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During a chaotic conversation in Discord about fictional characters to potentially sell to One Direction, I jokingly suggested that Ron Weasley's family actually needed the money. This became a ridiculous fic idea that my friends pushed me to write, which became a 15k piece of crack taken way, WAY too seriously.

In penance for helping spawn this abomination, the friend who insisted I write it is donating one dollar to TransActual for each Kudos the fic gets in the first week, up to $1,000.

In addition, I will be donating $5 to TransActual for the first ten people who submit a humorous (SFW) illustration of any of the events in the fic. The art will be added into the fic to enhance the reading experience. Artistic talent is not necessary. You will be credited in the notes under any name or user name you prefer.

TransActual is a UK nonprofit founded and run by trans people that advocates for trans and non-binary people's legal rights and access to healthcare as well as educating the public to dispel myths and fight transphobia. In other words, they are fighting against everything JKR is fighting for. You can donate to them here and there's a browser extension that lets you raise free donations when shopping at participating websites.

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When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back.