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the kinds of people who complain that javascript should throw more errors are the kinds of people who do not understand just how much trouble you can get into with javascript code which throws errors

“hey KIBI, what cursed JavaScript practice are you invoking today?” throwing and catching errors

’tis the season of your hands always being fucking cold

Today (11 November) commemorates the signing of the Armistice of Compiègne to end the fighting of World War I; it has become known variously as Remembrance Day (in the British Commonwealth) and Veterans’ Day (in the United States) after World War II extended its scope beyond simply recalling this single event.

The methods of warfare deployed in World War I were ecologically hazardous and severely disturbed the topsoil of the places where fighting occurred, leaving the poppy as one of the few plants which could still flourish there. The poppy thus came to symbolize the massive damage and loss of life which resulted from contemporary methods of warfare, and in fact had been growing in association as such since the Napoleonic Wars.

The patriotic poem “In Flanders Fields”, written near the beginning of the war when patriotism and morale were still high, was used after its conclusion to popularize the Remembrance Poppy as a patriotic symbol, particularly via the following stanza :—

« Take up our quarrel with the foe: / To you from failing hands we throw / The torch; be yours to hold it high. / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields. »

Consequently, the poppy (and the observance of 11 November in general) has been reappropriated in recent times, from a symbol which recognizes the death and catastrophe associated with contemporary militarized conflict, to a symbol which upholds said conflict as necessary and worthy of veneration.

The KIBI Calendar resists this slippage of meaning, and recommends that we instead spend this day reaffirming our commitments to ending global conflict, and to opposing colonialist and militaristic endeavours such as those which led to the need for a signing of an Armistice in the first place.

what makes this especially ironic is this is a pokémon fanserver

she’s paper-thin. doesn’t matter. goal of the story isn’t to sell Laura funkos

guarantee you the author of Carmilla did not set out with a fully-developed vision of who Laura was As A Person and likely didn’t finish with one either

writing a story??? without characters???

god, remind me never to write a critique of character-driven narrative in a fan server

« Her grandmother had a secret fertilizer mix that allowed her to grow any type of plant in any climate. » well that’s convenient

i will fix this man by feeding him mercury, like it says in the old medical books i read when i was bored

also i love the “old medical books” trope like do you realize how much of old medical books is just absolute horseshit that people believed because they didn’t know any better

« (Y/N) wasn’t a doctor by any means, but she did like to read, and her grandmother’s home had a dusty library full of old medical books. » look i like to read but not THOSE

bar scenes are generally NOT common in this fandom

wild that the past two (Y/N) fics i’ve read have begun in bars

i’m saying this because i do not really remember my first time much and i can’t tell if that is because [numerous things with hazardous effects on my memory since then] or pretty normal

does anybody who has had sex many times actually remember their first time

remember the song americano by lady gaga where she falls in love with an undocumented immigrant and they run away to california in the summer of 2008 to get married in the very small window of time before the passage of Proposition 8 would outlaw same‐sex marriage again

yes let’s push for decoupling those things from marriage (nobody has ever argued differently) but in the meantime let’s save some lives huh