our home and cherished land

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Sort-of-tagged by eponymous-rose.

When you see this, post five memories that seem especially surreal out of context. Anyone who wants to play, consider yourself tagged!

1. “You know,” I remark to the people sitting on the cliff with me, “deli chicken and garlic hummus on a cinnamon-raisin bagel is actually pretty good.”

2. I’m hiding in one of the small storage hollows built into the benches. I decide I like it here. It’s comfortable. I feel safe. They’ll never find me.

3. They tell us that if we want, we can hold a holy book of our choice in our left hand to swear on. It isn’t until afterward that we realise my mother swore allegiance to the Queen of England on her first-born child.

4. I’m riding on a bicycle. There is a skeleton riding an identical bike next to me. If only the bikes could move, I think, then I would definitely be beating him.

5. The pre-teen wearing a top hat and pocketwatch shakes my hand. He tells me his name is Fierce.

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#oh look an original post #Brin talks about herself for a *reason* this time #(these memories are written in zig-zag order by the way) #(each memory occurs either before both the adjacent memories or after both of them) #(I didn’t really plan that but I like how it worked out) #meme

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corvidae30:

– Vulcan, Alberta –

  Vulcan is just about an hour south of Calgary  The town was named in 1915 after the roman god of fire, and the original streets were named after various roman deities. Somewhere along the way, somebody in the community made the Star Trek connection, and the local tourism board ran with it, in a big way. 

  Aside from the Trek themed tourism information building, the street signs are all Trek themed, the county admin building has trek themed signage, there is a Trek museum, and murals depicting Star Trek characters all over town. There is an annual Star Trek convention called Spock Days.

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#Star Trek #our home and cherished land #the more you know #(I don’t think I’ve ever seen Vulcan script before) #(it looks even more complicated than Bajoran)

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Tagged by cosmic-llin

give us five random things about yourself & pass it on to ten of your followers. repost, don’t reblog.

1. I love Daily Planet with a burning and occasionally evangelical passion. (Go watch it. You don’t even need to pirate it, though you will need a better version of Flash than Linux is capable of, and maybe a Canadian proxy, I’m not sure.) Daily Planet always makes me feel better about things. It’s a great antidote during those times when you’re surrounded by pessimism.

2. I have a supernumerary nipple just below my right breast, which we suspect I inherited from my mother’s side of the family (her brother has one too, in the same spot). I also have a mole on my right lower leg, which we are confident I inherited from my father’s side of the family (his aunt has one too, in the same spot, and I think there were other relatives with them as well). I like that I have a mark from each side, as if a tangible reflection of my hyphenated surname.

3. Oh, right, I have a hyphenated surname. (Something that caused a bit of an uproar amongst the more…firmly patrilineal members of the family, I’m told.) I wonder how old I’ll be the first time someone assumes the other half is from my spouse rather than my dad. It hasn’t happened yet, at least as far as I’m aware, but it’s probably inevitable.

4. I have never left the Eastern time zone.

5. I have sworn an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II.

It says followers, not people I follow, so picking from that list: shayvaalski, cakehorse, somethingshortandsnappy, kerkevik, thisprettywren, slepaulica, nenya-kanadka (if she sees this when she next comes back from her limited-Internet hiatus), michaelemerhouse, depizan, and luvtheheaven.

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#meme #oh look an original post #Brin talks about herself for a *reason* this time #yes I really did do fact 5 #try Googling ‘canadian oath of citizenship’ if you don’t believe me

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Fun fact: they totally sell Tim Tams in Canada. Imported from Australia and everything. I found them in the cookie section of Zehrs. (Not even the exotic section, just the regular cookie section.)

They had original and dark chocolate flavours, though it’s possible you might find some of the other flavours in other stores. I wouldn’t know.

I can personally confirm that the dark chocolate ones are delicious, but since I’ve never had bought-in-Australia Tim Tams, I don’t know for sure that the exported ones taste the same as the ones sold domestically. If someone with experience in Australian snack foods could confirm this, that would be good.

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#the more you know #Canada #Australia #PSA #Tim Tams #our home and cherished land #(tagging it Canada as well to spread the word to people reading the Canada tag) #media I consumed primarily to know what all the fuss was about #well technically *food* I consumed #but my pre-established tag says ‘media’ and it’s the same idea #oh look an original post

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factsofcanada:

The reason Canadians are so nice is easily explained. Once a year, on the sixth full moon all Canadian’s gather beneath the stars and perform a ritual that sucks all their meanness and cruelty and places it in Canadian Geese.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #our home and cherished land