#week 157

[roguecanoe]

Week 157: Some old Pokemon dudes.

[mewpet]

Mmm backlighting my beloved :3

[spncreatorsdaily]

Thank you so much @winchester-reload for giving us the chance to share your beautiful artwork this past week!

If you loved viewing their art & don’t want to miss anything in the future, please consider giving them a follow &/or tracking their art tag.

As a friendly reminder, if you would also like us to reblog your original work on Saturdays, please tag us at #spncreatorsdaily. 

Thank you for being supportive, & we hope everyone will have a relaxing weekend!

[dvmb-4ss]

Google show me this guy as a cat plz

what devious things are they planning. what deeds will they do.

[cirrus-grey]

“Do you mind if I sit?”

The man is thin, in an underfed sort of way. He doesn’t look that old, but his hair is streaked with grey, and there are lines of weariness around his eyes. There's something about him that reminds Martha of her late husband.

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While waiting for the nurse to call her into her routine surgical operation, Martha Sims meets a strange, vaguely familiar man.

[arytha]

ok so while i am truly enjoying chi yiyin's path to becoming god, the author's writing is. really really dense and i want to take a break u_u when did i start reading this...

[reallifepotato]

[thekingofchungus]

WHY IS THE TERRYS CHOCOLATE ORANGE OUT OF STOCK

[jewishdainix]

Dekker's ''May you find your rest where no shadows are casst and no eyes may see you slumber'' creeps me out so much

[weeklydoseoffeelgoodtunes]

July 29, 2023 (157)

Top 30

1. Dua Lipa- Dance The Night

2. OneRepublic- RUNAWAY

3. Tai Verdes- Sandman

4. FAST BOY & Topic- Forget You

5. grandson- Half My Heart

6. Corina Smith- como te va?

7. Ty Dolla $ign- Motion

8. Kylie Minogue- Padam Padam

9. Dream- Until I End Up Dead

10. Troye Sivan- Rush

11. Jubël & NLE Choppa- Triple A

12. Tiësto- All Nighter

13. Carin León- Primera Cita

14. almost monday- only wanna dance

15. Carly Rae Jepsen- Shy Boy

16. Latto & LU KALA- Lottery

17. Del Water Gap- All We Ever Do Is Talk

18. Tainy & Bad Bunny- MOJABI GHOST

19. MISSIO- Easy

20. Arlo Parks- Blades

21. Tyla Yaweh- SUMMER VIBES

22. ALEXSUCKS- 6 Pack & Cigarettes

23. Jung Kook & Latto- Seven

24. Post Malone- Chemical

25. Post Malone- Mourning **DEBUT**

26. Bebe Rexha & Snoop Dogg- Satellite

27. BIA- MILLIONS **DEBUT**

28. DARKOO & Ayra Starr- Disturbing U

29. Post Malone- Overdrive **DEBUT**

30. Paris, Texas- Everybody’s Safe Until… **DEBUT**

Close Calls

1. Marshmello & Tiago PZK- Como Yo :(

2. New Jeans- Super Shy

3. Leah Kate- Space

4. Sueco- Help Me

5. beabadoobee- the way things go

[ectogeranium]

hehe guess who’s going to urgent care tomorrowwww

….

it’s me

[bad-tf-fic-ideas]

(157) In a froth of rage following another ill advised attempted murder/coup d'etat, Megatron tosses Starscream out the Nemesis's airlock.

And then, two days later, he remembers he was keeping Starscream around because every other choice for second in command is somehow, improbably, much worse.

Three weeks later, he finally assigns a little squad of generic Decepticon grunts a mission to scour he enormous black void of space and find out where the hell Starscream has gone so he can come back and do his job, and this is where our story actually begins...

[spncreatorsdaily]

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If you would also like your own original creations featured on Saturdays, please tag us with #spncreatorsdaily.

We hope you’ll enjoy the lovely artwork that will be featured & have a great week!

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Submerged by flooding, Porto Alegre realizes it was unprepared: 'Everything has to be rebuilt'

Three weeks after being hit by one of the worst climate disasters in its history, which left at least 157 people dead, 88 missing and forced the evacuation of 540,000, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is still partly submerged.

After slipping on her rubber boots, Darcilla Melo Da Silva, 58, took a deep breath before she stepped through the metal gates of her house, guided by her husband, Admar, 68. The scene she had so feared to see for the past 12 days appeared before her eyes. The vegetable garden where she had planted cabbage and herbs to alleviate her severe health problems was buried under a layer of mud. The remains of a white hen lay among the tangled planks, next to her new washing machine, which had been swept into the garden by the current and had ended up crushed under a tree trunk.

The interior of her house, which took her 40 years to furnish, was even more desolate. A smell of rot was pervasive. Without any electricity, Da Silva had to discover the extent of the damage by the light from her husband's smartphone: holes in the roof, raised floor, overturned armchairs... "Everything has to be rebuilt," said the grandmother barely able to breathe.

The retired couple, who lived in the Cidade Baixa district in the west of Porto Alegre, were among the 540,188 people who were forced to evacuate their homes in early May when floodwaters engulfed two-thirds of the towns in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, a hilly area on the border with Argentina and Uruguay with a population of some 11 million.

Since April 27, torrential rains have battered the region, raising the level of the Guaiba, a body of water – considered as much a river, lake or estuary – that borders the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, by several meters. On May 6, the day Darcilla Melo Da Silva and Admar evacuated their home, the water level reached 5.3 meters: the most severe flooding since 1941, when the Guaiba had risen to a height of 4.76 meters.

"This extreme event is the result of global warming" aggravated by the El Niño phenomenon, said Francisco Aquino, climatologist and head of the geography department at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. As temperatures rise, "we expect them to become more frequent and intense."

Continue reading.

[cirrus-grey]

“Because- because you were right about me, you know? I’m not qualified to work here, I don’t know what I’m doing, and I never have! I lied on my CV when I applied here. I don’t have a master’s in parapsychology, I don’t even have a degree. I’ve been lying the entire time, and it finally caught up with me. Elias found out.”

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Elias tries to fire Martin. Jon objects.

[eternal-echoes]

“… can you imagine how many people do not exist today because an STD destroyed their would-be mother's fertility? While some sexually transmitted infections cause minor irritation and inconvenience, others have the capacity to alter the course of human history. This is no exaggeration. If an STD impairs a woman's fertility, and a single child does not come into being, neither will his children or grandchildren. In time, it creates a ripple that prevents the lives of dozens and even hundreds of other people.

Therefore, when a woman practices the virtue of chastity, she not only safeguards her own body. By protecting the treasure of her womb, her abstinence becomes an expression of maternal love that guards the existence of countless generations. If only the idea of purity were expressed to young girls in such a way, how much easier would it be for them to see the connection between love and chastity!

The world considers such logic silly. "Don't be so uptight. Just use protection." Those who promote the outdated concept of safe sex make two grave mistakes. First, they overestimate the effectiveness of the condom in preventing disease. In one study, scientists followed four hundred college girls for a period of about five years. During that time, 6o percent of the girls contracted HPV. The scientists noted, "Always using male condoms with a new partner was not protective."1 It's too bad that the scientists didn't inform the women about the limitations of the condom before they volunteered for the research.

Secondly, it's a dangerous exaggeration to call sex "safe" because a piece of latex is involved. Imagine if a young woman approached us in tears after a broken sexual relationship. Let's say she had given away her virginity and felt devastated upon seeing her ex-boyfriend flirting with other girls weeks after telling her that he "never felt this way about a girl before." Now imagine if we consoled her by saying, "Hey, cheer up. You're not pregnant. You didn't get an STD. You're safe!"

Safe? She's destroyed.

Promoting safe sex makes as much sense as telling a child to wear a helmet if he's going to play in traffic. Just as a helmet would only provide partial protection to part of the body, the condom only offers partial protection to the whole woman. In fact, the idea of safe sex is degrading because it reduces a woman to her genitals: As long as they're protected, she's safe. How about keeping the rest of her safe?

Some may object to such an idea, arguing, "C'mon. Nobody is saying the condom protects you from the emotional aspect of sexuality." But the problem is that nobody seems concerned about that. The culture has become so jaded that we spend billions of dollars handing out condoms without teaching people the difference between love and lust.”

-Jason and Crystalina Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

Rachel Winer et al., "Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection: Incidence and Risk Factors in a Cohort of Female University Students," American Journal of Epidemiology 157, no. 3 (2003): 218-26.