#irl safety

[quillpokebiology]

How To Survive A Bewear Attack

First, make peace with the fact that you could die. Pray to whatever legendary you believe in, and hope you get to the afterlife.

Anyways, actually, how to survive a Bewear attack if you don't have any battling pokemon with you.

First off: they're not like Pangoro. Standing your ground won't work. It'll just make you an easy target. DON'T TRY TO INTIMIDATE THEM. Bewear don't often attack anything they deem weaker than them, so make yourself look as least threatening as possible. Get on the ground, play dead, and cover your head and neck. They might come and paw at you, but they most likely won't attack you and move on. Make sure you know it's gone before you get back up again, bcuz they will come back if they see/hear you get up.

A bewear will show that it's about to attack by waving its arm in the air. IT IS NOT AN INVITATION TO COME OVER! This is them saying, "I'M GONNA FUCKING SNAP YOUR BONES IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE." This is a point where you run. But if they start chasing you, at that point, you just gotta run and hide. Bewear are very fast, and once they see you as a threat, they will try to kill you. This is why I said make peace with the fact that you could die. The best way to prveent this even happening is to put on repellent, and avoid forests with Bewear; they often have warning signs.

Bewear Behaviours

Notice anything about this Bewear? Its arms are not waving, and it is in a relaxed position, with a paw over its mouth. This Bewear is just curious, and is not in attack mode. If a wild Bewear does this, you want to get on the ground and cover your head and neck.

Notice anything about this Bewear?

This Beware has raised arms and is standing taller to make itself look bigger. This Bewear wants to murder you, and is about to attack if you don't leave soon. Remeber: when this happens, run as fast as you can away from the beware. If you stand your ground, they will attack you.

Hope this helped! I grew up in the Wild Area in Galar, and this was literally the only pokemon that my mom didn't want me to come into contact with. I came into contact with a bewear once when I got lost (my mom sent her Dragapult, Golurk, and Sigilyph with me she didn't let a 6 year old into the forest without any protection. I just ran away from them when I forced them into a game of hide and seek like the little crap I was) It was in curious mode and I did what I was told, but I also silently cried when that happened and I genuinely thought I was gonna die, lmao. It poked me for a bit before walking away, and then I ran home immediately, and I used repellent for the first time in my life the day after that.

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[clownsuu]

Small detour of what I usually post, but I absolutely wish (other) clown the best of luck during these confusing and almost hopeless times- nobody knows how to deal with such amount of attention in such short amount of time- a blessing and a curse to behold

[bisexualmcqueen]

NEW FIRESUIT IN ACTION

[earlier draft]

we've come a long way since 2017 (technically my first attempt was 2013 woah). (also, thank you to CSP. love u clip studio). i may make a comparison post for his suit design over the years bc this is at least the 4th main iteration now?

also dont mind him in the first pic hes mildly concussed. can someone make him sit down maybe

[ariadne-mouse]

"The humming of a little boy with a light inside him" and his mother the Everlight is the one who gave it to him. Like the war constructs taught to fight, who cannot change, neither can a child who has learned to help. His mother embodied an example of kindness in her mortal life, but then asks him to run when she returns to her godly mission. Of course he didn't want to leave. This is who he is. 😭

[pokemonshelterstories]

You know how, sometimes, when you work with certain pokemon, they can sometimes imprint on you? And that leads to either the pokemon seeing you as a parent (if this happens while it's young) or seeing you as a potential mate (if this happens while it's older)? Well, I have a friend who is currently rehabilitating a dull and chronically rusty Skarmory, and this seems to have happened to him. Big ol' metal birdie has taken a liking to him.

Unfortunately, she has started getting aggressive whenever female staff members interact with him in her line of sight, doing things like flaring her wings and screeching. She hasn't actually attacked anyone, but the staff are worried nonetheless. Even dull, her wings have cut through whole trees in her enclosure before.

They have the equipment necessary to deal with a hostile Skarmory, but because of her dull and rusted state, some staff are concerned that it might just hurt her.

Is there anything you could recommend? Either a way to dissuade the Skarmory from its amorous feelings for my friend, or to keep her calm while she's being cared for?

this is something we see happen with human-raised skarmory on occasion. skarmory are not social pokemon by default and will typically only bond with other skarmory during mating and nesting season, after which they split off from each other and live solitary lives for the rest of the year.

this is about the time of year when skarmory begin breeding, especially in areas with warmer climates, so she's going to be hormonal and aggressive regardless. this is on top of her not feeling well, which often makes pokemon more quick to lash out.

for their safety and her emotional well-being, the best thing they can do for her is to really just. leave her alone unless she's actively getting treatment. don't let anyone linger around her enclosure. anesthetize her if they need to get hands-on. ball her if they need to enter to put out food or clean the enclosure. if he's the only person she'll tolerate for things like daily visual checkups, then assign him to focus solely on her as much as they can. for rehab purposes, skarmory is classified as an inherently dangerous pokemon (they fall under subclass Ib- pokemon with territorial aggression- and IIa- pokemon with whom physical contact can cause immediate harm), which means that she should not be handled in free contact unless proven not to pose a significant risk of danger. because of this, they should always have a barrier between her and staff unless she is under anesthesia.

you can't really argue with a skarmory's feelings- and it isn't safe to try, because it doesn't take much for a skarmory to cause severe injury to a human. even their bonding behaviors with their mates, such as preening and wing-slapping, are unsafe for humans because of how sharp their bodies are. hopefully as her hormones settle and as they lessen contact with her, she will become less aggressive. until then, though, the best way to prevent injury is to not give any opportunity for it to happen.

[karkatting]

doxxing my online rival only to find out we live in the same city and arrange a meetup with him: a modern fairytale aka dirkkri forum au part 4

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[anonymocha]

i think one reason some lgbt people are very intense with their identities online is because they don't get to express themselves in a sufficient way irl or at all due to lgbtphobic environment, lack of queer friends, self-repression, guilt, etc etc. so for that reason if you wanna make being gay a personality on your blog then idgaf go ahead the world is cruel enough to you, this is your space and you can do whatever you want

[pjharvey-moved]

you can literally know all the right things to say and still be a very bigoted person and i take issue with the idea that posting about social issues constitutes activism because reblogging a post especially while doing zero fact checking doesn’t take effort, parroting rhetoric from marginalized people and often speaking over them in the process doesn’t take effort, advocating for social justice is an action, not an identity. ie, almost every horrible man i’ve met has called himself a feminist and then turned around and treated women like their value depends on their fuckability and also mainstream choice feminism has made it even easier for abusive and manipulative men to call themselves feminist because if feminism is just about women getting to choose to do whatever they want, what if some women choose to be sexual objects to them? to be objectified, degraded, assaulted, you fill in the blanks … ? what if simply sleeping with a man as a woman — or not even doing that, just being nice to him — means she’s made that choice?

[lizzieisright]

How can you support Palestine? It’s constantly ranked as one of the worst countries for lgbt rights/safety and people who are found out face death in many instances. A man was decapitated in the street for being found gay and gay sexual relations are illegal with a penalty of jail time… Who do you think you are crusading for? The reality is if you went there with a rainbow flag walking down the street you would not be ok. Queer people flee to Israel for safety because society there as in many Islamic regions is notoriously anti-lgbt. Israel bought their land and have every right to defend themselves contrary to what the people wanting to wipe out their entire country believe

Hello!

I support Palestine because every person has a right to live. Because what is happening is a genocide. It's a fact. You can argue about it to the kingdom come, but it's done by the book genocide and, since it's a fact, opinions can't change it.  

With this being said, I'd like to address two specific points you made.

You can't shame me - or anyone who is queer and supports Palestine - by talking about hate crimes against queer people or describing them. Because before that you should look at your own country and check when was the last time a hate crime happened. I bet it'll be recent. Hate crimes and homophobia are not exclusive to arabic/muslim countries. This point of view is narrow minded at best and racist at worst - either by the lack of education or lack of interest in the world.

"The reality is if you went there with a rainbow flag walking down the street you would not be ok." - At this point I thought you might be a troll because saying this to me? I really am the wrong person to come to with this. I live in Russia. It's illegal to wear rainbow flags here and you will go to jail for it. Chechnya has torture camps for gay men. There's police raids in gay bars in Moscow happening regularly. Trans people are in danger of being forced to detransition. I live in the scenario above, you don't need to scare me with it out of supporting Palestine.

But my point is - I support Palestine as a queer even more as just a human, because I know what it means to live like this. Just because Palestinian queers might not be all loud and proud doesn't mean they don't exist; just because being gay is condemned and puts one's life at risk doesn't mean queers just suddenly stop existing.

And I also know - just as I have support here (my closest friends are straight women with traditional beliefs and they are very comfortable with me being gay, most people I know are not violently homophobic) Palestinian queers have their support, their communities and their people who love them and care for them. And they need our support as well. We don't get to turn our back on our fellow queers just because they happen to live in unsafe places. (and again, this kind of belief stinks of racism or of the need to broaden your worldview horizons. Believe me, the majority of queers are not white and don't live in lgbt-friendly countries)

"Israel bought their land and have every right to defend themselves contrary to what the people wanting to wipe out their entire country believe." My point in this is also really affected by me being Russian. (I'm sorry if some of you are uncomfortable with it, I can't really change it.)

You see, these reasons are very similar to what I've heard when Putin tried to justify the attack on Ukraine.

"Israel bought their land" is just as disgusting to me as "Ukraine didn't exist until 1991". "Israel has every right to defend themselves" is Putin's "We're defending ourselves against the collective West". Which is fucking nonsense.

And this is done by the book propaganda - and I'm not saying this because propaganda is a big word people like to throw around. I know this because I studied propaganda for my bachelor degree as a part of "changing public's opinion" course - me and my classmates were trained in this. They take some historical facts you can't deny or make an enemy out of someone (them vs us) and manipulate it to fit their rhetoric. Once you know how to recognise it you'll never not recognise it again.

Israel is not defending itself by targeting civilians and sniping children - they killed more children in these months than Russia in two years which is horrifying to me - they confirmed multiple times they want to erase Palestine from the face of the Earth. These words don't mean self-defence. It's a colonial power that really wants to show how powerful they are and how unstoppable they are. And again, I know this from the side of the colonial power. For me, people who side with Israel are the same people who side with Russia - and it makes me sick. 

Also please don’t assume that people who support Palestine want to destroy Israel, this is again, very narrow minded. Saving people from genocide by committing another genocide? This is plainly stupid. The world is not black and white, it's more complicated than just taking sides. I'll give an example: I'm queer and I know I'll be in danger if I ever come to Dagestan (close to Chechnya) - but dagestan people fund rise to send humanitarian aid to Palestine and I donate to them, because people are dying and I don't really care if people who'll help them are homophobic to me. Because it's not about me.

But there are moments in history when you need to take a stand, and I will not stand with Israel. (or Russia for that matter)

Anyway. Stand with Ukraine. Free Palestine. 

[generic-sonic-fan]

Look this may be my IRL Job Bias but it would be really fucking funny if Eggman got maimed in an industrial accident in one of his factories sometime.

I feel like it'd be good angst too. Local human who hates the company of anyone else besides some of his own robots falls victim to his own human fragility.

[zahra-rose]

[bavariansugarcookie]

All the recent food recalls (and RFK Jr. potentially being in charge of the FDA 🙃) got me thinking about making a little food safety zine. I'm still working on a printable one-page zine, but I realized I could whip up a quick digital version! The complete 10-page zine is available for free on gumroad and has information about some of the most common foodborne illnesses and how to avoid them! Even if you have a good understanding of safe cooking practices, I bet you'll learn something new! (For example, I had never in my life considered the fact that I should wash melons before cutting them. So that was my fun fact of the day lol.)

[last0bread]

Guys I was working on my intensive Leander notes with the game open to enhance the ambience and motivate me, when I noticed that my LED lights weren't changing colours anymore. I specifically turned it on to the fade3 setting, when tf did it stop hello?? Then I realize, "wait, this is The Leander Colour™". He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows what I'm doing. He probably knows what you're doing. And your cat, too. None of us are safe.

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Buc-ee's is not pronounced bussy. You'll get your ass kicked if you do that. Looking out for your safety here.

okay so i hear you… but what if i’m feeling ✨adventurous✨ and wanna test my luck..???

[pokemonshelterstories]

I was unaware that so many people want to endanger themselves by hugging Clodsire... you all know that Quagsire feel near identical, right? And a lot of them (note: not feral/wild ones) do like being hugged and pet... go hug a Quagsire, friends

Or, you know, buy a plush Clodsire

please don't hug quagsire either. clodsire aren't covered in toxic mucous just because they're poison types. it's because that mucous is how they keep themselves moist outside of water, allowing them to breathe properly (quagsire and clodsire both breathe primarily through their skin), and the toxins in the mucous discourage predators from attempting to attack them. this is similar to the toxic sweat that umbreon produce, which has nothing to do with their typing. toxicity is correlated to the poison type in a lot of cases, but theoretically any type of pokemon has the capacity to produce toxins provided they have the proper glands for it.

hugging either quagsire or clodsire is not good for you or the pokemon, so touch should really be kept to a minimum with these pokemon.