character A slowly falls in love with character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck
cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd
The Power of Friendship ™
flat “what” reactions
sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts
villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle
characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship
characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond
“I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”
Also including:
Enemies to friends, and also its subtrope of enemies to friends to lovers
Weird friendships
‘Opposites attract’
The cute/sweet/harmless-seeming character actually being salty as fac when pushed too far
Transgender adults in Ireland will no longer need to find a psychiatrist or endocrinologist to testify on their behalf before seeing their gender legally recognized, reports The Journal. Instead, a transgender Irish citizen can simply self-declare their identity to update a passport, change the gender marker on a driver’s license, obtain a new birth certificate, or get married.
The upside of getting this “marriage equality” thing out of the way is that it makes legal gender changes a heck of a lot less complicated:
The government has also dropped another questionable element of the bill that would have forced trans people who are already married to get divorced in order to have their gender marker changed and for their transition to be officially recognized by the government.
For anyone who needs to use crutches to aid their mobility but struggles with regular crutches check out smart crutch UK. These are especially good for those with Hypermobility syndrome and ehlers danlos syndrome.
I’m actually going to be getting a black pair of these and I’m so excited
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, will introduce legislation Tuesday that would make four-year public universities and colleges tuition-free for American students. But wait, the bill even helps out those with current student debt!
I am BEYOND shocked. Marilyn Mosby is charging all six officers involved with the murder of Freddie Gray in crimes ranging from assault to second-degree murder.
Wow. I hope Ms. Mosby is ready for the fight of her life and she’s only been on the job less than four months.
Maryland state attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced Friday morning that Freddie Gray’s death at the hands of Baltimore police was a homicide, and that criminal charges will be filed.
“Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide,” Mosby said at a press conference adding, there is “probable cause to file criminal charges.”
A shady paid ebook download site called ebooks-tree.com has been using bots to download fics from AO3 and distribute them for profit via their site. If you have an AO3 account, search for your penname to see if any of your stuff is there. I found twelve of my own fics, including some I’d co-authored. Obviously, since fanfic avoids copyright infringement by being not-for-profit, this could create some legal issues. This post has a template and other information for filing a DMCA complaint against the site to get your fics removed.
And as per this update, all the AO3 fics have been removed from ebooks-tree. Thanks Ef Yeah Copyright Law and OTW people and all fic authors who dealt with this!
“The White House formally responded to a petition on WeThePeople.gov today seeking a ban on efforts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people, the The New York Timesreports.
The petition called for the creation of “Leelah’s Law,” ideally national legislation that would prohibit licensed therapists from engaging in the scientifically discredited practice of so-called conversion therapy.The petition on the government’s We the People website was authored in the wake of transgender Ohio teenager Leelah Alcorn’s suicide. In a note that went viral after she scheduled it to post to Tumblr after her death, the 17-year-old Alcorn detailed the harm she endured when subjected to conversion therapy by a Christian therapist she was taken to by her parents. The petition obtained more than 100,000 signatures in January, triggering a formal response from the White House.
Noting that the practice is often used on minors, “who lack the legal authority to make their own medical and mental health decisions,” senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett offered a full-throated support from the administration toward efforts to ban such “therapy,” which has been denounced by every major medical and mental health organization in the country as not only ineffective but likely to harm.
“We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth,” Jarrett wrote Wednesday night in the White House’s formal response to the petition.
“When assessing the validity of conversion therapy, or other practices that seek to change an individual’s gender identity or sexual orientation, it is as imperative to seek guidance from certified medical experts,” the statement continued. “The overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy, especially when it is practiced on young people, is neither medically nor ethically appropriate and can cause substantial harm.
“As part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, this Administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors,” the statement concluded.
The official response also included remarks from the president, who stopped short of outright endorsing national legislation — which has yet to be introduced — to ban such efforts. However, the official response did mention bans on the use of such “therapy” on minors in California, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let’s say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember,” said President Obama in a statement. “Soon, perhaps, he will decide it’s time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us — on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.”
Transgender advocates applauded the administration’s action.”
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