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Fighting Covid When Kept Home

This was shared on a Covid survivor group…have heard many of these before but it seems helpful: HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.

“When the nurse came in to discharge me, I asked her, What can I do to help fight this at home? She said:

1. Sleep on your stomach at all times with Covid. If you can’t sleep on your stomach because of health issues sleep on your side. Do not lie on your back no matter what because it smashes your lungs and that will allow fluid to set in.

2. Set your clock every two hours while sleeping on your stomach, then get out of bed and walk for 15-30 min, no matter how tired or weak that you are. Also move your arms around frequently, it helps to open your lungs. Breathe in thru your nose, and out thru your mouth. This will help build up your lungs, plus help get rid of the Pneumonia or other fluid you may have.

2. When sitting in a recliner, sit up straight - do not lie back in the recliner, again this will smash your lungs. 

3. While watching TV - get up and walk during every commercial.

4. Eat at least 1 - 2 eggs a day, plus bananas, avocado and asparagus. These are good for Potassium. 

5. Do not drink anything cold -  have it at room temperature or warm it up. Drink Pedialyte, Gatorade Zero, Powerade Zero & Water with Electrolytes to prevent you from becoming dehydrated. Water with lemon, and little honey, peppermint tea, apple cider are good suggestions for getting in fluids. No milk products, or pork. (as a singer I know milk products produce phlegm and always advised my students to have none for 3 days before a performance)

6. Vitamins D3, C, B, Zinc, Probiotic One-Day are good ideas. Tylenol for fever. Mucinex, or Mucinex DM for drainage, plus helps the cough. Pepcid helps for cramps in your legs. One baby aspirin everyday can help prevent getting a blood clot, which can occur from low activity. 

7. Drink a smoothie of blueberries, strawberries, bananas, honey, tea and a spoon or two of peanut butter. 

We always hear of how Covid takes lives, but there isn’t a lot of information out there regarding how to fight Covid when you are not critical. I hope this helps you or someone you know, just as it has helped me.”

(Wow, @thetimetostrikeislater  wish you’d had this info when you were ill)

@cptdorkery  @fortheloveoftrekuniverse  @peridotsarelongterm

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🏳️‍🌈 MY PRIDE LIST IS COMPLETE! 🏳️‍🌈

i am so happy i managed to get it all done, thank you guys for your suggestions and words of encouragment, and yay to the creators for their canonically queer characters!

you can view the separate arts by browsing this tag, or on my twitter!

and if you wanna support a queer artist and view all of these in their bigger, original size, you can buy them on gumroad!

💕 happy pride month! 💕

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​WHAT 8 BLACK MODELS WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT WORKING IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY

Khoudia Diop, 19, The Colored Girl

I grew up in Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the women bleach their skin, and skin bleaching is a huge deal. I grew up seeing my cousins and my aunts using it. My cousin pressured me and they wanted me to use skin bleaching products but my sister said you’re not using it because a lot of them experience the damages [from it]. I wanted to use it at a point, not going to lie, and I felt really ashamed of being dark, but my sister would always show me pictures of dark skin models, there weren’t a lot, but she would show me pictures of dark skin models and say “this is not a bad thing and your skin is not a thing you have to change. It’s unique and beautiful and you have to learn to know things you like about yourself and celebrate them.

Mominatu Boog, 21, G Models PR

I am very dark but I am very soft and feminine and I don’t really feel like there is a lot of that in the dark skin market. Stop trying to make us out to seem like we are these animals. I feel like in the industry when it comes to dark skinned women they always make us out to be these aggressors and these angry people when we’re not. I don’t have to shave my head to be a model. I don’t have to look like I am going to bark at you to be a model. I like flowers. I like perfume. I like sweet stuff.

Gia Oteto, 22, Omit

I have pretty big lips so I feel like that’s where people’s eyes go to. It makes me feel like that’s the only thing people see from me is my lips. It’s always been uncomfortable. [When] shooting they see the lips and say let’s do a pop of green and it gets uncomfortable, sometimes because not every dark girl with big lips can rock a lime green. A lot of places I used to work would say to me “let’s do yellow eye shadow and like a lime green on her lips because they’re so beautiful.” I feel like they don’t notice that we can rock that color sometimes but we can also rock a nude and look amazing. And I look like a duck sometimes. I can’t wear this bright pink lipstick for every shoot.

Tatiana Elizabeth, 22, MSA models

I remember one time getting my full face of makeup done and I look in the mirror and it’s a completely wrong shade and I am like, What the heck, you’re a makeup artist I don’t understand how you don’t understand how to do all types of skin tones not just one. I have had multiple experiences where I am like this is not how I am supposed to look. Sometimes they’ll use lighter shades or darker shades. I think [some makeup artists] just don’t understand how to do it, so they try to compromise and try to mix and match and make things instead of just having the correct shades because they’re available, but they just don’t have them. At this point, I don’t even say anything anymore, I’ll just go into the bathroom and fix it myself. I’ll come out and they’ll say “OMG you look amazing” and I am like “yeah because I did it myself.” It is annoying that I have to go through that and at first I was scared to make those adjustments but at the end of the day I am my own brand and I don’t want to put work out there, whether it’s with a client or for myself, because it’s me, my image—it’s not the makeup artist it’s not anyone, it’s me so I need to make sure that it’s on point.

Grace Mahary, 27, IMG Models

It means the world to me to be able to embrace my culture and my traditions because for so long I was embarrassed about it and I wanted to assimilate. Now I see trends in beauty and fashion that are similar to or have origins from my tradition and my culture in Eritrea. [But] I think cultural appropriation is a really relevant topic right now. I feel like every idea or every creation comes from some type of copying or image you have seen already so I think it’s about intention and how genuine you are coming off and what you’re trying to say or present with your message. I am Eritrean, I am Canadian and I am a woman—[that’s my message].

Kamie Crawford, 24, JAG Models

I once had a job where the client was so nice, the shoot was long and the rate wasn’t amazing, but I wanted to do it regardless. I got there and the hairstylist was Australian. She went in to do my hair and she kept referring to my hair as an afro and my hair was straight this day. She was like “OMG this afro!” and I was like, what the hell are you talking about and she kept referring to my edges as afro bits. In a negative way. [She said] “Omg your afro bits I just can’t get them.” It was taking so long to do my hair, the client asked what’s going on, we are not on schedule, and she said her afro bits are too difficult for me to do them, I am trying to get them straight. Basically she was blaming it on me and making it seem like my hair and I were the problem but it wasn’t me. My hair was straight but she just didn’t know how to do it. Of course, it’s offensive but I can’t cuss her out and do my job at the same time. These microaggressions add up being a woman of color and others models who aren’t of women of color don’t have to face it.

Ashley Chew, 25, retired

Even though I am lighter toned with green eyes, I understand that privilege, but with me its been a battle of my hair. Is it on trend? They’ll ask me to straighten it or they’ll say we already have a girl that looks like you even though there is 10 other blondes in the room. My issue is because I am fair toned I shouldn’t be the darkest thing in the room, if I look around and see that I am the darkest person in the room with ethnic hair then there is a problem. Even in the black hair care casting white directors will ask for a black girl then I show up and they’re like, “No, we want a black girl,” and that’s happened plenty of times. It’s almost like being too light for the black castings and being too dark for regular casting.

Diandra Forrest, 27, Krush Model Management

People are curious about why I look the way I do. I have very full lips and I remember going to Paris and every casting director that I met was like “did you get your lips done?” And I am like what why did everyone think I got my lips done? Well, they didn’t know I am black girl. I have a strong nose and I remember people suggesting that if I were to get my nose done I would get more work and I was just baffled. I love my nose and I don’t want to lose that part of me. To each its own, if you want to change the way you look to fit into society more or if it’s something you want to do to make yourself feel better then fine but I don’t think you should suggest to people what they should do because you don’t completely agree with their look. There shouldn’t just be one standard type of model. Beauty is diverse.

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So  p u r e     So pure, so  e l e c t r i c So  s u r e     So sure, so  c o n n e c t e d         To those little believers  i n s i d e

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Wonder Woman

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On a serious note, I really need for you all to boost this. A Black trans woman named TeeTee Dangerfield was found shot to death in College Park, Georgia this past week. Her death was obviously unexpected and caught her loved ones off guard and now her family needs help burying her.  So far they’ve only received $1,665 out of the $10,000 they’re trying to raise. PLEASE boost this.

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Anti Blackness in Asian Communities Master Post

By God, why do I still have to make this?

Model Minority Myth

Non-Black Poc

Eddie Huang

Cultural Appropriation

Anti-Blackness is the Fulcrum

Forcing Black People to Fight Your Battles

Aziz Ansari

South Asians

Black Lives Matter

Police Brutality & Solidarity

Peter Liang

Family Racism

Nigeria

Why Is this Important?

ASIANS, I’m not trying to vilify my own community. I love you all dearly, but we need to do better. Whether we like to admit or not, anti-blackness is global. And if we have the slightest chance of getting anywhere with social justice, we might as well start with ourselves.

If you are black and/or Asian, feel free to reblog.

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WELP you're finally 20. Legally I mean, you will always be 12 to me. Hope you have a miraculous birthday because you are a miraculous human being. Thank you for always being the uplifting soul and lovable optimist you always are. Please promise to always stay amaziiiing Shoutout to always being #roommategoals 💘👌 Love you I guess, Baka 🙄✨💗💖😏💖😏💖👑🎊🎁🎉🎈sincerely, me~ #happybirthday #butnotbecauseweregay

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tell me “we are Orlando” after you and your masc friends address how the homophobia you’ve internalized is also the same kind that led to the massacre

tell me “we are Orlando”‘after you recognize POC in the community as more than just trophies you can cross off your fetish bucket list

tell me “we are Orlando” after you start uplifting feminine and trans men instead of treating them like a stain you can’t remove from the carpet

tell me “we are Orlando” after you start putting POC on the cover of your magazines more than once every leap year

tell me “we are Orlando” when you stop giving priority to straight white men over LGBT POC voices

tell me “we are Orlando” when we really become a community instead of a straight acting white boys only club

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HI this is your Tumblr Art Mom™ uwu and today i will teach you THE ONLY way to draw something RIGHT!!

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[blatant lie about color theory]

[”NEVER DO THIS OR YOU’RE A BAD ARTIST OMG”]

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SHOUTOUT TO @tonysonartanim FOR DRAWING ME AND @rodeedoe AS MAGICAL GIRLS AGGGH literally our aesthetic!!! Thanks @aus.toon for being the Jada to our Wills 😂👍 (at California State University, Fullerton)

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Loved going to #pmc's potluck/film festival!! Im so happy to say I will be an advertiser for PMC 2017-2018 school year! I love all you beautiful people!! 💖😍🙏 (at College of the Arts • California State University, Fullerton)

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Leaping into MerMay day 7 #mermaid #mermay2017 #mermayday7 #flapyofins #noplacelikehome

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Day 6 (late lmao) for MerMay 😂 swimming to catch up tbh #mermay2017 #mermayday6 #flapyofins

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She's bashful because she's two days late #mermay2017 #mermayday5 #mermaid