Clone Rights or ‘Kidnap is such a Strong Term. Spontaneous Adoption is more accurate!’

Slightly related to this post by @sauntering-down

In Star Wars, Boba Fett is Jango Fett’s clone son. Now in Clone Wars, the clones don’t appear to have any rights and are generally considered as cannon fodder by most people rather than Sentients. It got me wondering why, although by all technicalities Jango OWNED him, Boba was treated as a Sentient Being.even by others and not just the Jedi.

This led me to headcanoning that due to a nice neat loophole in the paperwork declaring all clones property (after all wouldn’t want to violate their own Slavery Laws) that Boba was considered a Sentient Being with all the Rights associated with that because Jango (a Sentient Being and Republic Citizen) adopted him and essentially passed those rights onto his son.

So here comes the fun bit.

Anakin, having trouble reconciling the fact he’s now a general to what is essentially a slave army, goes hunting for every piece of legislation regarding the Clones and the rights associated with them. 

He finds the loophole.

And sends out the paperwork to every last clone, calling it a minor oversight in paperwork and if you all just sign here…

“Anakin, why is the Senate claiming you’ve kidnapped the entire Galactic Army?”

“Kidnap is such a strong word, Master. The more accurate term would be spontaneous adoption!”

The Senate and Palpatine are not happy with now having to treat the entire GAR as Sentient Beings with rights. It’s also costing them even more money since they have to PAY the clones otherwise it would be slavery and General Skywalker, a Citizen of the Republic, is more than willing to sue them over it.

(The Separatists think this is hilarious and a few planets are actually considering becoming neutral after watching Skywalker verbally flay the Senate for threatening his ‘sons’. The Public, of course, thinks it’s great.)

The Jedi Council is in two minds. One) it’s very impressive that Skywalker managed to find the one loophole that would get the clones their rights. Two) This screams attachment but as Kenobi brought up, there’s no part in the code that says Anakin can’t adopt.

(Plo Koon, Obi-Wan and Aayla Secura might be bargaining with Anakin over who gets to adopt 104th, the 212th and the 327th. Anakin is willing to give them partial custody.)

The clones think this is a) one of the best things ever and b) are very touched.

Most of the 501st think it’s hilarious to call their General ‘Dad’ after Jesse blurts it out in the middle of a battle.

Kamino tries to stop Skywalker from adopting even the undecantated ones but someone cough ShaakTi and R2 cough hacked their systems so the unborn clones are now also Skywalkers. They can’t even ‘decommission’ any more clones since it would technically be murder both under their own laws and the Republic’s.

Anakin’s just worried about what he’s going to get everyone for their Life-Day gifts.

This all leads nicely into a happy au where the Skywalker Twins grow up with an entire Army’s worth of brothers. Leia is a little disgruntled about being the only girl.

FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR OWN THOUGHTS OR USE THIS IDEA

Palpatine is irritated at the whole thing. Not only is this affecting with his plans, but also Anakin is a) a lot more stable and b) he doesn’t visit as often as before since this ‘side project’ is taking up most of Anakin’s free time. (It’s like that Creche Master AU again, except with clone kids) Palpy can’t even properly show his discontent, so he urges Anakin to focus on the bigger war, about greater good and whatnot. It doesn’t work very well and possibly even backfired a bit because Anakin is SO protective of the boys and NOBODY is taking them.

When the Nightmares of The Mission start, (you know the one) the 501st aren’t at all afraid to tell Anakin. Before they kept quiet because they don’t know what it means and they don’t know how the Jedi would react. But they can be certain that Anakin won’t just abandon them. (Imagining the entire Torrent Company clinging to Anakin after a shared nightmare gives me life)

This eventually leads to an investigation and the discovery of Inhibitor chips.

Insanity Rambles: …So that second paragraph gave me an idea.

It was an Unofficial rule amongst the clones that you didn’t talk about The Nightmare. Sure, every clone had an occasional nightmare about past missions, battles that went wrong, brothers that wouldn’t have died if they had just been a second quicker. Those nightmares were easy to handle and soothed in the comfort of their squadmates’ arms but every clone, even amongst themselves, didn’t talk about The Nightmare.

So why Mixer was standing outside General Skywalker’s quarters in the middle of the sleep cycle in his regulation blacks, obviously having just gotten out of bed and wearing a familiar look that only appeared after The Nightmare, would have baffled anyone walking past.

Mixer fiddled with the end of his sleeve. No one talked about it. It was a fact of their existence. Clones were the property of the Republic, they fought in plain white armour and sometimes dreamed about … The Mission.

Except … those weren’t the facts of their existence anymore.

Thanks to General Skywalker, they weren’t property. From the oldest veteran to the smallest embryo, they were the Adopted Sons of Anakin Skywalker and no one’s property, let alone the Republic’s.

Thanks to the Jedi, their armour may have once been plain white but were now decorated in colours however they wanted.

Maybe the last fact could be changed too.

“Mixer?”

Mixer gave a full body flinch and snapped his head up to meet the tired but worried blue eyes of his General who had changed everything for them regardless of the problems he would cause himself.

“Sir! I… I…” Mixer stumbled over his tongue. All he could think about was how ‘Good Soldiers follow Orders’ rattled around inside his head and how the same blue eyes that had widened at the stutter had been bright with shock then blank in death.

“Easy, Mixer, easy. Come on.” Warm, strong arms wrapped around his shoulders and guided him into the room and onto the bed. A broad hand firmly ran up and down his spine while the other one gently pressed Mixer’s head under Skywalker’s chin. Skywalker’s embrace felt completely different from the ones he’d gotten from and given to his brothers, but it felt just as soothing and comfortable. It felt safe, secure like the outside universe couldn’t touch him at all.

Skywalker was also humming under his breath, a song Mixer didn’t recognise, that rumbled calmingly through his chest.

“You want to talk about it, Mixer?”

Nightmare, sir.” Mixer mumbled almost involuntarily.

The hand in his hair froze for a second then began a petting motion.

“Firstly, just call me Anakin. What kind of nightmare?”

There was something to be said about the firm tone in which Skyw… Anakin told him to use his name. It swept away the last of the reservations Mixer had about telling him the nightmare. It tumbled from his mouth, piece by piece.

The constant ‘Good Soldiers Follow Orders’.

The blankness of a Jedi’s eyes as they died, screaming of betrayal and murder.

How masters, knights, padawans and initiates alike all died under blaster fire.

How it was always the same. Different environments but the dream was always the same.

How The Nightmare happened again and again.

How every brother knew exactly what The Nightmare was and how it looked on their faces.

Mixer’s voice grew thick with emotion and tears started to prick at the corner of his eyes. He’d been holding this in for so long, it felt overwhelming to finally be free of the burden.

Anakin’s hand never stopped it’s repetitive motions up and down his back until Mixer felt his head move to stare at the door.

“Come in.”

The door swished open and another brother, this one slightly unfamiliar to Mixer who’d only joined the 501st a month ago and was still learning all his brothers’ names, stood nervously in the doorway with the same look on his face that Mixer had had earlier.

He’d had The Nightmare too.

“Ringo. Did you want to come in?”

Ringo‘s eyes skittered to Mixer who curled further into Anakin’s embrace.

“I don’t want to interrupt, sir. It’s not that important.”

Anakin held out the hand that had been petting Mixer. “Anakin, not sir. Ringo, it’s obviously something. Come here. I think I might know what you’re here about and I’m alright. I’m right here.”

There was certainly something to be said about the way Ringo practically bolted into Anakin’s other side and pressed damp eyes into their General/adopters’ shoulder.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I couldn’t stop. The blaster… I just…” Ringo trailed off with a shudder and Anakin wrapped his arm tightly around him, pressing his forehead into Ringo’s head.

“I’m here, Ringo, I’m right here and we’re ok. We’ll get to the bottom of this.” Anakin murmured.

Ten minutes passed and Mixer was about to drop off to sleep when there was a knock on the door.

Anakin blinked at the door, twitched a finger to open it and three more brothers fidgeted in the doorway much like Mixer and Ringo had done.

“Denal? Koho? Redeye? Come in.”

It was only because Anakin’s mouth was near Mixer’s ear that he caught the absent murmur.

“We’re gonna need a lot more blankets. It’s gonna get crowded.”

While it was nice that Anakin wasn’t going to kick any of them out, Mixer had the feeling he wasn’t talking about the fact a squad’s worth of men were currently invading his quarters since it wasn’t that squished.

Captain Rex furiously strode through the halls of the Resolute towards General Skywalker’s quarters. A platoon’s worth of men, 37 troopers, were not in their bunks. He’d done the head count twice before the end of the evening shift.

All of them were from various squads but all were from Torrent Company. It was almost a personal insult that an entire platoon’s worth of men had gone missing from Rex’s best division.

When he found them …

Rex was brought up short by Skywalker’s door opening without him touching it and the corridor lights suddenly dimming.

Rex had no idea what he was looking at but at least, he found the missing men.

Most of them were piled on the floor, covered and tucked into a vast number of blankets and pillows that he was fairly sure was all contraband. Three troopers were curled around each other on the bed, all dozing peacefully.

In the middle of it all, Skywalker tilted his head up and grinned lightly at Rex, looking thrilled with himself and amused at the sight of Rex in his doorway. He gestured the best he could, as he was wrapped around at least four other bodies, for the Captain to be quiet.

“Sir?”

One trooper stirred but Skywalker ran a soothing hand through his hair and the trooper, Coric he recognised, slipped deeper into sleep.

“They had a nightmare. The same one.” He gave Rex a meaningful look.

Rex was dumbfounded. There were just somethings that weren’t spoken about. Especially The Nightmare. It was a line that wasn’t crossed.

But maybe Skywalker’s stunt of adopting every clone in the entire army had broken that line, that sense of distance between them.

Everyone knew the Jedi forbade Attachment and yet, Skywalker had practically screamed it through the entire Galaxy when he had claimed them all.

Rex knew that the Jedi, the Senate and Kamino were not happy with him. There had been rumours of the Council meeting with Skywalker only for him to walk out irritated.

The one-time Skywalker had been summoned to the Senate had been the last since he’d threaten to sue all of them and then proceeded to lecture everyone in the entire room for contributing to the slave trade for an entire hour, never losing steam. The speech was still circulating the holonet and Jesse liked to play it as a morale booster.

And yet, even with the Jedi’s disapproval, the Senate’s anger and Kamino’s cool fury, Skywalker stood firm in his decision.

Every clone was a Skywalker too and the adoption, along with all their rights, remained.

It made sense that his brothers would want the comfort of their … Anakin. (No one was really sure how to address him. He’d said he’d respond to General but off duty, he’d preferred to be called Anakin. It was really up to the clones what they wanted to call him. Kix had joked they should call him Dad. Someone had overheard that comment and now some of the shinies referred to him as Buir out of earshot.)

“Yeah, that one always wipes us out.” Rex muttered.

Anakin’s eyes soften.

“You know, if we move Echo over a bit, there’s space.”

Rex let out a quiet laugh, aware of the sleeping troopers. “Maybe some other time.”

“If you’re sure. Good night, Rex. Sweet dreams.”

He nodded to the Jedi who settled back down.

“Good night … Anakin.”

Rex could feel Anakin’s smile follow him all the way back to his bunk.

Omake:

“So, I have two possibilities for the fact 37 men had the same dream and the fact every clone has it at some point. One, there is something wrong with all of you. We’ll have to organise a bio-scan for a variety of men to see if it’s physical.”

“And the second, General?”

“One or more of the men are Force-Sensitive and projecting a vision.”

“…What’ll happen if it’s the second?”

“Well, Rex, Ahsoka gets a brother padawan if the man in question wants to be trained.”

“Is that allowed!?”

“Eh, the Council already hates me. What’s taking on two or more padawans? I’m sure Obi-Wan or Master Plo won’t mind helping.”

Star Wars Prompt: Kidnapping Vader.

In the aftermath of Order 66, Vader, for reasons known only to him and maybe not even then, deactivates all the chips in the clones and frees them to do what they wish. As repayment, the 501st legion kidnaps Vader. Why? Because killing younglings? Going Dark side? That doesn’t sound like their General. (Also big black cyborg or not, they know their General anywhere.) Maybe he has something messing with his head too? Don’t worry General! They’ll fix everything. Bonus: -There was actually something messing with his head. Force bond, compulsions, years of gaslighting etc -They get Vader out of the Suit of Doom and into a proper health care facility. -Vaderkin isn’t actually sure what is going on but it’s nice to cared about. -He isn’t sure if he’s dark or light but one thing he does know is that the Empire can have the clones back over the Emperor’s cold dead body. -They all start calling him Anakin or give him another name ala Vod since the general is clearly having identity issues right now. -Someone hunts down the twins. -And Ahsoka. -And Captain Rex. -Maybe not General Kenobi since he’s the reason General Anakin is in the suit. (Crossposted to starwarskinkmeme Round 1)

Ahsoka : Remind me why I’m the one playing the part of a slave?

Anakin : I tried it once. I wasn’t any good at it.               Besides, the role of Master comes easily to me

I didn’t know I needed this, maybe you do too 💕💕

An agency spokesman warned that “unprecedented levels of heat” were being seen in some areas.

More than 22,000 people have been taken to hospital with heat stroke, nearly half of them elderly, officials say.

On Monday, the city of Kumagaya reported a temperature of 41.1C (106F), the highest ever recorded in Japan.

The heatwave shows no sign of abating, forecasters say.

In central Tokyo, temperatures over 40C were also registered for the first time.

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that temperatures of 35C or higher would continue until early August.

“We are observing unprecedented levels of heat in some areas,” spokesman Motoaki Takekawa said, adding that the heatwave was “a threat to life and we recognise it as a natural disaster”.

In Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, a 91-year-old woman was found collapsed in a field and later pronounced dead in hospital. In nearby Saitama two elderly women were found dead in their homes.

With less than half of Japan’s public schools equipped with air conditioning, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the summer holidays could be extended to protect pupils.

“As a record heatwave continues to blanket the country, urgent measures are required to protect the lives of schoolchildren,” he told a news conference on Tuesday.

The public is being advised to drink plenty of water, to use air conditioning and to rest often.

People in some cities have taken part in an event known as uchimizu, or “water ceremony” - pouring or sprinkling cold water on to the hot pavements in an attempt to cool them.

The heatwave closely followed torrential rain that caused severe flooding and landslides in the west of Japan.

Where else has experienced severe heat?

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A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.

Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de'Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.

Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.

The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.

Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de'Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.

Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.

After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.

Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.

Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.

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Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.

Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”

It’s interesting the way the repaint has photoshop!Isabella affecting a slightly dreamy, docile gaze into the middle distance; she’s dewy-faced and unthreateningly soft.  But in the original, she’s looking you right in the eye.  She takes the male gaze and throws it right back at you.  That’s a face that says go on, tell me I’d be so pretty if only I had a little repaint, I dare you.  I’ll fuck you up.

They also made her hand smaller and I can’t tell if that’s an urn or scepter in her hand but considering it was painted out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a symbol of power.

Oh, it’s a symbol of power alright. She’s a Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de Medici, First Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Medicis were the most powerful political family in Florence for almost forever. In Florence, the lines between politics, crime, warfare, and the Church were very blurry. They even managed, on four separate occasions, to get one of their own family members elected Pope, usually by very underhanded dealing with the cardinals. They had their fingers in every pie in Italy from 13th through 17th century.

In the case of Isabella, in order to secure an alliance with the Orsini family of Rome, she was married to Paolo Giordano I Orsini when she was 16. Contrary to popular belief, people in Renaissance Europe weren’t all that into child brides, this was just about the politics, so she stayed at her father’s household in Florence until she was of appropriate age. And then she just sort of… never left. Her new husband had zero concept of money, and her dad actually kinda hated him even though he was the one who arranged the marriage in the first place. So Isabella and her 50,000 scudi dowry (at a time when the average Italian earned somewhere between 10 and 40 scudi a year) stayed in Florence. Because she never went to Rome to live with her husband, she enjoyed enormous freedom and power back in Florence. After her mother died, she basically stepped into the role of First Lady of Florence, and was considered one of the keenest political minds in Europe. She ruled what she wanted, bought what she wanted, and fucked who she wanted, with no one really able to tell her no.

She was eventually assassinated by her husband while she was on holiday at one of her family’s country villas, probably because she was fucking her husband’s cousin, Troilo Orsini. Well, she had an “accident” while bathing, and Paolo Orsini said she must have drowned, but the coroner said she was strangled, and several servants swore they saw him do it. He might also have done it on the orders of Isabella’s brother, Francesco Medici, since he was trying to consolidate his power as the next Grand Duke, and by all accounts she was definitely in his way because of her political savvy.

So yeah. She was a boss, and that’s what makes it even more offensive that this Victorian sap tried to make her into this passive, skinny, doe-eyed wimp.

Why Movies About College are Actually Full of Shit.

This is very important because my brother and I grew up thinking college was like this. Like we would live out a beer commercial.

And when I got to college and it DIDN’T happen, it stressed me out. I thought I was doing something wrong again. I had, apparently, messed up high school according to the media, and now college?! The supposed best time of my life?! It created a big depression, and living far from home made it worse as I had no friends or family I could immediately talk to. It took a long time for me to understand that movies and commercials and shows that portray college like that is complete and utter bullshit.

ratatouille went so hard and it didn’t even have to

this is a kid’s movie about a rat who wants to be a chef and i feel like i’ve just been flayed bald

Never forget this iconic speech

I’m talking with some friends over how some of the dream daddy fandom went down. 

It took like a week before an artist got death threats over fanart and the devs had to step in and even the devs started getting harassed and death threats.

and before that, people harassed the devs over having to push back the release date so they could work on fixing a game-breaking bug. 

and before that people harassed the devs over the “cult ending” that doesn’t even exist.

and then before that people spread rumors and told people to pirate the game because it was profiting off of LGBT people and developed by cishet white guys (Game Grumps) even though they didn’t do anything except promote the game and lend their voices. 

and as a bonus, that one asshole that tried to scam people into making what was basically a rip off of dream daddy. 

and within like, a month or two of the games release the fandom had died out. It’s sad because Dream Daddy from what I know is an actually good game. It’s just that the level of drama and identity politics within the fandom basically killed it. People want and literally talk about craving diversity and representation in media but when they get it, they just ajdlfakdafdfad fucking demolish and find everything that is wrong with it. 

People are, for some inexplicable reason, more critical of people actually trying to represent LGBT issues and communities than they are of people Actively pretending we don’t exist.

People, especially on Tumblr, are unkind and stupid.

I was talking to my mom the other day, and she said she was going to start going to the gym, because its important care for your body. I’m disabled w/ multiple chronic illnesses, so going to the gym is impossible for me. She seemed to realize this, and started to backtrack, saying like - its part of taking care of herself, and I interrupted and said, “Its okay mom. You and I taking care of ourselves look very different”. And thats what I would like you to know.

Taking care of yourself looks different. 

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like fruit smoothies and gym visits, cutting out sugar and weight training.

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like hospital visits, feeding tubes and ports. Needles and tests.

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like taking medication and lying down in a cool dark room.

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like getting any calories in their body that they can.

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like adding in more vegetables and trying to go outside to get sun more often.

For some people, taking care of themselves looks like seeing a therapist, keeping symptom journals, and practicing mindfulness, meds, or grounding techniques. 

We all have different needs. Please don’t feel bad about how you care for yourself just because someone else is able to do “more”, or their care is more performative or obvious. Please don’t look down on someone for caring for themselves in a way that you do not. Medication and rest are just as important as exercise and vegetables.

Keep doing your best to care for yourself, the best way you know how. Your self care and health is important, no matter what it looks like. 

This ^

Also it’s great to see a post where a family member doesn’t berate someone for having a disability, that happens far too much in this world.

The myth that knights could barely move in their armor has finally been dispelled by Thrillist

@we-are-knight @wearepaladin @we-are-death-knight

I could have sworn I reblogged this last year. Hmm.

Accurate though. Makes sense; the knight’s kit is distributed across his body fairly evenly, and armour segments are very easily rotatable and fluid. It’s kind of like, to a degree, suddenly gaining weight. You don’t lose your natural strength and agility, but you have a little bit more extra weight to bear. You can still sprint, jump, run, roll, somersault, etc, but not for quite as long without training yourself to do so.

I mean, Boucicaut had a book of fitness on all the insane stuff a knight should be able to do in full armour, and let me tell ya, the obstacle cause in the video doesn’t even come close.

No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.

They gave me a number to shoot for.  It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known.  I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.

Because this is crucially important

Except for the fact that 90% of the time you are under contract not to talk about your salary otherwise the company can sue you. Every job I’ve had I’ve had to sign that I won’t discuss my pay with other employees otherwise my employment is terminated and the company will take legal action. 

It’s actually illegal for companies to forbid wage discussion, they’re just counting on you not knowing your rights.

It was just like a movie it was just like a song when we were young. [insp.]

🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊

please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.

🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night. 

🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin. 

🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy. 

🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind. 

🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure. 

🌊 Aicaya -  Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea. 

🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics 

🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness. 

🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk. 

🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology. 

🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology. 

🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet

🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life. 

🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish. 

🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.  

Either a Melusina or Sirena Chilota ❤ How about you?

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