lurkingfellow

dave he/it fan of cats, cryptids, classlit and (animal) crossing

[mrbrainrot]

⌜about me post!⌟

⇾hobbies:

i enjoy reading, learning, hanging out with my cats, playing video games (or real games if i can make it happen)

⇾health:

i have chronic and clinical anxiety and depression.

⇾tags:

#frankenrot for my frankenstein ramblings

#rot crossing for my animal crossing ramblings

⇾fandoms:

disco elysium

frankenstein novel (i have no interest at all in the films)

the magicians tv show

animal crossing

cats and cryptids

school spirits

for the most part i don't engage in 'fandom' because i find it overwhelming and stressful, but these are the topics i tend to follow and repost from

[victusinveritas]

[teaboot]

May I see a picture of your cat please, he's cool looking

He's ready for an adventure! :D

[mmilhouse]

i went to work at my job where i work and now i have to go to the grocery store to buy groceries. is there no end

[tomorrowisyesterday119]

Heated Rivalry is a closed door hockey romance in the sense that they fade to black on the hockey. The sex is explicit, but the hockey is implied.

[cinnamondoll23]

[gaysie]

t shirt that says I MISS EVERYONE I WAS EVER FLEETINGLY CLOSE TO SO MUCH THAT IT KILLS

[mrbrainrot]

to the girl named gabriella that i went to a week long camp with at a science museum when we were around 8 years old:

i am so sorry that i lost the slip of paper that had your contact information on it. i thought you were so amazing and so cool, and you went through all the effort to bring your mom with you to give me your home phone number. i cried for days. i'd still be your friend even if i don't remember much other than you teaching me ms mary mack

[gaysie]

t shirt that says I MISS EVERYONE I WAS EVER FLEETINGLY CLOSE TO SO MUCH THAT IT KILLS

[1-jar-of-stars]

me about a show i really like: the writers are so fucking stupid

[i-am-a-fish]

they should teach useful skills in school like home economics and how to safely pirate media

[i-am-a-fish]

all I learned there was that the homunculus was the powerhouse of the cell I had to learn everything else myself

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus. 

[dangerous-crow-boy]

Can’t sleep. Tide pods were caffeinated

[dangerous-crow-boy]

Making my bimonthly re-debut out from retirement. Divorce has been rough but thankfully no kids

[dangerous-crow-boy]

Can’t sleep. Tide pods were caffeinated

[dangerous-crow-boy]

Making my bimonthly re-debut out from retirement. Divorce has been rough but thankfully no kids

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[prower-labs]

[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.

[prometheist]

love having a mutual who likes one specific thing. Seeing it on my dash and thinking oh yeah it’s my Thing mutual