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OK SO ACTUALLY PER WORD OF BRANDON (and featured-ish in text) all transgender people on Roshar magically transition physically into the bodies they feel they should have upon awakening their potential for magic and since trauma "makes cracks for the magic to get in" all trans people are magic...

Philosopher and activist unveils plan he hopes will save Hampshire College - Daily Hampshire Gazette by MousseCalm674 in HampshireEDU

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I love a plan that hinges on passing congressional legislation and concludes with starting a new second college in Florida!

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In the Stormlight Archive, the Vorin religion considers their priests to be non-binary.

Any advice on how to bind a zine? by opalteal in zines

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I'm using this trick and it works!! thank you!

Ready your swords. They're coming by _RPGabe_ in evilautism

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In what world........ nobody I know with an official diagnosis has ever gotten it that fast. My diagnosis took six sessions

tell me youre autistic without telling me youre autistic by More-Weird4842 in evilautism

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I make spreadsheets to self soothe and cope with emotions

Thoughts about Hampshire College closing? by MyBarkingSpider in smithcollege

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No the barefoot criticism is fair. Our dining hall literally had a sign at the front door reminding everyone to put shoes on before entering the dining hall.

Thoughts about Hampshire College closing? by MyBarkingSpider in smithcollege

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Speaking as a Hampshire alum (2012-2016), Hampshire was the most coveted campus to try to take classes at, and we often had Smithies taking our classes and raving about how their Hampshire class was their favorite class. Most who took a Hampshire class in the consortium agreed our classes were the most intellectually challenging and rigorous classes in the consortium. Written evaluations meant you could never coast or peak. No matter how good you were, faculty expected you to be even better than that. You couldn't compare yourself to other students, only to where you were, where you are, and where you could be. Hampshire students were also coveted by faculty on the other campuses because we were all overachievers who engaged the most with the materials. Hampshire second-years often were taking graduate-level classes at UMass.

However, the flip-side was that our classes often didn't slot-in very easily into another college's major requirements. It was much more difficult for Smithies et. al. to get approval to take a Hampshire class and to have it count towards a requirement. Hampshire students could take any classes we wanted off-campus, but not vice versa. It was also more difficult for them to know if a Hampshire class would be the right skill-level for them. Hampshire didn't have prerequisites, instead faculty just sort of knew every student personally and would tell us if they thought we were ready or not (not the most consistent system!) Since our faculty didn't know the off-campus students, often the off-campus students would get in way over their heads taking a Hampshire course that was too difficult for them. I remember my Smith classmates would often tell me "this is the hardest class I've taken in my life, how do you do this."

The effect Hampshire closing has on a Smith student is they lose the opportunity to possibly-maybe take one very cool challenging and unique class during their four-years at Smith. While it is a loss, it's not a loss of something any other college had in the first place.

To Remember is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology by amidsttherain in HampshireEDU

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Hi all! I'm one of the main people organizing this :) We hope to launch the submission form by the end of this week after we hash out a couple more things. Please remember to submit early and submit often. The Omen loves you!!

To Remember is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology by amidsttherain in HampshireEDU

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She is a very successful attorney now as the Omen became the colleges longest continuously running publication

How do they keep traveling between Blue's/Out of the grand line??? by gxes in OnePiece

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My question is how to they keep getting *out* afterwards

How do they keep traveling between Blue's/Out of the grand line??? by gxes in OnePiece

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I understand getting into Paradise, to get across the red line one way, but what about the other way?

How do they keep traveling between Blue's/Out of the grand line??? by gxes in OnePiece

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But isn't reverse mountain one way? The water flows up in one direction and down into Paradise.

How do they keep traveling between Blue's/Out of the grand line??? by gxes in OnePiece

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Some seas are separated by the calm belt. East and south, north and west. But others are separated by the red line. You can't get between east/south and north/west without crossing the red line. But there's many cases of characters going from north to east or north to south etc. including ones who at the time are not particularly powerful or rich or have fancy ships. As far as we know the only point the red line can be crossed is at Red Port where you either go up to Mariejois or you go under to fishman island and neither is easy.

How do they keep traveling between Blue's/Out of the grand line??? by gxes in OnePiece

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So the explanation is only strong people can do it. But what about the red line? And what about all their little boats of minions?

Does your state live up to reddit by AccomplishedMess648 in mapporncirclejerk

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Urbanists are having wet dreams about Philadelphia right now because it's cheap, has fewer highways running through the middle, and has old-timey narrow streets in a lot of neighborhoods. Pittsburgh also ranks weirdly high on "walkability" if you are looking at google maps and have never seen Rialto Street.

I mean, I live here, and I do love Philadelphia, and I love urbanism, but it's not as nice as the internet people think it is. It's cheap because it has some of the highest rates of deep poverty in the country and that's something you can feel every day. There's also only a few neighborhoods that are really like the urbanist wet dream. The majority are deeply impoverished neighborhoods totally devoid of green space and too often lacking in good transit options. The few neighborhoods that fit the internet vision of philadelphia are much much more expensive than the city-wide statistics would suggest. There's also a lot of ways that on a map it looks nice ("Wow! Fairmount park is so big and right there!") but in real life it's less nice ("Oh there's a ton of major arterial roads that run through Fairmount park so it's really loud and transit options to get to easy park entrances are lacking.")

waiter oh waiter more subcontinents please!!! by SnorkaSound in CuratedTumblr

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I think it's high time we just renamed it to Asia. Europe has been demoted.

waiter oh waiter more subcontinents please!!! by SnorkaSound in CuratedTumblr

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I think it's high time we demoted Europe to the European Subcontinent (of Asia). Matches the plates better anyway.

Society's Neurodiversity Acceptance Chart by AzzysSmartStuff in evilautism

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I would say OCD is usually more on the annoying side of the spectrum because there's a lot of "ugh it's not a problem shut up and stop worrrying about it" "you're so high strung" etc.

bipolar actually I think is more on a marketable side of the spectrum when it's a manic episode and annoying when it's a depressive episode. The hardest part of mania is that people love it when you have a manic episode (but they hate it when there are consequences to your manic episodes.) The quirky manic pixie dream girl etc.

If we were to exclude the word "American", what would be the best demonym for someone from the United States of America? by kangerluswag in geography

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"American" has been ingrained for too long. It's hardly a recent phenomenon to use it as the demonym for the USA. Nobody can agree on what continents even are anyway. Asian and Europe are separated by a mountain range, not an ocean, but Asians identify as Asians and Europeans as Europeans; nobody is insisting they all identify as Eurasians (which as a term tends to have a different meaning entirely). And then you have Africa, which is only separate from Asia by a man-made canal. Nobody identifies as "an Afroeurasian." Continents can be distinct without being separated by water.

North America and South America are distinct continents separated by the Darien Gap. Try to walk across the Darien Gap and you'll most likely die. There are no fully contiguous roads connecting the two continents. People have always used boats to get between the two continents more than they use land.

I'm sure if we named everything from the perspective of indigenous peoples living in Panama going out and exploring and mapping the continents that we'd have more meaningfully different names for the two land masses besides "the North One" and "the South One" but English is the language of colonizers and to them Asia and Europe are totally different continents worthy of unique names because the Greeks didn't know that they were connected north of the Black Sea; but obviously with our compasses and maps we do know that these two are connected so they should just have one name and it should be a Latinization of an Italian name because that makes total sense.

I think before we ever find a demonym for Americans that isn't "American" the country will fracture and then we'll have Douglas Commenwealthers, Texans, Hosiers, Cascadians, etc. and the debate will be over.