grandmacottage:

set of flower painting bookmarks

theshitpostcalligrapher:

ovenroastedtwerkey:

edgysatsuma:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

gallusrostromegalus:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

so i just double checked and yes, the 1855 toronto circus clown riots DID happen right outside my old college. 

as in if i were sent back in time from the spot i stood every day to catch the streetcar, i’d be treated to the sight of firemen and circus clowns beating the shit out of each other whilst in and just outside a brothel

for clarification, yes, the clowns won the initial fight. 

I’m sorry the 1855 Toronto WHAT?

I mean. It’s not as funny of a story as the title would lead you to believe, it’s more of an acab story than anything else bc apparently the butthurt firefighters who got their asses clown kicked stirred up shit the next day, hence the term riots rather than barfights.

back then firefighters were privatized, individualized companies and both them and the cops were in the same small but violent protestant groups that got all the important jobs in the city, largely known as the Orange Order.

Which is why there was barely (if any) police intervention when shit hit the fan day of. The firefighters had rooted up a bunch of their pals from the orange club on a vengeance warpath and the police took every effort to stall intervention. Apparently it took the mayor showing up and reportedly preventing a fireman from clown murder by prying an axe from his hands to start shutting the whole situation down

And apparently this, in accumulation with a bunch of other bullshit that involved anti-catholic riots and I think a bank robbery (?) was the impetus of widespread police reform. Like complete overhaul kinda reform. Like every-single-person-fired-and-replaced-potentially-multiple-times kinda reform.

Which is also why I can say clowns were an integral part of 19th century police reform. 

The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel - Spacing Toronto

EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a

Spacing Toronto

Modern problems require 160+ year old solutions

ah, this is getting notes again. someone who has twitter clout, please get this to shane madej because i want a puppet history about it

emmablowguns:

i’m just someone’s weird coworker

nonasuch:

no idea what just happened in the supernatural fandom but i just saw like six ominous posts in a row on my dash so my condolences and i hope i never find out what caused it

howelljenkins:

howelljenkins:

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

to love and be loved is to rest

netflixandnudez:

No one warned me that coming into your own also includes grieving the life you were conditioned to believe you wanted.

melisscan:

amarveloustune:

what’s a non-covid reason that you like wearing a mask for? mine is that it hides my mouth-breathing on long flights of stairs

nixtevs-hugo-boss:

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

detailedart:

The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.

staff:

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

jennfercheck:

being in your 20s is just going through everyday wondering is this a defining moment? is this a defining moment? is this a defining moment? is this a defining mo