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amickis asked:

What advice would you give to young or beginning writers?

netflix answered:

Read everything. Read the stuff you like and read the stuff you don’t think you’ll like. Read the things that people think it’s good for you to read and read the things they seem worried about you reading. Read prose and poetry and fiction and non-fiction. Get off your phone and read books without interruption. Read the classics and read the cutting edge. Read everything you can get your hands on.

– @neil-gaiman

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what if instead of that other thing, it had been Animorphs that captured the global attention. like I’m talking blockbuster films with graphic CGI morphing sequences, people lining up at midnight dressed as bears and gorillas, 20-something-year-olds with Andalite and Hork Bajir tattoos, people talking about what their fighting morph would be as a first date question, an Animorphs World with a life size yeerk pool, people chanting ‘Tobias!’ everytime a redtail hawk flies by, and K. A. Applegate’s pleasant and progressive voice getting boosted as it deserves to be

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Grown ass adults think wizard school boy was “dark and mature” while almost every animorphs book confronted the horrors of things like war crimes, class genocide, torture, abuse and psychological trauma, bluntly and literally rather than allegorically, while every so often a major characters is, just as literally, eviscerated.

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plaguedocboi

The Eyes of Andros

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The Bahamas are best known for white sand beaches and shallow turquoise seas, but what many people don’t know is that there is a hidden underworld beneath these picturesque islands. The largest island in the Bahama chain, Andros, is home to over two hundred “blue holes”.

Blue holes can occur in the sea or on land, and form when the tops of caves collapse inward to produce a sheer-sided sinkhole full of water. On Andros, these blue holes are all connected by a series of tunnels and caverns that stretch for miles, linking the interior of the island with the open sea far beyond. Most of these caves have never been mapped, but estimates put many of them up to a thousand feet deep.

Called “the eyes of Andros”, these caves appear to be murky portals, evoking curiosity and fear as to what may lie beneath the black surface. It is little wonder that the legends surrounding these blue holes are just as dark as their waters.

There are a number of reported deaths in the blue holes that involve swimmers being dragged under by unseen creatures, never to resurface, and the bodies never recovered. Some claim this is the work of the Lusca, an animal that is half-shark, half-octopus, who pulls its prey down into the dark heart of the island to devour them.

Not only are they the potential home of terrifying monsters, they pose a very real threat to swimmers and divers as well. While oceanic blue holes are often full of life, those found in the interior of Andros are toxic. With limited tidal influence, and no currents to mix the water, the caves are highly stratified. The first few feet of the water column is stagnant freshwater, hiding denser saltwater below. This saltwater is devoid of oxygen, and is instead full of another, very dangerous, gas; hydrogen sulfide.

With no oxygen and a plethora of toxic gas, one would assume these blue holes can harbor no life. But the opposite is true. The deep caverns are inhabited by prehistoric extremophile bacteria, and the diversity is staggering. A sample of five blue holes across the island revealed that they contained no shared species; that is, every hole represents its own isolated world, and the bacteria that thrive in each are completely unique.

Some scientists liken the seawater deep in the blue holes to the primordial soup of early Earth, and research is being conducted on these bacteria to supplement our understanding of how life might evolve on other planets. Thus, divers who brave the depths of the caves here are stepping into another world, one fundamentally unlike the one above. This place is hostile to us, and to life as we know it.

So, then, this begs the question: if the the eyes of Andros are toxic to complex life, and the only things to be found are primeval, alien bacteria, then what exactly is plucking swimmers from the surface and consuming their bodies without leaving a trace?

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jadedaceofspades

US SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE IS CHANGING ITS NUMBER

Taking effect July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will change from 800-273-8255 to the three digit code of 988. Especially with families and communities reeling from back to back tragedies, it is super important to share this information!

Repeat: Starting July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will be 988

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Important add-ons, though, as someone who’s done policy work on this: 

  • It’s July 16, not just the start of July.
  • 988 can not only be used as the suicide hotline, but for any sort of mental health or substance use crisis situation. As opposed to 911, the goal of 988 is that when dispatch is necessary, you’ll be met with a trained crisis response team rather than the police. The police will only be involved if there is an immediate threat to safety, which has almost never occurred in pilot programs - in one of the most well-known, Denver STAR, (which a lot of y’all seem to be familiar with) the police has actually never been called for backup. We’re hoping that this is going to get more individuals directed towards help rather than a prison cell. 

Uhm yeah I’ll add more stuff if I can think of anything.

jadedaceofspades

Thank you for the added information. Reblog this version as well, folkz.

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Further information from news source verifying this:

States prepare for summer launch of new 988 suicide prevention number | CNN
This summer, every state will be rolling out 988 as the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number to call for mental health crises --
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It’s a national rollout of the number and mandatory for all states.