#every child counts

[froggybangbang]

kaniCanadian Boarding Schools: Canada's Assault on it's Native Population

Trigger Warnings.

Like. All of them, though there are no graphic images. But this is the Canadian history and the least I can do as a white person born in Canada is to share it. It should be shared. Please share.

For those who are in a position to be able to give:

This is Nouveaux Sentiers, a foundation that gives money back into the communities:

https://nouveauxsentiers.com/ (English website up soon) They have camps and give out grants.

This a the Carrier Sekani Family Services:

https://www.csfs.org/payments/donations They found various programs, not least of which are the Pillars of Hope & Strength which will be placed in northern BC in memory of the women whose lives were taken on the Highway of Tears (You can read up more about that HERE)

If you know of more, reputable, places to give feel free to add them below.

#youtube #Canadian boarding school #aboriginal people of Canada #native #children #every child counts #this is not even... it's the tip #and it's not over it's just different now #I can't publish this on Facebook because of my job but Tumblr is anonymous enough #atrocities #genocide #trigger warning #tw #religion #catholic church #white people

[sarcastic-salem]

I love to read but I have a hard time finding book blogs to follow on this app cause I feel like everyone reads YA novels. Don’t get me wrong — there are some amazing YA novels. I loved To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and I recently finished Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas and I feel like its such an amazing, relevant book.

I don’t look down on anyone who reads YA.

What I hate about recent YA novels is how the publishing industry has turned diversity into a marketing ploy. Like just meh stories with a flat storyline get published even though they’re completely inaccurate or the story feels rushed because the author is queer or BIPOC. Like the publishers are trying to check off a diversity box.

It just makes the stories feel so fake to me. And sometimes like the author wasn’t even trying.

Its great if other people on Tumblr love YA but right now its just not a genre that I can get into.

#books #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #book nerd #bibliophile #reading #ya novels #lgbt #black lives matter #every child counts #end asian hate #bipoc representation #random #random thoughts #my ramblings #my thoughts

[meirimerens]

[The Herb Brides] are no one’s. They’re… the Earth’s. [...] And each other’s, sometimes.

Shörmös and Yyrghene 🌸🌾

#pathologic #pathologic 2 #herb brides #my beautiful girls. Tendril and Thorn. #if a ginger child can be called Catnip/Oregano so can they but better #some of yous might know them already but. here now... <3 #Shörmös pink flowers Yyrghene florets & facepaint as ordered #they're... as married as Herb Brides can be to a woman other than the Earth. Herb Wives if you will #the incidence of lesbian and bi women in the herb brides rank is multiple times the national average #why are you as a woman married to the earth (a woman)🤨 #it's very simple. mind your business & don't question them ever. #my ocs #technically they are... i guess every herb bride i've ever drawn counts as an OC but #these two got names... #oc:shörmös #oc:yyrghene #yaaayy #my art

[saggitary]

TBB S3 Spoilers

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If the season doesn’t end with Rex and Echo in a custody battle with the Batch over Omega after they loosing her 3 separate times throughout the series… I will be disappointed

#I mean you just know that when Hunter had to com echo to tell him every clone in the room around echo started rioting #they all are going to want custody #it’s a mandolorian gene thing #but like honestly #this is the third time 😭 #fourth time if you count when Fennec almost had her #Rex is done #he wants his niece #echo is done #he wants his child #star wars #the bad batch #captain rex #arc trooper echo #sag’s stuff #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #tbb omega

[bamboozled-distress]

I feel like we as a society don’t touch upon the fact that Alfred was an actor enough like no wonder Jason ‘theatre kid’ Todd’s favourite was Alfred

#I genuinely think of Alfred all the time #like the fact that he had to take care of Bruce since he was a child #like that bond that they shared the fact that Alfred was the person that he could count on of how attached they are with each other #it’s so inhumane but also the one thing that kept Bruce sane and their bond is the most important thing to esch other #and alfred having to sit and witness everything with dick with Jason with Tim with steph with Barbara and witnessing first hand how #everything hit Bruce how every hit he took changed him forever and just remembering the small boy with red cheeks and a little smile #alfred being the person that they all could come too alfred being love and loving others #like :( #alfred pennyworth #jason todd #bruce wayne #Batman #batfamily #the batfamily #the batfam!!!! #laz.exe

[valdeswan]

Cale and his family are so fucking touch starved that it is not even funny. Give them all the platonic physical love they need.

Hugs anytime, because why fucking not? Let the kids run in their room and give Cale hugs at random times in the day. Make him try to awkwardly hug Rosalyn to congratulate her for her achievements. Allow Mary to receive all the hugs from the wolves when she lets them ride the skeleton dragon.

Good greeting cheek kisses and goodbye kisses: This is a tradition that started with the tiger, but everyone adopts it when they see each other after a long time or if someone is going to be far away from the Rock Village.

Forehead kisses, mostly from Lord Sheritt, who shows affection to the kids, but also to Cale because he has this cute and weak appearance.

Nap time with all the wolf kids because they are just big dogs and everyone has a weak spot for them and their puppy eyes. In the nap time, Beacrox puts soft blankets and pillows in the grass and sits with the kids while reading; he says it´s because someone needs to take care of them, but everyone knows it's a lie.

Rosalyn making hairstyles and taking care of Cale's hair. Loving how soft and easy to brush it's.

Cuddling with the tigers—that is just all of them sleeping under the sun in the garden. Cale not very secretly love this moment of the day because is literally big cats with fluffy and soft fur to lie with.

Basically, he and his family fixing and taking care of all the touch-starved lives they had. Alberu, Choi Han, Rosalyn, I bet nobody touched them nicely too much I'm their fucking lives.

#cale really saw the sadest people and just said #you are my friend now #we love him for that #hug the babys #the babys: 1000 ancient dragon #healing the inner child of a group of people between 4 and 1000 year old #a big family full of broken people #in one moment i read almost every fic of tcf on AO3 and the soft gestures were not much a thing #cale henituse #tcf #lcf #trash of the count's family #platonic relationships #non native english speaker #im here just to give ideas because im not confident enough to publish anything more #please make it happen

[citruscloudsandmoon]

A Kaihil story which was published in 2006 in ffn got updated and completed...

after 18 years.

Am I okay?

Yes and no 🥹

#Beyblade #bakuten shoot beyblade #Kai Hiwatari #hilary tachibana #hiromi tachibana #Kaihil #Every kaihil shipper had read it #At least once #In my case...I don't remember the count 🙈 #But oh man... that fic was kind of considered a holy grail in kaihil fandom 😭 #It was one of the first kaihil fics I read #So yes...it holds a very special place in my heart ❤️ despite it being flawed at some places #If you are curious about the story #It's 'Child of mine' by nemi the dragon #Otp: I think I just met my wife #It's a big day for kaihil fandom 😭🥳

[bonebabbles]

Wind Runner gives birth a month early and loses a kitten to a seizure, indicated by the child having 'spittle' frothed at the corners of its mouth.

Gray Wing shuffles up with his Characteristic Wisdom,

"Maybe it's for the best that your weakest child died"

"Also maybe it would make your loss easier if you started believing in our religion just like we pressured you into taking a name like ours"

Harsh? Yes.

Deserved? Also yes.

Maybe next time he'll think twice about proselytizing to a mother of a different faith who just horrifically lost a child, still cradling its corpse, after going off about how "maybe only the strongest should survive"

At least Bumblestripe waited for the funeral! The dead baby is NOT EVEN COLD, GRAY WING!!!

#tw child death #child death #bonefall reads dotc #He never does lose a child btw #He dies before every single one of his children including the adopted ones #which the narrative has already decided don't count because it hates adoption #btw the narrative is actually building up to gray wing being right #because he always is #Wisdom is just writer clairvoyance and not any kind of emotional intelligence

[hiemaldesirae]

woe is me to have come from asian fandoms that always specify ship dynamics no matter how stupid it makes the ship names sound and to integrate into western fandom where i play russian roulette every time i open a ship tag

#ran rambles #its not even about the less child friendly work either im just pissed as hell to see a dynamic i dislike #yeah ill still see one i dislike even w proper ship tags because of oocness or whatever but at least ive got the freedom to cater to myself #anyway theres my pet peeve #also radioapple is such a popular ship for some reason every other thing my moots rb is filtered out #im sick of twink4twink i need adamsapple #radiostatic doesnt count as twink4twink because vox is my wife so he gets a pass

[nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius]

No no I promise I fixate on the Bad Batch for perfectly normal reasons nothing is wrong with my family at all I had a great childhood i swear

#my mother never hit me and then insisted she didn't ten years later whilst loudly condemning anyone who hits their child #i was never emotionally manipulated and gaslit for 21 years of my life and counting #i was never raised solely as an investment to fund my mother #and treated like dirt on her shoe when i didn't want to follow the life she picked out for me #she never admitted to my face i'm an investment #i never had to sit on the stairs listening to my parents screaming at each other #i was never treated like i wasn't there #never unofficially banned from seeing my granddad for years as a kid and never not told the reason why #because my mother got jumpy about me getting just that little bit too close to him #closer than i was to her #never not allowed a phone till i was 18 #never told i wasn't allowed a bank account either #never had to fight to do the degree i wanted rather than something i knew for a fact would kill me #never had my laptop purged at 16 and every one of my private files gone through and deleted by my mother #because i wanted to write stories #never treated like i'd committed a crime for it #the one person in this fucking godforsaken family who was worth staying for never died #never homeschooled as a child and told to lie to anyone who asked that i went to school #just so she could keep me fully trapped under her thumb #nothing ever went wrong with my family #vent

[thegreenleavesofspring]

A genuinely horrible thought just occurred to me. Would everyone please pray that the court does not order me to put my children in public school so that I can go get 'a real job'?

#So far every time I have asked that my husband be required to pay child support the response has been “Why aren't YOU working” #I am. And also homeschooling my eldest and taking care of my younger two. But it's not good enough. #I am making slightly less than minimum wage so it's not good enough. #(He is perfectly able-bodied and currently unemployed and is contributing precisely nothing to their upkeep.) #...I trust that God would not bring us this far just to abandon us now. But I genuinely do not see how He is going to do this. #From my limited human perspective it is impossible. #I don't know how I'm going to get all the bills paid this month. Or next month. Or the month after. #The roommate did not contribute to rent at all this month. I have rental insurance and rent and the Sam's membership and electricity #(why is the electricity so high. Why. Why why why. I have cut down as much as I possibly can) #and phone and diapers and I'm sure there's something I'm forgetting there always is. #I'm trying so hard not to fret because I know we're not supposed to but I can't quite rid my body of tension and I'm trying not to rail at #my husband because I know I'm not supposed to but #...I'm scared. #I'm honestly not sure if this counts as #Screaming into the void #or #Nattering into the void #Edit: the roommate did help with rent yesterday but the website had not updated to reflect it. So... now it's double-paid? #I'm trying to see if they can cancel my portion so I have enough for the rest of my bills.

[monster-noises]

You know sometimes you spend an afternoon re-filing your old art by Year and it makes you think about an old silly project you did a bit ago that you Know you messed up the timeline on and also missed So many pieces and now that you've got everything organized... Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting to try that again and get the chronology right? That happens to you guys right? anyway here's a chronology of the way I've drawn myself since, well, basically since I started drawing. I have doubts anyone will find this as interesting as I do but that isn't going to stop me from throwing it at the lot of you (/v-v)/

#monster noises #the original singular file was Too Big for Tumblr lmao #bartholomew illustrated #literally..... #there is absolUTELY a wh o l e buncha stuff missing from the early Neopets days there #like the anime-on-paper era #but I don't have access to it because... #it's on paper #and I'll waste four hours doing this with my goofy little Files #but I'm Not hunting through my old art folio for every instance of me drawing myself as a child #.....at least not right now #maybe someday #That doesn't account for the Huge jump from the really early stuff to the faun though #that's because at a certain point (end of elementary ~ start of highschool-ish) I stopped drawing myself as much #or I drew myself as my Fursona instead #and the two categories of drawings of myself I didn't count or include were Bartholomoji's or pictures of my various Fursonas #those should have their own thing #maybe once I fucking draw my current fursona #I'll do that one #but either way there's a huge jump there simply because there Was No Material there to include ;;><>

[antleramnesia]

bro if the KOSA bill becomes a law it is so fucking over for me. like. everything. probably my life and literally everything i know. also bro im gonna get into some serious fucking trouble if my parents find out im trans 💀💀

#layn says stuff #kosa bill #uhhhh yeah bro im gonna end up dead somehow if this fucking bill becomes a law #i guess one thing to do is to stop using like. electronics ENTIRELY and live like a victorian child #if the bill becomes a law #sign petitions or call senators!!! every petition you sign and every senator you call/email counts!!

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Honestly though, this (what Ashe is pointing out) is exactly why I don't think GW could possibly end well. There's no "talking it over" after all the bloodshed (especially bloodshed started by them, and especially bloodshed started by them that didn't have to happen).

The way the narration leaves it "open" too at the end of GW just comes across as "it failed". It feels like... a kind of pointless story?

And I know some people might think that since Dimitri personally isn't as deeply affected by losing Matthias and so might be willing, that's still no good if his people and closest allies aren't. Rodrigue and Sylvain wouldn't be so forgiving, and I do think Dimitri would follow suit because that's his father (Rodrigue)'s closest friend and one of his own closest friends' father.

Add that to the fact that they have Sreng to deal with still (and I imagine sooner or Sylvain would figure out that Leicester had a hand in provoking Sreng to attack Faerghus) on top of losing Matthias and I imagine all the stress and aggravation wouldn't bode well for Leicester as far as Claude's thinking of things working out goes.

I just really can't see where GW goes afterward that would be "good" or works in Claude's favor at all. Maybe that was the intention and it was meant to be a route with a completely tragic ending, but apparently there are players who think it would end well and whatnot and I just can't see that happening (both from Faerghus' end and from Adrestia's end, the latter of which Claude discussed within GW itself).

If their intention was for a totally tragic ending, like yeah, I can see that... but as always the writing muddies the waters to make it sound good while something bad is happening. It keeps trying to have a positive spin on bad things as if they're just afraid to commit to a fully bad ending.

#DCB Three Hopes Run #also to be specific the reason I just call Rodrigue his father outright is bc he refers to him as a “second father” in Houses #but I'm not gonna literally write “his second father” every time I mention it and honestly “adoptive father” doesn't work for me either #bc him being an adoptive sort of parent doesn't make the fact that he /is/ a parent to him any less valid #like a parent is a parent and I don't feel the need to point that out and the feeling is mutual between them #if Rodrigue is literally calling him ''my boy'' it's a pretty cut and dry parent/child relationship #obviously I'm using Houses context in this case but it's still accurate in Hopes #and I just can't see losing Matthias going over smoothly at all and things getting better with time #I mean Matthias is such a major player in Faerghus and so important that I just can't see them being like #well it was only /one/ important bigwig who died. like no it was one important bigwig saving a whole lot of lives #who is also very intelligent and has a deep say in politics. that's ofc not counting #as Ashe says here in AM in reference to Adrestia that they've killed so much on both sides bc of the war #that he can't imagine just sitting and talking now. just because we as players only saw one named character die #and just because that character wasn't a playable character nor a returning character we already knew and loved #doesn't mean hundreds if not thousands more didn't die in Leicester's invasion #like Ashe says here I just don't see how both sides could sit and talk after all that #esp since Sylvain would prob be involved and uh... Sylvain is... a very emotional and angry person #and extremely vengeful (and they rly leaned into that side of him in Hopes in all routes) #I canNOT imagine talks with him involved not getting heated and aggressive #and he'd /have/ to be there bc he's the Margrave now in GW. if they want to have important talks like that #they need all their major players which like even if Felix say wasn't there #Rodrigue has basically equal authority as Felix bc Rodrigue has the respect of experience and has proven himself #so they could be swapped out for talks and Felix being the ''official'' Duke wouldn't affect talks in the least #if Rodrigue was/had to be present instead. with Sylvain you've either got no other options #or you've got Miklan who I can't imagine would want to even get involved with all of that #both bc of his mixed feelings on Matthias but also bc he's been out of the political atmosphere for so long #so yeah I uh... can't... see talks ever going well unless Claude legitimately makes amends somehow #or Houses Claude gets in there smacks him around and fixes some shit before heading back to his own verse lol

[begaana]

im re reasing all te h pjo books hoo and toa too im in teh middle of the lost hero and i read these books years ago ok i forgot half the things i didnt know quintus was daedulas or that they met haphaestus in teh book or that tyson and grover went on their own little quest together adn its slowly coming back and i just rmemebered. zeus had two kids with teh same woman in his greek and roman forms. i. i also haven't read son of neptune when i was reading the series for teh first time i decided to skip it because tower of nero was supposed to come out pretty soon and i had to coemplere hoo + toa in time to get to read tower of nero as it was released and i ended up finishing 3 hoo books and 4 toa ones before the release date anyway. in like. a month i inhaled those books and i am now i had gforgotten how much i liked them yes i'll admit it isnt the best tsorytelling but it gives me nostaligia the goo dkind and im just so. overwhelmed i lvoe these books if not for the storytelling for being the only thign getting me through being 11-14 i rememnr i used to curl up adn read them all day and then i wen tot pinrteret adn thus wwent on to become a pinterest tumblrina and then acn actual tumblrina wow

#i rememner hp thg and pjo being caimed as the big three fandoms form what i saw on pinteerts atkeast #thne there was divergent and the maze runner anad twilight?? #i remmeber reading thg when i was 11 #ooh the first book series i ever read was case file 13 and i havent yet met anyoe n who has read or even knows those books #if you guys know there used to be an app called anybooks there were all book on there. for free. #it was sucha good app hoenstly you could download books within seconds and no additional reader requierd too it was a self sufficient app #with every csutomizations too i remmeber discovering it while just scrollign through playstore #best decision i made in my life tbh that made me a reader fast forward a couple months later #id read 59 out of 62 books from goosebums series + their spinoffs there were too many to keep count #i also read fear street ones theough i think i wasnt supposed too i think #anyway i was fine readign then it blew up and got put behind a paywall i gto my dad to pay for it then a few months later it got sued #understandlby so because ti had ALL books and had to shut down. i will neevr forget people for it. #my dad had paid for it on his phone as well 900 in total but he was fine becausei had been using that app for so long #i read hp + cursed child (awful. i cant emphazize enough it wa awful) thg divergent tfios the case file 13 books #ough im thinking im goign to cry why ant i be little again #pjo spoilers #?

[devotedlystrangewizard]

totk really is one of those games that make me go "ok thanks for the characters, setting, and general plot, but ill take it from here <3" because the entire historical timeline had so much potential for interesting and nuanced story telling but they just went with the old zelda story formula and YES thats how theyve always done it but botw was such a reset in terms of gameplay that they couldve overhauled how they handle story in totk. but they didnt

#ramblings #all the races swearing fealty to rauru made me so uncomfortable #like yeahhh ganondorf evil or whatever but also. hey. why is the one leader fighting for the independence of his people. the evil villain #am i just not getting something here am i insane #my first thought when i heard about ganondorf returning was 'wow they could turn him into an actual character' AND THEN THEY DIDNT #its been half a year i feel like the honeymoon period is over. totk was kinda mid. im sorry #it was alright but it just. didnt grab me. at all #botw was interesting because it was new but totk made me yearn for the older zelda formula #though tbh. im always yearning for the older zelda formula. i grew up on oot & twilight princess #you hype up ganondorf so much you make him look like THAT (no im still not over this) and then you just. do what weve always done #this happened in twilight princess. it happened in oot. it happened in ww. hell if you count demise it happened in skyward sword #IT HAPPENE.D IN THE FUCKING HYRULD WARRIORS SPINOFF #'oooh noooo the great evil has returned' WEVE BEEN HERE EVERY TIME. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH POTENTIAL #heres the gerudo having a man born and making him king as is their custom but they spend years in fear that he will be monstrous #here they are after all these iterations of ganondorf afraid to even have kids out of fear that SOMEONE will bring the new great evil #heres a child recently given the throne despite being barely more than a baby always treated with fear by everyone around him #ARE YOU SEEING MY VISION???? #the curse is right there. do something with it. oh my god #i KNOW zelda games are just simple heros journeys but pleaseeee i need food #you dont have to make ganondorf nice just. do something with him im so tired of the evil guy caricature #i like guys who are plain evil but i like them more when they have some fucked up motivation beyond taking over the world