Sleep.

this is the money cannibal

i passed a surprisingly hard test to get a new federal contract

a playwright I worked with 5 years ago gave me his new play to translate

a company that owed me money since LAST January finally paid up

my eBay & Etsy stores had their best 5 days ever

and just now, my husband came home and told me the weirdest news. his firm’s accounting office called him in and informed him that he had actually gotten a raise last year but they FORGOT TO GIVE IT TO HIM.

His wife, Yukiko, was also a part of this; she is often credited with suggesting the plan. The Sugihara family was held in a Soviet POW camp for 18 months until the end of the war; within a year of returning home, Sugihara was asked to resign - officially due to downsizing, but most likely because the government disagreed with his actions.

He didn’t simply grant visas - he granted visas against direct orders, after attempting three times to receive permission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and being turned down each time. He did not “misread” orders; he was in direct violation of them, with the encouragement and support of his wife.

He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations in 1985, a year before he died in Kamakura; he and his descendants have also been granted permanent Israeli citizenship. He was also posthumously awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania (1993); Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996); and the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Though not canonized, some Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize him as a saint.

Sugihara was born in Gifu on the first day of 1900, January 1. He achieved top marks in his schooling; his father wanted him to become a physician, but Sugihara wished to pursue learning English. He deliberately failed the exam by writing only his name and then entered Waseda, where he majored in English. He joined the Foreign Ministry after graduation and worked in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin (where he learned Russian and German; he also converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church during this time). He resigned his post in protest over how the Japanese government treated the local Chinese citizens. He eventually married Yukiko Kikuchi, who would suggest and encourage his acts in Lithuania; they had four sons together. Chiune Sugihara passed away July 31, 1986, at the age of 86. Until her own passing in 2008, Yukiko continued as an ambassador of his legacy.

You want to know about my motivation, don’t you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.

People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.

The stone next to him bears a quote from the Talmud; “He who saves one life, saves the entire world.”  

CGI is a modern crutch. It’s cheaper than 2D by a landslide, and easier to churn out with the support of a studio.

But the actualization of a medium clicks when the medium is being used in ways that only it can. Focusing on rendering every hair, on recreating beautiful photo-realistic landscapes, that’s fine. It’s impressive. But the approach reaches a point where we’re left wondering:

“Why didn’t you just make a live action movie?”

Hello everyone!

I’m not happy to do this but due to life being a bitch, I have to open emergency commissions right now.

Short story short, 4 years ago I took out a loan to finance my Dad’s funeral and have been paying it diligently. Now the bank is trying to screw me over by suspending 400€ of my pay every month starting this month. I should be able to stop this but there isn’t enough time left until payroll for this month. So basically, I’ll be 400€ short when me and my partner already struggle to make ends meet.

So right now, I’m trying to fill this gap urgently as I also use part of my wage to support my mother due to low retirement income.

Without much ado, please see the pricing below. A big thank you to @omgkatsudonplease for letting me use her pricing model. I have also added Euro prices for clarity.

If you are not familiar with my writing, you can find it on AO3 and on tumblr.

pricing (sfw)

100 words minimum / 5000 words maximum

1 USD/ 1 EURO for 100 words

5 USD/ 4.50 EURO for 500 words

10 USD/ 9 EURO for 1000 words

5 USD/ 4.50 EURO for every 1000 words past 1k, up to 5k

special offers

update a wip:

flat rate of 40 USD/ 34 EURO for WIPs with chapters averaging 8k words in length (I can still keep loving you-fic)

flat rate of 20 USD/ 17 EURO for WIPs with chapters averaging 2k-3k words in length (Through a Mirror Darkly- series, Little Mermaid AU-ficlets)

Start a new AU

flat rate of 50 USD/ 42 EURO to start a new AU series with chapters averaging 5k from the list below (this only includes chapter 1, for chapters 2 and beyond, the update a wip pricing applies):

Kyoukai no Kanata AU (Viktuuri)

Ex Machina AU

Timeloop AU

Koi to Uso AU

The 100 AU

Love Boat-trip AU (Viktuuri)

Flat rate of 75 USD/ 64 EURO to start a new AU series with your specification. Please make sure to specify the following when requesting an AU:

Pairing

Rating

Detailed description of the setting

If available, media the AU is based on

will write

pairing for yoi fandom (Viktuuri, Yuyuu, Phichuuri, otayuri etc, for others, please ask beforehand)

Any rating up to M

fluff, angst, major character death, comedy, domestic etc. Just ask!

won’t write

explicit nsfw content of any kind

graphic violence

absolute crack fics

omegaverse/mpreg

fandoms I’m not active in, sorry :(

I do have a full-time job so while I will try to finish any commission asap, I might need a bit of time depending on the length of the requested piece. I’ll make sure to keep you updated, though!

I can be reached via message here or on discord (please send me a PM to get my name)

That being said, commissions are still open (see pricing above) and I’d be so glad to receive some! June will be a hard month (and my birthday is on the 5th too!) but I’m a bit more hopeful  and still look forward to any commission.

So many kind people have already helped and i’ll be eternally grateful for that - 91€ in donations alone is so overwhelming.

Commissions are still open though as i haven’t received any and i’m honestly in dire need of them.

@mimsiepott asked Mulan or Moana

At the time of my bat mitzvah, my uncle, who serves in the navy, had a job at the white house (one time he gave me and my family a tour, but that’s a story for another day). So, he worked at the white house, and it’s not like he was hanging out with the president all the time or anything spectacular, but he did know my uncle by his first name, so that was cool and important.

Anyways, a little while after my bat mitzvah and my 13th birthday, I received this in the mail:

At first I was already like, “whaaa??” My parents didn’t seem to know what it was about either. So I opened it, and, lo and behold:

along with:

Photography: “ISIS Maria”

‘Isis Maria’ is the first collaborative project by Brazilian fashion photographers Marcos Florentinoand Kelvin Yule, as the collective MAR+VIN. 

Created for the online platform FFW, the editorial series is a modern interpretation of the Egyptian goddess Isis and the icon of Maria, representative of motherly virtue. (via)

Preview of Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Via Amazon.

Awwww!

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