i need some victory today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some days you just need a velociraptor on your side.
âIt might be nice, it might be nice,
To have a velociraptor on your sideâ
Iâm ready

if i look back, i am lost
Not today Justin
we're not kids anymore.
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i need some victory today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some days you just need a velociraptor on your side.
âIt might be nice, it might be nice,
To have a velociraptor on your sideâ
Iâm ready
This is literally so fucking SAD
Edit: since you all are here, educate yourself what's happening in Belarus rn that would be highly appreciated thanks
The Eternal Couple đ€đ§Ą
Saaya and Cleopatra have been courting for 4 years now and whenever they are together itâs a sight to behold. They live in Indiaâs Kabini forest.
They are so beautiful.
& they have children together too!
Also, fun fact: Saaya means the âShadowâ
Photographs taken by Mithun H.
Power couple
Okay guys Iâm just gonna say this, if you get mentioned in any of these Ray Ban charity event posts. DO NOT CLICK ON IT. It is a phishing website. DO not click on it unless you have the correct add blockers and safety precautions. Iâve gotten mentioned in at least 20 of these at this point, and a lot of them are from people I follow. That is because they have been hacked. They clicked on this link and their account was hacked. Please donât click on this. Iâm just bringing some more awareness to this.
If you canât reblog this, unfollow me now.
itâs fucking disgusting that i just lost 6 followers
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When you need to use royalty free music but canât find any you like so you make your own but then you remember you donât know how to compose music but you spent all this time making it and youâre not turning back now
Sugary drinks also erode electronics much much quicker :)
tips for choosing a Chinese name for your OC when you donât know Chinese
This is a meta for gifset trade with @purple-fury! Maybe you would like to trade something with me? You can PM me if so!
Choosing a Chinese name, if you donât know a Chinese language, is difficult, but hereâs a secret for you: choosing a Chinese name, when you do know a Chinese language, is also difficult. So, my tip #1 is: Relax. Did you know that Actual Chinese People choose shitty names all the dang time? Itâs true!!! Just as you, doubtless, have come across people in your daily life in your native language that you think âGod, your parents must have been on SOME SHIT when they named youâ, the same is true about Chinese people, now and throughout history. If you choose a shitty name, itâs not the end of the world! Your characterâs parents now canonically suck at choosing a name. There, we fixed it!
However. Just because you should not drive yourself to the brink of the grave fretting over choosing a Chinese name for a character, neither does that mean you shouldnât care at all. Especially, tip #2, Never just pick some syllables that vaguely sound Chinese and call it a day. That shit is awful and tbh itâs as inaccurate and racist as saying âching chongâ to mimic the Chinese language. Examples: Cho Chang from Harry Potter, Tenten from Naruto, and most notorious of all, Fu Manchu and his daughter Fah lo Suee (how the F/UCK did he come up with that one).
So where do you begin then? Well, first you need to pick your characterâs surname. This is actually not too difficult, because Chinese actually doesnât have that many surnames in common use. One hundred surnames cover over eighty percent of Chinaâs population, and in local areas especially, certain surnames within that one hundred are absurdly common, like one out of every ten people you meet is surnamed Wang, for example. Also, if youâre making an OC for an established media franchise, you may already have the surname based on who you want your character related to. Finally, if youâre writing an ethnically Chinese character who was born and raised outside of China, you might only want their surname to be Chinese, and give them a given name from the language/culture of their native country; thatâs very very common.
If you donât have a surname in mind, check out the Wikipedia page for the list of common Chinese surnames, roughly the top one hundred. If youâre not going to pick one of the top one hundred surnames, you should have a good reason why. Now you need to choose a romanization system. Youâll note that the Wikipedia list contains variant spellings. If your character is a Chinese-American (or other non-Chinese country) whose ancestors emigrated before the 1950s (or whose ancestors did not come from mainland China), their name will not be spelled according to pinyin. It might be spelled according to Wade-Giles romanization, or according to the nameâs pronunciation in other Chinese languages, or according to what the name sounds like in the language of the country they immigrated to. (The latter is where you get spellings like Lee, Young, Woo, and Law.)  A huge proportion of emigration especially came from southern China, where people spoke Cantonese, Min, Hakka, and other non-Mandarin languages.
So, for example, if you want to make a Chinese-Canadian character whose paternal source of their surname immigrated to Canada in the 20s, donât give them the surname Xie, spelled that way, because #1 that spelling didnât exist when their first generation ancestor left China and #2 their first generation ancestor was unlikely to have come from a part of China where Mandarin was spoken anyway (although still could have! thatâs up to you). Instead, name them Tse, Tze, Sia, Chia, or Hsieh.
If youâre working with a character who lives in, or who left or is descended from people who left mainland China in the 1960s or later; or if youâre working with a historical or mythological setting, then you are going to want to use the pinyin romanization. The reason I say that you should use pinyin for historical or mythological settings is because pinyin is now the official or de facto romanization system for international standards in academia, the United Nations, etc. So if youâre writing a story with characters from ancient China, or medieval China, use pinyin, even though not only pinyin, but the Mandarin pronunciations themselves didnât exist back then. Just⊠just accept this. This is one of those quirks of having a non-alphabetic language.
(Hereâs an âexceptionsâ paragraph: there are various well known Chinese names that are typically, even now, transliterated in a non-standard way: Confucius, Mencius, the Yangtze River, Sun Yat-sen, etc. Go ahead and use these if you want. And if you really consciously want to make a Cantonese or Hakka or whatever setting, more power to you, but in that case you better be far beyond needing this tutorial and I donât know why youâre here. Get. Scoot!)
One last point about names that use the ĂŒ with the umlaut over it. The umlaut ĂŒ is actually pretty critical for the meaning because wherever the ĂŒ appears, the consonant preceding it also can be used with u: lu/lĂŒ, nu/nĂŒ, etc. However, de facto, lots of individual people, media franchises, etc, simply drop the umlaut and write u instead when writing a name in English, such as âLu Buâ in the Dynasty Warriors franchise in English (it should be written LĂŒ Bu). And to be fair, since tones are also typically dropped in Latin script and are just as critical to the meaning and pronunciation of the original, dropping the umlaut probably doesnât make much difference. This is kind of a choice you have to make for yourself. Maybe you even want to play with it! Maybe everybody thinks your characterâs surname is pronounced âloo as in loo rollâ but SURPRISE MOFO itâs actually lĂŒ! You could Do Something with that. Also, in contexts where people want to distinguish between u and ĂŒ when typing but donât have easy access to a keyboard method of making the ĂŒ, the typical shorthand is the letter v.Â
Alright! So you have your surname and you know how you want it spelled using the Latin alphabet. Great! What next?
Alright, so, now we get to the hard part: choosing the given name. No, donât cry, I know baby I know. We can do this. I believe in you.
Here are some premises weâre going to be operating on, and Iâm not entirely sure why I made this a numbered list:
Chinese people, generally, love their kids. (Obviously, like in every culture, there are some awful exceptions, and Iâll give one specific example of this later on.)
As part of loving their kids, they want to give them a Good name.
So what makes a name a Good name??? Well, in Chinese culture, the cultural values (which have changed over time) have tended to prioritize things like: education; clan and family; health and beauty; religious devotions of various religions (Buddhism, Taoism, folk religions, Christianity, other); philosophical beliefs (Buddhism, Confucianism, etc) (see also education); refinement and culture (see also education); moral rectitude; and of course many other things as the individual personally finds important. Youâll notice that education is a big one. If you canât decide on where to start, something related to education, intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, etc, is a bet that canât go wrong.
Unlike in English speaking cultures (and Iâm going to limit myself to English because weâre writing English and good God look at how long this post is already), there is no canon of ânamesâ in Chinese like there has traditionally been in English. No John, Mary, Susan, Jacob, Maxine, William, and other words that are names and only names and which, historically at least, almost everyone was named. Instead, in Chinese culture, you can basically choose any character you want. You can choose one character, or two characters. (More than two characters? No one can live at that speed. Seriously, do not give your character a given name with more than two characters. If you need this tutorial, you donât know enough to try it.) Congratulations, it is now a name!!
But what this means is that Chinese names aggressively Mean Something in a way that most English names donât. You know nature names like Rose and Pearl, and Puritan names like Wrestling, Makepeace, Prudence, Silence, Zeal, and Unity? I mean, yeah, you can technically look up that the name Mary comes from a etymological root meaning bitter, but Mary doesnât mean bitter in the way that Silence means, well, silence. Chinese names are much much more like the latter, because even though there are some characters that are more common as names than as words, the meaning of the name is still far more upfront than English names.
So the meaning of the name is generally a much more direct expression of those Good Values mentioned before. But it gets more complicated!
Being too direct has, across many eras of Chinese history, been considered crude; the very opposite of the education youâre valuing in the first place. Therefore, rather than the Puritan slap you in the face approach where you just name your kid VIRTUE!, Chinese have typically favoured instead more indirect, related words about these virtues and values, or poetic allusions to same. What might seem like a very blunt, concrete name, such as Guan Yuâs âyuâ (which means feather), is actually a poetic, referential name to all the things that feathers evoke: flight, freedom, intellectual broadmindness, protectionâŠ
So when youâre choosing a name, you start from the value you want to express, then see where looking up related words in a dictionary gets you until you find something that sounds âlike a nameâ; you can also try researching Chinese art symbolism to get more concrete names. Then, hereâs my favourite trick, try combining your fake name with several of the most common surnames: çïŒæïŒé. And Google that shit. If you find Actual Human Beings with that name: congratulations, at least if you did f/uck up, somebody else out there f/ucked up first and stuck a Human Being with it, so youâre still doing better than they are. High five!
Youâre going to stick with the same romanization system (or lack thereof) as youâve used for the surname. In the interests of time, Iâm going to focus on pinyin only.
First letâs take a look at some real and actual Chinese names and talk about what they mean, why they might have been chosen, and also some fictional OC names that Iâve come up with that riff off of these actual Chinese names. And then weâll go over some resources and also some pitfalls. Hopefully you can learn by example! Fun!!!
Letâs start with two great historical strategists: Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, and the names I picked for some (fictional) sons of theirs. Then I will be talking about Sun Shangxiang and Guan Yinping, two historical-legendary women of the same era, and what I named their fictional daughters. And finally Iâll be talking about historical Chinese pirate Gan Ning and what I named his fictional wife and fictional daughter. Uh, this could be considered spoilers for my novel Clouds and Rain and associated one-shots in that universe, so you probably want to go and read that work⊠and its prequels⊠and leave lots of comments and kudos first and then come back. Donât worry, Iâll wait.
(Iâm just kidding you donât need to know a thing about my work to find this useful.)
Keep reading
I had to remove the links from the main post in order for it to show up in tag search, so here are the links to dictionaries and resources as a reblog!
MDBG an open source dictionary - start here
Wiktionary donât knock it til you try it
iCIBA (they recently changed their user interface and itâs much less English-speaker friendly now but itâs still a great dictionary)
Pleco (an iOS app, maybe also Android???) contains same open source dictionary as MDBG and also its own proprietary dictionary
Chinese Etymology
Since I recently had another post go viral, I thought Iâd reblog my now second most popular post.
I want to recommend another dictionary, also!
YellowBridge not only has a good dictionary with built in example sentences, etymology, cross-references, etc, but also is a good resource for Chinese language learners generally, especially due to being a good resource for Chinese translations of hot topics in the news.
Incidentally, re: a current hot topic, they have the Ode to Mulan (the oldest written version of the story) with side-by-side translation! Itâs a song-poem, so it is really not very long. If you are a modern Chinese language learner and the text doesnât make sense to you, thatâs because it is classical Chinese, and you need to learn that to be able to understand it. Compare to trying to read Chaucer or something.
Look I clown veganism often enough but really, truly, donât ever fucking feed somebody something without their knowledge or consent. Itâs hugely fucked up and not OK.
also if someone hasnât eaten meat in a while⊠or ever⊠they will get incredibly sick if they just start eating meat again.
|| Please donât do this. Not just with vegans/ vegetarians, but with ANYONE you donât know very well. You never know what they may or may not be allergic to, their abilities o(or lack thereof) to digest certain things, dietary needs and restrictions, religious beliefs requiring them to abstain from the consumption of certain foods and about a thousand other things.
Some people are legitimately allergic to thd proteins in certain meats and canât even eat anything cooked in the same pan as X meat product/s.
Iâm vegan but couldnât care less if others arenât, not an overwhelming number of (not all, just alot, unfortunately) non vegans find things like this funny.
Quick reminder: Sometimes people say âIâm veganâ or âIâm vegetarianâ because its easier/faster/begets fewer annoying questions than the longer explanation.
As an epidemiologist I can list a few of the more annoying longer explanations that no one wants to have to explain to every person who ever offers them food:
- You drank water contaminated with giardia, which gave you 3 weeks of diarrhea followed by 3 years of lactose intolerance
- You were bitten by a Lone Star Tick and developed an allergy to beef and pork because the Lone Star Tick is a bastard
- You are Jewish and the meat isnât kosher, but you donât want to say that because antisemitism is A Thing and you donât want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while youâre hungry
- You are Muslim and the meat isnât halal, but you donât want to say that because Islamophobia is A Thing and you donât want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while youâre hungry
- You are on a restricted diet for medical reasons and donât want to get bombarded with questions about your medical history while youâre hungry
- You are on a restricted diet for reasons that *are nobodyâs business* and donât want to get pulled into Potentially Triggering Diet Talk while youâre hungry.
Listen. Food can be very very complicated for people, and a very very very sensitive subject. Respect peopleâs food restrictions. None of it is your business.
clavid:
on the bright side i am not addicted to crack cocaine
On the downside Iâm too poor to afford one.
one crack cocaine
hello drug dealer yes i would like to purchase one crack cocaine please
debit or credit
I actually have a gift card
This is what hozier meant when he says he falls a little bit in love everyday with someone new
I once watched a girl in the produce aisle pick up a bushel of bananas that were precariously perched on the edge and move them farther back and under her breath she said âthere you go sweeties - that will be more comfortableâ before shuffling off and⊠I think about her often.
« Silent lovers » is such a sweet way to put it.
When you start opening up to people
when you go to therapy
I donât have any mobile phone network in or around my farm, but I can get some spotty reception if I pace around the woods for a good while. So now when I want to send or receive a text, and itâs too cold or dark to go outside and walk aimlessly for half an hour, I attach my phone to Pandolfâs collar and send him out in the forest. Usually when he comes home after taking my phone for a walk the text is successfully sent. Heâs like those rescue mountain dogs with a little barrel of whiskey round their necks, but the millennial version.Â
this is amazing
SourceÂ
These dudes are fucking legit. Â They donât just show up one day in court, either, they actually make friends with the kids and let them know they have a support system and that there are people in the world who care about them and will always have their back. Â And less important, but also cool, is that the few times a couple of them have come into my cafe, theyâve been super friendly and polite and when I told one of the guys that I noticed his Bikers Against Child Abuse patch and wanted him to know how awesome I thought he was because of it, he got kind of shy and blushed and said, âThe kids are the awesome ones, we just let them know theyâre allowed to be brave.â
The source is long, but so, so good. These men and women are available in 36 states, 24 hours a day to stand guard at home, in court, at school, even if the child has a nightmare. Many of them are survivors of childhood abuse as well, and know what itâs like to feel scared and alone.
In court that day, the judge asked the boy, âAre you afraid?â No, the boy said.
Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, âWhy not?â
The boy glanced at Pipes and the other bikers sitting in the front row, two more standing on each side of the courtroom door, and told the judge, âBecause my friends are scarier than he is.â
Actual tears.. hnngh
Show me more of people like this, world. I give up on humans too easily.
where do i sign up for this,i want to be in this gang
This is fucking amazing. It may be out of character for me to say this but rock on
Bikers Against Child Abuse was founded in 1995 by a Native American child psychologist whose ride name is Chief, when he came across a young boy who had been subjected to extreme abuse and was too afraid to leave his house. He called the boy to reach out to him, but the only thing that seemed to interest the child was Chiefâs bike. Soon, some 20 bikers went to the boyâs neighborhood and were able to draw him out of his house for the first time in weeks.
Chiefâs thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. âWhen we tell a child they donât have to be afraid, they believe us,â Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. âWhen we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.â ( Article)
More about BACA, from their site
My parents are a part of this organization and they are metal af
They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once youâre adopted into this family as a BACA kid, youâre always one. Even when youâre 40 and the perp gets released from jail, theyâll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life youâve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, thereâs 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the childâs testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.
Whatâs better than a badass biker gang being on your side???
NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS A BIKER AND NAMED HIMSELF CHIEF HELL YES IâM HERE FOR THAT AND BIKERS BEING BAD ASS TO PROTECT KIDS. HELL YEAH.
itâs back! I will always reblog BACA
Damn good people.
I know they wouldnât consider themselves such, but these people are freaking heroes and the world is a better place because of them.Â
Hey folks, it talks about this in the article but its not mentioned in this post, BACA is a 501 © (3) charity that depends in part on donations to help pay for stuff like gas for their bikes. If you want to help, consider donating.Â
@copperbadge You like posting about heroes, Sam. Seems like this would be up your alley.
I love these folks! Iâve reblogged them before but itâs wonderful to see the donation information has been added.Â
Always reblog. Keep doing what youâre doing y'all.
Guys? This post changed my life. I saw this post. Forever ago. And thought it was only in america⊠and wished desperately that they could help me. But then I saw it again, during a bad episode, and checked their site. They arenât just in the USA
Theyâre in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and Iâm considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a âlevel 1âČ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and theyâd refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs.Â
Iâve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers. So I can call them whenever I feel scared.Â
BACA is an absolutely wonderful group that will do everything in itâs power to help any child whos been abused.Â
And it doesnât end when youâre 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before youâre 18? youâre ALWAYS a BACA kid. Iâm 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if Iâm okay, and are there for me. Theyâre still trying to find me resources for therapy.Â
BACA has changed my fucking life.Â
I hope you all can read this, and reblog it knowing from someone who fucking been with them, that they are absolutely amazing.Â
If I ever donât reblog this, itâs because I am physically being restrained against my will.
My coworkerâs son was just approved as a BACA kid. The poor kid was abused long term by a family friend and is a mess, but when he found out that they were going to come visit him he started talking for the first time in months.
Iâm pleased beyond words that this organization exists.
Two of my friends are part of BACA, what they do is amazing!!
This election, make your vote count
If youâre eligible to vote, this country needs you! Hereâs a handy-dandy voter registration checklist for you to follow.
Voter registration check. Maybe you moved since the last election. Maybe youâre not sure if you registered at all. Hey, it happens. Register to vote or check your status. It only takes two minutes or so.
Request your absentee ballot. If you plan to vote by mailâwhich is perfectly safe despite what some sayâcheck out the deadlines and request your absentee ballot ASAP.
Find your polling place. Itâs highly encouraged to vote in person if itâs safe for you to do so. Donât forget to look up your designated polling location and check if you can vote early if youâre eager to avoid lines.
Do you need your ID? The answer: Maybe! Check here. Each state is different.
Get familiar with your ballot. Youâre voting for more than just the President. Your ballot will have the option to vote for local races and have ballot measures that directly affect your community. Make sure youâre not caught off-guard.
VOTE! Ta-da! You participated in democracy. Thank you.
Itâs okay if you feel a little intimidated about voting. Maybe itâs your first time ever, or maybe you recently moved, or maybe you just donât know if you want to vote in person or by mail. We made a little voter checklist over on @action to help set you up for success.
Whatever happens, please vote.
This is the Dog of Protection.
Reblog and youâll never be forced to reblog anything you donât want to ever again!
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