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Cromwellite, Jacobin, Bonapartist, New Deal Democrat A Massachusetts Yankee uncomfortably close to King Donald's Court

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · May 8

RIP Syril Karn. You were a good deputy inspector and we'll miss your wacky hijinks, incredible outfits, and enigmatic yet revealing expressions.

Syril Karn looking lost and confused as his life crumbles around him amidst the Ghorman Massacre

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · 2d

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

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Sep 14

sounding off ✋

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hope he enjoys the Schooling Field haha

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 12

thank you very much!

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 12

Could you suggest anything for post-college learners? I never took Latin but would like to have a better grasp of the language

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 11

Whole bunch of cops sitting around in parked cars rn at Dupont Circle. Is this a particularly unsafe area requiring a heavy police presence? Not from what I can see. What’s going on, MPD?

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

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Dagger John @thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s the 20th Massachusetts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Paul J. Revere. The Hallowell brothers. Two future commanders of USCT regiments. Every major battle except First Bull Run.

The first episode is them all enlisting a la All Quiet. Then news of First Bull Run comes and the realities of war hit.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Aug 7

I WANT BAND OF BROTHERS FOR (insert union regiment here)

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 4

Oh nice, never read them but I hope you enjoy

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 4

What titles did you get?

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jul 29

I use BlackICE because I like ridiculously overcomplicating the game, particularly knowing that my various destroyer classes are marginally distinct from each other statwise

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jul 24

proud to be a precinct coordinator of WASPs for Kamala

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jul 3

many are saying!

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · May 30

reciting Nemik's manifesto as I prepare to lead my militia company into the teeth of the Elonjugend defenses

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lemonquest.bsky.social @lemonquest.bsky.social · May 29

I consider those scenes to be basically canon; hopefully we might get to see them in a FACPOV: Andor book someday

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · May 27

[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?

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