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my gift to you: all 184 mahjong voice lines for the scions

order is alphinaud, alisaie, thancred, urianger, yshtola, estinien, g'raha, krile

Before January 2025:

If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!

Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.

Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.

For those of us who aren’t lawyers or well-versed in law generally, can someone clarify what kind of document, by name, people should be drafting with their lawyers? Is it a type of letter, or is there a name for this classification of document? I’m aware that it probably varies by US state, but a lot of people are likely feeling extremely lost right now and don’t know where to start on this. I definitely don’t. I live in a state that isn’t likely to nullify existing marriages or prevent new ones from taking place, but who knows what they’re going to try at the national level and enforce from the top down.

Power of Attorney should cover most partners and spouses to ensure that they will be making each other's health care decisions in cases of serious illness. LGBTQ+ spouses and domestic partners must execute proper Health Care Power of Attorney documents listing each other as the highest priority agents for making each other's health care decisions in case of incapacity.

Here's a resource from GLAD.

everyone always forgets this but in most cases, power of attorney ends at death. this means you can be completely iced out of decisions regarding choice of funeral home, disposition (burial or cremation), and planning services if you are not the legally recognized next of kin. in many states, common-law spouses are not legally recognized as next of kin for disposition purposes.

in most cases, being appointed the personal representative or executor in your partner's will with explicit power to control disposition is what you want, but this very much varies by state. I suggest consulting a lawyer to make sure everything is totally covered the way you want it to be.

source: funeral director of five years who has seen this break bad for many common-law spouses and partners

when I was younger I didn’t understand why “may you live in interesting times” was considered a curse in ancient greece.

I get it now.

doesn’t get much more interesting than this

this might be an unpopular opinion but sometimesssssss people ruin their own fan experiences by dedicating too much energy to (ultimately harmless) things that bother them pls utilize the mute and filter buttons u will be so much happier

they're rebooting the pre-K show Wonderpets and decided one of the three main characters should be a snake this time. That's great honestly, little kids should be taught that snakes are just another animal and can be a cute animal. Hatred of them is already much rarer than when I was a kid myself. If only they'd made another of the three a tarantula or a hissing cockroach but baby steps I guess.

i keep seeing people say “why would you leave this in the tags” but the alternative is to actually comment on someones post and i thought we all collectively decided that was a bad idea years ago

“why did you leave this in the tags” because it would be obnoxious otherwise