#pcideas

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Woodpecker Aarakocra Glamour Bard, that carries a large, solid wood instrument for pecking in a rhythmic fashion. They're gonna outspook ya!

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I don’t want to log in until Friday because I have lots of school work but I saw people were talking about the Canadian Citizenship test. I did a little search and there is a site that let’s you take practice tests for it. They’re multiple choice. Most questions are about Canadian history or how the government works and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. There are also questions about just basic facts like capitals and official languages and such. http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz English http://www.devienscitoyen.ca/quiz Francais You have to pick a province to take it so there are questions about that particular province or territory as well. I took a practice one just to see and it asked who the premier was, what party was in charge, who the opposition leader is, and what the capital is. Honestly pretty easy if you grew up here. I only got one wrong. I’m sure I would do shitty on any other country’s test though. So its good that there is a place to practice and having projectcanada episodes about Canadian history and the basics of how our political system works would probably be very helpful to non-Canadians and honestly Canadians too.

Thank you! This is great to have! :’D

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Alberta: ok babysitting is so easy i can handle one child

Nunavut: hey hey alberta do you want to play a fun game?

Alberta: haha ok what is it

Nunavut: ok so you lie down

Alberta: ok i am lying down now what

Nunavut: then I lie down next to you but with my feet in the opposite direction and we link arms!

Alberta: ok how is this a game are we cloud watching

Nunavut: now you've gotta raise your leg in the air! Kick it back three times!

Alberta: ok i'm doing it i feel stupid???

Nunavut: *like lighting sticks up her leg, wraps it around alberta's and flips him over backwards*

Alberta: WHAT THE HELL-

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i flipping love the 1890s despite knowing nothing about it 

because we've got the gold rush up here in the Klondike and Yukon is raking it in and doing her spiteful anime princess antagonist laugh on top of piles of money in the saloon and we've got Alberta down here in the south west near the Rockies cackling because of his beef empire and literally both of them are like standing right next to the border with the United States and cackling with their fancy fans and big hats

at the same time the reality for them was more like poor yukon trudging uphill in the snow through miles of dead horses and poor alberta in his dirty worn out cowboy clothes picking spines out of his feet and addressing his saddle sores

idk this part of history is incredible to me??? and I really need to flesh out my 1890s saloon AU 

Yukon who's a rough tough sourdough who moonlights as a dancer to pay off her debt

Alberta the cocky rich rancher and his smooth talking farmer brother Saskatchewan who come in to unwind and figure out how to get rich quick

British Columbia, owner of the general store nearby who makes a bunch of money staking claims and selling (possibly unnecessary) provisions to cheechakos but blows it all in the saloon

Manitoba the surly (BUT FRIENDLY) bartender who tries to give serious advice to people that generally don't listen to his common sense

NWT the owner of the establishment who will beat up anyone who disturbs the peace and occasionally plays piano in the evenings

Ontario the confused eastern businessman who hopped on the train and is trying to figure out how to get to his destination and set up a business but keeps running into obstacles (like saloon patrons cheating at shells/cups)

the others are a mystery and nunavut doesn't exist for another century i haven't thought beyond that yet xD; i do know outmigration was a big problem for New Brunswick in the late 1800s as steam ships replaced wooden ships, so i imagine she'd be escaping the dying ship building industry to find work and start over out west in this AU ;3;

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fun canadian facts from wikipedia

There was some discussion of changing the name of the Northwest Territories after the splitting off of Nunavut, possibly to a term from an Aboriginal language. One proposal was "Denendeh" (an Athabaskan language word meaning "our land"), as advocated by the former premier Stephen Kakfwi, among others. One of the most popular proposals for a new name – one to name the territory "Bob" – began as a prank, but for a while it was at or near the top in the public-opinion polls.

nwt almost became bob

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some fun facts about canada for the pc fandom

- canada's largest frog was from New Brunswick. it weighed 19 kg and was raised on whiskey, bugs and buttermilk

- the first person in canada to own a car was a priest from PEI who crashed it into a fence post at a church picnic

- in 1890 a Calgarian woman invented a mechanical skirt lifter to walk through dirty streets without messing up her dress

there you go i will provide more of these fun facts in good time

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yukon busting down the door at 2 am (possibly after a few drinks): YVOONNN OF THE YUKON FROZEN BY ICY SEAS YVONNNNNNN OF THE YUKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON deeeeeeeefrosted for you and for me *collapses on couch*