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skindeeptales:

1. Do your research when choosing a tattoo and an artist.

  • Don’t rush yourself when choosing an idea. You’re going to have to live with it forever.
  • Most artists have a speciality, think about this when choosing one. If you want a photorealistic tattoo don’t choose an artist who specializes in American Traditional, for example.
  • Don’t ask to have your neck/face/hands tattooed if it’s your first tattoo, you will most likely be denied.
  • Look into the cost of the tattoo before walking into the shop, don’t sacrifice the tattoo you want to get a good deal. Save up to get the right ink.
  • Be prepared to be placed on a large wait list for the more popular artists.

2. Prepare properly on the day you get your tattoo.

  • Eat a full meal beforehand.
  • Many artists recommend drinking orange juice prior to getting inked.
  • Don’t drink alcohol beforehand.
  • Getting tattooed is a pretty intimate experience, don’t forget to shower.

3. Bring a good reference photo.

  • Bring in a high res photo if possible; at the very least a picture that is big and not blurry.

4. Don’t bring your entourage to the shop with you.

  • It’s fine to bring a friend to hold your hand, any more than one is rude and obnoxious.
  • Children are not permitted in most tattoo shops, leave them at home.

5. Trust your artist. 

  • The artist knows what they are doing, there is no need to be a “backseat driver.”

6. Check out the stencil design, body placement, and spelling before the tattoo begins.

via Inked Magazine

Inked Magazine

  • If you see something, say something. You aren’t going to hurt anyone’s feelings if you tell them that something is spelled incorrectly.

7. Be prepared to go through some pain, tattoos hurt.

  • Don’t be afraid to tell your artist that you need to take a break if the pain is too much. Nobody wants a passed out client.
  • Ribs, feet, hands, head, and the spine all really hurt.

8. Stay still!

  • We know that it might be difficult to do so, but make every effort to remain as calm and still as possible while getting tattooed. If you are jittery the artist won’t be able to create straight lines.

9. Tip your artist.

  • Most artists don’t own their shops and have to pay a percentage of the tattoo price to the shop.
  • Tipping anywhere between 10-20% should be fine.
  • If you really love the work don’t be afraid of tipping extra.

10. Take care of your tattoo once you leave the shop.

  • Tattoo aftercare is a crucial step in assuring you have a good tattoo.
  • Tattoos will scab and they should heal in 2-3 weeks.
  • Avoid sun and going in bodies of water for the first 2 weeks.
  • Keep the tattoo moist and clean as it heals.
  • Once it’s healed don’t forget to use SPF 50 sunscreen when going outside, you don’t want your tattoo to fade.

via Inked Magazine

For future reference!

THANKKKKK YOUUUUUU

that foot tattoo was THE MOST PAINFUL BULLSHIT I HAD EVER EXPERIENCED and it was my 7th freaking tattoo. 

i wish i’d seen something like this before hand to at least prepare myself. 

I had ZERO pain with my foot tattoo.. but this is a great guide!!!!

Gearing up for my ankle and this makes me at ease

I’ve got some work in the blue zones, and that shit is no joke.

I already got 2 in the yellow-orange area, I am aiming for one on the back… Good info OP!
ESPECIALLY THE AFTER-CARE OF YOUR TATTOO, DO NOT FORGET
YOU DON’T WANT AN INFECTED TATTOO

Palmers cocoa butter is absolutely amazing with healing tattoos 🙂

Source: skindeeptales

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xavea:

solarpunkarchivist:

death-limes:

coelasquid:

This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.

And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.

holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life

OK I actually got a full on A* for GCSE Chemistry and if I ever knew this I’ve forgotten it. Seriously reblog this.

Also don’t use bleach to clean up if your cat pees outside the littlerbox (or urine in general for that matter, species doesn’t really matter here I think). I did that in a small space and it took me a bit of coughing and wheezing and wanting to tear my eyes out before I went, “wait, fuck, I just gassed myself”.

Be aware of the chemicals you are using even if they are natural cleaners.

16 Common Product Combinations You Should Never Mix

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thesnadger:

Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase. 

“I won’t be available.”

Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.

If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:

  1. Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.
  2. Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.
  3. Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.

The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.

If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else. 

But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.

“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”

“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)

“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”

“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”

If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.

IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ!!

Just like with many other parts of life, learn to say ‘no’ to people. You are important. Don’t kill yourself for another person, esp. if they are your boss.

okay, for once I’m not doing completely awful and I have about 5 usable hours left of today, so, time for a to-do list

definitely needs to happen today:

  • stop at VCA to pick up a refill of Scully’s blood pressure meds
  • walk Scully
  • leave more voicemails for my legislators
  • package up the premade prizes from my giveaway
  • write something

really should happen today:

  • finish an Etsy commission I really should’ve finished a while ago
  • work on another repaint so I can take a picture of it and add it as an example to one of my listings
  • take pictures of Pride Cap keychains so I can make those a separate listing
  • make the one giveaway prize I don’t already have (and take pictures of it)
  • fill out that damn survey for the canine kidney-disease group so I can start getting advice
  • move my shit from my current giant purse to the smaller ones I got recently to see if they’ll work for me
  • trim Scully’s nails
  • try to clip/shave the fur on his paw so I can get a better print for my tattoo
  • start figuring out where exactly I want said tattoo
  • order parts for more Etsy commissions
  • put a little air in my car tires maybe
  • work on typing up my notebooks FFS because I’m very behind anyway but also I need a Camp Nano wordcount

not really all that important/urgent but it needs to get done at some point so it would be nice if some of it happened today:

  • glue the helmet on a Loki figure that arrived slightly broken
  • put away clothes?? I mean in general my room is still a disaster but dealing with it is going to require like…a week off work
  • fight with iTunes
  • contact the ad company about AvAc shards I should’ve gotten and didn’t
  • add a couple other Etsy listings
  • figure out where to advertise my Pride stuff
  • also figure out whether I want to get a booth at Senshicon, because that could be complicated
  • repaint Deadpool earrings to see if that will work for another Etsy listing
  • find extra Loki helmet keychain that I’m pretty sure I have and try repainting that
  • order even more things to try repainting in Pride colors
  • experiment with making stuff out of circuit boards
  • order some Etsy stuff that I don’t need but do want and with Etsy it’s generally better to just…go for it if you don’t want something to disappear

things I actually want to do today:

  • earn a few more trophies in Silent Hill

Tired of losing your favorite buttons?

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tenaflyviper:

I just stumbled upon this awesome post showing a way to keep pinback buttons from falling off of your backpack/purse/etc. using safety pins.

However, it reminded me of another method that I’ve used since high school, and continue to use to this day:  Rubber earring backs.

You know…these things:

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I had originally bought a package of them to keep my nose stud from falling out while I slept (it was the “screw” type), but then after losing a button off of my high school backpack, I stumbled upon an even better use for them.

If you place them on the pinback of the button, just ahead of where it closes, the pins can’t slip off.

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It doesn’t matter what size or shape the button is.  Also, I happened to find one that wasn’t closed when I went to take pictures:

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The earring back basically acts as a rubber stopper.  They’re made specifically to NOT slide off in order to keep earrings in place, so they work just as well keeping buttons in place, even if the buttons aren’t closed.

Considering the backpack that I had in high school…

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…I can tell you with complete certainty that rubber earring backs are, bar none, THE best method of making sure you never lose another button ever again.  Also, they’re cheaper than safety pins (which can also pop open, thus allowing the button to slide off) and you won’t have to poke extra holes in whatever you’re putting buttons on. 

Or hell, combine the rubber earring backs WITH the safety pins!  Your buttons will be COMPLETELY UNLOSE-ABLE!

Oh dear gods THANK YOU

Omg thank you!!!

Reblogs to save a button!

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More often than not I’ll crack into a sprawling fantasy series and, while I appreciate the luscious descriptions of furniture, landscapes, and clothing, all I’m focused on is that I don’t actually know how this world works. I only know what it looks like.  

Including some functionality to your universe can add to immersion and give your reader a strong foundation on which to build their mental model of your universe. 

You certainly don’t need to use all of these questions! In fact, I recommend against that, as all of these certainly won’t make it into your final draft. I personally find that starting my worldbuilding off with 5 to 10 functional questions helps pave the way for glittery and elaborate aesthetic development later on.

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  • How is the healthcare funded in your world?
  • How does healthcare functionally differ between the wealthy and the poor? (i.e. can only the wealthy go to hospitals? do poor families often have to rely on back-alley procedures?)
  • Where are health centers (i.e. hospitals, small clinics, etc.) organized in your cities?
    • Does it differ in smaller towns?
    • How does this affect people’s ability to get healthcare?
  • Is healthcare magical, and if it is, how does that affect the healthcare system? 
    • If healing is instantaneous, how does that affect people’s views on injury, illness, and chronic ailments?
  • If you have both magical and physical healthcare, which one is deemed superior and how does that affect society? 
  • What illnesses are common in your world? 
    • How does this affect daily life? 
  • What do the people in your world think illnesses are? 
    • Is it a miasma theory? 
    • Humor theory? 
    • Demons? 
    • Do they know about biological viruses and bacteria? 
    • How does this affect healthcare?
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  • How do people get water? 
    • Is the water sanitary and if not, how do they sanitize it?
  • How does agriculture work? 
    • Is it large corporations or individual farms?
    • What sort of agricultural technology exists in your world and how does it affect food production?
  • Are farmers wealthy or poor?
  • What sort of natural resources does your world/country(ies) have and how are they obtained?
    • How does this affect the average wealth of the country?
    • How does this wealth affect the culture? 
  • What livestock or beasts of burden are most valued? Least valued? Why?
  • What is considered a luxury good vs. a regular good?
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  • What forms of transportation does your world have?
    • What classes use what forms of transportation?
    • How far has the average citizen traveled, given your transportation limitations?
  • Which cities are the most accessible and which are the least? Why?
  • How do popular transportation methods change how cities/towns are laid out?
  • Does your world have public transportation? What is it?
  • Is there a coming-of-age aspect to travel?
  • Describe your world’s postal system or whatever equivalent there is. 
    • Who pays for it? 
    • How reliable is it? 
    • Are there emergency methods for transporting information?
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  • How does your world keep time (i.e. watches, sundials, water clock, etc.)?
  • Does your world have a currency system, barter system, or something else? 
  • If you have multiple countries, do different currencies have different values across said countries?
      • How does this affect travel?
  • Do you have banks in your world and if so, how are they run?
    • Who owns the banks? Government? Wealthy? How does this affect the economy and/or class system?
  • How does credit operate in your universe?
  • Does your world operate more on big corporations or small business? Something in between?
  • How are workers/labourers treated in your world? 
    • Are there workers unions and if so, what are common views on unions? 
  • Describe your tax system. If you don’t have a tax system, explain why and how your world is affected by that. 
  • Can certain social classes not own property, certain livestock, certain businesses, etc.? Why?
  • How are business records kept? Are business records kept?
  • If your world has technology, does your world prioritize developing entertainment tech, communications tech, transportation tech or something else entirely?
    • What does this say about your world?
    • How does this affect your economy?
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  • To the closest approximation, what type of government does your world have? 
  • How are rulers/presidents/nobles put in place? 
  • How much power does an individual ruler have? 
  • Is there a veto process? 
  • If you have multiple countries, do they have different types of rulers?
  • Describe any large-scale alliances (i.e. countries, factions, etc.) that are present in your world. 
    • How did they come about and how are they maintained? 
    • Are they strained or peaceful? 
    • How does it affect the greater politics of your world?
  • Describe how wars are fought both internationally and nationally. 
    • Do methods of war differ between countries/races? 
    • What about philosophies about war?
  • If there is a military, what is its hierarchy structure?
    • How does the military recruit?
    • Is the military looked upon favourably in your society?
  • What weapons are used by each country/type of people during warfare, and how does that affect war strategies?
  • Describe the sentencing system of your world. 
    • Is your accused innocent until proven guilty, or guilty until proven innocent?
  • How are lawbreakers punished? 
    • If you have prisons, describe how they are organized and run, and who owns them. 
    • Does differing ownership change how the prisons operate?
  • What are the major ways in which laws between countries vary? 
    • Do laws between cities vary? If so, how and why?
  • How does citizenship work in your world? What rights and privileges do citizens have that others do not? 
    • Can certain classes or races not become citizens?
  • Are there certain taboo subjects or opinions that artist/authors/musicians are not allowed to depict (i.e. portraying the official religion in a negative light, explicit sexual material, etc.)? What does this say about your society?
    • How do people get around these censorship laws?
  • What is the official hierarchy of duty in your world? (i.e. is family the most important, or patriotism? What about clan?)
  • How many languages are there in your world, and how many languages share a common origin? 
    • How many people are multilingual? 
    • Which language is the most common?
    • How is multilingualism viewed?
    • How are different languages viewed? (i.e. is one language ugly/barbaric while another is romantic and sensual?)

Feel free to add your own questions in reblogs or in comments!

When I was younger, I used to amuse myself with a program that could generate randomized maps. I would draw up a random landscape and try to figure out, from the landscape, where the cities would be, where the roads would go, where the country’s boundaries would be drawn; from there, try to figure out what country would have what resources (mining, timber, farming) and what industries, what they could provide for themselves and what they would need to get from other countries; from that, infer patterns of trade and war and conquest, by the end of which I’d have a pretty good idea of what stereotypes the people of each country would have about each other.

to do this weekend:

  • go to the local Families Belong Together march tomorrow morning, and whoops I meant to go to bed earlier
  • call my legislators about…I don’t even know, five million different things probably
  • find out more about volunteering with the campaign for Alyse Galvin, because she’s trying to unseat Rep. Don Young and I would very extremely much like to get rid of him in November, because he’s an 85-year-old Republican and he sucks and also he’s been our only representative since fucking 1973, which is thirteen years longer than I’ve even been alive and frankly it’s ridiculous for anyone to keep getting elected every two years for 45 entire years what the fuck
  • fight more with iTunes to see if I can fix the issue with it truncating a lot of recent songs
  • also try to put all my ebooks back on my phone (thankfully I still have them in my iTunes files, so nothing’s actually lost and that’s a huge relief; now I just need to get them back on my phone, which is almost definitely going to be tedious since iTunes hates ebooks now)
  • related: post on an Apple forum for help, probably
  • figure out how to check my car’s tire pressure and then actually do that, and compare it to whatever’s recommended in the manual
  • run a self-test on my car’s information display to see if that tells me anything about why some stuff (average MPG mostly) should be showing up but isn’t
  • reply to Etsy messages
  • work on current Etsy commission and ideally also a personal project
  • contact another tattoo shop because my first choice is booked up until January
  • ask the Alaska Retirement Management Board to divest from companies profiting from detaining immigrants 
  • post some Tumblr drafts
  • finish and post a very short little fic tomorrow based on this
  • also work on my @maximoffficexchange fic, ideally
  • type up notebooks
  • go to Value Village on Sunday when it’s 50% off and try to find more cosplay stuff
  • finish up my little Pride giveaway
  • fill out the survey thing for the canine kidney disease group FFS why have I waited so long (well I know why, because it’s very long and kind of complicated and it’s going to be annoying to fill out, plus Scully seems stable enough that I don’t have a huge sense of urgency about it, which is…dumb)
  • make plans with @erlkonigstochter to visit Fort McGilvray and South Beach in Caines Head Park, because holy shit yes (it’s going to require either several miles of hiking coordinated with low tide and therefore probably overnight camping, or a $50 boat ride, but like…it sounds so cool and I gotta do it somehow) 

IF YOU EVER NEED SOMETHING TO READ READ THIS

chaoticallyprecise:

chaoticallyprecise:

OK ARE YOU EVER IN NEED OF BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS BUT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO READ NEXT?

I present to you, straight from the internet, whichbook:

Here’s how it works: You click the link, and choose four categories and the extent to which these categories matter:

Then click “go” and it’ll come up with a number of books you might like.

DON’T LIKE THE CATEGORIES? NO PROBLEM – see this little thing:

THIS LITTLE THING WILL TAKE YOU TO THIS SLIGHTLY LARGER THING WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE A BOOK BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:

YOU NOW HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT BE READING SOMETHING BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU WANT THIS SITE WILL COME UP WITH IT.

… Apart from bisexual retired alien dudes. No books on that. Yet.

For the record, I would like to say that, after this post found its way in the world, I received about a half dozen messages asking me if I had read Old Man’s War, which appeared to be the closest I could get to bisexual retired alien dudes.

Well, I’ve read it now.

And the sequels.

Would highly recommend. (That is a link to the goodreads page.)

Resources to help child immigrants & fight family separation

nicolayoon:

via Today.com (How to Help Immigrant Children)

  • Together Rising Love Flash Mob. Organized by best-selling author and blogger Glennon Doyle through her non-profit organization, the fundraising effort will go to provide bilingual legal and advocacy assistance for 60 children, aged 12 months to 10 years, currently separated from their parents in an Arizona detention center. Their first priority will be to establish and maintain contact between children and their parents, with the ultimate goal of reunification and safety and rehabilitation for the children.
  • The Florence Project and Refugee Rights Project. This organization provides legal assistance and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.
  • The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. This organization works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.
  • Kids In Need Of Defense (KIND). This organization works to ensure that no child appears in immigration court alone without representation.
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project. They work to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence.

via slate.com (How you can fight family separation)

• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.

• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.

• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.

• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.

• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.

• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.

• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.

• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.

• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.

• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.

• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”

• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.

• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.

• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.

• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.

This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.