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[zenaquaria]

I just had the most interesting (to me) thought occur this morning: A counterpoint to actively denying someone is neurodivergent via a comparison of two conditions I myself have.

Some of us have weaker eyesight. It's just the way we are. So we go see the eye doc. Get evaluated, screened for underlying health issues, and when we're otherwise healthy, we get a plan to improve our weakened eyesight. So we can function better day to day.

Some of us have weaker mental functions. It’s just the way we are. So we go see the mental doc. Get evaluated, screened for underlying health issues, and when we're otherwise healthy, we get a plan to improve our weakened mental functions. So we can function better day to day.

(Highly simplifying the processes for the sake of analogy.)

Needing glasses is one of the most accepted life-quality-affecting conditions out there. Anybody can have sight issues. No big deal! But neurodivergence that affects executive functions, suddenly it’s “oh no you don’t have that, everybody has that problem sometimes!” or “oh you’re just trying to fit in now that it’s cool to have [insert condition]!”

Imagine telling someone with sight issues those things: “Oh no you’re not near/farsighted, everybody has trouble seeing that close/far sometimes!” “Oh you’re just trying to fit in now that it’s cool to wear glasses!”

In my case? My ADHD diagnosis and medication are to my brain what my nearsightedness diagnosis and glasses are to my eyes. Both improve the function of the affected organ so that I can live my life better than I could without.

TL;DR: They’re glasses for my brain.

[go-tigers]

North Bay Technical Academy

NBTA is beautiful private school situated in idyllic Marin County, California. Here, students enjoy the highest standards of education and a healthy sense of community. The educators are among the highest rated in the nation and many graduates continue on to top-tier universities for higher education. The sports teams are also proudly among the best in their leagues and often place in nationals by virtue of the Olympic quality of coaches and team building practices. The school also has an active and involved community of social, academic, and hobby oriented clubs and extracurricular activities for the students to enjoy, form life lasting friendships, and gain real-life experience from. Finally, NBTA is perhaps most proud of its forward-thinking and progressive body of students, enriched and diverse, who bring a vibrant and lively academic atmosphere to the finest educational institution in the country!

**Admissions are currently closed and there is a twelve year waiting list, thank you for your interest!**

Go Tigers!!!

[waywarddaughtersofficial]

SAVE WAYWARD

Here’s the plan...

BUCKLE UP. We’re gonna try to get Netflix to pick up Wayward Sisters. We need your help.

We have worked too hard and believe in this too much to let go. So here’s the deal. We’re not giving up without a fight. That’s where you come in.

This week, get ready. Share this graphic as widely as you can. We need as many Wayward supporters as possible. Everything goes down on Thursday (May 17th).  If all goes according to plan, we’re gonna be the loudest thing out there that day.

Here’s what to do.

On Thursday, take pictures in your shirts. Write your thoughts. Create videos. Tell a friend to do the same. Tell ten friends. Tweet, post on facebook, on your tumblr, your instagram. It’s your time to shine. It’s our time to be heard.

Tell the CW how badly they messed up. Tell Netflix why you believe in the show, why you need it to happen, and how committed you are to the idea. Let them know that you would watch and recommend the show to new viewers. Make it clear that this is viable.

Make sure that you tag both @/TheCW and @/cw_spn, as well as @/Netflix, @/Variety, @/THR, @/EW, @/DEADLINE, and @/TVGuide. Be sure to use the #SaveWaywardSisters hashtag in every social media post.

Keep doing what you’re doing. We know many of you are creating your own calls to action, and we love it. Just be sure to use the correct tags and tell everyone else to do the same! We need to form a united front, and keeping our tagging and “@-ing” organized will make all of the difference. For ease, we will create a tweet on Thursday morning with all of the correct @s so you can just reply.

Until Thursday...

Sign the petition if you haven’t already, spread the word about the plan, and keep an eye out for our post on Thursday morning! Also, let’s all continue trying to get #SaveWayward and #SaveWaywardSisters trending!

[chaz-targrin-gw2]

*sends hugs and medicine*

[Chaz]: I appreciate the medicine, though I cannot personally accept the hug as I am in quarantine right now.

[Maakinen]: Not to worry though, I set up a remote hugging golem in the quarantine chamber. 

[Chaz]: You wh-

[HUG-7024]: Hug request detected from Anonymous. Please remain still while your hug is admiinistered, Quarantine Guest Targrin.

[Chaz]: Hey now hold on a- oof!

[HUG-7024]: Pat-pat. There-there. Your hug has been administered. Returning to charging dock and awaiting further hug requests.

[Maakinen]: You alright?

[Chaz]: A little winded, but I’ll live.

[Maakinen]: I suppose setting this thing to administer charr-strength hugs was maybe a slight oversight given your current state. Some stuff still needs to be patched up.

[societyofnight]

Going to try and return soon!

Really the only thing stopping the Mod (besides life in general) is that she does not like drawing architecture, and yet she has so much of it to draw. xD

But I’m going to finish an updated reference sheet for one of the cast, and then try to get back to some update work! Thanks for sticking with me! We’re not perma-dead yet!

[zenaquaria]

So who’s ready to see me come back to the art commission circuit? :D

I’m gettin’ my end of things ready to relaunch my comms after taking last year as a growth/development hiatus, and I’m excited to start offering custom artwork again! 

Got my new site with my info and ToS right here for those who wanna give it a preliminary look~ 

https://zendoes.art/

[zenaquaria]

In some vampire stories, killing the vampire who bit others will either A. Kill the other vampires the “sire” created or B. Release them from vampiricism. Is there anything like that at play in your verse, or can people totally get revenge on the assholes who bite them?

Oh people can absolutely get revenge on the assholes what made them vampire. Rori’s maker, she didn’t get that opportunity, but he crossed an ally to the Acheron clan and summarily got Godfathered out of existence. Rori would have been too if she hadn’t run for the hills as soon as the mercs descended on her prick of a maker’s house.

Now, Salizar actually got to have this vengeance. He wasn’t supposed to be a vampire, per the agreement of their partially-turned family joining Acheron proper for safety. So his father was SUPER MAD when someone in the Clan turned Salizar. And there’s this thing about tempers running high in the Inglesé family. Vendettas made and nursed over several decades, waiting for the right moment. The previous leader of the Acheron Clan didn’t really punish the woman who turned Salizar, on the grounds that “somebody had to teach him”. Which made the family even more upset. But what could they do? They were still guests by comparison.

But when the power overturned and Kat took the helm, there was the opening. The Inglesés presented the case, and in a fired-from-the-hip decision, it was approved to have his maker destroyed. There was no room in the new Acheron for vampires who were going to go back on their (clan’s) word to a family of refugee vampires+their affiliated humans. 

There was very likely a lot of back and forth rapport-building between Kat (at the time Katharine) and the vampiric members of the Inglesé fam before the fall of the last clan elder and Kat’s rise to power. Time in which sympathies were shared and friendships made, and promises to help each other to the best of their influences and capability. So Salizar and his family got to make the call on the execution, themselves. And uh... Well. They weren’t exactly nice about it. This was still during the Age of Sail when this happened, and Papa Inglesé owned a few ships. A keelhauling was at least one punitive measure carried out, and vampires are stupidly durable. Also I don’t think fishes and gulls have quite the sense of smell to determine the presence of the vampire pathogen. It wasn’t a fast execution. 

All that sort of thing is one major reason why the Acheron Clan is one of the politer strains when it comes to making new vampires: One, it’s rude to turn people without their consent; and two, doing so anyway gives you an enemy for eternity who has a fairly good chance of killing you later on. (This got so long but thank you so much for giving me this box to spout from ;w; )