Workin on it

Yaqui y Mayo

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I mad agree with this.

[madameblack]

This reminds me, if y'all haven’t heard of therapyforblackgirls.com please visit if you need a therapist. You can search by mental health need, location/distance, insurance, etc. I believe there are some that provide a sliding scale payment method for those without insurance.

If you’re not quite ready to make the jump, there is a podcast you can listen to as well as articles and links to help answer some of your questions about mental health and/or therapy.

The purpose, as I understand it, is to provide a place where black women can go to find culturally sensitive therapy. Some specialize in family/couples as well.

Take a look.

[imfemalewarrior]

For any black Women following me! 

Taking care of your mental health is another important factor in your overall health. Fighting for good mental health is a fight worth doing, and is just as difficult, if not moreso, than physical fighting. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[anarcho-techno-deactivated20200]

[kingjaffejoffer]

Murderers from Oakland Police Department attempting to show solidarity with the community they’ve terrorized.

[spidaerman]

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

WHAT COLOR ARE MIRRORS

[firelordzuko]

let’s reflect on this

[ra-ccoon]

fun fact! mirrors reflect each color equally, except for green. if you have ever seen a mirror perfectly aligned in front of another mirror, a.k.a. an infinite mirror, you can look through it and see that it becomes greener and greener. therefore, mirrors are technically green!

[t0nyt0nychopper-deactivated2014]

holy shit

[petermorwood]

The glass is greener over here. Not a typo.

If you look edgewise through a sheet of glass you see that it’s green because of iron impurities (Google for it). Reducing the iron reduces the green.

Perfectly aligning mirrors to multiply reflections also multiplies the apparent thickness of the glass, and the green tint becomes more apparent the “deeper” each reflection seems to be.

Science is like history: it was never this interesting at school. :-)

[elodieunderglass]

Yep! And this is because - I’m sorry to say - mirrors are not a unique or separate substance with magical properties. Mirrors are silvered glass. They have two colors: the color of the silver, and the color of the glass. The “silver” doesn’t have to be silver, though it usually is because mirrors are traditionally made with silver nitrate, because it’s a whitish metal. You can have mirrors silvered in gold or black or red. You take literally any piece of glass, pour a coating of silver on it, seal it, and call it a mirror.

You have to seal it because otherwise it tarnishes and spots. Even though the glass protects it from air, the silver oxidizes just like any other silver, which is why antique mirrors have that funky age-spotted look.

Mirrors used in science are usually pure clear glass with no impurities (so the glass has no color) and are silvered in gold or aluminum, so they are white or gold. A warm-toned mirror would have a pink glass and would make things have a rose-gold look. Phryne Fisher, in the books, has a mirror with pink glass.

(Mirrors silvered in silver - that is, most mirrors you’ve seen - are probably faintly grey from the silver and faintly green from the cheap glass, but it doesn’t need to concern you at all - even if you noticed a strong color, you’re often so used to looking in them that your brain edits out any discrepancy - like how your nose doesn’t get in the way of your vision even though it’s right in front of your eyes all of the time.)

[beezelbubbles]

My grandmother had a mirror that was silvered in gold. It was a little disconcerting. The silver in mirrors is why vampires don’t have reflections. (And why the cutlery at Castle Dracula was made of gold.)

[elodieunderglass]

IS THAT TRUE ABOUT THE REFLECTIONS BECAUSE IF SO THAT CHANGES ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING???

[zamboni-whisperer]

It’s true!  (Source is The Journal Of I Read It Somewhere One Time, so take it with a truckload of salt, but I’m pretty sure it was a published book and not the internet, so like, only a pickup truck, not a dump truck.)

Watsonian explanation:  Silver as an entity and/or concept was upset about being used to pay Judas, so as some kind of compensation God gave it evil-fighting powers, and this is why vampires don’t have reflections in silvered mirrors as well as why werewolves are killed by silver bullets.  (Also works for vampires not showing up on film, because silver nitrate, although obviously that isn’t part of the ~*~original folklore~*~ and also doesn’t explain digital cameras.)

Doylist explanation:  A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties- the only ones I remember are garlic and silver, but I think there were others- so supposedly when anti-vampire treatments helped somebody out of a decline or whatever they were actually helping fight off an infection.

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

Ahahaha I love the conversations we have

[idhren]

A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties

[fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan]

So would that mean vampires are weak to antibacterial soap?

[thetruenomenfictus]

The power of hand sanitizer compels you!

[ultralaser]

antimicrobial soaps were just banned by THE VAMPIRE CABAL

[corruptedmarquess-deactivated20]

@unseelieaccords @t-raith @tarnishedcoins @harry-the-lizard

[unseelieaccords]

Does that mean that a vampire would see themselves in a gold mirror but not a silver one?

[amalthea-oberon]

What about a gold mirror with antibacterial soap or something sprayed on it?

And if it’s the silver in the cameras that made them not show up on film, that means that digital is entirely different (unless they use silver in the manufacturing - which i’m pretty sure they don’t - or if some rich person has a silver encased camera - but that still probably wouldn’t work because the lense couldn’t be encased in silver otherwise it wouldn’t work) so basically we need a modern story where the Vampires are having to come up with clever things to stay out of photos where possible because DIGITAL, but there’s that one vampire who photobombs everything and is famous on the internet for it because he’s literally everywhere.

@chipofftheoldsoul @moonlitfandom @marian-ette @iviegh @megupic

[nanodash]

Some good scientific discussion in this thread

[praise-the-lord-im-dead]

I’m 100% here for vampire hunters ferociously wielding hand sanitizer and cheap plastic spray bottles full of cleaning fluid.

[marlynnofmany]

“THE POWER OF WINDEX COMPELS YOU!” *spritz spritz* *vampire hisses like a wet cat*

{(Side note: I left this tab open, scrolled to the bottom, and completely forgot how we got here from the color of mirrors.  Tumblr science is fun.)}

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

Fun addition: DSLR digital cameras still use mirrors to flip the image into the viewfinder (and do some fun light flippy shit). The Vampire would not show up when you look through the scope but would appear in your finished photo because the mirror gets flipped out of the way when you take an actual picture. Most digital cameras now are mirrorless (there’s no viewfinder, you look directly at the screen to see what you’re photographing). HOWEVER there are some trace amounts of silver in traditional LCD displays (mostly in the receptor strip… which may impact?) and plasma displays contain a lot of silver so the only way you would be able to see the vampire is if you printed a picture out on paper.

[petermorwood]

This gets more interesting and convoluted every time it crosses my dash… :->

[aunti-christ-ine]

They knew in 1912.  💀

  [  http://www.snopes.com/1912-article-global-warming/  ] 

1912 called   Said we told you 100 years ago   you are screwing with the climate with your coal.

[bluerayofsunshine]

the Snopes article is well worth reading. People were discussing this stuff back in 1896.

[nyokoko]

So it was known and yet…

[systlin]

105 years later, people are still shoving their fingers in their ears and screaming “NO I CAN’T HEAR YOU”

[llovinghome]

plum trees

[downwithneocolonialism]

[mckitterick]

Updates:

“Where Are They Now? A Year Later, Mixed Fortunes For Panama Papers Line-Up.”

“Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption, was killed in a car bomb.”

[tiddiebaby-deactivated20210816]

i will never be over this

[thatadult]

why do rich people always start crying when people say they’re rich or are critical of their privilege and say “my parents work REALLY hard, my parents work SO hard for everything we have” like bitch do you think… poor people.. don’t work hard lmao? you think your parents are the first people to work hard?

[noahnomore]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

Because I keep getting messages from people who didn’t google it.

[gemstone-gynoid]

[anarcho-gamerist]

[pinkmisspiggy]

oh to be a stage girl in the 30s sitting in my uncomfortable outfit, looking all feathered & positively dazzling in a dressing room packed with other feathered n positively dazzling ladies, sighing because my good stockings have ripped again & having another one of the girls touch the rip on the back of my thigh with tenderness before she tuts & says ‘that’s too bad, sugar. let’s see if i have some that will fit you’. oh to try on the same tights that have been on her legs & to have her say ‘the trick is petroleum jelly’ before she makes me wiggle them down so she can get out a tub of vaseline and make me shine from the waist down & then tell me we’re gonna be stars together one day and we don’t need anyone else but each other and for me to climb over all the snoring girls late at night to lay right next to her & hold her tender hands & say ‘yeah, ok, just me and you’

[gayingupspace]

[gahdamnpunk]

Burn these corporations down!!

[urbanfarmingmichigan]

Y’all ever heard of copy right? You know there is other varieties of potatoes to grow they the ones bred specifically for lays potato chips?

[theatsymbol-deactivated20210220]

hows that boot taste

[windexcereal]

If anyone every tries to lecture me on why copyrighted plants are a good thing I will kick them in the throat

[laylayde]

[esaindigena]

My best and worst trait is that I’m able to forgive someone for what they’ve done to hurt me as soon as they’ve done it. No need to have actually apologized yet. But man, after enough times you just don’t get the same me.

[esaindigena]

I still don’t regret a second of it and I think that’s what allows me to smile in spite of how jaded this was supposed to make me feel.

[esaindigena]

How do you say, “Bismillah” before you kiss someone and then ice them out?