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thinking about “you haven’t met all the people who will love you” and like!!! you also haven’t found all the things that will make you happy!!!! there will always be new authors and musicians and artists whose work you will one day discover and love!!!! there will always be new hobbies and skills for you to learn and feel fulfilled by!!! there will always be new things around the corner that will bring sudden and unexpected happiness!!!!!!!!!!!
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
Yearly Reminder that C.S Lewis encouraged his fans to write fanfiction about Susan Pevensie becoming a friend to Narnia and reuniting with her family once again.
Literally inviting his fans to write Susan’s adult, angsty character development with a happy ending.
Do your duty fans. Write that fanfiction.
Do yourselves a massive favor: practice asking for help BEFORE it's an emergency.
I am a social worker. I have worked in community mental health and in home-based healthcare. And it is much, much easier for me to help you when the situation you're in is not yet a full-blown crisis.
"I'm out of money and have been for a while and now I haven't eaten for three days." This is a crisis. A crisis where I'm likely going to have to put you in the car and take you to the nearest food bank--except food banks require appointments now, and the next opening is in four days, so you're staring down the barrel of a week with no food. That's obviously not going to work, so, let's call eight different food banks until we've found one that has an appointment the next day...except it's in the neighboring county and you can't drive. So now I'm calling your doctor to try and brow beat an emergency plan of care update out of him so I can come back the next day and drive you to the food bank. And we haven't even started on the "constantly broke" part of the problem.
"I don't think I have enough food to make it to my next paycheck. I have (xyz) in my house and that will only last until (date)." This is bad, but not a crisis. We have a few days. We make you an appointment at the food bank and contact your brother to make sure you have a ride there. Now we can spend our visit talking about what bills are causing you the most problems and make a jump on a long-term solution, like looping in a community action agency to cover your utilities and getting you an OTC card from Medicaid to cover some of your groceries every month.
"I'm ten months behind on rent, and my landlord said I have a week to get out, or the cops will throw me out. I don't have the money, and if I get evicted, I have nowhere to go." This is a crisis. Every single thing we do here is going to be some version of a Hail Mary. In Michigan, we have the state emergency relief fund for rent issues, but process time is well over one week. There are community action agencies that we can call to assist you with payment, but they are unlikely to have sufficient funds to cover nearly a year of back rent. We can contact legal aid clinics to try and prevent your landlord from evicting you, but they may look at your case and determine that too much "fault" lies with you. Most likely, I'm going to have to put you in touch with homeless shelters and the public housing office.
"I'm two months behind on rent and I don't think I'll be able to pay next month either." This is bad, but not a crisis. This is solvable. We have time to apply for SER, or put you in contact with community action agencies. We have time to review your finances and see if you qualify for a public housing wait list or other forms of ongoing rental assistance. We have time to talk about a million possible adjustments to try and ease the burden of your rent.
"I am the sole caregiver for my elderly parent who has dementia and is emotionally volatile and fully dependent on me. I have not slept through the night in weeks and I have not had an actual break for over a year. I am having screaming meltdowns multiple times a week and I am threatening self-harm unless someone comes to collect my parent and take over all caregiver duties." This is a crisis. This is a crisis where the ethical code of my profession demands that I call 911 and report the conversation to them. They will likely come to the house and interview you. If they determine your threats were serious, they will have you forcibly committed to a psych ward. Your parent will either be dumped into a random hospital or rehab center, or left in the house on their own. Upon release from your psych hold, you will be expected to resume caregiving duties as though nothing happened. Except, now, adult protective services is actively investigating you, because it was determined you may be an ongoing danger to your parent.
"I am the sole caregiver for my demented parent, and I have not had a break in a couple of weeks, and I feel angry and weepy most of the time." This is bad, but not a crisis. We can get you in touch with volunteer groups for respite, and apply for state funded programs to get more day-to-day help, and talk about long-term planning for when the dementia symptoms get worse. We can get you the phone numbers for crisis lines and enroll you in a support group.
Obviously, you can ask for help at any point. Don't use this an excuse to never ask for help. If you always wait until it's a crisis, fine, you have free will. But you are ALLOWED to ask for help BEFORE you're in a blind panic, and it is always easier to get help when you aren't screaming and sobbing because you think your life is over.
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Prompt 3: family
reblog and @ someone who probably needs this reminder….
ITS DECEMBER
ITS JANUARY
ITS FEBRUARY
ITS MARCH
ITS APRIL
ITS MAY
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Just finished rereading Project Hail Mary again and it’s really interesting that Stratt is not a scientist. She’s an administrator, a politician, a leader. Not a scientist. She’s surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world, and they’re speaking in very science-y terms, and she has no idea what is going on. So what does she do? She turns to Grace and asks him to explain it to her. And he does, he explains the very complicated stuff in a way she, a non-scientist, can understand, because he’s a teacher. That’s what he does. It works very well from a narrative perspective because you, the reader, also don’t know what all this stuff means, so Grace explaining it to Stratt also explains it to you. But I also think maybe this is part of the reason Grace became so important to Project Hail Mary, why Stratt dragged him around everywhere- and she really does take him everywhere with her- not in spite of the fact that he’s a junior high school teacher, but because of it.
b just wear the seatbelt
Mmmmmmm
I gotta naysay here. Seatbelts do a LOT of harm. Not everyone can wear one and not everyone wants to risk it. Just among my own friends and people I know in general; 4 females had a breast cut completely or partially off due to a seat belt. 6 people had their throats cut, to an obviously non-lethal degree. 2 had their stomach’s cut open to a horrifying degree that I won’t elaborate on.
Not even counting the uncomfortably awkward belt locations for particularly large, small, fat, skinny people. Females with large breasts get the joy of holding the belt in place or adjusting it every couple seconds.
They’re awkward, uncomfortable, painful, and can often cause the injuries in an accident. Sometimes it’s just better to forgo the belt.
Those injuries caused by seat belts more than very likely would have been deadly had they not been wearing them. To have enough force to cut skin or cut off a breast in an accident is far more than enough to cause someone to go flying through the windshield of a car, to slam them into the steering column, or through a window resulting in deadly injuries or causing an even bigger accident for other drivers now that your body is in the road along with your crashed car. Are you really going to risk being a smear of ground meat on the pavement because your seat belt was a little uncomfortable or it might cut you? Then I got good news for you, there’s a wide variety of devices made specifically to make seat belts more comfortable and reduce that risk.
These make it so that your seat belt won’t cut your neck, a simple sleeve of padded fabric that velcros around it, meaning you can put it anywhere on the belt.
This one does something similar, by readjusting the positioning of the seat belt to move it farther away from your neck and hey, helps a bit with having boobs in the way.
They even make ones for children too.
Boobs still in the way? While it’s pretty silly looking, this helps keep the seat belt in place so you don’t have to keep adjusting it.
And if you’re overweight, they make seat belt extenders so you can still be safe.
But maybe you’re still unsure, then listen to the CDC and all of their sources.
“More than half of the people killed in car crashes were not restrained at the time of the crash.1 Wearing a seat belt is the most effective way to prevent death and serious injury in a crash.Seat belt use is on the rise. Laws, education, and technology have increased seat belt use from 11% in 19812 to nearly 85% in 20103, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. “
“Most drivers and passengers killed in crashes are unrestrained. 53% of drivers and passengers killed in car crashes in 2009 were not wearing restraints.1Seat belts dramatically reduce risk of death and serious injury. Among drivers and front-seat passengers, seat belts reduce the risk of death by 45%, and cut the risk of serious injury by 50%.4Seat belts prevent drivers and passengers from being ejected during a crash. People not wearing a seat belt are 30 times more likely to be ejected from a vehicle during a crash. More than 3 out of 4 people who are ejected during a fatal crash die from their injuries.5Seat belts save thousands of lives each year, and increasing use would save thousands more. Seat belts saved almost 13,000 lives in 2009. If all drivers and passengers had worn seat belts that year, almost 4,000 more people would be alive today”
Or this one
“ The number of those who escaped injury [by wearing a seat belt] increased by 40% and those with mild and moderate injuries decreased by 35% after seatbelt legislation. There was a significant reduction in soft tissue injuries to the head. Only whiplash injuries to the neck showed a significant increase.”
Or this
“ Fifty-five percent of those killed in passenger vehicle occupant crashes in 2008 were not wearing a seat belt…”
“Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury by almost 50%. For children, the risk of fatal injury is reduced by 71% with the use of child safety seats.“
“Of those thrown completely out of a vehicle in a car crash, 75% died. Only one percent of people totally ejected from their cars had on a seat belt during the crash. Over 30% were not wearing seat belts.“
Conclusion? Wear your fucking seat belt. Tell your kids to wear their fucking seat belt. Tell your friends and family to wear their fucking seat belts. Time and time again it’s been proven that you are significantly more likely to survive a crash if you’re wearing one. Most people think they’re uncomfortable, but when you’re in a crash it can save your life. I’d rather be mildly injured than dead.
Wear your seat belt.
2017 and people are still trying to spread the myth that you don’t need to wear a seatbelt.
People really don’t wear a seatbelt????
This reminds me of a story from WW1
When they first introduced Helmets to the troops fighting in trenches the number of head injuries suddenly skyrocketed and people wanted to take the helmets away again.
Until they realized that the reason for this was the fact that most of these head injuries would have been fatal if it wasn’t for the Helmets.
You always need to look at the bigger picture.
Do not forget about survivorship bias. The only reason those people are here to complain about seatbelts is because those seatbelts kept them alive in the first place. Always, ALWAYS wear your seatbelt.
WEAR YOUR DAMNED SEATBELT
It drives me nuts, personally, that all of the adults who insisted that I wear a seatbelt as a child Now as adults refuse to wear seatbelts themselves. Now I have to sit there and play the grown up to people 30 plus years older than me insisting they put their seatbelt on every time I’m the driver. I just took a road trip with my parents, and literally it was every single time we got in the car I had to tell them (My mom in particular, who kept randomly just taking her seatbelt off while we were zooming down I-95 and made a big face every time I told her to put it back on - you’d think after a while she’d figure out that she could not do it secretly, because I have a newer car and the moment a passenger takes their seat belt off while the car is moving it starts screaming at you until the person puts their seatbelt back on).
Why are people like this? Le sigh.
I’ve been in two car accidents where the car I was in was completely totaled. My sum total of injuries was a friction burn in the second accident because my arm was on the rubbery plastic arm rest on the passenger side door.
One involved us skidding on ice, rolling over, and hitting a frozen pond hard enough to crack the ice and start to sink.
The other involved us getting T-boned because a lady blew right through a stop sign at top speed.
In the first one, the only one injured was the family dog, who couldn’t wear a seat belt and was thrown out the back window. My mother, siblings, and I were all wearing seatbelts.
In the second, my mother suffered several broken ribs and brusing to her arm, hip, and neck. Her husband behind her was okay.
We were all wearing seatbelts.
I hate riding in cars and refused to go on school trips as a small child because the school buses didn’t have seatbelts.
Had somebody NOT been wearing a seatbelt during the first crash, they would’ve been thrown against the ceiling and the side windows.
Had my mother not been wearing a seatbelt during the second crash, she would’ve been thrown across the car and into me.
Had her husband not been wearing a seatbelt during the second crash he would’ve been thrown across the car and into the window.
Seatbelts are not just for your protection. They’re there for the protection of other people in the car and in the environment around you so that you don’t become a couple dozen pounds worth of high velocity meat missile.
For anyone who’s thinking, “But what if I have the kind of accident where I have to get out of the car, and my seatbelt gets stuck?”
That is why I have one of these attached to my rearview mirror:
It’s called a Resqme, a combination window-breaker and seatbelt-cutter.
I haven’t had to use it, but apparently it does work:
(Apparently it might not work on the laminated glass of a Tesla car, but that is yet another reason not to have a Tesla.)
“In the first one, the only one injured was the family dog, who couldn’t wear a seat belt and was thrown out the back window. My mother, siblings, and I were all wearing seatbelts.”
When I was going in to the hospital for one of my pre surgery appointments, I shared an elevator with a guy in a motorized wheelchair with a massive neck brace who made a point of telling us to wear seatbelts. He had stopped while driving home to talk to a friend, and then decided he didn’t need to put his seatbelt back on for the last two blocks to his house. He got hit by a drunk driver and broke his spine when he was thrown out of his seat. Docs said it probably would have only been pulled muscles and bruises if he’d had his seatbelt on. Wear your damn seatbelts.
Some more info on canine car safety:
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the obligatory trolley problem post
Man, I just finished reading Project Hail Mary and I'm just thinking about the moment Grace comes back to save Rocky from Rocky's perspective.
Like, you've just said goodbye to your best friend. Forever. After everything you've been through, all you've learned from each other, coming up with a way to save not one but two suns, you're both going to your respective homes and you're literally never going to see him again.
But then your engines start failing. And you've seen this happen before. This is what happened to Grace's engines. Your fuel is infected. And now you're stuck in a solar system that isn't your own, with no way to get home, no way to call for help. You're truly alone in the universe.
There's no one to watch you sleep. There will probably never again be anyone to watch you sleep.
Your only hope is that someone from your planet sends another ship, but the chances are so unlikely. This was your planet's only hope and you've failed them.
You think of Adrian. How you miss them. You think of how bad the world is about to become and hope that they escape the worst of it. You try to only think of them happy.
You think of Grace, on his way home to save his planet. Or maybe not, if the taumoeba have infected his ship again. You feel helpless. There's no way you could get to him to warn him. He might be as stranded as you are.
But no, you won't let yourself think of this. Grace is smart, and his ship isn't made of xenonite. He'll have figured out a way to contain and fix the problem. He's on his way home to save his sun. To save his people. It's the only hopeful thought you have to cling to so you cling to it with all of your hands.
And then there's a knock on your hull. It's not the random banging of space stuff hitting your ship. Those are deliberate knocks, like the ones you've gotten so used to over the past few months.
It can only be one person.
And then like some kind of miracle, Grace is standing in front of you again. He tells you you're going home. That he's taking you home. That you'll feel your planet's soil beneath your feet again. That you'll watch your Adrian while they sleep again.
He'll never again see his home, he doesn't know if his plan to save his planet will work, he'll probably die (not if you have anything to say about it) but he says it doesn't matter. Because his friend and his friend's world needed saving and he was the only one who could.
You're not alone in the universe after all.
And despite your difference in biology, despite your different atmospheres and planets beneath them, you know Grace will always be family.
