If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

Same guys btw. So they did turn out good yeah

Pray, tell people about this et cetera do whatever you can do online and offline

Don't look away and tell people about this

A ground assault. On a fucking hospital. May every "soldier" who enters meet a shameful and painful death.

You don’t prioritize arresting journalists unless you have something to hide.

How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

Oh snap!

As an engineer, this makes me happy.

If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…

easy peasy

watching this while listening to a clock ticking is the best decision i have ever made

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

Reblogging because the new shop is online!

This feels like something @netherworldpost needs to see.

i was forced to move out of san francisco because I was hemorrhaging money, and My outlook was dire, but nobody gave a fuck about me, so, fuck those companies. I hope they all go out of business. And anyway, most of them won't, they're just going to make less than a zillion bucks, boo hoo

DP x DC AU where the entire JL thinks Danny a dead high school student tragically still haunting his school and pretending to live out the life he never had but he’s just a fucking teacher at Casper High

Reasons they think this:

Danny teaches science at Casper High, mostly ectobiology and other science classes. He absolutely loves his job except when he hates his job because he has to cancel class because one of his ghost buddies is tearing up city hall to get his attention or whatever. His identity is kind of an open secret in Amity where We Pretend We Don’t Know Mr. Fenton Is Phantom And He Doesn’t Give Us A Pop Quiz.

Danny CAN change his ghostly form. In Amity he shows up as an adult ghost but he had the Brilliant Idea to disguise his identity by appearing as a 14 year old to the JL, also to lean into the timelessness of his ghost form, because he’s been reported as a 14 year old for over a decade now.

Danny doesn’t know the JL thinks he’s haunting his old high school or something. This is because his a) lying and b) observation skills have not improved since he first died. He thinks he has them fully convinced he’s an immortal being from like, 1000 BC, a la Captain Marvel. He does not.

Trekkies against replicators /j

please do your part to end this genocide. please do your part to end this occupation. please don’t stop speaking up. palestine is no longer trending on here and i can see a steady decline in people interacting with posts as well.

please don’t forget that this isn’t a trend. these are people’s lives. this is about their rights. their freedom.

please keep speaking up. please remind everyone that it’s not over. that this isn’t the new normal. that this isn’t something we should just accept

this is unacceptable. please speak up against it. 10569 killed not counting the missing people under the rubble is a huge number. heck, even 569 would be huge. this is genocide. please speak up. please voice out.

donations are not helping them right now. but your voices will. your voices will amplify the voices of the palestinians being shut down by biased western media and propaganda. please keep speaking up on their behalf.

UPDATE

What is up zukka nation

Desperately need to write a fanfic when Lois was dating Bruce but Superman keeps picking fights with Batman and won’t tell anyone why he’s so upset. (Jealousy)

When Valerie found out that none of her Justice League colleagues realized she was also the UN representative of the sovereign state of Amity Park, she had been stumped to say the least. Other than carrying on her Red Huntress identity, it's not like she was actively hiding it. Still, if it was one thing she learned from spending time with Danny, it was always commit to the bit.

Wonder Woman and Aquaman will be the first to realise. Once they bump into her at a UN meeting.

Wonder Woman: Red? What brings you here?

Val: Work. The USA is trying to demand Amity Park rejoin then. Despite everything. So I'm here to threaten them to back off. Again.

Aquaman: Ah. Again ? Do they never learn? I didn't know you were a Parker though?

Val: Yup. Phantom made me an advisor. The Ass.

Val: Phantom is unable to be the advisor for Amity as he's the representative for the infinite realms. Which Amity is both technically part of and a sovereign state. Which makes it confusing for things like the UN

Aquaman: How does that work?

Val: Well without the infinite realms protection then we couldn't stay sovereign. But High King Phantom has made it clear that we are not his subjects unless we choose to be and notify him so we can move into the official realms. So shits complicated

Wonder Woman: Still! It is a great honour to be chosen as a representative!

Val: It was going to be one of Team Phantom. But Sam is busy with her eco activism. Tucker is busy running his company. Jazz is in med school. And Ellie is in High School. So, less of an honour and more a default really.

Aquaman: Where there no other options!

Val: Not really? You guys have read up on the Amity situation right?

Aquaman:... We are missing something obvious then?

Val: GIW surrounded the town with a forcefield. Only people below a certain level of contamination could leave it. Mostly people older than 25. Not many adults stayed behind. Unless they had kids. Even then...

Aquaman:... Of course. My apologies. I had overlooked the fact that most of the politicians and leaders just... Left you to your fate.

Val: it's.... Not fine. But it is what it is. So. We stepped up. The parents who stayed behind? Mostly busy with the younger kids. The ones without adults you know?

Wonder Woman: And the government still wonders why you refuse to rejoin them?

Val: The government has still not even offered to allow our citizens human rights should we rejoin. There's still conversations about my limited sentience due to ecto contamination when they think I can't hear. And they can't even keep straight the difference between the previous King Pirah and the present King Phantom. Keep blaming Phantom for things Pirah did.

Wonder woman: Ah so Phantom was not connected to Pirah then? How does inheritance for the throne work for your people?

Val: Won by combat. Phantom became our new king after the most recent war. No one's complaining

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

it’s crazy having been super-involved in the HP fandom for more than a decade and watching the fallout from this

quidditch (the real sport) has changed its name to quadball

the harry potter alliance (a nonprofit) has rebranded to fandom forward

the sub-subcultures that sprung up within the HP fandom have now distanced themselves from the main fandom and have become independent groups in their own right

HP was so integral to the development of early online fandom (as OP’s mentioned) that now there’s sort of just a weird... hole in the internet

for many HP fans, it took up a lot of their life. three conventions a year, wizard rock shows, HPA fundraising, granger leadership academy, nightly fanfic, podcasts, quidditch games.

when fans (rightfully) shunned JKR and began to leave the fandom, a lot of them (myself included) were left rudderless. how do you reconcile the fact that most of your friends, hobbies, sometimes even jobs, were due to the work of such a hateful person? as OP said, did i waste my life?

i’m obviously not saying that this is the worst part about JKR’s bigotry (the worst part is, of course, the bigotry) or that HP fans are the worst-done-by victims (who are of course trans people)

but it is WILD to see such a juggernaut of internet fandom be virtually scrubbed away

"Noah Schnapp is too young he doesn't understand what he's doing!" meanwhile Redveil...

I think people who are newer to the kink community or experimenting need to understand that subs hold power and are their doms' equals. Kink is not about being uncomfortable whether emotionally or physically in any way that leaves you feeling bad, used without reciprocity, or abused in the literal sense of the word. The consent in cnc is never optional and it can be revoked at any time. It doesn't matter whether the scene has already started or the dom isn't done yet; consent must be given freely and continuously. Any "dom" who doesn't take on the responsibility of making their sub feel safe saying no to them, or who would ignore a real safeword is not to be trusted. That's a predator, not a dom, and they don't belong here. True doms aren't there to push their sub past their agreed upon limits--every part of kink has to be negotiated with open and honest communication. This is always true no matter how extreme your play is.

Expanding on this, a Dom who has pushed their sub to safeword HAS FAILED. Your job was to remain So Fucking Aware of where your sub's head was at that you knew without doubt they were still within their limits (maybe right on the edge, but still within them). If you lost track of where they were, if you pushed them past their limits and caused them to need to safeword, You Fucking Failed. You made a mess, and it is all on you to clean it up. You provide your sub with the aftercare they need (and if they don't know what they need right now, you keep trying things that have helped in the past until they are able to tell you what they need).

What? That's a wild take. Expecting the dom to magically know your limits without ever safewording isn't realistic. Taking someone (carefully, respectfully) to their limit and they say "that's my limit" is how we learn and calibrate play. A safeword used isn't a failure, it's part of good communication.

Expanding on what @commander-diomika said (which is all correct), that framing above makes it harder for someone subbing to use a safeword. If a safeword means "you fucked up severely" and not something like "I thought I wanted to be hit, I asked to be hit, but then you hit me and my brain said No" it becomes a lot harder to say the word.

Because if someone is subbing and thinking "I want this to stop or slow down, but I don't want the dom to think they did something wrong" that is the point that they should be calling the scene off (or just asking for it to slow down)

And! That take completely ignores that doms get to safeword and call off scenes too!

I learned a lot from someone who genuinely and warmly says "Thank you" whenever someone tells them that something was too hard, or orange, or red, or not the right kind of pain.

Safewords are something to be used freely, not something to be used only when the absolute worst has happened

I’m not really* in the scene but I wonder if the “no safewords ever” take comes from having just one safety signal, which lends itself to a more binary view of consent than the traffic light scale or other ranked signals. But I’ve absolutely seen binary stuff work**. The success of any safeword arrangement seems to depend most of all on everyone’s ability to communicate what was wrong after the word is given, even if they can’t articulate exactly why just yet. That’s in parallel with everyday safety, especially from a disability perspective.

The “safewording is a failure” take also strikes me the sort of model-minority response that comes from giving a lot of fucks about the opinions of a majority culture that has no intention of legal or lasting acceptance. On the small scale, such distinctions can make all the difference in staving off rejection from a vital support. But they factually cannot be applied to the whole community. I’m still working on how many fucks I give in various arenas, probably will be for life.

Anyway, it’s cool to see people talking about it!

* 1st footnote: I do aerial circus for fun, in a great community that absolutely includes some BDSM kinksters. They mostly keep it separate, but the similarities are blatant and the bruises do tend to end up in the same places, lol. Circus obviously has more emphasis on physical safety, but that involves a culture of respecting and tailoring to individual limits, and expecting those limits to be in flux, and getting consent to manually adjust someone’s position. And it’s absolutely informed by having a lot of queer folks, and a decent number of people with disabilities, and the fact that extremely skilled people will help teach raw beginners (which requires a lot of checking assumptions). Also one guy is Spiderman

** 2nd footnote: A lot of circus safety depends on strongly signaling “Down!” as soon as possible to get help controlling one’s descent. You can tell how hard a landing it’s gonna be by how coherent someone is, but it’s absolutely a hard stop. Pros use subtle communication when they’re practicing or giving their performance pieces, but usually do loud hard stops the rest of the time, because ambiguity is a risk.

(I think about this a lot when I watch professional performances of various kinds. Communication is cool; partnered circus/dance/skating/juggling/whatever is cool. Someone whose partner stumbles slightly, silently checking in while still being held in the air with one hand? The rituals are intricate. Someone who stumbles, checks in with their partner, and then checks with the audience to see if they’re up to watching them risk it a second time? Be still my demisexual heart)

ヤエヤママドボタル

ホタルの季節。

R5.11

there are a lot of posts out there that are positive and healthy coping mechanisms for handling the holidays. this is not one of them :)

OP’s tags 😂🫂

Reblog to inject more comedy into holiday obligations

I think you mean objectively GREAT advice