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i don’t have a good caption for this

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the standee i designed for the @oumotazine2! (leftovers are now closed, sdkfs, maybe i should've posted sooner OOPS;;)

i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out...! there is a view of the boys from the front, to make it double sided but this was my original ✦.*･vision･*.✦ and i think it looks best this way tbh!!

thank you to the organisers and contributor's for making such an amazing zine! i was so thrilled to be a part of it ♡

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When I am appointed to represent a child, my first action is to separate them from their parents and tell them the following things:

1. I am their attorney. I do not work for their parent or the judge or the cops. I don’t care what any of those people want.

2. My job is to listen to them and try and make what they want happen in court. (At this point I make a joke about how most people want me to get them out of trouble but if someone wanted to be in trouble I would do my best.)

3. What they tell me is confidential. It goes nowhere unless they agree to it. (If old enough, I talk to them about mandatory reporters, and how I’m a mandatory non reporter.)

4. I will give them lots of advice because I’ve been doing court for a while and I know a lot about it, and they don’t. It’s all really complicated, and if they don’t understand what’s happening it’s my job to help them figure it out.

5. They will make the decisions. (At this point I usually have to reassure them that I’ll help, I’ll speak for them in front of the judge, and I’ve got their back. It’s scary to have an adult say you’re in charge, most of the time.)

6. I tell them I know it’s absolutely wild to have some stranger come in here and say “hey, you can trust me!” and that I get if they don’t believe everything right away, because I plan to show them through my actions and my words that I’ll fight for them.

7. But nonetheless, I will treat them like a person who can make decisions, because they are living their life and I am not.

I do not:

Pretend to be cool.

Try to be their BFF.

Overwhelm them with detail.

Let their parents in the room until the kid asks for them. (I provide openings for this, and ask if the kid wants their parent to help them remember and understand.)

I want to emphasize I went into this job knowing nothing about how to interact with vulnerable populations, especially children. The training was minimal, and my role means that I can literally walk into a facility and get an unmonitored visit with a minor client one on one.

In my years of practice I have never felt threatened by a child, even one that was “violent” and “unstable.” It turns out just saying “hi, I think you’re a person with thoughts” is wildly successful? Now people treat me like I have special Child Whisperer powers. My powers are that I ask the child what’s up and I’m not scared to say things that are objectively awkward. I know nothing about anything.

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i don't understand how anyone can have objections with the newest Game Changer, not every episode needs to be a whole movie, sometimes i want to watch a bunch of little freaks running around set doing things I've always kind-of wanted to try, while their successes get celebrated by a dance crew doing sick moves to fun music in slow motion

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its fascinating when shows go "this character does not have sex" and you can just watch the fans minds just start going "well he doesnt have sex, therefore hes asexual, and as we all know, asexuality is a spectrum, and some asexuals actualy do have sex, and therefore he is probably having tons of crazy sex literaly every time he isnt on screen"

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deltarune comic i made that i thought i’d also post here cause i spent way too long on it lolz

based off this dialogue

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Need to deploy some sort of mandatory seminar to IT people, "How to make your security upgrade instructions not look like a phishing email"

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really great secret boss. no notes

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I was recently going through Gerson's Undertale dialogue considering how important he is now, and these lines really stuck out to me, specifically in how they seem to reference Susie's place in Deltarune's prophecy. What do y'all think?

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Alas kris is too short to do the same to susie

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*Hell yeah. Security lights.

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In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

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ouppy...?

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Interspecies lesbianism