hope the spiders were worth it, mom

Jules, cringe millennial, often elfposting. Mostly (TT)RPGs and SFF these days.

[tavsversion]

rip celene valmont and anora mac tir, you would have loved the jello wrestling pit at dawn denbo and her lover cindi's club

[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.

[forsapphics]

Mount Holyoke College students

at Pride in Northampton, MA (1989)

[rafael-silva]

@downey-robert asked: hanleia or finnpoe I love you. I know. | general. general. 

[daryldixonn]

some of you have never had your notp be the most popular ship in the fandom and it shows

[tavsversion]

Happy Pride to them.

[389]

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

Can you please just have an ounce of shrimpathy?

[loscharlitos]

[queam]

Queen Anora’s full armor from my last drawing

Based on Loghain’s armor here and Anora’s dress with the ferelden sigil on the chest

[moved-please-leave-me-alone]

Alright your Discord avatar and tumblr avatar are locked in a closet for 7 minutes ala 7 Minutes In Heaven. What happens

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My mentions are out of control and yet I shan't use it as an example of when my therapist says "tell me about a time you struggled with task initiation."

All of this is to say I'm aware of the problem and I'm grateful to everyone who thought of me and I have not forgotten.

[tavsversion]

When you get this, list 5 of your favorite songs, publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite mutuals! ⭐️

This is just what I've been spinning lately:

Bet you do.-Pixel Grip

Wannabeher- MUNA

SPIDERS- Lola Young

Die Happy- Holly Humberstone DANCE...-Slayyyter

Honorable mention goes to the entire Mother Mary soundtrack.

[saulwexler]

Hey did you draw that evil feminist caricature to warn men how their wives would act once they got the right to vote? Illustrator: sure did boss. real sexy, just like you asked.

[humans4vampires]

edward likes taking bella to the meadow because she gets eaten up by mosquitos who then become flying little snackies that edward doubles back for. edward leaps about the meadow snatching them up like a bass jumping from a lake

[reactionimagesdaily]

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”

[tinydemonsart]

The Divine Deck : D&D Descent Into Avernus inspired Tarot Cards

To start off an insane amount of posting of the major arcana, here's the back of the card - featuring the drow dancer goddess Eilistraee