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Some sort of wizard | He/They | 22 posting and reblogging things I want to

[tapewyrm-talks]

my dad singing radiohead at the horror bar was not on my bingo card for this year

[bunbunpa]

Bnnuy Ი𐑼

[markscherz]

Look if you can't handle me at my

you don't deserve me at my

[src1][src2]

[tapewyrm-talks]

I love the goth bar, I love being surrounded by freaks and weirdos and furries and bronies, I love sangria

[cloevr]

[tboytummmy]

Ocean date

[birdandmoon]

Female birds with confusing names.

Sign up for my mailing list.

[tapewyrm-talks]

my mutuals always fall for my reblog bait (posts I know they will enjoy and reblog)

[coast-modern]

I was 12 years old in 2011.... you could NEVER make me hate stomp clap hey music

[coast-modern]

How it feels to be 10 years old and hear Little Lion Man for the first time

[caspercryptid]

And it was

NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE

And it was

YOUR HEART ON THE LINE

I really

FUCKED IT UP THIS TIME

[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.

[tapewyrm-talks]

I'll never forget working at a certain museum in Orlando for barely enough to pay rent and having a guest tell me he bought the "cheap" $50k Tesla. I didn't even know how to respond.

[tapewyrm-talks]

If you think planting invasive species like bamboo in order to destroy property or ruin a building site is a good way to protest you do not actually share my values I think.

[smithsonian-official]

tumbleweeds are such an interesting plant. oh i need to spread my seed so im going to run around for a while on my once in a lifetime adventure

[headspace-hotel]

Imagine how absolutely baffled a Roman soldier from like 0 AD would be upon being transported suddenly to a very Christian rural midwestern town and seeing crosses everyfuckingwhere

He’d draw a lot of somewhat incorrect conclusions about our culture very quickly

[rivette-the-red]

"This town is full of very very small criminals...."

[headspace-hotel]

I was going to say “weird and arbitrary things are marked with the threat of execution” but yours is funnier

[tapewyrm-talks]

sometimes I see a post that is just frustrating bad faith discourse bait, then I scroll back up and block the poster because I simply do not come to tumblr for things that make me angry

[roll4gay]

This gif has LEGS im gonna use it for everything lol

Me when I have tea to spill:

Me when a new fic hits:

Me defending my favs:

Me analyzing my fav media:

[tapewyrm-talks]

me writing the same to do list on a new page because maybe I will do it this time

[tapewyrm-talks]

if I had a nickel for every time I have read descriptors of animals that use the wording "cigar shaped" I would have multiple nickels which just seems odd

[bugbraiin]

One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.

I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.

Get woke. Love bugs.

EDIT: this breached containment. My usual like count is like 5 😭 i want to clarify i mean people who conflate fear with hate are the ones who wont care about saving our planet, like people who threaten to kill peoples pet bugs or actively kill bugs outside for no apparent reason. Not people who run away from a bee.