Slightly Askew

Usually not original content. Fletcher. 23. Currently serving in Peace Corps Ghana. Poly/grey-aroace/pan/genderqueer. Kinda kinky (dominant). I like dangerous animals... the toxic kinds. Side blogs: Halfblood Hufflepuff, toxistudy, and wiccanbeastly.

[tridentsong]

You know you're loved when... You have a 100.8°F fever and your kitty tries to make it better. Before getting bored and turning I to a totally unsympathetic demon. #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney #ghana #antobam #kitten

[tridentsong]

A certain someone has gotten very big and very needy. She yells until she gets what she wants. Her meow has turned from a squeak to sounding like she smokes a pack a day. It's hard to believe she's only fourteen weeks old. #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney #ghana #antobam #kitten #blackcat

[tridentsong]

Spent the morning chasing the sunrise at #otagoharbour it's not much of an accomplishment to catch the sunrise when you wake up at five but the sun doesn't show until eight... 😂 but still so pretty. I ended up in the warehouse district and got very close to hopping a barbed wire fence to check out an old pier that was falling apart. However I decided potentially getting arrested on vacation would be a bad idea. #dunedinnewzealand #travel #sunrise

[tridentsong]

Small cat doing small cat things. #peacecorpsghana #peacecorpspets #antobam

[tridentsong]

They get big so fast! Bambam is very fluffy and loveable. She just needs a few manners lessons... And she's all kinds of smart. Little trouble monkey. ♥ #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney #ghana #antobam #kitten #blackcat (Her eyes are almost done changing, aren't they pretty?)

[tridentsong]

Went to visit the small one for a few hours today. After three hours of sprinting around like a mad kitty and one incident of play aggression... We cuddled up on the floor with much purring. I need to get her a toy to beat up instead of her going for my hands and arms when she's over stimulated. #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney #ghana #antobam #kitten #blackcat

[tridentsong]

Six hours of travel yesterday and other than my own worrying about overheating... She was perfect. Obviously she's had a hard time settling in... 🙄 very comfortable in shoe boxes and sleeping on the mat. She also now has a pretty pink collar that is slightly too big. But yay making friends! #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney #ghana #antobam #kitten

[tridentsong]

No matter where I am, I'll always find horses. #peacecorpsghana #mypeacecorpsjourney

[rachandroll]

I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadn’t sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you don’t get #deals like elsewhere online, I’d love it if y’all would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.

[furiessong]

!!!!!!!

[lesbiantenets]

Sometimes Tumblr is a force for good. :’)

[acegirlproblems]

As someone who previously worked at a small independent bookstore I love this, the struggle is real sometimes. Hope people keep showing this store love. Also, support your local bookstores.

[boarcriminal-deactivated2018052]

if you’re a baby gay and this is your first pride, watch your drinks! men are trash across all sexualities

[mezzalunanova]

I know boys don’t get these talks so let me clarify:

This doesn’t just mean alcohol

Don’t accept any open drinks

After you get your unopened drink, you keep it in your site

You have to go to the bathroom so you leave your drink on a table? That drink is now dead to you.

You’ve been holding your drink way low out of your eyesight and people are crowding? That drink is now suspect.

Stay safe, babies

[cherrycoloredsky-archive]

Also: Rohypnol (a date rape drug) tastes VERY SALTY. If your drink is suddenly salty, STOP DRINKING IMMEDIATELY. 

[bigmouthlass]

Buddy system, y'all. If your friend is acting *way* drunker than they should, take them to an Urgent Care or ER. Date rape drugs can kill you.

[elusive-suggestions]

always rb

[coneybitch]

rb for the advice

[captainx-camino]

And not just the boys, but girls too.

Just because you’re in a bar or club with only other women does not mean you are inherently safe.

My best friend got drugged by a girl in an all female bar and was almost raped in the bathroom.

Always remember to be careful.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

Alllll of this. I’ve seen some shit at pride man… Be safe

[heringstuff]

Opinion | I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers.

In the years since implementation, such harassment has ceased to be a problem.

The catalyst was a customer — ­ a father of four who had put his hand up the shirt of a busser clearing his family’s table. The busser was so stunned she didn’t report it, but the event sparked a flood of reactions from staff members who’d had similar experiences. At our meeting, women shared stories about harassment from customers and said that when they tried to report it to male managers, they were often ignored because the incidents seemed unthreatening through a male lens.

We decided on a color-coded system in which different types of customer behavior are categorized as yellow, orange or red. Yellow refers to a creepy vibe or unsavory look. Orange means comments with sexual undertones, such as certain compliments on a worker’s appearance. Red signals overtly sexual comments or touching, or repeated incidents in the orange category after being told the comments were unwelcome.

When a staff member has a harassment problem, they report the color — “I have an orange at table five” — and the manager is required to take a specific action. If red is reported, the customer is ejected from the restaurant. Orange means the manager takes over the table. With a yellow, the manager must take over the table if the staff member chooses. In all cases, the manager’s response is automatic, no questions asked. (At the time of our meeting, all our shift managers were men, though their supervisors were women; something else we’ve achieved since then is diversifying each layer of management.)

In the years since implementation, customer harassment has ceased to be a problem. Reds are nearly nonexistent, as most sketchy customers seem to be derailed at yellow or orange. We found that most customers test the waters before escalating and that women have a canny sixth sense for unwanted attention. When reds do occur, our employees are empowered to act decisively.

The color system is elegant because it prevents women from having to relive damaging stories and relieves managers of having to make difficult judgment calls about situations that might not seem threatening based on their own experiences. The system acknowledges the differences in the ways men and women experience the world, while creating a safe workplace.

[girlsmoonsandstars]

Brilliant. 

[shrewreadings]

And to support her brilliance, I’ll be buying her cookbook,  Mac and Cheese. 

(Goodreads link here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16169870-the-mac-cheese-cookbook)

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[greyhorsephoto]

[unclefather]

I have been fooled

[birch-the-fish-crow]

I like how the horses ears are now in an ‘anger’ position.

[saturnineaqua]

they know when theyve been had

[land-of-birds-and-comics]

Donald Duck Goes To Group Therapy For His Debilitating Executive Dysfunction And It’s Just Played Completely Straight For Like Four Pages Like What

[alphabetsoupcomic]

Page 139!! Colors by Will :)

Donate a dollar to our Patreon and you’ll get to see a bunch of our sketchbook pages and lots of fun bonus comics!

[tealesbian]

other people succeeding and achieving things (school, jobs, relationships, etc.) before you do, does not make you a failure. it doesn’t make you bad at these things. it just means some things are going to take a little more time for you than it will for other people. you have time. there are no rules or deadlines by which you have to achieve and experience things. there’s too much pressure to have all these things done by your early to mid twenties but you have your whole life to figure yourself out and do what you want. you are doing your best and that’s what matters. i’m proud of you and you are going to be okay.

[evilkid]