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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

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when in fics they say two characters gave each other a look this is always what i envision in my head

#same

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Tumblr ate a post where I confirm the legitimacy of this fundraiser:

Please reblog and donate.

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Because I've recently had one of those "your experiences are not universal" moments, please humor me

#they're. they're not common everywhere besides like. deserts?? wait WHAT #usa + they're really common where i live especially in spring/summer #we have pretty dry falls/winters where im at so it kinda balances out. makes for really beautiful green summers and lovely stormy mornings

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majima... elsewhere? [id in alt!]

#majima everywhere system aka here's an excuse to dress this guy up in whatever the fuck. #<- i feel like that's the approach the devs took too op #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #majima goro #:3 #goromi

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Having ADHD is a lot like being only able to travel with a hot air balloon. When the wind is right and the weather conditions are ideal, you can effortlessly go wherever you could possibly want, with almost no energy seemingly spent. And when the weather just Will Not Do That, there's nothing you can really do about it. Advice from people telling you to just fucking Grow Up And Learn To Steer don't believe you when you say you've got no steering wheel. Your explanations of navigating different wind directions at different altitudes make no sense to them.

So you just gotta accept that some days the wind goes your way, some days it won't. You can either exhaust yourself fighting the wind, accept that you're going nowhere at all today, or that the direction you are currently going is not the way you planned to go. Why am I in Uruguay.

#yeah..

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poll time!

Extra question for tags or anon asks if you're comfortable with it: if you ever had a course of antidepressants or other mood regulating meds, did it interact with your visual imagination in any way?

#i feel like i used to have a pretty vivid one. i read a lot as a kid and i'd imagine scenes in way more detail than i do now #now i can barely hold onto visuals most of the time. but then i'll zone out and realize i've got something detailed going in like. my #mental periphery but as soon as i try to focus on it it goes away #but i've always seen images in patterns and stuff. like animals or faces in carpet fluff or wood grain or the cracks of leather seats #seeing that on paper is actually a part of my sketching process a lotta the time. i don't think i'm explaining it well though

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happy special 60 yrs old Majima!

#HAPPY BDAY PEEPAW #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #majima goro

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it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it

#mhm

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guy whose eyes are welling up with tears: a station built just for playing. i think id like that. id like that very much

#cosette les mis age idk like 9 or whatever

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#NO KURAMA THE HORRORS #(if it's not clear this isn't real dialogue btw) #yyh #yu yu hakusho #kurama #kazuma kuwabara

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new type of guy discovered

#we need to get this guy in a terrarium asap

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CATS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸

send me proof you have donated (as of May 7th) to Eman Saads fundraiser for evacuation I'll draw a cat of your choice

Give me a month or two turnaround time depending on the amount of requests I receive!

Examples of my artwork:

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no more cis

#omg we did it #the bus would be proud

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#hmm ok i'm still in the middle of ulysses. i might drop it though. not to be a bad english major or whatever but i don't think im ready #i'll try again someday though. anyway i started the unbroken by cl clark recently per a stranger's recommendation when i was out buying #the sequel to a memory called empire (WHICH FINALLY CAME IN TODAY YIPPEEEE) #and my dad is trying so so hard to get me to read the last wish (<- first of the witcher short story anthologies) #and i want to but i keep getting sucked into other things. im excited though

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#me looking at the psych referral i stuck on my whiteboard like 8 months ago #oops

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hmm. i'm not sure if this is true in the manga, but i know that in the anime sensui's like. watching a war movie or something. he talks about timing the end credit music with yusuke's death and stuff, and i don't think chapter black would have like,, end credit music lol. so maybe that's it? but the thought of him watching it is actually making me insane like shoveling asbestos into my mout

yall ever think about how it’s sorta implied in some yyh bonus shit that kuwabara watched the chapter black tape. because i do. i think about it way too much.

what do you MEANNN kuwabara and sensui watched a video together while he was kidnapped.

like, given the image provided afterward it was probably just a bad joke abt kuwabara getting forced to watch porn or smth, but i like to think it’s more interesting than that…

the idea of kuwabara being forced to watch chapter black and still never backing down/wavering from what he knew to be right. hello. im insane.

#the angst potential.... ohh i might have to steal this #yyh #yu yu hakusho #kazuma kuwabara #he's so hopeful he's so earnest he's the embodiment of the human spirit and if sensui made him watch that right before slowly murdering his #urameshi the nihilistic break leading to him actually accessing the jigen to might make more sense. oh my god they tortured my boy #whaaaaaaaa #kuwabara and the terrible horrible no good very bad day fr #not sure if the nihilism thing is like. in the og? it's in the eng dub though. might have to go check that now