But it made me smile so hard that I figured it was okay to share.

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right.

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.

But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.

He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.

"He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, 'Here you go,'" Diaz says.

As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, "Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm."

The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, "like what's going on here?" Diaz says. "He asked me, 'Why are you doing this?'"

Diaz replied: "If you're willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me ... hey, you're more than welcome.

[...]

When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, "Look, I guess you're going to have to pay for this bill 'cause you have my money and I can't pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I'll gladly treat you."

The teen "didn't even think about it" and returned the wallet, Diaz says. "I gave him $20 ... I figure maybe it'll help him. I don't know."

Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen's knife — "and he gave it to me."

Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, "You're the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch."

"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world."

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Not related, but does someone know something about the_future_modernes?

Yes, I should be sleeping, but OM is about to end, okay?

( Fairy Tail up to the beginning of chapter 10 )

It has problems of course, shonen manga in the end. Anything that has to do with with women and looks. But well, is still hella refreshing.

Edit: ( Screw it. Spoilers for all of Chapter 10 )

Also, my computer is dying.

Holy Daughter of ETA: ( Chapter 11 Awesome sauceness )

Man, was Claymore the last time I was like this?

Well, exams are over. Of the twenty people who took this Biochemistry final, only 6 passed. I was one of the six thankfully (and with a good note!). But the new semester starts in like... 10 days.

Anyway, I'm dead tired also. Maybe I will be more active in some days, and will start catching up. I missed you, guys.

Muchísimas gracias a Mako por informarme:

Tras un histórico debate, el Senado transformó en ley el matrimonio homosexual.

Y acá Mako tiene un post sobre el tema, y los pormenores de la decisión: ¡Todas las personas pueden Casarse!

Argentina Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

( Reborn 289. Spoilers have a lot of squeeing )

Next week is 290. Hmm, wonder about that.

Spoilers for Portal's ending:



Now, yeah. I'm off. To study, damn.

Porque Mako me alegra el día encontrando estas cosas que ni yo sabía que existían:

SOMOS GAY. Ñande Joja ha Rory.

SOMOSGAY, inicia su trabajo como una asociación solidaria comprometida con la innovación de estrategias efectivas contra la homofobia; la mejora de la prevención del VIH y el sida; la defensa de los derechos de las personas afectadas por este virus y el avance de los derechos humanos en el Paraguay.

Reconocemos a nuestra lengua guaraní como la principal herencia cultural de nuestra nación, expresamos nuestra visión en la frase en guaraní ÑANDE JOJA HA RORY , (traducido SOMOS IGUALES Y FELICES). Como organización nos reconocemos herederos de la nación guaraní, marcada por su lucha contra la opresión, la desigualdad, la violencia y reivindicamos nuestro andar hacia el Yvy Marane’y (la Tierra sin Mal) de nuestros ancestros, una sociedad en donde podamos vivir todos los paraguayos y paraguayas sin exclusiones y con dignidad.

Y acá, en "Buen Día Paraguay" de PARAVISIÓN:





Estas cosas me alegran la semana.

So before going to bed:

Gratuitous spamming post here. Comment with something awesome. Can be anything, you just have to find it awesome. Thank you very much.

Mako, Claymore 101, acá.

I thought this was supposed to come out in April.

( Spoilers are full of OTP moments )

I'm so behind this that's not even funny. But.

( Spoilers for Kobato's anime )

Hey, people, remember the Asian Actors Pic Posts? I know, I'm a failure, but I haven't forgotten them. I was just very... not capable of doing them. But they will be back! I swear.

Have a puppy meanwhile.

I DID JUST ENOUGH TO PASS. Boy, never the minimal grade required to approve felt so sweet.

But I'm tired, I haven't slept in 48 hours. I kid you not. See ya, people!

Things aren't looking great for me, but I'm going to take that exam no matter what. Meanwhile I had to post this because Questioning Transphobia has a fucking amazing post:

Intent! It’s Fucking Magic!

See, the great thing about this thaumaturgy is that it protects anything a privileged asshole says! So it fits in line completely with that glorious sense of entitlement that privilege tends to confer, basically, the idea that you can say anything you want and should never have accountability for what you say! Because you see, all privileged people have this ancient eldritch power called “Intent”. In fact, intent is one of the primary elements of the world (see figure 1). Like fire, water, wood, metal, air and earth, Intent helps make up an important part of the very existence of the universe. So when you invoke its ancient might, its tendrils of ephemeral power shift in the very fabric of the ‘verse, creating a magic so powerful that you can manipulate thousands upon thousands of threads of fate, just to protect the person you just said or did something supremely privileged and horrible to.

[...]

Intent is so unbelievably epic that it doesn’t just cover slurs. No, it covers actions as well! Because you see, the very threads of fate are not immune to this otherworldly flow of what you meant to do or say. So if you kick a trans woman out of a homeless shelter into the cold because she didn’t fit your views of what a woman should be and she didn’t want to be put in with the menz (where she faces a risk of rape and murder for her, or at least harassment), your Intent literally changes the tapestry of fate so that instead of freezing to death in the cold, she actually is heated by an unexpected fire, lit by a lightning strike from clear skies, onto a pile of garbage that can’t spread the fire to anything else, right next to where she just happened to fall in exhaustion! I know! Isn’t it awesome?!

Intent is a power that you only have if you believe in it. Because so many marginalized people don’t believe in the power of intent when it comes to their/our marginalizations, few of us are able to call on its supernatural strength. Some rare marginalized folk are able to, but only in given situations and generally only in relation to themselves.

[...]

Because you see, Intent is the ultimate alchemy. It doesn’t change lead to gold, it changes harmful, negative or damaging actions into happy, fun, “everyone hugs and no one is oppressed”, magical unicorn actions. It dips its eerie powers into the pools of time and space and counters each and every ripple of fuckery and pain created by the actions of an unthinking douchebag who was too privileged or self absorbed to see that their actions were a problem.

And because parlance made me remember it:

Deepa's I Didn’t Dream of Dragons has been nomitated Best Non-Fiction at the British Science Fiction Association 2009 Awards. Hal Duncan withdrawn in favor to her piece. You go girl, congratulations and, really, so deserve to win.

Hey bell! We are going to Camboriú this year for my mom vacations, and we will probably visit Florianópolis! I can go to see you if you will be there and have no problem. It will be around next week, still not sure when though because my mom still is working.

Shut. There are no free cookies anymore. Damn it, Ly. ;;

Thank you so much, Ly and outou for sending me cookies! &hearts You are awesome guys.

Okay. I shouldn't be here in a way that isn't cute or funny.

But this week is like earlier Christmas for my fandom and my OTP, so YAAAAAAAAAAY! Gorgeous pics all around.

Some day I will talk about this conversation I had with Kiri about Fei Wong Reed attractiveness and how it affects fandom's reception and probably CLAMP's treatment, specially comparing him with other CLAMP's bastards around (Taishakuten, Okiura, etc., I'm looking at you).

Off to study. Now. For real.

I'm on vacations! And I approved all my exams! And I started reading Octavian Nothing! (Damn it, I feel dirty linking to Amazon.) Nothing to see here. >.>

ESTOY DE VUELTA. Y aprobé todo! JURO QUE DESDE MAÑANA EMPIEZO CON TODO LO QUE LE DEBO A TODO EL MUNDO, GENTE. ;;

Racism is Over.

This was what I needed to make my day brighter. I'm crying with laughter here. New America. Amazing blog.

Exam. Wednesday. Arg.