Just A Quick Note From Your Friendly Neighborhood Bookworm/indie Author

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!! NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE… Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911. Rather than sharing another joke please contribute by broadcasting this which can save a person’s life! Be prepared and become part of the solution. Get your free next-of-kin notification card today. Click here: https://www.InCaseOfEmergencyCard.com/

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

repeat after me:

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

tumblr is the reblog website

this is not instagram or whatever other like-based social medium, likes don't matter that much, your experience is not shaped by an all-knowing algorithm, but by you and reblogging is the lifeblood of this godforsaken corner of the internet

if you love tumblr and if you want to show your appreciation for the creators of the content here, you reblog

where to start reading green lantern from a humble gl reader [who truth be told isn't an expert AT ALL]:

*the purpose of this list is to provide several places to get you excited about some of the green lanterns you will get to know, so you feel it's worth it to invest your time into reading longer arcs/books. this is not meant to be an exhaustive list as "every single good green lantern story in existence"

mosaic world (green lantern (1990) #14-17 + green lantern mosaic (1992) #1-18; a guardian of the universe, driven mad by loneliness, kidnaps john stewart and begins terraforming oa by kidnapping entire cities from planets all across the galaxy)

emerald twilight (green lantern (1990) #48-50; origin of parallax. you can get away with not knowing the death of superman because of doomsday in the 1990s, but it provides a lot of context regarding why coast city specifically)

green lantern: circle of fire (2000) [reading order found here; the world is attacked by a mysterious figure known as oblivion, can kyle, along with other green lanterns from divergent timelines, defeat him]

green lantern corps: recharge (2005) #1-5 [i know i know it's written by geoff johns and this is following hal's "redemption arc" but there are legitimately good kyle & guy & kilowog moments in this limited series; as well as the first appearance of soranik, a doctor from korugar, struggling between her duty to her patients as a doctor and her duty to protect the greater community if she accepts the power ring]

the omega men (2015) #1-12 [this is a controversial pick, but i do stand by it because it offers a surprisingly thoughtful critique of the military industrial complex and how even after kyle telling his experiences on vega to the general, he still lauds him as a hero, oblivious to what kyle is trying to say. in my mind this is one of the better written stories of kyle as the white lantern]

far sector (2021) [a 12 issue mini-series featuring sojourner mullien, as much a detective as she is a gl, solving a murder that threatens the harmony of the planet she's stationed on]

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

Inb4 they change the start of The Incredibles because he throttles his health exec boss

Reblog this if you support sex-averse and sex-repulsed aces, including:

Aces who never want to have sex

Aces who had sex in the past but don't desire it anymore

Aces with sexual trauma who feel like their trauma ties into their asexuality

Aces with sexual trauma who don't feel like their trauma caused their asexuality

Aces who don't want to talk to you about sex

Aces who don't want to hear about sex

Yes even aces who do not want to engage with any sexual content and don't want it in their own personal spaces

Yes even aces who express the desire to have more spaces for queer adults where their boundaries are met (on top of the queer spaces that exist, we do not want to sanitize your existing spaces ffs)

If you cannot be normal about these people existing, if you believe they're a threat to our community and to how we're viewed by people who aren't aspec and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, you are not an asexual ally. Yes, even if you're aspec yourself. Especially if you're aspec yourself.

Because it's been pride month for 4 days and I'm already seeing people trying to throw us under the bus or pretend we don't exist because that makes the ace community more palatable to exclusionists and people who swallowed too much "aces are puritans" propaganda.

Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from