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Cat, The protector of books.

Like books?? Like Cats?? Like this design??

At one point in time flowers had been used to pass secret messages. Each flower had a meaning, and there were multitudes of books dedicated to deciding those meanings. It would be a brilliant way to send covert messages for the Hogwarts Resistance. What self-respecting Death Eater would know about Muggle flower language from a century before?

The likelihood that they’d figure it out is so infinitesimally small. Neville could teach DA members what the flower language meant (or at least what key flowers meant) so they could pass messages and make it look like dating couples being sweet, or a student helping Professor Sprout.

So then a bouquet of irises, lemon geraniums and white poplars, with accents of white heather, witch hazel and four o’clocks, (and maybe a few rhododendrons) wrapped in a violet ribbon suddenly means something to the right people.

To someone who can translate it that bouquet of flowers becomes:

31 days of Inktober, 31 levels of monsters. I combined my love of RPG’s, D&D and pen and ink for this series. 

I wanted the art to evoke those naive, yet charming 1st edition D&D monsters.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6054/text?format=txt

“Always know your own worth, Ankatil, for rarely will anybody else remind you of it.” 

Another sunny day, perfect for reading in!

If you want to find more of Githa’s words of wisdom, please check out Remnant, available in paperback or e-book.

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Emily Brontë: Here’s my novel about a tragic orphan and a young lady who torture each other and call it love

Anne Brontë: Here’s my novel about a woman who leaves an abusive marriage and nabs herself a hot young Yorkshire sheepfarmer who Treats Her Right

Fearmongering is not how we get people to help on this. The bill was approved on June 20th and sent through into the European Parliament, who rejected it today, less than a few hours ago, on June 5th 2018. Stop circulating those “Article 13 was approved” posts for the sake of creating fear. It’s literally old news now, and a different stage has begun. 

But Art, we all know that politicians don’t listen to–

Hey. Okay. Politics is a mess globally, but this isn’t America; this isn’t net neutrality. You can’t apply the same mindset. Unlike with the repeal of net neutrality, the reform to copyright law comes from a place of genuinely wanting to help creators. Most of the supporters are artists whose work has been illegally used (ie, redistributed outside of the fair use act). The danger is that the people in charge of seeing this law passed don’t understand the internet in the same way as the people who will be most affected.

Here’s the current deal: The copyright law was rejected by the European Parliament, which means that it has been sent back to the drawing board. So no, okay, we’re not out of the fire yet - but we won’t just have the internet pulled out from underneath us overnight. Don’t tell people that, for chrissakes. Fear makes people freeze, breeds uncertainty, but guess what? We’ve still got hope.  We are being listened to. I repeat -

!! We are being listened to !!

Keep communication going! You can use this website called Save Your Internet to keep up to date and find out how to help.

What you need to be communicating

Even the posts that are tagged with both almost exclusively talk about article 13.

Like guys. Guys guys guys. I love memes and fandom too.

But article 11 makes websites pay any website they link to.

Do you think they’re just gonna… do that? Or will they stop making links, making it even harder to verify anything you read online?

Legitimate organizations like newspapers are already struggling to survive in the internet age. Let’s punish them financially for adapting to the new platform, just to make sure they go under, shall we?

Links are more expensive = they’re used less often = it’s normal for something completely true to use no citations = more difficult to distinguish whether something’s fake or just European

Platforms that don’t want to spend more money could just… disable links. Tumblr already does in the ask box. Think about how difficult that is when you’re trying to back up your point.

Ironically, paying for links makes people less likely to cite intellectual property they’re using. Not that that will matter, because article 13 means the death of fair use.

This affects everyone. The internet has no borders, and this will affect much more of the content that you consume than you realize. That’s before you think about the dangerous precedent this sets for other countries.