A Blog By Any Other Name

She/They Leftist Ace/Aro Twitter: Resilient_Rose_ Instagram: Resilient_Rose_ AvPD and OCPD Original Memes Writer of Poetry and Songs Political Science/Sociology/Theatre Triple-Major Psychology/History/Gender Studies Triple-Minor I’ve learned by now that comedy does not come without tragedy, nor tragedy without comedy. My life is a tragedian Shakespeare play with dick jokes aplenty. So come one, come all, to the freakshow in my circus.

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A reminder that antifacism is a thing you DO, not an organisation you JOIN.

Calling a hotel and telling them a KKK chapter rented their ballroom for a meeting is antifa action

Pulling down posters promoting hate groups is antifa action (and if you do, use your keys, not your hands. Some groups put razor blades behind their postings to hurt anyone who takes them down)

Addressing local tensions in your community by participating in food drives and supporting disempowered folks can be antifacist, as facist groups will use community fears to stir up hate and gain power.

Going to an event where a figure whom fascists tend to align with and peacefully protesting is antifa action, whether that speaker thinks they’re fascist or not.

It’s not a club, religion, or organization. You don’t pay dues. Being antifa means actively trying to prevent fascism from being built, usually in local ways that respond to immediate community needs. If you see ANYTHING that talks about officially joining a group or organization, it is SUSPECT.

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just saying

[bookofwisdom]

WE CAN WHAT

[thefrogman]

I love that voodoo that you do.

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[gigi-tastic]

It looks so grumpy and perplexed! Like “ I was GOING to unleash watery chaos but now I kind of just want more hugs? ”

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[kinks-and-perversion-deactivate]

This had me laughing so hard.

[saudadaism]

Is this the gay agenda? Because I’m totally on board with this.

[lil-tumbles]

YES!!!! Straights pretending to be gay for the only good reason a straight can

[invaderxan]

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by a human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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why are we still here? just to suffer? every day i charge devices

[femmeslash]

black cats are wonderful because you can stare into the void and not only does the void stare back, sometimes it trots up to you happily and begs for pats

[femmeslash]

the void is loud and wants chicken

[omg-ikr]

We collectively refer to them as The Army of Darkness.

[aritany]

having writer friends is being like in the world’s tiniest fandom except to get new content you have to beat it out of the author with a stick

[viperosedae]

being a writer is like being in the world’s tiniest fandom and you have to beat content out of yourself with a stick

[iwtv1976]

Why do job applications ask you to explain gaps in your employment history? Nosy bitch.

[iwtv1976]

I had just finished college and went into a deep depression? Is that what you wanted to hear? I managed to hold on from complete mental breakdown until after all my assignments had been submitted and then just spent months after college recovering?

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Literally every time I’m like “do you want to know about me being violently abused by my ex? I feel like that would just make things awkward, but it’s more uncomfortable for you than me”

[marlinspirkhall]

Mm, this.

[redshiftsinger]

I usually just say I had to leave my previous job for reasons related to the abusive relationship I was also freshly out of at the time, and that it took me a while to get things sorted out enough to start seeking employment again. 

I’ve never been asked to elaborate further. They probably assume that the “sorting out” was like, restraining orders and shit and that I left due to stalking, really it was mostly that it was the peak of the 2008 recession, my job used some extremely minor manifestations of my PTSD as an excuse to fire me (I’d been there four years and had earned some raises, they wanted to hire someone at starting wage instead), trying to job hunt in the middle of massive unemployment really fucking sucks, and dealing with fresh PTSD also really fucking sucks, so I decided to only deal with the latter for a while since I was able to live with family and not have to worry about being homeless or starving.  You’ll note the truth-spinning, of course, but also note that nowhere in my brief and vague statement do I ever actually lie. If more information were uncovered about the circumstances, and I were challenged about it, I can say yes, I was fired because of PTSD symptoms that I wasn’t able to manage well at the time. That’s related to the abusive relationship, because that abuse is what gave me the PTSD. The PTSD is also what I was working on sorting out before going back on the job hunt.  Be brief and vague in a way that is true but also makes you sound as good as possible. “I was unable to seek employment for a while while extricating myself from an abusive relationship” sounds better than “I was an unemployable traumatized mess because my ex used to beat the shit out of me”. “I took some time off after college to work on myself, so that I could start my career out on the right foot” sounds better than “college stress put me into a major depressive episode and I couldn’t get out of bed for a month”. Mental health stigma is bullshit but it exists, and until capitalism dies we all have to eat. So there’s my tips on how to spin your gap-explanation story to get a job anyway, because frankly it is NOT any of their business and that IS an incredibly invasive question, but it’s generally one that CAN be answered “honestly” (Fae Rules Of Honesty) without actually telling them anything of substance about your mental health history.

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‘a series of unfortunate events’ isn’t even remotely unrealistic because adults really are Like That

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i don’t mean to be a huge dick and slather my personal experiences all over everything, but ‘a series of unfortunate events’ truly will validate so many abused kids out there 

the baudelaire children confide in mr. poe that they’re being hurt by count olaf, and mr. poe goes and tells count olaf they said so, and olaf then punishes the children for daring to speak out. that’s real. olaf hits klaus so hard he falls over. that’s real. violet tells mr. poe about the literal abuse olaf subjects them to, and mr. poe dismisses her as a girl griping about chores. that’s real. in this book, children are trod on, disbelieved, laughed at, scorned, punished. that’s real. 

i don’t consider myself an abused child, but i was hit growing up. not often and not hard enough to bruise, but enough that i still, as a nineteen year old college student, flinch and cringe and cry and can’t stand up for myself against anyone; even to this day, i can’t, because i’m still convinced that if i contradict i’ll be screamed at or physically hurt. this stuff lingers. one day i was pushed so hard i fell against my bedframe and got a bloody nose! eventually i got too large to slap, but one day my mom pushed my sister. and then i did something i’d never done before: i decided to tell “a trusted adult.”

this adult essentially told me “if you’re not getting hit so hard you’re being bruised, you’re fine.” and guess what? i never told another adult until one day years later it burst out of me and i absolutely broke down sobbing in the car to my aunt and grandmother. for 20 minutes i couldn’t even stand up.

this is what adults do. ‘a series of unfortunate events’ knows this. it chronicles this. and it is completely fucking unique in the fact that it is on the kids’ side. that, to me, is fucking revolutionary. it takes the harm adults dole out to children daily and says This Is Undeserved and This Is Wrong and This Is Evil. revisiting it as an adult, i see myself echoed in it, and that is so piercing it almost hurts. 

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While my parents may never have planned to murder me for an inheritance after setting my house on fire, that feeling of “This is actually happening and I’m not safe please just listen to me” is one that is relatable af from my own childhood and the way that even good or neutral adult characters absolutely refuse to take the Baudelaire’s seriously when they are like “We’re not safe” is something that is extremely painfully believable to anyone who has been in a situation where they’re dealing with abuse I think

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[passtheglassofass]

I currently work at OG and interrupted a man proposing to his lady to give them their salad… cuz when people want to propose they never tell their servers when they are gonna propose. At least wait til dessert to do it…

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