Twst Quotes #06

PLEASE READ!!! I DON'T POST STUFF LIKE THIS AND THIS IS SERIOUS TO ME! ELON MUSK IS TRYING TO DUMP THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF WASTE WATER INTO THE LAGUNA MADRE IN SOUTH TEXAS!!!

The Laguna Madre is a beautiful ecosystem that houses so many species of wild life and many migratory species of shore birds go there to eat and rest. Its all thanks to the sea grass that grows there, and after the big freeze of Texas in 2021, it is slowly making its recovery and now it's in danger again!

(Black Skimmer with chicks shown here)

If Elon continues with this disguising act, nitrogen and hydrogen rich waste will be dumped and plankton and algae will begin to overpopulate and create a cloud of themselves over the sea grass causing it to not get the sunlight it needs to photosynthesize. It will basically be suffocated by the overpopulation of microorganisms and die out and so many species of animals will lose that shelter they need to feed, breed and even escape dangers like predators. This grass also feeds the endangered green sea turtle and was even given the name "Turtle Grass" for its huge importance to these creatures.

(Green Sea Turtle grazing) Not only that, but the South Padre Island is one of the largest ports in America and has many shrimping and fishing companies that rely on the environment to make a minimum wage. And once the water gets polluted, so many people can get sick or worse if they eat the fish and shrimp that have been exposed to it!

(South Texas Shrimping Boats) This is serious! And if you or someone you know lives in Texas there is a way you can make a comment and state how you DON'T WANT LITERAL SLUDGE IN THE OCEAN! IT WILL HURT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AND THE VAST AND DIVERSE ECOSYTEM THEY LIVE IN!

You can find the link here:

PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN! WE CAN'T LET MUSK DO THIS!!!

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren’t even creative with their cover design. If you’re going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up – Plush Books – and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either – the fact that “”“publishers”“” can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad – including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives – but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven’t done this before, it’s easy! Here’s a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You’ll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That’s all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don’t have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy’s URL. You’ll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word “product,” as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it’s correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the “I have read and accept the statements” box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

ruzzian warship - go fuck yourself

I can't believe it's been a year of a full-scale invasion... And I definitely can't believe it's been 365 days 11 months 27 days 21 hours and 39 minutes.

It was hard for me to fall asleep that day. I was playing some games and had a strong feeling of anxiety. Though, I thought - they won't attack us.

That was my biggest mistake.

The first 3 months were a living hell. Surrounded, with no food and medicine in the city, having my first volunteering trips to nearby villages, surviving a day, when two russians break into my granny's house, while I was there alone with my younger sister. After that day, I'm still sleeping with a knife under my pillow. Never thought that something like this can happen in my life. Never thought it can be real.

Thousands are dead. Killed, tortured and raped. Women, Men, Children. Thousands of Lives are destroyed. A year ago, was the last calm day for many of us.

Today, I want to ask you for one thing - remember the price of freedom. I don't know if I survive this war, but still, I have the nerve to ask you to light a candle on this day or just to stop for a second and remember that right now Ukrainians are paying the biggest price for freedom.

Thank you for your help. Thank you for being with us.

Slava Ukraini

Assclass Incorrect Quotes

Gakuhou: What are you drinking?

Gakushuu: Vodka.

Gakuhou: Straight?

Gakushuu: No, gay. Why?

-

Gakuhou: Swear words are illegal now. If you say one you'll be fined.

Gakushuu: Heck.

Gakuhou: You're on thin fucking ice.

Gakuhou: Oh no-

-

Koro-sensei: *gets set on fire and screams in agony*

Koro-sensei: Nah, I’m just kidding. Fire does nothing to me.

-

Gakushuu, making coffee: This is going to fix everything.

-

Gakushuu: Kill me nowwwww.

Isogai: Sorry, no can do. I need your help with my homework.

-

Terasaka: Itona just insisted Hazama and I remember a code word in case we’re ever confronted by their clone or a cyborg doppelgänger and we’re not sure which is the real them and which is the imposter.

Terasaka: Some families have a fire escape plan, but not us.

-

Karma, with a headache: Advil me up, daddy.

Rio: I will short out the language centre of your brain if you say anything like that ever again.

-

Demon: Hey, I took your soul last month and-

Kayano: No returns.

Demon: *sobbing* But it's making me sad…

-

*Terasaka falls over*

Hazama: Terasaka! Are you alright?

Terasaka: Is that you, God?

Hazama: What?

Terasaka: It's just, you sound a lot more like Hazama than I expected.

-

Gakuhou: You’ll have a hard time believing this because it never happens, but I made a mistake.

Sick sick sick of possibility of being fucking recorded every waking second by tiktok obsessed quasi celebs. Video titled something like "Caught him thinking he's the main character" but it was just a kid wearing headphones, looking out the bus window. Of course it was posted without his knowledge. Stop recording strangers and everything you see, nobody gives a shit and not everyone is happy to be on tiktok or youtube because of a moron with no braincells and an account. What could be a forgettable awkward moment is now permanently there for the victim of lackabrainis infested idiot to get anxious about forever.

Crying, screaming, throwing up! It's so good, I'm sobbing!

all the self-loathing in the world won’t change a thing (‘cause you can’t go back, darling)

Esdras Al-Ridha is born in 1899, in his mother’s family home. His birth certificate, when it’s written a month later by Dr. Yuriy Rockbell, will declare his name Edward Elric. It will name his mother Trisha, and it will say nothing of her white hair. It will say nothing of the blue desert sky he first opens his eyes under, the way he is passed to relative after relative and is held and blessed by each. (Even before the war, tensions are high, and hatred is brewing. Tirzah holds her newborn son, with eyes as gold as his father’s, and pale-sun hair halfway there, and she decides that if Ishvala wants him hidden, then Tirzah will not brand him where his genes have not.)

MY FRIEND WROTE AN ISHVALAN AU AND I WANTED TO VISUALIZE SOME STUFF WHILE HE WAS SHARING SNIPPETS IN THE GROUP CHAT SO I DREW THESE

I JUST FINISHED READING IT AND IM VERY UPSET AND YOU WILL BE TOO

also hohenheim is from the desert so like… he also gets dark skin.

anyway PLEASE READ THE FIC HERES THE LINK AGAIN

Assclass Incorrect Quotes

-

Nagisa: Sometimes I drink milk straight from the container.

Terasaka: The cow??

Nagisa: What?

Itona: Terasaka, W H Y?

-

Gakushuu: I’ve never been in a snowball fight before. I don’t know the rules.

Rio: What?

Gakushuu: Is there a point system, or is it to the death?

-

Gakushuu, grinning: I have a knife!

Gakuhou: Put it down, Gakushuu.

Gakushuu: Make me! *sprints away*

-

Hazama: Hey, quick question. How petty am I allowed to be?

-

Koro-sensei: You need a hobby.

Gakuhou: I have a hobby!

Koro-sensei: Hitting Gakushuu isn't a hobby.

-

Gakushuu: I think I need a hug...

Isogai: Good thing I'm hug shaped!

*45 minutes later*

Gakushuu: You... you can let go now.

Isogai: No, I absolutely cannot.

-

Karasuma: Guys… the principal just called—

Irina: It was the octopus!

Koro-sensei: It was Karma!

Karma: It was Rio!

Rio: It was me!

-

Gakushuu: How is spring not everyone’s favorite season? The trees are PINK, guys!

Karma: Allergies are also a problem, y'know.

Gakushuu: But pink.

Hazama: And it's hot.

Gakushuu: PINK!

-

Rio: I’ve never asked someone out. How do you even do it?

Isogai: Oh, what I do is, I look them up and down and I say: “Hey… how you doin’?”

Gakushuu, scoffing: Oh, please.

Isogai, to Gakushuu: Hey, how you doin’?

Gakushuu:

Gakushuu: *giggles and blushes*

-

Gakushuu: Would anyone know any good vendors for professional-quality brass knuckles?

Irina: I know you’re serious, but you say the scariest shit sometimes.

Thanks for giving me a chance ❤

Business Insider

Nebraska hasn't passed a bill this year thanks to mega-filibuster

Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh filibustered every bill in this year's session in opposition to a bill that would ban medical care for transgender y

Nebraska hasn't passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: 'I will burn this session to the ground'

Damn. I thought she was just gonna up and make a fuss and her swearing to protect trans kids was a bunch of empty words (again).

But no. She's one-woman filibustering the entire Nebraska legislature into a complete standstill until they agree to protect the rights of trans kids.

She was 100% serious when she said she'd make it as painful for everyone as it is for trans kids. Gahddamn.

This is why small elections matter. She's not a country wide senator or president or shit. She's just a local official representing District 6 in Nebraska.

This is why the "smaller" elections between the presidential elections matter.

-fae

Me, two glasses of wine in: "yeah so here's an in depth conversation about my identity as a nonbinary person, and my struggles with transphobia in 2023"

Median Center-Right American Dude at the party, also two drinks in: "Damn that's crazy, I never thought of it like that. Man, I'm sorry you gotta deal with this shit."

Me: "Ahh it's alright. I deal."

Random Guy: "People should just chill tf out."

Me: "Damn right"