I didn’t want to put Mal in a lot of these, but I thought for a prompt like childhood, I just gotta! Their childhood together is so woven into the way I see Alex, it’s hard to imagine his childhood without Mal!! :3
the wild thing about thanksgiving is that it’s actually just something New England started doing in the 17th century for reasons nobody remembers and then some guy in the 1841 was like “wait why do we do this harvest feast, for which I definitely need an explanation despite harvest feasts being insanely common in every human civilization with agriculture?” and he looked in the records and found the earliest Feast What Happened In Autumn™ and was like “maybe this was the origin? idk” and everyone just ran with it and now we have the incredibly unfortunate First thanksgiving narrative
like congrats my guy you retroactively made the Random Fall Party problematic
My brain is confused. I thought this was invented in the post civil war era as a form of Nationalistic propaganda to create a “unifying narrative”. …could be both.
It was popularized more widely/made a national holiday in that era. But it had been a thing in New England and Atlantic Canada for well over a century at that point, possibly as long as 200 years
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