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Sawyer | 25 | they/them

[robertpattisons]

sums up 2020

[guerrillatech]

The planet can support billions but not billionaires.

[queeranarchism]

Ecofascism 101

[somekindaspacecadet]

tng: welcome aboard the starship enterprise, a luxury cruise ship drifting among the stars. our crew contains notable elements of Diversity and our captain gets pegged by an omniscient being from another dimension. enjoy the soft jazz concerts, shakespeare performances, and infinitely powerful holodecks at your leisure

ds9: hop aboard Station On Fire Trash Can bitch. does our shit work? no. is this a safe place to live? fuck no. senior officers include Space Dad, Lesbian Terrorist, Trans Worm, Goo, Dr. Twink, and Perpetually Confused White Guy. if you want to get dragged into an elaborate crime syndicate, contract a deadly space disease, or get stabbed in a barfight, you’ve come to the right place. also, holosuites are for fucking. yeehaw

[gahdamnpunk]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[hellsite-yano]

People are so brainwashed that even your own colleagues will give you the side eye for calling in sick, let alone managers

[creation-of-pokerus]

It’s not even the manager’s fault. A lot of management is pressured into scheduling only enough people for a shift in order to make “labor”, aka the amount of money it costs to pay workers vs sales for the day. If managers are over in labor they can be punished or even let go if it happens too often. Blame for this bullshit often falls upon upper upper management on a corporate scale rather than a local scale. 

[prokopetz]

Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

[prokopetz]

“Yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”

[suzeart]

I’d been kicking this idea around for a while and trying to think about how to articulate it. Pretty happy with how it eventually turned out! 

Sometimes I think about my reasons for getting tattoos (just for myself, not because they need justification). Adding onto this painting metaphore, I think getting ink is a way for me to put down portable roots. I move a lot and will be doing it again soon, and until I can actually settle down and paint some walls I’ll take visual control of something more accessible, namely myself.

[suzeart]

Morning reblog!

[secondlina]

Damn that was beautiful.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

I have a lot of feelings on how indigenous groups who didn’t build permanent structures like cities aren’t seen as being as sophisticated as ones who built large cities, without accounting for the fact that maybe it’s in our values systems to leave as light of a footprint as possible and it’s important that our structures are easily taken down or fade with the passage of time because it’s easier on the landscape, but ya know.

[uunaksiivik]

This made me think of the story one of my Coast Salish acquaintances tells of how her family would travel from the Puget Sound up Mt. Rainier every year and, sure, following herds but also they had berry bushes and trees and prairies (with camas is the one she always talks about but I’m sure other foods) that were in the care of specific families so they also followed the plants through the year. They cultivated and cared for them, not just coming to gather and move on to the unknown. They came back and to the same places, the same plants and trees every year.

I think a lot of people mistake what a huge connection that is to land and territory. They hear “nomadic” and dismiss it without realizing. It doesnt mean you dont have roots in the area. It means your roots are so ingrained in the area outsiders dont even see them there.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

!!!!!

[effectiveresistance]

This was/is the lifestyle on the territory where I live.

There’s actually an oral story told here of when the ancestors did build a large city and started to accumulate wealth and resources, the Creator sent a beast in the form of a landslide and annihilated every trace of the city.

[art-nimals]

This was BY FAR the best thing I’ve seen today.

(Source)

[art-nimals]

watch it until the end IT WILL NOT DISAPPOINT

[weaponizedhorse]

[thenatsdorf]

[brick-by]

Poor baby, you can see how much happier he gets after getting taken care of

[mariaalenkoshepard]

[gahdamnpunk]

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

[harvestspriteirl]

OH FUCK YEAH KID YOU GO

[iraprince]

we talk a lot abt not comparing ourselves to others as a creative, but also be mindful of comparing yourself to like, some kind of perfect superhuman version of yourself - a mythical you who works for 8 hours with perfect efficiency and flow, with minimal perfectly enforced breaks, and uses up every single scrap of available time. the hypothetical achiever of the “could” in “i could be getting so much more done”

that person doesn’t fucking exist! they’re fake! you made them up! what can the REAL you do, with the amount of time you can realistically put in per day? focus on building a workflow around that instead.

i’m not saying it’s bad to take a hard look at yourself and your workflow and try to see where you can improve, or to hold yourself to high standards - but double check with yourself. are you being realistic? or are you imagining some kind of scenario where you’re scraping out every single second of your day, in a way that NO human does?

[goawfma]

🤭🤭🤭

[luckyladylily]

I wont say an exception is not possible, but billionaires do not donate money. They buy control over something that is important to them. If there are exceptions I have not seen them. Every time you see a billionaire being a philanthropist and actually giving a significant percent of their money look a bit deeper and you will find them actually buying control, not giving money away.

A prime example is Bill Gates. Well known as a philanthropist, primarily for his large scale donation to education. Except what actually happened is he essentially bought a sharing control in the US education system and proceeded to fucked it up terribly. I will believe his intentions were good, but frankly that doesn’t matter. He fucked it up because he is a billionaire and billionaires just can’t give up control. It is how they became billionaires in the first place, it is baked into their minds.

They just can’t accept that Notre Dame isn’t for sell. Because that is what “donations” mean to billionaires. They want to buy a controlling stake in something that they care about, and they have been doing so long they think that this is philanthropy. Because it makes sense to them that if they are going to invest *their* money that they should make sure it is done right. But they generally have no fucking idea what they are doing when it comes to these things.

Anyway if billionaires actually wanted to help the first thing they need to do is let go of their control and pay god damn taxes.

[e-v-roslyn]

Yeah, that’s why you don’t excuse “donations” as a reason why the rich shouldn’t pay more in taxes. This is exactly why we need their help funding essential services through TAXES. So THEY stay out of what DOES NOT belong to them.

[kriestewart]

kristen stewart on the tonight show with jimmy fallon

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the line between doing some things as self care vs doing them as depressive apathy is soooo fine, like oh do i wanna sleep all day because i’m tired and i need it or because i’m depressed and trying to escape? same with not going out, canceling plans, isolating yourself, like, ANYTHING comfortable in even a little excess is liable to be one or the other... the line is thin and im a tightrope walker who just joined the circus to get away from the family farm and ive never walked a tightrope before and i am lying in the hay on the ground.

[overthinkinglotr]

Ok but I really love how the LOTR films use colors/costume design to show Denethor’s power over the other characters

Like: every character in LOTR has their own set of Characteristic Colors™. Denethor’s Characteristic Colors™ are desaturated black and grey:

. These aren’t necessarily Gondor’s colors (I’ll get to that in a minute) but they’re definitely his. In The Two Towers’ flashback scene, Gondor’s soldiers are dressed in Denethor’s black/grey, including Boromir:

But when Boromir leaves Gondor– and is free from needing to carefully Perform in front of his father– he starts wearing his own Characteristic Colors™ instead. These colors are royal red, gold and blue:

(Literally wearing your true colors)

Meanwhile Faramir, unlike Boromir, doesn’t wear Denethor’s colors in the flashback. He wears his own Characteristic Colors™, which are brown/green, bc Faramir does not do what Denethor wants him to do…

….until ROTK, when Faramir surrenders to his father’s will and exchanges his characteristic brown/green armor for black/grey armor. It’s like his identity is stripped away

Similarly, Pippin’s Characteristic Colors™ are blue/green:

But when he enters Denethor’s service:

No individual expression allowed

“But black and grey with no accents are Gondor’s colors–” Nahhh I don’t buy  Denethor’s anti-color propaganda. When Aragorn replaces Denethor, the first thing he brings back is colorful fashion

Aragorn doesn’t wear black and grey, like Denethor did. He wears things that merge the black/white of Gondor with the sort of royal red/blue/gold of Boromir’s characteristic colors

And so at last the tyranny of Denethor’s drab fashion sense was ended

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

#firstly the lotr art directors knew what the FUCK they were doing#and secondly you think for a second that aragorn son of arathorn would be caught dead in some ugly ass drab grey#even his rugged ranger outfit had tasteful splashes of colour#the man was raised by elves is all im saying

[ramenuzumaki]

These are so cute! 🎃 (source)