Lowkey need a isopod plushie tbh

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

we don't hate canada enough on this site lets be real

you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

Boss makes a dollar You make a dime You read unsanitary pirate slash On company time

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

Fam, some jobs are like being a firefighter. 90% of the time you're not doing anything that important, but by golly, when they need you, they need you.

Some jobs, you can fuck around for six hours a day, but you know what you're doing so well that the work you do in two hours would take somebody else ten.

Some jobs, you spend those two hours preventing other people from making mistakes that would take 100 hours to fix if you weren't there to steer them right.

So don't buy into the idea that if you're not working 480 minutes a day, you're not doing enough to get paid a day's wages. That's the capitalism talking.

You're a better employee when you keep your morale up, and sometimes you do that by reading fanfiction on the clock in between putting out your little fires.

My grandad worked nights for the railroad, and he liked to say that he got paid for what knew, not what he did. There would be nights without a single train, but someone had to be there to make sure that any train that came by was on time and on the right track. It could be so slow the guys set up a projector and watched x-rated films on the clock. OP, I think your okay.

Yeah I guess.

I may read fic in the clock but I'm the one who knows where the files are.

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

not my meme but you all do know about this right? It feels like it's getting buried right now and I feel like its proponents are trying to take advantage of that.

This is the first thing you can see on the project2025.org website

This is being organized by The Heritage Foundation. A right wing organization that worked with Trump during his presidency.

For more information here’s a video that goes in depth about it https://youtu.be/9k3UvaC5m7o?si=ef6LxmOit5txAhyt

Remember to not panic and stay informed!

Reminder also that their definition of "radical left" is primarily people who are accepting of gender identity, desire any tightening of even one gun regulation, want to combat police corruption in any way, and don't want a border wall.

Reminder that your uncle that's giving three dollars a month to a Republican party company ALSO DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT PROJECT 2025. I had to insist thIS DOES IN FACT EXIST and he still didn't believe me because "but I get the newsletter every week :(c"

How can you hear the defining factors of genocide and then the facts of what Israel has been doing to Palestine for over 100 days and still argue over calling it a genocide

bbygrl scrimble

I actually think this is the funniest thing I’ve ever drawn

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

Something Dan Olson talks about in his classic video series on the fifty shades movies is that there are significant structural differences between original fiction and fanfiction. They include:

And all these things are fine in fanfic as a medium. What gets weird in the translation is when no editing takes place to adapt from one medium to another. Like, say you're changing your character's name, family background and place of origin to obfuscate the character's fandom origins. If all you do to change it is search and replace, you end up with a character that has basically no characterization because you've taken away the context of the original work and the replacements you've provided haven't really done anything to add on because all they do is tell you "this character is now from sweden instead of italy" but the information is meaningless because nothing about being from sweden affects the character's actions or motivations.

Some novel-length fanfics should never be published works because they're so tightly based in the characters and worlds they were inspired by they just don't make sense as an original work, and that's fine. Some novel-length fanfics don't actually have a lot to do with the source material and are basically original stories the author wanted to tell, but they still need significant editing to work as a published book imo because even if the story is great, when you're playing in someone else's sandbox you don't build the groundwork you need!

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The "B" is *not* for "buses"

Via mastodon(aka the fediverse)

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not going to lie guys i don’t think being employed is for me

devastated to report that being unemployed is also terrible

it's almost like we need to entirely restructure society or something

man this politics shit is easy