#Also like. If your thing gets approved does that make you a moderator who is immediately responsible for everyone in your community?

[novorehere]

So like… tumblr wouldn’t manually approve a community that said the word vore in it, would they? Have any of you who are braver than me tried and succeeded?

[the-phantom-author]

also i know i’ve been super MIA but i’ve been on my popstar!gf shit 🤞🏻🤞🏻😔😔

i’ve been thinking that maybe when hasan went to disney w fear& she goes to because they literally love her and want her to do something gahdammit go outside!! stop writing!!! (cue hamilton lyrics “WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE YOURE RUNNING OUT OF TIME WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE YOU NEED IT TO SURVIVE!!!”)

and they didn’t actively put her on camera like not purposefully but she would be seen holding hands w hasan or he would have his arm around her shoulder in the background and fans were like OMGGGG we miss her!!!!

she slowly started making some super small appearances on stream, maybe she’d just come and sit with him, she’d put her feet in his lap while she’s out of frame and writing in her journal, always new lyrics. chatters can see he’s rubbing her legs or feet or whatever

maybe when he has something non political on to watch she will come and sit, and just rarely speak but it’s always so funny when she does, she just kinda sitting back and letting him lead and just enjoying sitting w him and his hand on her thigh (not that he doesn’t do it off stream but its always nice to be touched by hasan)

one night she walks in to sit with him but it’s a night that shit is really popping off in politics and he’s started having so many maggots (MAGA followers, that’s what i call them🫶🏻) and the hate and criticism starts and the disrespect because she’s a woman, she’s much younger, her career and dating life, literally anything, and hasan is PISSED after the stream. he saw the chat, he knew you did but you’re always great at ignoring that stuff. but ultimately hasan is like no, i don’t want you on any streams right now

which angers her because um hello she can make her own choices he can fuck right off with that

and it makes him angry that she isn’t listening and understanding his side

they have a few days of pouting, space, but inevitably he misses her and he knows neither of them communicated it well so she comes over and make up and ⚡️make up⚡️

so it’s back to not being on stream but hasan IS NOT going to allow his stream to become a place for hate to fester for her. all of these chatters saying that shit?? permabanned, you’re done.

when it’s something super important like say when the election is actually happening, she will make the rare appearance and he’s closing chat for the duration or having mods go through and approve/disapprove of each comment

to sum it up::::: they’re still the hottest couple known to man and boy does he engage in pda and she still has so so many people that love her. she just needs space from the public eye.

Maggots is insane

The amount of small blips of her that chat gets to see in the Disney stream. Like, if Fear& can't get their gay to come, they might as well get popstar!gf, who is a close second.

They see glimpses of her, on the small word ride, she goes with Will to watch the fireworks, at the gift shop, sharing snacks she's bought from the vendors, ect ect.

And yes, smaller stream appearances, especially when hasan doesn't have a guess, she's just beside him with her journal, he mic is one, just incase she ever wants to say things, so it's no uncommon for chat to hear her mumble lyrics, or for her random no filter commentary.

She gets so upset by his banning of her in his stream room, if only because it makes her feel like hasan doesn't trust her ability to know how she's feeling about things. It does evolve into a fight/argument between the two of you. You take yourself and your cat and leave his place for a bit. It's a lot of silence on both of your ends. Hasan, as much as he likes to communicate about those kinds of things, feels like he's justified and doesn't want to be the first to cave. And popstar!gf, she knows that she is right. He caves first. And yes, the two of them do makeup and /make up/

Her making a full camera appearance! Chat is down and heavily moderated. She's on camera, and in Hasan's chair, hasan is next to her and not the main focus.

They are both happy and healthy and hot as fuck. All is right for that moment in time, even if she does go back to being offline afterward.

[asordinaryppl]

A3! Main Story: Part 4 - Act 13: Budding Spring - Episode 15: Ketchuped Thoroughly

Employee A: I apologize for the inconvenience.

Employee A: We are doing relatively well in English-speaking countries and Asia, but this region is difficult and not a lot of people within the company can help…

Employee A: I’m considering out-sourcing, but I have yet to receive approval. Please at least correct the parts that don’t make sense through machine translation.

Chikage: I can do this much quickly, it’s alright.

Chikage: …

[Keyboard keys clicking]

Chikage: (Is this the last one?)

Chikage: �� —

Chikage: (... Same last name? I’m starting to develop a bad habit of reacting on reflex.)

-

Tsumugi: It’s been a while since the voting period started, but the notifications for debut performances don’t seem to be letting up.

Kazunari: There are still a lot of announcements about new theater companies being formed and member recruitments~

Kumon: Oh yeah. A kid in my class also said they wanted to try acting.

Tsumugi: As more people are exposed to theater, more of them want to try it out.

Tenma: And because of the SNS voting, more and more companies are focused on online distribution.

Omi: While working on a photoshoot the other day, I met someone who works in the video industry, and they said they suddenly got a lot busier.

Yuki: There’s also comments from overseas on online reviews.

Tasuku: As they said in the press conference, the New Fleur Award is revitalizing the world of theater.

Azuma: That’s amazing, considering it’s only just begun.

Sakyo: Yukio-san’s the kind of person to be smack-dab in the eye of the storm when it comes to theater. 

Guy: He has gotten busier as the award gains more attention. He has been doing a lot of interviews together with Kamikizaka.

Sakyo: Well, I’m sure Reni-san’s handling that part just fine.

Yuki: The reviews on En.com are also increasingly rapidly, but there’s a lot of bad ones.

Yuki: Even plays by famous troupes and screenwriters have comments like, “They spoke too fast, and I didn’t understand a thing, the costumes were cute tho”.

Yuki: There’s also, “I didn’t understand why, but they suddenly broke into contemporary dance. It was interesting overall, however.”.

Azami: Honest but harsh, huh.

Sakyo: They probably don’t understand the artistic beauty of theater and are just sharing their first impressions of it.

Tsuzuru: They’re interesting to read, but it’s scary to think how that might be us next time.

Sakuya: I wonder what they’ll say about us…

Izumi: Don’t think about it so much and get discouraged. We’ll be fine if we do things as we usually do.

Itaru: Tru. If we worry about it too much and worry our fans, we’ll be putting the cart before the horse.

Yuki: It’d be a good idea to keep review checking in moderation.

-

Yuzo: Good morning.

Tsuzuru: Good morning.

Sakuya: Good morning! Thank you for today!

Izumi: Sorry for calling you here when you’re also busy with your own troupe.

Yuzo: I don’t mind.

Itaru: Have you thought of any strat for the New Fleur Award, Yuzo-san?

Yuzo: We’re just gonna do what we usually do. The pre-voting stung, though.

Izumi: MANKAI Company came up 70th.

Yuzo: We got 103rd.

Sakuya: Lower than us!?

Tsuzuru: Even though you sell out all your tickets and have a loyal following…

Yuzo: Most of our fans are pretty old.

Yuzo: There’s probably people who didn’t know about the pre-voting, or they just didn’t know how to participate.

Yuzo: It seems like it’ll be an uphill battle, but all we can do is be ourselves.

Yuzo: Well, this round ain’t over. We’ll go at our own pace, with no rush.

Yuzo: Still, Yukio-san threw a curveball at us like he always does. I’m always amazed at what he can come up with.

Izumi: Haha… You can say that again.

Yuzo: Alright. If you’ve finished getting ready, let’s start.

Sakuya: Yes! Thank you very much!

-

Yuzo: …

Izumi: What do you think…?

Izumi: (It’s been a while since I last felt this nervous…)

Yuzo: Hah… As rough as ever.

Yuzo: Since it’s a sequel to your debut performance, your interpretation of your characters is good. What you’re lacking on is spirit.

Yuzo: And Tsuzuru, you’ve still got your doubts about the script, so you can’t concentrate on acting it out, yeah?

Tsuzuru: … Yes.

Yuzo: The rest of you guys are too caught up in wanting to put on a good show in order to produce good results for the ranking.

Yuzo: Having to put on a good performance is common sense. I’m sure you guys understand that by now.

Yuzo: So, you need to think about what you want to convey and achieve through this performance on top of that.

Yuzo: Do you want a better place in the rankings, or do you want to show how much you’ve grown…

Sakuya: — —

Yuzo: It’s not a bad thing to want the audience’s reception to be positive, obviously. But if that’s all you’re aiming for, then this is all just a way to earn points.

Yuzo: All your thoughts will be things like, “if we do this we’ll get more popular and get more points” and “if we do that we’ll get extra points”. But what we’re doing here is theater, not a competition.

Yuzo: What is you guys’, what is the Spring Troupe’s acting all about? Who are you doing it for? For what purpose?

Yuzo: You’re doing a sequel for your debut play. What did that debut mean to you guys?

Yuzo: If you’re going to go through with this, wouldn’t it be a good idea to discuss and re-evaluate your origins?

Yuzo: …Heh, but do so with some self-discipline, yeah?

Izumi: (I wonder if Yuzo-san also has various concerns regarding the New Fleur Award?)

Izumi: (No, I’m sure troupes other than Yuzo-san’s do too… It’s not just us.)

Izumi: (What role should our theater company have in this world of theater that is rapidly changing in front of our eyes…)

Izumi: (We may have to re-evaluate the direction we’re headed in.)

-

Citron: It’s been a while since he ketchuped us so thoroughly~

Masumi: Criticized us so thoroughly?

Itaru: But he’s upped his kindness levels recently.

Chikage: Doesn’t that mean he approves of us?

Masumi: But the parts that are no good have become much harder to fix.

Sakuya: That’s true… We can’t come up with an easy answer this time. Our acting… Our origin…

Tsuzuru: It’s surprisingly difficult to just be ourselves.

Chikage: Probably because we’re the ones who understand ourselves the least.

Izumi: We chose to make a sequel of our debut performance with the intention to go back to our roots and remember our beginning…

Izumi: So, what do you think was the best thing about the original RomiJuli?

Sakuya: Honestly, I think I was pretty bad at acting. All I had going for me was how badly I wanted to act.

Tsuzuru: Though those feelings of yours haven’t changed.

Sakuya: Yes! If anything, I love and treasure acting even more now.

Masumi: So, we have to find what our current selves are “lacking”.

Itaru: I do feel like my current self is more absorbed in acting than I was back then.

Chikage: Our bonds have deepened, and we’ve all leveled up.

Citron: I can not think of anything we’re lacking~....

Masumi: But I understand what Yuzo’s saying.

Tsuzuru: Right… He’s also right about me still doubting the script.

Chikage: A difference from our debut performance, huh… For better or worse, it’s no longer our “first time” acting.

Itaru: You mean, like our freshness has disappeared? I guess a writer’s debut work always has a certain kind of oomph to it.

Sakuya: A “beginning” only comes once, so it’s not something we can replicate…

Tsuzuru: So in a sense, we’ll never be able to surpass our debut performance…?

Itaru: Sad but true.

Masumi: Something that can’t be surpassed despite our growth…

Itaru: A “first time” and the image of innocently rushing forward both have a certain kind of impact.

Sakuya: Hmmm…

Izumi: …

Izumi: (Everyone’s mood dampened.)

Izumi: Let’s put this on hold, think about it individually, and then have another meeting.

Tsuzuru: ‘Kay.

Itaru: … Good idea.

[Phone vibrating]

Sakuya: Oh–

Izumi: The meeting’s over, so it’s okay if you go out.

Sakuya: I’m sorry, please excuse me.

[Sakuya walks out]

Sakuya: — —Hello, This is Sakuma speaking.

Sakuya: Ummm, I’m sorry. About that…

Iv: long af maint shiki: i’ve got a test tomorrow, so i might not be on much Iv: we start on thurs Kar: gl Iv: aren’t you also starting soon Kar: been at it since the day before ytd Iv: oh you already did shiki: you’re so chill about it momo has entered the chat Kar: sup shiki: you’re late today Iv: have your tests started too? momo: i ran away from home Kar: sudden mood shift lmao

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[detransdamnation]

I think I might not actually be trans but I don't know where these feelings come from then, what caused them and what to do against my dysphoria. I just want to be a woman again. do you have any resources on this? thank you in advance

Hey there, Anon.

Unfortunately, there aren't too many resources for dysphoric detransitioned people and what few do pop up either don't last long, cater exclusively to youth or the parents of them, or (in my personal opinion) don't actually do all that much to tangibly help us as people. That isn't to say that the resources do not exist, period—but from what I have seen, they are largely community-based and almost exclusively online (which can open its own can of worms), as academic and medical efforts where they do exist more often concern dysphoric people who are actively transitioning, or wish to make that leap.

That being said, frustrating circumstance does not mean that you cannot take steps to try to help yourself. It's difficult for me to know what, exactly, to suggest, as I don't know you, so I can't make too many assumptions on what, specifically, may have contributed to your dysphoria and what you may find helpful. But not all hope is lost. I scoured the Internet looking for something that could help you, and although most of what has been put out there suffers/ed from the same things I listed above, I did find one organization that may be of interest to you. Gender Dysphoria Alliance aims to better understand dysphoria, all the ways it can present, and the best ways to help those affected by it. This could be helpful to you if you are looking specifically for well-rounded conversation that is supportive of detransitioners and centric of homosexual and female sex rights, critical of the ways in which the transgender community approaches things but also not inherently gender-critical and not necessarily dismissive of transition as a legitimate option for some. There is a members' forum specifically for those who are impacted by dysphoria to participate in, although in order to join, you will need to receive approval from a moderator to ensure the space remains reflective of its intent and target group.

Insofar as the process of working through dysphoria goes, if you are wondering where to start, I came across this archived Substack post entitled Alternatives to Transition: A step-by-step guide to thinking your way out of dysphoria without repressing it*. This is a short, concise article which, coincidentally, outlines more or less the same approach I took (and still try to take) when dealing with my own dysphoria; that you said "I just want to be a woman again" in your submission makes me think it may be helpful for you as well. In essence, dysphoric people—as a feature of our dysphoria—are prone to hyper-analysis and extreme black-and-white thinking. We tend to see (the ideas of) men and women as (often rather extreme) caricatures of stereotypes—leading us to believe that we are, or are meant to be, the opposite sex (or even another gender entirely) because we do not fit those stereotypes. In the process of this re-identification, we lose the ability to understand that very few people are actually adequately described by any of their sex's stereotypes to a T—and simultaneously, that virtually no non-dysphoric person looks at menial things and categorically assigns them a gender (in general, or to know how to conform or not to conform) like we do. In short, we're too in-our-own-heads emotionally to logically understand how things actually are. This isn't our fault as dysphoric people—but it does mean we're unlikely to get anywhere until we learn to reformulate our thinking. This post gives you specific direction on how to start that process.

But dysphoria rarely happens "just because," and in deconstructing your own, you may find that your dysphoria was only secondary to another, greater issue, whether environmental or psychological. This is a little more difficult to give guidance on, as dysphoria which has been influenced by the surrounding environment isn't something that one can change overnight, or even necessarily escape from. As far as psychological issues go, it'd be easy for me to suggest therapy; however, I don't like to because I find it to be a canned response, especially nowadays. It's unhelpful to people who do not have the monetary means to go to therapy, as well as insensitive to those who have had bad experiences which turned them off or even set them further back.

On top of this, what is a great barrier for dysphoric detransitioners in finding psychological help is that many gender psychologists are geared to only support circular, gender-affirmative treatment (i.e., transition is the cure for your dysphoria because you are transgender) in their practice, which—should go without saying—isn't helpful to us as detransitioners, and may even inadvertently harm us. I don't mean to dissuade you from going this route if you feel you need it, or to be overall pessimistic about the state of things (although I'll admit I am)—but I also find it imperative to be honest about the difficulties you may face in finding someone who would be beneficial to you in your specific situation. I will say that in my research for you, I did find one website which offers more well-rounded therapy for dysphoric people; however, it's not something I'm personally comfortable publicly endorsing on my blog because the website itself admits that the advertised therapists are not vetted by the organization itself (meaning at minimum, they agree with the mission statement and probably won't blindly affirm your dysphoria—but that's about all that's guaranteed). Still, if you would like to have this on hand regardless, you are free to message me for the link.

Finally, if you happen to be struggling with the ways in which the transgender community or gender theory has harmed you but are struggling to put the "why" and "how" into words (or just want reassurance that you're not crazy for feeling hurt), I'd like to direct you to The New Thought Crime*. This is a series of five blog posts. Very long read, very information-heavy. However, when I was in your same position coming up to three years ago now, teetering between the two paths, not sure if I even wanted to "take the risk" and disenfranchise myself from something I had spent so many years working so hard to carefully craft for myself, this was what ripped the blinders off and forced me to realize just how much I was harming myself by transitioning. Nothing has ever made me feel so seen and heard in such a dark place. It is initially advertised as for detransitioned women but it is genuinely helpful to everyone no matter their sex, identity, or previous or current relationship with the community. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.

I hope this points you in the right direction. I wish you luck and perseverance.

*P.S. If you find either of these posts helpful, it would be wise to save them elsewhere, as The Wayback Machine as of late seems to be falling short of its prerogative in archiving lost or deleted Internet pages. Go figure.

[makerofmadness]

People talk about needing to recognize terf rhetoric but I think y'all need to learn how to recognize proshxtter rhetoric too. I keep getting jumpscared by this stuff on my dash 'cus I blacklist proshxt-related tags so they stand out really easily. Even then often I'll see posts that say basically the exact same things as these proshxt posts that aren't tagged as such but I refuse to reblog them because I recognize the type of language used and the topics discussed.

Like bruh if people are complaining about "Puritanism" regarding fanfiction 9 times out of 10 they're just mad that people don't think there's any real benefit out of writing little jimmy x old man johnson smut fanfic with glorified prose going into detail on every stage of buttsex unless you're a groomer trying to use it to desensitize impressionable kids to pedophilia

they act like any form of fxcking moderation and standards is an attack against queer people, even when other queer people are complaining about this because most of us don't approve of kid diddlers either. Also Wattpad has rules and people still post gay mpreg constantly (which is not against the rules) so your point falls apart right there, stop trying to equate pedophilia with queerness you're setting our community back and playing into some of the very homophobic stereotypes that surround us. Just use a site that isn't ao3 for once in your lives and stop gaslighting yourselves into thinking that that's the only place where gay fanworks are allowed when clearly it's not. (No I am not blindly bashing ao3, I do think its tag filtering system is incredible and should be adopted by more websites in general because it really is a miracle for finding the kind of stuff you want. I'm just saying that I found it kinda pathetic how people treat it like any other site is fxcking 1984).

and these people act as if us not wanting child grooming material is equal to us saying that we don't think those topics should be covered at all. Obviously fxcking not, before any proshxtters try to say anything: I am literally one of the like three fans of the white day game series on here and those games cover some REALLY dark topics, including pedophilia. Among other things. The difference is in how it's handled. White Day covers it as a harsh reality and a dark facet of teenage life, one teen starts an affair with her art teacher and becomes pregnant, and she later takes her own life. Stuff like this does indeed happen in real life. And the game doesn't give detailed descriptions of sex scenes between them (which really isn't needed and doesn't benefit anyway except people who get off to it). It doesn't let itself become material used to perpetuate the very topic it discusses. Basically it's not gratifying.

i swear if I see like one more proshxt post on my dashboard I am going to actually try to make a guide to the dogwhistles and things to look out for, but for now I think I've discussed enough to make these posts a little more apparent. Obviously not everyone who reblogs these posts are proshxtters, but the inability to recognize the posts as being from these people is concerning.

[terraliensvent]

Things Tycho needs to implement for the mod apps:

Please hire fucking adults. Not 19 year olds, please hire some people that are over 21 and have more developed brains. Preferably 25 and up.

Heavily restrict the ability to make mod customs. I know that a LOT of people only want to be staff to be able to make customs, and this isn't a good thing to be able to do right off the bat since Tycho needs mods who want to work, not make money making designs. I think mod customs should not be allowed for at least 6 months AFTER mod trial is over. Work on the species, that's what you were hired to do, not make customs. If you want to make and sell designs, apply to be a GA, not staff.

Mod myos. There's too many mod lim myos floating around and these should not be tradeable. If mods get myos as payment every month, they should get two options. Lim myo, not tradeable. Modified myo, tradeable. They get to choose just one.

Also I think Tycho needs to go through the shambling remains of the staff and get rid of loose ends, like Kea. Kea does absolutely fucking nothing for the species except occasionally vote on staff matters and do transfers, which literally any other staff member can do. All she does is ignore trade offers for her obvious trades that totally aren't entertaining offers, which aren't even allowed btw, and she'll talk about opening up customs to get people to throw themselves at her for her art. She needs to be removed as a staff member and made a GA, since that's what she's best at. Plus she's just conveniently taking a break and ignoring all the work that needs to be done and making Tycho and the other few mods do everything themselves. If Kea can't be a functioning staff member in this moment when we really need them, why do we need her at all? Karma, too. Why are you guys taking a break and making everyone else do all the hard work so you can just come back when it's all over and reap the benefits? You guys suck. Either step up and do your job or quit.

i agree with everything you said here anon

on your first point, it def goes back to the maturity thing for me because, while previous mods and the owners are “adults,” 18 and 19 is still pretty immature (and you can really tell based off of the controversies that have happened just within a year)

on the second, i really think terras should make more use of the “official artist” role. i agree that a lot of mods seem to just sit on their ass and make customs/adopts, which, if you want to just do art then say that!! dont present it like youre gonna actually moderate if ur just pumping out adopts, thats why theres the official artist role

for the third point, i actually think tycho does have plans to mitigate the myo situation (you can see that in the conversation i had with him here), so i think theres gonna be some progress there

on your last point, i agree as well; i think kea especially is one of the people who would benefit from being an official artist instead. she has the admin role but ive literally never seen her be an administrator of anything. doing approvals is something that really anyone can do, and the main thing ive ever seen from kea is customs and adopts. i dont think ive really ever seen her answer questions or design help, and as far as events go the only one shes been visibly a part of is the birthday one that just happened (and honestly if i didnt just go and check right now i would have totally forgotten shes an ADMIN, not just a regular mod)

i think delegation of staff and staff responsibilities is a big thing that needs fixing, since its been an issue basically forever in this species. design and prompts take forever to approve, but when its ever suggested to get more mods it was always “we have enough!” yeah, you have an overabundance of mods that just wanna make fucking adopts and nothing else. just make them official artists and have the mod role for people that can actually work.

[ububunes]

Will literally not stop calling that stupid fucking site Twitter or a tweet a tweet. idc what stupid name they come up with. i want that bird back and i want that annoying 50 year old lameass out of his spot as ceo.

I don't like to ageshame or whatever but Elon being like 50 and asking people to call him technoking or whatever stupid name the next neocities prompt site tells him to pick. Man have some shame. Maybe I'm just weak but I'd die of shame on the spot before publicly asking to be called technoking. I can't imagine an ex seeing that or my child seeing it. I'd like. Expel every single awful thing in my body that would make me even ask or say that. Do you want your dick sucked that badly. Are you that lonely. That desperate for. I don't even know?? Attention? Acceptance? Approval?? Other a words????? Yeah okay 'ububnes' is kinda dumb but I've got shame y'know. I can acknowledge that. And not to sound. Absolutely sick in the head but I am an empath (<- aka knows the skill of empathy and is able to actually try and understand what others are going through instead of firing someone because they 'arent working enough' (I still cannot believe he did that without even realizing who he fired. The only time he is funny is when he is not trying to be.)) I can usually tell when people are uncomfortable with what I'm doing and I just don't think Elon can, or he just has too many people who just agree with everything he says and blah blah blah so that he can't even recognize when he's saying something dumb as shit and dragging his barely alive reputation. I would never be able to agree with Elon politically specifically because he does not seem to actually care that much and just does whatever he thinks is 1. Funny and 2. Will get him profits (for the companies he cares about owning anyways.) that any time I hear Elon say anything ever I'm like "ok but does he really mean that." Yeah free speech wooo cool pog but like.... You can't just allow ALL speech Elon... You're allowed to limit specific types of speech dude... Remember when like. Right after he bought Twitter there was like an absolutely unprecedented amount of hate speech suddenly on the site. As in more than usual for Twitter. That's literally why Elon. Some people will post stuff that is LITERALLY illegal in the worst possible way dude. You have to have some limits and moderation!!! It might sound contradictory but you CAN be pro free speech but still limit hate speech. They can still think and say all of that, just not on your platform. I remember how when it happened my mom genuinely thought "it was the liberals" doing the hate speech. Girl what!!! I'm not going to say no liberal ever has done hate speech but the influx of hate speech when the pro free speech guy bought Twitter... It's gonna be people who are 1. Just kinda awful people 2. Want to test how far they can go 3. Sorry mom, more likely conservatives. Anyways they absolutely missed out on the chance to rename to "twt" I don't know where x comes from and I don't care it sounds dumb and like... Idk. Not Twitter. I also said this on my twt but y'know how Facebook rebranded to meta while they were in huge privacy scandals and scandals in general to instead hopefully change public perception of the company and grant them a "blank slate" to hopefully build a new better image. I'm sure that isn't similar at all.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[maneaterwithtail]

[QUOTE="kage15oni, post: 101686863, member: 106939"]

To be fair, have you see the country he is in lately? There is only so much unjust some people can take before alternate options look appealing.

That's why despite people can generally agree Killmonger's plan is flawed, you can find alot of people getting where he came from.

[/QUOTE]

Like many an entertainer he can say things like this with his words never been held to an account half as much as the people he will be charming

He answered gentlemen He is legitimate in the sense that rage is as much a part of the civil rights process as noble intention one tempers the other

And there is something toYou said about the final box of liberty but I don't think that we are a nation or in a situation as a wholeWe're mostly using the first 3 and no small part because thanks to social media we think that the final one is the most effective with no side effects or negative consequences

After all who has more power the dictator of Turkey or the moderator of his own private webform in terms of his constituents

At the very least he can point to a very authentic feeling of what it feels like to be marginalized and how it can seep in

And at least part of it is well for the longest time the holy grail of black summer rights and the caucus was the first black president where we had it and now we are here

A certain level of disillusionment is always going to set in but especially if there were further harm or continuedInequality as a whole or a greater sense of awareness of antipathy based on race relations ideas and assumption

This is This is important in one way the episode about Leandra marine Xavier most were willing to ignore xavier's presence when he was just a nobody in her bedroom but when he was in front of the camera possibly going to claim absolute authority and the importance of being decenter and representative of the Empire possibly even its head of state in the instance that Leandro was in any way incapacitated Even more so when there's this sense that he can just do this without anyone else's approval or assurance that they want to put their trust or representation in him

They were perfectly fine with all the rules that determined this without their input for generations but now that this involves one of the Empire marrying outside of their race when by their very nature they have to have many non bird descended subjects- they even make up their Royal guard - There's a million and one point of order and loyalty tests that are just downright grotesque

And we see how this greater social tension has an interpersonal one in terms of the relationship between Charles and Leandra

More importantly than all of that though is the fact that this is done in a backdrop to very much deconstruct or say how Romeo and Juliet does not actually solve pre-existing tensions and romantic or cultural identity defining tales cam have a split reception

Charles Charles here's a great foundational myth of the Empire and the first thing he does is to construct it as a means of forcing someone into submission when it has just as much elements of to some people and association a piece or a cinderella story

That's very much Tie's in as Bo de Mayo what point out his own experiences as a black queer person because pre-existing social norms cues and myths or folklore either actively exclude him or due to his own personal experience have to apply only partially in an ill-fitting manner and so if he says yes to them he's also saying yes to all of the b******* that they've enabled

So if you're So if your choice is the perfect bride who grants you absolutely authority over them so that that way you can maintain peace or a malicious actor Who keeps saying they're doing this for your shared identity regardless of what their actual actions would result in and if they do actually make a consideration that's worthwhile

It's so much easier to go with the gangster rapper or social vitriol shitstirrer Huey freeman than say George Washington carver-esque or Uncle Ruckus figure.

Especially Especially if they can make you feel both seen and powerful against your immediate foes ignoring the fact that making yourself entirely defined by the people who hurt you so that you can hurt them back actually forbids you from accomplishing the very thing that they are supposedly defending

Magneto for all of his power cannot truly built only destroy. Charles power as well as hope and reconciliation and morality allow for an actual bridge to be built along with the foundation for a community but we also see that it's no easy thing it's not just feel good tactics it involves a great deal of personal risk compromise loss and it's hardly rational looking. Worse while it may not see me from the outside both people use power in a way that diminishes your agency and sense of safety and self but Charles is much more immediate to the point he's very easy to hate. Where as magnito is very easy to admire especially if he's using that power in a way that may give you something that you believe that you need or want

Rogue wants revenge and do not feel weak and vulnerable

Bobby wants a family that actually accepts and loves him without any sense of diminishment or loss

Guy with an extinction level of event in his back pocket kind of offers that

It's very It's very much humanizing the terrorist or the gangster or the ethnic themed criminal

While showing that the rule of law is very often the tyranny of the majority or the presumed righteousnessof the establishment elite

This gets more This gets more so if as a result of their special ability your transgressiveness they can offer something that someone commonly might take for granted such as the intimate touch or ability to act with flike rent display to the greater society celebration

We may not remember this but a few years ago someone basically had one the equivalent of the illottery in the form of an NFL draft pick but this man was gay his boyfriend basically hugged and kissed him publicly on television as a celebration of his basically entering a lifestyle that can very much raise him to celebrity status honor and accomplishment

This is hardly unprecedented for sayGirlfriends who have barely been dating their man for half of a year and regardless of the value of the relationship it's just as soon as a natural or moral thing for them to do sure some people may throw some judgment some way way more than they need to

But it basically cost him his well-earned reward and it was a debate a literal public debate about how much he was allowed or violated protocol to basically romantic and publicly affectionate with his boyfriend who had stood by him while he was training his body to the point of excess in order to accomplish his goal

This is hardly a first or isolated incident especially for black men who especially lately have been embracing less traditional displays of masculinity

A common notice is that you see a lot of queer or queer appearing Blackman now from the son of Magic JohnsonTo a bunch of adopted fathers with their daughters and so on and so forth and this I imagine also ties into what would inspire say bodemayo and how he would approach the plotline of Gambit rogue immagnitos love triangle

it's hardly unique and only about say being able to be in an open straight appearing relationship VS a closeted gay one in terms of physical affection. in fact there's a lot more going on in terms of disability Or hell even hypergymy.. I could very much see that lived or observed experience if not one that he's personally experienced the 1 who would find very personally relevant as it observed phenomena and think that very much affects his life how he would direct or latch on to presenting these 2 desperate elements rogues romance life and how it's led her to these 2 different men and why she would be torn between them

Even more so with the man and his own issues in terms of how much and how confident you can be in his relationship with rogue who's always in this weird marginalized liminal space where everybody knows they have strong affection but they're not really officially or exclusively an item

Again do you not see saying some applicability for being say a black man who is gay and working in entertainment where a lot of them all whole lot of them have had to be relatively on the download or out of sight in terms ofIs their relationships.

Yes it's true Luther Vandross came out as gay much to everyone's partial mockery but what they miss is that he often spent a large amount of time cultivating an image in order to come off as a lady's manAt the very least a highly romantic figure with almost all of his songs as well as public presentation having very little. Celebration or presentation of his long-term partner

I mentioned all of this in order to again tap into the sense of frustration that tends to be labeled queer or black range or what have you

And that's why if you suffer any setback let alone devastating violent ones by a perceived authority or a lack of support from an authority if they didn't immediately turns around to well let's throw us a revolution because it's the only thing that makes sense

So even if you can point to a very public very hatefield action like a depulse club shooting that turns out not to have actually been homophobic but opporto mystic that doesn't change the fact that it triggers that sort of reaction even more so because it makes shows what in terms of tragedy people expect of the minority and how little they expect of themselves to the minority

The problem with this is we don't really see this except for maybe president Kelly everyone else who's alive with the x men is in fact pretty much doing the right thing of being a good Ally

Including Including telling them s*** they don't want to hear or like Hey look I get you guys are hurting but destroying the property of people who did not in fact attack you is going to do the exact opposite of make them open their purse strings and say that they should Dedicate time Blood sweat tears and their own wallets To your recovery when you guys keep doing stuff that indicates that you are perfectly fine with holding hands with known vicious criminals who have even tried to kill you just because you share an identity

Where you put personal social identities like being mutant over being American.

Even more so when you start attacking people who actually are helping you and in fact paving the way to gather intelligence in order to further your cause of getting who the targets are as well as overall Justice and turn the opinion of the public on your side

Yes it sucks that you actually have to do this or something that should be a cut and dry matter of we are the victims let's find the bad guys

That That is the sign of very real discrimination and bias

That doesn't change the fact that some people are actually putting in the effort alongside you in order to do so even as you are less able to do so yes because of your minority/discrimination status

And your reward to them is f*** y** I shouldn't have to do this and you're just as guilty as the people who loaded up a war weapon and devastated a bunch of innocent people who you are spending time money and possible career reputation in order to further the cause of humanizing so that that way we can hopefully turn this around

Cause seriously Tilby has every right to say "you know what Hank f*** y** we're through. no more free interviews where I basically fluff you guys to make you look sweet and marketable so that that way everybody basically signs off on you because they're not really thinking

[forlorn-plushie]

Chicken Fries, Chicken Tenders, Popcorn Chicken

Chicken Fries: if you were only able to eat food consisting primarily of dipping sauces for the rest of your life, what would you concoct in order to get by?

How like, strictly defined is dipping sauce? If it's just any dips I am making so many breadbowl type things with like, artichoke dip and such. Is queso a dipping sauce? Does it could as primarily if I dip deep enough?

In order to not die I'm gonna have to make my own sauces for sure, just to get enough vegetables and protein and things that are not sugar and fat.

I like a generous interpretation of "primarily" where as long as I dip really aggressively I can eat any sort of dip on like, chips or bread if it's a really thick dip I can get a lot of on a single piece. I think I could live that way. I already love eating slop, this is fine

Chicken Tenders: You are suddenly confronted with the fictional character you have thought about the most, who declares they are deeply in love with you. How do you respond?

I don't even know who this would be. My memory is bad so I don't really know how long my Arcs have been. Recently it's probably my Arknights blorbo Pramanix, but there's a good chance it's actually someone else from a previous era.

But let's go with Pramanix. First things first I am so fucking dead. I can not overstate how dead I probably am. I have to win the approval of Kjera, her personal attendant, de-facto girlfriend, and local god. I have to win the approval of her brother, a man who has never completely trusted anybody and who I have mentioned previously I would probably try to fistfight on principle. I would have to have general favor with Degenbrecher, Gnosis, and Cliffheart.

There's no fucking way! I'm a mess!!! A total disaster! Even if I got my shit more or less together? Still not someone the cast would be happy with, even though I would be. Maybe Kjera wouldn't kill me instantly? I'm not a jealous sort, and Kjera is a good and cool person who I would do my best to be close to in this situation. If I can establish that I'm not a threat (not in a pushover way) I should be okay.

But fucking SILVERASH? No way no how. I do NOT know how to talk to people like him. There's no way he'd approve! It'd be a small miracle to not get murdered in this situation before I meet him.

I am now realizing the question is not "what happens" but "how do you react". I suppose that's my answer - my anxiety takes over and envisions all the ways I'm going to get killed about this. I'm probably also very, very confused.

It's not going well.

Popcorn Chicken: Spheres cease to exist, and are replaced by another shape of your choice (which is not derived from a circle OR a three dimensional polygon with vertices enough to emulate spheres) of any level of dimensionality. What shape do you choose?

I don't post about it too much here, but I am moderately obsessed with Minecraft. So, naturally, I'm gonna say cubes. This also makes a lot of math way easier.

The other answer I considered was the icosahedron, because d20 lol.

[sanctuaryforalluniverses]

We have to be careful here, though.

I agree that adulthood is special -- after a long fight, I have achieved a mental peace I couldn't have imagined even a decade ago. I'm at a point where I can find real joy in teaching children the things it took me so long to figure out on my own, the things that will prepare them for the long, complicated process of growing up. I also agree that everyone, of every age, desperately needs to accept a great deal more responsibility in their daily actions. If a 10-year-old can learn to turn their homework in on time and not be a dick, you can learn to get your vaccines and pick up your damn garbage.

But what on earth does that have to do with stuffed animals? The Harry Potter people need to accept the fact that J.K. Rowling is as toxic to human life as a nuclear meltdown, but there are thousands of adults the world over that manage to be wonderful members of society while being active members of cartoon-related fandoms. If you think the joys of adulthood Tony Morrison was talking about is spending your free time obsessed with your 401K and what your neighbors are doing with your yards, then there is something VERY wrong with YOU.

And it's very clear the person writing the article doesn't have ADHD, which is not precocious or cute but something that can actively fuck up your life on a regular basis and as much a disability as missing an eye. True, you should keep up with your medication if that's right for you and work to come up with coping mechanisms for things like forgetting texts -- and probably find some nicer friends -- but dismissing something because you don't understand it is a HELL of a lot more childish than forgetting a text. Theory of mind (a.k.a. realizing other people have different needs, experiences, and desires than you) is supposed to develop in childhood.

One more thing. In my experience, there are only two groups of people who are this obsessed with making sure that people are seen as “mature” and “grown up” -- children and teenagers. 

Who needs to grow up now?

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C.S. Lewis

This was an interesting article to read. I think it's a little simple but still fun to skim thru.

[medicalsuppliesworld]

Sleep Right and Avoid Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea can be helped by changing the way a person sleeps. This can't happen if the person changes their sleeping position. For people with sleep apnea, it is best to sleep on their side. When a person sleeps on their back, gravity pulls their relaxed tongue down onto the soft tissues of their throat. This makes it hard to breathe and causes loud snoring. Putting an extra pillow under your head lifts it off the rest of your body. This keeps the tongue from falling down into the airway. The best height for the head is between four and six inches, because anything higher than that can cause a stiff neck or a sore shoulder.

Interventions in medicine

There are several ways to treat sleep apnea. Sleep apnea mouthpieces are usually recommended by doctors. These are tools made to help people who snore too much or grind their teeth, which is called bruxism. Most sleep apnea mouthpieces are made to fit your mouth perfectly so you don't choke or lose them.

Several people who use sleep apnea mouthpieces and doctors looked into their pros and cons. Since these devices are meant to ease pain and make you feel better, it's important to take the time to read reviews of the different ones on the market.

One benefit of using a sleep apnea mouthpiece or a mouth guard for snoring is that it stops sleep apnea and excessive snoring right away. Unlike surgery and other permanent dental devices, it does not hurt you. Also, it's only worn at night, while braces and dental splints have to be worn all day long so everyone can see.

There are, however, some bad things about it. Since it is small and easy to carry, it is easy to lose. In the same way, some people don't like to have something in their mouths while they sleep. Some people may take a long time to get used to it, which can make them feel bad and keep them from sleeping. Like teeth, these mouthpieces should be cleaned and brushed. More or less, mouth guards that haven't been cleaned well can be very dirty.

CPAP

Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure is what CPAP stands for. It is the most common way to treat sleep apnea that is moderate to severe. A mask is used with a CPAP machine to give a steady flow of air while sleeping. It's like getting oxygen at the hospital, but without the big green tank. Some CPAP machines are now made to be small, which makes them easier to take with you when you travel.

Having a CPAP device is helpful because it keeps air flowing through the airways while you sleep. This makes sure that the brain and the rest of the body get enough oxygen. When people used the CPAP machine, their bodies got better. Some of these claims are that you will have more energy during the day, be able to focus and concentrate better, and, most importantly, sleep better. On the other hand, the cons are the same as those of sleep apnea mouthpieces. Since the CPAP is worn on the outside of the body, the person who uses it may find it annoying or uncomfortable at first. For some people, it keeps them from changing their sleeping position because the device might move.

The people who made the CPAP saw that its big, tight mask was a problem, so they made the Provent. Provent comes with nasal cannulas that go over the nostrils. This is smaller and doesn't get in the way as much as a regular CPAP. Aside from the fact that the cannula and mask are different sizes, Provent is more expensive than the standard CPAP.

Popular Brands of Mouthpieces to Stop Snoring

There are well-known brands of devices that stop snoring that have been approved by the FDA. Snore-Ex, PureSleep, and ZQuiet are the three most well-known brands.

Snore-Ex is a device that you put in your mouth to help stop snoring. Snore-Ex is better than a custom mold made by a dentist because it costs a lot less. The mold is made so that it will fit any mouth as long as you follow the step-by-step instructions that come with it. It can also be used with a CPAP, which makes the benefits of the product even better. Snore-Ex can also stop you from grinding your teeth at night. Snore-Ex is a good deal because it helps with both snoring and teeth grinding.

PureSleep is another product that is OK with the FDA. It is a self-molding retainer that moves the lower jaw slightly forward from its normal position while sleeping to stop snoring. This helps open up the airways and reduces the vibrations that make snoring sound. PureSleep comes with a top and a bottom that can be put together. The good thing about PureSleep is that the mouthpiece can be adjusted to fit the user's bite. Once the pieces are joined, the device is boiled to soften which makes it mold perfectly on the teeth in less than a minute. PureSleep is proud of its patented, adjustable design, materials that have been approved by the FDA, and dentists who recommend it.

A dentist named Dr. Avery Lieberman made the ZQuiet device to stop people from snoring. Because he has been a Dental Sleep Specialist for 20 years, he is one of the most knowledgeable people in this field. He made ZQuiet out of soft elastomer that is free of BPA and latex. By doing this, he was able to follow the FDA's strict rules about keeping people safe. To use ZQuiet, you put it in your mouth. It keeps the airways in the throat open by moving the jaw forward. The developers of ZQuiet are proud of their "Living Hinge Technology," a mechanism found in the device that allows the jaws to move naturally during sleep. Since this product is made of a soft type of rubber, people are less likely to wake up with sore jaws.

Sleep apnea and loud snoring have no right to keep anyone from getting a good night's sleep. Thanks to our sleep experts and dentists, we can treat sleep apnea and get a good night's sleep with their helpful inventions. "Sleep is the best way to meditate," the Dalai Lama once said. Because sleep and rest help a mind and body that have been working all day to feel better.

[pariahsparadise]

what could have been

masterlist

requested by @bellatheslytherclaw - hii, since you did the oliver wood nsfw headcannons i wanted to make one more request for himm. could you write a angst to fluff one shot where oliver broke up with the fem!reader (you decide the reason) and then they reunite years later? thank youuu 💗💗💗

word count- 1.2k

pairings- oliver wood x fem!reader

author’s note- i hate this omg, i’m so sorry. this is a complete wreck, i had absolutely no idea what to do. hopefully it’s still readable? idk, not proofread, i can’t bear to go through this mess again. ALSO I’M VERY SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO WRITE I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO. (the assistant is 100% me when it comes to any ship btw, just so you know what inspired his character.)

warnings- swearing. i think that’s it (?)

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It had never been this bad, Fred thought.

Sure, the Gryffindor Quidditch captain and his girlfriend had a tumultuous relationship, and they often fought and squabbled over the littlest things, but that was all in good nature. It was clear to everyone who knew them that the two were deeply in love, and he and George had been running a long-standing gamble about when the two would get married.

Based on the shouts coming from Oliver’s dorm, he was going to lose.

“You’re not listening!” you screamed, tears of frustration leaking from your eyes. You immediately turned your head away, refusing to let Oliver see.

“Well, maybe I’d listen if there was something worth hearing! All you’ve been giving me for the past hour is a bunch of excuses, can’t you just tell me the truth?”

You nearly let out a sob at his response, having tired of this argument ages ago. “Merlin, would you listen to yourself? I have been telling you the truth, there’s nothing going on between Percy and me! He’s literally your best friend, and you know I would never-”

“My best friend that you seem to have taken quite a liking to in recent months, wouldn’t you agree?” spat Oliver, eyes bright with anger. “What, am I not good enough for you anymore? Not smart enough? Is that it? Does the fact that I’m nothing but a stupid, stupid, athlete bother you?”

Your mouth opened in a protest, but quickly stuttered shut as you watched Oliver raise his hands to his head, effectively cutting off his view of you. You fell silent as his shoulders silently shook with what you could only assume were sobs, and you immediately went to his side. Right when you were about to put your arms around him, he spoke up again, voice muffled against his skin.

“Go. Just go.”

Your heart fell to your stomach, your feet concrete on the floor. You didn’t dare breathe, lest he notice that you were still there. But he did anyway, and though he didn’t remove his hands, his voice increased in volume, any sign of vulnerability he might’ve showed earlier gone.

“Just leave, for fuck’s sake!”

So you did.

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It had been years since the two of you broke up, and you were proud to say that you had finally moved on. Graduating Hogwarts after excelling your exams, you immediately found work in the Ministry of Magic, working as both an Alchemist and a Communications Officer. You oversaw and moderated all connections with MACUSA, a mediator of sorts between the two countries.

“Miss L/N?” came the timid voice of your assistant from the hall, and you wondered why he sounded so...awed. “Your next appointment is here.”

“Send them in,” you said, checking your watch. Whoever they were, they were 20 minutes late, and you decided to give them a piece of your mind.

You never got the chance, as your mind was reduced to shambles when you recognised the man who walked through that door.

Oliver seemed even more shocked than you did, stuttering through his words as he took in your office and you. “W-when Coach said that L/N would be approving my passport, I didn’t think he’d mean Y/N L/N.”

“Oh- um, well, surprise!” You said awkwardly, with too much enthusiasm, not knowing where to look. Oliver had filled out even more since the last time you saw him (if such a thing was even possible), muscles in places you didn’t even know could have muscles. His brown hair was about the same attractive length, his brown eyes as warm as the day they had first found yours. They found yours again, and you felt your insides mesh into a puddle.

A yelp from outside brought you back to reality, and you sighed, knowing that your assistant must have fallen out of his chair while trying to eavesdrop. Gesturing to the seat in front of you, you cleared your throat, trying to push the blush away from your cheeks.

“Let’s get this done, then.”

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“You’re going to America?” was the next thing you said, breaking the tense silence that had fallen between the two of you.

“Aye,” he said, hand rubbing shyly at his neck, “Playing in a match, it’s pretty important.”

“I don’t doubt it, it’s in practically every newspaper I’ve seen,” you laughed, sifting through his documents. “I’m happy for you, Ollie.”

The nickname fell from your lips so easily, you didn’t even notice it. Oliver did though, the hitch in his breath an obvious tell. He looked back down at your desk, watching your hands card through the papers, not too different from the way they used to card through his hair. He shook the memory away, looking up at you through his lashes. “And you? Are you happy for yourself?”

You paused, thinking your answer through before responding, “I am, mostly. Great job, great apartment, great friends.” His face fell slightly, but your keen eyes caught the change in his demeanour, so you hastened, “That doesn’t mean that I don’t miss what could have been.”

Oliver stops breathing, the room is more silent than a tomb. You stamp his passport and file his documents away in silence, and he leaves without so much as a goodbye.

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“Mail!”

Your secretary nearly falls over his own feet as he barrels into your office, throwing down a letter on your desk. You start, a hand shooting up to rest on your heaving chest as you gasp, “For fucks’ sake, what did we say about knocking?”

Your assistant couldn’t care less, as is obvious by the way he practically bounces around your room, as if his shoes are made of springs. “Read it! Read the letter! Now!”

Glancing at the vanilla envelope, you freeze, eyes falling on what’s gotten your assistant so worked up.

Directly under your name is the return address. The letter is from Oliver Wood.

Exchanging a glance with your assistant- his look is gleeful, yours confused- you open the envelope. Finding two tickets and a letter, you set the envelope back down, examining the contents.

Y/N,

I miss what could have been too. I miss the thought of our family, our house, our children racing around in the yard as you scold me for buying them new brooms, but you don’t mean it. You love me, just as I love you.

I miss your hand in mine, your lips on mine, the smooth curve of your calf, the magnificent arch of your eyebrow. I mourn the loss of a future together, what was once our dream.

But I don’t want to miss what could be.

Come to America. Watch me play. Let me take you out for a drink to celebrate our win, or to drown myself in if we lose. Laugh with me as I twirl you around, cry with me as I shout obscenities at the referee. Be with me, love me again.

Or don’t. Maybe I misinterpreted yesterday.

Merlin, I hope I didn’t.

Yours always,

Ollie.

Your eyes shine with unshed tears, you look up to meet your assistant’s keen gaze. “Well?” he demands, about to burst with glee. You feel your mouth stretch into a smile, you can almost hear his jubilant answer when you ask,

“How does a trip to America sound?”

[forgwater]

Victorian Savanaclaw Headcanons:

warning: I'm here to brainrot not to be completely historically accurate. None of this is planned so I'm writing this as it comes to me.

Victorian AU

Feel free to send requests and asks about the au.

characters are aged up.

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Welcome to the Savanaclaw Villa!

Here you have to earn your keep. Most of the residents here are also the help, ah but do not worry, they are well recompensed for their time and effort. The Villa is welcoming to those who want to make a name for themselves, regardless of where they come from. One must be persistent to be able to serve under the King of Beasts, after all.

...Hopefully you can hold your own here.

The Residents:

Leona Kingscholar

Leona was a prince. The second born one to be precise, his older brother, Falena, became king while he was still a teenager and after his nephews birth, Leona received the title of duke.

Although, not particularly fond of children, his nephew, Cheka, can't seem to be able to keep away from his beloved uncle. Much to Leona's chagrin.

Leona prefers sleeping the days away, so you should count yourself lucky to meet him. Or at least that's what he'll tell you.

Rumor has it that he's moved to the Villa in an attempt to escape something... or someone. No one really know the true answer as to why he lives here now. Has he been sent away? Exiled? Good luck finding out since he isn't exactly friendly.

Some even say he's moved in order to avoid an engagement. Wherever he goes, he just can't seem to catch a break when it comes to rumors like this.

Everybody seems to want something from him, and it's getting on his nerves more and more as time passes. But, he'll humor you if you can do something for him in return.

Ruggie Bucchi

Having lived his whole life in the slums, having only his grandmother and the street urchins as family, Ruggie tries to make the most of everything.

He's worked numerous jobs, both legal and illegal, starting as a petty thief at a very young age, pocketing everything he could get his hands on and fit in his clothes. He's mainly worked alone, joining hands with others only for bigger jobs.

Ruggie knows the back alleys like the palm of his hand. No policeman has ever managed to apprehend him and he's got a bit of a reputation from it as a slippery one.

He's always thinking of how to get a better deal, a master haggler is what he is... though, Ruggie would like to get a taste of the finer things in life.

And luck seems to be on his side when he hears from the friendly owner of the curio shop that someone living at the Savanclaw Villa is in need of someone to do a job for them.

Now, what was the name of the guy? Leona, or something, right? He'll need to make his way to the meeting place before someone else does.

Jack Howl

Coming from a moderately big family, Jack thought it might be a good idea to move somewhere on his own. And with his parents approval and encouragement he started looking for places to rent.

Jack moved to the Savanaclaw Villa in an attempt to make a name for himself and to prepare himself for the future.

Although he may look tough and scary, he's quite a softie under that rough exterior.

Jack's a reliable one and will own up to any mistakes he might make. He's also a decent kind of guy and he'll stand up for what he believes is right. So, hopefully your ideals align.

Jack won't mince his words no matter you status. He would be upfront even with a king. Many would say that his honesty is foolish, but Jack doesn't care about that. He cares about becoming a respectable person not only in his social circles, but also in society as a whole.

If one is ever in need, then Jack is a good person to go to. He'll try his best to help a friend or someone he respects. Though, you should expect to hear his disappointed words if your predicament was brought upon you by your own bad choices. Mind you, he'll still lend a hand.

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[mack3030]

I'd like to take a moment to extend an apology.

First, I will 100% admit that I have not handled this well so far. And I will make no excuses for that. My replies to the criticism against me have been callous, insensitive, and even dismissive. That was not my intention, but that does not matter. Because regardless of my intention, that is how it turned out. And that is not the person I desire to be. I fully regret my decision to vote for Donald Trump. The damage he has caused to marginalized groups of people, including people of color and those on the LGBTQ+ spectrum cannot be defended. Since I have voted two years ago, my politics has vastly changed. I cannot claim any longer to be okay with the choice I made, especially seeing how it has affected and terrified my friends. 

I would like to believe that we all can change and do better. And I understand that what I did, and how I reacted was hurtful. And that is not my heart, or my nature, to be that way towards others. It is my intention to be more careful in the future about who I choose to support with my right to vote. And to make sure that I do not support Donald Trump, or anyone like him with my voice again. I am sorry that when it came down to it I was not able to be apologetic and honest. It is not who I am, but that is how it appeared because of the choices I made. And I have been making an effort to be better at listening to those around me who are from the marginalized communities that my actions hurt, so I can know how to be better. I did not intend for this to detract from the important conversation the community has been having about safety, especially since a member of the Asian-American community has had their mental health and sense of safety threatened by this issue. So to Bucky (victimofcowbuild), in particular, I am very sorry. Your story is important, and needs to be heard. As for the issue with Pescado, I do not moderate/admin for Dollhouse Mafia anymore, and I do not plan to work with him any further. I do not approve or support any of his statements that he has made against the Asian community, and I apologize that I ever allowed such an arrangement to go forward. The only other comment I have been made aware of that is problematic is me laughing at a nickname that was given to Harrie-CC by another simmer. In this instance, I will say I was ignorant. At the time that I laughed at the joke I did not understand the meaning of the phrase. I have been told by a close friend that it implies cheapness and has a connotation pertaining to being ghetto. But if my understanding of that phrase is wrong please do correct me, and I will admit that looking now at it, it was not appropriate and was harmful. I apologize for laughing at something I did not understand that could hurt the feelings of another. I understand and fully take responsibility for the hurt, anger, and distraction my actions and words have caused. And if those who have been wronged have the emotional margin to be able to forgive me, I would appreciate it. But I also understand that you may not have that margin due to all of the things that you have been through. I am planning to take a break in general from posting, and focus mainly on reblogging and uplifting the voices of others who have been hurt by those who have been part of the doxxing incident. I have been planning to pull back anyway after the information about Cowbuild came out, and I think it is important because I do not devote my time to this game as much as others. 

To those who feel the conversation about doxxing has been stalled because of this, I apologize for not fixing things sooner and handling it better from the get-go. For those who looked up to and had respect for me, I am sorry for letting you down. I hope this can allow the community to move forward together and focus on the important safety issues that still need to be focused on. 

Thanks for reading. 

-Sunny

[type1diabetesinfandom]

How to Post Your Story to the T1D Awareness Fest Collection on AO3

We still have almost two months before November comes, and with it the T1D Awareness Fest. (Woohoo!)

BUT some people (me) like to get things ready ahead of time. SO. If you, like me, have a story or piece of art ready to go at any point before November 1st (or whichever week is matched to the prompt you're using), here is how you can post your story ahead of time to be revealed later!

By posting early, you know your work will be revealed on time without you having to worry about it. You can fine tune your last-minute edits or change your tags as much as your heart desires, but you won't have to fuss about putting your beautiful work on display at the right moment because once the collection goes live, the hard work will be done for you and it'll be out there!

DO NOT FORGET to click 'POST' when you are done! I will not be able to see or reveal your work if you save it as a draft, and it will not count as being submitted!

*Works featuring a dated prompt will be revealed the first day of that prompt.

First thing: the collection will not be revealed until November.

This means if you post anything to it, you and the mod (me) will be the only ones able to see it until the reveal. This is due to it being a scheduled event. It's supposed to be a surprise! A bunch of presents, all at once!

Anyone else who tries to look at it will simply see "Mystery Work" along with a little blurb that it's in an ongoing challenge and to go check out the collection.

YOU can still access your work, AND remove it from the collection if you choose, at ANY time by going to your works tab and selecting the "works in collections" button near the top of your ao3 page.

*You do NOT also have to submit your fic to my regular T1D in Fandom collection; that is a parent collection of the T1D Awareness Fest, and so the fest's fics are automatically included in the parent collection. It does not go both ways, however.

To Post Your Fic:

Way #1

Go to your AO3 dashboard or home page and click the "post new work" at the top right of the page, just like you usually would. Fill out all the meta data: the ratings, warnings, fandom, characters, relationships, and additional tags.

Please make sure your rating and warnings are appropriate for your work. If you aren't sure which warning applies or you don't want to spoil anything, you can select ‘Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings.’

Do NOT select ‘No Archive Warnings Apply’ if your fic has non-con, underage sex, graphic violence, or major character death. Do NOT select 'Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings’ if you use any of the warnings; it means you chose NOT TO TAG POTENTIAL WARNINGS. It makes things confusing if you select that and then also other warnings.

The Additional Tags section is where you put anything else you want to say about your work. Genre, setting, time period, canon compliant, AU, etc.

These tags are optional, but many people use them to organize their works or to find new works to appreciate. *If your work is art instead of fic, probably a good idea to tag it as fan art. Same with a podfic.

***NOTE: please remember, ALL works posted to this collection MUST use the Additional Tag: Type 1 Diabetes. AO3 will prompt you to simply put Diabetes. Do not do this. Specify Type 1 Diabetes or the moderator will not approve your work for the collection. ***

Any works tagged with Type 1 Diabetes will still show in the canonized Diabetes tag. Type One Diabetes will not, as it is not yet wrangled. Please pay attention to that if you want your work to show in the canonized tag.

You may wish to tag the prompt you are using, if any. You may want to add things like Insulin Pump, T1D Diagnosis Fic, etc. You may wish to specify which character is diabetic, ie Diabetic Annabeth Chase. That is up to you.

After the tags is the title, co-authors (if applicable), summary, and notes. The notes are a good place to talk about why you made this work, or to say you wrote it for the fest.

You don't have to write anything if you don't want to.

Next spot is the ASSOCIATIONS box. This is important! The very first line says: Post to Collections/Challenges.

Listen up, young padawans. THIS is where you enter the name of the fest. Both Type 1 Diabetes Awareness Fest 2022 OR T1D Awareness Fest 2022 will work. You probably don't even need to type the whole thing; all I do is type T1D and the two collections in the archive with that in the title pop up.

Make sure you select the right collection. This is the FEST, not the general T1D collection.

After that is more meta. If your work is a remix, part of a series, a gift, etc. Complete as necessary.

The next one to notice is ‘Set a different publication date.'

DON’T DO ANYTHING WITH THIS NOW. LEAVE IT ALONE. This date will automatically show as the day you first opened this draft on AO3. AFTER the collection is revealed, you can go to this spot to edit it to show the actual date of posting.

This way it will show up in the proper spot in the Diabetes tag so more people see it. Mystery Works don't show in tags, so changing the publication date beforehand doesn't do a thing. Nor can you change the date to the future :(

Next up is comment moderation, anon readers, and whether or not only registered users can see your fic. These are entirely up to you.

Then you can enter your work just like you would anytime else!

At the very bottom, you can choose to 'Preview' to double check how everything looks, or you can click 'Post without Preview' if you're ready. IF you preview first, make sure to scroll to the bottom again to finish posting!

If you do not click ‘Post,’ your work will stay a draft and will NOT be counted as submitted! Please make sure to hit POST once you are ready. Remember, you can always edit the work before the reveal!

(Technically you can still do it after, too, but people might notice. Shh.)

IF your work contains multiple chapters, you will need to post each chapter ONE AT A TIME. D: You can draft them all together by Previewing the work and then clicking 'Add Chapter,' in which case the actual posting will be you hitting the 'Post Draft' button repeatedly for each chapter you have.

DO NOT FORGET to click 'POST' when you are done! I will not be able to see or reveal your work if you save it as a draft, and it will not count as being submitted! D:

Way #2

IF you are participating in the Prompt Meme portion of the Fest, you will have to choose a prompt requested on the collection. Once chosen, you hit 'claim' on the bottom right of that prompt. (Yes, you can claim your own prompts!)

Most of the process is similar to posting without a prompt, EXCEPT: when you get to the ASSOCIATIONS box, it will look like this:

Select the prompt, and complete the rest of the posting. Ta-da!

By posting a claim, you can also see the new work by going to 'Your Sign-ups' page on your dashboard and selecting the appropriate prompt meme.

DO NOT FORGET to click 'POST' when you are done! I will not be able to see or reveal your work if you save it as a draft, and it will not count as being submitted! D:

I am SO excited to be hosting this, guys, and even more excited to see what everyone comes up with!

Remember, if you're not posting fic, art, or podfics, you can still post headcanons, playlists, or any other fannish content here on tumblr!

Late submissions, on the other end of the spectrum here, will be accepted until December 15, 2022.

Tag list: @asexualravenclaw1, @delless03, @dandelionwyn-o, @thompsborn, @masterdreamweaver, @greenbeany, @playboyphilanthro-pissed, @musings-from-mars, @tonkshamsandwich, @zombievalkyrie, @spark-gem, @lilywily143, @huxs-waifu

[runawaycarouselhorse]

The old adage that money doesn't bring happiness is only true after a certain point--being filthy rich and drowning in materialism doesn't make you happy or solve all your problems, however being well off enough to afford basic life necessities? VASTLY improves people's happiness and mental health, after you reach a certain point, the graph plateaus and more money won't make you any happier (although some newer research suggests it does, but we're talking about satisfaction of your basic needs here), but for those in need... it absolutely brings happiness via food security, education, safety, shelter, medical care...

'Warr pointed to a seeming commonality between this research and the sufficiency economy approach (which he prefers to call the “economics of enough”). What the happiness research indicates is that there is a level of “sufficiency” or “enough” beyond which happiness will increase only very modestly. As such it would be moderate, reasonable and risk-averse to not seek to push income or expenditure beyond this sufficiency threshold. In other words, some economic research points to the good sense behind the sufficiency economy approach.

Warr’s presentation raises interesting questions. As one audience member pointed out the graph would appear to indicate that the sufficiency economy approach applies most logically to those on high incomes – it is high income earners who are getting a minimal happiness dividend for their increased income. By contrast, increasing the income of low income earners is likely to significantly increase happiness. So, a progressive tax system that reduced the income of the rich (and only marginally reduced their happiness) and allocated it to the poor (making them much happier) would have a significantly positive effect on gross domestic happiness. A redistribution of government expenditure from urban to rural areas would have a similar impact. I wonder if these approaches to sufficiency economy will be taken up by the Surayud regime?' [Source]

[Ignore what follows if you're put off by religion and economic systems.]

Anyway, it all boils down to the same reason I as a Muslim (given our religion is a way of life that also includes social welfare and how money is handled--zakat, the obligatory alms-giving at the end of Ramadan to be given just before 'Eid prayer, is one of our five pillars of faith, like prayer and fasting Ramadan!) cannot truly approve of capitalism (the absurdly rich have no duties to the poor and can do whatever they want with their money, wasting it or earning it in whatever way, no matter how scummy or hurtful to ) or socialism (wherein no one fully owns or has right to their own property)--we need balance.

We all own our own money and items, we have right to our own things, but the poor have rights over the rich, so a small relative fraction of one's wealth (2.5% of money that stayed with them all year long and isn't just living paycheck to paycheck and runnig out, that's what the obligatory alms-giving at the end of Ramadan just before 'Eid includes) is given to the poor yearly and optional charity outside of that is highly encouraged, seen as expiating sins, driving away misfortunes, increasing love and brotherhood between people--wasteful extravagence is discouraged/seen as sinful and hurtful for the poor, especially if it's made an ostentatious display of and is completely out of the realms of what is normal for that area (wearing fine clothes where people differ in status and see such things? No problem! Completely useless garbage like gold toilet bowls or pills to make you poop diamond dust? Wasteful, stupid, does nothing but show off... it benefits no one, is not something acceptable in any society, and has zero purpose but to waste money and brag about it.)

Muhammad, upon him be peace, said: “Avoid doing injustice to others, for on the Day of Judgment, it will turn into manifold darkness, and safeguard yourself against miserliness, for it ruined those who were before you. It incited them to murder and treating the unlawful as lawful.” (Muslim)

(The above hadeeth [authentic oral tradition of the Prophet] always makes me think of how so many people who pose as the conservative and religious right are so stingy and covetous of money... even though charity is a virtue in the Abrahamic religions!)

Muhammad, upon him be peace, said: “Charity does not in any way decrease the wealth and the servant who forgives, Allah adds to his respect; and the one who shows humility, Allah elevates him in the estimation (of the people).” (Muslim)

The Prophet, upon him be peace, said: “A crafty one, a miser, and one who keeps reminding people of what he has given, will not enter Paradise.” (Tirmidhi)

And from the Quran itself:

“Allah will deprive usury [i.e. interest] of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity. For He loves not creatures ungrateful and wicked.” [2:276]

“If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time until it is easy for him to repay. But if you remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if you only knew.” [2:280]

"And in the hours before dawn, they were (found) asking (Allah) for forgiveness, And in their properties there was the right of the beggar, and the Mahrum (the poor who does not ask the others), And on the earth are signs for those who have Faith with certainty..." [51:18-20, Quran]

"By no means shall you attain righteousness unless you give freely of that which you love, and whatever you give, Allah knows it well." [3:92, Quran]

"As for gains granted by Allah to His Messenger from the people of ˹other˺ lands, they are for Allah and the Messenger, his close relatives, orphans, the poor, and ˹needy˺ travellers so that wealth may not merely circulate among your rich. Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it. And whatever he forbids you from, leave it. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is severe in punishment." [59:7, Quran]

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