Backup to @TheSteadfastNarnian

I'm not sure what I'll put on here yet...

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone

[stuckinapril]

Doing it scared and doing it badly is one thing, but no one seems to talk about doing it alone. When you feel so isolated from your friends and your family but you have shit to do and you have to get it done no matter what. When your support system really is only you. For any myriad of reasons. We do not talk enough about doing it alone.

[housemousecooking]

Want guides? I do Guides.

💪 Doing It Alone

💪 Doing It Alone When You Don’t Have a Support System, This Is for You 🧠 1. Mental Anchors to Remember You are not broken because you don’t

Other things? Job, Food, Car, Home, Health, Money. Plus a request form.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Doing it alone the next 1,282 days

[freyapoststhings]

can y'all imagine the fire nation soldiers' reactions if toph was sent to one of those "fully metal and inescapable" prisons in the middle of the ocean like katara and haru were on in s1e6.

Like, imagine they're like "hahaha you can't escape! There is no earth here for you to bend!" And this little 12yo blind girl starts laughing her ass off in their faces and then she just makes a fucking hole in the ground and falls through it.

The guards spend the next few hours freaking the fuck out because theres a little girl somewhere in their walls and her haunting cackles are everywhere

[roguemortal]

The situation quickly evolves into a full on haunted house horror show, with Toph sealing all the exits, changing the interior layout, isolating the guards and hunting them one by one in ways that get reported as "the walls ate him!"

When the gaang arrive looking for Toph she specifically avouds them because they'll make her stop, so they wander through the creepy aftermath, hearing stories from the 'survivors' until they reach the deepest cells where they find all the guards crammed into one, a jumble of groaning voices and limbs jutting out, some scream for help as one wall twists outward, nearly striking the gaang to throw another guard in the cell.

Toph pops out of the wall, "Oh hey guys! Didn't see you there!" with a giant, shit eating grin on her face.

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

🤣

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[yahushuasworld]

[mytearsrricochet]

They’ve found the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Babies who die of SIDS have a significantly lower level of an enzyme, the purpose of which is to rouse the baby from sleep if necessary (such as the baby stops breathing). This is extremely huge science and medicine news. There is a biological reason. It’s not random.

[mayfriend]

Previously, parents were told SIDS could be prevented if they took proper precautions: laying babies on their backs, not letting them overheat and keeping all toys and blankets out of the crib were a few of the most important preventative steps. So, when SIDS still occurred, parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (...) Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death. 

"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.” 

Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS. 

"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.

(...) As the cause is now known, researchers can turn their attention to a solution. In the next few years, those in the medical community who have studied SIDS will likely work on a screening test to identify babies who are at risk for SIDS and hopefully prevent it altogether.

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

🔬🎉

[charlesoberonn]

Candace Flynn working as an intern in the Daily Bugle under J. Jonah Jameson.

Candace: When mom sees Phineas and Ferb swinging around the city with Spider-Man they're gonna be so busted!

J. Jonah: I like this kid.

[charlesoberonn]

Candace is gonna have a crush on Peter (who's also a teenager) but have a great disdain for Spider-Man.

Candace: So, Peter *brushes her hair back* I heard you had a thing for redheads.

Peter: Uh... I gotta go.

[craftyjellyfishcat]

also imagine Perry Platypus teaming up with shield like we've seen it before but like Nick wants Perry to take up some training so he'll be able to take on more difficult villains SHOULD the need rise

[greater-than-the-sword]

My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.

[sailforvalinor]

“Those of us who write, who sing, who paint, must remember that to a child a song may glow like a nightlight in a scary bedroom. It may be the only thing holding back the monsters. That story may be the only beautiful, true thing that makes it through all the ugliness of a little girl’s world to rest in her secret heart. May we take it seriously. It is our job, it is our ministry, it is the sword we swing in the Kingdom, to remind children that the good guys win, that the stories are true, and that a fool’s hope may be the best kind.”

- Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark

[gospel-art-project]

[walkswithmyfather]

Great stuff. Imagine those as headlines today? We'd think they'd been made up. The Bible is full of wonders. 😲

[saint-augustines-pears]

doomerism is sooooo lame btw you should look at a sunset and really contemplate it bro isn’t it astonishing that there is so much beauty in the world?? Evil is so easy and good is so hard but every single night there is a sunset did you ever even think about that

[saint-augustines-pears]

you get to live in a world where you get to reap fruits from works you didn’t sow. You are moved by a beautiful book you didn’t write. You are moved by stars you didn’t put in the sky. You are moved by a wedding you only attended and did not participate in all of these good things are there for you to see and delight in

And you’re called to participate in that there is literally no greater way it could be

[socialmaya]

[orwellsunderpants]

[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

[brunhiddensmusings]

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

[khantoelessar]

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

[purlturtle]

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

From The Atlantic.

[nightbringer24]

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

[ramblingsofachristiannerd]

So I just remembered that the Passover in biblical times was traditionally celebrated by singing Psalms 113-118 after the meal, as they commemorate the Exodus from Egypt as the rest of the festival. And that most people think that when Mark 14:26 mentions Jesus and the disciples singing a hymn after the Last Supper before going out to the Mount of Olives, it was probably these psalms.

And you know what those psalms contain? Messianic prophecy. Can you IMAGINE Jesus singing Psalm 118 -

"The LORD is with me, I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? The LORD is with me; He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies."

"The LORD's right hand is lifted high; the LORD's right hand has done mighty things!"

"I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done."

"Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter."

"The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad."

"Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD."

"The LORD is God; and He has made His light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join the festal procession up to the horns of the altar." (some versions translate this as tying the sacrifice to the altar)

-on the night He is to fulfill it?!?!

And then Psalm 116 -

"For you, LORD, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living."

"I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD."

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His faithful servants."

Imagine Jesus lifting up the cup and instituting the New Covenant. Stumbling carrying the cross. Being bound to the cross as a sacrifice. His right hand lifted high above the earth on the cross to complete the most holy service unto God ever performed. Now He is the gate to the Father through which the righteous may enter. Eyes fixed on the joy set before Him. With these psalms in His mouth.

Are you kidding me right now 😭😭

The devil ain't in the details. God is in the details. And when I think about how carefully He worked out every letter of His word and every second of His life on Earth. All I can do is worship.

[darklightthedragon]

reblog to tell your moots that even if they disappear from the face of the earth you will always remember them.

[sunnfl0w3rr]

mutuals if I like your vent post I promise I’m acknowledging your post and sending happy thoughts and hoping your ok bc I don’t know what to say and I promise I’m not happy you’re in pain

[radiqueer]

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

[ultrafacts]

According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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[mermaibee]

BOOST FOR THE SUMMER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

[1q8njk-deactivated20221112]

Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?

I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.

Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.

However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.

Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.

[inspector-loki]

Just incase!

[witchofobsession-deactivated202]

In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.

When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.

People seriously need to learn the signs.

[princedrewwrites]

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ really demonstrates how easy it is to miss drowning 

[strayfandomcollector]

I was a swim instructor to kids for about a year and a half a while ago, and I can tell you that it’s terrifying just witnessing a kid struggle to stay above water. They get panicky and noticeably distressed—usually a bit noisy too.

This? This is so much worse. You can’t see it or hear it unless you’re really keeping an eye out, and that’s terrifying.

So, reblogging to save a life!

[thesmileykate]

“i don't like everlark. peeta deserved to be with someone who is obsessed with him”

my sweet sibling in christopher… did we read the same books?

because if there is anyone obsessed with peeta, it is katniss "i would risk my life over and over and over again just so he can have a chance to be happy" everdeen.

[rosegardeninwinter]

I will remind everyone that the very reason we think so glowingly of Peeta in the first place is because it’s Katniss writing about him no one in Panem is more obsessed with that man than his partner of over twenty years