#aug 14

Poll Question: How do you feel about the wish you got?

I love it!

I like it.

It's whatever.

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my safe spaces.

what do I know of grief

as the mother in Gaza weeps?

what do I know of wounds

when each bruise has been

poked, prodded?

injustices flood the memory,

some may never be named.

you know, just yesterday,

I had so much rage in my car.

my hair was freshly done,

curled and red and soft and

clean and scented with a mix

of vanilla and conditioner,

and it was pouring outside.

I didn't have a jacket.

I almost cried.

what do I know of hope?

as I lay excited to sleep

to the sound of thunder

outside my window.

Welcome to our second edition of Staff Community Picks!  ICYMI: We have heard your requests to bring more spotlight to our beloved User Communities and thought this series would be a fun way to share an assortment of Communities we have checked out and think are pretty neat.  Each week we will highlight 6-8 communities based on a specific theme. 

This week’s theme is Moon Prism Power! Whether it's fighting evil by moonlight or enjoying nostalgic classics, you can do so much under the moon. 

City Pop https://www.pillowfort.social/community/City%20Pop

Sailor-Moon https://www.pillowfort.social/community/Sailor-Moon

Vaporwave https://www.pillowfort.social/community/Vaporwave

The Moon https://www.pillowfort.social/community/The%20Moon

Soft-hued https://www.pillowfort.social/community/soft-hued

THE LUCIFER EFFECT Understanding How Good people Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo a 561 page book about consensual role play that becomes very non-consensual. It is about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Aug 14, 1971 – Aug 21, 1971. (I was a freshman in college at the time.)

I is available as a .pdf at: https://ia802808.us.archive.org/0/items/TheLuciferEffectUnderstandingHowGoodPeopleTurnEvilISBN9781400064113/The%20Lucifer%20Effect%20-%20Understanding%20How%20Good%20People%20Turn%20Evil%20%28ISBN-978-1-4000-6411-3%29.pdf or Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/0812974441/ or Your library. DD: 155.962 Zim 2007 LOC: BF789.E94Z56 2007

LUMi is a japanese synth developed by Akatsuki Virtual Artists (aka AVA), and released in 2017. she is voiced by Sayaka Ohara, and illustrated by Miyama Hugin. lumi released physically on 14 aug 2017, which is also her character birthday, and then released digitally on 30 aug 2017. lumi was originally conceptualised to be a lot more jellyfish and a lot less anime girl, however this was changed in her final desgin. she is 15yo. she is a shrine maiden who came to earth and is set to become the goddess of the deep sea, however she needs to pass a test of transforming anguish into hope. on 14 aug 2018 Kaoru Yoshizawa, founder of AVA, tweeted that lumi was meant to have a rival known as ViNO, a male seahorse. he had no official design however, and it wasnt confirmed he was supposed to be a vocaloid, as he could have just been another character from lumis world.

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