Would like to share this, to anyone in the northeast US/Canada, we had a very severe late blizzard last week. I noticed many robins flying around panicked, staying on the roads. This storm was very unexpected for the birds and if you live in an urban area you may want to help them out. They migrated and don’t have an available food source due to the weather swing.
hey, in a few months (around the end of july i think), the only place i’ll have to stay is my parents’ house, and i’d honestly rather be homeless than live with them again so!
me and my gf (eli @superluminalflower) are looking for a place to stay in washington until i can get low income housing, preferably around seattle
i’m a mixed autistic lesbian, and eli is a jewish trans woman, and both of us are too disabled to get jobs atm. however, i get ~$735/mo from ssi, and can probably devote about $400 of that to any rent/utilities cost. eli is also in the process of applying for ssi
important things:
i have 2 cats, they’re pretty well-behaved (they won’t attack you or the carpet, and they’re litter trained). i definitely need to stay somewhere pet friendly
i’m looking for a place for two of us, but please feel free to offer even if you only have room for one, one of us could potentially use it!
i’m definitely not comfortable living with men, and would prefer in general to live with other lgbt women (but cishet women aren’t a dealbreaker for me)
please contact me if you have any questions or offers!
I can be a reference, they’ve both lived in my place for the last six months or so. I’ve enjoyed knowing them.
Know what needs to stop? Parents allowing their children to mistreat their pets. Its not cute. It’s not harmless. It puts both children and pets in danger. If your child can’t play gently and safely with an animal (and like most toddlers for example can’t) then you need to create separate spaces for them. And closely supervise any interaction (in general even if they are gentle) and teach your child how to treat animals properly.
Due to recent changes in the fan content policy, it is now legally shakey ground for anyone to draw adults only content of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Axis & Allies branded content.
And to this point, I will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. This should not change my personal works as non of my medieval fantasy works derive from D&D trademarks. It has, however, cut two major IPs off from requests, commissions, and patreon rewards.
Don’t sleep on this clause of the new policy:
Your Fan Content must be free for others (including Wizards) to view, access, share, and use without paying you anything, obtaining your approval, or giving you credit.
>use
Fuck Hasbro.
uh…………..
so no porn is essentially what they’re saying.
No they are saying that they can freely distribute your art content without crediting you or compensating you. AND SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE You aren’t allowed to take commissions EVER. And if you try to fight it legally because all of this falls under Fair Use they will have you up to your neck in fines and fees. Which is, in fact, ILLEGAL. But they can get away with it because money. Hasbro has a history of this.
Please actually read the page. I promise you its not in legaleese.
This is actually extremely detrimental to a lot of artists.
“Fan Content includes fan art, videos, podcasts, blogs, websites, streaming content, tattoos, altars to your cleric’s deity, etc.“
So if I’m understanding this correctly, then even if YouTube hadn’t been working to demonetize creator content, this policy would mean D&D podcasts & vids – like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone – can’t be used to make money.
Fuck Hasbro.
WELP.
If anybody ever wants a commission of a certain tabletop roleplay character, just…y’know…don’t tell me what it’s from. Obviously completely original character no relation to anything, right?…>_>
If you do need to namedrop a system, say “Fantasy d20″. It’s the overarching supercategory that includes all of the Open Gaming Licnese knockoffs. If you want to move away from D&D, you should look into them anyway…
Pathfinder (3.5+) Castles & Crusades (AD&D2E) Basic Fantasy RPG, Lamentations of the Famle Princess (BX D&D + homebrew) Labyrinth Lord (BX D&D or AD&D1E depending on the splatbooks)
OSRIC (AD&D1E) Swords & Wizardry (OD&D)
Or you could just start playing a game that isn’t based on D&D like GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, Mouseguard, Earthdawn, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, Ironclaw, Palladium Fantasy, EXALTED.
Or use generics like GURPS, HERO, Fuzion, Savage Worlds, Fate, etc.
With the way Hasbro’s been mismanaging WotC, they kinda need to lose market share anyway.
Hackmaster! Don’t forget Hackmaster, it’s a great system and very akin to D&D but with many very notable improvements. XO
Just gonna add Dungeon World, Pugmire, MERPS and the fan-made elderscrolls tabletop to the list
Did some deeper research into this and just gonna put some quick notes to ease everyone’s fears:
-stuff like donations, add revenue and sponsorships aren’t affected so if your DND art comes from something like patreon or one of those “I’ll draw a picture for you if you donate 5$” things you’re 100% safe and Critical Role is sponsored by DND Beyond currently so they’re 200% safe, as well as the adventure zone even though they haven’t played dnd in a good couple months since they’re based on ad revenue
-Under the open game license, you can make any content and not have it be low key owned by wizards of the coast as long as it does not have a specific setting or uses your own original setting
-These changes have been in effect since November of 2017, so you can see how hard they’re cracking down on all this via experience or looking back on the past half year or so.
-Joining the DM’s Guild takes off some restrictions like making money off of your content if you make art or homebrew and lets you use Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft without legal repercussions (and probably more to follow)
In short, they literally say that their lawyers already have their hands tied so as long as you don’t walk up to Mister Coast Wizard himself and yell that you’re breaking the law, you should be good and again, just put a lil eraser to the “DND” part of commissions and you should be a-ok
If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case.
Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over.
AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens!
Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof.
Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.
Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.
Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Some Naturalization/Citizenship Certificate tips from me, the person who front-end processes these forms for half the country: the passport people are absolute garbage at sending your Naturalization Certificate back to you. Unfortunately, they also require it for you to get a passport. If you don’t get it back, whine at them about it and they will probably cover the cost of the replacement.
Also! It takes up to 12 months to get a replacement certificate. If you urgently need your Natz Cert to visit your dying relative in another country, the word you want to use is ‘Expedite’. Not ‘ASAP’. Not ‘rush’. Expedite. Write a letter explaining why you need it expedited, if you do. Otherwise the USCIS data-entry grunts (me!) aren’t allowed to throw it into the expedite line and it gets relegated to the Backlog Crypts.
Also! You need to get a new Naturalization Certificate if your name and/or gender legally changes, because a lot of places want your proof of citizenship for things like Social Security and student loans and Medicaid/EBT/welfare benefits and drivers’ licenses.
ALSO ALSO both the N600 ($600) that you use to apply for your Naturalization Certificate in the first place and N565 ($345) that you use to apply for a replacement certificate are eligible for FEE WAIVERS. It’s called an I912. Learn it, love it, use it.
Please for your sake make sure you are using the current version of the form. The most common reason I have to reject an N565 is because someone sent me something that expired in 2013. The current one is seven pages long. Please send the government all seven of them.
Now, Calyx is trying to raise $100K in a charitable crowdfunder to
extend key privacy technologies to two marginalized groups: people
rebuilding Puerto Rico and privacy trainers with the Harlem Cryptoparty, who provide operational security advice for #blacklivesmatter activists and the wider, oversurveilled black community.
Calyx is planning to equip 100 public libraries in Puerto Rico with
unlimited bandwidth that can be loaned to patrons to take home, and to
continue its sponsorship of Harlem Cryptoparty for another year.
Tomorrow (Wednesday, March 28th) a march is being organized in memory of Mireille Knoll, starting at 6.30pm place de la Nation in Paris. This is not a demonstration but a way to honour her memory as well as the memories of all victims of antisemitism in France. I don’t know if the march will be wheelchair-accessible; the itinerary is about 700m long. Non-Jews, if you can attend, please come march with us. If you can’t, please spread the word.
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