Fortune's Favour

Oh, but Providence kind so eases the wind And on sailors so constantly thinks

[benjhawkins]

If you liked this:

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[benjhawkins]

hello dear readers:

Colonial Williamsburg.

Who has been

Who has stayed there

Gimme the tea

[benjhawkins]

My boss: take some pics of sailboston for social media!

Me, forgets:

[benjhawkins]

At the academic conference:

Speaker: “now some of these illustrations are from dubious sources, the Hessian perhaps the most dubious of all. Can anyone guess where he’s from?”

Me, quietly: is that fucking ass creed

Me, aloud: “ASSASSINS CREED???”

Speaker: “The video game Assassin’s Creed, exactly! Now we can see how propaganda—”

[benjhawkins]

OLD IRONSIDES!!! The oldest commissioned warship still afloat!!

[benjhawkins]

Good morning from Charlestown!

[benjhawkins]

William Booth, “A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia”, 1788.

[benjhawkins]

Ok why was there a cavalacde of FIFA cars through Lexington just now did they fly them in from Hanscom or something

[benjhawkins]

Remind me to make my labubu a tricorn when i get back from Boston

[corvidaedream]

imagining a late 18th/early 19th century young lady standing proudly in a fine gown with a labubu clipped to her chatelaine

[corvidaedream]

@sherbertilluminated

honestly this thing looks like its moments away from becoming a cordwainer's apprentice in boston

[benjhawkins]

who up parceling they worm

[benjhawkins]

ive learned how to animate in canva i am unstoppable

[escuerzoresucitado]

[miss-americanbi]

grace you gotta lock in

[beggars-opera]

“These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine, “The Crisis,” 1776

[pentecostwaite]

Outstanding 18th-century name of the day goes to: Preserved Partridge

[goldenprairies]

all that remains of a former ghost town in southern manitoba.