It's All Been Done Before

Hapo | she/they | Canada | 90's kid | Inspired but not constrained by Hetalia, this blog is primarily for sharing my personification OCs and more general posts about History and Classics. Main blog for acetechne and others.

[battle-of-alberta]

another formulaic vent comic i drafted a couple weeks ago and forgot about because life happens. i am sorry if i haven't been on top of things or responding to messages (i do read and appreciate them!) but I've been taking time off to help and support friends. here is classic snarky ed and classic stampede brain cal for your soul.

those in my circles will tell you i have become weirdly obsessed with mayor farkas and how he said 'bullshit' four times in one reel without fear of the algorithm and then later clarified "no BS, just CS." I may be suspicious of his voting record (and his continued need to throw Edmonton property taxes around like some evil plot) but the enemy of my enemy and all that... anyway he won this one.

On a more serious note, the province has decided to go to war with disabled Albertans. Please read Cam Tait's column on how Smith is not just minimizing but straight up ignoring the very real threats to people's lives her government is making by stealing from those who are struggling the most and giving it to whoever has the patience to figure out the government's bullshit application for a pitiful rebate.

it's times like this i feel im doing stupid self-satisfied little drawings that are for no one and nothing but my own feelings but i know that voice in my head that's telling me to sit on the feelings and do nothing about them is not the one i should be listening to, so i draw the stupid self-satisfied little things and hope it brings someone out there a resigned sigh of relief that someone is noticing this stuff even if there isn't anything new to add.

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We are on for another orange watch thunderstorm lads

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Lads........

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We are on for another orange watch thunderstorm lads

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i'm going back to the art store today because talens sketchbooks were on sale and i bought things i Had to buy instead so ... what if i go back and get one in a more notebook size...

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Got my sketchbook and took a map as tax since they've been reprinted for the summer :)

[en-theos]

'Persians is also a play about empire, as noted earlier, a warning that imperial designs eventually lead to ruin. I can think of few Greek tragedies more pertinent to the situation of my own country, the United States, a “super-power” consumed with its own Persian-like hubris: our continental yoking at Panama; the bloodbaths countenanced and paid for in Central America; the military dictators installed and armed in South America, the Middle East, Africa, southeast Asia; our support across the globe for the repression of democratic yearnings in favor of a world safe for corporate profit. From politicians and CEOs to postmodernists and cyber critics, a contemporary chorus claims that “globalization” and “terrorism” have changed everything, obliterating the old human scale with a new concept of space. Perhaps. But it has not touched the relevance of Aeschylus’ Persians to our own imperial expansion. If they were the original barbarian “Other,” then we have taken their place. We are the nation that needs to heed the play’s stern warnings against empire, that needs to acknowledge the sacred inviolability of other people’s land, resources, and aspirations. When the day comes that we stand defeated and judged for our manifold aggression, may there be a compassionate space for us like that which Aeschylus offered the Persians in his simple, profound play.'

Rush Rehm, 2002. THE PLAY OF SPACE: SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION IN GREEK TRAGEDY

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i'm going back to the art store today because talens sketchbooks were on sale and i bought things i Had to buy instead so ... what if i go back and get one in a more notebook size...

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trying again to write a postcard to the evil transportation minister about why he, a known maplemaga, should consider not destroying or blocking bike lanes doug ford style (WHICH ALREADY LOST IN COURT BTW), and i can't help but have American't by Death by Robot stuck in my head

They scream, don’t bother now, don’t bother now. You are not quite right. You have no job, you have no kids. You don’t even drive. You ride a bike, you’re not on time. You are not quite right. Just buy some gas, give it a try. You might even like it, you might like it, a lot.

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so flattered museum emailed me asking for club memorabilia that i am neither old nor gay enough to have (sigh) but they probably rightly bcc'd everyone else in so i cant see whether they emailed people who actually would have it or not

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it just occurred to me i should drop this information when i am doing guided tours in august (tickets aren't available yet but when they are i can point you in that direction)

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so flattered museum emailed me asking for club memorabilia that i am neither old nor gay enough to have (sigh) but they probably rightly bcc'd everyone else in so i cant see whether they emailed people who actually would have it or not

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most offensive thing about the kdays food competition this year is how two of them aren't on the stampede menu despite having calvin b. mccall written all over them

tell me he didn't write this

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I go offline for a week and now Nenshi is leaving me for Calgary (are we surprised)

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tumblr updated again and my extensions cant keep up right when im like actually able to check messages and post things again and now im feral because if i cant switch blogs in one click i can't keep up with myself arghghh

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[crawling out of the mosquito swamp into a heatwave] how's it going

[anonimea1y]

greek mythology is fun because there's a child soldier who uses the corpse of an infant to beat the king of troy to death in a cold-hearted act of revenge and he's also named after his dad's drag persona

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LADS I FORGOR WORLD WATERCOLOUR MONTH ITS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

we will see where i'm at mentally tomorrow

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Anyway have some ominous pictures of the city (the river is still WAY too high to be safe)

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im FINALLY home i have a huge headache and a lot of chores to do that are already going wrong and i somehow managed to scour all of superstore without finding a single can of bug spray so i may die if i try to weed the garden tomorrow BUT IM HOME IM AT MY DESK YAY YAY YAY