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A message from the BLANKSWORD Team:

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Please help me. I have nothing else.

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Let's make some new memories together, okay? 🌻☀️

Sunflower pixel art build on minecraft, 304 blocks tall, sildur's vibrant shaders! Pixel art (below cut) by my dear friend Dandelion, we built it together!

This is our magnum opus sun emoji sunflower emoji

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Hello, all my lovely followers, I am once again asking for a little bit of help to get my small business up and running, especially to make some enamel pride pins

Stuff like this

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Mari's here!

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Jax is become pin

And he's on my etsy page, too https://amybeedraws.etsy.com/listing/1798980757

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i'm sick. i don't have a job or savings

i've literally tried as hard as i possibly fucking can

but i'm basically out of time unless a miracle happens

i'm barely surviving out of a homeless shelter. being out on the streets would kill me faster than i could even pretend to keep up

i'm really scared, but i don't want to give up

please, if you can support me:

https://paypal.me/sqwkbx?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

https://ko-fi.com/squawkbox

https://cash.app/$sqwkbx

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Years ago, when I was playing through Zero Escape VLR, Someone sent me art of Sigma dressed as Pepsiman.

5 years later, I would introduce a friend of mine to the series and remember the image without any idea where I found it.

No google search results came up, but the burning image of it would persist in my head for months.

Finally tonight, I made 1 final attempt, scouring every single DM of people I talked to 5 years ago.

And finally, going through what may have been the 9th or 10th person I could think of, just when I thought I would never see it again

There he was

As fucking incredible as I remembered him

If I ever find who is responsible for this image I will personally give them a massive fucking hug

Edit: this post still gets attention now and then and I forgot to post a link to the source:

https://www.tumblr.com/murasame-no-nushi/152950628818/all-hail-the-greatest-hero-to-ever-live

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We can make it, if we all stick together

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Team dark for y’all

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*Throws Sunburn at you*

i might redraw this properly in the future

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hero but hes from that one 2009 justin bieber photoshoot

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this post is fearmongering. the results of this study are concerning and should definitely be a matter of public discussion, but this is certainly not the conclusion the researchers came to.

the point of the study was to assess the risks of exposure to toxic metals- something one of the co-authors notes are “ubiquitous” fwiw- via menstrual products. Their research confirmed that these metals are indeed present in tampons, but no further conclusions are drawn. it is possible the metal entered into the cotton from the soil, which is a well-known phenomenon; cotton is so good at lifting heavy metals that it has actually been suggested as a part of the solution for revitalizing polluted ground.

the authors conclude with an acknowledgement that the study should be repeated- their sample size was 60 tampons- and a suggestion that further testing ought to be done to indicate whether or not these metals can even leech out of the tampon in the first place, let alone whether or not such leeching could occur at levels deleterious to human health.

there is, in fact, a body of research- too small, for sure, but much larger than this single study- indicating that long-term proper tampon use has no observable negative impact on health. i am grateful and thrilled that more research is being done and i hope that this study is the first of many on this line of questioning, but i am really frustrated at this post and the response it got.

obviously, if this study alters your approach to menstrual health, more power to you. consumers should be informed-risk-takers, and menstrual health is double-obviously a very personal choice. but it definitely wasn't the researchers concluding that you ought to “avoid using tampons at all cost," only this tumblr user did. the lead author of the paper, in fact, specifically says that she hopes people do NOT panic about the results.

(the notes of the post were disappointing. people affirming that they knew they were right to be suspicious of tampons all along, or even recommending alternatives that actually have very little to no research regarding the safety of long-term use, etc. it’s a different conversation, but categorical distrust of tampons is old-school misogyny. you certainly shouldn't wear them if you don’t want to, but there is nothing inherently scary or wrong about them, and people who prefer them are not being reckless or crass.)

((if you're really worried about exposure to heavy metals, you may want to turn a critical eye to fast fashion, as an aside))

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Hello everyone, I am trying to start up a little business on the side to be able to sell some things, like Acrylic charms and stickers and things like that. So please consider helping me out by going to my GoFundMe:

Love you all

Amy

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they have the same hairstyle i noticed

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