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Violet
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    transmisogyny bad

    Daily Mail bad
    On tumblr at opabinia-regalis.tumblr.com

    Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
    Violet
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    From Anti-cancer: A New Way of Life:

    In a book published in 2009, Jeffrey Zaslow tells the story of a group of eleven childhood friends who scattered across the United States after leaving high school. Their friendships survived almost forty years and all the ups and downs of life - success and failure at university, marriages, divorces, and difficulties with children. In September 2007, one of them - Kelly - was told that she had breast cancer and that she would need family support. Instead of turning to her family, however, she confided the news by e-mail to her far-flug high school girlfriends, and it was as if she had sparked an "instant shower of love." She was deluged with e-mails, phone calls, letters, caards, packages. When her chemotherapy casued painful mouth ulcers, one of her girlfriends sent a machien to make milk shakes to soften her mucous membranes. Another, whose daughter had died from leukemia, knitted her a wollen hat so she wouldn't catch cold after losing her hair. A third made pajamas from special cloth to make night sweats less unpleasant. Kelly often found it easier to talk about what she was going through with her girlfriends than with doctors. "We've always known each other so long, we can tell each other anything," she said joyfully.

    Research confirms the importance of a network of friends. In the Nurses' Health Study, a large-scale study of nurses in the United States, women with breast cancer who could name ten friends had a four times better chance of surviving their illness than women who could not. The geographical proximity of these friendships was not significant; the protective effect seemed to stem from the simple fact of feeling connected. Friendship also plays a major role for men: A Swedish study of 736 men found that friendships had as strong an effect on health as the fact of being married. On the other hand, the study found that only smoking affected health as negatively as feelings of lonliness and isolation.
    I know that there are some people who believe that online friendships aren't worth as much as real-life ones, but my online friends have always been important to me. Besides my mom I don't have much of a family, and I've never really connected with people where I live, so my online friends have always been the people I've opened up to and shared my life with...the people that I've developed my deepest relationships with. I ran across this tonight while I was reading, and it just felt really...vindicating, that there's evidence that it's not how a friendship was formed or over what medium it takes part in that matters, it's the fact that it connects people, brings them closer, and nurtures love between them.

    It makes me really happy knowing that Wintreath is a place where that can happen...it made me happy before, but now I have another reason to be happy about it. We all do really...everyone has helped build the community, and should be happy that we've built something so incredible. :)


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    They said "You'd better look alive"
    Wintermoot
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    Evelynx
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  • Today, I learned how to get shell access whenever an application unsafely deserializes Java objects. I feel like such a fail for not knowing how to do it already.

    Anyway. BWAR, Java Web Developers! A new wolf awakens in this hacker's heart.
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    Barnes
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  • Context: for the last five and a half months or so, I've tried my hand at the hospitality industry by becoming a front desk clerk at a local resort hotel.

    I think I'm being offered a promotion that's all but guaranteed. I was told I still have to interview for this new position, but the hotel general manager has me specifically in mind for this role.

    It's a sales coordinator position, meaning I would be responsible for selling and putting together all of the birthday parties that come through (guest can use the resort areas by hosting a party so they don't have to rent rooms at the hotel). I never imagined I'd be doing sales, nor would I intend it to be my permanent career path. But it would be a raise and give me my own desk in an office, while still having me help out at the front desk part-time.

    What do you guys think?
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    Arenado
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  • Wow, congratulations.
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    I Hope You Have A Nice Day :]
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  • Wow, congratulations.
    Thanks! I should've phrased a question properly: should I take the opportunity?
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    Arenado
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  • Do what you think is right. Ultimately, only you know what is best for yourself. But something I like to do is flip a coin. You'll know what you want when you catch it.
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    Arenado
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  • Ya know, for a while before I came here I was in the UCR for a few days. I'm not surprised about these allegations.
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    Wintermoot
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  • Ya know, for a while before I came here I was in the UCR for a few days. I'm not surprised about these allegations.
    How so? I'd like to know as much as possible in case we encounter successor regions or people that were from there.
    1 person likes this post: taulover


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    Arenado
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  • Well, I never went onto the Region's webpage, I'm not ever sure if they had one when I was there. I spent most of my time there on the RMB page. I don't remember names exactly but there was a roleplay game and the people on it were generally unpleasant. Like, one guy was saying something like "I cant wait to invade you and kill your fags" (for context, in my nation for this game I basically copy pasted my NS nation, so a socially liberal type place. I think I was the only one not to be a quasi-fascist dictatorship. At the time I figured he was probably roleplaying but now I'm not so sure) I got a really bad vibe from that place and left after a few days. Honestly, I dont really remember much since I was only there for a few days several years ago but when I saw that they were over here I remembered that.
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    taulover
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  • A friend of mine keeps using "taulover" as his username on various games. Almost feels like identity theft...
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    Wintreath:
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    Speaker of the 24th Underhusen: 10 October 2017 - 7 December 2017
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    Second Patriarch of the Noble House of Valeria: 10 October 2018 - present
    Arena Game 6 Host: 28 December 2018 - 9 March 2019
    Librarian of the Underhusen: 29 January 2019 - 12 February 2019
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    March 2019 Wintreath's Finest: 4 April 2019
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    taulover
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    Barnes
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  • Legally, now you have to kill him. there can be only one

    I don't make the rules.
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    Arenado
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  • Will you be... The tauLander?
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    Imaginative Kane
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  • I hope that doesn't mean that people need to kill me when I use their name in games so that they have to come up with a different name.
    Peace through Power!!!
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    Let us not repeat the mistakes of history.

    Now tell me.  What do you see?
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