gladosdark-deactivated20230529
- Neon Genesis Evangelion -
~ Tarot Cards (2/6) ~
so i’m riding the elevator up to my apartment when the emergency phone in the elevator starts ringing
and i just stand there for a second because this thing is like thirty years old and has never rung or even been used from what i know
but eventually i answer it thinking maybe something’s wrong with the elevator?? it’s an emergency phone it’s probably an emergency??? i dunno
except i shit you not it’s a telemarketer
a telemarketer that’s as confused as i am when i finally interrupt him mid-spiel to inform him he has the wrong number and then interrupt him again to explain further that “uh, no, seriously, this is an elevator phone. i’m standing in an elevator. talking to you. on the emergency phone. i really think you got the wrong number”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“yeah,” i say.
there’s some mutually-confused silence.
“so, this is my stop,” i say. “i gotta go.”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“good luck,” i add, because telemarketer guy seems like he’s having an existential crisis. and then i hang up on him, because he’s having an existential crisis and won’t actually end the call, and because again i’m talking on an elevator emergency phone and, you know, this is my stop, i gotta go.
This is honestly my whole outlook on life
totallyatomic
MY FAVORITE VIDEO IS BACK
The range of emotions..
meeb
“ha”
“ha”
“*ungodly shrieking*”
POKÉMON FACT
pyro-alex-rose
I- I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THAT
if you as a father dont think your kid working with robots is cool as all fuck then you not only failed as a father but you failed at understanding what awesome is
luchagcaileag
This isn’t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. It’s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called “developed” country that doesn’t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.
pillowswithboners
kinda debunks that claim that they can’t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit
Its corporate greed, plain and simple.
It is the same in Sweden. It is so funny every time an american company opens up offices here and then tries to do it the american way and all the unions go “I don’t think so”.
They refused to sign on to the union deals that govern such things as pay/pension and vacation in Sweden. Most of our rights are not mandated by law (we don’t have a minimum wage for example) but are made in voluntary agreements between the unions and the companies.
But they refused, saying that they had never negotiated with any unions anywhere else in the world and weren’t planning to do it in Sweden either.
Of course a lot of people thought it was useless fighting against an international giant, but Handels (the store worker’s union) said that they could not budge, because that might mean that the whole Swedish model might crumble. So they went on strike in the three stores that the company had opened so far.
Cue a shitstorm from the press, and from right wing politicians. But the members were all for it, and other unions started doing sympathy actions. The teamsters refused to deliver goods to their stores, the financial unions blockaded all economical transactions regarding Toys ‘r Us and the strike got strong international support as well, especially in the US.
In the end, Toys ‘r Us caved in, signed the union deal, and thus their employees got the same treatment as Swedish store workers everywhere.
The right to be treated as bloody human beings and not disposable cogs in a machine.
and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. it’s because unionizing WORKS and they’re terrified of workers actually having some power.
tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva
Corporations are like *rakes in $100 billion* “it is too expensive to stop using sweatshop child labor” and people believe them
Is it weird that I’d love to see all the various children of Dracula from media over the years in a sitcom as actual siblings? XD
M.O.N.S.T.E.R
Monsters Monsters
~So Bizarre~
M.O.N.S.T.E.R
Monsters Monsters
💖 YES WE ARE 💖
roguewolfiii-deactivated2021072
Hyper-realistic packers are OUT packers that look like these things are IN
Yes the fish are included, they live in the balls
I’m bored I’m bored I’m bored of elves being just white humans who are all conventionally attractive and hairless!!! This is a whole separate species of creature who can sometimes reach 8 ft in height!!! Described as eerily beautiful but also often frightful to look upon, their eyes GLOW like jesus christ draw elves as the slightly-too-long slightly-too-strange cryptids that they deserve to be!! Acknowledge Beren and Aragorn as the lowkey monsterfuckers they are!!!!
lesbohydra
For real though. I think the closest they have come was with the portrayal of Galadriel. Like yes, she’s equally gorgeous, white and hairless as all the rest of them but at least they didn’t downplay the fact that she is eerie as fuck and she’s terrifying. She’s not intimidating just because she’s stunning, she’s intimidating because she is powerful to the point that most of the fellowship are dead afraid of her. And we got to see a glimpse of her dark side and I don’t know about y’all but I was 11 when I saw the FOTR for the first time and that scene scared the ever loving fuck out of me.
Give us ethnically diverse elves!! Jirt only really gave us their eye and hair colors so GET CREATIVE PEOPLE
Makes me think of
Actually now I have to add on
EXAMPLES
Elves don’t reproduce quickly enough to get this divers. Not saying they can’t have slight differences in skin color, but… EVERYONE IS CLOSELY RELATED. So you’d have to stick with one look, maybe two.
False! Tolkien elves didn’t evolve from a common ancestor, they are all descended from the 144 unique and individually created cuivienen elves so there are about 20,000 possible racial combinations you could go for and diverse skin tones and appearances are actually far more likely than homogeneity
catsbrew
Also! Its fiction! You hold the power to make it true!
