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Stargate Atlantis "Quarantine"

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Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Oxventure (Web Series) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Zillah Bruseau/Kasimir Jones/Edvard Lumière, Barnaby Fortescue III/Algernon “Squiffy” Squiffington Characters: Edvard Lumière, Lilith Cappellanaga, Zillah Bruseau, Kasimir Jones, Barnaby Fortescue III, Amadeus Astor Additional Tags: Warnings May Change, Post-Canon, What’s the opposite of a fix-it? A break-it?, Lich Amadeus Astor, Getting the Band Back Together, Exes, Barnaby’s Villain Era, Prison, Magic, References to Oxventure: The Final Season, Past Character Death, Manipulation, Undead, Suicidal Thoughts Summary:

It’s been seven years since they saved the world. Their first mistake was thinking that the world would stay saved.

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This ended up needing to be three chapters rather than two but at this point no one should be surprised

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*smoke emiting from clenched fist*

woman: OOOOoOOH NoO!!!! It’s meelltIINNGG!!

*ring melts off woman’s hand*

woman: MY PRECIOUS POWERRrRR RING! GONE FOORRVVERrrr..

woman: *screams like a pterodactyl* 

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Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Oxventure (Web Series) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Zillah Bruseau/Kasimir Jones/Edvard Lumière, Barnaby Fortescue III/Algernon "Squiffy" Squiffington Characters: Edvard Lumière, Lilith Cappellanaga, Zillah Bruseau, Kasimir Jones, Barnaby Fortescue III, Amadeus Astor Additional Tags: Warnings May Change, Post-Canon, What's the opposite of a fix-it? A break-it?, Lich Amadeus Astor, Getting the Band Back Together, Exes, Barnaby's Villain Era, Prison, Magic, References to Oxventure: The Final Season, Past Character Death, Manipulation, Undead, Suicidal Thoughts Summary:

It's been seven years since they saved the world. Their first mistake was thinking that the world would stay saved.

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This ended up needing to be three chapters rather than two but at this point no one should be surprised

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I don't have sources because I quit linguistics 10 years ago, but there's significant debate regarding whether or not fluency in a language learned after the critical period is possible at all

I studied primarily adult language learners so I tend to err heavily on the side of "who gives a shit and is fluency really real anyway" but the point is that sounding like a native speaker is a pipe dream that you (general you) are never going to accomplish

Look I'm real annoyed at people getting high and mighty about whether duolingo works, and here are some hard fucking truths I have to tell you:

If you are a new adult learner of another language, you will never be fluent in that language. Fucking just forget about it. We have this bias towards learning language like it's a party trick, like it is a game that we can win. Not only is that not the point of learning a language, it's also the fuck impossible. You are not going to become fluent using Duolingo because you were never going to be fluent at all.

Now once you're done with that, chew on this part: It's okay to be shitty at things, especially languages, and most people who speak multiple languages are not fluent in all of them. Americans in particular self-report being way worse at languages than they actually are because the only understanding that we have is that perfect fluency is the only way to speak another language. It is okay to only know enough to ask where the bathroom is, because that's how you open a door to learning how to order breakfast, which is how you learn to read the newspaper, which is how you learn to read poetry.

It is okay to just know enough of a language to get by. It is okay to learn just enough of a language to learn how to read a certain kind of document. It is perfectly okay if the minute you open your mouth, someone knows where you're from. Language is a tool and not a trophy, and if you find the teaching strategies of Duolingo useful, you will probably move towards an okay conversational understanding of a language. It doesn't work miracles, but miracles are not the point of learning.

I do have complaints about Duolingo, and I vent them frequently. I think its single biggest problem is that it teaches you to think in sentences and not paragraphs, and as someone who doesn't learn great from immersion, trying to learn without a conjugation chart sucks. I do think that it is better thought about as something that you use to enrich your life on a daily basis, in the way that you enrich yourself by doing the crossword puzzle. But you were never going to sit down and study a language for an hour a day, and trust me on this one, buying a book isn't going to fucking work. I know that Duolingo makes claims that it can't back up, but the idea that it is keeping people from being fluent in a language is also absolutely unsupportable.

And now I am blacklisting Duolingo on Tumblr and moving on with my life, I'm almost up to a 1200 day streak

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*Only referring to the BDSM dynamic, nothing to do with penetration.

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cool kids with licenses:

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purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

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So one thing I’ve noticed is that people’s DnD characters may vary but there is usually an underlying thread that they all have in common. This thread is typically related to what that person struggles with the most.

For instance, my betrotheds DnD characters: a bitchy warlock we had to bust out of two different pacts, a sassy barbarian, a reformed drow cultist, and a sunshine fighter cleric.

All these characters were wildly different but at their very core struggle was them grappling with their self worth. My betrothed struggles with their worth a great deal and even with different facets showing their characters all have that too.

Mine all tend to contend with different themes of loneliness and acceptance. Surprise, surprise, the little autistic gremlin yearns to have been met with more love and lasting friendships.

So we’re at breakfast. I am meeting a new friend of my betrotheds for the first time. It’s been twenty minutes since I’ve met this man. I say my theory. He laughs. He starts to describe a few of his characters but specifies that he often has healing aspects. He gives a very broad overview of their character arcs.

I ponder for a moment then said, “Would you like to have my assessment?”

He laughed, “Sure!”

“We’ve just met. It’s gonna get real.”

“Bring it on.”

“I think your struggle is that you feel you must offer something of value or service to people to be worthy of their love.”

His jaw dropped. His fork froze midway to his mouth. A potato fell. He stared into space as this sank in. Quietly he said, “Oh.”

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Today's niche Mom Can't Cook knowledge is that while I was not a wrestler in high school, I was a competitive powerlifter, which is also relies on weight classes, and if you think they talked about it way past the point of tedium in that movie, it's way worse in real life.

Also, what's his name is a fuckin scrub for not being able to change his weight by 6 pounds

For our meets, and this was normal then, which was basically the same time the movie is set, we'd weigh in advance and then the coach would turn in the card with at least one lifter in every weight class. You always wanted to be as heavy as you could be without going into another weight class, because it gave you an advantage (don't know if that's also true for wrestling, but it seems like it must be)

And sometimes you get in there and the scale is 3, 4, 5 pounds off what you need it to say, and that is when The Bullshit begins. Girls taking off clothes, girls putting on clothes, girls shedding water weight, girls eating whatever was available, as long as it wasn't drugs or holding onto a literal weight, we'd do it

Six pounds?? Give me forty-five minutes and don't ask any questions

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It's also worth noting that cloning/stem cell research caused essentially a moral panic and was banned or partially banned in a bunch of places. I envy anyone who's too young to remember all that shit. There's a very good 2-part series on how and why it went down.