else #nicole.txt

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wilyserpentofeden · 1 year

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At this point I should just draw the good omens drag AU in my brain bc I unfortunately have so many ideas and I cannot write them into a coherent story but I can draw Aziraphale in sequins and Crowley in leather pants doing a lip sync battle and that's enough for me.

#they come from drag houses that have a HORRIBLE history of beef with each other #Crowley is Flash Bastard from Haus of Lucifer and Aziraphale is Southern Pansy from Haus of Gawd (yes it has to be spelled that way)#Southern Pansy's acts are pretty classic for the most part and theres a lot of exaggerated facial expressions #Flash Bastard goes fucking crazy and is too much for some people the music is always loud the choreo is raunchy w/ a lot of physical comedy #as it turns out though Crowley irl when not performing Flash Bastard is just a little bit of a good person #and Aziraphale when not playing the sweet classic Southern Pansy is just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing #this is a silly AU. i do not care #good omens #drag AU #au

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