#aca reference

[the-acid-pear]

BEFORE || AFTER

IN JUST ONE HOUR WE FOUND LULY

#luly talks #me re ficharon de trava estos peluqueros mira lo masculino que me dejaron #no dijeron nada pero un chabon no te deja así por casualidad aca todo estos trogloditas te ven las gomas y quieren salir corriendo #este tipo entendió. y tambien me ficho la pinta de rockero/punk pero bueno miren como fui vestido #encima que soy timide ahi no podía ni hablar era obvio -_- !!! #this is a reference to the roger meme btw. #my face

[roseband]

im sooooo tired of every doctor’s appointment leading to more referrals (and also now two “hey what was wrong w/ ur gp in jr high - college wtf”s)

#HEY!!! i don't have to be stabbed in the heart at least but i do need a CT scan :// #which i mean at least it's not an MRI LOL mri's of the upper body r torture #BUT 'why weren't u sent to pulmonology when u were diagnosed w/ asthma at 12/13'... ME I WAS TWELVE I DONT FUCKING KNOW??? #i don't know why he didn't .... i don't know why he didn't refer me out for cardio when i was fainting either... i was a CHILD??? #anyways.... yet another... ur body is weird but keep doing what ur doing LOL #cuz my breathing is slightly restricted on the breath machine........ BUT like #i play woodwinds so if i can still do that i'm good.. #im so tired tho bc .... like every time im like 'do i gotta go' and they're like 'yeh' pls stop :/ #personal #(ANYWAYS AFTER THIS YEAR FROM HELL... i would like to hug a certain ex-president.. like actually thanks obama #i'd be SOOOO fucked rn w/o ACA i lvoe that man i want to hug him)

[laurzzz]

Introducing... *drum roll*

The Greatest Showman AU! In which I now name as "What's Written in the Stars" (WWITS, for short)

Context at the bottom of each pic! (CW: Violence)

Also, will give more info on what I'm planning to do with this AU at the very bottom (after the cut) so read the full thing please :D

Assistive Care Attendant / Trapeze Act Sun: Each clothing design is for specific phases of the plot. The one with the apron is whilst Sun is still with his owner (him and Moon). The apron get-up is the male robots' default clothing after having been manufactured to become assistive robots for the rich— ofc with different colours that fit the scheme of the robot. The one on the left is showcasing his first time joining the circus, having almost stabbed in the faceplate seconds later by you, Y/N (unintentionally). And, the one on the top is him, a year into joining the circus.

Assistive Care Attendant / Trapeze Act Moon: Each clothing design is for specific phases of the plot. The one where he is tied up is when the Afton virus took hold of his programming having almost killed the father of the children that he and Sun are giving care to. The one on the right is where he's finally gotten the virus at a more stable control through your help and was finally allowed to perform overnight in the circus. And ofc, the one on the top is what he wears when performing.

Laundry Worker / Knife Throwing Act Y/N: I tried to make your design as androgynous as I could I hope I didn't butcher that. Anyhow, you carry a lot of trauma and painful experiences in this plot as an immigrant, orphan, and a very obvious person-of-color, you aren't always welcomed in where you live but you do have good people who took you in after your parents were brutally murdered as a child. You now work in your rescuers' laundry shop— well, not until you joined the circus.

My plans for this AU?

Currently the chapters are in the works, I'm writing Chapter 1 down as this gets posted. My goal is only a total of 5 (long, and will be divided into and released per parts) chapters for the entire plot.

I will also try (emphasis on try) to make a few storyboards I had in mind for this AU, y'know just to make things more interesting. More designs will be showcased sooner or later, as this AU is not only applicable to you and the Assistive Care Attendants (ACA) but also the other main bots of the canon plot of security breach.

Oh also! If you're not familiar with or haven't seen The Greatest Showman just yet, you don't have to see it to understand this AU. This AU can honestly be seen as a standalone AU where you live in the 1850s-1860s and technology started booming because of Fazbear Co (run by Henry Emily, William's co-founder in the canon series; William Afton will have a bit of a different role in the AU) and all that jazz. But unless you don't want spoilers for The Greatest Showman, don't learn more about this AU since it contains A LOT of references, plots, and designs similar to what's portrayed in the movie. Otherwise, have fun getting to know this when I release the first part of the first chapter and so on! :D

This might be one of the biggest things I'll ever make and I'm glad I got these ideas just as the new year is arriving. At least I know what my new year's resolution will be lmao. I hope you guys tune in for more! I have so much love and so much in store for this AU— so much!

Thanks for reading, love you <3

Ps. I rarely say this but reblogs > likes

I appreciate them both btw! I just think it's better for yalls to spread this around so some people who might enjoy this AU would get to see it evolve over time :)

#the greatest showman au #moondrop #sundrop #y/n x sundrop #y/n x moondrop #fnaf security breach au #wwits #laursdraws

[shakooo]

Che noc si por aca se pregunta sobre el askblog pero aca va JAKAKA

Hey onceler now that you are ran out of money or at least you'll be, what do u have in mind to have money again? Would you sell your things or something like that?¿

Oh!! well yep... I have thought about selling things like properties or something like that but many of them are worthless at this point

and if you refer to selling my things as if it were to a....kind of garage sale....HA!!

haha....

uhmmmm

[ooc: jakdhkajs si dona si se pregunta por aca de mientras :D]

#onceler #the onceler #art #lorax 2012 #onceler fandom #thelorax #greedler #I-I'll keep it in mind #bankrupt ler

[bytherosebushlaughing]

one single thread of gold (tied me to you)

CHAPTER FIVE—JESSE SWANSON

RATING: M

PAIRING: Multi (w/ Bechloe end game)

SUMMARY:

The story of how Beca and Chloe both find “the One” (AKA each other) (AKA the Love Life AU that no one asked for)

I’m sure that you were expecting this one at some point, reader. After all, we sort of know how this one goes. In short: acapella boy meets acapella girl, they date for three years in college, and they do not go on to have aca-children. 

“I think that Jesse likes me,” she supplies nonchalantly. She’s not really sure what drives her to say something, especially because it’s so not like her to open up to people, but there’s something about Chloe that makes her feel safe enough to tear down those walls just a little bit.

Chloe lets out an incredulous laugh at this confession.

“I could have told you that at the beginning of the year,” Chloe scoffs. “I can’t believe that you’re just now figuring this out, Bec.”

She blushes at the term of endearment and her own denseness.

“I’m just…I don’t know, people don’t usually like me like that,” she says, feeling insecure in the moment. “I’m not like you, Chloe, people don’t usually fall all over themselves for me like they do you.”

Chloe rolls her eyes.

“Yes they do, you just don’t notice,” she reassures Beca. “You’re kind of hot. And I should know because I’ve seen—”

“Oh my god, dude!” Beca interjects, cheeks burning up with embarrassment at the memory of what they refer to as The Shower Incident. “I wish you would just let that go already it’s so embarrassing.”

Chloe just laughs, shaking her head.

“Quit deflecting, let’s talk more about Jesse."

Read more on AO3!

#love life au #bechloe #pitch perfect #beca mitchell #chloe beale #jesse swanson #the dreaded j*ca chapter #writing this was so painful rip

[lambiewrites]

No, I definitely wouldn’t be a soldier in the slightest BUT you’d get me as a medic or a military psychologist.

(Irl I have a psychology/counseling degree ahhhh)

But I just imagine myself sitting on a leather sofa, bright eyed and bushy tailed watching as Capt Price forces Ghost into my office because he won’t shut up about dying and we’re all mandated reporters here.

Ghost would make my job a living nightmare but, in accordance to ACA Code of Ethics circa 2014, there’s not much I can do. (I mean, I could refer out but ain’t no one gonna take him lmao)

“She’s a kid what does she know?!”

“Well Simon, that degree states every wise however we could learn from one another yeah?”

#call of duty #cod #taskforce141 #simon ghost riley #ghost #lambie writes #lambie’s nonsense #lambie’s thoughts

[canichangemyblogname]

This Atlantic article is by former Nebraska Senator and current University of Florida President, Republican Ben Sasse. Yes, that Ben Sasse; the man who introduced the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” (there’s no such thing), who has stated that concern over climate change is “alarmist” and overblown (he’s allergic to facts), who is strongly opposed to the ACA (what do you bet he’ll make the argument class is the real, universal oppression in this article, even though he wants to take healthcare from poor people), and who believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman for the procreation of children (oooh, classic bigotry).

This is about to be the most tepid take, if not down right misinformation and dangerous neoconservatism. How much you wanna bet’s he’s gonna blame this on black people and the gays?

The notif I got for this article featured a quote that referred to the “cult of intersectionality.”

I’ll keep you posted.

[fantasyinvader]

After Gascon's latest video, I was once again wondering the big question: how much agency is Edelgard meant to have? It's always going to be something of a question, as it gets messed up by two things. The translation (as usual) and the fact that Edelgard is framed as having been manipulated.

With the translation, a while back I went over and analyzed Edge of Dawn and got into a conversation with @renisfan about it's Japanese version, The Girl from Hresvelg.

In that conversation, it was pointed out to me that the Japanese version holds Edelgard more accountable rather than making her a victim, with lines about how she made a decision to shatter the peace and start the war. Less lines about how time “betrayed” her and more about how her time at Garreg Mach was making her reconsider before she threw it all away.

The other major translation is Cornelia's death quote. English it makes it out that Edelgard doing so is still part of TWSITD's plan, whereas the Japanese she talks about how she thought Edelgard was dancing to TWSITD's tune only to realize that TWSITD is actually dancing to Edelgard's. The Japanese version makes it out that Edelgard is in control here.

There's also how Hopes showed that if Thales wanted to, he could have just turned Edelgard into a puppet he can directly control. But he doesn't do that. Instead, Edelgard makes the decision to work with him, to allow Monica to be sacrificed, to continue on with the war once Rhea is captured. And in the Japanese, her comments towards Thales as the Flame Emperor aren't outright threats but rather subtle ones. The translation tried to pull a Xander on us here.

But then we go into the topic of her being manipulated into starting this war. How she's acting on information given to her by her father, who Hubert says was an Agarthan puppet, and how this information informed the ideals she's said to serve. Can Edelgard really be in control of her actions if they were guided by someone else?

I think the game gives an answer in the forms of Byleth and the player.

Think about it. Edelgard attempts to sway Byleth to her side for the war. She says that what happened to her is the result of Fodlan being obsessed with Crests, except that is contradicted by something we the player see but Byleth doesn't. We see Thales explain that TWSITD experimented on her (and set up Duscur for good measure) so that Edelgard would be more powerful and bring “salvation” to the Agarthans. It wasn't Aegir like Edelgard and her puppet father say it was. Hubert himself even backs this up in Flower, saying that Edelgard knows it was TWSITD who were behind those experiments and used her father, and this is before Edelgard tells the player her version of history.

So, who do we believe? Edelgard or the worldbuilding? The latter was done with the confirmed intent to support Silver Snow, while siding with Edelgard is supposed to be about believing something different. You believe something not backed up by the worldbuilding, and because of that you're mowing down everyone who stands in your way. That's what the devs said. The story is supposed to naturally progress into Silver Snow, it's what Byleth defaults to, with the options to play Flower being framed as “changing the story.” And at the end of that story is Edelgard spreading tyranny and oppression all across Fodlan.

The devs said they wanted to trick players, and we have the Korean fanbase hating Edelgard because she tricked them.

You picked the options to side with Edelgard, who was attempting to sway you to her side. You allowed yourself to be manipulated. You chose to ignore the worldbuilding that said this was a bad idea, tying into Edelgard's path being referred to as the animal path in Japan which would indicate willful ignorance on your part. This isn't on Byleth, as unlike BE Shez Byleth would have stood in opposition to Edelgard if not for your choices.

If you side with Edelgard and lead Fodlan towards the path of her supremacy, hadou under her leadership which the English dub makes out to be “military rule,” is what happens your fault even if you were being manipulated? Both Rhea and Edelgard both stress that the end result you achieve is the result of your choices. If you allow yourself to become Edelgard's “wings,” it was ultimately your call even if Edelgard was lying to you (with various points of Flower highlighting how she does lie for her own gains).

You were culpable.

So taking that and applying that same standard to Edelgard? Doesn't matter that she was fed Agarthan propaganda, it was her decision to work with them (or to break up with them) and start a war. She was the one who decided to ignore the information that conflicted with her worldview. It was her call to go to war in order to force her ideals on others, her ideals aren't putting a gun to her head and telling her to do these things. She could have saved Monica, but chose not to. It's only in Azure Gleam, when Thales takes direct control, that she loses her autonomy. Everything else? She chose to go down this path of her own free will (just like the non-recruited Eagles who join her in spite of their reactions during White Clouds).

At least, in Japan. The English version tries to alter Edelgard by having her talk back to Thales but at the same time portraying her as a victim of his machinations before she has him taken out off-screen.

It's the same standard as Dimitri's mental illness, he might have been suffering hallucinations but at the end of Moon he's all about taking responsibility for what he did.

[jules-has-notes]

Cinderswift (Unexpected Musical) — PattyCake Productions music video

When the PattyCake fellas set out to retell the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale of Cinderella, they turned to the music of Taylor Swift. Her songs' themes of overcoming detractors and self-doubt, learning from painful situations, and striving for a better life were a perfect fit for the story's narrative.

Details:

title: Unexpected Musicals – Cinderswift

performers: Leah Lowman (Cinderella); Matthew "Bucky" Buckner (Prince Charming / additional vocals); Andrea Stack (Lady Tremaine / additional vocals); Olivia Adkins (Anastasia Tremaine); Melanie Stringer (Drizella Tremaine); Rachel Copeland (fairy godmother); Michael Navarro (royal crier / coachman); Hannah Laird, Hannah Juliano, Layne Stein, & Tony Wakim (additional vocals)

original songs / performer: all songs by Taylor Swift — "Mean"; [0:32] "Style"; [0:55] "Shake It Off"; [1:30] "Bad Blood", feat. Kendrick Lamar; [1:50] "22"; [2:47] "Wildest Dreams"; [3:40] "I Knew You Were Trouble"; [3:55] "Love Story"

written by: "Mean" by Taylor Swift; "Style" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Karl "Shellback" Schuster, & Ali Payami; "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, & Karl "Shellback" Schuster; "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Karl "Shellback" Schuster, & Kendrick Lamar; "22" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, & Karl "Shellback" Schuster; "Wildest Dreams" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, & Karl "Shellback" Schuster; "I Knew You Were Trouble" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, & Karl "Shellback" Schuster; "Love Story" by Taylor Swift

arranged by: Layne Stein & Tony Wakim

release date: 14 January 2017

My favorite bits:

Leah singing ♫ "You can take me do-o-own" ♫ on a descending run as she crouches to reach the tea set

Andrea's absolute poise and stillness as Lady Tremaine

the tiny mouse chorus 🐁 (Ah, so those are the additional vocals.)

all the ladies' 90s-tastic ballgowns

those crunchy minor chords during "Bad Blood"

Rachel's bouncy, trilling vibratto throughout "22"

combining the 1950 animated dance sequence with some of the Regency-era steps from Taylor's "Love Story" video during "Wildest Dreams"

transforming "I Knew You Were Trouble" from a rueful reflection into a sinister threat

Bucky and Leah's lovely harmonies in the final song

Trivia:

The opening dedication "For Dori" refers to Layne's youngest daughter, Doris, who was about six months old at the time of this video's publication.

This video was filmed at the Luxemore Grande Estate in Winter Park, which is primarily used for weddings and other large events. The venue coordination was handled by Jaimz Dillman, who had played Sarah Sanderson in PattyCake's "Hocus Heathens" Halloween video, and has continued to feature in their projects.

Leah has reprised her role as Cinderella in several episodes of PattyCake's "Princess Academy" series, as well as their "Disney Girls Like You" video in 2019, and their original piece "If the Shoe Fits" in 2023.

According to Bucky, there were many outtakes during the dance sequence because "the boots were big on me and that dress was ginormous".

The guys had known Bucky for many years prior to casting him in this project. He'd played the Wolfman opposite Tony's Dracula in the "Beetlejuice Revue" show at Universal Studios, and joined 4:2:Five as their new baritone when Layne switched over to vocal percussion in 2004.

A fan combined the audio from this project with footage from the 1950 Disney animated film to create a fantastic fanvid.

Layne and Tony had previously sung a portion of "Bad Blood" in VoicePlay's "Aca Top 10 — Summer Hits 2015" countdown.

"I Knew You Were Trouble" was the foundation for VoicePlay's 2013 "Trouble" mashup music video with Rachel Potter, which led to them competing on The Sing-Off.

The dancers in the original "Shake It Off" music video include several of their fellow reality show veterans from So You Think You Can Dance — Phillip "PacMan" Chbeeb (s.5), Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall (s.10 winner), Jonathan "Legacy" Perez (s.6), & Melissa Sandvig (s.5).

#PattyCake Productions #series: Unexpected Musicals #music video #jukebox musical #music medley #music #video #behind the scenes

[mybrainproblems]

Like on the one hand, the first couple seasons of hate crimes md are just non-stop racism and misogyny Crimes. On the other, I have a degree in health care administration and I can distract myself tallying up all the ways the ACA takes some of the more fantasy elements of the show (no concern about lifetime care limits) and makes them no longer a fantasy. Tho this is to say nothing about affordability; half these ppl would be bankrupt from all the procedures House does even with insurance and the fact that ppl don't have insurance rarely comes up in the pre 2009 episodes.

Also. I do get a kick out of some of the subplots and references to pharma reps wining and dining doctors and giving them freebies like yessssss. It was the fucking wild west before the Sunshine Act. Probably one of the most accurate parts of the show tbqfh!

#foreman sleeping with the pharma rep in s1 was like. yeah. yeaahhh. #also the offer from the pharma rep to house's team to go on an all expenses paid medical conference at a resort #i grew up in union county nj... accurate depictions of corruption and quid pro quo are comedy to me #hate crimes md #house md

[mariacallous]

its so interesting to see people who live in an totally alternate reality I saw some Leftist speaking in defense of Biden declaring he was the best President of his life time (from Clinton's time on) and said:

"Obama did pass the ACA, but he also cut it to bits to appease the republicans who didn’t vote for it anyway, and he constantly bombed middle-eastern civilians. I’m not even gonna bother mentioning any of the republicans since I don’t need to convince my intended audience that they’re bad.

Biden, while he’s obviously had some major bad decisions (breaking the rail strike, failing to defend trans rights),"

and like... I can't even be mad as such because it's just puzzling like clearly someone fell down a rabbit hole and hasn't ever come back, Obama was "constantly" bombing Middle East civilians? really? thats not a part of those 8 years I really remember and weird complaint to level on Obama not Bush say?

Biden has failed to defend trans rights? I don't even know what this could be referring to? really? he's been very supportive and done a lot on that front

just weird

Like at what point do we come back to reality, you know?

Biden has done the most for trans rights of any President and the democrats have shifted quite a bit over the last decade like…can people be serious, please.

Also I’m tired and disgusted by how drone strikes are whipped out by people.

[minty-fics]

Falling at the Library / Hero Aca

Presyncope/ orthostatic intolerance fic1

- word count 892

BNHA / MHA / Hero Aca

Gender Neutral c/n x Tenya Iida

c/n means character name I use it instead of Y/N -

fluff and kinda whump, could be read as romantic or platonic

summary: Iida and the reader stays at the library studying for too long and in their rush to get back to the dorms the reader triggers their presyncope-like symptoms and falls which makes Iida worried about their safety.

Both of them have been at the school library for hours, and with how long the two had been studying it's quite probable the librarian has already left.

"Iida, how early do we have to leave to get to the dorm before curfew?"

"Oh it takes me maybe 2 minutes why?"

"2 minutes? It's on the edge of campus, I assume that time is with you using your quirk then." They pondered at the person across from them peering through his glasses at the eyes that were still fixated on the book he read -but would soon lift up to meet the eyes that peered at him.

"Of course,” he exclaimed with a smile,”It's actually very efficient going from working my mind to working my quir- oh. I'm so sorry!” In his voice and on his face anyone could see the moment Iida realized the mistake. “When we changed to meeting after class instead of before. I mean. I completely forgot to consider you being here too, that was so inconsiderate and unprepared of me! Oh no. Then that means!" Iida quickly looks out the nearest window, which is simple given that most of the walls were practically just windows. By the ever growing darkness outside and the fact that the lamps had already turned on Iida, and c/n’s, fears were confirmed.

The time was very late. (I hope someone gets the reference)

Trying to stop the spew of apologies directed at them and focus on the situation at hand, c/n tries to direct their nerves into solving the situation. "It's not like were not going to be late if we leave the next couple minutes." The interjection didn't seem to stop the frantic Iida. "It's completely unacceptable, I hope you forgive me. As class president and as the one who asked if we could study after class I should take full responsibility and-""Iida." He finally stops and they stare at each other for just a second.

"We should be going."

He nods in agreement before, as quickly as possible, collecting his reading and note taking materials to put back in his school bag as his classmate does the same both clearly in a rush. As expected Iida was faster and was already waiting to leave when c/n slung their bag over their shoulder as they stood up, and suddenly they weren't.

Iida's eyes widened in surprise as a loud thump rang out through the empty library. C/n on the ground, their shins and one arm holding them up.

"Are you okay?" Iida rushes over to check on his classmate. "What was that thud, are you bruised or cut at all?" You could see the worry in his eyes as he frantically tries to assess what just happened.

Beginning to hold the table's leg with one hand and shoo Iida back with their other c/n responds "I'm fine. The thud was my bag hitting the table. Just give me a moment."

Iida does slow down and back off slightly, then he lightly touches the wrist of the hand shooing him off. "You seem to shaking are you sure you're okay?"

It's this moment he also realizes that they were staring directly at one spot, at nothing, as now they've started to violently blink. "I'll get back up after I've fully regained vision it’s okay."

"What?"

"Peripherals haven't come back yet."

"c/n that's not what I meant. I meant to ask what you mean by-" "Ah. It's back now, just still a lil fuzzy."

"C/N!" It's at this moment they finally look back into his eyes and try to smile reassuringly. "c/n, do you commonly lose your vision like this?" Iida finally stopped trying to ask every question at once even though more and more questions enter his mind before the last one was even completed.

"Yeah it's pretty often, but this usually just happens in the mornings for me. Unless I've been sitting for a while and I guess we have been studying for quite some time."

Those hundreds of questions are still bouncing around his head, c/n can see it on his face, and the concern far from fading even as relief enters his mind from c/n's calm response. "I'm really gonna be okay, like I said this is a daily thing for me, and it's not uncommon to happen more than once a day. It was mostly because I stood up too fast. Oh but don't worry it shouldn’t happen again as we go back to the dorm. The dorm! We gotta go!" They turned to grab the bag that had hit the desk and landed not far from them and with the other hand accepted their class president's outstretched hand that offered them help getting up.

Although believing what c/n said about this not likely happening again on the way back Iida was sure to help them up slowly and even was careful during the return to the dorms, which means walking even slower than what would be normal for a non-speed hero… which means they definitely got back to the dorms after curfew. The chaos that ensued from 1-A’s reaction to class president Iida being out after curfew, well some people still don’t believe it and they saw him enter the dorm building following c/n.

#bnha #mha #hero aca #my hero academia #tenya iida #tenya iida x reader #whump #presyncope #pots #orthostatic hyoptension #presyncope c/n #no clean up I die like the lazy idiot i am #dysautonomia #potsie #heds #orthostatic intolerance #iron deficiency

[dzthenerd490]

File: Jeepers Creepers

SCP#: ACA

Code Name: The Creeper/ Every 23 years on the 23rd day of March, it gets to eat.

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-ACA-Alpha is contained at within a magnetic locked coffin with engravings on the coffin created by the DTASMW to weaken SCP-ACA and prevent him from summoning SCP-ACA-Omega or any SCP-ACA-Beta instances. The Coffin is located in an 8x8 meter room within Site-AF. There are hidden sentry turrets in the walls of the containment cell connected to the emergency power of Site-AF to ensure that if the magnetic locks of SCP-ACA-Alpha's coffin fail then SCP-ACA-Alpha will still be unable to escape. 

A Foundation researcher and two Armed Guards are to enter SCP-ACA-Alpha's containment cell daily to ensure there are no faults with SCP-ACA-Alpha's containment. They are also supposed to wear Foundation identification necklaces to ensure that the sentry turrets do not activate and fire upon them by accident.

SCP-ACA-Omega is kept at Site-AD with an 20x20x20 meter experimental magnetic containment cell, the magnetic field inside the containment cell is powerful enough to keep SCP-ACA-Omega floating in the direct middle of the containment cell. This is to prevent it from moving from its position and to keep it from absorbing the walls into its "body". 

Outside of the containment cell, Foundation engineers are to check and repair the engine and magnetic cores of the containment cell. Within the containment cell, A specialized AFA-3 is to enter SCP-ACA-Omega's cell to ensure the magnetic field is working. The AFA-3 is equipped with specialized skin that prevents its metal skeleton from getting affected by the magnetism and its synthetic body doesn't get crushed by the gravity of the magnetic pull. 

All recovered SCP-ACA-Beta instances are contained at Site-AA within a 10x10 containment cell with each one locked in their own storage box or crate. Foundation researchers and doctors of Clearance Level 2 or higher are allowed to regularly request handling of SCP-ACA-Beta instances for testing purposes. Though of course they are too regulated to be aware of the dangerous properties of each individual SCP-ACA-Beta instance. Two armed guards are to guard the exterior of the containment cell while two armed guards are to guard the interior of the containment cell. 

Description: SCP-ACA-Alpha, it is a humanoid monster, standing at the average height of 5.6 ft, though its weight is undeterminable as some testing has shown it to weigh 100 pounds and others show it to weigh 1000 pounds. Furthermore SCP-ACA-Alpha has two retractable wings on its back that can both hide under its flesh and extend to a width of 12 feet. Both wings are bat-like in nature and despite their fragile appearance they are both as tough as steel. SCP-ACA-Alpha's main body is a disgustingly dark shade of gray and has grotesque skin that seems to be a mix of reptilian and insectoid in nature. 

DNA testing has shown that each part of SCP-ACA-Alpha's body belongs to a different deceased or declared missing person. According to eyewitness accounts before being amnestied, SCP-ACA-Alpha seems to hunt for victims in order to keep its body going by harvesting organs or body parts that it likes from each person.

Apparently, SCP-ACA-Alpha is able to tell which body parts on a person are most compatible and beneficial for its body. Furthermore, when an organ or body part is successfully harvested and attached to SCP-ACA-Alpha it suddenly transforms to resemble SCP-ACA-Alpha's body as if it's always been that way. As such every time its "harvesting period" begins it goes out to find said body parts before it goes back into hibernation again. Its "harvesting period" is every 23 years, and always on or around March the 23rd, why this is the case is unknown. 

SCP-ACA-Alpha is also capable of creating anomalous items that are referred to as SCP-ACA-Beta instances. However, what would be considered its magnum opus is SCP-ACA-Omega. SCP-ACA-Omega is a vehicle made from different parts of cars and surprisingly other vehicles throughout the centuries. SCP-ACA-Omega, despite not being cybernetic, has mechanical traps and mechanics all over it. Such as, a hidden harpoon hook in its exhaust pipe, drone-like land minds that can be deployed while SCP-ACA-Omega is driving, and spike-like growths from anywhere around the "body".

SCP-ACA-Omega's most terrifying and dangerous power is its ability to reflect every form of damage that comes at it, rifle shots sling back at the shooter's head, shotgun shells rip the shooter apart, and even a rocket launcher with end up sending the fire explosion right back at the one who fired. 

SCP-ACA-Omega has also shown signs of sentience and is able to move on its own even without SCP-ACA-Alpha but is at its strongest when around or being called by SCP-ACA-Alpha. Furthermore, if SCP-ACA-Omega is left alone by SCP-ACA-Alpha for too long it will start to move slowly on its own to kill more people, absorb car parts and metal to maintain itself, and search for SCP-ACA-Alpha. How this is possible is unknown as SCP-ACA-Omega has no anomalous markings or signs of containing thaumaturgy properties. 

Lastly there are SCP-ACA-Beta instances which are also creations of SCP-ACA-Alpha. Each SCP-ACA-Beta instance is a bladed weapon of some kind whether it be a knife, throwing star, or even an axe, made of human skin and bone. Despite being made of human body parts, each SCP-ACA-Beta instance is as strong as titanium yet able to resist heat as well as tungsten. How this is possible is unknown as again there is no thaumaturgy energy or any anomalous sigils have been placed within any of the SCP-ACA-Beta instances. 

Despite that, each SCP-ACA-Beta instance has the ability to float and even fly directly forward to the direction the user is holding it towards. When an SCP-ACA-Beta instance is held with the intent to kill it will always fly to the weak point of the target that will ensure the kill is instant. Unfortunately, SCP-ACA-Alpha is the only one who can bring SCP-ACA-Beta or SCP-ACA-Omega to their full potential as anyone else who tries either needs to be extremely careful or else will die right away upon even physical contact alone.

SCP-ACA-Alpha was discovered IN 2001 during a series of attacks taking place at the [data expunged] police station of [data expunged], Florida. SCP-ACA-Alpha was found by MTF Iota-10 units where it unfortunately escaped and killed another victim. After all eyewitnesses were amnestied SCP-ACA-Alpha was hunted via Foundation satellites until he was spotted in [data expunged], California. How SCP-ACA-Alpha was able to cover such a distance and why was unknown. 

Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 "Village Idiot's" went to the [data expunged] ranch and found SCP-ACA-Alpha. The squad of 10 units suffered massive losses leading to only 6 MTF casualties and a civilian casualty, that civilian being the farmer's youngest son. But after extensive firepower SCP-ACA-Alpha was weakened and contained. Afterwards the Foundation assigned all Foundation agents around the U.S. to find any traces of SCP-ACA-Alpha leading to the discovery of its various lairs throughout America, Its collection of SCP-ACA-Beta instances, and finally SCP-ACA-Omega itself. 

Both the farmer of [data expunged] and his surviving son contributed to the capturing of SCP-ACA-Alpha as such under Protocol "Sole Survivor" they were asked to join the foundation. Both surprisingly accepted, the son now works within MTF Epsilon-6 while the father works with MTF Artemis-6. 

"This is probably the most fucked up creatures I had ever seen. And I've seen some fucked-up shit before, but this guy... ugh. he takes it to a whole new level. But grossness aside, his weapons, his car, even his own body. It's all like a weird fucking pattern. I mean, he needs to build himself up from random people in order to keep himself going, he does the same for his car, and he uses other parts to make himself some weapons. I mean when it comes to fleshy shit the first thing that comes to mind is always those Sarkite fucks but I don't think that's the case... if anything it's more like what the Children of the Scarlet King do. But if that's true then how come we never saw this guy before, why did it take us so long to find him? Was it really because he sleeps every 23 years? Also, why 23 years? What makes the number 23 so significant, other than the fact that it's a chaotic number... Wait... Could it... no... It can't be. Nah those guys died out centuries ago. The Sarkites killed them all, besides he looks nothing like them. There's no way SCP-ACA-Alpha is a Davite... that's just not possible." - Dr. Sanchez.

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[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

do you think tutoring/freelancing is better/easier than being a full-time teacher

i mean, that's obviously very subjective - a friend of mine was a tutor as her main gig for a long time to pay the bills while doing opera directing, and she wound up deciding to get her master's in teaching (secondary level, i.e. middle/high school), and now she's teaching english at an academically selective public high school and seems overall pretty happy with the switch. but for me, like, yeah, no question. the major downside is the financial piece. i am lucky that when i sent out a bunch of applications i got picked up by a company that pays me a good hourly rate, regularly sends me clients, and is pretty nice to work for. but i am definitely still figuring out the financial piece & currently making a lot less than i did per year as a teacher, with a higher effective tax rate because of self-employment tax (15.3% of 92.35% of your net earnings from self-employment, which is covered by your employer if you are a w-2 employee - if i calculated right my effective tax rate is a little under 31% and i am expecting to clear less than 40k this year). this is my first full calendar year of it and i'm definitely still learning the ups & downs of the calendar, and am lucky that i have been able some months to ask my partner to write the rent check and i'll pay him back a few days later when my next paycheck clears. i also domestic partnered with my dude when i quit my teaching job so i could go on his health insurance, & without that i would probably be paying maybe slightly less monthly for insurance but it would be insurance that functions like being uninsured because (having been on it before i can tell you) ACA insurance in new york is so, so, so so so so so so bad. nobody fucking takes it and any remotely affordable plan involves a deductible high enough to i guess maybe prevent you from going bankrupt in case of emergency (which is important but which i'm also like genuinely unsure about bc like what if you get hit by a car and the ambulance takes you to a hospital that doesn't take your shitty insurance that fucking no one in this city accepts?) but otherwise basically mean you will be paying out of pocket for everything anyway. this is all why i think that next year i am gonna start trying in earnest to figure out how to pick up more clients on my own so that i can charge my own rates and hopefully build them up over time to something where i'm not like, sweating when it's spring break and half my clients are in europe or whatever. (my friend still does tutoring on the side and her rates are hella high - the best paying clients i've had have been people she referred over to me because i just charged them whatever she would have quoted and rich people in new york will pay crazy ass money for basically anything.)

but like as a job? yeah, it's easier, no question. i like being able to wake up without an alarm and work out or do chores in the middle of the day and waking up with period cramps and deciding that today the standards will be lower and opening tumblr to answer an ask while i pray for the advil to kick in (lol). i like that i can say i mostly don't work wednesdays so i didn't have to give up the volunteer commitment i picked up when i was Figuring Stuff Out in peak covid times which has also become the source of like half of my social contact. my finances are more precarious than they were but based on my friend's experience i am cautiously optimistic that won't always be the case and in the meantime i am pretty much paying my bills working substantially less than 40 hours a week. the lifestyle agrees with me, a lot, now that i have Evolved enough in my Journey that i no longer want my remunerative work to also be the primary filler of my emotional needs, lol - when i was younger i actively wanted a job that would demand a lot of me, and the fact that i no longer to do definitely has partly to do with teaching burnout but also because i figured out how to get other things to make me feel happy and fulfilled.

i also am better at it. my strength as a teacher i think was always in the actual teaching part, but to be a classroom teacher, especially in elementary school, you need to be good at like 900 fucking different things, and i sucked at a lot of them. i never got to a place in years of working with kids where i felt like i could reliably handle a group of kids, behaviorally, and like... i dunno, behavior stuff is unglamorous and you can argue that the phrase "classroom management" is kind of dystopian, but what i came to believe as a result of my classroom experiences, not before, is that establishing and maintaining a calm, mostly quiet, predictable classroom is a way of protecting children's access to education and a way of protecting children from each other. when i was working in a public school job that i quit after four months, i really felt like if i had been able to be a tyrant who kept them silent all day, that would have been an emotionally healthier situation for them than what i had going on, which was just children being terrorized and hurt by each other all day long, with nobody around who could make it stop. unpopular i know! but once i watched a fourth grader mock another fourth grader's speech for being an english language learner and then tell her to stop talking if she can't speak english (in a conversation i was attempting to have about how we could treat each other more respectfully), and then totally refuse to ever apologize or engage in any kind of reflection about why that wasn't okay, i was like, yeah all of these children's lives would be better if i could get them to just stop talking. they wouldn't be good. but they would be better than what i was doing.

i also found teaching a morally exhausting job, which is maybe best illustrated by the fact that the mean kid in that previous example was also a homeless kid whose dad was probably in jail. that was the kind of thing i ran into constantly - to take an example from private school, my last year i faced a repeated situation where i was like, "i can either tell this 8 year old to just get over and ignore the fact that someone said something objectively fucked up to them, or i can attempt to have some kind of completely doomed problem solving exchange with the most emotionally fragile child i ever met whose dad died a year ago and whose mom is a mess and who is psychologically incapable of admitting imperfection and will accuse you of victimizing her if you suggest that you believe someone else saying that she said this thing that she definitely said." and like, i still don't know what the fuck i was supposed to do with that. i still don't know if it was fucked up of us to try to get that kid to try, like, ever, at anything, or if it was good because even in the midst of grief and many other issues kids need structure and boundaries and to be treated like their feelings matter but are not the only thing in the entire world [truly i do believe this: raising kids to believe their emotions are too important is very, very damaging to the kids, because believing that your emotions are emergencies is a terrible way to go through life] and it's unpleasant for them in the morning but better in the long run than the alternative. like, i don't fucking know. and meanwhile her mom called us to tell us that she was a happy child whose only problem in the entire world was that her teachers were insufficiently sensitive. she called to tell us that, btw, within two weeks of the one-year anniversary of the kid's dad's sudden death, which like, i'm not a child psychologist but................ (tutor-parent relationships are also way easier than teacher-parent relationships, and also if they decide they hate me like who cares there will be others.) (sometimes i feel bad complaining about parents because honestly the vast majority of parents i ever had were very pleasant and lots of them loved to effuse about how much their kids loved school and loved their teachers and were having a great year and they were so grateful to us, even when i didn't think we were necessarily doing an awesome job. lol. but the difficult ones do have a way of lingering.)

i am getting off track. anyway. so i didn't have a lot of faith in my abilities as a teacher, and i also by the end didn't have any faith basically in my ability to find a school where i felt i could trust the institution i was in to be a good place to develop those abilities. sometimes i still do get sad because i think if i'd found my way after my master's to a school that was a decent-ish fit, i probably would have been really happy and would still be teaching. (a bonus bummer is that in retrospect this would have probably required me to skip trying out public schools in general, since what i later learned is that basically only terrible schools hire teachers new to the DOE and the trick is to stick it out a year and then you can be considered by a non terrible school - but i couldn't hack it that year.) but i had a pair of nightmares back to back and at the end i just didn't have the energy to try again. and some of that was the Miscellaneous Skills stuff mentioned above but also some of that was pedagogical. when i say "all schools are bad" i'm actually not referring to structural issues like underfunding problems or lack of arts programs or excessively high student-teacher ratios. i am referring to the fact that graduate schools of education are terrible? like worse than useless? i think i learned a few things in my grad school but basically all of them were in the slightly higher-level special ed classes i took because i was doing the dual certification program. which, to be clear, i do NOT think prepared me successfully to teach students with disabilities. the special ed classes were the only classes that i felt like taught me useful things about general ed teaching. if i had done the general ed degree idk what the fuck i would have learned. like unpopular opinion but at a certain point i was like, i may as well have done fucking TFA for all that i got out of the many thousands of dollars i paid and am still paying these fuckers.

i mean, at grad school, we were taught that learning styles are real. and when sometimes in a small group i would be like, "i think learning styles are maybe not real actually?" people would look at me blankly. (or if i said something like, "can you explain to me how an audio recording of a picture book is more suited to auditory learners than just... a teacher reading it out loud. like why... is that more auditory." they did not understand the question and could not answer it. these are the people educating america's youth.) i got docked points once actually on an assignment where i was working with this kid for 8 weeks and i described this thing i had done with her that had hugely boosted her comprehension - i mean she'd gone from not being able to answer the simplest most basic factual questions about literally anything she'd read despite having strong decoding skills to like, being able to thoroughly and accurately answer the questions i was asking her - but it hadn't Aligned With Her Learning Style. and so then another week i reluctantly tried a different thing that was more vaguely kinesthetic because "learning styles are fake" was not an option, and the thing i did worked LESS WELL and i got a BETTER GRADE for Clearly Aligning With Her Individual Learning Style. like, let me just underscore for this: i got a better grade for doing WORSE TEACHING, AS MEASURED BY LEARNING OUTCOMES, because i was doing better alignment with a model that is discredited and fake. and this is like, all ed schools. all of them. and therefore, all teachers.

i suffered a major crisis of disillusionment when i was maternity subbing at the place that wound up being my last classroom employer where i found a post on timothy shanahan's blog (i love him now and recommend him to anyone interested in literacy shit but he hurt my feelings at first) where he was like, "independent reading is a waste of time." the HORROR! the HERESY! but his case was undeniable. and as i came to accept that i also came to realize that i had never been in a school environment, in grad school or as a teacher, where i could say something like, "i read this very interesting argument that independent reading is not a good use of classroom time for these reasons based in both logic and research," and be met with anything but scorn. and like that was the thread that unraveled the entire sweater of, uh, the most popular literacy program in new york city. (the TC workshop program.) like, by the end of my classroom time, i was like, wow this program literally doesn't help anyone but borderline gifted kids. any kids who need actual help to learn to read are completely 100% left in the dark. but when i tried to say something in team meetings like "hey this student who has not progressed in his reading in two years across two different classrooms, i think he is not benefiting from our program," i got told, "don't feel bad, i think he's a complicated case." (this from the math specialist who also tried to convince me that being able to add single digit numbers without counting is not important, and that not being able to do that has no relationship whatsoever with a student's present ability to learn to multiply. in case you thought it was only reading that was bad.) one time (i learned from the literacy specialist who i did like) an outside consultant came to do some professional development (i hated her for reasons too complicated to get into but i was complaining about her which is why i learned this story) who was very into creating Independent Self-Directed Reflective Learners Blah Blah Blah and she did a conference with a student and then was debriefing it for the teaching team and naming all the Strengths she had as a reader and all the good stuff she was doing and the literacy specialist had to be like, "i have read the book she's reading and nothing she said about it was accurate."

ok. i am really just ranting now. also the advil is starting to work so i almost feel human again and should probably try to do something with that while it lasts. the original point i was going to make that was relevant to your inquiry re: pedagogy was that in tutoring if i try something and i decide it was bad and didn't work, then i don't have to do it anymore. and if i have an idea that i think might be good then i can do it. and it turns out i fucking love that. to the extent of like, i don't work a lot, as i said, but i definitely put in more prep time than i know at least a lot of test prep tutors do, and sometimes i feel weird about that because test prep tutoring is basically widening the achievement gap and like the whole point of it for me also was to work less. but like it turns out that while i love not having a real job, i have still retained a certain core ability to derive satisfaction out of feeling like i am doing something with integrity and skill, and like... idk man it still feels really fucking good to have that moment of like Wow I Taught Someone Something, even if it's like... oh man a while ago one of my SAT kids was like, "i was going to pick B because the passage mentioned calcites [or whatever random science terms], but it's not really saying that they did that, so i went with D," which was perfect SAT logic (the SAT reading section, and actually most standardized test reading sections in my experience, loves to have one tempting answer that mentions some hyperspecific terms from the passage but says something inaccurate about them, and then a correct answer that doesn't use any words from the passage but requires you to have like actually understood the idea conveyed in order to identify it as correct, and students who don't come in as great readers get sooooo tripped up on "well it MENTIONED..." because students who are not great readers are not in the habit of reading texts as integrated wholes) relating to a trap she had fallen into many times before, and i was soooo proud of her lmao. and i actually like, not just don't hate but do kind of actively enjoy being able to chase those moments fully on my own terms and using my own judgment, observation, learning, & experiences. [which ok sorry to loop back into being a bummer but like: in theory it's nice to say i want that for all teachers, but in practice see above re: the learning and experiences of most teachers are bad because ed schools are bad.]

working evenings & weekend during the school year can be a pain tho. i like test prep work because as i spend more time with specific tests they become a lot less work-intensive to tutor because i've already made my little highlighted answer keys (remember what i said about how i know for a fact most test prep tutors put in less time than i do...) but i might try in the future to figure out a way to get more elementary school clients because they get out of school earlier, lol. maybe one day i'll go in for orton-gillingham certification so i can bill myself as qualified to work with students with dyslexia.

#askbox #sorry this became a giant vent about my many bad experiences in the education world

[the-empress-7]

“BP conveniently burying the self incriminating bullying investigation.”

A plethora of non royal watching politically tweeting people I follow said that according to HR and ACAS such a report wouldn’t ordinarily be published in the public domain by a business.

I have no idea what the civil service do in such cases and assume that BP’s offices are akin to the civil service rather than a private company.

That said my take is that although publishing the actual investigation might not have been a good idea BP should have made detailed reference to the changes implemented across the different palaces/households in light of the investigation.

And yes I think it was mothballed because the original complaint vanished into CH.

I assume that with NDA’s waived for the court case and Valentine Low’s forthcoming book people will speak to the press. 🇬🇧

BP put out a formal statement saying that the matter would be investigated. BP went through the trouble of hiring an independent firm to run the investigation. I never expected the findings or the gory details to be make public (I know UK employment law fairly well). However based on the expectation set by none other that BP themselves, I did expect some form of formal acknowledgment on the matter. The victims deserve at least that much. 

[bootlickerhawks]

the lil references to chainsaw man and hero aca in gokurakugai are fun

#gokurakugai #bnha #csm #the csm ref in chapter 1 threw me back hfdksfj i didn't think the author would make such an obvious reference #i decided to check it out since i've heard a lot of praise for gakurakugai #and it's ok so far i really like the character designs (esp alma and tao) and it reminds me of early bleach which makes me nostalgic #finding the intertextual references keeps me entertained lmao #i will say that despite the artstyle being gorgeous i do feel like it lacks ''oomf'' (i dont mean the twit abbreviation) #in hori and fujimoto's art you Feel the movement