Widdershins

(adv): to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun, as viewed from the Arctic Circle; to go anticlockwise or lefthandwise; to circle an object by always keeping to the left

[puppygirllaika]

talking about stuff like prison reform or the SO registry really quickly makes you realize how many peoples political ideology boils down to "look, just tell me who the bad people are so I know who we should be killing."

[pigswithwings]

wtf are borders anyway. like yeah u were born on this beautiful earth buuuuut 😊 u cant go here. or here either

[walk-up-songs]

A forever banger from da share zone

[threefeline]

"You will often be subjected to uncomfortable situations in public and you should learn to navigate that" and "if you play your music out loud in a public hike then the other hikers should be allowed to hunt you for sport" are two sentiments that can and should co-exist

[inkisadream]

today we talked about contract bargaining in 2027 which of course actually means fall 2026 and even though I got a pretty good situation (not serving as lead negotiator for anything) and even though I was in the kindest possible room for asking questions I could still feel the anxiety building in my body. the longer we talked the more my shoulders tensed and slumped all at once, if that makes sense, like you're dreading something in a lethargic way. I suppose that's depression but it's buzzier than that. maybe it's fight or flight when neither is possible. anyway I thought maybe I could do this, I thought maybe I could lead a contract campaign the whole way through if I was actually able to own it start to finish, but being confronted with the reality of bargaining again made me want to shake something. probably myself. mostly myself.

[yms1]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[paper-wounds]

“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

[settledthingsstrange]

The world is full of resurrections. Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it―the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

George MacDonald

[anxeious]

[inkisadream]

this is union inside baseball so if that's not of interest to you, scroll on, friend. okay you have been warned!!

a new coworker started on my team this month. this is a brand-new position, not a replacement for someone who left, so we have extra capacity with her on board. (this will become relevant in a moment.) i like her a lot, in part because we both had similar paths into this job of having been union members but not having actually worked for a union or similar org before in an official capacity.

she has two bargaining units and will eventually have three. they're easing her into the third. that's great! none are currently bargaining. that's also great, because like many of us when we start out (myself included), she has no bargaining experience! i am happy that the job is giving her an onramp and a chance to learn as much as possible.

i am not resentful of her at all. i promise. i am resentful of everyone around her/me, though, because when i started, i had six bargaining units and four were in the middle of bargaining, and either everyone thought this was fine or didn't care enough to say anything about how it was not fine. i managed it—after all, i am still here—but i wouldn't say i managed it well, and certainly not in a way that was sustainable (as evidenced by the fact that i now have four bargaining units, a compromise which was made only when i kept getting sick).

and look, it was not my job's responsibility to manage my emotional trauma from blowing up my life and moving across the ocean and emptying my bank account and taking on debt and living out of a suitcase for the first three months i worked there, and however unhealthy that all made me, it was so i could escape a far unhealthier situation in my previous job. it was not anyone's responsibility to know all of that or care. and, i do think it's every employer's responsibility to give employees a manageable enough workload that they can deal in at least a mediocre way with their personal shit. so. for what that's worth.

[audrey-gianelli]

[inkisadream]

underrated sensory soother: cold applesauce. you're welcome.

[inkisadream]

mandorla.

In the mornings he fingered each vertebra. He said, would you ever consider curving your arc toward me, his coffee creamer too sweet as I lapped the sick from his tongue.

The evening stained like a new bruise throbbing to guide his way. At home he’d suck a fang, snake bone on chapped lips, bloodless and frail. He said, today I drank the gravel and sank down. I made dinner.

In time I’d take the gold off his cheeks and smear it like conquest. He said, I want to share my hunger with you. I read his future as he strained, his halo spilling, the ichor in the glass in the fridge waiting for tomorrow morning.

When I took him in I imagined the heat of a star sealing a new brand, something I could feel now.

He said, do you ever fantasize about plucking out your own eyeball and seeing the stem droop like a flower dying in a vase.

He said, Possess me.

[thahalfrican]

Congrats if you survived this year because what the fuck was that

[slayer-barbie]

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain.

PRACTICAL MAGIC

1998, dir. Griffin Dunne

[splendentgoddess]

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

[meret118]

The ones for teens from 2024:

[moggiepillar]

Oh and I want to fight all the Gen Z kids who are like ‘teehee, we’ll just do lavender marriages instead!’ Some of us are adults who want equal rights and protections under the law of our land.

[myfootyrthroat]

Yeah, we wanted legal marriages because your spouse's horrid family could show up, get you kicked out of the hospital, steal all of their stuff, and there was nothing you could do about it.

[moggiepillar]

When my wife went in for surgery before we got married, it was me and her horrifically homophobic mother in the surgery center waiting room and I knew without a doubt that if anything went wrong, I would be expected to leave without any access to her belongings, the pictures of us on her phone, or the funeral itself, and the obituary would not mention me or our relationship at all.

And that was after almost a decade of marriage equality! The fear and anxiety leading up to that surgery and the recovery process after reinforced for me just how important marriage can be. It’s a form of self-determination.

[madamtrashbat]

Lest we forget

(Image of Electric Fan (Feel It Motherfuckers) by John Boskovich)

[adandelioninspring]

[lousolversons]

TASKMASTER | 19x05 | Maybe We're The Monsters