Just got a letter in the mail from my doctor's office. Says that things that were/are uncovered by OHIP that were free will now have fees, or I can pay $115 annually to get them covered.
Some fees are:
$25 for massage/orthotic/physio referrals & sick notes
$103 disability tax credit application
$65 guarantor documents
$20 prescription renewal without visit (faxed renewal from pharmacy for example)
$80 electronic transfer of medical records
Then not covered with the annual fee:
$200 drivers medical examination/form (75% discount with the annual fee)
People seem to have forgotten that “proship” was the Fandom norm for the longest time.
Only, it wasn’t called proship. It was called ship and let ship. Or minding your own buisness.
If someone had a ship you didn’t like or thought was gross, you would avoid them. If they drew art or wrote stories you didn’t agree with or like, you would ignore them.
There were tags like smut, whump, and angst to tell people about things they might not want to read. And then dead dove: do not eat for taboo subjects and especially gritty fic.
Then people started to ignore that. Younger fans started to bully people because they disagreed with shipping certain characters. Whether it be because it “wasn’t canon”, they thought it was gross, or they just didn’t like it.
These people began calling themselves “anti-ship”
Pro-ship became a label to show that someone was against anti-ship.
Eventually, the anti-ship movement began to die down. So do you know what they did? They started accusing people. Of being pedophiles, groomers, rape supporters, and more. All because they wrote or drew things that these people didn’t like.
They began claiming that THEY were the Fandom norm, and that these “proshippers” were the bad people. They started claiming that proship stood for “problematic shipping”
Due to this, the term “pro-ship” is often misconstrued as to what it means. Many people don’t even KNOW what it means.
It means “anti-censorship”.
It means that we support someone’s right to produce art, no matter how gross, no matter how taboo, no matter how “problematic”
Because it’s not hurting anyone.
If it’s something you don’t want to see? Block the person. Block the tag. Say in your bio that you don’t like it. That’s what they’re FOR!
This was discussed in earlier days of fandom.
“I wonder why people would read a story in a genre they don’t care for, then take the time to let the writer know that sure enough, they didn’t care for it. That would be like me going to a restaurant, ordering a slice of cherry pie, then asking that the chef be brought out so I can say "I don’t like cherry pie, and I didn’t like yours either.” To continue this analogy into its usual fannish outcome, the chef would say “Well gee, lady, why did you order it?” And I’d say, “Are you questioning my right to order cherry pie?”
-Unknown 2002
Except now, it would be like the person who didn’t like the cherry pie and ordered it anyways then demanded that no restaurant serve cherry pie because it was poison. Not only is it a ridiculous request, it’s blatantly untrue.
I just did this, and Etsy doesn’t actually tell you anywhere on the site how to find your username (it’s randomly generated), which you need to opt out, so here’s how to do that:
Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.
Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.
She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.
God I’m a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they’re completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they’ve chosen to listen to. That’s the good shit
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