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i’m shifting into summer mode

@anthonymire

she sings with the might of a hundred soldiers
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a piece of media that is bad: mundane. effectless

a piece of media that is bad but had the potential to be so so good: unbearable. agonizing. soul crushing even

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

adulthood is carefully writing a two paragraph email that could actually just be reduced completely to “hey, what the fuck”

I literally had my pussy sewn shut I deserve k cup tits as compensation

right forgot most of my followers wouldn’t know this so

TW for medical trauma and child abuse

when an intersex baby is born and they have what’s called “ambiguous genitalia” aka they have an intersex condition which causes them to develop a mix of traits from both male and female genitals, doctors will just pick which one it’s closest to and without consent from the parents and obviously without consent from this living human person that just got born, perform a permanently scarring cosmetic surgery to force the baby’s genitals to align with societies perspective of either male or female genitals. these surgeries cause lifetime medical issues and sexual dysfunction and are only performed because our medical understanding of intersex people was written by a bunch of bigoted genicidal monsters. And yes it’s genocide they are removing our ability to conceive children in almost all cases of these surgeries, on top of generally erasing us from public view by hiding our own existence from everyone Including us from birth. these surgeries aren’t well known about because parents literally aren’t told (my mom only managed to figure it out cuz she overheard the doctor talking to a nurse about it when she came down off her painkillers) and scientific literature on it is not only hard to read it sounds like fucking nazi shit so obviously most medical establishments don’t want it in public view. I had one of these surgeries performed on me, I literally don’t even know exactly what it was cuz it’s not on my medical records anymore but I have the scarring and still have uterine tissue so in compensation for our current human society systematically mutilating my body and genociding people like me I think I deserve some banger bazhoingas i think that’s fair

I hope you don’t mind me adding this @werewo1fbutch I wanted to offer resources in my original post but I’m still looking for my own so this is really appreciated

a lot of people are tagging this as malpractice, but fun fact, in most places of the world it’s not! western medical institutions RECOMMEND this as “treatment.” the doctors doing this are doing something wrong and you should recognize that for sure, but you should recognize that the system itself is doing this to us, it’s not a few bad eggs because the bad eggs are what the system Wants to create.

I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

I worked for the US side of a company where the main financial decision makers were headquartered in Spain for a while.

And in August? Basically everyone in Spain goes on vacation the entire month.

And since the financial decision makers were all gone, and my job was to ask for financial decisions, I had a much reduced workload every August.

I still had to show up to the office, which sucked.

Anyway, this is a long post to say that other countries get this. We should demand it here.

And more.

When a job says "unlimited time off" ask what their average usage is. Ensure you match it. Minimum.

When a job says "you get X days off" use them. Keep a sharp eye on roll over limits year-to-year, leave no hour behind.

These are not health or mana potions to save for a boss fight.

Do not answer your phone on vacation. Do not check your email. Do not feel the need to explain.

I took last week off because I hadn't played Super Mario Bros. 2 in a long time and I said, "This is a good week to play Super Mario Bros. 2."

I regularly take off at least 1 day to have my hair done. Hair! I could have it done on a Saturday, I don't, because Saturday's are my time. Hair time is hair time.

Sometimes I take a day off because the weather is frightfully good or frightfully bad.

Do you remember how cheap movies are during the day, during the week, around lunch time? At least once a month I take a day off to go to the movies and eat snacks and cavort slowly and casually.

To hustle is to make your boss richer.

To lazily sashay down a boulevard with a fizzy water and no plans and less thought? Divine.

Time off is not a reward.

Time off is part of your compensation.

The fancy business term for this is "Employee Value Proposition." It is the sum of the question, "why do you want to work here" -- money + benefits + etc.

If you are in an interview and someone says "why do you want to work here" and they are a suit person, say something to the effect of, "Your employee value proposition is significantly higher than your competitors. I value X, Y, Z of your compensation package, firm's reputation, product's reputation, and the current course of your management team."

If you do not have time off, or enough time off, I wish for you an expedited and profitable exit to a situation where you do.

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obsessed w internet speak but specifically these two recent inventions:

1. statement (directly contradictory statement)

ie: “i’m normal now (lying)” or something like. “doing homework (scrolling tumblr).” it’s like a text version of looking directly at the camera. sarcasm but slightly to the left. amazing

2. wacky thought <- reactionary/self aware comment

it’s like?? the closest thing i can think of is movies where the characters break the fourth wall to pause the show and talk to you about it? like emperors new groove or lion king 1 1/2? self aware ironic kinda talk show-esque. whatever it is it’s brilliant.

love the way we’re bulldozing english keep it up team

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finally finished my harley restyle! this is my first proper restyle (outside of just adjustments) that i've done and i'm pretty happy with how she turned out! i really didn't like her with long hair and i wanted to lean more into the punk look with some scene-inspired styling for the hair

i used nail art beads for her eyebrow and bridge piercings, a small jump ring i cut in half for the lip piercing, and attached with tacky glue

modern fandom culture needs to revive the concept of YMMV— your mileage may vary. the difference between “good representation” and “offensive stereotype” is going to vary from person to person, and what triggers one person is going yo be completely inoffensive to another. i feel like a lot of little fandom squabbles would be solved by making this common parlance again.

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

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“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.

two characters who understand each other like no one else does and therefore hurt each other like no one else can

i'm being so fucking normal about the imaginary people that i made up in my head

Another writing thing: I often find I have to choose between an opening line that feels poetic and quotable, versus one that actually draws readers into the story and kicks things off with a lot of energy. 

Like, for a long time, The City in the Middle of the Night started with some version of, “Light speared through the one window, high over our heads, and dug into the wall opposite.” I loved that image, and really wanted to introduce the idea of sunlight as something damaging, violent and dangerous. But in the end, I went with an opening line that introduces the characters and starts them moving forward on a trajectory instead.