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Reagan-era "stranger danger" panic has done so much harm to americans' sense of community. It cemented the idea that only the nuclear family could be trusted with the care of the child, deterred people from cooperative living with an extended community, and continues to place abuse victims in danger by perpetuating the misconception that most child abuse is done by strangers rather than someone they know. It is in our best interest to become more interdependent than we were raised to be.

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What's wild is this could actually be a discussion on how the military preys on vulnerable populations within the US and has a monopoly on certain industries and is less picky about who they hire but instead we got a bunch of yahoo's acting like it's just, okay and normal. They don't discuss it with any regret, no "I'd take another job if i had the opportunity" I'm going mad

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Chapters 3-9 Re-edited

HEY ALL! Sorry it's been absolutely forever since I posted, but my ADHD brain has really just not been working with me on the tumblr social media side of things. But you know what has been working? My Edititor! She's doing an amazing job, and has even more chapters done than I've fully approved yet; sadly I'm just getting my writing strength back and letting this next few months kinda go by with ease as I relax. That way, when I fully return for book two, I'll be fresh and ready to go. Credit to Jeeb for all the hard work she does!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/22429150/chapters/53589904

The first two chapters have been edited again! Dare I call this The Balefire Re-Edited? Yes. Yes I do dare.

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Ahhh I see. Thank you!!

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

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@jeeb-is-okay Do I? How so?

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

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@toonteller made a Mermaid Marcy au and it’s all i can think about

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the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

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Oh my god, PLEASE don't embarrass me in front of the great stone obelisk from whence all darkness comes 🙄

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Excited SOB

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CHAPTER 32 IS POSTED THE BALEFIRE IS REKINDLED

REJOICE YE MADLADS AND DERANGED SORTS! THIS INSANE BOOK HAS BEEN GIVEN ITS FINAL CHAPTER!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22429150/chapters/85022860#workskin

LOOK UPON ME WORKS YE MIGHTY AND LEAVE A NICE COMMENT. BE NICE TO ME. NO PLEASE BE NICE TO ME. I WANT A HUG. THANK YOU ALL. 

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Sunless Sea + Alestorm

In my head this is animated, but I can’t animate and you can see me already struggling with the idea of keeping the drawings simple. Also, with textures.

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besties 👯‍♀️

@n33t-freak more art for the cryptid AU. finished blue team.

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The Celtic Zodiac is drawn from the beliefs of the Druids and is based on the cycles of the moon. The year is divided into 13 lunar months, with a tree (sacred to the druids) assigned to each month. Each tree has particular magical qualities whose secret mysteries come from the ancient shamanic alphabet, the Ogram. The origin of this Tree Alphabet is ascribed to the God of Poetry and Eloquence of Celtic Ireland, Ogam. He is also known as the Celtic Herkules. . The Druids were Celtic priests who inhabited much of Western Europe, Brtain and Ireland until they were supplanted by the Roman government and, later, by the arrival of Christianity. Some renowned Celtic scholars also noticed, thanks to their vast understanding, that Celtic astronomy paralleled the Vedics. They discovered that the ancient Celtic astrologers used similar systems as those of the Vedic astrologers. Classical writers such as Cicero, Caesar, Pliny described the Celts as “masters of astronomy”. Even the Romans paid tribute to their astronomy. One of the first to note that the ancient Celts believed the world to be round (not flat) was Martial (c. AD 40-103/4) who himself claimed Celtic ancestry. The Irish (and the Celts generally) have a long tradition of astrological learning stretching back to a time before Christianity and the incoming of Greek and Latin learning. For too long now this long and rich tradition of Celtic Astrology has been sadly neglected.

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When they emerged at the end of the day to board a bus that would transport them to a nearby motel to sleep, one of the workers, Cruz Urias Beltran, didn’t make it back. Searchers found the 52-year-old farmworker’s body 20 hours later amid the corn husks, “as if he’d simply collapsed,” recalled a funeral home employee. An empty water bottle was stuffed in his jeans pocket. An autopsy report confirmed that Beltran died from heatstroke. It was his third day on the job.

Beltran is one of at least 384 workers who died from environmental heat exposure in the U.S. in the last decade, according to an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations, the investigative reporting unit of Columbia Journalism School. The count includes people toiling in essential yet often invisible jobs in 37 states across the country: farm laborers in California, construction and trash-collection workers in Texas and tree trimmers in North Carolina and Virginia. An analysis of federal data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the three-year average of worker heat deaths has doubled since the early 1990s.

CJI and NPR reviewed hundreds of pages of documents, including workplace inspection reports, death investigation files, depositions, court records and police reports, and interviewed victims’ families, former and current officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workers, employers, workers’ advocates, lawyers and experts.

CJI and NPR also analyzed two federal data sets on worker heat deaths: one from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the other from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both are divisions within the U.S. Labor Department.

Among the findings:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), whose primary responsibility is to protect workers from hazards, has failed to adopt a national heat standard to safeguard workers against rapidly rising temperatures, resulting in an enforcement system rife with problems.

For at least a dozen companies, it wasn’t the first time their workers succumbed to heat. One worker collapsed and died after repeatedly complaining about the heat; another died after hauling 20 tons of trash for nearly 10 hours. In some instances, employees died after not having ample water and scheduled shade breaks. Many died within their first week on the job.

OSHA officials often decide not to penalize companies for worker deaths. When they do, they routinely negotiate with business owners and reduce violations and fines.

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