my name is azalea

[Banner ID/ An image of Charlie Brown from the comic strip Peanuts, a white boy of about seven-to-ten years old, wearing a striped yellow and black shirt, with his head thrown back in despair and his hands balled into fists. He is crying. Above him, in block letters, is written "When the fuck is Trump going to drop fucking dead." /End ID] [Profile picture ID/ A stuffed animal fox sitting in front of a laptop, watching the music video for 'What Does the Fox Say.' /End ID]

[azalea-blooming]

hi!

My name is Azalea! My pronouns are she/her.

I am a minor; I won’t share my exact age until I turn eighteen, because basic Internet safety. Don’t use my age to condescend to me. I’ll block you.

I don’t have a DNI, because they’re useless, but I will block you if you’re a bigot. Honestly, if your posts vaguely annoy me, I might block you. Sorry.

Please send me asks! Talk to me! I need enrichment in my enclosure!

my interests:

Fantasy High and/or Dimension 20. i've seen every IH season + a lot of the side quests

Animorphs. talk to me about visser and i'll give you my firstborn.

writing in general but also poetry

I love making Kandi bracelets. Ask me to show off my collection. Please.

what i post:

mostly reblogs (and when i say mostly i mean the Vast majority), the occasional impassioned rant, analysis of Animorphs, fangirling over Adaine Abernant, etc.

I CAN’T DONATE TO YOU. I DO NOT OWN A CREDIT CARD. I CANNOT COMPLETE ONLINE TRANSACTIONS OF ANY KIND.

[azalea-blooming]

might just run with keeping everything in elfangor-theme and start rachel’s webweave with “do not be afraid” or even “have courage, my friends”

[heartcountry]

there was no perfect path. you did not get punished. your life did not unravel when you made a left turn. the memory will always be there. you can visit whenever you want. there is no alternate timeline where you made a better choice and got a happier ending. you were a little girl chasing the ice cream truck, playing hopscotch, swinging and aiming for the never ending blue. yes, the grief was waiting up ahead. but so was the miracle of saturdays in a car headed wherever you wanted to go. enough sky to wrap around every wound. friends who, despite your perennial bouts of silence, kept an ear close at all times.

[scramratz]

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

[scramratz]

oh folks really don't like being asked to consider trans men

[sapphireh3arts]

today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the live they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.

[peak-widow]

image description:

text on a multihued purple background.

center text on a pride flag banner reads: REMEMBERING THE 49 ANGELS. JUNE 12, 2016

Stanley Almodovar III • Almand L. Alvear • Oscar A. Aracena Montero • Rodolfo Ayala Ayala • Antonio Davon Brown • Darryl Roman Burt III • Angel Candelario-Padro • Juan Chavez Martinez • Luis D. Conde • Cory James Connell • Tevin Eugene Crosby • Deonka Deidra Drayton • Leroy Valentin Fernandez • Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez • Mercedes Marisol Flores • Peter Ommy Gonzales Cruz • Juan Roman Guerrero • Paul Terrel Henry • Frank Hernandez • Miguel Angel Honorato • Javier Jorge Reyes • Jason Benjamin Josephat • Eddie Jamal Droy Justice • Anthony Luis Loreano Disla • Christopher Andrew Leinonen • Alejandro Barrios Martinez • Brenda Marquez McCool • Gilberto R Silva Menendez • Kimberly Jean Morris • Akyra Monet Murray • Luis Omar Ocasio Capo • Gerardo A. Ortiz Martinez • Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera • Joel Rayon Paniagua • Jean Carlos Mendez Perez • Enrique L. Rios Jr. • Jean Carlos Nieves Rodríguez • Xavier Emmanuel Serrano-Rosado • Christoper Joseph Sanfeliz • Yolmaru Rodríguez Solivan • Eddie Sotomayor Jr. • Shane Evan Tomlinson • Martin Benitez Torres • Jonathan A. Cumoy Vega • Juan Pablo Rivera Velázquez • Luis Sergio Vielma • Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velázquez • Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon • Jerry Wright

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[heytherecentaurs]

The Camarilla in Austin offering LaVonte a position of power is so good on a storytelling level because it reiterates the point Brennan made earlier about the college students not wanting to stay and build something but rather go somewhere it's already built. He's presenting LaVonte with the same choice as students like Patty Babcock. Stay in Purpee and do the hard work of creating the community you want or leave for a city where it's all established and he can just slot into the system. It's great because it pissed LaVonte of that the students didn't care. Now confronted with the same choice is he going to be true to his intentions of making New Rome or be a hypocrite?

[soberscientistlife]

Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!

[katsdom]

True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)

Remember: The "'E" in email stands for evidence.

That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.

But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.

Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: "I just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxx" Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.

Case 2: You have a schedule you like, you've had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says "We're really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. It's just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month." A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email "I'm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised." Documentation.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated' for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.

Me; That's illegal.

Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) Uh...

Me: That's an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.

HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.

Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.

I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.

HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.

Me: You still haven't given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.

HR: Oh haha yes here you go.

I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Don't even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like “just to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I won’t be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.

The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.

Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadn’t put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for “missing deadlines” because I always had in writing that she’d pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.

Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they won’t put what they’re asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.

[cockbiteindustries]

Does anyone have that one story of the lady who worked at a bank or something and management tried to can her, but she had evidence or something that ended up having her win a lawsuit? If I recall that story had both evidence, and the importance of employee communication as a co-worker tipped her off so she made sure she had an evidence papertrail

[azalea-blooming]

i need gifsets of demi adejuyigbe does a backflip immediately

[demonprincex]

truly mystified by what people perceive to be blonde hair. if that shit is not light and very yellow how is it not fucking brown hair. I know a lot of people who were blonde as children continue to identify as such as they get older because of like white supremacy making being blonde feel more desirable than the alternative or something but this is crazy

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

love how tumblr staff has time to censor words like “paint mixing” and “my face” and yet they can’t get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017

[ssexsophie8127]

fuck you

[ssexsophie8127]

i won

[politicalprof]

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

[madfishmonger]

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

[vanglaggle]

u need to draw fatter arms it can't all go to the butt and thighs #SORRY

[polystyrenequeen]

siobhan has such a bisexual playing style but she always gets overshadowed by zac who accidentally backs himself into bisexuality season after season

[ghostdogsdyin]

Bisexual by birth v. Bisexual by curse

[imjunebitch]

genuinely fucking loathe this "nonbinary people cant do dishes" quote-unquote joke going around. FUCK YOU!

[wedding-funeral-waitress]

Today I'm feeling: utter rage at the fact tags for transgender pride and identities are filled to the brim with porn bots that steal the likeness of trans women.