Forward Into the Unknown

Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020:

My Spuffy fanart commission from the masterful @flyora inspired by the fic ‘Seven’ from the amazing @elysianholly available on @elysianfieldsarchive.

that’s how he is about all his people, and he is aware that Ed is underage so anything really bad happening to him is more fucked up than it happening to adults, even if he handles it better than most adults would.

Kidnapper: We have your son.

Roy: I don’t have children.

Kidnapper: We have the short angry blonde in the red coat.

Kidnapper: *near tears* I’m…I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have taken the kid. Please, please take him back!

Roy: Hmmm judging by your tone, you know exactly what kind of person he is. I’m not sure I want to take him back. At least, not for free. Equivalent Exchange and all that.

Kidnapper: You’re counter ransoming me?! You can’t do that!

Roy: You’re clearly not in the mood to negotiate. I’m gonna hang up right now and give you a little time to be in a calmer state of mind, okay? Okay.

Kidnapper: No wait plea-

we called them musk-ox because we thought they must be some kind of cow thing, but they are actually a goat thing; this is to a normal wild goat what a woolly mammoth is to a normal elephant, only these things survived.

and i absolutely cannot help myself because of the tizzy my brain goes into over the twin facts of

1: ice-age megafauna that is still alive! and

2: EIGHT HUNDRED POUND GOAT

you can see the goatishness a little more in their babies

i just, i am crazy over the fact that these guys are still alive on our planet

Note: This post does contain new lore from Tevinter Nights that some people may consider to be spoilers!

Not long after Kordillus Drakon became Emperor of the new nation of Orlais and formally created the Chantry in -3 Ancient, he began conquering his way through Fereldan and southern Free Marches. By 1:16 Divine, Andrastianism was the dominant religion in in Nevarra, (which at the time was still a large Free Marcher city-state, and would not become a whole independent nation until 5:40 Exalted,) largely due to Orlais winning favour from the people for help defeating the Second Blight. However, what separates Nevarra from the rest of the nations in Thedas under the Southern Chantry, is their unique treatment and views on death; something mages play a key part in. As such, mages in Nevarra have more freedom, power, and wealth than they do anywhere else in Thedas under the Southern Chantry.

show louis: jacob anderson putting sam reid's fingers in his mouth even though the script didn't call for that

book louis: did people just gloss over the fact he owned not one but TWO plantations?? excuse me what