Today I Wrote Zero Words! But I Did Think About My Story Twice In Passing. That Probably Counts For Something

The girls singing in this video were killed in a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia an hour after the performance 💔

Svitlana Semeikina and Kristina Spitsyna were performing to raise funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Their parents are now also defending Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

The girls were only 19 and 21 years old. On August 9, they were killed by a Russian missile.

Chapters: 3/35 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Underage Sex Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Gregory Goyle/Original Female Character(s), Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy, Luna Lovegood/Theodore Nott, Theodore Nott/Pansy Parkinson Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Theodore Nott, Gregory Goyle, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Luna Lovegood Additional Tags: Dorms, Hogwarts is a Muggle Boarding School, Alternate Universe - Boarding School, Chess, Protective Narcissa Black Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy Being an Asshole Summary:

There isn't anything worth more than a confidant, even if it was with two souls who should in any other world hate each other.

I’d love to join a group

Spoken Latin Is Making a Comeback

Proponents of the teaching method argue that it encourages engagement with the language and the ancient past

congrats! you wrote 3 words today. that’s 3 more than the guy who died in 1784. you’re doing great.

We evolved past the stage of gentle touches. Past are the flirting and casual dates. Moved beyond the simple words and hiding what happens behind closed doors.

Now we just care. I wait for you till you come home to sleep. You hold my purse as I look through the stores and then I make fun with your friends.

It’s quite nice having a life to share. It’s wonderful to smile and know you’re right there with me. It’s beautiful to see you seeing me.

-C

my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day

ok so instead of going on my usual the earth is doomed spiral I started looking into solar punk solutions and stumbled across the practice of permaculture & found a free 50 video series from the university of oregon on it if anyone else would like to learn abt ways we can actually start restoring earths whole deal

YouTube

Permaculture Design Course - Oregon State University Ecampus

Permaculture Design Course - Oregon State University Ecampus

These sort of programs are what is going to save earth. It’s the robots to make ice up north, the rebuilding of the mangroves, turning highways into walk and bike ways, green housing, community gardens. It’s the corporate companies limiting their waste. It’s using left over food to feed animals and plants and the poor. It’s making all glass make energy. It’s windmills off the coasts, it’s nuclear power from thorium. It’s people caring about people and children being cared for. It’s stopping breeding. It’s cleaning up our messes and working towards a better future. The little people can’t do much, we can protest and garden on our own, but the government and corporations have to take a big step to help us accomplish this.

Good News Network

The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest

Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay. 

"At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin America. Now it’s a mangrove forest teeming with life.

Decommissioned 11 years ago, between 1970 and 2012 the dump, bordering Rio’s famous Guanabara Bay, received 80 million metric tonnes of trash from the area’s Gramacho neighborhood.

Now, a public-private partnership led by the Rio Municipal Cleaning Company has returned the area to nature, specifically mangroves, one of the most valuable of all ecosystems.

Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay.

“Before, we polluted the bay and the rivers. Now, it’s the bay and the rivers that pollute us,” a lead official on the project told Africa News. “Today, the mangrove has completely recovered.”

Other organizations have taken action to restore mangroves along the bay as well. The non-profit Ocean Pact funded the Green Guanabara Bay Project which successfully restored 12.5 hectares or around 25 acres of mangroves.

According to some estimates, 1 acre of mangrove forests can store more carbon in roots and soil than 4 acres of even the most biodiverse rainforest, making them paramount to any world climate mitigation strategy.

Furthermore, their impressive lattice work of roots and insane durability means that storm surges impacting mangroves lose about 66% of their kinetic energy without even destroying the trees.

Lastly, coastal fishing communities, in [four] words, cannot exist without mangroves. They act as nurseries and perfect habitat for all kinds of fish and crustaceans that small-scale fishermen rely on for their daily bread."

-via Good News Network, 7/31/23

-video via Africanews, July 26, 2023

god tier dramione fanfics

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare {https://archiveofourown.org/works/34500952/chapters/85870804}

Isolation by bexchan {https://archiveofourown.org/works/23461513?view_full_work=true}

Rights and Wrongs series by LovesBitca8 {https://archiveofourown.org/series/1007625}

Remain Nameless by HeyJude19 {https://archiveofourown.org/works/23875939/chapters/57393508}

Breath Mints / Battle Scars by Onyx_and_Elm {https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/35668776?show_comments=true}

Wait and Hope by mightbewriting {https://archiveofourown.org/works/22818646/chapters/54531817}

Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc {https://archiveofourown.org/works/24481312/chapters/59089624}

Dragon’s Heartstrings by pinkinku {https://archiveofourown.org/works/46585585/chapters/117313114}

Cherry Mint by dirtymudblood {https://archiveofourown.org/works/21053894/chapters/50081633}

Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse by rizzlewrites {https://archiveofourown.org/works/28137807/chapters/68944698}

All You Want by senlinyu {https://archiveofourown.org/works/15153092/chapters/35140268}

Apple Pies and Other Amends by ToEatAPeach {https://archiveofourown.org/works/8156101/chapters/18691246}

The Gloriana Set by ThebeMoon {https://archiveofourown.org/works/16821571/chapters/39485710}

Love and Other Misfortunes by senlinyu {https://archiveofourown.org/works/14380728/chapters/33204618}

This World or Any Other series by olivieblake {https://archiveofourown.org/series/502333}

I think next thursday is gonna be the best day of my entire life tbh