Hiya, buddy

It's mostly audio dramas in here. Could be anything though. Welcome, friends.

[tanblaque]

[pinene]

I don’t like when you guys say “atp” to mean “at that point” or whatever. It means adenosine triphosphate

[most-adoptable-grown-man-contest]

Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 2, Poll 25

Which grown man is more adoptable?

Faramir - The Lord of the Rings

Mike Walters - woe.begone (podcast)

Remaining time: 1 day 19 hours

I'mma be honest, I didn't think a character I couldn't find an image for would make it to round 2. That's on me. I really need to get a better grasp on fandoms I don't know.

[themodernkronos]

guys... mike walters...

[froget-me-nots]

this guy is so adoptable. he's an itty bitty bear. he's a stray cat. he's a stray dog. he's one of the most easily killable people in the universe. c'mon now

[beegonethots]

Explaining tumblr to anyone

[facadethedog]

A Michael comm for @spider-grace <3

[spider-grace]

I NEVER REBLOGGED THIS WHAT. EVERYONE LOOK AT THE FLUFFY

[orchidbreezefc]

i made a variant of [link: two cakes] to illustrate a related principle

[sepdet]

@orchidbreezefc You are absolutely right and this is true!

Also, I hope you don't mind, but i wanted to add one more corollary

(note: monstrosity is second "ai generated cake" result from duckduckgo, source pixabay; sorry for abusing your eyeballs to make the point)

[orchidbreezefc]

i do not mind at all!! this is amazing, thank you for making me look upon this monstrosity to make your point (/silly /genuine)

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[lesbianfl]

the best part of the princess bride is how it says that love is the number one motivation in life but! a close number two is spite.

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[calliebrb]

Tie-Dye!!

I made her a Harlequin mostly so she could have a few different colours on her but also part of my thinking was Tie-dye -> hippies -> MDawg -> Harlequin.

[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.

[77pink-prin-cess77]

Please don't forget about loveless people this pride month. Love doesn't make us human. People don't need to love in "other" ways to be valid. Some people are aplatonic, some afamilial, some asensual, some are heartless. They still belong. Abolish conformity and the idea that someone needs to be something specific to belong at pride.

[lavendercowboyart]

trans rights (and wrongs) seagull illustrations— inspired by @citizen.reid’s video (on TikTok and insta) of a seagull with a trans flag!!

I may add this to my shop if there’s enough interest! :)

[natequarter]

the thing about torchwood is that for about 2-3 episodes in the second series it was like what if you were a kind of shitty guy and you acted like you didn't care about anyone and just used them for sex and then you died, like died died and suddenly you lost the only things you used to enjoy, food and drink and sex, and now you're a broken shell of a human being wandering the earth with nothing left to numb the pain and you're so used to embodying the asshole that you lash out even at the one person who loves you unconditionally and all the while you're rotting?

anyway back to our regularly scheduled cardiff

[itsatorchwoodthing]

never a dull moment in torchwood, you never know if you’re gonna have the silliest episode ever or the most gut wrenching piece of media that you’ll ever experience that will make you rethink how you live your life

[wifegideonnav]

happy pride to girls who didn’t know that women could be nice to you, inscrutable polycules, straight people in forbidden marriages, body snatchers who kiss their own reflections, poets obsessed with long-dead warriors, predatory cougars, lesbians who are in fact the problem, and girls who are in love with a corpse

[crochethub]

Medieval inspired tapestry with gold trimming embellishment by SpicyLatinaaaa

[commodoresays]