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It's been over a month since your manager was possessed by a demon. Yet, instead of fetching the nearest priest or throwing a bucket of holy water at them, you and your coworkers have just rolled with it, as the demon is WAY more bearable to work under.
[As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work.]
Can I talk to you? I don’t want anything from you, and I don’t want you to ignore me either. I’m a father of a family, and I’m doing what I need to do. If you give me some time to talk, you’ll understand why I’m reaching out to you.
I know you might wonder why I’m bothering to write, and you have no reason to respond, which is what many people do. I’m sending you this now out of desperation because many haven’t replied.
While I take care of my daily family responsibilities, I’m engaged in this exhausting and time-wasting endeavor where no one is responding. All that’s left for me is despair, and I have no other solutions.
This is exactly how scammers social engineer you to feel sorry for them, feel guilty for not responding to them, and then get you over a barrel.
I have googled this guy, I have seen the dozens and dozens of posts of people sharing the exact same message he supposedly sent them (not this one, another about his family) across nearly every social media platform. He might be genuine, but this message and this blog it came from? They sure as hell aren't.
The account the message came from (mohammedalanqar) has only been active since Oct 10 2024 (just over a month)
A dedicated family man doesn't want to just talk to strange woman on the internet
No decent grown man messages MINORS to talk to them, but if you google the first line of this message you'll see it on a blog that has been marked as belonging to a 16 year old as of August this year
The exact same message, word for word, is being sent to other blogs on this app and not all of them from the same account (again, just google the first line of the message)
The formatting is just weird, like it's been hastily copy and pasted from another platform- because it has.
These posts are designed to make you angry, to tug on your heartstrings and make you defensive about helping them.
If you think I'm a heartless monster for not helping this person out, then congratulations, you have just been socially engineered by a scammer.
It is not your fault. You are not stupid. You are a decent human being capable of compassion and there are criminals out there who are more than willing to use that against you.
Do not donate or share messages from people ion your ask box asking for help, instead find a known charity, vet them as thoroughly as you need to, and then go with that.
I have donated more than once to UNRWA since this started, they are a trusted and legitimate charity in the reigon. You know who the reliable charities are; you see them every time the news talks about an earthquake, flood, or Israel trying to stop them getting into Gaza- the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, UNICEF, Save The Children etcetc
If you are harassed by an account that asks for your financial details, makes demands you can't meet or begins to try and bully you into sharing their posts or donating to them quickly- walk away and do not feel bad about it, it is a scam
Thirdly, Anyone who tells you that they have verified a scammer or vetted them is an idiot; scammers can keep people on the hook for years, milking them dry and drip feeding them more sob stories. So, unless you know the person sharing the post personally, they are a trained fraud investigator, and they have met the person they are recommending to you in person then they are not doing more than being a stooge for a criminal and their qualifications for vetting scammers are not reliable. (Don't @ me)
Gofundme verifies a fundraiser based on how much money they receive (either over a certain amount or within a certain timeframe). This verification is just a measure to ensure people who donate to a large fundraiser can get a refund and does not guarantee that a fundraiser is legitimate
If you have been a victim of a scam you need to learn as much as possible to protect yourself from future attacks. You can read about social engineering and how it works (as well as other kinds of scams and how to recognise them) here
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some of yall don't understand what human rights mean and it is legitimately worrying how some of you think that if a person is 'bad' enough they should have their human rights taken away
Part of the problem is that people think that if a person is 'bad' enough, that they stop being human.
oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever
Never forget, she was loved
She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it
She was loved
great ritual for honoring Laika's memory (from another thread)
on ao3 like some of these doves aren't even wounded
looks like october is…. octover
i’m queueing this for next year
Its nowvember
*THIS WAS SENT TO A FRIEND. NOT ME*
the friend who received this is too nice to say something about it but i have reached a point now where i have seen them receive so many messages like this that i just can't keep my mouth shut anymore
this is straight up evil behaviour. whatever lighthearted tone this anon thought they were sending this with, i don't care. it's gross in every sense.
i'm speaking directly to whoever sent this now and frankly, if you follow me, non, unfollow me right fucking now because i don't want this energy anywhere near my blog. it hurts enough that you've targeted my friends with it.
listen up because apparently it bears repeating for the millionth fucking time -
FANFICTION AUTHORS ARE HUMAN BEINGS. they have lives and jobs and school and things they struggle with. maybe they've even spoken publicly about their struggles in the hopes their readers would understand them a bit better because at the end of the day this is a community and they have every right to use this space however they fucking want to.
"don't start a fic you can't finish" - literally shut up. shut up! we are not paid to do this, i will start and not finish whatever the fuck i want.
and holy shit, anon. as if this message wasn't disgusting enough, please let me state plainly something you "desperately" need to hear: no robot can give you what a human writer can. and the fact that you even threatened to just go to AI at this point shows how little you care about storytellers and all they provide for you.
again, i don't care if every word of this message was sent in jest or meant to be read playfully. it's not fucking cute. this shit hurts writers and ya'll need to realize that.
if you take time out of your life to send messages like this, you're a bad person. period. this is not how fanfic works, it's not how the world works. if you can wait two-three years for a movie or a new season of your favourite tv show, you can wait a few months for a fanfic to update. or you can wait forever. we literally owe you nothing.
i'm done sugarcoating it, ya'll. disrespectfully, grow up. grow up! enough is enough.
anyway
Hey anon if you've got that big a bug up your ass about works taking too long to get finished here's a handy goddamn tool for you:
You're welcome you ungrateful fuck.
Part of fanfiction is going on the JOURNEY with the author. And yeah, sometimes that means ending up in a dead end. But the journey was still FUN, wasn't it?
I really do NOT get people who bitch and moan about unfinished works.
I would rather get the chapters of an awesome fic that will never be finished than not get any of the fic at all.
wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???
Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.
First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.
I see first person stories like I'm sitting down across from the narrator getting the wildest tea imaginable
Most accurate way to read a first person story
ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on
using your phone in a movie theater is a symptom of long covid
the defense of being on your phone in a movie theater is who cares? by your own admission, you should be paying attention to the movie. so why do you care what other people are doing? you’re meant to be paying attention to the movie.
Most cinemas literally do accessible or sensory friendly showings where they leave the lights up, you can be on your phone, they actively encourage movement if you need it etcetc.
If that's what you need them go to them- it's literally what they are for !
The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity
"F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity" Is a really fun way to spell 'Fanfiction'!
There's no need to feel down,
I forgot your pronoun,
Prev do you think it's okay to just go on other people's posts and be funnier than them?
