𝐿𝑈𝐶𝐸𝑂 𝑁𝑂𝑁 𝑈𝑅𝑂

𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔢 • 𝔵𝔵𝔦𝔦𝔦 • 𝔰𝔥𝔢/𝔥𝔢𝔯 • ⚢ • 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔶 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱

[perplexingly]

Don't be shackled by the idea that going out can only be done with a group of friends, learn to feel comfortable going alone [remembers that encouraging consumerism isn't progressive] into the deep dark woods

[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.

[muppetshow2026]

fucked up in the club asking the dj to play flight of the bumblebee

[alexturner2005]

The Last Shadow Puppets @ Glastonbury Festival

25th June 2016, By Aaron Parsons

[lsaaaaaac]

Duane Michals The Illuminated Man, 1968

[punkrock-bottom]

If you stay up late to hang out with friends I don’t think you should have to be tired in the morning. I think it should be a freebie

[lmaonade]

there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit

[nuclear-cowboy]

Not platonic and not romantic but a secret third thing (commitment to the bit)

[plantkudzueverywhere]

Not flirting not being friendly but a secret third thing (studying you for science)

[cryptotheism]

[pointing at the moon] hey man can you put that thing on a leash?

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[argentavis]

hey do you mind grabbing joseph's coat for him? yeah its the red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue one

[shisasan]

May 31st, 1928 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Where do you see yourself in five years” is kind of an odd question for a job interview now that I think about it. Like idk. Having a job? You could give one to me right now.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”

Idk dude hopefully not in jail is that what you wanted to hear I wanna be on a cold beach in Oregon right now but capitalism demands that I work to live so do you want to buy my labor or not

[what-even-is-thiss]

In five years I will be feeding my newborn son fresh yak milk deep in the frozen Siberian tundra far away from prying eyes but for right now I’d really like to work at this radio shack

[nevahosking]

Dog that came to work 

[trans-lunarinjection]

Completely degendering bathrooms is a good idea in all places but esp esp esp in schools. Cieling-to-floor stalls and open air sinks not blocked by outer doors would genuinely fix so many fucking problems even before we start considering the fact that it functionally eliminates the entire reason for having to seperate and identify people by gender in the first place they ever have to be forced to do so socially.

[bgm05]

ideas for discourse i came up with

having OCs is bourgeois

people who write erotica should be considered sex workers

only americans believe in aliens

it's misogynist to draw touhou characters with big boobs

the "godzilla" franchise is harmful because it teaches children that they should be afraid of lizards and other animals

feel free to argue about any of these, credit not needed but appreciated