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Put one reason in my ask.

This was very fun to watch.

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Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

I got Pokédex 385 Jirachi Cool!!!

your assigned pokemon kin

your age + the day you were born x the month you were born

the total is your pokedex number

mine is Marowak

This is a great resource remainder & thought process explanation makes a lot of sense. Very helpful in life & fiction.

Could somebody be a paramedic if they were missing a forearm?

Y’know, sometimes a question comes along that exposes your biases. I’m really, really glad you asked me this.

My initial instinct was to say no. There are a lot of tasks as a paramedic that require very specific motions that are sensitive to pressure: drawing medications, spreading the skin to start IVs. There’s strength required–we do a LOT of lifting, and you need to be able to “feel” that lift.

So my first thought was, “not in the field”. There are admin tasks (working in an EMS pharmacy, equipment coordinator, supervisor, dispatcher) that came to mind as being a good fit for someone with the disability you describe, but field work….?

(By the way, I know a number of medics with leg prostheses; these are relatively common and very easy to work with. I’m all in favor of disabled medics. I just didn’t think the job was physically doable with this kind of disability.)

Then I asked. I went into an EMS group and asked some people from all across the country. And the answers I got surprised me.

They were mostly along the lines of “oh totally, there’s one in Pittsburgh, she kicks ass” or “my old partner had a prosthetic forearm and hand, she could medic circles around the rest of her class”. One instructor said they had a student with just such a prosthesis, and wasn’t sure how to teach; the student said “just let me figure it out”, and by the end of the night they were doing very sensitive skills better than their classmates.

Because of that group I know of at least a half-dozen medics here in the US with forearm and hand prostheses.

So yes. You can totally have a character with one forearm, who works as a paramedic for a living.

Thanks again for sending this in. It broadened my worldview.

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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OTP Quotes Challenge

A belated celebration for reaching 5000+ followers! Here we have a list of random quotes for you to use for your OTP! You can have followers tell you numbers to draw your OTP as, or you can write stories based on your favorites, or both! Take these quotes in any direction you like for your creative use. Have fun!

“Aah! That tickles!”

“whAT IS THAT?!”

“woah what happened while I was gone”

“wait no that’s mine what are you doing”

“No, I’m paying”

“It’s fine, stop worrying about me”

“dON’T TELL ME I CAN’T DO THAT I WILL DO THAT THING ALL I WANT”

“Come over here— oh crap no don’t fall— why does this always happen”

“just tAKE THE JACKET”

“I’m so hungry I could eat a— stop looking at me like that in public”

“Well, that was certainly awkward”

“waIT DON’T RUN AT ME I’LL FALL”

“are… are you awake? Did you fall asleep already”

“great, what did you bring home this time?”

“I don’t know why you don’t like this outfit on you. You look splendid.”

“aaah I can’t stop blushing… No you’re not helping at all”

“I can’t believe they spelled your name wrong again”

“enOUGH! ENOUGH WITH YOUR PUNS”

“I can’t… I can’t believe you actually remembered…”

“Put some clothes on already, jeez! We have company coming!”

“okay, and how much money did you spend on that thing?”

“I wish we could stay here forever”

“who was that? oh… your cousin…”

“You okay? You seem a little off today”

“I’m fine”

“I don’t know, what do you want to do?”

“c-can I hold your hand?..”

“GIVE ME YOUR HAND”

“oh, remember when you used to wear that all the time? Good times.”

“you can’t run so it’ll be faster if I just carry you”

“You don’t need to tell me— I’ve memorized your order by now”

“y-you look… you look very nice.”

“did that person just take a picture of us?”

“c’mon, let’s dance!”

“oh mY GOD ARE THESE YOUR BABY PICTURES???”

“oh, we are not letting you drive when you’re like this”

“you’re a nerd. but my favorite nerd.”

“why do you find those cute I hate those pictures of myself”

“you’re very warm… It’s nice.”

“You know what? I wasn’t even surprised by that. I’m that used to you.”

“Wait, stay right there— I’ve got a song for you”

“oh thank goodness… I didn’t think you’d still be here.”

“You don’t have to do this if you’re scared”

“EVERY TIME I SAY THAT YOU ALWAYS MAKE THE SAME PUN”

“I can’t believe you actually bought that”

“that… that was a lot different than I thought it’d be”

“no stop i’M HURTING FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH”

“let’s pretend I didn’t see you do that”

“You’re too sweet”

“ah, you’re up. how’d you sleep?”

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Dracula manga spoilers but super interesting

Epilogue

Precious boy

Yet the castle remains

I see no wives 👀

Seriously this boy is too cute for my heart

The end.

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Bonus: notes from the mangaka and editor

There's also a few notes on the fonts and some sketches of characters design, if it's something anyone is interested in, let me know I'll make a post

Ooh, I like this interpretation :)

We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

This is awesome and hilarious.

I was tweeting with tenfiends about how P5 kid should be Tatsuya and Jun’s son and it got out of hand

(Tatsuya is a detective, leading to hilarious antics as P5 kid conceals his identity from his dad, because his other dad Jun probably knows about it the entire time)