I Used to be The Chosen One

A desperate attempt to reclaim my lost youth

[sukme]

[wally-jo]

my favorite wholesome porn moment

[queerism1969]

[marciabrady]

“I had been led to believe, like anyone else, that it was simply pretty girls who traced and colored. As I got into it, I learned about the landmark work accomplished by these women. These women were artists in their own right; they were animating and moving color and we don’t talk about that. We focus on men wielding pencils, but there were women wielding pencils as well.” -Mindi Johnson

[silvermoon424]

I just read this excellent article by The Atlantic about the impact of Covid on immunocompromised people. As an immunocompromised person myself, it really spoke to me. While the article is long, I specifically wanted to highlight the parts taking about ableism.

I am so happy a piece of journalism is acknowledging how fucking disgusting and ableist society’s reaction to the disabled, elderly, and generally infirm has been during Covid. People like me- who are at a high risk of Covid- are treated like burdens. Like we’re dragging society down. Like it’s our fault things aren’t back to normal yet. I have heard some people say things that straight-up sound like eugenics, that we should let “the weak” die.

We’ve made enormous strides but our society still has so little compassion for the disabled.

[melody-sillermoon]

Ed Yong was one of my favorite science writers before the pandemic and he has really been unparalleled with his Covid/pandemic material

I need to actually finish reading this one but I deeply appreciate him amplifying the concerns of the disabled community and immunocompromised people

[rebellum]

This pandemic has really revealed how so, so many people, are actively eugenicists. "It's only the sick and old that will die so we should open things back up" is such a fucked up idea.

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[fatalisienne]

Microwave is in the way of my subtitles for my cdrama

[mostlycatsmostly]

stealing this as a reaction meme

[dormouseking]

learning to express your feelings in a way that doesn’t get you forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward is so important

[clarenecessities]

they’ve been working on a fucking prank on me since april i’m so goddamn indignant

[hollis-exe]

tell them what the prank was, clare

[clarenecessities]

so for fucking months now we’ve been saying we were going to watch Blade, because i’d never seen it, but somebody was always too tired or too busy, but tonight we decided fuck it, tomorrow’s ciaran’s friday, let’s watch Blade

the first 40 minutes or so pass with many a delighted exclamation. stan lee was credited & i’m told blade was a marvel property, which is news to me. i’m thoroughly enjoying myself. the cop familiar gets the shit beat out of him & tells blade to check the fridge. the wind roars as the scene transition fades to black.

in fades a helicopter. a man with long dark hair on crutches emerges from it. i do not immediately recognize the man, but from the crutches & the hair i immediately go “morbius??”

they assure me he isn’t morbius. i accept that they don’t want to admit he’s morbius for some reason (maybe they just don’t want me to think blade is in the mcu?) as the entirety of michael morbius’s backstory plays out on screen.

i repeatedly ask “okay but this is literally morbius right” and “why are you doing this” as it becomes increasingly clear that we are now, somehow, watching Morbius (2022). everyone continues to insist it’s Blade (1999) until finally i ask “how long were you planning this” and logan says “you wanna know how long” and gives me a screenshot

fucking months of me genuinely wanting to watch the movie Blade (1999) with my friends and they goddamn Blorbius me. I got Blorbiused.

[factsinallcaps]

THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

[sightless-raiton]

… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

[factsinallcaps]

NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

[captainlordauditor]

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

[factsinallcaps]

YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

[marauders4evr]

No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

[pinejaysong]

what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

[dogglefoxkvk]

Here’s where the romance happens

[pavlovadiplomacy]

I'm reminded of this:

[quixoticanarchy]

what’s really ironic about the “just let everyone get infected w covid!! herd immunity!!” arguments now is that letting the virus run rampant through the world has actually achieved the opposite: everyone may get infected, but then they’ll just keep getting infected. delta infections didn’t protect against the original omicron variant. omicron BA.1 doesn’t protect you against BA.2.12.1. none of them really protect you against BA.4 and BA.5. mass infection is not going to create mass immunity, it just means that with every infection you’re rolling the dice on what this unpredictable and very creative virus is going to do to you

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

We’re also learning that these new variants damage your “killer cells” and “T cells” - the cells that help you fight infections in general.

Covid is compromising people’s immune systems. It’s the opposite of herd immunity - every time you get it you’re risking becoming MORE susceptible to it (and other infections), not less.

This isn’t even touching the other long term symptoms people are developing, which seem to get worse with each infection because this virus does long term damage!!

[earhartsease]

yeah and those of us who are a) more vulnerable and b) had it already are watching in shock and horror as everyone around us give no shits about it any more because they all think it’s going to come for someone else

[liberalsarecool]

Bring on the four-day work work. We earned it.

[amberpriceenthusiast]

I desperately crave a friendship like the teen titans have in Gabriel Picolo’s art

[farewell-to-lorien]

Tweet by Mohamad Safa.

​[Text ID: “What we learned from COVID? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because health is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they’re being paid. That we live in a society not an economy“ /End ID]

[dormouseking]

i just want to be visually attractive to men

[beartnie]

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

[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.

[nothorses]

I work at a summer camp where the common refrain is “we definitely don’t do this for the money.” A lot of jobs are unpleasant and menial to most folks, and people still apply for them because they like the work environment, the coworkers, or just the job itself.

Other work is divided among the rest of staff to do together (litter pickup, end of session cleaning, cleaning outhouses, etc.), and even the truly difficult, truly unpleasant work is if not actively enjoyed, then done anyway because we do it together, we like who we’re doing it with and for, we see the value of the work, and if nobody else does it, what then? If we don’t pick horse poop from the pasture in 90 degree weather directly under the sun, who’s gonna get it done? If we don’t clean up the urine-soaked sleeping bags, who will?

We have to do it not because of a paycheck, but because the work has a direct impact that matters. We care about it. We don’t have to enjoy the work to know it’s worth doing.

This is a microcosm, and it’s not representative of everyone in every situation- plus, y'know, we do still have staff members who just refuse to do some of the work.

But a bunch of privileged middle-class college students who could probably find another job if they wanted to, would definitely get paid more for it, and would likely just stay home and not work if it really came down to it- that’s about as close as you can get to UBI without actually having UBI.

Improve the working conditions, improve the work environment, make the work meaningful, and folks will be willing to do even the stuff nobody wants to do.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Totally agree about the UBI. Back to the guy in the original article, though, the new company didn’t just hire him, they partnered with him to give him his own paint line!