#independence day

[the-80s-girl]

Independence day (1996) starring the very sexy James Duval is on Disney Plus.

[1900scartoons]

All There

July 4, 1910

While a boy holds out his fingers and toes for his teacher to count, she holds an itemized statement and checks off his body parts on the list, including 1 nose, 2 eyes, 10 fingers and 10 toes. The table is labelled Sane 4th Fourth. Written on a sheet of paper on the floor is 'Having tried one of your sane Fourths we will use no other.'

According to the Wikipedia entry on July 1910, a safe and sane public education program leading up to the holiday reduced the number of serious injuries and deaths during the Fourth of July by more than 40 percent.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/8064/rec/2722

[alinafeller]

Bonne fête nationale,

Liberté,

Égalité,

Fraternité,

Vive la France! 🇫🇷

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[avatarskywalker78]

I completely forgot that you have an ID4 OC until your reply to my post. How is your ID4 fic/fic idea coming along? Please tell me more about Everly! Which member of her adopted family is she closest to? As the child of a sitting president, do you have a Secret Service OC dedicated to keeping her safe/alive through the invasion? Which canon characters will she interact with?

Very very slowly like so far all I really have that it's actually going to be a trilogy of stories: one focusing on her life pre-invasion - because I'd like to explore the family dynamics before tragedy strikes because it's going to make it hit much harder - one that covers the events of the film, and one that follows what happens in the months and years after the film, how she and her family navigate this rapidly changed world because that obviously would be hard for literally everyone, over half the global population is dead, whole cities completely levelled, there's a lot of rebuilding to do...and yet there's hope, too, like the people of Earth are finally united and there is peace and I love that aspect so much.

(I'm...likely gonna be completely ignoring the sequel - which I never watched anyway on account of there was no fucking need for one in the first place - and Connie lives because I was baffled to find out they fridges her like there was just. No need for that whatsoever. Or at least it's going to be a heavily altered version of it.)

Obviously she loves her little sister very much, no doubt about that, but in terms of her parents that's varied, used to be more her dad she was closer too before he became President but afterwards there's been a bit of distant there simply because of the demands of his job, and it's not like she doesn't understand that, but...she's a teenager and sometimes all she wants is her dad to just be there a bit more and sometimes she wishes it was how it used to be, especially given how thankless a task his job is because she sees him attacked on all sides and that really makes her angry...

Of course it doesn't help that she never actually admits any of this, because she's kind of internalised the fact that she needs to not cause even more problems for him and doesn't really want to make him feel guilty because despite everything, this job is something he wants to do and wants to succeed at. She's closer to her mom these days even and there's a distance between her and Whitmore that she's not really sure how to bridge (and it's a distance both her parents are aware of because naturally you know your own kid but trying to get her to open up is. Not easy. And it's kinda heartbreaking.)

Yes, there is indeed a Secret Service OC - a few, in fact - not really developed all that much beyond the fact she has one as she's in New York during the first day of the invasion as she's part of a band competition with her school, but I really don't have any details beyond the fact they exist and get her out of there before the city's destroyed. This is very much a work in progress after all.

And she gets to interact with most of the canon characters - obviously Connie because Connie's almost always been a part of her life, even before she regularly started working with her father but she then gets to interact with David and Julius once she's brought to Area 51 on July 3rd...and it's the former that proves thorny because the thing is, what's always gotten me is the fact that the fact that Whitmore was close to both of them, right, like he and Connie were friends since Harvard so he presumably got to know David when the two started dating, he attended their wedding, likely Marilyn knew them as well and so I'm gonna be expanding on that, for a good chunk of her childhood Everly knew them as Aunt Connie and Uncle David and she liked having them as part of her family-

And then it all went so badly wrong and Everly actually had the misfortune to be there when the fight happened (I have yet to contrive a reason for her presence but I'll think of something) and so that was honestly a shock because obviously this was really out of the blue for everyone involved and for her it's a double whammy like not only did he think the worst of his wife - which is bad enough, for the record, she thought they loved each other - but also thought the worst of her dad, and that's unforgivable, to her. She's still angry and so there's a lot of tension when she arrives to find him there - he's the reason most of her family's alive right now, sure, but she doesn't have to like it.

(Julius she gets along with. She likes Julius.)

Don't think she'll really have much interaction with Steve or Jasmine in the course of this fic, most of Day Two and Three she's with family, for obvious reasons, but Dylan's budding friendship with her little sister probably means she gets to know him a bit.

But again, it's very much a work in progress.

[quotes-by-dilanka]

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Translation: People naturally prefer comfort and predictability, so they will tolerate an unfair or oppressive government for a very long time simply because change is scary and difficult. Human beings rarely revolt over minor, everyday problems. Therefore, because the American colonists finally chose to rebel, it proved that British rule had crossed the line from a minor grievance into completely unbearable tyranny.

—Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

[kittencrowley]

Immediately upon seeing my Michaels new promo pic for Out There, I thought of Brent Spiner in Independence Day 2. It’s probably mostly the hair honestly.

I’ve never thought they looked alike or anything, but Daddy Data and Daddy Michael have crisscrossed themselves in my mind now.