Nine rings were made for men. Seven for the dwarves, three for the elves, and one for the big guy himself. One, three, seven, nine. There is but a set of five missing to complete the sequence of odd numbers. I propose that this missing set of rings of power was gifted to a mysterious someone by their true love, along with a partridge in a pear tree (among other things). In this essay I will-
saw someone post “I don’t understand why anyone would have separate ‘winter tires’ unless they’re just looking for things to spend money on” and looked at her account and she’s from LA. which is funny but I think we’re all guilty of similar behavior sometimes. if you see people spending time and effort on something that seems stupid to you it’s worth considering whether you’re the Californian in this scenario
not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny
governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies
115 colonists: okay
governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit
governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone
governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post
croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin
everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke
hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating
There’s still active research happening on this, too! Archeologists have been finding all sorts of stuff that points to the Roanoke colonists assimilating into the local indigenous communities in the area.
Which, honestly, is actually a lot more interesting than most of the other fantastical hypotheses about what happened to the colonists!
anastasia would be way more awesome if she became a hardcore communist in the years she had amnesia. like imagine you dedicate your life to the bolshevik cause and then you find out you’re literally a member of the overthrown royal family that’d be crazy
honestly the main reason i care about harm reduction is that i believe addicts are deserving of life. “what if they don’t get clean?” they still deserve to live. “what if they don’t contribute?” they still deserve to live. “what if they ‘abuse’ the system?” they still deserve to live.
addicts deserve to live by virtue of them being human. nothing will change that. nobody deserves to die of an overdose.
I think it would be cool if every product on grocery store shelves had to have the name of the parent corporation in big letters on the front. Not because it would change anybody’s shopping habits. But it might change people’s perspective to go into an aisle with 100 different products in seeming competition with each other and find that 75 of them are made by the same company.
should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*
This going viral has been an eye opener as to which online communities are just THAT stupid, because I’ve had to clarify that, no, there’s not actually a fucking armored hot pink Mattel murder van outside of my house, no they did not send a small army of robotic barbies to do battle with my wife’s equestria girl doll collection, and yes I am including health insurance CEOs in that main statement.
It’s simply vomit inducing to learn that the “the US military is the largest polluter in the world” factoid only refers to the on-paper oil purchases of the US military and does not take into account all the myriad of other ways it pollutes, poisons, and actively destroys the Earth. It is polluting far past the point of it even being quantifiable. There is truly no greater threat to the whole globe, no greater evil, than the USA and its military.
It is year 2001. I see on the news that the local Seoul municipal government had to spend its own money cleaning up the oil spill at the Yongan Army Garrison. It was known for 10 years, apprently. When I was entering middle school in 2006, the United States forces in Korea claimed that it was fixed, but the pollution worsened. My parents protested against the base’s presence in 2002 after the US military killed two high school students walking home from school and the killers were acquitted. In 2025, you will see people on websites like Reddit that so badly wants to acquit the two civilian murderers while painting the Korean people rising up to protest against the occupiers as “political hijacking of a tragedy.”
In december 2012, fresh off my first semester off from a university in the USA, I am visiting my grand aunt in Niigata. On the TV, there’s a panel show discussing the US proposed military’s removal of 9,000 marines, an agreement that was reached in april. As of 2024, it hasn’t fully happened. In 2024, however, I do see on the TV that the presidential hopeful Kamala Harris secured the release of a yank soldier that ran over 2 Japanese civilians with his car from jail. One of the leading news casters in the mainstream USA network TV calls this a great victory for justice.
In 2019, I am starting my second MA in Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi. I lived 20 minutes by drive (45 minutes with traffic but let’s not get into that) away from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Aiea, but only 5 minutes from a military base, at a distant relative’s basement-garage-apartment. There were some weeks where I was unable to use the tap water because the US military base would have its fuel leak directly into the springs where we got our water. In 2025, the only people ever indicted were 2 civilians for 1 of such incidents.
Starting my PhD program in Upstate New York in 2022, I am talking to one of my PhD advisors. She got into academia because she was from Guam and her people, despite the land being owned by the USA, has no political say in what goes on on the island. She talks about the fuel dumping that happens in Guam. We both share a sigh and a knowing nod.
Everywhere the United States’ military goes, it leaves behind a trail of suffering that it will simply not address. It leaves a deep scar in every local community and the only people that the military ever demands responsibility from are the civilians they’re occupying, not ever themselves.
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