Radio Free Monday (July 7, 2025)

Jul. 7th, 2025 09:43 am
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Welcome to Radio Free Monday for the week of July 7, 2025. RFM posts links to peoples' personal fundraisers asking for community assistance, on Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and the Fediverse.

==== Ways to give ====

Tumblr user Trystan-morningstar is raising funds via ko-fi for medicine, bills, and therapy. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

Tumblr user Jhscdood is raising funds have a revision on his top surgery in July. He's assembled an Amazon wishlist with items that will make his recovery safer and more convenient. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

Tumblr user gothmessi is raising funds to help care for their aging grandparents. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

Tumblr user estes-bestie is raising funds for bills from helping her father through colon cancer. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

==== Recurring needs ====

Dasheka, the sole caretaker of her elderly mother and her three young children, is raising funds to secure new housing for her and her family. She is in immediate need of $1,500. Cashapp $sheekwilson.

Tumblr user Chingaderita is raising funds to replace their washing machine, and to buy food for her household. She is offering Deltarune trinkets through Kofi so she and her family can afford a computer and hopefully expand her job options. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

Tumblr user naamahdarling is raising funds to help pay their dear cat's vet bills, along with their insurance and internet bills. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

Tumblr user Alirhi is raising funds for much-needed car repair, food, and laundry as they are currently unhoused. Read more, share, and support the fundraiser here.

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This has been Radio Free Monday. Submit items for my attention through the link in the pinned post at https://radiofreemonday.dreamwidth.org/2024/12/05/welcome-to-rfm.html (English-language submissions only, please.)

help with Venetian dialect

Jul. 6th, 2025 06:05 pm
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[personal profile] dinogrrl posting in [community profile] little_details
Hello wonderful people!

I've got a fantasy story that's set in early 18th-century Venice. I don't speak Italian, and definitely don't know the difference between the various regional dialects, so I'm looking for some help with a nickname in Venetian.

I have a priest who can use magic, who is not exactly a nice guy. Nobody likes to be around him, he's the kind of person you can just tell will erupt like a magic-spewing volcano the moment something doesn't go his way. My main character is ten when she first meets him and has a very visceral Do Not Like reaction to him, comparing him to a pack of rabid dogs. She is not told his name at the time, so in her mind she dubs him Father Mad Dog (creative, I know).

Several years ago I tried to parse "Father Mad Dog" into Italian/Venetian, and I don't know where I came to the conclusion that it'd be "Don Can' Pazzo" but that's what I've been using. I guess somewhere along the line I was under the impression that cane would get shortened to can when used like this. Is any of this correct? Or do I need another phrase entirely?

Manga (Anime) series info?

Jul. 3rd, 2025 01:37 pm
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[personal profile] goddess47 posting in [community profile] little_details
I'm writing a story where my main character stops his friend, a dad to a 13-ish year old boy, from purchasing some anime manga books because the main character knows the book series is too adult (sex, violence, both) for a 13 year old. The main character then recommends a different series because the story line is more appropriate for the age of the teen.

The story is the relationship between the main character and the dad, so this is a small piece of the larger story. But I know absolutely nothing about anime (or manga, obviously!) and would appreciate some recommendations of titles that would fit those categories.

Thanks!


ETA: I'm looking for currently available titles and perhaps where they are best purchased (a bookstore, a comic book store, a specialty shop, online?)


ETA2: I'm looking US-centric here.

Rebuilding journal search again

Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

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