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Your head of HR, Jennifer, trying her best!
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Boost the financial well-being of your employees without spending too much
Boost the financial well-being of your employees without spending too much
Annick Kwetcheu Gamo, founder of Code F, a non-profit organization that promotes sound personal finance management for everyone. (Picture: courtesy) Canadians’ confidence in real wage growth is not only weaker than in the previous quarter, but also lower than the historical average, according to a recent study by the central bank. While interest rates and inflation weigh heavily on the wallet of…
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August 2 is Earth overshoot day 2023 !
Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) marks when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate during that year.
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2023, the Earth Overshoot Day calculated every year by Global Footprint Network using data from National Footprint and Biocapacity Accountswhich indicates the official depletion of renewable resources that the planet is able to offer within a year.
This means that today, August 2, humanity has already “finished” all the resources that Nature produces in an entire year and is starting to go into debt. Humanity, with its over 8 billion inhabitants, consumes in excessive quantities, beyond the natural regeneration (and reabsorption) capacities of the planet.
In 1973 Overshoot Day fell on December 3: we were just a few days over our annual budget. In 2003, September 12, in 2013, August 3. The date has always been getting ahead and our ecological debt has grown.
Globally we are consuming the equivalent of 1.7 Planets a year, an ominous figure that is expected to rise to two planets by 2030, based on current trends. In the last 5 years the trend seems to have stabilized, but it is difficult to establish whether this is due to the slowdown of the economy or to decarbonisation efforts. However, the reduction of our “debt” to the planet is still too slow. To achieve the United Nations IPCC goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030 (compared to 2010) it would be necessary to move Earth Overshoot Day forward by 19 days per year for next seven years.
According to the WWF there are many solutions that can be adopted at the community level or individually to have a significant impact on the type of future we invest in: for example if we used energy from 75% renewable sources we could move the Overshhot day by 26 days ; halving food waste would save 13 days.
“If up until the 1960s humanity was more or less in balance, the date has moved from year to year up the calendar, to arrive today at the beginning of August. This means that humanity has been in ecological overshoot for over 50 years and the debt we have accumulated amounts to 19 years of planetary production, i.e. what Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate in 19 years. The burden of this debt, which is set to increase, is starting to reduce economic options. The loss of biodiversity, the growing unpredictability of the weather and the depletion of groundwater are just a few symptoms. But overcoming itself is not inevitable. Constantly living beyond the physical possibilities of our planet is a limited possibility in time, we risk an ecological disaster: the goods and services that are the basis of our societies and economies are all produced by functioning and healthy ecosystems. We now have many targeted solutions to reverse the overexploitation of resources and support the regeneration of the biosphere in which we live”.
#human rights#humanity#global footprint#footprint#earth#overshootday#ressources#climate change#climate emergency#ecology#sustainability#sustainable
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“Lila and chloe being as bad as gabriel an adult is buuull! TEHY ARE JUST CHILDREN!
Bish I literally just saw a news report of a 12 year old murdering their eight year old cousin over a freaking iphone!
And in my country a poor 12 years old girl was raped by two 13 years old boys. Clearly there's no age for eveil and monstruosity after 10 years old at least. Being a child or a teenager certainly doesn't spare on from being a bad person or a monster in human skin.
For now Chloé and Lila may have done a lot less number of terrible bad things as Gabriel, but only because they didn't have as many means and magical powers as he did
Look at what Chloé did as soon as she became Mayor and received some power from Monarch : full tyrany ! And I'm not forgetting all the times Chloé harmed somoene out of pure sadism and jealousy. From her own mouth we heard that Chloé see common people as playthings that are here to be tormented for her own satisfaction. and she can say those heinous things while she's 14.
Look at what Lila already do without any powers : she tried to ruin the future of her classmates and tried to ruin Marinetet's life, out of pure pettiness and jealousy. And on her own she planned to get a dangerous magical power for herself from a known supervillain and terrorist, whom she also willingly assisted without any reguard for the harm he was doing. That and all the indentity thieff, multiple lies and fake identities, forgery, stalking, and attempt to help the villains defeat Paris's heroes certainly doesn't portray Lila as somoene less dangerous or eveil than Gabriel if she had access to Miraculous powers too.
How would those two girls be if they were adults ? with more ressources and means than they had when they were younger ? They have the potential to be worse than Gabriel was.
#miraculous ladybug#chloé bourgeois#lila rossi#Being a teenager or a child doesn't spare a human from potentially being bad and dangerous#And Chloé and Lila proved many times that they were dangerous and bad people#If they did not commit as many crimes as Gabriel#it's because they lacked the means and ressources and motivations that he had
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I killed a bird today. It flew in front of me while I was driving, and I didn't have time to stop. I saw feathers blown about in the rearview mirror.
#personal#seeing roadkill always kind of fucks me up#I've never killed something so big before. i've killed mosquitos and flies and stuff ig but never something i could hold in 2 hands#i don't know why i feel so fucked uo about it but i do. i killed it and i barely noticed. i didn't even cry#it was just a sparrow! so small! birds like that die all the time! nobody means to kill them exactly but it just happens. as a byproduct#but it lived a life. it had eaten every day up until that point. it had slept. it hadn't been eaten or infected or caught#and then i drove over it#my problem isn't with the death per say. i eat meat and wear leather. i profit from deforestation.#and if we are to consider empathetic sadness a finite ressource then why do i feel bad abt a bird and not all the humans suffering rn#but the bird was right there. it was tangible in its individuality. and its death was utterly senseless.#and it wasn't unique in the ways it distinguishes itself in my mind. but i killed it. and i wish i hadn't.#*per se#why do i care about my spelling! but i do. and why do i care that i care about my spelling! but i do.
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Ressources humaines [Human Resources] (Laurent Cantet - 1999)
#working class#ouvriers#lavoratori#capitalism#35 heures#Ressources humaines#Laurent Cantet#France#workplace#Human Resources#travail#corporations#workforce#family#father son relationship#white-collars#blue-collars#Aubevoye#35-hour workweek#Risorse umane#film français#Normandie#European cinema#strike#Normandy#workers' rights#jobs#unemployment#inequality#class struggle
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bro is literally a terf and a conservative, taking their opinions on anything warrants more than a grain of salt, the whole shaker might do though but im skeptical...
water, a basic human need to live, is not free, and you see this as reasonable in any way???
#bro is gonna put a tax on air next with the way shits going#this is literally just right wing tactics to weed out the poor/lower class and have an even tighter monopoly on ressources for exploitative#purposes but yeahhh suuuure keep taxing water lets see how you feel once the welcoming right takes away your human rights too
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Amílcar Cabral: um dos maiores revolucionários anticoloniais do mundo
Neste dia, em 1924, nascia Amílcar Cabral, o revolucionário africano responsável por liderar a libertação de Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde da colonização portuguesa. Seu legado teórico e prático continua sendo uma referência central para as lutas contra o imperialismo, o racismo e a crise climática. Escrito por Marcela Magalhães de Paula Era 1964, quando, em pleno curso da guerra de independência…
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#Diplomatie#Direitos#Drets humans#Environnement#Formation#Identité#Lenguaje#Meios#Movimientos sociales#Política#Ressources naturelles#Versatilidad
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Every male talking about falling birthrate should be made aware that a way to fix this issue in two generation would be to abort male foetuses. The replacement rate is only 2.1 kid per women because of that pesky 50:50 sex ratio but if there were only women it would be 1.05 per woman (maybe slightly less because that .1 is there to replace early death which are mostly male/male made anyway aren't they). Much more doable.
Keeping SOME men around is probably needed for ease of sperm production but even a 1:3 sex ratio (75% women) would mean like 1.36 (I think ?) Kid per woman.
Anyway I just think men bangin on about birthrate don't talk about this enough.
#There are other avantages to not have half the population be bepenised#But on a strictly mathematical the-human-race-must-continue viewpoint#Having HALF of the population be male is a staggering waste of ressources
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hey you know the "opressed minority can spit fire" type of story
i think that consistently, one thing that good stories in that genre do is make parallels between the violence that the minority, the mutant is capable of, and the fact that the rest of humanity is in fact capable of the same amounts of violence, but that this violence (gun violence, often) is considered by the state to be righteous, a means of defense, by the majority.
because minority defending themselves is always scary, and it's always different from how the opressor does it, and therefore scary, bad, dangerous.
its, you know, when people say "yeah but if sucking dick made me a wizard i'd understand if people were scared" and i think that like, when this kind of story is well made (like when x men is good), it gives two really good answers to that:
for all intents and purposes bigots already believe this to be true
the majority has ressources and the law on their side, they hold the actual power, not the marginalised.
everyone can kill, but only the minority's power to kill is considered innate and dangerous, because the violence of the establishment, while just as innate as a mutant's abilities, is normal.
sure, a pyromancer might be able to deal incredible damage, maybe turn an entire city to ashes, but multiple world leaders do that everyday and people don't even question that anyone should have such power.
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So much for the US "bringing freedom and democracy" anywhere btw. Like. About every single fucking time it was THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.
The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.
Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.
The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.
Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.
#okay except for WWII; but even then it was close case and also a joint effort with the other Allies#(who had actually done most of the work anyway and were short of falling)#(before the US stumbled in five years late and with Starbucks in their hands)#(and also only because they have been hit by an Axis power directly)#and yeah they have fucked up Europe post WWII too; it just was way less obvious and since the rest of Europe was rich enough#it only about hit the Balkans because what's worse than inciting a civil war among a multi-ethnic country? that's right; communism existing.#like. those countries could have found peace and uncorrupt democracy without everyone from the west trying to squeeze more money out of them#but I digress#banana republic surely IS a fucked up name for a clothing company#also since US (and European) megacorporations are exploiting ressources and humans for fast fashion in the global south
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it bothers me to bits and pieces when people DARE say kids have nothing to worry about because there’s nothing/no one relying on them
LIKE HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE FUTURE OF THINGS???
LITERALLY THE CONTINUATION OF SHIT
OF COURSE CHILDREN WONT PAY YOU ANY RESPECT WHEN YOU CAN BARELY ADDRESS THEM WITH THE SAME IMPORTANCE AND COMPASSION YOU’RE EXPECTING TO APPEAR OUT OF THEM LIKE A FAIRY GODMOTHER IS GOING TO POUF! IT IN THEM CAUSE YOU WILL IT
NO ! YOU. WANTED. THE. CHILDREN. YOU. ARE. RESPONSIBLE.
NOT ONLY FOR THEIR WELL-BEING BUT FOR THEIR UPBRINGING, AND THEY DONT OWE YOU SHIT FOR IT!!! THAT’S YOUR MORAL DUTY
this is all our ‘duty,’ collectively. we’ve come to a point—we’ve been stalling at a point, actually—where each one of us has come to realize there’s reparenting that needs to be done.
quite honestly that’s a much easier task when done with a community rather than alone. alone is when the same patterns repeat themselves to sustain cycles that have kept our nervous systems in comfortable windows of tolerance, as they should. the issue with that is when it exploits our own well-being for the comfort of others. that comfort is now only systemic and supporting only further harm and precarious emotional situations that expose us to danger.
#kids are the future#literally the only cliche truth#yet the mistreatment of children is the first sign of any societal downfall and if we look at the past couple of years#children are not being cared for well enough#not only has the pandemic affected the level of care children can receive but the level of care capable of being offered across continents#has decreased terrifyingly due to lack of ressources#ressources that are material as much as human#people barely have any energy to survive much less to unpack their trauma and raise their children#void of the same patterns and the ressources to get help in doing so when you realize you need help are SLIM#when children are the first point of attack as much directly as indirectly you#you drop everything and you tend to the issue#this is depressing#this has never been ok and to have the issue known and projected so internationally across all media platforms and not have anything be done#that’s scary#that’s concerning for how much we’re ready to allow and be destroyed before we decide enough is enough#i can see there’s a tendency to let the extreme condition come down to a smaller scale and i hope i don’t need to explain how ableist#and tragic that is because waiting on an ‘issue to take a much smaller scale’ means waiting for the most vulnerable to#to make space for ‘easier’ more product-value convenient solutions#well sorry not sorry you won’t have it#you’ve picked the most resilient and stubborn fuckers to fuck with if you think disabled and genetically vulnerable people will press brakes#there’s empowerment literally firing up through our bodies where every painful thing you hit us with it would have already hit us inside#and by our own nervous system so needless to say how desensitized one would be to threats of coveted#anihilation of vulnerable individuals with vulnerable conditions#anyways think ‘would i feel safe leaving my kid for the night with my government as sitter’ and if that answer is not an immediate yes then#please let that sink in know safety should not be a choice but a given
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i sent an email to quit the academic league i was a part of and my former director just texted me saying he's sad i'm leaving :(
#i feel bad because he was one of the (very few) nice people i met there and hes really hardworking but. i simply don't have time#he taught me a lot of stuff related to human ressources and workplace management so i think i want to buy him a gift or something#personal thoughts
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Hello 🍉anon again, hope you’re doing okay and I hope my writing is not atrocious for this request. This idea has been on my mind for an Arlecchino x dragon reader(similar to Neuvillette). So, Arlecchino receive a report from her operatives that an unknown creature is lurking in the shadow near Poisson, that keeps on attacking the others fatui members and stealing their rations. She tells them that she will look into it eventually as she doesn’t want their ressources to be stolen. She starts to investigate to gather information on this creature and possibly locate it and by a twisted turn of fate, stumbles into a dragon(secretly the reader)that look awfully hurt and almost on the verge of dying. Arlecchino took pity on the rather tiny looking dragon (tought it seems to be an adult one) and brought them to the house of the heart to treat their wounds.
As the times pass and Arlecchino started to grow fond of the dragon, she see in the corner of the room, a human. Visibly confused, she starts to draw her scythe ready to impale the person in front of her should they pose a threat. Then the reader just go up to her and nuzzle into her as if it was the most natural thing in the world and it was at this moment that she realized it was the dragon she had rescued. They start to bond and eventually grow more intimate with each others.
My Little Fire
(Arlecchino x GN! Reader)
A/N - Hi 🍉 Anon! Nice to see you again <3. Sorry this took so long. I just spoiled you guys with dragon arle, but how about dragon reader? Great idea, anon. Y'all really love dragons huh? Dragons are cool af, I don't blame you guys. Unfortunately, I dunno a whole lot of genshin lore, so how genshin dragons work, idrk. I made you a Pyro Dragon, because bonding over fire abilities >>> Dunno why I was so braindead while writing this, but that's why this took me an extra day to write this. By the way, the title is the english translation of the last three words. I headcanon that Arlecchino can speak Fontainian (French). Content warnings / info - monster x human, reader is a dragon, reader is referred to ‘it’ for the most part, not second pov until the middle, arle's pov, reader is gn!, 1.7k words
Arlecchino didn't typically deal with these sorts of outings, not when her job typically dealt with information gathering and diplomacy. However, she couldn't turn a blind eye to this report in another Fatui camp situated in Poisson. Purportedly, rations have been going missing despite attempts to secure and protect them. Fatui operatives have been injured, and while Arlecchino does not doubt that some incompetence may have come into play, she does not believe that they are truly that incompetent. The operatives confirm that it is some type of creature, given the claws marks and the teeth indents the harmed operatives detailed. Whatever it was, it was too quick for the members to see, and so she now had to deal with it.
Arriving at the camp, witness accounts didn't prove to be very helpful in terms of identifying the troublesome critter. However, the storage room, where the rations were stored, provided an interesting story to her. Unsurprisingly, clawed scratches littered around the containers of food, though she notices the indentures were caused by rather small paws. Despite the suggestion that the creature was rather tiny, it did not mean that creature was not weak, able to cut through solid metal. Interestingly enough, scorch marks also surrounded the area, even though there were no burns recorded in the injury accounts. The creature also seems rather famished. Each occurrence it raids the storage room, a considerable amount of food was stolen. Fascinating. Arlecchino can think of very few creatures like this but all of them seem implausible.
However, there was a pattern to this creature’s visits. Every three nights, it came, wrecking havoc to whatever was in its way, but Arlecchino is sure that she'd be successful in capturing the beast tonight. She orders that no operatives are around the area–the last thing she desires is some inept fool getting in her way–and then she waits outside.
It's near midnight when she first sees a glimpse of the creature's silhouette, about the size of a cat, but she can make out a long tail with spikes. Just as she anticipated, the creature appeared, flying through the open window she purposely opened. It pauses at the entrance, as if observing the lack of guards, but not questioning it as it dashes across the floor. Either this isn't a very smart creature, or its desperation for food outweighs the risks. Regardless, it just made a mistake.
She uses her speed to enter the room before the creature has time to react, standing in front of the window it entered through. She closes the window, her eyes narrowing down on the now cornered beast. A scaled creature, with horns and wings. Its ears flattens against its head and their wings press against its body, imitating the fearful behavior a mutt would display. The longer she observers the creature the more she realizes that these traits match those of a dragon, albeit a very small dragon. She wonders if this was just a hatchling.
The small dragon snarls at her, and a blaze emanates from its spine, the flames coursing down to its tail. The bright flames illuminate the dragon's features more, and it's when she notices that blood is spewing from a gruesome cut on its leg.
An injured Pyro Dragon? It's terribly small, and she can't imagine how this one is still alive given its injury. Although the fire is an indicator it's a mature adult, the size is a cause of concern. What a pitiful thing.
Arlecchino’s eyes flicker over to the box that the dragon tried getting into. As she approaches it, the dragon snarls, tensing its body to lunge at her at any second, however, she simply ignores it. Opening the lid, she's met with thick cuts of raw meat. She takes several cuts of the meat from the insulated container, before holding it out in front of the dragon. If the dragon needs raw meat, she has a particular selection of premium raw meat for herself that she could use for the dragon.
“Eat,” she demands as she offers the food. The dragon, still maintaining its anxious behavior, stalks closer, sniffing the food before it latches its teeth on the steak.
“I have as much meat as you could want, better quality as well. I'll feed you, shelter you, and take care of that cut for you. Come with me.” She says, offering another slab of meat.
The dragon doesn't respond, nor stop eating, but its body relaxes. By the time it reaches its last piece of meat, it's eating out of her hand. Arlecchino uses the close proximity to examine the dragon's injuries. The dragon nudges its head against her hand, and Arlecchino strokes the dragon's head.
“Will you come home with me?”
The dragon gives her an affirmative croak.
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The dragon did not grow any larger even in the months it stayed with her, nor did it transform into its human form yet. Its wound had been festering for quite a while, however under her care, it is healing remarkably quickly. Arlecchino proposes that the dragon is using its energy to heal from the wound. Had the dragon not done so, it would have surely met an agonizing fate. This continuous depletion didn't allow for the dragon to grow in size, transform, or use its powers and it would have continued in that state for years had she not rescued it.
It must be because of this that the dragon does not take long to get attached to her.
The dragon always sticks near her, sometimes physically on top of her. If it's not on her shoulder or head, then it's on her lap. Getting accustomed to how clingy the dragon is was a struggle, but she soon learns.
If she'd allow it, it'd follow her everywhere. It's almost endearing.
It only took three days for the dragon to sneak into her bedroom. The morning after, she awakened with an unfamiliar weight over her torso, and she found that the dragon was nestled on top of her. The next night that she slept, it was nuzzled against her neck and sprawled over her right shoulder. She'd be lying if she said it was an unwelcome sight, and it became a nightly occurrence.
Often the dragon would play and entertain the House of the Hearth children. Sometimes, it'd accompany her outside, but only on certain missions. After all, she needed to test the dragon’s abilities in its current condition, and who better to test it on than the scum of Fontaine?
Something else she finds intriguing is that the dragon devours fire, much like how the Iudex fancies his water, though the dragon is particular to her blood flames than any typical flames. On occasion, she uses her powers as a treat that the creature happily indulges in.
Arlecchino only wonders what more she would learn once the dragon finally transforms.
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Arlecchino returns to the House of the Hearth after another irritating Harbinger meeting, rather exasperated and irked by some of the impudence and dimness of her ‘coworkers.’ She reaches her bedroom, exhaling a sigh. Before she enters, she hears scuffling from beyond her bedroom door. Her door is slightly cracked open, implying that someone had entered during her absence. From the small opening of her door, she catches a glimpse of a figure. Instantly, her eyes narrow and she withdraws her scythe.
Intruders have no place in her house. She knows that no children are inside, as it's one of the first things she's instilled when they first come: stay away from her room under any circumstance. So who is this audacious soul that dares trespass into her chambers?
Upon opening the door, she does not expect the speed of her assailant, as a figure crashes into her, wrapping their arms around her neck, face pressed against her neck. Arlecchino is momentarily stunned by the action, but for some reason, it feels familiar. The body is abnormally hot, too warm for a human being. This isn't someone she recognizes, and she was about to throw the being off of her when she paused. A purr erupts from the other person's throat, the vibrations coursing through the Harbinger.
“Arle…” the person murmurs, the name making Arlecchino hesitate. They lean away, tilting their head and glancing up at her, and then her breath hitches. Vibrant, slitted eyes stare back at her, that gaze only belonging to a certain dragon she knows.
“You're the–”
“–Dragon. It's finally nice to meet you, Arlecchino,” you say, as you finally uncoil your arms around her. Arlecchino observes you for longer, her scythe disappearing. Now that there's no threat, Arlecchino takes the time to observe your human form.
“Are you fully healed?”
You nod, giving her a soft smile. “I am. Thank you. I'm indebted to you. I'm sure you know of this, but I would not have survived for much longer if it weren't for your help. If you'd allow me, I'd like to work under you as a repayment. I'm sure you'd like what I have to offer.”
Arlecchino closes her eyes, a ghost of a smile appearing over her lips. “Very well.”
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Arlecchino learns many things about you. She learns of your favorite food, which happens to be her blood fire. The way you favor your meat served and how you're incredibly food-excitable. She learns that your wings and tails are incredibly sensitive underneath her fingertips and she is well aware that she abuses this knowledge. She learns that your presence lifts her heart and it’s only you that can appreciate her curse.
Your favorite touch from her is your head. Everyday, she'd pat you on the head the same way she did the night she saved you. Kissing your forehead and carding through your hair are close seconds.
She learns that there are some things that don't change even with your new form. While you never return to your small size in your dragon form, it does not mean you still do not linger around her, sitting in her lap when she's at her desk. You still play with the children, often acting as the ‘Mother’ role that the children did not have. And every night, you return to her bedside, embraced in her arms.
There are a few things that have changed with your new form. Arlecchino feels as if you've rekindled her, your love is another flame in her veins that doesn't scorch her being, but instead, you warm her soul, consuming her cursed blood flames.
It's what inspires the name that she always calls you before you drift to sleep.
“Mon petit feu.”
#arlecchino x reader#arlecchino x you#arlecchino#genshin impact x reader#genshin x reader#genshin impact fic#genshin impact fanfics#genshin fics#genshin fanfics#edgeray.writes#edgeray.requests#edgeray.🍉anon
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I was asked for ressources on Western Sahara so here is a list.
Context: Western Sahara was colonized by Spain. In 1975 Spain was about to leave and they somehow decided that it was their right to fucking give the land despite the fact that the people did not want it. So Spain kinda agreed to give the land to Morocco (2/3) and Mauritania (1/3). Except they had no right to. Morocco then organized the “Green March” a march during which Moroccan colonizers marched to Western Sahara and settled there. Becoming settlers in a land that did not belong to them. Morocco claims that Western Sahara belongs to them because once a long time ago (in like 1040) the chiefs of multiple Sahrawi tribes allegedly swore allegiance to the Sultan of Morocco. It makes no freaking sense. On top of it the founder of the dynasty to which Western Sahara allegedly swore allegiance was an Amazigh man from Mauritania not from Morocco. Anyway after Morocco colonized Western Sahara in 1975, a war broke. In 1979, Mauritania gave back the land Spain had given them but Morocco still refused to give back their land to the Sahrawi people. They actually decided that if Mauritania didn’t want that piece of Western Sahara then it would also belong to Morocco and they colonized it too. In 1991 a ceasefire was signed under the condition that a vote would be organized for the independence of Western Sahara. Except they never voted… Morocco refuses to. In 2020, the Polisario (the name of the Sahrawi resistance) blocked a bunch of trucks between the border of Western Sahara and Mauritania. Morocco considered that it was a declaration of war and the ceasefire ended.
(If people wanna know how Algeria is involved in all this just tell me I’ll make a post)
Now the ressources to learn more about what’s happening!!
Sons of the clouds, the last (colony of Africa) a documentary in Spanish and Hassania (Sahrawi language) about Western Sahara. The link included subtitles in French.
An article from Amnesty international regarding how a Sahrawia activist, Sultana Khaya, was abused by Moroccans authorities.
The book “Sáhara occidental: un viaje a la libertad” by Taleb Alisalem a sahrawi activist. Only available in Spanish but if you have Twitter you should really really follow him. He shares a lot of information past and current on the subject with sources.
A human rights watch article from 2022 about the situation in Western Sahara (the article mention the Human rights situation in Morocco too)
Because listening to local journalists is very very important here is a Sahrawi newspaper in multiple languages: in Arabic in English in French and in Spanish
The APS (Algeria Press Service) is also a good ressource BUT I wouldn’t suggest to quote it when you’re debating with someone who is pro colonialism. Algeria is 100% pro Western Sahara so people against the independence of Western Sahara don’t consider that Algeria is a reliable source on the subject.
A friend suggested the Book “Sahara occidental: conflit oublié, population en mouvement” by Sébastien Boulay (Western Sahara: forgotten conflit, displaced population) to my knowledge its only available in French maybe in Spanish too as the co-author is Spanish. I personally haven’t read this one yet but I 100% trust the person who recommended me the book.
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I hate how every time you have to stand against Palestinians being inhumanly slaughtered, someone pops up out of the woodwork to say "of course, but surely you must agree antisemitism is wrong"
I hate it because yeah, antisemitism is a plague on humanity, I wholeheartedly believe it. But opposing Israel isn't synonymous with antisemitism. In fact, Israel's attempts to make us believe so has done more to perpetuate antisemitism than anything pro-Palestinians (or anti-crimes against humanity, in my house) have done.
People have always fallen for Israeli propaganda. The consensus in the West for decades was "this conflict is extremely complicated, but in the end, Israel is in the right". It's not because of the prevalent racism in the West (although that certainly didn't help), but because the information was controlled by governments that had a vested interest in the existence of a Western-allied nation.
Now, with the decentralization of information, the October 7th attack brought the attention of many people towards Israel, much like the Bataclan attacks did, despite the fact that France was and still is doing far worse in Mali.
However, Israelis leaders, too busy relishing the opportunity to wipe out Gaza from history, launched their genocide while people's attention was still in Gaza's direction. And never as many people saw them for who they truly are: genocidal monsters
Then, they tried to peddle the same "antizionism is antisemitism" rhetoric. By doing that, they're forcing people into a choice: either support a genocide, or be branded an antisemite. A false dichotomy
Those who knew better, not least of which were the Palestinians, ignored this false dichotomy, but there are many people who don't know better, thanks to Israel's propaganda.
Some of the latter already didn't see us Arabs as humans, so it was thumbs-up for genocide, but for those who saw the brutality of the occupation, who felt the agony the Palestinian people were put under, they felt they had no choice but the non-genocide option.
I normally would blame those people for being ignorant dunces, and I partly do, but this ignorance was carefully cultivated by Israel and its allies, so the blame cannot rest on them themselves.
And I'm not just basing that on a couple of Internet dumbasses. I'm part of the Algerian diaspora, and I've seen so many other French-Arab people act exactly like I'm describing. Coincidentally, these people were almost always marginalized economically, culturally, legally, and most importantly, by the education system, all things that contribute to an inability to access the ressources necessary to learn more.
They were forbidden from educating themselves, so the lie that was ingrained in their brain is harder to fight (I know that, I tried to fight it locally for years and haven't succeeded yet)
And when you jump to condemn antisemitism in a conversation that didn't have anything to do with it, but did have a pro-Palestinian message, are you not contributing the perpetuation of the lie?
#israel#palestine#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#free palestine#israel is an apartheid state#israel is a genocidal state#israel is a war criminal#okay to reblog
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