#- then pls shoot me an ask

[dandelion-roots]

No matter what you do, you just can't shake him off, can you, Chūya?

[lyrics: Florence + the Machine | id in alt]

EDIT: I made a whole ass janky animatic to this song, enjoy!

[fltwoodsmonster]

hey hold on a sec

I just realized both op and the commenter are insane trad christains so im deleting my reblog (because im not platforming their shit -- this is ALSO why im censoring their URLs I’m not going to give them traffic) and instead reposing it with the following links/information:

1) The WHO still actively hosts a guide on how to create safe milk substitutes when access to breastmilk/milk substitutes are unavailable on the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (iris). The guide is called “Infant Feeding in Emergencies: A Guide for Mothers”. Relevant information starts on page 38.

2) Here is a link to the archived guide WITH THE CAUTION that I was not able to find out why its no longer provided by the WHO or iris. It could be that the information is out of date. I am only sharing it because I think the visuals may be helpful for people who have trouble reading written directions. Consult the above link first, then refer to this guide only if you need clarification on how to perform certain actions. Link to archive.

3) The language in that second comment throws up so may red flags. I cropped it to only the information needed to understand the context of this post because I find it immensely suspect. The repeated allusions to 2020 for no apparent reason (but I can guess why, as an infection disease scientist) come across as loaded or dog-whistely. I would advise against sharing the OP for that reason. But because the information being provided is important and not well known, I’m making this alternative post for people to reblog. 

4) The implication that the WHO is censoring information based on a 404 page is a really flimsy and extreme conclusion to jump to. The “Infant Feeding in Emergencies” guide I linked above also goes to a 404 page on the WHO’s main website - but again, can be accessed through iris instead. So no, the information on how to feed infants in a food crisis is not being censored by the WHO.

5) A more likely cause for the guide disappearing is that the link broke and they didn’t fix it. If you look at the original URL it indicates the guide was posted in a subcategory on the WHO’s website about International Crises, specifically in the Middle East. If you try to type in a shortened versions of that URL (specifically https://www.who.int/hac/crises/ or the slightly modified http://www.who.int/hac/crises/en/) you’ll see that the subdomain that was present with relevant info breaks around 2020. In fact, while testing this hypothesis, I came across this information page in a November 2021 version of the URL https://www.who.int/home/cms-decommissioning (which I was redirected to automatically from http://www.who.int/hac/crises/en/):

There is no nefarious conspiracy theory. The link simply broke - as many many many many links do on the internet. The second commenters reply is proven bunk by a little bit of fact checking.

sorry for the long post, but I think the information on infant nutrition substitutes is genuinely useful, lifesaving info -- but i’m not going to give more people with dangerous ideological views spouting nonsense a platform.

update (5/20/22):

I had hope this was a given, but I want to be explicitly clear.

Using an at-home formula substitute should be a last resort. Contact your infant’s physician or a pediatrician before attempting to make your own milk substitute.

I am also going to leave a link to the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine’s statement on breast milk substitute shortages.

Do not blindly follow internet posts in regards to the health of yourself or your children. I wanted to share this post simply because I, myself, did not even know it was possible to make milk substitutes and thought it was useful to be aware of in an time when access to substitutes is unprecedentedly difficult.

[gearbroth]

hey @ every artist feeling bad for moving on from fandoms:

LIVE AND LOVE AND YEARN AND CREATE WHAT YOU WANT FOREVER AND ALWAYS NO RULES NO EXPECTATIONS NO OBLIGATIONS NO APOLOGIES

[mikereads]

Ryan and Oliver liking each others photography posts/pictures.

[l-e-i-k-o]

hiii wonderful sim community!! I have been wanting to start, the such colorful lives challenge, but trying to make sims to populate the majority of San My. along with building is burning me out. (I haven't even started to build in the city yet) BUT, I would love it if you all, whoever sees this post, send me some sims for this save since I would really love to start posting the challenge on here and finally be able to play. general stuff for the sims!

CC IS ALLOWED! you can do whatever, maxis-mix, alpha, or maxis. But keep in mind, if you do maxis, I may alter skin details and such to fit my style! (but not anything drastic).

1-2 outfits per category.

the sims can be whatever you would like, any age, any number in a household, likes/dislikes, jobs, traits, etc (but no occults, please!)

however, if you want to make a potential love interest, make them around young adult or adult age, along with following the rules of the challenge (just gen 1): https://simcloudlogic.tumblr.com/post/670412272409231360/such-colorful-lives-legacy-challenge

OR, if you would like to make employees to work alongside my heir, just make sure that they have something related to art!

other than that, public or private download is up to you, and please tag me if you decide to make a sim!

there is no deadline, at the moment, and I'm open to any # of sims!

If anyone does actually submit any sims in the future, thank you SO SO much in advance!

(also if this was hard to read, I apologize, I will edit it, it was 4:35 am as I was writing this but I am scheduling it a bit later in the day)

[frnkiebby]

Itz giving de Josh Hutcherson 2014 birthday edit

Uh, Did u saw diz pic alreadi? Sori u had 2 die out of Frank'z puppy cuteness and innocence 4 de second time

i absolutely DO NOT care if i’ve been sent a frimage 20 times in a row. i will ALWAYS scream about him and love it~🎃

[lycanthropicture]

hey just fyi i updated, organized, and removed broken links from the resource guide i made a while ago! it's originally from the resource dump channel of the spn amv editors discord, but it's got helpful stuff for any spn creators (editors, gifmakers, meta-writers, fic writers, etc) and any video editors from any fandom! Here's the link, and here's a lil info on what kind of stuff you'll find on each page:

General Resources - links useful for amv editors from any fandom. things like tutorials, overlay packs, and software downloads.

SPN Scenepacks - big list of links to downloadable scenepacks sorted by character, ship, and season

SPN Episodes, Clips, & Deleted Scenes - what it says on the sign.

Other SPN Resources - various links to spn-specific resources like timelines, transcript search, the amv archive, etc!

anyway, i am asking that you please do not post the link to this drive elsewhere, and especially not on other websites (cough the bird one cough)!! pls keep it on tumblr <3

[not-poignant]

Techniques for writing a bad drug trip:

We're going to be using excerpts from one of my own chapters here from my story Eversion to discuss the kind of writing techniques that will help make a bad drug trip more believable. In context, the character Connor has nonconsensually been given a synthetic made-up highball of drugs that gives him a horrible time, and this does not accurately reflect what bad drug trips look like across all drugs, for example sometimes throwing up on ayahuasca is a feature, and not a bug. What I'll be focusing on instead are the actual narrative techniques that indicate an affected mind and body vs. specific technques for specific drugs.

Beginning Stages:

Firstly, pre-bad-trip, it's useful to depict your character beforehand as being fully - or as close to fully lucid as possible. Have them realising things, actively thinking, describing their surroundings, and doing things in a kind of logical way - show them doing something mundane even, like walking into a room, or a cafe. In this case, Connor walks into a cafe, describes the cafe, makes some mental notes and then has a lucid conversation.

Next, most of the time any drug gives you physical symptoms even before the bad trip part, so describe those. In this case:

Seconds later Connor’s heart began to race

The needle slid free and Connor hardly felt it.

He stumbled over nothing as he passed the group of cyclists, staring at them as his heart beat harder and harder, as sweat broke out over his forehead.

At this point in the story, another character takes over, the person who gives him the highball picks up the conversation because Connor is overwhelmed by the physical sensations and doesn't feel like talking. He stops thinking about his environment accurately and starts to notice things while dropping others. His thoughts are already being affected.

This is when you can start using techniques like time skipping, forgetfulness, memory loss, or alternatively focusing on one thing a lot and a lot of other things a little.

Connor nodded, thinking that he needed to get away, that he needed to go somewhere. He reached for his phone, but it wasn’t there. Where was his phone? His vision slanted, time slipped away from him. He was beneath a tree, throwing up while Gabriel petted his shoulder and waited beside him.

Here we have a strong time skip - Connor goes from looking for his phone, in the next paragraph he's throwing up by a tree. This progression of events has no logic, except for the bad drug trip. Which means we now know Connor is being really affected by what's happening. These two paragraphs also show forgetfulness - Connor needs to get away / needs to go somewhere, but can't remember where. He looks for his phone, but has forgotten Gabriel took it from him. You don't even need the 'time slipped away from him' description, vision slanting or blurring tends to indicate to readers in situations like this that someone is being quite seriously affected by what's happening to them.

Middle Stages:

Then, he was walking, but couldn’t think past the scattered, rushing noises in his ears, looking like black jags across his vision.

He landed hard on his knees and stared down bewildered at the grass. He looked around, vision turning to brightness, cars zooming by too fast and too large, the sky distorted, the clouds inverting. He raised a hand to his head, but another hand – warm and gentle – rested at his temple, thumb gently stroking. Connor leaned into it, whimpering.

We're doing a lot of time skipping now, alongside mental symptoms.

The writing technique itself is changing. In one sentence we cover a lot of choppy subjects - vision turning bright, cars too fast, sky distorting, clouds inverting. It gives a sense of too much information happening at the same time - Connor's senses are overwhelmed.

This kind of choppy information can be delivered in short complete sentences, but I liked one run-on sentence here because it gives that sense of 'and then this and this and this and this and this' which is sometimes how it feels to have too much information coming in at once.

It's also making use of the senses. We have vision and hearing and touch all in the same paragraph. We also have 'too fast' 'too large' - things are too much. Not only that, but describing things as distorted indicates strongly that Connor's already hallucinating and hasn't realised yet.

At this point in your bad drug trip, you should not be using your regular writing style. If your character isn't thinking like normal, you might want to consider also not writing 'like normal' for that character.

(This is the same for when a character is having a flashback, is overwhelmed, or is experiencing something intense for any reason).

He took great, shuddering breaths and then pressed shaking fingers to his stomach. The knot of pain in his thigh was manifesting there as well.

Now, for the bad drug trip to truly be bad, we also have the physicality of the experience. The body comes along for the ride and it often feels like it's dying during a bad drug trip.

Huge shuddering breaths and shaking hands can indicate an overloaded nervous system, also someone who might be going into shock, or who is hyperventilating, or who is literally experiencing respiratory distress. We don't have to know what it is - one or all of them could be true! A person on a bad drug trip, unless they're a medical professional or experienced with bad drug trips, will not know or be assessing what is happening to them as it happens.

He flinched back when he saw black inching out from beneath his knees on the grass, dimly knew it as a hallucination before that awareness vanished and he pushed himself back and away.

Boop a hallucination. Connor was already hallucinating, but now he realises too. You don't need to include this. I was writing a smart, analytical character, and he does know he's having a bad drug trip, so he's allowed little moments of realisation. Your character might know more, or they might know less.

Intense / Peak Stages:

He could feel the way his body pulsed at discordant rhythms, too fast, too slow, never in sync throughout his body. The tips of his fingers were throbbing. His feet felt like stones. He looked at Gabriel’s perfect beard and thought of tearing his face off. It would be brief, brutal, bloody, but then he could just lie down.

Writing emotional distortion here is that Connor feels like behaving violently, which - to this degree - isn't normal for him. The drug overdose is making him vengeful. We know it's part of the drug overdose because the first part of the paragraph focuses on all his physical symptoms. The drug trip might make your character too terrified to function, it might make them aroused (i.e. fuck or die sex pollen scenarios), it might make them giddy. Have some emotional distortion going on on some level. Even if it's extreme anhedonia or apathy in the face of potentially dying.

The hospital was clearly giving him too many sedatives. He didn’t know how to tell them that he had no tolerance, he couldn’t take the dosages that his father was pushing for.

Now we hit full flashback. Connor now believes he's being overdosed with sedatives in the hospital, and is no longer in the present at all. He's not even 'I remember' - he's just there. Flashbacks won't happen with every bad drug trip but they are common to any bad drug trip that is hallucinatory in nature.

Connor stared up at the ceiling of his apartment, and his hands rested on the floor. His heart was beating far too fast, fluttering in his chest. He felt hazy. Every now and then he had to clench his hands into fists so tight that his knuckles ached. A compulsion. He couldn’t stop himself from doing it. He’d feel himself shake, and then he’d stop, and he’d stare upwards. He was lying on the floor.

Connor stared ahead. The corner of his mouth felt wet. He was drooling. His fingers and toes kept twitching against his will.

What Connor is describing now is seizure activity.

Connor isn't consciously clenching his hands into fists, his body is doing that. He calls it a compulsion, but it's not. Feeling your body shake and then stop and then shake again is - in this instance for Connor - active seizure activity.

Not all seizures cause full unconsciousness of the entire brain, for example. Connor doesn't know what's happening to him, but we can tell from the physical symptoms here - heart fast and fluttering, feeling hazy, physical movements completely beyond his control - that he's now in a danger zone.

If you want the bad drug trip to reach 'a normal person would be in an ambulance by now' - this is a good place to be. Focus on strange sensations of the heart, the pulse, shaking, the sensation of overheating or being too cold. If you want, look up the symptoms of shock, or tachycardia.

Aftermath of bad drug trip:

In the aftermath of a bad drug trip, be aware that it can take some time for a person's thoughts to return to normal. Don't write an instant return to normalcy once a person is physically stabilised. Often they show mood shifts that are quite profound. Even a person coming down from MDMA often experiences depression or flatness after a great night out with zero negative memories.

Normal aftermaths/ongoing side effects from bad drug trips include apathy, depression, suicidal ideation, anhedonia, flatness, lethargy, exhaustion (literally, the body physically went through several marathons), pain, and foggy, disconnected thinking (both because the brain went through something traumatic and the drugs take a while to work through the system). GI (gastrointestional disturbances) are common, from 'not going to the bathroom at all' to 'diarrhea' etc. Sometimes these after-effects last days, sometimes they last weeks, sometimes they even last months.

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So! In summary helpful techniques for bad drug trips can include:

Shorter, choppier sentences to indicate overwhelm

Physical symptoms being 'experienced' - character often doesn't know what's happening except in special circumstances

A progression of physical symptoms.

Focus on all of the senses

Hallucinations and/or flashbacks (one usually happens with the other)

Unusual emotional affect or emotional distortion

Time skips / non-linear time jumps

Inability to think properly

Focusing on some things too much and other things not at all

Realising there is a progression, that must include a heavy aftermath (unless you're trying to be special, or unless it's one of the few drugs that can make you feel unusually euphoric afterwards and then there's still usually a crash after that lmao)

Different drugs create different, known effects, however, people will have different 'bad drug trips' depending on their circumstances.

I'm a little bit afraid this post is going to crash so I'm going to post it now! And for that anon who asked me what kind of writing I used - this is it! :D

[spirit-lanterns]

If that okay to know, when you mentioned about yandere as limit, what did you meant? Like what are comfortable with and what you're not comfortable when it comes with yandere?

Basically, my limits for writing yandere are these:

- No mentions of graphic torture (like detailed body mutilation)

- No physical harm to the Reader (yandere character(s) cannot hurt the Reader physically)

- No noncon, r*pe, s*xual ab*se of any kind.

- No drugging for sexual activity

That’s basically it for my limits with yandere. I’m okay with topics like killing others, stalking, kidnapping, clothes stealing, peeping, Stockholm syndrome, etc. just be sure to put a warning at the top of your yandere thirst, so other people can be wary!

I advise that if you want to send a yandere-related thirst, please put trigger warnings on everything you think might be triggering! No trigger warning? No response :)

[eatmy-customjorts]

*throws figure skating au from a whiteboard at you*

[lil--fin]

[teabiscs]

so, hypothetically, if someone were to host a ship week. would december be an okay month?

i figure if kinktober is happening, november would be a good rest month, before things pick up again in december. maybe like the 10-16? or is that too much, since like hannukah is right before that and christmas is right after.

or like pushing it to january? or maybe do it like the second week of january? starting the 7th or 14th? i'd rather keep it away from valentines day, if possible.

idk, maybe march. deffs not april too close to mayblade, unless its like the first week.

bleh.

[wonlovie]

hi :’))) i feel like i owe all of y’all a huge ass apology for being mia for like four months TT theres rlly no excuse other than me trying to figure out what i want to do w my life (still dont know) but i always felt bad about not updating or doing anything on here :(

i still go through all of my notifications from time to time, and i really really appreciate all of u who still found some joy in my writing (even tho i was rlly only active for a month SOB tysm)

a lot of things have changed for me since october and i really want to get back into writing !! i dont want to promise anything in case i cant, but pls do know that my docs have been dusted and ive been writing some things here and there

[celicerae]

man i still REALLY want to run a homestuck ttrpg. i know i don't have a ton of followers (at least compared to my main when i could stomach being cringe on main) but if anyone's interested pls let me know cos now that i have experience actually being a gm and doing ttrpgs remotely, i really think i could do it justice.

[tsuntsunfangirl]

me, coming from a very busy real-life event, and also drowning in paper work, health documents, and actual day work:

me: *goes on facebook*

facebook:

me:

me: WHY THE FUCK IS THIS BASTARD HAUNTING ME EVEN ON FACEBOOK--

me: wtf is going on in disney+... *opens app*

me: ah.

[crastlefolke]

art for all the 3rd lifers + things i associate them with