clouds look so friendly i wish i was a cloud
this cloud doesnt look very friendly to me
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((this is riley im just too lazy to sign into my blog in my phones browser lol))
it is illegal in all 50 states for a city to shut your heat off if you meet these conditions!!
there’s also some resources here if you think you won’t be able to afford the heating bill this winter:
http://www.masslegalhelp.org/income-benefits/utilities/winter-heat
Important information!
For those of you in the US! Stay warm! :)
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the term “aro-ace” is especially lovely because it also sounds like “arrow ace.” are you aromantic and asexual or are you an incredibly skilled and deadly archer. surprise, you’re both
Let’s not forget the original arrow ace:
ARTEMIS JOKE I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
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shout out to ace and aro kids who are constantly bombarded with the opinion that sex and romantic love are directly connected to living a happy life.
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Have a Christmas, everyone. (image via not_a_rhino)
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Reader Chris passes along an article about differences in American Sign Language usage between white and African-American signers. Researchers investigating what they call Black ASL found significant variations in signs, signing space, and facial cues. They explain:
Black ASL is not just a slang form of signing. Instead, think of the two signing systems as comparable to American and British English: similar but with differences that follow regular patterns and a lot of variation in individual usage.
They hypothesize that these differences began in segregated learning environments, and continue to evolve in Black social spaces. The whole article is worth a read.
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ETA, 9/24/12: Many of you have brought up the use of the word “mainstream” in this infographic. Better choices definitely exist, since this word rings of othering. We appreciate your nuanced and attentive readership!
Black folks got they own vernacular in asl also. You learn something new everyday.
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Looking for a Cause? Help a Yakama Elder Save Her Language
Virginia Beavert, a Yakama elder from Toppenish, Washington, is working on a project that is “very important and meaningful” to her because “it will help to preserve both my culture and my language,” she says on the Kickstarter page for it.
This is my native language and it would be super cool if you guys could toss her a few bucks on Kickstarter. Or you know signal boost this. Please I am begging.
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I love this game.
“Somehow it never occurred to my princess, whom I’d lovingly crafted into a tense, paranoid warlord, that she shouldn’t empty a box of mysterious mailcandy into her mouth. You would think studying poison and espionage would have saved me from this espionage poison, but instead, a list of other skills, skills I never studied, princess skills, were key to avoiding this fate. I guess that’s the lesson: you can’t build a successful Arya without adding a little Sansa.”
PCGamer
This is an amazing game, also brutally hard.
Oh, man. After my first few fun failures through I was like “okay no I am going to survive this thing” and I sort of accidentally had some of my own guards killed to further my own ends and I lost the respect of my father forever and I quashed the noble and the peasant rebellions ruthlessly and I arranged my future marriage to some aristo kid because politics and I sunk an entire fleet of enemy ships and I accidentally awoke a terror of the deeps to ravage my people for years to come but I also survived dammit.
Oh my god I need to play this NOW
I have never heard of this game before this moment but now I have A MIGHTY NEED
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it is actually really sweet when someone stays up late to talk to you
What if they fall asleep by accident though?
then you love it even more because they stayed up even though they were dead tired just to talk to you ya doof
I always appreciate this.
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