Here We Go Again

P/K | they / he | 26 | Ontario, Canada

[frownyalfred]

do I even need to caption it at this point

[byjove]

Seriously though, unmarked/badly marked graves on historical properties are a much bigger problem than you would think. People were just burying people anywhere, especially children who seemed to have home burials more often than adults. Sometimes you know, sometimes you do not. Often there was a wooden cross when the person was buried and it has since decayed. My great great great grandmother is buried alone in the middle of a cow pasture. Her grave is marked by a rock. Just a large weathered chunk of granite, not a headstone. You wouldn’t know she was there if you didn’t have family oral history. She deserves to have a headstone I think but I’m not sure if disturbing her is right. The rock was out there by her husband so it feels wrong to move it.

[byjove]

Great great great grandma Mary has been dead 104 years. She died during the influenza pandemic of 1918 though we can’t find the exact date she died on. She was 35 or 36. She was a fantastic mother to her 5 daughters. My great great grandmother was the oldest and she was only 13 when her mother passed. Mary’s youngest daughter was a toddler. Mary wasn’t buried in the churchyard, maybe because of the pandemic or maybe because her husband didn’t want her to be too far away. It’s unclear. It’s also unclear if she had another headstone or grave marker besides the rock.

What is clear is that before her death, there was a fantastic harvest of persimmons on the property and she canned an abundance of persimmon jam. After her death, my great great great grandfather Robert ate the persimmon jam on toast every morning and cried. I remember this because my great grandmother used to tell my grandmother about being a girl and seeing her father sitting at the kitchen table bawling for his wife. Alone in this world, missing the woman he had been married to for 16 years, thinking of her as he ate the last of the things she had made for the family. Most widowers with young children got remarried quickly in those days. He didn’t. He raised his girls alone and died at 60, never having remarried.

My grandmother is named Mary, after her mother’s mother who lies in a cow pasture with a rock to mark her grave. A woman who died entirely too young, who died wanted and loved and needed.

Every unmarked grave has a story like this.

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[aksemmi]

shapeshift but it slowly kills me i mean... yeah its worth it, it just means (depending on the severity of the effect) i would only use it in situations of X import honestly looking at the side effects here, i think most of them are like this, sometimes even more unambiguous (perhaps one could say "slowly kills you" applies even without using the power... but other's seem to be worded as clearly about the power itself). so unless you are very worried about temptation i think it makes sense to take most of them in a way where this question doesn't really make sense

[left-reminders]

[pianta]

blacktober day 15 » canon //  taranee 💜✨

★ twitter | ko-fi | ig | prints ★

[spiribia]

every time with sashimi it's like well how good could it be, it's just raw fish and you take a bite and start ripping your clothes off and roaring

[ashcremated]

shhhh theyre sleeby 🤏🤏

[firebuug]

Visit Original Link

[maplebunie]

i can't imagine why

[gremlingirlsmell]

Visit Original Link

[lumine-sm]

Every time you reblog this post another one goes. You wouldn’t, would you :(

[unyieldingsilence]

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[downwithneocolonialism]

[ophidahlia]

Federal troops were called against 13,000 miners.Three battles that led to the biggest armed insurrection since the Civil War. 

 Ask yourself why you were never taught this in school. 

[a-method-in-it]

Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans. 

The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes. 

Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history. 

Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board. 

[purpureusdood]

HAPPY HOMESTUCK DAY!!! ><

[purpureusdood]

And all the full silhouette versions ^ ^

[zuccnini]

[oc] Gummy worm hat

[dharmagun]

Higgledy-piggledy unparliamentary green parrots quarrel outside in the trees

Squawking out epithets uncomplimentary Squads of unmannerly Oversized peas.

[roach-works]

i loved this poem so much that i memorized it and to this day i sometimes mutter it under my breath to keep my welding tempo even

[onthisdayinhomestuck]

On This Day In Homestuck:

April 13th, 2016

[S] Act 7.

The end.

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[deertush]

[beaft]

face of a man who has known sorrow

[beaft]

had to google this as i wasn't familiar with the name. incredibly specific and accurate reference. please don't compare my cat-in-law to a homestuck character again

[turntechradiohead]

Oh joyous day! Happy 19th anniversary of neil banging out the tunes and happy 16th anniversary of homestuck