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For the Melanin Beam Challenge:

I cosplayed as a stoat character, Lila, from Burrows End, a Dimension 20 campaign.

Lila is one of the youngest stoats in her multigenerational family, loves her mom and is also a Mastermind Rogue. Portrayed by Isabella Roland on the show.

Awwwww that's too precious 😭😭😭 and I love your hair! The way the colors go with the fur palette!!! The blue to spotlight go perfect! Oh you're just too cute!! I love this 🥹🥹 thanks for making me smile!!

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An iguana named Cecilia and a caecilian named Iggy

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some of our dnd pcs with... their tonally respective muppets?? i really have no explanation for this. i was possessed

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My child is dying... and I just watch.

I have nothing... no medicine, no oxygen, no money, not even a safe place to sit and cry.

I am a mother from Gaza. From the south. From a land that has known nothing but bombing, death, and dust.From a neighborhood once inhabited by children playing... and now buried under rubble.

Everything is destroyed. Everything is burned. Nothing remains. Even my voice is no longer audible.

My only child is in my arms now...

He doesn't move. He doesn't speak. He doesn't scream. He breathes slowly, as if every breath is a miracle.

His face is yellow... His eyes are closed... His body is weak and cold as death.I feel him slipping away from me... moment by moment.And I can't save him.

I just cry... I call his name... and I hold him tightly as if I'm fighting fate.

He was sick... severe pneumonia.I took him to the hospital, where they said his condition was critical.There weren't enough machines. The doctors were exhausted, working without electricity, without medicine, without anything.But we held on to hope... despite the pain. Despite the cold. Despite the collapse of life around us.

Then camethe occupation.

The army stormed the city. The shelling began on us from every side.They bombed the hospitals. They bombed the streets. Even the places we thought were safe.

I screamed as I ran with my baby in my arms.

The doctors shouted, "Get out! Get out! The place is going to be bombed!"

I saw children having their breathing tubes ripped out of their mouths, patients thrown into the streets, and mothers collapsing.I saw a nurse crying as she tried to save a child... then she too fell to the ground.

I left the hospital, not knowing where to go.Bombs falling. Corpses in the streets. Blood on the walls.Everything was silent... except my heart, which was about to explode with terror. I walked for a long time carrying my child...I was screaming, "Is anyone there? Is there a doctor? Is there oxygen?"But no one answered.All the doors were closed.All the faces were shocked.

And death awaited us around every corner.Now, my child is dying.With every passing minute... he suffocates more With every second... he dies more.And I... hold his little hand... and say, "Be patient, my love... Forgive me, forgive me, I couldn't protect you."

They told me there was only one chance... to transfer him outside Gaza for treatment, and I would have to pay the exorbitant costs.

But how? No money.

I don't even have a blanket to cover him.

My home is destroyed. My family is under the rubble. No food. No water. No life.All I have left is this child... and these last moments with him.

Please...😭😭😢💔

Before I close his eyes with my hand.Before I place him in a shroud that's too small for his tiny body. Before I bury him alone, under a tree or among the rubble...

Help me.

Help me... before I bury the last beat of my heart.

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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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Hello Kitty yurt

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Patchwork World by @aaronmfking

Maybe by now you've heard of the pbta move Whale Ate My Parents from Patchwork World, but you really do yourself a disservice not to read all the other kooky moves Aaron came up with. They are one of the best move writers out there, imo, and any time I'm grappling with PbtA I find myself returning to this book.

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not enough fat and body hair in this fandom

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Was having a gay ass moment thinking about how much I love cuddling and then my partner immediately rolled over away from me. Well okay fine then I’ll get ready for the day 🙄

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wish there was a non rude way to be like “I understand your criticism, I don’t even necessarily disagree with it, but I am doing these things on purpose, because I like them and I want to, and therefore your opinion has no value, because you might think me painting a room entirely pink is tacky, but I did it on purpose”

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Dovecot Park, Selkirk, Scottish Borders.

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“I will not be buying trinkets or little treats during the 2025 recession” you should focus more on not buying into right wing ideology during the recession

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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"