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lemonquest.bsky.social
@lemonquest.bsky.social
Cromwellite, Jacobin, Bonapartist, New Deal Democrat
A Massachusetts Yankee uncomfortably close to King Donald's Court
I am deeply in love with the Aubreyad and it's richly populated with characters of the sort you describe, but I am morally convinced that guy is a reference to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
sounding off ✋
September 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Thrawn is Rommel (laudatory) vs Thrawn is Rommel (derogatory)
ironic that the progression of Thrawn goes in exactly the opposite direction as the historiography of Rommel over time though
August 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hope he enjoys the Schooling Field haha
August 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
big fan of the liquor store across the street that has the lambics I like and a beat-up DC Wine Guy van out front
August 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
thank you very much!
August 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Could you suggest anything for post-college learners? I never took Latin but would like to have a better grasp of the language
August 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
gotta say, as a dedicated UCCer it is *wild* to read what other people think Calvinism is because that just does not gel with my experience at all
August 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Iirc they actually just were supposed to be normal 76mm gun tanks, Oddball’s crews had just put extra lengths of pipe on the muzzles to make them look like 90mm guns
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh nice, never read them but I hope you enjoy
August 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What titles did you get?
August 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
my proudest Bit is an early modern world that just overthrew its king and is busily reenacting the worst excesses of the Reign of Terror in internecine struggle but is also terrified of an Imperial intervention and so everyone is absurdly motivated to Not Fuck With The Tithe of guard regiments
August 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I use BlackICE because I like ridiculously overcomplicating the game, particularly knowing that my various destroyer classes are marginally distinct from each other statwise
July 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I do this but with the US in HoI4; spend the entire early game building up a perfectly accurate OOB across all three services, get to Pearl Harbor, lose interest two months into the war, and go play a different game
July 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
proud to be a precinct coordinator of WASPs for Kamala
July 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
made a couple lame jokes last year about following two generations of family tradition (WWI and II) after the AfD made some slight gains. I never thought I'd be called upon to follow in their footsteps at home instead, and in those of a Civil War vet ancestor too.
July 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
many are saying!
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
To your point though a lot of officers during and after the war felt those trimmed-down organizations lacked sufficient staying power in combat and relied on attachments to an excessive degree
June 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I mean tbf this was a huge cause celebre for McNair and Army Ground Forces, they cut personnel they saw as extraneous to the unit’s mission ruthlessly during T/O&E revisions in 1942-43
June 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean
not an MMO but it does provide the immersive experience of repeatedly missing stays as I try to leave Portsmouth harbor before screeching at Mr. Pullings to Handle It
A Painted Ocean by Neil Thapen
Sailing man-of-war simulator
thapen.itch.io
June 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
reciting Nemik's manifesto as I prepare to lead my militia company into the teeth of the Elonjugend defenses
May 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I consider those scenes to be basically canon; hopefully we might get to see them in a FACPOV: Andor book someday
May 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted
[Scene: two red-robed Imperial Royal Guards are posted outside a door. The muffles sound of Force Lightning, followed by the Emperor screaming as he falls, can be heard.]

GUARD 1: ...should we investigate?

GUARD 2: Should you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM