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[renardtrickster]

Sometimes good posts are made by annoying people so I’ll help out

These are Safe Shorts. They were made by Sandra Seilz after someone attempted to rape her. If the fabric is torn, an alarm will be sounded.

This is the Rape-aXe, invented by a South African doctor by the name of  Sonnet Ehlers. After interviewing a rape victim who wished she had teeth down there, she made this. If someone’s penis is inserted and pulled back out, the teeth will sink in, and can only be removed by a doctor.

The Killer Tampon (couldn’t find a site for it), made by retired anaesthetist Jaap Haumann. When penetration takes place, the sharp end will slice the offending appendage.

The Anti-Rape Belt (also couldn’t find a site), made by a group of Swedish teenagers led by Nadja Björk. It requires two hands to undo.

Anti-Rape Underwear/Bra (once again), as made by a group of Indian students. Will deliver an electric shock when met with unwanted advances, as well as sounding an alarm.

Undercover Colours. Made by 4 male undergraduates at North Carolina U, they change colours when in contact with chemicals or drugs that cause unconsciousness. Used in case you’re wary that your drink has been roofied.

These are just tools to help, but in addition to being mindful of your situations and staying safe, they can help when the worst happens.

Stay safe.

[sabakunogaaraai]

ok, those are all kind of awesome. i wish they weren’t needed, bit still…awesome solutions.

[toothmuncher3000]

I feel more comfortable reblogging this version

[fawkyou-deactivated20190309]

RapeAxe has a gofund me up that barely has 700 dollars. I feel like the inventions that havent even been funded yet should be linked to the page you can support them at.

[babylonqaf]

RapeAxe- website which links their gofundme

[leaper182]

As of this reblog, Rape-aXe needs to raise $308,537. If you can’t help fund it, please reblog?

[custer-mp3]

psa

internet user shadowhive aka stu is a fucking predator who’s been preying on underage girls for 10+ years

he’s mostly known in bandom but rolls in the Marilyn Manson/NIN/KMFDM and nu-metalcore fandoms

he’s a grown adult (how grown?? WE DON’T KNOW!!! he lies about his age!!!) who requests n00dz & coerces UNDERAGE GIRLS who are already predisposed to be easily groomed based on past abuse, mental illness, etc. into online sexual (typically heavily d/s-tinged) relationships and then pushes the envelope until they’re saying & doing things they aren’t comfortable with & withdrawing from their social groups. he gets aggressive when his victims fail to provide jackoff material (fic, art, CHILD PORN YES UNDERAGE NUDES ARE CHILD PORN, sexts) to his liking. ENOUGH IS FUCKING ENOUGH.

we’ve known of this for over 10 years, but haven’t been willing to put him on blast due to lack of concrete receipts from people he was currently grooming/victimizing. we’ve watched it happen over and over, and thrown our hands up & faded away from people who just couldn’t see the forest for being actively abused by the trees.

well, we’re past that. time’s up. if we can cancel jeordie white, we can cancel all toxic terrible abusive men in our lives.

reevaluate your friendships. think long & hard if one of your internet friends is significantly older, sketchy af, and demanding things of a sexual nature from you/pushing you into things you’re not comfortable with or, y'know, actual illegal child porn. “I won’t show anybody!! Nobody’ll find out!!” IS NOT CHILL WHEN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT LITERALLY CHILD PORN THAT CAN GET YOU PUT ON A REGISTRY.

talk to your online friends. talk to somebody irl. if you have to ask “hey, is this abuse??” it probably fucking is.

we’re sorry for not speaking up sooner.

[custer-mp3]

this is important, don’t sleep on this. we’re up to over half a dozen victims directly related to us & there are countless more. Stu/shadowhive’s privated his twitter & locked down/privated his tumblr & dreamwidth. we don’t doubt he will try to come back at some point when he thinks it’s all blown over & go right back to his bullshit. reblog, share, speak up. help keep bandom safe.

[brettyimages]

I don’t know if anyone still follows me from the TBO/LPs/BVB/MCR days but even if they don’t, this guy has apparently had a presence in every alt band fandom of the last decade or so. It turns out it wasn’t just his fanfic that was disgusting and he truly is an all-round vile person - to any friends over the years that may have suffered as a result of this man, I am truly sorry not to have picked up on it sooner.  If shadowhive is a familiar name to you, please spread this and help protect anyone he might attempt to ensnare when he inevitably re-appears.

[kissand-control]

I’ve known of shadowhive for about 10 years or so and he creeped me out back in my band traveling days so sadly this doesn’t surprise me. If anyone is still following me from that time, please reblog this because we need to put a stop to this shit ✌🏻

[vintagemychem]

i know i let this blog go inactive bc i’m The Worst but

i want y’all to know that this guy who writes mcr fic is a pedophile and will target younger afab people, usually with self esteem and gender issues, and i want everyone in the mcr fandom to know he’s a creep so he can never do this shit again. he abused me when i was 15 and he claimed to be 24, but we think he was 30. stay far the fuck away from this guy.

[custer-mp3]

FYI HE’S NOW CHANGED HIS URL TO @d-e-a-d-e-d AND HIS TWITTER TO @spookyhive AS IF HE COULD HIDE BEHIND THAT ❌ stay safe babies

[vintagemychem]

sorry to rb this again but he changed his contact info so just an update!!

[benjidsch]

rocket: toss me my keys

[crash]

rocket: I SAID MY KEYS

groot: i am groot

rocket: WHY THE FUCK WOULD I SAY PRINTER-

[bucky-at-bedtime]

This is the most in-character thing I have ever read

[grantairefanclub-remade]

can we get a pride flag w/ the black and brown stripes AND the pink stripe that was in the original please

[grantairefanclub-remade]

i did i think it looks nice and is especially special because it’s got all the colors of the original flag

[doktorgirlfriend]

“Why does Tumblr romanticize Hades so much?”

Idk Clarice, maybe we’re just tired, and life is uncertain, and we like the idea of a stable husband with a steady job and a big dog and his own place away from all the loud, shapeshifting-kink party gods.

[liefplus]

if u weren’t aware of salvation army’s homophobia, its prety hardcore

[michaelstipeofrembemyboyfriend-]

a guy in a salvos truck yelled at me and my gf while we were kissing today so I was thinking of this

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.

We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.

This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas

Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.

Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.

So instead, I started wailing.

Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.

Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.

Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”

And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”

And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.

“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”

And I burst right back into tears.

Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.

We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”

It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.

[bhuttu]

that is beautiful

[100slytherin]

Holiday reminder: don’t let anyone get away with trying to make you feel bad about yourself.

[shinosarna]

They are also violently transphobic, and Salvation Army ran homeless shelter refused to let in Jennifer Gale because she was trans, leading to her freezing to death on the sidewalk right outside it!

So yeah, they’re not just ‘homophobic’, they’re bigoted fucking murderers.

(Wikipedia article on her death conveniently (for SA) omits Salvation Army connection, linking only to expired articles from local newspapers)

SA claims that they didn’t turn her away, and accept all homeless people, except, it’s not like Jennifer Gale was only trans woman refused shelter by Salvation Army, making this denial appear to be worth less than bullshit:

https://thinkprogress.org/salvation-army-refuses-housing-shelter-to-transgender-woman-2660c79b4cd4#.bo53qrxf9

http://www.msnbc.com/way-too-early/transgender-woman-claims-she-was-refused-housing

[moldy-mac-n-cheese]

and to think i was gonna help my aunt with this…

[raivaryn]

Annual reminder not to trust what our SA donations actually support.

There are plenty of other charities who help out the needy this time of year. Support a local food bank or community housing center.

[pastelroswell]

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT I’ve told ppl this but now I have sources

[obaewankenope]

Salvation Army are scum. Judgemental assholes.

[gay-jesus-probably]

And let’s all remember that one twitter thread from a homeless woman in a Salvation Army shelter SPECIFICALLY warning people that the SA is a piece of shit and nobody should donate to them

[cuddlefights]

fuck my mom was like “its fine its not like everyone who works there is homophobic”  

[samstarium]

this is awful. please spread around, it’s important.

[simonalkenmayer]

The Salvation Army has been disgusting for a long while

[melissatreglia]

I reblogging this now, as a reminder that this is unacceptable REGARDLESS of the time of year.

[princeanxious]

^^^^^^

[mamoru]

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/GalaxySNineQandA/thread-id/5854/page/1

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/8u36jz/my_s9_sent_my_entire_photo_gallery_to_my/

https://gizmodo.com/a-bug-in-samsungs-default-texting-app-is-sending-random-1827291759

if you have a samsung galaxy/note phone (and potentially other samsungs) disable storage permissions for stock messenger, long story short apparently some people’s entire galleries are being texted to random recipients after a recent update. so uh. your whole gallery can be texted to a random contact without your knowledge. evidence of the photos being sent only show up to the recipient. so unless they tell you, someone could have all of your pictures without your knowledge. this is a truly dangerous bug and more people are realizing they are affected by the hour. nobody knows what causes it or how to stop it for sure

[mamoru]

just want to emphasize that this is happening and is horrible and potentially life changing. a few people are reporting their entire gallery being texted to a random contact. every photo. aside from the obvious danger of accidentally sending inappropriate pictures to co-workers or something, this could out a lot of people to abusive family or put folks in danger or someone even mentioned having inappropriate pictures accidentally sent to a child. the biggest workarounds right now are switching from the stock messenger app on samsung devices and disabling storage permissions and connectivity between gallery and SMS and just as many permissions as possible until anyone figures out why this is happening. this bug potentially affects anyone using the stock samsung text/messenger/SMS app.

[cthulhu]

it’s a really good thing my galaxy is new, and doesnt have the 9000 images on it that my last phone did

[stubbornseedling]

@vaspider I feel like this is something you might want to see/boost for people’s safety.

[lanchpadmcquack-archive]

Thor at the 5th funeral for Loki that year: alexa this is so sad play despacito

[jamesmasinoart]

For my 3D production class I had to create a three shot short that was a remake of an existing movie scene- with muppets. I ran out of time to do the particle water effects, but this is basically Pacific Rim anyway.

[thebibliosphere]

We’re losing our collective shit laughing at this. Holy crap it’s so funny, please turn the sound on.

[irishfolklore-deactivated201912]

I love being in college because there are no actual adults around so everyone is just going around bullshitting their way through basic tasks. Like I can be like “I think I got better from my cold because I ate an orange yesterday” and everyone is like “Yeah makes sense” and somebody could just be like “I’m gonna put my pillow in the washing machine to clean it” and everyone’s like “Sounds like a great idea John”

[adhdpie]

to my adhd pals: yes, if you have very overdue library books, they affect your credit!

this adhd shoutout post I did on my main blog mentions that you can get your credit dinged for overdue library books - and yes, it’s 100% absolutely true D:

you see, if you forget to return library books for long enough, the library assumes you lost them. They buy replacement copies and charge you for the purchase. and if you fail to pay them for the replacement copies, they send the charge to Collections - and when you’re in Collections for any debt, that dings your credit report.

and that’s how forgetting to return overdue library books can screw up your credit.

return your library books, kiddos

[ukulelekatie]

The gays have taken July as Second Pride Month. All July holidays have been replaced. Canada Day is now Pan-ada Day. Fourth of July will henceforth be known as Fourth of Ju-bi.

[meerkat-rhapsody]

simba: i ran away from home

timon: that’s so sad pumbaa play hakuna matata

[tranz-parents]

[transmortifried]

[pendaly-archive-deactivated2021]

[klubbhead]

[chaosgameingkoi]

Good luck historians of the future.

[resumespeak]

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

[xeno-lalia]

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

[fivewrites]

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Published short fiction stories for anthology collection

Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)

Wrote short articles for independent publication

Assisted with editing short stories for publication

Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs

Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax

Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs

Artist:

Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine

Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display

Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology

Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity

Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration

Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication

Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item

Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology

Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production

Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)

Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme

Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc

Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Running a zine

Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity

Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine

Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology

If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers

Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production

We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales

Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world

Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.

Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc

Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media

Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter

Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets and Trello

[fivewrites]

Added some more

[real-kit-walker]

We really are fucked I mean ww3 could break out any day and we’d all be like ”this is so sad alexa play despacito”

[30-minute-memes]

corn flaek

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it’s because reality is terrifying and our world’s dying, and our developmental years were spent in a constant state of using increasingly nonsensical humor to cope

[codenamemaximus]

It’s called the rise of neo-dadaism and the same thing happened during WWII

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

well that’s not concerning At All