squirrelchick

140 (in squirrel years). sque/squer/squers. To lands unseen she scurries on the paws of her imagination.

[prettylikeasquirrel]

there's an episode of even stevens where ren sneaks off to like sing dancing queen at a bar afterschool?? not a bar cuz she was in like 8th grade. where was she going??

[beemovieerotica]

[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.

[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

[prettylikeasquirrel]

so glad i watched the hacks finale after the euphoria finale. i’m bawling but that was healing.

[prettylikeasquirrel]

ummm i have questions

[allthingseurope]

Ponte Vecchio, Florence (by Lars)

[pmamtraveller]

"Sweeping Off the Male Gaze" by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu.

[prettylikeasquirrel]

back on my lord of the rings rewatch and return of the king is kinda boring? Idk. i have 2 hours left but this is paced kinda weird. and the cgi/green screen is really noticeable…might be my tv idk.

ok the battle is starting. that’s good. but maybe this movie could been 2ish hours this time instead of 3 🤷🏾‍♀️

[casuallyodd]

[tikysplickytok]

(via tomcardy)

[avpdhaunt]

jobs for people who cant do or handle anything

[shengraf]

Reviewed and approved tags.

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[catboybiologist]

Love conversations where every single participant has certified Issues

[virtualgirladvance]

One guys issue is not knowing vampires are real. I feel him

[raevenlywrites]

Love burying the lead "he's 33 I'm 22-" bitch he is 433 give or take

[scrabbleknight]

He doesn't know how to divide by 2.

[thedeadtravelfast]

@nightcrawler-fan @iceandbone

[nightcrawler-fan]

...why does this have better writing than most actual comedy series about fantasy characters?

[kittydesade]

.... is one of those guys Blade?

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

[pitchburgh]

good or not, would anyone else WANT your url?

MANY people would want my Tumblr handle

a small handful of folks might want my Tumblr handle

I'm the only one who wants my url (positive)

Honestly? I don't even want this url myself

Voting ended onJun 1

[prettylikeasquirrel]

i need a backstory for why kip, a smoothie making art history student, is fucking jacked

[spiralingintocontrol]

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of

I appreciate this

[prettylikeasquirrel]

rewatching lord of the rings for the first time in over a decade and…

my favorite character is smeagol? who knew. what a fun lil creepy lil guy! i’m on his side tbh. f them hobbitses

i thought faromir and that other guy from rohan were the same guy for like 2 hours. oops.

we already know that this trilogy fails the bechdel test bad but omg the crying women! if i had a nickel for everytime we cut to a woman crying, I’d have at least a dollar.

i may be a liar about not being into fantasy so i might need to pick up another fantasy book soon (not lotr. I already read the hobbit in school and it was DENSE)