[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The time will pass anyway

[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.

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[snubnee]

Tadc doodle page i created to kill time while awaiting seeing the finale in theaters

[princessaxolotlcandy]

Thank you, Digital Circus.

[momijigari]

The Amazing Digital Dungeon

[peppermelli]

I love Ragatha's little bow in the Animiniz merch so much, I wish it had actually been in the show🥺

[peachdelta]

i got a seat for the digital circles movie tmrw and hadnt watched past the pilot so i binged ep 1-7 w prince and lana tonite

[mehreel]

happy tadc last act premiere to all who celebrate!

[mezbezls]

IT WAS PEAK WHY WAS EVERYONE ONLINE SAYING IT WAS SHIT

[spooky-pop]

Some art of the gang ahead of the finale dropping in theaters tomorrow. I can't believe this is the last time we are all waiting for a new episode together, I feel quite sentimental. What a ride it's been. If you're seeing it tomorrow, godspeed. And remember, be good to yourself and be good to others <3

[hollis-art]

odo thinking he's finally gonna catch quark this time

original post

[hollis-art]

the two biggest cutie patooties on the station

[leolaroot]

EVERY fucking stupid liberals university in the star trek future their fucking student sketch comedy group OF COURSE has at least one Vulcan and it's like their thing where they're like "haha I bet you wouldn't expect a VULCAN in an IMPROV group!!!!!" as if this hasn't become such a fucking tired cliche like literally since 2063 every fucking comedy show has the token Vulcan to be the straight man. you're doing nothing. call me when you guys make an effort to actually include tellarites in the writing room instead of confining them to punch lines. and to be honest with you guys your Vulcan isn't even that good. his performance was highly derivative of T'min's work in the big bang theory 3 (the third big bang yheory. they make a lot of sitcom sequels in the future)

[pegasus737]

The last thing you said cannot be true because star trek is supposed to be a utopian future.

[leolaroot]

star trek is very demonstrably not a utopian future it's a broken society playing at paradise. we see hints of this earlier in the post when I mention university improv comedy groups

[biomorphi]

more KiraQuark for the nobody amount of people who asked for it (original nsft under cut)

[walkingstackofbooks]

Had a dream where Julian ended up in a very similar parallel universe, apart from no-one recognised him. He didn't even realise he was somewhere different until Sisko asked him who he was. "What do you mean, who am I?" he replied. "I'm Julian! Who else would I be?"

It became evident very quickly that this wasn't a joke the senior staff were playing on him. "Could you look in Starfleet records and see if there is a Doctor Bashir anywhere in them?" he asked. Sisko and Miles tensed and stilled.

"You're not claiming that you're Jules Bashir?"

"Julian. But yes?"

And it turned out that there was no Julian in this world: here, Jules had died from complications following the genetic enhancements - but complications that were exacerbated by the neglect of his parents - and the media had covered his parents' trial relentlessly. And even years later, both Miles and Sisko recognise the name immediately, having followed the case with just as much horror and outrage as everyone else on Earth had at the time.

... And then I woke up before it could get interesting haha :(

[theartofangirling]

natasha lyonne after the cold open of a poker face episode: