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READY, SET, LOVE (2024) | 1.01

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Sydney Adamu + Richie Jerimovich in THE BEAR

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I gotta read stuff to get my adderall to kick in before I can do real work, so here's my attempt at a primer on the Chinese writing system:

“How do they have a separate character for every single word??” They don’t: each character represents one idea, one morpheme, one unit of meaning in a word. 

Unbreakable in English has 3 morphemes: un, break, and able, each adding meaning. In Chinese characters that word is 不可破, which each mean no, able, & break, individually. 

Like break and -able, some characters can be their own words and some can't.

Just as westerners often think that each character = 1 full word, Chinese people often don't realize that each English word can be many elements smushed together. Someone learning English might see antidisestablishmentarianism as one insanely complex character, rather than 6 morphemes in a trenchcoat.

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comment from actual australian @banthacakes on an unrelated post, but i did want to note that this holds true for kiwis getting jumpscared by kiwis, but especially kiwis getting jumpscared by australians. you never fucking know when they're gonna leap out.

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I saw these tags on a reblog by @bookofmac on a post that's broadly about NZ cultural markers & māori cultural practises (or lack thereof) in TLT (originally by @ignitesthestxrs). I read the essay and found it extremely enlightening and definitely relevant to TLT fandom at large. Throwing it in the tags. Give it a read! I also recommend the post too, in case you haven't seen it already

When we, as Australian (and colonial) creators, discuss a push-back against cultural cringe, we’re asking these questions: What pressures do we face as creators to conform to the homogenized, largely Americanized norms of Western culture? What are the specific elements of our country’s culture that make us unique? And finally, what compromises are we willing to make, and what are we willing to water down or straight-up remove, to make our work palatable to international audiences?

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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Luke and Leia’s relationship, creepy or totally fine?

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I think a very important unwritten piece of locked tomb canon is that corona and ianthe are absolutely both writing home regularly to mummy throughout the entire series - not with any helpful plot points or anything, they just want pocket money. Their mother, hatefully running a planet that she also hates, has the knack of silently wiring pocket money in an incredibly nasty and hurtful way - despite not accompanying it with a note or anything - just a sort of careful psychic warfare involving timing, amounts of money, the transfer service, etc.

(Although at at one point she asks if one of them has Babs, or if he’s dead or what. Corona ghosts her and ianthe texts back “who”)

Anyway, breaking off your meeting with god or the rebels or whatever because mummy has just sent you $465.73 in THEE bitchiest possible way

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the fact that Dulcie says “moored the boat” exactly once when she’s busy starving off a panic attack implies that she knows exactly what the correct boat terminology is, and just Actively Chooses to say “parking the boat” instead.

Out of like. Disrespect. For boats.

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Crochet Patterns // Pippa Patterns

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Personally I think that Azula should have been redeemed simply so that she can become Zuko's horrible little advisor who whispers evil little plans to him so that he can do the exact opposite

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one time i told a guy with a huge punisher decal on his car that i loved the punisher but that i'm too scared to have any of his merch because in the current political climate i wouldn't want people to think i support killing police and the man had. no response whatsoever. he was smiling and completely frozen in place. i'd never seen anyone bluescreen that hard

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Makinng stickers ✨️