CHASING AFTER SHADOWS

[kotoneshiomiofficial]

RAVEN. SHE/HER. 22.

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genderfluid trans woman and aromantic asexual lesbian

do not call me man, dude, etc. no masc terms

bigots of any kind along with pro/ship or anti/antis will be blocked

into armored core, guilty gear, persona/smt, metal gear, tarot, and other stuff

please tag bugs, insects, and spiders

kotone shiomi persona 3 portable is my favorite character ever. i love posting about her. ask me about her at your own peril

raven.txt is my original post tag, raven.art is my writing

blog theme by @/xuethms, image below commissioned from @/houndfaker

that's all! have fun <3

[image description: kotone from persona 3 portable holding out a can of red bull with impact font all caps text reading "rejoice 5sp upon ye".]

[stupidestasshole]

dont tell anyone but secretly i have wolf powers

[biologyweeps]

TICK PSA

Alright you guys, ‘tis the season again and I’ve already seen bullshit float about so here we go: what to do and what not to do when you happen to have a tick attached to yours truly.

WHAT NOT TO DO:

DON’T cover the tick in anything. Vaseline, nailpolish, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all suffocate the tick, making it panic vomit germs into your blood stream. That’s the opposite of what you want.

DON’T burn the tick. Same problem, plus the additional option of giving yourself a burn wound in the process. 

DON’T squeeze the body of the tick when you try to remove it. Again this empties the tick’s digestive system into your body. Bad. 

DON’T wait for the tick to detach itself. The longer it stays on you, the higher the chances it’ll transmit anything to you. Plus when ti detaches it may again vomit germs into you. 

WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO

STAY CALM. A tick hanging on you is not a reason to panick. You’re not going to keel over just like that, and if you’re unsure what to do, there are many resources on the internet on how to safely remove a tick, like this one from the CDC (aka the professionals)

USE APPROPRIATE TOOLS. These can be suitable tweezers (the pointy kind, not blunt tipped ones), tick removers (there are cheap ones out there, those you can buy at the vets are totally fine for use on humans, too!). Ideally you can remove the entire tick in one go, however if that doesn’t work and the mouth part breaks off in your skin, that’s not a terribly big deal and you can totally remove it separately after you got the body remove. Again, don’t panic.

KILL THE REMOVED TICK. But not by squeezing it. Flush it down the toilet, submerse it in alcohol in a container etc. Ideally if the tick has bitten you and not your dog, keep the tick around in a sealed container in case you start having symptoms and someone needs to identify the tick species. Also IF you start getting symptoms like the tell tale Lyme disease rash, HIT A DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY AND TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR TICK BITE. Do not wait this out, ticks can transmit a whole host of diseases beside Lyme, so be mindful of that, too! 

Some of those diseases you can actually get vaccinated again, such as tick born encephalitis. Check with the local authorities if you live in a risk area, and if so, get the shots to protect yourself. 

[t00tsmcgee]

Excellent post! I would like to add that ticks hide in tall grass and bushes mostly. They do not drop down from trees or jump to other people’s heads etc. Ticks aren’t designed to jump, they latch on somewhere on your leg and then crawl upwards in most cases. 

So be careful with bare legs and tall grass!

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

[prof-grace-aspen]

Recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  Recalled eggs were available to consumers at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and other smaller retail and foodservice outlets in these states plus Mississippi and New Mexico.

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the currently affected states.

[corvidcrowned]

Aigis wormupssss (+ yukari) (Ty for the suggestions everyone…<3)

[goatstrogen]

reblog to headbutt prev :]>

[sealstuff]

i have delusions about their childhoods

[decompose1]

an interesting amnt of people seem to think of intersexism as a "less bad" form of oppression for.... one of the only kinds of oppression that routinely involves mutilating infants and young children. and then a lifetime of very specific and unique medical abuse. it actually makes me feel kind of insane

[decompose1]

like. Trans bottom surgeries have to meet a pretty high standard- and that's a very good thing! People would not be getting these bottom surgeries if they were bad. Trans bottom surgeries are almost always very good, advanced, visually "realistic" (look close to or indistinguishable from natal genitals, depending on the surgery), and prioritize very good outcomes for function and sensation- genitals that work the way genitals should, feel pleasure (if desired), and heal well.

This is not true for IGM (intersex genital mutilation) victims. When i say intersex infants and children are being mutilated, i am not disparaging bottom surgery- i mean that the intersex ""corrective"" surgeries performed against our will do not meet the same standards. They aren't something we choose, they're forced on us. Victims of IGM are often left with chronic pain, issues with genital function and sensation, poor aesthetic outcomes, and scarring (which affects both the visual appearance AND can cause functional issues). These surgeries are completely unnecessary and done largely at the doctor's discretion, often without the knowledge of parents (either because they were not told or they were fooled), and the victim is almost always deeply unhappy (and often dysphoric) as a result. Doctors get to decide to mutilate us, lie to our families, and then also mistreat and abuse us for the rest of our lives. Further, outside of the surgical procedures, growing up intersex means routinely going through violating and invasive "inspections" of your genitals by doctors. I can recall having doctors, nurses, and volunteers demand to see my genitals as a young child, touching and examining them without my consent- same for my breasts once i hit puberty. Just about every intersex person i know can say the same. It's routine and constant medical and sexual abuse from medical professionals.

And that's not even getting into the social impact! Finding work is difficult when you're intersex. Dating is so much more dangerous when you're intersex. Intimacy is so much more dangerous when you're intersex. We have extremely high rates of childhood bullying, as well as extremely high rates of physical and sexual abuse. We're highly fetishized, both in broader society ("herm" porn) and even pretty significantly within the queer community. I hesitate to talk about my intersexness & my body in many spaces because of how many times talking about my body has resulted in people saying creepy shit about wanting my body and thinking people like me are ~sexy~, or asking invasive & often very dehumanizing questions. It's incredibly objectifying. It feels like i am not an equal to almost anyone, like i'm just some idea of a perfect sex toy with both parts and it feels awful. And everyone ignores it!!!! No one talks about it!!!! Everyone just brushes us off as this "lesser" issue, not as serious as things like homophobia or transphobia. We're always "collateral damage", "outliers", "edge cases", "accidental targets". And i'm sitting here trying to tell you we ARE targets! Society at large does not love us. It wishes to mutilate, rape, and abuse us. PLEASE love your intersex siblings. We're drowning and we need your help.

[c3meterycat-deactivated20260326]

idk i’m just a house cat don’t ask me

[ferricsailor]

notice how she is smiling. notice how tachyon is not present

[yikukoiyamai]

maybe one day i'll finish my psp playthrough, someday...

[nyaivie]

drew this for her birthday a couple months ago

[yourfavedrinkspilk]

Ahh Friday! I almost forgot! I'm away from home again, but I've still got a duty to fulfill! Today, it's

Raspberry Ripple Pilk

Well, she looks like she should. Reasonably brown. It smells of sherbert in a way - I've definitely smelled this before.

Yeah, it tastes like sherbert-y pilk. Raspberry ripple, ehhh maybe not. I suppose I'm picking up the vanilla, and a bit of the raspberry, but not strongly. It's quite good though

10/10. Yeah, I'd drink it again, gladly. Definitely better than the pepsi alone.

[zoazoaa]

If you are attracted to a girl it's important to show her sinister artifacts and relics

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[helpfarahfamilys-blog]

How much more can one family take?💔

I honestly don’t know what we did to deserve living like this. I don’t even know how to write this anymore.

It feels like we are not living anymore, we are simply surviving from one disaster to the next. Every time we think we can finally breathe, something else happens.💔

My mother finally came home after being in the hospital. After all the fear, the pain, the sleepless nights… we thought maybe, just maybe, we could finally breathe.😔

But before we could even breathe… My sister broke her arm today .She is in pain and needs an urgent operation to put a plate and screws in her arm so the bone can heal properly. The operation, hospital expenses, and medications will cost approximately $1,500 .

I’m tired of asking people for help. I’m tired of writing these posts. I’m tired of watching the people I love suffer while I stand helplessly beside them.💔😔

But what am I supposed to do? Tell my sister to wait because we don’t have the money?

Tell her to endure the pain because we have already asked for help too many times? I can’t

We have been through so much already. We have lost the normal life we once had. Even the smallest moments of peace have become a luxury for us .😔

$1,500 may be a number to someone… but to us, it is the difference between my sister receiving the treatment she desperately needs or continuing to live with a broken arm and unbearable pain .😔💔

I’m begging you , don’t scroll past us. help us give my sister the operation she needs.

Please, don’t wait for someone else to help us. If 60 people donate $25, we can reach the goal.If 150 people donate just $10, we can get there. Even $5 matters. Even sharing this post matters. 🙏

We are not asking for a luxury. We are not asking for anything unnecessary. We are simply begging for a chance to treat someone we love. A chance to see my sister receive the operation she desperately needs, instead of watching her suffer because we cannot afford it .💔🙏😔

Current process : USD 18,907 /$20,407

Vatted by: @90-ghost

Vatted by: @sar-soor

Vatted by: @fairuzfan

[save-farah-family12]

Please donate whatever you can and share the post 🙏

[youhavethewrong]

Perhaps this is an obnoxious take on my part, but video games should, above all things, prioritize the ability of being paused. At any point. Regardless of whether it's during a cutscene, a special animation, or a time-based puzzle. You never know when you're gonna get a phone call, or someone will need you in another room, or you get a sudden urge to go to the bathroom, or you hear your cat licking plastic, or whatever. Other entertainment mediums like books, movies, and music can be paused whenever you want. Why do some games not give you the same luxury??