On Wisconsin!

An ask and roleplaying blog for a personification of the great and proud state -- Wisconsin. [ Not an APH OC but not opposed to roleplaying with Hetalia. ] Relationship Status: Taken Tags to Follow ic posts | video | photos | audio doodles | ooc | character notes historical facts

[badgerstate-archives]

Hey.

I don’t really roleplay here anymore, but I have some good memories and I’m still active elsewhere with my characters and artwork. 

Just peeking in to say hello!

[alotofchusetts]

Oh boy another championship game for the Pats, guess it’s just another January….  >:)

[badgerstate-archives]

There’s … a superbowl this year? I thought it was cancelled….

[alotofchusetts]

If its any consolation, I’d much rather have played you guys. Guess we’ll have to take down a bunch of birds yet again… Shouldn’t be too hard

[badgerstate-archives]

I can never hurt birds... I don’t understand why.

[alotofchusetts]

Oh boy another championship game for the Pats, guess it’s just another January….  >:)

[badgerstate-archives]

There’s ... a superbowl this year? I thought it was cancelled....

[owlthinkabtit]

Gabe, my anime husband. Gabe belongs to @badgerstate

[badgerstate-archives]

“Russell Wilson stays loyal to Wisconsin.”

[lesterpubliclibrary]

Neshotah Beach by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: Two Rivers, Wisconsin

[lesterpubliclibrary]

Two Rivers Beacon by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: Two Rivers, Wisconsin

[uwmadarchives]

Watermelon Queen, n.d. (Image #S13945)

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For more information about UW campus history, contact [email protected] or visit archives.library.wisc.edu. On, Wisconsin!

[sophialovesbuildings]

Lake Monona / July 2016

Madison, Wisconsin

[alienamericana]

It’s always cheese

[73sand88s]

Ajax & Comet - Superior, Wisconsin

[frankenvoorhees]

My favorite soda company of all time. It is a Wisconsin only company. I have so many childhood memories flood my head. The company stopped production in 2007 because it could not keep up with the big companies. In 2015 they started production back up again, but it was only available in Rippon. Well, the demand was overwhelming, and starting next week it will be available statewide at various locations. This makes me very very happy.

[uwmspeccoll]

Cow Appreciation Day, July 12, 2016

Wisconsin is the milk-cow center of the US, with perhaps more cow-appreciators per square kilometer than any other place in the country (although California might take issue with that). Nineteenth-century Wisconsin farmer N. B. White was so appreciative of cows that he published this now quite rare and very fragile 1897 treatise, Thirty Years Among Cows, in Onconomowoc, Wisconsin (a town about 56 kilometers due west of Milwaukee). Not just a memoir of his bovine experiences, it is also a practical treatise on the joyful practice of raising healthy stock intended for the young. It includes fascinating sections on milk fever, calving, abortion, silage, feed, housing, and manure – captivating reading for any true, corn-fed Wisconsin youth.

Now, THAT’S cow appreciation!!

[doorcountyadventurerafting]

Don’t even think about it. The answer is no. #DoorCounty, #Wisconsin (at Door County Adventure Rafting)

[uwmspeccoll]

Cow Appreciation, Pt. 2

Today, in further celebration of Cow Appreciation Day, we bring you the lovely and iconic Elsie the Cow. This book walked through our door just yesterday and we are oh-so-thankful for its timing. Here in the dairy state (or at least at UWM Special Collections), the only thing we like more than appreciating cows is appreciating cows who stand up for women’s rights. 

Elsie the Cow was written by Monte Sohn, illustrated by Walter Early, and published by Dodd, Mead, & Company in 1943. In the story, Elsie and the other cows decide they no longer want to give milk so they are able to spend their time and energy doing the things they want to do, rather than giving milk to those who don’t appreciate it. While the book is full of nasty gender stereotypes and probably the most cringe-worthy husband ever encountered in a book for children, Elsie’s willingness to stand up for underappreciated women and change their circumstances is certainly worthy of appreciation. 

[frankenvoorhees]

[places-no-one-has-ever-been]

flowers, fields, and (butter)flies.