Forcing schools to out students six weeks after learning about their sexual orientation puts LGBTQ+ youth in danger. Florida schools should be a place where kids feel supported, not scared. 

This bill already required schools to inform families that their children identify as LGBTQ+ upon coming out. Outing students was not a requirement when believed that doing so might lead to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. With this amendment, there is no longer a way around it.

This bill will force children to hide who they are in fear of being outed. Our youth will be at an even greater risk of abuse, neglect, and even homelessness. This bill is dangerous for LGBTQ+ students and harmful to education.

Florida’s Don’t Say Gay amendment is not okay. Do better, Ron DeSantis. 

Ways to support Ukraine 🇺🇦

More than 500,000 people have already left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian Federation. The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management estimates that roughly 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the conflict in humanitarian terms, with 7 million internally displaced and 4 million seeking refuge elsewhere. To help those still in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian refugees, we’ve compiled this list of resources.

HelpUkraineWin.org has a collection of vetted and trusted resources, charities, and organizations to help Ukraine.

Some additional ways to donate:

Vostok SOS provides immediate evacuation support.

Malteser International provides essentials for Ukrainian refugees.

Ukraine Crisis Media Center provides fundraising links and a list of tips for sharing information.

Misinformation spreads fast on social media. It is more important than ever to share accurate, verifiable news and information. Here are some resources to learn how to identify misinformation:

This link from the nonprofit WITNESS shares tips for identifying authentic video sources (available in English, Spanish, Ukranian, Russian, and Arabic).

These visual verification tips, also from WITNESS, provide information on verifying images and videos (available in English and Spanish).

I’m a tattoo artist, and I’ve had a bunch of clients come in saying they were told dark skin can’t take any color whatsoever, which is bullshit. The long and short of it is dark skin can take plenty of color, provided it isn’t too light.

Tattoos look best when they’re fresh because the ink is still on the top layer of open skin. As the skin heals over the tattoo, the color gets less vibrant and defined. This is true of anybody of any skin tone. Tattoo pigments tend to act a lot like watercolor; they’re not terribly opaque in the skin, meaning that as that tattoo ages, the white will fade into patches of slightly lighter skin, and may disappear altogether, as will lighter colors like yellows and pinks. Many artists consider doing tattoos entirely or mostly in white ink to be irresponsible for that reason, and use white ink very sparingly to create small highlights, in places where even faded ink will add contrast.

Notice how the yellow is all but gone on even the lightest skin, while the deeper reds have stayed. And that isn’t even factoring in sun exposure, how often the skin is submerged in water, friction, or how the skin in the area bends and flexes. I know extremely pale people who lost all the color in their tattoos in 5 years due to a variety of those factors; I’m pale as they come, and the yellow in my oldest tattoo is only 2 years old and already super faded. 

Color that lasts a long time is darker and more saturated than the skin it’s in.

See how the butterfly is still noticeably purple, and stands out in all the skin tones?

Teals, yellows, pinks and whites photograph beautifully in dark skin, but ultimately don’t have longevity as tattoos. Dark skin, however, can still take reds, blues, greens, purples, and browns beautifully! The best way to make color vivid in any skin is to put it in a strong black outline; tattoos like the one below will look like bruises as they age, and the fading color doesn’t have structured black to contrast and frame it.

Here’s some color on dark skin that will age well!

The yellows in this tattoo are very saturated and framed in lots of solid black; even if they fade, the fish will stay nice and vibrant.

Similarly, the white in this tattoo will definitely lighten, but the dark reds and blacks will hold the tattoo together very well.

This is my submission to the BNHArem Valentines Day collab! The prompt was romance tropes so I decided to do my own spin on long distance relationships. I hope you enjoy it and please check out the other amazing creators here.

Once again a massive thank you to @katsukikitten​ for reading through more of my shit and being so supportive (as always!), and also a special thank you to @mindninjax​ for being so sweet when I was talking about this idea to them and to @tiphandoms​ for giving me the incredible idea for one of the naughty Bakugou scenes in the middle!

Summary: You’d moved to Musutafu to get a fresh start, hoping to create fresh memories to repair the past. What you didn’t expect was for it to be so lonely and isolating, finding it difficult to make new friends in a new city. Deciding to pick up a copy of the latest gaming craze ‘Equilibrium’ in the hopes that you might find some people to help you through the lonely nights or at the very least distract you from feeling so alone. What you don’t expect, however, is to fall in love with Bakugou Katsuki.

Warnings: 18+, m!masturbation (Bakugou has a lot of dirty thoughts about you), f!masturbation, phone sex, sending nudes, cockblocking, sex with feelings, cunnilingus, fingering, praise praise praise, spanking (only a few taps), Bakugou picks us up (we think we’re too heavy, but he’s a pro hero), cumshots, creampie, sweat, overstimulation, multiple orgasms.

Pairing: Bakugou Katsuki x f!reader. 

Word Count: 34.4k

It had been daunting moving to a completely new city where you knew no one, a feeble attempt at starting afresh and hopefully gaining a source of independence. Convincing yourself that you’d try harder to put yourself out there and meet new people, but instead, you found yourself staring out into the coastline each evening. The view from your apartment really was the best part about it, picking it solely for the location. You’d decided to move to the Takoba region of Musutafu, hoping that it would give you the serenity of the coast while still remaining close to the busy hustle and bustle of city life. It helped that the apartments were more than half the price here, although that could also be because your new home was quite literally falling apart.

Your friends from your small hometown kept asking whether you’d met new friends or even found love but you brushed them off each time, telling them that you were talking to a lot of people and enjoying your time here. When in reality the only people you spoke to during your week were the unsociable colleagues at your new office job or the sweet man who ran the Yakitori restaurant downstairs.

The one thing you were glad to have in your new apartment was your gaming setup. A large custom tower computer, paired with your comfortable gaming chair and over-ear headphones. You’d seen numerous advertisements for the new craze online when looking up cheat codes for Legend of Zelda, noticing players everywhere raving about this new MMORPG called Equilibrium. You’d managed to pick up a copy on your way home from work as you placed the disc inside the CD drive, much preferring this method of gaming to digital copies as you began to download the important parts of the game onto your desktop. “Equilibrium” flashed up on the screen as the software booted up, immediately shifting your mouse to select the female avatar as you picked your cosmetics. Choosing a hairstyle not far off from the one you currently had, matching your eye colour and moving on to choosing the perfect outfit.

- For the New Year’s art event: “Sea of Lights”