#Adoptive Parent Resources Online

[arkanis-englishupdates]

SUMMARY OF ALL ARKANIS POVs

DAY 2 — 04/09/2024

The day starts with Febatista, Choke, Pac, Guhzera and JVNQ logging first, both started to build their houses/bases or explore looking for resources. JVNQ, Pac and Febatista met to talk, leading the conversation to the topic of robbing the bank. The trio then entered the second floor of the bank stealthily, managing to overhear a conversation between Jota and the Banker (The conversation was about the payment that experts would start receiving for their work). After hearing and being caught by the Banker, Choke appeared and the four start chatting before they go their separate ways.

Suddenly, Febatista receives two books from nowhere, the book 1 called "..." and the book 2 called "Hi dad.", all by "Little son" while building your house. The book 1 contained only the phrase "hi dad..." and the book 2 contained the following text "I really want to meet you... I hope we can one day...". After that, Febatista met with the Mayor and the two had a meeting about this "son" (What the two didn't count on was that Meiaum sneakily followed them and listened to the meeting).

At the meeting, Jota told Febatista that someone who called himself Febatista's son said he would return as soon as his father arrived in the city. Jota also spoke about the tragic end that his parents had (We discovered that Jota's parents were the couple killed in the suspicious fire many years ago).

After that, another situation of building vandalism was reported, part of the museum was blown up, luckily the arts were spared. No one knows who did the crime (Sheriff Jorge and Officer Cléber believe that this incident is linked to the fire at City Hall, which destroyed part of the library and the second floor of City Hall).

Moments later, while Guhzera was in his castle, someone knocked him out and trapped him in a cage in the middle of nowhere. Using their cell phones to ask for help, everyone who was online went to the place where Guhzera was, seeing a book on an altar near the cage. The book contained the following text "Don't try to free my prisoner. The cage is protected with a password... Without knowing it, you all will never be able to get him out."

After much investigation, Bagi discovers that the password is "Bia Raux", managing to free Guhzera from the cage.

At Bira's bar, the owner of the place told Felps, Meiaum, Guaxinim and Himaru that Bia Raux was a person to keep away from, that she also wears a mask and that she only brings chaos to the city. Bira also said that the city used to be bustling, but due to a type of stomach illness, most of the residents died (Masks seem to be a type of protection against this disease, and that all specialists will soon have their own mask). We also discovered that Bira was the one who adopted Jota after the tragedy that occurred with his parents, raising him as if he were his own son.

After that, the day was chaotic as always, with fights between some participants, which have since been resolved, house invasions, etc.

Felps, Guaxinim, Matt and Meiaum also made a plan to invade the second floor of the city hall through the opening caused by the fire, with Felps succeeding with his bunny boots but finding nothing suspicious or important.

Yayahz was also fined for several crimes, having to do community service as a way to pay.

Quelpenna and Maethe were not online that day too.

[If there is something that we haven't reported here, please let us know! There are too many POVs to keep track of accurately.]

[comradeboyhalo]

i really like the idea of trust vs reliability when it comes to q!bad. bad isnt a very trustworthy individual, partly because hes a chronic liar and prankster, partly because he refuses to trust others in return. but he's a reliable babysitter, and has always been one since the adoption event, which leads to this fun dichotomy that parents dont trust him with their backs, but they do trust him with their kids.

reliability is so important in a server that's always changing. there's a ton of parents who are great babysitters, but there arent many that are consistently online everyday, that have all the resources for cookie quests and backpack upgrades, that have hours to sink into creating elaborate stasis chambers. bad's the only one who has access to all ninho rooms, the only one who's babysat all eggs (although sunny is the only one that hasnt been babysat one-on-one). the only flaw on bad's part is that he isn't available during the morning shift, which is why im interested to see that if, in the future, tubbo will end up getting the same rep as bad. but part of the reason bad's built up such a rep is due to the fact he's an og islander, and has had a lot more opportunities to prove himself, egg safety wise.

bad lost a lot of trust with others when he began to spiral after the eggs were kidnapped, and his rep only worsened after purgatory. yet the only parent to stop entrusting him with their kids was roier and, ironically, in his absence, bad became pepito's main caretaker after foolish. he still has yet to lose his reliability and i really wonder if he ever will. i can only think of two scenarios: he has an actual villain and/or possession arc, or cc!bad just stops logging in frequently.

[jnephrite]

jaceverse timeline (with possible ages!) because dc timeline is so fucked up so let me just alter some canon facts real quick :3

year 0 — Harleen Quinzel (26) officially meets the joker, and becomes the Harley Quinn the same year

year 1 — Harley Quinn (30) dumps the Joker and moves in with her BFF—soon girlfriend—Poison Ivy. The Joker goes on a murder spree as a tantrum. Kills people from Crime Alley, including the Drews, Morgan Drew (13) becomes an orphan after witnessing the death of her parents.

Morgan meets Tim Drake (13) and Corinthia in Gotham Academy. Jason Todd (15) dies. Harley Quinn gives birth to Lucy Quinzel.

year 2 — Morgan Drew’s (14) teenage “rebellion” began. She sneaks out of the orphanage to steal from easy folks. Steals to reminisce about the time when she was free— she was already a thief before her parents died— with alive parents and to help with school expenses even though she attends Gotham Academy on scholarship. Detective Bullock tries to stop and catch her.

She began idolising Harley Quinn for being able to stand up against the Joker, realises that if there’s one person in the world who would help her take him down, it would be her. 14-year-old—going on 15 in a few months—Morgan’s crimes took another step by terrorising civilians and attends a Wayne Charity Event where she steals important jewelry from Selina Kyle (36). She was beginning to make a public name for herself, Gothamites called her Quinni (Harley Quinn Mini) with her DIY HQ jacket.

year 3 — Now known as Carnival to others and after saving her from the wrath of Penguin & Fish Mooney, Harley Quinn (33) begrudgingly takes her in as her sidekick officially. Morgan Drew (15) claims it as the best bday gift and began donning on a new Carnival costume that’s not a poor rip-off of Harley’s jester outfit.

Tim Drake (15) forms Young Justice. Morgan meets Superboy (16) as his civilian identity, Conner Kent because of Tim Drake and they become online friends.

Began terrorising Joker as much as she could with her limited resources.

year 4 — Morgan Drew (16) trains hard. Carnival sometimes annoys, sometimes aids Robin (Tim Drake) in his missions where she meets Superboy as Carnival. Becomes an unofficial Young Justice member and later then recruited by Amanda Waller in a team called Young Riot.

Harley Quinn (33) takes on the alter-ego, Heather Lee to officially foster Morgan. Eventually she, along Poison Ivy (35)— using an alter-ego for the documents as well—adopts her.

year 5 — Harley Quinn (34) officially becomes a member of the batfamily along with Selina Kyle (38). Morgan Drew (17) reunited with childhood friend, Jason Todd (19). She exploded all of the Joker bases she could find with true help of Red Hood.

The Joker plays a revenge, hurting Morgan’s friends, Cori and Ani. Angry, she almost killed the Joker before Batman swoops in to put him back to Arkham.

Harley sent her away to her mom. Morgan meets Lucy Quinzel (4) officially when she visits Mrs. Quinzel.

year 6 — Batman (40) disappears and Dick Grayson (24) temporarily becomes Batman with Damian Wayne (10) as his Robin. Young Justice disbands. Tim Drake (18) becomes Red Robin. Morgan Drew (18) has a fell out with her mothers, abandoning the name Carnival and becoming a much violent version herself as Delphi.

other notes:

She eventually returns as Carnival

Will take journ for college and will become a journalist as her adult career. (Lois Lane fan)

Will have a daughter named Gwen! Having Gwen starts to make Morgan want to quit as Carnival

[solar-sunnyside-up]

I was wondering if you had any resources for people who don't have direct action groups nearby and still want to participate in direct action. I still rely on parents for getting to places and I don't have reliable public transit, so I don't have the option to go to many protests or direct action groups. Do you have any resources on things I can do in my neighborhood (that aren't little free libraries/pantries because my neighborhood doesn't have much foot traffic)

Hey there sprout!! 🌱🌱

It depends on where you live tbh, but given I just did a rural one imma give you some ideas that you could do in the suburbs/urban neighborhoods assuming you don't have a car in a car centric world!

Look into the groups that are in your area and read up on the actions they do. You might not be able to go to events regularly but keeping up with local events is still good to feel like there's momentum! You also wanna look into what programs exist. I'm personally from an Oil loving/God fearing hick town and yet!! There's a million programs going on they just don't advertise or market themselves so you'd never know! Like I just attended an online webinar for Dark Sky Reserve policies for my town this week?? Wild stuff I'd never know if I wasn't researching my own city all the damn time

Cleaning/ gruella building public features are very cool! And something you can do in your own backyard or in the middle of the night in your streets or while your waiting for your shitty transit to get there! (I do that last one a lot, renoed some bus stops and cleaned them up bc I was BORED) Some Secret groups have starting installing benches/painting crosswalks/renovating bus shelters that do exist and technically that is something you can do. Also could look into adopt-a-stop programs.

Gruella gardening! Seed Bombs of native wild flowers and just chucking them around when you go on walks/go out or Moss Graffiti is also an option! Just pick an abandoned spot (on a walk to somewhere or just easily accessible to you in general)

Things like designing your own newsletter/zine/stickers for your community is also neat!

Check in with your Community Association! You'd be surprised at what those guys can do, I've seen anything ranging from movie nights and game nights to craft clubs and yoga classes to pubs/restraunts that fund the CA. Same goes with a community garden/fridge in your area. Those guys need vollunteers

Open up a free toolshed/ clothing closet at a school/library/CA center/abandoned building and hold a drive to fill it up. You'd be surprised at how excited ppl get over those!

[yanyanobsessed]

continuing on my yandere vampire fics from a while ago.. I figured the best way to expand on it would be to go back to the beginning.

Note: Theres a lot of worldbuilding here lol, Probably my heaviest work yet, contentwise (not in a dark sense, this post is just hefty when it comes to her word count)

Grace Addams (she/her)

Yandere type: Worshipper, obsessive

Grace was adopted quite young, raised by a wealthy couple with her every need met and accounted for by leaps and bounds. Anything she wanted, her dads did their best to accommodate- which thankfully was relatively easy for them, given that they were in no short supply of funds.

As a child, Grace was very quiet for the most part- almost too quiet, save for the occasions where she was left hungry or with a stomach ache, in the time prior to her vampiric nature coming to light. Her parents discovered quite early on that she was not exactly human, delightfully greeted by quite a number of little fang-marks when she went through teething as a toddler.

Vampires weren't unheard of by any means, but the couple lived in a rather wealthy rural area, and they had never in their lives encountered one in the flesh. However, having discovered the nature in their precious daughter, they felt it would be most appropriate to reach out online, finding comfort in the form of a number of forums and online communities centered on vampiric parenting and resources. They adapted their routines for her, swapping the baby food and solids that had caused her many a stomach ache with meats and iron-enriched tomato juice, which they had read online served as a temporary substitute for blood in the time it would take them to get in contact with a vampiric supply center for her. They abandoned the practice of using garlic in their cooking, so on and so forth, and with time Grace became a much quieter child, content and enriched.

As Grace grew, she remained very silent in her movements- thanks to her supernatural nature, she was able to move much faster than the average child, soundlessly darting around the manor she was raised in. Well, soundless aside from the occasional giggle when she was particularly giddy, or the wailing cries that followed her bumping into something in her fun. Despite her stealth and speed, she proved to be quite clutsy at times, running into things quite frequently even when she was moving at a normal speed.

When it came time for Grace to enter schooling, her parents debated quite a bit, before resolving that it would be good to enroll her at a school in the city, as opposed to one in the rural area they inhabited. They remained in their manor, but began arranging to take Grace to and from school each day, making the hour drive each direction in order to allow her the chance to meet other kids who might not judge her as harshly as those in the rural lands were almost guaranteed to.

This went on for years, with Grace attending class with other kids, packing her little blood pack and tupperware of meat each day to class, shifting to just a thermostat full of blood as she got older. By 7th grade, she had grown accustomed to this routine quite perfectly- She now was brought to school and back home by a private driver her parents hired, but that change aside, things remained relatively unchanged. Grace was silent in her classes, hardly ever talking with her classmates unless it was required, preferring to spend her time studying or reading. It was in one of these such moments, where she had her nose in her latest reading, on the day when everything changed.

Mrs. Lorella called everyone's attention to the front of the room, interrupting the chatters of first period with an introduction. A new student would be joining them. Grace looked you over without much intrigue, simply wishing to acquaint herself visually with you so that she would know your name if it came necessary- and yet, she was surprised when you met her eyes perfectly, honed in on her out of all the students present.

After introducing yourself, as soon as Mrs. Lorella let you go, you made your way straight to Grace's desk, smiling at her. "Is this seat taken?" Grace shyly shook her head, and you eagerly plopped your things down, scooting in right next to her with a smile that rivaled the sun in brightness.

It was that way for the rest of your classes- There was only one period in which the seat next to Grace was not available, and in every other opportunity you didn't hesitate to take the one which was, even looking a little saddened when you saw that one taken seat. Grace was slightly put off by you at first- She didn't dislike you by any means, but you were strange to her. She had always been naturally avoided or picked on by other kids, and although she shut that down quite quick to the best of her ability, that didn't mean she searched for companionship in her classmates. She thought she had more than enough of the stuff with her fathers, whom she was incredibly fond of. And yet, as time went on, and you continued to insert yourself into her life, she found it hard to deny that she enjoyed your company.

Within the next few weeks, her walls had begun to come down, and she found herself increasingly giddy when she was around you. One day at lunch hour, without even consciously realizing it, she offered for you to come over to her house after school. It was an offhand remark, in reply to you asking her about her driver, and yet the way your face lit up in response made her heart flutter in a way that was completely alien to her. You eagerly agreed, happy to spend time with her as she found herself smiling in response.

Thus began a routine of sorts- Most days after classes, you would go to Grace's house, as your parents were busy with work and made no complaint to the extra hours afforded by not having to drive you home, and you and Grace would spend the afternoon together. By the time you had to go home, Grace would accompany you, and listen to your ramblings the entire car ride to your home, spending the drive back in silence, dreamily looking out the window.

Grace's parents were quick to catch on to her fondness for you, welcoming you as one of their own in a way.

Over the years, you and Grace became attached at the hip - anywhere you went, Grace followed, and vice versa. Any time you had to spend apart, Grace found herself lamenting the distance, eagerly texting you in efforts to close the gap electronically, which proved comforting to her worries. However, it was noticable that any time you were apart from her, she became visibly antsy. She would tap her foot, fidget with her family rings, look around as if she could spot you nearby- and don't forget checking her phone often, debating whether to call you or not. As the attachment between you grew, so did her protectiveness, to a very obvious degree.

Now, on the nature of Grace's vampirism- While the school she went to wasn't necessarily hostile to her kind, her parents were instructed when she was first enrolled to teach her to keep it under wraps. While being a vampire wouldn't get you hunted openly like in the olden days, government intervention didn't prevent the prejudice that still ran deep in some people, and they found that it would be safer for their little girl if she didn't rampantly go around showing off her vampirism.

Grace had been very good about this rule of her parents' for her entire schooling- and yet, like most of her outward shell, it unraveled quite easily when it came to you.

One day, when you were at her house, you questioned her about her fidgeting. She bit her lip, continuing to twist her rings as her eyes flitted around the empty library you two presently occupied your time in.

"..Can I tell you a secret, Y/N?"

"Of course! You can tell me anything- I'm very good at keeping secrets, my mom says."

Grace took a deep breath.

"..I'm a vampire." She blurted out, cheeks rosy as she watched your reaction with fearful eyes.

A moment passed, and she just about felt her stomach drop, when you suddenly smiled, your entire body language brightening with intrigue.

You eagerly questioned her about it, taking the news in stride as you rattled off all your curiosities, holding both of her hands in yours as you did so, a habit of yours that Grace found herself quite fond of.

From that day onward, Grace found her attachment to you growing- She had never before even considered draining someone, and yet these days she found her eyes drifting to your neck dangerously often. She always managed to catch herself, although it was in the private moments that the urge came strongest. She always reeled herself in however, and was able to restrain herself.

That was, until sometime in the summer after your highschool years had finished, when a blood shortage had been wearing her thin, and you had been teasing her privately at every turn regarding her fangs, and how you would let her bite you if she wanted (which never failed to fluster her immensely, might I add.)

(Stopping here for now, lemme know what y'all think and any ideas you might have regarding Grace!)

[fictionadventurer]

Would you be able to tell me more about how pro-life positions are beneficial to women?

I have been becoming more pro-life over the past year because I see edges of this argument online, but I don't know enough to try to clearly explain it to myself, much less to other people. One point someone brought up that helped me see this differently was that abortions are a band-aid solution to sexual abuse and help make it easier to hide sexual violence. And I have also seen the point people make that companies would rather provide abortion care than maternity leave because it keeps people working.

I'm curious if you have other thoughts that can help me affirm this point both to myself and to others? I think there's a lot of vitriol around how people speak about women in abortion discussions, and it can make it hard for people who are on the fence to engage. And having more examples of how pro-life advocates care for women would make it easier to enter into the conversation, especially with people who take a feminist approach to the topic.

(I also want to affirm that I'm asking this in good faith, as someone who wants to learn sincerely, and I hope you might respond sincerely too. I'm taking it for granted that a fetus is also a human, so I'm more interested in how to bring up this other part of the discussion with people. If this is a topic you know less about, that's all right too.)

I tend to approach abortion debates by keeping a laser-focus on the fact that the fetus is a human and a person, because we need to remind people that no problem that the mother faces justifies killing an innocent human being. That said, the pro-life position is infinitely better for women in a bunch of different ways. I'm not going to provide sources, because there are lots of better blogs devoted to that kind of thing (@prolifeproliberty is one that's coming to mind), but I can provide a few talking points.

The biggest benefit a pro-life position provides to a woman is that she doesn't have to live with the fact that she killed her own child. People understand on an instinctive level that a woman is pregnant with a baby; they can try to gloss over it with rhetoric, but the truth remains that the woman pregnant with a human being with its own separate life to live, and abortion violently ends that life. Abortion regret is a very real thing; there's a vast increase in depression and suicide in post-abortive women, and these women often can't get help for such regret, because people deny that it exists, or because "it was her choice".

A pro-life position is also infinitely more empowering to women. Abortion supporters look at a pregnant woman and tell her, "You can't do this. You can't raise a child. You can't have a career. You can't get out of poverty. This will destroy your life." The pro-life position tells a woman that she can do this. She's strong enough. She's smart enough. Both she and her child can have fulfilling lives, because we can help her. The pro-life community provides tons of resources to help women get the supplies and medical care and support that they need to either raise the child or to find adoptive parents to help raise it. Abortion only gets rid of the child--it doesn't solve any of the other problems that made it so difficult for the woman to have a child.

Abortion is also the single greatest tool to allow men to sexually abuse women. The pro-abortion idea that men are against abortion because they want to oppress women is laughable. Men get no benefit from a pro-life position. Abortion allows men to sleep around as much as they like, and if they get a woman pregnant, they don't have to pay child support--they just pay for her abortion and go on their merry way. No concern for her mental or physical or emotional health--just convenience for him. Abortion turns both woman and child into objects for a man's pleasure, to be disposed of when they're not fun anymore.

I could go on for ages, but to keep this simple, I'll just list a few other points:

Abortion greatly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer, and can cause fertility problems later in life.

The abortion pill is extremely dangerous, especially used unsupervised, because it can cause extreme bleeding and other complications.

Abortion allows sexual abusers to hide the evidence of their sexual abuse and keep women trapped longer. This includes human-trafficking and prostitution situations.

Women are often pressured into abortion because of lack of support from their family or community. People might be willing to help her pay for the abortion, but if the woman chooses to have the child, people are unwilling to provide long-term support--it was "her choice", so she has to bear all the responsibility. A decision for abortion made under that kind of pressure isn't really concerned about "a woman's choice."

As you said, employers are far more willing to pay for abortion than they are to provide much more expensive maternity leave, health insurance, etc. It can serve as another tool for employers to oppress workers.

Abortion supporters are often so focused on increasing access to abortion that they put women at risk. They have shot down and repealed bills that require abortion clinics to be licensed and inspected and to meet certain minimum medical standards. They've allowed teenagers to get abortions without parental notification, even though they're legally not competent to make other medical decisions, and the abortion procedure could put the teen's health at risk (plus this can cause teens to be trapped even longer in trafficking situations). They shoot down measures that would require women to be given more information about the abortion procedure and other options--even though informed consent is a cornerstone of medical ethics. If abortion supporters were truly concerned about women, they would be willing to put some of these common-sense protective measures in place.

[gladlypants]

Placement#: 6 Length of stay: Legal risk pre-adoption / 1 month :( Age: infant (11 months) Traits: Clingy Likes: Oaty O's, banana slices, music wiggles, bouncing, standing up, dancing fruit videos, Miss Rachel Dislikes: bedtime, naptime, hair washing

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[babyyarlert]

Sera Lewis

Full name: Seraphim Lewis (she/her)

African American

• Cis woman, lesbian

• Age: 29 (June 24)

• Signs: Cancer𖤓, Leo☾, Libra↑

• Personality: big heart, optimistic, flirty, confident in herself, fear of vulnerability though she’s a huge romantic, stubborn, can often be a bit of a control freak, caring, good listener

• Height: 5’8 or 173cm

• Eyes: dark brown

• Hair: black

Occupation

• Member and backing vocals in alt rock band ‘your mom’s old sedan’. She primarily plays bass.

• Founder of an online LGBTQ+ support organization for youth called ‘The Rainbow Network’. It’s based in San Sequoia.

Family/Background

• Sera has lived her whole life in San Sequoia. She’s a city girl through and through.

• Growing up in a foster care group home for girls, Sera never met her parents. Despite this, she remained a kind hearted ray of sunshine.

• Without a proper parental figure, Sera found solace in an elderly Latina woman named Angela, with whom she worked at a Mexican restaurant. Although Angela was too old to legally adopt, she took care of Sera as if she were her own daughter.

• Being a gay black teenage girl in the foster care system was incredibly challenging. Sera faced many hardships and lacked resources and support for children like her.

• By the time she aged out of the system at 18, Sera had already begun drafting ideas for The Rainbow Network (TRN) with a few close friends. Angela supported her through her first year of college, where Sera majored in political science, before sadly passing away.

• After graduating, Sera founded The Rainbow Network and has since dedicated herself to building it into a thriving support organization for LGBTQ+ youth. Over the years, she has worked hard to provide the resources and community that she and so many foster kids lacked during their upbringing.

Friends

• She’s been friends with Dami since their teenage years. Dami was one of the close friends that inspired her to start TRN.

Relationship

• Single

• She’s had her fair share of exes. But none of them ever really stick around long enough. Except for one… 👀

Hobbies

• Like Dami, Sera lives for music. She’s a passionate songwriter and musician.

• She loves cooking. And especially loves cooking for other people.

• Gaming

Random facts

• Her left leg is very slightly longer than her right.

• She’s allergic to shellfish

• She’s not the best at sports but she can never turn down a good challenge

Notes:

• 👀 = important plot points that will be or is addressed more in depth in the book

[sweetlittledaisy7]

I forgot to add this in. But thank you, everyone, especially to my followers who've been here since I started. Y'all feel like my online family, lol. I'm truly thrilled for this next chapter in my life. I know many might have been following me since high school, which is insane because I was like 15/16 then. Now I'm getting a masters degree, getting married, and living in an apartment with my future hubby. 🙌 I hope to continue this blog for years to come as a resource for you all. Especially adoptive parents. Raising an adopted kid isn't easy, and most sources miss the mark. I'm happy to help. It's rare to get an adoptees perspective.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hello! I love your blog! Thank you so much for all the work you do finding information.

I was wondering if you have any information on adopting as an autistic parent? I strongly believe I have autism and I’m looking into getting a diagnosis but I really want to adopt in the future and I’ve heard having an autism diagnosis can make it a lot more difficult. However I’ve heard from other places that that’s a myth and it doesn’t actually matter. None of this seemed to come from reliable sources. Most of what I’ve found in my own research seems to be based on a lot of assumptions and I can’t find anyone online talking about it from personal or professional experience. Do you know of any more reliable resources for this? Thanks!

Hi there,

I personally do not plan on having or adopting any children, but I did some looking around and found a potentially helpful resource. It talks about the rights adoptive or foster parent with a disability:

Agencies can't stop you from adopting or fostering just because you have a disability.

You are allowed to use programs and services that other people in your situation can use.

Agencies are supposed to change rules and programs if you need help.

You are allowed to get help with communication.

Agencies are supposed to let you know about their programs in ways you can understand. Some kinds of help include sign language interpreters, Braille, and screen readers.

People with disabilities should be able to get in and out of most agency buildings. New buildings must be totally accessible.

I will leave the source below. It’s a pdf file that I think will help.

The Rights of People with Disabilities Who Want to Adopt

Here is a link to a subreddit where someone asks if they can adopt if they’re autistic:

r/Adoption

I’m also going to tag @krisrisk since they are a parent and can possibly provide more help than I can.

I hope you found these sources helpful. Thank you for the inbox. I hope you have a wonderful day/night. ❤️

[ae-azile]

Going to try and get chapter 18 of Progression out by tomorrow. Writing was slow this week and I only have 6k of what will probably be at least a 10k chapter.

I work with Deaf + other diagnoses clients, most of whom have some level of language deprivation as a main setback/trigger/trauma, and several who have behaviors stemming from abuse, neglect, unstable home lives/family units, adoption and the complexities that come with it, etc. It's been a ROUGH week. I have been working with the Deaf community for six years now. While I am almost fluent in ASL, it can be even more draining to debrief in a second language about extremely aggressive behaviors and big feelings with clients who did not have access to an understandable language during their early years.

That's probably why I give Namphueng previous knowledge of sign language in the stories I feature her in. People don't understand how hurtful language deprivation is psychologically and developmentally. There are parents who clearly love their Deaf children, but make very little effort to learn sign. They get upset and frustrated when aggressive behaviors develop, but aggression is a form of communication. Not a healthy form, but sometimes that is all there is when you feel unheard.

And I guess that's why I always make sure Namphueng (who is not deaf, but has had her oral speech impacted by trauma and who knows what else) is surrounded by people willing to learn sign, along with one or more proficient signers. The trauma that develops from people excluding you from conversations by not making them accessible, refusing to learn a language you both can understand, etc is more immense than people realize. Unfortunately, the way I approach it in this fic reflects only a small minority of families.

Anyway, that was my strange hybrid fanfic/real life update. Maybe it will provide some insight on why I approach Namphueng's situation the way I do, or at least why my update might be a little late. Or maybe it will encourage people to learn sign language!

Fun fact = an American signer and a Thai signer having a voice off conversation would understand each other a lot better than an American signer and a British signer. Sign Languages across the world vary greatly, but some countries on opposite parts of the world can match more closely than countries that primarily use the same spoken language. This often boils down to which signed languages develop first, and who influences who (French sign and grammar, Martha's Vineyard signs, and various signs from different villages primarily influenced ASL, modern Thai Sign has been influenced by their older indigenous sign and ASL, and other countries may borrow from British Sign or from other areas of the world). So while learning sign language is beneficial, learning about Deaf culture on a local and international level is neat too. I suggest people check out classes, local groups/meet-ups, and research online resources if you have any interest at all. It can be more useful than you realize. 🙂

[cyberneticatoms]

no way is that CHARLIE BENNETT..they’re a 30 year-old HUMAN notoriously known for being MOODY & CAREFREE but there are some people who have seen them being HUMBLE & POLITE. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of feeling the beat of the music, various medications strewn over the bathroom counter, and grinning through the pain, but that could just be because they’re considered the DETERMINATOR around town. just keep an eye on them  &  see if their true colors shine through..

↳ 𝚀𝚄𝙸𝙲𝙺 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝚃𝚂

NAME: Charles James Bennett NICKNAMES: Charlie, CJ, Chuck (Ginny only) DATE OF BIRTH: June 3rd (30) HEIGHT: 5'10 AFFILIATION: Citizen Uprising OCCUPATION: Veterinarian at DFW Zoo FACECLAIM: Sean Berdy

↳ 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳

❖ Charles Bennett, or Charlie to most people, was born deaf. It took until he about 1 for his birth parents to figure it out, add in being from the lower district and doctor visits were less than frequent. ❖ It wouldn't be long after his 2nd birthday that both his birth parents would pass away. It wasn't anything overly dramatic, overworked and constantly falling ill. WIth no one else able to take him, he was adopted by his godparents the Bennetts and gained an older sister named Sam. ❖ It was after this that his parents realized what the cause of so many illnesses for Charlie and his birth parents was. Joining a class action lawsuit against Epsilon Labs after the three had been prescribed faulty medication. ❖ The payout was almost insulting, especially after the lawyers took their cut and it was split between the remaining parties. For the most part Charlie wasn't aware of much of this, between Sam and his parents they did their best to give him as normal a life as possible. ❖ Going to school in the lower district was a struggle, there weren't many resources for a deaf student. As much as he didn't want to, he relied on his friends to help him fill in any gaps he missed during classes. ❖ As much as he would have loved to go straight to vet school, he didn't have the grades to qualify for a scholarship like his sister had. Instead he split his time between working at the DFW Zoo as a janitor and taking his basics core classes online. ❖ Originally he got along well with his sister's boyfriend, Taurus. Even siding with him when he and Sam started arguing, at least until Ginny was brought into the middle of things. ❖ Once he saw how far he was willing to go, he apologized to Sam though things are still a bit tense. Still an active part of Citizen Uprising as well as bringing Ginny to meetings. ❖ He keeps his apartment open to his niece for whenever she and Sam are butting heads. Other than that he mostly focuses on his actual career, having finished veterinary school and working full time at the zoo now.

↳ 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙲

• Due to the faulty medication Charlie ended up with chronic fatigue and multiple sclerosis. His prognosis wasn't great at first, but with a combination of physical therapy and later medication his relapses have been further and further apart.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Reiner

Published: Jun 6, 2024

For a long time, the internet and social media have been bloated with memes, even articles, that denigrate men and most forms of traditional masculinity. Many of the people behind these posts insist that they are simply snarky barbs aimed at people with the most “privilege” who can’t take a joke.

If there was ever any doubt about the veracity of or honesty behind such a statement, a growing trend appears to pull back the veil.

Recently, the online magazine Slate ran an eye-opening story revealing that many young couples are using in vitro fertilization to ensure they conceive daughters instead of sons. In other countries, IVF is legal only as a screening measure to detect the likelihood for genetic diseases. Not in the U.S., where IVF clinics have mushroomed in number over the past two decades because prospective parents want freedom of choice.  

In one American study, white parents picked a female embryo 70 percent of the time. A 2010 study showed that American adoptive parents were 30 percent more likely to prefer girls than boys, and were willing to pay an additional $16,000 to ensure they got a girl. 

One 31-year-old woman interviewed for that piece, who works in human resources (an industry dedicated to equity and parity) said, “When I think about having a child that’s a boy, it’s almost a repulsion, like, Oh my God, no.”

Such disturbing sentiments are widespread in the U.S. and are part of a growing trend in Western cultures — popularly called Gender Disappointment. An Australian psychologist who specializes in antenatal and postnatal care conducted a Facebook survey and found that Gender Disappointment is most common in women, who unabashedly want daughters, not sons. One woman posted on a mothers’ chat board that the “vast majority” of women on “every social media (Facebook, Instagram) site or general website (Netmums, Mumsnet, Reddit)” voice this gender bias. “There are websites like ingender and genderdreaming just dedicated to Gender disappointment…some of them are straight out Boy bashing or anti boy posts.”

This invites the question: What exactly is it about having boys that seems so repellent? Many of the women in the Slate article, even mothers of boys, pointed to that sweeping, damning and vague label “toxic masculinity.” They spoke to girls’ “limitless potential” versus that of boys. Girls move out of the house earlier, achieve greater academic success, are more likely to attend and graduate from college, find jobs more readily than male peers and have higher emotional IQ.

One woman insisted that boys are “less caring toward their parents.” This woman craves a ‘“close friendship”’ with her future child that ‘“seemed possible only with a female child.”’  

It isn’t just women. Another interviewee echoed the sentiments of many younger men when she said her husband values characteristics ‘“more [stereotypically] associated with girls,”’ such as “empathy, social skills, and kindness.”

This invites the question: If these skills are so important — and they are, as schools, workplaces and relationships increasingly demand them — why can’t we simply teach them to boys?  

Such gender bias is emblematic of the selective empathy trend in which people proffer tolerance, compassion and context only for those they deem worthy. Though unintentional, this was what Rachel, who works in spaces that empower girls and women, was speaking to after reading my book.

“I had no idea so many men struggle deep down and have these anguished inner lives,” she said. “Many of us have this belief that men’s privilege insulates them from the struggles the rest of us have.”

I absolutely appreciated her sincerity and thoughtful admission. And the lack of empathy that belies many girls’ and women’s perception of boys and men is problematic. It’s maladaptive and robs males — one-half of the population — of their humanity and very real struggles.

Part of the reason this dearth of empathy exists is that too many men have abdicated their responsibilities. The men who are wounded by this brand of toxic messaging don’t speak up because they are afraid of the backlash, especially of being “canceled” or widely attacked on social media. They fear being labeled (unfairly) as extremist “Men’s Rights” apologists.

And the men who do speak up rarely do so in a productive way. Too often they shrug and pretend not to care, and instead take their grievances to the online “manosphere’s” dark corners, where they exact revenge among a receptive, misogynistic audience.   

It’s also time that women did some soul searching — that they stop and reconsider their prevailing, limiting perceptions about men and masculinity. Their own personal experiences with men don’t apply across the board, and such wanton attacks on and wholesale dismissal of boys and men only perpetuate and normalize a reactivity that’s uncritical and self-pitying.

A more productive social media post might feature a montage of boys and men with this caption: “Yes, you need to level up…you also deserve empathy and compassion along the way.” It’s not catchy, but it moves the conversation forward in a way we need it to go.

[elearningcnp]

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The implementation of smart classes at our institution has significantly improved teaching and learning experiences, with interactive whiteboards, multimedia content, and customized learning options resonating with students.

I think there are several reasons why smart classrooms are essential.

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Entry to an Abundance of eLearning Information:

Smart classes leverage the internet's vast information repository to provide students with real-time data, real-time research, online resources, and a wider range of educational opportunities.

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The transition to a smart class has fostered a culture of collaboration and critical thinking among students, enhancing their teamwork skills, problem-solving abilities, and team-building abilities through collaborative projects, idea sharing, and active discussion participation.

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[bratty-telepath]

Ok ok ok, so, with talk about a desire for a Castle and redacted crossover that the people *rightfully* should want. I wanna throw my hat in the game since my bitch ass basically rambled it all over twitter right to Castle's face so I might as well share the goods with Tumblr. As such, I present…

The Castle/Redacted Crossover AU – a.k.a the Rook AU

Here's the deets about this AU:

As of last night's audio, Darlin•Darren and Castle!SH are the same person in this crossover. Darren's parents had divorced sometime ago and while Darlin was in custody of their dad in Dahlia, his mom adopted Claire back in their hometown. Darren thus frequents between being a Shaw pack member and a Greene Pack member but holds love for Claire and David regardless of their circumstances (they just show it more to Claire cuz sister privileges).

FL and Dear are both online friends who discovered the magical world together and exchange what they both know about it via messages to one another, they both ship each other with their respective speakers to the other's embarrassment. They love each other tho🧡

Celine is William's maker (the discord knows this shit and I'm taking it from there to here). They used to be a thing and Celine turned him after he was on the brink of death(unspecified). That makes her Madame Solaire actually even though William holds the title of king. She loves all the others of the Solaire clan and loves Lovely.

Lasko and Rose both went to DAMN together! Rose attended for a final mandatory year over at DAMN in the same year that Lasko semi-got his shit together and they both were study buddies! Rose moved on from Dahlia but Lasko stayed. They still text each other sometimes tho!

The Shaw and Greene Packs both have avid communication with each other in the fact that Darren is a member of both packs. Asher and Beth have set up a personal communication between them called Beta support that in reality just is a groupchat with Beth, Asher, Beautiful and Baaabe.

David and Claire both work with each other in David providing security for Claire's blood transportation operation and Claire networking with the Shaws and the Solaires to provide vampires in Dahlia with the same resources that Glenwood has. Claire and David also playfully bicker with each other about who has a better beta. Neither have broken the tie.

Darren is dating Sam and Genevieve–best believe the poly goes everywhere with me–Gen and Sam are also dating, they're a throuple and it's cute as hell. Gen also spends time with the Solaires when she can and is besties with Lovely.

You might be thinking about it but no, Quinn and Rachelle don't work together on account of how I've written Quinn in my head. He enjoys the power he gets from being a vampire and with Rachelle's story going on, it seems as though she wants to return to being a human, they both want very different things but have interacted when they need something from each other.

Ranger, Claire and Sadhil•SH do know each but ranger doesn't like Sadhil(they do like each other, they're just rivals) on account that they're very defensive about their territory in Glenwood. Sadhil and Claire did once work on a case together out in Glenwood regarding a previous case where Shifters were believed to have gone rogue. She and Sadhil both teamed up and their dynamic can be summed up to "you're so annoying that I would actually kiss you to shut you up". If you couldn't tell, this is the Milo/SH/Claire/Ranger agenda. They're all shits to Milo and it's cute.

Morgan and Beautiful know each by virtue of their organizations crossing paths with one another a lot. They're both besties who talk about Beth and Seer a lot.

Gavin and Celine know each other from their many travels and they've both met up once or twice and have had lovely conversations about the nature of immortality and their places in the world as it evolves. They're friends :3

That's all for now folks!

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

After creating my Golden Goose fan kid, Merch, I found myself overcome with a lot of ideas for fan kids of the other Sins (barring some exceptions). While I had some trepidations sharing them, talking with @prof-ramses about Merch has helped give me the confidence to make this post, even if I don’t do much with these characters later on.

Like last time, ideas are under the cut.

Ignacio “Iggy” Chakal. Satan’s only child. Iggy came about from a night of passion between the King of Wrath and a jackal demon on the night of one fateful Harvest Moon Festival. Iggy is in many ways the opposite of his father, being a rather willowy and lethargic gamer, in contrast to his father being a mountain of muscle and a semiretired warlord. Personality wise, Iggy is completely apathetic and disinterested with anything that isn’t on a screen and typically reacts with passive aggression whenever someone tries to actually engage with him. His games of choice are Rust style online multiplayers and when he isn’t playing those, he’s either creating discourse online, inciting flame wars, or trolling & doxxing people. Satan for his part actually tries to engage with his son and be a supportive father, albeit maybe a bit too enthusiastically, but Iggy just doesn’t care enough to give his dad the time of day.

The Pups (Bernadette, Beatrix, Beckett, Belladonna, & Debbie). Bee and Vortex’s quintuplet daughters. The Pups are all rather varied in terms of appearance, with Beatrix being the most canine in appearance, while Debbie is an anthropomorphic bee (Bernadette, Beckett, & Belladonna are more or less even blends of both features). As for individual personalities, they each sort of personify traits of both parents, Bernadette=irreverent party girl, Beatrix=stoic & takes no shit, Beckett=strong protective drive, Belladonna=natural born performer, & Debbie=emotionally aware & caring. Despite how varied their personalities are, The Pups can actually work in tandem with one another with no issue, often doing so without uttering a single word. While Vortex took to being a dad as if it were second nature, Bee was, and still is, stressed about becoming a parent out of fear that her lifestyle would make her ill equipped at raising her daughters.

Drawing from a previous idea me and @prof-ramses discussed, Ozzie is on record for not desiring any children because they’d “just tie him down”. This is ironic because A. Ozzie has already unknowingly conceived a number of kids throughout his long existence & B. as the other Sins can attest, this is the exact same thing Ozzie said about entering a committed relationship. Fizz meanwhile is on record for being open to having a kid one day.

Sock & Buskin. Leviathan’s twin sons. It’s left ambiguous whether or not the twins are adopted or not. For that matter, it’s not clear which is the older of the two or if “Sock” and “Buskin” are nicknames. Both of them can be described as theater kids, although Sock is a scrawny theater goth & Buskin is a burly theater jock. The two resent each other for what the other has (Buskin’s physicality & Sock’s intelligence respectively) and both are generally just difficult to be around. A unique ability the twins possess is the ability to combine into a form reminiscent of Vilitch the Curseling. They hardly ever use this ability given their inability to get along and cooperate. Leviathan does legitimately love his boys and desires to be the best parent he can be (partly to one up the other Sins), but his parenting style is unfortunately near identical to the way he runs his publication, resulting in his sons constantly fighting one another for his affection.

Subject: BEL/BAP - 03/Junior. Belphegor & Baphomet’s son. Rather than waste valuable work time and resources doing things the old fashioned way, Bel created Junior by taking genetic samples from herself and Baph, while also implementing some from a few “willing donors” to fill in gaps left by the mutations in her genes. Junior was incubated and left to develop in a bacta tank until he reached puberty, with automated recordings and audio logs serving as his only means of education and exposure to the outside world. Junior combines the best features of his parents as well as a few traits from the other genetics sources Bel integrated, such as feathers and extra eyes. Personality wise, Junior takes heavily from his father, while also being something of a mirror to Charlie. That is to say, while Charlie is an ambitious dreamer who wants to change the world, Junior is an unmotivated philosopher who likes to while away the hours contemplating such things as lint drifting in the wind. While Baph is unfailingly patient with Junior and gently tries to push him to be more driven, Bel is quickly losing patience and is rather insistent about him getting a proper job and moving out.