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5. Walk with your keys in your hands and keep a key between each finger

6. If they put you in the trunk kick out the headlights

E.g.

If your gut is telling you to cross the street or change your path, do it. Don’t risk it. Your body knows.

If you can, buy a large umbrella and walk holding it. Studies say that predators are less likely to attempt an attack on someone that could fight back. Keys around your knuckles is fine but you’ll need to get very close to do damage. Umbrellas are more precise.

Avoid wearing headphones if you are alone on an empty street. Look aware.

Again: Stay. Away. From. Walls.

Entering an uber alone? Call your father (or anyone you trust) and say “hey dad! Yep, I’m almost there, I’m sending you the route.” outloud. Then proceed to send them the route so they can follow the uber drive. This will most likely intimidate the predator.

If you see someone in an uncomfortable or possibly dangerous situation, walk up to them and say “Betty, oh my god, I haven’t seen you in so long!”. If she gets slightly confused, you can whisper and let her know you’re trying to help and that she should follow along. Walk together to another station or away from where you are. The man will most likely not follow. I have done this one 2 times and can be very helpful.

If you are unsure she needs help, you can pass her a note saying something like “hey, I noticed this man beside you is making you uncomfortable. If you’d like help, fake a sneeze right now and I will come up to you and pretend we are friends.” This is a long note, but its an example. Be discrete. If she follows along, proceed with the previous tip. This is helpful when you’re in a crowded train and you notice harassment.

1. The colour of it has changed

2. It’s become cloudy-looking

3. There more bubbles in it than should be

4. The ice in it sinks

The first time I was groped, I was 10 years old. Do you feel sick yet? 10 years. What kind of fucker gropes a 10 y/o?

-If there is a strange looking man in front of your building who doesn’t live there, walk around the block until he leaves so he can’t figure out that you live there and so he can’t kidnap you

-if a man is groping you against your will, go for the balls. always go for the balls. It’ll 1) hurt like hell, and 2) shock him to the point where you can probably run away and get help.

1: if you’re reading a book with a large number of pages, you know, those BIG ONES, or with the hard cover, don’t leave it at home and never bring outside. I’m not saying to bring it everywhere, but if you are going to any possible dangerous places alone, bring them, in a purse or even by hand (to show it to everyone). Believe me, if you hit someone with it, it will hurt them!!

2: hairspray works just like pepper spray

3: if your being attacked, and you don’t have any pointed objects, neither training, put your fingers on the predators eyes and press it. With all your strength, it will leave them blind or disabled. Use it only if your life is in risk!

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5: the iPhones have a great setting that if you press it will call police, send them photos of your back and front cameras and send a message to the contacts you select saying your in danger; press 5times the “turn off” button and it will appear -sometimes you have to activate it before-

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I’m so happy to share these tips.

My biggest piece of advice is to have someone u can text or call immediately, who u can pretend is a parent or smth similar, and find the ppl in the area that’ll help

It’s not super common, but plenty of local places I’ve been to have signs in the bathrooms that tell u wat to do/“order” if ur in danger

@vivaballerina @ghostmisworld

The sun and the star got so much hate because solangelo wasn't picture perfect, and they were weird and awkward. Spoiler alert! That's how teens act! i swear to god. if I have to go through another release of an incredible book and have it overshadowed by its cringe count even though the ENTIRE SERIES ITSELF IS CRINGE... I'm gonna explode.

tagging a bunch of people to get it started! <333

my natural hair colour is brown and it’s currently dyed black!

i tried to dye it blue but the colour washed out after like 2 washes so now it’s just dark with no blue 💔

So my Natural hair color is Like a cold hazel brown but now espacially at the Tips of my hair it's blond and the Rest is lighter and more Like "spicy Coffee" (i looked It up,lol) but i didn't dye It,It Just Happens when i Go into the sun,but i Miss my Natural hair color :(

@cabin13winion @jesslikestowrite @meepmorp1232 @frethepotatohunter @mikewheelerlovesmen @scroofy-was-here @scoopstroopog @gracious-midnight

My natural hair color is brown but i dyed it black like a few days ago!!

My natural hair is brown and my hair now is brown with orange streaks.

My hair is brown naturally and it is also brown currently!

my hair’s naturally brown, and it’s currently dyed blue, but only some parts are bleached—it looks almost neon blue in some spots, but most of my head is like a cool-tinted black

It was black when I was born and just. Slowly shifted to dark brown as I grew up.

So. Yeah.

People fight about it often. some streaks are platinum blonde , others are light brown , some are ginger (do not call me a red head i will hunt you down ) it's a bit green rn (from lots of chlorine ) .

It's like someone took really light hair and dyed it really unevenly in different shades, but the general consensus is dirty blonde / honey blonde depending on if I've showered recently

@randommidoriya @dancingwiththe-rain16 @cryst4lr0s3s @geraldthebroccoliman

there's only color when I get extensions 😔😔😔

@princessnymphae

Mines blonde now its dirty blonde

My natural hair color is dark brown (like most ppl think it's black it's so dark) and I don't dye my hair anymore

My natural hair is kinda a strawberry blonde/ginger. And I’ve never dyed my hair before but I want to dye part of it purple.

I dyed it pink over the summer but it has now faded to like, a purple-ish magenta

@ghostmisworld @only-a-randomcabin6demigoddess @vivaballerina

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Mastercard has no reason to mess with AO3. Visa doesn't. PayPal doesn't. Stripe doesn't. There's no compensation-for-porn exchange happening. By design. BY DESIGN.

AO3's founders knew that AO3 needed to be set up to protect us from any and all avenues of attack on fanworks. They've managed it quite successfully.

However, some were self-hosted, and some of those didn't have ads. (Because why the fuck would you have ads on your Favorite 80s Cop Show Archive? Ads would just be drawing the wrong kind of attention. You had a link for people to donate to help cover the server costs, but mostly the owner covered them alone.)

Noncommercial spaces are much rarer than they used to be. Noncommercial creative spaces are almost unknown now.

There are a lot of reasons AO3 is noncommercial. Copyright protection is part of it - since financial consideration is one of the factors used to decide if something is infringing, "this makes no money" helps claim it is not infringing. (It's not a guarantee. If you make 50000 copies of a hot new movie and give them away for free, claiming "but I didn't make money" will not protect you in court.) However, this is irrelevant for some fandoms. (Shakespeare fanfic does not have any copyright issuse.)

Part of the reason is so people can practice and share their art without trying to make it profitable. It changes how you write, how you draw, when you are trying to get other people to pay you for it. And there's nothing wrong with that - but there's a whole internet full of places for you to sell your creative work. This one is for sharing without monetary concerns.

And one really big issue that all the 'but I just wanna put up my patreon link!!!' people miss: They only want to advertise their patreon/kofi/etsy/Amazon books/etc on AO3 because nobody else is doing it.

Why not advertise on Twitter/X? On Tumblr? On Instagram? Bluesky, Facebook, Threads, Discord, and so on?

Because in all those spaces, you're one voice among thousands yelling "LOOK AT ME! BUY MY STUFF!!!"

They don't want advertising to be allowed at AO3. They want to be the *only* person advertising at AO3. Or at least the only one in their fandom. They don't want every other fic to be "half a chapter of text, followed by a three-paragraph Where To Buy My Stuff insert, followed by the rest of the chapter."

But none of those are the True Core Issue.

The True Core Issue is: Commercial links/mentions on AO3 are against the rules.

If you don't like the rules, you don't have to post at AO3.

Some people who volunteer for the OTW will occasionally try to explain why that rule was made. But that part doesn't matter. If you believe the rule is stupid, or their legal analysis is flawed, or the community dynamic wouldn't drastically change if people started advertising -

You're still not allowed to advertise on AO3.

You may want to know why, and some of us will try to explain.

But this is not a "gotcha" situation where, if you believe you have succeeded in explaining that all our "why" are irrelevant, you get to ignore the rule.

This is not a gov't setting where you can break the rule and then appeal to a higher court if you didn't like the judgment. There is no higher court. If you break the rule repeatedly, you'll be banned and your fic will be removed.

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.