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HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS

By Jonathan Lee CW genocide, ethnic violence Between 1936 and 1945 the Nazis wiped out over 50% of Europe’s Romani people. Whether they were choked to death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birk…

The Romani people who were the easiest to record and exterminate were those who were the most integrated in society. Like the Jews, these people existed on census records, military rosters, and school files. The decimation of this Romani middle-class meant that there were few strong voices who were in a position to speak up about the Romani genocide after 1945.

There were no Sinti or Roma called to testify at the Nuremberg trials. There were no Romani scholars, no Romani lawyers, no civil servants. No one left to document the atrocities committed against Romani people alongside the Jews – the only two peoples specifically targeted by the Nazis’ Final Solution to ensure German racial purity.

Whereas census data for Jews can be compared before and after the Holocaust, this is rarely the case for Sinti and Roma, meaning the total loss of Romani life is extremely difficult to piece together. Estimates vary somewhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million people. In 1939, around 30,000 people referred to as ‘Gypsies’ lived in what is now Germany and Austria. The total population living in Greater Germany and its occupied territories is unknown, though scholars Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon have provided a rough estimate of 942,000. Of the Sinti and Roma living in Germanic Central Europe, only 5,000 are thought to have survived.

GUESS WHO'S BEING DICKED OVER BY HEALTHCARE AGAIN

THAT'S RIGHT IT'S MEEEEE

So obviously my income has not changed since the last time I did this but the price of my glucose monitors went up AND they went ahead and decided I can only get them in three month supplies. Which is about 210 dollaridoos I don't have. Thus, once again, I ask for help. Goal is set to 300 to cover any extra shenanigans insurance might toss at me. Please signal boost and reblog. Oh my god. 0/300

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My Weekend Plans: 9/17 - 9/19

Inspired by @gritsandbrits' 9/9 - 9/15 week plans post from 2019, I thought I'd share my weekend plans for this weekend with you guys. Not to mention I also would like to use that post as reference for future week/weekend plans posts, with credit to G.B. of course.

Work on bios for my Power Rangers OCs The Blazers (Luna Gwen, Lucy, Frederick, and Eleanora Sayara) 😈🧝🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛🤖

Rework an old story of mine from 2020 + watch comic videos (art wise and writing wise, including some webtoon related videos) on YouTube ✍🏻📝📓🐺🎨💖

Catch up on Rainbott's ⭐️ Welcome to Dreamworld ⭐️ series, plus watch their other videos from before that I've been meaning to watch for a long time now. ⭐️💛💙

Do some drawing and writing (including some other OC-related stuff) ✍🏻🎨📝

Do some cleaning in my room 🛏🧺

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

Week Plans End Results

Tackle some schoolwork for college

Draw my Sparkledog OC

Make a list of my F/Os to put on my F/O Tier List on TIERMAKER after being inspired by @candyheartedchy's f/o tier list post (WIP; I plan on finishing this during spring break)

Do some cleaning and tidying up in my room

Continue watching @rainbott's Welcome to Dreamworld series on YouTube + watch their other videos from before that I've been meaning to watch for a long time now

Work on bios for my OCs (ex. my Power Rangers OCs Luna Gwen, Lucy, Frederick, and Eleanora Sayara; AKA The Blazers)

Do some drawing and writing (including some other OC-related stuff)

Continue watching PokéTuber Electro Pikachu's What If I Wrote Pokémon Journeys? series on YouTube

Do some writing for both my Pokémon Journeys rewrite & my Pokémon OC Marcy Nightingale (both in my Journeys rewrite and in her unova journey backstory)

Additional Things That Happened Outside My Plans

Created a playlist of art videos to watch on YouTube for inspiration on my art

End Results: One crossed out, one WIP, and one additional thing. Eh, no big deal. I can do the other things on this list during spring break.

My Week Plans: 3/6 - 3/12

Inspired by @gritsandbrits' 9/9 - 9/15 week plans post from 2019

After doing some thinking, I've decided to limit my plans to make things easier for me. Maybe I can tackle some more plans since I have spring break next week. But who knows? I'll think about it and we'll see.

Tackle some schoolwork for college

Draw my Sparkledog OC

Make a list of my F/Os to put on my F/O Tier List on TIERMAKER after being inspired by @candyheartedchy's f/o tier list post

Do some cleaning and tidying up in my room

Continue watching @rainbott's Welcome to Dreamworld series on YouTube + watch their other videos from before that I've been meaning to watch for a long time now

Work on bios for my OCs (ex. my Power Rangers OCs Luna Gwen, Lucy, Frederick, and Eleanora Sayara; AKA The Blazers)

Do some drawing and writing (including some other OC-related stuff)

Continue watching PokéTuber Electro Pikachu's What If I Wrote Pokémon Journeys? series on YouTube

Do some writing for both my Pokémon Journeys rewrite & my Pokémon OC Marcy Nightingale (both in my Journeys rewrite and in her unova journey backstory)

sorry i changed your f/os type. yeah theyre canonically attracted to people that look like you now. yeah forever. sorry. yeah they would have always fallen for you anyway. yeah. sorry. ok bye love you

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After seven therapists, four psychiatrists, several antidepressants/other medications, multiple therapy methods, alternative medicines, changes in lifestyle, etc …. It’s become clear that I need special aid in order to have a better quality of life.

At the moment, my mom accompanies me everywhere. When she leaves home, I’m already stretched thin. And although her presence keeps me calm, she’s not very skilled at preventing attacks from happening, or de-escalating them if they do. The constant accompanying is a strain for her, as well.

My hope is that a service dog will provide me with a reliable grounding presence. It can be trained to provide tactiles like body pressure, mouthing, licks. It can smell my triggers, lead me to safe spaces, block a personal space bubble, find help if I need it, and bring me the daily calmness that everyone else enjoys. American law would allow me to bring my service dog to all public spaces, businesses, and during emergencies.

With a service dog, perhaps I can again walk five blocks to the cafe, and use public transport, attend parties and events, manage a full-time job, fly overseas to visit my family, and so much more. I want to get my life going again.

I’m asking for $5,500. A bred puppy (service dogs are trained from a young age, and good breeding is highly recommended) costs around $2,000, the estimated annual cost for a dog is $2,000, and the Owner Trainer Academy is $1,575.

With your help, I could fulfill my dreams within just a couple years! Any and all aid is greatly appreciated!