Topazzle

Just a nerdy girl at 23. An asexual scorpio trying to be okay. My blog is anything and everything I fancy. Ask me anything else you want to know ^_^

[topazzle]

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[weavemama]

[onlyblackgirl]

…it was literally founded on genocide and slavery but k

[otherwindow]

you ever look at a character you like and think

[tamamita]

Rest assured that you’re all better artists than Butch Hartmann, who works within the industry. 

[pingopongobingobongo]

If I may add

[tamamita]

You are correct

[yourcutestories]

[hollaatmebabyy]

awkward²

[imaginedsoldier]

There was a concerted effort on this website to try to convince everyone that Robert Downey Jr was sexy. I didn’t forget. I won’t forgive.

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

[guerrillatech]

[eco-socialism]

[abcoconut]

Ok, but yeah. I want to work more than 15 hours a week. I genuinely love the challenge with what I do. 15 seems, oddly tiny? Where did this number come from?

[left-reminders]

This is a good response to that question, in case anyone wanted the q&a paired together. 15 would be the social average — some people might work more, some less, but that would be up to them. This is also presupposing a change in the way the economy effectively functions, in the sense that 15 hours would be the social average for necessary labor, and after that point you’d probably see tons of people participating in “unnecessary” labor out of interest. There’s an idea in socialist theory that basically says once you reach a point far enough along after capitalism you’d just start seeing a blurring of the lines between what’s defined as “work” (or as “a job”) and what’s defined as “a collective activity”, especially with regard to the arts, science, etc.

At the very least, a transition towards (eco)socialism will require a vast shortening of the workweek and a reduction in overall advertising/consumption, whether that mean a 15-hour week or a 20-hour week. The main point is that people are overworked, we can meet everyone’s needs feasibly with less hours anyway, and the over-emphasis on extraction and accumulation (which is in part fueled by a tediously long workweek) is having disastrous effects on the planet. We can both accomodate the needs of the planet AND expand the political horizons for the great majority of the population, but it will require the fundamental defeat of capitalism and the establishment of a new ecological workers’ democracy. It’s a big project, but so worth it in the long run.

[left-reminders]

The 15-hour week presupposes a change in the economy first. Obviously capitalism requires long hours for people to survive, but in terms of pure stats it’s not necessary for society to be working that much. There’s enough resources for everyone, and so much work is pointless bullshit that only exists to line the pockets of the rich. The ecosocialist project demands a new way of looking at and distributing work. Get rid of the bullshit jobs, divvy up the necessary jobs, and we’d free up people’s time immensely to engage in pursuits they actually want to do to contribute to society.

Also, food and housing and such would be guaranteed in an ecosocialist society anyway, so it goes beyond simply reorganizing work. People have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and those will never be achieved for the great majority in a capitalist society.

[eco-socialism]

These were really good additions so I wanted t add them onto the cumulative post

[urbanism]

the whole point of capitalism is to maximize both the demand and the supply for a product, in many cases creating new avenues of consumption and production that didn’t exist prior. Huge amounts of resources and time are used up to synthesize unnecessary activities and products. Simplicity is the sharpest knife.

[captaindibbzy]

The reason you want more hours is because the hours you’re working don’t pay you enough to live off. Even in a less radical change in a closer future should mean more pay for less hours so you don’t need to sleep in your car between 12 hour shifts at an Amazon warehouse because you don’t have enough money to eat and afford rent.

[raevenlywrites]

Can attest. Mentally, my happiest work weeks are the ones where I work a 5hr shift, 4 days a week. If I could sustain that without fear of its impact on my finances, I absolutely would. For my job, that’s exactly enough time to do a fair share of the baking work, clean up after myself, and go home. That model fits the 8/8/8 more realistically, as I spent 2hrs before work getting ready (waking up, eating, travel, etc) and 1hr after traveling home and decompressing. 8hrs of my day dedicated to my job, which brings food to my community. On weeks like that, I feel most able to dedicate time to rest, leisure, my hobby job (writing), and my house and relationship. 20hrs a week, tops. Perfect

[wishbonemotel]

This 100%. As someone who is disabled and unlikely to be able to ever work a 40hr work week, this would be heaven. I have skills, skills that could be utilized to help make and maintain a functional society. But capitalism demands that I overextend myself to get new, less useful skills so the rich can make more money.

So many people would be HAPPY to do “”bad”” jobs if they weren’t treated like shit doing it and being forced to endure it.

[vegan-anarchist-1312]

[n0na9on]

[gabrielgirl]

[catcrumb]

[catchymemes]

[dogsuffrage]

I could imagine seeing this in a class

[konoko]

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

Me in the span of approximately two seconds

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

I think we're all grown up enough to admit that pink actually is a nice color and the only reason people ever convinced themselves it isn't is because girls, often young girls, like it

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

like, look at these

beautiful. showstopping. incredible. brilliant. lovely.

[darth--nickels]

LIghthouse keepers will never be memorialized like soldiers or cops because they didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job) but they’re like, heroes who saved untold lives through discipline and self-sacrifice doing an impossible lonely job and I’m worked up about  it 

[darth--nickels]

Clinging to a swaying tower in freezing, driving rain, risking death by everything from pneumonia to a fall to a fucking lightning strike to keep the lantern going when you don’t even KNOW if someone is out on the water!! Working! Class! Heroes!

[andhumanslovedstories]

Love very much the sentiment of this post and also love the specific wording of “didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job)” because what lighthouse keepers did off hours is their own business

[butchscientist]

being gender nonconforming is great bc straight people think i'm edgy and intimidating but lgbt people see me and immediately think i'm friend shaped :)

[ct4cd]

New gender: comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable