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[eglantinian]

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I got married just one day before the war, and now my wife is seven months pregnant. She requires full care, including medications, vitamins, and medical attention.🤰👼

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[eglantinian]

It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

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I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

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the entire point of winry's character is that you don't need to be a fighter to be strong. and that would be misogynistic if she was the ONLY female character in fma, but considering almost every other woman IS a fighter (and there's a lot of them!), that claim doesnt hold water.

i always loved that about winry, that she sort of serves of an example of how a regular person can change the world. i love that she saw her childhood friends leave and said i refuse to wait at home for those boys like a military wife, i am going to become a better engineer than anyone in the world. she decided that traveling the world kicking ass wasnt her style, that she wanted to improve peoples lives in other ways.

and ed KNOWS that, that's what the whole "your hands weren't made to kill" speech was about. he wasn't saying that because she's a girl - he knows riza, he knows lan fan, he knows izumi, of course he knows women can fight. he said it because it's true, because it's winry, and because she made that decision long ago.

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ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.

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The idea of english as a mother tongue is so strange to me, in my head english is how ppl communicate when there's no way in common to communicate, so english as a mother tongue sounds a bit like idk email as a mother tongue ykwim? Like english to me feels like the stuff that's used to fill the empty spaces between languages

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This is so important. From Daniel Sloss HBO standup special 'X'.

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hello! just a lil smth, please don’t scroll!

tw // anti-asian violence

there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday

all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):

- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)

- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)

- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)

- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained

+ stop asian hate gofundme

+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)

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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]

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truth untold | jikook

a/n: uh hey guys i know this isn’t what i normally post, but i did a roleplay with a friend (they’re so talented holy fuck i’m in love bro) and decided to post it on here since it’s already on ao3! they wrote for jimin and i wrote for jungkook. so, come cry with us and watch jikook be all lovey dovey after their rainy day fight hehe <33 thanks for being an amazing rp partner @eglantinian​ and s/o to my baby @minloop​ for making this awesome header love you bb <3

pairing: park jimin x jeon jungkook

word count: 11.1k (yikes good luck)

genre: angst, fluff, smut, idolverse

warning(s): unprotected sex (pls be safe babies), finger sucking/fucking (yes, it’s a warning bc fuck i love it 🥵), oral sex, fingering, the authors falling in love, Feelings™, okay i think that’s it ghfjd

summary: I love you, I love you, I love you, and I didn’t want to be forgiven. That’s the hardest part. I looked at you, and I didn’t want to be forgiven. Because loving you is not a sin.

But that’s it.

I love you, Jimin. In spite of everything.

Keep reading

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coffee shop or flower shop • alternate universe or fix-it • enemies to lovers or childhood friends • angst or fluff • love at first sight or pining • modern au or historical au • soulmates or unrequited • fake dating or secret dating • breakup and makeup or proposals and weddings • get together or established relationship • oblivious pining or domestic fluff • hurt/comfort or crack • meet the parent or meet cute

Thanks for the tag @astoryinred & @shadows-of-1832 💕 Too lazy to tag and make post so if you see this you're it!

Fanfic this or that

coffee shop or flower shop • alternate universe or fix-it • enemies to lovers or childhood friends • angst or fluff • love at first sight or pining • modern au or historical au • soulmates or unrequited • fake dating or secret dating • breakup and makeup or proposals and weddings • get together or established relationship • oblivious pining or domestic fluff • hurt/comfort or crack • meet the parent or meet cute

Thanks to @hihiyas for the tag!

Tagging @eglantinian, @graphexthesia @bisexual-eponine @shadows-of-1832

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Thank you for the tag @shadows-of-1832!! This was cute!!

I tag: @astoryinred @hihiyas @roymustangfma

Not tagged, per se, but saw @eirenical‘s post using this picrew to make a magicsona and decided to give it a try. Also, couldn’t resist the cuteness of the owl, kitty, and this magical bunny-like creature!

Tagging @bisexual-eponine, @eglantinian, and @decembersiris, and whoever else may be interested. :)

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Thank you for the tag @shadows-of-1832!! This was really fun!! I can definitely see the AC influence (probably Unity-era 💕) I tag @roymustangfma and whoever sees this on their timeline 💕

I technically wasn’t tagged, but saw @eirenical‘s post involving this RPG picrew and thought it looked like fun.

Not entirely sure what I was going for, but the clothing I picked almost looks like something out of the Assassin’s Creed games, I think.

Tagging: @bisexual-eponine and @eglantinian

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Tagged by @shadows-of-1832 🥰✨

Please see link above to make your picrew and tag a friend.

Tagging @roymustaangs and @priscilla-dm ✨

Tagged by @bisexual-eponine. Thanks!

Use this to make yourself and tag a friend.

Tagging @decembersiris and @eglantinian

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networking as a fanfic writer is tough... especially if you're new to a fandom... that's been quite established. why can't i just write fics and boom! clap! not! break! my! heart! from the chilling welcome from cliques in fandoms. T_T y'see the thing is, i write because i enjoy it, but i also want to be noticed. and it's hard... especially when you have a very niche way of writing or tend to go against the grain of what is generally kind of the "accepted" metric for fanfics in that certain fandom. so, that makes interaction kinda hard because a lot of fans have a sort of preference already. and i know i shouldn't care but it happens. i know i'll still go do things my way, but it can feel a lot like this most of the time. that said, i do know this isn't specific to fanfic writers, but artists as well. but i just wanna highlight the fact that engagements in fandom circles, especially for fanfic writers, can feel a little polraizing at times.

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June

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37LC3GS

by LearaBribage

In which we discover what occassion did Riza Hawkeye wear that pink dress she lent to Winry Rockbell in the FMAB: Son of Dawn game, how Roy and Riza talked about the war before he went to the military academy, and why the Hawkeye family can be *cough* a little helpful without realising it (*glares at Berthold*).

Cue (Il)legal hand-holding, Held Gaze™, and Angsty Pining (what were you expecting with this Author, seriously?????)

Words: 5104, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 20 of the missing pages

Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), 青鳥の虛像 Fullmetal Alchemist | Fullmetal Alchemist: Bluebird’s Illusion, Fullmetal Alchemist (Live Action)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Riza Hawkeye, Roy Mustang, Grumman (Fullmetal Alchemist), Berthold Hawkeye, Maes Hughes

Relationships: Riza Hawkeye/Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye & Roy Mustang

Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Philosophy, Berthold “Right In Front Of My Steak Seriously?” Hawkeye, General “What Illicit Hand-Holding? It’s LEGAL YOU HEAR” Grumman, Riza “IDK Who These People Are” Hawkeye, Roy “Maybe We Should Have Locked the Door” Mustang, Maes “That’s the First Rule of Marriage How Can You Guys Forget” Hughes, The Author Regrets Everything, Mutual Pining, Mutual Horror

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37LC3GS