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Nat. They/them. Just your friendly neighborhood human trainwreck.

Hot take: the following things can be simultaneously true:

  • America has always done bad things
  • Trumpism is connected to the failures of Reconstruction
  • Trump is still a uniquely terrible figure who ushered in a uniquely destructive era in American politics
  • Snide remarks like “lulz, lmao, you think Trump is bad? America was ALWAYS bad” contributed to the cynicism, nihilism, and apathy which led to not enough people caring about the country to try to stop him at the ballot box

It reminds me of people being outraged when Democrats responded to something like Charlottesville with “this isn’t who we are”; yeah, obviously that’s always been part of America, but rhetoric has an impact and it both empowers white supremacists and demoralizes normies to say “yep, white supremacists represent America and everything has always sucked shit.” There are consequences to pretending all people and eras are equally bad, because then people stop taking new and dire threats seriously, and there are consequences to people believing their society is always and forever evil, because then they don't fight against those threatening to harm that society. You don't need to whitewash history to understand any of this.

Here it is in all its Highlands Coo glory!! I LOVE how it came out. It’s certainly a marathon. If you are considering making this quilt I have 3 pieces of advice for you

1-Buy an Acorn pressing solution pen and refill. This is GAME CHANGING for flat seams and better accuracy

2-for the love of all things, trim to the measurements at EVERY step

3-Make the thistle borders first. Your future self will be so over all the teeny piecing. You are just going to want to be able to add sashing and borders to finish the top. Trust me. You will thank your past self for thinking ahead!

That being said, go forth and make all the Coos!!!

I've never seen anemic people have issue with people calling scant and unsatisfactory things "anemic" as a description of its state. Like I guess the low-iron people are there like "yeah mood, I am also low-energy, watered-down, lacking in substance, and not truly living up to the potential that I could have had if provided with the right tools and resources. Just like this newest Warhammer release."

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