imagine banning woman boobs only to blast every user of your website with non stop ball shaving ads
i forgot the name of the pink pfp person on here the creepy ass piggy bank stuff or whatever does anyone know their @
AU where everything is the same except Venti is actually tone-deaf (Xiao is canonically dead in this au)
lol @ people going in the replies to tell cc's to delete kingdom content... like (1) you're being a corporate shill for mnet and (2) do you seriously believe that mnet is going on tumblr.com to check whether there's a gif of choi san breathing with 75 notes
reblog and put in the tags which characters currently live in your brain rent free
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
- “Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
- Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
- Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
- Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
- From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
- Head low in the water, mouth at water level
- Head tilted back with mouth open
- Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
- Eyes closed
- Hair over forehead or eyes
- Not using legs—vertical
- Hyperventilating or gasping
- Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
- Trying to roll over on the back
- Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
BOOST FOR THE SUMMER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
faikitty
Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?
I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.
Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.
However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.
Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.
Just incase!
witchofobsession
In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.
When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.
People seriously need to learn the signs.
I was almost drowned once in a public pool in sixth grade while my friend was swimming right next to me and the lifeguards were there too, I struggled until i grabbed onto something to hold and finally was able to breathe, I asked my friend “why didn’t you help me i was drowing there” and she said “i thought you were swimming”, and the lifeguards didn’t even notice too so this is a very important post that needs boosting
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atla | zuko | wait for it
Sadly, this is as HD as the ATLA episodes get, but I hope you give the video a shot anyway and maybe experience some of the emotions I had making it. Big thanks to @worddevourer for having this idea and my twin sister @splickedylit for consulting with me during its creation!
Song: Wait For It from Hamilton Show: Avatar - The Last Airbender
zeegoesthere
This vid wrecked me. I knew it was going to wreck me the second I saw the song choice, but I still was not prepared for the extent of the damage. This is such a beautiful way to paint Zuko’s character arc and its contrast with Aang’s. His mistakes, his motivations and his triumphs are just expressed so beautifully, the fire imagery was amazing, the way it implies Zuko’s feelings about his kingdom and the war are really fantastic. Plus it’s just very well edited and put together, technically speaking. Fantastic job, this is now one of my favorite vids ever.
I always tell myself that I’m not going to cry when I watch this and I’m always WRONG.
not to sound like dresiarz ale mamy tradycje jebać policje kochani
Fandom Adults need to accept the fact that young children are and always will be on the internet and adjust what they do to keep it safe for them. there’s no point in saying “well they SHOULDN’T be on here unless they’re 13” because guess what they are! the internet right now is a space with kids. whether or not you think it should be doesn’t matter. if it’s not a kids show then tag the stuff kids shouldn’t see. if it is a kids show then stop. stop making porn of kids shows you fucking creeps
when i was younger i had no concept of what was for me and what was only for adults. you cannot expect a child to understand that a creator only meant for adults to see something without an explicit warning. i hate when people say “curate your own experience” because the people that say that don’t do ANYTHING that would make that possible. how is a child supposed to innately know that they aren’t supposed to see something? kids cannot “curate their own experiences” because kids don’t fucking know they should do that - and when they do, you motherfuckers refuse to tag things properly and outright interact with them directly with porn straight on your blogs. my final message: stop making porn of kids shows stop promoting harmful content about kids shows
I'm going to put this as simply as I can.
Azula didn't go crazy in the finale because she's a remorseless, sadistic psychopath like her father. That is fucking bullshit and you have to be incredibly dense to think that.
Azula went crazy because unlike her father, she does have a heart. She went crazy because she couldn't handle the feelings of guilt that finally caught up to her, and you can't have those feelings without a heart. She went crazy because she was pissed and angry at her loved ones leaving her.
She'd been raised to be heartless and yet she still had one. That was Azula's tragedy, and to reduce that complexity to "she was just a psychopath" is such an incredible disservice to the story.
The entire gay fashion spectrum:
- Floral button up
- I might be a vampire, who knows?
- Too much jewelry
- I am insecure about my body :)
- Ken/Polly Pocket incarnate
- I walked right out of the set of an 80’s sitcom
- Yasss Queen
avaarts
three gals with buns
the gals !!!
me, 11 chapters deep in a 25 chapter slowburn fic at 2 am, eyes burning and the phone keeps slipping out of my fingers:
this call out was fucking unnecessary
I literally did this last night (I got to sleep at 3:00 am)
and then all of the comments I leave are about how much I cried 🥴🥴
I theorize that queer people might love the italicized “oh” moment in romance novels and fanfics because we experienced it in real life, when we realized we were queer. We’ve had that moment where all the pieces clicked together and suddenly everything makes sense. We’ve stood dumbfounded as a ton of little things suddenly stand out blazing in hindsight. We’ve realized how obvious it’s been, all this time, and suddenly everything seems different and terrifying and wonderful. We’ve had that seismic shift, learning something that can never ever ever be unlearned. And genuinely, the only thing you can really say is oh.
It’s part of our love language. I will use it in every fanfic I write until I die.