I Will Keep Moving Forward...

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Jarl_Deathwolf

[saradiation]

For 11/11 this year you get Dirk! 🧡

[martinsorbit]

spreading the nonbinary/trans DCA agenda

[spiceofmorning]

Migraine wolf

[ultrainfinitepit]

My cat has to wear a cone this week and it made me think of an angel whose halo is a cone.

[ultrainfinitepit]

Local idiot is cone-free and back on his regular sillyzone nonsense.

[numinous-queer]

I am obsessed with the theological implications of this

[redstonedust]

it sucks that masks weren't already common in most of the world bc now ppl associate them so heavily with covid 19 and assume if ur wearing one then you must be super paranoid about that specific disease. like yeah i don't want to catch covid but i don't want most things that float around on public transport. also i like having a warm face. also it makes me look cool. maybe i just want the kakashi appeal. what's so wrong abt that.

[k-dhd]

[crystaltoa]

Even saying ”I’m so sorry, I completely forgot” sounds marginally better than ” I’m so sorry, I didn’t completely forget, I actually completely remembered. I thought about it the whole time and it stressed me out so much my brain built an insurmountable wall around it.”

[zuccnini]

Party guy

[xsilversugar]

The colors and textures make my eyes so happy ermagawd!

[saradiation]

It’s his favorite hoodie 🖤

[saagai]

[cheshire-cat-101]

Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.

[kyraneko]

Since different people have different needs, one person’s safe space will be another’s Trauma Central.

I don’t know who said it first, but “I need to be able to express my anger without shame” and “I need to be away from yelling and loud noises” are both valid needs people can have for a safe space that really aren’t compatible with each other.

So are “I need to process my trauma” and “I need to not meet any trauma.”

Or “I want a safe space to tell/read the stories that speak to me” and “those stories are distressing to me.”

Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.

You don’t get to make others homeless to make the universe your personal safe space.

[thatgirlwithadhd]

Me gritting my teeth and clutching a pencil: everyone making amazing art on tumblr also had to go through a phase of making terrible art that was objectively crappy and didn’t live up to their expectations. It’s just that they did it when they were 13 and I’m doing it when I’m 25. My beginner art is just as good as anyone else’s beginner art

[merukins]

[aleha84]

Departing

[vatcher]

pixel art can be so surreal because the really good stuff can sometimes just look like a really low res photo

[transjinako]

some guy of all time 

[transjinako]

They forced my man to work two positions  

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

larry is the author insert of some poor soul at game freak

[dicedragonjo]

'Reverie'

Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.

Polished, unpainted, inedible.

You can find these on my Etsy and even pick your own paint color!

[great-tweets]

Sigh.

[thefortysecond]

Important update! His story went viral enough that other paint companies reached out to him and he got a job with a new paint company!!

https://www.tiktok.com/@tonesterpaints/video/6898720259675540742

[tsarinajissa]

Athens TikToker Tony Piloseno accepts job and partnership with Florida paint company following rush of public support

Athens TikToker Tony Piloseno, who’s famous for his paint-mixing videos, revealed Tuesday that he accepted a job at a small Orlando, Florida

[dancinbutterfly]

Listen. This is what people are talking about when they say that if you gave people a fucking UBI, folks would still work. Even “menial” work is beloved by various people if it’s given the respect it deserves and folks dont need to worry about - um - starving to death and dying of illness?

[deadpoolsbottombitch]

I legitimately love delivering pizzas! If it were sustainable i wouldn’t mind at all doing it for the rest of my life! One of my best friends absolutely loves cleaning, and the only reason she quit cleaning professionally is that she was sick of the ways she was treated. My stepfather has been a carpenter and construction worker for 30 years, despite being a highly qualified graphic designer and architect, bc the man just fuckin loves construction work. For every “menial/undesireable” job available, there is someone who is happy to work it, if not for the stigma and need to survive. And for the truly awful ones? Like slaughterhouse cleanup, sewer maintenance, roadkill pickup, etc? With UBI they could almost all be mechanized, saving people from having to do grueling and dangerous jobs they really don’t have to do.

[purplesaline]

There are even people who will do those jobs because they recognize that they need to get done. Those people may not love the job itself but they take great pride in doing something that needs to be done.

People don’t just work for free doing jobs they love. If there’s a niche there will always be someone willing to fill it.

[actualaster]

I talk shit but I actually don’t genuinely truly HATE retail, what I hate is how people (customers and employers) use, abuse, overwork, and generally treat the employees like shit

If I could have reasonable hours and accommodations for my limitations and be paid enough to survive without being asked to do 25 jobs advertised as 1 job and had UBI to ensure I could leave if it was too much/I was being mistreated/taken advantage of by employers looking to overwork employees to make more money I’d be totally happy to work retail as long as I physically could

[best-cranberry]

When I worked retail, my favorite part was working in the stock room cuz it’s like playing real life Jenga

[lastoneout]

Were it not for my disability and if it paid enough and I wasn’t treated like crap I am not kidding I would be happy to work at a movie theater probably for the rest of my life, I loved it that much.

Trust me, for every menial job that “no one would want” there is a person who would LOVE to do it. Forget that “I don’t dream of labor” stuff in a perfect world people would still work because there are people who genuinely enjoy working; It’s being FORCED to do it in shitty conditions for crap pay lest we starve to death or end up unhoused that’s the problem, not work itself.

[teenslib]

One of the best jobs I ever had was cemetery landscape maintenance.

[krakensdottir]

It all comes down to this: People don’t mind working. It isn’t work that people dread or are sick of. It’s working conditions.

Pay people well, respect them (and don’t allow customers to disrespect them), accommodate their needs, and people will work their asses off and more often than not do it happily. Work itself is not demeaning or soul-draining. Jobs don’t have to be that way.