[ID in alt: natsuyuu fanart of tanuma, one of him smiling closed-eyed at the viewer and walking with a cane that's offset and decorated with flowers. he's wearing a casual outfit that is entirely baggy, and his body language is relaxed. the other drawing is him sitting crosslegged with nyanko in his lap, partly cradled in one arm like a baby. he's feeding nyanko an orange slice and staring open-mouthed and vacantly at nothing. he looks a little younger. end ID]
BIRTHDAY BOY MY BELOVED!! ty @deadgrantaires and @fujinun for helping me do him justice
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"that character can't be trans fem because we need rep for boys who are feminine" and "these characters can't be gay because we need rep for healthy male friendship" are the same mindset of hyperfocusing on fan response instead of actual text. where are all the trans fem characters with detailed self-acceptance arcs??? where are all the gay couples with focused plot build-up, especially in genres considered "masculine" like action??? in addition to prioritizing cishet sensibilities with a thin progressive veil, it's just a nonsensical thing to say because the representation being defended is more common than the representation being derided as "actually following gender roles tbh."
six months ago, my dad died from hepatocellular carcinoma. ssi recently moved my mom off of what she Was on to widows benefits, which sounds like decent help on paper...
...but in practice, shes been left in limbo and told she just has to wait. this move took away her insurance, which is incredibly bad because she is on multiple vry expensive medications to literally not die. goodrx has helped, but overall right now we are very stuck.
today she got notice from them saying "we overpaid you actually. you owe us $994 back". we, obviously, Do Not Fucking Have That. we cannot contact anyone today but are figuring out what we can do
on top of that, i owe $320 more before i am debt free (my last count was slightly off). im $140 overdue Actively right now. the sooner i can knock the debt out the sooner i can focus on helping mom more bcs im terrified of the stress of everything we are dealing with irl killing her, a very real risk. i also need $40 for the upcoming week for therapy
any helps deeply appreciated. this shit is fucking not only me up but the rest of my family too (my twin sisters averaging maybe 3-4 hours of sleep a night. its not sustainable). i hope this is the last time for a long time i have to ask like this. thank you so much 🙇
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bad: my own monetary stress is worse than before and is all hitting on the 3rd. ive been sleeping in like 2 hour blips on loop from stress the last several days and its fucking me up badly. im sorry to be more persistent i am just seriously in a bad spot
happy disability pride month to mean cripples, nasty addicts, people with down syndrome who arent nice and talk constant shit, wheelchair users that WILL run you over, autists that dont care and arent about to pretend to, people who lie to their psychiatrists, people that sit on the floor in public places with no benches, amputees that lie profusely about "what happened"; to the "noncompliant", the "drug seeking", the "mean", the "difficult" and the "undeserving", and so on and so forth, i love us all and we deserve the world actually mwah mwah
[ID: two matonato natsuyuu fanarts, both sketchy and lineless
monochrome bright oranges of them older post-canon huddled together just outside of a lively night party, both smiling and wearing suits. matoba holds a sake cup between them in one hand and wipes his mouth with the other like he just drank. natori holds matoba's wrist and leans in like he's about to drink from the cup.
night-dark colors of them as older teens sitting on the ground in casual clothes with bottles of beer, matoba's on the ground beside him unopened. matoba's body language is sullen and closed off, natori's is loosey-goosey, but they could be holding hands, though their hands are unseen.
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i tried to look up puns for five for fifth exorcist birthday bash entry bc i was blanking and got an insane list so here's some favorites: May you Five in interesting times. Booby Five (booby prize). Xbox Five
going chronologically backwards with these for eve-of-the-end-of-scorpio-exorcist-birthdays-liminal-space-of-connectedness! here is a ~700 word fic about the circumstances of the second picture, seiji trying (and failing) one last time to cross the skill gap between them/intricate rituals for kids who won't say anything out loud, that i was possessed to write in second person for reasons i dont remember
Seiji invites you out to one of the old houses.
Insists, actually, over several increasingly irritated phone sessions each interrupted by some pressing business.
That’s new for him. He’s taking it all in stride, is what he wants you to think, is the face he’s probably putting on for everyone in the clan. And, well, you usually say yes to him anyways, but you really feel like he deserves being indulged right now.
Even when it turns out to be the old house, the one where you two first met. Seiji isn’t one for sentimentality. You didn’t think you were either until he laughed every time you did something hokey for him. He must want you for some business - in this case, of the yokai kind.
It’s not unusual for the two of you to call the other for backup on a job. Politics to it always, of course, only when it would make you both look stronger and not weaker asking for help, presenting a united front of the powerful up-and-comers that the seniority in the community never stopped being upset about. You’d figured out the nuances of it together, and it was pretty much routine now.
You wonder if that will stop with his new position, but for now that’s what you expect. Your belief stretches a little thin when he calls a fourth time and additionally instructs you to bring something from your father’s cabinet. You protest - theft from your own house happens every time you visit, but you’re still underage - and Seiji, foxlike grin audible over the phone, says, call it an early present for you, Shuuichi.
You usually say yes to him. Seiji’s not one for sentimentality. Your expectations for the night launch your stomach into your throat in a nervous thrill.
Alcohol sharpens the senses, Seiji explains to you over the bottles in a private tone the eve of your 20th birthday, young enough for a few more hours to get in as much trouble for this as him. It’s a normal cloudless fall night as far as you can see over the treetops from the balcony, brisk but not cold enough to chase the animals into hiding, so there’s no real reason it feels like all the sound has fallen away to blanket the two of you in total privacy. You’ve worked with directors that would kill to get the kind of atmosphere between you now. If only you could put a name to it, you would know if it were a good or bad omen.
You notice that Seiji is not drinking. You notice this out loud, a little defensively. Seiji smirks and offers that it’s not like he needs the sight advantage, does he, but there’s a fragile edge to the cockiness that tips you off. The realization that Matoba Seiji is nervous makes you raise the bottle back to your lips to finish it off more quickly.
What does it look like to you now, he asks. This close, the irises of his eyes swim a deep, vivid red, alive like thrumming blood even under the dim haze of night. It’s hard to focus on anything else. The kimono, he presses, your hands tangled together.
Your eyes slide over and out into the woods with great effort. The kimono fluttering in the distant breeze presents elegance that isn't in your faded memory. Something gold glimmers, darts in and out of your vision before you can pin down the pattern. It’s rich, ornate, dazzling, but indistinct, like it’s not something you could grasp in your hands. You find it pales in comparison to the slummed down worn out hoodie of your esteemed companion, who looks less like the inaccessible head of a prodigious clan this moment than he has the whole time you’ve known him.
You don’t say the last part out loud. You’re pretty sure of this, but Seiji’s face falls anyways.
Being drunk, you find, feels exactly like trying to decipher the motives of Matoba Seiji.
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eating sugar is not a primary cause of diabetes. eating junk food is not a primary cause of diabetes. when you make jokes about "getting diabetes" over sugary, junk filled food, you are enforcing stereotypes that end with diabetics developing deadly eating disorders or experiencing medical abuse and neglect. Yes, it is that deep. Stop making diabetes jokes, you look like an uneducated bigot
just figured out the reason why i kept getting confused about whether 5 seconds of summer was a band or movie is bc i mixed it up with 500 days of summer
Why playing with algebraic and calculus concepts—rather than doing arithmetic drills—may be a better way to introduce children t
The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger and bigger numbers, and at some point, fractions enter the picture, too. Then in early adolescence, students are introduced to patterns of numbers and letters, in the entirely new subject of algebra. A minority of students then wend their way through geometry, trigonometry and, finally, calculus, which is considered the pinnacle of high-school-level math.
But this progression actually “has nothing to do with how people think, how children grow and learn, or how mathematics is built,” says pioneering math educator and curriculum designer Maria Droujkova. She echoes a number of voices from around the world that want to revolutionize the way math is taught, bringing it more in line with these principles.
The current sequence is merely an entrenched historical accident that strips much of the fun out of what she describes as the “playful universe” of mathematics, with its more than 60 top-level disciplines, and its manifestations in everything from weaving to building, nature, music and art. Worse, the standard curriculum starts with arithmetic, which Droujkova says is much harder for young children than playful activities based on supposedly more advanced fields of mathematics.
“Calculations kids are forced to do are often so developmentally inappropriate, the experience amounts to torture,” she says. They also miss the essential point—that mathematics is fundamentally about patterns and structures, rather than “little manipulations of numbers,” as she puts it. It’s akin to budding filmmakers learning first about costumes, lighting and other technical aspects, rather than about crafting meaningful stories.
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Hi I have an undergrad psych degree! I also have ADHD! In my motherfucking TEXTBOOK, the authors said, “Research describes ADHD as a neurodevelopmental disorder in the same vein as Autism. We are putting the (miniscule) section on ADHD in the same chapter as ODD, though, because we believe really these disorders both boil down to ✨️ people not doing what we tell them to because they are lazy✨️”
So my actual TEXTBOOK admitted that it was biased and teaching these disorders based on opinion and not up to date research. And, as described above, the section on ODD was basically just, “these are bad kids. We will not look into why or how or what comorbidities exist and we will also not be exploring the possibility of ODD really being a manifestation of trauma/undiagnosed adhd/autism/pathological demand avoidance/persistent drive for autonomy. We will however be mostly focusing on how annoying these kids are to their parents and teachers ✨️”
It’s fucking crazy. “Yeah we know lots of people with autism struggle to follow demands. They may either ignore/not register demands or have meltdowns when demands are placed. They may engage in physical aggression, verbal aggression, and property desctruction when directed to complete tasks or be exposed to uncomfortable sensory input. They may need to know the why behind demands and consequently argue with authority figures. They may be easily upset by sensory input or social interactions and have emotional outbursts when pushed beyond their limits. Some children with autism seek attention and may engage in maladaptive behaviors to elicit the attention of peers and caregivers if positive attention is not given freely/if they are ignored when behaving appropriately. All of these are symptoms of their underlying neurological differences and should be met with compassion and understanding. They are not bad children. Their brains process information differently and therefore they have executive functioning, sensory processing, and emotional regulation challenges that cause these behaviors.
Those kids over there? Yeah they have all the same symptoms but they are just Morally Wrong and Bad Children. They have Oppositional Defiance Disorder. How can I tell? Well that one hand flaps and that one doesn’t.”
Race and the Mental Representation of Individuals Diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis
Results: Classification images (CIs) showed that the children selected as having ODD appeared more prototypically Black in facial appearance than children not chosen as having ODD. No differences emerged in the gendered appearance of the two group-level CIs. Judged rates of ODD were higher for the children who appeared to be Black. However, diagnostic judgments of clinical trainees and practitioners were unaffected by appearance factors, suggesting that formal clinical training might attenuate the influence of stereotypes on judgment.
Discussion: These results indicate that an overlap in Black stereotypes and diagnostic criteria for ODD might contribute to elevated diagnosis of ODD in African American children.
apologies for talking about an ad. but the most recent "woman lead gets to dump her terrible mean betrayer boyfriend and get healed by new man" storytime ad is just the epitome of thoughtless worldbuilding. there's a shifter registry? shifters are trained to be unquestioningly loyal to whoever they get put in contract with? a shifter getting returned for not liking his owner contract partner is a huge deal? girl i don't care if he belittled you for being human what the fuck is gonna happen to him for failing at being a good government assigned husband? this is like my problems with remarried empress dialed up to eleven thousand. you can't just wave away the implications of the system YOU designed.
skunk family has moved in under our house. but apparently skunks hate strong smells like citrus and we have a lemon tree. so guess im peeling a lemon and throwing it towards their den once a day now.
I understand dysmorphia is so hard to deal with, but you have to shut that shit down as soon as it creeps in. It's so important that you do not accept the fatphobia that lives in your head just because you're nice to fat people on the outside. Your life will be so much better and you will be such a better ally to fat people please I am no longer asking you need to kill the fatphobe that lives in your head
It 100% affects the relationship you have with fat people by the way. When you can still wear straight sizes but you're constantly complaining about how big and fat you feel and how terrified you are of people seeing your stomach in public, we fucking notice that. We notice and we are making a note that you are not a safe person to be openly fat around without risking being in the splash zone of your self loathing
the thing w there being potatoes in lord of the things is that there ARE actually at least 2 built in explanations for it:
1: they don't have potatoes; the references to potatoes in the Shire were added by Tolkien-the-translator as part of a wider localisation. when Sam mentions potatoes he's actually talking about some other vegetable
2: given that Middle Earth was historically ruled over by the Numenoreans who come from a lost kingdom on the other side of the western ocean, it could be that Numenor was in or had contact with ancient America and brought potatoes back with them
2 is kind of a stretch tho interesting to contemplate; 1 however on some level i think is the correct answer. the Shire's resemblance to England is 100% canonically a localisation thing. The Shire is England bcos it's the main characters' home and the intended audience of the book was English people.
the decision to incorporate post-colombian exchange plants like potatoes and tobacco isn't innocuous but it was a purposeful decision with reasoning behind it beyond 'they have potatoes because I said so'.
lord of the rings adaptation where Sam is talking about how much he loves potatoes while holding a vegetable that is visibly not a potato, a la pokemon characters talking about jelly donuts while eating rice balls
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i'm assuming zorah's been on planet popstar during all the previous games. air riders implies it's been there for ages and ages and ages. so, are there any planet-wide catastrophes from the previous games that zorah would've witnessed out in the wastes? any times when the sky turned to fire and zorah could only go "wish i knew what was going on with that one" ?
