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dion killing that (evil) 10 year old with absolutely no hesitation is in like the top 5 most iconic things any final fantasy character has ever done

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my first thought when considering a ff16 dlc was a joshua one obviously but then again a cid one would be great bc i miss him but then again a jill one because i love her but then again a leviathan one would be cool too but then again a gav one because he’s the best but then again a barnabas one could be interesting but then again dion because he’s so great but then again

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Final Fantasy XVI | A Little Adventure

Clive, Jill, and Torgal are just too cute! Who else agrees?

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Ambrosia and Torgal

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Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.

Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.

“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]

amazing

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There's a post on here about one of the organizers of a feminist and/or lesbian activist group at some point stopped taking criticisms from people who never offered any other suggestions about ways to fix the things they had issues with. That she understood where that energy was coming from but also that it was ultimately just a roadblock to actually changing things. That's how I feel about anyone whose only response to End OTW Racism is criticism. If your only contribution to this conversation is criticism without help then you can keep it, because like it or not your on the side of the status quo in fandom here. You can talk about 'protecting the volunteers all you want' but either the organization is accountable to its own promises or its not. And if its not then that's worth talking about.

You can say all day long that 'Making Fans Not Racist'i- not the goal of the campaign none of the suggestions have to do with individual fan behavior- is un-doable (and how sad for you to have invested in living in a world where cruelty is left unchecked because it's hard to stop it) but unless you're also suggesting ways to make these spaces safer for fans of color then you're actively useless.

And if your response is- well no one is willing to do the work to make it better- ask yourself why your base assumptions are that people who care enough to organize around this would not be (and in fact have not already been) willing to volunteer. Why is your assumption that everyone involved in this is an outsider because that's the implication here and it's one of the main issues to begin with.

Are fans of color a part of your community or not? You have to decide that because community is an active thing. You say you don't want people in our community to have things made harder for them, so tell me how does 'making things harder' include protests against racist abuse and exclude racist abuse?

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it’s 1981 and you’re in the city getting chased by corrupt cops👮🏻‍♂️

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laurisogan

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embroidery from peacocksandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

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Tina Turner was one of the first of many black women in the public eye who were victims of horrific abuse that had their brutalization turned into pop culture references and jokes. Everyone who profited, die. Everyone who furthers the normalization of our brutality, die.

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heavy rain my beloved pt. 2

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Another month, another OTW newsletter that makes no mention of what the org is doing to fight racist harassment on its platforms.

You know what else it doesn't mention? That the minutes for the March 27th Board Meeting have finally been posted. This was the meeting with the first ever update on the OTW’s diversity work.

Why not send the OTW a note requesting they add a regular section to future newsletters for updates on their diversity, equity, and inclusion work? You can send it to Communications or the OTW Board. If you've already sent them a note, send another. I did.

Here's what I wrote:

It's been almost a year since the OTW published its vision statement pledging greater transparency and I am once again writing to ask that you add a dedicated section to the monthly OTW newsletters to provide updates on the organization's anti-racist work. Making this a regular part of your newsletters will show this work is a priority for the org and that there is progress being made, even if it's incremental. For example, April's newsletter missed an opportunity to join the conversation about racism in fannish spaces when it didn't even mention that the minutes from the March 27th Board Meeting have been posted, a meeting that included the first ever update on the OTW's diversity work. A summary of this update would have been an excellent addition to the newsletter. After all, fans can't read this information if they don't know it's out there!

You’re welcome to borrow or adapt my letter. If you write your own, considering sharing it to encourage others, and please, spread the word.

And, now, a little fact-finding poll:

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Why? See our Call to Action and FAQs for more information!

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