Passionately Promoting A More Perfect World

Anonymous asked:

I don't know how much you care, but your "not forgetting" post is enough for moderately historically knowledgeable Americans to immediately identify [Redacted].

speakertoyesterday:

sinesalvatorem:

I wonder if I should stick my “I do not care at all if reading my blog can tell you where [Redacted] is, I only care whether Googling [Redacted] can tell you where my blog is” note in my about, because I have to say it every other month.

(I was actually pretty surprised when my readership survey revealed that only about a third of my readers have identified the place. This is astonishingly low to me.)

Are we allowed to make jokes about [redacted] that don’t involve the word [redacted] but identify it? Like say refering to a novelty song about it?

There is literally one novelty song about my country and I am SO TIRED of it that I am extremely tempted to just BAN it

(But yeah, actually, I’m not gonna stop ya)



  1. sinesalvatorem reblogged this from speakertoyesterday and added:
    There is literally one novelty song about my country and I am SO TIRED of it that I am extremely tempted to just BAN it...
  2. speakertoyesterday reblogged this from sinesalvatorem
  3. phi-of-two said: Same as kechpaja - if you’d asked me what I knew about the place before I knew it was the True Name of [Redacted], my reaction would’ve been “Isn’t that a city? No wait you’re right, there’s also a country with that name. I think it’s in the Caribbean? Somewhere in the Americas, anyway.”
  4. serinemolecule said: I feel like we are overestimating moderately historically knowledgeable Americans here…
  5. kechpaja said: I simply don’t have the geographical or historical knowledge to figure something like this out without a lot of research. I do, in fact, know where [Redacted] is, but only from the readers’ survey. At any rate, the sticky is probably a good idea. It will also help people with the “can I reveal where @sinesalvatorem​ is from in offline discussions” question.
  6. fluffshy reblogged this from sinesalvatorem
  7. whereismyphoenix said: In my case, I knew where it was (multiple times!) but then promptly forgot, because I know nothing else about the place so there’s no preexisting web of knowledge for anything new to latch onto. I know more about “[redacted]” than about that place I can’t remember the name of. I suspect many other followers also may have known at one point then forgot.