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Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

you have to work to make yourself loveable

you have to be a certain way to deserve love

any other bullshit that might imply that traumatised people are unloveable

what I mean is:

trusting someone else is a skill

it's especially hard to trust that someone else actually loves you after you've had experiences of people pretending to do so

expecting cruelty is a skill that needs to be unlearned, and that can be a long and difficult process

seeing yourself as someone who is capable of being loved can be a radical shift that takes a lot of effort

when you grow up feeling unloveable, it's easy to be suspicious of anyone who treats you the way you should've been treated the entire time, and this can cause you to reject them before they have the chance to reject you. learning when suspicion is and isn't warranted is a skill

I was working on my character sheet for one of my ocs who is on medication because they're disabled and went to double check something on artfights page and was hit with this.

You're telling me that disabled people existing and needing medication needs to inherently be behind a filter, while alcohol and other uses dont need to be???

Like im not trying to be overly bad faith in the rules here but this is essentially saying, recreational substances that people choose to use for pleasure? Fine, show those. Medical necessities that keep disabled people alive and functional? Hide those, they need content warnings.

Apparently there isn’t much news coverage of this outside of the islands

Towns are flooded, homes destroyed and collapsed, roads collapsed, lives at risk, gas leaks from the flood damage

Haleiwa and Waialua are currently evacuated because the 120 year old dam is at risk of bursting

Mind you that damn is owned by Dole. Theyve known about it needing to be fixed for years and years and years. Despite having more than enough money they refuse

The state has been trying to buy it out from them for years so they can fix it, but the sale hasn’t gone through

Keep in mind that the Dole family were the ones who illegally imprisoned Queen Liliuʻokalani and illegally overthrew the monarchy.

If I see another goddamn person say how sad this is for the tourists whose “trips were ruined” and compare a messed up vacation to people losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods, I’m going to lose my mind

I am so lucky that my family or friend’s are safe and the few whose houses flooded didnt have it too bad, but so so so many were not as fortunate

If you haven’t heard anything about this until now, I suggest looking into it

The sirens didn’t go off until the flood had been going on for hours. Our state government is spending so much money on a fucking monorail we don’t need rather than fixing the infrastructure.

It’s been the locals and Kanaka doing the most to help get people to safety from the start

I don’t really know how to end this

I just need to know people are aware