#TW drunk driving

[thefandomfires]

I usually try and keep hockey off this account but I am begging you all to never drink and drive.

It’s not just yourself and those in the car you are putting at risk. It’s the people in the cars around you, the people biking near you, the people walking on the sidewalk, the people waiting for the bus.

Don’t drink and drive. Have someone come pick you up or call an Uber.

The risk is not worth it.

My heart goes out to Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s family and friends.

Edit: I said this on Twitter earlier but I think it should also be said here.

As someone who has spent the large majority of their career working at trauma hospitals, I’ve seen the devastation it can cause and the people who reap the consequences from drunk driving are almost never those who made the decision to get behind the wheel drunk.

Please think of those around you before you drink and drive.

Also this from a reblog:

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your character like this

[3dogbones]

I actually worked hard on this and it came out okayish IM PROUD ACTUALLY AHHAHAHA MY VISION HAS BEEN REALIZED 🤩🤩🤩

How the flip so people actually do long colored animations though… already felt like dying while making this my respect for animators is actually so high PROPS TO YOU GUYS

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

Logan: You can't drink when you drive. Janus: Yes, you spill your beer.

[morbidwlws]

oh my god so i had my first ever reading today and it was for my creative nonfiction class and i read an excerpt from my essay about the drunk driving accident and i was so anxious about it but everyone really liked it and at the end of class i had one woman stop me in the hall and tell me that she cried while i was reading and how much it meant to hear and i literally almost asked her for a hug it was the kindest thing that’s ever happened to me it meant so much to me to know that the weeks of emotional labor that’d gone into this paper touched somebody that way like honestly as a writer that’s all i want is for my words to mean something to people and to move them to some kind of emotion

[serial-designation-dz]

The best LGBT+ duo! Sadly they are both ded. Good news, that means they're on the solver express with the rest of the gang!

More info under the cut! (tw: drunk driving, I feel child death is a given warning for this au)

Thad's spirit flower is the African Violet, which is said to bring good luck and positive vibes when burned as incense.

Lizzy's spirit flower is the Pink Carnation, which can symbolize femininity and grace. It also represents motherly love, ironic considering she died on mother's day.

If you couldn't tell by them both being foxes, these two are siblings.

Thad met Uzi after Nate introduced the two, and they hit it off. Lizzy and Uzi? Not so much. Lizzy tolerates the emo bat because of Doll though.

Doll and Lizzy were besties in life, so they're besties in death too.

Like everyone else on the solver, their stories are not happy ones...

(here's where the tw is) Lizzy was calling her mom on the way home from school to wish her a happy mother's day. Unfortunately for her, she was hit by a drunk driver, her mother hearing her screams as she passed. Her mother, as a result, blamed herself for her daughter's death, thinking she distracted her daughter, which left her vulnerable to the driver. She would later die from this grief. Lizzy and Thad's father disappeared soon after, leaving Thad to fend for himself. Unable to make ends meet, he died on the streets a few months later.

Lizzy, Thad, and their mother were reunited in death, so silver lining.

Thad still wants to punch the driver though, which is understandable.

[theobaudelaire]

Theo was already in bed when he was suddenly woken up by his phone ringing in the middle of the night. He answered quickly since he knew his sister was asleep in the other room and didn't want to wake her up. He didn't look at who was calling, his eyes were still half-closed, but he was immediately concerned when he recognized Charlie's voice. Despite their amicable relationship at work, Theo knew that a call from a cop at this hour meant trouble.

His stomach twisted into knots as Charlie delivered the news about his father being arrested for driving while being drunk. Panic seized Theo as he hastily ended the call, his mind racing with a flurry of questions and worries. He leaped out of bed, his movements frantic as he scrambled to dress and locate his keys. There was no time to dwell on the details; all that mattered was getting to his father as quickly as possible.

As he sped through the deserted streets, Theo's thoughts spiraled into a whirlwind of anxiety. This was uncharted territory for him. Usually, it was his older brother who dealt with their father's issues, shielding Theo from the harsh realities of their family's struggles. He couldn't shake the disbelief that his father had relapsed so suddenly (or so he thought), especially after he had recently praised him for his sobriety!

Arriving at the address Charlie had provided, Theo's heart hammered in his chest as he rushed to his father's side. "Are you okay?" he blurted out, his voice laced with genuine concern. The fear of the unknown gnawed at him, rendering him unable to mask his emotions.

He talked with Charlie to the side, he probably wasn't supposed to be doing this, but Theo ended up getting his dad's keys, hiding them in his back pocket as he went back to him while Charlie walked back to his car. ''Get in the car before he changes his mind.''

He drove them away from Roman's car, only so they could be trusted to not use it again until the next day. He was driving in silence, he couldn't even look at his dad now that he knew he was fine. Usually Theo was always talking and never stopped smiling, but right now, he wasn't amused at all.

@werewolfroman

[bonemaggotsludge]

I'm just some guy, man...

Plus @kingassblast sent me a meme to draw over with myself which is an excuse for me to post my other booz'n'cruise memes

[spiffy-sea-dragon]

HELLO MY FELLOW NEURODIVERGENTS

I would like to share with you some information that I unfortunately figured out way too late.

In schools, they always teach you not to drink drive. You always think that you’d never get in the car with a drunk driver.

This is how I have unintentionally been driven by a drunk driver on 2 occasions.

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Them: We should get McDonalds.

Me: But neither of us can drive because we’ve been drinking.

Them: It’s alright, I’ve only had one (the legal limit).

Me: You’ve had three.

Them: No, I’ve only had one.

Me: Oh, okay. I thought you’d had more.

Them: Nope, just one.

Me: *gets in the car with a drunk driver*

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Variations of this are people telling you, “Oh I’ve already sobered up,” or if you’re with someone and they’ve been drinking before meeting up with you and seem like they’re tipsy, but they lie and say they haven’t had any yet.

NOW PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT I WAS SO DUMB FOR THIS. But you know what? I’m not dumb. I’m autistic (and was also drunk myself at the time). I don’t lie, and I take others at face value. This means I am very easily gaslit.

I often doubt myself and grew up my whole life being told my perspective was “wrong”. So that makes me vulnerable to a whole heap of scenarios.

This is one of them. Learn from my mistakes:

Trust yourself. If someone says they drank less than what you’ve witnessed, don’t second guess yourself. Even if you are wrong, it’s okay to be wrong. Better to be wrong and not get in the car than be right and get in.

Apply the law to your scenario. It doesn’t matter if someone says they’ve already sobered up. If they’ve had 3-4 drinks and it’s only been an hour, they will have a BAC higher than the legal limit. Learn your local laws and about how much time alcohol takes to leave your system.

Offer to get an Uber/Taxi. If someone is being really pushy about wanting to go somewhere and you feel in a situation where you’re stuck, just order an uber. Don’t even ask. Tell them you’ve ordered an uber. And yes, it might be expensive, but I promise it is more important to be safe.

If in doubt, just don’t go with them. Don’t let them convince you. Circling back to point 1. It’s okay if you’re wrong about them being drunk, it’s better than being right.

Set boundaries. Now you can apply some discretion here. A friend who’s had a couple drinks and thinks they’re okay to drive and then respects when you decline, is compleeeetely different to someone who is pressuring and gaslighting you. Now sometimes good people do bad things. Sometimes people suffering from addiction make poor choices. But it is absolutely okay to distance yourself or call someone out from someone putting yourself and others in danger.

This has been a PSA. This is the kind of education I needed growing up that I did not receive. I hope maybe sharing can help even 1 person.

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[upthewitchypunx]

On Saturday I was supposed to be part of a creative, kind of silly, but meaningful ritual, but we cancelled it due to temperature and freakish snow. honesty, the whole day had a weird vibe.

I'm going to put a cut here because what comes next is traumatic and involves a drunk driver:

I went to hang out with my sibling and some other folks at their house. We were standing around outside about to go get some food and while my sibling was locking the door a speeding drunk driver blew a stop sign and ran straight into their yard somehow missing 4 of the 5 people standing. My brother-in-law was hit. He jumped but the car destroyed his foot and threw him into a brick wall. The car stopped two feet away from me.

This was hand down the most terrifying experience of my life. The screaming, the chaos and unknown and how each second seems like 5 minutes. The inability to do anything for my little sister in the thought of her terror of losing her partner in her arms.

In that moment you don't know and that is terrifying. We know now that there are dislocations and broken bones, there is a questionable outcome of a foot, but he had very minor head trauma and no internal organ damage. I just keep thinking "it could have been much worse", but it will also never be the same.

The car stopped 2 feet from me.There was plastic, metal, wood, and glass shrapnel from the car, yard decorations, and the beautiful native plants of my sister's garden. Somehow I don't even have a scrape on me. All I remember was turning to see the air bags go off in the car.

Right now my job is do what my sister needs like gatekeep repetitive questions, field the endless offfers of food and rides by people who love and support them, look up reviews of nursing facilities, pick up packages from her porch, clean up the yard, etc. My brother in law is a positive person, very strong, very fit, and very determined. I know he will make the best of his new normal and I want to help make that happen.

Tell the people you care about that you love them.

Don't let drunk people drive.

Drive annoyingly slow in residential neighborhoods because actually people live there and a speed limit is just that, a limit.

[astarborn]

i think i've mentioned this previously in passing, but do not, under any circumstance, stay out all night without letting ally know where you are and/or occasionally checking in with her regarding the fact that they're going to be home later than expected. ally still has trauma around her mothers death where she expected her to come home before bedtime and then found out she passed away in the middle of the night by a drunk driver, so her mind automatically assumes the worst has happened when someone goes missing in action when they're supposed to be somewhere else. some examples of this include when one of her ex-boyfriends stayed out with his buddies all night, getting drunk, when he told her he'd be back by 10pm. she stayed up all night texting him with no answer and when he came home, well... she was hysterical. just tell her you'll be late & you'll be fine.

[barnabybugspeopleonline]

wheat vodka

in my soul

my car is

out of control

[aromantisk-fagforening]

Drunk drivers/killer whales pronouns.

Drunk drivers were buying me a cup of coffee because I was mad at killer whales and drunk drivers wanted to make up. I accept, because while I don't mean to rationalize, drunk drivers can make me such a negative person, but it's all just an act. Just.. it doesn't have to be like this. It doesn't. I hope drunk drivers turn off the engine, get out of the car and start to walk.

I think about killer whales and how there's notes in killer whales' handwriting and drunk drivers can't make it out. It's not a proud race, nor a race at all. We're just trying to get home. I tell killer whales it doesn't have to be like this. Will drunk drivers listen? I hope drunk drivers do.

[selkiewife]

Hi, for the WIP ask game

Things just as bad or worse

Theon and Jon in the Crypts

Pretty please 🥰

Thank you so much @owlsinathens!

tw: Drunk driving, vehicular manslaugher, child death

Things just as bad or worse

This is hilarious that it is the first one I am being asked about and yet it is the hardest to explain maybe? But that is why it is a WIP lol. This idea has definitely grown over the years. It originally began as an RP modern verse on @theon-sea-reek where Theon had killed two children- Jack and Billy Miller while driving drunk. But now... it has morphed into something... weird. Basically now the idea is that Theon is in prison in Modern Times (Still deciding whether I am making it our world or modern Westeros. Probably our world. I am also not sure if I am going to try to make the Miller's boys deaths closer to canon, or if I even can- we'll see.) Theon begins to make up stories in his head in order to detach from the reality of prison- which includes Ramsay in some form- and from his own guilt. These "stories" begin to take shape as the asoiaf canon we know but different versions of it. Things that happen in the modern prison reality begin to affect how the story in his head goes and it switches- sometimes it is book canon, sometimes it is show canon, sometimes it is more fanon. The stories eventually become "just as bad or worse" as the reality he is trying to escape. Theon begins to wonder if these stories are actually happening the more real they become and the more lost in them he becomes. Is he losing his mind? Which version of him is true? Does it matter? I have a LOT to plan and consider with this one but I'm really excited about it.

Theon and Jon in the Crypts

This was originally supposed to be written for Greysnow Week. (Alas!) It is a missing scene fic for Season 8. Jon is in the crypts staring up at Lyanna's statue and having extreme angst over Ned and the reveal of his true parentage. At some point he realizes that he is not alone in the crypts... Theon has also come to visit Robb's statue and they have a discussion together that mirrors their Season 7 discussion but also turns it on its head. A bit of it is below:

His mother is a stone statue and his father is a lie. Jon stands in the Crypts seething in anger. Ungrateful. He knows he is ungrateful to feel this way, when Ned Stark sacrificed his honor to protect him. But all he can think about is the last time they spoke. The last time he saw the man he thought was his father. 

“The next time we see each other, we'll talk about your mother, I promise,” he had said. Would he have eventually told him? After he had already taken his vows and was safely out of the way? He certainly had no issue with him living out his life in frozen exile. He sent me to the wall without a second thought. 

And what of his true father? What would he have wanted him to become? Would he have loved him? Would he have truly accepted him as a trueborn son, as Sam insisted? Or would he just be another shameful stain on his father’s honor, a lone bastard boy in yet a larger castle?

And then there is the loss… the hollow feeling of losing Ned twice. Loss and love mixed with this new feeling of betrayal. It is too much. And what will Daenerys say? What will his sisters say? He doesn’t need this right now. 

(cue Theon... to be continued lol)