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Ok Blubberbernd

tuesday morning

#YOUNG MAN! THERE’S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN#I SAID YOUNG MAN#YOU’RE A CAT WHO IS ROUND ( x )

I’m glad someone else said it

I'm so glad to see AO3 making it absolutely clear that none of these things are allowed to even be HINTED at.

Here's some of the language from the new post about AO3's police on commercial promotion:

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There is a wide variety of things that are not allowed under AO3's non-commercialization rules.

Any other language which one might interpret as requesting or having requested financial contributions, whether for yourself or others. This covers indirect references, euphemisms, or other language intended to get around the TOS. Some examples of this include:

Solicitation is not allowed, whether it's for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

Here's the crazy thing, folks. You *can* day things like "My Tumblr is [username], come over and scream into the void about these blorbos with me!" And then plaster your kofi all over your Tumblr. You can say "Thanks to [someone] for suggesting this fic! I listen to people's suggestions all the time on Tumblr!" for literally any reason someone told you to write a fic.

It's not hard to filter out the things you shouldn't say based on environment. Back when I was in high school you'd hear about all the fun someone had that weekend, but they wouldn't say there was drinking and weed and throwing firecrackers into a campfire where a teacher or parent could hear them.

This! It is truly not hard to abide by the rules! Just ask yourself 'is this thing I'm saying on AO3 referencing me making money from writing IN ANY WAY?' if the answer is yes, don't do it!! Ask yourself 'can a reader ever guess I'm making money off this writing based off this thing I'm about to say' on AO3? Then don't say it!!!

If, you go 'is this thing I'm saying on AO3 referencing that I have a social media presence but is not about me directly making money off my writing in any way?' GO HAM. If you go 'a reader really could never guess I'm making money off my writing here' then you're doing GREAT.

Also a reminder to readers that even complimenting your favourite authors by suggesting they should be published is not allowed. A lot of readers think these rules only apply to authors, they do not. Do not mention any way an author could get paid, hypothetically or in reality, in the comments on AO3. Just pretend no one has ever made a cent or can on anything there, and if you want to compliment them by saying 'you should be paid for this!' go to their socials to do it!!!

while we're talking about german regional slang/dialects, my number one staple is an extremely shortened version of "nicht?" or "nicht wahr?" (= "right?") used at the end of a sentence to reaffirm what was said that i can't figure out how to spell ("nˈʌ" is the closest i've got but the sound needs to go up more)

little finny and his newfound mom

Keira is one of countless Greenlandic women in Denmark who have been separated from their children after undergoing highly controversial “parenting competency” tests (known as forældrekompetenceundersøgelse or FKU) used by social services to assess whether parents are suitable to care for their children. In common with many of these cases, Zammi was placed with Danish foster parents. Keira fears Zammi will lose her language and identity as a result. For years, parenting competency tests have been criticised by campaigners and human rights bodies that say they are culturally unsuitable for people from Inuit backgrounds, and therefore discriminatory.

Generally, the tests are used if a child is believed to be struggling with challenges in behaviour, feelings or thoughts – and will form one part of a social worker’s investigations, says clinical psychologist Isak C Nellemann, who used to perform FKU for the Danish state, and now helps advise families and lawyers in cases like Keira’s. But, often, he says, simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so. Questions can include “What is glass made of?” and “What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?” Nellemann argues that the tests are culturally specific and a poor way to measure innate intelligence. “There is a lot of stigmatisation of people from Greenland,” he says. “We don’t know why we should use these tests for parenting.” [...]

Until 1953, Greenland was ruled by Denmark as a colony. Now the territory is part of the Danish kingdom, with Copenhagen controlling its foreign and security policy. In recent years, there have been multiple scandals about historic and more recent population-control practices that have been described by many in Greenland, including the former prime minister, as a genocide. These include the IUD scandal, in which 4,500 women and girls were fitted with contraception without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1970. Many of the details have only recently come to light.

Keira, who has three children, all of whom have been removed from her, was subjected to an FKU test in 2014 that is understood to have contributed to the removal of Zoe, who was then nine, and Keira’s son, Nolan, who was just eight months old and breastfeeding; he is now 11. Nolan, whom Keira sees twice a week, now lives with his father. Keira was given another test last year that contributed to the removal of Zammi. When she was given the most recent test, she says she was told it was to see if she was “civilised enough”. The two assessments, 10 years apart, were made by the same Danish-speaking psychologist, who was also Keira’s therapist. Keira’s first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic). She is not fluent in Danish.

Oh hey, they do the same thing to First Nations kids here in Canada, spurious psych tests and all.

Hey so that pic is AI (you can tell because, among other things, the paw prints make no sense)

It's also based of a real pic, so here's the original

Genuinely why would someone waste AI when the original is already perfect

i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

“oh iran is a dictatorship!” “oh palestine is homophobic!” i don’t care like literally i don’t care that’s not a problem to be solved by other countries blowing innocent people up

everyday they wake up with migraines

I've only known Tiny Chef for 12 minutes and I've been crying for 11 of them. I commend the Tiny Chef animators for choosing violence

Tiny Chef needs your help

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do i haunt your dreams, akane tsunemori?