No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

ladyyatexel

Oh my god, I didn’t even realize the date. It’s SWANniversary~ i should make a thing

ladyyatexel

It’s 12 today! Old enough to lie about its age on deviantArt and be really into making terrible OCs for a variety of popular franchises.

If you’ve read SWAN or reSWAN (or both!), I’d love it if you told me (however you like) which of these damaged glitter children you identify with the most and why! I’ve received some answers to that that surprised me recently!

d--t

I’m in a really Devi mood lately (the head that resonates through the ages!), but I came for the Edgar and stayed for the Jimmy. Edgar’s place as an outsider, trying to fit in speaks to me, but the way Jimmy is an insider to the group and still somehow an outsider in many ways really speaks to me. He’s got the right human skin on but he can’t quite get it to fit right. Or maybe that’s Johnny?

Yeah, each of them have a piece of me that identifies with them.

ladyyatexel

Okay, I love the idea of wearing the right human skin but not fitting into it.

Maybe what’s interesting about this group is how it does and doesn’t exist. Just reading what you’ve written makes me think that actually, they all think they’re outside the group. They all have a different group in their head that they aren’t part of and they’re trying really hard to fake being good enough for.

Edgar came late, doesn’t feel spooky or strange enough to belong there. Doesn’t know what ‘normal’ can contribute. In his eyes, everyone else is comfortably weird and scary and knows themselves and belongs in a band called ‘The Homicides’ and he’s the normal one playing dress up.

Jimmy got mistreated in order to be let in and is now questioning who he is and what he wants and what he deserves. Jimmy sees everyone else in neat little pairs and lives outside the group in his trailer and wonders what is missing in him that he didn’t work the way the rest of them did.

Tenna worries that she doesn’t have a real connection to them because she doesn’t have any old connection to Johnny. She sees a group of Johnny and his remembered relationships and then there she is, just Devi’s keychain.

Devi thinks no one else sees how messed up everything is. She worries everyone else is having fun and isn’t thinking about the implications of anything. Even the people she thinks are rational sometimes (Edgar, Tenna) fail her. She likes the group, but she feels her temperament doesn’t match them, and they wouldn’t miss her if she left.

Johnny doesn’t have a song, doesn’t have a gender he likes or wants, doesn’t experience the attractions everyone else does. The others do these things as easily as they breathe, and for him they’re impossible. He makes things up, lies, omits things, tries his best to make sure he stays interesting enough for his people to still follow him everywhere.

ladyyatexel

I’ve been digging in my swanish tag trying to find something and came across this little blip about how every person in the group feels outside of the group, and I know it is something that I wrote down but it is resonating particularly today

ultrafacts

According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs—vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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mermaibee

BOOST FOR THE SUMMER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

faikitty

Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?

I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.

Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.

However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.

Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.

rangergirl3

This knowledge is important.

About eight years ago, this information saved my youngest sister’s life. She was swimming in a hotel pool in the middle of the day, with adults sitting not ten feet away from her, and she almost drowned all the same.

She was 11 years old and a good swimmer. I was in the pool too and thought she was fine.

But I’d heard that drowning people don’t look like they do in the movies. So when she went quiet (which NEVER happens), I turned around and saw her doing exactly this in the deep end of the pool. By the time I got to her she was going under again. She told me later that she couldn’t breathe at all.

Even though I swam to her from the front, I took an extra second to maneuver so that I could be at her back when I brought one arm around her chest. I swam towards the shallow end while pulling her backwards, making sure to keep her head above the water.

No one else had noticed a thing. We weren’t alone in the pool, and there were adults not ten feet away. I was 22 and had absolutely no rescue training.

Knowing the signs of drowning, and that you should come at the person in distress from the back saved my sister’s life.

Be Aware of your surroundings and never assume someone is fine just because they know how to swim.

petermorwood

The Easter holidays have just started, and though the Irish Sea still isn’t warm enough for most people, accidents happen in swimming pools as easily as open water.

So read, remember and reblog this important information.

It might save someone’s life.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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