every now and then (like. everyday) people would reblog my post about otta saying "i think they break up with her because she's just too immature for them because theyre more adult than her now because elves clearly mature slower than halflings" and it's basically the same argument by the long-lived races have about how short lived races are still a kid at 60 years old except the other way around

#i'd say they totally break up with her because they outgrown her #imagine being 40 and dating perpetual 20-yo #so she's like. reverse dicaprio actually

people keep saying this but the idea of elves maturing slower than the short-lived race is really funny to me like. even if otta is the equivalent of a 20 years old tallman that doesn't mean 40 years old tallmen are inherently more mature than her. in real life we have a bunch of adults who are less responsible than teenagers and vice versa. the canaries are just their version of those adam sandler movies with a bunch of manchildren getting drunk and being jackasses

but hey i can combine the idea of otta being an asshole and the girlfriends dumping her into one. maybe she starts losing interest in them because they are getting too old for her taste and it's REALLY obvious to the girlfriends so the realization that otta is a short-lived race fetishist turn them off and result in their break up

it's so brave of ryoko kui to make a canon butch lesbian elf character but also makes her the leonardo dicaprio of dunmeshi

One of those going-over-the-fandom's-head memes about Shuro Dungeonmeshi being hopelessly infatuated with Falin and loathing Laios even though they have basically identical personalities where the direct takeaway is "lol, Shuro is dumb" and the part going over the reader's head is "people decide whether your autistic traits are charming quirks or red flags based on whether they find you fuckable".

thank you dungeon meshi for giving me lion reference i think this is the first time ive drawn it well

shout out to the official english translation where akutagawa calls himself dazai's unwanted goods while atsushi is the new merchandise i mean he's right

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

im actually a fan of next generation fanfiction, loves making fankids myself. but i can never do that to khr characters because it's like... i think tsuna wouldnt get married if it means his kid will inherit the sins of his criminal empire, him sleeping around resulting in a bastard is not even a possibility. IF he ends up having any kid at all then, well, he'll finally get his act together and destroys Vongola, consequences be damned.

because the only choice other than that is to repeat the same mistakes iemitsu did to him and his mom

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(Tsubaki/Belkia) Tsubaki's been working really hard to take care of everyone, Belkia decides he should relax and let Belkia take care of him tonight ;)

Note: this ask is part of the kinkmeme prompt, where everyone who see it is encouraged to write their own version of it even if there are already others who filled it read more about it here

LMAO someone give Dick Grayson a medal for understanding that when Bruce stalks you and asks to take your blood, it's his way of showing he loves his kid.

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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

thank you dungeon meshi for giving me lion reference i think this is the first time ive drawn it well

shout out to the official english translation where akutagawa calls himself dazai's unwanted goods while atsushi is the new merchandise i mean he's right

top tier character design

Berlin announced on 23 April that it will resume cooperation with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza. Germany’s move came after an independent investigation headed by former French diplomat Catherine Colonna that found “neutrality-related issues” in implementing UNRWA’s procedures to “ensure compliance with the humanitarian principles of neutrality.” Colonna’s report made note that Israel provided no proof of whether UNRWA staff were involved with the Palestinian resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October. “The German government has dealt intensively with the allegations made by Israel against UNRWA and has been in close contact with the Israeli government, the United Nations, and other international donors,” a joint statement by the German Foreign Office and the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development read. The former French diplomat’s investigation proposed reforms to UNRWA to increase the neutrality of staff and behavior, education, and governance, including methods to achieve these goals through engagement with donors. Germany pushed UNRWA to implement these recommendations, strengthen its internal audit functions, and improve the external surveillance of project management. “In support of these reforms, the German government will soon continue its cooperation with UNRWA in Gaza, as Australia, Canada, Sweden, and Japan, among others, have already done so,” the joint statement continued. Germany gave the UN agency over $200 million in 2023 and is the organization’s second-largest donor after the US. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the attacks on the agency “have nothing to do with neutrality issues but in reality, they are motivated by the objective to strip the Palestinians from the refugee status.”