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SLAM DUNK (1990-1996) by inoue takehiko

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what the fuck is this

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My 63-year old aunt, Merlina (Dina) Bayongan, is currently recovering at home from a broken hip, and the costs for surgery and medical treatment have become more than our family can afford on our own. Currently, the hospital has informed us that the bill is $20,000 CAD and likely to increase. My family and I are incredibly grateful for your assistance in paying for the costs of treatment so we can ensure her quality of life.

My aunt is a resident of the Philippines, who has been visiting my family for the last few weeks here in Canada. She broke her hip on November 28, after falling during a dizzy spell most likely due to a fever she had at the time. Being a tourist with no insurance, medical care is not covered under Canadian insurance policies. We ended up calling for an ambulance to take her to the hospital after we also realised she had developed an infection on her foot during her fever. This turned out to be a necessary call - during the ambulance ride, the paramedics became increasingly worried about the state of her hip, and X-Rays at the hospital confirmed that she had broken it in the fall.

My aunt stayed overnight at the hospital, where they informed us that her stay would cost $3000 per night out of pocket for the duration of her stay, and told us she needed to go into surgery the next day. Thankfully, the surgery has gone without any hitches, and she is recovering well, a fact that my family and I are eternally grateful for. They kept her a few days longer before she was able to come home. Despite everything, we are relieved that her injury occurred here in Canada, rather than back home in the Philippines, because the healthcare options for her are much better than what's available back home.

She is currently recovering at home, and has been improving in strength. We've been taking her for daily walks outside the apartment hallways, with the help of a walker lent by the hospital. We have a few other equipment on loan including a pushchair, and things to make our bathroom a bit more accessible, but we'll have to start covering the rental fees once the month ends.

She came to visit Canada after retiring back home in the Philippines as she wanted to experience snow for the first time, so we are really hoping she recovers well enough that we can at least take her outside to experience Canadian snow, and hopefully return home to her family and grandchildren back in the Philippines. The holidays will be rough for my family and hopefully with your help, we can make all this trouble worth it by getting our aunt back on her feet.

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The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial denied the president-elect’s bid to vacate his guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds. "Defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," Judge Juan Merchan wrote in a ruling Monday. He handed down the decision after also denying Trump's argument that he's already protected by presidential immunity because of his election win. "This court does not agree," the judge wrote. Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment his then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election.

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emperor kuzco was clearly gay

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college basketball au / modern au w/ landscape photographer shanks

&others but mostly just practicing marco

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oda explicitly calls a space where people are able to change genders at will with no judgment a place where dreams come true. it's the only place in the most heavily guarded prison complex in the world beyond the reach of the fascist government. every single character in these panels is a courageous, compassionate person who wholeheartedly supports the protagonist of the series and is instrumental in helping him succeed.

it's transphobic stereotype island to YOU. to me it's an island where trans and gnc people of any gender aren't forced to conform to rigid standards of gender to 'pass' in order to live safely and happily because any one of them can get hrt at any time from their queen who can instantly physically alter a person with hormones, but they simply choose not to because there's no need for it in order to be validated and comfortable in their identity. it's one of the headquarters of the anti-authoritarian revolutionary army that was formed to take down the world government. one of the founders, her second in command, and a commander of the militia are trans. people will literally stand there and say shit like 'well the trans women in one piece depicted with stubble and hairy legs are ugly so they're a transphobic caricature' in the same breath as 'we should support gnc and non-passing trans people uwu'. the hypocrisy

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FMA is fascinating because there aren't many works about what it means to be an atheist and a heretic to a god that you can not only see, but who has personally snatched body parts off of your living body and made fun of you for it.

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The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that it’s an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.

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i don't think roger gave shanks some kind of directive or anything after laughtale, i think he said something like 'it's not time yet, i won't live to see the new age', which would simultaneously explain why shanks decided not to go for the one piece immediately after his execution and why he was crying after asking the question. he learned that roger was dying + also that it's too early to go back to laugh tale. he waited for luffy to take down kaido and kid & law to take down big mom, heralding the 'new age', before declaring his intent to claim the one piece. luffy is roger's successor in many ways, but so is shanks and he's not gonna make it easy for the kid LOL

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things to not dwell on:

people who treated you badly

things you can’t change

comparing yourself to others

things to think about more:

baby animals

people who love u unconditionally

good things in your life that make you happy

days and times to look forward to

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Demonstrating the rope dart (繩標; sheng2biao1)

[eng by me]

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“unlike Other Men, we [marginalized] men are actually structurally incapable of misogyny” is a disturbingly common belief that goes unchallenged on here

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I need minors to learn how to lie online again. Your name is Derek, you’re 25 and work in accounting now. Please for your own safety learn how to fucking lie. And if you don’t want to lie, then don’t put your age anywhere. Don’t even say whether you’re a minor or not. It is perfectly easy to avoid adult spaces without signposting that you are doing so because you’re a child.

Stating your age doesn’t protect you this only makes you a target.

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic