Untrue. Gnome brains cannot understand the idea of intentional cruelty. The bomb was intended for this year’s shroomday parade and festival, but an ill-timed doze in the cool autumn air caused it to detonate prematurely.
Whenever I see someone refer to “Victorian era-” for places outside the UK I’m tempted to start saying shit like “Han Dynasty era Rome”, “Soviet era Australia” etc
“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”
The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America
I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.
“cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas”
Okay, but the British Empire controlled about a quarter of the world’s land area during Victoria’s reign. So it absolutely accurate to refer to, say, “Victorian Canada” or “Victorian India”
adults should play pretend like kids. even play wolves. why can’t I play wolves just because i’m 24
“what about D&D” “what about roleplaying online” none of you have played wolves and it shows. you need to be crawling on the ground outside and HOWLING
thinking about how the world would be better if more people understood the differences between ‘the author failed to tell the story they wanted to tell’ and 'the author told the story they wanted to tell, but they told it badly’ and 'the author told the story they wanted to, and they told it well, but it wasn’t the story I wanted to read’
