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Do you have sources for the %s?

Leading child sexual violence researcher David Finkelhor, found that only about 33% of child molestation by adults meets the 6-month diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. Additionally, this study by Wortley and Smallbone found 50-75% of child molestation involved only a single child or a single incident, and thus did not meet the diagnostic criteria either.

Critically, one-time offenders are almost always opportunistic offenders and not pedophilic ones. Pedophilic offenders are by far the most prolific, with an almost 40% recidivism rate once they begin offending, and large numbers of victims. Which is another reason why preventing these people from becoming rapists in the first place is so critical. In fact, historic rates of recidivism for pedophiles were in the 80-90% range, but therapeutic advances have helped to cut that down dramatically. 

Another factor one must remember when looking at these numbers is the rate of child-on-child sexual abuse. While I describe this about as being about 1/3 of child molestation, numbers actually vary from 30% to 50%, with most sources settling for an approximate 40%.

Tsuchinoko real?!

@cassowarhea I tried to answer your christmas light globes ask but something related to XInbox happened to it and it disappeared so

HE'S GETTING THE BOOK WET

he’s got mending and his bestie has prestidigitation for cleaning stuff

D'ya think there're draconic atheists?

I think atheism in a world with provable living gods would have an entirely different connotation and attitude and this is something I’ve thought a lot about so HEAR ME OUT-

For an atheist to function in a world with provable gods- lets assume for a moment that the deities have at least been seen even if you want to buy the site lore of them never speaking. Them big.- one would have to believe not that the gods don’t exist, but that what exists is not a god. 

A draconic atheist would have to look at the deities and say ‘This is not a god, this is just a bigger lizard than I am. They are no more inherently special or deserving of worship than any other beast in this world.’ Basically, “Gods are a social construct.” A draconic atheist would likely reject the notion that just because something is capable of creating or defining new life, it is worthy of greater reverence than say, your average parent. Just because you made a kid out of mud and I made one out of meat doesn’t mean you’re better than I am. 

If you want to follow site lore and assume that the gods do not speak individually to their followers, a draconic atheist might even challenge the notion that the gods created their initial breed-parents at all. Perhaps the ‘adam and eve’ of tundra or wildclaw is just a myth, or perhaps the first dragons were formed by the same accidents of magic that the Gods came from. If the first mirror came from nothing, as the first gods came from nothing, then how is anyone not a god, or direct blood-kin thereof? The deities are apparently not talking, so how will they dispute these claims? How much do they even care?

I 100% recommend it's v satisfying plus you can theme the parent names to match

The last one was a huge project actually, which I’ve been really proud of, plus I’m emotionally attached, hence why this is such a hard decision.  Also I THINK we bred them in my roommate’s lair, but I can’t 100% remember. I actually bought and named the last one’s parents myself and everything.

The character’s parents in canon weren’t ever shown or spoken about so I can’t really give them their “correct” names, sadly :C