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blackgirlslivingwell · 3 months
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Confessions of Childfree Black Women
While the decision to have children is a personal one, women who voluntarily decide not to have children still face a lot of questioning and judgment from society. There's this assumption that all women want to be mothers, that a woman's life isn't complete unless she has kids. In today's video, we're going to take a look at a few confessions from childfree Black women that are from various social media sources.
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ladyniniane · 7 months
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FE OC WEEK DAY 7: Endings
Here is my last entry for @fe-oc-week! It was so much fun and I loved seeing everyone's OCs and creations.
Let's now see what fate awaits Maeve depending on the route...
Introduction - Relationships (if you want to learn more about the other OCs mentioned in this post) - Backstory - Supports
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After the war, Maeve went back to Faerghus and worked as a court musician. She and Dedue got married in a bright and lively ceremony according to the Faerghian and Duscurian rite. As she had feared, she sometimes struggled with returning to civilian life and had frequent nightmares about the war. Maeve wrote her own songs, which won her acclaim. She sometimes traveled with the court and met with foreign dignitaries. Her book, compiling songs for Fodlan and beyond, became renowned as a treasure and helped preserve and pass down many musical traditions. She learned to manage her money and her financial assets grew, making her an even more influential woman. Maeve had a joyful life, full of discoveries, surrounded by her loved ones (and stayed childfree).
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Maeve fought at Tailtean plains. As Enid had died defending Garreg Mach, she was never reunited with her sister. Dedue didn’t tell her about the crest stones. It was a last resort solution and he hoped that he wouldn't have to use them. Still, Maeve felt something was off. Knowing that this battle could be her last, she put her most beautiful tunic under her gambeson and painted her eyelids black and her lips red. She fought valiantly but witnessed Dedue's fate with horror. Her lover turned into a demonic beast and was bombarded with spells by the enemy black mages, riddled with arrows and javelins. Maeve sound found herself separated from her allies. The imperial soldiers were coming for her and there was no escape. Maeve died as she had lived: fighting against the Empire. She released a powerful magical explosion, killing many enemies and sacrificing herself in the process, her body vanishing entirely. She was later avenged when her friends Gladys and Vigdis led a successful rebellion, overthrowing the empress and freeing Faerghus. 
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Maeve joined the Kingdom’s army alongside Gladys, as in AM, and became acquainted with Dedue. The battle at Gronder turned into a nightmare as Amalia and Vigdis were killed. Gladys joined the Alliance, as she felt that it was the only way to defeat the Empire. Maeve followed her and was reunited with Enid, who had joined the Church's army. Several traumatic experiences ensued: first the javelins of light at Merceus and then Gladys' death in Shambhala. After the war, Maeve followed Enid, who had married Seteth, and worked for the church. She felt like a burden and out of place in the family. Haunted by her friends' death, Maeve was unable to sing. She nonetheless found support in her friendship with Flayn and Ismene, a part-Agarthan doctor. 
An unexpected miracle happened when Maeve was reunited with Dedue. After Dimitri’s death, Dedue was left to wander. He encountered a merchant from Duscur, Esthar, who convinced him to escort her to Garreg Mach. They found solace in each other’s company. Even though Dedue was still full of guilt, words of wisdom from Esthar convinced him to stay with Maeve. The two confessed their feelings for each other and gradually found a new balance. Maeve regained her ability to sing step by step, first only with her sister’s help, then in front of her friends and decided to join the church’s choir. She and Dedue got married and lived in a cozy home close to the monastery. They had a cat and a flower garden and ultimately traveled to Duscur.
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floatingbook · 2 years
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I just need some advice. I'm a 35 year old black female, atheist, single, asexual, and childfree. I escaped a cult (jehovah's witnesses) when I was 20 and lost my whole family because of it. I have no support system and I'm terrified because I live in a southern red state. I'm looking for places I can move to as a single female that are less religious in general. I was thinking of using my career in emergency dispatch to try immigrating to Canada or maybe upstate NY.
I'm not well-acquainted with how things work, practically, in the US. @nansheonearth has a post with women from all over the world sounding off. Maybe you can find someone in your state with whom to connect, or who can offer you actionable resources. Give it a few day and then look through the notes on this, some women will probably indicate that you can reach out to them for help.
Good luck, anon, and remember that you're a very capable and brave woman.
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cicaklah · 1 year
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star trek picard episodes 1-3 thots
THE THOTS ARE BACK
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So this post directly follows on from the angry freakout I had earlier this week where I live incepted myself into watching picard season 3 ride or die, because sometimes you've just got to go down to the highway and watch the car crash in person.
also, I reminded myself that I dont care about other people's star trek opinions, only my own. therefore, I needed to have star trek opinions.
here are my thots, here be spoilers
first off: gates mcfadden's face lift is fucking spectacular, the woman looks amazing. Her eye sockets are so sculpted, her cheeks are so taut, her jawline is so sharp, and yet she still looks her age. this is what growing old in the socialist utopia promises: you too can look like a woman who has not actually had to work since the early 90s. also credit to everyone looking great in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
second: jack crusher (the second??!?! how does that work anyway), is so fucking hot.
third: I went into this knowing broadly what happened in episode 1 and 2, and that episode 3 the twist is changelings, because I saw a spoiler yesterday on una mccormack's tumblr. changelings is interesting, because to do a ds9 plot in tng is bold, especially when you can't bring odo back since ya man rene audeboujournois died a few years ago. worf doesnt even mention him by name: ffs worf raffi was alive during the dominion war, she'll know who fucking odo is. he's odo.
fourth: the moment I was like, I am here for the long run was Worf's whole introduction and his everything. I think its always hard to give credit to michael dorn for being so great because he has to act stoic through SO much makeup and he just is worf, but honestly, it felt like if they'd just put the black hair on him he would have looked exactly the same as he did thirty years ago. Like they had to make his hair white just to make time have passed. The man is so well preserved, maybe he also has a very good surgeon, but I am down to believe that he just Is Like That. Damn.
five: worf is the best thing that happened to raffi, I love them together, they are the best team.
six: all of this is going to fall apart when brent spiner comes to Lore it all up, as that is obviously what was stolen from the daystrom institute alongside the portal gun.
seven: so episode 3 won me over because I had kind of forgotten how good an actor patstew is when he really gives it?? because fuck me the scene between beverly and picard where they talk about how the whole baby thing happened was so good, so subtle, so emotive. It also crucially made sense: they had tried to be together. they had failed to be together. crusher was tired of his shit, he's always been a terrible partner and it just didn't work, but then she was pregnant and ready to leave anyway, ready to move on, so just went, fine, breakup over, beverly out. Also, reminded picard that the universe keeps trying to kill him, that he'd basically killed her husband and her son, and she had no other family....thanks for the sperm donation, I'm gonna go retire and have a redo. I was already 100% team bev but now I am 200% team bev, also fuck off picard with your 'oh yeah actually I wouldn't have been my horrible abusive father fuck you for taking me at my word, my whole /r/childfree carefree bachelor attitude, how could I have known anything about myself in my early 60s, I was but a boy, we could have had it all, rolling in the deep' etc. Father and husband fuck the fuck off you traditionalist old bastard you just told us you had broken up for the FIFTH TIME.
eight: should have reserved point seven for seven herself but: SEVEN!!!! I am fucking going to do it, I'm going to write the seven of nineifesto. She is so fucking deep waters, shes been so betrayed by authority figures none of who actually give a shit about whats best for her, just for what is best for the story, she is not meant to be in starfleet ffs, she got the worst possibly mentors in janeway and picard. also seven and raffi just need to hang out with worf and tell the rest of them to fuck off.
nine: captain shaw was right and he should say it. He was having a nice time, just running his ship, doing his duty, when he gets fucking hijacked by two guys who literally are mavericks and crash ships all the time, who are manipulating seven, who MUTINIES, and they literally destroy his ship and ruin his life in the space of about 12 hours and he saw through their bullshit within 30 seconds of the 'surprise inspection' gig. justice for captain liam shaw, only sane man on the titan.
ten: look, the show is never going to stick the landing, but like all star trek, it is a journey. there are changelings, there is worf, there is raffi, there is my forthcoming 200k seven of nine fix it fic, there is so much to enjoy, and also there was the absolutely awful deaging makeup, please stop doing it, it made me feel seasick.
anyway these are my thots on yaoi kthxbye
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dykonradish · 9 months
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There are womyn who share your interests and desires and your dislikes and issues and they want you to come to womyn’s lands and be their friend!!
On the two womyn’s lands that I’ve been to I’ve met pagan womyn, Christian womyn, Jewish womyn, Buddhist womyn, agnostic womyn, atheist womyn. Ive met meat eaters, vegans, vegetarians, gluten free womyn, low carb womyn. I’ve met autistic womyn, womyn with ADHD, womyn with schizophrenia, and womyn without mental health conditions. Ive met womyn with physical disabilities, both invisible and visible and I’ve met able bodied womyn who are happy to help make things more accessible however they can. I’ve met indoorsy womyn who have never camped before and outdoorsy womyn who loan them tents and sleeping bags. Ive met sporty womyn, musical womyn, artistic womyn, and womyn who aren’t any of those things and appreciate the womyn who are. There are detransitioners and desisters and womyn who don’t know anything about gender ideology. There are young womyn and old womyn - daughters, mothers, grandmothers and childfree womyn. There are so many cool lesbians and there are wonderful bi and straight womyn. Black womyn, white womyn, indigenous womyn, latina womyn, middle eastern womyn, asian womyn, immigrants, locals and expats returning for a visit. Womyn who smoke and drink and womyn who have been sober for decades. Fat womyn, thin womyn, buff womyn, hairy womyn, womyn who shave, masculine, feminine, a variety of styles and expressions. There are womyn from so many class backgrounds and demographics.
I’ve seen more new womyn come every year and build the most beautiful connections. I’ve met womyn who I immediately vibed with or wanted to become friends with and womyn who its easy to see that I’m not compatible with and who I’ll probably never be friends with - but still respect and am glad they are there. What connects us all is the appreciation of female only spaces and womyn created community. If you’re a woman who values these spaces, know that there are womyn who want you to be there!
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musicfeedsmysoul12 · 2 years
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IZMS: The Social Media Experience 1 Part 4
Summary: Across a universe, various social media posts come from a group of siblings and their friends. It tells the story of a young boy and his family, a young boy who will one day become a symbol of hope. AKA: Izuku's dad sucks, he's got a lot of siblings and he likes to tease them online.
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Idiot Siblings Chat
Shin-Shin-Shin: So. We have another sibling.
Circus Freak: Knew it! Though this raises questions.
Fan Boy Extreme: Why?
Circus Freak: He’s my age. Meaning father dearest cheated.
Shin-Shin-Shin: no surprise given why Mary divorced him. 
Circus Freak: the mom duo warned her. 
Fan Boy Extreme: who is it? Will he be added here? Or is it a ‘no one will know’ thing?
Shin-Shin-Shin: It’s Hawks. Hes currently having a small break down in the bathroom. I’m sitting here very awkwardly with Nara and Hawks PR. And a Commission Agent who looks like his life is flashing before his eyes.
Fan Boy Extreme: probably due to the fact Hawks is thought to be the son of a criminal and like people KNOW that the commission has some sort of dirt on him.
Circus Freak: how did you know the first? 
Fan Boy Extreme: look at my name.
Circus Freak: Right. Well… cool! Another brother! Oh god! Imagine father dearest learning 😂
Fan Boy Extreme: given Hawks is openly gay? HA.
Circus Freak: YOU AIN’T GOT ANY STRAIGHT SONS YOU LIKE BITCH!
Fan Boy Extreme: NOPE!
Circus Freak: “I must have a legacy and have many children to reproduce and repopulate the planet!”
Fan Boy Extreme: “And they must be how I envision them! Heterosexual, cisgender and perfect!”
Circus Freak: Ends up with an intersex older kid, a childfree daughter, a bisexual son, a gay son and how many other daughters?! HA!!!
Fan Boy Extreme: Oh you guys official decided?
Circus Freak: Yeah. Don’t get me wrong: I love kids. But to much shit in my life to have them. Dabi only would want one to fuck with his dad. 
New User Added!
Shin-Shin-Shin: oh wow didn’t think of that. HA. Serves him right.
14589003000: Hello?
Circus Freak: Oh! New sibling
Name Changed!
Red Feathers: Thanks?
Circus Freak: We’ll come up with something better later, don’t worry.
Shin-Shin-Shin: He should always worry with you.
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Kamui Woods @KamuiWoodsOffical
Today is the day! [Picture of Kamui in his uniform. Next to him is a green haired boy making a face at the camera. He has freckles and green eyes. Next to him is a girl with long green hair that looks like vines, smiling. Both are dressed in casual clothes.]
Kamui Woods @KamuiWoodsOffical
My cousin was invited to give @FatgumHeroOffical’s little sister another girl around!
BIG EATER @FatgumHeroOffical
WE’RE READY! [Picture of Fatgum in his hero uniform, beaming with an arm flexed. Sitting on the arm is a pretty teenager with long dark hair, looking shy but happy]
Gang Orca @GangOrcaOffical
On our way! [Picture of Gang Orca in his uniform, a hand on the shoulder of a purple haired teenager in casual clothes, scowling at the camera]
Best Jeanist @BestJeanistHeroOffical
Already at the area, making sure no paparazzi are around. [Picture of Best Jeanist, posing dramatically. A blond haired teen is next to him, mimicking the pose with a wide grin] 
Ingenium @IngeniumOffical
Racing there! [Picture of Ingenium in full armour, a tall blue haired teen next to him with glasses, the teen smiling slightly.]
Space Princess @alleyOOPS
Here to watch and laugh! [Picture of a blacked bobbed haired woman with freckles, a pair of sunglasses low on the bridge of her nose, one eye winking. Next to her is a black haired man with heavy scaring, piercings looking like they were holding his flesh together. Behind them it’s obvious it’s Kamui and Izuku, both looking exhausted]
Analysts are Valid! @jumpbunny
You’re awful. I can’t believe you flew here for this.
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The ADULT (probably) Chat
Gordon Hana: five minutes in and they’re fighting. Shinny owes me a beer.
Kamui Woods: how did you guess?!
Gang Orca: Indeed. I thought it would be ten minutes.
Ingenium: ? You knew they’d fight?!
Gordon Hana: some light cyber stalking. Found Gang Orca’s following list, found Shinsou on said list. Looked through it: kid has a few issues. Mostly the emo “no one else understands” kind.
Gang Orca: he’s aware how much discrimination mutations face but he hasn’t really conceptualized others do to. His father thought it was due to his Quirk. I got my sister to agree for therapy because Hitoshi needs to learn how to be sympathetic at least, and I actually doubt it is. Seems like a cop out to blame it on Quirks.
Best Jeanist: a case of bias? Unable to understand others suffer to?
Ingenium: Oh hell Tenya just got dragged in trying to stop it.
Fatgum: Momo and Shiozaki seem to be just… watching and waiting.
Gordon Dabi: Ibara once saw Izuku outright demolish a guy’s entire outlook on life and then give him an entire new way of it.
Kamui Woods: Give him time and Shinsou is gonna have a very different outlook.
Best Jeanist: oh dear, Neito got invovled.
Fatgum:… oh hell did…
Gang Orca: fucking hell Hitoshi
Gordon Hana: GO MOMO AND IBARA!
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Bubblegum POP @hereismycheese
I just saw all of the heroes during their meet-up ignore the kids brawling and now the kids are best friends?!? What?!? 
Bubblegum POP @hereismycheese
Also the girls outright PILEDRIVED one of the boys. It was kinda glorious. But seriously: what?!?
Kamui Woods @KamuiWoodsOffical
Long story short: My baby brother takes issues to people being dumb and being insulting.
Gang Orca @GangOrcaOffical
And my nephew needs to learn to watch what he says because people will get offended. At least it looks resolved… mostly.
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The Legacy Kids
Shinsou: Apologies again.
Yaoyorozu: You don’t need to keep apologizing. Just be better.
Midoriya: Agreed. 
Iida: I must concur.
Monoma: Let’s move on: is anyone taking the offer to do a recommendation for UA?
Yaoyorozu: Yes. I feel more comfortable doing this in a more closed setting. With my Quirk I’ll be revealing a lot of skin. 
Midoriya: There’s clothes that use DNA? Would this work for you?
Yaoyorozu: Sadly no. I produce the items FROM my body, and it ends up absorbing the fabric when I do. It doesn’t just leave my body. So I end up having to make more fabric, causing me to lose energy quicker.
Shiozkai: Would a sports bra and shorts work then? It doesn’t add much protection…
Yaoyorozu: I was going to just leave it to the designers…
Midoriya: Ah! Don’t!
Shinsou: Bad idea. I’ve heard HORROR stories from my uncle about that.
Midoriya: Shin has an ex who is a hero and she told me about requesting her costume and the fact they gave her something that was basically a bikini due to her skin being impenetrable. 
Yaoyorozu: Ah. 
Midoriya: Yeah. I say focus on making sure your back/arms/thighs and maaaaaybe stomach is accessible. And eat more ngl. 
Yaoyorozu: Before Taishiro helped our mother with custody I was living with my father. He was very… particular how women should look. I’m attempting to eat more but it is difficult on how to adjust. 
Midoriya: fathers suck.
Monoma: My father isn’t bad.
Shinsou: You’d be the only one from what I guess from the rest of us. Mine is a creep (moms divorcing him), Midoriya’s told us about his, Shiozaki made a face when hers got brought up and Iida is apparently in custody of his brother.
Iida: Ah correct. My mother isn’t as bad and is in therapy but my father… best left unsaid correct.
Midoriya: I’m changing the chat name.
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Monoma: Daddy Issues?
Yaoyorozu: It is… somewhat appropriate.
Midoriya: Exactly. So- I’m not taking the recommendation exam. I want to get in on my own as an extra fuck you to the haters.
Shiozaki: Language.
Midoriya:… I can’t use my usual rebuttal! Damn it.
Shiozaki: 😇
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Mom: Izuku, I got a text from Shinji? Saying you’d text him SOS?
Izuku: I ran into Mitsuki.
Mom: what?!
Izuku: yeah. I… I don’t know. It’s kinda hard to explain…
Mom: come home baby, we’ll talk. 
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AITA for not forgiving an old friend compared to my brother?
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 I, 14M, have faced a lot of bullying from my brother and an old friend or well, the son of my mother’s old friend. It’s based on Quirk status from the friend and for my brother there’s a lot of family stuff going on. For instance: Our dad is a populationist, homophobic and prejudiced against like… a lot of stuff. My brother who is intersex got a lot of shit from our dad because of the fact he wasn’t normal, plus he was infertile and our dad didn’t like his Quirk to much which is stupid cause it’s awesome. I meanwhile am male. (My brother prefers male pronouns and being called he/a guy/so on). Due to this my brother picked on me a lot. I was the result of my dad’s third marriage, and my brother is from the first one. His mom died and he ended up staying with his stepmom, my dad’s seond ex-wife. 
 For simplicity, I’ll call her SMom cause she helped raise me along with my mom after my dad divorced her for not being able to have more children after me. 
 My brother wasn’t nice. He said mean things, stole my toys, talked down to me, told me my dreams of being a hero were stupid. He was about 10 when I was born. (Our sister was 8 and she came from SMom). I was like four when I was told I would never be a hero from the doctor and my brother decided to be a hero to spite me. He honestly hadn’t been sold on the idea but apparently my despair inspired him. (SMom does remember grounding him for some comments during this time she said were really shitty.) 
 When I was six, he was sixteen and things changed. According to my brother I managed to help him a lot with his Quirk (I don’t actually know how cause it was really simple to understand). He began being kinder and nicer to me. My brother really changed, got better and really repented for what happened. Up to when he was eighteen and learned I was being bullied by my friend and honestly by the whole school he willingly entered a contract that bound him to an agency that would basically keep him unable to become a hero until he was like 24 just to afford a new school for me. At the time I didn’t get it because to me the same stuff my brother did was like my friend. However as I got older, went to a school where my brother’s cousin on his mom’s side went to as well, and got therapy I realized that… my brother was a jackass but he wasn’t as bad as my friend. 
 My friend… frankly the more I think about it the more I think my friend never actually was a friend. I have a vivid memory of him taunting me at age three for not being able to skip rocks like him and another memory of him giving me a name that basically means ‘useless or good for nothing’ also at three before my doctor decided due to my Quirk I could not be a hero. 
 When we were about five he started using his Quirk on me. Without saying much, it’s a fire based Quirk and I got some burns. Most teachers brushed it off as boys being boys, scolded him and that was that. However the school was also apathetic to me due to my status and I began being bullied by everyone because my friend was going to be the next number one hero, I was the useless freak. My therapist thinks I internalized it.
 My brother caught my friend hurting me and it led to us being seperated. I was sent to a new school and put into therapy. It helped a lot, more so when I made actual friends. My friend though lived near me and kept tormenting me, even using his Quirk on me still. My cousin (brother’s but she’d my cousin now to as per her) would protect me when she could as she liked to walk home with me since we now went to the same school and she felt she should. We’d avoid them but still I got a lot of burns. My brother ended up arresting the kid and his friends after years of warnings when we turned 12. That was when I saw his mom after all these years. I didn’t know why my mom stopped talking to her until then, when I discovered that she had outright denied what he kid did, saying it had to be roughhousing. Apparently she knew he had a bad attitude but not everything. My mom dropped her and SMom blocked her when she wouldn’t back down.
 We ended up moving after this. My mom was dating her girlfriend at the time (now wife). We moved in with her due to the relationship progressing far enough. I was then put into a really good middle school. I never saw the friend again after that. 
 Why did I bring this up? It’s cause I saw my friend’s mom a week ago and she said hi. We talked a bit, before she told me that her son was doing better and she was sorry. I basically went: okay? And she asked about forgiveness. I said I wasn’t going to forgive him. She was shocked and asked why and I told her because he was really bad and coming from her the apology didn’t mean much. She then asked about my brother and how I forgave him. (She found out through a third party)
 In my mind, my brother was much less of a bully. Sure he called me names, treated me badly and stole toys but he never hurt me like the old friend. Maybe my brother was way older when he bullied me but he also smartened up quicker and has been making amends for what he did. My friend though just tormented me. And he hasn’t apologized at all. I told her this and she became angry. Said that it didn’t matter because she spoke for him and he was sorry. I said no it did and I wouldn’t believe it until he said it. She got angrier and asked why I couldn’t just forgive. I walked away then. She came after me, shouting she knew I’d gotten into a fight with someone else and forgave them. I told her a single comment that ends in a fight is NOTHING to what her son did. She got mad and would have started screaming if it wasn’t for a police officer to walk over asking what was going on. I took my leave quickly.
 My cousin says forgiveness is divine but also imparted on me that he did not do so in person, and that ‘we are not divine. Forgiveness is healing but if you cannot heal yet do not try so now’. However a few friends at school told me I’d been a bit of a hypocrite and a bit of an asshole. My brother was way older and should have known better, why am I holding a grudge against a kid my age? 
 So, AITA?
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 Bro, you’re NTA. She had no right to ask that- mom already TOLD you.
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PolkaDotAfro
I’m telling Mama. She’s gonna rip the woman apart little bro. 
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SupaPowah
NTA. It’s your brother VS someone not related to you. SO NTA.
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The Grown Up Idiot Kids (and spouse)
Woody: I swear I’m going to go villain and it will be the Bakugou family's fault.
Exhibitionist: I’m your alibi.
To Fast: I’m… what’s going on? And can I change this name?
Danger Kink: 1- go ahead. Hana gave it to you as a joke but she’ll be good about letting you change it. 
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Hawks: Thank you.
Exhibitionist: Sorry. I thought it’d be funny. Tell me to fuck off if I push. (You’re keeping a silly name for the other chat though.)
Hawks: I’m fine with the other chat. I just don’t feel comfortable having this sort of stuff on my phone.
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Watch Me Fall: Sorry! 
Burn B*tch: This alright?
Hawks: Ah… yes thank you. 
Burn B*tch: welcome. And anyway: 2- the Bakugou family is a long ass story for Izuku and Inko. I think I have the whole notes somewhere on my phone.
Woody: you actually saved it?!? I was nineteen when I made that PowerPoint!
Burn B*tch: yes. Yes I did. Here, given you all like to comment I’ll go point by point.
Burn B*tch: 1) Bakugou Mitsuki and Inko used to be a thing. I’m 90% sure Mitsuki still has the hots for Inko cause when she was around she made a lot of comments. 
Watch Me Fall: TRUE! I saw her at a recent show and she came right up to me asking about Inko, wondering how she was, if she was still dating, and I quote “That younger woman? The flighty one?” I was happy to tell her they are married.
Woody: UGH.
Hawks: That’s… bad. 
Watch Me Fall: She looked like she was about to cry. I feel bad for Masaru.
Woody: I hate to blame the victim but like Masaru knew Mitsuki liked Inko. He was there when they dated and he had to know she still had feelings for Inko. We all know their marriage is a Quirk marriage anyway.
Hawks: wait what?!
Watch Me Fall: We don’t actually know. It’s just very convenient that a woman with a glycerin sweat quirk married a guy with an explosive sweat quirk and got a kid like Katsuki with nitro-glycerin like sweat which he can set off on purpose.
Woody: They say it was a business marriage and we just have to accept it.
Watch Me Fall: “it’s illegal” ha yeah right. They just go sneakier. Exhibit A) Dabi’s asshole dad
Burn B*tch: agreed. But this leads to point 2) Mitsuki was very upset about the fact Inko found someone else after meeting the deadbeat known as Hisashi. Exhibit A to Z are the video, letters and recorded texts Inko kept in a lock box. Most were asking her what she was thinking, if Inko thought about it, offers for a threesome or an affair.
Hawks: wait, your step-mom kept this? 
Watch Me Fall: Yep. I asked her earlier after she called to warn me about Mitsuki seeing Izuku given I have a show during some fashion thing Mitsuki is going to. She actually told me: it creeped me out a bit so I kept it in case I needed a record for the police.
Hawks: but she never did? Isn’t this evidence Mitsuki still likes her?!
Woody: You’d think but according to her when we asked, Mitsuki stopped after a few months. We don’t know why she let it go on or stayed friends. I think father dearest was a trash fire who fucked with her head.
Watch Me Fall: let’s be real- Inko wasn’t actually that mentally okay. She had issues mama had to make her go to therapy for. So she didn’t have boundaries.
Woody: true.
Burn B*tch: point 3) When Izuku was born Mitsuki tried to basically coparent. Father dearest hated her so she wasn’t allowed over a lot before and after the pregnancy until the divorce when Izuku was three months.
Burn B*tch: point 4) after the divorce went though, Janet made sure to come around with the older kids so Izuku could have siblings and to help Inko. Mitsuki hated this and kept making comments about Katsuki being Izuku’s brother/twin. She tried to use the anger Shinji had to make us leave.
Woody: Thank god Janet wouldn't do it. 
Hawks: question: you call your stepmoms by their names?
Woody: I had a mom. She’s dead but when I was a kid I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t call anyone else her name. Father dearest HATED it. Wanted a perfect family.
Watch Me Fall: So we stuck to it!
Burn B*tch: Point 5) Katsuki began bullying Izuku at age 3. He began calling him ‘Deku’ as in ‘Dekunobu’ which frankly is disturbing to hear from a child that young. Bets are he heard Mitsuki say it.
Watch Me Fall: I still don’t think so. I say Masaru. Mitsuki LOVES Izuku. I think she views him as her own child with Inko in a really weird ass way. Masaru though? Fucker totally said it.
Woody: I say Mitsuki. She may love Izuku but he was a huge obstacle in ‘wooing Inko’ given Inko wouldn’t want to destroy a family with her own kid. Also don’t you like him?
Watch Me Fall: Feeling bad for the guy or not, he doesn’t like Izuku for taking Mitsuki’s attention. Masaru is in love with her, and hates that Mituski would totally divorce him and run off with Inko taking Katsuki and Izuku to be a happy family if she could.
Hawks: this sounds like a soap opera.
Burn B*tch: oh it gets worse. Point 6) Bakugou upon Izuku’s diagnosis gets meaner. Later begins to actively use his explosive Quirk on Izuku. Unknown when this started but Izuku has a burn on his back that’s old. 
Hawks: seriously?!? What about the school?!
Watch Me Fall: Quirkist. Trust me that school is a shit hole. Or was. We sued it out of existence.
Woody: It was nasty. 
Burn B*tch: Point 7) Mitsuki denied her son being a bully and refused to believe ANYONE when she was given evidence. Masaru backed her up. “He’s got an attitude but isn’t a bad kid!” 
Hawks: how?
Watch Me Fall: I asked Inko. She said Mitsuki had a really bad home life and outright REFUSED to be like her parents. So she spoiled the shit out of Katsuki and refused to believe he did wrong cause ‘kids aren’t good or bad they’re just kids’
Burn B*tch: she probably got blamed for a lot of shit she didn’t do and ended up internalizing it. I know my brother did. Though he’s more anal about checking facts.
Woody: Wait, are you in contact? 
Burn B*tch: fuck no. Natsuo wasn’t part of that shit but I’ve got no interest in contacting any of them. I just know cause Hana stalked them.
Watch Me Fall: Light cyber stalking! Figuring out their Reddit profiles was easy. Natsuo posts a lot of shit about his issues.
Hawks: your family Dabi?
Burn B*tch: I’m not spilling when your phone is probably tapped. Point 8) Mitsuki harassed Inko for years trying to get back in touch. Upon learning Inko was dating a younger woman began to complain on social media about gold diggers and people taking advantage of naive moms. 
Watch Me Fall: Point 9) I never want to hack another computer again you scarred me for LIFE.
Woody: Seriously? It was one question you didn’t need to hack her.
Watch Me Fall: I had to figure out how fucking weird Mitsuki was with Inko! And seeing that shit scarred me.
Hawks: So I need to know?
Watch Me Fall: lots of weird-ass mommy kink stuff mixed with a lot of ‘woman showing naive woman how to love’ stuff. Inko sure as hell ain’t naive. She’s a nurse and gave me the talk. And Dabi to.
Burn B*tch: She gave me it because she figured I wasn’t taking care of my scars properly after sex.
Woody: she gave me the talk. Plus she works with the WWP now as a nurse. Says it’s: kinda the same as in the city. More nature oriented. Woman has seen some shit.
Hawks: so… she has an image of uhh Inko and likes to think everything will happen like her fantasy?
Woody: probably. 
Burn B*tch: point 10) has been added by me and Hana: The bullying continued despite them being separated. Shinji ran Katsuki and his friends off as much as he could but eventually ended up arresting them when it was legal. This seemed to shake Mitsuki and Masaru up enough Mitsuki stopped harassing us.
Watch Me Fall: But she’s back now! Yay. Not. 
Burn B*tch: and point 11) Katsuki told Izuku to jump off a roof and pray for a Quirk in the next life when he was 12. Izuku came home crying. This was TWO years ago. 
Watch Me Fall: Bet Mitsuki will go on about how it was two years ago not realizing that REALLY isn’t that long ago lady. 
Woody: in fairness people can change in two years. But trauma doesn’t go away that easily. You can’t expect everything to just be swept under the rug because one person has changed.
Hawks: You guys have these debates a lot huh?
Watch Me Fall: Basically? I’m a circus performer in a circus where probably like 65% of them are former villains who went into hiding/gave up crime and the rest have a checkered past to. Some things are unforgivable. 
Burn B*tch: Some of us have to deep of scars to ever forgive people who hurt us. 
Woody: Not fully spitefully. But just… sometimes there’s something inside us that is broken. 
Hawks: oh… 
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Kamui Woods: Hey, Hawks you alright? You got quiet in the chat.
Hawks: just thinking. What if they had a good reason for hurting me?
Kamui Woods: the only good reason to hurt someone is to save their life. Even then you’re allowed to be angry at it. 
Hawks: what if it was to make me stronger?
Kamui Woods: that’s a shit ass reason.
Hawks: that fast?
Kamui Woods: look: hurting ANYONE to make them stronger is an abusive idea. People don’t get strong because someone hurt them. They get strong because they chose to be. Chose to stand tall and be strong. My dad being a cunt didn’t make me strong. I made myself strong. 
Hawks: But they trained me! Made me a hero!
Kamui Woods: no you did that yourself. Something like 50% of kids who were abused become criminals. That’s a 1 in 2 chance. You became a hero yourself Hawks. No one else did that.
Hawks: I was trained by the Commission to be a hero. 
Kamui Woods: and most of them are assholes who let Dabi get abused by his pro-hero dad. No really ask him he’ll give you a list.
Hawks: and if the dad’s changed?!?
Kamui Woods: doesn’t mean he didn’t do it. You can’t just rug sweep and pretend it didn’t happen because he changed. We talked about forgiveness earlier: forgiving doesn’t absolve people of their sins. 
Hawks: Things we’re simpler when I just worked all the time. 
Kamui Woods: I’m not saying sorry for sicing Janet on your contract. That thing was highly illegal and I’m already telling the agents in the know of Dabi’s eventual reveal so they can nab the assholes who did that to.
Hawks:… thanks.
Kamui Woods: welcome. 
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Hawks @itsabirdnamedhawks
I’ve only learned I had siblings for about two weeks and already I’m being babied.
Kamui Woods @KamuiWoodsOffical
I’m the older brother it’s my job.
Space Princess @alleyOOPS
Just wait: we’ll find out we have another sibling and they’ll be older.
Kamui Woods @KamuiWoodsOffical
No I earned the title of older sibling for you gremlins. I get to keep it. 
Apple @yourdailyfruit
HAWKS AND KAMUI ARE SIBLINGS WTF IS THIS FAMILY?!
Manga Dream @anastasia-dragic
Highly fucked, that’s what this family is. Now, shush and enjoy the show.
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-I realized I’d set myself a timeline here given I said Dabi turned 24 a day before last chapter. So this chapter takes place over two weeks. Making it February in this AU. It takes place when Izuku is 14 so right at the beginning of the manga. Given that January/February is when most high school entrance exams happen I’m saying this right here is about a month or so before canon. 
-Yes, in this AU Kamui is intersex and it’s a huge reason Hisashi dislikes him. Plus he’s infertile. So despite Kamui identifying as male and being straight, Hisashi doesn’t like him. At all.
-Hawks was fun to add here. He’s very confused by his new family, while also being lost at learning his dad isn’t the shitty criminal he thought! Still a horrible father!!
-Shiozaki being Kamui’s cousin was suggested on tumblr and I ran with it. I know how mostly portray her but my mind is: she’s very religious but she will also feed you to her plants if you hurt ANY of her family or friends. She’s very accepting to not in a: I’ll pray for you to change way but as in: god created you the way you are and I love you as you, no matter gender identity or sexuality. 
-I love Shinsou. I also love him getting his ass kicked to get his head on straight so we did both here. For those wondering he was being a dumbass teenage boy and said some sexist shit that the girls DID not like. 
-The ‘rebuttal’ Izuku refers to is ‘suck a cock’. Ibara is pretty chill with foul language here. She doesn’t like it being called anything nasty, but she’s fine with cursing. It started as a joke after these two got a hold of Deadpool. I have an entire long ass headcanon for it.
-The AITA but was way to fun. Comments are welcome to respond as if you’re actually commenting on it!
-Hana and Dabi are little shits but neither push a boundary like that. That’s gross.
-I made this to fucking dramatic but god I don’t regret it. I honestly was going to stick to oblivious Mitsuki and Masaru but thought of this instead!!! Couldn’t resist it.
-I made a tiktok about the Bakugou parents and I’m 90% sure it was a Quirk marriage ngl.
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Adherents describe it as “less thoughts, more vibes” and if you’d rather be hot than think, the candy-pink, velveteen look that Britney and Paris made famous two decades ago is an unambiguous signifier of chosen modern levity. Ever the instinctive entrepreneur, Paris is – right now – retailing plush, 93%-polyester luxury on her website, so, yeah, a real thing is happening. 
[...] learning the aesthetic exists to satirise the impossibility of meeting contemporary standards of femininity by aggressively performing them makes me desperate to embrace its slutty, pink resistance [...] Alas, I am more than uncomfortable in microskirts and a midriff top and the mere idea of platform shoes reminds me to call my physio. Wide-eyed pouting by the young registers as ironically Lolitaesque – but on a face like mine, it can only ever read as mockery. 
Yet my jealousy persists, because how wonderful it is that activist young women and their friends have found a way to channel such a flagrant, public up-yours to the culture of gender policing that grows more exclusive and dangerous by the day. I mean this literally. There is a terrifying Venn overlap growing between capitalist criteria for feminised perfection and radical-right political demands to restrict the franchise of “womanhood” to ever-narrowing groups. 
This last has anti-transgender protesters and actual Nazis on the streets of Melbourne and anti-trans laws in the US already kicking lesbians out of public bathrooms, given their visible unwillingness to perform gender the way extremists insist they should. 
Meanwhile, the “tradwife” model homemakers of social media perform a highly merchandised ideal of womanliness without bimbocore’s snideness or irony. If you haven’t worked out tradwives are a soft power comms assault from the far right yet, the memes they post on Musk Twitter really – really – should give it away. 
Older women paying attention have realised that the ambitious Nazi/anti-trans crossover events agitated for in US legislation come from wanting to rebrand women as mere vessels for patriarchal reproduction. If you think ageing female bodies maintain any social value in that calculus, you are wrong. Note the recent laws passed in Kansas restrict the definition of “female” to those still producing “ova”. If you are an infertile, childfree or menopausal woman, a cultural tradition of being made to feel unwomaned by these experiences is now no longer just a nasty social habit. It’s reality under Kansas law. 
So what’s the appropriate aesthetic for the non-crop-top-compliant to express their resistance and refusal? There have been attempts to define a #cronecore and #hagcore but last time I let my greys grow out and wore a flanno to the shops, the messaging conveyed was hardly subversive. So now I have put in my order for a new tracksuit. My preference is black and hooded, and while I’m not out to culturally appropriate the aesthetic of the Ikkō-ikki I can certainly see the value of culture-jamming, gender-troublemakers learning how to vanish in a crowd. So let me now herald the arrival of the #NinjaCrone aesthetic. 
In the public theatre of gender activism, imagine an army of assassin-attired older women haunting the dreams of every Nazi, tradwife, anti-trans-bathroom authoritarian and anti-abortionist and making them as afraid of us as the loud sluttiness of our bimbo sisters makes them uncomfortable. We’re invisible to patriarchy anyway, so let’s weaponise the social performance of the ageing woman as anonymous, omnipresent … and capable of anything.
The bimbos get it: the far right have already declared their gender war. If you want to fight it, grab a mask and suit up. They will never see us coming. 
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Hey there, fellow ladies! I hope everyone is doing well today. Today, I want to talk about something that has been on my mind for a while now: investment pieces. As a childfree woman with a passion for finance, I know firsthand the importance of investing in quality pieces that will last for years to come. And let's be real, who doesn't love a little luxury in their lives?
First of all, let me just say that I am a firm believer in the power of investing in pieces that are timeless and high-quality. I'm not talking about buying just any expensive item, but rather carefully selecting pieces that are not only fashionable but also have longevity. This is where investment pieces come into play.
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The Road Ahead
A/N: this is so late this is sO LATE I'M SO SORRY AUUUGH 😩😩 I'm just getting back on a medication regimen that works with me and I'm getting my motivation back. Chronologically this woulda happened in April, right after the discovery of the pregnancy
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"You're kidding," Catherine deadpanned, standing almost frozen in her front doorway as she glared at her visitors.
"Uhh, nope," Sunnie laughed as Dio crowded over her protectively, his large hand placed on her lower abdomen as he flashed a smug grin, "Medical wing confirmed it this morning. I'm pregnant."
"I just returned from DC," Catherine said after a deep breath, "Just got my luggage in the door, just kissed my sweet, sweet husband hello for the first time in a week, and you two troublemakers show up on my doorstep giving me news like this??"
As she raised a hand to run it down her face, exasperated, Dio chuckled, teasing her. "Are you not going to invite us in, Catherine? Surely you're a better host than that."
"Yeah–yes. Yes of course," she huffed, standing to the side and welcoming the both of them. "Come on in. We've got some talking to do."
The Gupta's house was large—large enough to be a mansion, but the word 'mansion' wouldn't feel quite right: 'mansion' leaves the impression of something daunting and impersonal, and the Gupta house was far from those things. The reason their house was so big wasn't technically for them, however: the couple was childfree by choice, which confused the real estate agent as to why they wanted a large home with many rooms and a large backyard. Janpreet was one of the middle children of a family of eight siblings, and he had already amassed a gaggle of nieces and nephews and niblings, so they wanted a large property so they could host family functions and holidays and have enough room for all of them. The decor featured clean lines and bright colors, with patterned rugs and pieces from their multiple trips not only to India, but around the world as well. Neither Janpreet nor Catherine were believers in minimalism.
Janpreet Gupta was the embodiment of a doting stay-at-home husband. Noting his intense interest in the subject from a young age, his parents, who had immigrated to the States from India, taught Janpreet how to cook, and by God was he exceptional at it. The Gupta house, as a result, always smelled amazing: turmeric, garam masala, ginger, cinnamon, fenugreek, coriander, coconut—deep scents of roasted spices permeated their large house from the well-outfitted kitchen, which was filled with both top-of-the-line appliances and well-loved inherited woks and pots and pans. Catherine, who loved her husband dearly, made sure that the kitchen was one that Janpreet could indulge in his favorite hobby to his heart's content. Hanging on a peg near the walk-in pantry was an apron dorkily emblazoned with the words, "I love my girlboss wife".
And if you knew to look for it, there was a tiny, dirty scrap of paper with a hastily scribbled string of numbers framed on one of the counters in the kitchen. If asked about it, Janpreet would beam at you with his wide smile and round cheeks, saying, "That's my good luck charm!" He would then tell you about how he once, doing his best to conceal the nervous shaking of his hands, gave that very paper with his number on it to a certain stunningly gorgeous black woman who had walked into his parents' restaurant and immediately captivated him one rainy night years ago. Then he'd direct your attention to the framed photo next to it, of Janpreet beaming with that same wide smile, gazing lovingly at Catherine, a vision of beauty in golden jewelry and glistening gems and a red bridal lehenga. "It's a good luck charm that clearly works," he would inform you.
Janpreet glanced at that very scrap of paper as he crushed spices and ginger in his pestle, water boiling next to him, and he smiled.
Catherine, however, sat with the surprise guests in the living room, an unexpectedly heavy silence hanging over them. The only person who seemed affected by the weird atmosphere was Sunnie, who was wringing the bottom of her hoodie nervously. Dio sat next to her, arm swung over her shoulders happily, unphased by the awkwardness, and Catherine tapped her shoeless hose-covered foot against the rug as she gathered her thoughts.
"Dio, Sunnie, I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I'm actually quite happy for you both, and I know you'll make excellent parents, but…" Catherine leaned back in her chair, her sharp eyes looking at Sunnie, then Dio, then Sunnie again. "Dio is a vampire. He's not human."
"Don Giovanna turned out alright, from what I know," Sunnie piped up, "I mean, I didn't spend that much time with him, but he seemed incredibly healthy and, y'know, besides having a Stand and being the leader of Passione, normal."
Dio froze, brows drawing down over his eyes. It was something he hadn't considered: the likelihood that the child wouldn't be completely human, the possibility that this could make for a more difficult pregnancy for his wife. He looked at her, clearly worried, and she caught his gaze, slightly unsure herself, before Janpreet entered with a tray, cups of his homemade masala chai balanced perfectly, and cut through the increasingly tense atmosphere with a contagious smile.
"The Don was conceived and born before Prime had consumed Joestar blood and gained access to the full scope of his abilities," Catherine stated pointedly, as both Sunnie's and Dio's eyes widened, "We're entering unknown territory now. This child will be born half human and half fully-powered vampire."
"I'm sure that, no matter what challenges your pregnancy might bring you, you'll be well-taken care of," he said, setting the tray down on the coffee table and handing Catherine a cup and kissing her cheek. He passed Dio and Sunnie their cups as well, and they thanked him as he sat in the chair next to his wife. "You've got Dio, you've got us, you've got the entire Foundation at your back," he continued, "You'll be getting the best care imaginable."
Sunnie's shoulders slouched, tension leaving them in a rush as she slumped against Dio. "You're right, Jan. Every pregnancy is a risk, really. This one might be a little weird, but it's nothing I can't handle. I'm a tough bitch, after all." She took a drink of the chai and hummed contentedly, looking up at her husband. "If things go sideways, Dio's here. He's saved my life before."
"Let's have faith that it won't come to that," Dio chuckled, relaxing as well. He sipped from his cup and took a deep breath, feeling settled from his brief bout of worry.
As the conversation drifted on at a leisurely pace and the chai was nearly finished, Sunnie had relaxed to lay her head in her husband's lap at his behest ("The mother of my child needs to take it easy, it's quite late.") and Dio stroked a thumb across her neck affectionately. There was a lull between them, and Janpreet had taken Dio and Sunnie's empty cups to the kitchen to clean. Sunnie was the one to break the soft silence.
"We can't raise a kid underneath the Foundation, Dio," she sighed, rolling over to look up at him, "A kid needs space to run and play and get messy. A kid needs trees and a yard and adventure."
"I agree, dove," Dio smiled, lifting a hand and combing his fingers through her hair, "But you needn't worry. I have a feeling it'll all work out."
Catherine considered her two friends for a moment, then set her nearly empty cup down. "Honey," she called, "Doesn't Sameena have that creek-side property somewhere?"
"Oh!!" There was clanging from the kitchen as Janpreet set down something metallic and rushed back into the living room, grinning ear to ear and eyes sparkling as his slippers slid across the floor before he came to a stop. "Yes!! It's a big house. There's a gorgeous garden and lots of room, especially for a growing family!"
Sunnie turned her head to look at him, curious but confused. "You know someone who just like, has properties laying around?"
Janpreet nodded. "My younger sister! She likes to find beautiful houses that may be torn down for property development, then save and restore them until the right person or people come along!"
Dio chuckled. "That sounds like an expensive hobby."
"My brother-in-law is a very rich man," Janpreet said, sitting next to Catherine again, "And he loves his wife dearly, so he supports her hobbies, no matter how pricey they are."
Dio and Sunnie glanced at each other for a moment, both considering the possibility, before looking back at their friends.
"So, there's a creek near it?" Sunnie asked, a curious glimmer in her eyes.
"Yes, lots of trees and plants and in the back there's a small creek, I'm sure it looks beautiful this time of year," Janpreet said excitedly. "I think Sameena called it a, uh… 'a magical three-story Victorian gem from the late 1800s'." At that description, Dio seemed to perk up, his eyebrows raising in interest, and Janpreet continued. "She was very happy when she acquired it, said it has a fascinating history."
"Does it, now?" Dio hummed, picking Sunnie's head up in his hand to keep it from being jostled as he crossed one leg over the other before setting her back down. "So this house was built around the time I was human, I take it."
"From what we've heard, yes," Catherine smiled, "It's very much up your alley, Dio. And I know for sure that you'd love the area, Sunnie."
Sunnie immediately grinned wide like the Cheshire Cat, eyes lighting up impishly. "Being near a creek and having lots of foliage means it's got tons of critters. Frogs, toads, snakes… I'm down to check it out if you are, big guy."
"And I'd love to take a look at it if you would like, Sunshine," he returned her grin, then looked at Janpreet. "Does it have turrets, perhaps?"
"Turrets?" Janpreet blinked at him in confusion. "…Rotating machine guns?"
Catherine laughed and patted his shoulder. "No, honey, tower-like rooms with pointy roofs." Janpreet's eyes blew wide with realization as Dio and Sunnie snorted.
"Ooh! Oh yes, I think at least one, maybe two," Janpreet recounted, "She sent the pictures a while ago, so I don't think I have them on my phone anymore, but it looks sort of like a place a modern day vampire or witch would live. I think you two would love it."
"So, should we get in contact with your sister, or…?" Sunnie trailed off, and Janpreet shook his head.
"I'll contact her for you and see if the house is ready to be shown. I know she's done some updating on it—air conditioning, modernizing the electricity, the works. I'll let you know, but I can't imagine her not agreeing."
Another comfortable silence floated in the room as Dio's hand settled on Sunnie's stomach, gazing at her fondly. She smiled back up at him.
"Moving out of the suite'll be good for us, won't it?" She reached a hand up, cupping the strong, sharp line of his jaw softly. "It's about time we get out from under the Foundation."
"It certainly is, my love," he agreed, reaching his hand back up to cover hers, "This opportunity could be a good change for both of us."
Catherine took in the sight of the two of them together and couldn't help the warm, gleeful feeling blooming in her chest. Sometimes it felt like just yesterday that she introduced them: a wary, broken woman and a still-ferocious monster of a man, both of whom needed healing in their own way. She hadn't expected them to find that healing in each other, but the second she saw that spark between them she'd hoped it would lead to something amazing, and they had far surpassed anything she could have hoped for.
"Well," she said, standing, "It's been a long day of politics and travel for me and I need sleep. Would you two like to stay the night?"
Sunnie sat up and nodded, grabbing her backpack at the foot of the sofa. "That's probably a good idea. I'm the one who drove us and I'm pretty tired." Dio joined her when she also stood, his hand rubbing her upper back.
"We'll take the safe room, of course," he said, grateful that Catherine had installed blackout curtains in one of the bedrooms, "Thank you both for talking with us about this. I must admit that I didn't stop to consider certain… special aspects of the pregnancy, and I'm quite embarrassed about my short-sightedness on the matter."
"Oh nah, dude, I totally didn't think of it either. That shit absolutely slipped my mind," Sunnie laughed, "And I'm the one that's carrying this kid!"
"It's easy to get caught up in the moment," Janpreet chimed in, picking up Catherine's empty cup, "I know whenever I learn one of my siblings is expecting another kid, I lose it for a little bit! The excitement just makes you feel like you're buzzing."
"It really, really does!" Sunnie giggled before she was wracked by a full-body yawn. Catherine's lips drew up in a half-grin.
"Get some rest, you crazy kids," she said, shooing them off while Janpreet shuffled off to the kitchen to finish cleaning up. Dio nodded to her and began to guide his wife out of the room, and Catherine paused for a moment, chewing on her lip. "Sunnie, Dio," she stopped them before they turned the corner, and they looked back at her. "I really am truly happy for the both of you. I meant it when I said you'll both be amazing parents. Janpreet is right; you have the Foundation at your back, no matter what happens."
Sunnie took a deep breath, centering herself, clearly still comprehending the fact that she was pregnant, then gave her boss a rosy-cheeked smile. "Thanks, Cat. It means a lot."
Dio inclined his head to her. "Your support is priceless to us, my dear friend. You have my gratitude."
They bid Catherine goodnight and left, and she chuckled wryly to herself. "I'd better get godmother privileges for all the stuff they've put me through, honestly."
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this title on the childfree subreddit:
"nothing makes my blood boil more than people assuming i have kids because im a black woman."
because this is true... i get asked this a lot by other black women at work, and it's not cute, it's not attractive, it's ugly
like oh i should have six kids rather than aiming for a PhD
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any tea on daniel gafford? i think its cute hes married to a normal looking black woman and call their dogs their kids (plus are childfree) but idk if hes like every other athlete and cheats or not
that’s cute!! we love that. anons?
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brookston · 9 months
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Holidays 8.1
Holidays
Air Force Day
Armed Forces Day (China, Lebanon)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day
Caribbean Day
Carnaval del Pueblo (London, UK) [1st Week]
Chopsticks Day
Clergy Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention Day
Cross-Quarter Day
DOGust
Emancipation Day (UK; British Commonwealth)
Freedom Day (Belize)
Friendship Day
Girlfriends’ Day
Gule of August (Wales)
Harriet Quimby Day
Homowo (a.k.a. Hooting at Hunger; Ghana)
International Albariño Day
International Childfree Day
Jerry Day
Laughter Day (Southern California)
Led Zeppelin Day
Liberation of Haile Selassie Day (Rastafari)
Minden Day (UK)
Minority Donor Awareness Day
MTV Day
National Albariño Week [aug 1-5]
National American Family Day
National CBD Day
National Girlfriends Day
National Mahjong Day
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Non-Parent Day
National Promise to Care Day
National Warsaw Uprising Remembrance Day (Poland)
Parents’ Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Planner Day
Play Ball Day
Pod Body Day (Portland, Maine)
Respect For Parents Day
Rounds Resounding Day
San Francisco Cable Car Day
Scout Foundation Day
Scout Scarf Day
Simcoe Day (Canada)
Social Resistance Day (North Cyprus)
Spider-Man Day
Sports Day
Startup Day
Swiss National Day
Treida de Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Nicaragua)
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
Wipe the Slate Clean Day
Woman Astronomers Day
World Breastfeeding Day
World Lung Cancer Day
World Scout Scarf Day
World Wide Web Day
Yorkshire Day (England)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Belgian Frites Day (a.k.a. International Day of Belgian Fries)
Homemade Pie Day
International Can-It Forward Day
Mars Bar Day
National Nutritional Yeast Day
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
1st Tuesday in August
Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show (UK) [1st Tuesday]
National Night Out [1st Tuesday]
Independence Days
Benin (originally Dahomey; from France, 1960)
Colorado Statehood Day (#38; 1876)
Jennytopia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Switzerland (a.k.a. Confederation Day; from Holy Roman Empire, 1291)
Toku (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Vodopol (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (Christian; Saint)
Æthelwold of Winchester (Christian; Saint)
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (Christian; One of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Betty Lou’s Dad (Muppetism)
Cartoon Day (Pastafarian)
Drug Side-Effects Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)
Exuperius of Bayeux (Christian; Saint)
Faith, Hope, and Charity (Christian; Virgin Martyrs)
Feast of Kamál (Perfection; Baha'i)
Feast of Ninlil (Sumerian Goddess of the Grain)
Felix of Girona (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Lugh (Celtic here god)
Festival of Xiuhtechuhtli (Aztec God of the Calendar)
Full Moon [8th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 
Black Cherries Moon (Traditional)
Corn Moon (England)
Dispute Moon (Celtic)
Dog Day’s Moon (Colonial)
Fruit Moon (Cherokee)
Grain Corn Moon (Alternate)
Green Corn Moon (Alternate)
Green Moon (North America)
Harvest Moon (China)
Hunger Moon (South Africa)
Lightening Moon (Neo-Pagan)
Native Wild Rice Harvest (Algonkian, Northern Cree, and Ojibwa Native Americans)
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
Raksha Bandhan (Parts of India, Nepal; Hindu)
Ricing Moon (Traditional)
Southern Hemisphere: Hunger, Snow, Storm, Wolf
Sturgeon Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)
Was Full Moon (Myanmar)
Women’s Moon (Choctaw)
Wyrt Moon (Wicca)
Gerhard Hirschfelder (Christian; Blessed)
The Holy Maccabees (Christian; Saint)
Jan van Scorel (Artology)
Kalends of August (Ancient Rome)
Lammas (a.k.a. ... 
Feast of Bread (Neopagan)
Feast of First Fruits (England, Scotland)
Festival of Albina (Irish White Barley Goddess; aka Alphito)
Gule of August (England, Scotland)
Imbolc (So. Hemisphere; Neopagan)
Lady Day Eve (Neopagan)
Lammas, Day 2 (Celtic, Pagan) [5 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Lammas Eve (a.k.a. Lughnassad Eve)
Luanistyn (Manx Gaelic)
Lithasblot (Norse Harvest Festival)
Loki and Sigyn’s Day (Norse)
Lughnasa
Lughnasadh (Grain Harvest) [Ends on Samhain]
Lúnasa (Modern Irish)
Lùnastal (Scottish Gaelic)
Lobster Boy Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Mati-Syra-Zemlya Day (Slavic Goddess of the Earth)
Pellegrini (a.k.a. Peregrinus), Hermit (Christian; Saint)
Peter Apostle in Chains (Christian; Saint)
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodox)
Richard Wilson (Artology)
The Spanish Romancers (Positivist; Saints)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 15 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [15 of 24]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [15 of 24]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [35 of 60]
Unlucky Monday (when Eve gave birth to Cain; Philippines) [1st Monday] (3 of 4)
Premieres
Alice the Peacemaker (Disney Cartoon; 1924)
American Graffiti (Film; 1973)
Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger (Book; 1927)
The Big Money, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1936)
Burning Love, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)
Charley’s Aunt (Film; 1941)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi and Ron Barrett (Children’s Book; 1978)
Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, by Squeeze (Album; 1985)
Crazy with the Heat (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Crusader Rabbit (Jay Ward Cartoon TV Series; 1950)
Dune, by Frank Herbert (Novel; 1965)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe (Novel; 1968)
Eric, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #9]
Everybody’s Rockin’, by Neil Young (Album; 1983)
The Final Countdown (Film; 1980)
Flight of the Navigator (Film; 1986)
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2000) [A Song of Fire and Ice #1]
Gangsta’s Paradise, by Coolio (Song; 1995)
Generals and Majors, by XTC (Song; 1980)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Novel; 2008) [Millennium Trilogy #1]
Guardians of the Galaxy (Film; 2014)
Heaven Can Wait (Film; 1943)
The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes (Poem; 1906)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel; 1901)
Howard the Duck (Film; 1986)
How to Catch a Cold (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Music Video; 1992)
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey (Children’s Book; 1941)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by C.G. Jung (Philosophical Book; 1933)
Money (That’s What I Want), by Barrett Strong (Song; 1959)
MTV (Cable Network; 1981)
MySpace (Social Media App; 2003)
96 Tears, by ? and the Mysterians (Song; 1966)
North Dallas Forty (Film; 1979)
Nothing in Common (Film; 1986)
Paul Bunyan (Disney Cartoon; 1958)
Porky the Rain-Maker (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
Rain Dogs, by Tom Waits (Album; 1985)
Rear Window (Film; 1954)
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (novel; 1938)
The Road Not Taken (Poem; 1925)
Señorella and the Glass Huarache (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather (Novel; 1931)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway (Short Story; 1936)
Steel Wheels, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1989)
Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke (Short Story; 1951)
The 39 Steps (Film; 1935)
Truant Officer Donald (Disney Cartoon; 1941)
The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White (Children’s Book; 1970)
The Twist, by Chubby Checker (Song; 1960)
The Wiggles, by The Wiggles (Album; 1991)
Wild and Woolly Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)
Witchy Woman, by The Eagles (Song; 1972)
Today’s Name Days
Alfons, Kenneth, Peter (Austria)
Alfonz, Jonatan (Croatia)
Oskar (Czech Republic)
Maira, Maire, Mairi, Maris (Estonia)
Maire (Finland)
Alphonse (France)
Alfons, Kenneth, Peter, Uwe (Germany)
Efkleos, Elesa, Markelos, Solomoni (Greece)
Boglárka (Hungary)
Alfonso, Giacomo (Italy)
Albīna, Albīns, Dags, Jarmuts, Spekonis (Latvia)
Almeda, Bartautas, Bartautė (Lithuania)
Peder, Petra (Norway)
Brodzisław, Justyn, Konrad, Konrada, Nadia, Piotr (Poland)
Božidara (Slovakia)
Alfonso, Caridad, Esperanza, Fe, Pedro (Spain)
Per (Sweden)
Charissa, Charity, Chasity, Cheri, Cherie, Cherry, Cheryl, Esperanza, Faith, Faye, Hope, Nadia, Nadine (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 213 of 2024; 152 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 31 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 22 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 15 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 14 Av 5783
Islamic: 14 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 3 Hasa; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 19 July 2023
Moon: 100%: Full Moon
Positivist: 17 Dante (8th Month) [The Spanish Romancers]
Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 42 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 11 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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brookstonalmanac · 9 months
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Holidays 8.1
Holidays
Air Force Day
Armed Forces Day (China, Lebanon)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day
Caribbean Day
Carnaval del Pueblo (London, UK) [1st Week]
Chopsticks Day
Clergy Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention Day
Cross-Quarter Day
DOGust
Emancipation Day (UK; British Commonwealth)
Freedom Day (Belize)
Friendship Day
Girlfriends’ Day
Gule of August (Wales)
Harriet Quimby Day
Homowo (a.k.a. Hooting at Hunger; Ghana)
International Albariño Day
International Childfree Day
Jerry Day
Laughter Day (Southern California)
Led Zeppelin Day
Liberation of Haile Selassie Day (Rastafari)
Minden Day (UK)
Minority Donor Awareness Day
MTV Day
National Albariño Week [aug 1-5]
National American Family Day
National CBD Day
National Girlfriends Day
National Mahjong Day
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Non-Parent Day
National Promise to Care Day
National Warsaw Uprising Remembrance Day (Poland)
Parents’ Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Planner Day
Play Ball Day
Pod Body Day (Portland, Maine)
Respect For Parents Day
Rounds Resounding Day
San Francisco Cable Car Day
Scout Foundation Day
Scout Scarf Day
Simcoe Day (Canada)
Social Resistance Day (North Cyprus)
Spider-Man Day
Sports Day
Startup Day
Swiss National Day
Treida de Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Nicaragua)
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
Wipe the Slate Clean Day
Woman Astronomers Day
World Breastfeeding Day
World Lung Cancer Day
World Scout Scarf Day
World Wide Web Day
Yorkshire Day (England)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Belgian Frites Day (a.k.a. International Day of Belgian Fries)
Homemade Pie Day
International Can-It Forward Day
Mars Bar Day
National Nutritional Yeast Day
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
1st Tuesday in August
Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show (UK) [1st Tuesday]
National Night Out [1st Tuesday]
Independence Days
Benin (originally Dahomey; from France, 1960)
Colorado Statehood Day (#38; 1876)
Jennytopia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Switzerland (a.k.a. Confederation Day; from Holy Roman Empire, 1291)
Toku (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Vodopol (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (Christian; Saint)
Æthelwold of Winchester (Christian; Saint)
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (Christian; One of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Betty Lou’s Dad (Muppetism)
Cartoon Day (Pastafarian)
Drug Side-Effects Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Eusebius of Vercelli (Christian; Saint)
Exuperius of Bayeux (Christian; Saint)
Faith, Hope, and Charity (Christian; Virgin Martyrs)
Feast of Kamál (Perfection; Baha'i)
Feast of Ninlil (Sumerian Goddess of the Grain)
Felix of Girona (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Lugh (Celtic here god)
Festival of Xiuhtechuhtli (Aztec God of the Calendar)
Full Moon [8th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 
Black Cherries Moon (Traditional)
Corn Moon (England)
Dispute Moon (Celtic)
Dog Day’s Moon (Colonial)
Fruit Moon (Cherokee)
Grain Corn Moon (Alternate)
Green Corn Moon (Alternate)
Green Moon (North America)
Harvest Moon (China)
Hunger Moon (South Africa)
Lightening Moon (Neo-Pagan)
Native Wild Rice Harvest (Algonkian, Northern Cree, and Ojibwa Native Americans)
Nikini Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
Raksha Bandhan (Parts of India, Nepal; Hindu)
Ricing Moon (Traditional)
Southern Hemisphere: Hunger, Snow, Storm, Wolf
Sturgeon Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)
Was Full Moon (Myanmar)
Women’s Moon (Choctaw)
Wyrt Moon (Wicca)
Gerhard Hirschfelder (Christian; Blessed)
The Holy Maccabees (Christian; Saint)
Jan van Scorel (Artology)
Kalends of August (Ancient Rome)
Lammas (a.k.a. ... 
Feast of Bread (Neopagan)
Feast of First Fruits (England, Scotland)
Festival of Albina (Irish White Barley Goddess; aka Alphito)
Gule of August (England, Scotland)
Imbolc (So. Hemisphere; Neopagan)
Lady Day Eve (Neopagan)
Lammas, Day 2 (Celtic, Pagan) [5 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Lammas Eve (a.k.a. Lughnassad Eve)
Luanistyn (Manx Gaelic)
Lithasblot (Norse Harvest Festival)
Loki and Sigyn’s Day (Norse)
Lughnasa
Lughnasadh (Grain Harvest) [Ends on Samhain]
Lúnasa (Modern Irish)
Lùnastal (Scottish Gaelic)
Lobster Boy Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Mati-Syra-Zemlya Day (Slavic Goddess of the Earth)
Pellegrini (a.k.a. Peregrinus), Hermit (Christian; Saint)
Peter Apostle in Chains (Christian; Saint)
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodox)
Richard Wilson (Artology)
The Spanish Romancers (Positivist; Saints)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 15 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [15 of 24]
Fatal Day (Pagan) [15 of 24]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [35 of 60]
Unlucky Monday (when Eve gave birth to Cain; Philippines) [1st Monday] (3 of 4)
Premieres
Alice the Peacemaker (Disney Cartoon; 1924)
American Graffiti (Film; 1973)
Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger (Book; 1927)
The Big Money, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1936)
Burning Love, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)
Charley’s Aunt (Film; 1941)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi and Ron Barrett (Children’s Book; 1978)
Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, by Squeeze (Album; 1985)
Crazy with the Heat (Disney Cartoon; 1947)
Crusader Rabbit (Jay Ward Cartoon TV Series; 1950)
Dune, by Frank Herbert (Novel; 1965)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe (Novel; 1968)
Eric, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #9]
Everybody’s Rockin’, by Neil Young (Album; 1983)
The Final Countdown (Film; 1980)
Flight of the Navigator (Film; 1986)
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2000) [A Song of Fire and Ice #1]
Gangsta’s Paradise, by Coolio (Song; 1995)
Generals and Majors, by XTC (Song; 1980)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Novel; 2008) [Millennium Trilogy #1]
Guardians of the Galaxy (Film; 2014)
Heaven Can Wait (Film; 1943)
The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes (Poem; 1906)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel; 1901)
Howard the Duck (Film; 1986)
How to Catch a Cold (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
Jeremy, by Pearl Jam (Music Video; 1992)
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey (Children’s Book; 1941)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by C.G. Jung (Philosophical Book; 1933)
Money (That’s What I Want), by Barrett Strong (Song; 1959)
MTV (Cable Network; 1981)
MySpace (Social Media App; 2003)
96 Tears, by ? and the Mysterians (Song; 1966)
North Dallas Forty (Film; 1979)
Nothing in Common (Film; 1986)
Paul Bunyan (Disney Cartoon; 1958)
Porky the Rain-Maker (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
Rain Dogs, by Tom Waits (Album; 1985)
Rear Window (Film; 1954)
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (novel; 1938)
The Road Not Taken (Poem; 1925)
Señorella and the Glass Huarache (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather (Novel; 1931)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway (Short Story; 1936)
Steel Wheels, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1989)
Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke (Short Story; 1951)
The 39 Steps (Film; 1935)
Truant Officer Donald (Disney Cartoon; 1941)
The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White (Children’s Book; 1970)
The Twist, by Chubby Checker (Song; 1960)
The Wiggles, by The Wiggles (Album; 1991)
Wild and Woolly Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)
Witchy Woman, by The Eagles (Song; 1972)
Today’s Name Days
Alfons, Kenneth, Peter (Austria)
Alfonz, Jonatan (Croatia)
Oskar (Czech Republic)
Maira, Maire, Mairi, Maris (Estonia)
Maire (Finland)
Alphonse (France)
Alfons, Kenneth, Peter, Uwe (Germany)
Efkleos, Elesa, Markelos, Solomoni (Greece)
Boglárka (Hungary)
Alfonso, Giacomo (Italy)
Albīna, Albīns, Dags, Jarmuts, Spekonis (Latvia)
Almeda, Bartautas, Bartautė (Lithuania)
Peder, Petra (Norway)
Brodzisław, Justyn, Konrad, Konrada, Nadia, Piotr (Poland)
Božidara (Slovakia)
Alfonso, Caridad, Esperanza, Fe, Pedro (Spain)
Per (Sweden)
Charissa, Charity, Chasity, Cheri, Cherie, Cherry, Cheryl, Esperanza, Faith, Faye, Hope, Nadia, Nadine (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 213 of 2024; 152 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 31 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 22 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 15 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 14 Av 5783
Islamic: 14 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 3 Hasa; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 19 July 2023
Moon: 100%: Full Moon
Positivist: 17 Dante (8th Month) [The Spanish Romancers]
Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 42 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 11 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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anotherfauxredhead · 11 months
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30 Reasons Why I'm Childfree: #19
Don't Want To Expose My Kid To Awful Shit
So much awfulness in this world right now. I'm hopeful in some ways, and then I'm reminded that Tr*mp is not yet in prison. Fist, er, Chris Brown still gets to do shows and collab with female singers (WHY?!). The perpetually-toxic KarJenner klan still have their fake as fuck TV show and will still be their selfish, ignorant, blackfishing selves while former prestigious publications like Vogue fawn over them (also WHY?!). You got cell phone addicts in one corner, Covid deniers/anti-vaxxers in the other, and in the middle are supporters of abusive assholes like D*pp, Manson, and Dr. Luke. More people are showing they forgot how to drive as they zoom at 90 past you without signaling, and the police won't get them but will surely come after an unarmed black man doing nothing criminal. Right-wing extremists are coming after the most harmless things like a goddamn green M&M. YouTube grifters be profiting off of the agony of an abused woman to where they get to buy their own home while supporters of said abused woman barely make enough to cover rent and bills with their three other roommates. Batgirl gets axed while The Flash starring a woman-choking pedo will hit theaters in a few weeks. And then there's that evil cunt governor in Florida who really wants to ruin this country next year.
Whyyyyyyy would I want to bring a kid into a world that has all this happening?!
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divergent-one-1984 · 1 year
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Organized Crime Ring in Astoria, NY, in a neighborhood under the jurisdiction of 114th PRECINCT and in apartment buildings managed by CENTRAL ASTORIA, LLC. I have been the victim of TARGETED COMMUNITY HARASSMENT SINCE SUMMER 2016 because of my race and gender, I am an African American woman (because of a rumor / gossip mill started by staff at NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION while I was employed there from 2014 to 2016 I was made the victim of targeted psychological harassment). Due to the illegal access and leaking of private, personal, confidential information by wiretapping / cloning / hacking of personal devices and illegal surveillance in my residence. This includes leaking of confidential medical information ((HPV, strains that can cause cervical cancer and an Abortion) - STREET THEATER / RANDOM ENCOUNTERS / NUMBER HARASSMENT / COLOR HARASSMENT SHENANIGANS AT THE DOCTORS OFFICE
transportation pick up scheduled for 11:30 AM (NUMBER HARASSMENT references children / pregnancy / abortion, 11 references the Month of my Birth, which is November, 11 also was the first number on the Patient Sign In Sheet where I signed my relative in.
30 references the age at which I wanted to start having children back in my younger days when I thought about possibly having them, now I am Childfree and could care less but did have this conversation on my personal cell phone maybe around 20 years ago. My plan was married at 28, first child at 30, I am 46, so that conversation had to have been had initially around 20 years ago, and probably afterwards in subsequent conversations on my personal cell phone, where most of the information gathered to build a psychological profile of me, gather personal data on me and people I communicated with was obtained. The staff member who took my relative and I in elevator to get mammogram was pregnant, wearing black and grey, the same colors as my reusable menstrual pads.
informed at 11:50 AM that transportation was on the way, informed transportation would arrive in 5 minutes (that would be at 11:55 AM) 11 references the Month of my Birth, which is November, 11 also was the first number on the Patient Sign In Sheet where I signed my relative in. 55 is the year of my dad's birth, dad is deceased, died from cancer.
References me looking manly, like my father, I have HPV, potential to develop cervical cancer and die. There was a STALKER / HARASSER / ABUSER in waiting area with a cane, my father used a gain towards the end of his life.
transportation actually gets to us at 12:06 PM. I don't recall exactly what time we arrived but the place is about a 10 to 15 minute drive away so I estimate we probably got there not too far off of 12:15 PM, maybe 12:20 PM probably, nothing later than that I think that actually was the time.
122 references NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION where my harassment began in 2015 in the form of WORKPACE MOBBING.
PS 122 is the zoned elementary school in my neighborhood in Astoria, NY and happens to be the school I went to. Also references NYC MTA, there is a bus stop directly in front of the school. My deceased father, who died from cancer, worked for NYC MTA for many years, he retired when he got sick.
doc appt is at 12:15 PM, arrived at office about 12.20 PM. still not seen at 12:55 PM
transportation comes at 12:55 PM to pick up from doc to go home, told them she had not been seen yet so we will have to reschedule the return trip
sibling, who is in on my harassment, reschedules pick up time at my suggestion for 2 PM.
get called in for mammogram at around 1:35 PM
mammogram finished at 1:50 PM
2015 is year harassment began while I was employed at NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION in the form of WORKPLACE MOBBING.
15 references age my period started
At about 1:54 PM A MORONIC / MENTALLY DISABLED / STALKER / HARASSER / ABUSER walked up to me while I was sitting / waiting outside of the doc's office for transportation with my relative, mind you if this woman had a question for real and not a reason to start an argument with me she could have spoken to my relative who was sitting further out closer to the street than me, while I was sitting with my back against the wall of the center looking across the street purposely not making eye contact with her when I saw she was walking towards me and looking like she was going to talk to me.
I immediatly knew she was a STALKER / HARASSER / ABUSER so I immediately told her to get out of my face before she really had a chance to speak, whatever she had to say I did not want to hear it because I knew it was going to be something to psychologically abuse me. This woman proceeded to try to continue talking to me so I continue to tell her to get out of my face but she wanted to continue talking so she could start an argument with me on purpose she kept telling me I don't have to be nasty and telling me I'm a hypocondriac. I don't know this woman from a can of paint, she is a complete stranger to me, as usual I am sitting down somewhere minding my business as this woman comes up to disturb my peace, which is why I tried to shut her down immediately, like don't open your mouth to me because whatever comes out of it is going to be harmful and detrimental to me.
All i did was tell her to get out of my face, nothing more, saying I'm a hypocondriac made no sense, she made an assumption / was instructed to say that. I said nothing about wanting her out of my face because I was afraid to catch COVID, or the flu, or a cold, plus we all had masks on so what are we really talking about here, absolutely nothing, just some stupid stuff somebody told you to say to me to disturb my peace by fabricating an argument.
That should have been the end of it. What sane person is going to keep talking / arguing with a complete / random stranger on the street who was minding their business and who has told you to get out of their face multiple times especially in NYC, A GROUP STALKER / HARASSER / ABUSER, thats who.
They know the target is not crazy, but agitated and traumatized from ongoing abuse hoping for any kind of response that makes the target look negative.
And yet she kept going, insisting I did not have to be nasty because she just wanted to ask a question and stated I need to get a mental check loudly right before she walked into the same doc office we came from and was waiting outside of. This woman is nuts.
A stranger who I doesn't know me starts arguing with me, telling what I am and what I should not be and tells me I need to get a mental check because I did not want to talk to her or let her ask whatever stupid question she had. This is irrational and obviously a set up. This is RANDOM ENCOUNTERS and STREET THEATER at its best.
At 1:58 PM another STALKER / HARASSER / ABUSER walks by talking loudly about I don't know why people want to move on Mondays, I don't understand it. As I stated previously, all of this harassment is about marginalizing me and expelling me from mainstream society, getting me to move out of workplaces and residences, detering me from patroning businesses by having me be harassed whenever I go into places, even deterring me from doctors offices (intentional medical neglect), etc. The constant moving / dragging of heavy furniture across the floor by my neighbors is clearly a subliminal message to get me to move out. Its about killing me overtime, thats why this GROUP STALKING is referred to as NO TOUCH TORTURE. I am not moving though because no one has a right to force me out of anywhere especially when I have done nothing wrong and experience and history has showed me that moving around does not solve the problem. I have been to 2 different jobs and 1 different residence since all this stuff started in 2015 and ain't a damn thing change for the better, if anything things have gotten astronomically worse in the workplace and residences.
Transportation running late.
Transportation arrived at about 2:30 30 references the age at which I wanted to start having children back in my younger days when I thought about possibly having them, now I am Childfree and could care less but did have this conversation on my personal cell phone maybe around 20 years ago. My plan was married at 28, first child at 30, I am 46, so that conversation had to have been had initially around 20 years ago, and probably afterwards in subsequent conversations on my personal cell phone, where most of the information gathered to build a psychological profile of me, gather personal data on me and people I communicated with was obtained.
23, I think is a reference to Michael Jordan / Chicago Bulls, red, black, and white RED, BLACK, and WHITE are common colors used in my COLOR HARASSMENT References lady infection / lady bug / HPV / YEAST INFECTION (I believe HPV is the primary reason for this being done to me. The last straw for me quitting NYC DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS was when I realized my trash was being rifled through and my USED MENSTRUAL PADS were being extracted forcing me to start using reusable menstrual pads. References ex-friend who also has HPV, she had a major crush on Michael Jordan, which I know we talked about on my personal cell phone many times. References an ex-friend who lives in Chicago, whom I had a conversation with a few years back (in 2018) when I was living in my Brooklyn apartment I moved to get away from the abuse in Astoria, not really understanding the abuse was going to follow me. I was talking to her about all the stuff that was happening to me, she made a statement that what was happening to me regarding the workforce and all the harassment in my personal life might be permanent.
23 may also reference 23 chromosomes children / pregnancy / abortion
Arrived home at 2:45 to be unpleasantly and noisly greeted upon exiting the Ambulette by 3 Muslim children returning home from school / most likely from PS 122
RANDOM ENCOUNTERS This will be people on the street who you randomly and unexpectedly run into. It looks completely natural and it seems to be a random encounter. They might ask for your phone number after engaging you in conversation. Ask you out, or just ask you where you are going. Anything from small talk to lengthier conversations. All with the purpose of finding out something about you, or even just getting you to do something.
NUMBER HARASSMENT Number Harassment is literally the use of numbers to Harass a target and victim, This can include the brainwashed members of these cults driving by a victims home at a certain time, exiting or entering the neighborhood at a certain set time, or performing a Harassment task or skit, at a certain time of the day or night, for the purpose of harassment to the target and victim. The Number Harassment may be done in synchronicity with other members of these cults. For example a member of the cult arrives home at 7:07 in the afternoon and another member of the cult leaves at 7:07 at the same time. The next morning, one of the same members of the cult leaves home at 7:07 followed by another member of the cult. The individuals that belong to these cults are using local police 10 ham radio codes to harass and to convey harassment related themes to the individual being targeted for years at a time. The only logical explanation that can be drawn as to why these brainwashed cult members are using local police 10 codes to Harass other citizens, is that they have been deluded into thinking that they are somehow police.
The idea behind the Number Harassment, is to get the individual being targeted sensitized to certain numbers, so that they can be constantly Harassed by use of these numbers. Most importantly the members of these cults have already been sensitized, conditioned, and brainwashed to these specific numbers, and are constantly looking to their watches and clocks, to see what the time is, in case they have a Harassment skit or order to perform at a specific time of the day or night, that has been passed to them by their criminal leader and organizer via a cell phone text. That’s correct. These cult members are actually being given Harassment tasks and Street Theater Scripts to perform at a certain time of the day for the purpose of Harassment of another individual, despite the fact that the individual being targeted can easily document this Harassment and Cult behavior using a video camera with a date and time stamp, and sue the individuals for damages of Harassment and Emotional Distress.
STREET THEATER Street Theater is a term used to describe the odd-actions and behaviors that stalkers sometimes neighbors do in public, in an attempt to rile the victim. Such behavior often borders on the extremely bizarre and is aimed at a blurring of the boundaries between reality and fantasy in the minds of the victims. This is running into people that are acting very unusual, or people that are putting on a show or production, known as street theater. Eg. This could be as minor as public rudeness, or people acting out a harassment skit. There will usually be someone nearby to see how you react to it. This is again looking for weakness or reactions. If you show an adverse reaction, they will try to embellish on this and use it against you later on. Street Theater is Harassment skits done by strangers and neighbors who have been ‘recruited’ into these Stalking and Harassment groups. Examples of Street Theater: Baiting, Brighting, Color Harassment, Convoys, Directed Conversation, Ghosting, Mimicry, Noise Campaigns, etc.
COLOR HARASSMENT Color Harassment is literally the use of color to harass a victim. Usually, monochromatic color schemes are used, though this choice is pretty much up to the stalkers. An example of Color Harassment would be a line of stalkers, in red shirts, circling a victim. Color Harassment is often combined with other stalking tactics.
In addition to the HATE CRIME element to the ongoing stalking and harassment there is a Religious Zealotry / Nuttery / Judgmental / Fundamentalism / Extremism element to my daily harassment as I am being harassed by mostly Muslim and Latino people. Based on facts / my observation, I would estimate that 9 out of 10 people harassing me on a daily basis are Muslim or Latino, with Muslims ranking number 1, Muslims who appear to be from Middle Eastern / Arab countries and countries on the Asian continent. All of the tenants in my apartment building are involved in my daily harassment, especially the 3 apartments surrounding my apartment. 2 of the apartments are occupied by Muslim tenants and the 3rd apartment is occupied by Latino tenants. Out of the 9 apartments in my apartment building. 2 of the tenants, including myself are African American, the remaining 7 apartments are occupied by Latino and Muslim tenants, with the Muslims being in the majority.
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This is meant to highlight a lot of the ignorant and disrespectful comments childfree women like myself have to endure.
It's especially upsetting because I feel like in communities of Black and brown women, child-bearing is treated as the pinnacle of our womanhood (next to marriage). To actively go out of your way to not have children as a Black woman is to have people treat you like you're a useless sack of flesh with no other purpose.
There are dozens of reasons why women choose to not procreate and they are ALL valid. In addition to practicing celibacy, embracing my desire to remain childfree has been very empowering for me. Just like there are women who are proud to be mothers, there are women who are proud to not be mothers.
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