#ftc ask

[13leaguestories]

Feel free to ignore this if you don't want to answer ofc, but those asks about Superstition & Insight made me wonder about For The Crown. It's my fave out of your WIPs, I loved the child soldier/assassin MC + the whole going undercover in a royal court aspect!

I checked and the last post in the tag was this one (https://www.tumblr.com/13leaguestories/744748222113808384/i-just-realized-that-for-the-crown-was-canceled). Since it was 6 months ago, is that still where you are now, that it may or may not come back altered in some way? Or are you leaning towards a particular direction?

Um ... I'm still pretty much still there. It's still teetering in limbo though so don't get excited. I think if I do get back into it I might do something similar to ToA and make routes out of it. But at the same time I'd have to go through and see exactly how that would work. It'd be great on one hand because let's say you wanted Lord Doran, well the original story you won't see much of him until the second half but with routes you'd see and focus on him more. But then that also means a lot of story twisting.

So, we'll see. I haven't really given it much thought but I know I 100% want to put that art to good use.

[adecila]

Has “for the cameras” been discontinued? 🥺

No, darling, I just girl bossed too close to the sun, and I became so important at my day job that since November last year, I couldn’t have any hobbies because I didn't have any free time 😂

The good news is that my big project is done and results were amazing. Now I just came back from a month long holiday, so I am finally working on FTC. It will come (hopefully soon)!

[exclamaquest]

PLEASE tell me how post wwi tax breaks lead to my little pony

-Advertising agencies help supply propaganda during WWI ->

In return, the government gives them large tax breaks by counting advertising as a business expense ->

Advertising in America grows from something most people are at the very least wary of to a lynchpin of capitalism ->

The FTC expands their powers and abilities to combat deceptive marketing, which includes advertisements ->

The FTC signs into law the funeral rule of 1980 which places consumer-friendly restrictions on how funeral homes can sell their products ->

Then they pursue legislation that would lead into the KidVid scandal. The laws would control what kind of ads can run on kid's television and when ->

Ronald Reagan runs on a platform of deregulation, and ropes the pissed off funeral home industry (among others) into supporting his campaign. The animosity the FTC drilled up helps get him elected ->

In 1980, a new act was signed into law that harshly limited the powers of oversight the FTC had over TV shows ->

Hasbro debuts My Pretty Pony in 1981 and then My Little Pony in 1982, complete with tie-in animated specials that would never have been legal otherwise.

[peliginspeaks]

To the frostbitten tomb colonist: have you had a favourite profession from over the years?

Her eyes seem to light up a bit, which is quite a feat for two empty voids amid a nest of bandages.

"I quite liked being a pirate back in the day, before they were styling themselves 'corsairs'."

She folds her hands over her cane and continues in a voice like a cold draft through paper.

"I always did find it so quaint how surprised the crews would get when I boarded them. It is so funny how all across history, people seem not to realize that others can simply take things. It got boring after a while, though, of course." She tilts her head. "I suppose zailors expect it more, these days."

[byrdstrolls]

Bulk anon wannabe

I have unsurprising news

[riftdancing]

haunt·ed (adjective) 1. inhabited or frequented by ghosts. a haunted castle. 2. preoccupied, as with emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace.

Unfortunately for me, it's both. It's been over two decades since you passed, but I still see you in the mirror every morning. Your judgement echoes in my ears and your haunting white eye continues to scrutinize my every move. My technique. Never quick enough. Foot work is always sloppy. Missed a spot cleaning that revolver barrel��

Was it love or obsession? Did you really love me, or were you chasing the remaining desire for my late Mother? I see her when I look in the mirror too. In my own reflection. In my features. I was not woman enough to be the daughter she wanted. I was not loyal enough for my Father's pride. I was not obedient enough for my Brother's care.

They all share your grave now.

Sometimes I feel ill when I miss you.

I remember when Father gave me to you. Like an object or a toy he'd discarded, something he'd grown bored of after I didn't fulfill his expectations. After I filled him with disappointment. I don't blame him entirely. After all I betrayed all of them. Not just the family… but the entire crew too. Even when he gave me to you, you didn't want me and I wanted nothing to do with you. I was a burden, but you made me useful. While Father ensured I'd never see the inside of another cockpit you honed me into a fine weapon. At first I hated you for it, but you taught me discipline and over time I learned how to be a ghost, just like you. Your very own protégé...

...But you are gone, and I still feel your gaze from behind. I still feel you watching when I look over my shoulder. When I am with someone new. Heckling me about having a particular type. That I am still soft. Vulnerable. Weak. Womanly. A hound ready to obey. Maybe I am.

He says it too and in many ways, he reminds me of you. He is one of the few people on this star who has proven to be worthy of my subordinance. But unlike our troubled past, he doesn't force me to be something or someone I don't want to be.

He is the catalyst to my healing.

He has taught me my choices are my own.

From now on I will no longer be a slave to my past.

((There's a bit of context in bullet points under the cut for this if it interests you but it's really raw because she's got a very long and complicated story as I've been writing her since 2011.))

Some bullet points on Blink's early history:

Blink was born into a life of Sky Piracy.

Her Father was the Sky Pirate Captain of the Harbingers.

His First Mate was a man named Judas, who was known in more public circles as a ghost-like assassin.

Blink fell in love with a pirate in a rival crew and tried to secretly elope with them. Her Father found out, he saw it as a huge betrayal, and sent Judas to hunt her and the lad down.

Judas killed the guy in front of her, brought her back to her Father.

Her Father disowned her after arranging her marriage to Judas (something neither of them wanted)

Judas viewed her as a burden, and basically decided when life gives you lemons, you turn them into your protégé and train them like a soldier.

This brought the pair of them closer over time… and as they'd both been screwed by the Crew's bullshit hierarchy and politics they decided to do something about it together.

Judas wound up fighting Blink's Father for Captaincy, and won. While it was supposed to be a fight to the death, he let the man still walk away with his life.

He was a good Captain for a while, with Blink as his First Mate and under the two the Crew had a prosperous window.

But, unfortunately her brother thought he was entitled to inheriting the title of Captain and was furious about Judas killing his Father. So eventually he wound up fighting Judas and killed him-- in front of Blink, taking up the role as Captain (and he was terrible at it.)

Blink wound up going into hiding for six years after this. There was some more trauma laced in this I won't get into. But when she surfaced again she had enlisted with Garlemald to become one of their soldiers. Which is a whole other arc I won't get into tonight. But… that's some context to this story/post.

Fast forwarding past the Garlemald years... I will at least say that Blink eventually wound up fighting to get the Harbingers back and served as their Captain for a good while (The crew's choice). It was basically the crew's golden years with her in the lead. However, eventually she decided it wasn't the life for her, so she wound up retiring to do piloting work and that's how she fell in with Firelight Trading Co. To this day, the Harbingers still revere her as their Captain even though she's passed that title on to someone she trusted.

But yeah, ask me about those Garlean years sometime... those are a doozy. Like an Event Horizon inspired arc through Void Ark... :|

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

I’m not done reading your third chapter of the sk boys BUT so far I’m absolutely adoring it! The part where sunny gets yanked back into the apartment was such a fun image to imagine, you’re very talented!

hehehe, I love portraying their goofy shenanigins XD

You would have no idea they just killed someone the night before~

[inrainprose]

I'd like to vent 🙋‍♀️

narutos complete non reaction at finding out kakashi, jiraiya and hiruzen knew about his parents the whole time but just didn't say shit pisses me off SO MUCH. if there was ONE time he deserved to just rage a little. it was then!!

Been said before but to me it makes it really obvious that this wasn't planned at all and kishimoto came up with it later in the story. Otherwise he would have hinted at something, and they would have been written and would have reacted much differently.

It's either that or they were all terrible people and the story never goes back on that. What a mess. Naruto should have decked them.

[confined-existence]

Find The Chomiks Realm: Backrooms; Level 28: Stormstone Keep

Absolutely in love with this level aksjbfkafn

[seraphicveins]

Ugh.. where r the kpop homestuck fans I really wanna make adopts based on some songs.. specifically kpop songs bc the mvs r always SICK.. love the fashion it'd always my inspo.. so I want feedback on which songs I should do.m ugh... I want the ones w the coolest fashion..

Future me problems.. first I finish my emoji adopts..

[baflegacy]

AMANGELA BREAKUP ALBUM IN BOTB AU..... unbearably juicy. love it.

not to create an au within @jovenshires au but you KNOW ftc fans wouldve lost their minds when amanda released that album, similar to when taylor released folklore or when phoebe released punisher……fans collectively suffering bc the album means that 1.) she was possibly in a relationship this whole time and that 2.) it was devastating enough that amanda had to write an album about it

[13leaguestories]

I feel so dumb for asking but in Superstition, is Lucia the witch from the For the Crown realm the same person as Lucia the witch from the real world?

No, and I wouldn't have even realized that I used the two names if you didn't say anything. But damn that would've been a cool little world blend huh, the witch managed to like divide or something. I don't know, lol.

[shorthairand15books]

Why Can't Americans Afford Funerals?

[exclamaquest]

I can imagine you as Ms. Frizzle's sibling

this is the nicest thing anyones ever said to me im honored

[celticsalternia]

hiii kit ily <3

m-me?

[ella-animine]

Attn: Those interested in death/dying, or ppl who don’t wanna go broke going into the earth

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is revisiting policy about the funeral industry known as Funeral Rule. This means they are examining decisions made in the 1980’s about what funeral homes and the business of funerals is REQUIRED TO DO FOR CONSUMERS

And let’s be honest, we are all (or will be) consumers of the funeral industry.

Right now the FTC is looking to gather feedback from experts, organizations, and individuals about how they should move forward with Funeral Rule. In particular they are concerned with whether funeral homes should be required to

list prices for services online,

whether any additional or hidden fees should be disclosed,

whether they should amend how a funeral homes disclose their embalming practices,

if new forms of disposition should be included under the rule,

and a few other things dealing with accessibility and underserved communities.

Go to this website to share your thoughts! The more detailed and well researched the better, but ALL comments are valuable.

We are an aging population Tumblr, and as it stands the average cost of a funeral in the US is about $8,000.

TLDR: tell the FTC what information you think the funeral industry should be required to share regarding pricing, fees, and embalming policies.

It is more expensive than ever to die, and without clear rules and regulations the funeral industrial complex will continue to jack up the price and take advantage of grieving individuals with hidden pricing, fees, and deceptive language to make you buy things you don’t actually need.

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