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erm hai....im not getting paid for another two weeks and i desperately need to pay my $100 psychiatry invoice and get my meds (i run out in 2 days and i literally cannot function without them) literally ANYTHING you can give would be so fucking helpful 😭😭

im so scared of being off my meds...the withdrawal symptoms are horrible and i become a completely dysfunctional person and my self destructive alter pretty much takes the wheel. pls help and spread this id rlly appreciate it ;-;

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hi i never thought id have to make a post like this before but i am facing a medical emergency and do not have sufficient funds to even feed myself majority of the time let alone go to the doctor. i have no health insurance, no consistent source of income, and no family i can rely on for support.

if you can't donate, please share. read more under the cut.

i have been applied and waiting to be accepted for ssi and medicaid for over 4 years and have gone through multiple lawyers dropping my case from one to another, i have been paying out of pocket for all my medical appointments since i turned 18, and have no health insurance. i work as a tattoo apprentice and that occasionally brings in money but im looking for a second job.

i am diagnosed with hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome, autism, gerd, unspecified seizures, chronic pain, migraines and fatigue, and am looking into POTS. in 2022, an xray revealed degenerating discs in my lower back, specially L4 and L5. this causes sharp pain and limits my range of motion in general.

in July of this year, I had a seizure and fell down an entire flight of stairs. my roommates found me twitching and unconscious, but this was one of the multiple times ive had a seizure this year and i have already been to the er this year 4 times for seizures at work, anaphylaxis from an allergic reaction, uterine cysts rupturing, fainting multiple times and having a bpm of 180, and then some. needless to say i am tired of going to the er, so i didn't go after my fall.

unfortunately, this time something went really wrong and i hurt my back. i don't know what i did, but a month later, i can no longer turn to the right, lean forward, crouch, squat, or even SIT on a chair without excruciating pain in the lower right side of my back that radiates up and down my spine and right leg + buttocks, and it is getting worse every day.

i do not like asking for help but my friends have encouraged me to make this post while I figure something out. I am going to try and go to the charity clinic near me soon or I'm going to the ER again, and hopefully from there, get a referall to a doctor who can run some tests to figure out whats wrong and figure out a treatment plan.

I am requesting donations to help me pay for some medical visits out of pocket to help me fix my back. I genuinely have no idea what to expect and I don't know how these posts work usually, but even 1 dollar helps. If you can't donate, please share.

Additionally I can do services in exchange for money, like so:

I offer discount tarot readings for $20 for up to 8 card spreads. I also do specialized art commissions called spirit portraits, where as I medium, I draw the spirits I sense around people. This is for a flat price of $44 for lineart and shading (examples of my art below)

I am open to other types of commissions and inqueries regarding art and tarot, please message me here if interested or on my discord @ tousatruce . cashapp and venmo are also both under @ tousatruce but links are below .

cashapp: https://cash.app/$tousatruce

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I have one(1) notification on this blog but tumblr refuses to load any notifications for this blog (I’ve been trying for three days now) and it’s actually getting really irritating

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the toro osborne is like the emblem of spain. big things are happening

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

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EMERGENCY: 120°F Weather! Help Trans Girls Living in a Desert Squatter Town Save Lives With Free Water, Ice, Food, and Shade for the Community!

June 6th 2024

My partner and I are homeless trans women living in a squatter town in the desert called Slab City!

In Slab City there are no utilities, that means no electrical company, no gas company, and definitely no water company! Everyone has to provide their own for their own camp.

We haven't received a donation in THREE DAYS and haven't been able to get groceries or ice.

We have two 355 gallon tanks that we use for our camp and let our neighbors fill jugs from.

It costs $40 each to hire someone to fill our tanks with drinking water and it drains from use in little over a week.

We also provide our neighbors with food, cold drinks, and shelter from the sun, free of charge.

It costs $5 to $10 for us to go to the store and $10 for ice per a day.

The more money we have the more we can make ice, food, shade, and drinks available for others

Neither of us have a regular income, but we're both involved in a project to better our local community. See more here and here.

Please donate to help us raise money to allow us to refill our water tank, buy ice and snacks, and trade for shade cloth so that we and our community can have cold water to drink, snacks, and a cool place to hang out and avoid the sun.

- CаshApp: $ThistleDD

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- Vеnmo: @ThistleDD

If you can't dоnаte please reblog and share on your other accounts!

Without ice and water we would die pretty quickly out here and we need new shade cloth for our shade structure!

We provide for over a dozen people a day and are a lifeline for our entire neighborhood!

PLEASE DONATE!

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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

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top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard

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Need help with groceries and medical supplies if we could get 100 dollars we would be set! Please share if you can

V3nm0- Transmascmoss

P@yp@l- Alexc94

C@sh@pp- Transmascmoss

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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls

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Naming International POC Characters: Do Your Research.

This post is part of a double feature for the same ask. First check out Mod Colette's answer to OP's original question at: A Careful Balance: Portraying a Black Character's Relationship with their Hair. Below are notes on character naming from Mod Rina.

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@writingraccoon said:

My character is black in a dungeons and dragons-like fantasy world. His name is Kazuki Haile (pronounced hay-lee), and his mother is this world's equivalent of Japanese, which is where his first name is from, while his father is this world's equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. He looks much more like his father, and has hair type 4a. [...]

Hold on a sec.

Haile (pronounced hay-lee), [...] [H]is father is this world’s equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. 

OP, where did you get this name? Behindthename.com, perhaps?

Note how it says, “Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. Check marks indicate the level to which a name has been verified.” Do you see any check marks, OP? 

What language is this, by the way? If we only count official languages, Ethiopia has 5: Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, & Tigrinya. If we count everything native to that region? Over 90 languages. And I haven't even mentioned the dormant/extinct ones. Do you know which language this name comes from? Have you determined Kazuki’s father’s ethnic group, religion, and language(s)? Do you know just how ethnically diverse Ethiopia is? 

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To All Looking for Character Names on the Internet:

Skip the name aggregators and baby name lists. They often do not cite their sources, even if they’re pulling from credible ones, and often copy each other. 

If you still wish to use a name website, find a second source that isn’t a name website. 

Find at least one real life individual, living or dead, who has this given name or surname. Try Wikipedia’s lists of notable individuals under "List of [ethnicity] people." You can even try searching Facebook! Pay attention to when these people were born for chronological accuracy/believability. 

Make sure you know the language the name comes from, and the ethnicity/culture/religion it’s associated with. 

Make sure you understand the naming practices of that culture—how many names, where they come from, name order, and other conventions. 

Make sure you have the correct pronunciation of the name. Don’t always trust Wikipedia or American pronunciation guides on Youtube. Try to find a native speaker or language lesson source, or review the phonology & orthography and parse out the string one phoneme at a time. 

Suggestions for web sources:

Wikipedia! Look for: “List of [language] [masculine/feminine] given names,” “List of most common [language] family names,” “List of most common surnames in [continent],” and "List of [ethnicity] people."  

Census data! Harder to find due to language barriers & what governments make public, but these can really nail period accuracy. This may sound obvious, but look at the year of the character's birth, not the year your story takes place. 

Forums and Reddit. No really. Multicultural couples and expats will often ask around for what to name their children. There’s also r/namenerds, where so many folks have shared names in their language that they now have “International Name Threads.” These are all great first-hand sources for name connotations—what’s trendy vs. old-fashioned, preppy vs. nerdy, or classic vs. overused vs. obscure. 

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Luckily for OP, I got very curious and did some research. More on Ethiopian & Eritrean naming, plus mixed/intercultural naming and my recommendations for this character, under the cut. It's really interesting, I promise!

Ethiopian and Eritrean Naming Practices

Haile (IPA: /həjlə/ roughly “hy-luh.” Both a & e are /ə/, a central “uh” sound) is a phrase meaning “power of” in Ge’ez, sometimes known as Classical Ethiopic, which is an extinct/dormant Semitic language that is now used as a liturgical language in Ethiopian churches (think of how Latin & Sanskrit are used today). So it's a religious name, and was likely popularized by the regnal name of the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (“Power of the Trinity”). Ironically, for these reasons it is about as nationalistically “Ethiopian” as a name can get.

Haile is one of the most common “surnames” ever in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why was that in quotes? Because Ethiopians and Eritreans don’t have surnames. Historically, when they needed to distinguish themselves from others with the same given name, they affixed their father’s given name, and then sometimes their grandfather’s. In modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, their given name is followed by a parent’s (usually father’s) name. First-generation diaspora abroad may solidify this name into a legal “surname” which is then consistently passed down to subsequent generations.

Intercultural Marriages and Naming

This means that Kazuki’s parents will have to figure out if there will be a “surname” going forward, and who it applies to. Your easiest and most likely option is that Kazuki’s dad would have chosen to make his second name (Kazuki’s grandpa’s name) the legal “surname.” The mom would have taken this name upon marriage, and Kazuki would inherit it also. Either moving abroad or the circumstances of the intercultural marriage would have motivated this. Thus “Haile” would be grandpa’s name, and Kazuki wouldn’t be taking his “surname” from his dad. This prevents the mom & Kazuki from having different “surnames.” But you will have to understand and explain where the names came from and the decisions dad made to get there. Otherwise, this will ring culturally hollow and indicate a lack of research.

Typically intercultural parents try to

come up with a first name that is pronounceable in both languages,

go with a name that is the dominant language of where they live, or

compromise and pick one parent’s language, depending on the circumstances.

Option 1 and possibly 3 requires figuring out which language is the father’s first language. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned national ubiquity of Haile, you will have to start from scratch here and figure out his ethnic group, religion (most are Ethiopian Orthodox and some Sunni Muslim), and language(s). 

But then again, writing these characters knowledgeably and respectfully also requires figuring out that information anyway.

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Names and naming practices are so, so diverse. Do research into the culture and language before picking a name, and never go with only one source.

~ Mod Rina

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‘A good tragedy is always both preventable and inevitable’ is one of my main hills to die on. It’s literally so important to me. I’m fucking correct

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it makes me so sad when characters are like "I'm a wanderer by nature. I can't stay with you" and there's a dramatic scene of them walking in opposite directions and the person they're leaving is tearful but brave. I just think you could stay for a while

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I have incurable Woman In The Margins Of The Story disorder.