THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
So, on the AO3 “Cool Stuff” FAQ, there is a link to this document under “Posting and Managing Works.”
THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENT IN ALL OF HISTORY. Basically, it has a script in it that has a “Post to AO3″ option and it will go in and fill in ALL the HTML you need – italics, bold, paragraph breaks, you name it!
It has directions in it for how to use it, but it’s real simple. You just always chose “Make a Copy” when you start writing to make a new document that you can then re-name. Change the language to American English (or whatever language you use) and type away. Then right before you post, click the button, get all the code in there, copy, paste, AND POST.
It is literally so, so glorious and I want to tell everyone.
(Also, the AO3 Cool FAQ page has some other cool stuff too!)
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
this thing changed my life
Category: Uncategorized
what if we called “flat” soda “flaccid” soda instead
hey, tandem?
I’m out for the evening
ok i’ll wait
Tandem, come home and face the horror you’ve created
no
Movie Eddie: A Mess
Comics Eddie: A Mess but with a rockin bod
im cowboy. why? well now that’s just my little secret
Moon in Scorpio
thsi is terrifying how did you know that
Massive Food Recall Hits Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Kroger and More
Hey folks, another big recall just hit the states, for both refrigerated and frozen products. Read up, and be careful out there!
And if you need to stay updated, FoodSafety.gov has an RSS feed listed under Recalls & Alerts > Get Automatic Alerts.
now i gotta go thru my fridge
I love living in a country where every three days the FDA or the CDC has to announce which foods will kill us this week and which ones won’t.
This is a possible listeria outbreak, it’s no joke.
Please check the food in your fridge.
Massive Food Recall Hits Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Kroger and More
Let’s get this straight
Southern Gothic: Abandoned Churches, cryptic gospel signs, don’t go near the marshes, elusive and overly religious people that are probably Up To Something but everyone is too afraid to ask what
Midwestern Gothic: Something Lives In The Corn, broken down trucks, gravel roads that lead nowhere, empty gas stations placed between tiny towns with only one attendant who makes too much eye contact but never speaks
Southwestern Gothic: Animal skulls hung from posts, shacks miles into the barren desert that still look lived in but nobody is ever seen around, They Watch From The Mountains, shapeshifting creatures hiding in the brush
PNW Gothic: thick unrelenting fog, distant howls, a nearby branch cracking followed by abrupt cessation of all animal noise, ravens that beseech you with hauntingly intelligent gazes, dense forest that looks the same in every direction, impossibly large toadstools
Northeastern Gothic: the sea and the sky are both gray and go on forever, the hills are old and remember when they were mountains, autumn leaves rustling, tendrils of cold air, rattling windowpanes and cold rain, the color of the sky just before it gets dark
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?
I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?”
So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.
And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes.
Do good recklessly.
I think “Do good recklessly” would be fantastic word art to hang on one’s wall. Artistic people, go!
Just want to fill in some corrections to OP’s original post. It’s not exactly accurate (par for the course on tumblr, but hey, I have actual experience in traumas). Just as an FYI, when receiving patients after a car crash–or any sort of traumatic accident in which a patient arrives into the trauma bay–the CT is NOT the first thing a male or a female will undergo anyways. In order to ensure the patient is stable, we follow a series of assessments with ABCs, GCS, and pertinent vital signs. We then transition into a FAST scan (which is essentially a sonogram to check for any internal bleeding). This is given to both men and women, and often times (as this has happened to me on 3 separate occasions), you can usually tell if a female is pregnant, to the point of a few weeks gestation. At the same time all this is going on, nurses are drawing blood on the patient for Chem-7 and for females of child-bearing age, an HcG (aka a pregnancy test) can also be added. Next we roll the patient, assess their spine, and then X-rays are taken (which are not held for females pending HcG results because the amount of radiation is so little), and then we usually like to get all patients who are stable to a CT stat to assess for more internal bleeding/organ damage. While CT scans are not recommended during pregnancy, this is not a contraindication. And quite frankly, the reason a pregnancy test is required prior to CT in the inpatient or outpatient setting (less so in an emergent setting given the severity of the situation) is because hospitals don’t want to be sued in the event they don’t check the pregnancy status. Believe me, it’s happened.
And while some physicians may disagree, to me, my number one priority is the patient in an emergent setting. If that means the fetus may be harmed, then that’s the risk the mother and I will agree to take to save the mother’s life. And I’ve actually had a situation like this a few times in a trauma. So as a women in the healthcare field, I take offense to “medically being treated as the second most important person in your body” because that’s just simply not true.
And now, I can’t say this as a blanket statement to all hospitals. Because maybe another hospital has a different policy. But at the 2 large academic medical centers that I’ve trained at, this is what we follow.
Tl;dr: women aren’t treated as the second-most important people in their body in the medical field and the CT is not what anyone is immediately sent to post-trauma.
Some ideas for bad things that are white/light:
- lightning, very hot fire
- snow storms, ice, frost on crops
- some types of fungus/mold
- corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person
- clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person
- fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster
- bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places
- poison
Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:
- rich earth/soil
- chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat
- friendly animals/pets/creatures
- a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.
- a pleasant night
- hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person
- undisturbed water of a lake
- the case/container of something important
- valued wood, furniture, art
- velvet
Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.
*slams reblog like the fist of an angry god*
the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural
“The truth finds more comfort in the dark”
“The light can blind as easily as the dark conceals. The dark can protect as easily as the light guides. Neither are pure good nor evil, pure chaos nor order. The light and dark just are.”
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