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Hey guys.

For physical and mental health reasons I’ll be taking a break from tumblr. I don’t have any real idea when I’ll be back. Maybe in a week, maybe after my surgery. I don’t know. I’m sorry I can’t really give more info then that, I’m just. Really not doing well. I’m sorry.

Please take care of yourselves and stay safe.

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New Moon in Gemini

Date: June 3rd, 2019

Rulers: Mercury, Air, Mutable

Regions of Focus: Mind, Thinking, Communication, Travel, Lungs, Shoulders, Breathing

Affects: racing thoughts, psychoanalyzing everyone around you, restlessness, insomnia, social media drama, arguments and confrontation, mental energy, impulse traveling, transportation delays, issues with technology, communication, and vehicles (anything that you can use to put out or gain information, socialize, or move place to place with), mental clarity and focus, black and white emotions

What It’s Good For: organizing or cleaning your space, planning ahead of time for important matters, cleaning out social media clutter, checking up on or improving your method of transportation, putting ideas to use, replacing your phone, computer, tv, etc., writing / blogging, new hobbies and interests, traveling, catching up with old friends and distant family members, divination, therapy, learning to understand emotions on an intellectual level, solving conflict

Crystals: howlite, selenite, yellow or green aventurine, clear quartz, jade, citrine, apatite

Herbs: spearmint, honeysuckle, basil, clover, lavender, parsley, lemon grass

Incense / Oils: lemon, spearmint, lavender, bergamot

Colors: white, yellow, green, silver, blue

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Please fund Rape-Axe, the not-so-new anti-rape device.

Rape-Axe was invented by Sonnet Ehlers/Bryant, a medical researcher from South Africa who has seen many victims of sexual assault throughout her career. 

The device is inserted into the vagina like tampon. It has “razor-sharp” teeth that, if an attacker were to enter in the vagina, the device would then attach itself to the attacker. The rapist would “be almost fully incapacitated by the pain caused by the embedded barbs”. Even if the penis would grow flaccid, the barbs would still be attached.   

The only way the barbs could be removed is by a clinician. Obviously at that point, the attacker would be identified as a predator and likely be arrested and convicted.  

Unfortunately since its discovery, the Rape-Axe device has not been able to be on the market due to lack of funding. They have a GO FUND ME and accept PayPal on their website. 

Please help get this device on the market and help victims of sexual assault and catch predators everywhere. 

Keep sharing and donating! This device could help so many

She’s only raised a bit over 4k in the last two years. 

Please make a donation if you can, or save this until you can donate! Think of how much everyone’s lives would change if this became a thing

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reblog against any aesthetic or theme you may have!

#rape mention#booooooost
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One thing about the whole “I need to shock audiences and surprise them” mentality going on in media currently is that, not only does it sacrifice character arcs or having the narrative make sense for the sake of “surprising audiences”, I feel it also punishes the audience for trying to engage with the material.

Good world-building and foreshadowing should reward people for noticing small details such as names or places or even guessing what a character will do.

Since it is a general rule in Tumblr to use ATLA as an example of good writing, I want to point out to Azula’s first appearence in the show.

We first see her in a flashback only for a moment where she does not say anything and her identity is not even hinted at. But to those who pay attention, you can gather that her design is too unique to be just a background character, she must have some importance down the line.

You can also see that her reaction to Zuko being punished is similar to Zhao’s and the opposite to Iroh’s. This manages to establish plenty about her.

And then the season finale reveals she is Zuko’s sister.

One of my favorite things about people’s blind reaction to ATLA is when they notice Azula’s flashback cameo and say “hey, she seems happy Zuko is being scarred for life. Wonder if she is important in some way” then discover who she is and go “the girl enjoying Zuko’s suffering was his sister!!?”

And that is good payoff. Because it is something that actually rewards people for engaging with the material. It gives them positive feedback that tells them there is value in engaging with the material beyond just consumption. That there is value in rewatching and see what one missed.

The need to “shock” audiences is the opposite of this. To have a character or story seem important only to drop it unceremioniously because “it was unexpected” is the opposite of that.

 It tells them “you tried to guess what was going to happen? to think rewatching would help you understand the work better? you are stupid for doing so.”