Yeah… it’s been a busy week, so you’re getting more cat pictures. But hey, June and Zuko being civil with each other is always worth commemorating!
Look At The Pretties
Month: May 2021
Two by Two
Good thing we have an even number of cats. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to pair off like this.
Thomas Sanders… and Friends!
Yep, Thomas Sanders has a second channel. I meant to mention it in the previous post about him, but that was long enough on its own, so I figured I’d just split them into two separate weeks instead. There’s certainly no shortage of content!
Thomas Sanders and Friends is where Thomas posts most of his unscripted content, which is usually — and I’m sure this is a shock — in collaboration with his awesome friends. There’s also compilations of his TikTok shorts, so if you want some fast-paced goofy humor, check out that playlist here.
They play a variety of games on this channel, from Voices of Unreason, where they make up voices for fans’ artwork, to Twister With A Twist, to Real or Fake? with both anime and superheroes. Alright, technically some of those were released on the first channel before this one was made, but any further content along the same lines would be released on this second channel, so I’m counting it.
They also have some other miscellaneous adventures (see the playlist: Awkward Adventures), like Thomas learning to make pasta, going without added sugar for a month, and trying out sensory deprivation tanks (with friends participating, of course, especially on that last one).
All in all, it’s a lot of fun, and between the two channels there should be something for everyone!
More Meow Pics
Yep, cat photos! This time, primarily featuring June (but also Diane).
Consequence of Time
Everyone knows that the American colonies won our independence from Britain through a revolutionary war, rebelling against unfair taxation and lack of representation in Parliament. However, we were, once, loyal subjects of the crown. Little shows this contrast more clearly than comparing two historical documents, “The Mayflower Compact” and Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis-X: On The King Of England’s Speech,” both in large part about the King of England, but with a century and a half between them.
The first document, even though it’s merely a colonial declaration of forming a “Civil Body Politic,” takes the time to almost reverently introduce the King’s titles: “…our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.” It likewise signs off with the date, not only as the year Anno Domini 1620, but also as “in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth.” To use someone’s personal timeline as an official unit of reference is a significant matter of respect.
Furthermore, the document continually states the colonists’ loyalties to England, outright referring to themselves as “loyal subjects,” and reaffirming this in their mission statement, which states that they act not only “for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith” but also “[the advancement of the] Honor of our King and Country.” Even writing those reasons adjacent to one another implies a level of equivalency, as though King and Country are innately divine.
In contrast, the excerpt from “The Crisis-X: On The King Of England’s Speech” is downright scathing, condemning King George for “with the most sullen insolence [refusing] to answer, and even to hear the humblest of all petitions,” as well as for enabling and even encouraging the misdeeds of his officers, and most of all for the outrage that the king “should now, with an affected air of pity, turn the tables from himself, and charge to another the wickedness that is his own.” As you can see, where “The Mayflower Compact” carried an air of devotion towards England, “The Crisis-X: On The King of England’s Speech” utilized the flip side of emotionally charged language, with words such as “abuse,” “savage cruelties,” and “scandalous plundering” to drive home Mr. Paine’s contempt for King George and his behavior. He even goes so far as to insinuate that the king has “invoked every aid of hell in his behalf,” a sharp contrast to the perceived holy righteousness of King James in the first document.
From commendation to condemnation, it is truly remarkable how much a collective opinion can change over the course of 156 years.