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Favorite thing about Dracula Daily so far is that yesterday I read a post that had in-depth, well-researched analysis that could easily be mistaken for a published literary criticism of Dracula, except it casually makes a passing reference to "the polycule" without feeling the need to elaborate
staying up late: hehe
waking up tired as fuck: not hehe
Legalizing sex work isn't the answer to safer sex work, decriminalization is.
Legalization means corporate interests over workers every time. Legalization means bosses raking in mountains of cash while workers make a dime. Decrim means we can do our work without being legally impacted and without businesses popping up like fucking weed dispos in Albuquerque with set rates that our bosses would choose in the case of legalization
Which, again, the problem isn't sex, the problem is work culture in late stage capitalism.
The real way to "save" sex workers is to save all workers from poverty. All humans. All people forced to work in order to put food in their mouths. Which is most humans. Most people will live treated like animals on the streets if they refuse to work. If you erase sex from the human experience entirely, work still exists. People still starve. People still die in harsh weather from being unhoused. People still die from police violence. The problem was never sex and legal industries kill every day. This will never stop until the system is radically changed. Pretending sex is the problem is a wonderful distraction and the sex work industry makes a great fall guy in a "sex is bad and your body is property that you can't do what you want with" society
The idea that "many whores can never leave" being part of the tragedy of being a whore is a twisted narrative, one that people assume means whores can't stop whoring bc they're forced by another human to whore. In reality, if we've whored, we can't get hired in many "legal" industries because of the narrative set up against us, and many of us find "legal" work much less easy to survive than whoring. It's easier for a lot of us to make $200 in an hour with every risk that comes with that (violence from authorities is a bigger concern than violence from a client) than it is to go legally work for someone tearing our bodies apart for $10/hr to do repetitive nonsexual labor.
Legalization kills. Decriminalization is what we need. And the destruction of the capitalist machine entirely. And for people in customer service to actually realize that they're worse off than most whores, genuinely. The idea of the abused whore is a fun tale but is no more common than any other abused worker. Physical violence as a sex worker isn't worse than having a robotic arm impale you at a factory for $11.50/hr and then have all your bosses threaten to destroy you if you sue. It just fucking isn't.
And if you've never worked a job that was degrading, humiliating, physically abusive, or emotionally ruining without doing sex work, you have immense privilege and need to keep your mouth GLUED SHUT. It is not worse to be stalked as a whore than it is to be stalked as a cashier. It just fucking isn't.
“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it
Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manager of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.
Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.
I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.
A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.
“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.
A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.
There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.
Writer:
Artist:
Merch artist / graphic designer:
Running a zine
Added some more
Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact
When Palestinian’s say “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they are not calling for the ethnic cleansing of Israeli Jews/all Jewish people entirely. They are just asking for decolonisation.
Between the river (the Jordan River) and the sea (the Mediterranean Sea) lies Palestine, which has been occupied by Israel for the past 75 years. When they say Palestine will be free, they mean exactly that- for decolonisation; to end the illegal occupation of land that was theirs first.
I don’t know where the idea that this motto means genocide or is a “rallying cry for terrorists” came from, but all sources I have seen that spread this message are all pro-Israel and have unreliable propaganda filled articles. There is one article specifically that says that the Palestine flag emoji is used as shorthand for this phrase, and using it is antisemitic.
I hope people keep using this motto, keep chanting it at protests, and know that it does not making them antisemitic, pro-genocide, or an ignorant person. For it to not be obvious at this point that no Palestinian wants an ethnic cleansing of any kind, is shocking.
decolonizepalestine has an amazing article with more details about the history of the phrase and the myths surrounding it.
Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".
Artiste Jodie Herrera. (Venus de Willendorf)
An investment firm led by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper that is devoted to launching security companies in Israel has a new “success” story: helping that country’s military conduct secret mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza.
According to The New York Times, hundreds of Palestinians have been targeted by an “expansive and experimental” spying effort to “collect and catalogue” the faces of Palestinians. At times, civilians have been “wrongly flagged” as Hamas militants and then interrogated and tortured. [...]
Three out of five members of the Israeli company’s board of directors are Harper’s partners at Awz Ventures, meaning the former Canadian Prime Minister’s firm effectively controls Corsight.
Using Corsight’s spy tech, the Israeli military picked out Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha at a checkpoint in central Gaza in mid-November, as he was attempting to flee with his family to Egypt. He was separated, detained, and beaten. [...]
A former commander of this unit, retired Israeli Brigadier General Ehud Schneorson, is another of Harper’s advisory partners at Awz Ventures. According to a report in Israeli outlet +972 Magazine, Unit 8200 has also overseen an AI-based targeting system that has marked tens of thousands of Gazans for assassination. [...]
Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid, @fairuzfan
Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: The murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians, and possibly my own extended family members, wouldn't have been possible without the investment of Stephen Harper. It wouldn't have been possible without the settler colony known as "Canada" and its bloodthirsty genocidaires.
Woke up to wonderful news!
Thr plus size mod I was given early access to by my friend Mango is finally released on Nexus! It's what I've used to create Sohla in game!
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/8843
My first in game version (before mods) of Sohla is on the cover!
Go make beautiful plus size tavs and durges and share them with meeeeee
GOOD LUCK, BABE! Chappell Roan at Coachella 2024
We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.
Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.
Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.
Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well" way
