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here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

hiddensandtrap

In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:

ExpressVPN

Private Internet Access

Zenmate

CyberGhost

And the VPN review sites they purchased are:

vpnMentor

Wizcase

So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.

depsidase

tide-locked

i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

tide-locked

i am obsessed, in the most derogatory way possible, with the people in the notes who are reading this post and then saying, well, those stats you're pointing at are why you have to make it clear in fiction that they've had a conversation about Consent And Safety. if you don't tell people to use condoms, if you don't tell people that it's not ok to choke someone without prior consent, if you don't tell people that they have to do these things Correctly, you're part of the problem.

so i will say it again: fiction is a reflection of life, but it is not real life. fiction does not have to set a good example. fiction does not have to be safe, sane, or consensual.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible way to live your life. if you read it looking for that, you are the problem.

theinconvenientlifestyle

oustoust

meangirlnurse

someone has apparently been having a year-long tantrum in the notes of this post because of something that i absolutely did not say at any point in this post or anywhere else

meangirlnurse

tumblr moment

meangirlnurse

update: i have been informed that i am an "ignorant, ableist classist piece of shit"

meangirlnurse

update: i have also been informed that i am a "eugenicist" because of this post

meangirlnurse

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awritersbro

More people should ask folks who are Angry Online to dedine the terms they're talking about because there's probably a good chance that the answer is gonna be as revealing as it is utterly bizarre

cowprintsillies

nourasbasha

In Islam, a woman was condemned to Hell for starving a single cat. In Christianity, Jesus said: “Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for Me.” These teachings show one truth: neglecting the suffering of others is a spiritual crime.

Now imagine what it means to let 2.3 million people in Gaza starve, day after day.

nourasbasha

I never imagined I’d say this, but I can no longer feed my children. I am a father of four, a husband, and an engineer. The famine in Gaza has left me helpless. We share one piece of bread, go to sleep hungry, and wake up with no hope.

A small donation from you could buy a piece of bread that saves my four children’s lives. If you can’t donate, please share my story with your friends, family, and followers on all your social media platforms. This simple act could mean the difference between life and death for an entire family. Go to the campaign page, click the share button, and post it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, or any platform you use. Be positive in sharing — someone may see this and decide to donate. Two minutes of your time could keep four children alive tonight.

nourasbasha

When a mother and father can no longer feed their baby, the world should not look away. If there’s still room in your heart, please take a moment to read our story — every share, every donation helps us survive. 💔

This is the link to my Campaign.

turtletoria

Mohamed, Enas, and their four children are suffering from the genocide and are asking for your support, please do what you can to help!

gazavetters

Be positive.. Mohamed, Enas and their four children need your support / donate or share the post here // They also ask you to share their campaign on your accounts outside of Tumblr via your accounts on other social media platforms. This is a great humanitarian act too.. do it for them

greatathunberg

Mohammed, Anas and their children have a special request from you. Either donate, share the post, or share the campaign on your other social media accounts. Be positive and do it out of a humanitarian motive.

snwb00

Be positive. Do one humanitarian thing.

someemochick

fishingscam

op didn’t add a link so here’s a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can

marlynnofmany

I would absolutely download a dragon, and I’ve already shared this with my D&D group. We’re gonna have some adventures! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

sufficientlylargen

This is leaving out the best part of his patreon, which is that he’s been doing polls for “silly models” to create for years, bringing us such wonders as the Baba Yaga Taco Truck, the Horse Head, Goostarian (Goose Astarion), a Pirate Ship Mimic, the Honkdra, and Definitely The Five-Headed Dragon God Tiamat And Not Five Wyrmlings In A Trenchcoat

aeshnacyanea2000

@elodieunderglass the Honkdra

elodieunderglass

I’m very fond of that Honkdra!

otiksimr

Skarmory Pre-evolution

otiksimr

I just draw something silly and you lot will just reblog it. Huh.

heyimboredtalktome

missfairymaid-deactivated202509

‏My family is starving in Gaza.

‏We are going through the most difficult time of our lives. There is no food, no clean water, and no medicine. My brother is sick and urgent needs medical treatment, but we can't even afford basic food to keep him alive.

‏Please, if you can help in any way — with food, medicine, or support — it could save a life. We are not asking for much, only the chance to survive.

‏Gaza is dying slowly. My family is part of that pain.

‏Any help or share means the world to us. 💔🙏 tinyurl.com/29kc6b2k.

boosting!

bluetoad07

sprite edit i spent way too much time on, feel free to share :3

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cantanopeshitthatwastaken

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

thatgiraffebutt

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

literallyaflame

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”