Since this has become more of a Main Blog than a spot to put my madness combat art, I’m finally getting around to trying to organize my posts with tags. Feel free to mute tags you don’t wanna see posts from--CWs will still be added onto posts as needed!
TAGS IN USE:
posting from nevada [madness combat]
I LOVE YOU BIRD [birds :)]
handsome streamer <3 [jerma985]
echo banging out the tunes [music]
mental illness innit [neurodiversity, mental health, posts that make me (very mentally ill and neurodiverse) say “ahaha... i do that”]
distant echoing [ramblings, personal, the kinds of posts where i ramble in the tags]
women... gotta be one of my favorite genders [ilu girls]
peace and love on planet earth [nose exhales/things i like genuinely/things i like ironically/things i think it’s funny to say “peace and love on planet earth” in response to]
That’s the important stuff out of the way! Everything after this part is just some fun flavor text.
~*~*~ABOUT ME~*~*~
I’m Echo Wing! No, the pun wasn’t intentional (at first). I’m a queer neurodiverse dork in a quarter-life crisis who likes drawing fat women holding guns and swords. Needless to say, Madness Combat was a perfect fit.
I’m using my Failson Era to explore other interests I never had the chance to growing up. On top of digital & physical art, I also do:
creative writing (poetry & fanfiction--shameless AO3 plug here [NOTE: MY AO3 DOES HAVE MATURE CONTENT, including explicit sexual text & stories. Use discretion when viewing.]
Gaming (PC/Switch)--currently trapped in Splatoon 3 after falling victim to a successful peer pressure campaign
Birdwatching (Life List: 27)
Hiking & outdoor sports
Mild quantities of farmboy shit
~*~*~SPECIAL INTERESTS~*~*~
BIRDS: I own several livestock breeds of poultry and enjoy watching wild bird populations in my area. I have multiple small flocks, including a Bachelor Flock for my roosters from past breeding programs. Current breeds:
GEESE: American Buff
DUCKS: Indian Runner (Chocolate, Black, White/Fawn)
MEDIA PRESERVATION: using a hodgepodge of various physical & digital mediums to maintain a good library. I’ve had streaming platforms yank away albums I paid money for w/out refunding too many times.
MUSIC: Here’s some of the artists & genres I like--not in particular order, but I did bold the ones that are some of my favorites:
Pop/Pop Punk/Alternative: Bad Suns, Ball Park Music, Fall Out Boy, IDKHBTFM, MIKA, Mother Mother, My Chemical Romance, Neil Cicierega, Radiohead
Goth/Industrial/Electronic/Alt Rock: Depeche Mode, KMFDM, Ministry, AFI & Blaqk Audio, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Rammstein, Primus, The Cure
Folk/Folk-punk: AJJ, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips
Punk/Metal/Grunge/Rap/Hip Hop: Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, System of a Down
Shoutouts to the time I had a severe fever and took benedryl and wanted to listen to feel good inc but couldn’t remember the name. I think I was crying over this
being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.
one of the (many) issues with late-stage capitalism is that there is no counterculture anymore, no true underground, or at least true counter culture and the underground no longer have any influence. your punk friend's anarchy patch was made in the same factory and your elderly neighbor's don't tread on me flag.
and this means that essentially ALL satire or anti-establishment media requires you to suspend your disbelief just to accept it as a product. you have to think "yes, this is produced by the corporate overlords in close company with our corrupt government BUT I mean the actors and writers are still artists! they still mean it!" and yes, that's true! but you have to continually ignore that the anti-corporate satire you are watching is produced by fucking Amazon. and that's hard. for me, anyway!
the worst part about ocd and ocd-like tendencies is that you think hyper-analyzing your thoughts and constantly psychoanalyzing yourself will fix you but that's actually part of the disorder. it's the disorder. disordering.
sigh…i came all the way to sephora but i don’t know which brands are asexual friendly….i have to hurry jugheads birthday is today…wish someone would help me out
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 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.
People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.
“It is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with complex health issues and come to decisions that are appropriate for them.” – George Tiller, MD
“It is my fundamental philosophy that patients are emotionally, mentally, morally, spiritually and physically competent to struggle with com
