Ok But Way Would Someone Pay You To Stop Doing This? It's So Cool And Fascinating

Ok but way would someone pay you to stop doing this? It's so cool and fascinating

SPIDER RAIN

let me introduce you to a few 100% real, totally unphotoshopped photos!

yep, that is REAL! spider rain EXISTS! and is a regular phenomenon! that happens and is documented! and involves MILLIONS of spiders!!!!! RAINING DOWN ON CITIES!!!!! THAT’S A REAL THING THAT HAPPENS UNAVOIDABLY!!!!!!!!!! i need to foam at the mouth in hysteria for a few minutes, but when I calm down i’ll give you some Spider Rain Science Facts  

THROUGH A RAPIST’S EYES” (PLS TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. It may save a life, It may save your life.)

An Article from Neena Susan Thomas

“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.

10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.

If u have compassion reblog this post. ‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand.

REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.

THIS COULD ACTUALLY SAVE A LIFE.”

I don’t know how to say this in a non-obsessed way, but I need the ao3 status updates to be beamed straight into my head whenever the archive goes down. I need that shit announced like we’re in a plane attempting to make a risky landing. Oh we’re down for another 20 minutes because of a server in the Pacific? Sure, thanks. I’ll just wait here.

Alright. I’ll love him.

I don’t think he’ll like it very much, though

and now, i bring you, my silliest most self indulgent oc in the world!!!!! made purely for the purpose of appealing to me and me only! his story goes as such:

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Echo (not his real name but we’ll get to it later) spent his childhood wandering the streets of his dead-end slum town, eavesdropping on whatever caught his fleeting interest. He was peering into a government building through a back window, when a door opens next to him and out pops a little mechanical ball. He pokes and prods at it for a moment, before it whirs to life, and- Woah!!!! it’s a sentient AI robot friend!!!!!!!

From there, his interest in science, engineering, and robotics grew. He and the AI—who he named Z—would work together on many a project throughout the years. They were business partners and friends, working their way up the ranks until they were well known and greatly respected figures in the world of robotics.

But the fame got to Echo.

He started to look down upon Z, seeing it as nothing but the tool that got him to where he was now. He was human, with infinite possibilities in life and the means to accomplish it all. But Z? It was just some lousy AI that he picked up after it had been discarded. He was the one who trained it, who fixed it, who did all the work. It was just there to give him the information, which he now had. So Z was useless to him. Just another thing in the way.

So Echo, in his self proclaimed glory, decided to divorce himself from the help of Z for good. He arranged a gaudy public display, where he would give a speech, and sever Z’s wires, killing it off for good. What harm could it do, anyway? He was the only one who knew how to fix it.

So the day comes. Echo is up on stage, listening to the claps and cheers of his adoring audience. Everything is going well. He gives his speech. He pulls the sharp dagger he’s been hiding from under his coat. He reaches over to sever Z’s wires as his final display, and-

He misses.

There’s a pain in his arm, a dizzy feeling in his head, and loud, horrified shrieks around him as the world slowly starts going dark. Echo wakes up in the hospital. He goes to sit up, and there’s a whirring noise, one he recognizes all too well.

It’s Z—who now seems to be attached to him, quite literally. Wires feed into his arms, mechanical parts doing their work to keep him alive. He looks at his arm, and it’s stitched all the way around, a huge scar where he’d cut himself. He’s not sure how he can still move it, something about cybernetics he read up about many years ago. He doesn’t know and doesn’t care to.

All he knows is that he failed. Z is still here, alive, and even more embarrassingly—keeping *him* alive. All because he missed one little swing of a dagger. How careless.

And so, utterly and completely humiliated, ostracized from his peers for his failure of an attempt at freedom, he only has one choice. Try and kill Z again.

Z—who is in such a state of disrepair that he isn’t even sure it’s the same thing he’d been about to stab however long ago. And he’s not completely a monster, so it’s not like he’s going to kick it when it’s down…

He gives himself a new name and a new purpose—to rebuild Z. To fix and reassemble it, all so he can finally get the satisfaction of finishing what he started and killing this wretched program once and for all.

He’s an Echo of his past self, completely and utterly consumed by one goal, kept alive by what he’d come to resent so much.

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yea so that was my silly guy :) he’s an egotistical maniac who thinks he’s better than his only friend and is simultaneously the biggest idiot in the world and the smartest guy in his field. i love him and i hate him and he makes me lose my mind

he’s also vaguely inspired by the song Brutus by The Buttress so yea (and he’s also very much language of the lost by riproducer core :))))

I feel like people are quick to characterize aventurine as the overly emotional half of the ship with ratio being the emotionally constipated one, but hear me out: yes I think aventurine is ruled heavily by emotion and ratio is ruled heavily by logic, but I think aventurine is very good at putting on a show and hiding what he’s actually feeling (not necessarily in control of his emotions, but good at hiding them). Not to mention aventurine is so traumatized he’s the kind of guy to say something incredibly concerning and then laugh and do a cartwheel, I think it would take a lot for him to be really emotionally vulnerable around someone. I don’t think ratio is as experienced at hiding intense emotions and even though the fandom LOVES to characterize him as a robot with no feelings, I have to disagree. I prefer to look at him more like…he prefers logic because it’s predictable and conclusive and safe. Emotions are wild and always changing and sometimes aren’t rational and that’s scary! It’s easier to isolate yourself and focus on your hobbies and your job and whatever because it’s predictable. That doesn’t mean he’s incapable of feeling things, though. I just think he avoids situations that could cause them because it’s unfamiliar territory and he’d probably view it as unproductive.

Believe me, I like the dynamic of ‘ratio is soft and patient and fixes aventurines broken emo soul one tender kiss at a time’ as much as the next guy (probably even more than the next guy tbh that’s my bread and butter) but I also like it flipped sometimes. I like the idea that when shit hits the fan, it’s ratio who’s an emotional mess and aventurine who’s stunted and can’t muster up a tear. I like the idea that ratio would be the one crying if they met up after aventueines stunt in penacony because he’s angry and relieved and upset and scared all at the same time and he doesn’t know how to showcase that since he rarely leans into his emotions, so it comes out as just yelling and crying and aventurine is like :3 ?? It’s fine, doc lol !! But the more it carries on the more he’s like oh this is like a serious emotional moment for him and I cannot fathom why another person would feel this strongly about me in any capacity what is he crying for

Anyways these two gnaw at my brain

Hi i liked this au a lot so so so i drew it smily face

Your design for Ratio caught my eye and i NEEDED to draw it so i did then i just HAD to draw Aven too, and since Topaz was there might as well right?

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