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we really need to recognise that aro/ace-coding and lesbian-coding can often be the same thing. they’re “female character not showing interest in anyone”. the aro/ace experience is not liking anyone, period. and the lesbian experience is not liking men, while often suppressing feelings for women. which both present in similar ways. point being, fighting about lesbian vs. aro/ace headcanons is unnecessary. both headcanons can be good and valid, and often work well together. and if you have a preferable headcanon over the other, you can still show respect towards the other one. women (including nb ppl) who are not attracted to men, need to support eachother in this bs patriarchal world.

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Something we have run into a couple of times is the idea that because a queer person was not also a good person, or made a well-known mistake, that we shouldn’t talk about them because they are “bad representation”.

So, let’s all take a moment to recognize that history does not exist to fulfill our needs. Queer people in history have never been perfect, and should not be expected to be to deserve to be recognized as queer. Queerness is not a synonym with moral purity and the idea that it should be, or that we shouldn’t talk about certain people at all if they don’t fit today’s moral standards is not constructive. Ignoring history because someone doesn’t think it’s nice and clean is the reason queer people are underrepresented in discussions around history in the first place. 

I understand wanting a perfect role model. I understand wanting happy stories that go how they “should”. But this is something we need to learn about history, more than just queerness: Human beings are complicated. Everyone has flaws and makes mistakes. Every villain has a good side. You have to be able to judge the sum of someone’s parts, not try to lump them to all one side or the other.

Traditionally, histories have served politics much more than the truth. History books have often been artfully arranged to tell a story that suits the people in power, a tale about only good people who did good and supported the system, with the bad guys carefully positioned as outliers everyone opposed. Churches only talk about their saints. Countries only talk about their heroes.

Queer history is trying to do two things at the same time: It’s trying to uncover our history, and it’s trying to tell the truth about it. We’re very deliberately not airbrushing them out of the picture. This is the same kind of history that reveals that the glorious battle led by a noble leader was actually a brutal slaughter in an unjust war, and that the virtuous charity led by a kindhearted saint was actually an act of genocide.

It sucks to get the non-airbrushed, non-storybook version of history, if you’re used to histories where Christopher Columbus was an amazing discoverer and George Washington never told a lie and the Roman Empire was the height of civilization. Everything is suddenly so complicated and murky and depressing, and you wanted heroes and saints!

(I still want heroes and saints, but might have to get there by reconsidering a lot of hagiographies and changing the plaques on statues)

But if you take that lens and turn it on the rest of histories, you’ll start seeing that they’re not so bright and noble either. Nobility and goodness turn into much more complicated and elusive issues, and you might have to fight the people in power to achieve them.

Also, if we only ever talk about historical queer people who were shining examples of perfection who never did anything that would be considered bad in their time or ours, then it creates a pressure for living queer people to also be flawless, never make mistakes, never have a wrong opinion, etc.

And also, if we don’t talk about the toxic, abusive, and criminal people in our own community in the past, we won’t have the tools necessary to spot and deal with them in the present and future. There’s a strong thread of historical revisionism that says LGBTQ+ people are inherently good, inherently pure, inherently nonabusive. Domestic violence and rape and child abuse and sexual harassment are cis/hetero/patriarchal problems! They won’t occur HERE!

It leaves survivors feeling like they’re the first person to have ever experienced such a thing, like naming these problems is something only our enemies do. It leaves bystanders confused, unable to spot problems of abuse or react appropriately. It hinders the growth of our children and youth, who need to learn about what power they have and how to use it responsibly.

And it lets abusers get away with it.

So, yanno. It’s important.

One of the griefs and joys of history is finding that everyone in the past was human. The same people who are capable of unbelievable grace are capable of being monsters, and almost everyone* falls somewhere between. That’s why I loved this take on Fred Rogers (which I took pains over about fifteen minutes wrestling with Google’s abysmal algorithms “Here’s the top result for our favorite of your search terms; we excluded four of them because we didn’t feel like it”) only to find has now been placed behind a paywall since it’s technically archived). He wasn’t faking it - he really did care that much about people - and nonetheless, he helped put down a labor strike and critiqued factory unions. He was a genuinely good person, from a middle-class background in a mid-twentieth-century context. And he was bisexual, David Emery, by his own testimony; you don’t have to act on attraction for it to count. Did that stop him from asking a gay friend to stay in the closet and marry a woman to avoid controversy? No, it did not.

There’s no such thing as an unproblematic person. We just don’t work that way. A friend of mine loves to point out that he’s actually hopeful that someday, people can comment on his currently rather radical views that they are, by a later standard, conservative and backwards-looking.

*Except pioneers. The settlers of the Far West, in California and Oregon (and Arizona and parts of Washington), almost entirely, without respect to gender or age, allowed themselves to become monsters. There are two that I know of who didn’t, one of whom who clears the bar of “not as bad as you could’ve been” just barely by being a decent person to Natives who assimilated. The entire rest of the lot? Monsters.

I love all of the discussion this post brought up! All of this post is worth reading, and is one of the rare examples of a post from us where almost all the feedback has been constructive and thought-provoking!

This is true, but also… really disheartening? Because it means that things are never going to be okay and some groups of people will always be oppressed and there will always be something to feel bad about? Which makes it hard to see the point in fighting for anything, because why bother if you can’t win or make a difference?

I don’t know, this just feels like one of those things I can’t think too hard about, for my own mental health and general wellbeing

It’s disheartening if your goal is perfection. But there is a huge space between perfect and perfectly awful, and that space fits the whole world and nearly all of human history. We’re not working towards perfection; we’re working towards a kinder one.

Perfection is a sterile, brittle, unstable space. It is tightly circumscribed out of fear, unable to change. Imperfection can grow, can learn to understand, can stumble into joy. Perfection can’t, because for perfection to exist, we must reduce all possibilities to the single best one we can think of at this moment, no room for error, no room for finding even better ways by accident.

People make mistakes. We can grow and learn from those mistakes. We can experiment and improve over and beyond what we’ve dreamed of. We can have different perspectives and different opinions and all be reasonable, all be contributing something to the conversation. Conflict can be a space for growth. It can open up room for people to be more free and true to themselves that we can be under perfection. Any place that hopes to be inclusive must necessarily include people who are different from each other and who disagree.

We can’t make the world perfect, and I don’t think we should try. I think we should try to make it kinder, in whatever way we can. Do the thing in front of you that helps. We’re a big team; you don’t need to carry the ball all the way yourself.

Or to put it another way, we’ve grown enough to have outgrown a few ideas that Fred Rogers had. I think he would be so proud of us for that.

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So in the summers I work in a poultry slaughterhouse that’s state-inspected, and in the winters I work at a retail store, and my retail coworkers have been… good-heartedly doing some absolute bullshit in their desire to “sanitize” the store. So, prompted by that, I thought I’d just write up the method we use to clean and sanitize the slaughterhouse, in case you, like my retail coworkers, are a little confused but got the spirit.

This also is prompted by this great post I reblogged yesterday, with the info about using bleach. You must dilute bleach to sanitize! 

(I read an explainer about this for alcohol the other day, actually– too high-proof an alcohol in your sanitizer, and it sears the outside of the microbe but fails to penetrate and neutralize the interior, and bingo you have a surviving microbe and have not achieved sanitation. You must follow dilution directions, and do not fall prey to the fallacy that stronger is better– stronger may just be completely ineffective.)

So the #1 thing to understand about sanitizing is that you must first CLEAN the surface. Bleach will not kill microbes embedded in organic matter. In other words, you must PHYSICALLY REMOVE gunk first.

What do you use? Soap and water. Our formula is a teaspoon of dish soap in a 32-oz spray bottle of water, which you liberally spray onto your surface, and then scrub with a clean nylon-bristled brush in a circular motion with hard pressure. We do this even on clean-looking surfaces, but on a visibly soiled surface, you do it until there’s no more physical dirt left. This may take quite a lot of elbow grease. 

You rinse that down (we use warm water where possible simply because it mechanically loosens the soap better, but cold works fine), and let it dry. There must be no soap residue remaining, as the residue could trap organic matter which would then shield microbes from the sanitizing solution.

Now, to sanitize, you take your bleach– we use a tablespoon in a 32-oz sprayer filled with water, as our ratio, shake it up well and make it new every couple of days because it loses potency over time and that’s actually the secret of bleach, it doesn’t build up a residue because it oxidizes itself out of existence after a couple of days, and that’s part of the mechanism of how it sanitizes– and you spray it onto your dry surface until it is evenly coated and damp, and then you step away and DO NOT WIPE, you let it dry in place. 

(If your clean surface is wet, guess what that means– that water’s diluting your bleach further, so your dilution ratio’s going to be off. The ratio’s important! Don’t spray bleach onto puddles, it won’t do shit. Dry your surface. We have a squeegee we use for this. Oh, also, you have to have a wash sink of soapy water so your scrub brushes and squeegee are also scrupulously clean for this whole process, and a tub of the dilute bleach to soak your tools in so they’re sanitary before use. I don’t have the room for that in my house and wish I did!)

So– you can see, this is only going to be suitable for the kinds of surfaces they let you have, in a state-inspected slaughterhouse. Stainless steel, nonreactive plastic, concrete. Not metal or fabric, not really even Formica– bleach will eventually discolor it, so there are other solutions they use in hospitals and the like. 

However, knowing the protocol should be useful, regardless– you cannot sanitize a physically soiled surface, there is no sanitizer in the world that is going to magically penetrate quantities of organic material to kill the microbes inside. It just won’t work. Scrub that biofilm off of there. Mechanical cleaning is the only way to make the slightest damn difference. THEN you can sanitize.

I tell you, if I see one more well-intentioned coworker spritzing disinfectant onto a visibly dirt-encrusted surface…

I have a handheld steamer I might bring in to use on the soft furnishings, but fortunately we don’t have many of those. Console yourself– the COVID-19 virus can remain viable a shorter time on porous surfaces– I think it’s like a day on cardboard or fabric (which is a damn long time, but), and I’ve heard figures of three to nine days on hard surfaces, so those are what you want to focus on cleaning anyway.

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this just in: screenshot literally any point during hux being shot and it’s a meme

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6-episode long Norwegian series about a small town in Norway, secretly rules by a family of ice giants. And then a woman with two teenage sons returns to this town (which she left after the death of her husband) and her eldest son Magne becomes Thor, with all associated superpowers. Her youngest, Laurets, is Loki, but doesn’t know it yet. But one simply cannot be more Loki than he is. There are also a large assortment of teenagers who don’t (yet?) associate with any Norse gods, parents of those teenagers, strange chain-smoking old lady who utters cryptic stuff, one-eyed old man who does nothing, ravens flying everywhere, and the problems with ecology due to a plant owned by the family of ice giants. The whole story is not very deep, but entertaining. So far, anyway. Made me to want to read again on actual Norse Mythology, because I realized how skewered I am by MCU canon right now.

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Y’know, back in my day, if a pestilence swept through the land during a time of famine and flood, it meant that the reigning kings had displeased the gods and that we risked the gods’ further ire by obeying them

Then you took the king out, chopped his head off, and threw him into a bog to appease the angry gods. 

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How things have changed in one week. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Californians over the age of 65 on Sunday to isolate themselves from others. I’m thankful for a productive garden and freezer stores. Ziza Urban Farm owners point out that “Growing food for self sufficiency and resilience is especially relevant in times like these when the systems that we rely on for sustenance are under stress.”

I am planting my summer crops a little earlier this year. My bush beans are up and I transplanted 18 lettuce plants this week. April is usually sunny and warm so I’ll likely plant my tomatoes in about two weeks, which is earlier than usual. I’ll not wait for side shoots on my second crop of broccoli.

On the upside, the first of the patio blueberries topped my cereal this weekend. The bush is laden with fruit and aptly named ‘Bountiful Blue.’

I harvested the last of the large heads of ‘Premium Crop’ broccoli. This variety never disappoints in my garden. Stalks are especially tender, heads are extra large and it produces abundant side shoots.

The baby leaf chard growing in a container is perfect for omelets.

The ‘Catalina’ spinach is especially lush this winter. I sautéed it in some chili-infused olive oil I made earlier in the week.

I invited my little neighbor friend to pull a carrot. She found a nice fat one and ate almost half of it before heading home.

Broccoli, carrots and celery from the garden made sumptuous fried rice.

Garden salads almost every day.

This is some of what didn’t get photographed. My son decided to hunker down in the home he’s remodeling in Joshua Tree instead of returning to Downtown LA. He hopes to be working remotely during the Covid-19 crisis. My husband headed to Joshua Tree for the weekend so I gathered kale, celery, lettuce and citrus by headlamp for him to deliver. I also sent some frozen soups I’d made and other staples.

And couldn’t we all use a little aromatherapy? My kitchen is filled with the fragrance of sweet peas.

You may enjoy seeing what other garden bloggers harvested last week at Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres.

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Brazil’s Kayapo people rejected money from dam-building companies. “We have decided that we do not want a single penny of your dirty money… Our river does not have a price, our fish that we eat does not have a price, and the happiness of our grandchildren does not have a price.”  

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Earthbag home in Japan. These houses are made to resist earthquakes and in addition they look like a fairytale house. The house carry a special sense of calm happiness. Hand-made details give a distinctive peculiarity and individuality, it all adds to everything from making glass, ceramics, mosaics to tiny and large works in wood. Read more here and here. 

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So, shit has hit the fan and pretty much wherever you are, COVID-19 is too. Grocery store shelves are empty and people are getting sent home from work by the droves. If you’ve been instructed to work from home, temporarily unemployed, or are under literal quarantine, these tips can help you maintain your mental health in these trying times.

1. Cope Ahead

If you haven’t been quarantined yet and have time to prepare for staying at home, cope ahead. Coping ahead is figuring out what vulnerabilities you might face and planning how you’re going to deal with them. Do you struggle with loneliness? Are you quarantined with someone you fight with? Do you often feel bored? Do you have eating issues? Ask yourself these types of questions. Each answer is a vulnerability that you need to address. Many of the following items will help you do so.

Note: if you have eating issues, make sure to stock your pantry with items you will actually eat, not aspirational foods. If you’re left at home with nothing you’re willing to eat you’re in big trouble. QUARANTINE IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO USE BEHAVIORS!

2. Have An Activity Arsenal

Make sure you have plenty of stuff to do. If you’re able to work from home, awesome, that’ll use some of your empty time. Gather all the usuals: books, movies, comics, tv shows. Dive deeper down on your watchlists/readlists. Have any hobbies? Go back to whatever you used to do before life got too busy. Go back to drawing, finish that sweater you were knitting. Or try something new! Learn to crochet! Do a puzzle! Some of this takes planning and resources but you can also download apps that let you color or try your hand at graphic design or zine-making.

Once you’ve determined the things you CAN do, put them all on a list and stick that bad boy on your fridge so you can go to it when you’re feeling bored.

Note: the library has great resources for media. You can find shows/movies to watch as well as things to read. Utilize those library cards to the max!

3. Make A Schedule

Specifically a sleep schedule. Quarantine may seem like the perfect opportunity to sleep your life away but your mental health will suffer if you don’t regulate your sleeping. Get up and go to sleep at the same time each day. Pencil in a modest nap.

If you can, schedule other things. I know that’s asking a lot though. But if you’re someone who feeds off the structure of life or school, all this empty time may destabilize your mental health. If that’s you, try to schedule sleep time and watch time and read time and social time. It’ll help I swear.

4. Have Patience

You may be quarantined with a roommate or a family that you don’t always get along with. If so, have as much patience as you can with them. They’re just as stir-crazy as you are. Avoid them if you’re getting fed up. If you fight, there’s really nowhere to escape to. Use your conflict resolution and interpersonal skills to the max.

Also be patient with yourself and the situation. It’s not ideal. In fact it fucking sucks. But it’s the best way to protect yourself and those around you. Like really, science is all in on this one. You may feel confident in your ability to survive the virus, but what about your 80-year-old grandma or your immunocompromised cousin? We gotta protect them too. So post up and radically accept this shit.

5. Be “Social”

Just because you’re isolated doesn’t mean you can’t be social. Call your family. FaceTime your friends. Do it every damn day. I know it’s not the same but it’s the best we’ve got right now. Schedule social time into each day and stick to it. This is a perfect opportunity to reach out to the people you’ve been meaning to for the past few months but haven’t. Call your grandpa. Call that friend from college you’ve been catching up with. Call a friend that you’re worried about. Even if you’re not feeling very social, it could make or save someone else’s day.

6. Write Down One Reason You’re Glad You’re Alive Every Day

It’s scientifically proven that expressing gratitude regularly can help improve your mood. It may be hard to come up with a whole daily list of reasons to be grateful when you’re quarantined during a pandemic. So let’s start small. Keep a list and every day add one reason you’re glad you’re alive. Think of it like Rey scratching a hashmark onto her wall for every day she’s been on Jakku. But like in a more positive way. Each reason is a day you’ve been quarantined but you may find yourself wanting to keep up the habit once this is all over. Even if it’s hard at first, you’ll find that you actually can come up with a reason a day. The truth is that the reasons are limitless. Just think of all the doggos out there left to pet!

Some coping methods for dealing with the quarantines or recommended social isolation. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

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Please just stay home.

Thanks to whoevet made this post!!! My allergies kicking my ass right now. I got scared for a min

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Most peaceful and relaxing place.

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I keep wanting to type CORVID every god damned time

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Basil and Dr.Faraday, art for dracadancer

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I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

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I think a really good little detail about Good Omens is how a fat character’s love of food isn’t treated like a joke, or unhealthy, or something to correct. He just loves food, it’s part of who he is, that’s it. It goes so far as to have Crowley just… know that about him, and he’s like “oh, Aziraphale loves food, I should buy him lunch. He’ll like that.” instead of making comments about his size. The only time he ever chastises him about food is to when it actually leads him to doing something mind-numbingly stupid like walking into revolutionary Paris dressed like an aristocrat because he wanted crepes, and the only thing that gets chastised is his dumb decisions, not the foodie part of him.

The only one who comments on Aziraphale’s size is Gabriel, and it’s framed as Gabriel being an asshole, because he’s a dick, and a douchebag, and that’s the kind of person who makes these comments.

I don’t know, I just really liked that little touch.

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Switzerland (by Jacques Rollet)

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fotheringay:

I appreciate the americans commenting on this with information about the U.S and the prevailing advice there is that money is more important to donate than supplies. However this is not the case for the UK where food banks are begging for supplies which they are struggling to find - and tracking them down is another job for already busy staff. The most important items are juice/squash, long life milk, sugar, meat, soup, tinned tomatoes, sanitary items (toilet roll, handwash, pads/tampons), and coffee.

You can find donation baskets in many supermarkets as well as schools, churches, and universities. These are places a lot of people are going anyway, so please try and think of the most vulnerable right now.

fotheringay:

if you have anything to spare please donate to your local food bank. amongst all the stockpiling people aren’t donating, and the poorest people who can’t afford to stockpile are getting left behind ESPECIALLY when people can’t work and/or have young kids home from school to feed. literally just a tin of beans or some pasta or baby milk could make a huge difference right now and it costs barely anything

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Queen.

I always have to reboot this.

For anyone wondering, this is amazing enrichment for the animal and a great way to involve guests! The lions aren’t forced to play with the rope if they don’t want to, and these guys (and anyone else who tries this out) have an awesome close up and hands on experience, all without having to come in direct contact with the cat!

why_animals_do_the_thing

This definitely counts as #actually cute. This video is from the San Antonio Zoo, and the lioness’ name is Axelle. As ordinaryredtail said above, the tug of war interaction is entirely voluntary on her part.

My guess is that the zoo staff did use some positive reinforcement training to teach her how to pick up and pull on the rope at first, because that’s not necessary something a lion would just do on their own. While it’s also probable that she’s rewarded with something tasty did choosing to engage with the members of the public like this, Axelle wouldn’t be engaging if it was a negative experience for her (there aren’t enough snacks in the world to coerce a lion into doing something they find actively distressing). If she didn’t want to participate, she could just walk away.

Some sanctuary and animal rights groups have taken issue with this interaction because they consider it unethical to ask a lion to engage in any “unnatural behavior” “for the benefit of the public,” calling it exploitation. It is worth keeping in mind, however, that learning and engaging in novel behaviors is hugely enriching for animals in human care, and that lions have no concept of exploitation. As long as the lion is not bothered by the presence or noise of the crowd, is not injured or harmed, and is engaging on an entirely voluntary basis, this sort of thing is entirely ethical. It is far safer than any type of interaction where a member of the public is coming into direct context with a big cat, but still allows people to directly experience the sheer strength of a lion up close.

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Project Open Air

Signal boost: Are you or do you know someone who knows about mechanical parts engineering or 3D printing? A hospital in Italy had ventilator valves breaking. A local business brought in a 3D printer to make new valves and replace the broken ones. They worked. The valve manufacturers were not happy. (Story link: https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/covid-19-3d-printed-valve-for-reanimation-device/)

Now a group has formed to work on medical devices such as open source ventilators to help the fight against Covid-19. The goal is to develop solutions that can quickly and easily be produced and assembled locally worldwide. If you have skills you think may help, please go to https://www.projectopenair.org/

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Grocery store has reached the point where some of my staples are in danger, I knew about stockpiling rice and pasta but I did not think so much about stockpiling bread.

Bread generally goes stale in under a week or is a space-inefficient use of rare storage space.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve absolutely got a loaf in my freezer, it’s just a stupid use of space and I admit it.

If we go full lockdown it is going to be about time I learned to actually bake bread. I keep saying “oh I ought to learn how to do that” and then not doing it, but this is pretty well a divine mandate.

Here’s a really decent, really simple recipe for soda bread, which is a quickbread that doesn’t require yeast or rising time.

Here’s a very good but much more complicated sandwich bread recipe. Still pretty simple as these things go.

Here’s a very tasty challa recipe.

Here’s a very dense, protein-rich, gluten-free, bread-for-one microwave bread recipe that I used to use CONSTANTLY before I found bread that I could eat in stores. This is actually super good gluten free bread but it is. It is so much. It’s incredibly filling. I highly recommend slicing your bread product in half and toasting it lightly before using it as bread.

also if you want a really really simple bread recipe, i use an adapted version of this one:

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/kitchen-hack-one-minute-ciabatta-bread.html

no kneading, and if you make the batter right before bed it proves overnight and does most of the work for you while you’re sleeping

changes i make are: using half white and half whole wheat flour, using a very scant 2 cups warm water rather than the straight 2 the recipe asks for (if you can land it right between the 1³/⁴ and 2-cup line, you’re golden), and adding a fuckton of random herbs and/or seeds on top right before baking

if anyone wants sourdough starter, hit me the fuck up; I’ve got tons and I can mail samples 😔👌

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things are awful and will remain awful for a very long time so here is a picture of two chickens with little handmade knitted capes on. Someone must love these chickens a lot to make them little chicken capes. They look so warm and lovely in their little chicken capes.

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ok kids repeat after me

vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic

ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic

rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic

hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive

be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok

why it so dangerous to be clean

As someone who’s job is to handle chemicals like this, I need to state that this information is IMPORTANT. Plenty of people have accidentally injured or killed themselves at home because they didn’t know what kind of reaction certain substances have with one another. Play it safe and don’t mix chemicals.

Also don’t use bleach to clean up urine it’ll create chloramine bc of the ammonia in it and you can give yourself chemical pnemonia that way

Every time I see “helpful” posts telling people to mix these things while cleaning I cringe with my entire body.

reblogging in this time of heightened interest in disinfectants. please don’t get fancy

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the other day i was perusing the dessert options in the dining hall and this group of absolute stereotypical frat boy types were also milling around the desserts and one of them pointed to the strawberry pastries and said to the others “what’s the vibe with these, boys?” and i haven’t been able to get that sentence out of my head since

bless y’all

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what can YOU do about the CoVID-19 pandemic?

Do direct action. Do it all the time. Get used to the action if being autonomous, not asking for permission or for support from an authority. The Calvary are not coming to save us. Overcome the cultural inertia that tells you that you cannot/should not do a thing because of X or Y. Just do the thing. Do it alone if you must, snap a picture and put it out there for the world and other people who love what you are doing will find you. Here’s an example.

Recipe for hand sanitizer:

700 mL of 100% isopropanol or 860 mL of 190 proof grain alcohol (can be bought at liquor stores)

Full it up to 1,000 mL with aloe vera, hair gel, or baby gel. (300 mL of gel for every 700mL of pure alcohol) Add a few drops of fragrance if desired. Shake well.

Ask around for empty bottles to fill. Distribute to your neighbors, the unhoused, or take a big bottle to a shelter. Find out more about how to connect with your community in the link below.

https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku

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Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

create pixel art

Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!

Totally free transparent textures

make a cute chibi

draw some cool generative art

be a graffiti creator

create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)

paint online

another awsome site to create pixel art on

and another one

create your own mandala

or color one

create an avatar

or you can try creating your own superhero

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here

Want to build your own planet

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)

create next hit comic

make a city which looks like something from 90′s games

draw a mandala like design

jig saw puzzles

more jig saw puzzles to solve

create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!

make a movie

create and dress up dolls

play a piano

you can also play a guitar

create sounds

another sound creator

create a logo

design your dream home

sketch rooms

explore fashion trends and create your own sets

build a website

try this app for building a website

Or maybe start learning how to code!

design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them

design your own phone case

pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool

Make your own Glitch art

Here’s another glitch art maker

And another!

Holy hell, here’s a third!

make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64

freaking cool text generator!

Easy to use word processor

Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)

Write an essay on anything with no hassle

Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?

Make pictures out of text

ASCII word generator

Need an idea for some fanart-here :D

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

watch a documentary

learn to code

do something yourself

workout with the help of this great youtube channels

learn things

play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games

waste your time on miniclip

play games at additing games

or try games at agame

calm your thoughts

the quiet place

it will be okay

vent or listen to someone

pour out your soul

explore the sky

look at art from around the world

virtually visit museum of iraq

explore world with arounder

create a music playlist

list through rare books

scroll useful science website

create sand art

brain games

try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book

interactive 3D anatomy

random street view

post a secret

create a family tree

find our what’s the difference between x and y

help scientists and become volunteer researcher

create your own font

read a classic short story

In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?

scribble on maps

listen to letters

play with acrobots

listen to podcasts

make a bucket list

Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?

Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!

Zone out watching the colors drip down

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Need an Appearance idea?

Humanoid generator? check

Here’s another one

and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work

Need Monsterpeople?

Well, then here ya’ go

Maybe you need Cats?

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

Clothing generator

Another clothing generator

More clothing generator

Aaaand even more

Steam punk clothing

Char Style preference

Dress Generator

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

Oh shit someone died

Backgrounds and stuff? yep

Quirks

Personality. you need that shit

Need something fandom related?

City generator hell yeah

location? got ya

World-building?

make your own god damn laws

Landscape.

Need Item names?

Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names

Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.

Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators

How did your characters meet?

Fanfic plots. you bet your ass.

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Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.

Read more here.

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modern au

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people are boring, but you’re something else i can’t explain

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Basically Enric Pryde and Armitage Hux in The Rise of Skywalker

Looks like your latest little family reunion was a bit tense

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Just a tad….

A Friend

Ren placing a severed head on the meeting table certainly didn’t help to ease the tension.

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A comedian who’s billed as “politically incorrect” gets up on stage and does a twenty-minute bit about Florida’s constitutional monarchy.

Their next performance is an extended monologue where they just wildly misunderstand the role and structure of the Supreme Court; at one point they seem to be under the impression that Chief Justice John Roberts is a werewolf.

For an encore they deliver a lecture about the alleged political career of Ludwig van Beethoven, who they appear to regard as one of America’s Founding Fathers, in spite of his having been six years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

(Partway through, the lecture drifts into a rant about the various historical inaccuracies of the stage musical Hamilton. The harshest condemnation is reserved for playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda’s decision to depict the title character’s infidelity as the turning point of his career, entirely omitting the far greater scandal that emerged when it was revealed that Hamilton had received uncredited lyrical assistance from Beethoven in his Congressional rap battles.)

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I’ve made this after reading Flyboys by gefionne since I really like the idea of this AU.

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This has probably already been done but the hd just came out and you know what that means…

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i forgot that loki faked his death in the first thor movie as well as the second one. like i think this is just something he does. i bet he did it every other week when they were kids like theyre 12 and loki breaks some fancy asgardian vase in the course of a prank and hes just like welp i guess i better fake my death

corrollary: even at the peak of his Faking His Death phase when both frigga and odin have just learned to take in stride thor still 100% believes it every single time it happens like its literally every other weekend he comes running into his parents room in tears like FATHER, MOTHER, LOKIS DEAD, IM THE WORST BROTHER EVER and they just look at each other tiredly and wait for heimdall to come and tell them where hes hiding this time

he learned it from his dad Mr Odinsleep

U kno what that’s fair

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Everything is terrifying, but humans are so strong. 

Societies at my university are doing food bank drives. Italians are singing on their balconies and cheering health workers that go by. My university originally wasn’t going to close so lecturers took matters into their own hands and cancelled their classes, and now the university IS closing. When the government response isn’t strong enough, people are cancelling mass gatherings themselves and isolating to limit the spread. One of my friends is streaming to her self-isolating friends. My mum is going back to work tomorrow in an NHS reception. The Australian Grand Prix got cancelled and now 10,000+ people are watching an esports game version of the race on Twitch and making memes about it. All over the world, people are trying to cheer each other up.

My biggest problem with apocalypse movies, with zombie tv shows, has always been the way it portrays a world post-disaster. When humans were living in caves and hunting for survival, they drew art on the walls and told stories that were passed down in oral tradition. When London closed for the plagues, theater troupes would go around the country performing for the smaller villages instead. The human drive to create, to entertain, to adventure, to see and do new things, has always been and will always be unmoved by a crisis. 

So yes people are panic buying, yes employers and governments are being selfish and cruel. But more than ever this has highlighted that, that is not what humans are. It’s something we’re pushed to be by this society, actual cruelty is an outlier.

I’ve been clinically depressed for a long time, so it feels bizarre to say: I love humans. I am overflowing with how much I really, truly, love us. Humans are silly, tender, hopeful, and social creatures. Even something as small as a long train journey, delayed and late at night, is enough for humans to take up solidarity. No matter what happens, what state the world is in, what alterations we have to make to our lives, we will never escape being recognizably, inherently human. Thank god. 

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Free pdf of ways to eat cheaply and well!

Cookbooks