#c 22

🐱 Oriental Longhair

📸 Kokiri Cattery

warning for gore

Lirika’s La Vie En Lilaq of WyldRex

🐱 Devon Rex

📸 Wyld Rex

petratine "cyrano de bergerac" au - peter (or another EV guy) is in love with the hot + talented petra but can't express it directly for whatever reason, so he enlists valentine to write petra love letters. in the process, valentine starts to fall for petra herself.

petra fights a duel for valentines hand in marriage

valentine - not ender, not peter - is the wiggin sibling sent to space. (meanwhile, peter and ender get up to hijinks back on earth.)

ender stays on the lake, bean has to command the fleet

ender stays on the lake, something bad happens to bean, alai has to command the fleet

peter and valentine "role swap" where valentine is the sibling who torments ender and peter protects him

She had a speech impediment when she was young and was made to go to speech therapy to correct it. She made Ender do the exercises along with her because she didn’t want him to develop the same impediment and have one more thing to be bullied for. He credits this with his public speaking skills later in life.

Like her brothers, she has dark hair and eyes and light brown skin.

She likes small dangling earrings with cute shapes

She was raised with a lot of homophobia and xenophobia (and spread some online) but didn’t really internalize it unlike her siblings. It didn’t alarm her when she turned out to be interested in women as well as men. Her siblings' gender/sexuality didn’t bother her either, although they were both internally tortured for a while. She wasn't even surprised because she knew everything before they did.

She likes to braid her hair

Some part of her wishes she could have normal childhood and friendships with other girls her age. But then she remembers that a lot of people annoy her, especially after she spends time around her brothers

She secretly likes horror movies. Obviously she and her siblings were not allowed to watch them growing up. But when she was a child, while her father was watching, she would sneak in and watch them with him - that was her introduction to horror. The movies terrified her, but part of her liked being scared. Afterward she would relate a watered down version of the plots to Ender to give him a gentle scare.

She is a bad dancer.

She prefers paper books to e-books. As a little girl she reads books with a flashlight under the covers.

Her baking gets better over time. She loves to make pastries such as cream puffs. Ender doesn’t really like eating baked goods but he will always eat hers.

Her parents made her take violin lessons as a child because they liked the idea of having a cute little girl violin prodigy. She dropped it after a few years and admires Peter who is much more dedicated to the piano.

She was raised by Catholic parents and although she is not catholic she appreciates the aesthetics of catholicism.

Her tallest height is 160cm (5'3") and she is secretly sad that her brothers ended up taller than her.

She is not very romantic but she likes flirting.

Tl;dr because this is Tumblr:

There's a bill being considered to require electronic service providers like VPNs to log user data and share it with authorities when ordered to. VPNs are mad (and in my opinion you should be too).

The longer version:

The proposed bill C-22 (The Lawful Access Act) seeks to make law enforcement in the digital age easier for investigators by giving them more tools to gain information from electronic service providers. This includes phone companies, internet service providers, VPNs, and others.

Part 1 of the proposal specifies what needs to change. I encourage at least skimming it because it's fairly short and easy to read. But I'll call your attention to this proposed amendment:

Create a specific tool that provides lawful authority to make a confirmation of service demand to allow police to determine if a service provider may have information that will assist in the investigation of an offence. Once the police have confirmation that the service provider may have information, they can then take the necessary investigative steps including applying to a court to obtain a production order for the information in the possession of the service provider.

and this proposed amendment:

Create a new, narrower, court order to allow law enforcement to seek subscriber information from a service provider. Subscriber information includes the name, telephone number, address and email that is linked to an account.

In other words, make it easier to compel service providers to confirm that a suspect uses that service, and to provide basic information on that suspect. Supposedly this would not be allowed without probable cause.

Part 2 is very interesting. This one specifies how it will get service providers to actually comply with the spirit of the proposal, and this part in particular is alarming:

Explicitly allow regulations to be made regarding the retention of prescribed metadata for a reasonable period of no longer than one year, but not for content, web-browsing history or social media activity.

because, if passed, service providers would be required to log user information (metadata like IP address and personal information, not browser history or content, supposedly) or face monetary punishment if they do not.

Read Part 2 here, it's even shorter.

So naturally, VPN providers are livid because they do not log user data, as part of their privacy policies and commitment. NordVPN, Proton VPN, and Windscribe have all loudly spoken against the act, with Proton even saying they will not comply and are protected from doing so by local law since they are based in Switzerland and not Canada. Source: