#World Liberty Day

[unboundboxes]

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 639: True Monsters

As a result of Lord Anderson’s warning, President Allerton had to interrupt his three-week vacation in the Bahamas to hold an emergency conference with other Knights of the Amanojuko President Allerton Russia, (3992)

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#art #Fascism #feminist fiction #future #graphic story #illustrated story #immortality #Monsters #short story #speculative fiction #The Amanojuko #The Bad Thing Box #The Guild Master&039;s General #Unbound Boxes Limping Gods #World Liberty Day

[hallowclave]

Small but knowing wxs

#project sekai #tsukasa tenma #emu otori #nene kusanagi #rui kamishiro #wonderlands x showtime #my art #u can tell who got drawn first and who got drawn last that’s all I’m saying #based on their initial unit outfits but with many creative liberties taken #tsukasa was a pain in the ass bc his outfit is boring but I mainly focused on his gay little Diamond belt #originally his costume was darker hence the dark outlines but it didn’t read as his initial costume so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #emu got stripes bc 1 her sock 2 her dress skirt. had to include the orange and red in her hat tho lesbian dress reigns supreme #nene got polka dots bc they’re cute that’s it #& rui I just had fun with #oh their makeup is based on their world link card suits 👍🏻 does not read well w the hair but what can u do #one day I won’t draw super tiny on a canvas that is normal sized and have to do the crop of shame #but it is not today #one day I will also make a serious drawing again probably but I am lazy

[palatinewolfsblog]

“The future is already here.

It’s just not evenly distributed yet."

William Gibson.

#thought of the day #thought of today #william gibson #the future #things to come #past present future #present and future #future tense #the future now #tomorrow today #our tomorrow today #a better tomorrow #a better world #equality #freedom #justice #social justice #liberty #fairness #a fair share #even #uneven #distribution #a new deal #deal with it #think about it

[on-partiality]

Today's the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party so here's some information on the Sons of Liberty, the lead up to the Boston Tea Party and what happened after!

apologies for any inaccuracies, I wrote this pretty late

The conflict between the American colonies and New England started after the French and Indian war ended with the Treaty of Paris on the 10th of February, 1763. The French and Indian war started because of conflicting territory claims in North America between the British and the French. Originally it was fought between only the British Americans and the French colonists with Native Americans helping on either side (especially with the French because they were severely outnumbered). However two years into the war the United Kingdom - except for ireland - decided enough was enough and officially declared a war with France which started a large world-wide conflict over many territories. In the end, the war was won by the Colonial Americans and British, the French lost all of their North American territory and what used to be their territory was split somewhat evenly between the Spanish and the British but that was only sorted out after the British fought in a war against the Spanish called the Anglo-Spanish war (the first one). So a victory, that sounds good for America right? Wrong. Wars are expensive, maintaining an army is expensive and the British were dealing with many other wars in all different territories at around the same time so England had a national debt of nearly 177.645 MILLION modern day USD.

England had a HUGE poverty crisis. They had to come up with a way to get money and quickly so on April the 5th 1764 the British parliament amended their pre-existing Sugar and Molasses Act. A tax on the importation of wine, molasses, indigo and sugar from places that weren't part of Britain, mainly the non-British Caribbean. This act also banned all foreign rum. Then on March the 22nd, 1765 the British parliament passed the stamp act. A tax on playing cards, newspapers, legal documents. The main problem with this tax was that it couldn't be paid in the paper money used in the 13 colonies, it had to be paid off using the British Sterling which wasn't easy to obtain in America. That and paper was possibly the most important resource in the 18th century. Later in October 1765, a Stamp Act Congress was held in Philadelphia to discuss all of the problems with this act. Then on March the 24th the British passed the Quartering Act which stated that if British troops want to stay at your house you have to provide them with food and let them inside of your house. This was a clear invasion of two very basic rights of Englishmen, private property and personal security.

The Americans fought back against these acts like with Boston's non-importation agreement where merchants from Boston agreed not to buy or sell anything from/to Britain and the Golden Hill riot in New York and the Gaspée Affair which was when a group burned a British ship while the soldiers were off looking for smugglers in Rhode Island, the group was then accused of treason. The most notable of all of these protests though was the later Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party happened because of a group called the Sons of Liberty which was created in 1765 out of a strong hatred of the Stamp Act. They believed that it was ridiculous that the British could tax the Americans when the Americans didn't even have a representative in parliament, their phrase was 'no taxation without representation'. There's a lot of dispute over what kind of organisation the Sons of Liberty actually was. I might go into all of the theories in another post but for the moment if you want to come up with your own idea on it I suggest looking into them yourself, for this post I'm just going to call them a group or organisation because it's pretty ambiguous. Anyway, the Sons of Liberty usually met at liberty poles/liberty trees which are believed to have been marked as meeting places using the Sons of Liberty's flag. The group was founded in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay colony and it's leader was Samuel 'Sam' Adams.

The Sons of Liberty's first big really move was to burn an effigy of the local Stamp Act enforcer, Andrew Oliver and then burn his office and destroyed the house of his associate. The group's protests were more often then not violent but they got their points across. It didn't help when the Boston Massacre happened in 1770, which only further outraged the colonists, expect the Boston Massacre to get it's own in depth post one day because the court trial was super interesting. Then on the 10th of May, 1773 the British made another act called the Tea Act which made it so that the colonists had to pay more for tea that wasn't legally imported. The Tea Act was meant to help the British East India Tea Company because they were making most of Britains money and they'd gone into a huge debt which caused 20-30 English banks to collapse and started the British Credit Crisis of 1772-1773. The problem was that because the imported tea from Britain was really cheap people didn't buy from local businesses which caused farmers to go completely bankrupt. The Tea Act was the final straw for the Sons of Liberty and many Americans.

Britain sent a shipment of East India Company Tea to America and all of the American colonies that the tea was going to be sent to convinced the people on the ship to resign except for Massachusetts. So the Dartmouth, a ship full of tea arrived in Boston Harbour, Samuel Adams called for a meeting at Fanueuil Hall and thousands of people turned up so they had to move meeting places. During the meeting the Colonists discussed possible resolutions, they decided to have a medium group of men watching the tea to make sure it wouldn't be unloaded and pleaded for the ship to leave. The governor of Massachusetts refused to let the ship leave and two more ships arrived. On December the 16th, 1773, Samuel Adams met with the people of Massachusetts again to tell them about the governors refusal, the meeting caused total fury amongst all of the colonists.

In protest of the Tea Act and all of the other taxes the British had put on the Americans, the people ran out of the meeting room, some of them put on Native American costumes both in an attempt to conceal their identity because what they were about to do was illegal and as a symbolic choice to show that America's their country, not Britain. They then ran onto the 3 tea ships while Samuel Adams was telling everyone to calm down and stay for the end of the meeting. And spent 3 hours hurling all of the chests of tea into the water.

The British did not respond well, they believed that the Colonists needed to be punished so they passed the infamous Intolerable Acts which consisted of the Boston Port Act, meant to force Boston to pay for the tea by closing the port until the people of Boston paid for the tea which the Colonists argued was unfair because it was punishing the whole population for something only about half of them did, the Massachusetts Government Act which changed the way that the government of Massachusetts worked by giving people appointed by the British Parliament/King far more power, this made it easier for the British government to manage the Massachusetts Bay colony from England, the Administration of Justice Acts which state that any accused Royal officials can get a trial in England if they don't believe that they would be judged fairly in Massachusetts - which seems like a strange thing to add given how the Boston Massacre trial with John Adams went? - And I've already talked about the last intolerable act, the Quartering act which states that you have to let British troops stay in your house if they want to and you have to give them food.

#amrev #american revolution #american revolutionary war #american history #history #revolutionary war #sons of liberty #boston #boston tea party #massachusetts #world history #military history #on this day #on this date

[neff-zhul]

happy belated valentine's day to the og couple and the romance i completely made up for them

#world of warcraft #world of warcraft art #wow art #blackhand #urukal #orc #orcs #my art #very late but you know azeroth wasn't conquered in a day and all that #movie!BH naturally living in my head and me paying him to stay there #went with the Uruka alpha model and then took liberties for Urukal #anyway. i love them

[roobylavender]

had talia not been character assassinated do you think she and bruce should have gotten back together?

no. i hate to use the word "phase" bc that would seem to diminish the importance of what's between them, which is something that will always persist esp as their continued dedication to the same causes and their respect for each other remains. but i do think realistically bruce should be a phase in talia's life. at least in terms of consummated romances specifically. i do love the idea of them remaining allies, close friends, and co-parents, but i think allowing talia to walk away from ra's and bruce in the first place has to stand for something in the long term. before talia went her own way i think it was easier to imagine a potential future where she ended up with bruce bc it felt like the desirable option. she was in this very debilitating position where she had little to no freedom to act on her own desires and goals, the embodiment of which was none other than bruce. so when you frame her situation pre-tower of babel, obv wanting to be with bruce was appealing. he was as much the love of her life as he was a means of escape and freedom and talia having the scope to then act on her own desires. i think that's what subsequently makes dc #750 (or is it #570. i never get the numbers straight and i'm too lazy to check) a really clever issue, actually, bc it acknowledges that and the fact that bruce once again setting her free bc of his love for her actually gives her the courage to step out on her own where she never has before. the fact that she has the option to go back to gotham with bruce and presumably have everything she's ever wanted with him, but she leaves it anyway, is a really huge deal. it's a statement. she loves him, but not more than she loves herself. and sure, what talia puts herself through during lex corp era certainly begs the question of whether her version of loving herself is really viable or in any way healthy, and i would love to see bruce help her recognize that she's not alone and that she doesn't have to do it alone to prove that she's capable. all of this i agree with. but i don't think that really means she and bruce have to fall back on their once-imagined dream of playing house. even if talia did find methods of going about her work that were mentally healthier i don't really know what'd be in it for her to play house with bruce in gotham. bc that is what it would have to be, for their relationship to work in any way. bruce will never leave gotham and son of the demon didn't need to explore that issue bc it was never going to get there but trust that corny as the line about naming the baby thomas or martha was it was reflective of a reality: gotham is bruce's entire life. no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, no matter who he works with, in the end he will always belong to gotham. and i simply do not think that would ever work for talia bc there is so much more she is capable of. while her vision is aligned with bruce's her scope of access and ability is entirely distinct of his own and there is so much more that she can do aside from relegate herself to gotham (hence why lex corp as an arc makes so much sense, bc it capitalizes on that scope). and yeah every superhero couple is kinda crazy and they have teleportation and shit but idk i don't think it's really a relationship for each party to go on long missions with ill-defined parameters that give them the worst sleep schedules known to man and occasionally they share a bed. it really isn't. and that's something that bruce and talia have to live with. their duty is always going to come first even though they both have a passion for civilian life. for talia to be in a relationship again she would have to stop having the liberty of being able to go wherever the work carries her and for bruce to be in a relationship again he would have to have the equivalent of a robin-wife. neither of these things is ever going to happen. so

#outbox #i realize this sounds somewhat hypocritical bc then it's like. but what about damian! wouldn't the same apply to him! #and idk i don't think it would. your kid is different from your lover #obv i imagine talia would try to be around for damian as much as possible #but as i've discussed a lot of times even that i think would be tricky for her. she was willing to say she lost her baby #bc she thought if she didn't the world would lose batman #she's like. craaaaazy dedicated to her work so yeah i do think she'd try to coparent with whatever capacity she could #and her love would be genuine and overflowing etc etc #but at the end of the day she's not going to settle in gotham solely for the purpose of raising him #or for the purpose of appeasing bruce's notions of pathetic puppy dog romance #her liberty is too impt to her #ironically enough this is funny to talk about in context of that batman & robin panel from yesterday bc like #had they not character assassinated her that's really how it might've gone. at least imo #like it's a shame they had to resort to all of these racist and orientalist tropes about her being an abusive mother #to somehow justify why bruce should be the resident parent instead #when you literally could've just followed the thread of talia valuing her independence #versus bruce being desperate for any remaining semblance of normal civilian life like it's an oxygen tank and he's losing air #not only would that have been realistic it would also have carried nuance and allowed insight into bruce and talia's psyches #and more than anything. it would have been funny #but i DIGRESS. tldr yes talia would coparent but even that would be with certain limitations #i think she's the kind of person / mom who like. leaves her love everywhere but can't necessarily stand where she leaves it. yknow #like i could even bring jason into this #i really do think she'd do everything in her power to try to get jason to break from the red hood persona and heal etc #and she'd have immense affection for him #but she's not going to sit and play house and babysit him once she's free and once she knows he's free too #she's very big on personal accountability #so she'd check up on him and the love would be there but like. the bigger picture would always interfere #anywayyyy. thank you for the question i love to ramble about this stuff LOL

[taraross-1787]

This Week in History: Medals of Honor at Iwo Jima

During this week in 1945, United States Marines make a dangerous amphibious landing on the shores of Iwo Jima. One officer would later describe the 5-week conflict that followed as “the most savage and costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps.”

“Decades later,” historian James H. Hallas adds, “veterans of the battle referred to themselves as ‘Iwo Jima survivors.’ It was that bad.”

Twenty-seven men ultimately received Medals of Honor for their actions at Iwo Jima—more than any other battle in U.S. history.  Two of these were awarded for actions on February 19, the opening day of the assault.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-cole-stein-moh

#tdih #otd #this day in history #history #history blog #America #American history #freedom #liberty #world war ii #medal of honor #sharethehistory

[why-the-heck-not]

death to services that ask for ur payment info even tho they are free >:( then why in the good goddamn hell would u need that info then hhUH ???

#trying to use fly.io to get this stupid app to the internet and dude I do not want to put my credit card info there #it’s for one (1) course I don’t want to suddenly wake up some day and see that I have a big ass bill for something I thought was free #bc i don’t trust anything to actually stay free #and fly.io ’’ we don’t offer free-tier. instead we offer some free resource allowances that include enough usage per month to run a small #app for free’’ but like that seems sketchy?? like are they going to inform me like hey so if u don’t take this down we are going to start #billing you?? seems like it’ll be ’’hey so ur app is actually not what we consider ’’small’’ so we took the liberty to rob ur entire #apartment for payment thanxx <3’’ #stupid heroku deciding that u now how to pay for it like literally what can u do in this world without putting ur bank account on the line?? #literally nothing #september 2023 #2023

[meekosthemeparkphotos]

Prince Naveen and Princess Tiana

#Naveen #Prince Naveen #Tiana #Princess Tiana #The Princess and the Frog #Characters #Disney Characters #Liberty Squre Gazebo #Liberty Square #Magic Kingdom #theme park #Disney #Walt Disney World #WDW #Valentine’s Day

[williammarksommer]

Closed

Nevada

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

#Closed #Nevada #All The Time In The World #desert days #road trip #travel #trip #road #on the road #statue of liberty #liberty #statue #ammo #window #gun store #photography #photo #photographers on tumblr #photographer #photographers directory #original photographers #photographerslife #film #film photography #film is not dead #color film #hasselblad 500c/m #120 #Hasselblad #kodak

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldLionDay 🦁:

Lion build by LEGO artist Sean Kenney, photographed at a 2019 exhibition at Liberty Science Center.

“It was important to Sean to get the expression of the lion just right. In order to do so, he studied lots of photos and videos of real lions. Color was tricky with the lion's eyes. Sean settled on a hard-to-find golden colored radar dish as the iris of the eye, which perfectly mirrors the cool, golden gaze of the real thing.”

#Lego #Sean Kenney #sciart #contemporary art #21st century art #Liberty Science Center #museum visit #lion #feline #World Lion Day #animal holiday #animals in art #sculpture

[unboundboxes]

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 636: Filius Anderson Part 8

Lord Anderson has planted bugs all over Floating Asylum Ship One, and listens in complete resignation, from the safety of his castle in Moscow, as Helga’s ship is being taken over by the enemy. Filius Anderson, Russia (3992)

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#Alexand Merek #art #dictatorship #feminist fiction #Filius Anderson #graphic story #Helga Ritter #Heyem Merek #science fiction #short story #speculative fiction #The Amanojuko #Unbound Boxes Limping Gods #World Liberty Day

[bitternace]

my wonderful friend!!! may i request 48 and aqua for the spotify asks? love your art as always i hope youre having a nice day :)

lost in a labyrinth and left with no way out

[ID: a cleaned up sketch of aqua from kingdom hearts'. she is shown from the chest up, the colors are slightly muted as light from an opening above her head hits her back. her expression is slightly worried as she reaches a hand, hair flaring out away from her face. /End ID.]

#hi!! ty for the patience my dear<3 #cryptious #nano does reqs #aqua kh #kh #i fear i might have overselled it when i dm'ed u i wanted to do smth else but i've been doing a lot of light studies #and the harsh light seduced me by whispering in my ear (jesting) #tysm for always being so sweet to me and my sillies!! it means the world<3 #i hope you're having a nice day too<3<3<3 #i took some artistic liberties with her sleeves asfhsjf as one does

[randomsliceofdisney]

Happy 4th of July! 🎆🧨🎇🇺🇲

#disney #walt disney #wdw #walt disney world #the muppets #happy 4th of july #independence day #sam the eagle #random slice of disney #liberty square

[admiralgiggles]

Bertha, sightseeing.

#traveling witch adventure #jon carling #nikon photography #withmytamron #photo of the day #sunrise #NYC #Jersey city #liberty state park #peaceful #skyline #freedom tower #one world trade center

[haemosexuality]

theres nothing i hate more than when i mention anything about turning 18 soon or being excited to get older and someone goes like "oh haha life gets so much worse when ur an adult! youre going to hate it! you havent seen anything 🙄 teenagers always think being an adult is magical🙄 yadayada" like. ok ik its not like ppl entered my brain and viewed my entire life before saying that but i have literally been suicidal since im 11 until last year i could NOT imagine myself surviving to adulthood enough let me have a little bit of hope. let me be excited ab the fact i might be alive when im 20 and 30 and 40 pls

#this feels so whiny skbskshfhvrhje hate when im a teenager that experiences teenagers feelings #but like. i didnt even imagine myself turning 14 and now im ab to be 18. in a decade or so im going to have a fully developed and #(hopefully) less mentally ill brain. ill have autonomy. ill leave away from my parents (also hopefully). im going to have my own money to #spend even if it isnt a lot. im going to be allowed to have more cats! ill probably have more confidence! its not like im going to have #kids before being 30 (or at all) so thats a liberty no one that has said being an adult sucks to me had #one day i might even be 40 or 50! i might get old! thats still not something i can hope for a lot cause im too scared about #how the worlds turning out. w climate change and capitalism and water running out and etc. im still to scared to put faith in that #but i can imagine it and thats already more than i ever thought i could #so like let me have that!!! jesus :/ #eurgh