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since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past.
List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:
one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and well researchd compilations of blm related resources (includes petitions, donation links, venmo accounts, names of people in need, etc) thats out there. please share this link everywhere and anywhere.
a black lives matter carrd that includes petitions, donation links, blm movement information, links on how to donate to BLM without spending money, black owned businesses, etc.
a black lives matter carrd that lists all the petitions that need to be signatures all in one place!
Justice for George Floyd
Justice for George Floyd 2
Justice for George Floyd 3
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Stand with Breonna
Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder
Justice For Tamir Rice
Justice For Tamir Rice 2
Justice For Joāo Pedro
Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
Justice for Belly Mujinga.
Justice for Rashad Cunningham
Justice For Tony McDade
Justice for Dion Johnson
Justice for Jennifer Jeffley
Justice for Young Uwa
Justice for Elijah Nichols
Justice for Tete Gulley
Justice for Tazne Van Wyk
Justice for Michael Dean
Justice For Amari Boone
Justice for Darrius Stewart
Justice for Shukri Abdi
Justice for Ashton Dickson
Justice For Darrius Stewart
Justice for David McAtee
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Crystal Mason
Justice For Zinedine
Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Justice for Christopher Josey
Justice for Amiya Braxton
Justice For Emerald Black
Justice for Andile Mchunu
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Tamla Horsford
Justice for Collins Khosa
Justice for Sean Monterrosa
Free Siyanda
Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case
Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality
Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child
Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles
Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People
Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training
Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test
stop immigrants being poisoned by ICE
Ban the use of inhumane rubber bullets
Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence
End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA
Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
Join Campaign Zero
Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!
Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case
Abolish Prison Labour in the USA
Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office
Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence
Sign the Police Accountability Act into Law
Justice for Elijah Nichols
Exonerate Eric Riddick
Justice For Luz Gonzalez!
Support a new law to be made in Trayvon Martin’s name to stop from claiming self defense after aggravated murder
Justice for James Scurlock
Justice for Philando Castile
Issue a State executive order to hold police accountable for unlawful action
Don’t let Julius Jones be executed by the state of Oklahoma
Help pass the Hands Up Act, which prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens and carries a mandatory 15-year prison sentence if there isn’t a weapon found after someone has been shot by a police officer
A twitter thread linking to many, many Brazilian Petition that still need signatures
Justice for Jamarion Robinson
Justice for Elijah McClain
Fire Jared Campbell
Dismiss the charges on Marshae Jones and charge the one who shot her and her unborn baby
Justice for Anderson Arboleda [Petition only in Español]
Drop Charges Against Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer
Justice for Julian Cole
Reopen Kenneka Jenkins Case
Justice for LeVena Johnson
Justice for Matthew Tucker
Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Justice for Christopher
Abolish Confederate Branding at Richland High School
Justice for Justin Howell
Justice for Brad Levi Ayala
Justice for Mike Ramos
Justice for Brad Levi Ayala
Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
Make Lynching a Federal Crime
Tell Congress you support making lynching a federal hate crime
Demand Capezio provide skin color inclusive dance clothing
Justice for Kylie Lindsey and Isabella Chinchilla
Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.
Justice for Alaa
Justice for Robert Fuller
Justice for Elijah McClain
Justice for Elijah McClain 2
Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group
Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 2
Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 3
Donation Links
A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM
Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)
Black Lives Matter
We Cant Breathe
43 Bail Funds to Support
Homeless Black Trans women fund
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
Minnesota Healing Justice Network
Women for Political Change
Spiral Collective
When We All Vote
National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses
Venmo names of black trans people that need help
Latino Community on Lake Street
Black Immigrant Collective
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief
Al Maa'uun
Remembering Shana Isuroon
Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses
Joyce Preschool
Black Table Arts
Northside business support
Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund
Unicorn Riot
Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy
Pimento Relief Fund
Southside Harm Reduction
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition
Division of Indian Work
TC Care Collective
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Justice for Jamee
Justice for David McAtee
Donate to Brandon Saenz who was shot in the left eye by a rubber bullet, and lost the eye, several teeth, and had facial fractures that required several surgeries
HOW TO DONATE INTERNATIONALLY/SITES THAT ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY
HOW DONATE WITH NO MONEY
HOW TO DONATE WITH NO MONEY BY STREAMING THIS
HOW TO DONATE TO BLM BY SHARING LINKS
A list of black owned businesses we should be supporting! + a list of black owned businesses we should be supporting that accept international currency!
DO NOT DONATE TO SHAUN KING
DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG
Donation for Justice for Saraneka “Nemo” Martin — pregnant protester shot during protest
Donations for Mike Ramos
Donations for Elijah McClain
Donations for Elijah McClain 2
* this list is constantly updated (new links added at the bottom) so please keep checking back for new information on petitions and ways to donate!!
I love how the fandom as a whole has just decided that Bellamy is not dead with zero evidence
No justice no peace! Keep fighting, stay safe, stay informed, black lives matter!
a black trans woman was brutally attacked at a cookout and she needs help
please donate if you can or boost this so some who can will see this
Writing Traumatic Injuries References
So, pretty frequently writers screw up when they write about injuries. People are clonked over the head, pass out for hours, and wake up with just a headache… Eragon breaks his wrist and it’s just fine within days… Wounds heal with nary a scar, ever…
I’m aiming to fix that.
Here are over 100 links covering just about every facet of traumatic injuries (physical, psychological, long-term), focusing mainly on burns, concussions, fractures, and lacerations. Now you can beat up your characters properly!
General resources
WebMD
Mayo Clinic first aid
Mayo Clinic diseases
First Aid
PubMed: The source for biomedical literature
Diagrams: Veins (towards heart), arteries (away from heart) bones, nervous system, brain
Burns
General overview: Includes degrees
Burn severity: Including how to estimate body area affected
Burn treatment: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees
Smoke inhalation
Smoke inhalation treatment
Chemical burns
Hot tar burns
Sunburns
Incisions and Lacerations
Essentials of skin laceration repair (including stitching techniques)
When to stitch (Journal article—Doctors apparently usually go by experience on this)
More about when to stitch (Simple guide for moms)
Basic wound treatment
Incision vs. laceration: Most of the time (including in medical literature) they’re used synonymously, but eh.
Types of lacerations: Page has links to some particularly graphic images—beware!
How to stop bleeding: 1, 2, 3
Puncture wounds: Including a bit about what sort of wounds are most likely to become infected
More about puncture wounds
Wound assessment: A huge amount of information, including what the color of the flesh indicates, different kinds of things that ooze from a wound, and so much more.
Home treatment of gunshot wound, also basics More about gunshot wounds, including medical procedures
Tourniquet use: Controversy around it, latest research
Location pain chart: Originally intended for tattoo pain, but pretty accurate for cuts
General note: Deeper=more serious. Elevate wounded limb so that gravity draws blood towards heart. Scalp wounds also bleed a lot but tend to be superficial. If it’s dirty, risk infection. If it hits the digestive system and you don’t die immediately, infection’ll probably kill you. Don’t forget the possibility of tetanus! If a wound is positioned such that movement would cause the wound to gape open (i.e. horizontally across the knee) it’s harder to keep it closed and may take longer for it to heal.
Broken bones
Types of fractures
Setting a broken bone when no doctor is available
Healing time of common fractures
Broken wrists
Broken ankles/feet
Fractured vertebrae: Neck (1, 2), back
Types of casts
Splints
Fracture complications
Broken noses
Broken digits: Fingers and toes
General notes: If it’s a compound fracture (bone poking through) good luck fixing it on your own. If the bone is in multiple pieces, surgery is necessary to fix it—probably can’t reduce (“set”) it from the outside. Older people heal more slowly. It’s possible for bones to “heal” crooked and cause long-term problems and joint pain. Consider damage to nearby nerves, muscle, and blood vessels.
Concussions
General overview
Types of concussions 1, 2
Concussion complications
Mild Brain Injuries: The next step up from most severe type of concussion, Grade 3
Post-concussion syndrome
Second impact syndrome: When a second blow delivered before recovering from the initial concussion has catastrophic effects. Apparently rare.
Recovering from a concussion
Symptoms: Scroll about halfway down the page for the most severe symptoms
Whiplash
General notes: If you pass out, even for a few seconds, it’s serious. If you have multiple concussions over a lifetime, they will be progressively more serious. Symptoms can linger for a long time.
Character reaction:
Shock (general)
Physical shock: 1, 2
Fight-or-flight response: 1, 2
Long-term emotional trauma: 1 (Includes symptoms), 2
First aid for emotional trauma
Treatment (drugs)
WebMD painkiller guide
Treatment (herbs)
1, 2, 3, 4
Miscellany
Snake bites: No, you don’t suck the venom out or apply tourniquettes
Frostbite
Frostbite treatment
Severe frostbite treatment
When frostbite sets in: A handy chart for how long your characters have outside at various temperatures and wind speeds before they get frostbitten
First aid myths: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Includes the ones about buttering burns and putting snow on frostbite.
Poisons: Why inducing vomiting is a bad idea
Poisonous plants
Dislocations: Symptoms 1, 2; treatment. General notes: Repeated dislocations of same joint may lead to permanent tissue damage and may cause or be symptomatic of weakened ligaments. Docs recommend against trying to reduce (put back) dislocated joint on your own, though information about how to do it is easily found online.
Muscular strains
Joint sprain
Resuscitation after near-drowning: 1, 2
Current CPR practices: We don’t do mouth-to-mouth anymore.
The DSM IV, for all your mental illness needs.
Electrical shock
Human response to electrical shock: Includes handy-dandy voltage chart
Length of contact needed at different voltages to cause injury
Evaluation protocol for electric shock injury
Neurological complications
Electrical and lightning injury
Cardiac complications
Delayed effects and a good general summary
Acquired savant syndrome: Brain injuries (including a lightning strike) triggering development of amazing artistic and other abilities
Please don’t repost! You can find the original document (also created by me) here.
if you’re white and you act like race issues are just “unnecessary drama” or “discourse” then sorry to tell you but you’re just…. racist
rb to make a trans person feel loved 💕
continually updated list of resources with things you can do to support black lives
Share AND do what you can through the list. Even if you cant donate, you can do Something.
I have waited years for her to become the leader, honestly it’s what she deserves
Me earlier: I know why it's important but I really don't care about the Sanctum storyline
Murphy: I think Indra should be in charge
Me: HELL YEAH WHAT'S UP SANCTUM?!! CAN WE JUST WATCH SANCTUM
I mean, who wouldn’t....
Levitt like, really wants to be topped by Octavia
if you see this post you’re legally obligated to reply to it with your current favorite song
Covid is not over and black lives still matter. Stop trying to "go back to normal" when shit is still happening.
Stop going on trips and going to restaurants without masks.
Keep educating yourself and protesting and calling and donating and signing petitions.
Wear a mask. End white supremacy. Defund police.
I know it's tiring but it's not over for either thing even though people are pretending it is. I know the overlap is exhausting. But be safe, social distance, and keep fighting the good fight.
People I have No Choice But to Stan™ after 7x05:
Gabriel for being the only member of Hope/E/Gabriel team to NOT immediately turn to murder
Hope for launching a single-handed rescue op of Octavia and Diyoza and actually half succeeding
Levitt for taking like 11 days to become an Octavia stan and completely turn on his own
Octavia for her dedication to protect Hope
Emori for The Dress (also you know… being sick with radiation poisoning and not hesitating to try and volunteer herself into the belly of the beast)
Murphy for saving the kids
Indra for sussing out Sheid!Russell
Bellamy Blake for returning to our screens and our hearts
The Writers for TRULY doing that with this episode (and also pushing E to the point of… no fuckin return, or it seems like it’s heading that way…)
murphy and emori in a life or death situation be like ‘it tickles’ and ‘I was looking for the right dress.’ everyone wants what they have
here is a document of antiracist resources for white people that is not too overwhelming and is organized by where you are in your journey of becoming antiracist
“A masterpiece was created in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone today” video by Kyle Kotajarvi
If you're a creator and you needed to hear this today:
You have no idea how many people lurk on your work. No idea how many times people go back to revisit your work. How big they smile when they simply think about your work. How fast their heart beats, how excited they get when they see that you posted something.
People are shy with their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they’re simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are. Could be both.
My point is, even if you barely have any likes or reblogs, don’t get discouraged. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans. Keep on creating. Because there is always someone out there who will love what you have made.
I mean, I was one of them
lol at the start the stream had about 140k not its 79k half of y’all were like fuck it i can’t deal with this
god i’m too dumb to be a twenty one pilots stan
I just really want to say that the BLM movement is not a 2020 disaster by any means. I know a lot of ppl keep saying that this year keeps getting worse but I think that black voices finally being heard is a sign of improvement
Breonna Taylor’s petition has still not hit its goal. It takes next to no time at all to sign it. So if you haven’t, please do it and signal boost.
Petition
GoFundMe
reminder that when change.org asks you to “chip in’ after you’ve signed a petition, that money does NOT go to the petition organizer or any related fundraiser. change.org uses misleading language like this to trick you into paying them. they’re a for-profit corporation. don’t give them your money, send what you can to verified bail funds / gofundme campaigns / etc. instead