hai! you can call me lua or michael or aes, and i go by any pronouns :3
partner of @spacedustmantis my beloved wife <333
my main blog, or the blog i like, follow and ask from, is @aesteasis
sometimes i post art! still learning tho so be kind.
ko-fi
look at my creechurs, boi
my Ao3
icon by cryingwyvern, header by my wife <3
we recently found out we're plural! so you'll see a lot of that now lol
no specific fandom, and there's no filter on this blog, i'll post literally anything i vibe with, but for context i'm currently into:
-just roll with it
-mcyt (mostly hermitcraft/life series)
-tma
-sonic the hedgehog
i dont have a tagging system other than for my original posts (lua talks, lua liveblogs, lua answers, lua arts, lua polls, lua vents), but i (try to) tw and spoiler tag when necessary! you can always ask me to tag smth.
oh, and i reblog/post a lot of body horror and gory stuff, tagged as well.
other side blogs:
@lifesafespot (helpful miscellaneous stuff)
@writingstuffthathelps (helpful writing stuff)
the only rule is: be fucking nice! i wont tolerate if you dont behave.
if i dont respond to a message from you i can basically guarantee its not because i dislike you. im just getting attacked by imps and shit all the time genuinely.
DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS
OHHH NOO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THIS INFORMATION WAS RELEASED TO THE WIDER PUBLIC????? ALL THOSE EVIL INNOCENT CORPORATIONS WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STEAL PEOPLE'S MONEYYYYY
Oh man, well at least there’s no way to avoid the paywalls for papers on scientific literature that can make scientific papers inaccessible to the people who wrote them. At least all the publishers get to horde that knowledge
tumblr is full of "hey its okay to/lets normalize [insert thing that nobody said is not okay/that is normal but you want them to use your microlabel of choice].
however, as the true hater at heart that i am, i propose that we start doing the opposite! example: it's not okay to be an entitled piece of shit and let's not normalize this moral high gound war while we are all fighting the same issues irl :D
she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.
the thing that always gets me about the US and jobs it considers 'essential' is those roles are always treated like/expected to be temporary, and you both get talked down to and it is made extremely difficult to live if you don't want them to be (temporary, that is).
i frequently miss previous food service jobs, not because i don't enjoy what i do now, but because i did genuinely enjoy those jobs too. the reason i left is because the expectation was that i either sell 40+ hours of my week to the job, regularly be physically injured with no support, either no or abysmal workers comp, inconsistent scheduling so it meant i had little to no life outside of work... and still, the actual labor of the job, i enjoyed. i enjoyed the people. i liked working with my hands and making people happy.
and you know, people often bring up customers as the reason to leave food service - this was part of my reason as well, but how much of that - like the unsustainability of working food service itself, bodily and monetarily - is manufactured? many of the people who were terrible to me working food service were often people working office jobs only marginally 'above' mine in pay and support, miserable with their own work, looking to exert some level of power they could over someone else.
this is a bit long winded, but i think its a perfect cultural example of how capitalism does not actually incentivize 'progress' or 'growth' as much as a constant state of desperation, discomfort and dehumanization - you arent actually encouraged to do what it is you excel at, but whatever you can just barely tolerate, all at the risk that at the current stage your body might give out and you will not have worked hard enough to have 'earned' the right to be care for when it does. and someone will be right behind you, desperate enough to immediately replace you.
the thing that always gets me about the US and jobs it considers 'essential' is those roles are always treated like/expected to be temporary, and you both get talked down to and it is made extremely difficult to live if you don't want them to be (temporary, that is).
i frequently miss previous food service jobs, not because i don't enjoy what i do now, but because i did genuinely enjoy those jobs too. the reason i left is because the expectation was that i either sell 40+ hours of my week to the job, regularly be physically injured with no support, either no or abysmal workers comp, inconsistent scheduling so it meant i had little to no life outside of work... and still, the actual labor of the job, i enjoyed. i enjoyed the people. i liked working with my hands and making people happy.
and you know, people often bring up customers as the reason to leave food service - this was part of my reason as well, but how much of that - like the unsustainability of working food service itself, bodily and monetarily - is manufactured? many of the people who were terrible to me working food service were often people working office jobs only marginally 'above' mine in pay and support, miserable with their own work, looking to exert some level of power they could over someone else.
this is a bit long winded, but i think its a perfect cultural example of how capitalism does not actually incentivize 'progress' or 'growth' as much as a constant state of desperation, discomfort and dehumanization - you arent actually encouraged to do what it is you excel at, but whatever you can just barely tolerate, all at the risk that at the current stage your body might give out and you will not have worked hard enough to have 'earned' the right to be care for when it does. and someone will be right behind you, desperate enough to immediately replace you.