I got very sad last week because my favorite witch shop in the city wasn’t there anymore. I was going to go look at chalices (I really need a chalice. Doing rites with a vase just… it’s weird, okay.) but when we got there it was just gone.
Thankfully, they didn’t close, just moved. So I went there today and was glad to see they were still operational but when I asked why they moved… it kinda made me sick. Apparently people were calling in to the store and leaving death threats. They were also vandalizing the store pretty much on the daily, throwing trash and writing things on the building. They guy I talked to was like “it doesn’t bother me because I’m a big Viking dude. I can handle it. But my coworkers and customers? They shouldn’t have to put up with that.”
It’s stopped now that they’ve moved but honestly this is just sickening and sad. What makes people think they can be so nasty and rude and disruptive? What the hell is wrong with them that they feel like they can harass people? Why can’t people just behave like grown ups and move the hell on?
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o.O that book (and class) sound fascinating. i’m by no means a civil war buff, but i am insanely curious to find out more about it, y’know?
Oh definitely. If you want I can see if I can dig out some book recs for you? Obviously it’s not gonna get into all the little things that make the war so interesting but there were actually a few factors that went into the whole thing. Like, it’s both too simplistic and also very accurate to say it was a war fought over slavery because while Southern landholders were absolutely enraged about the potential to not be able to expand slavery further into the West, Northerners by and large still wanted to compromise. There was still this attempt to balance the wants of two different wealthy classes but no one could maintain it. Something had to give and well… the South was the first to snap. The war itself was brutal and nasty. Human rights violations up the wazoo on all sides. Racism. Surgery in a time where surgery was still dangerous as hell in places that weren’t sanitary. And the Reconstruction of the South was pathetic and absolutely part of the reason we *still* have issues in the South today. (And not just race problems, either. Poor whites were still poor and racist and beholden to wealthy whites. Former slaves got fucked over into sharecropping and the cycle of poverty that created. The infrastructure was pitiful. Andrew Johnson was an awful president. Sprinkle in some of the Gilded Age economic boom and practices that benefited the North and West while leaving the South in the dust… well it’s not hard to see why we have issues.)
Sorry, I went on a bit of a ramble lol. But the American Civil War and it’s consequences are some of my favorite things to look at in American history.
For the history asks tell me about somewhere historical you’ve been please :)
I’ve been to The Alamo, but I don’t remember it. lol
Seriously, I actually have been to San Antonio, Texas and apparently we went to the Alamo Cenotaph but I was like four so I don’t remember it at all. (Don’t tell anyone from Texas that I’ve forgotten the Alamo. They get huffy.)
Do national monuments count? I’m gonna go with yes, because outside of that I’ve only really been to museums and places in the city that are old as hell. I’ve been to Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands a few times (last time was about two years ago) and they’re about as thrilling as you’d expect. White Sands has a lot of white sand. It’s white as snow and goes on for what seems like forever and other than the missile range there’s not a lot to look at. Carlsbad Caverns are cool, though. It’s cold and humid and the rock formations are fucking massive. There are a few in the big room that are just amazing. There’s some called the “hall of giants” and unfortunately you can’t get very close but they’re like 60 feet tall (18.3 meters). They’re gorgeous, honestly. It’s more natural history than human history, but it’s still awesome.
talk about #10 (Something historical related to where you live) and choose between: the oregon trail and the (american) civil war.
So there are two big reasons my city became the metropolitan area it is now: tuberculosis and World War 2. I live in the Southwest, so when tuberculosis was endemic people tended to move to hot, dry climates to stop the disease from advancing. My city was home to 16 sanatoriums, two of which are actually still operational, they’re just hospitals now. (Another was torn down and a hotel was built on the grounds but they haven’t torn down the crematorium yet. So there’s literally a hotel with a crematorium like, two miles away from where I went to college.) By the late 1920s, 50% of the population of my city was either TB patients, their families, or other “health-seekers” hoping for relief from things like allergies and asthma. By the time WW2 rolled around, the city was also a home for military scientists and by the end of the war a new military base was set up where an airport used to be. We had a huge population growth after the war and we’re still working on science and technology in all different kinds of areas.
The American Civil War. One of my favorite courses in college was on the American Civil War and one of my favorite required readings was about various battles and sieges through a sensory perspective. It’s called “The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege” by Mark M. Smith. (I still have it somewhere in my “books I bought that the university won’t take back” box.) It really puts into perspective how brutal war was on different groups of people, including those who weren’t fighting it. The chapter on “taste” was all about the Siege of Vicksburg and how civilians were pushed to starvation. I know we don’t really think about it anymore, but the American Civil War really was brutal. It was also incredibly stupid for the South to fight given their infrastructure was shit and they needed the North to make any profit off anything.
John Laurens or Lafayette
John Laurens because he doesn’t enough attention imo. He was a critic of slavery, a solider, and a diplomat and I have to wonder what he would have contributed had he not died in the Revolutionary War.
A Historical Make Me Choose/Talk About Master-Meme
(Because there aren’t enough let’s face it)
Make me choose:
1. Between two historical figures
2. Between two historical ‘periods’, reigns or eras
3. Between two conflicts
4. Between two historical objects
5. Between two historical pieces of clothing or fashion trends
6. Between two factions (anything from Lancaster and York to Whig and Tory)
7. Between two concepts (this is flexible)
8. Between two ‘areas’ of history (social, economic, military, et.c.)
9. Between two forms of transport or specific vehicles (the Mary Rose, penny farthing)
10. Between two general objects (cannons, dolls, knives)
11. Between two dishes or foods
12. Between two historians
13. Between two events
14. Between two historical couples
15. Anything you want
Talk About:
1. See the Make Me Choose Section (favourite figure, couple, place, e.t.c.)
2. Something about your own family’s history
3. A historical theory, trope, or misconception you HATE
4. A historical event you wish you’d been a fly on the wall for
5. A historical figure who you think is overrated
6. A historical figure you think is underrated
7. The oldest thing you can see from where you are sitting (can be a person).
8. A favourite random historical anecdote or fact
9. A historical myth/legend/rumour/story (flexible)
10. Something historical related to where you live
11. Something historical related to where you were born
12. Somewhere historical you’ve been
13. Somewhere historical you’d like to go
14. A historical form of a language or dead language you wish you could speak/hear spoken
15. A historical headcanon you have
16. A piece of heraldry, historical symbol, badge, flag, e.t.c. you like/associate with
17. A historical figure you would most like to meet in their own time
18. A historical figure you would most like to bring to the modern day
19. Historical dinner party (who would you invite, who would you seat next to each other, what would you talk about- GO)
20. Free choice
Feel free to add your own!
Plz ask <3!
Poe isn’t scary I think but he’s a good writer. Thanks
That bitch from starwars got a book?
Yes, I keep it in my wine cellar. Come with me while I retrieve it…
Sure! What could go wrong?
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