-
uie:
US Helplines:
- Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696
- Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433
- LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255
- Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
- Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743
- Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438
- Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673
- Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272
- Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000
- Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253
- Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453
UK Helplines:
- Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail jo@samaritans.org
- Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111
- Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: info@mind.org.uk
- Mind legal advice (for people who need mental-health related legal advice): 0300 466 6463 legal@mind.org.uk
- b-eat eating disorder support: 0845 634 14 14 (only open Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Saturday 1pm-4.30pm) e-mail: help@b-eat.co.uk
- b-eat youthline (for under 25’s with eating disorders): 08456347650 (open Mon-Fri 4.30pm - 8.30pm, Saturday 1pm-4.30pm)
- Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: helpline@cruse.org.uk
- Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600
- Drinkline: 0800 9178282
- Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail info@rapecrisis.org.uk
- Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight
- India Self Harm Hotline: 00 08001006614
- India Suicide Helpline: 022-27546669
- Kids Help Phone (Canada): 1-800-668-6868
FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:
- Argentina: 54-0223-493-0430
- Australia: 13-11-14
- Austria: 01-713-3374
- Barbados: 429-9999
- Belgium: 106
- Botswana: 391-1270
- Brazil: 21-233-9191
- China: 852-2382-0000
- (Hong Kong: 2389-2222)
- Costa Rica: 606-253-5439
- Croatia: 01-4833-888
- Cyprus: 357-77-77-72-67
- Czech Republic: 222-580-697, 476-701-908
- Denmark: 70-201-201
- Egypt: 762-1602
- Estonia: 6-558-088
- Finland: 040-5032199
- France: 01-45-39-4000
- Germany: 0800-181-0721
- Greece: 1018
- Guatemala: 502-234-1239
- Holland: 0900-0767
- Honduras: 504-237-3623
- Hungary: 06-80-820-111
- Iceland: 44-0-8457-90-90-90
- Israel: 09-8892333
- Italy: 06-705-4444
- Japan: 3-5286-9090
- Latvia: 6722-2922, 2772-2292
- Malaysia: 03-756-8144
- (Singapore: 1-800-221-4444)
- Mexico: 525-510-2550
- Netherlands: 0900-0767
- New Zealand: 4-473-9739
- New Guinea: 675-326-0011
- Nicaragua: 505-268-6171
- Norway: 47-815-33-300
- Philippines: 02-896-9191
- Poland: 52-70-000
- Portugal: 239-72-10-10
- Russia: 8-20-222-82-10
- Spain: 91-459-00-50
- South Africa: 0861-322-322
- South Korea: 2-715-8600
- Sweden: 031-711-2400
- Switzerland: 143
- Taiwan: 0800-788-995
- Thailand: 02-249-9977
- Trinidad and Tobago: 868-645-2800
- Ukraine: 0487-327715
(Source)
ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.
I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so
Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123
last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:
so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.
@everyone
PAKISTANI HELPLINES:
Suicide helplines
Mind Org: 00924235761999
Umang: 0092317488665
Baat karo : 00923355743344
Taskeen: 00923325267936
Rooh: 00923333337664
Rozan: 080022444
Mental health helplines
Umang: 03174288665
Open counselling: 04235761999
Rozan: 03041111741
Baat karo: 03355743344
Cyber harassment helplines
Toll free number: 0800 39393
I truly hope you’re all doing ok
Posted on July 12, 2021 via ☮︎♡ with 1,105,371 notes
-
Anonymous asked:
I am interested in getting familiar with George Reeves' Adventures of Superman, but I am not interested in seeing all the episodes. Do you have a list of best episodes of this show?
I asked my dad about this as he grew up watching it, and these were some episodes that leapt out at him as among the better ones going through the listings (with the season and episode number listed on the side):
The Deserted Village (1/12)
The Stolen Costume (1/13)
Mystery In Wax (1/16)
The Human Bomb (1/21)
Crime Wave (1/24)
The Unknown People (1/25-26)
The Defeat of Superman (2/6)
Superman In Exile (2/7)
A Ghost For Scotland Yard (2/8)
The Dog Who Knew Superman (2/9)
The Face and The Voice(2/10)
Panic In The Sky (2/12)
Perry White’s Scoop (2/19)
Beware The Wrecker (2/20)
The Golden Vulture (2/21)
Lady In Black (2/23)
Olsen’s Millions (3/7)
The Bully of Dry Gulch (3/10)
Flight to the North (3/11)
The Big Freeze (4/3)
Tipsy Turvy (4/5)
The Wedding of Superman (4/8)
Disappearing Lois (5/6)
Divide and Conquer (6/3)
The Mysterious Cube (6/4)
The Big Forget (6/7)
Superman’s Wife (6/9)
The Perils of Superman (6/12)
All That Glitters (6/13)
I can attest to Panic In The Sky, The Big Freeze, and The Mysterious Cube as favorites of my own, and The Dog Who Knew Superman has an ending that will make you cry.
Two more from Season 1 that I’d highly recommend, both Jimmy Olsen-centric episodes: "The Haunted Lighthouse” (½) and “The Evil Three” (1/19).
These ones are more like horror stories than the usual “Superman solves a mystery” plots in Season 1, and “Evil Three” in particular gets pretty demented at points. Though the thing that sticks with me the most is the haunting voice from “Lighthouse” that cries out in the dark.
“He-e-e-e-elp… He-e-e-e-elp… I-i-i’m drow-w-w-w-wni-i-i-i-ing…”
-
Daredevil meets with someone not named Steve Rogers on the rooftops of Hell’s Kitchen.
The question is, is this John Walker… or William Burnside?
-
Anonymous asked: Have you read The Metropolitan Man? I don't know what's your policy on fanfiction but it's a "realistic" take on Superman arriving in the 30s.
Haven’t read that one - looking over it briefly it seems pretty damn depressing, though I suppose that’s kind of the point. I’ll probably check it out sometime.
I’m definitely down for fanfiction, but there’s precious little with Superman I’m into - when I occasionally think of Superman fanfic I hope “cool, maybe there’s finally some cool cosmic adventure stuff in here given the comics so rarely go there, or some really insightful character observations of the kind writers too sparsely touch on!” and then it ends up being 7000 pages on a powerless high-school aged Clark’s torrid affair with Jason Todd behind Congorilla’s back or something. But keeping my eyes open, there’ve definitely been some over the years that worked for me:
* Superboy: A great little moment of growth for a young Clark Kent in a short animated comic by @jordangibson.
* All In A Day’s Work: Good chance you saw this floating around on Tumblr awhile back, this is another really great little short comic by Tom Gimlin and Marcellis Wentz, on the weight of the job.
* Superman’s Story: Opposite Number: An excellent short piece by @spectralspices based on an idea he was nice enough to bounce off me, as Superman goes up against a pair of challenges unusual even for him - one comedic, one very much not.
* Pop-Drama: Superman: I don’t know how much this really qualifies as fanfic in the traditional sense - it’s a broad story proposal by @andrewhickeywriter on an ‘end point’ for Superman - but it’s damn fun and satisfying. There’s also a follow-up article where he elaborates on a major plot point.
* Superman Lives: Another short comic, this time by Joe Otis Costello and Des Taylor, where the Superman of 1938 is beamed in a fight with Brainiac into the world of 2014, and Lois Lane naturally gets the exclusive interview with the returned hero, the story being presented in magazine format. The characterizations may or may not work for you - parts do for me, others not - but it’s an interesting exercise nonetheless, and Des Taylor’s work is absolutely gorgeous.
* @ck1blogs: Clark Kent’s reasonably infamous Twitter account. He is not good at the internet, or humans.
* @filmcriticsuperman: Less well-known than its cousin ck1, which is a shame; unlike most “Film Critic X” feeds, it’s actually…well, really good, courtesy of @charlotteofoz. It maintains the voice throughout and perfectly, and while half the feed is indeed movie reviews - always through the filter of Superman - the other half is just Superman talking about his day, and while it was coming out it was probably the best ongoing Superman material of the last several years. If starting at the beginning of the feed to get a feel for it seems too ominous, worth it though it may be, a good sample would be the more traditional short story she did connected to it, a Superman Halloween spooktacular by the name of Yellowfire.
* Kosmograd Blues: A short story by The Quantum Thief and Invisible Planets author Hannu Rajaniemi focused on a Russian Superman analog, it’s a beautifully written, somber story of a superman who’s long since lost what made his own life worthwhile, but knows he still has a job to do. This was to be one part of a series of superhero short stories set in a larger world he had built - he wrote a little more about the details of it once - but to my knowledge this was all that ever came out of it.
* Kahlil: An ongoing webcomic by Kumail Rizvi in which the last son of Krypton landed in Karachi; it’s been awhile since I last checked in on it, but I recall it being very good, with some spectacular artwork making the few moments thus far of super-ness really pop.
* Superman vs. The Universe: A spiritual cousin to Joe Keatinge’s Strange Visitor, this is the story of an all-powerful Superman at the end of time looking back on his existence as he prepares for his last duty; the prose is stilted in places, but there are enough great ideas and emotional moments in here to make it more than worth your time.
* Repairing The World: I’ll admit some bias up front since the author’s a friend of mine, but starlightify’s DCU series of fanfics - largely centered around Superman and Batman - are a lot of fun, very funny and heartfelt. Some good samplers with Superman would be Salutation and Canidae.
* Silver Age Superman: I’ve never gotten my hands on this semi-legendary bootleg 1990 comic by Ed Pinsent and Mark Robinson, but the likes of Al Ewing and phenomenal comics critic Colin Smith have both declared this comic - starring by my understanding perhaps the most alienated version of its title character ever - among their absolute favorite Superman stories, and their word is more than good enough for me; if you see it out in the wild, I’d absolutely say pick it up. And grab a copy for me, would ya?
* Luthor’s Gift/Starwinds Howl: Bizarre as it is to list any Superman work of Elliot S! Maggin’s as fanfiction when he’s one of the characters’ most beloved writers, I suppose that is what these two stories count as given that they’ve only ever been published online and maybe in a fanzine or two to my knowledge rather than with DC’s official sanction, and they’re absolutely of a piece with his novels Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday. The latter is his take on how Krypto arrived on Earth; the former shows how Superman finally left Earth around the end of the 21st century the way he often hinted at in his other works.
* Tales of Smallville: Near as I can tell, I’m the only person on the face of the Earth - other than maybe Elliot Maggin, who endorsed these stories himself - who’s aware that on the site supermanthrutheages, Samuel Hawkins posted a series of 4 Superboy stories; him revealing himself to the world, his first big adventure with the Legion of Superheroes, a memorable dinner with a guest, and Martha Kent on her deathbed. On these stories, I know two things. 1. Posterity will unquestionably not validate him. It’s a handful of Silver/Bronze-Age Superboy fanfics on an out-of-the-way fansite, no one will remember them. And 2. He is a Morrison/Ennis/Maggin-tier Superman writer. If I have ever written anything in my life on Superman that you’ve agreed on, for the love of god at least read Martha’s Story, it might honestly be my favorite Superman story other than All-Star.
So along with those recommendations, I do have to throw a request on top: I vaguely recall having once read a short story somewhere online years ago about a Superman-type hero found in a field as an infant by farmers - one’s an alcoholic and one sleeps around, but they clean up their acts for the sake of the kid. He grows up to become a superhero and occasionally fights a Lex Luthorish scientist with an appropriately alliterative name who accuses him of impeding societal progress. Eventually, the hero flies off into space once everyone he knows dies, returning occasionally to Earth as he feels drawn back, to defend it, or rule it, or just wander it in obscurity; his longest and last stay is when he falls in love with a woman who he meets at a restaurant, when she’s the first in all those thousands of years to make apple pie as good as his mother’s. Eventually, he lives to the end of the universe, where he finds himself rocketing back through time and de-aging, crash-landing in a field and completing the time-loop. If anyone could point me in a direction towards it, it’d be very much appreciated; I don’t even recall if it’s any good, but I’ve been trying to find it for years and it’s the principle of the thing at this point.
I remember reading that short story too! Just managed to find it:
https://www.tor.com/2009/05/05/last-son-of-tomorrow/“Last Son of Tomorrow,” by Greg van Eekhout.
OH MY GOD THANK YOU, I’VE SPENT YEARS HOPING I’D BE ABLE TO FIND THIS AGAIN ONE DAY
You’re quite welcome! I was only able to find it again because I remembered that the Lex Luthor analogue was named “Teeter-Totter,” haha!
And thank you for recommending Martha’s Story! I’d read it a long time ago, but I was too young to truly get it, y’know? Now that I’m older, I found it to be so powerful.
-
Anonymous asked: Have you read The Metropolitan Man? I don't know what's your policy on fanfiction but it's a "realistic" take on Superman arriving in the 30s.
Haven’t read that one - looking over it briefly it seems pretty damn depressing, though I suppose that’s kind of the point. I’ll probably check it out sometime.
I’m definitely down for fanfiction, but there’s precious little with Superman I’m into - when I occasionally think of Superman fanfic I hope “cool, maybe there’s finally some cool cosmic adventure stuff in here given the comics so rarely go there, or some really insightful character observations of the kind writers too sparsely touch on!” and then it ends up being 7000 pages on a powerless high-school aged Clark’s torrid affair with Jason Todd behind Congorilla’s back or something. But keeping my eyes open, there’ve definitely been some over the years that worked for me:
* Superboy: A great little moment of growth for a young Clark Kent in a short animated comic by @jordangibson.
* All In A Day’s Work: Good chance you saw this floating around on Tumblr awhile back, this is another really great little short comic by Tom Gimlin and Marcellis Wentz, on the weight of the job.
* Superman’s Story: Opposite Number: An excellent short piece by @spectralspices based on an idea he was nice enough to bounce off me, as Superman goes up against a pair of challenges unusual even for him - one comedic, one very much not.
* Pop-Drama: Superman: I don’t know how much this really qualifies as fanfic in the traditional sense - it’s a broad story proposal by @andrewhickeywriter on an ‘end point’ for Superman - but it’s damn fun and satisfying. There’s also a follow-up article where he elaborates on a major plot point.
* Superman Lives: Another short comic, this time by Joe Otis Costello and Des Taylor, where the Superman of 1938 is beamed in a fight with Brainiac into the world of 2014, and Lois Lane naturally gets the exclusive interview with the returned hero, the story being presented in magazine format. The characterizations may or may not work for you - parts do for me, others not - but it’s an interesting exercise nonetheless, and Des Taylor’s work is absolutely gorgeous.
* @ck1blogs: Clark Kent’s reasonably infamous Twitter account. He is not good at the internet, or humans.
* @filmcriticsuperman: Less well-known than its cousin ck1, which is a shame; unlike most “Film Critic X” feeds, it’s actually…well, really good, courtesy of @charlotteofoz. It maintains the voice throughout and perfectly, and while half the feed is indeed movie reviews - always through the filter of Superman - the other half is just Superman talking about his day, and while it was coming out it was probably the best ongoing Superman material of the last several years. If starting at the beginning of the feed to get a feel for it seems too ominous, worth it though it may be, a good sample would be the more traditional short story she did connected to it, a Superman Halloween spooktacular by the name of Yellowfire.
* Kosmograd Blues: A short story by The Quantum Thief and Invisible Planets author Hannu Rajaniemi focused on a Russian Superman analog, it’s a beautifully written, somber story of a superman who’s long since lost what made his own life worthwhile, but knows he still has a job to do. This was to be one part of a series of superhero short stories set in a larger world he had built - he wrote a little more about the details of it once - but to my knowledge this was all that ever came out of it.
* Kahlil: An ongoing webcomic by Kumail Rizvi in which the last son of Krypton landed in Karachi; it’s been awhile since I last checked in on it, but I recall it being very good, with some spectacular artwork making the few moments thus far of super-ness really pop.
* Superman vs. The Universe: A spiritual cousin to Joe Keatinge’s Strange Visitor, this is the story of an all-powerful Superman at the end of time looking back on his existence as he prepares for his last duty; the prose is stilted in places, but there are enough great ideas and emotional moments in here to make it more than worth your time.
* Repairing The World: I’ll admit some bias up front since the author’s a friend of mine, but starlightify’s DCU series of fanfics - largely centered around Superman and Batman - are a lot of fun, very funny and heartfelt. Some good samplers with Superman would be Salutation and Canidae.
* Silver Age Superman: I’ve never gotten my hands on this semi-legendary bootleg 1990 comic by Ed Pinsent and Mark Robinson, but the likes of Al Ewing and phenomenal comics critic Colin Smith have both declared this comic - starring by my understanding perhaps the most alienated version of its title character ever - among their absolute favorite Superman stories, and their word is more than good enough for me; if you see it out in the wild, I’d absolutely say pick it up. And grab a copy for me, would ya?
* Luthor’s Gift/Starwinds Howl: Bizarre as it is to list any Superman work of Elliot S! Maggin’s as fanfiction when he’s one of the characters’ most beloved writers, I suppose that is what these two stories count as given that they’ve only ever been published online and maybe in a fanzine or two to my knowledge rather than with DC’s official sanction, and they’re absolutely of a piece with his novels Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday. The latter is his take on how Krypto arrived on Earth; the former shows how Superman finally left Earth around the end of the 21st century the way he often hinted at in his other works.
* Tales of Smallville: Near as I can tell, I’m the only person on the face of the Earth - other than maybe Elliot Maggin, who endorsed these stories himself - who’s aware that on the site supermanthrutheages, Samuel Hawkins posted a series of 4 Superboy stories; him revealing himself to the world, his first big adventure with the Legion of Superheroes, a memorable dinner with a guest, and Martha Kent on her deathbed. On these stories, I know two things. 1. Posterity will unquestionably not validate him. It’s a handful of Silver/Bronze-Age Superboy fanfics on an out-of-the-way fansite, no one will remember them. And 2. He is a Morrison/Ennis/Maggin-tier Superman writer. If I have ever written anything in my life on Superman that you’ve agreed on, for the love of god at least read Martha’s Story, it might honestly be my favorite Superman story other than All-Star.
So along with those recommendations, I do have to throw a request on top: I vaguely recall having once read a short story somewhere online years ago about a Superman-type hero found in a field as an infant by farmers - one’s an alcoholic and one sleeps around, but they clean up their acts for the sake of the kid. He grows up to become a superhero and occasionally fights a Lex Luthorish scientist with an appropriately alliterative name who accuses him of impeding societal progress. Eventually, the hero flies off into space once everyone he knows dies, returning occasionally to Earth as he feels drawn back, to defend it, or rule it, or just wander it in obscurity; his longest and last stay is when he falls in love with a woman who he meets at a restaurant, when she’s the first in all those thousands of years to make apple pie as good as his mother’s. Eventually, he lives to the end of the universe, where he finds himself rocketing back through time and de-aging, crash-landing in a field and completing the time-loop. If anyone could point me in a direction towards it, it’d be very much appreciated; I don’t even recall if it’s any good, but I’ve been trying to find it for years and it’s the principle of the thing at this point.
I remember reading that short story too! Just managed to find it:
https://www.tor.com/2009/05/05/last-son-of-tomorrow/“Last Son of Tomorrow,” by Greg van Eekhout.
-
You know, apart from being an objectively incredible science fiction concept and equally wonderful (and terrifying) addition to the Doctor Who and Faction Paradox mythos, the City of the Saved is a phenomenal means of getting all your DW ships and OTPs together.
Steven and Oliver? Check. Steven and Christopher Marlowe? Check. Jamie and Victoria? Check (and already implied in the most recent City of the Saved anthology!!). Zoe and Isobel? Check. Ace and all her girlfriends? They’ve got a big sapphic suburbia.
(Though the fact that Nyssa and Tegan would be forever separated is sO GODDAMN UGH!!!)
(also RIP Vastra and Jenny)
Ouch.
Don’t worry, she’s half-human, on her mother’s side. ;)
(via rassilon-imprimatur)
-
Me, hiding all my Tides of Time, VNA/EDA, and Faction Paradox lore under my bed: hahahahahahahahahahahahahah yeah
To be fair to that original poster, pretty much every appearance of the Time Lords and Gallifrey on TV, besides The War Games, has been dreadfully boring. (The JNT-era stories like Arc of Infinity in particular.)
The EU does a lot of good work to expand upon Time Lord society, but it doesn’t change the fact that both incarnations of the TV series have repeatedly failed to use these elements in a satisfactory way since 1969. (In my opinion, anyway.)
Individual Time Lords (The Master, the Rani, Drax, the various mysterious Time Lord agents we see throughout the ‘70s) are a different story, since they usually end up working well. But as soon as we visit the society itself, stories tend to fall apart.
-
Friendly reminder that Looms are good!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMS
-
And with the christmas special Twice Upon a Time, the Twelfth Doctor hands over the TARDIS key to the Thirteenth Doctor. Needless to say, it was an emotional rollercoaster. Thank you, Peter – I’ll miss you dearly! Welcome, Jodie – I’m beyond excited too see your era!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Link to Twelve’s single-picture post / Link to Thirteen’s single-picture post
This is amazing!!!
-
“On second thought let’s not go to the Discord, ‘tis a silly place.”
Aw c’mon, you skipped the section where I talked about Eight/Fitz tentacle sex! That was the best part!! ;D
(via doctornolonger)
-
Damn you for sinking the best of the ships! Let these two broken kitties have a chance for romance.
Posted on February 14, 2017 with 11 notes
Source: bcb.cat
-
I haven’t posted on here in a good while, but I felt that, in the spirt of the season, I’d share the video of that one time where the Protomen added the “Halloween” theme by John Carpenter onto the front of Breaking Out.
And it was glorious.
-
not to dash anyone’s hopes for a new act III song meaning act III is coming soon, and also this post is going to sound extremely “my dad works at nintendo” but just trust me that i have no reason to lie about this haha, i chatted w/ a member of the band pretty recently and we discussed work being done on act III and it’s, like, still in writing and recording stages which means it’s prrrrrrrrobably still fairly far away from releasing any time super soon
which is fine cus all that means is we get to be agonizingly hyped for it even longer :^)
Yeah, I spoke to one of them too recently, and the word I heard was “not for a year, at least.”
-
Plays: 0
This is something I’ve been working on in FamiTracker (which is kinda difficult on a Mac, but I manage), and I think it’s sounding good so far! But let me know what you guys think.
Just an FYI, this loops after 0:14. (It will be longer, eventually.) I imagine this being the tune that plays over a “Message from Dr. Light!” screen in the dream Protomen game that’s been in my head for a while.
(I made the sprites in the album image as well, I should note.)
-
So, the new Black Canary comics are very interesting, but also a very different version of the character than I’m used to. Still more likable than the Arrow her, though. And while I miss the Black Canary/Green Arrow marriage, in the comics, I can’t picture the current incarnations of either character making that work.
It seems like the Dinah/Ollie relationship is coming back, since she’s going to be a main character in the new Green Arrow series.
I love the new Black Canary series, though I feel that it lost its way after awhile. All the stuff with time travel and aliens just bogs down the central concept (a band with a superhero as the singer), which is pretty fucking cool. It’ll be nice to see Dinah get back to her roots more come Rebirth.
Posted on April 5, 2016 via Regina Random with 11 notes
Well, now I've got a snazzy new layout, time to write up theories about "the dr.who"