i love and value all nonhumans deeply, but i just wanted to say that if you identify as nonhuman specifically due to psychosis & delusions: i love you so much. it doesn’t make your nonhuman identity any less valid if it comes from delusions, psychotic episodes, or other features of your psychotic disorder. whether it comes and goes when symptoms flare and go into remission, or whether it’s a constant, or somewhere in between or outside of that, you are loved. if your spirituality and religious beliefs also become involved, i love you.
psychosis will never make any part of your identity less valid. you are not incapable of knowing who you are because you are psychotic. delusional people are still allowed to define themselves in what terms make sense to them, and are allowed to be their own advocate and narrator. especially if that psychotic person identifies as nonhuman, that doesn’t mean you should take that person any less serious. it is just a feature of some of our personalities due to our neurotypes, and it’s alright. it’s fine. it’s normal.
whether you experience clinical lycanthropy or not, if your nonhuman identity is tied to your psychosis, i love you. take care of yourself, nonhumanity is a beautiful way to experience life. it’s okay to be who you are
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this
Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in
Lion King (1994) explaining the importance of stylized 2D animation: Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019):
Kimba The White Lion (1965) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Lion King (1994) Lion King (2019) Cats (2019)
Shakespeare (1564) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1160 – c. 1220) explaining the importance of understanding that all creative work is inherently derivative once you study the oral tradition of storytelling and history and that’s okay because generations have always reformatted tropes and themes to make them relatable to their current audiences
Shakespeare (1564), Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
thinking abt an oc dating sim where your actions dont just effect one character it changes all of them. brainrotting
going for lubelle gets cain on your ass. he stalks and tries to hurt you worse and worse abd more prominently the longer you try to romance her. going for andy causes nick to stay as far away as possible from you, he absolutely refuses to speak to you and if you want to speak to him for whatever reason (event, etc) you have to convince him to like you. ricky gets jealous also going for ricky ups your chances at having a really bad encounter in the facility. the longer you’re around, the more his coworkers hear of you, the higher your chances you’ll encounter doc are. you need to outwit him or something really bad will happen.
just stuff like rhis…. aaaaah its so cool im thinking so hard
This year’s tornado season prediction for the united states is looking quite grim, so I decided to make this lil tornado safety post.
Difference between Warning and Watch
First you need to know the different between a tornado warning and a tornado watch.
A tornado watch means there is a potential risk for tornadoes.
A tornado warning means that server weather as bean spotted.
The real one you know to get going for is the tornado emergency which means that there is truly something heading your way. However you should respond to all of these appropriately, and if one is issued keep watch for the weather.
What to look out for
The calm before the storm is a real thing. The wind may die down, and the air become still. Everything might fall silent for a moment
The sky is turning dark really fast, or green, or both.
A roar similar to that of a distant freight train. Tornado’s sound like freight trains.
Fast moving and rotating clouds, especially if they’re making a funnel shape
Obviously tornado watches escalating for tornado warnings
What to do
Let’s say the tornado warning is now issued, and eventually a tornado is coming your way. What do you do? Well the situation depends on how immediate the danger is, and what your circumstances are.
First let’s start with the “average” American advice. Go to the lowest level of your home, and hopefully a basement or storm shelter.
Now if that isn’t an available option, there’s no need to fear or panic. The lowest level of your home is advised. Try an small enclosed room, with low to minimum windows, such as a bathroom, closet, or center hallway.
If you are in a mobile home GET OUT OF THERE.
WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES HAVE THESE, WHEN THEY’RE OVERPRICED ANYWAY, DEATH TRAPS, AND ITS THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST TORNADO RATES.
Let’s say there’s nowhere to go.
Go to a safe available nearby building, especially if it has a basement. However if that is still not an option lie in the nearest ditch (I know it sounds crazy but it works) and shield your head/neck with your hands
If taking shelter in a home, make sure everyone is with you. That can include pets, but if you’re in a super emergency situation it is better to leave them and get to shelter as quick as possible.
If you can get low and shield head, or body with a mattress, blanket, etc.
Natural Disaster Safety
Doesn’t matter where you live, you should probably have an emergency kit, especially one attuned to the climate of your area. This doubles if you’re in a natural disaster prone area.
Many of those in the United States have learned lately what the consequences of not having the proper equipment on hand are.
So what should you have for a tornado?
Battery Powered Radio
Flashlight
Extra Batteries
First Aid Kit
Water & Canned Food
Emergency things tailored to people of household (medical problems, etc)
If you live in a cold region also have cold safety materials too
What NOT to do & Extra
Don’t disregard the watches, and especially the warnings. They are there for a reason, and you should really keep an eye out. You might even want to head to shelter anyway if the wind is crazy strong.
Don’t stand near windows, or be that classic midwesterner who is on their porch getting a good shot of that swirly cloud of death. I know its fun…but its not safe.
If the situation is an absolute emergency don’t take time to grab your valuable. Its devastating to lose them, I’ve been there, but you can replace most tiny things and not a life.
Make sure any invalid family members have their own viable tornado plan. My grandma lives in a tornado prone area, and the plan has completely changed since she’s been confined to a walker. Make sure your family members like that have a plan.
Being in a car during a tornado is not safe at all. Drive to nearest shelter, or get out and hop in that ditch.
If the tornado looks like its standing still, it’s not. That shit is heading towards you.
Always be sure to remember to cover your head, or help shield your children.
Myth Busting
Overpasses are not safe shelter for when you’re in a car. It’s a myth, take that ditch instead if need be, or drive to a shelter.
Hiding under your car is dangerous. Tornados can drop on your car, either crushing you or sucking you up into the air along with your vehicle
Cars cannot outrun tornados
Don’t open your windows. It’s not going to stop the tornado from blowing your house over, instead it may even help it. It will allow for debris to enter your home easier, and cause the wind to be able to tear your house apart from the inside out.
Aftermath
It’s hit now, maybe your house was safe or not. Keep track of watches still, tornados can return, or could be apart of a tornado outbreak, meaning a second or even third tornado can hit the area.
Assume all downed lines are active and dangerous, try not to use the gas, electricity, and water til you’re sure its safe.
If you’re not home return home once it’s deemed safe
Keep aware of damaged buildings, glass, debris, etc.
If you want to and have the chance help your fellow man, lost animal, and etc. Checking on people is a kind and lifesaving thing to do, as well as securing people’s pets.
All of this from a person who lived in a tornado prone area growing up, to you.
The car advice is slightly dated, cars absolutely *can* outrun most tornadoes. More recent advice per NOAA is to get the fuck outta there as long as the tornado is far enough away and it’s safe to do so. Ditches are an absolute last last last resort.
this is a great post, but the descriptions for warnings & watches is irking me. There are a few variants of Tornado Warnings which can provide you more context on the situation at a glance. Remember though that every Tornado Warning is serious, and you should always act to protect your life even if you believe you are safe.
I’ll go through some variants so you know what they all mean.
RADAR INDICATED: 80% of warnings are of this variant. This simply means that the storm has enough rotation to drop a tornado at any second, if it hasn’t already. DO NOT IGNORE THESE! Brief spin up tornadoes can spawn from any warned storm and can spawn, cause loss of life or property, and disappear within 20 seconds.
OBSERVED: Sometimes Tornadic supercells are observed with funnel clouds by law enforcement or trained spotters. This is more common with long-track tornadoes, but a tornadic storm can have the “observed” tag without actively having a tornado on the ground.
PDS WARNING: PDS stands for “Particularly Dangerous Situation”, and is typically issued when there is a violent tornadic storm traveling through populated areas, or after dark.
If you are on the road or at home and a Tornado Warning is issued at night, FIND SHELTER. You will not be able to see a tornado coming at night, and while trying to escape you may unknowingly enter its path or become stranded by road conditions.
TORNADO EMERGENCY: Since being coined during the May 3, 1999 outbreak, Tornado Emergencies have been issued only a handful of times in the last 20 years. The NWS Issues these in events of expected catastrophic losses to life and property in highly populated areas. You never want to hear this issued for your city, but if you do, GET BELOW GROUND, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. Interior rooms or closet will not save you, you must be below ground. If you think the roads won’t be congested and you can flee, take it. Tornadoes associated with these warnings can grow to over a Mile Wide, so only consider fleeing by car if it’s over 10 minutes away from you.
How to Obtain Information In a Tornado Warning
OUTDOOR WARNING SIRENS ARE NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE AND SOME MUNICIPALITIES DO NOT HAVE THEM. DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON OUTDOOR WARNING SIRENS TO TELL IF YOU ARE IN A TORNADO WARNING.
One of the best things you can have in your arsenal to prepare for severe weather season is a fast and reliable way to access information.
-If you have Cable, that could mean knowing which channel your local news is on, or if you don’t have cable knowing if they stream on their website in severe weather situations.
-Following your local NWS on twitter to see warning polygons that indicate the impacted area.
-Having a reliable Radar Application on your phone like RadarOmega can allow you to see the storm, the warning polygon, and your exact location relative to the storm. RadarOmega in particular is extremely powerful and puts a lot of information at your fingertips, so if you buy it spend some time getting to know the ins-and-outs of how it works.
Finally, everyone in Tornado/Dixie alley should own a SAME compatible radio, like a Midland WR-120. This specific radio gives you warnings specific to your area as soon as they are issued, and is loud enough to wake you even if it’s in another room.
to let ppl know in case anyone was wondering: just because this poll currently has a large amount of votes for jewish doesnt mean the jewish population on tumblr or in person is large at all. in person jews make up 0.2% of the world, on tumblr idk but still a minority.
the votes on this poll is affected by OPs followers and the people who reblog this a lot :)
so just dont treat this like a census and act like the jews are taking over. also just to be clear I think this poll is nice and OP is hopefully having funsies I just like clarifying things sometimes. if OP wants me to delete this bc I misunderstood the intention of this poll then that’s cool with me
The Jews and Non-religious are close.
I wonder who will win 🤔
Maybe it’s going to be some completely other group?
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
To all the people asking what to do with the people who “can’t be rehabilitated”, just put them in a closed type facility and then don’t let them out.
We only need to restrict a serial killer’s civil and human rights to the degree required to stop them from continuing to kill people, any further is just punishment.
We should not allow the government to punish people (up to and including the use of death) only to rehabilitate and if that isn’t possible then contain them.
Human rights aren’t “good guy rights” or “the people I like rights” and should only be restricted with the goal of protecting other peoples human rights (like the right to live, which may be protected by containing the serial killer or in some other way preventing them from killing).
The Justice system, even if it was magically significantly improved, would still make mistakes, and even if some Horrible Crime truly deserves punishment, allowing even a single innocent to receive said punishment is unacceptable.
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY VIOLENTLY STORMED AND SHUT DOWN BY NYPD
📹 Scenes from the violent dispersal of Colombia University protests after police stormed “Hind Hall”, named by students in memory of 6-year-old Hind Rajab who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces along with two paramedics in the Gaza Strip.
Protesters are violently assaulted and arrested by NYPD, among the most notoriously violent police in the country.
News reports meanwhile claim no tear gas was used in the raid, and say no one was injured in the assaults, video evidence to the contrary.
Big Horses are a Very New Thing and they Likely Didn’t Exist in your Historical and/or Fantasy Settings.
You’ve all seen it in every historical piece of media ever produced. Contrary to popular belief, a big black horse with long legs and long flowing mane is not a widespread or even a particularly old type of horse.
THIS IS NOT A MEDIEVAL THING. THIS IS NOT EVEN A BAROQUE THING. THIS IS A NINETEENTH CENTURY CITY CARRIAGE HORSE.
All the love to fancy Friesian horses, but your Roman general or Medieval country heroine just really couldn’t, wouldn’t, and for the sake of my mental health shouldn’t have ridden one either.
Big warmblood horses are a Western European and British invention that started popping up somewhere around 1700s when agriculture and warfare changed, and when rich folks wanted Bigger Faster Stronger Thinner race horses. The modern warmblood and the big continental draught both had their first real rise to fame in the 1800s when people started driving Fancy Carriages everywhere, and having the Fanciest Carriage started to mean having the Tallest and Thinnest Horses in the town.
Before mechanised weaponry and heavy artillery all horses used to be small and hardy easy-feeders. Kinda like a donkey but easier to steer and with a back that’s not as nasty and straight to sit on.
SOME REAL MEDIEVAL, ROMAN, OTTOMAN, MONGOL, VIKING, GREEK and WHATEVER HISTORICALLY PLAUSIBLE HORSES FOR YOU:
“Primitive”, native breeds all over the globe tend to be only roughly 120-140 cm (12.0 - 13.3 hh) tall at the withers. They all also look a little something like this:
Mongolian native horse (Around 120-130 at the withers, and decendants of the first ever domesticated horses from central Asia. Still virtually unchanged from Chinggis Khan’s cavalry, ancestor to many Chinese, Japanese and Indian horses, and bred for speed racing and surviving outdoors without the help of humans.)
Carpathian native horse / Romanian and Polish Hucul Pony (Around 120-150 at the withers, first mentioned in writing during the 400s as wild mountain ponies, depicted before that in Trajanian Roman sculptures, used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry in the 19th century)
Middle-Eastern native horse / Caspian Pony (Around 100-130 at the withers, ancestor of the Iranian Asil horse and its decendants, including the famous Arabian and Barb horses, likely been around since Darius I the Great, 5th century BC, and old Persian kings are often depicted riding these midgets)
Baltic Sea native horse / Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Gotland and Nordland horses (Around 120-150 at the withers, descendant of Mongolian horses, used by viking traders in 700-900 AD and taken to Iceland. Later used by the Swedish cavalry in the 30 years war and by the Finnish army in the Second World War, nowadays harness racing and draught horses)
Siberian native horse / Yakutian pony (Around 120-140 at the withers, related to Baltic and Mongolian horses and at least as old, as well-adapted to Siberian climate as woolly mammoths once were, the hairiest horse there is, used in draught work and herding)
Mediterranean native horse / Skyros pony, Sardinian Giara, Monterufolino (Around 100-140 at the Withers, used and bred by ancient Greeks for cavalry use, influenced by African and Eastern breeds, further had its own influence on Celtic breeds via Roman Empire, still used by park ranger officers in Italy)
British Isles’ native horse / various “Mountain & Moorland” pony breeds (Around 100-150 at the withers, brought over and mixed by Celts, Romans and Vikings, base for almost every modern sport pony and the deserving main pony of all your British Medieval settings. Some populations still live as feral herds in the British countryside, used as war mounts, draught horses, mine pit ponies, hunting help and race horses)
So hey, now you know!
I love this so much - and now I know why Tall Lanky Thin horses have a terryfying vibe to them, and the “primitive” native pony-like breeds awake in me only hope and trust.
This is the kind of thing that magic spells are made from. A golden string of fire, plucked from the sea at dawn.
And it makes me think of how difficult these must be to gather; you’d have to plan and wait and hope the conditions are just right. What if there’s too much fog? You’ll have to come back another day, and who knows if the spell can wait that long?
But what if the invention of photography changed all that?
Just imagine some witch wasting flower after flower on a spell without being able to get it right, with each one withering to uselessness after a single try. She finally runs out of flowers. Then she looks at the newfangled Polaroid that her nonmagical family gave her, and she wonders.
Five minutes later she has a photo of a rose from her neighbor’s garden. Six minutes later she has a functioning spell. Seven minutes later she realizes the photo has crumpled, but the rose outside hasn’t.
This is the beginning of a new era of magic use. Just imagine the possibilities.
#omg #what would video footage do then #what if you had a recording of a surgery #and you needed bloodshed for your dark magic #would that work #blood is shed #there is definitely ritual in surgery #specialized tools and stuff #could you sacrifice a dvd with a training recording of surgery on it to summon a demon
Only one way to find out! I’ll bet that demon arrives very confused.
oh shit he ate the whole thing . he just like me frfr
spiderman just left the pizza box on the roof but then came back a minute later and clearly felt bad for littering so now hes swinging through downtown holding an empty pizza box
hes hit a street light
he’s swinging away now clearly very embarrassed and he thinks nobody saw it. i saw you spiderman
This is an adorable young hognose snake exhibiting natural behavior. They’re not the smartest snakes in the world, and they’ll happily spend all day exploring the same place over and over if you let them. Mine loves to weave between my fingers like this.
Most parents I think worry or wonder when their kid might finally start repeating swear words they hear. The tale of my initiation into the world of cursing was the subject of family lore however.
First, to set the scene, my nana spent a lot of time with me when I was young. She lived with us briefly and I firmly cemented my place as number one favorite grandchild by climbing up into her attic room to cuddle on the regular.
She’d take me on errands and watch me when my parents were at work. She even once lured me away when she ran into my dad watching me as a store. She didn’t think he was keeping a close enough eye and called me over to her a few aisles away.
I happily complied since I loved and recognized her then we watched my dad for several minutes before he finally looked down, saw me missing, and panicked. “That’ll teach you to keep a better eye on her!” My nana scolded him, convinced that every babynapper was slavering for her precious redheaded grandbaby.
So one day my mom had me in the car. We were driving along and from my back seat I chirped, “Can we play pretend?”
My mom smiled, imagining I’d start narrating some silly adventure or something. “Sure.”
“Shit shit SHITSHITSHIT!!!” I yelled at the top of my lungs.
My mom sat stunned in the front seat, baffled momentarily by the stream of cursing.
After careful questioning it was pretty obvious what had happened. My nana had sworn up a storm in front of me but didn’t want to come clean about it to my parents when I started repeating it. She’d instead invented a fun game and the rules were that I could only curse when we were playing a special game.
My mom was furious, and my nana got a sound dressing down both for the cursing but more importantly for the lying.
My favorite time telling this story though was to a girl in high school. She listened with wide eyes then asked, “Did your mom fire her?”
“What?”
“Your nana? Did she get fired?”
“My…. Grandmother? Did my mom fire my grandmother??”
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