Dr. Trashcan

Biromantic/Grey-romantic Asexual. White. She/They. Thirty(+), dirty, and dying. I am a Tumblr Old One. I'm here (august_justice) on AO3. Other corners of the internet you can find me include Twitter, Bluesky, and Pillowfort under this same username. If you want to be friends on discord, feel free to message me! Icon credit to userstonathan. Header credit to finalgalnancywheeler.

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

give the Gen Alpha kiddies a little treat, let it be this Sunday so that 6/7 becomes even more hilarious to them/annoying to their parents

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[writingdose]

being a writer is

50% daydreaming about plots and writing

50% procrastinating/suffering during the actual writing process

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[nancywheelesbian]

Thinking about Eddie having a habit of grabbing Steve's pecs randomly, like walking past him or when they're sleeping.

"stop doing that."

"Stop doing what?"

"you know what"

"grabbing your boobs?"

"THEY'RE NOT BOOBS EDWARD."

BOOB GRABBER EDDIE SO TRUE! Steve loves little spooning and Eddie loves big spooning because he can grab Steve’s boob the whole night

Steve argues they’re not boobs but also really likes being told he has a great rack so what is the truth

[ghostengarden]

She’s going to fix your car and then steal your gf

[harleycao]

Rip Anthony Stewart Head.

Here's an amazing story about him that I read years ago and never forgot.

I'd hoped to meet him at a convention, myself, one day.

Heartwarming story of Buffy's Giles going out of his way for a young trans fan

Tired: J.K. Rowling supporting a woman with anti-trans views. Wired: Buffy actor Anthony Stewart-Head quietly going above and beyond for his

[sarahreesbrennan]

I was sad to hear the news of his passing, but this was lovely to read.

I keep remembering these lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

‘what do you want me to say?’

‘Lie to me.’

‘… Nobody ever dies.’

[chaoswiththeprettyspine]

She's just a med student, leAVE HER ALONE

[toktopus-art]

happy pride month be who you areeee

[nancywheelesbian]

i just know in my heart Eddie takes being Steve’s Boyfriend so seriously. that boy is getting doted on and loved on and passenger princessed all over hawkins. Steve walks that man like a dog. “Anything for you baby 🥰” is Eddie’s new catchphrase

[teddytheartist]

More of the Queen of Hawkins High, Stevie Harrington!!, refused to join the cheer squad but will join literally ANYTHING else.⋆𐙚₊

every girl in that school wishes they had such a perfectly fluffy pony like hers, they would all kill a small animal at an altar for her volume i just know it

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[morganbritton132]

Steve: I can't believe you won't let me drive you to the state science fair.

Steve: You're really going to make your single mother take off work instead of letting me take off work

Dustin: When you came to the county science fair with me, you tried to start a chant after I presented to the judges.

Steve: People chant your name when you do cool shit.

Dustin: No, they don't. That doesn't happen.

Steve: Happens to me all the time.

[robbie-verse]

steve encounters vampire!eddie

[morganbritton132]

Steve, like five separate times in their shared history class, hands Eddie a piece of paper like, "Here. I drew a picture of you. You're like my moose today or whatever. Bye."

Eddie is... Confused? Honored? Baffled?

He unfolds the piece of paper to reveal the worst goddamn drawing known to man, and decides that what is...is being fucked with.

[calli0pea]

unfortunately, Sky High was only (1) 1hr 30 min Disney film and not the 6 season so-bad-it’s-good CW series it could’ve been

[mariemarion]

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Alec commission for @soulless-baka😭​💖​💖​ tysm! yeees, he's being surrounded by Magnus's magic 🩵​

[mariemarion]

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Magnus commission for @soulless-baka tysm ToT 🌌​!! yes this one it's meant to be paired with the Alec one🩵