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The problem came in where so many people used the button that it broke and just started sending everyone to Stealing Harry, and like…I have fond memories of Stealing Harry but it’s not my best work and nobody should be assigned to be a Harry Potter fan in this day and age.

So I decide to go off and find Astolat and demand she fix this but when I finally did (there was a whole quest) she turned to me like the baddie in a horror flick and said, “But that’s the most random story there is” in a dark voice and I was terrified and woke up.

In the cold light of day I know there are more random stories by me on the archive, let alone by others, but I’m not going to try to get back there to argue my case. Pretty sure whatever I spoke to was actually the demon specifically assigned to plague fandom and not Astolat at all.

I wanted that Ao3 random button though.

SO I MADE ONE

It’s a generator that produces a link to a random work page on AO3, using a number generator in the link.

Fair warning, it turns up 404 errors pretty often, because many works have been deleted. Keep clicking, you’ll get something eventually.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

https://savethereef.org/about-reef-save-sunscreen.html

If you see a sunscreen you are currently using, don’t just throw it out though. Use it in a pool or while you’re sunning, just not in the ocean or freshwater around you. Plastic and toxic waste are both issues too, so just finish what you have and never buy the brand again!! Personally, I’m trying to finish all of my Sunbum stuff before switching to a safer brand like Thinksport!

Baby sunscreens are usually reef safe too, bc babies have sensitive skin so their sunscreens tend to only have zinc oxide, the best sunscreen product.

There’s also this thing called the HEL list to keep an eye out for in your sunscreens. They’re the chemicals that are pollutants and show up in sunscreens and other skin products. NEVER FEAR THO BC THIS IS NOT A CHEM CLASS, the absolutely stunning, gorgeous, and amazing Haereticus Environmental Laboratory has gotcha covered. From their website, “Products labeled with the “Protect Land + Sea” Certification Seal mean that the product has been laboratory‐tested using analytical‐forensic techniques to verify that the product is free of the chemicals that are on the “HEL LIST.””

This little symbol right here:

http://haereticus-lab.org/protect-land-sea-certification-3/

For all you uber nerds like me who wanna know what the HEL list is, here ya go:

- Any form of microplastic sphere or beads

- Any nanoparticles like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide

-Oxybenzone

- Octinoxate

- 4-methylbenzylidene camphor

- Octocrylene

- Para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA)

- Methyl Paraben

- Ethyl Paraben

- Propyl Paraben

- Butyl Paraben

- Benzyl Paraben

- Triclosan

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk! Have fun this summer but don’t be an ass to the environment or people!

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Reading individual bottle labels from top to bottom, left to right

Image 1: list of sunscreens

Upper three rows

All Brands containing toxic chemicals

⁃ Elta MD UV Clear Broad Spectrum SPF 46

⁃ Equate SPF 30 Sport Sunscreen

⁃ Neutrogena Ultra-sheer dry touch SPF 50

⁃ Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch SPF 30

⁃ NO-AD Sun care SPF 45 paraben free

⁃ Coppertone Water Babies SPF 50

⁃ Panama Jack SPF 15

⁃ Naturopathica Daily UV defense Cream SPF 50

⁃ alba botanica hawaiian sunscreen green tea SPF 45, broad spectrum

⁃ Aveeno protect and hydrate sunscreen SPF 50

⁃ ISDIN Eryfotona Actinica ultralight emulsion broad spectrum SPF 50+

⁃ Banana Boat Ultra Sport SPF 30 clinically proven

Oxybenzone-Octinoxate- Homosalate-Octocrylene (containing one or more)

⁃ shiseido SPF 50

⁃ SPF 15 Australian Gold

⁃ Sunbum SPF 30

⁃ Glossier Invisible Shield daily sunscreen+ broad spectrum SPF 35

⁃ Supergoop play SPF 50 everyday sunscreen broad spectrum

⁃ Eucerin Daily protection broad spectrum SPF (not legible) 30 or 50

Bottom three rows

100% Reef Safe

⁃ Mama Kuleana Reef Safe Sunscreen oxybenzone free SPF 30 waterproof

⁃ Raw Love made with love and aloha SPF 35 Reef Safe All Natural Mineral Sunscreen Maui, HI water resistant (40 min)

⁃ Raw Elements certified natural sunscreen Face + Body Broad Spectrum SPF 30

⁃ organic Sun Paste Manda made with thanaka

All Ocean Friendly

⁃ California Baby super sensitive SPF 30+ high protection

⁃ All good sport sunscreen SPF 30

⁃ ABC Arbonne baby care Broad spectrum SPF 30

⁃ Goddess Garden organics everyday SPF 30 natural mineral sunscreen

⁃ active Badger broad Spectrum SPF 30 zinc oxide sunscreen cream

⁃ Suntegrity natural mineral sunscreen for body broad spectrum SPF 30

⁃ SPF 30 butterbean organics original healthy sunscreen

⁃ Thinksport SPF 50+ sunscreen the standard for safe sunscreen

⁃ Kimberley Sayer of London ultra light facial moisturizer SPF 30

⁃ Sea and Summit ten mineral sun barrier UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum

⁃ Hawaii SPF 30 organic Body Block medicinal

Image 2: The Protect Land + Sea Certified Logo

⁃ lettering in grey saying Protect Land + Sea Certified surrounding the logo

⁃ black colored wave heptagon with a white silhouette of a turtle inside

⁃ on the turtle’s back is a black swirl with a white dot in the middle

(also since i talk about the pjo musical a lot i figured i'd speak)

take lyrics like this. as a young black girl growing up in a very white area, i couldn't be polite if i wanted to survive. people mocked me daily and picked on me all the time. i had to constantly stand up for myself. this hits harder if you think about annabeth singing it in reference to her struggles as a black girl

also this. no matter what, black girls will always have to work twice as hard as white people to get where they are. we have to deal with people passing on us and writing us off as stupid or lazy because of our race

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