Scottish history fiend. Prone to rambling. Usually to be found making offerings of flat irn bru and half-finished essays to the muse Clio at two in the morning. Or just procrastinating on tumblr.
SciArt by Philip Reinagle for Robert John Thornton, Temple of Flora (1807).
View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Peter H. Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden (@mobotgarden) for digitizing.
This is so funny because like you can't SAY this but at the same time yeah of course that was your reaction. I can only fucking imagine getting elected as Prime Minister and within a week queen Elizabeth DIES. Like she's had 70 odd years in which to die and she fucking did it in YOUR tenure. I'd be screaming at her coffin calling her a slag.
Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language
if someone brought karl marx back to life the first thing I would do is have a shopping montage to get him modern outfits where I shake my head yes or no to the outfits he picks out but then after that we'd get down to serious business