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Happy Pride Month!

Faust the Crow loves you even more than she did the last 2 years!

okay americans how’d i do

There are so many parts of this that just genuinely brighten my day

BRO?

Reblog if you're self indulgent and perverted lmao

Fanfic is not inherently degrading to the original art. The idea of "fanfiction" is a relatively new one; the idea of "I heard a story and I liked the characters but I want them to do something else/wish the story had ended differently/want them all naked" is as old as humanity. Shakespeare, Dante, the Arthurian legends, big chunks of Greek mythology, much of the Bible, it's all fanfic, one way or another.

And does this person really think authors of original work don't write it because they enjoy fantasizing about certain concepts and characters? You can figure out a lot about various authors' kinks by looking at their work. Just saying.

A daunting number of people seem to have taken "you can figure out a lot about various authors' kinks by looking at their work" as me somehow endorsing the worryingly puritanical take of the original ask. And like...if you can read my oeuvre and not figure out that I have a thing for mermaids, dramatic reunions, found family, and overly complex problems being resolved by thirty seconds of communication, I don't know how I can help you.

Absolutely wild (to me) that anyone could mistake Seanan McGuire as being anti-fanworks when there are semi-regular instances of her writing Sailor Moon drabbles

yeah no offense to confucius or anything but if i was about to embark on a journey of revenge i would simply not dig two graves

jesus christ, getting laid in your enemy's grave? that's some freak shit but honestly i kinda dig it

well yeah you dig it thats how you make a grave

A feel like this is a conversation between  Shakespeare's clowns, and I love that.

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

Probably no one cares but I’ll add an unpopular opinion to this reblog. Working parents sending their sick kids to school? Has nothing to do with retaining a “perfect attendance record” and everything to do with the fact the working parents have probs run out of carers leave and will not be able to take more time off to mind their child with their tenth school-acquired viral illness of the winter unless they take leave without pay. School isn’t just learning for the kid. It is also childcare for the parent so they can work to pay the bills. If you’re looking for a systemic issue to blame for the wild spread of epidemics in schools, look to how employers treat parents, especially mothers. The refusal of schools to allow kids absences is in the same vein as that attitude.

I’d like to point out that the original post was created in 2019. Jesus!

But yeah when I caught whooping cough (I was vaccinated, but it can occur that you still get it) my teacher mother was like “HELL NO you are staying home until you’ve been approved to go back to the doctor.”

Mind you, this was in Canada in 2005. I have since lived in the US for 5 years (went right back when I could) and the prospect of seeing the doctor was terrifying financially for us and the others we knew, even just to get a note. It’s such a systemic problem, and it only gets worse when you tie in any and all minorities of any type.

It’s just… sad.

Really, really fucking sad.

BREAKING NEWS: Rolling Stone drops bombshell on Trump, reveals that he has been demanding that his “close advisors” find out the “names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him” so that he can retaliate against them by “immediately purging the FBI and Justice Department’s ranks” of each and every single investigator who has investigated his deadly insurrection, Big Lie, and theft of highly classified documents.

But it gets worse.

Rolling Stone continues, “Separately, the twice-impeached former president has been saying for many months that on “day one” of his potential second term, he wants FBI director Christopher Wray “out” of the bureau” because he has refused to “purge the FBI of non-Trump loyalists.” Rolling Stone continues, reporting that, “During some of the conversations this year, including at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago, some of Trump’s close political allies told him that they are working on figuring out the identities of the FBI and DOJ staff and forming lists.”

This should strike fear in the heart of every single American, who gives a damn about our struggling democracy.

World's earliest pinch hit! We had a dropout within the first few hours due to scheduling issues, so now we're a writer short. Looking for a Hannibal writer, interested in a high interaction level and possibly incorporating filk, meta, or script format into the project!

Minimum 1k or 10mins! C’mon I know a bunch of y’all love Hannibal… :P

OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE

This is what we mean by systemic racism

i love the term "unwell"... theres something very very wrong with you. not saying what tho

anyone else get that “i never expected you to say swear words, you’re so innocent” shit from random people you’ve talked to maybe twice

me: so yeah, i’m fuckin–

them: WHOA you know *gets weirdly quiet* the f-word???? you’re so sweet and cute though

me:

SWTOR Summer Gift Exchange 2023

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Minimum Requirements:

- 1000 word piece of fanfiction of a quality you would be happy to receive   OR - a clean lineart drawing, of good resolution, on unlined paper and of a quality you would be happy to receive.

Reminder: This is an all ages exchange so no explicit sexual content is allowed.

Always RB: because there is never enough love. And fanfic love is some of the purest.

Fantastic, but are we not going to talk about the ‘skin horse’????

End blood quantum now

Blood quantum is how much native blood you have in you and it needs to be a certain threshold to qualify you as a tribal member. Blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe.

It means my mom is a tribal member but because my dad is outside of my tribe... I don't have enough tribal blood to enroll. Neither does my daughter. Our "official" indigeneity ended with me.

My dad is still native tho. Just southern native. Others have two parents enrolled in separate tribes and can't enroll in either one despite being Full native because their parents were mixed with other tribes so they don't have enough blood of Any tribe to qualify.

And to what end are they doing this?

Under the treaties the US govt can lay no claim to native land. So how do they fix that? Get rid of the natives, of course.

And since they can't slaughter us in broad daylight anymore they did the next best thing. What the colonial government has ALWAYS done to us and other poc.

Made up a bunch of arbitrary laws to restrain and limit our power and numbers.

And this can't continue. We are the only race who needs to apply to be part of the community we were born into. The only race who needs to prove our blood.

And that's the thing: it's not even based on blood. Racist scientists defined who was a full-blooded native based on things like shoe size, head circumference, and skin pigment.

Not blood. And besides that it wasn't uncommon for outsiders to become part of a tribe!! You didn't need to be native by blood to be native! Blood quantum has made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to qualify and made it impossible for tribes to practice that long time aspect of our culture.

So please share this post. So many people legitimately think natives are extinct and even less are aware that we do more than just sit around drinking all day. Few people have good feelings about us and within that there are a few who actively help. Please be one of those few.

We need support and allies and for our voices to be heard. Please don't let this post just be me screaming into a void. We need people to know what blood quantum is, how archaic and harmful it is, and to help us spread awareness to people who otherwise would ignore us. Use your privilege.

blood quantum was designed to eliminate native americans while the one drop rule was intended to keep african americans slaves in perpetuity

Canada has a distinct native group called the Métis, who are descended specifically from Europeans (mostly French) and natives in a more or less specific area and so I’m very curious how Canada considers laws like this, if they even have anything comparable.