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me, enjoying lovecraft when I was 15: The grim suggestion! The cosmic scale! Humankind's place in an uncaring universe Wow!

me, enjoying lovecraft now: haha he had the giant octopus god get knocked out by a boat! the daft racist

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“I feel sorry for all the people that became a victim to your boring existence.”

chessys

i hate when u are being a fun and zesty texter and the other person is a slice of damp bread i cant carry this conversation alone i have very little upper body strength

steviemcfly

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

reagan-was-a-horrible-president

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

imathers

“Oh, but what if it turns out that too many businesses aren’t sustainable without stealing from their workers” well then I guess we need to seriously rethink the way we’ve got things set up instead of treating that way like it’s a fucking physical law of the universe, eh?

rambling-insanity

Faquarl wasn’t a sly old equivocator like Tchue; he prided himself on blunt speaking. Mind you, he did have a weakness for boasting. If you believed all his stories, you’d have thought him responsible for most of the world’s major landmarks as well as being adviser and confidant to all the most notable magicians. This, as I once remarked to Solomon, was a quite ridiculous claim.

Bartimaeus (via rambling-insanity)

haticesultanas

forgetmeparanoia

Reminders to myself (and any other artsy people who follow me i guess)

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs.

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

- Just keep making art. The only way you can really fail is if you give up.

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omnisregion

Here is my Team Equinox Leader!!!

I decided to give her an autumny look in the “not revealed” design.

She also has a mega Key Stone as earring!

puckish-agent-of-change

shout out to all the kids who aren’t good at what they’re passionate about, and who aren’t passionate about what they’re good at

elucubrare

I think there’s something that happens when you’re away from your life for too long - camp, when you’re younger, or summer in college, or vacation - an unmooring that allows melancholy to enter, even if you’re having a great time. Not the melancholy of parting, which is always present for me, but something bigger, more existential, like you’ve slipped the leash of the quotidian but you might not be able to put it back, like you’ll always be in the liminal state you’re in now, not quite a real person. The fear that when you get back everything will be different. That everything will be the same. That they’ve all forgotten you, and so you no longer exist. That this will be life: another city, another white room whose four walls you’ll learn too quickly, and the day of your return will be lost forever.

sixpenceee

Lanterns That Look Like the Moon

Taiwanese design firm Acorn Studio recently announced a new lighting system that mimics the color and shape of a moon. Luna is a dimmable halogen light housed inside a glass fiber and non-toxic latex housing that comes in 7 different sizes ranging from 3.2″ to 23.6″ in diameter. (Source)

cookingpeach

They have an Indiegogo! Exciting!

outofficial

Out100: Olly Alexander

Breakout of the Year

antigonick

Et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage.And the spell of novelty, little by little like clothing would fall, would reveal the naked, eternal monotony of passion, which hides itself always behind the same form and the same language.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via henrydear)