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ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.
Some actual safety tips for teenagers:
1. Have proof they're a teenager first. More than just a picture, have a video call with them.
2. If you want to meet up with them, have your parents or a trusted adult come with you. Even if they are a proven teenager, its still good to have supervision in case any issues happen.
3. If you are talking to an adult, and they start being sexual in any way, you run the fuck away. It doesn't matter if they're 40 or 20. An adult inherently has a power dynamic that teenagers do not. And its up to the adult to act responsible about it. There's exceptions of course, if you're 16 and dating an 18 year old, that's not a problem, we're not talking about that.
4. Being in a server with adults or ran by adults is not inherently bad. Talking to adults is not inherently a problem, and will likely happen in any number of Discord servers. It is only an issue when they are acting sexual and show predatory behavior.
5. Look out for grooming behavior. It can be difficult, because at first it seems like innocuous behavior, like complimenting or giving gifts. Especially if you feel lonely and have low self esteem. And groomers actively target people like that.
If they start trying to isolate you, talk sexual with you, state they depend on you for emotional needs, blame you for their own actions, try to be secretive about the relationship- Then you need to talk to people you trust, block the perpetrator, and call the police on them.
6. If this does happen to you, remember this: It is not your fault. Even if you didn't listen to a single thing listed here, it is not your fault. It is the fault of the adults who knew better, and didn't care. It's not your fault.
To my followers: if any of you guys are underaged, please be very VERY careful on here, and don’t fall for any of the tricks the groomer would use on you, just block them and report them.
Oh! And the reason us olds get so intense about keeping personal info private ISN'T because everyone on the internet is a creep
It's because you're gonna interact with thousands of people online, so the odds that you will eventually run into a creep are pretty dang high.
Make your personal info something you can choose to give to people, not something anyone can find without your knowledge.
Left is the original great seal of Solomon. It represents god being good and evil. Right is the Slayers TRY modified version that represents the battle between the gods (Or Lina Inverse.) and the mazoku, their anti-thesis. You could also apply the Slayers version to Wicca, the lunar goddess above and the horned god of the underworld below. I want a tattoo of the Slayers version.
Don’t forget the mazoku sigils are from the Ars Goetia as well!
That’ll be a later post. :)
I would like to see a detailed look at that. Like, did they pretty much just borrow the symbols or was there a lot of consideration going into what lord was what Goetia demon?
(I think Shin Megami Tensei games have spoiled me for tying old lore into their own settings)
(Taken from KanzakaDex)
The Ars Goetia (often called just Goetia) is the first section of The Lesser Key of Solomon, an anonymously-written, 17th century book on demonology. It described 72 demons that King Solomon of the Hebrew Bible summoned, trapped, and enslaved. Each demon has its own seal. The subordinates of Ruby Eye Shabranigdu are roughly based on the demons of the Ars Goetia. See Plane chart for comparison.
Astaroth
Hellmaster Fibrizo is based on Astaroth, the Grand Duke of Hell and the 29th demon of the Ars Goetia. Astaroth is said to rule over the East; Hellmaster ruled over the Desert of Destruction, the eastern part of the mazoku barrier. Also, like Astaroth, Hellmaster presided over the souls in the underworld.
Bune
Chaos Dragon Gaav is based on Bune, a Great Duke of Hell and the 26th demon of the Ars Goetia. Bune takes the form of a three-headed dragon, as does Chaos Dragon. Some say that one of Bune’s heads is that of a human, and perhaps Chaos Dragon’s fate in human form reflects this.
Ipos
Greater Beast Zelas Metallium is based on Ipos, a Prince of Hell and the 22nd demon of the Ars Goetia. Ipos takes the form of a chimera: the body of an angel, head of a lion, tail of a hare, and the feet of a goose. Greater Beast, by comparison, also has a chimeric form: the body of a soldier, the head of a wolf, and the wings of an angel.
Eligos
Dynast Grausherra is based on Eligos, a Great Duke of Hell and the 15th demon of the Ars Goetia. Eligos is related to wars and soldiers, and he attracts rulers of nations. By comparison, Dynast disguised himself as the ruler of Dils. Supposedly Eligos appears as a handsome knight, and Dynast was reported to take this appearance in the Slayers novels.
Vepar
Deep Sea Dolphin is based on Vepar, a Great Duke of Hell and the 42nd demon of the Ars Goetia. Vepar rules over the waters and controls the waves and currents. She has the appearance of a mermaid. Deep Sea rules over the Demon Sea.
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Compare the Goetia sigils with the Plane Chart above. They’re different, but only slightly. What isn’t listed is that Bune actually has two seals, and is said to be able to command the dead (which got attributed to Hellmaster). I think one other of the Dark Lords has a second seal, but I can’t remember off the top of my head.
BTW, the runes that surround each Dark Lord’s sigil, spelling out their names, are a pretty random mix of all the runic alphabets (Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, etc). Dolphin’s is especially mangled with regards to that.
The Plane Chart itself is based upon the chart above it. It’s from the Rorisicians (spelling?). You can see where the sigils for Death Fog and Chaotic Blue came from.
There are a lot of these things in Slayers. The alternate plane chart with the two-headed bird with the seals of the four Dark Lords on one side and the Shinzoku on the other. When Lina is waxing poetical about the “talented sorceress” that brought down the Mazoku Barrier to Gourry in the first episode of TRY, there’s a drawing of an angelic looking woman which is based on some old art.
And of course the Seal of Solomon in the original post. What’s interesting to note is that they changed the Oroborous in the original from a single snake to two snakes–which has it’s own symbolism. I have no idea is this was deliberate or if it was just something they thought would be cool. (Someone like me, though, finds hidden meaning in everything.)
Something interesting to note is that in that same episode of TRY, there’s a shot of the Barrier before it fell (during the same scene) and has the seals of the Dark Lords at the vertices of the barrier. However, in the anime they’re in the wrong locations (save for Hellmaster).
This is so awesome
Rebloging for knowledge!
#KEEP THIS ALIVE
i dont think its a joke people on twitter have already said they cant access it anymore in some countries, and columbia records posted this:
A truly moving story via Gregory McKelvey. Removing police from schools is an urgent need, especially for Black students.
if beholders wore tee-shirts
Purple squad unite! 💜💜💜
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This is the most succinct, well-written piece of journalism I’ve seen in years, and it’s completely on accident.
I hope, I hope, they knew what they were doing. But probably not.
THIS RIGHT HERE
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybody’s head:
The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated
Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.
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I am SMASHING the reblog button
friendly reminder that gypsy is a slur and if y'all gadjo keep saying it i will fuck u up :-)
gadjo (non romani/roma people) can and Should reblog this, btw
I’m pretty sure I’ve reblogged stuff about this before, but I’ve got a lot of new followers since, so -- hey, new followers, if you didn’t know, now you know.
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Oh this is so good!
I’m gonna reblog this a million times.
oh my god.
let me share a memory with y’all. it’s from i guess 1978 or thereabouts. it’s high summer. i don’t remember where my mom was driving me, in our avocado green chevette, i just know there was a traffic jam that turned 35w northbound into a parking lot from horizon to horizon.
picture it – wait, you don’t have to use your imagination, this happened all the damn time back then.
every one of those damn cars was burning leaded gasoline. there were no emissions regulations. there were no safety regulations. there were just thousands and thousands of detroit steel shoeboxes belching visible smoke as they idled, engines loud and hot, here and there a radiator giving up in the heat, a cloud of burning oil rising.
i, a smeet of five or six, was choking on toxic smog.
i reckon it was about a half hour into the traffic jam that i first threw up. i remember a blinding headache, i remember being confused, i remember dry heaving with my arms and head hanging out the window, the green metal of the car burning my hands and my chin. i don’t remember passing out, but i’m told i lost consciousness before mom was able to get to an off-ramp, because there were no emergency lanes on the highways back then.
i lived. and life went on. what were we going to do, complain? if i’d died, the cause of death probably would’ve been recorded as heatstroke, not carbon monoxide poisoning.
i know i’m probably preaching to the choir here on tumblr. but i really wish i could tell that story to the people who think deregulation is no big deal. i wish they’d put themselves in my mom’s shoes.
or even just look at some old pictures, then look out the window.
ever notice how cityscapes used to have that orange tint and hazy aura? yeah, that’s poison gas.
remember how the mississippi river used to be a stinking soup of baby-shit yellow sludge covered with disturbingly stiff rafts of light orange foam?
i can’t even find pictures of the sludge and foam, i guess they didn’t end up on the internet. the smell was indescribable. that oily shimmer. the reek of dead things. people didn’t boat on the river for pleasure; it smelled too bad, it was too ugly, and you could get super super sick if you touched the water.
and now look at it.
i still wouldn’t want to drink it, but if i fell in i wouldn’t bolt for the shower in a panic, you know?
if the thieving billionaires get their way, we can kiss those sailboats goodbye, and learn the smell of toxic foam once more. the ultra-rich won’t even feel the extra money, they’ve already got more than they could ever touch, they just stash it in offshore accounts to rot, but the rest of us will return to a time of neverending nausea and weird cancers. a time when every elementary school class had at least one kind who’d been born with no fingers or their heart outside their body, and this was just… the way things were.
i’m sorry. i didn’t mean to longpost. it’s just. god. y’all have no idea how CLEAN everything is now, compared to when i was a kid. and these rich old men are counting on that, on people not knowing or not remembering how bad it was before regulation, not realizing how much we need these protections until it’s too late.
I enforce federal worker health and safety and pollution regulations.
When I was learning my trade, when my classmates and I were having a chuckle over the “well duh” level of specificity written into the Code of Federal Regulations (try “no hazardous material shall be stored in crew berthing” on for size), I will never forget the silence that followed when our instructor spoke these words:
“Your regulations are written in blood.”
These regulations were not written on a whim. They were written because someone thought they could cut costs by storing however many more pounds of a radioactive, toxic, carcinogenic, or whatever else material in the same rooms where the human beings they paid to transport those materials slept, and then did that, because no one was telling them not to.
They were written because people died. Horrifically. Because unregulated capitalism values profit over human life and suffering.
Can I say it again, for those not paying attention?
Unregulated capitalism values profit over human life and suffering.
Anyone who supports deregulation needs to read The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum (or watch the documentary). If only to learn about “embalmed milk,” a.k.a. milk preserved with formaldehyde, which killed thousands of children.
Regulations protect you from people who don’t care if you die as long as their profit margin is higher. Never forget that.
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I feel like I just got hypnotized
This is just incredible!!
I call witchcraft
Yes, I would like one hypnosis from the plague doctor please
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Linda Friessen Haute Couture Gowns
oh. Just…oh.
dresses i would wear to murder my husband and then take over his kingdom
In order
1: the Royal Wedding Dress
2: the Help, Please, My Husband Is Dead! dress
3: the funeral/Official Mourning dress
4: the To Lead This Kingdom In My Husband’s Stead Is A Heavy Burden, But I Solemnly Vow To Do So With Honor And Integrity, Long Live The Queen! dress
UK residents SIGN HERE on the government petition
https://transrightsuk.carrd.co/
https://uktransrights.carrd.co/
please, if you’re a UK resident, trans or not, please speak out on behalf of your trans family, friends. we suffer enough without the right to self-identify in the UK
if you aren’t from the UK please share this so that more Uk residents can see and speak up.
I know tumblr is america focused but PLEASE PLEASE reblog this, we trans folks in the UK have so much difficulty already. Please help us and reblog this.
