Maryland State House
Photography by David Velez
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Maryland State House
Photography by David Velez
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Lexington, Illinois
This is a northbound Amtrak State House in Lexington, Illinois. The line is the former Alton/GM&O between Chicago and St. Louis. The locomotive here, number 498, an E8A, was formerly PC 4309 and PRR 5809 prior to that.
One image by Richard Koenig; taken May 22nd 1977.
Okay, so to talk about other state personification fandoms for a moment, early statehouse Kentucky is really funny cause this man just carries a picture with him. That’s like if I put all my emotional problems onto a image of daisy
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So me and some friends were talking about a mermaid AU which spiraled and now-
Mer!Florida with a manatee tail because of course
Just a real quick thing that I feel like should be considered
Okay so in the Statehouse videos that most of my content has been about, it’s established that Northern California and Southern California are different, right? Anyways, we also have, and hear me out, Utah. He has had two personifications: the Elder Utah character and the more recent one, which looks more like a dad kind of character. So in my mind, Utah started as just the Elder Utah but he eventually splits into the new dad character and the Elder Utah character. I feel like the new guy is the guy who would be married to Illythia and has six kids but Elder Utah, I feel like, is a closeted boi with LOTS of internalized homophobia. This is just how I think of it, you don’t have to see it the same way.
Rode our bikes to the George Floyd demonstration at the statehouse. He was brutally executed in Minnesota on the street a week ago. I've never been to a protest rally where the police presence is so extra and intimidating. Helicopters, officers on the roof, filing out the building like ants, at every edge of the premises, on every street leaving downtown. And they just stand there, even at the protestors request they don't empathize. The problem is racism, the policing itself, and the systems that support all of it. Sad to say, this outrage is inevitable and will continue to happen until structural change occurs. I never could've imagined that 2020 would be like this and that black people would still be fighting against those who kill and dehumanize us.