#primary resources

[henryfitzempress]

The open of the Parliament in the reign of King Henry III of England. 

Be noticed, according to author Darren Baker, that in 1254, “Henry names his wife Eleanor of Provence regent before he goes abroad. She becomes the first woman to attend parliament and orders the sheriffs to elect local knights, the first time commoners and the monarchy converge under a democratic mandate.”

[kyrianne]

[Image ID: A series of screenshots from a Twitter thread by Jason Coupet / professajay.

Text begins: Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.

Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.

We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.

We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.

Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious™️ warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.

You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.

The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.

It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho. Text ends.

Image ID: Two Black people are standing beside a city street and smiling at the camera, a man and a woman. The man has close-cropped hair and a beard. He is wearing a black hoodie that says Southside and has a sticker on his chest with a peach on it. The woman has large tortoiseshell browline glasses and long twist locs. She has a light brown leather crossbody bag, and is wearing a salmon-colored windbreaker. She also has a peach sticker on her chest, which she is pointing to. Her hand has a wedding ring. End ID]

[cheezitofthevalley]

whatever this is

loosely inspired by the ita.toys neocities color palette.

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

Hello, everyone! I have a quick request to make!

Please interact with this post if you’re doing F/Ovember this year! (2023)

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For those looking for fellow selfshippers taking part, or who just want to send people asks for the event, look no further than the notes of this post! I hope that everyone has a lovely time, no matter how they participate ^-^

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[intricatecakes]

USAmericans who are old enough to vote:

Here is a guide to voting in the upcoming primaries, info on each state is included as well as dates to vote

please get out to the polls and show Biden we won't be complicit in his genocide, every vote counts and anyone who tells you abstaining will do anything is 100% acting in bad faith

USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE.

[deathlygristly]

Okay, used https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page and https://www.vote411.org to pick my votes for today. Going after work.

You can put in your address and see the races you’ll be voting in, and you can get the biographies of the candidates and see their answers to some questions. Vote411 lets you select your candidates and then you can see the list and print it out to take to the polls with you.

Also there's TurboVote: https://turbovote.org/ This site can help you get registered and find your polling place, and I'm signed up to get reminders of elections that I can vote in.

[woozapooza]

I like her a normal amount APRIL FOOLS no I don't I am so in love with her it's unreal

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

why are you hellions beefing with me on a post that’s two years old.

[mythicalcoolkid]

I will always be somewhat angry that the US gay marriage debate overwhelmingly focused on "well actually the Bible DOES support homosexuality!" instead of "your religion should not dictate whether I have the legal rights granted by marriage"

[isekyaaa]

The closest character to Kokomi in terms of similarities is Alhaitham. They both want to essentially do what interests them the most (read) and be left alone. Both are quite intuitive about understanding and predicting situations and people. The difference is that Kokomi feels a higher level of responsibility over her environment then Alhaitham. She feels more obligated to do what she doesn’t want to do while Alhaitham just cannot be bothered.

[forgotten-chimaera]

Fern & Paisley coverage on the various species. If you want to see how it looks in all colors, please check out this guide on the Flight Rising forums.    

Colors: Cornflower/Cornflower

[seaseren]

Ok also it's something that I've been thinking about and I think something that would have helped Gridania a lot is a rival faction. Like Ul'dah, you instantly have two factions that function pretty effective as good guys and bad guys. Limsa is less clear cut, but its made clear that while the Admiral is the leader, there's a bunch of pirate crews and trying to get them all to work together is like herding cats, because they all have their own priorities and rivalries and such. Gridania has...Kan-E-Senna, who's the boss, and then....nothing. Nobody for her to play off, nobody for us to contrast her against and go "oh, so this is what she's dealing with and why she can't just solve every issue." Like if there was some kinda powerful, entrenched Hearer community that was opposing her, or a faction propping someone else up as Elder Seedseer, or just any kind of force that makes us go "oh no! we're in your corner, Kan-E-Senna!" instead she's just the figurehead for a system where Bad Things Happen- and unlike everywhere else, where we can point to causes or reasons why solutions wouldn't work so easily, the takeaway from most of Gridania's issues has to be "Kan-E-Senna is just bad at doing her job."

[obstinatecondolement]

I was watching a YouTube video about making zines and the person ended it with a call to action to be informed about Palestine and was like "And what better way than by reading zines???" There are. Um. Better ways...

[sleep-safe]

*banging metal objects together*

if your patients don't understand what you tell them, you are not an adequate or effective healthcare provider !!!

[bekala]

Historical Fic Resources

Anyone else writing a historical AU? Time travel? What about something just not modern?

Want some cool resources to make stuff more accurate and period realistic? Love primary sources? Just like looking at old things?

here are things!

Green's Dictionary of Slang: let's you pick a time period, a meaning, and even a general location and will then spit out a list of slang words that were used in that time to make your dialogue more realistic

Life Magazine Archives: Every issue of Life Magazine from 1936 to 1972 digitized, searchable, and available for free to scroll through to get idea of the times

Good Housekeeping Archives: Every issue of Good Housekeeping from 1885 to 1950 digitized with linked tables of contents for free courtesy of Cornell

Billboard Magazine: Mixed issues from 1942 to 2010 digitized, searchable, and available for free to scroll through for music news and culture

Old Magazine Articles.com: A massive organized archive of scanned and collected articles. It's organized by topic and then by decade and includes everything from pop-culture and fashion to politics to UFOs.

Newspapers: A massive collection of links to digitaized newspaper archives including ones dating back to pre-civil war

General Primary Sources: Just everything. The tabs at the top will take you to lists and lists and lists of stuff. Just click around

[sunsrefuge]

question!! for everyone who does custom ship names, regardless of what kind of ship it is! OC x OC, OC x Canon, Canon x Canon even :D

how do you?? come up with a ship name?? Is there deeper thought that goes into it, or is it something that just sounds right? Do you take an aspect from each of them or is it something that they have in common? Did it start as a joke and then become a serious name for the ship?? how do you do this???

(also if anyone wants to talk about their custom ship names and how they came about, please do share!! ♥ i’d love to read!!)