#goldmine

[whencyclopedia]

Witwatersrand Gold & the Creation of South Africa

The colonial authorities responded to the news of the gold find at Witwatersrand by sending surveyors to choose a suitable nearby site where the inevitable influx of gold prospectors from all over the world could live. The site chosen would eventually become the great city of Johannesburg. Within a decade, the young town boasted 100,000 inhabitants, and by 1900, this figure had risen to 166,000. Johannesburg became the largest African city south of the Sahara. It was a wild place in the early days where the spending was as loose as the morals. One contemporary described Johannesburg as “Monte Carlo imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah” (Jackson, 14).

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[ourladyofomega]

[melodeelaine]

Part of my egg-laying flock - they've been a goldmine these days.

[theyoungadulthatreadsfanfiction]

Counting Teeth by ChaoticallyFluffy

A child screams, terrified to go to the most horrifying place for a child... the dentist.

Luckily, Captain Marvel is here to save the day! (and maybe freak out some people with his wonky cryptid anatomy along the way).

Brought to you from the Best Boy Billy Batson series

[cogumellow]

northern ontario gothic v // northern ontario, canada // 2006 - 2010 // ©

[greentrickster]

Whenever someone promises you that a new opportunity they're telling you about is a goldmine, take a moment to remember just how many people through the course of history have lost absolutely everything mining for gold.

[paige-goldmine]

Is your ridiculous fantasy about the sultry temptress Carmen and the bespectacled amoeba Julia supposed to be better? In your version, there's nothing left of Carmen – you've turned her into a perfect puppet for the agenda and a mad fan of the "ideal queen" Julia, while suppressing and humiliating any alternative opinion. And it's disgusting that you see family as some kind of humiliation and garbage.

Take that anon off, Carmen wouldn't be pleased that you're being a coward.

In "my version", she's mocking you pal. That's not her characterisation in my au, but why should I bother giving you the details? So you can mischaracterise her in my au too and come into my comments yapping about some "Amoeba OCS" who are far more developed than your fantasy you must've created right before going to sleep?

Oh, and didn't you humiliate others by reposting their art without permission only to refuse to see their ideals? Ideals that didn't prompt a response from you, mad Carmchase fan with no life!

Best part, I'm not even that much of a big fan of Julia. WHERE in my of post did I defend her? Oh right...Sorry...It's in your fantasy version of me, right?

I see family as some kind of humiliation and garbage? Really? Me? The one whose entire AU is centred around family? Okay buddy...