Auntie Gwen's Municipal Court

Gwen, 40s, she/her, Canada. Mostly fandom blog devoted to the Monkees, M*A*S*H, Oasis, and other music (mostly 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s), and pop culture. Find my Oasis (I do write gcest fic, so block at will), Monkees, M*A*S*H, and Sherlock fic on AO3

[charlestrask]

[b0ywiththeblues]

[petruchio]

im literally always saying this

[chekorni]

Favorite comments under the Pretty Boy music video

[pmamtraveller]

Boarding School Friends (1837) by French School

[sideblogforsickos]

underneath the council sky i found youuuuu

[mighthaveathingforbrothers]

Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets on 25th of March 1991. Their roadie would call his mum that night and find out that his little brother had joined a band.

[mighthaveathingforbrothers]

Source of the date is a quote by Noel in "the North will remember" by John Robb. He says he called his mum in 1991 in Munich, where the Inspirals played on the 25th of March. Don't have the book with me right now but I'll add a photo of the page when I'm back home in a week.

[whichcouldmeanothing]

Game Changer 8x04 "Kangaroo Court"

[cryptotheism]

I always wanted to be the guard that tells only lies

[cryptotheism]

I mean I've actually never wanted to be that.

[cryptotheism]

Stupid stupid stupid. C'mon. At this rate I'll never be a lie guard.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

As a professional guard who always lies, don't worry about it, you're doing great.

[gallagherkids]

"I'm gonna overly excitedly put some milk in your tea."

Gogglebox - Season 10 - Episode 9 (November 7th, 2017) (x)

[emmachillbert]

Do you ever regret joining tumblr

Yes

No

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

[irishshauna]

[marmotini-of-the-world-unite]

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

[fighterkimburgess]

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

[saltedweather]

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

[gwenweybourne]

I just started reading Tony McCarroll’s memoir, which, yeah, I will take with grains of salt, but I just learned that one of Clint Boon’s nicknames for Noel was “Cunt Balloon,” and I’d never read that before and now you know too, and you’re welcome.

[nerdsandbabyteeth]

[tall]

[subaru-copilot]

songwriters love to go around saying "my lyrics are meaningless, there's no story behind it, they're just words and sounds" and then years later when asked about a biography they will say "noooo there's no need for a biography. everything about me is in the songs I wrote"

[subaru-copilot]

guy accused of being in love with his dead best friend "hi guys this is my unreleased song called the lovers that never were. it's about nothing."

[manchesterslurper]