An Improper Propper

Professional props artisan and master.  Amateur otherwise.

[fripperiesandfobs]

Dolman, 1887-89

From the Maryland Center for History and Culture

[elucubrare]

Rumpelstiltskin is a story about how if people find out you can do crafts they'll want free shit

[kaijuno]

[heroofthreefaces]

is this the dress meme

[todaysbird]

[todaysbird]

[dancinbutterfly]

Millennials and Gen Z? BUY SHIT! OWN THINGS! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE!

In 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets

When you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, the money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more.

Listen to me.

You do not want this future to happen to you I promise you. Because the minute you enter into a subscription existence you allow for a possibility of losing everything. Why?

Well, because when you stop paying then you stop having.

I buy my cars outright for this reason.

I have not thrown away my DVD collection for this reason.

I still have my old-school ipod for this reason.

I buy songs I really like direct from the artist on top of my subscription for this reason.

I back shit up on to my external hard drives rather than depending on a cloud only for this reason (which reminds me that I need to do taht this weekend).

If someone ELSE is holding the physical source of what you're paying for? YOU DON'T OWN IT. You're just giving someone your energy and time for permission to access it.

You're leasing your existence.

Don't fucking fall for it, do you hear me?

It's bad enough we have to lease our water, our heat, our internet and our entertainment.

Buy what you want outright WHENEVER YOU CAN. Then do anything you can to maintain it in the face of planned obsolescence. I promise you, there will be a moment when you will be glad you did

Because aside from relationships? Things are literally all the system let us keep in this existence so don't lease your fucking possessions if at all avoidable because at this stage in capitalism we're all a few bad days from being unable to pay those leases. And then what? Then you only have what you can keep and those comforts and necessities that will keep you going, I promise you. Don't let there be anything more that can be taken from you than absolutely necessary.

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

I love my wife. my boss though? that ball and chain??

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

do you understand my vision

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

[placeholdername69]

Oh this is too fun

[leatherleaves]

Bestie, your brain, your VISION, ahead of your time

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

[mysillycomics]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

READY FOR RICHTOK CRINGE?

Absolutely seething over the interior of this house. The bland colors...the entry room...it just sucks. Only redeemable thing is the view, but it still almost feels like a fish tank for humans

[pissvortex]

[lactating-deactivated20220703]

“i have never sat on this couch before. i have also never eaten at this table, ever.”

[that-stone-butch]

[elmurid]

wonder what her parents do for a living that they have bulletproof windows

[left-reminders]

One of the clearest contrasts you'll see between the working class and the bourgeoisie is encapsulated in this video. The rich own more than they'll ever use -- literally, she says that she's never even sat on the couch or at the dinner table, and this kind of thing isn't uncommon among the rich. Working-class people actually use the stuff they buy and they have a far better sense of the qualitative value of things.

And yeah we reiterate the "this house is an ugly fish tank for humans" sentiment above lol

[afloweroutofstone]

We’re currently in the midst of a massive, nation-wide propaganda campaign to convince you that staffing shortages are a major problem, when in fact they’re the most promising sign the American economy has seen in decades. Labor shortages are what rising wages look like on the ground level, and that’s what the business owner on your local news station is truly opposed to.

[raccooncomic]

126. Spaced Out

[jethroq]

[propsistops]

for those of us in the theater industry who are out of work indefinitely and have complained about the conditions under which we are made to work when we ARE employed……

may i suggest in a super hypothetical, not a thing that i am doing at all, way….that now could be a great time to do some labor organizing

just hypothetical of course :)

[propsistops]

bringing this back around.  i don’t mean you have to start a union but opening lines of communication about opportunities, rates, and how you’re being treated can only benefit everyone in the long run.  work is going to be scarce and employers are going to try to take advantage of you because of that.  you can acknowledge the reality that now is not the time to ask for a raise while still having boundaries. 

above all, take care of each other. 

[propsistops]

bringing this around yet again.  having now gone back to work, all of the “time to reflect” and “cultural change” has amounted 2019 levels of expectation on a 2019 timeline but with significant 2021 restrictions on how and when and where we can work.  they’re asking more of us and giving us less.  we’ve gone straight back to “normal” with not even a hint of all those grand cultural changes we kept hearing about. and the “new normal” is worse. 

ORGANIZE.  talk to each other.  take care of each other.  no one else is going to.

[aangarchy]

Yea I don't really remember the words but then it goes

SECRET TUNNEEELLLL

[benevolentbirdgal]

ONE dude drove the excavator to dig out the Ever Given and they haven’t paid his overtime yet for working five 21 hour days

So I know the Ever Given has wiggled out of the news cycle, but I learned something incredible on the radio today and verified it with a written source: there was one guy, Abdullah Abdul-Gawad, driving the excavator for up to 21 hours a day for five days.

He apparently disliked the memes, and per business insider, was driven by the memes and the jokes to prove he could dislodge it. 

“To him, it felt as if ‘everyone was just making fun of it,’ he said. ‘And that was what made me so determined,’ he continued. ‘I was like, you know, you’re making fun of me. So I’m absolutely going to prove that I can do this.’”

One dude moved the dirt for the Ever Given. Driven by spite and three hours of sleep a night, max. And while the lawsuits have started, he hasn’t been paid his overtime yet. 

Isn’t that wild? 

[programmerhumour]

There is always some disconnect

[crunchbuttsteak]

If I had a nickel for every big name Harry Potter fanfic writer who started their own cult, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[lookingforsarahjay]

Oh man, are we talking about Snape wives?? I because every time I remember them I just have to stare off into the distance for a while.

[crunchbuttsteak]

I’d have three nickels.

[techliche]

I'm sorry, what?

[propsistops]

ah yes, the classic Snapes on an Astral Plane!  Here described in the classic fandom_wank write up courtesy of the wayback machine.

[unhistorical]

“In 1915 Upton Sinclair, then at the pinnacle of his fame, had come to live in Pasadena. Learning of the disturbances at San Pedro, Mr. Sinclair announced that he intended to speak at Liberty Hill… On the night of the meeting, Liberty Hill was black with the massed figures of the strikers. Mounting a platform illuminated by a lantern, Mr. Sinclair proceeded to read Article One of the Constitution of the United States and was promptly arrested. Hunter Kimbrough then mounted the platform and started to read the Declaration of Independence, and was promptly arrested. Prince Hopkins then stepped on the platform and stated, ‘We have not come here to incite violence,’ and was promptly arrested. Hugh Hardyman then followed Hopkins and cheerfully announced, ‘This is a most delightful climate,’ and was promptly arrested.”

— On the 1923 San Pedro Los Angeles maritime strike, “The Politics of Utopia,” Southern California Country: An Island on the Land, Carey McWilliams.