michael romance

about me page (formerly pinned but i had to make a statement) star badge on my icon made by @cemeterygrace

[ierogenvy]

hi every1 !!!! apparently i need to make this a post:

RADFEMS + TERFS FUCK OFF I HATE YOUUUUUU

[mxnrique]

HAPPY PRIDE

[teathattast]

[lampgate]

fuck of desitel

i've been trying to think of a response to this for the last 5 minutes but i cant stop saying "fuck of desitel" silently to myself

[lampgate]

fuck of desitel friday

[lampgate]

GIVE IT UP FOR FIVE YEARS OF FUCK OF DESITEL FRIDAYS 🎉

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

being friends with english majors is so fun you'll send a text like hey are you free for brunch and they'll respond with some shit like "haven't the faintest clue, my schedule is utterly fucked"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

english majors so used to talking like 19th century british aristocracy they think this is a joke about busy schedules

[quantumshade]

everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

[murfpersonalblog]

IWTV S2 Ep7 Musings - The Trial: "But It's Not About Race~!" said the (white) fandom

The Blacks (play) - Wikipedia "Do the white thing," The Guardian (2017)

[charmac]

Rob’s son stole his phone and is active on his IG account right now 😭💀

He says Sunny 18 will be out in August (and seems to be directly asking Rob these questions!)

[charmac]

LMFAOOOO

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[cloudabserk]

grace is like rocky be honest am i too clingy? and rocky is like grace i would mind meld with you if i could.

[emziess]

Find someone to be brave for. Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[christianborle]

this is the absolute funniest thing I’ve read in the project hail mary 2022 draft so far. my stomach hurts from trying not to laugh so loud. I WISH they kept this in the movie

[carpenter-sab]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

[princess-of-phyresis]

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website

[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.

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence