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blue-orb · 3 years ago

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Wallace Cup 2021

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Like all good storms, there is a calm.

The stage has been set in a classic Hoenn fashion; seats, thousands of them, surrounding an inset circle. The smell of seawater fills the room, matched to the layer several centimeters thick on the stage, briney and soft and loved by so many. A platform, made roughly of rope and beeswax and wood, floats where it is tied to a post on one edge of the stage.

There’s a curious group of people in the audience above that dock. A hundred or so sun-loved men and women, each donning either a bandana or a scrap of blue fabric wrapped around their arm, hold signs and praise aloft in the air. There’s a prevailing symbol, the distinct A known to them as the symbol of the Aogiri family; but, of course, most simply know it as Team Aqua’s logo. Still, they’re being polite for a band of often land-bound pirates.

Quietly, in the brief span of time where the lights above are not quite turned on, two Pokemon enter the stage. It’s probably a bit strange to see a Ludicolo dressed as a traditional Shino priest, but the Swampert next to him looks equally strange in the red robes of traditional Terranid design. They take their place on the dock, the Ludicolo shaking leaves out of its hat to decorate the stage.

[00:30] The music starts off with a literal bang. A taiko drum calls out, slowly and rhythmically at first. Like the beginning stages of thunder, the sky lights up with each bang. As it does so, the rest of the cast appears; first comes a Luvdisc, swimming as best as she can through the meager surf. Then comes a Sharpedo, shaped like a person; she’s dressed in the traditional salt-crusted garb of the Cetanids, her feet bare and her hair left long. Her tail leaves wave as she passes, following the beat of the drum.

[00:57] The drum crashes once more, breaking into quick thunder. With it comes another member of the cast; barely recognizable under traditional robes and heavy makeup, the Pirate drifts out of the green room, with his Mega Trident held by his side. He’s wearing a furisode, most unlike a man his age, one that was passed down through his family. It’s his Mother’s and, until his child reaches a certain age, it’s his. There are few hangups about a man wearing a robe like this for the Cetanids, they who prioritize having someone to embody Kyogre in their plays over whether or not it counts as cross-dressing.

Silk shines blue and opalescent as he makes his way to the center of the stage, following the crash of thunder. He looks like Kyogre, skin painted blue and white to match the details of his kimono. His mask, his symbol in Contests, looks a little out of place. Gilded silver does not match all the white and gold in his outfit. But this is a tradition too and he thinks Juan will forgive him for the fashion faux-pas.

[01:04] The drums begin in earnest. He spins, slowly, carefully, pointing his Trident at the dock embodying the land. Those of the land, the Swampert and Ludicolo, threaten with displays of teeth and tossed leaves. Those of the sea, the Sharpedo and Luvdisc, reply in turn with glares and splashes of water. Each step and turn follows the drums, growing stronger and stronger.

[01:20] Until, finally, another drum joins. Dual tones split the Sea and Land into two movements. A Leaf Storm begins in the Ludicolo’s hat, whirling until it sends blades into the sea. Water splurts from the Luvdisc’s mouth until it becomes a Hydro Pump, surprising for her size. Both are loose, carefully, ensnaring and twirling around the other. The focus is on them as they follow a path from side to side.

[01:40] With the inclusion of a wood instrument comes the Swampert, rocks and ground pulling from the walls as they clatter into the makeshift sea. The Sharpedo dodges these things, quick even with her legs, as she blocks them from hitting their (similarly makeshift) Kyogre with lifted Surfs. As the rocks (encouraged by Earth Power, controlled with extreme care) encircle the Pirate, so does she; the Sharpedo knocks every rock away, her waves lifting to the beat of the drum.

[02:00] With the twang of a shamisen comes an increase in activity. Land works with land, sea works with sea. The same moves merge effortlessly, a show of rock and leaf contesting with Water that rises and crashes. The same dance is prevalent, tho’ it grows in tempo. Slowly, the Pirate lifts his Trident. As he does, the Sea grows stronger; movements begin to, slowly, overpower the other.

[02:25] Words join the music. He hopes they’ll be unintelligible over the speakers, as they don’t make much sense in this context. This is probably the point where someone in the audience recognizes where this music comes from and releases a hoot of laughter (one that is more delighted than amused, maybe; what 80s nerd doesn’t like Akira, after all?). The Pirate does his best to ignore that.

[02:32] The next words come with the improvement of the Land. A word, meaning nothing, repeats and calls out; and with it, the Swampert and Ludicolo grow strong, shaking off the sleepiness of Summer and growing into the frantic nature of Fall. They push back, beginning to overwhelm, as the Ludicolo leads a dance growing in tempo. The Swampert does his best to keep up, though a careful eye might notice his struggle. It’s hard to match with a Pokemon like this.

As this dance goes on, the dock begins to build up with leaves and bits of ground. The shape is intentionally, growing more and more like Hoenn’s distinctive volcano; beloved Mount Chimney, red leaves falling onto the top to look like glimmers of lava.

[03:06] As the music slows, so does the movements, and so to the reverse. More care is taken here, twirling leaf and water and ground into spirals and arcs. These are Pokemon who live for Contests, even if the Sharpedo’s glare and snap is distinctly violent. Of them all, she leads; her steps follow a dance inspired by those wielded by Cetanids who wanted to calm or worsen the sea. She and her Kyogre, her trainer in makeup that she’s trying not to laugh at, work perfectly in harmony (though, admittingly, he does lag a bit in that outfit. Silk is heavy when it’s wet).

[03:40] Slowly, the sky builds. Leaves float there, like the dappling of clouds. They cast shadow and light upon the water, like a summer storm sends thunder across hundreds of miles. The Swampert takes up the fighting, wielding the Earth with a strength that belays practice, as the Ludicolo steps back. There’s a small chest on the dock, carefully hidden, that it goes to.

It pulls out a piece of blue ‘crystal’, one as big as a beachball. Contests mean having to make things larger for everyone to see and, while the Pirate doesn’t much care for one-time-use props, Juan did a very good job constructing a fake Blue Orb.

[04:48] When Ludicolo lifts the Orb, the Pirate recoils. He curls up on himself, as if to hide from it. The people of the Sea notice this and fight back, but their water weakens. It trickles, rather than gushes. They fight, fight, fight and dance, but they can’t go against the Water being twisted up and around the Orb. With a heave, the false Kyogre collapses, face-down in the water.

Delighted, those of the land riot. The leaves that were left floating above the stage come down, fluttering prettily, to cover the sea. Those of the Sea recoil and hide within them, a hard measure to ask for when one is a shark nearly as big as her trainer. The land dances, happy as can be. They follow the beat, of course, and Ludicolo still leads.

Slowly, strangely, the water recedes. Those of the land do not notice it, nor how their dock rises until a cover of leaves, as all that is left of the sea around them, is but a mere centimeter of water. A puddle, one that the acting Kyogre crawls from and reaches for his Trident. There’s a glow there, in that tiny crystal, as bright as the light in the Blue Orb.

As the small group in the audience begins to chant (Rainbow Falls, Rainbow Falls, Rainbow Falls) he lifts the trident and stands. The people of the land watch him, their Blue Orb threatening, but…

But he lifts his Trident nonetheless.

[06:03] With a crack of wood, something rises from beneath the land, building from the hump that grew during the last act. An enormous Kyogre, one shaped like a Pokemon, rises from the stage. It’s made of seawater, one that drips and denies leaves as it grows larger and floats higher. Inside is the Sharpedo, Rainbows soaking her as her form changes into something larger, more dangerous. Her Surf encircles them, as the Luvdisc beside her provides shape with Aqua Ring.

Pitching a roll towards the lights fills the room with Rainbows, casting that enormous Kyogre in the hues of humanity’s gift. The section of audience reserved for the Pirate’s curious party of supporters cheer, reaching from the stand to drag their hands through the Kyogre as it encircles the stage.

As it reaches the highest point, it stops for a second. The actor playing Kyogre below looks up at it and, with a bang of his Trident against the floor, the massive water bubble pops. Water is sprayed everywhere, soaking the audience in warm seawater, and the Pirate jolts forward to catch his Sharpedo before she falls.

The music tapers off. The show is done. As is tradition, the actors step forward and take a bow; something the Sharpedo, still in her trainer’s arms, has a bit of trouble with. With a delighted wave, they all return back to the Green Room.

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And, as they do, Archie lifts his head at his competitors seated there and laughs. His shark laughs too, as nasty as he.. “Good luck beating that, nerds.”

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themuzzleofnemesis · 5 years ago

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2-Memory of the Forest; Scene 6

The Muzzle of Nemesis, pages 58-70

Mr. Ziz looked more comfortable in the open sea than the underground lake after all.

He was moving around in the water unusually actively. Dite had asked if he was going to run away, but I replied that I wasn’t worried about that.

The remaining members of our group waited for Narcissus and the others to return at Elphegort’s western coast. Once the small transport boat returned, we had to pack all of the gold inside it into our car. The car was also something we had been lent to us by Kandi, but Helio had taken a liking to it, and so quickly learned how to operate it.

Before long it was about time for the crew to be escaping from the S.S. Titanis. The transport vessel’s exterior was made up to look like it belonged to the World Police (--Or rather, it seemed like it actually was a real World Police transport vehicle, and Racle had been extremely interested in how Kandi had gotten his hands on it), so as long as they didn’t reveal their true identity and didn’t get spotted at the scene of the crime the approach and retreat should have been relatively simple.

“Oh—That’s it, isn’t it?” Nike pointed across the water.

I could see that there was indeed a large vessel moving towards port. That must have been the S.S. Titanis.

“We’d never be able to ride on such a gaudy ship even if it took us the rest of our lives,” Dite murmured seriously. “It’s real strange. It’s hard to find work for Elphe people like us in Aceid.”

What she spoke was an undeniable truth, and there was a reason for it.

About seventy percent of all the business conducted in Aceid was under the thumb of the foreign-made Freezis Conglomerate, and as they had a policy of prioritizing non-Elphes in their employment practices, this resulted in the reversed situation of native Elphe people being unable to get jobs in their own country.

The Yarera Zusco Conglomerate headed by an Elphe as its chairman was strengthening their authority when looking at the country of Elphegort as a whole, but their chief areas of business were mostly localized, and the capital city of Aceid was still the domain of the Freezises.

The town of Aceid, having been somewhat taken over by foreigners, had become difficult to live in for Elphe people. “Zeus” was a team comprised of Elphe children who had been forced into poverty.

Only, strictly speaking I wasn’t a pure-blooded Elphe. At the very least my mother’s hair color differed from mine, as it wasn’t the vivid green that Elphe people were known for. So perhaps my father had been an Elphe, and I inherited more from his side. I was grateful that my friends accepted me in spite of that.

--I could see a boat coming this way. Not the S.S. Titanis. It was much smaller…There was no doubt about it. That was the small transport vessel carrying the gold and Narcissus’ team.

“Yahoo!” Helio cheered.

They were a little later than expected, but the break-in crew had returned.

Everyone gathered around the ship as it arrived on the shore. We were a little worried as the door didn’t open right away, but it did eventually, and first to come out were Narcissus and Gai.

--In that moment, I had an ominous feeling. Maybe it was the same with everyone else.

Gai came out dragging his leg, leaning on Narcissus’ shoulder for support.

“What happened?” Dite ran up to Narcissus and the others. I and Nike followed behind.

I could see Pan, Racle, and Ilei on the other side of the door.

And gold, piled high.

Yet in spite of that all of their expressions were dark.

And—Remes was nowhere in sight.

“They killed Remes,” Narcissus murmured sourly.

“…Huh?” Dite was in shock, not seeming to grasp what he had just said.

“Midas’ bodyguards. They fired at us without hesitation…”

“That can’t be…” Dite covered her face with her hands, and began to sob.

“What…happened to Midas?” I asked; Narcissus shook his head regretfully.

“It all went wrong. He’s still alive, and worse, he saw our faces. We couldn’t collect Remes’ body either…It’s all over. Once the S.S. Titanis reaches land we’ll all either be handed over to the police or killed by Midas and his goons.”

“—Then let’s run away, right now!”

“Run? Where would we run to? Even if we leave Aceid they’re sure to follow us.”

“Then maybe we could ask Mr. Kandi for help…”

“We can’t. He’ll cut us loose, now that it’s turned out like this. He might even come after us to get rid of the evidence. …That might be the worst outcome for us right now.”

“Who is he? This Kandi.”

“…He’s a higher-up of the Freezis Conglomerate. More than that, I don’t know.”

“--!?”

“Whatever the case, it’s all over for us…for Zeus.”

Zeus, over—maybe this sounds foolish, but until yesterday I had never thought such a thing could happen.

Maybe we shouldn’t have been punching above our weight class. Despite how cocky we were with running the slums, we were just kids after all…Even so, we’d convinced ourselves there was nothing we couldn’t do.

--There was no use in regretting it now. I had to do something about this situation, and now.

If I didn’t, I would lose the sense of belonging I had only just managed to obtain.

I—didn’t want that.

Give it over

Give over everything to your feelings

…I felt as though I could hear a woman's voice.

"Did you say something?" I asked Nike, but she shook her head, puzzled.

Dite was still crying as she had been. It likely wasn’t her either.

So then who was it?

Give it over

Give over everything to your feelings

Again.

This time I could tell clearly that this voice was merely echoing inside my mind.

Give it over

Give over everything to your feelings

There was no mistaking it.

That was none other than my own voice.

And yet, it was somehow almost pleasant--

Give it over

Give over everything to your feelings

--That was exactly it.

There was no need to hesitate.

I…would do as I wanted to.

To save everyone.

To save myself.

I would remove anything that got in the way of that.

I—could do it.

Before I knew it, I was standing on a cliff near the shoreline.

Directly below me I could see the transport vessel and my friends.

And across the sea—from here I could clearly see the figure of the S.S. Titanis.

There wasn’t a lot of time left until it reached the port.

…Mr. Ziz.

I spoke to him where he was within the water with my mind.

Even without words, I could reach out to him.

--Obeying my orders, Mr. Ziz rapidly headed towards the S.S. Titanis.

All the while his body steadily grew bigger.

At a speed I had never seen before today.

The people onboard the S.S. Titanis were likely in a frenzy at seeing such a huge octopus drawing closer to them.

But that was temporary.

Midas and the other passengers onboard the ship would sink into the ocean.

When he had grown as big as he could, Mr. Ziz’ tentacle closed around the S.S. Titanis.

He began to shake the ship as though he were a child with a toy.

One by one his tentacles began to seize the ship—until at least it was completely covered by them.

--All in all, it took maybe several minutes to transpire.

When Mr. Ziz pulled his tentacles away and once more sank into the sea…

The S.S. Titanis was nowhere to be seen.

How many people were aboard that ship?

I didn't know, but it had to be a lot.

I had all too quickly stolen their lives.

I was aware that I had done something unthinkable.

Yet, for some reason it was extremely funny—

And before I knew it, I was smiling.

When I returned to the coast, my friends appeared to have noticed what happened with the Titanis.

They were aware that I could control Mr. Ziz.

Naturally, they knew who had sunk the ship.

“…”

No one said a word.

--I had done it on my own.

I hadn’t been wanting them to thank me.

…But you guys, at the very least.

Don’t look at me like that.

Like you’re gazing upon some frightening thing.

“…Let’s go.” The first to break the silence was Narcissus. “Get the gold bars into the car. Before someone comes.”

At those words, everyone moved into action at once.

We carried the gold from the boat and packed them into the automobile’s luggage compartment.

Midway through the work, Pan quietly whispered to me from nearby, “—Thank you.”

I stared at him, without meaning to.

“If you and Mr. Ziz hadn’t done that, we’d have been done for.”

“…”

“Everyone knows it. We were going to commit murder from the get-go. …It’s just that the number’s changed a bit.”

“I…guess.”

“And everyone aboard that ship was rich—the kind who would normally be sneering at poor people like us. You shouldn’t worry about a pack like that dying from getting caught up in this. …Oh, look.” Pan pointed to the sea. “Mr. Ziz is coming back. You should go get him.”

Following his advice, I walked away from the car and headed towards Mr. Ziz.

He looked extremely worn out when he popped up from the water. That was understandable.

“…You did well.”

I pulled him into my arms.

When I did, something fell down to the sand from between his tentacles.

“…?”

I scooped it up.

…It looked like a doll.

A small doll designed to look like an Elphe girl.

“What are you doing with this…?”

It was filthy, but I couldn’t find much damage on it considering it had been submerged in the water.

Maybe this had belonged to someone riding on the S.S. Titanis.

“…”

I didn’t mean for it to be any sort of atonement, but if this was a belonging of one of the deceased, I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away.

And…I had heard that some dolls could sell for extremely high prices.

I would take it home with me.

By the time the car laden with gold reached Aceid, the sun had already set.

From there the car raced towards our hideout.

I was in the luggage compartment with my other friends. It had a canopy over the top, so neither us nor the gold was visible from the outside.

The interior of this car that Kandi had lent us was extremely luxurious, and it had a radio installed in it.

Today’s news broadcast through the speaker.

“—At noon today the passenger ship S.S. Titanis sank in the Hark Sea as it was returning to port. The World Police are still investigating into the cause at present. The exact number of deaths among the passengers and crew is unknown, but it looks fairly hopeless from the current situation. …Just now we have received a list of the names of the passengers who met with this unfortunate accident. I will read them in order. –Midas Touch, Robert Thayne, Ellie Thayne, Wise Rogzé, Mira Marlon, Michelle Marlon—"

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is6621 · 5 years ago

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Celebrities ditch Facebook, Instagram for a day to #StopHateForProfit, but will it inspire real change? - Jude Greenspan

Stop Hate For Profit, a coalition of civil rights organizations that facilitated an advertising boycott of Facebook in July, gained new ground on Wednesday when it shifted its boycott efforts to Instagram, the popular Facebook-owned app. In its latest move, the campaign called on celebrities to participate in a one-day Instagram-freeze “in protest of Facebook’s repeated failures to address hate speech and election disinformation on their platforms.”

A day ahead of the boycott, dozens of celebrities took to social media to announce they’d be supporting the latest #StopHateForProfit call-to-action by boycotting Instagram for a day - including Kim Kardashian, Mark Ruffalo, Demi Lovato, and many other household names. In addition to the one-day Instagram freeze, several celebrities further supported the cause by posting across their social media platforms (before and after the freeze) calling out Facebook for its role in spreading racism, violence, and disinformation. Members of the public, corporations, and other notable figures were encouraged to participate in the freeze as well.

With this latest move, it’s likely the #StopHateForProfit campaign has more to come. But regardless of how many celebrities and corporations support the goals of the campaign – the question I have is whether this support will be effective in bringing about change. Will these actions force Facebook to address the many issues the campaign seeks to resolve, or do these efforts fall short of incentivizing the company to enact meaningful change?

What the campaign and its proponents are saying:

The Stop Hate for Profit Campaign is a coalition made up of 9 civil rights organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the N.A.A.C.P. According to the organization’s website, the movement is meant to hold social media companies accountable and encourage these companies to “prioritize people over profit.” Wednesday’s Instagram freeze initiative was a follow up to the organization’s high-profile Facebook boycott earlier this summer, when more than 1,200 businesses and nonprofits paused advertising on Facebook for the month of July to protest the company’s failure to proactively address the hate and other issues on its platform.

With the July boycott, the campaign took aim at the core of Facebook’s business: its advertising revenue. Now, with the latest move to call for a celebrity boycott of Facebook-owned Instagram, the movement may have gained further ground. As noted in an article by Digital Trends, the celebrity Instagram freeze taps into the immense star power these celebrities hold – and their millions of fans who yearn for content from them. By having these influential, adored public figures participate in the freeze, the move was designed to threaten a big part of Instagram that draws in millions of users: a direct line to celebrities and their lives.

In addition, by having these celebrities post across their channels about why they’re supporting #StopHateForProfit, the campaign was able to further elevate its message. With the many participating celebrities publicly disavowing Facebook’s content moderation policies and urging their millions of followers to join in the one-day freeze, it’s likely the campaign will garner more support for its cause.

What the critics are saying:

While #StopHateForProfit may have gained momentum with this latest move, many critics are skeptical of whether this will result in any real change. It may be too soon to tell how big of an impact this week’s one-day freeze is having on the social media company, but it’s not even clear whether July’s month-long advertising boycott had any impact on Facebook’s business. Immediately following the boycott this summer, Facebook said that it still expects to hit its revenue goals for the year and will largely be unaffected by the campaign. Many of the companies that participated in the freeze resumed Facebook advertising after July. Even if some of these companies didn’t return to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has stated that it’s wrong to “assume that our business is dependent on a few large advertisers.”

Other critics are adding that this week’s one-day freeze doesn’t go far enough. In the media, some have compared the freeze to the black square movement over the summer, in which celebrities and the general public posted black squares to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement – which many criticized as ineffective or “performance activism.” Some have also said these short-term boycotts don’t go far enough and that celebrities need to do more – e.g., by deleting Facebook and Instagram all together.

My Take:

It remains to be seen how much these one-day or month-long Instagram and Facebook boycotts alone will impact Facebook’s revenue in the long term, especially because Facebook’s financial performance seems to be unharmed this far. Without having a real impact on its business, I’m not sure how much Facebook will be incentivized to enact meaningful change.

On the other hand, this concentrated effort could eventually take a toll on the D reputation – which may have devastating effects on the company long term. Over the years we’ve seen multiple social media networks rise and fall – so I don’t think it’s entirely out of the question that the #StopHateForProfit campaign can play at least a small role in chipping away at Instagram and Facebook’s position as two of the most dominant social media platforms.

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Sources:

https://www.stophateforprofit.org/celebrities-join-instagram-freeze

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/technology/instagram-freeze-facebook.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/business/media/facebook-boycott.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/dozens-of-celebrities-join-stop-hate-for-profit-in-one-day-boycott-of-facebook/

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sepublic · 6 years ago

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Tawahi

Tawahi is a village built upon a series of flattened, hill-like plains near the base of a stable, active volcano, named Mount Mangai. Mangai is constantly, steadily, streaming a flow of lava, with two streams of lava having been diverted to flow past and around Tawahi in the form of a moat- Skull Spiders are vulnerable to the extreme heat of lava, with only Armored Spiders surviving initially, before melting under the blazing temperatures like their brethren.

Caught between these two lethal rivers, the Tawahans manage to exit and enter Tawahi by using cranes built atop the walls surrounded by the lava moat. These cranes hoist massive platforms to carry passengers over the lava moat to either side of the steaming river. Like the bridges of Kokoro, the Tawahan cranes are carefully monitored, and improvements are always being made to make the cranes faster, more accurate, and more stable.

Past the massive walls, made from a mixture of recently-forged metal and stone, is the main village of Tawahi. Tawahi is divided into three, flattened slopes, each one leading to another with a sloping dirt path. Atop these hills, the people of Tawahi have built a village of various huts and buildings, all of them designed to withstand the heat, be more or less fireproof, and likewise allow maximum ventilation and cooling with conditioners created by Marn engineers and fueled by Kokoran Bitterbite.

Tawahans specialize in blacksmithing, as the nearby plethora of accessible, extreme heat allows them to heat up their forges. Countless blacksmith shops are scattered throughout Tawahi, where metals and ores mined from Marn are brought in by the Gukko Airforce to be melted down and reforged into the proper tools and materials, before being delivered back to the rest of Okoto for use. Swords, hammers, and other metallic tools of the finest, highest quality are born and/or re-forged here, leading some to dub Tawahi as the new City of the Mask Makers.

This steady stream of metal, some used for more luxury purposes, has outfitted the Tawahan Guard with a constant supply of the latest armors and weapons, making the Tawahi Military amongst the most well-armed in all of Okoto. Aside from melting down ores, though, the latent heat bubbling within the Region of Fire is also used for another purpose- The famous, beloved Tawahi Hot Springs!

The Tawahi Hot Springs are exactly what their names imply them to be- A series of pools of water that are heated up by the underground heat to soothing temperatures. In the Tawahi Hot Springs, many elders and other experts tend to visitors, often supplying them with back massages and other special treatments, taking care to utilize the pumice found in the Region of Fire, as well as other materials. Many who visit the Tawahi Hot Springs leave feeling reportedly fresher and more energetic, as if their whole being has been rekindled and cleansed. Members of the Tawahan Guard are given discounts to the Hot Springs, and Gukko Airforce pilots are always treated to a relaxing massage and therapy as thanks for their hard work, before being sent off to fly the skies of Okoto once more.

Despite its harsh heat, the Region of Fire continues to kindle the flame of life and survival for Okotans yet again- The nearby soil produced by the volcanoes is incredibly fertile, constantly being requested for by various farmers across Okoto. Lava Farmers use the fertile soil produced by volcanoes to breed healthy crops that contribute either to Tawahan cuisine, or the nutrition of the other Mega Villages.

Aside from Levato, Tawahi is the second-most popular home for Kolhii. Other forms of entertainment include Ignalu Surfing, as well as the famous Tawahan Fireworks; Powdered rockets that when lit soar into the air and detonated in the most dazzling, colorful arrays of light. Needless to say, Tawahi’s exports usually consist of its newly-forged ores, fertile soils, the occasional vegetable or fruit, and fireworks. Materials for an at-home Spa therapy and treatment is also sold by the Tawahan Hot Springs, with the majority of funds going into supporting the Tawahan Military. Tawahi is also known for its delicious, fire-roasted cuisine. Barbecue, hot pot, roasts, etc.,- Tawahi has it all, and cooking competitions are a frequent event. Every now and then, Tawahi will hold a massive potluck where villagers can go about, trying out the roasted foods that others have to offer. All of these attractions have made Tawahi a popular tourist site for vacations and relaxation, one of its specialties.

Tawahi is overlooked by Narmoto, the current Protector of Fire, village leader, and an Okotan with a mysterious past and a strange, seemingly sentient turret grafted to his spine. Narmoto claims he randomly found it in an abandoned temple, where it attached itself to him- Attempts to reverse-engineer his turret have ended poorly, with most agreeing to leave it alone lest Narmoto suffer for it. Like Marn, Tawahi is mostly military-run, although to a lesser extent, by the Tawahan Military.

Many Okotans are stoked by blazes of the Region of Fire in Tawahi. Among them is Aft, a veteran of the Tawahan Military, who now dedicates his remaining life as a therapist, usually for soldiers suffering from PTSD. Having achieved peace through rediscovered books on meditation and mental and emotional health delivered from Kokoro, Aft sits down with his patients, listening to them about their nightmares and problems, and helping them calm down and confront their emotions. Aft is always quick to note that courage is not fearlessness, but rather being scared, and going on ahead regardless. His words always inspire many to continue their duties in defending Tawahi.

Brander is a stout blacksmith, and one of Tawahi’s best, with Jaller of the Military preferring his tools most. Constantly supervising his forge, he crafts all manner of weapons, and more mundane tools, from the constant supplies of ore shipped in from Marn. Using the transferred heat from the lava moat, Brander softens his materials and reshapes them to his heart’s content, and has had made many luxury items and jewelry in conjunction with crafters from Marn and smelted art with Levan carvers. Brander is also a bit of an experimental barbecue chef, using his stove to try barbecuing all manner of ingredients from across Okoto.

Aodhan is an elderly lady who works at the Tawahi Hot Springs, supervising guests to ensure that they achieve maximum comfort and relief in the bubbling soak. Aodhan also specializes in massages of many kind, as well as skin treatments, and she frequently thanks visitors with a specially-wrapped treat of her famous lava cookies, freshly baked!

Binyo is the head chef at his famous grill, where he cooks right in front of the customer over an open stove, often amusing many with his famous ‘Onion Volcano’ trick. Binyo treats the business of his art very seriously, prioritizing speed, freshness, quality, and entertainment. Binyo is currently looking to train an apprentice, as his son has invested in a career as a Sumo wrestler.

Tiribomba is, as his name might imply, a pyrotechnics expert. While he does dabble in explosives in collaboration with others across Okoto, from Pekka of Leva to Nuparu of Marn, his main passion and dream career is creating fireworks with his family. Hailing from a long family line, Tiribomba’s family holds a secret on how to make the brightest, most varied, and most complex patterns in a firework. Their ‘Family Recipe’ is coveted by many, but Tiribomba insists that they marry a relative –or even himself, ha!- before they can learn his family’s hidden art. The sky is frequently littered with some of his family’s experiments and prototypes, and while they don’t match the quality Tiribomba aspires to, as far as anyone else is concerned, they’re perfect.

Kalama is another member of the Tawahan forging process, although his assignment is particularly grim. Kalama oversees the process of recycling Skull Spider bodies, shipped in from all across Okoto, usually from Levato. Kalama helps his fellow workers break down the bodies of the fallen creatures, melting down their metal limbs to be reforged into new blades, and breaking the rest down to its base components to be recycled and reused. This morbid occupation brings him in frequent contact with the faces of the despised swarms, and some fear for Kalama’s mental health- Some have sighted Kalama actually talking to the empty faces of the dead Skull Spiders, and the recent incident of a Skull Spider that feigned death, just to infiltrate Tawahi, has put him on further edge. Aft sometimes swings by to offer therapy, but Kalama just sticks to his job.

Maglya is a Lava Farmer in her spare time- As the name suggests, others of her occupation use the lava flows of the nearby moat and fresh volcanic soil to farm healthy gardens. Always having something to offer on her stall, Maglya is in frequent collaboration with Vohon to sell her soil to other farmers, in particular her pen pal Orkahm of the Vuata Maca. Despite her apparently idle job, Maglya also has a thrill for the dangerous sport of Ignalu Surfing, and is a professional at it.

Vohon is Tawahi’s main trader. An enthusiastic marketer with a magnetic personality, Vohon has a unique ‘loyalty’ program for her frequent customers. Said system involves a series of tickets given to customers that, when amassed, can grant them free prizes. Other parts of this Loyalty program include exclusive scratch cards, the occasional discount, and an inevitable gift for Naming Day. Despite the encouragement of these programs, Vohon is also courteous enough to advise shoppers to be careful about their spending, a lesson that is always heeded well. Vohon is a big fan of the poppers that Tiribomba’s family makes.

Lhii is the young, impressionable son of Narmoto. Despite his mother’s death, Lhii retains his excitable demeanor, frequently running about Tawahi and playing with the other children, even making friends with older villagers. His status as the Protector’s son has made him beloved, if reverent, to the Tawahan Military, but Lhii does not throw his status around, instead preferring to hang out with the guards and be friends with them as well. Despite the death toll against the Skull Spiders, Lhii aspires to follow in his father’s footsteps and defend Tawahi when he’s old enough, perhaps even replacing him as Protector of Fire.

The Tawahan Military is a local militia of volunteers, all armed with the freshest, sturdiest weaponry, tools, and armor, fresh and hot from the forge. While mostly voluntary, there is an unspoken agreement that the militia must have a certain minimum number of members that, if not met, would be gathered from a draw of the capable. Thankfully, such a scenario has never happened, as the courage of Tawahi blazes in its inhabitants’ hearts. The Tawahan Military frequently patrols the walls of the village, overseeing the smelting of ores, defending against Skull Spider threats, and occasionally going beyond the lava moat for expeditions or hunts.

Members of the Tawahan Military are frequently imbued with a powerful sense of honor, chivalry, and code. They are led by Jaller, captain of the guard, and heir to Narmoto’s status as Protector of Fire. A natural leader who takes heed of his followers’ opinions, Jaller possesses a powerful sense of loyalty and a simmering caution, always on the lookout for Skull Spiders and assessing their tactics. Despite his loyalty, Jaller is not blind to authority, not even his own, and he is willing to call out those above him in case he feels there is injustice- Such solid morals and other values are what has led him to be the disciplined Captain of the Tawahan Military. His spare time is usually combat training.

Kapura is one of the older members of the Tawahan Military, and among its more mysterious and eccentric ones. Functioning differently in the mental sense, Kapura is naturally physically slower than everyone else, a trait that has led him to be careful, diligent, and analytical. In the heat of battle, Kapura’s more slowed and calmed approach to the situation allows him to sometimes notice things that aren’t quite right, or observe what others have missed. This analytical and purposeful methodology of his has made him one of Narmoto’s advisors.

Paradoxically enough, Kapura seems to have the ability to move quickly, perhaps even teleport- He claims he can travel fast by moving slowly, by concentrating on where he is not, and thus inevitably being there. Kapura tends to practice this habit of his in the Charred Forest at his own risk, and it seems to work- How is anyone’s guess. Attempts to imitate have failed. Kapura also has a strange intuition regarding the Skull Spiders, and a knowledge of some parts of the Okotan pantheon of Deities. When not guarding or practicing, Kapura works at Tawahi’s theaters, occasionally partaking in its shadow theather or puppet shows, telling the old stories of Okoto.

Keahi’s role in the Tawahan Military is the regular patrol of the walls. In her spare time, Keahi also serves as a geisha performer and guest entertainer for visitors, often working at nearby restauraunts or in the Tawahi Hot Springs, and is a frequent member of the theater. Despite her graceful and reserved nature, Keahi also has a bit of a sharp tone if she chooses and is not to be underestimated- Jaller has cited her to be the bravest Tawahan there is. According to him, Keahi is actually very afraid, but she continues on diligently and stows away her fear, conquering it.

Agni is a dedicated Tawahan soldier who is obsessed with a moral code of honor. Rumor has it that his father once ran away in battle against the Skull Spiders, a disgrace and cowardice that Agni intends to make up for in his service by being the first to volunteer for missions. A master at the martial arts, Agni helps instruct his fellow guards on weaponless combat and is quick to remind people of the weak points that the Skull Spiders like to exploit. His mother has encouraged him to find a girlfriend, or boyfriend, whichever, but Agni is disinterested.

#bionicle #bionicle g2 #Bionicle RaE #jaller #narmoto #kapura #worldbuilding #lore #fanon #skull spiders

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granvarones · 6 years ago

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Since last August, we have been working hard to make this Gran Varones Fellowship happen. When we launched Gran Varones on this date exactly five years ago, it has been our commitment to build power at the community level. It was this very commitment that inspired us to launch the Gran Varones Positive Digital Arts Fellowship. Gran Varones was awarded a grant (our very first!) from ViiV Healthcare to launch a year-long (March 2019 – January 2020) national fellowship to develop the leadership of a cohort of six HIV positive Latinx Gay, Queer, Trans and Bisexual Men ages 21-35. This cohort of creatives will be supported with resources to combat HIV stigma and promote family acceptance in Latinx communities through digital storytelling, community building and cultural organizing.

Through an online application process, we received responses from brilliant applicants from all over the country. Narrowing the list down to six people was almost impossible. In fact, we were originally budgeted to select five fellows but decided on six because, well, why not?

We selected six brilliant creatives from just as many cities. We prioritized creatives who are new to the digital organizing and/or storytelling space. And after sharing time and space with them during our first of two convenings a few weeks ago, we are excited about all of the magic that they will be creating as individuals and as a cohort.

In addition to creating content for GV, each fellow will organize a community-based event. This will expand our commitment of building power through storytelling by making it even more accessible. These six fellows are going to create a new earth! Here are the six Gran Varones Positive Digital Arts Fellowship:

Carlos Moreno (He/They) Los Angeles, CA

A Gemini in his 28th year of existence, Carlos is a proud Chicanx living his truth as an HIV Positive Queer person from Tucson, Arizona. A product of migration, this first generation being strives to make a helpful and lasting impact on the HIV/AIDS community, both globally and locally. He has stood alongside others in the fight against HIV/AIDS in prevention and as well as in care. Unscathed by stigma, He has navigated the last ten years of his life by reclaiming any animosity he's faced and turned it into a therapeutic artistic expressions. A natural introvert himself, Carlos has struck chords with folks using simple imaging and messaging, leaving faces shocked, surprised, amused, or not in agreement, but definitely began a conversation. Carlos wants nothing more than for other Poz folk to join in on this ARTivism movement, share their experiences and connect with others so that we don’t all feel alone, especially Queer and Trans people of Color. It has been a dream of his to see there be space for distributing such products at events where other LGBTQ/Hetero/ HIV/AIDS information is being accessed. Carlos believes that it is important that people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS have access to the same empowering messages the HIV Negative and prevention communities do, that they are equally represented with pride and equity. Without a real push for some financial assistance, these items may only be limited to the creator and not have the opportunity to help inspire other Poz communities to flourish.

José A. Romero (He/They) Durham, NC

is an abolitionist organizer, immigrant defense strategist, and Poz Poet living in Durham, NC. The first in their bio-family born in the “US”, José is the descendant of working-class immigrants from Morazán, El Salvador and Michoacán, Mexico. Born in Washington State and raised between there and Michoacán, José’s political awakening arose while witnessing kindred femmes undo misogyny and while learning English to confront the borders their family endures. José moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania where they were active in movements to confront anti-blackness/homophobia. In Durham they use their research background and direct-action experience to honor past, present, and future radical ancestors. Inspired by apocalypse and alchemy, José’s abolitionist organizing for black/brown flourishing includes work with Durham Beyond Policing, Durham’s Participatory Budgeting Steering Committee, and various immigrant/queer/trans defenders. They have worked on anti-deportation/sanctuary cases across NC and are a proud member of Southerner’s on New Ground working to end money bail, abolish ICE, and pleasurably undo anti-blackness in Latinx communities. José is currently Directing the first Latinx Southern Regional Health conference for the National Latino Commission on AIDS. They’re working on two collections of poetry titled ICEBREAKERSand POZITIVE. They are the host of an open mic series and queer friendship/dating party collectively called MELT. They make their money working at a queer punk bar, as an interpreter, and as a consultant. You can find/book them at @PupusaPapi_27 on Instagram and @RomeroFlux on Twitter. José dreams of curating an Arabic/Mandarin/Spanish exhibit/mixtape as well as opening and inviting y’all to a mobile Freedom School dedicated to astrobiology, pupusas, synesthesia, and uprising.

J. Aces Lira (He/Him/His) Chicago, IL

Aces Lira is an MSW/MA graduate student in Women Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. As a Research Assistant, he is based in the US Regional Network within the International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR) and is getting a foot in the door on all things research-related. Outside of the books, Aces orchestrates portraits along with art through different mediums and also lives for National Park excursions.

Marci Garcia (He/Him/His) Brownsville, TX

Sometimes life feels just like one of those theatrical plays or big screen movies; a bunch of dialogue, drama, adventure, tragedy and tears, and a lot of laughter and happy moments as well, all combined. My movie opens in Mexico, born and raised until the age of 10. I was a lucky boy that grew up in a very loving family; abuelos, tios, primos and my beautiful parents and brother always by my side. Still, I was a lonely kid. A kid that knew he was different and had a very a hard time fitting in, all the way through high school and college years. Never an obstacle to aspire to go out in the world and follow my dreams though. Today, I feel I am blessed and thankful to life for being different. I didn’t choose to be who I am, I just got lucky. Throughout my professional career I have wanted to find the place where I know I am not only getting a paycheck but also making a positive difference somehow. Again, through life’s unique way of arranging things I believe I have found that. I am currently part of an extraordinary non-profit organization whose goal is to provide sexual education, HIV prevention and wellness services to the community of South Texas. Being here truly inspires me to become more involved, gain knowledge and to help out combat the HIV stigma that is still out there. I know because I see it, I hear it, I live it. I believe I am working for this agency for a reason. I believe I am ready to accept and say who I am, what I am and what I aspire to become.

Dimetri O’Brien (He/Him/His) Washington, DC

Strategic, multidisciplinary designer & social media coordinator with a spirit for service & innovation born in Port of Spain Trinidad with roots in Jackson, MS . Dimetri has worked with a multitude of clients on projects ranging from graphic design to consultation & management and although his skill set is vast, his greatest expertise revolves in the worlds of programming for YMSM ages 18-29, social media, brand identity design, content creation and print collateral. Dimetri currently serves as a communications assistant in Washington, DC managing communications and branding for a national non-profit agency. His graphic design portfolio can be viewed at "dimmydoesit.com"

Raúl Xavier Ramos (He/Him/His/They/Them/Theirs) Brooklyn, NY

Raúl is a 26-year-old Boriqueer social justice organizer based out of Brooklyn, New York. Using graphic design and performance art as forms of accessible political education , Raúl is dedicated to the liberation of all queer and Gender Non-conforming people of color, persons with disabilities, and those that experience realities in ways the culture would call "mentally ill." Healing justice is at the center of Raúl's work, having become Poz at the turning point of his adult life. He is unapologetic in how he loves and in the ways he fights for justice.

#thegranvarones #granvarones #queer #non-binary #gay #latinx #afrolatinx #hiv #poz #aids #storytelling #creatives #lgbtq #qtpoc #community #end stigma

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dlamp-dictator · 6 years ago

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Three Houses Quick Thoughts

Just finished the Black Eagle’s route today and wanted to give my quick thoughts before I finally start drafting that Rambling. Mostly to get some of my thoughts together somewhere accessible so I have something to reference back to when I actually start drafting the danged thing. Don’t worry, I’m not going to spoil anything here... no story spoilers anyway.

Anyway...

The Bad

I was hesitant to say this at first, but now that I finished this game I can confirm that I hate Byleth as a character. They're honestly worse than Corrin to me due to their lack of personality and agency in their own story. The mystery surround their birth and general existence just muddies the whole plot when it tries to make them out as important when I, the player, barely know anything about my own damn character aside from being the father of a great mercenary. I didn’t like their designs either, but I wasn’t a fan of Corrin’s or Robin’s so... I guess their consistent in making player character designs I dislike/am apathetic for.

While I think the system for class advancement is good in the early and mid game, it fell a little flat as I got to the late game. Class mastery really needs to happen a bit faster, at least to a point that I don’t have to actively grind for mastery points. I pity those trying to optimize on hard mode when you don’t have endless auxiliary battles.

On that note, as of 2019 gender-locked classes are dumb and the one good thing Fates did was remove it. Why bright it back? Why deny me War Master/Punch Queen Edelgard? Why deny me a Dark Mage Lysithea? It just makes no sense to me.

Why is there no Dread Fighter class so Petra doesn’t die from a mage glaring her?

Why is there no Kishin Knight class so Bernie be more useful with a bow as a flying archer and have Amaterasu?

Why is there no Malig Knight class so Hubert can ride dragons with his waifu?

Why is Edelgard’s unique class an armored unit with 5 movement when the maps basically require two flying unique to be playable?

Oh yeah, these maps really remind of Echoes given how useless and slow the armor classes are without someone to warp them. These maps really want you to maneuver around them and can get very large. I feel like I’m playing Echoes again for the wrong reasons.

The Good

The soundtrack is great. For all my complaints (and believe me, that’s just the tip of the iceberg), I do love this game’s music. Especially some of these battle tracks. The Edge of Dawn is probably one of my new favorite songs now.

While I didn’t like the class system in the late, the early and mid game is where it shines and I had the most fun testing things out and experimenting. As a casual player, it was fun to mix and match class and see what worked.

The supports were all done very well, some of my favorites came being Edelgard, Caspar, and Hubert. They really fleshed out all of these characters and I’m looking forward to a second playthough and seeing how all the rest are going to play out, especially when I’ll start actively recruiting now.

Speaking of, I like that recruiting classes has a real effect in the time skip, as it keeps those characters in your house after things go down and... well, as I said, I won’t spoil things, but just know it really makes you think about what it means for some of your newer members stay on board despite what happens and it does wonders for storytelling.

While I had my hesitations about weapon durability being back it worked out for the better. It keeps the some of the strategy fresh and makes really decide between a strong yet fragile weapon versus a weak but reliable weapon that can take 20+ more swings, especially with the special relic weapons. Though weapons breaking in a story mission sucks.

The voice-acting was great, much like in Echoes. Nothing much else to say save for the fact that there’s more of it and it’s all great.

As conflicted as I feel about the Black Eagles storyline, I like the overall theme individuality, standing up for your own beliefs on your own two feet, and making a name for yourself with your own effort. The execution... well, again, not going to post spoilers, but I’ll just say the journey was more exciting than the destination.

Again, my conflicting feelings on the story aside, I do like Edelgard as a character. I can really understand why she did the things she did in the time skip, especially after some of her later supports with certain characters. It makes me really wish the story itself was written to focus more the House heads than Byleth.

The fact that all the characters canonically have last names is a nice touch too.

Byleth aside, I did like a lot of the character designs, especially after the timeskip.

The ability to dismount is outright broken and I love it. My Pegasus Knights can look an archer in the eye and laugh at them before getting off their mount and stabbing them to death and climbing back on their flying horse.

Canto is also outright broken and I love it for similar reasons.

General Advice

Because I feel like being nice and I wanted to just give some pointers after finish a playthrough.

According to people far better at this game than me, Master Classes are honestly optional unless you plan on being a flying class. A lot of the growths and abilities aren’t really worth it unless you’re specifically grinding for them and at least on the Black Eagle route, horse mounts can be more of a hindrance than a help with the maps of the last few chapters. I couldn’t tell you how many times I had to dismount half my army just to get a few extra movement spaces.

That said, War Master, Wyvern Lord, and Falcon Knight are generally seen as good classes overall.

Like I said, at least on the Black Eagle route, mobility is probably the best asset you can have, especially for flying units. Combining flying units, Stride, and Warp can outright break some of these maps in the right situation. You can clear a map in one or two turns if you play your cards right.

Again, coming from people far better at this game than me, don’t prioritize recruiting other students, especially on your first playthrough. Your original group is honestly all you need and I believe you can get the teachers after a certain point for free if you need some extra magic on your team.

That said, general consensus from people far better at this game that I am is that Felix, Ingrid, Bernadetta, Ferdinand, Leonie, Lysithea, and Raphael are good targets to go for. Though given my Black Eagle route I’ll say that a War Master Caspar and Dancer Dorothea are nothing to sneeze at.

Use Divine Pulse, it’s there for a reason.

And that’s it for my quick thoughts. Rambling for this will be come... eh, later this week.

#your dictator is speaking #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses

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YOUR MUSE AS A DEITY - URSULA.

tagged by: stolen from my lotor blog @ofalsehoods. tagging: @hmrtia @hikaup @heartmemos @tenderpoison @cacaohiime @humanitysavage @dediitio @lunarisvesperaregina

GOD OF: fame, luck, money, media, prestige, self-advancement, and chaos.

ASSOCIATED WITH: paychecks, wallets, theft, material success, taking advantage of others, the performing arts - especially coordinating and showcases, luxury, xenophobia, pettiness, gossip, anger, bullying, arrogance, insincerity, deception, disobeying just authority, authoritarianism, political injustice, unhappiness.

SACRED ANIMALS: garchomp, ninetales, zoroark, honchkrow, drapion, malamar, liepard.

SACRED PLANTS: yew, nightlock, fleur-de-lis (ok this isn’t an actual plant but w/e), hemlock, poinsettias.

SACRED GEMSTONES: diamond (esp. the pink and red kind), pearl, black opal, emerald, literally anything on this list. her sacred gemstones tend to change based on which ones are the most valuable on the market at the time.

COLORS: pink, white.

SCENTS: sweet perfume, the smell of cash, the rank stench of the despair of your enemies

ACCEPTED OFFERINGS:

precious metals--gold, silver, platinum

precious gemstones and jewelry

wine

gourmet food

designer clothes

anything expensive, really

just straight up money.

WAYS TO HONOR:

advance yourself in society, even at the expense of others

deceive others for your own gain

make connections based on wealth, status

stay in a position of authority at any cost

exaggerate accomplishments, especially in job interviews and to people in power

make a blog or youtube channel and keep it active

dedicate a performance to her

have a fancyass altar custom made and designed

honestly you can straight up leave weak pokémon that you no longer need on your team at her temple. she’ll get rid of them for you, free of charge.

OTHER INFORMATION:

she’s actually only a minor deity. her parents alexandre and lila are the much more powerful ones that most of her followers choose as their main deities; she just tends to get a lot of offerings because one way to keep her parents sweet is to spoil her.

like her parents, she doesn’t care what’s in your heart, only that you keep giving her offerings--basically what i’m saying is, she can be bribed. for this reason many of their followers are actually insincere. they don’t know this, since unlike other gods they can’t see into peoples’ minds. but even if they could, they wouldn’t give a shit.

you also don’t have to follow her in order to gain blessings from her. if you ask for her help just once, even if you don’t really believe in her, she’ll give it. however, the caveat to this is--there is a chance that she will remember you offered, and wonder why you haven’t offered again. if you refuse to give this time, she’ll start making life hell for you, essentially forcing you to give her offerings in order to stave off her wrath.

there’s an unspoken rule among followers of the derosiers that if you worship one member of ursula’s immediate family, you have to worship them all.

she and her family are popular among corporate fat cats (especially in the media), the politically powerful, celebrities, liars, cheaters, and…nobody decent, really. this is for several reasons:

worshiping them is prohibitively expensive--you constantly have to give luxurious gifts. people of modest income have literally gone bankrupt trying to appease them.

they’re the only gods that actually condone corruption and will help the corrupt cover up their crimes.

they don’t have much respect for marginalized groups--they are very much in the service of straight, cis, able-bodied white males.

in fact, they literally will not respond to people who are LGBTQ, jewish, or romani. also, if they had to choose between a nonwhite follower and a white follower, they’d choose the white one every time.

they may reach out to mentally ill and disabled people if they are “good at” managing their disabilities, but they generally see those types of people as burdens who are not worth taking care of. if you inconvenience them because you’re disabled, they’ll get mad at you for it even though it’s something you couldn’t help.

they just have a terrible reputation in general, given the type of crowd they attract.

they get jealous if they perceive you are prioritizing other gods over them, which is a massive turn-off for those who worship multiple gods--among all the other horrible shit they do that goes against the values of modern polytheism.

and this is the big one: if you do formally convert to following the derosiers, you’re pretty much in for life. it’s like joining the mafia or making a deal with the devil. once you’re in, you have a commitment: leaving the fold and stopping your offerings--even if for a reason such as financial hardship--is seen as an unforgivable betrayal and will bring on their wrath.

many young people choose to follow the derosiers’ path or even give one-time offerings because they are young, angry, and shortsightedly grasping for material success + the admiration and envy of their peers--and they don’t understand that the derosiers’ teachings will ultimately get you nowhere in life. when they mature, however, they realize the error of their ways and want to leave. but by this point, they know they are TRAPPED.

these children often either stay with the derosiers and descend into darkness because they feel like there is no hope for them to find the light. either that or they leave and go on to live ruined lives because of the derosiers’ complete lack of forgiveness--being young and stupid isn’t an excuse for abandoning your deities. some even commit suicide for fear of the derosiers’ retaliation once they leave. honestly, worshiping them is just like being in an abusive relationship: you’re constantly forced to sacrifice your time, energy and resources for the abuser’s sake, and opting out is not an option.

you need to give a lot to ursula and her family in order to keep their favor. literally every time you ask them for something, you need to make an offering, and the more you want them to do for you, the more you have to give. but their rewards are great. followers of ursula’s family are said to be able to get away with any crime--the derosiers are good at confusing legal authorities, destroying evidence, making victims too scared to tell the truth about their situation, and even pinning the crime on others. lila manipulates the minds of those speaking against the crime, alexandre spins the story in the media, ursula’s role in particular is to punish law enforcement and investigators basically for doing their job. they are one mess of a godly family. one complete and utter mess.

she is a brat. if you can’t keep her happy, her punishments are extremely severe. she’ll whine to her parents and boom! you will lose your job, your friends, your status--everything that matters to you, both materially and internally. another punishment she likes inflicting for displeasing her is destroying your valuables. not even expensive family heirlooms are immune. also, since she’s a goddess of luck, those who incur her displeasure will also be on the receiving end of a serious bad luck streak--everything in their life will start going wrong as though they’ve been cursed.

sometimes she also likes to throw bad things at people for no reason other than she just felt like it. these are usually just minor annoyances; she reserves life-destroying shit for the people she’s really mad at.

shockingly, in spite of aiding corruption in any way they can, ursula’s family doesn’t support every crime. for them to support or help cover up a crime it has to be for the purpose of self-advancement. if aid is asked for a crime that does not advance the perpetrator, the derosiers will remain totally silent.

you can pray to her to sabotage others as well as advance yourself. unscrupulous pokémon battlers often ask not only for success in battle but also for the failure of their opponents.

they are very good at providing the means for revenge, especially disproportionate revenge or revenge for perceived wrongs that aren’t actually wrongs. do you want to ruin someone’s entire life because they chose to cut you off for being a dick? do you want to kill somebody’s pet because they refused to babysit yours? do you just want something really bad to happen to someone who slighted you in a minor way, but want the gods to decide for you what it is? if you got the gold to get them to do it for you, they will.

they are very unforgiving, even for things that aren’t your fault. the one modicum of understanding they have for their followers is that 99.9% of their followers actively try to hide their beliefs. they don’t mind not being openly acknowledged, as long as they are the ones who are actually in control. in fact, given their dedication to deceit and covering up things that are perceived as defects, they will encourage followers to hide worship of them so that nobody knows the real reason for said followers’ ill-gotten gains.

ursula is the only derosier who hates not being openly acknowledged. she has thought about punishing people for hiding their worship of her before because she just wants to be in the spotlight, but her parents are strong enough to make sure that doesn’t happen.

exactly how powerful are they? strong enough that other gods aren’t able to erase them from existence and thereby stop them from unrepentantly fucking up everything they put their hands on. at this point other gods view them as an evil that has to be coped with, one that they constantly need to mitigate for the benefit of humanity but one that will never go away.

#headcanon. || URSULA

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keepingupwithlinmanuel · 7 years ago

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How Lin-Manuel Miranda and His Family Made Giving Back Their Tradition

QH: Luz and Luis, you’re both so engaged and active. Was that always part of your relationship? Luis Miranda: Always. For our first date we went to see a group doing Puerto Rican protest music. It was not a fancy show. Luz says all the time, I should have known, given our first date, that life was going be a roller coaster. The first time we went out together, not on a date, we went to a march in DC to protest. Luz Towns-Miranda: It’s interesting, because before we met, both he and I were socially committed. In college I was part of the demonstrations in DC against the Vietnam War. I didn’t get arrested on May Day [during the 1971 protests] because cops thought I looked like a little kid.

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QH: When you were younger, did you understand the importance of things like campaigning? Lin-Manuel Miranda: If there’s drudge work, it’s collecting signatures. We’d go to the projects on 10th Avenue, and we’d start at the top of the building and ring doorbells until we got to the bottom of the building. Next project, go all the way up, go down. Collecting signatures and handing out pamphlets for candidates for us was the equivalent of a paperboy job if you’re a kid growing up in the suburbs. Luz Miranda-Crespo: I hated that part! As I got older they would leave me in the campaign office, and at the end of the night, when they would start getting the polling numbers, I would have a spreadsheet. Luis Miranda: What I’m hearing is that you guys had a fantastic adolescence.

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QH: Do you bring your kids to the kinds of events your parents brought you to? Luis Crespo: We’re blessed and, to a certain extent, trying to break their bubble every opportunity we get to do so. My wife does a good job; the kids know all the causes that we support. I’ve gotten such a second education being part of the family.

Vanessa Nadal: There’s no way for the next generation, especially Lin and my kids, not to do it. We’ve generated so much wealth, and what else do you do with that? I don’t feel the need to drastically change my life and suddenly wear only designer clothing or take private planes anytime I go anywhere.

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QH: For the second generation, is there a connection between the generous energy that your parents have with their community engagement and your own creative generosity? Lin-Manuel Miranda: I think the relentlessness is our birthright. My sister and I have talked about this a lot. One of the things that we both had trouble with in high school, when it came to relating to our fellow adolescents, was the notion of hanging out. That was not a thing we were good at. It was, like, So we’re just gonna sit here? I think, because our parents were so active all the time, that felt somehow like cheating. Luz Miranda-Crespo: We needed a purpose, and they needed to know where I was. I remember if I wanted to stay after school, I’d have to get a quarter and call their offices and hope that they were there. If they weren’t, I had to go home.

QH: It seems as if the family trade is civic engagement, but in terms of your actual trainings, they’re all disparate. Lin, is #EduHam the kind of thing that you could have done in isolation, without your family members, or did you actually need them? Lin-Manuel Miranda: Everything I did prepared me to write Hamilton. And it’s almost like everything Luis Miranda has been doing all his life prepared him for #EduHam. As soon as we knew Hamilton was going to be a hot ticket, we realized we had to prioritize kids or we’d have lost. Because if this is the kind of thing where only the richest people can go to see it, and kids aren’t prioritized, this is not gonna happen. Because my dad has worked in the not-for-profit sector and the for-profit sector, because he knows how the school system functions, because he’s worked with national campaigns, it was the perfect gig for him. Luz Towns-Miranda: The #EduHam program has really been a dream of mine and of Lin-Manuel’s since he was a teacher and he saw the difference a teacher could make. The idea that these kids were being given an opportunity to develop their own creative ideas around a true historical event and then see Hamilton—kids who would never have gotten to see a Broadway show—I think it’s life-changing.

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Sales Teams Are Experiencing A Burnout Epidemic—Here’s How To Prioritize Your Team’s Tasks

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Sales Teams Are Experiencing A Burnout Epidemic—Here’s How To Prioritize Your Team’s Tasks

It’s no mystery why turnover is so high in sales. High workloads, long hours and competing priorities create the perfect storm of stress that’s unsustainable for many reps. In a recent study of sales professionals, two-thirds of respondents reported that they were close to experiencing burnout. Fifty-seven percent said their workload is more than their capacity, and 67% reported working more than their contracted hours.

If you lead a sales team, chances are good that at least one of your team members is feeling burned out and overwhelmed. As a leader, the best thing you can do is help your team prioritize their tasks.

Focusing only on activities that actually move the needle will yield better results while providing some relief to overworked reps. Even if you can’t eliminate all their low-priority tasks, simply knowing what to focus on can help ease their stress.

Here are four ways to help your team prioritize high-impact activities:

If you lead a sales team, chances are good that at least one of your team members is feeling burned … [] out and overwhelmed.

1. Analyze how your reps are currently spending their time.

In a study of 720 sales reps, researchers found that salespeople spend 64% of their time on non-revenue-generating activities. Administrative tasks accounted for 14% of the drain on their time, while chatting with colleagues and using social media accounted for 20%.

To understand where those hours are being lost, ask your team to track their time for a week. It’s important to clarify that this isn’t to admonish them for wasting time — it’s to understand how to improve the team’s efficiency.

Once you have the results in front of you, you can begin working to improve productivity. If your team is getting bogged down in administrative tasks, look to offload these activities to support staff. If your team is drowning in spreadsheets because they don’t know how to use the CRM, consider more training.

2. Simplify the demo process.

One of the most time-consuming tasks that can’t be offloaded or eliminated is preparing and demonstrating product demos. Either your salespeople have to coordinate with the development team on a live demonstration, or they must try to put together a compelling story from screenshots of the product.

“Live product demonstrations require your sales team to do an exhausting dance with the back-end team in which everyone is holding their breath,” says Yoav Vilner, CEO of Walnut — a codeless demo platform. “Designing client-specific mockups or adding features for a demo is a huge drain on everyone’s time, and there’s always the possibility that something could go wrong.”

Preparing for these complicated live demos often pulls your sales team’s focus away from other important tasks. In the time it takes them to set up one demo with your R&D team, they could have followed up with a few dozen leads. Use a demo tool instead of the real thing, or encourage your team to create a generic product demonstration that can be used for a variety of potential clients.

3. Use real data to apply the 80/20 rule.

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, tells us that 80% of results come from 20% of activities. The trouble with applying the Pareto principle is that most people assume they know what those 20% activities are — even if the reality is different.

If you ask your sales team to list the tasks that bring in the most sales, they’re likely to cite a handful of clients who closed recently. Then they’ll make assumptions on what works based on how they made those sales. This is called recency bias, and it can distort our perception of reality.

Once you dig into the data for your entire team, you may be surprised by the results. Three-quarters of your sales may come from client referrals. Or maybe the clients who generate two-thirds of company revenue came from networking events. You may also find that these 20% activities vary from rep to rep.

The important thing to remember is that the data doesn’t lie. Once you know which activities yield results, you can cut out pointless busywork and prioritize the tasks that actually make a difference.

4. Use predictive lead scoring.

Once a company has a steady stream of inbound leads, it becomes less important to call every single prospect. Instead, your team needs a way to prioritize the right leads.

Lead-scoring software can provide some clarity, but more traditional points-based scoring still involves a lot of guesswork. The litmus test for whether a lead is qualified or not is only as accurate as the points system that you develop. Another issue with traditional lead scoring is that it can become less accurate over time as your customer base evolves.

“Today, most leads that are passed from marketing to sales are of decent quality but are not sales-ready,” writes Falon Fatemi, founder of the AI-as-a-service platform Node.

Investing in more advanced lead-scoring software can help your sales team avoid wasting time on this pointless prospecting. Predictive lead scoring tends to be more accurate because it uses an algorithm to identify the best leads based on qualities they share with existing clients. (The software will also make predictions based on leads who did not convert and change its criteria as your client base changes.)

The sales team is the lifeblood of any business. Unfortunately, too many companies lose their top-performing reps due to work overload and stress. As a leader, it’s your job to help your team prioritize high-value tasks and reduce costly drains on their time. When you can provide this sort of clarity, your team will be able to close more leads without working longer hours.

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The Best Social Media Management Tools

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The Best Social Media Management Tools

In the world of social media marketing, there are hundreds of tools and software with features capable of helping you with different aspects of your social media strategy. These tools — also known as social media management tools — can assist with social media creation, collaboration, planning, scheduling , sharing, analysis, and more.

In this blog post, we’ll cover what social media management tools are, how your team can benefit from them, and 12 of the best options available today.

Let’s get started.

What is social media management?

Social media management is the process of handling (managing) your entire social media strategy. This includes planning, publishing, engaging, strategizing, and analyzing your social media content across the social platforms your business uses. It also entails understanding your social media strategy’s level of success so you can improve upon it.

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Social Media Management Tools

As mentioned above, there are a plethora of social media management tools available today. Some are meant to help with a wide array of social media management needs. Meanwhile, other tools are meant for specific types of social media management (e.g. tools for agencies) or facets of social media management (e.g. social listening or analytics). No matter your needs, goals, or industry, there’s a social media management tool for you.

Why use social media management tools?

Social media management tools assist with your social media strategy — typically, they have scheduling, publishing, collaborating, listening, and/or reporting capabilities. They also often have the ability to streamline interactions with followers cross-platform, offer access to all of your social accounts via a single dashboard, and analyze your success. They may also integrate with other tools your team uses such as your Marketing Software or CRM.

12 Best Social Media Management tools

HubSpot Social Media Management Software

Sprout Social

Falcon.io

Hootsuite

TweetDeck

Buffer

Everypost

Agorapulse

Content Cal

Sendible

Nuvi

HeyOrca!

The 12 tools below are separated into categories based on what they’re meant for — as you read their descriptions, keep in mind that some of them overlap categories. For example, many of the general tools are great for small businesses — and many of the free tools are too.

Best General Social Media Management Tools

The following tools are ideal for all social media management teams — you can customize them to help you meet your specific needs and goals.

1.HubSpot Social Media Management Software

HubSpot monitors all interactions, conversations, and audiences on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles. It allows you to effectively target specific audiences with personalized messaging using context from the contact database in your CRM as well as data from your Marketing Software. Meaning, with HubSpot, you can manage your entire social media strategy — from planning to sharing to analysis — from a single and central location.

Here are some other notable features you’ll get from using HubSpot’s Social Media Management software:

Turn your content offers into social posts.

Schedule social posts weeks in advance on all of your profiles.

Keep up with current trends by monitoring keywords that are important to your brand and audience.

Reply to anyone who commented on your profile or post through HubSpot.

2. Sprout Social

SproutSocial is a social media management tool that assists with social listening, publishing, engagement, and analysis. The tool streamlines the processes of sharing relevant content on social platforms as well as creating and sending personalized messages to prospects, customers, and followers — all of this support frees up valuable time for social media managers.

Customer service features exist to help you offer assistance to customers on social when they want and need it. With Sprout Social you’ll be able to develop a better understanding of who your audience members are and what they want from you on social as well as how you can improve upon your current strategy.

(Note: Sprout Social’s customer care functionality integrates with HubSpot.)

3. Falcon.io

Falcon.io is a social media marketing platform with a social media management solution that saves you time by helping you maximize reach, impact, and engagement among your audience.

The software has social listening capabilities to help you identify target audience members and prospects, understand what people are saying about your brand on social media, identify opportunities for engagement, and efficiently respond to any customer comments or concerns.

There’s also a content calendar that makes cross-platform social media planning easy and quick. Plus, you can view and respond to all customer messages and questions on one dashboard so no queries go unresolved.

(Note: Falcon.io integrates with HubSpot so you can easily sync customer data for campaigns, create custom audiences, and offer effective customer service via social media.)

Best Free Social Media Management Tools

Here are some effective free social media management tools. It’s not uncommon for tools to have a free version as well as paid plans that you can upgrade to as you grow and require greater functionality from your tool.

1. Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media marketing and management tool. It has a dashboard through which you can manage all aspects of your social media strategy. Although there are paid plans with more capabilities, Hootsuite offers a free plan that works well if you’re a small business. With the free plan, you can schedule up to 30 social posts in advance.

You’ll also be able to manage three different social profiles from your dashboard with Hootsuite’s free plan. Lastly, this option works for small businesses because only one person has access to the account.

2. TweetDeck

Although TweetDeck is just for Twitter users, it’s a powerful social media management tool if you’re on the platform. This free tool allows you to simultaneously manage multiple Twitter profiles via a central dashboard.

Schedule Tweets ahead, monitor your competition, set alerts for your most important Tweets and Twitter activity, and manage your lists with ease. You can also customize your timelines as well as view and respond to conversations and Tweets in real-time via your dashboard.

3. Buffer

Buffer has a free plan that you can move to once you’ve completed your free trial with the software. Similar to Hootsuite, Buffer’s free plan works well if you have a small business with a small social media presence. This plan offers the ability to manage three social channels. You can schedule 10 posts in advance and only one user has access to your Buffer dashboard.

Best Social Media Management Tools for Small Businesses

Here are some social media management tools meant for small businesses.

1. Everypost

Everypost is a social media tool that allows you to manage multiple profiles and accounts at once. Customize your social posts, schedule them in advance, and share them all via a single platform.

Tailor social content for different platforms and then cross-post it from Everypost to streamline the process of sharing content across profiles. Use the tool to collaborate internally and manage roles — this way, you can delegate content to certain people on your team as needed.

2. Agorapulse

Agorapulse is a social media management platform that helps you improve social engagement and relationship building across your social profiles.

With this tool, you can schedule your content, interact with followers, and get reports to determine the success of your strategy and ROI of your engagement. There’s also a single inbox through which you can view, share, and respond to customer comments and questions.

Real-time collaboration makes it easy to send different team members customer inquiries and work on content together. Take advantage of the flexible scheduling features to either schedule individual posts or bulk schedule posts.

Additionally, the Agorapulse CRM that this tool automatically comes with tracks followers and their interactions with your brand so you can learn from those engagements now and reference them in the future.

3. Content Cal

Content Cal is a social media management tool meant for planning and publishing content. There’s an easy-to-use visual calendar you can pair with approval flows to ensure specific posts are shared at the right time.

Pull in content from other tools — such as Facebook, Slack, Google Drive, or Dropbox — to share on social. You can also collaborate with team members and ask for their feedback easily using the tool’s comments feature.

Best Social Media Management Tools for Agencies

The following social media management tools are ideal for agencies.

1. Sendible

Sendible is a social media management platform specifically designed for agencies. The tool has an interactive and customizable content calendar so you and your team can view and collaborate on all social posts that are created, planned, and shared.

Use the content suggestion feature to get new ideas for content that’s likely to resonate with your client’s audience. There’s also a single-view inbox so you can look at all client messages at once — plus a priority filter option which allows you to filter and prioritize chats.

Lastly, set up user hierarchies and workflows to set permissions for certain team members — this way, certain people have to sign off on client content prior to it going live.

2. Nuvi

Nuvi is a social media management, marketing, and customer experience (CX) platform. It includes management tools for social listening, planning, publishing, engaging, reporting, and more — all with an end goal of creating an excellent experience for your customers and clients. Add permissions to your workflows so team members at your agency can collaborate and ensure all content is reviewed by the necessary people prior to it going live.

Create, plan, and schedule your content so it goes live when it needs to. Then, measure performance and keep an eye on competitors to understand what social media strategies are working best for them.

The engagement feature will make it easy to prioritize social media engagement and allow you to organize, prioritize, and share those engagements internally with the correct team members. Plus social listening features will ensure you don’t miss a beat across any of your accounts.

3. HeyOrca!

HeyOrca! is a social media management tool for agencies. The platform allows you to manage all of your social content and clients in a central location so you can offer a seamless and memorable customer experience.

The content calendar allows you to share your plans for scheduled content easily with team members and/or clients. Create multiple content calendars — each with unique team members and social profiles — for each of your clients to keep things organized.

Create mock ups of all content you plan to share on social so your team members and clients can give the go-ahead prior to it being shared. You can also easily share your content with clients via HeyOrca! to get their feedback (and you can choose which versions of that content you want your clients to be able to see or not see).

Lastly, offer clients easy-to-understand reports to show them how successful the content you’re creating for their social media profiles is.

The management tools we reviewed above have the power to help you reach (and exceed) your social media goals. Determine what you need out of a tool to help you identify which option has the capabilities and features needed to help you achieve those goals.

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“Indigenous food sovereignty was decimated by design: the separation of people from their historic food systems and land is not a side effect of colonialism but a function of it. Canada’s formation is a history of legislating First Nations, Inuit, and Métis out of existence, including by erasing Indigenous food cultures: the Gradual Civilization Act, the banning of potlatch ceremonies, the signing of treaties that exchanged life-sustaining hunting grounds for farmland, livestock, and pitiful amounts of cash. All of it was designed with the purpose of elimination through assimilation.

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While Indigenous food systems were being dismantled, elsewhere in the world food itself began to change. From the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, industrial production, preservation science, manufacturing, marketing, and the hospitality industries transformed the way people ate. This is the period that gave us the refrigerator and the gas stove, food-safety regulations, canning, and frozen dinners. At this same transformative moment in history, Canada’s government engaged in a concentrated effort to eradicate Indigenous peoples and their cultures, including by squelching language, self-government, land use, and hunting rights. Indigenous food practices were excluded as most of the world’s food practices modernized and commercialized (not always for the better), and most Indigenous people were forced to rely on processed and expensive provisions.

Indigenous food sovereignty was decimated by design. It was not a side effect of colonialism but a function of it.

Over a century later, food insecurity—inadequate access to affordable, safe, nutritious food, resulting in negative physical-, mental-, and social-health outcomes—is far more common among Indigenous people throughout Canada than in the population of the country overall. Forced to transition over generations to a Western diet, which many Indigenous communities cannot necessarily access or afford, First Nations people, Inuit, and Métis people suffer higher rates of diabetes and cardiovascular-health issues as a result. The social and spiritual losses are far more difficult to measure.

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“Nutrition North was doomed to fail from the beginning because it’s a non-Indigenous solution to a very complex issue,” says Joseph LeBlanc, who is Odawa from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron and the former executive director of the Social Planning Council of Sudbury. “Nutrition North was explicitly a market-based approach. What they did, however, was further entrench an exploitative market relationship that corporations have in Northern communities. It reinforced the existing food system as if it were the only food system.”

LeBlanc says non-Indigenous Canadians are looking at the problem of food insecurity through the wrong lens. “How do we make food cheaper at the store? Where do you get food in an urban context?” he asks, rhetorically. “That’s very much a Western economic approach.” Even the presumption that there is a standard diet for all Canadians is fundamentally colonialist, says Teri Morrow, a dietitian at Six Nations of the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. “Canadians ate the way we ate when they got here,” says Morrow. “Hunters up north don’t need lettuce. There’s roots and tubers, there’s lichen—a ton of things.”

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In many parts of Canada, Indigenous people’s ability to hunt, fish, forage, and farm is compromised by the degradation of land and water through industrial-scale resource extraction. In other places—often described as “protected”—such as national parks, these activities are frequently prohibited by law. The formation of Canada’s parks, seen by many non-Indigenous people as wildlife refuges where nature is safe from human threat, has long disrupted Indigenous food sovereignty. Canada’s first national park, Banff, “was predicated on the displacement of diverse Indigenous communities,” says Courtney Mason, author of Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park. “This was facilitated by park management and supported by the police, missionaries, and tourism entrepreneurs. In part, they were attempting to curb Indigenous subsistence practices of hunting, fishing and gathering, in order to protect emerging sport hunting and fishing tourism economies operating inside the park.” Further development of Canadian parks was largely modelled after Banff, incurring similar displacement and cultural damage. It remains illegal for Indigenous people to hunt in about half of the country’s national parks.

Even where it is possible to hunt, with a few exceptions, wild meat cannot be sold in restaurants, butcher shops, or grocery stores in Canada. This means hunters cannot earn a living from their efforts, and many Indigenous foods cannot be shared in retail or commercial settings beyond reserves or special, limited-licence events. Many coastal communities face a similar challenge as, even while living off of seal meat, the European Union’s ban on seal imports has made it impossible for families to earn revenue from the sale of skins.

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One of the problems, says LeBlanc, is that Canada knows many people depend on the land for their food, yet governments manage our natural resources as if they didn’t exist: “The [Ministry of Natural Resources] doesn’t have the capacity to manage the forest properly, and I don’t believe the Crown has the will to make that happen. Because the interest is in getting money from stumpage.” Genuine transformation, LeBlanc believes, will only come from challenging the seemingly unassailable prioritization of resource extraction. “There’s an opportunity to manage food sources. This would mean a shift in the paradigm from extraction of timber and minerals to the inclusion of food sources.”

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LeBlanc says there is a legal basis for implementing more food-oriented policies. This means, for instance, reforming training for forest-management authorities to include Indigenous world views and rights. In forested areas like the Fraser River canyon there is an alternative, which he and many others advocate for: community-based forestry, in which land is managed by and for the people who live on it. “Community forestry is a movement that started in Nepal in the seventies,” says Susan Mulkey, communications manager for the BC Community Forest Association, “where the government recognized that degraded land, the best stewards of that, the best people to bring it back to productivity, are the communities themselves.” The idea, LeBlanc says, isn’t to reject industry outright but to take an approach that incorporates economic and employment interests without excluding the use of land as a food source.

In the late 1990s, BC began a pilot project for community-based forest management; it now includes over sixty community forests that produce just under 3 percent of the provincial timber harvest. In 2011, following decades of protracted conflict with the government and logging companies, the Xaxli’p reached an interim compromise: the Xaxli’p Community Forest Corporation they had established a few years earlier was given a twenty-five-year tenure over the trees in most, but not all, of their territory. (Prior to that agreement, the province had given a number of companies the right to harvest timber on Xaxli’p land.) Restoring the land and creating a sustainable economy are goals that are built into XCFC‘s corporate mission. The plan is to eventually harvest timber in sustainable quantities and using sustainable methods.

“Our long-term goal is that our community forest will be self-sufficient,” says Nora Billy, a member of the XCFC board of directors. The XCFC plans to balance the conservation mandate with value-added timber harvesting, manufacturing products for sale in addition to selling raw logs. The first step has been ecocultural restoration. This includes promoting moose habitat by removing planted pine trees (to encourage the growth of willow and other wetland shrubs), leaving old fallen trees intact for animal habitat, purifying water, and thinning forest areas that have grown too dense due to post-logging replanting and government fire-suppression techniques. Moose and deer have begun returning to the area.

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LeBlanc says that, over the years, he’s been told by many non-Indigenous people that it is simply too late to save what has been lost. For him, this is both untrue and a device used to perpetuate damage to the land and Indigenous peoples. “It’s a tidy, nice bow to put on top of 100 years of colonialism to say, ‘Our job’s pretty well done—all you need to do is let go of your romantic ideals and we can get on with civilizing you.'

But LeBlanc, Wolfrey, Shawana, members of the Xaxli’p Community Forest Corporation, Morrow, Bell, and many others are not letting go. “The fundamental element of resurgence, resistance, whatever you want to call it, that’s happening in Indigenous youth in particular, is challenging that directly,” says LeBlanc. “I know individuals who do live a traditional lifestyle, in remote communities. They’re not waving a flag around or flying down to Toronto for meetings or answering phone calls from reporters or academics. They’re busy completely entrenched in a traditional lifestyle. And they’re some of the happiest, most food-secure people out there.”

On a policy level, says LeBlanc, decisions about the use of land still exclude Indigenous world views. “There’s a transition that needs to happen in Canada at some point. Ultimately, all of our legislators and decision makers are products of our school system. And they’ve all been conditioned to think of us in a particular light . . . . We haven’t even gotten to the point where we can have a truthful conversation about land.””

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Work from Home Jobs For Everyone

Work from home jobs is an ideal way to have an independent life when it comes to jobs. Do you dream about working at home? Here is work from home businesses that on a regular basis hire people for valid work-from-home jobs. Some positions are freelance, some are contracting, and others are full-time jobs with benefits. The firms listed at the top under, Companies Implementing This Season, are posted job leads. We update this list weekly on Monday. The jobs that are recorded by occupation are firms that are hiring people to work remotely. Firms Hiring This Week: NexRep -- Inbound Sales Rep

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Work directly with our clients and tester community, use your creative abilities and specialized troubleshooting on a normal basis, and work closely with the Client Success, Product, and Engineering teams. Full-time. Hydrant -- Customer Experience Specialist

Serve as the surface of the business, communicating through different channels, including phone, live chat, and responding to messages. Respond as quickly and fully as possible to solve their issues. Full-time. IMPACT -- Digital Online Marketing Consultant / Strategist

Looking for an expert digital online marketing consultant/strategist to consult 12-16 clients at a time through chats and occasional on-site visits, construct 12-month digital sales and marketing applications and create educational content like articles, videos, tutorials, and courses. Full-time. Wrrk -- Client Service Professional

Help clients via e-mail, chat and phone troubleshooting their issues and answering their questions, to ensure that each customer has the best experience possible. Hiring in Texas, Georgia, Colorado, or Arizona. Cardinal Financial -- Internal Communications Specialist

Own written jobs from concept to execution and delivery of the petition as well as navigating approvals throughout the Director of Communications, Compliance, along with other business partners. Partner with members from Engineering every week to prepare technology release notes and technology attribute release articles. Full-time + benefits. Paylocity -- TPA Support Specialist

Receive, prioritize, document and actively resolve client requests, functioning as a source for Paylocity product service. Hiring in the Pacific and Mountain time zones. WHOOP -- Member Service Representative

Seeking a member service professional who enjoys supporting communities, and geeks out on identifying issues. These could vary from hardware challenges with the WHOOP Strap to application problems with the Program to analytical questions about the user information. Full-time. Neopost -- Business Copywriter

Accountable for generating and editing the words, slogans and audio scripts that follow marketing assets across all channels including online, social network, e-mail, mobile, video, print and in-person. Typeform --Client Support Advocate

Respond to user queries via e-mail, instant chat, and social network channels. Bustle -- Fashion & Beauty Writer

Searching for a writer who will cover the latest merchandise drops or collaborations, compile fashion and beauty trend roundups, identify on-brand actress fashion and beauty information as well as breaking Instagram tendencies, and a lot more. Part-time. Penske Media Corporation -- Freelance Writers

Write and produce serviceable content roundups each week, including the most recent products in the men's product area, from technology gadgets to dressing table principles (quantity of assignments ). Hiring in NY. Contract. Dentsu Aegis Network -- Social Media Content Specialist

Searching for a Social Media Expert with experience in the financial or pharmaceutical industries to monitor and respond to comments on the client’s social accounts on behalf of the client, using their identifying, brand voice. Park-time. MEIER Real Estate --Copywriter

Produce written content to the following: Blog Posts, Newsletter, Biographies, Property Descriptions, and Social Networking platforms. Part-time. Bustle -- Lifestyle Writer

Seeking a remote part-time Lifestyle Writer to contribute documented pieces listicles, and timely information briefs covering technology, social justice, and human rights, individuality, and feminism. Part-time. Colony Brands -- Inbound Client Service

Accountable for maintaining positive client relations by addressing all sorts of concerns, including taking orders, confirming info, and answering client questions. Hiring in Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, or Missouri. Part-time, temporary.

Blogging Jobs:

Aquent

Aquent is a staffing agency that hires temporary, contract, and full-time workers in the content advertising and writing disciplines. Writers and editors report a normal rate of $30-$40 per hour. MetroParent

MetroParent is seeking experienced freelance authors to create content on parenting problems, children, teens, family travel, and the like. Payment ranges from $30 -- $350 depending upon the intricacy of the topic and the number of resources necessary for the story. Tired of pursuing after paid internet web blogging gigs? Start your writing business by starting a site! We have a fast and straightforward tutorial right here -- plus you can catch hosting for as little as $2.95 a month with Bluehost. Bookkeeper:

Accounting Principals

Accounting Principals is a staffing service that hires bookkeepers. Pay and terms change based on each client and assignment. CyberCoders

CyberCoders a recruiting and staffing firm for the accounting, technology, executive, finance, legal, marketing, operational, sales, scientific, and technology industries. The period and pay of each assignment are based on the client that was hiring. Robert Half

Robert Half is a staffing service that places temporary, contract, and full-time employees in the finance and accounting disciplines. They employ senior-level and accounting professionals. Pay is usually $15-$20 per hour for entry-level positions and $25-$35+ for higher-level positions. Call Agents and Virtual Receptionists: ACD Direct hires in-home brokers to make outbound and inbound calls. Alorica

Alorica offers positions for home brokers offering customer support via phone and chat. Pay is based on a per-minute rate or a call rate. This provider offers paid training. Alpine

Alpine Access offers customer support solutions for businesses. This company is a member of the Better Business Bureau and hires in-home customer support professionals. Typical pay is $9.00 per hour. Amazon

Amazon hires virtual customer support agents to manage incoming calls. Amazon provides paid training and gives technical equipment. Pay typically starts at $10.00 per hour. American Express

American Express hires work from your home traveling consultants and customer support representatives to research, plan and implement customized travel experiences. Training is offered by American Express. Aspire Lifestyle

Aspire Lifestyle hires home-based concierge employees to assist businesses with responding to customer support inquiries and customer requests for info via phone, e-mail, and chat. BloomsToday

BloomsToday is seeking aggressive sales leaders to join their group of remote sales representatives. This individual contractor position is commissioned earnings with inbound calls. Average hourly earnings are between $15-$24. CloudSource employs customer support consultants out of all 48 contiguous countries support industry leaders in cable and internet services, retail, software, and game console businesses. Inbound calls paid training, ongoing support, and growth opportunities exist. Computer Assistant

Computer Assistant hires technicians to give tech support. ContractWorld hires work from your home client support representatives for companies like Pizza Hut, Loreal, and KFC. Convergys

Convergys hires home-based telephone agents to give customer support. This provider offers paid training as well as benefits such as paid time off, 401k, life insurance coverage, health, dental, and vision. Disney

Disney occasionally hires remote guest service representatives in FL, SC, TX, KY, NV, IL, and MS. In this role, you'll offer customer support assistance to Disney Store guests. Enterprise Holdings

Enterprise Holdings hires home-based customer support representatives, escalation support supervisors, reservations, and sales representatives, as well as bilingual reservation and earnings reps. Fancy Hands

Fancy Hands hires remote workers to complete customer support requests including making phone calls and scheduling appointments, research, booking travel, and data entry. Hilton

Hilton also Hires Reservation Agents and client care agents to work remotely. Agents report an hourly rate of $10-$12 per hour. Full-time employees receive benefits such as PTO and employee reductions. IRC

IRC; Is looking for Market Research Caller applicants that could work from their homes. Nominees are paid an hourly rate, $15.00/hour, as an independent contractor and may work full time or part-time. Your cover isn't commission-based or dependent on the number of results that are developed. Please be aware that this is a business-to-business telemarketing position using a cloud-based telesales system designed for virtual agents. The position will need calling cold on our targeted lists with your very Own WINDOWS based pc, computer headset along with high-speed net access. Following training, the times and number of hours you work are elastic, but you have to commit to at least 4 hours per day throughout the daily working week. To learn more about IRC. Just Answer

Just Answer is a site where any question can be answered by a live operator. Become a live virtual agent, get paid a percentage of all responses which are accepted. Liveops

Liveops is a call center firm. They employ at home brokers to execute incoming and outgoing calls for customer assistance, client acquisition, client retention, revenue maximization, political, disaster relief, incident response, and fundraising. NextWave

NextWave Advocacy contracts with news junkies which are politically aware to make outbound calls to educate citizens and let they engage in contacting their elected officials. No calls for sales or fundraising are involved. The cover is $12.00 per hour with a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week. Sitel

Sitel hires work from home client experience, technical support, and customer support professionals. Agents typically earn between $9-$12 per hour, and total time workers receive benefits and PTO. TeleReach

TeleReach hires home-based positions in appointment setting, lead generation, info gathering, and the like. TeleReach has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Uhaul

Uhaul hires work from your home sales and reservation agents to manage incoming customer calls. VoiceLog

VoiceLog is a company which offers 3rd party verification services. They employ work from your home positions for individual contractors. Live operators make $8.50 per hour at which TPV agents are paid per telephone. You might works as little as 3 hours a shift. Williams Sonoma

Williams Sonoma hires client care representatives to give support and service via phone, e-mail, and chat. Working Solutions

Working Solutions hires contractor home representatives to offer sales assistance and customer services. Home brokers earn anyplace from $8.00 -$20.00 per hour, based on the program. Zapier

Zapier is a completely remote technology firm that hires client service agents in the united states and internationally. Zapier presents full-time employees with a competitive benefits package. Chat Agent: SiteStaff

SiteStaff hires work out of home chat hosts. You should be capable to type 65-75+ WPM with perfect punctuation, grammar, and punctuation. The Chat Shop

The Chat Shop Hires Live Chat representatives to work remotely. Must be a native English speaker, and able to type 80+ WPM, error-free. Data Entry Jobs: Symbria

Symbria sometimes hires data entry clerks to enter recipe information. Look for the positions pharmacy tech expert or prescription entrance clerk. Westat is a market research company that hires part-time and full-time phone and field data collectors. Data collectors report earning $9-$15 per hour. Xerox

Xerox hires for a broad range of work from your home positions, including, client care, tech assistance, and data entry and verification. You are able to locate their virtual positions by choosing YES, under the virtual filter. Zeitcaster

Zeitcaster hires part-time data entry clerks to input time and location information, as well as categorize every event. Pay is about $15 per hour. Related Content: 8 Work-at-Home Typing Jobs for Fast and Accurate Typists.

Disability Recipients:

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Editing and Proofreading:

Cactus

Cactus Hires Freelance employees for editing positions. Editors don't require prior experience in English editing. You must possess a passion for the speech and the capability to describe your topic matter in grammatically correct English. First Editing

First Editing hires seasoned editors, but provides full time and all year round work in different editing capabilities, like copy editing, commercial editing, proofreading services, book editing, thesis editing, and more. Edit Fast

Edit Fast hires work from your home freelance authors, editors, and proofreaders. Editors bid on projects and Edit Fast charges the customer an additional fee. SayABC

SayABC hires teachers to instruct small groups of children English as a second language. Lesson plans are provided, and you may make up to $21 per 40-minute class. Applicants must possess one year of teaching, coaching, mentoring, or tutoring experience, and a Bachelor's Degree. VIPKID

VIPKID is hiring ESL teachers. Earn $14 - $22 per hour teaching English as a second language online. Must possess a Bachelor's Degree. With this position, you are able to teach anyplace in the world so long as you are from the US or Canada and have a stable internet connection. Insurance Jobs: The Hartford

The Hartford offers a large assortment of work from your home positions including client claims specialist, national account underwriter, and sales. When doing Your job search, look for the designation: remote employee option - YES - until inform which positions enable you to work from home. Prudential

Prudential Hires Home Work Financial Services partners, client solutions reps, and client relationship specialists. Prudential offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. Internet Research Positions: Appen Butler Hill

Appen Butler Hill hires internet Search engine evaluators to offer feedback on Internet search results. This part-time opportunity is available to both US and International residents. Pay is $14 an hour. Cannabis Media

Cannabis Media is looking for virtual, part-time researchers to accumulate and analyze marijuana permit information. This position is available to US and Canadian residents. ISoftStone

ISoftStone hires independent contractors to assess internet search engine results to see if they're related to the term which was typed into. The average pay is $12 per hour. Leapforce hires home representatives for internet search engine valuer jobs in various languages. This position is available to the US and International residents alike. The average pay is $14 an hour. Lionbridge

Lionbridge has work from home chances for internet assessors who assess the results of web searches. The position is available and people could work up to 20 hours per week. Typical pay is $13.50 per hour. Wonder

Wonder hires net researchers to investigate a broad range of topics to describe market trends, determine landscapes, gather data, and various other tasks. Pay is per job and averages $10-$15 per hour.

Marketing Jobs:

Acceleration Partners

Acceleration Partners Hire for a variety of affiliate internet marketing jobs. Candidates must reside within reasonable driving distance of one of their crucial Hub areas: Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Santa Barbara, or LA. These remote, full-time positions come with advantages and a lot of perks. Hubstaff

Hubstaff is a remote team that's distributed across the world, they have openings in their marketing, development, and client support departments. Enjoy the capability to make your very own schedule and work during times which makes sense for your schedule.

Mystery Shopping:

BestMark

BestMark hires mystery shoppers to evaluate restaurants, shops, casinos, financial institutions, hotels, hotels, and much more. After visiting a designated institution, shoppers publish a comprehensive report. Pay varies from per job to reimbursement, and shoppers report earning $13-$15 per hour. Short Tasks:# ClickWorker

ClickWorker hires authors, translators, researchers and data collectors. Payments are made by direct deposit or PayPal once your account reaches $1.00, along with your tax info is total. Figure Eight

Figure Eight is a workspace where one can make money by completing simple tasks on your computer. Tasks include research, information collection and categorization, content creation, content moderation, and more. Social Media 24/7 Social Media: 24 Seven is a staffing agency that hires promotion, electronic, and social network managers. Hours, cover, and roles vary with each client. 99 dollars Social

99 dollars Social hires social network content experts. In this position, you will work as an independent contractor. Set your very own hours, and then take on as many, or as several accounts as you'd like. Pay is per account, and the company reports that contractors earn $12-$15 per hour. Time Etc

Time Etc. Hires part-time virtual assistants. In case you've experienced as a personal assistant, executive assistant, secretary, or Assistant Administrator, and may work at least 3 hours per week, time, etc. Wants you. Pay ranges from $11 - $16 per hour, dependent upon your experience. Read the full article

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