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[epicbuddieficrecs]

Favorite Buddie Fics (so far!)

Hi 911 fam!

This has been way, waaaaaaay past overdue. The weewoo show got a hold of me last May and, for some reason, I resisted making a fic rec blog about it. I think I was kind of in disbelief that I, a serial long-term monoshipper, had adopted a second new ship in less than a year 😆 But it seems like I'm a sucker for a good Best Friends to Lovers, Found Family, Trauma Bonding vibe!!

I figured I ought to start off this blog with my favourite fics I've read so far. These are the ones that are, to me, the most memorable, that I've already re-read once (or twice!) in the last few months. I absolutely love them!

I'm going to try and start making recs here a bit more often! In the meantime, if you want more fics I've enjoyed, you can have a look at my ao3 bookmarks here. You can also find me on Twitter and Bluesky @/epicficrecs !

I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think about those fics and what are YOUR all time favourites? 😊

Being Eddie by Daisies_and_Briars/ @cal-daisies-and-briars (Time Travel, Post-Season 6, Getting together | 80K | Teen): When Eddie starts seeing a new therapist, he’s presented with the opportunity to revisit several days from his past and right regrets that still bother him. OR: Eddie goes through the time travel therapy process of the 2009 Canadian TV show Being Erica.

Evan Buckley & The Coma-Verse of Madness by Daisies_and_Briars/ @cal-daisies-and-briars (Coma AU, Multiverse | 58K | Teen): After being struck by lightning on a call, Buck experiences a plethora of alternate realities showing him different directions his life could have taken. Fighting hard to get home, Buck learns what, or who, is important to him in every lifetime.

Your Scars and Your Lonely Heart by Taste_is_Sweet (Sentinels AU, Canon Divergent - Tsunami | 82K | Teen): Clara Williams just wanted to visit Pacific Park during her layover in Los Angeles. She never expected to find a young, exceptional Sentinel dying for lack of a bond. Actually, what she really never expected was a tsunami, or the same Sentinel to save her life. But Clara's a Guide, so now she's on a mission to keep Evan "Buck" Buckley alive until she can get him to Eddie Diaz, the Guide who should have bonded with him, but didn't. Because Clara can't bond with Buck, no matter how much she wants to. There's just one problem: Buck's convinced Eddie doesn't want him, and he might not survive long enough to find out the truth.

let the world have its way with you by fleetinghearts/ @shitouttabuck (Post-Coma AU | 54K | Explicit): or, a bucket list that’s really about buck needing to make a change and an eddie who’s ready to do anything to see him fall in love with life again. it takes some crossing off for eddie to realise—the thing at the top of the list in his own heart? it’s been right here all along

Leave the Light On (I'll Be Coming Home) by HMSLusitania/ @hmslusitania (Canon Divergent, Amnesia AU, Post-Season 5 | 44K | Mature): An accident on a call leaves Buck with custody of Chris after Eddie is... missing presumed. While they navigate their new family circumstances -- and fight to stay together, despite Eddie's parents' best efforts -- a John Doe wakes up in a coma ward with no memory of his own life beyond the knowledge he has a son named Christopher and, somehow, he needs to get home.

Leading with the Left by letmetellyouaboutmyfeels/ @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels (Canon Divergent, Different First Meeting, Stripper Buck | 84K | Explicit): When Buck said he was a "bartender" in "South America" what he actually meant was "stripper" in "Mexico." And when Eddie said, "What's your problem?" what he actually meant was, "Is this about the time you gave me a lap dance?" In other words, there's a few things the 118 doesn't know about Buck. Or Eddie. Or Buck and Eddie's relationship.

for all the haunts and homes of men by euadnes/ @kananjarus (Canon Divergent, Post-Apocalyptic, Station Eleven Crossover | WIP | 9/? | 69K | Mature | Warning: Violence): The year by the old calendar is 2025. Home is gone. Home is a failed rescue mission and an echo of a memory. Home is a lost boy living in a wooden house by the sea. But first, there was a promise. Christopher, when it's safe, I'll take you back to your father. Buck had all but given up on keeping it after the world had died and everyone in it. But just as some oaths refuse to be forgotten, so the same can be said about the endurance of love.

(yes I put a WIP there because it's just that good)

[welcometololaland]

Hi Lola!

🧭 and 🤡 for the ask game! And, if three isn’t too many (I don’t wanna steal them all lol) also ♻️ bc that’s something I’m struggling with atm as a beginner’s writer 🙃

Aaand ofc ❤️😌

hi mar! 💜 thank you so much for the ask!

1. An alternative title to one of your WIPs

never too late really could be titled "heath ledger made me do it".

2. How many WIPs are you actively working on?

i just finished all my parts of call me (which is a 911 lone star co-written fic with @rmd-writes). i'm very excited to see that get finished and posted! aside from that, i'm currently working on:

a. the sequel to the ring-in (currently known as 'the ring-in 2.0' but i'm sure it will get a title soon) (911 lone star). i've been waiting to write this for so long and even getting the first chapter down has been a blast.

b. eurotrip (rwrb). i've said it a million times but this fic just scares me. it's so long and i have so much to go and i keep getting imposter syndrome about it.

c. cause of action (tgm). this is just a passion project - i write it when i feel like it and i have no expectations for it. BUT it's a fic about a law firm so it's very cathartic for me to write, plus i've been hitting the hangster fic hard recently so i'm very inspired.

d. never too late (aka the 10 things i hate about you au) (911 lone star). which is not a wip because i've finished it, but i still need to edit it severely before posting so...it's languishing. it's the new alta. someone go save it (it needs to be me but i simply am avoiding).

(i'm currently trying to do one week ls, one week rwrb and squeeze tgm in when i feel like it).

3. A scrapped idea for your current WIP

i can't really think of one for my current wip but in call me, rae and i had written some very vague ideas for the epilogue, but then after i had written my last part we looked at it, discussed what we thought should be written and what we came up with was...way better than what we had originally put down. i think being able to re-read the fic in its totality and having the vibes of the previous parts were important in assessing the kind of stuff we wanted to close the fic out with 💜

wip ask game

[woodchoc-magnum]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @cinematicnomad (❤️❤️❤️)

How many works do you have on ao3? 75

What's your total ao3 word count? 2,194,345

What fandoms do you write for? literally only 911

Top five fics by kudos 01. the dream you wish will come true 02. try to love me if you can 03. alone again tonight with you 04. when things fall into place 05. let me roll it to you

Do you respond to comments? i try to - sometimes on a multi-chapter fic I might skip some, but on the last chapter I try to thank everyone.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? lmao none of them, I only write happy endings (and that's the way it will stay!)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? almost all of them end up in a flash forward to buck and eddie being happily married so... yeah. pick one!

Do you get hate on fics? okay so we all remember how chim punched buck right? well I covered that in you were never mine and oh my fucking god did people use my comment section as an excuse to debate whether it was right or wrong.

Do you write smut? Yep 😏

Craziest crossover my only crossover is with 911 Lone Star

Have you ever had a fic stolen? i really, really hope not

Have you ever had a fic translated? no i don't think so

Have you ever cowritten a fic before? once upon a long, long time ago in a fandom far, far away

All time favourite ship? buddie, they literally infected my brain FOUR YEARS AGO THIS MONTH and i'm still not over it. i don't know if i ever will be.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? i started one that's an alternate take on season 2 and 3, like what if eddie joined the other station instead of the 118. I hit a wall writing it so I focused on other things, and then the show came back on and started inspiring me again, so it's on the backburner - FOR NOW.

What are your writing strengths? dialogue, plot e.g. keeping things moving along, so much drama, dinner parties with lots of drama especially, oh and any kind of awkward situation. and CLIFFHANGERS (my favourite)

What are your writing weaknesses? i'm not as descriptive as other people. when i write the first draft it's usually like bare bones and then i go back in to describe things in more detail. i always focus on the dialogue first and try to flesh it out later. i also worry that i get stuck in a rut and use the same words over and over again, so when i go back through and edit i'm always fixing that up

Thoughts on dialogue in another language? i have no strong feelings either way. i hardly ever write eddie speaking spanish but that's just a personal thing

First fandom you wrote in? yeah... so it was something and then it was criminal minds and i'm keeping the "something" part a secret. it was 20 years ago it literally does not matter anymore

Favorite fic you've written? my favourite one is light me and i'll burn for you - it was just so easy to write and every time i re-read it i'm like, damn, this is pretty good! i think it's just a fun fic. i also like my christopher POV fics because I just love writing him, but especially your heart of gold. i have a lot more favourite scenes than fics, so i'll go back and just re-read specific stuff. i write for myself first and foremost!

tagging!! @tripleaxeldiaz, @tawaifeddiediaz, @sevensoulmates, @fiona-fififi and anyone else!

[snowviolettwhite]

Fan-Fiction Idea Blurts

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Maybe let me know what you think or questions you have?

Fan-Fiction Idea Blurts

Suits: Harvey Specter is an omega. He has been pretending to be an alpha to be taken seriously since working in the mailroom by taking illegal suppressants and scent blockers and not being sexually intimate with his colleagues and peers. But suppressing his true natural and side effects of the drugs start catching up with him. He is having parental protective feelings towards his new associate Mike and is catching feels for his tough as stones alpha assistant Donna.

911: In summer 2011 barely eighteen and barely out of high school Buck and Eddie run away from home to California and joining the fire academy and eventually joining the 118. Eddie brings baby Christopher with him. Eddie's parent did not think he was mature and adult enough to take care of Chris as a 20-something year old, so it would be even worse for teenagers, people who are transiting from childhood/teenage-hood to young adulthood and still being treated like kids.

Stranger Things: It is a post Vecna world in the omegaverse with disabled Mike and Max. The Byers and Hopper have moved back to Hawkins, Indiana. Mike is an omega and Will is an alpha. They have been re-building their friendship and it even stronger than before, they kiss sometimes. It gets intense one day when they are alone, Will bits and accidentally bonds Mike. Mike makes it even by biting him back. You cannot remove a claim without a doctor, they hidden the development from their families and friends.

Stranger Things: Need To Update With Chapter Nine: manic pixie dream prince -Michael Wheeler presented on the second worst days of his life but, it is okay because Will Byers his best friend since kindergarten was safe. William Jacob Byers was dreading the day he presents because he was told constantly that he was an omega. He really hopes they are wrong.

911: Lone Star - little boy don't you cry, cause the child in you is still alive: Need To Update With Chapter 7: The fourteen-year-old and ninth grader Tyler Kennedy Strand who goes by Tk was riding high until he was not. His life turned upside down during one short week. It was the 2010 Manhattan school districts homecoming week; everything was good great then it suddenly turned into a nightmare. Now to get away from all the pain his dad is moving him to Austin, Texas. Owen is rebuilding 126 fire-station which recently suffered a great loss, most of the firefighters lost their lives.

Stranger Things: Post Vecna, Mike and Will friendship has been repaired since the Byers and Hopper. Mike has been hiding the fact he is an omega since the seventh grade. Will is the only one who finds out.

Stranger Things: The monsters of the upside-down prefer hunting omega presenting humans but these two alphas presenting humans El and Will have the power to resist the monsters/kill them. They upside-down monsters and Venca specifically hates omega Mike Wheeler because he is always foiling their plans and protecting the alphas. There is a love triangle between Will – Mike- El.

911: Lone – Tk finds out Owen, his dad is bisexual and had a boyfriend when he was a teenager. Or Owen thinks people are attractive regards of their gender and says something very bisexual and proceeds to have an identity crisis in his middle age and get a boyfriend eventually.

911 – A series of one-shots of Eddie Diaz as a baby, toddler, little kid, preteen and teenager in the 1990s and 2000s and early 2010s. Eddie was born in 1992.

911: Lone Star - The higher ups hire Owen to build the 126 firehouse in Austin, Texas because he is a white straight man and thinking he is a dom or switch to add diversity. He is a sub pretending he is a dom or switch to keep his job and taken seriously in the intense kind of work, along with dealing with cancer and taking care of his son after relapsing. (It is a bdsm alternative universe where dom/switch/sub is biological and in society. I enjoy this au because of the world building, it is one of the reasons I love the omegaverse. I don’t know how it is going to go all my knowledge of bdsm comes from fanfiction and erotic fiction. So, I might change it to the omegaverse with omega Owen but then Gwyn would have to be an alpha because when I write omega males and alpha female as intersex, male omega can only be impregnated and female can only impregnate.)

911 – Eddie has started taking anti-depressants after his breakdown and seeing his therapist, one of the side of effects is decreased sex drive and effect his heat cycle and his scent and omega instincts.

911 – Eddie moves to California and joins the 118 firehouse and hides his secondary gender to avoid the stigma and discrimination of being an omega, who is a single omega parent who was abandoned by his alpha which he dealt with in Texas. Buck is an omega who is opened about being an omega and hates Eddie because he thinks he is an arrogant alpha and has a little bit of a crush on him.

911 - Both Eddie and Buck pretend they are not omegas to avoid discrimination plus the trauma they experienced back home but they become best friends and work through that pain together.

911: Lone Star – Tk who is an omega after his relapses and moving leaving New York with father Owen, Tk also has to death with detoxing from the heat suppressants in the omegeverse alpha Alex forced him to take during their two year relationship.

[cinematicnomad]

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🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love oh anon i wish i knew what fandom you were in! i'd give you a rec that way. but if not, let's give a rec for a favorite new random fic i read last week from the ???? stranger things fandom ??? that as soon as i finished it i reopened in a new tab so that i could re-read it at some point in the future. here you go:

vignettes of lost connections by hardlyhalcyon (halcyonfrost) (50/50 | 229k+ | Ex) steddie; pre-s4 canon divergent; alternating POV; enemies to friends to lovers; fix it

steve harrington and eddie munson had met long before dustin henderson dragged steve down to reefer rick's cabin. hawkins wasn't a huge town, and there was only the one high school, but the two were never friends. didn't even like each other. in all their darkest moments however, they somehow found company together. or the one where steve has depression, eddie becomes his safe space, and when eddie encounters battles he can't fight, steve reminds eddie of his own strength. a pre-/peri-/post-s4 fic with steddie before S4 events, continuing through and after.

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh  "and they were roommates!" "oh my god, they were roommates."

❄️ ⇢ what’s your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best? oh ok so here's a thing: there's a popular 911 fandom headcanon that is often in fics involving the 118 having ongoing bets about buck and eddie getting together. and i HATE it. so like, dream fic would be where buck and eddie are on the precipice of getting together, somehow find out about that bet, and it mortifies eddie so much to feel so perceived by his friends and to know they're all talking about him and his life that it basically sends him skittering back into the closet and totally derails him and buck. and then the fic basically goes into all the angst that entails and it's a lengthy slow burn as they slowly work their way back to each other. who would write it best?? probably @woodchoc-magnum, i've definitely told her about this idea before haha

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[outrunningthedark]

Maybe I’m too malicious, but even when I thought 911 og was almost perfect (aka until s3) I saw tarlos as the alternative of buddie, like tim saw how much we loved buddie and thought “ they will never get buddie, but here comes tarlos” and imo it reflects even how in LS everything is done to please the audience while in the og the opposite happens

I think "malicious" is too strong a word, nonnie. Let's go with pessimistic. Or maybe skeptical. Like I said the other day, I don't *normally* engage in the discussion because you're bound to ruffle feathers on both sides and it's just not worth the trouble! However. IMO, the message from Buddie fandom gets lost in translation no matter which ship fans support. When people said/say "Tarlos is the alternative to Buddie", what they're NOT saying is that it's a carbon copy. "Tarlos can't be like Buddie because Tarlos isn't a slow burn." Yeah, we got that part. It's probably on purpose. Who knows if Timothy really was/is trying to pacify the Buddie fan base by creating a new m/m ship for a new show, but what I *am* confident in is the idea that he gave the audience (many of whom came from OG) a m/m ship involving two younger actors that was established from the start to gauge viewer reaction. (Remember, LS premiered during s3 of OG.) (Looking back) If Tarlos caught on, that would/should have given Tim & co. (re)assurance that taking a chance on Buddie wouldn't drive away too many viewers since they were hoping for overlapping ratings from one hour to the next. In all honesty, I think it's easier for Tim & that crew to appease the LS audience when Tarlos has always been part of the plot. They don't have to deal with accusations of queerbaiting and the fans welcome more content (I mean, the homophobes didn't make it past the first two episodes, lbr), whereas with OG we've got people getting heated if you are rooting for the "obviously" straight dude to end up with another. With OG, on the other hand, the showrunners are so concerned with pissing off either side of their audience (can't confirm Buck and Eddie as not straight because homophobia, but don't want the Buddie fandom to feel like we're "doing something wrong" by wanting them together) that the story has begun to suffer due to a lack of consistency. [And that's not just a shipper's perspective. We might question whether Buddie is "actually going canon", but the GA? They don't even know whether to call them best friends anymore.]

[myfandomrealitea]

Fandom racism happens because people are racist. The whole "oh but you were mean to me so I have to be mean to an entire marginalized group" like no. You're just racist

We're not discussing racism or retaliatory racism. I'm assuming you're referencing my recent Madney posts, so I'll clarify.

I'm talking about re-imaginings of canon events within the show that explore different takes and perspectives. Madney fans in particular seem to have an automatic habit of going for the jugular of any author who doesn't strictly present Chimney/Maddie/Madney exactly as seen in the show, often with wild accusations that have left permanent scars in the fandom.

When I say that creative liberty and freedom will get you sniped by Madney fans, I am quite obviously not talking about actual racism and scenarios such as the fallout from last year when a handful of racists were using fanfiction in order to perpetuate racism.

I'm talking about exploration of alternate canon. You can devise scenarios that aren't in the favor of a character without it having ill-intent. You can villainise a character for the narrative without it coming from hate.

For example; I adore Buck. He's my boy. My little sunshine idiot. I've also written fanfiction where he's a ruthless killer that does unspeakable things simply for the thrill of it. Does that mean I hate him? No. He's the villain, but that's the whole purpose of the story. To explore that alternate narrative of what Buck would be if he wasn't the Buck in the show.

I'm not stating he behaves this way in the show. I'm not using the narrative as an excuse to attack who he is, his skin color, ect.

But that's an understanding that I've noticed a lot of Madney fans are unwilling to accept. And not even when its exclusively relevant to Chimney and Maddie, either.

What I referred to in my last post about spite fic was additional fanfiction written on top of existing fanfiction out of spite for hate posts about the existing fanfiction. For example;

Let's say you write watersports. Someone who is not a fan of watersports comments on your work and tells you its disgusting and you should delete it. Instead, you write another fic about watersports.

Likewise, that's exactly what we've seen happen multiple times in the 911 fandom over various scenes and canon events. There's always a witch hunt through recent fanfiction after something happens in an episode, which spirals into a tangled mess of spite fics and 100+ posts of people arguing.

People who want to explore canon material outside of canon aren't going to let the people who believe in rigid canon chokehold them or throw around biased accusations.

My point is; sometimes you simply have to understand that there will always be fanfiction you dislike or disagree with, and that its not healthy to spend your time actively witch-hunting authors and dumping constant shit all over any type of content you don't agree with.

If an author sees someone falsely accusing them of hate, bigotry, ect, they're going to defend themselves. And then it devolves into a public argument that drags people in like a vortex and ruins everything. It keeps happening in the 911 fandom in a vicious cycle that, for a while actually, killed off a lot of the fan count. I know a vast amount of blogs that stepped away from the fandom because people, mostly Madney-based blogs, just couldn't let go or leave people alone.

If your blog is mostly just you shitting all over anything and everything that other people make in your fandom, ask yourself why you're even active in the fandom space in the first place. If you're truly not happy, maybe its time to look elsewhere, or maybe its time to start utilizing the tools provided to ensure you're tailoring your fandom experience to the things you do want to see.

[free--therapy]

4 Coping Skills to Help Children with Depression

Feb 13, 2020

If your child is experiencing severe depression symptoms or is feeling suicidal, please contact 911, the National Suicide Hotline, or the Crisis Text Line.

As anyone who has experienced anxiety symptoms knows, anxiety and depression often go hand-in-hand. People who have survived a trauma also often have symptoms of depression, including hopelessness, numbness, or lack of interest in activities. Because of this, I often see children struggling with depression in my therapy office, even though I specialize in PTSD and anxiety disorders.

There are lots of coping skills for anxiety that can offer some quick relief, either by distracting a child from worries or by helping the body to relax. I think it’s a little trickier to find skills that provide “quick wins” for kids with depression. Maybe this is because anxiety often has a more sudden, intense onset, and depression tends to be a consistent feeling for a longer period of time. In this post, I’ve compiled a few simple ways to help a child cope with depression that are supported by research. While some of these may not be as simple or quick as a breathing exercise, building these habits over time can help boost a child’s mood and encourage positive thinking.

Depression Coping Skill #1: Schedule Positive Activities (Even if They Don’t Sound Fun)

Many people assume that depression is caused by a negative event in life: for kids, maybe this is a move, a divorce, or an experience being bullied. While it’s true that tough life situations can trigger depression, researchers who studied depression found that a lack of positive experiences can also lead to low mood. Kids struggling from depression often withdraw: an elementary schooler might prefer staying home to going on play dates, or a preteen might drop out of her extracurriculars. This can create a vicious cycle where the lack of positive, rewarding activities in a child’s life make the depression worse, which in turn makes it harder to get out of the house.

You can help your child by encouraging activities that are social, fun, or provide a sense of accomplishment. Therapists call this technique behavioral activation, and it’s a treatment for depression in adults, as well as kids. Even if a child is reluctant, scheduling these kinds of activities and sticking to them can have a positive snowball effect. Think of it like going to the gym: you might really dread going the first time, but once you try it, you’ll realize it wasn’t so bad. In fact, you might feel so energized that you get motivated to go back the next day. The same thing can happen for children: the first outing might be really hard, but they may surprise themselves, and have more fun than they expected, which can make the next activity easier and more fun.

Here are a few positive, rewarding activities to consider:

Making a meal or a snack together

Trying an art class, or another class related to a child’s interests

Taking the dog for a walk

Re-arranging a child’s bedroom

A movie night with a friend

Depression Coping Skill #2: Talk Back to Negative Thoughts

Kids with depression are prone to ruminating: mulling over their negative thoughts over and over again, which makes their sad feelings more intense. Depression often exaggerates and distorts our thinking, making our thoughts too negative to be true. Kids can stop the cycle of ruminating by spotting these overly-negative thoughts, questioning them, and coming up with a more helpful and realistic alternative. This is called cognitive restructuring and it’s an important part of cognitive-behavioral therapy, an approach that helps people learn how their thoughts and behavior influence their feelings.

This skill is best for kids who are elementary-aged or older. Sometimes it is hard for kids to learn this skill on their own, because it requires them to think about thinking, which is an abstract concept. A child counselor can teach children how to master this idea and practice “talking back” to negative thoughts. I often use the picture book Tiger Tiger, Is It True? to help kids understand how changing their thoughts can change their feelings. You can help your child catch himself when he’s thinking something too negative to be true, and encourage him to ask himself questions like:

Do I have any proof this is true?

What would I tell a friend who had this thought?

Is there another way of looking at this?

OK, it if really is true, would it be the end of the world?

If your child benefits from this form of thinking, CBT might be a great option to help them cope with feelings of depression, and learn to change the thinking patterns that can trigger sadness and low mood.

Depression Coping Skill #3: Add More Sunshine

Many people notice that their depression is worse in the winter, when there is less access to sunlight. Seasonal Affective Disorder, a form of depression that often starts in the fall and ends in the spring, can occur in kids as well as adults. There is a theory that sunlight might encourage the body to produce serotonin, a chemical that influences many processes in the body including our sleep, digestion, and mood.

For kids, outdoor play is a great way to improve mood and cope with depression. Children who play outdoors get more sunlight, but this kind of play offers all kinds of other benefits, too. A study by the American Medical Association found that “children will be smarter, better able to get along with others, healthier and happier, when they have regular opportunities for free and unstructured play in the outdoors.” Being more connected to nature can also be a mood booster for both children and adults. Interestingly, spending more time in nature has been shown to help kids with ADHD feel more relaxed and focused, as well.

You don’t have to go on a big camping trip or expensive vacation to get the benefits of playing outdoors: a trip to the park, playing catch in the backyard, or a walk on a local nature trail can be just as helpful.

Depression Coping Skill #4: Practice Good Sleep Hygiene

Therapists like to say that sleep, exercise, and nutrition are all important for treating and preventing depression. If your child is feeling down, it’s worth looking into all 3. I have personally noticed that many of the children I meet who are feeling depressed are also really struggling with their sleeping patterns. Often, these children are staying up late, having a hard time falling asleep, and as a result have really shifted their sleep cycle to start and end later than is typical. These kids often have to operate at school on very few hours of sleep, or end up sleeping all day and missing out on the daylight hours they could be spending with friends.

Insomnia is a common symptom of depression, so it’s totally understandable that depressed children often have such a hard time falling asleep. What makes this situation so tricky is that sleep deprivation can also make people more vulnerable to anxiety an depression, so disturbed sleep can create a vicious cycle that ultimately makes depressed feelings more intense. In addition, if a child is losing a lot of their daytime hours to sleep, it cuts back on their opportunities to socialize or get involved in other positive activities that can reduce and prevent depression.

Sleep hygiene is a term to describe many habits that can encourage people to fall asleep and stay asleep, leading to a better night of rest. These habits on their own may not be enough to completely resolve sleep problems for a child, especially if she is also struggling with bedtime anxiety, but they’re a great place to start. Here are a few things to consider if you think your child’s sleep patterns might contribute to depression:

Stop using any electronics (phones, computers, TV) for at least 30 minutes to an hour before bedtime.

Finish any soda or other caffeinated drinks 4-6 hours before it’s time to sleep.

If your child is struggling to fall asleep, encourage him to read a book or try another quiet activity for a few minutes. This can help kids feel tired faster, whereas tossing and turning in bed can make children more angry or anxious, and less likely to sleep.

Create a routine for your child that is consistent each night and can help her unwind, such as reading a book together and practicing a relaxation technique.

Checking the time repeatedly at night can lead to more worry and less sleep. If this is the case for your child, put the clock or phone in a position in the bedroom where she can hear the alarm but can’t see the face or screen.

Make sure your child gets enough physical activity during the day, so that they are ready to relax by bedtime.

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I See Angels, is it bad?

by Atlaswasdeleted

C!tommy got beaten to death by dream and met mumza and she transport him to another universe, but before that mumza made him an angel a beautiful strong angel

What would go wrong BOOM zombie apocalypse yep I’m one of those types :) And no, this will not be a MCD bc I can’t write those and also I’m a sucker for fluff and a little bit of angst (can’t guarantee what little bit in portion it is).

I might push to update this more frequently then my last fic *looks at plans at re-continuing it* I might re-continue it but it depends on how burnt out I am.

Words: 911, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Phil Watson | Philza, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Toby Smith | Tubbo, Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Kristin Rosales Watson

Relationships: TommyInnit & Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit, Technoblade & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Toby Smith | Tubbo & TommyInnit, Ranboo & Toby Smith | Tubbo, Ranboo & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF)

Additional Tags: TommyInnit-centric (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit Cooks (Video Blogging RPF), Rated T for TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Scary TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Winged TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), BAMF TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Human Toby Smith | Tubbo, Human Wilbur Soot, Human Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Human Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Human Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Platonic Cuddling, Possessive Behavior, Possessive Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Possessive Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Possessive Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit Needs a Break (Video Blogging RPF), Strong TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Temporary Character Death, for like a split second, Mother Hen Tommyinnit, how is that not a tag?, ALL PLATONIC YALL - Freeform, BAMF Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), BAMF Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), BAMF Wilbur Soot, BAMF Toby Smith | Tubbo, BAMF Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, no bata we die like dsmp s1, Author Is Sleep Deprived, Author is a TommyInnit Apologist (Video Blogging RPF), The Author Regrets Nothing, Fluff, and a little bit of angst here and there but ssshshhhhhshshshsh

[dashboarddiaries]

Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen (@thelaurenshippen) and Cher McAnelly (@overchers).

Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription by Laudable.

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[intro music]

Cher: Hello, Shippers! I’m Cher McAnelly, Head of Entertainment at Tumblr. And person who ships everyone, including people she knows. So far, resulting in two marriages!

Lauren: That’s pretty good. That’s impressive. 

Cher: Thank you very much. I’m pretty proud of it. You know? I hope that I ship many more people in real life. So, look ...

Lauren: If you wanna get married ...

Cher: I don’t know where I’m going with that. Look, if you wanna get married-

Lauren: Become Cher’s friend!

Cher: Maybe should we do blog-match-making? Anyone wanna?

Lauren: Oh, that’s actually a very fun idea! 

(laughter)

And ... I’m Lauren Shippen, Professional Writer, who has “shippen” in her DNA!

Cher: Ohhh ... my .... gosh!

Lauren: I had to make a shippen joke. 

Cher: Very excited about that. Wow. Can’t believe ... I didn’t even expect ... even though I’ve made that joke multiple times I was like ... 

Lauren: I don’t think I’ve ever made that joke.

Cher: ... it got me.

Lauren: So, I feel proud of myself. 

Cher: And this is Dashboard Diaries, a podcast for you – the folks who are in this internet bunker with us. We talk about what’s going on in our favorite hell site, get into what we like to call “tumbl-lore,” do fandom deep dives, and share the times when we’ve gone feral over a new ship.

Or ... in the case of today’s episode, perhaps an obscure ship, un under-rated ship, a new ship ...

Lauren: Yep, yep.

Cher: So, Lauren, how has your last month been on Tumblr since last time we chatted?

Lauren: Yeah, it’s been good. I was sort of looking through my recent likes to sort of see ... I have a sort of system in place when I’m scrolling on desktop I just immediately queue things I want to queue. But if I’m scrolling on my phone, let’s be honest, while I’m lying in bed trying to go to sleep I’ll like things and then once a week I’ll sort of go through my likes and queue everything. It’s a real system. But anyway ...

I was looking through my recent likes and 911 is coming back in March. Basically, exactly a month. And so it’s like the 911 activity on my dash has started to pick up. And its new season, new network, it’s a shorter season because of the strike. I’m very excited. There’s a huge cruise ship disaster to kick off the season. 911 is like my one network show basically at this point. I love it dearly. So, there’s been just a lot of 911 in my life on my dash recently.

Then the other thing that popped up this week was ... and I’ll be sure to re-blog this to DashboardDiaries.Tumblr.com ... was this old post of a screenshot of someone’s dashboard and the dashboard is from like two- ... when did Tumblr’s mobile app come out? 

Cher: That is a good question. I want to say 2010 but that is an arbitrary year that-

Lauren: That sounds ...

Cher: ... my brain is making up.

Lauren: I’m texting you this, because it was in my likes. But look at the glory of this. It’s a screenshot from a probably 2010 mobile dashboard. 

Cher: Yeah, 2009 on iOs in 2010 on Blackberry. 

Lauren: There you go. Oh my god, on Blackberry ... (laughter) For our younger listeners, Blackberry used to be the alternative to the iPhone basically. Or not even ... it was the alternative to a Palm Pilot. Do you remember Palm Pilot?

Cher: Yeah. A Palm Pilot or a Sidekick or Razor.

Lauren: Oh, the Sidekick. I always wanted a Sidekick so bad. Or a Razor.

Cher: I wanted one so badly. I had a Razor. I had a hot pink Razor.

Lauren: Ohh, the hot pink Razor was THE thing. Anyway, I just really feel like we’re getting into a stage with Tumblr with how old it is and for me personally with how long I’ve been on Tumblr that there’s just now even more Tumblr nostalgia sort of coming through. So, that’s been fun to sort of start off the year with – just looking at a 2010 dashboard and being like, oh my god, I don’t even recognize this dashboard configuration because I don’t think I got the mobile app for Tumblr until probably 2015. I still am in the 98% of the time a desktop user. Only really in the past two years have I become a mobile user. 

Anyway, that’s been my last month on Tumblr. What have you been up to?

Cher: I mean, first off, love that 911 is starting on shipping, too – just a different kind ...

(laughter)

Tee hee.

And then also I love that one of the things you brought up was when we launched the mobile app in the OG dashboard. Because this month is Tumblr’s birthday. So, yeah, Tumblr ... we were just chatting about this in a meeting how the date of Tumblr’s birthday seems to change every year when we get new information. Because it kind of depends on your perspective.

Lauren: Yeah, what do you count?

Cher: Was it when it first launched to a small group or to the public? Or whatever it is. So, this year we’re going with the 19th as the birthday. And so anyway, yeah, I love that. I love looking back at all the OG dashboards and stuff. Definitely a good time to be looking back.

And then for the last month on Tumblr I mean obviously with the Superb Owl happening for all of our What We Do in The Shadows fans, always a fun night on Tumblr. Because we love sports, famously. 

Lauren: Absolutely. Tumblr is a big sports place. 

Cher: Also, on the topic of ships, we came up with a ships list a couple of weeks ago. I’m going to drop it into our little chat. And I thought it would be fun to do a poll on the entertainment Tumblr to see which of the top ships is the most popular, is taking up the most mental space at the moment.

So, first-

Lauren: Fascinating.

Cher: ... in want to show you this poll. I want to make sure that what I’m linking you is the poll without the results, because I really want you to guess. I really, really want you to guess.

Lauren: Ooh. Okay, yeah.

Cher: I really want you to guess which one, because one of these ... there were 12 options. And there’s one winner that got 55%.

Lauren: Interesting. INTERESTING.

Cher: So, I really want you ... 

Lauren: That’s a real quorum. 

Cher: I know. I was shocked. Really, I’m very excited to see what you think the one that won is. For all of our listeners here, I’m going to quickly run through the ship options in the list. 

First one – Hazbin Hotel, Huskerdust

Second one – Percy Jackson, Percabeth

Third one – Good Omens, Ineffable Husbands

Fourth one – Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonadow

Fifth one – Hazbin Hotel, Chaggie

Sixth one – Satosugu, Jujutsu Kaisen

Seventh one – Hannigram 

Eighth one – One Piece, Zosan

Ninth one – Hazbin Hotel, Radioapple

And then there were three options ...

One was another ship on the full list, a ship that isn’t on the top ships list, which is of 20, and then another one that was a fleet of ships sails on the sea of my mind, I cannot choose only one. 

(laughter)

Which I was really laughing at myself for. 

Lauren: I love that.

Cher: Anyway ... which one do you think, Lauren, got that 55%?

Lauren: I mean, part of me thinks that it’s a fleet of ships sail on my mind.

(laughter)

But if we’re going off of those ships ... I mean, I think it would be Ineffable Husbands. I think that would be the winning ship of that bunch. 

Cher: Mm hmm. Yeah.

Lauren: What was it?

Cher: Surprisingly, that’s not what it is. And, oh, actually I was wrong. Actually, the winner got 58.5% of the vote.

Lauren: Oh my god.

Cher: And, oh my gosh, wait! At this moment I just realized, Lauren ... Shoot! This isn’t the ... the poll is not done. It has a day and two hours left! 

Lauren: Oh my goodness! Okay. I’m voting for Hannahgram. I’m sorry!

(laughter)

Okay, yeah, I never ever would have guessed this. So, the winning ship by an enormous margin, as you said, is Sonic and Shadow from Sonic the Hedgehog. What happened? 

Cher: I have no idea. If you look at the notes, they’re all “Sonadow supremacy, rise up”

Lauren: Sonadow sweep.

(laughter)

OH MY GOD. This is incredible. 

Cher: Tumblr continues to surprise. I love this chaotic platform. It’s amazing.

Lauren: Oh, that’s so good. Also, this is a poll and a ship list that actually brings up something about my last month on Tumblr that I forgot about. And that I would love to get your take on.

Cher: Yes?

Lauren: Which is ... what the fuck is Hazbin Hotel!? And why is it all of a sudden everywhere!?

Cher: Okay. So, Hazbin Hotel is a new Amazon MGM Studios animated series.

Lauren: Okay.

Cher: The plot of it, if I’m not mistaken, which I might be vaguely incorrect is essentially the daughter of Lucifer has opened a hotel for wayward souls to try to get into Heaven. 

Lauren: That’s fun.

Cher: So, demons and things. And so there’s obviously just a wide range of shipping happening.

Lauren: Of course.

Cher: And it really feels like it happened, like this show blew up overnight. Suddenly, Hazbin Hotel was everywhere. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. I need to, because obviously it’s taking over the Tumblr platform. Which is really exciting to see a brand new show with a completely ... and also Tumblr does love Hell and demons.

Lauren: It’s so true. 

Cher: It’s exciting to see it really take off, a brand new show take off on platform. I think Hazbin Hotel will be a big one for a while.

Lauren: I didn’t know that it was a show. I thought it was a dating SIM or a JRPG. I thought it was a video game for some reason. I don’t know why.

Cher: Because it really does feel like ... oftentimes we at least kind of hear about shows [crosstalk 00:10:25] before they come out and overtake the platform. Or they kind of get big later in season one or around season two. This is a show that came out ... season one I don’t think is even done with new episodes at the moment. Or it has just finished and it’s huge.

Lauren: That’s incredible. 

Cher: So, yeah, super excited to see. On the topic of Hazbin Hotel and just a lot of amazing ships and a lot of chaotic ships and everywhere in between. The ships list is 4/20 Hazbin Hotel, pretty much every week at the moment. So, our topic this week is our pitches for slept on ships. So, Lauren and I have both brought some ships today that we think really should have more of a role in the Tumblr zeitgeist or conversation. We want more fic. We want more conversation. Or any, depending on what we’re bringing. 

Lauren: Right. True.

Cher: So, Lauren, what have you brought today? Which slept on ship or fleet of ships?

Lauren: Yeah, I think we each brought three ships. I didn’t write my other two down, really, but yeah, so start off ... I’m going to start off with the newest one which is what I’m calling the Monarch Founder Polycule. And this is from the Apple TV show, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. And just like a general sort of blanket spoiler for this show ... I’ll try to stay away from too many spoilers but in order to really describe the ship I need to get into it a little bit.

So, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ... Have you watched this show?

Cher: I watched the first episode and I’ve seen pretty much all if not most of the other monster films leading up.

Lauren: Got you. Great.

Cher: But I haven’t gotten into this one yet. But I know kind of where it starts, the main characters, and the main monsters so far. I’m sure there are some new ones.

Lauren: There’s a monster every episode, which is awesome. So, yes. This TV show is pretty much the first TV show within the world of Godzilla that’s been built over the last couple of years through ... I’m forgetting what studio it is ... but anyway, whoever owns Godzilla currently. 

It takes place in two different timelines. There’s a 1950s timeline and a 2014 timeline. And the 1950s timeline is about the three people who found Monarch. Monarch is the company that tracks the Titans and studies them and fights against them and stuff. In the modern age they’re kind of a sketchy government organization. They’re sort of good guys, but they’re sort of not. Yeah, there’s a lot to do with Monarch. The show is obviously called Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. It’s about the legacy of Monarch and kind of the family that started it and then their next generation and the generation after that, which is the modern day.

There are a couple of ships in the show that are canon or are headed that way. Including a queer female ship in the modern day that’s really lovely and complex because of various things I won’t spoil. But I really love the three founders. 

Cher: I love that you listed them out by descriptors but not by names. So Tumblr of you, honestly.

Lauren: Yes. In my notes I said there’s one pretty blonde dude in uniform, one kickass smart hot woman, one goofy green bean. Because that’s my pitch for why Tumblr would like these people. The blonde hot guy in uniform is Lee Shaw, played by Wyatt Russell who is Kurt Russell’s real life son. And Kurt Russell plays the older version of Lee Shaw in the modern era. So, it’s very cute because it’s like his son is playing the younger version of him. It’s great.

Yeah, Keiko is the hot, smart woman. She’s the scientist that is studying these anomalies and then Lee is the person who is tasked with protecting her. He’s in the Army and I forget exactly specifically where they are but they are on an island in the Pacific. She is going out to do this study and he is kind of like literally her body guard. So, already we’re getting into good tropes, right? They’ve got sort of some flirty banter and he’s sort of the uptight Army type and she is the adventurous, “Let’s go out and do this thing.” And then they run into the goofy, green bean who is Bill Randa who is played by John Goodman in Skull Island. So, it’s like a young Bill Randa. And he is a crypto zoologist and he’s just a fucking nerd. (laughs) And kind of very Mulder, right? Believes in these really wacky things. 

The three of them end up teaming up and founding Monarch. Their dynamic is so ... the very first scene that you see with them is a few years after they founded Monarch and stuff and they’re going out to find this monster. And this is where I’m going to get into one of the big spoilers, but it does happen in the first episode. They go out and they find this monster and Keiko ends up dying. And so then it’s just the two of them left alone basically without her. But just the first scene of them in the car I’m like, oh, these three people are married. 

Kei and Bill are married actually in the show. And then Lee is their guy. And after she dies Bill and Lee basically raise her son together. And so it’s like there’s all of this ... and Kei and Lee kiss at one point. There is genuinely a real love triangle except there’s no jealousy between any of them. So, I’m like the three of you just need to be together. Then there’s a bunch of other really crazy stuff that happens. And it’s so tragic. It’s such a doomed romance for so many reasons. A classic thing of these three people had a brief period of time where they were all together and right for each other at the right time of their life. And it’s just passing ships the rest of their lives in a really heartbreaking way.

So, that is my pitch for the Monarch Founder Polycule, because it’s like these three Tumblr character types that Tumblr loves, it’s a throuple, it’s got some tragic and amazing fix-it potential, right? I want to get out and read fix-it fics where things aren’t tragic. And there’s co-parenting. There’s generational trauma. It’s just delicious. 

Cher: I mean, it checks so many boxes. I’m immediately sold on the ship. Convinced.

Lauren: What’s crazy is the show is not necessarily half and half, like the founders and the modern day. It is probably 60-70% modern day and 30-40% founders. But I want a show of us them. I love them so much, the dynamics are so good, the actors are so good together, it’s just great. Highly recommend.

Cher: We love a prequel. 

Lauren: We love a prequel. You know? We love knowing ... because also we know what happens to John Goodman in Skull Island, so we know what happens to Bill, too. And it’s like the reveal of what happens to Lee and why he is the way that he is all these years later is like so terrible and so good! So yeah, Cher, I hope you have a ship that maybe isn’t so tragic. what’s your first pitch?

Cher: So, my first pitch is a ship that I thought was completely original and no one had thought of, but why would I ever think that? This is Tumblr. It’s from Lord of the Rings, Gigolas. Which is Gimli and Legolas. I feel like this is a great ship for many reasons. First off, they’re not full on enemies, but the elves and the dwarves definitely kind of like yeah there’s some animosity there. So, there’s some enemies to lovers. There’s some opposites attract. Also, the banter. The consistent banter. They both have some of the best lines and some of the best looks in that entire film. Or series. Trilogy. More than that, whatever it is ... yeah. Books ... you know what I mean. Anyway ... 

All together I love their banter! I love their dynamic. I love their relationship. I feel like they’re meant for each other. And apparently Tumblr feels the same. Because I went and searched Legolas X Gimli and got ... found out that there are 5.4 thousand followers of the tag.

Lauren: That’s a lot!

Cher: Right?

Lauren: That’s not a little, that’s a lot!

Cher: That’s a substantial amount of people. And there was obviously some fan art, which we will re-blog. And so just all together I just love this as a ship. And I’m so glad that Tumblr felt the same. It’s still kind of obscure, I guess, because 5.4K compared to the size of some other ships. But the fact that ... it’s robust, there’s a community. 

Lauren: Oh yeah. I mean, I actually personally follow a bunch of people who are big Gigolas shippers so it’s ... the quality of the content coming from the shippers is great. 

Cher: I’m honestly surprised. I don’t know why I thought I was being so original when Lord of the Rings is so hugely popular and obviously Tumblr loves to ship side characters. You know? 

Lauren: Yeah, but I love that you were on Tumblr’s wavelength. 

Cher: You know what? You’re so right. Yeah. Right there with them. I should work there or something.

(laughter)

Anyway ... what else do you have? What other two surprise ships?

Lauren: Yeah. So, working backwards in sort of newness, one of the ships that I got really into last year that then I also got my sister really into, which always feels like a victory because she and I don’t necessarily always ship the same things. But we like a lot of the same TV shows. But I tend to I don’t know be more of an active shipper than she is. But I got her super into this ship and I feel really vindicated for that. NACE, Nancy and Ace from the CW television series, Nancy Drew, which I watched all of in a very short amount of time in the summer of last year. (laughs)

It is delightful, first of all. And has a really wonderful found family friendship dynamic between sort of the Nancy Drew crew, right? But in this modern adaptation of Nancy Drew, Nancy works at this restaurant and the dishwasher line cook guy, Ace, who she has known for a long time, but they’ve never really clicked is sort of in her orbit and then this crazy stuff happens and they end up teaming up and stuff. It’s just an amazing friends to lovers story that also has ... because of Supernatural things that happen in the show because it’s Nancy Drew but also with Supernatural elements, there’s a forbidden love aspect to it. There’s so much pining! So much pining. 

And it has that element that I love in ships which is a completely incredibly competent but slightly insane woman and the guy who is just absolutely devoted to her. (laughs) And will follow her off the edge of a cliff. 

Cher: I love that dynamic. (laughs)

Lauren: It’s so good. Have you seen any of the show? Have you heard anything about the show? There is a Tumblr fandom, but it’s very small. 

Cher: I have not seen the show. I am familiar with the show. I am familiar with the show because when I watched Riverdale, which I think I stopped maybe three or four seasons ago ... when I watched it right around the time Nancy Drew was coming out they did some crossover episodes to do some Nancy Drew promotion. 

Lauren: A-ha! Interesting.

Cher: Veronica goes into the city and gets drinks with Nancy Drew and chats. 

Lauren: Oh my god!

Cher: So, that’s what I know. I’m also obviously super familiar with the Nancy Drew ... I read the Nancy Drew books growing up. 

Lauren: Same.

Cher: Subject matter is super familiar. I was not aware that they introduced Supernatural elements, but knowing what I know of Riversdale I’m not surprised that they are the same universe. So ...

Lauren: It doesn’t go quite as crazy as Riverdale goes. (laughter) 

Cher: I mean I feel like I need to watch-

Lauren: ... but nothing could.

Cher: ... the final season just to really fully comprehend it. Because I’ve heard so much but also feel like I can imagine it so little because it’s so wild. I stopped around the baby levitating time.

Lauren: Same! That’s about when I stopped, too. Yeah. 

Cher: I was like okay ... 

Lauren: All right .... 

Cher: Um, I don’t ... But apparently it ends with a lot more ... everyone’s different supernatural creatures and they’re in a polycule?

Lauren: Yeah. And I remember seeing a post once that was like, “I can’t believe this season of Riverdale ended with them sacrificing Archie in the woods and cutting his heart out.” And I was like, ha ha, funny post. But I am curious to look it up. Then I was like, oh no, this is real! That’s something they did. They cut out Archie’s heart in the forest. Okay.

Cher: Okay. 

Lauren: He gets better!

Cher: Of course he does. He gets better. With heartburn, amiright?

Lauren: Tee hee.

Cher: I really now want to go through Riverdale text posts and see which ones are-

Lauren: Just shitpost and which ones are ...

Cher: ... shitposts and which ones aren’t. I just feel like that’s just ... it’s got to be really challenging.

Lauren: Yeah. Oh, that could be a fun quiz for us.

Cher: That would be a really fun quiz. I mean, it would also be super easy to do just via re-blogs because you could just re-add a poll in the re-blog and say true or false. 

Lauren: That’s true. Oh great idea. I love that.

Cher: That would be a fun little thing.

Lauren: All right, what next ship do you have for me?

Cher: Okay. Up next, I have a ship that I searched and I do actually think it is obscure. And it’s a new ... we’re doing an answer time for the new Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Netflix live action series that is coming out on the 22nd. And so because of that I’ve been doing a lot of preparing, a lot of watching to prep for the interview. And so my ship is an Avatar: The Last Airbender ship. I came up with two names for it. Either Mopa or Apomo? 

It’s Appa and Momo. If you aren’t familiar with Avatar: The Last Airbender as a story and who these characters are ... first off, Avatar: The Last Airbender TLDR there are four nations in this world. Each nation is kind of centered around an element: earth, air, fire, water. In these nations there are people who have powers to bend those elements. They’re called airbenders, waterbenders, etc. In this world, an avatar is born and re-born into one of these nations pretty much on a consistent loop. There’s always an avatar and they’re always kind of coming. They’re the ones who can master all four of the elements. 

So, Avatar: The Last Airbender is the story of the last airbender who is also the avatar and essentially it’s their journey because they’re obviously being chased for being the avatar. It’s very kind of reminiscent I feel like of Circle of Time, Wheel of Time. 

Lauren: Oh yeah!

Cher: There’s a lot of alignments I’m seeing as I’m talking about this. 

Lauren: I totally see that.

Cher: There are some interesting aligned components there. Very chosen one centered story. I’m really enjoying ... no wonder that it’s huge on Tumblr. Started as an anime, it was a Nickelodeon show, they made a film years ago and ... they think people had notes ... and now there’s a Netflix live action series coming out.

So, anyway, Oppa and Momo are two of the animal sidekicks in Avatar. 

Lauren: Amazing!

Cher: So, Oppa is this giant kind of flying fuzzy creature that is the avatar’s best friend and little animal sidekick. I feel like it’s a flying water buffalo would be a good way to describe it maybe. Or one of those fluffy cows. But it has six legs. So, it’s huge. So, Oppa and then Momo is a little creature/spirit that kind of has really big ears that it can fly around with and it’s a tiny little guy that you can fit into your little bag. They’re friends and they’re cute little sidekicks and I just feel like opposites attract in terms of one being really big and one being really small. But they’re still fuzzy cute little guys who fly around and they’re always around each other. So, why not? 

My biggest pitch here is, look, Donkey and Dragon from Shrek vibes. 

Lauren: That’s a very strong pitch.

Cher: Need I say more? And what’s your final ship, Lauren?

Lauren: I love that. I did not see an animal sidekick ship coming. I think that definitely counts for most obscure. I think that’s awesome. 

Cher: Thank you very much. I try.

Lauren: We need more of that. 

Cher: We should also do a quiz on the Dashboard Diaries Tumblr with each of the ships that we pitch on this episode!

Lauren: Yes. That’s a perfect idea. I love that. So, my final ship is ... I think definitely, yeah, the most obscure in some ways, simply because I think, yeah, the show is subtitled which we talked about before and also I’m at the point with this particular ship where I feel like I actually have re-blogged every single post about them that exists on Tumblr. We’re kind of at that threshold, so a thank you to the people who have made gif sets of these two. 

Cher: So, you’re like, please, can we expand?

Lauren: Can we please expand? Exactly! That’s actually a perfect segue into The Expanse which is the show that I’m talking about. 

Cher: I did not even realize! Ohhhh!

Lauren: Let’s expand The Expanse, right?

Cher: Tee hee.

Lauren: Tee hee. So, yeah. You guys have heard me talk about The Expanse before. I think we are going to do a pitch each other shows that Tumblr should love. So, I’m not going to get too far into the show. It is a sci fi, in space, Amazon series that ran for five seasons I want to say, five or six seasons, I’m forgetting exactly how much. And one of the central characters in it is a character named Amos Burton. I’m just going to read this post that I’ll make sure to re-blog that I think just perfectly encapsulates who he is and why Tumblr should love him.

So, this is from SpursThatJingleJangleJingle, which is a great Tumblr name. Thank you. And it reads, “Amos Burton is what everyone wants their big, buff military men to be, tbh. He knows how to walk in heels. He’s deeply and unapologetically violent. He’s good with kids. He finds people he trusts and sticks next to them like their lapdog pit bull that’s ready to tear out throats on a moment’s notice. He’s a mama’s boy. His sexuality is ‘I ain’t reading all those labels,’ ‘good for you,’ or ‘I’m sorry that happened.’ He’s drawn to found family sisters like a moth to flame. Whenever he is treated with genuine kindness he looks like a deer in headlights. He’s great.” 

That just perfectly describes Amos. (laughs)

Cher: Absolutely. I love that. I love the juxtaposition of all of those descriptors. Amazing.

Lauren: He’s incredible. Orphaned, former sex worker, turned mechanic / muscle of what are essentially fugitive group for the first couple of seasons that then become the most important people in the universe. And his whole story line is about him regaining a lot of the humanity that he lost in his childhood and in his very tragic back-story. And yeah, even the creators of The Expanse have said that his sexuality is just “yes.” He’s just that guy. 

His best friend in the whole world, that is once again textual, he calls him his “best friend in the whole world,” is Prax Meng who is a guy that they sort of pick up after there’s this attack on the planet Ganymede. Prax is a botanist. In the collapse of Ganymede he loses track of his daughter and then the crew of the Rocinante, the sort of main crew, helps him find his daughter.

Prax, he’s not equipped for this crazy life in space. He is plant guy who is a single dad. And he just is thrown into this world of aliens and war and this crazy stuff. And Amos is the guy who teaches him kind of how to take care of himself and protects him. And there is an amazing moment when ... Amos has a thing about kids because of the way that he grew up where he’s like absurdly protective of children. And so when they’re looking for Prax’s daughter he ends up almost beating this guy to death who they think has information. And Prax is the only one of the group to actually stop him successfully. It’s just so ... and there’s a whole thing when they actually find Prax’s daughter that if I speak ... it’s such a great sort of gentle and tough guy ship. And just found family. Adoptive parent type of situation. The way that he is with Nay, the daughter, is so sweet. 

Yeah, there’s just something about Prax who is so protective of his daughter who also has this genetic illness, who just immediately trusts Amos with her, it absolutely shatters my heart. I love it so much! It’s so good.

Cher: Please, people. 

Lauren: Please. Post more [crosstalk 00:32:12]

Cher: My last ship is from What We Do In The Shadows. I have been calling it the Guide Robinson. It is Collin Robinson and the Guide. If you are listening and are not familiar with What We Do In The Shadows and the individual characters and their personalities, Collin Robinson is an energy vampire. So, he sucks the energy out of people like as his vibe. Very Dwight in The Office coded I would say in a lot of ways, with less personality or maybe more of a flat personality. 

Then the Guide played by Christian Shaw is this centuries old vampire with mystical powers who has a lot of power in the What We Do In The Shadows universe or in the vampire world, technically. But no one listens to her. And she’s just kind of very awkward and has trouble making friends and really wants to fit in but struggles with it. And I just think that Collin Robinson and the Guide would balance each other out in a lot of special ways. And I don’t know, I think they might be meant for each other. I think this is something that maybe ... I don’t know if it’s been considered at all, but I’m very ... honestly, the more I’m talking about it, the more I am very pro this.

Collin The Guide Robinson. 

Lauren: I love it.

Cher: Also very proud of the ship name.

Lauren: It’s a good ship name. It sounds like its own sort of thing. It’s very cool. I love that. I do love that it’s ... there are those ships where it’s just like, it’s just instinctual. These people just belong together, and I can’t ... there’s not more that you need, right? It’s just that good instinct. 

Cher: I always forget ... do you watch What We Do In The Shadows?

Lauren: You know, I haven’t yet. I need to. 

Cher: Okay. I feel like this is the show I’m going to have to pitch to you. Because oh my god, I love it. It’s so good. 

Lauren: I love that.

Cher: You would love it. 

Lauren: Yeah, I’m sure I would. I just for some reason haven’t gotten around to it. I don’t know why. 

Cher: Well, it’s so exciting that you get to see it for the first time whenever you do. 

Lauren: That’s true. That is always such a delight. 

Cher: So much fun talking about ships. Love it. I feel like ships really are the ... gosh, I was trying to think of a ship related pun. They sail through the dashboard, I don’t know ... 

Lauren: Ships are really the wind beneath our sails.

Cher: Thank you!

Lauren: As art consumers. 

Cher: Oh my gosh. Lauren! What would I do without you? Thank you so much. Anyway ... 

[guitar riff]

Onto our next segment, Dashboard Confessionals. Where we take a look into our archives and see what we were posting about this time however many years ago. So, what do you have for us this week, Lauren?

Lauren: Yeah, so on February 13th, 2015 ... so nine years ago! Good lord. This is just a classic Tumblr post that made me smile. It’s just a photo of Lenny Kravitz wearing an absolutely fucking enormous scarf. (laughs) It’s just ... I don’t know the origin of this photo, because I assume that it’s photoshopped. I’m fairly certain that it’s a fake photo of Lenny Kravitz wearing a huge scarf. I don’t know why. I don’t know what spurred MySharona1987 to make this post. But I do love it. (laughs) 

Cher: But we do thank you.

Lauren: Yes. We do thank you. Thank you for your work. Yeah, a very simple and silly one this week. What about you? What’s in your archives?

Cher: Love it. So, in typical me fashion couldn’t pick just one. So, I picked two. The first one is from February 19, 2017. It’s a post that David Carp, the Founder of Tumblr, posted in Slack. And he just tagged himself in Slack and said @David. And then everyone responded to David tagging himself with the emoji of himself. And then I posted it on Tumblr tagging @David’s Tumblr.

Lauren: That’s very good.

Cher: David did this because it was a bit or a thing to do in the Tumblr full team Slack when David was CEO to put in the @channel @David to tag everyone in the company and then tag the CEO. A few people would do this. It did eventually ... HR was eventually like, “You can’t ...”

Lauren: You have to stop.

Cher: You can’t, you need to stop doing this. But yeah. Before we were fairly and validly stopped from notifying the entire company and its founder and CEO on a regular basis for no reason, David did post @David in the Slack and it was a big day. It was an exciting day for everyone involved.

Lauren: Incredible. I love it.

Cher: Yeah. The other one is really short and sweet, self explanatory. It is my yearbook photo from 2005. (laughs)

Lauren: Look at you! You’re so cute! 

Cher: I am wearing a navy blue flowery polo shirt and a navy blue pooka shell necklace to really accentuate the polo shirt. And of course it’s [crosstalk 00:37:31]

Lauren: A perfect 2005 outfit. Absolutely impeccable. 

Cher: Definitely from Limited Too. 

Lauren: Yes! Yes! That’s amazing. 

Cher: With that, what has you in your feels this week, Lauren?

[gentle music]

Lauren: So, this weekend I did something that I haven’t done in a really long time which is on Sunday I started this book and I’m going to get the pronunciation of the title wrong. I actually don’t know how it is pronounced but Piranesi by Susanna Clarke who is most known for writing Jonathan Strange & MR Norrell. Which is a book that I love. And she has written three books. It’s like Jonathan Strange, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, and this book. And this has been on my “to be read” for four years, since it came out in 2020, since I loved her first two books so much. And I read it. I started it a couple of days ago and then on Sunday, this is Monday as we’re recording this, I just sat down and spent most of the morning and afternoon reading the rest of this book. It wasn’t a particularly long book. And it was just ... it’s been a while since I’ve had that experience of reading a book where you’re just so sucked into it. Then I get to the last line and I just instantly burst into tears. And it was just like, I don’t know, it really ... I’ve been in a little bit of a reading rut for a while. I would say most of what I’ve read in the last 18 months has been nonfiction books, romance novels, and Star Wars books. (laughs)

All of those things are great but there’s something about sitting down with a completely original sort of story that you have no idea where it’s going. Even if it is an original romance, I know kind of what the end goal is. Right? But yeah, it really got me in my feels because it sort of reminded me of the magic of reading.

What about you? What has you in your feels?

Cher: I just started watching the new Amazon MGM Studio series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. That’s with Maya Erskine and Donald Glover. I am loving it. I think it’s really fun and cute. And I’m shipping them super hard. And I really like them both as individuals. And so I’m really excited about having a new show, a brand new show that I am excited about and watching. So, yeah, that has me in my feels. 

Lauren: That show is definitely next on my list. It looks so fun. I love both of those actors so much. That’s great.

Cher: It’s fun, it’s cute. Definitely a bi panic show overall. Really enjoying it. We love those. It’s most shows as it turns out. 

Lauren: That’s true. Yeah.

Cher: Attractive characters.

Lauren: Which is most shows. 

Cher: Which is most shows. They don’t have to be attractive because it’s in the eye of the beholder. 

Lauren: That’s so true.

Cher: You know what I mean?

Lauren: Yeah. 

Cher: Anyway ... So, yeah. Most shows, it’s just most shows. 

Lauren: We don’t need an excuse to have bi panic. 

Cher: It’s just everything. And also I wanted to quickly before we close, I feel like I bring up this post all the time. And so I just wanted to mention it because it’s a Lord of the Rings post. I feel like when we did Dashboard Confessional last week I read a text post that reads from homosexuals having tea, which it turns out I’ve used as my dashboard confessional twice in a row. The text post says, “Love that one scene in Return of the King that’s like bad news, Sauron knows everything, good news, Pippin knows absolutely fuck all.” 

Lauren: It’s so good.

Cher: And someone made it into a gif set. And I was really excited to see that on my dashboard. And so thank you @RemusJohnSlupin. That’s the username. For making that work of art. So, that also has me in my feels – excited to see this text post that I continue to re-blog for years. Still have new life.

Lauren: It hits every time. 

Cher: It hits every time. 

Lauren: I love that.

Cher: Thank you, yet again. Completed my thoughts. What would I do without you? Anyway ... with that ... we fanic, we fixate, we complete each other’s sentences. 

Lauren: I love that.

Cher: I’m Cher McAnelly and you can find me at OverChers.Tumblr.com. 

Lauren: And I’m Lauren Shippen, and you can find me at TheLaurenShippen.Tumblr.com.

Cher: This has been Dashboard Diaries. And ... 

[outtro music]

Lauren: May your anons always be loving.

Cher: Your dash always refreshed.

Lauren: Your gifs always be loading.

Cher: And your ships always canon.

Lauren: May the fics you’re reading always be finished.

Cher: And the answers you seek always in the re-blogs.Lauren: Thanks for scrolling with us!

Shipping is a vital part of fandom culture and, let's be real, the central pillar of Tumblr's religion. This month, Cher and Lauren bring lesser loved ships to the table and pitch Tumblr users on why it's going to be their next fandom fixation.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

Find the posts discussed in this episode in this tag!

[angela-feelstoomuch]

Pairing: Buddie

Rating: T

Wordcount: 9622

Warnings: Minor descriptions of injuries, but like blink and you miss it.

Summary:

With the rush of fear of seeing his sister looking at him murderously, he didn’t pay attention to the doctor until he was close to Buck and then he was swallowing hard to contain the groan that threatened to escape his mouth. The doctor was gorgeous. Magazine cover worthy gorgeous. He was stunning, with the lab coat and a binder between his hands. He had the most amazing brown eyes and his hair looked so soft that Buck wanted to run his fingers through it until it was messy.

“Good afternoon, Mr. Buckley. Nice to see you back with us.” The doctor interrupted his inner thoughts which were basically singing poetry about how precious he was. Dang. Buck 1.0 would have asked for his number in that exact same moment. But he wasn’t like that anymore. Also, he probably looked like shit, so there was a very little chance of it working.

OR

5+1 times Buck had an accident and Dr. Diaz had to patch him up.

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[macgyvermedical]

Getting to Monday Morning: How Not to Go to the Emergency Department if You Don't Super Freaking Have To

Listen, I've re-written this intro a dozen times. I've talked about staffing in US hospitals (bad), I've touched on how the system backs up when staffing is bad (no staff on floors means ED stays full means new patients wait for hours or days to get a bed), I've even considered sharing my own experiences as a bedside nurse.

But the bottom line of all of it is that if your life or at least one limb doesn't absolutely depend on it, stay the heck out of the emergency department. And this post is here to help give you some tips for staying home until you can be seen by your primary care doctor or an urgent care.

Everything in this post (except an albuterol inhaler) is something you can find at a pharmacy without a prescription in the USA.

Officially, the following information is for educational use only.

What Conditions Are Life or Limb?

Lack of breathing or pulse

Blue or grey skin due to respiratory problems after taking prescribed rescue medications

An obvious hole in the chest wall

A sudden change in mental status that doesn't resolve within a few mins, especially if you don't know why

A head injury with worsening confusion or profuse vomiting

Abdominal pain that gets better when you press on the abdomen, or gets worse when you release pressure suddenly

Severe abdominal pain and not passing any gas

A musculoskeletal injury (fracture, sprain, etc...) with numbness, tingling, severe weakness, or very pale skin below the site of injury

Spurting bleeding that you can't stop, or numbness, severe weakness, or very pale skin below the site of injury once the bleeding is stopped, or if the bleeding required a tourniquet to stop

Red streaks spreading from a wound

Seizure that has lasted longer than 5 minutes without stopping, or which stops and starts without the person coming back to baseline in between

Chest pain without a known cause or with symptoms like nausea, weakness, sweating, or confusion

Any of the above, you want to call 911 or go to the hospital and explain exactly why you are there to the first person with a hospital badge you come across.

BUT

If it's pain or nausea or not-absolute-emergency respiratory problems from a known source or wounds or fever or skin infections, maybe consider some alternatives first.

PAIN:

OTC Meds: if you can take both acetaminophen (paracetamol/Tylenol) and an NSAID like ibuprofen, consider staggering them. For example, take 650mg acetaminophen at 0000, then 400mg ibuprofen at 0200, then acetaminophen at 0400, then ibuprofen at 0600, etc... This helps make sure one or the other medication is at it's peak effectiveness at all times (one study found pain control similar to 5mg oxycodone from a similar regimen). If it's night time consider OTC doxalamine (unisom) or diphenhydramine (benadryl) if you know they make you sleepy.

Acetaminophen works significantly better as a suppository. Sorry to tell you.

If it's muscle pain (back, neck, shoulder, menstrual cramps, broken bone more than a few days old) or arthritis pain, heat helps relax muscles and decrease stiffness. Try to get it as hot as you can without burning and wrap in something light like a pillow case. A hot water bottle or wheat pillow is great for this.

If it's an acute injury like a sprain or break that happened today, cold works better at decreasing pain, if not for helping the injury to heal. But pain is what we're dealing with here. You want several ice packs wrapped in a pillowcase or hand towel and wrapped all around the injury.

If the pain is an injury that is in a spot where you can elevate it (like a limb), elevate above the heart- this will significantly decrease throbbing.

Splinting an injury or recent surgery site decreases movement in that area, which decreases pain. If the injury is on a limb you can wrap a pillow around it and tape it in place. If it's abdominal (like a surgical incision) or in the chest area (like a cracked rib) you can hold a folded blanket against the site when you cough or move.

Abdominal pain can sometimes be partially relieved by bending the legs or laying on one side or the other.

For young children, sugar is an excellent distraction and is used in medical environments to relieve pain from short procedures.

NAUSEA/VOMITING/DIARRHEA/CONSTIPATION:

Nausea/Vomiting:

Any antihistamine that produces drowsiness will work on nausea. These include diphenhydramine, doxalamine, and dimehydrinate.

If unable to take by mouth, any of the above can be crushed, mixed with a small amount of softened coca butter or coconut oil, and frozen in the tip of a finger of a glove to make a suppository.

Once you stop vomiting, you can also take bismuth subsalicylate on top of an antihistamine.

Smelling mint or unscented isopropyl alcohol

Starting with an hour of trying to drink nothing at all, then 1oz of a clear liquid (water, electrolyte drink, peppermint tea, etc..) every half hour for an hour, then 1oz every 15 mins for an hour and slowly build up from there.

Sipping regular coca cola (I hate to mention a brand name, but coca cola has phosphoric acid in it (most off brands don't or have less), which is the same active ingredient as a lot of anti-nausea medications, and is a lot cheaper (and tastier) for the amount. It only works for about 20 minutes by slowing down your stomach's squishing your food around, but that's long enough to be able to drink other clear liquids in between).

Sipping soda water reduces stomach acidity and helps you burp, which often helps you feel better.

Cool wash cloths on the forehead or neck.

If someone has severe nausea that is causing worsening dehydration but no diarrhea, a slow tap water enema can be absorbed by the colon (up to 2 liters per day), which can often relieve some of the dehydration and help get someone to business hours.

Diarrhea:

Loperamide- for diarrhea not caused by antibiotics, loperamide is your friend. Read and follow the instructions. You need to take twice as much on the first poop as the rest of them. You do not need to "clear out" an infection. The infection itself is in the wall of the intestine, all you're doing by pooping a lot is spreading it around.

You can take bismuth subsalicylate with loperamide

One of the most dangerous parts of diarrhea is dehydration. A good electrolyte drink can be made by mixing 1/4 tsp table salt and 1/8 tsp potassium chloride salt replacer with a favorite drink mix and 8oz of water. Drink water too, but alternate with electrolyte drinks.

BRAT (banana, rice, applesauce, and toast), if eaten exclusively, will help reduce frequency.

Constipation:

A whole head of iceberg lettuce or a couple grapefruit or like half a thing of prunes all work. But you have to drink a lot of water with them or they'll just make it worse.

Docusate sodium. If that doesn't work add senna. If that doesn't work add milk of mag. If that doesn't work add mag citrate. If that doesn't work try a soap sud enema. I would wait 12 hours in between each, but to each their own.

Basically any stimulation of the rectum can help things move along.

FEVER:

First, don't try to get rid of a fever unless it is over 103F or the person is really, really uncomfortable.

OTC meds like acetaminophen, ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen all reduce fevers. If you need to you can stagger them (see instructions under "PAIN")

Cool wash cloths on the forehead or neck make things a little more comfortable

Loose-fitting, light clothing

Don't try to force a fever down with cold water or ice packs. If it is 105F or above and acetaminophen or an NSAID hasn't worked, that's something to go to a hospital about.

Prevent most of the problems with fevers by keeping the person very well hydrated (see Diarrhea above for instructions on hydration)

Calories are super important because the body is using a ton of them to keep the temp up. If the person isn't eating, 8oz whole chocolate milk with about a third of a flintstones vitamin (on the side) has essentially the same nutritional profile as an Ensure. And it tastes better. And it's way cheaper.

A brief seizure in a kid with a fever that happens once is fairly common and something to call a doctor about, a long seizure (more than 5 mins) is something to go to the hospital about.

RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS

If you have an albuterol inhaler but no spacer, you can make a kinda crappy one from a plastic bottle. Make a hole in the side just slightly larger than your inhaler mouthpiece. Stick the mouthpiece in, put your mouth on the mouth of the bottle, puff the inhaler, and breathe the medication in through the mouth.

Coffee and chocolate have caffeine and theobromine in them, both of which are bronchodilators

Breathing steam from a shower or a pot of boiling water can help loosen mucous in the lungs

Good hydration can help loosen mucous

Having the person lay at about a 45 degree angle gives the best range for the lungs to open fully

Sitting in "tripod position," a sitting position with the torso leaning forward and both arms pushing on knees

"Pursed lip breathing" you will probably have to look up a video on this, but it essentially creates some additional positive pressure in the airways that helps hold them open.

CUTS/OPEN WOUNDS/SKIN INFECTIONS:

Cuts/Open Wounds:

Stop the bleeding with pressure. This is literally just pushing on the cut, which pinches shut tiny blood vessels and allows them to clot off. If someone needs a tourniquet they need to go to the ED.

Clean the cut really well with plain water (if you would be comfortable drinking it, it's safe to wash wounds with). You want to get all visible particles of dirt or foreign material out

If water from the tap isn't enough pressure to do this, take a disposable water bottle and punch a small hole in the lid. Squeeze the bottle to put a pressurized stream of water into the cut to clean it.

If the wound isn't more than a half inch deep, you can close it yourself without stitches. Thin strips of very sticky cloth tape, dots of super glue, or even tying the wound together with the person's hair (if on the scalp) is great. If you have commercial closures those are great too. You just want to leave some open space to let the wound drain.

If the wound is deeper than that, pack it by taking clean gauze (kerlix is perfect for this) or in a pinch clean strips of long-fiber cloth, wetting them with water, and packing them in the wound. Put something on top of this to hold everything in place. Every 12-24 hours pull it all out and put clean stuff in. Note: any wound caused by an animal needs to be packed and seen by someone at the health department, usually within 48 hours for rabies prevention.

If it's really pulling at things in the wound, use some water to wet the fabric and loosen it up a bit. But you want some stuff to come out with the

Really shallow scrapes you can clean in a similar way but then just cover in petroleum jelly.

There is virtually no use for isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, or triple antibiotic ointment. The former two may do more harm to healthy cells than to bacterial cells, the latter the antibiotics only last a few minutes and a lot of people are allergic to them. Just use water to clean and petroleum jelly if you have to cover something.

Skin or Wound Infections:

If you have a scrape or cut and a red, hot, painful area begins to creep outward around it, know you need to do something.

Start by drawing a line around the outside edge of the red area. This will help you track if it is getting bigger or smaller.

If it's bigger a few hours later, you need to do something quickly

Get a pot of water and 3 wash cloths

Boil the wash cloths in the water

Let the water cool to the point where it's really hot but won't burn the patient

Pull one of them out, wring the water out of it (it should be pretty uncomfortable to do this), and press it against the infected area. It will hurt.

When that wash cloth cools even a little, pull the next one out and do the same thing. Over time it will get less and less uncomfortable as the skin heats up to the temp of the wash cloths.

Rotate your wash cloths like this for 20-30 mins. If there is an abscess, it may burst during this process. That is a good thing. If there is a big opening, pack it (as described above), otherwise put a clean dressing over it and just let it drain.

Repeat this several times per day

If the site is getting bigger despite this, especially if this is happening quickly or there are streaks coming from the wound, go to the ED.

[itcars]

First Look: The New Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS

When 500 PS (368 kW) from a high-revving mid-mounted engine meets a purist 1,415 kg curb weight, it is time for the term ‘driving pleasure‘ to be redefined: the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is the new flagship model in the 718 family – an uncompromising driver’s car designed to impress with its lightweight construction, extremely agile chassis set-up, sophisticated aerodynamics and unique soundtrack. Whether it is being driven on narrow, winding mountains roads or closed race tracks, the 718 Cayman GT4 RS is king of the compact mid-engined range. On the Nordschleife, it outperforms its sibling, the 718 Cayman GT4, by more than 23 seconds.

The naturally aspirated flat-six engine, familiar from the 911 GT3 Cup racing car and the 911 GT3 series production model, forms the centerpiece of a sports car that has been designed for maximum driving pleasure. The engine revs as high as 9,000 rpm. Compared to the 718 Cayman GT4, the 718 Cayman GT4 RS has an extra 80 PS (59 kW), resulting in a weight-to-power ratio of 2.83 kg/PS. Maximum torque has been increased from 430 to 450 Nm.

Among the striking features of the new, top-of-the-range 718 are the process air intakes behind the driver and passenger windows. The 718 Cayman normally has small side windows here. The new air intakes improve both the intake airflow and, at the same time, create a thrilling intake noise right next to the occupants' ears. The characteristic air intakes in front of the rear wheels have been retained and are used for engine cooling.

Like every modern RS model, the new 718 GT4 RS is exclusively available with the Porsche dual clutch transmission (PDK). This gearbox shifts through its seven gears at lightning speed and guarantees maximum performance. The gearshift paddles allow drivers to keep their hands on the steering wheel even when changing gear manually. Alternatively, they can use the re-designed selector lever on the center console.

The sports low-ratio PDK underpins the incredible acceleration of this mid-engined sports car. The 718 Cayman GT4 RS sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.4 seconds (GT4 with PDK: 3.9 seconds) and has a top speed of 315 km/h (GT4 with PDK: 302 km/h), which it reaches in seventh gear.

In typical RS style, lightweight construction is a defining element of the new 718 Cayman GT4 RS design. The two-seater weighs only 1,415 kilograms, with a full fuel tank and without a driver as defined by the DIN standard, which is 35 kg less than a PDK-equipped 718 GT4. This weight reduction is achieved thanks to the use of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) for components such as the bonnet and front wings. Lightweight carpets also save weight, as does reducing the amount of insulation material. The rear window is made of lightweight glass. Lightweight door panels with textile opening loops and nets on the storage compartments complete the quest to eliminate every superfluous gram.

The new fixed rear wing, its swan-neck attachment and aluminum wing supports, are a distinctive element of the exterior design. This highly efficient wing principle is derived from the Porsche 911 RSR GT racing car and was first adopted in a Porsche series production car with the 911 GT3. In combination with the 30-millimetre-lower ride height compared to the 718 Cayman, the eye-catching vents on the front wheel arches, the aerodynamically optimized underbody paneling with connected rear diffuser, the multi-adjustable front diffuser and the new front spoiler lip with flow-around side blades, in the Performance mode reserved for use on race tracks the GT4 RS generates approximately 25 per cent more downforce than the GT4.

Modifications to the chassis also contribute to its greater performance. Ball joints bind the chassis tightly to the body to deliver even more precise and direct handling. The adjustable, circuit-ready chassis has an RS-specific shock absorber set-up, as well as modified spring and anti-roll bar rates.

The optional Weissach package takes the dynamic design of the GT4 RS even further. The front luggage-compartment lid, process air intakes, cooling air intakes, airbox cover, exterior mirror upper trims and rear wing have a carbon-weave finish. The titanium tailpipes look similar to the exhaust system on the Porsche 935. The fitted roll cage at the rear is also made of titanium. The upper section of the dashboard is upholstered in Race-Tex material and a large Porsche logo is integrated into the rear window. With the Weissach package 20-inch forged magnesium wheels can be ordered at additional cost instead of the 20-inch forged aluminum wheels.

All of these enhancements compared to the 718 Cayman GT4 make the GT4 RS the most uncompromising and sharpest member of the 718 family. This is particularly evident on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. During the final phase of set-up adjustments, Porsche brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister lapped the 20.832-kilometre track in 7:09.300 minutes. The GT4 RS conquered the shorter 20.6 km version, which previously served as the benchmark, in 7:04.511 minutes – 23.6 seconds faster than the 718 Cayman GT4.

The unique Porsche Design Chronograph 718 Cayman GT4 RS, created by Porsche Design exclusively for buyers of the vehicle, is as dynamic as its four-wheeled counterpart. The watch also benefits from a lightweight design concept with high-performance features based on the robust, high-tech characteristics of titanium. Its winding rotor is modelled on the sports car’s rims and can be specified in different colors, just like the car.

The new Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is celebrating its world premiere at the Los Angeles Auto Show and can now be ordered at a base price of 141,338 euros (including 19 per cent VAT). Delivery begins in December. In addition, the GT4 RS is available with the optional Weissach package to further enhance its aerodynamics. The 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport racing version is also celebrating its premiere in Los Angeles, and it will be launched in several national and international racing series starting in 2022.