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[lozthusk]

Thought abt them again.

[lunarpetrichor]

A triptych for Avalon’s first book, Circles in the Stream! Lots of 2nd grade fanart, fanfiction, and recess LARPing came about because of these girls and they mean the world to me <3

Closeups:

[avalonarchive]

French Translation of Ghost Wolf Coming Soon

French Translation of Ghost Wolf Coming Soon

A cover, synopsis, and release date for the French translation of Ghost Wolf is up on Amazon. THE CRYSTAL CITY: THE SPIRIT OF THE FORESTAdriane, Kara, and Emily have become the mages of Avalon. But evil creatures are joining forces to destroy the crystal city….Dark forces have attacked Ravenswood, the sanctuary for magical animals. In the past, Adriane failed to protect Thunder, her bonded…

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[avalonarchive]

The French edition cover for Ghost Wolf. (French title: The Spirit of the Forest)

Publication date: 19 January 2022

[smoldragonborn]

“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.

[fatfemmefreaquency]

just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.

[qweerhet]

also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.

information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.

[jeanjauthor]

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it.

[avalonarchive]

Yes, they’re still doing French translations of Avalon: Web of Magic. They just changed the series name for the back half to The Crystal City.

Enjoy the French-edition covers for Song of the Unicorns and All’s Fairy in Love and War (which has the much more manageable title The Fairy Realms in French).

… I’ll get around to noting the translation changes once I get physical copies shipped to me. Because of course Song of the Unicorns isn’t available on Kindle.

[wet-monsoon]

i’m convinced that the ice age franchise won’t end until the squirrel that always chases after the nut gets an equally hideous girlfriend with Squirrel Tits™ and eyelashes

[wet-monsoon]

no….. No

NO

[claratyler]

No you don’t understand, I have this entire developed theory about the Ice Age universe which has been cooking up in my mind and has only be reinforced by the latest 5th installment. Scrat is the god of the Ice age universe. The story began with him and the story will end with him. If there weren’t hints before, in this latest installment, it becomes clear that Scrat’s actions dictate what happens on Earth and to the protagonists. Yes, maybe Scart’s only goal is to get the nut, but his actions SHAPE what happens in the film. If we needed any further proof then may I point out something Buck said in the 5th film along the lines of “we’re 6 mins early! Somebody up there likes us!” That phrase is usually used to refer to a god and in this case it’s used to refer (unknowingly) to scrat!

However, there is an ALTERNATE theory that I have been working on. What if Scart isn’t the god of the ice age universe, but rather, the NUT is? As i have already said, Scart’s actions shape the course of the story but what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut, it is truly because of the nut that Scart does what he does that leads to the events that take place in the story. This would create an interesting metaphor here. Scrat is chasing the nut like man chases divinity. So when will the Ice Age saga end?? When Scart finally gets the nut for good. When man catches God.

[wet-monsoon]

[busket]

i didnt even read this but im laughing at how many times scrat is typoed as scart

[creature-enjoyer29]

“what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut” is the funniest fucking string of words I’ve read in my life

[left-reminders]

[armedjoy]

[atheistforhumanity]

[librarian-raichu]

“Capitalism breeds mass production, innovation is rare and immediately copied/exploited.”

There I fixed the quote.

[bananonbinary]

i am once again asking you all to stop fucking using “lives with their parents” as an insult. humans live in groups, sometimes (frequently) those groups include multiple generations, get the fuck over it. it’s weird as hell to act like THAT’S somehow unnatural or creepy or pathetic instead of like, anything that actually matters at all.

[excalibelle]

it’s also ableist and classist as fuck

[bananonbinary]

i am once again asking you all to stop fucking using “lives with their parents” as an insult. humans live in groups, sometimes (frequently) those groups include multiple generations, get the fuck over it. it’s weird as hell to act like THAT’S somehow unnatural or creepy or pathetic instead of like, anything that actually matters at all.

[excalibelle]

it’s also ableist and classist as fuck

[worldsendingfolks]

october 31th international holiday for: bisexuals, goths, middle childs, ig baddies, metalheads, people who started shit during debates on sociology class, crazy scientists, entps, people who read books they hate so they can criticize it properly, people with adhd, and last but not least, necromancers.

[leafin-soon-deactivated20241107]

Please, fuck, I'm not ready to finish Avalon: Web of Magic again. I've been putting off re-reading the last two books for like a month and a half?? I used to re-read these like crazy when I was younger and yet even now the same parts still make me cry, even though I know they're coming. Not even the big emotional beats. Minor parts still hit me like a truck I swear this series will be the death of me.

[bareniabirkin]

😟😳😳😳

[squadron-of-damned]

#idk what this means or if i do this but ig i'll just hold my phone with my pinky stuck out from now on?? 

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

Green lines - the fingers are going their natural way. Red line - the pinky is way off, that’s bad.

[theclockworkjudas]

Me: Oh, good thing I never-

Me, looking down at hand: By talos this can't be happening

[samshepard]

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/smartphone-pinkie-iphone-injury-wrist-hand-explained.html

hey everybody this is Fake News and you can go back to holding your phone normally.

The Truth About “Smartphone Pinkie”

And what to really watch out for.

[eladrins]

[cipheramnesia]

[lilacwine1966-deactivated202212]

The thing is that like “edgy humour” really is a GIANT red flag among young white men……you hear white boys making racist jokes all the time but people tend to brush it off and assume they’ll grow out of it or that they’re just going through a harmless edgy humour phase and like…..some of them might grow out of it but that’s not the POINT! They’re racist NOW! They’re spreading islamophobic ideas NOW and we brush it off because we assume they’ll grow out of it in the future but whether they do or not is irrelevant; they need to grow out of it Right. Now. Or more lives will be lost.

[terulakimban]

As someone who has worked with teenage boys, most of whom actually liked and/or respected me, the best tool I had for shutting down edgelord bullshit was a flat stare and “you’re better than that”. Simultaneously conveying “I am disappointed”, “I have expectations of you”, “you have otherwise met them”, “that sort of behavior is unacceptable”, and “you are better than the people who engage in that sort of behavior, but only so long as you don’t join them.” is an incredibly powerful tool with kids who care about what you think. The worst I ever had to escalate to was ‘disappointed headshake and “I thought you were better than that”.’ I’ve never had to repeat the sentiments or escalate after deploying that one. Actually made one of them cry once with just that. He felt that bad about letting me down, and we had a solid talk after. With guys my age, “I guess you’re not the kind of man I thought you were.” has proven effective.

[commandtower-solring-go]

I think this is something that we need to carry with arguments with these kinds of people. It is a sentiment grounded in humanity. 

[doubleca5t]

The other way to approach this, if you’re not an authority figure, is “I don’t get it, why is that funny?” because racist/sexist jokes aren’t funny, and if you explain why they’re supposed to be, it takes away the cloak of irony that’s supposed to make the bigotry socially acceptable. That one can snap someone out of that real quick

[daggers-drawn-returns]

You ever notice how we used to get a lot more done before these exclusionist movements showed up?

[daggers-drawn-returns]

If anything debunks the core premise that we have to get rid of whatever subgroup to make the rest of us safer, it's just how unsafe this whole process has made all of us.

[coolxatu]

i am NOT fucking letting tiktok teens be nostalgic for fucking aeropostle, skinnybrow, mandatory hair straightening 2007-2010 fashion, we literally rock bottomed in every fucking regard in those years

[coolxatu]

excluding the dance music which fucking ruled for no reason

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

windows 10 is garbage so every time i boot up the computer i have to run command prompt and enter

net.exe stop “Windows Search”

so that the shitty goddamned search/cortana feature that i never fucking use stops running in the background taking up all my fucking disk space

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

before

after

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

what the fuck is that seriously what the fuck is making my computer be a fucking piece of shit

[internetwes]

@baristaboy try this out dude

[ilikeyoshi]

@lambylin

[amis-amai]

y’all didn’t even add a tutorial of how to do this so imma put one right here 1. type in cmd.exe into your windows search and right click on Command Promt search result and select “Run as Administator”. 2. Type/Copypase in  net.exe stop “Windows Search” and make sure Windows Search is in quotations. It should then respond saying “The Windows Search service is stopping” and then tell you it’s stopped. This is only a temp fix though, if you want it switched off permanently then do THIS: 1.  Press the Windows key + R at the same time and type in services.msc. 2.  Scroll until you find Windows Search and double click it to enter its Properties window. 3.  Change the Startup type to Disabled. Apply this change and you can exit out. VOILA, NO MORE TAKEN UP DISK SPACE

[bluecrysto-blog]

Reblog to save a fucking life, FUCK CORTANA.

[aberrantemotion]

Yo this sick nasty

[jaywrites101]

I JUST DID THIS AND IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 60% of all my pc problems just disappeared in three freaking clicks.