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LBH after returning from abyss decides to bridenap/steal away SQQ. Only he needs to make sure no one notices so decides he's going to use artifact to glamor MBJ to pretend to be SQQ.

LBH: It's fine just stay in the bamboo house and hide behind a fan and look annoyed at everyone they'll think he's maybe qi deviated back to whoever he was before... maybe it'll stop LQG hanging around.

MBJ isn't happy but LBH isn't giving him much choice, he just tells SQH he's pout on a mission and to take care of the North.

MBJ is sitting around sulking in this boring house and annoyed cause he wanted to spend time with Qinghua... only for SQH to walk in calling him 'bro' and MBJ is mad at how close SQH is to SQQ until SQH instantly starts talking about his king.

MBJ just sitting face blank as Qinghua gushes about him, how handsome his king, and how much of a brat he is leaving him to do all the work while out a mission he's lucky he's handsome enough to get away with it ect ect. Qinghua is equal parts complaining and praising him.

Apparently not realizing he's been courting him??

It isn't until SQH gets a good look at SQQ without fan and.... that isn't his bro's bitchy look... Oh gods he knows that bitchy look....

He makes SQH stay in the North (MBJ is extremely happy) and he uses artifact to take on SQH form. (so he can get close and see Shizun again)

He's just planning on seeing SQQ from a distance... her is not expecting SQQ to charge into SQH's home and starts yelling at him.

LBH is just frozen with SQQ yelling about things the makes zero sense a hack, a novel and then SQQ starts asking if he's heard anything about Binghe?

LBH is just frozen listening to how SQQ is asking if there's any news about LBH if any news where he is abyss? and how SQH is at fault for LBH being down there and his poor little sheep being blackened.

I’m really fond of this one hehe :) it was posted on my Patreon @/magpiecrown a month ago, so if you wish to see these comics ahead of time feel free to check it out!

“Mommy, I love you!” 😘

This year, beautiful Snezhana the Pallas's cat became a mom for the first time!

For a long while, she wouldn’t let her kittens go outside when people were around ☺️ But last week, the little cubs finally appeared!

Now they come out every day and explore the world around their den with more and more confidence.

Traveling Troupe (놀이패) AU

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

But on top of that, you know who the most ardent conservationists are once security has been achieved? The people who had once been forced to poach or slash-and-burn to survive. You know who’s great at tracking down gorilla poachers? Ex-poachers. Who’s good at understanding and advocating for people forced to do these things to survive? Ex-poachers. Who can convince others to take a chance on finding a better way to survive? Same answer.

The former illegal fishers are now sought-after experts, because they know how to spot the arapaima and tell juveniles apart from adults. They get to keep practicing the fishing skills that were passed down to them. The actual process of fishing is easier because they can work together and don't have to sneak around. The profits are higher because they can sell the fish openly to restaurants and to the public. The fishing organization members make sure that other people in their communities don't fish illegally. And the numbers of arapaima keep going up and up, so there's plenty to go around even as more people join the fishing organizations.

If you click all the way through to the report from the conservation org that started the fishing organizations project, there are quotes from fishing organization members:

"We built a second house and I'm putting my oldest two kids through college on the money we get from fishing."

"Nowadays you have young people walking around with pockets full of cash saying "I got 6,000 from fishing this year!" It used to be you wouldn't even get 50 reais of pocket money."

So. Hama did have a hobby, right? Otherwise why would she have those puppets in her closet? Unless she was somehow soaking them in water and using them to practice bloodbending??

My god. What a hard-hitting portrayal of the atrocities of the FN. The prison. The abduction, the destruction of your home and the dehumanisation and the way the number of waterbenders fighting alongside Hama kept dwindling and dwindling and dwindling...

Subtle contrast with NWT because we see women actively taking part in combat and defense!

Hama teaching Katara (and Katara later implementing) the method of wringing water from plants and the air itself was cool af

I. I don't know how to feel about Hama being marched away with the threat of being locked up forever again. That can't be how her story ends, right? I have a feeling she's gonna return in some way. There's a ton to explore and she would be an interesting eventual-addition to the team, especially with regard to Katara.

How did Hama even find that underground prison??

I don't know just... how to explain it. but this episode just really affected me in a different way. Something about the feeling of irretrievably losing connection to pieces of your culture due to a systematic erasure of it, not knowing if you'll ever find a way to learn. and then you get that chance from an elder (possibly your last chance) and you empathise with them, but you know they've been through unimaginable horrors and are forever changed and their lessons warped and broken because of it. and there's so much grief there, and so much anger and bitterness and tar trickling through the generations because of what was done, the whole snarl of muddled emotions sitting in your gut as you try to stave off the lesson but can't help but perform anyway... idk man. i just. *sigh*