#QuietQuitting sounds like capitalists complaining about their waning exploitation.

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made a list of (most) of the field notes from The Wilds. excluding like random trivia not pertaining to the kids, stuff about gretchen, and like half of the ones for the boys. i truly do not care about them.

s1 ep1:

Field Note 003: Leah and Ian attend the east bay academy of art in northern california. Their school mascot? “The muses”. Not exactly intimidating, but that’s okay… the school didn’t offer sports teams anyway. (they do however have four different composing clubs)

Field Note 005: Head between the knees, hands clasped at the neck… Nora is assuming the “brace position” which safety experts recommend if you fear your aircraft may be going down

Field Note 006: “Awesome summer mixx” is a compilation CD made for Leah in 2012 by her childhood friend Emily

Field Note 007: A short but not exhaustive list of the pets Martha has had in her life: two terriers, one dachshund, two shepherd mixes, eight cats, three hamsters, two llamas, four cockatiels, fourteen goldfish won at various carnivals, and a rabbit named cappy which is short for capricorn, since he was born in early january

Field Note 009: in 2017, Rachel participated in a fundraising event where she did 484 alternating planks for charity. When she got home she did 16 more to make it an even 500. Would’ve annoyed the shit out of her if she hadn’t.

s1 ep 2:

Field Note 010: Twin days is an annual festival held in twinsburg, OH, recorded as the “largest gathering of twins in the world” by the guinness book of world records. Nora has been trying to get Rachel to go for years

Field Note 011: It’s the spring of 2012 in this memory. Rachel and Nora are nine years old, and Rachel hasn’t gotten into diving yet. But four months from this moment, she’ll be watching professional diving on TV and she’ll see a young black diver perform an incredible dive off the 3-meter springboard. It will take Rachel's breath away, and she’ll immediately ask her mother to sign her up for lessons. and thus, a dream was born.

Field Note 016: Nora fell in love with paris when she saw it in a movie in the fifth grade

Field Note 021: Dot loves free stuff. One of her all time favorite childhood memories is going to the bank drive thru with her dad to deposit his VA checks and waving at the tellers so they’d send her a miniature baby ruth bar back through the pneumatic tube

Field Note 023: Juicy” by biggie is Toni and Martha’s song. Neither of them can remember why anymore. it just is.

s1 ep3:

Field Note 025: of course Dot would know all the lyrics to poison's “fallen angel”… and just about every other metal hit out there. She inherited her love for hard rock from her father, a real metalhead. one night when Dot was 11, Dot stayed up late rocking out to a compilation her dad had made especially for her. The next morning, she had her first “bangover” that’s metalhead slang for the headache you get after a serious night of head banging

Field Note 027: Dot is one of those annoying people that doesn’t get brain freeze. She discovered this superpower in elementary school, and more than once has won money by challenging dudes to milkshake drinking contests.

Field Note 028: Something to note: Dot, Shelby , Toni, and Martha attend public schools whereas Leah, Fatin, Nora, and Rachel attend private schools. An even fifty-fifty split representing both sides of the educational divide.

Field Note 029: Dots on a budget so when it comes to hair dye, it’s DIY all the way. Lately she’s been using washable markers, which she steals from the art room at school. It’s a messy process but they get the job done.

Field Note 031: Shelby's family is suuuuuper into pranks. (Like you should probably check the toilet for saran wrap if you piss at the goodkind household). It’s an eat or be eaten environment over there, so yeah… Shelby's gotten pretty good at pulling off stunts of her own.

Field Note 034: Fatin didn’t have to read Jeff’s book for school because she decided against taking contemporary american lit, an elective she likes to call “Boring Bearded White Dudes 101”

s1 ep4:

Field Note 037: Figure skating is Martha’s favorite sport to watch on TV. She used to mimic the skaters, performing fake double axels on the living room carpet- a habit she clearly hasn’t lost. Oddly enough Martha has never dared to skate on actual ice. Pretty weird for a kid from Minnesota.

Field Note 038: All of the girls except Dot are on social media, though Leah only posts stories. Officially speaking Fatin has the most followers (roughly 11k) however, Nora has a finsta where she posts drawings of birds wearing wigs. This account has caught on in the art community and actually tops Fatins by 57 followers.

Field Note 039: Dot watched “field of dreams” in middle school gym class. Her PE teacher was one of those lazy dudes who’d put on a vaguely “sports themed” movie whenever he didn’t want to teach

Field Note 040: Toni leads the team in triple-doubles. She also leads the team in technical fouls

Field Note 041: the quarter is Leahs. Jeff used it to scratch off an instant lotto ticket that they bought together. She’s been carrying the quarter with her ever since

Field Note 043: Martha became a vegetarIan at age 12 when she visited a commercial chicken farm. Sometimes she still has nightmares about the sound of it- the tortured, incessant clucking of all those poor hens.

Field Note 045: Leah has never seen any group challenges on any reality TV shows ever. She's only marathoned vintage reality TV series with lan after he found a box set of them in his aunts storage unit.

Field Note 046: - Toni's jacket was her mom's. It's taken her a few years to grow into it.

Field Note 047: Shelby's acting class meets monthly in the basement of her family's church. Her classmates are mostly adults including her dentist and a prominent local judge. Shelby's favorite exercise is to "say each line like it's the most important thing you've ever said in your life."

s1 ep5:

Field Note 053: Fatin only goes for college dudes. Her take on high school quys? They haven't done enough living. If a guy doesn't have a monthly car payment or do his own laundry, how can he be trusted in a hook-up context?

Field Note 061: How each girl learned to swim: Martha took a class with her mom; Toni would sneak into her neighbor's above-ground pool by night until she kind of just taught herself; Rachel and Nora had private lessons; Fatin's grandparents had an infinity pool; Leah learned in Lake Tahoe at a family reunion; Dot went to the quarry; and Shelby's dad threw her into the country club pool sink-or-swim style.

s1 ep6:

Field Note 065: Leah's more of a crossword puzzle person. She judges people who do Sudoku.

Field Note 071: Leah's pre-Jeff GPA: 3.7889 Leah's post-Jeff GPA: 2.967 and sinking. Hearts and grades suffer together.

Field Note 073: Fatin has been to Barcelona three times: twice with her family, and once on tour with her youth orchestra. She faked jetlag to break away from the group and went out all night with a Spanish cyclist she met on the flight.

s1 ep7:

Field Note 083 - Shelby did indeed rap on the morning closed-circuit announcements. She rapped with her fellow student council members to promote the annual school-wide raffle. They rhymed "tickets" with "rickets," an extremely rare bone disease. It was..not great.

Field Note 090 - Shelby is hardly alone in terms of her missing teeth. Roughly two percent of the population are born without lateral incisors. Like Shelby said, it's in the genes.

s1 ep8:

Field Note 092 : For those playing along, this is the second time we've seen Fatin use a random object as a fake "microphone." First her toothbrush, now Martha's hairbrush. It's something she's done since she was little; in her living room wall there's a photo of her at four years old, hosting a fashion show using a red-white-and-blue Bomb Pop as a microphone.

Field Note 100 - The bowling alley is one of the main hangouts for high schoolers in Fort Travis, Shelby's hometown. On weekend nights, it's basically either that, the all-night diner off the highway, or a patch of woods next to the cemetery that everyone calls "The Smoke Hole"

Field Note 101: Becca's all-time high bowling score? 249. Shelby's? 94

Field Note 103: ​​Toni is a collector of mementos. She's got a cigar box full of souvenirs that she carries with her whenever she moves to a new home.

s1 ep9:

Field Note 108: Jingle dress dancing is a First Nations and Native American pow-wow dance. It originated among the Ojibwe (Martha's tribe) living in and around the greater Minnesota region. It is one of the four most common dance styles that women compete in at pow- wows. Jingle dress dancing is traditionally seen as a dance of healing and pride.

Field Note 110: Usually, if a goldfish frequently jumps out of its tank, it's because there's something unsuitable about the water -either it's too dirty or too warm. But not in Leah's case. Young Leah cleaned the tank religiously and kept the water at the recommended 70 degrees. So, either the fish had an adventurous spirit. or maybe it really did have some kind of subconscious death wish.

Field Note 112: - Nora was a pioneer of the thumb-holes-in-sleeves look at her middle school. She used to cut the holes herself and reinforce the edges with a needle and thread until it became a style and you could buy shirts with pre-made ones

Field Note 114: Shelby has already mentioned that she once took down a ten-point buck. Her dad offered to have its head stuffed and mounted, but Shelby declined. She told him it wouldn't match the aesthetic of her room…but deep down, something bothered her about celebrating the death of an animal in that way.

s1 ep10:

Field Note 121: Shelby's cross necklace was a gift from her mom on the day of her baptism. Shelby was baptized at 14 years old--a full immersion baptism, in front of her whole Church.

Field Note 122: This is the second time we've seen Dot trying to hit something, only to miss her mark. Her aim really is piss-poor. Potentially related fact: Dot has never had an eye exam in her entire life.

s2 ep1:

Field Note 134: What was Fatin and Leah's first interaction? It was their sophomore year, in the bathroom between classes, when Fatin asked Leah if she could borrow a tampon. Leah said, "No, but you can 'have' one," attempting a dumb joke. Fatin took the tampon with a pity laugh and immediately forgot about the exchange. Leah thought about it every day for about a month.

Field Note 135: Josh got inspired to go to magic camp after visiting the Magic Castle in Los Angeles. He was in such awe that he hid in the bathroom, hoping his parents would forget about him and he could stay there forever. Then he got hungry and came out after five minutes.

Field Note 142: Martha got her love of romance books from her grandma, who buys them secondhand at garage sales. In the summer, Martha and Grandma Shelly like to sun themselves on lawn chairs, reading romance books and drinking Arnold Palmers

Field Note 149: Rachel and Nora used to play Miss Mary Mack on childhood road trips to theHudson Valley.

s2 ep2:

Field Note 153: The doors in the boys' wing have been painted yellow. Yellow has many connotations, but here's an interesting one: in ancient ChristIan tradition, the color yellow was used to designate "outsiders."

Field Note 154: Raf's fave breakfast snack is a concha for the road. Here's a brief list of what some of the other castaways liked for breakfast pre-island: Rachel liked an egg-white omelet; Scotty's mom would make him the most incredible cheddar waffles; Toni and Henry were both into Frosted Flakes, though Toni was all about the generic store brand; Leah never ate breakfast, Fatin would have gum and a sugar-free Red Bull.

Field Note 157: Shelby, as we know, is a seasoned hunter who once shot down a ten-point buck. Her father had its head mounted and hung on the basement wall. Shelby doesn't enjoy the presence of it-this dead thing that she killed--but sometimes she forces herself to stare at it. Why she does this she's not sure

Field Note 161: Toni's actual favorite book is "Charlotte's Web."

Field Note 162: This is Leah's favorite cardigan. (the brown one she always wears) She found it on a public bus. No matter how many times she washes it, it always smells faintly of vanilla.

Field Note 164: - Raf's been going to school in America since he was nine, so he's pretty much perfected his English and rarely speaks Spanish anymore. His mom hasn't told him this, but she misses the sound of his voice "en español."

Field Note 167: - Shelby has always loved party supplies--you know, those plastic New Year's glasses that spell out the number of the incoming year. She's collected them from 2008 to 2020.

s2 ep3:

Field Note 170: Bo's upbringing has forced him to become a good listener. For example, he can hear a 2007 Ford sedan approaching his house from two blocks away.

Field Note 175: - Bo and Scotty met on the first day of fifth grade, when a classmate threw an eraser at Scotty and Bo stepped in front of it, taking the hit.

Field Note 176: Scotty's celebrity crush is Rihanna. He respects her game as a businesswoman.

Field Note 177: Fatin's been scribbling in Nora's journal more than anyone else lately. She's taken over calendar duties, and she's also been keeping a list of her favorite things that Dot's said.

Field Note 180: Scotty figures a successful business venture will eventually take him to New York. He and Bo have been making an eighteen-hour-and-fifteen-minute playlist for the trip since that's the approximate drive time from Pensacola to NYC.

Field Note 181: - Rachel had to learn to play the recorder in elementary school, but she wasn't very good. After one particularly bad attempt at "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" she slammed the recorder against her chair, and it snapped in half.

Field Note 184: Kirin's mother is a free-spirited hippie type who spent a lot of time traveling in India when she was in her twenties She named her son Kirin, which means "poet" in Hindi. Kirin doesn't tell people this.

s2 ep4:

Field Note 188: Sure, Fatin "might" be at the med spa, but it's Saturday, so it's more likely that she'll be taking her youngest brother to karate class. She used to complain about having to do this, but she grew to like it. Her brother looked very adorable in his "gi."

Field Note 190: Josh won a science award in his freshman year for building a human cell model out of Legos. He generally performs well on class projects, but test anxiety drags his GPA down overall. Ivan has the highest GPA on the island.

Field Note 192: Martha's birthday is march 19th

Field Note 199: Shelby was known around school as a stellar event planner. As a student council member, she helped organize three homecoming dances, two holiday dances, and one prom. But Dot never went to any of those so this is the first time she's benefitting from Shelby's skills. (And it was worth the wait.)

Field Note 200: Fatin's gift to Dot on her birthday? Her infamous toothbrush.

Field Note 201: Every year Nora and Rachel would alternate in picking what their mom made for their birthday dinner. Rachel almost always picked spaghetti and meatballs growing up, so Nora did too because it was her sister's favorite.

s2 ep5:

Field Note 205: Dot's father loved to fish. He also had a Big Mouth Billy Bass hanging on the wall in the hallway of their house, which might've inspired Dot's affection for talking fish.

Field Note 206: Kirin's learned plenty from his pitmaster coach, but he is already a good cook. He's been doing the cooking in his house for as long as he can remember.

Field Note 207: Leah had always tried to be unique by rejecting popular music tastes in favor of more obscure artists. Her Ben Folds obsession was part of this strategy. She did write Ben Folds lyrics on her body with permanent marker just before picture day at school.

s2 ep6:

Field Note 217: Leah's favorite poem is "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath. She especially loves the single line that gets repeated in every stanza: "I think I made you up inside my head."

Field Note 223: Martha first saw a heart-shaped hot tub on the video game "The Sims, which she and her sisters used to play on the computer after school.

Field Note 224: Scotty always takes the free skincare samples at the cosmetics stores in the mall. He's befriended all of the employees so they'll be liberal with their freebies.

Field Note 228: Toni's never been the one to say "I love you"' first.

s2 ep7:

Field Note 242: The dress Leah wears in her Ben Folds hallucinations is the same one she wore when she met Jeff at his hotel. The mind-especially Leah's-is a powerful thing

s2 ep8:

Field Note 245: Shelby is a beast at escape rooms. She's cracked every one of them in the greater Dallas area and been named an all-star escaper at six of them.

Field Note 246: Dot's usual order at Taco Bell is a cheesy gordita crunch, two soft tacos, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a large Dr Pepper.

All I’m seeing in the news is persecution against Muslim people.

The atrocity in New Zealand was committed by an individual who should die nameless and unknown. The blame does not get laid at the feet of the victim’s faith. 

It’s laid at the feet of the people who do nothing to combat racism and fascism. 

It’s laid at the feet of the governments who are more interested in their own pockets and self-preservation. 

It’s laid at the feet of the scum-bucket who decided to go to a peaceful country and forever blight its history with the death of innocents. 

It doesn’t matter what their faith was, where they were or what they were doing. They were innocent people, following their beliefs peacefully and in what they believed was safety.

Don’t remember his name.

Remember theirs.

We may be of different faiths, different backgrounds BUT WE’RE STILL ALL HUMAN. Why is it so difficult for people to grasp that? We should be celebrating our differences, our variety of culture - not fighting over them.

JUST LET ME BE.

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As someone who is now 99% sure they might be ace…

YES. THIS. BOTH SIDES NEED TO SEE THIS.

As an asexual, I deal with this a lot, and it’s not okay :/

Honestly I would kill for my ace friends they’re wonderful and don’t deserve this shit

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Hey guys, later this morning I have the ear of a top Verizon executive that I have personal ties to, who is specifically in the business of Not Pissing People Off.

What I need from you: links to the most articulate, well-reasoned, impassioned explanations of why this content ban is a bad thing. I know I’ve seen several cross my dash, but I haven’t thought to grab them. Help me out? It’s now 8:46 EST on 12/13 and I need these links in the next few hours. Help me amplify our voices. Spread this please. Attach links here or if you prefer send to fabularasa1@gmail.

Hey guys.

I’m not a huge content creator or anything, but we have to sit down and talk about something extremely important.

Article 13 in Europe is in its final stages of voting, and could end us content creators for good.

You’re probably thinking: whoa. This isn’t the content I signed up for, what the heck? But this is important and could change the world of the Internet as we know it.

Now, I’m no legal powerhouse but MatPat from Game Theory/Film Theory did an amazingly detailed video explaining how this could destroy us.

This article basically can destroy fandoms. Remember the whole thing of the Internet being regulated a while back, and how we would have to be forced to pay for spesific website access? Net Neutrality? This is arguably worse than that. I have a small taste in the legal field so when I say the language is too vague in the article and will be taken advantage of, I mean it.

In the legal world, wording is really, really important. This article might not be as terrible if the wording was more spesific than “In good faith”, etc etc…

This article has the potential to bring down fandoms as we know it, take away your favourite youtubers (along with an insanely large amount of people, I’m talking millions) jobs, censor people in fandoms, etc. All the beautiful fanart I reblog from my current fandom? Illegal. Markiplier, JackCepticEye, GameGrumps, Game Theory, everyone. Even animators like JadenAnimations or TheOddOnesOut will be hit hard- most of their animations have stuff in them that would be considered copyright under this new law.

You’re probably thinking “This is just in Europe. I don’t need to care.” I thought that too. And that’s a terrible, terrible misconception the lawmakers in the EU want you to think.

Companies, usually spanning across multiple continents have rules and regulations adhering to the strictest continent so that they don’t have to have different regulations across the globe. (Again, MatPat does a much better job at explaining this than I do.) The thing is, if Europe passes this article, we in the United States would be hit too, equally as hard.

Please, please. Save the internet. Save our culture. Save the diversity of this wonderful (and sometimes terrible) place that we, the public, have built. Don’t let these big companies make the Internet something that is only accessible to the highest bidder. The Internet itself was created for the millitary, then spesifically spread out to the public. The Internet needs our protection- let us protect it.

Please spread the word about this article. Tell your friends in the EU to talk to their representatives about this, and let us convince them in the legislature on how important this is to us. Don’t let them take this away from us.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo  (via wordsnquotes)

you were six and it lived in the boy behind the gas station counter who gave you a penny with your birth year on it

you were eight and it wore the face of the woman who had too many yappy dogs and accidentally set her garbage on fire with her cigarettes and your mother referred to as “the poor thing”

you were ten and it was sucking the life from your aunt who never went to work and never learned to drive and always smelled of mildew and you never understood why she wouldn’t just do all the things she said she wanted to

you were twelve when it was you, too, when it moved in and it liked the view and now it wore your body, too. 

thirteen saw it explode into your world like fireworks. it was the pretty preppy girl everybody love-hated with her big house and rich family and perfect skin and it was the teacher with a white tan line where her wedding ring used to shine who graded you all so harshly that eventually she was written up for it since you all complained so loudly

fourteen you had met it, it had worn you, it was controlling you completely, an absent numb that swallowed you completely, a blankness you called a demon or a darkness or a devil, or something, but it wasn’t you, was it, it was just a voice that was angry and tired all of the time and never felt anything - it was in your circle of friends, it was the face of your brunette friend who liked doctor who and squids and who tried to swallow so many tylenol that she briefly saw god, it was wearing the skin of the happy-go-lucky funny one who had “too much meat” on her ribs, it was your male best friend who was always too skinny and if you moved too fast towards him, he’d flinch

you were fifteen and it started to walk the bodies it wore under the ground. it took your friends from your hands and it took the lives of strangers. you cannot feel anything. you cannot do anything. your body is a weight that you are too weak to carry. you are always tired. you want to do a handstand underwater and never come up after.

at sixteen it is your best friend with her pale blonde hair, having a panic attack outside of her classroom for getting a B on her report card. it is the way she pushes herself to the edge of her own ability. it is you, and it is her, and it is living in the chest of most people you know. it is the cheerleader and the sci-fi geek both.

seventeen. a boy on the football field became a boy under a small stone. people say, “he didn’t look depressed. how could we have known?” 

and you want to tell them: depression does not have a look. it takes over in such a sly way that only those who have lived it know how to look for it. it wears the bodies of the girl dancing on the table who just did ten shots and it has the skin of the one who sits at home with her razors tucked in a box (sometimes, they are the same girl, and i have been her). it will inhabit the bones of your angry boss, of the man who just cut you off, of the boy who never stops making jokes. it roosts in the chest of poets, of artists, of the prom queen. it is clever. it knows how not to be seen. 

it is in you, and it is in me. i look out for it in the bodies of others, now. the only way to kill it is to bring it into the light. i see you, and what you’re going through, and we can both fight.

perfectionist seekers + dying butterflies at our feet // r.i.d