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#so finally some good news!#nothing is happening to be clear#but i need some hope thrown at me every once in a while even if its small while using dating apps#a lot of the time i feel like#i dont like get any giddy(?) feelings or anything when im talking to ppl on dating apps#like the feeling u would get if ur fav character were to complement u or something ig??#which is normal cause ur not gonna when talking to most ppl#(at least thats how it works for me)#but today i felt it! and i was like POG!#i dont think its gonna go anywhere but its like okay a reminder of what i should look for when talking to people#dating app adventures babeyyy#i actually found an ob3y me fan out in the wild too hahah#but yea#now all stars align for me#and maybe...maybe#who knows
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"I guess you have changed."
-Husk, Hazbin Hotel Ep. 8
#Is anyone okay after that finale??#hazbin hotel#huskerdust#angel dust#husk#i'm still processing all the new info they just threw at us#Sir pentious is in heaven?!?!?!?!!?#lilith????#i'm so sad its over but holy shit that was so good#anyways enjoy some soft huskerdust while you process#actually sobbing#charlie morningstar#vaggie#sir pentious#lucifer#lilith#nifty
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Eimmet High...temmiE high. OMG!
Part 28 || First || Previous || Next...(Hiatus)
--Full Series--
Next update may take...much longer! I have finals and an internship and not to mention I have to draw- A LOT :')
#Golly!#this is a shorter update but I wanted it to be that way. We've been in the house for a while. It's time to change some scenery!!#Chara using their game narrator voice like “golly!” and “amazing!”#Eimmet high :)) i was really hoping to be able to reference Temmie Chang here. An integral part of UT/DR!! She's awesome!#WE ARE OFFICIALLY ON Day 2 BABY#yes- there is still a little everyman easter egg as well as some other things... ;)#I tried so many new and different things for these panels. I was a little nervous implementing them. But im having a lot of fun with it!#i try to put my own artistic enjoyment above all other things :) its what I strive for.#Angle's landing day! excited for the festivities!#Chara is feeling stabby :)#loved detailing Chara's hand in the last page. When I detail the hands- just know shits getting real#I'm really happy with how I was able to redraw Toriel here. She showed up in the second part and that was it for 2 years -w-#so even if she's not a major character- I wanted to give her some good screen time <3#I did not make the Darkworld “Mayor” just for that one joke....but dang did it fit perfectly.#these 4 pages took longer than I wanted. I got burnt out with school and then finals came!!! AND ALSO EMAILS q-q#deltarune chara timeline#deltarune chara timeline comic#chara#asriel#kris#susie#toriel#tw cursing#cw cursing
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"For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.
"This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. "This looks real. This looks very, very real."
National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That's a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.
Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.
"In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent," said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.
According to Dasgupta's analysis, which has sparked discussion among addiction and drug policy experts, the drop in state-level mortality numbers corresponds with similar steep declines in emergency room visits linked to overdoses.
Dasgupta was one of the first researchers to detect the trend. He believes the national decline in street drug deaths is now at least 15 percent and could mean as many as 20,000 fewer fatalities per year.
"Today, I have so much hope"
After years of wrenching drug deaths that seemed all but unstoppable, some researchers, front-line addiction workers, members of law enforcement, and people using street drugs voiced caution about the apparent trend.
Roughly 100,000 deaths are still occurring per year. Street drug cocktails including fentanyl, methamphetamines, xylazine and other synthetic chemicals are more poisonous than ever.
"I think we have to be careful when we get optimistic and see a slight drop in overdose deaths," said Dan Salter, who heads a federal drug interdiction program in the Atlanta-Carolinas region. "The last thing we want to do is spike the ball."
But most public health experts and some people living with addiction told NPR they believe catastrophic increases in drug deaths, which began in 2019, have ended, at least for now. Many said a widespread, meaningful shift appears underway.
"Some of us have learned to deal with the overdoses a lot better," said Kevin Donaldson, who uses fentanyl and xylazine on the street in Burlington, Vermont.
According to Donaldson, many people using fentanyl now carry naloxone, a medication that reverses most opioid overdoses. He said his friends also use street drugs with others nearby, ready to offer aid and support when overdoses occur.
He believes these changes - a response to the increasingly toxic street drug supply - mean more people like himself are surviving.
"For a while we were hearing about [drug deaths] every other day. When was the last one we heard about? Maybe two weeks ago? That's pretty few and far between," he said.
His experience is reflected in data from the Vermont Department of Health, which shows a 22 percent decline in drug deaths in 2024.
"The trends are definitely positive," said Dr. Keith Humphreys, a nationally respected drug policy researcher at Stanford University. "This is going to be the best year we've had since all of this started."
"A year ago when overdose deaths continued to rise, I was really struggling with hope," said Brad Finegood, who directs the overdose crisis response in Seattle.
Deaths in King County, Washington, linked to all drugs have dropped by 15 percent in the first half of 2024. Fatal overdoses caused by street fentanyl have dropped by 20 percent.
"Today, I have so much hope," Finegood said.
-via NPR, September 18, 2024. Article continues below with an exploration of the whys (mostly unknown) and some absolutely fucking incredible statistics.
Why the sudden and hopeful shift? Most experts say it's a mystery
While many people offered theories about why the drop in deaths is happening at unprecedented speed, most experts agreed that the data doesn't yet provide clear answers.
Some pointed to rapid improvements in the availability and affordability of medical treatments for fentanyl addiction. "Expansion of naloxone and medications for opioid use disorder — these strategies worked," said Dr. Volkow at NIDA.
"We've almost tripled the amount of naloxone out in the community," said Finegood. He noted that one survey in the Seattle area found 85 percent of high-risk drug users now carry the overdose-reversal medication.
Dr. Rahul Gupta, the White House drug czar, said the drop in drug deaths shows a path forward.
"This is the largest decrease on record and the fifth consecutive month of recorded decreases," he said.
Gupta called for more funding for addiction treatment and healthcare services, especially in Black and Native American communities where overdose deaths remain catastrophically high.
"There is no way we're going to beat this epidemic by not focusing on communities that are often marginalized, underserved and communities of color," Gupta said.
"Overdose deaths in Ohio are down 31 percent"
Indeed, in many states in the eastern and central U.S. where improvements are largest, the sudden drop in drug deaths stunned some observers who lived through the darkest days of the fentanyl overdose crisis.
"This year overdose deaths [in Ohio] are down 31 percent," said Dennis Couchon, a harm reduction activist. "The deaths were just plummeting. The data has never moved like this."
"While the mortality data for 2024 is incomplete and subject to change, Ohio is now in the ninth consecutive month of a historic and unexpected drop in overdose deaths," said the organization Harm Reduction Ohio in a statement.
Missouri is seeing a similar trend that appears to be accelerating. After dropping by 10 percent last year, preliminary data shows drug deaths in the state have now fallen roughly 34 percent in the second quarter of 2024.
"It absolutely seems things are going in the right direction, and it's something we should feel pleased about," said Dr. Rachel Winograd, director of addiction science at the University of Missouri St. Louis, who also noted that drug deaths remain too high.
"It feels wonderful and great," said Dr. Mark Levine, head of the Vermont Health Department. "We need encouraging data like this and it will help sustain all of us who are actively involved in trying to have an impact here."
Levine, too, said there's still "plenty of work left to do."" ...
Dasgupta, the researcher at the University of North Carolina, agreed more needs to be done to help people in addiction recover when they're ready.
But he said keeping more people alive is a crucial first step that seemed impossible only a year ago.
"A fifteen or twenty percent [drop in deaths] is a really big number, an enormous impact," he said, calling for more research to determine how to keep the trend going.
"If interventions are what's driving this decline, then let's double down on those interventions."
-article via NPR, September 18, 2024
#some of these statistics are so good I could cry#finally we might have turned the corner#finally we might be able to have the end of this epidemic in sight#cw drugs#cw addiction#substance use#opioid use#naloxone#narcan#addiction#public health#opioid epidemic#united states#north america#fentanyl#harm reduction#good news#hope#opiods#opiod crisis#overdose#tw overdose#drug overdose
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Mother's Call. Look what they took from me you.
#sephiroth#ff7#ffvii#final fantasy#art#illustration#my art#it's the weekend so i can finish a bunch of stuff#sorry for posting a lot ;;#i need some coffee#holding his head in my hands while he weeps#it's okay seph#sidenote: new woman is so fuckin good???
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Aftermath Impact 6 | Finally some good news :D AND BARRY'S HERE! SO to keep on my schedule, i had to gloss over the hospital trip despite all the nonsense that i wanted to happen. i wanted it to be tense and stressful and have some close calls or something but alas. I had to jam it all into one page.
This is definitely an invite to some of you talented writers out there, if that idea speaks to you please go off XD
PREV | NEXT | FIRST
#rotmnt#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#unpause rise of the tmnt#aftermath#rotmnt aftermath comic#aftermath rotmnt comic#save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#finally some good news for these poor kids#hooray#barry you are so worried you lIAR
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"More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were recently upgraded to receive honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
“Just over a year ago, I announced that the Department would, for the first time, begin to proactively review the military records of former Service members discharged during ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because of their sexual orientation who might have been eligible for upgrades to the characterization of their discharge or changes to their reason for separation but had not yet applied,” Austin said. “After a year of exceptional work, the Military Department Review Boards directed relief in 96.8% of the 851 cases that they proactively reviewed.”"
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#destiel meme news#destiel meme#news#united states#us news#us military#armed forces#military#us veterans#look i know we hate the us military on this site but this is a really good thing for queer people#gay rights#queer rights#don't ask don't tell#pentagon#and those soldiers deserve to reap the benefits of their time serving this country#a dishonorable discharge stripped them of their rank and benefits so by changing it these veterans become eligible for all sorts of things#like college grants and housing assistance and healthcare#finally some good fucking news
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sudden doodles cause I’ve been rereading one piece…….again
#my sketches#one piece#roronoa zoro#monkey d. luffy#trafalgar law#every some years i draw them again and im like oh wow maybe i AM getting better at this whole drawing thing#my zoro finally looks good enough good news everyone high school me is so proud of current me right now
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some business to take care of
#i was tempted to caption this as she was a skater boy and she was also another skater boy but#duck scribbles#midoyuzu#enstars#whats up guys im being embarrassing again on main#been wanting a new phone wallpaper and this was born. its the lesbian version though im not showing that#midori takamine#yuzuru fushimi#yuzumido#ensemble stars#also have additional doodles that r kind of corny and im too ashamed to add into the main post so i might add on a reblog or maybe not#midterms were so awful i had to keep reminding myself i can go ham drawing whatever i want once im done. and naturally its this#anyways ive always liked midos city rider fit it suits her so well#always wanted to find a good one to pair w it and the wink killer 2nd half xscout was toooo good i was inspired immediately#finally could use this good ref pic ive had saved since forever i need to draw backgrounds more too it was rather fun somehow#mental state has been yoyoing an insane degree lately like come on i dont need to be reminded i am a useless hunk of meat every other day#with nothing good going for them. college is amazing at reminding me of such god bless#i have bad tendencies to self isolate behind the excuse of concentrating that i am trying to fix . but its hard to get back when i do#not to mention the entire Big Event happening over in good ol amerika serikat!!! my apathy is naturally immense#but whats some peace of mind here and there idk. im gonna read yuri
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Drawing them like this feels so so wronggggg
#aki is such a snob we should all collectively give him a swirly#akihiko doesnt even fit his name this is just some snob guy named winston or something#minako is so fun and bubbly i can see this being a possible final design :3#shinji on the other hand.... yikes#i believe that atlus actually totally forget that shinji suppose to be associated with Aki and also be at the same age as he is#like....this is literally just a grown ass man working in an advertising agency#hell i bet they probably draw the underpaid in house designer and was like “fuck! we just drew the new intake!” and scrapped him altogether#i think atlus knows what it will do to the shinji girlies if they kept his stubble though smh COWARDS ☝️#anyway nobody asked but this isnt a good week for me and i just cry most of the days lol#but for this drawing i immediately stopped crying and locke tf in until i finished and continue sobbing 👍👍👍#asukart#persona 3#persona 3 reload#persona 3 portable#shinjiro aragaki#kotone shiomi#minako arisato#persona 3 femc#akihiko sanada
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no face thing is so unbelievably true ... its like neuron activation for me
ITS CALLED HAVING TASTE‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
#finally some people who know what’s good#FUCK EYE CONTACT FUCK READINF EXPRESSIONS YOU WANT MY ATTENTION TILT THAT HELMET LIKE A PUPPY#im normal.#so normal#<- guy who has been faceless maxing and helmet pilled since the age of 3 and is very much not normal#yay inventing new phrases#suggestive#I guess. eh. whatever#asks#ask#non voice post
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#ok i only made them to show the new floaty head but i kinda love them#matching jort gfs...#ts4#sims 4#i finally got my class timetable and it's not good 😔#classes start 9am and end at 5:45pm 😭 not including the 2hrs a day commuting#coming from sitting at home doing nothing for 10 weeks this is gonna be painful to get used to#at least i've got wednesdays off#i want to make a sideblog so i can text post without feeling guilty#so i won't have life updates in the tags of every damn post lol#anyways... its almost midnight. gonna read some kmik before i sleep because i'm shamefully behind
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#ffxiv#final fantasy 14#final fantasy xiv#ff14#ffxiv screenshots#ffxiv edit#hyur/elezen#| leauna lindholm#here she is my beautiful bb girl#fully restored!#and with some new things i made!#they are not perfect but they work for what i want so it is good enough heh#anyway look at her
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nearly forgot to post all the twitter drawings from june aaaAAA more under the cut though!
#orangetriestoart#jrwi#finally freed up again after moving so hopefully ill have more time to draw raAAAAAAa#fun fact for whoever reads this if the background on some of these are the same color they may or may not all be on the same canvas#something something i get intimidated by making new files somehow ajsdkllasdj#anyways have a good day!!!
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a lot of clipping to fix, but hey I got it moving at least! I'll get the Telvanni robe properly physic'd if it's the last thing I do >:0
#last i checked the vanilla hdt clothes on the nexus didn't cover solstheim content#but i wanted to finally learn to do proper hdt bones myself anyway so its fine :)#this was a nightmarish mess before i separated the black underskirt to its own group#now it swishes around nicely and collides without going through the red outer skirt#i still haven't figured out the crouching/sneaking problem where it'll sometimes phase through the thighs like they don't exist#but that seems to happen to other people's outfits too so maybe it's not just mine? idk yet lol#hmmm i think that back flap thing with the gold trim is gonna have to be separated too. it stretches out weirdly :/#also. should the scarf get to move? maybe just the dangling ends?#bc the rest can't really move since there's nothing under the scarf. it's just glued at the edges to the chest of the outfit#which is good bc it's optimized well so the game isn't rendering the neck part of the robes that you don't even see#but I'd have to create new faces on the mesh to fill in the unseen gaps like i did when splitting the skirts up#and also i'm too lazy to map that new fancy chest area and draw out the missing texture with all the telvanni swirls :'(#help me motivation gods#modding stuff#my posts#i want nelly to be able to swish around prettily like anyone else <3#guys deserve some physic'd outfit love too
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this is my horrible bastard son. his name is Disease because he has all of them and he is the single most badly made wonky ass object alive and my pride of my life. He took me three days to hand sew and now all my limbs, fingers, back, neck and eyes all hurt but idc because he’s my pride and joy.
Baby’s first sewing project and I really should have followed a tutorial but we ball. I forgot to do his face and stuff him with weights BEFORE sewing him together, but at least it resulted in this incredible image:
#the mechanisms#my work#octokittens#he is So Horrible I love him SO much oh my GOD#good news is my mother finally found her grandmother’s 124 year old sewing machine so I’ll figure out how to use that some point this week#but oh my god I love him#sewing#babys first sewing project FR
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