I'm in ur former colony, appropriating ur holiday.*

[alexandraerin]

As an American, my first exposure to Guy Fawkes came from a fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week. It wasn't a very sympathetic portrayal... it postulated that Fawkes's failure was a multiversal constant to the point that if there was a universe wherein the plot he undertook succeeded, it would be the equivalent of a Crisis-level reality fracturing event.

It's still possibly a better portrayal than the rather unflattering portrayal that Google has chosen to put on their main page for Bonfire Day.

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*Note: Nebraska was never actually a colony.

Comments

[ionicaq.livejournal.com]

Why is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street offensive to Bonfire Day...?

[jupiterrhode.livejournal.com]

I assume Ms. Erin is being facetious about the Google image thing choosing to honor Sesame street rather than Fawkes. But maybe there really was an offensive picture that I didn't see before the cookie monster went up.