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yk those little behavior chart things where you get gold star stickers if you behave well? the batfam has one in the cave

each batkid has a specific thing they get a star for doing/not doing

jason gets a star every time he doesn’t lethally shoot anyone (like, not causing any permanent physical trauma) / manages not to shoot anyone in general
it’s the same with damian but for stabbing/using his sword
dick gets a sticker every time he tells someone he’s injured instead of hiding it (he… doesn’t have very many stickers)
tim gets a sticker every time he admits he needs help instead of trying desperately to be perfect
steph gets a sticker every time she lets one of them check that she’s okay instead of brushing them off
cass gets a sticker every time she doesn’t put herself in pointless danger or take unnecessary risks
duke refuses to participate because he finds it weird and pavlovian, but he’ll still put some up for fun

they all get one every time they use healthy coping mechanisms instead of self-destructive ones

they make their own for bruce and he gets a sticker every time he actually talks about feelings/successfully comforts one of them

Jason: I think I got your lunch.
Jason: *pulls out a note saying: "I am very proud of you. Love, Dad"*
Dick: Oh yeah. I didn't think this was for me.
Dick: *holds up a note saying: "Be good. For the love of God please be good."*

Salem: At last! My dark purpose shall be- (Tug on her robe) Hm?

Somewhat: Tax time~!

Salem: Oh, uh, h-how much?

Somewhat: Secret~!

Salem: Why?

Somewhat: Just guess~!

Salem: S-Six hundred lien?

Somewhat: ...

J A I L

This is not like a fully completed thought but yk

So I've done my first aid + CPR a few times. And every single time I try and bring up scenarios for fat folks

Specifically like 'what if someone is too large for me to wrap my arms around then to do the heimleich'

And its incredibly rare I get a decent answer.

How absolutely insane is it that me, as a fat person, is asking how to have MY life saved or to save ANOTHER life, is an impossible feat if someone is fat.

Most of the time they tell me to 'just try anyways uwu'

There has got to be a better option.

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From a first aid and CPR trainer, who is also fat.

The heimleich is scientifically as effective as slapping someone VERY hard on the back. The only reason it's so well taught is the man that invented it did a lot of great PR for himself. It's also a bit easier for smaller framed people to get the necessary force in, because people are often extremely scared to hurt people, even in life threatening situations.

With larger bodied people, whether they be fat, tall, muscular, etc. If you cannot get your arms around them, literally just slap the shit out of their shoulders. You want hard, open palmed slaps right in the center of the shoulders or slightly below.

If they are too tall for you to reach that high, guide them to lean over the back of a chair, and then slap slap slap slap slap.

It's been proven to be just as effective through many studies. It just doesn't have a trademarked name and a dramatic effect in film.

If you have to do CPR on a larger bodied person, again, fat, body builder, tall and broad, whoever, the trick to finding where you want to put your hands if going to be to take your hand and shove it in their armpit. No seriously. Put your hand in their armpit, then drag it in a straight line towards yourself until you're in the center of the chest, then put your other hand beneath that one. This is where you push. Then you are going to move the arm closest to you out of the way so you can get closer to them, and get the leverage you need to press down for compressions. The more of your body weight that is over your hands, the better the compression will be. Act like you are trying desperately to pack the last of your clothes in a suitcase, and just slam down hard on their chest.

They will make *horrible* noises. You might even break ribs.

But a broken rib is better than being dead.

One day, perhaps, other CPR and First Aid instructors will actually know and teach this shit. But the medical field is filled with people who don't know, don't care, or just outright hate fat people. So while this information won't fix your complaint, I do hope it helps someone out there with saving their loved ones, should it ever be needed.

yk those little behavior chart things where you get gold star stickers if you behave well? the batfam has one in the cave

each batkid has a specific thing they get a star for doing/not doing

jason gets a star every time he doesn’t lethally shoot anyone (like, not causing any permanent physical trauma) / manages not to shoot anyone in general
it’s the same with damian but for stabbing/using his sword
dick gets a sticker every time he tells someone he’s injured instead of hiding it (he… doesn’t have very many stickers)
tim gets a sticker every time he admits he needs help instead of trying desperately to be perfect
steph gets a sticker every time she lets one of them check that she’s okay instead of brushing them off
cass gets a sticker every time she doesn’t put herself in pointless danger or take unnecessary risks
duke refuses to participate because he finds it weird and pavlovian, but he’ll still put some up for fun

they all get one every time they use healthy coping mechanisms instead of self-destructive ones

they make their own for bruce and he gets a sticker every time he actually talks about feelings/successfully comforts one of them

ID in Alt

I couldn’t stop thinking about all those “Justice League plays F/M/K with the local billionaire population and Batman must sit there and suffer awkwardly” posts so I decided to flip it round a bit

It’s a miracle I made it through this I was laughing so fucking hard the whole time

Sun: I think I’m coming down with something, I’ve been feeling nauseous lately.

Neptune: *Sips coffee*

Mercury: Maybe you’re pregnant?

Neptune: *Spits out coffee*

Sun: ...

Mercury: ...

Sun: I don’t know who’s the bigger idiot right now, you because you suggested it, or me, because i just had a heart attack.

……… different fantasy races should be impacted differently by each other’s alcohol

no more if this “fine elvin wine” shit, I am going to personally write a fantasy setting in which every human knows that elf booze tastes and feels like fantasy la croix. there’s barely even a flavor, and you’d need to drink a few to even get tipsy.

meanwhile, every human with a lick of common sense knows that you need to plan accordingly if you’re going to be drinking dwarven liquor, because it hits you hard and fast and you’ll lose feeling in your legs faster than you thought was physically possible. the hangovers are the stuff of legend.

the flip side is that elves are an entire race of (comparative) lightweights, and a whole gaggle of teenange elves can get piss drunk passing around one bottle of fruity human wine

I think there’s some compatability among drinks brewed by reptilian races (dragonborn, lizardfolk, tortles, kobolds, etc) although you run into similar translation issues as mammalians, but there is absolutely no crossover. like if a drsgonborn and a dwarf in a (very cosmopolitan) tavern were to switch drinks it would be a nonstarter.

“this is basically just a capri sun,” the dragonborn says, disappointed.

“cool, I’m pretty sure I just drank actual paint thinner,” the dwarf says. “get me to a hospital.”

humans and halflings are probably the most compatible drinkers of any two races, although halflings find most human wines, beers, ciders, etc, a little too dry and bland for their liking. halfling alternatives are very sweet, which makes them a huge hit among the ‘I like alcohol but I don’t want it to taste like alcohol’ crowd

I think it would be very funny if being drunk was like… a relatively new cultural development for gnomes? there’s just something about their wacky gnomish constitution that prevented them coming by it naturally (traditionally they’re more into a variety of mushrooms and other recreational plants) but once they started mingling more with more alcohol-happy races they learned VERY quickly and started opening, basically, turbo-breweries that are basically one part distillery and one part wizard tower. VERY popular job for young alchemists trying to make some good money, and the reason why gnomes are known (among other things) for operating the craziest night clubs

here’s who I think should be able to get drunk but become sober at will:

1.) sufficiently powerful paladins and clerics

2.) aasimar [all of them]

2.) very very few tieflings. it’s not universal at all, but few tiefling traits are. I know 5e has really solidified them as horns + tails + inhuman skin color but we need to be making them weirder 

3) Sober Orks are so comparable to other races idea of drunk that they’re assumed to have this power. they don’t.