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adult, she/her, fandom wank

[winedark-maverick]

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Love me some Casual Geographic, and this recent one especially made me laugh because just how many of y'all pissed him off thinking there's no development in Africa 😭 he said "let me show y'all that there's not only snow, there's actual PEOPLE and CITIES TOO."

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[liache]

i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes

that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake

[yiffmaster]

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

[ehlbee]

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

[chrisweedpiano]

one of my favorite posts of all time

[blurds]

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

[lioncourtz]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[maalidoesart]

run

[cosmicrhetoric]

the YYH dub is so unbelievably disrespectful lmao. i went back and checked what this was in the japanese and all she said was something like "next up is hiei!" man wtf

[uyallstars]

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[samirasystole]

idk i just think in general that it was stupid to give samira this partnership track position job in jersey and then immediately get rid of that and then also kill off every other option she could possible have for a fellowship or elective or any position by either making her too late or unqualified or have it be something she isn't remotely interested in. like you couldn't have given her any specific goals or wants or interests or spots that she would want to apply to? you're telling me that it's all over and gone and a lost cause and she will settle for geriatrics even though she doesn't even really wanna do that? and then also barely give her any support or reassurance whatsoever? yeah sure!

[scintzilla]

It could have been interesting, at least, if they actually explored any of it??? Samira Mohan, whose 'flaw' is that she takes her time to consider what she's missing and explore problems from multiple angles, didn't approach her entire future with the same scrutiny and preparedness -- okay, fine I guess, but why? Because of a sense of loyalty or obligation to her family? Because once she's decided on a course of action, she rigidly sticks to it? (would need a lot to be convinced of that but it'd be something). Because she doesn't treat her own needs with the same care that she treats others'? anything.

instead we get what looks like the start of an arc, and then it just dissolves into nothingness so she can be browbeaten and demeaned for an entire season and then get absolutely zero resolution. negative resolution, even. she gets to reassure the guy who has been demeaning her and who has apparently driven her out of EM altogether.

[thelatestkate]

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[jackkdaniels]

stupid thing about me is I don’t cut corners but I also have no work ethic. if I do something it WILL be done right. no telling whether I’ll actually fucking do it tho

[electricpentacle]

Ah, the fatal combination of having pride in my work but fuckall executive functioning.

[cocainesocialist]

[manynamedshe]

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

[thequeerwithoutfear-deactivated]

[images: series of tweets from @realavocadofact. tweets read, “they’re not elite they’re rich”, “they’re not better they’re better supplied”, “they’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”, “there is nothing wrong with you; you’re doing your best in a game rigged against you, probably not enough people and fruit tell you that”]

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I see this reaction a lot, and I gotta say, it always makes me a little sad. Whenever the conversation of exploitation of labor comes up, inevitably someone finds themselves struggling with the guilt of “It is so important to me not to contribute to exploitation but I cannot do this thing myself and need someone else to do it for me, so how do I even approach that?”

Exploitation isn’t in the hiring of a service worker. Exploitation is in the respect you show them for their ability to perform the service you need from them.

I have been on a cleaning service staff before, and also been someone who hired a cleaning service, and I can tell you for sure that a lot of cleaning crews (especially worker owned ones) absolutely LOVE their clients and are genuinely happy to be able to make their lives better. The clients they don’t like? Those are the ones who disrespect the workers.

When I was involved with a cleaning service, we had everything from little old ladies living alone to McMasions with five cars as clients, and I can assure you that whenever there was someone who clearly hired us because they were overwhelmed or unable to keep their space clean, those were the households where you put a little more elbow grease in and did a deep clean even when it wasn’t paid for, because you could see how much these people were trying and struggling, and they were always so kind and generous and often embarrassed when talking to you about the job.

I only hired a service a couple if times in my life, but whenever I did, I worked with the same people as often as I could, tipped as well as I could afford, and tried to be the kind of client I would want to have, and that’s how I often ended up with my baseboards cleaned too, or my fridge scrubbed and organized or a restorative clean done in a high use room even when that wasn’t what I had scheduled or paid for.

I’ve heard the same thing from all manner of service workers over the years. Many of us like our jobs! We enjoy the work. It’s the customers that can do a number on you.

I think a lot of people are afraid that by needing a service they are inherently exploiting or harming the people who perform that service, and they really aren’t. But it does benefit a capitalist system for us to all be burnt out and overwhelmed because we’re too afraid to hire the help we need. Be upfront and honest with service workers about what you need and why you need it, and treat them with dognity and kindness while they perform your service, and I promise you they will always be happy to answer your call.

[headspace-hotel]

HIRING A PROFESSIONAL TO CLEAN YOUR HOUSE ISN’T MORE EXPLOITATIVE THAN GOING TO A DENTIST OR ORDERING A PIZZA

We all fucking depend on each other, it’s about respect and treating one another as fellow humans instead of seeing them as below us

[kittyoverlord]

AND PAYING THEM FAIRLY!!!

[cheerfulomelette]

To come back to the original post:

“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”

isn’t about hiring a cleaning service or a gardener or a cook. Its about hiring a cleaning service or a gardener or a cook and pretending you didn’t.

It’s about giving condescending speeches about how we all have the same 24 hours and all have the same potential for success while pretending you still have to go grocery shopping and clean the shower when you get home after a 2 hour commute.

It’s about writing a self-aggrandising biography about starting your global tech empire from nothing, leaving out your dad’s emerald mine or your mum working for IBM.

It’s about recognising the self-mythologising of grindset-hustle-culture productivity gurus and “self-made” entrepreneurs who refuse to acknowledge that their success was a team effort because they see the people they employ as so fundamentally beneath them that they have nothing to contribute.

[thebutchmessiah]

More photos from the Dirt Dyke Dive, Leeds’ pop-up dyke bar @ Wharf Chambers, May 2026