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⊱✧ Cold Fins, Deadly Eyes Preview  ✧⊰

Synopsis ✦ Life keeps beating you down, so you do the only thing you can. Move to the ocean. Living in a city with no friends, however, is difficult, and you find yourself taking refuge in the rocky sea cliffs and stony beaches that no one but you frequents. That is, until you meet a man tangled in fishing wire with fins instead of legs. How often you see him after this is unsettling, and he seems determined to drag you out to sea with him

Genre ✦ Smut, angst, mermaid au, yandere

Pairings ✦ Mermaid!Jimin x Reader

Warnings ✦ Yandere themes, an almost drowning, monster fucking, more weird penises from ya girl, blood and injuries, breeding kink, light pain kink, too much cum, dubcon, mentions of stalking, fear of the ocean, i think thats it for now more may be added to the actual fic.

Preview under the cut✦

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

create pixel art

Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!

Totally free transparent textures

make a cute chibi

draw some cool generative art

be a graffiti creator

create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)

paint online

another awsome site to create pixel art on

and another one

create your own mandala

or color one

create an avatar

or you can try creating your own superhero

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here

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more jig saw puzzles to solve

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try this app for building a website

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Here’s another glitch art maker

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make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64

freaking cool text generator!

Easy to use word processor

Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)

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Make pictures out of text

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Need an idea for some fanart-here :D

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watch a documentary

learn to code

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workout with the help of this great youtube channels

learn things

play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games

waste your time on miniclip

play games at additing games

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calm your thoughts

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vent or listen to someone

pour out your soul

explore the sky

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virtually visit museum of iraq

explore world with arounder

create a music playlist

list through rare books

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interactive 3D anatomy

random street view

post a secret

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help scientists and become volunteer researcher

create your own font

read a classic short story

In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?

scribble on maps

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Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!

Zone out watching the colors drip down

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Need an Appearance idea?

Humanoid generator? check

Here’s another one

and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work

Need Monsterpeople?

Well, then here ya’ go

Maybe you need Cats?

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

Clothing generator

Another clothing generator

More clothing generator

Aaaand even more

Steam punk clothing

Char Style preference

Dress Generator

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

Oh shit someone died

Backgrounds and stuff? yep

Quirks

Personality. you need that shit

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City generator hell yeah

location? got ya

World-building?

make your own god damn laws

Landscape.

Need Item names?

Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names

Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.

Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators

How did your characters meet?

*this is especially important: these days on Tumblr there’s a wonderful atmosphere of being able to talk openly about your mental illness or your struggle. And that’s great! But there’s a difference between sharing in order to help yourself and other people and sharing just because you have no other coping mechanisms. As much as you’re able, try to work on developing a different outlet. People aren’t qualified to be your therapist because they’re nice to you a couple of times. Please remember that they have lives too, and their job is not to make you feel better or pity you, no matter how difficult your life is. 

And last but not least: 

But… 

I really don’t have a way to better this. 

Your interests are your own. I can’t advise anyone to change their interests to fit in with a certain group of people - that’s stupid, and actually quite damaging to your sense of self. 

Instead, I would recommend that, maybe if you feel like your topics of conversation are falling flat with this group of people, you move on to other, greener pastures. There are bound to be places where your ideas mesh better with an audience. 

And of course - try to be considerate about what you say and how you say it. 

Sometimes, what might seem like a harmless comment to you might be a very discomforting thought to another person. I recently had a conversation on a forum with a guy who was telling me that his headcanon was that Pearl (from SU) would soon get a male love interest who loved mechanics and weapons next, and that would be her best arc, because she would finally get a ‘healthy’ love interest. 

His intentions were good, but he was entirely unaware of how cringey this kind of thing was to a bunch of (probably queer) people, who have spent their entire lives being told that the only ‘good’ character development for them would be to get a ‘male love interest’. No one wanted to be the jerk to say “fuck off, we don’t want that to happen” but everyone was answering him in a flat way, trying to discourage the discussion further. Instead of picking up on the hint, he bulldozed on, thinking he was having a ‘lively conversation’ which was, in fact, in its late stages of death. 

I know I’ll probably get a few messages to this saying: What about people on the Autistic Spectrum? Sometimes, people can’t pick up social cues or ‘hints’. And if that’s the case, it’s incredibly difficult to understand why you’re not having any luck communicating despite your best efforts. 

There’s a huge focus on hard work from all of the Slavic, Baltic, former Yugo, and Balkan girls who I know, not even one of them thinks about being lazy or wasting time and everything is maximised. They spend their time making sure that it’s time spent well, they go to the gym, they’re productive, they’re constantly receiving accolades at their jobs and in their studies, and they work hard in order to feel good about their lives and about themselves. They’re truly some of the hardest working women I’ve ever known and they’re always striving for better, they always want to do better for themselves, and they always want to be better at whatever it is they choose to do with their lives. I take a lot of inspiration from them because they have some of the best work ethics I’ve ever seen and they’re known for how they choose to carry themselves through life.

There’s a large focus on gratitude, they’re extremely grateful for what they have and they make sure that it’s known, they treat everything that they own like it’s important to them so they don’t constantly have to go out and rebuy and they’re frugal with their money, they rarely ever spend their own money and they make wise investments and decisions when they do decide to go out of their way to spend it. They’re constantly making sure that everything they own looks nice, they make sure to maintain their shoes and their clothing, and they prefer to have quality over quantity, they don’t like to have excess unless everything that’s given to them or that they’ve bought got themselves is high quality and guaranteed to last. They’re always polite and well mannered, they make sure to treat people like people, and they think that they’re the ones who are in charge of representing their homeland whilst they’re abroad.

Personal grooming is a obviously a huge component and they treat looking good like it’s something that cannot be skipped over in life, they’re constantly in a state of good looks. They take care of their fingers and their toes, they have perfect gels or acrylics, they try to have weekly spa treatments and they have cosmetic appointments for not just their faces but their bodies as well, they have laser hair removal and they have their brows threaded and microbladed, they’ve usually had a variety of surgeries but they just look refreshed, and they take pride in being good looking, they take pride in being well kept, and they make sure that they always look confident. They tailor their clothing to perfection and they make sure to use colour charts to decide what to buy, they shop for what’s classic and they shop for what’s in the mainstream as well, they spend hours buying perfumes, and they like to be presentable and proper, they take a lot of pride in being good looking and they view their beauty as an investment and a blessing, not something that they should ever neglect.

They all have uni degrees or they’re in the process of getting them, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Montenegro at Kotor Bay can be treasured just as much as a degree from an American university and they’re proud of having worked hard to attain their diplomas and they’re proud of having worked hard to get to wherever they are in life now. Every single girl that I know has a degree or is getting one, they’ve done their best to get to a point where they feel like they’ve done well and having a diploma is one of those things that only helps to affirm them. I was once told by my friend, Sveta, that there was a huge importance in being a uni graduate because it brings pride to the ones in their extended families who were unable to hav that opportunity, it helps to get better jobs and it helps to leave the country, and it’s a sign of dedication and hard work and that’s still very valued. All of my friends work in white collar jobs that they’ve worked hard to procure and that they work hard to be successful in, they receive a lot of praise in their jobs, and their jobs are something that they and their families back home can be proud in and that holds the most importance.

(Did You Know? series)

Naoko Takeuchi was inspired to create Princess Serenity’s iconic dress after seeing a dress designed by Gianfranco Ferré for Dior sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. 

Takeuchi is actually a huge fan of haute couture, with characters wearing replicas of (or outfits inspired by) high-end fashion often showing up in Sailor Moon. 

Was planning a cosplay for this

And I read somewhere that it was based on an ad she saw in a magazine, which meant these dresses were real and I needed to see them, because I really could not understand Michiru’s sleeves.

For Haruka’s dress it only took the help of the Facebook group Mooncraft, Michiru’s one was a trip down a rabbit hole filled with Versace fashion shows.

But after spending hours researching everything I could find about the 1993 F/W Haute Couture Versace fashion show, I managed to get a full length picture!

Anyway here’s what I have for anyone interested.

Haruka’s dress is always from Versace, but it’s a 1994 fashion show.

So, If there’s other cosplayers as obsessed as I am that plan to make these dresses I hope I can be of help.

Because

I'm not in the dating scene at the moment, I'm 100% devoted to myself and my academics. I also don't believe in any manipulation tactics and I don't think it's complicated to date hypergamously. I won't be able to provide any more advice than simply being healthy looking, educated in culture and academia, having hobbies and knowing how to communicate well. If you want to make a persona there are many women in literature you can learn from.

It doesn't make sense to me to obsess over men and what they are perceived to want and build yourself around the idea of them. There are also many different types of men, you aren't going to meet the same guy as TumblrUser1 so TumblrUser1's advice might not work for you.

Having something you personally love going for you is much more attractive in my opinion, whether you are an expert on calligraphy, an amazing traditional dancer or simply a girl who loves cats and gardening. To me all of those are much better than being a dedicated scholar of the institute of Tumblr-land.

What my point is, the true hypergamy advice lays in real world experience and in yourself, hypergamy is not a science test, reading about it won't result in success, it's all about YOU.

I also notice that many times when blogs start posting about relationships they become surrounded by hysterical anons who do not believe their relationships are real and oddly obsess over them, and at the moment I don't really want that.

I’m not back at university until autumn 2022.

I do not dance professionally, only for thrills.

My social life is confined to certain days and hours.

I work 10-15 hours per week at my job.

I see all my different groups for an hour every week.

Only 3/6 of my benefactors live in my city.

I have an extremely extremely strict schedule.

And I go on vacation at set times, never spontaneously.

Everything has been meticulously planned.

by Keith Humphreys - May 5, 2014           

When I met my fiance’s African-American stepfather, things did not start well. Stumbling for some way to start a conversation with a man whose life was unlike mine in almost every respect, I asked “So, what do you do for a living?”.

He looked down at his shoes and said quietly “Well, I’m unemployed”.

At the time I cringed inwardly and recognized that I had committed a terrible social gaffe which seemed to scream “Hey prospective in-law, since I am probably going to be a member of your family real soon, I thought I would let you know up front that I am a completely insensitive jackass”. But I felt even worse years later when I came to appreciate the racial dimension of how I had humiliated my stepfather-in-law to be.

For that painful but necessary bit of knowledge I owe a white friend who throughout her childhood attended Chicago schools in a majority Black district. She passed along a marvelous book that helped her make sense of her own inter-racial experiences. It was Kochman’s Black and White Styles in Conflict, and it had a lasting effect on me. One of the many things I learned from this anthropological treasure trove of a book is how race affects the personal questions we feel entitled to ask and the answers we receive in response.

My question to my stepfather was at the level of content a simple conversation starter (albeit a completely failed one). But at the level of process, it was an expression of power. Kochman’s book sensitized me to middle class whites’ tendency to ask personal questions without first considering whether they have a right to know the personal details of someone else’s life. When we ask someone what they do for a living for example, we are also asking for at least partial information on their income, their status in the class hierarchy and their perceived importance in the world. Unbidden, that question can be quite an invasion. The presumption that one is entitled to such information is rarely made explicit, but that doesn’t prevent it from forcing other people to make a painful choice: Disclose something they want to keep secret or flatly refuse to answer (which oddly enough usually makes them, rather than the questioner, look rude).

Kochman’s book taught me a new word, which describes an indirect conversational technique he studied in urban Black communities: “signifying”. He gives the example (as I recall it, 25 years on) of a marriage-minded black woman who is dating a man who pays for everything on their very nice dates. She wonders if he has a good job. But instead of grilling him with “So what do you do for a living?”, she signifies “Whatever oil well you own, I hope it keeps pumping!”.

Her signifying in this way is a sensitive, respectful method to raise the issue she wants to know about because unlike my entitled direct question it keeps the control under the person whose personal information is of interest. Her comment could be reasonably responded to by her date as a funny joke, a bit of flirtation, or a wish for good luck. But of course it also shows that if the man freely chooses to reveal something like “Things look good for me financially: I’m a certified public accountant at a big, stable firm”, he can do so and know she will be interested.

Since reading Kochman’s book, I have never again directly asked anyone what they do for a living. Instead my line is “So how do you spend your time?”. Some people (particularly middle class white people) choose to answer that question in the bog standard way by describing their job. But other people choose to tell me about the compelling novel they are reading, what they enjoy about being a parent, the medical treatment they are getting for their bad back, whatever. Any of those answers flow just as smoothly from the signification in a way they wouldn’t from a direct question about their vocation.

My aunt once told me that 50 was the perfect age to get married and it was a shock to no one when she did get married at 50. Her reasoning was that by 50, she would be in a position where she had ridden out her career and felt like she had had enough success to settle down, she would have been able to travel and see what parts of the world she wanted to see, she would have had the time to begin living life for herself and matured enough to know what was best for her mind, soul, and body, she would have been able to get what education she felt she needed, and she would have had the time to allow her body to relax, for her hair to grow in with pieces of grey, and for her body to mature and make changes through twenties to thirties to forties to finally fifties. She only married when she felt satisfied with how she’d lived her life and how she had matured into herself and into her body, she was happy and fulfilled before she tried to marry any man.

She had no issue finding someone who she wanted to marry, he was 56, he’d been a widower for a while, he was fond of the finer things in life and he was fond of living life, he was on his way to retirement, and he was in want of a mature woman to spend the rest of his life with. They married when he was 60 and she was 54 and that was that, they were two people who had found each other after having found satisfaction and happiness within themselves first, they’d had their own lives and made their own friends, they’d gotten their own educations and kept themselves in order, and they had not married each other when they felt like they were still growing, they not married to help grow each other and help each other to mature, that wouldn’t have been productive, they’d married when they’d already done all of the work on themselves so that they could be whole with each other and grow old with one another, they’d done what felt right and they had found happiness when the time was right and it’d worked out.

There’s very much a pressure to marry relatively young in western society and I’ve been trying to resist, I used to want to marry when I was 18 and then I realised that I’d be divorced by 21, then I thought about marrying at 30, and then I pushed the age back until I didn’t even have an age. I’m a woman who assigns numbers to a wide variety of things to make them make sense just because numbers are hard to read wrong for me but I’ve slowly been realising that looking at pictures of lovely white weddings and thinking to myself that the mindset that I’d better marry young lest I grow old and unwanted is harmful. There’s no reason why I can’t wait, I’m not going to be an old maid or a spinster one day when I wake up, there’s nothing that should force me into marrying and I’m not going to be alone for the rest of my life if I’m thirty and still an unmarried lady. One of my favourite movies is 13 going on 30 and I’d like the opportunity to be thirty and flirty and thriving before I welcome anyone very serious, new or old, into my life and begin thinking of marriage or settling down with him, I need to be whole on my own before trying to be whole with someone else by my side and that’s okay, that bridal shop will still be open for me when I’m ready and my dress will still be white when I need it.

An Article from Neena Susan Thomas

“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.

10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.

If u have compassion reblog this post. ‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand.

REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.