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codedsarcasm-archived · 6 years

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- ̗̀ SYLVEON LOVES OC’S ! ̖́-

that alone should be obvious considering just how many oc’s i have and actively write, both on and off this website. i’ve been doing this ( with primarily oc muses ) for about nine years. i’ve been on dozens of platforms, and the same things tended to happen: the oc hate ran me off in the end. even here, i’ve been run off several blogs by it. it’s not fair, it’s not right, and i want to take a moment to share with you guys some of my favorite oc’s that i write with currently:

♡ daayaan has more than earned my admiration. rohini is not only a beautifully constructed, very real character, she is a strong woman of color, she is a way for the writer to connect with and celebrate an absolutely beautiful heritage, and the time & effort put into the worldbuilding and the construction of original lore for this blog has never ceased to amaze me. as a practicing witch, i’m a little hesitant about dipping my toes into witchy roleplay blogs, a lot of them do some very problematic things / overlook very important things, but this blog is so respectful, so informed, so wonderful, and it sheds light on the practice of witchcraft in another cultural context, which i love learning more about every time they post!

♡ freckledbats is an oc multimuse, which just means that there’s even more oc’s to love! z has this way of creating super real, super interesting characters. every single time they add another one, i can’t wait to pile on more threads. i can’t even pick a favorite off this blog. it’s impossible. z is so creative and so talented, and their blog offers so many different muses --- you can see the diversity in kinds of muses created. there really is something for everyone. and z is one of the kindest people i have ever met, and deserves far more recognition for their talent than they get.

♡ gunmetclgrey is one of those blogs that just blows me away by the amount of thought and love poured into one muse. alex is the daughter ( or sister, depending on verse! ) of sebastian moran, but does not in any sense take away from sebastian as a character --- i feel like she adds so much more dimension to his story, but it’s also important to note the dimension of her story! there is such a well thought out backstory, such well thought out verses, such detailed headcanon posts, and sometimes it’s hard for me to remember that alex is not a canon character.

♡ letagin has followed nessa from the beginning --- don’t think i don’t remember your old blog, i recognized aaron’s last name immediately! watching the development of kino as a writer has been an awesome treat but i also got to see aaron develop as a character and i am just so blown away. the lore surrounding this blog is so carefully constructed, so complex and unique, that i honestly sometimes feel like there just has to be an entire book series about aaron and his world somewhere out there published by kino and gods damn it, i wanna read it. and if you think aaron’s awesome, check out kino’s multi ( pasthaunted ) for even more awesome muses.

♡ lcsingstars --- it’s no surprise that my girlfriend’s on the list. but here’s the real reason why. we first met when i wrote a canon character; and virgil’s muse absolutely loved alexina brody. when i kinda lost virgil’s muse, i made nessa again, i missed her, and kiki actually followed me over to this oc. not many people follow a writer from a canon male character to their female oc. obviously i’m glad she did. not only did it end very well for us out of character, it gave me the chance to keep writing with lexi, and to meet some of kiki’s other original characters! every single one is unique and fun to write with. i love them all so much that over 80% of the memes sitting in kiki’s inbox are from me. whoops. seriously, check this blog out. you won’t regret it!

♡ worldvisitor ; i say this all the time but seriously, i’m one of your biggest fans and when i finally get to buy a copy of your book, i want it signed. as somebody who does write ocs from in progress novels, i understand the struggles; as somebody currently trying to finish a book, i understand those struggles too. but you’ve got a best seller on the way, i just know it. reese is such a fantastic character! relatable, hilarious, strong --- and the story you’ve constructed, the world you’ve built up around her, is one of the coolest i have ever heard of. when i was first scrolling through your pages, i just told myself: holy shit this so cool what the fuck. i am so proud of everything you’ve accomplished on this blog and as far as your books go. you fucking rock!

♡ whydragons is my favorite dungeons & dragons based character of all time. i like patrck better than i like a good chunk of my own ocs. he’s always true to who he is, he’s such a good person that it makes us root for him to overcome the bad things, even though he’s an asshole the whole time. it is absolutely no surprise that you’re on this list. grump has managed to bring this character to life in a way that only a theater kid could, i think. he’s currently in multiple d&d sessions i’m running and i couldn’t be happier to get to have him around.

this list is by no means a list of all the oc’s that i love. these are just a handful of my particularly noteworthy mutuals. if you’re interested in some other really cool oc’s i happen to know about, maybe check out: acrimoniious / brumouus / bloodoathed / jungleruler / liimerances / magicmirrored / oftheatrics / peristcra / triumphbred / veinstate / youthdumb ! they’re just as awesome and cool and unique and talented as the oc’s i’ve already listed off. some of them are multis, which again just means there’s even more oc’s to cherish and enjoy! to my fellow oc writers: i hope you get the attention and love you deserve every single day. you have more than earned it and i’m so proud of all the work you put in. you’ve created something incredible, you’ve created something beautiful, you’ve created something. that takes guts, it takes skill, it takes time and effort, it takes a lot out of you. i see you. i see your work. and i love and appreciate all of it.

#❝ ░ witch mom speaking / ooc.#❝ ░ i love you more than free wifi / blog recs.#long post /#i love you all so much !

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ao3feed-snape · 7 years

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Returning Home, Finding the Chamber

read it on AO3 at http://ift.tt/2p9a1w3

by Trucbiduleschouettes

After surviving their first year at Hogwarts, Harry and Rohini are once again facing troubles during their second year due to the opening of the mysterious Chamber of Secrets and the release of a dangerous monster that targets Muggleborns.

Words: 2690, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Harry Potter, Rohini Potter (OC), Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Padma Patil, Hogwarts Staff, Hogwarts Students, The Dursleys, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Rubeus Hagrid, Dobby (Harry Potter), Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, etc etc, Ginny Weasley, The Weasleys

Additional Tags: OC, Harry Has a Twin, Family Feels, Original Character(s), Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, POC!Harry, POC!James Potter, POC!OC, Ravenclaw!OC, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2p9a1w3

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Severus Snape #Snape #Professor Snape #SS

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screwpinecaprice · 1 year

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Ah I forgot I made this last October. Patreon request for connverse family photo (with middle-aged Connie and Steven and adult kiddos) requested by Connversin!

Ebony and Sakura(?)'s faces (the two above Lion) didn't turn out the way that I wanted to look, but overall with my record, not bad for something I drew under three hours. lol

#Granted I don't really draw much connverse kids (even to this day).#So I didn't really have any practice drawing the kids. Just all imagination #connverse #connverse kid #Listen. I do imagine Steven having a beard when he's older #But like. I don't know how to draw that. RIP #Can you just imagine the beard for me? ;-;#but yeah. Wow multiple characters under three hours :D #(the next time I attempted multiple characters in an image though. it took me multiple days. lmao)#Gold TL #They are taking a photo in the middle of Autumn but I butchered the background and just gave up and blurred it so hard.#Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #Ebony OC #Rohini OC #Zachary OC #Sakura OC #(Zachary and Sakura's names might be changed)#Lion SU #my shiz #skedoobles #patreon #September patreon request #Gah also don't have any idea with drawing older people #but if they looked younger than their age can I just chalk it up to Steven's healing powers?#OC

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scootoaster · 4 years

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How to handle a pepper spray attack

Pepper spray packs a serious punch. ( Spenser / Unsplash/)

If you’ve ever accidentally touched your eyes after handling slices of jalapeño, you know the deep, searing pain that quickly follows. Now imagine that but 200 times worse. That’s what it’s like to be pepper-sprayed.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Pepper spray, along with tear gas, is one of the most common weapons in police departments’ crowd control arsenals. It was frequently used against protesters during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, and it’s in the news once again as law enforcement across the country respond to the demonstrations against racism and police brutality sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.

If the jalapeño example didn’t do it for you, we’ll come right out and say it: Pepper spray is something you really don’t want on your face. This compound is much harder to clean off than tear gas, making its effects more aggressive and long-lasting. And because hotter sprays make better products, their formulations are proprietary—manufacturers don’t want you to know what’s in them.

But what we do know about pepper spray can help you understand what to do if you’re exposed and what you and your fellow protesters must do to significantly reduce pain and discomfort.

Pepper spray 101

If you’ve heard this stuff referred to as “OC spray,” that’s because its active ingredient is oleoresin capsicum. This natural oily extract comes from pepper plants and it’s also likely used to make your favorite hot sauce.

How hot—and therefore, how painful—a spray is varies depending on the concentration of compounds called capsaicinoids. Depending on the plant the extract came from, this percentage can fall anywhere between 1.2 and 12.6 percent. Higher concentrations will provoke a faster inflammatory response than less-aggressive sprays.

Hotness is also measured with the Scoville heat scale, which is used to assess the spiciness of peppers used in food. Jalapeño peppers have between 2,500 and 10,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), while most law enforcement pepper sprays have up to 2 million. Some brands go as high as 5.3 million SHU.

In turn, how long a spray’s effects last depends on the amount of OC in its composition. In personal pepper sprays—the ones you can find in stores or online—OC concentration can be as high as 3 percent, while the maximum percentage in bear spray can’t exceed 2 percent, per federal law. The canisters police use can be up to 10 percent OC, though there have been reports of sprays reaching 30 percent.

You were pepper-sprayed: now what?

Most of the time, pepper spray is not used to control a crowd, but to deter or incapacitate a person in a one-on-one situation. The weapon’s sole purpose is to stop an attacker by inducing an almost-immediate burning sensation on their skin and in their eyes, nose, and mouth.

It’s similar to how you may feel when you’re chopping onions—your eyes immediately become irritated and you start to tear up. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to actually touch your eyes after slicing up a hot pepper, you’ve probably experienced another common pepper spray reaction—a blepharospasm.

That’s when your eyes shut tight and you have no control over your eyelids, so you can’t open them up. This is an automatic bodily response that aims to protect your eyes from whatever is irritating them, but it’s a bit counterintuitive—your eyes produce tears to wash away the irritant, so not being able to blink makes it harder to flush out. And that’s not the only problem.

“You can't keep your eyes open, which often causes disorientation and agitation,” says Rohini Haar, an emergency physician and a research fellow at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wearing tight swimming goggles or even big ski goggles may help protect your eyes, but recent videos from the protests against police brutality show law enforcement getting really close to demonstrators. Some officers have even pulled down protective equipment such as face masks or glasses before they spray. If this happens to you, goggles may not help, but they might redirect some of the spray or give you an extra second to duck.

Even if the spray doesn’t go directly into your nose and mouth, the agitation will make you breathe harder. This will make you inhale the spray, spreading the irritation and burning sensation into your airways and lungs. You will start to cough and your nose and mouth will produce extra saliva and mucus as your body tries to get rid of the OC. This might trigger a suffocating feeling that can lead to panic.

“The whole point is to get people to disperse,” says Harr. “But getting pepper sprayed has never caused people to calmly and safely disperse.”

Because OC spray is an oil, it’s hard to wash off and its effects last longer. The best way to eliminate it is to wash the area thoroughly with soap and water. Baby shampoo is a less-irritating alternative, says Harr. Milk has also been reported to help with symptoms, but there’s no scientific evidence to back this up. Also, oil repels milk, so dumping dairy on your face won’t help get OC spray off your skin.

If you ever get sprayed, first find help from somebody who can be your eyes and then immediately move somewhere safe where you can wash your face. Afterward, stay in an open space and wait it out—the air will help you recover. Psychologically speaking, having a particular goal or task in mind has been proven to help people fight through the effects of pepper spray despite the discomfort. Just keep thinking about the next step you need to take—to find water or get to a quieter place—and focus on that.

Sadly, once your skin, eyes, and airways are irritated, there’s not much you can do about it. Soap, fresh air, and even commercially available pepper spray relief will help prevent further contamination but won’t soothe your pain. Ingesting pepper spray affects your body differently, but you’ve still got to wait out the effects.

Rohini says she’s had to treat pepper spray victims in the ER. Those who were sprayed directly in the mouth experienced severe gastrointestinal distress, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain that lasted hours—sometimes days. Unfortunately, there’s not much doctors can do to stop the source of those problems, she says.

“I could give you something for your nausea and something for your pain, and some fluids,” she says. “But it's just to treat your symptoms. You can't fix that irritation.”

It might be hard not to scream while you’re being pepper-sprayed, but you should try to keep your mouth closed as much as you can to prevent ingestion. The less OC there is in your digestive system, the better.

No matter where the spray hits you, seek medical attention if any symptoms last for more than 45 minutes or if you find the situation is unbearable even before that time.

The biggest problem with pepper spray

Along with pepper spray, batons, rubber bullets, and tear gas are part of the crowd control arsenals of police departments across the country. (Joseph Ngabo / Unsplash/)

Much of what we don’t know about pepper spray and its effects on the human body stems from the fact that we don’t know exactly what’s in the canisters. Yes, capsicum is the active ingredient, but it’s only one of many elements that make up the sprays police use today. Depending on the brand, the pepper extract may be mixed with water, alcohol, or organic solvents like ethyl alcohol, according to a 1999 review in the North Carolina Medical Journal. Other elements, such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide, could also be present and used as spray propellants.

Unfortunately, accurate information about the OC concentration or other ingredients is rarely available on the label. This has made it difficult for scientists to analyze pepper spray and identify more severe consequences behind the immediate effects of the spray. On top of that, there’s another problem—OC spray formulations may differ a lot from brand to brand.

“Because there's no regulation around any of this, there's a ton of different companies both in the US and abroad that sell to US police forces,” Haar says of law enforcement pepper spray. “Everybody has their own contract and their own concentration, and there's no standard form.”

It’s the same with how pepper spray is used. With no regulation and little public research that considers specific compositions from specific brands, it’s hard for any organization to create universal rules that guarantee the safety of the public.

In 2019, the United Nations published universal guidelines for the use of less-lethal weapons in law enforcement, which included crowd control measures such as tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets in addition to pepper spray. The document says that OC spray should only be used against a “violent assailant” or “to help effect the lawful arrest of a suspect who is resisting violently.” It also says the proper use of pepper spray includes aiming directly at the attacker “from a distance of up to several meters,” and that the user should have “sufficient toxicological information [...] to confirm that [the spray] will not cause any unwarranted health problems.”

As press reports have shown, police officers in the US have bluntly disregarded these guidelines. That’s because these UN principles have little effective force, making them nothing more than recommendations.

"There's no obligation for police forces to abide by these guidelines, and none of it has been ratified into our federal or state laws,” says Harr.

Pepper spray is no joke. Unlike tear gas, discomfort and after-exposure effects can last for days. It will certainly take you out of a protest or demonstration, and if you have any underlying respiratory or cardiovascular conditions, it may trigger more severe reactions with horrific repercussions.

When you hit the streets, all you can do is manage the variables that are in your control. Wearing tight swimming goggles will protect your eyes from both pepper spray and tear gas, and cooperating with law enforcement may de-escalate the situation. You may get sprayed anyway—it’s not always up to you.

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dvarapala · 8 months

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all the characters, everywhere // @pearloftheorient

🎁 for characters that i have written in the past 🎉 for characters that i want to write someday

ava zimmer / gretel from once upon a time because i loved her. i loved all she could be, if given the chance. canon fucked her and her brother up beyond recognition and then killed them off in s7 and i will always be pissed. anyways, in s1 she was a tiny blonde ball of rage and sass, desperately trying to protect her brother and find her father. i don't think my take on her was very popular because she was angry at everybody from emma for not putting her foot down with regina to regina for all the heinous crimes to rumple for every shitty thing he's ever done to people and she just point blank refused to forgive regina and rumple and did her best in her own - albeit misguided - way to keep emma accountable. it didn't exactly work out and i eventually lost the muse.

rohini shankar-persaud from the daayani chronicles at @daayaan. my first ever oc. she was inspired by the fast and the furious and my unironic love for those movies: just swap out the cars for broomsticks and i also wanted someone who loved pink stuff and make up and was unapologetically girly but also very strong magically. unfortunately i lost muse for her too but i still love her very much.

#pearloftheorient #outofdoors #queue.

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enchanted-moura · 1 year

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When Claire said you create out of your Ketu and mine is Rohini, making a Rohini OC makes so much sense 💗

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gordonwilliamsweb · 4 years

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Police Using Rubber Bullets On Protesters That Can Kill, Blind Or Maim For Life

In cities across the country, police departments have attempted to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing rubber bullets into crowds, even though five decades of evidence shows such weapons can disable, disfigure and even kill.

In addition to rubber bullets — which often have a metal core — police have used tear gas, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray gas and projectiles to control crowds of demonstrators demanding justice for 46-year-old George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck, while other officers restrained his body. Some peaceful demonstrations have turned violent, with people smashing windows, setting buildings afire and looting stores.

The use by police of rubber bullets has provoked outrage, as graphic images have flashed on social media showing people who have lost an eye or suffered other injuries after being hit.

I just got hit by a rubber bullet near the bottom of my throat. I had just interviewed a man with my phone at 3rd and Pine and a police officer aimed and shot me in the throat, I saw the bullet bounce onto the street @LAist @kpcc OK, that’s one way to stop me, for a while pic.twitter.com/9C2u5KmscG

— Adolfo Guzman-Lopez (@AGuzmanLopez) June 1, 2020

A study published in 2017 in the BMJ found that 3% of people hit by rubber bullets died of the injury. Fifteen percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured by the rubber bullets, also known as “kinetic impact projectiles.”

Rubber bullets should be used only to control “an extremely dangerous crowd,” said Brian Higgins, the former police chief of Bergen County, New Jersey.

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“Shooting them into open crowds is reckless and dangerous,” said Dr. Douglas Lazzaro, a professor and expert in eye trauma at NYU Langone Health.

In the past week, a grandmother in La Mesa, California, was hospitalized in an intensive care unit after being hit between the eyes with a rubber bullet. Actor Kendrick Sampson said he was hit by rubber bullets seven times at a Los Angeles protest.

In Washington, D.C., the National Guard allegedly fired rubber bullets Monday to disperse peaceful protesters near a historic church where President Donald Trump was subsequently photographed.

In a statement, Attorney General William Barr defended the actions of local and federal law enforcement officers in Washington, saying they had “made significant progress in restoring order to the nation’s capital.”

Barr did not mention the use of tear gas or rubber bullets.

In case you are wondering, this is the size of a rubber bullet. I saw these all over the ground in LA. pic.twitter.com/hbHX33WBIO

— Tamara Dhia (@tamaradhia) June 1, 2020

Freelance photographer Linda Tirado said she was blinded by a rubber bullet at a protest in Minneapolis.

In an email, Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson John Elder said, “We use 40 mm less-lethal foam marking rounds. We do not use rubber bullets.”

Elder didn’t mention the brand name of the foam marking rounds used by Minneapolis police. But a website for the “Direct Impact 40 mm OC Crushable Foam Round” depicts a green, bullet-shaped product described as a “point-of-aim, point-of-impact direct-fire round.” The site says the projectiles are “an excellent solution whether you need to incapacitate a single subject or control a crowd.”

No one knows how often police use rubber bullets, or how many people are harmed every year, said Dr. Rohini Haar, a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health and medical expert with Physicians for Human Rights. Many victims don’t go to the hospital.

Police are not required to document their use of rubber bullets, so there is no national data to show how often they’re used, said Higgins, now an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. There are no nationally agreed-upon standards for their use.

When aimed at the legs, rubber bullets can stop a dangerous person or crowd from getting closer to a police officer, Lazzaro said.

But when fired at close range, rubber bullets can penetrate the skin, break bones, fracture the skull and explode the eyeball, he said. Rubber bullets can cause traumatic brain injuries and “serious abdominal injury, including injuries to the spleen and bowel along with major blood vessels,” said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician in New York City and a spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Firing rubber bullets from a distance decreases both their force and their accuracy, increasing the risk of shooting people in the face or hitting bystanders, Lazzaro said.

Physicians for Human Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group based in New York, has called for rubber bullets to be banned.

The British military developed rubber bullets 50 years ago to control nationalist rioters in Northern Ireland, although the United Kingdom stopped using them decades ago. Rubber bullets are used by Israeli security forces against Palestinian demonstrators. French police were criticized for using rubber bullets last year after dozens of “yellow jacket” demonstrators were blinded and hundreds were injured.

“Rubber bullets are used almost every day somewhere in the world,” Haar said. “Using them against unarmed civilians is a huge violation of human rights.”

Many “less than lethal” police weapons can cause serious harm, according to Physicians for Human Rights.

Acoustic weapons, such as sound cannons that make painfully loud noises, can damage hearing.

Tear gas can make it difficult to see and breathe.

Pepper spray, while painful and irritating, doesn’t cause permanent damage, Lazzaro said.

Pepper spray balls, which have been used to quell recent protests, can be deadly when used incorrectly. In 2004, a 21-year-old Boston woman was hit in the eye and killed by a pepper spray pellet fired by police to disperse crowds celebrating the city’s World Series win.

Disorientation devices that create loud noises and bright lights, known as concussion grenade or flash-bangs, can cause severe burns and blast injuries, including damage to the ear drum. Panicked crowds can cause crush injuries.

Water cannons can cause internal injuries, falls and even frostbite during cold weather.

Physical force, such as hitting someone to subdue them, causes about 1 in 3 people to be hospitalized, said Dr. Howie Mell, a spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians and former tactical physician, who worked with SWAT teams.

Rubber bullets are less harmful than subduing people by “physical force or regular bullets, Mell said. “But we’re firing a lot more of them this week than we usually do.”

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stephenmccull · 4 years