Just want to share with you all (because I didn't know this and most people I've mentioned it to didn't know about it either) that if you're in the US and you have health insurance the back of your insurance card will usually have a phone number on it for a 24/7 nurse advice hotline. Really useful for when you can't quite tell if you're experiencing a medical emergency or not. Again maybe I was just under a rock but I'm 25 years old and I just learned about this last night so. My psa. Ok that's all love you bye

It has come to my attention that I did in fact know about this. But if you like me forgot I don't think it hurts for me to remind you. I hope this helps a fellow hypochondriac out

just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled

i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school

10 Non-Lethal Injuries to Add Pain to Your Writing

New Part: 10 Lethal Injury Ideas

If you need a simple way to make your characters feel pain, here are some ideas: 

1. Sprained Ankle

A common injury that can severely limit mobility. This is useful because your characters will have to experience a mild struggle and adapt their plans to their new lack of mobiliy. Perfect to add tension to a chase scene.

2. Rib Contusion

A painful bruise on the ribs can make breathing difficult, helping you sneak in those ragged wheezes during a fight scene. Could also be used for something sport-related! It's impactful enough to leave a lingering pain but not enough to hinder their overall movement.

3. Concussions

This common brain injury can lead to confusion, dizziness, and mood swings, affecting a character’s judgment heavily. It can also cause mild amnesia.

I enjoy using concussions when you need another character to subtly take over the fight/scene, it's an easy way to switch POVs. You could also use it if you need a 'cute' recovery moment with A and B.

4. Fractured Finger

A broken finger can complicate tasks that require fine motor skills. This would be perfect for characters like artists, writers, etc. Or, a fighter who brushes it off as nothing till they try to throw a punch and are hit with pain.

5. Road Rash

Road rash is an abrasion caused by friction. Aka scraping skin. The raw, painful sting resulting from a fall can be a quick but effective way to add pain to your writing. Tip: it's great if you need a mild injury for a child.

6. Shoulder Dislocation

This injury can be excruciating and often leads to an inability to use one arm, forcing characters to confront their limitations while adding urgency to their situation. Good for torture scenes.

7. Deep Laceration

A deep laceration is a cut that requires stitches. As someone who got stitches as a kid, they really aren't that bad! A 2-3 inch wound (in length) provides just enough pain and blood to add that dramatic flair to your writing while not severely deterring your character.

This is also a great wound to look back on since it often scars. Note: the deeper and wider the cut the worse your character's condition. Don't give them a 5 inch deep gash and call that mild.

8. Burns

Whether from fire, chemicals, or hot surfaces, burns can cause intense suffering and lingering trauma. Like the previous injury, the lasting physical and emotional trauma of a burn is a great wound for characters to look back on.

If you want to explore writing burns, read here.

9. Pulled Muscle

This can create ongoing pain and restrict movement, offering a window to force your character to lean on another. Note: I personally use muscle related injuries when I want to focus more on the pain and sprains to focus on a lack of mobility.

10. Tendonitis

Inflammation of a tendon can cause chronic pain and limit a character's ability to perform tasks they usually take for granted. When exploring tendonitis make sure you research well as this can easily turn into a more severe injury.

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tumblr is the worst designed website on the fucking planet bro

All jokes aside, I actually really love that feature. Because when I don't have a blacklist, I come across shit that pisses me off on the regular, and it always takes me by surprise, and that pisses me off worse. But when I have a blacklist, I know exactly what I'm getting into when I click that button! I'm poised to skip to the next post if it's just as annoying as I think it is. But also, there's certain words I blacklist because if they're from most people it's annoying but this one person has Cool Thoughts or a niche interest that happens to have a word that overlaps with Annoying Thing, so I want to see what they have to say. I like having the option!

tldr: putting the power back in the user's hands is almost never the wrong decision.

Geology of Natural Disasters and How to write them into your fictional universe.

So, you want to write about a natural disaster to advance your plot and torture your players/characters even more? Let me tell you how, accurately.

I feel like unless it is a volcano, natural disasters are a pretty slept on plot drivers, and some of them are really cool and unique! Today, I will talk to you about land slides, earthquakes (And earthquake related disasters), and volcanoes.

This indicates that there is soil creeping slowly over time, and it may lead to a major landslide.

2. Earthquakes: Probably one of the easiest things to write, earthquakes can happen anywhere, but they are most common in places that are tectonically active areas. There are about three types of environments you can expect earthquakes to be common. The first is just rugged mountains, if your landscape looks like this, you should write in earthquakes. Associated hazards could be landslides, avalanches, and large falling rocks.

The next landscape could be a thin mountain range, next to the ocean, very scenic, but very dangerous. Essentially, I am describing a subduction zone environment.

Earthquakes in these areas could equal a couple different associated disasters. Scenario one: A very large earthquake happens, and the ocean begins to recede. This is a tsunami, enough said. If you are writing a tsunami though, please, please, do not write it as a large wave, thank you. Also, a common way people are hurt by tsunami's are from them going into the ocean because they don't understand a tsunami is going to happen.

Scenario two: A large earthquake happens, your characters are in a valley and suddenly the ground begins to liquify as the ground shakes, once the shaking stops, the ground becomes solid like nothing ever happened, except everything has suddenly sunk into the now hard ground. This is called liquefaction and it typically happens in areas that have loose dirt or lots of saturated soil.

Scenario three: There are a lot of small earthquakes, they do not cause a lot of damage, but you begin to notice that one of the isolated mountains has a plume rising. Earthquakes can indicate lava moving underground and the filling of magma chambers.

The next environment that can host lots of earthquakes would be regions that have a lot of really deep valleys and small mountain ranges (not cone volcanoes), but overall seems pretty flat.

This indicates a transform fault like the San Andreas. If you want to hint at there being earthquakes in the area, you can show fence posts that are suddenly several feet out of line at a dilapidated farm or something similar.

(These earthquakes are different because they are cased from sideways movement, not an up-and-down movement this hint can only be used for this environment). Volcanoes would not be found here, but liquefaction and landslides could still occur here.

4. Volcanoes: If you thought earthquakes had a lot of information, volcanoes do too. First you have to ask yourself, what kind of volcano you want to have, what kind of eruption style? So lets break down the kind of eruptions you can have and what their landscapes look like. Hawaiian Shield volcano: This will produce a smooth fast lava, the landscape typically is pretty flat, but there will be small cones and the rocks can have a ropey or jagged texture and the rocks will be almost exclusively black to dark red.

Stratovolcanoes: These will be solitary mountains, typically, that look like perfect cones (Picture shown in earthquake section). These will have large ash cloud eruptions and pyroclastic flows, they may have some lava, but typically most damage is done from the pyroclastic flows (think Pompeii). Some hints of these, other than describing the cone features (which can be hidden by other mountains), would be to talk about petrified wood! Trees can get fossilized in the ash and I imagine it would be very strange to find this rock that clearly looks to be a piece of wood, but its a rock. Subcategory- Calderas: Used to be a large stratovolcano, but they erupt so explosively that the entire cone collapses and creates a basin.

There are a lot of kinds of volcanoes out there, so forgive me for just putting an infographic and then talking to you about these really rare types of eruptions that I feel like people should know about.

Okay lets talk about blue lava (kind of) and black lava

You will notice the lava is still red in the middle of this image, during the day these would look like a normal eruption, but at night the burning sulfur would make it appear blue. Some cool features other than this, would be that any water in the area would become very acidic and burn the skin due to sulfuric acid. This would again be really cool if you are trying to describe a 'cursed' land.

Black lava: This happens only in the east African rift I believe, but it is a carbonatite lava, but if you are writing in a rift valley (where the continent is tearing apart to form a new ocean) this might be a cool feature. The lava will cool white and will quickly erode, it makes for a very alien landscape!

Anyway as always, this is supposed to be an introductive guide for the basics of writing geology to create cool landscapes/features into dnd or fictional universes, if you are a geologist please understand my oversimplification of tectonics, I didn't want people to run away.

Also, natural disasters have long-lasting effects. I've encountered a fair amount of stories where a volcano stops being a problem after it stops erupting, and only erupts once. In volcanically active areas, this is often not the case. Even if you don't write the actual event into your story, the downstream effects can be just as significant.

The eruptions in Iceland on the Reykjanes peninsula from march 2021-present have all been lava flows, but their placement (20 minutes drive from the capital and 4 other towns) has meant that they've all had wildly different effects on people. The first eruptions happened up in the mountains far enough from urban areas that they became "tourist eruptions". Most of the disruption, aside for some earthquakes, was due to people visiting the volcano and getting injured on the hike/roads blocked with traffic. There were also worries about the lava flow reaching one of the major roads, although that would not have cut off the peninsula from the rest of the country.

Eruptions continued to happen every few months, but it wasn't until Nov.10th 2023 that the town of Grindavík had to be evacuated of its 3,700 inhabitants when a volcanic rift was predicted to open inside the town limits. Many had in fact already left, unable to sleep or rest at all with the ongoing earthquakes. This was after weeks of incredibly powerful earthquakes that could fully rip houses apart and left huge rifts through the town. These rifts turned out to be deadly; one man who was part of the work crews securing property throughout the town after evacuation, fell in. His body has never been found.

The first in-town eruption destroyed a few houses that went under lava, but the most lasting effect is that as of Nov.9th 2024 it remains mostly uninhabited. Most houses have earthquake damage or are otherwise destroyed. A scant handful of houses are occupied by people who refuse to leave, but others have settled elsewhere through government assistance. It's effectively a ghost town.

The more recent eruptions in Sundhnjúkagígar have threatened infrastructure, such as the Svartsengi geothermal power plant, and the main highway to the peninsula. Damage to the plant last winter resulted in the town of Reykjanesbær losing heating and running on backup electricity during a cold snap, for about a week. The road to Grindavík has been destroyed more than once and had to be rebuilt over cooled lava to provide access to emergency responders.

Things like wind direction can play a huge part. Eruptions release a lot of toxic gases. Reykjanes is a very windy place, and sometimes the fog gets carried out to sea, or across to the capital, or across any one of the other towns in the area. Proximity also plays a huge part; people living far enough away might only have to sleep with their windows closed, and feel some mild respiratory irritation. Meanwhile, some people closest to the volcano temporarily fled their homes back in August due to dangerously high toxic gas levels. Children, old people, those with asthma and other breathing difficulties are going to be worse affected. Also, gas will collect at the lowest point in the landscape, which can be deadly if you happen to be there.

Then there are knock-on effects that are practically impossible to see coming; last September, for instance, the lava flow advanced towards an old U.S. military training site. This area is to this day covered in landmines and other unexploded ordinance. First responders dealing with the possible hazard of the lava rolling over the main highway then also had to deal with searching and destroying unexploded landmines. Because no-one wants to find out what will happen if a minefield gets covered by lava. On top of this they had their hands full with idiots hiking in the area to get closer to the the volcano for a quick peek. Basically, when writing, think about the history of the place your disaster is happening in, and how it will be shaped by both the geological and cultural landscape. And think about how people will respond to it.

Even those events that have not outright displaced people have resulted in people moving away. I've had five family members move across the country because of the eruptions; some couldn't stand the earthquakes, others got fed up after the extended power outage. All of these things have long-term effects on people's mental health, generally as depression, anxiety or PTSD.

A volcano is an incredible thing to witness; from afar or up close. But living with it in your backyard, you're probably going to develop a rather different relationship to it than just simply awe or terror. If you're interested in how eruptions and other disasters (different types, historical periods, etc) effect people, I suggest looking up first-hand records of people who experienced them.

When I was in Puerto Rico, about a year after it was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, I saw and heard about after-effects that are seldom written about. A woman in Rincón told me that the green hillside we were standing on had been all brown because the hurricanes had driven salt water onto the land, killing most of the plant life. And yet, by the time I was there, it was green again because hurricanes have always been a fact of life in the Caribbean, so the native plants are evolved to recover from them. I was also told that it was no longer possible to get a loan to build or buy a wooden house there because wooden buildings had taken so much more damage than concrete buildings in the same area that lenders were unwilling to take the risk of a wooden house lasting through the term of the mortgage. A woodworker was selling furniture he'd made from a 200-year-old mango tree that had been killed. There were damaged houses still fenced off and marked with yellow tape because the insurance companies were dragging their feet about paying. They didn't want to pay every claim at once because there were so many that the company might have a losing year, which would affect the price of the stock, so the policyholders were having to sue. The landscape was dotted with unrepaired damage, from a picnic shelter that was nothing but four steel posts to the sad remains of a wind turbine.

Most significant of all was the loss of population as large numbers of people had moved to the mainland. Rents were very cheap and there were undamaged buildings standing empty for lack of tenants. Babies were not being born in Rincón anymore because the maternity center had closed; if you went into labor there you had to go to Aguada or La Playa to give birth with medical attendance. It was the only place I've ever visited where Uber drivers urged me to move there.

The frequent tropical storms had even affected the cuisine. The native peoples never got into grain crops because a storm could so easily take the whole harvest away. Root crops were the starchy staples, and to this day Puerto Ricans love their root vegetables.

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anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

Also don't take your cell phone with you if you are participating in activities you would like the government to not know about, or keep it fully powered off and I'm a faraday cage if you must have it for emergencies.

lindt is being sued in a class action in the united states because they are one of MANY brands of chocolate that tested high for heavy metals. and this is despite lindt claiming their chocolate is "expertly crafted with the finest ingredients". no recall was issued after the tests came out. lead and cadmium can fuck the body over BAD.

lindt's genius defense is that they are going to stop saying the whole thing about being expertly crafted with the finest ingredients, so nobody can complain about the heavy metals in their chocolate anymore! and that makes it okay. source: trust me bro

(now please drop the lawsuit thanks)

consumer reports test results of a bunch of different chocolate brands <- original report being referenced

even more chocolate brands that were tested for heavy metals

- Now, to blow up one laser satellite, so everyone stops being evil. You know, typical Thursday stuff.

...It's Blue.

If we hold Primary Color Thunderdome, Blue crushes everyone else. In fact, this is an important property of blue and it's one of the most convenient ways to perk a bland illustration the fuck up.

The fault is not within ourselves, but in our stars.

Humans, on average, have drastically more Long and Medium wavelength cone cells in our Retinas, meaning most of our cone cells are the kinds that see Red, Orange, Yellow and Green really well. You'd think that would make us really good at distinguishing those colors, and give Red and Yellow and edge in the primary fight, right?

Well, we ARE really good at distinguishing Red and Yellow... but there's not that much red and yellow light compared to Blue Light.

If you remember 5th grade science at all, you might remember that Light is a bunch of rays of energy traveling in waves in from space, mostly the Sun. The more energy these rays have, the more frequently the wave waves, and the farther the light travels.

Now, the sun emits a full spectrum of light, but after 93 Million miles and smacking into the atmosphere, a lot of the lower-energy red and yellow light waves have been scattered and broken up, but the blue ones are still going strong, so the mix of light the human eye actually receives is a little red, a little more yellow-green, and a SHITLOAD of Blue.

Hence, we need a TON of Long-and-Medium wavelength receptors to be able to pick up red and yellow at all!

But this also means Blue is stupidly OP.

A "Pigment" is "A Physical Chemical Compound that reflects specific wavelengths of light." and in physical media, which all utilize pigments, Blue is King. Even a smidgen of blue pigment has tons and tons more blue light hitting it to reflect and will reflect more light per pigment compound than any red or yellow pigments you've got.

FURTHERMORE, our ability to see, and distinguish different types of red and yellow light gives blue another advantage- because we CAN see red and yellow so well, we can also distinguish between many, many, MANY types of blue light- if there is ANY red or yellow light being reflected with that bluelight, we'll spot it, and our brains will say that "WELL! That blue is CLEARLY different than THIS blue!", which is probably why Blue has got so many distinctions in language- "Goluboy" vs "Siniy" in russian, The continued disputed use of "Indigo" in english, and "Blue vs Cyan" in Digital work.

I am not entirely up on the physics of digital art, but given that the color wheel in clip studio looks like this:

(Say hello to the Split Primary Color Wheel everyone!)

-I'm willing to bet the Physics-based Dominion of Blue holds true.

A cool thing about this Physics Glitch is that you can use "Electric Blue" (From about where I have the Marker placed in the above picture to the line between True Blues and "Teal") as an underpainting color, and it will peek through in an extremely subtle but attention-grabbing way that can make a dull-colored illustration much more interesting to look at.

In traditional media, that means laying down a fine layer of Electric blue media and then drawing/painting over it.

In digital, once you've done your lineart, mask off the subject of your work and put a layer of the most intensely blue-blue your eye sees under the lineart, and then color in your subject on a layer above your blue, by drawing in the color manually or leaving the color layer *just a bit* translucent so the blue peeks through in a handful of pixels. if it's a full scene, pop the blue layer between your lowest color layer and your paper layer. let it leak through, just a bit, and it'll make everything pop.

You can also use electric blue as a color-shift in your lineart, or sprinkle it in wherever you like- a little goes a long way, but I extremely recommend it.

dash is dead im teleporting to the past

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2016 dash here

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people will see a fandom thing and be like "why isn't this a fanfic" "why is there no fanfic about this" my brother in christ, because you're not writing it

These are old and I’ve posted them before.  But, since it’s Halloween, it’s relevant.  :)

- I think I can handle myself.

- Let's put that to the test, shall we?

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