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[hydriadd]

For any other crows

[ettawritesnstudies]

Assume you are interested in the book in question, and you could get which ever format you wanted in either situation. (Ebook, paperback, hardcover).

For the preorder: Everyone gets the same rewards regardless of what you order. There might be a larger giveaway that would be won by lottery.

For the kickstarter: You can pick your tier + rewards going up in value for larger items.

In general, the merch itself would be the same for both campaigns, for example, everyone in the preorder gets stickers, and everyone in the lowest tier on kickstarter gets stickers. The rewards would be exclusive to either the preorder or the kickstarter, so you wouldn't be able to get them afterwards, except at special events like book signings or something.

please boost!

[floorpancakes]

hey did you guys know they released official maru and moro angelic pretty xxxholic collab gowns as a movie tie in but they were ultra limited run custom reservations for a REALLY high price (even for modern ap) so there was no way i was gonna get em but i want them so bad just so i could say i have the official xxxholic lolita dresses anyways

[cmentary-drive]

OC name reveal - Lola :P

[cepheusgalaxy]

Okay so I have a newfound love for names (it's a worldbuilding interest) and so this is a reblog chain post, for anyone to say little things about their culture's name conventions or explain how names work in their culture! I start:

In Brazil, most people have at least three names: A given name, and two family names.

Your surname/family name is usually a mix of one of your father's surnames and one of your mother's surnames. So let's say your dad's surnames are Souza and Silva, and your mom's surnames are Cerqueira and Carvalho, so your surname (and your siblings') would be something like: Souza Carvalho.

There is a little convention about family names, though, and the sequence they are in: The father's surname comes last, and the mother's surname comes first, right after your given name. Now what happens is that when you pass down one of your family names to your children, you will usually chose the last one, so, your father's last name. Your child will still have their mother last name but it won't be passed down, likely.

That is a general convention, ofc, but nor a rule. In my case, for example, my father passed down his mother's name to me and my siblings, and my own mother's name comes last on my surname.

Given names are usually composed by one or two words. Those last ones are known as compound names and are pretty common. Let's say someone's name is Maria [surname] [surname]. That is a singular name, right? But Maria could also be combined with another single name to form a compound name, like Ana Maria [surname] [surname] or Maria Júlia [surname] [surname]. There are also a few conventions about forming compound names for your child:

Gendered names are a thing, so when you mesh them together they are usually going to be names of the same gender, like "ana" [fem], with "eduarda" [fem] and not "lucas" [masc]. There are some neutral names, like "yuri" or "luca", too. There are also some combinations that are more popular than others, mainly names with Ana, Júlia, Maria, and João.

There is also a little rule for gendered names, specially biblical-inspired ones, that allows you to turn a masc name into a fem name. That comes from the characteristics in the Portuguese language (the one we speak in Brazil) that include a gendered vowel at the end of some words to define if they are masculine or feminine. For example, the words boy [menino] and girl [menina], as well as its newly introduced neutral counterpart [menine] are the same word, just with a different gendered vowel. So, most names that shift from one gender to other usually are masc in their origin and get an -a gendered vowel at the end. So a name like "Rafael" becomes "Rafaela", a name like "Eduardo" becomes "Eduarda" and so on. Sometimes masc names like Raphael/Rafael don't really have gendered vowels but since they lack one, we just assume they are masculine.

Using that structure, Brazilian people have either three or four names commonly, but I've also seen some people with three or more family names, and compound names composed by like five names or more, but that's more uncommon.

And lastly, I want to make a little note on variations of the names. A single name like "Evelyn" usually has a bunch of different variations, like: Evelin, Evellyn, Evellinn, Evellynn, Evelynn, and so on. These variations usually happen by: replacing /i/ with /y/, adding or cutting /h/, replacing /c/ with /k/, replacing /ã/ (which is a more closed /a/) with /an/, adding or cutting accents or doubling consonants. So names with /i/ like Iara can become Yara, names with /h/ like Helen can become Elen, or vice versa, similarly, names like Cauan can become Kauan and vice versa, Lúcia can become Lucia and Julia can become Jullia.

And that's it! Brazilian names work pretty differently than Usamerican names, and the formality in calling names is also a bit different (we almost never call people by their last names, even if they are teachers or figures of authority). Look foward to seeing you guys' addition to this post! 👍

(edit: most people i've known that have compund given names also have a preferred one between the two they have. i have one friend that absolutely despises one of them, and other who never tells other people hers bc she never uses it.)

(also quick note spelling differences make absolutely no differnece in how a name is pronounced. but we do tend to get annoyed when people mispell our names.)

[bootyful-seventeen]

I am heavily contemplating on buying myself a dvd player soon and buying all the DVDs for a ton of movies and tv shows I grew up watching cuz I miss the magic of dvds

[gwenfile]

Disney Cuddleez / Spider-Gwen

[cerbreus]

baking never feels more like science to me than when i'm trying to cobble together an intricate multi step recipe together from several different recipes and tutorials online because the recipe I'm imagining doesn't exist....

[gilbirda]

love when people panic and change their url on a whim and/or delete their blog and break my links in a resources post (sarcasm)

[white-cat-of-doom]

Tagged by the lovely @ride-a-dromedary for a list of my current five favourite songs (in no particular order)!

Sunset - Makoto Matsushita

昔みたい - Mebae Miyahara

Tired - The Wandering Hearts

Doomscroller - Metric

Paraclete Bhishajyati - Fire-Toolz

As with any individual song recommendations, I always say to listen to the albums they come from, in addition! (Aside from the Mebae Miyahara, as that is not on Spotify and only half on YouTube).

If anyone also wants to do this, say you were tagged by me! I can always list five more :).

[hide-your-bugs-away]

I OWN BOTH ISSUES OF RAVE WITH ERIC BURDON ON THE COVER NOW!!!!!!!! 🐾✨️

(April 1965 and March 1966)

[as-rare-as-trees]

Queer books/movies recommendations

Hi!! Dear friends, I need your help. Could you drop in the comments any queer book/movie titles you can think of? It can be any genres, fiction, nonfiction, educational literature etc

We're making a bibliography at the library I work at for pride, and tho I have already researched and gathered a lot of titles, I want to put as many as possible, so I thought of asking here

(Note: I know I have some italian mutuals, so if any of you knows the titles in italian that'd be even better)

Thanks in advance!!

*edit: queer books/movies meaning both things that have being queer as their main topic, and also in general media with queer characters

[fyeah-dokidoki-precure]

Cure Heart and Cure Sword talking dolls by Bandai (2013)

you use the Commune to make the dolls speak, through infrared sensors in the Commune and the dolls' chest.

they're about the same height as a Barbie (29cm/11.5"), compared to the newer Precure dolls (23cm/9")

The dolls say their pre and post henshin catchphrases, and the name of their solo attacks. Along with a lot of other catchphrases influenced by what mascot faceplate is attached to the Commune.

from what I know, there were two releases. the deluxe dolls with their Commune, and a cheaper release that was just the doll with no accessories.

sources: x x x x

[crescentfool]

Hi 👉👈 I don’t have a lot to say, I just wanted to hi give you from across the room because I followed you for P3 but it turns out you and I share a ton of fandoms and I just think that’s really super neat.

You get a good grade in fandom taste 💖

WAVES HI!! thank you for the follow and message, it makes me happy to hear that you've enjoyed seeing the other media i've reblogged stuff of! P3 is definitely something i hold close to my heart, but i have lots of media i'm full of love for too! so thank you for appreciating it, i hope you enjoy your stay! 🥺💙

[neighbourhoodtwo]

Perhaps you should put it at the top.. perhaps you should dm me if you end up reading it and telling me all your opinions- perhaps you should-

Read it :3

It’s okay hahaha! Classes are a painnnn

woah... for some unknown reason i feel compelled to move it further up my list...

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

microdosing getting into mechanical keyboards by replacing my keycaps for the first time