#OTD in 1893 – Peadar O’Donnell, novelist, editor of the newspaper An Phoblacht (The Republic) and social reformer, is born in Co Donegal.
A school teacher by profession, he taught on Arranmore Island before leaving for Scotland to assist migrant labourers in their strike for improved pay and conditions. Returning to Ireland, he became involved in the Republican Movement and played an active part in the War of Independence.
O’Donnell opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in January 1922 he joined the group, led by Irish novelist Liam…
so i work for a small regional museum. remotely, i should add. the museum itself is about 2000km west, so i've never actually been there but i research and write articles about local history for them. and because the town was only formally settled in the 1920s and a lot of the museum's supporters are older, the majority of the history i write about is within, or just outside of living memory. this means that people will comment on our posts with memories or connections of their own. they'll tag their friends and family and say 'remember this?'
a few week ago, i wrote a week's worth of posts about immigration, largely displaced persons in the aftermath of the second world war. there was an outpouring of memories and people tagging their family members and sharing them. our notifications were blowing up with people saying "thanks for writing about my uncle" and "i knew them when i was young, but i never knew their story" and "she looks so beautiful here" and "our families used to get together for dinners, i'm still friends with his daughter."
regular people, non-historians, are inclined to think of history as a monolithic past leading up to the present; an easy timeline of textbook names and events. and we think of museums largely the same way. you have the louvre and you have the smithsonian and maybe a modern art museum or a niche museum for skeletons or canoes or one specific guy. museums are reserved for the big things, but they're also for the little things and people that will never be in textbooks.
and i'm thinking about the way people responded to those posts, seeing their own history remembered with the same reverence as the big stuff. maybe you never knew the people being written about, or maybe you did, and for a few days, they are alive again, and your neighbours and your classmates and your councilmen are remembering your family, and they are alive.
ain't no fucking way philza took a picture of the exact moment roier was longingly zooming in on cellbit while the brazilians were doing the never have i ever during festa junina
AND HE JUST GAVE CELLBIT THE PICTURE TODAY FOR HIS CASTLE
what kinda kismet/fate bullshit is this??? it's not even scripted!!! i doubt philza or cellbit even has a clue about the meaning of that picture kill me now
Animatic based on Wrong, Try Again! by @cloudyskiiees :3 it was originally just going to be one singular drawing but I got carried away. Song is again and again by the bird and the bee.
The quality is kinda crummy from being compressed and I used an editing app I’ve never used before but I think it turned out well for something I made in under 12 hours!! This is my second ever animatic so it’s not stellar but I’m happy with it :3