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Braeden is probably natural under her weave, and she wears it as a protective style. When she wants to give her hair a break, she rocks two-strand twists. Derek sees her twisting her hair one day, and he’s fascinated. So, she shows him how to do it, and before either of them know it, he’s helping her twist her hair. It’s a grooming behavior that settles his wolf and strengthens the bond between them. His twists don’t look half bad, and Braeden teases him about it, asking where the hell was he all her life. He says he was waiting for her, and that’s enough to start some hot sexy times right there on the floor.

Gryffindor: 

Hufflepuff:

Ravenclaw: 

Slytherin:

Greetings friends! The midterms are so close, are you registered to vote?

You: I can’t vote, I’m an Ex-Offender

ARE YOU SURE?

I live in Vermont or Maine: You never lost your right to vote

I live in DC, Hawai’i, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland*, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, or Utah: You can vote upon your release from incarceration. 

That’s cool but I don’t live in those states. I live in: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Washington (state), West Virginia.: You can vote once you have completed your sentence (parole and/or probation) 

Wow! That’s really cool. But, um. I don’t live in those states. I live in: 

Alabama: You cannot vote if you have been convicted of any felony listed here. Crimes of  ‘moral turpitude’ including: Murder, Manslaughter, Kidnapping, Rape, Sodomy, Sexual Torture/Abuse  

Arizona: First time offender? Complete your probation and payment of any fine or restitution and you can vote. Multiple Offender? You have to apply to a judge to vote.

Delaware You cannot vote if you have been convicted of murder, bribery or sexual offenses. If you have been pardoned or had your sentence completed, get your vote on!

Florida Rights must be restored via the governor and a clemency board. In the November elections Floridians have the opportunity to vote for Amendment Four and restore voting rights to over a million Floridians.   So that man that threw an alligator at someone can vote??  YES but so can your dumb little brother who thought carrying a concealed weapon would be cool when he was 19. So can the drug addict who robbed a convenience store but has been clean for 20 years. 

Iowa You must petition the governor

Kentucky You must petition the governor

Mississippi If you have committed one of the following crimes: armed robbery, arson, bigamy, bribery, carjacking, embezzlement, extortion, felony bad check, felony shoplifting, forgery, larceny, murder, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, rape, receiving stolen property, robbery, statutory rape, theft, timber larceny, and unlawful taking of a vehicle. you cannot vote unless a bill passed by both houses of the legislature or through the governor. If you did NOT commit one of those crimes, you can vote even while incarcerated 

Nebraska Voting rights are automatically restored two years after the completion of all supervised release 

Nevada Voting rights are restored automatically after sentence completion if convicted of a non-violent felony. However, those convicted of a violent felony and all second-time felony offenders (whether violent or non-violent) can only have their rights restored by the court in which they were convicted.

Tennessee Individuals convicted of a felony since 1981–except for some felonies such as murder, rape, treason and voter fraud–may apply to the Board of Probation and Parole to have their voting rights restored once their sentence is completed.

Virginia: You can vote if you completed your sentence, including probation and parole. This is not a law but an order by the governor. A new governor can repeal this. 

Wisconsin-Voting rights are automatically restored upon completion of all supervised release

Wyoming- Voting rights restoration is dependent on the type of conviction: first-time non-violent felony offenders can apply to the Wyoming Board of Parole five years after completion of sentence. All others must apply to the Governor for either a pardon or a restoration of rights, but must wait ten and five years, respectively, after completing their sentence.

In many cases you must RE-REGISTER to vote but you can vote.

*If you are guilty of buying or selling votes, you have to get the governor to pardon you. 

This is not intended to be comprehensive, you should check out your state’s laws for any quirks.  

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means “The road is good.” Quick lesson: My tribe is Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

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Say ‘racist’.

I’m writing a term paper in Linguistics and I’m going be writing it about…fanfiction. And I need something from you: Your Fanfiction.

Basically, I’m going to collect hopefully (DEPENDS ON YOU!) a whole lot of fanfiction, collect them and compare these samples to the original works they’re based on and try to come to some sort of conclusion about the degree to which fanfiction writers imitate the style of the original work and to which degree there’s a style that’s particular to the fanfiction-community.

So for that…I need fanfiction. And I’m looking particular for shorter stuff, between 10k and 20k words, because if I include giant works of 500.000 words, I would have one writers style (no matter how beautiful it might be!) dominate my statistics, so I want to have as much similar stuff per author.

I’m also looking for stuff that’s written about books, specifically, because obviously, I want to compare writing.

Currently the fandoms I’m looking at are:

Les Miserables (anything written about the brick, not about the musical)

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit

I’m open to any other suggestion, as long as there’s a lot of fanfiction about it

What I need is:

Material. (Also it needs to be in English)

Data. Your Data. Which I’m going to sell to the Chinese government. Obviously.

No. Okay, the thing is: there’s a lot of fanfiction online, but if I want to compile a corpus, it always helps to have some data on whose sample I’m using, just so that I can draw conclusion, like for example whether Americans write their Harry Potter Fanfiction with a British spelling or whether British people adopt American spelling or what non-native speakers do or speakers of other varieties of English etc.

So the whole point I’m bothering you is:

If you write fanfiction to one of the aforementioned works (and your fanfiction focusses on the written version and not the movie) and would allow me to use it (not for any profit and I’m not going to say it’s good or bad or anything and neither is my professor or anyone, in fact, they’re not going to read it and I hope to get a lot so it’ll basically impossible for me to read it all) but if you allow me to use it I love you and would probably pat your head and marry your dog or the other way around if you would send me a link.

Please send it to this blog: @fanfiction-corpus​ 

Best drop the link into the chat and add the personal data (I’ll specify a bit further on in this post, but it’s completely anonymous, I just want to have some data on the samples I’m using!). If you have any questions, use the ask function of the blog and I’ll answer them as quickly as possible.

Don’t attach it here because I don’t want to have a 20 mile post that no one reblogs

Okay what should you send me except your fanfiction?

Please include your:

Age

Gender

Education Level

Home Country 

Whether you’re a native English speaker (+ which variety)

whether you grew up bilingual or have a different (which?) native language 

And at which age you learnt English and when you started writing for the fandom/how much you write/if you write a lot for other fandoms.

If you feel uncomfortable including one or two of these for whatever reason, that’s perfectly okay (although a blank slate…helps me less)

I solemnly swear that I won’t use any of this for profit (I legally can’t, since I’m including the copyrighted originals in my Corpus as well so JK Rowling would personally behead me if I did.)

“But what do I  get out of it?”