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this is a blog to post my random special interest and autistic whims.

⚠️general warning for flashing, eye strain, gore, eyes/staring, unreality, nsfw and cringe⚠️

I also talk about processing trauma and being disabled and stuff. I'll tag triggers but the focus is more on the recovery here rather than venting.

Tags

#mental health - mental health posts, generally positive

#bokh zmur - art

#bokh koy - photography

#'tis the autism - autistic vibes or posts about autism/adhd

sometimes I type in Homestuck quirks good luck. hi Hannah if you see this blog! 👋👋👋

other blogs

@quantumkaworu : main, this is what I follow back as

@kitefreecss : hunter x hunter + fanart

@knightofhylia : Legend of Zelda + spirit work

#bokh

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transhuman-priestess

What the “haha millennials can’t even make phone calls” crowd fails to appreciate is that making phone calls is a far more user-hostile and physically uncomfortable experience than it was 15-20 years ago.

transhuman-priestess

It used to be you picked up a landline, which had physical buttons and at its smallest was still 3x larger than a smartphone, dialed the actual location you wanted to call (instead of a corporate call center) and you could actually talk to someone with access to the store computer/government records/dinner reservations that actually fucking applied to you.

You could also actually hold the phone with your shoulder without it hurting, which freed your hands up to cook or eat, or type on a computer, etc. it didn’t require an accessory you had to keep charged. It was built into the phone’s physical design!!!

It sucks more to do phone calls now! Like it just does!!!

transhuman-priestess

The most mundanely dehumanizing experience I’ve had in the last few years was when I called a domino’s to troubleshoot a pizza order and they directed me to a call center in a different state.

transhuman-priestess

“We had to automate it because nobody would do the job!”

PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS

datmos

Little Caesars delivered my pizza to the wrong place, then it took me 3 whole months of phone tag, and I still couldn't get ahold of someone to fix it.

Fortunately, my bank still takes calls directly.

godisafujoshi

bedupolker

Opposable thumbs are handy

jackalsprey

@kaijutegu

kaijutegu

Crocodile dentist! It's a game for children where you stick your hands in a plastic crocodile's mouth and if you pull the wrong tooth, it bites you!

It came with pliers but nobody ever used them because it was funnier if the crocodile bit you. My neighbors had the game and my folks would regularly make me and my sister go over there to play since they had two girls our age, but the one my age did not like me and I did not like her, so she'd do her thing and I'd either read or play with their crocodile dentist set because we did not have one at my place.

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.

lgbtlaughs

ACT UP, 1990

witchrealms

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solar-powered-robot

Making handspun yarn in a gay way, not in a tradwife way

bjornsfoto

Dandelion inflorescence. I took this photo in Sweden. I have used focus stacking and a Laowa 100mm F2.8 Ultra Macro lens .

valkayrieactual

fuzzyghost

max-thinks-dogs

Background work and character design sketches from the latest animation. Navigate yourself to it to navigate your way to my heart.

witchrealms

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catsdelightful-deactivated20240

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

misslunarose

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}