old-screnwriter-deactivated2022:

injury reveal + sentence starters

• “ how bad is it? “ “ it’s bad. “
• “ let me have a look… “
• “ how long have you gone like this? “
• “ i need to show you something. “
• “ don’t freak out. “
• “ are you okay? “
• “ is that blood? “
• “ holy shit… how long have you gone like this? “
• “ who did this to you? “ [silence] “ hey, look at me. look at me. who did this to you?
• “ tell me who did this to you. “
• “ i’m not sure what happened. i woke up and it was there. someone must have gotten to me while i was sleeping. maybe an animal, or something. “ “ really? that’s the excuse you’re going for? “
• “ let me look at you… “
• “ i’m sorry that i didn’t tell you. “
• “ someone needs to take a look at this. “
• “ this doesn’t look good. “
• “ does that hurt? “
• “ are you okay with me touching you? “
• “ oh my god… are you hurt? “
• “ does that hurt? can you feel your fingers? “
• “ let me know if there’s anything i can do. “
• “ looks pretty rough to me. “ “ i’ll manage. “
• “ it’s nothing. hurts like hell but – i’ve dealt with worse. “
• “ do you need any help? i’ll bandage that up for you. “
• “ let me clean that for you… “
• “ i’ve got a survival kit in my car. let me go grab it. “
• “ i can’t believe you kept this a secret for so long… how come nobody noticed? “
• “ hey, let me take a look… “
• “ are you equipped to deal with this? “ “ absolutely not. “
• “ it’s more or less healed up. “ “ are you sure? it looks infected to me… “
• “ you need to see a doctor. “
• “ it doesn’t hurt. i don’t know if that’s a good thing. i might be numb from the pain. “
• “ i’ll take care of you, all right? i’ve got some bandages in my car. “
• “ don’t touch it! “
• “ how did this happen? “
• “ be prepared. this’ll sting like a motherfucker… “
• “ i injured myself. it’s completely my fault. “
• “ you don’t need to do this, seriously. it’s just a scratch. i’ll be fine. “ “ yeah, but out here, you get that thing infected, you’re dead before next week. “

sunflowersandmedusa:

To my pretty mutuals ✨

adamsvanrhijn:

which of these listed tumblr job types is yours

retail

food service (incl. restaurants, cafes, bars, cafeterias, etc)

teacher, professor, or childcare provider

engineer

parks and wildlife, outdoor research, animal husbandry, & farming

librarian, archivist, docent, or other “knowledge” hospitality

writer. like “regularly paid by an organization or clients” not like “aspiring”

artist, illustrator, graphic designer, ditto

healthcare and caregiving

you do not have a common tumblr job type listed above

vamprisms:

streaming companies will say um we’re increasing your subscription fee. no password sharing. no screenshots allowed. please subscribe to a separate channel for this movie and another for this tv show. free trial but put in your card details so we can charge you if you forget to cancel. this title is a rental only that’s 4.99 please. this title is not available in your region. you are begging people to torrent at this point Like ye are off the edge of the map matey here there be pirates argh argh argh 🦜☠️

gehayi:

atsuyuri-sama:

ocean-again:

cookiedoughmeagain:

Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

I think Doctor Emily Nagoski has a PHD but YEAH

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[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]

So how much is “adequate”?

Science says: 42 percent.

That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.

“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.

We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]

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Here’s the last paragraph, completed courtesy of Goodreads:

We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.

spacefinch:

Happy Pride Month!

janedoe297-art:

Prince Apollo was a fool and didn’t deserve her anyway.

prismatic-bell:

ankewehner:

prismatic-bell:

prismatic-bell:

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

I have a question about the “set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment” bit: What is your regular pretreatment?

For grease: Dawn dish soap and a toothbrush.
For blood: soak in peroxide, rinse, apply more peroxide.
For ink: alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is best, vodka is an acceptable substitute. Do not use colored liquor like tequila or whiskey. Aerosol hairspray will work in a pinch.
For red wine or grape juice: white wine.
For “what the fuck is that, anyway?” stains: OxyClean Max Force Gel Stick.
For “oh shit, there was a red shirt in with my whites” stains: I’m very sorry. Try bleach?


Spot-apply all of these. In other words don’t just toss your period panties into a sink full of peroxide, pour some peroxide over the crotch. Apply alcohol with a cotton facial pad or, failing that, a washcloth or kleenex.

Let it sit for five to fifteen minutes, then throw it in the wash. Try to use cold water; hot water will set stains.