#legally i'm required to say that

[lotus-pear]

what if ur current fav character wore ur childhood fav character's outfit

CHUUYA WEARING MADOKAS DRESS FROM PMMM LMFAO😭😭😭 wish i could draw that but idk how to draw dresses anymore since ive spent six months drawing men in trench coats AND ALSO i don't remember how she looks i think there were hair ribbons and i remember her wearing pink but that's abt it :(((

#idc he'd slay though #i am once again asking the people with double hyperfixations to come forward and do chuuya fans a service #i miss pmmm i need to rewatch omfg (i say as if that shit didnt traumatize me at the ripe age of ten) #actually yk what fuck it i'm doing pmmm fanart next i miss my girls #you guys get lotus lore from this ask i was actually the biggest shojo fan esp when it came to magical girl animes😭 #madoka magica was like my first tho i think #absolutely banger anime though it's like in my top five i think everyone should be legally required to watch it #lotus’s asks

[squidbulborb]

You know, I'm almost tempted to recreate my discord server, but I think I should think things over with my legal and/or psychological advisor first...

#let's just say I'm quirked up #let's see whst happens #just know that i am legally required to say I will stay on my bullshit #THIS POST WAS CERTIFIED BY REAL DELUSIONAL BITCHES™️

[todayisafridaynight]

yakuza 2 but daigo’s still wearing that goofy outfit he wore as a kid

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 2 #yakuza 2 #daigo dojima #yayoi dojima #kazuma kiryu #snap sketches #*posts this immediately after the bestie who suggested this goes to sleep* #legally required to say i miss yayoi. since she's here #who's dweeb-ass son is this lmaooo #this is my warm up for the day Is What I'm Telling Myself Before I Do A Commission

[sharkface]

Food service worker diagnosis

#talk #Mold is safe to remove in some instances but not most any building with unhygienic practices in one corner has it in the kitchen too #You get given food by strangers any time you go to a restaurant it is not the concept of a person you don't know that unnerves you it is a #lack of regulation and confirmed compliance to safety standards #Which is why everywhere is legally required to have their safety score framed in a place visible to customers #Which btw speaking as a food service worker anything under an 85 veers into serious risk territory because restaurants are stricter on #Inspection days. So really you want to be subtracting 5-10 points from any given rating and judging based on that. #Like I'm not saying high levels of disgust boil down to a lack of exposure to the reality of food service and distribution but I do think #most people would be more confident and thus less disgusted by certain things if they just understood them better #Hence my previous post.

[batfamfucker]

I'm sorting vaccinations out for going to the US and I think Americans would genuinely have heart attacks if they found out British people (Idk if any other Europeans do this or anyone in general) have 'Chicken Pox Parties'.

Basically, if someone's child has Chicken Pox, they'll encourage their other kids (If they have others) to spend more time with their ill sibling. The 'Party' bit is more for the actual gatherings just for Chicken Pox. The parents will invite any of their friends who also have kids, or other parents they get along with from their kid's school, with the intention to make all of them end up with Chicken Pox. We have a massive 'herd immunity' mindset for Chicken Pox.

My sister had it the full three times. I used to sleep in my sister's bed as a kid because I didn't like sleeping in my own room, and I still did this when she had Chicken Pox. I had it once (Maybe twice but I can't remember), I have a scar on my arm from one of the spots. It was gross but we were never scared of it, it was just normal for us, it was like any other cold.

#I'm not gonna say it's not that bad because I don't know US history #And also I know there are still kids that die from it and that's not something I want to make light of #But I just think it's crazy how different the views of it are between us #And that I'm gonna have to pay money for a blood test to prove I'm immune #Because it's not something we're vaccinated against here like it's not mandatory/legally required to do for kids #Parents just do it themselves when the kid of someone they know has it #And then we just spend a few days/a weel or two in bed with it #My sister had it THREE times tho I swear she had it so many times 💀 #She is always sick tho so I'm not surprised. But she does work in a nursery now so that's one reason why #But I swear her immune system is shit 💀

[catzgam3rz]

Howdy Hey have some screenshot redraws of @jackie-mae Philza Hardcore Animatic Zephyrus!

#rambles #my art #mcyt #philza #ph1lza #philza hardcore #steveza #purpleza #zephyrus animatic #screenshot redraw #everyone go watch zephyrus if you haven't you are legally required to #it is my favourite Philza animatic i love it so much i finally got refs from mae lol #i've been wanting to do that Purpleza frame for MONTHS #and it looks decently okay i'd say :D #i have more i'm gonna do but my wrist hurts so ;w;

[vamptastic]

it's kinda weird that when you look at health recommendations for various medical conditions associated with fatness it's always 'just lose 10% of your body weight to see a risk reduction' (so like 20-30 pounds for the average overweight or obese person according to the bmi) but then in day to day medicine there's not really a way of like, removing obesity as a diagnosis on your insurance paperwork for example, even if by a certain standard you've lost enough weight to reduce the risk of health conditions that insurance would be concerned about. if you're an average height weighing 300 pounds and lose 30 pounds, which seems to be the amount that's considered reasonable to lose and maintain if you want to like, reduce your cholesterol, you've gone from morbidly obese to morbidly obese.

#beyond like the more pervasive stigma that i think has been around for a lot of history around fatness #i think the biggest reason behind the current concern over obesity in the US especially is uh. capitalism #there's always this addition about look at how much money these people cost us!! and its like who's us. insurance companies? #idk one one hand it's nice to see that medical science is maybe being kinder now than when i was an overweight 11 year old lmao #like when i was a kid it was hey this index that is not accurate for your age and sex says you need to lose 15 pounds #and then constant badgering about it until i got sick dropped 5 pounds and fit the graph better or whatever #and then i continued to gain weight for the next 7 years until i treated my insulin resistance #but i genuinely got worse and stricter treatment as overweight than morbidly obese because i think now that I'm 250 and an adult #they're like yeah you're just fat we're not going to bother beyond the legally required warnings #also when i was 11 it was uhhhh 2016 so middle of the obama admin when fat kids were the topic du jour #but the way they talked about it was like if I didn't stay under 130 pounds for the rest of my life i might as well drop dead #so seeing hey if you lose like 25 pounds you're good and you don't need to drop over 100 is. Comparatively better #still shitty advice for insulin resistant people IMO but whatever

[fitia]

Started watching The Wire again bc I'd dropped it a year ago or so due to not really getting it, and this time around I'm a lot more invested

#fitiaposting #I don't know if it's just a case of me not getting a lot of the slang and cultural references and legal jargon being used but I get the #impression that the dialogue is very euphemized #Like you have to do a lot of reading between the lines because in many instances characters don't ever say things directly #And the characters that DO require things to be spelt out to them in-universe are portrayed as a bit stupid or naive #Which is very interesting considering the setting of post-9/11 America + the war on drugs and the gangs in the drug trade meaning the huge #emphasis on constant surveillance #Which feels unnecessary to say bc well. it's obvious lol. the show's called The Wire. #Anyways I AM getting it a lot more this time around and it's fun! I've gotten fond of some characters #I'm on ep9 of season 1 and my current review is literally all the white characters are irritating

[hexmaniacchoco]

So, Target has decided to fire employees who purchase a Stanley cup. Yeah the same Stanley cups that have lead in them. Target's reasoning is that they violated a policy which doesn't allow employees to gain an "unfair advantage" over customers when it comes to purchasing limited items. Managers' reasoning for allowing employees to buy the cup is that it's a cup and why on Earth should people not be allowed to buy them. My opinion is scalping is bad and a problem that needs to be better addressed by companies. The solution is not to fire employees for buying limited items, even if they put one to the side for themselves to purchase after work. I think a much better solution is one we already use, which is the good old fashioned purchase limit paired with not making only like 1 of something per every hundred of people wanting it. You want to buy a few? Sure, maybe you're buying the others for friends or family or something who also like the thing. You want to buy 10? 50? The entire stock on display and all in the back? Absolutely not, sir madam or other.

Also if you're a Target employee who got fired, definitely make sure to file for unemployment and have the state investigate for unlawful termination. It might not be considered as such because it was a stupid policy but still a policy, but might as well find out and have them go after Target if it is. (And no, "at-will" does not mean that an employer can fire you for absolutely any reason. They just want you to think that so you don't bother to track conversations in written (text/e-mail/etc) form and have state labor departments investigate when you get fired and are applying for unemployment.)

#target #stanley cups #I not only would enjoy seeing a mass boycott of Target for this #I would also enjoy seeing it turn out that this is considered unlawful termination in many states #by the way unlawful termination is usually when you get fired because of someone's bigotry or you reported a problem with someone to HR #or your boss etc #but I'm hoping things like this are considered stupid enough to count as unlawful #by the way if you ever are fired make sure you ask your employer why you are being fired #they are legally required to tell you a reason I'm pretty sure #if they decide not to tell you you can take that e-mail/text and send it to your state's labor department while filing unemployment #and report the company for unlawful termination #if you spoke to them in person about why you were fired then no worries #just send a follow-up text or e-mail asking them to confirm what they said in the conversation #if they change it or say they don't have to tell you or ignore the e-mail/text you can also submit that to the labor department #also if they try to give you a reason that sounds like it would be legitimate just report them anyway if you suspect it #and still make sure to get everything you can in writing to send in #because the state labor department will still investigate the matter in a way intended to trip up companies trying to lie #oh and also if you suspect you will be fired soon always let the employer fire you #if they offer to let you resign or quit they are trying to avoid the state investigating them lol #and if they reduce your hours to try and force you to quit or stop calling you in to work you can report that too

[kazz-brekker]

HELLO???? you mean to tell me that there is a gay bard/warrior book and one of main characters HAS MY NAME?!?!?!

#is this repurposed geraskier fanfic. i must know #and the bard is called pie which is MY NAME #i mean not my legal name my nickname but i do GO by it so i'm very entertained by this #anyway i do think i am legally required to read this when it comes out #pie says stuff #the witcher #til death do us bard #rose black #books #geraskier

[fideidefenswhore]

Is there any evidence of what condition Margaret Butler had? I've heard dementia suggested but she lived a lot longer than people with it normally do.

Yeah, dementia is also the only theory I've read suggested, too, by Elizabeth Norton in The Boleyn Women:

"Margaret was evidently feeling her age by the time of her father’s death and was anxious to allow her eldest son to take as much of the strain as possible, further commenting that ‘and if hereafter you shall think it necessary for me to come up to London to you, I pray you send hereof to me your mind, and I shall pain myself to come; howbeit if you may do well enough without my coming in my behalf, then I were loath to labour so far’. Margaret’s sister, Anne St Leger, was also happy to hand matters to Thomas Boleyn. The sisters remained on good terms with Anne applying for a licence in April 1520 to found a perpetual chantry in Devon to pray for the souls of a number of family members, including her husband, parents and sister. Margaret’s health may also have been in decline by the time of her father’s death as, by at least 1519, she was considered to be a lunatic. The evidence for her condition is contained in an inquisition held into her lands in Cambridgeshire and perhaps accounts for her apparent willingness to hand over control of her matters and lands to her eldest son. Given her advanced age for the period in 1519, it seems not impossible that her ‘lunacy’ was some form of dementia, meaning that she may have retained some limited control over her own affairs."

What was considered "lunacy" in Tudor England varied, so her condition(s) could have been any number of things: depression, anxiety, paranoia, selective mutism, dissociative amnesia, any among the list of current known functional (psychogenic) movement disorders, any among the list of current known organic movement disorders (tremor, dystonia, et al), any of the known neurological disorders which affect the ability to speak (aphasia, for example, usually manifests in the elderly, and is often the result of a stroke), etc. As you brought up, if her condition was dementia, then she certainly exceeded the average projected life expectancy of the condition.

#margaret butler #anon #primary sources #elizabeth norton #this is sort of what i meant when i expanded on that ask #here is a woman that seems to have been suffering from at the least a health condition; at most (as it was legally determined; anyways) #a disability that required frequent care that it seems she only trusted in one person; namely her son #saying that she doesn't want to travel and if it can be avoided she will be very grateful . #so. the boleyns as callous; one-dimensional social climbers. this narrative dies hard #i'm surprised her life hasn't been used to argue that her royal granddaughter didn't want her at court bcus she was a huge bitch #that considered her a burden. rather than what we have from primary source evidence. a woman that felt safest and most comfortable and #likely with the least fatigue and pain when she remained in one place; at home .

[fictionadventurer]

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#if i weren't so afraid of sharing info online #and of sounding like i think i'm special or something #i'd share my birth story with you #a big reason i'm so staunchly pro life is that i got to survive when so many children who were so much more developed than me #got torn limb from limb with the full consent of the law #i was a medical emergency #i endangered my mother's life #yet no one wanted to kill me #no one said it was necessary to crush my skull to save my mother #i was delivered #far too early #far too small #you know what i'll just say it: 24.5 weeks #at a regular catholic hospital that doesn't do abortions #had i been a few days younger it would have been legal for any state in the union to abort me at that age #roe v wade required it #yet i had doctors and nurses fighting tooth and nail for months to make sure i survived and survived healthy #i was supposed to be blind and brain-damaged #i have low-prescription lenses and graduated as valedictorian of my high school class #i got the chance that so many other babies didn't #there's almost a form of survivor's guilt #there's anger on behalf of my fellow preemies #the ones who are lucky enough to stay in the womb yet have doctors and mothers fighting to kill them #you say they're not a person? #was *i* not a person? #was *i* worthless? #there were people who thought i wasn't and i'm grateful for it every day #but the thing is none of those other babies are worthless #none of them are monsters destroying their mothers' lives #they are helpless infants who want to live who deserve to live who have no less right to live than i did

[rohirric-hunter]

I think it's high time we stop using the term "Karen," as it's rather gone the same way as "Mary Sue" in that it's misapplied and overgeneralized to the point where it's basically meaningless.

#This is code for 'I'm sick and tired of being called a Karen #For telling people that actually yes they DO have to have x legally required accessibility feature' #'Hey according to federal law you have to keep those handicapped seats in your auditorium available to handicapped people at all times' #'You can't seat randos there. Also my sister in a wheelchair should have been able to request one of those when she bought her ticket' #And then they roll their eyes at me and say 'what a Karen' when they think I can't hear them #The horrible treatment of two of my sisters (and me for standing up for them) completely drove my family out of the arts scene here #Because not wanting my little sister to be in horrible pain is me being a 'Karen' apparently #Because thinking of there's a fire my sister should not have to depend on the usher to come PICK HER UP AND CARRY HER OUT OF THE BUILDING #That makes me a karen #Yeah I don't want to hear the word again it is genuinely offensive

[elfcow]

Richter holy mother of FUCK

#OhmyGOD #I was gonna say he should have immediately had his powers revoked again for the 'I'm much younger than you' quip but he's a Belmont #He's legally required to be an ass #That animation was fucking. Breathtaking #Castlevania nocturne #Nocturne spoilers

[supercantaloupe]

i kinda think that any portrayal of don giovanni and leporello’s relationship is incomplete if it doesn’t acknowledge that there is both genuine friendship/affection between them AS WELL AS abuse and hatred. they contain fucked up multitudes

#especially if you're taking it out of the fundamental/essential context of like. #16-18th century servitude and class dynamics #like esp if you're 'modernizing' it (which i do think is fine if you Do Something with that concept) #there's like. gotta be a reason they do all this shit together #ESPECIALLY if you're moving away from the literal patron/servant roles of the time period in which it was written #if leporello isn't like. legally and financially Required to do everything the don says then i think it's kind of lazy if you don't #acknowledge another facet of the relationship that makes it plausible #that could be gay love. if that's you bag. whatever #but personally i think there's both an element of leporello looking up to the don as an impossibly charismatic figure #and actual genuine friendship. like if they spend that much time together they have to enjoy each other's presence A Little right. #why wouldn't the don just fire him and get a new servant then if not right #(i also think leporello gay but i don't think that plays as much of a role as some fics out there seem to) #and i think the don has some real affection for leporello. that's his little buddy that's his partner in crime that's his roomie #but they are not equals. there is not mutual respect there #and yeah i'm always a fan of making relationships more fucked up and complicated and even codependent/abusive for fun #(see again whatever the hell is going on between curly and jud in dan fish oklahoma. my beloved) #but in the case of don giovanni i think it's not just making shit up for fanfic fun but like. there's textual basis here #and i think productions and fics and analyses and whatever else tend to swing in one direction or the other #but i think both elements are present in their relationship and both are important #sasha speaks

[augustdementhe]

#This is the Crime Pays Botany Doesn't guy #Never saw his face before #Being Texan I'm legally required to be fascinated by his accent #And then you add expertise to that and FFFFFFFF this is great #SAY 'SPECIFICITY' AGAIN #Youtube