Hey

Slowly peeking out of my shell like a cartoon turtle

[trix-or-treatz]

frog wallet frog wallet frog wallet

[cryptotheism]

Gets scared and flies around in your face for several seconds

[bauliya]

I love the x-men so much because that's just what leftist infighting is like! that's literally all it is! xavier is a sellout and they all hate him but he's the only one with any money. everyone complains about "they keep switching sides and dating each other it's so fucking confusing" like my dudes have you never been a part of any socialist organisation, ever. then people will go "magneto is so strong how has he not killed a bunch of teenagers" HE DOESN'T WANT TO KILL THEM! this started in a goddam basement over coffee he does not want to hurt them he just wants them to shut up and listen and will fling cars to do so

[weissguertena]

[runawaymarbles]

Magneto one drink in: I love Charles but hes such a kiss-ass, we don’t need to be FRIENDS, we just need mutual aid communities and to be left alone

Professor X one drink in: what the fuck is his self sustaining mutant community going to do for all the mutants born to human parents, which is MOST OF THEM, he’s so gay he’s forgotten how babies are made and I want to kiss his stupid face

[homunculus-argument]

Do employers know that employees are actually reusable if you let them rest? Like if you don't use them up completely all at once, and give them time to rest and recover before the next work day, they just kinda grow back? That's how they used to do it back in the day, you could hire five people to do five people's workload, and then keep the same five people for 40 years without issue, instead of having 2-3 people doing five people's work and have to constantly keep looking for replacements since you keep running them to the ground, completely using up like 10-20 employees per year.

We still have access to all the same technology and materials that they were using back in the day. Literally nothing requires us to operate the way things work now.

[zeestarfishalien]

I had to research a company's business model for a business class in uni and let me tell you, Jeff Bezos' whole business model is to use employees until they burn out and then just hire new ones when the old ones quit or can't keep up. This is both on the warehouse and the corporate side of the business. There was even a prediction model somewhere of how long it would take Amazon to roll through essentially the entire workforce. Insane shit actually, and I think more and more companies now are trying to follow that.

[ailithnight]

Here's a hint. A lot of places don't actually want to keep you for 40 years.

Employees that work for the same employer for 40 years generally expect things like regular raises and good retirement plans and bosses that know what they are doing and to have their rights respected.

Meanwhile, a constantly rotating cast of new 20-25yo hires never have to be paid more than "starting salary," generally don't have the life experience to know or even care about retirement yet, and aren't knowledgeable or comfortable enough in the job or their rights to call the boss out on their bullshit.

In other words, new hires — especially young people — are often much more exploitable.

[bioluminescent-fungus]

affirmations when opening a stuck jar:

I am stronger than the jar

⁠⁠I know what left and right are

⁠⁠smashing the jar will make a mess

⁠⁠I have strong and dextrous hands

⁠⁠I have opened jars before and I will open jars again

[weirdtranssexual-deactivated202]

call me crazy but i think public transportation should explicitly also be for actively drunk/high people. so they don’t, you know, drive under the influence.

[faun-writes]

living in a bigish city during collage age years this shit always confused me, like "this drunk/high/inebriated/obviously unwell person was on the bus last night--" you mean the fuckin cheapest way to get home without driving? you mean the public transportation meant for people who can't afford to or are otherwise unable to drive? what, would you rather them get behind the wheel? lock in pls.

[crowttore]

Are you currently suffering from The Character?

[ozdical]

[fexalted]

[image description: tumblr tag in all-caps reading: "#yes. stage 4".]

[talesfromtreatment]

I... I don't think the patient's weight got entered correctly. Just a hunch

[wimpud]

please, my dog, he is sick

[talesfromtreatment]

Every single note and comment is comedy gold and I'm wheezing from laughing so hard

[awaggaa]

[leidensygdom]

There's simply no argument or logical explanation that could sour the appeal of Big Fucking Scythe As A Weapon for me. Like no I don't care it wouldn't make for an optimal weapon, because have you considered : Big Fucking Scythes are Cool and Badass

[dangerously-human]

Over the comatose body of their friend, Eva says, “Do you know how Yazdovsky and his team chose the dogs for Sputnik 2? Laika and the others.”

Carl betrays no surprise at the question. “Honestly, ma’am, it never occurred to me to ask.”

“They recruited Moscow strays, well accustomed to cold and hunger, selected for temperament and endurance.” Around them, machinery makes its clicks and whirs. It was easier, to hide him here, with no prying eyes to piece together an unfortunate timeline. “In the end, there were three: Mushka, the control; Laika, the primary; and Albina, her alternate. Albina had recently birthed a litter of puppies, and Yazdovsky couldn’t bear to separate a mother from her children.” Hidden in her pocket, her fingers briefly tighten around a lumpy crocheted sphere. “Never mind that she’d flown before: compassion outweighed qualifications.”

Carl doesn’t parrot empty comfort, or ask why she’s telling him this. He simply nods and scuffs his heel.

Ironically, perhaps, she thinks that only Grace would bother. He’d listen obediently, and then, with that knowing eyebrow raise, point out that her mind was already made up, she was only rambling to hear her own thoughts echoed back at her. He wouldn’t offer her absolution; he never really had. He simply understood.

[feyd-meowtha]

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[yaoiblackmold]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[morganaspendragonss]

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

[rubynye]

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

[wheeloffortune-design]

my publisher: Good morning! Huh did you advertise for the pre-sale yesterday? Because we launched twelve hours ago and we already made sales!

me: yeah, i posted on tumblr

publisher: .........tumblr?

me: that's where the gays are.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update

publisher: And what is your marketing strategy on... tumblr?

me: idk, i shitpost at 2am?

publisher: .....and it works?

me: depends on what the gays find funny at that point in time.

publisher: Could I have a link to your tumblr?

me: .......absolutely not.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western where 50 year old women kiss and murder)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update!

publisher: I've been looking into tumblr, have you thought of using Blaze to promote your book?

me: NO

publisher: But it seems like an efficient way to get this in front of more eyes-

me: people on tumblr hate Blaze.

publisher: There is no algorithm and you can't pay to promote a post? I don't understand how anyone advertises anything on tumblr.

me: That's the best part. They don't. They can't.

(trying to make him understand that we do not control the attention. We just have to show something shiny and gay enough and if people are interested, they'll reblog.)

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a deconstruction of the colonialist cowboy mythos dressed up as a sapphic romance.)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update with picture of a pet!

This is Cosmos, my publisher's dog.

He barks at my publisher's phone notifications. So every time a book is sold, Cosmos barks.

It's been days.

I think you guys would love to know that when you buy a book, a dog barks in Vancouver, Canada.

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a story where women help women bury the body of your abusive husband.)

[n3bulas-and-satelites]

@thebibliosphere @pangur-and-grim

[thebibliosphere]

Well, that’s one book waiting for me when I get back home! Also, please tell your publisher Cosmos is the goodest dog 💖

[crittizen]

this is a poem

[wa-u-moved]

i couldn’t not draw this

[i-say-ok]

ok…!

[luxury-nightmare]

babe are you okay, your reblogging the subway rat poem again

[marvelmaniac715]

It’s been a long week

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Y'all.

I did some digging.

The word that led to all this was "scry".

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Shit be wildin on threads this week

[hyperactivehedgehog]

You should also be able to figure out what a text is saying without understanding every word. 90% of the time you'll do just fine even if a word is unfamiliar. You should be able to understand the meaning of a word through context, or at least the meaning of the sentence or paragraph. There are some rare instances where the specific word is crucial, but most of the time it's not necessary to understand the text.

This is a skill you are taught in foreign language classes btw. When you get to a certain level, they give you texts with words you probably don't know yet, and you have to summarise the text without looking any of them up. It really helps with your literacy skills. I can really recommend picking up some books with unfamiliar vocabulary and trying to understand it without looking up words

[functionally-immortal]

@unashamedly-enthusiastic

your tags are very correct and also read like poetry to me