I’ve been in an awful art sinkhole for the past however many months, so I’m going to try (try) to make one small animation for every day in February. I probably can’t manage much more than a second a day, but that’s still pretty good practice. Here’s day 1! This one came out with a few issues, but for being rusty, I feel happy with it overall. It’s all about improving.
“If stuff was just handed to me I’d have no motivation to do anything! That’s human nature!”
No, babe, that’s depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn’t being actively threatened.
[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]
okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?
I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”
Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.
Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.
I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.
There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.
If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!
Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.
I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.
My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.
If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)
There’s also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they’d do absolutely nothing, as if they’d be satisfied being completely bored all the time.
They’d still buy food. They’d still buy video games. They’d still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn’t want to work because they still want to LIVE. They’d buy movies. They’d go DO stuff.
I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can’t afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.
“Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn’t being actively threatened.”
Speaking for myself, I would be even MORE motivated to do things if my basic needs were guaranteed met. IJS
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I’m a 15 year old. I have depression. If I received enough money to live out my days how I choose, I’d work. What would I do? Either work as school staff, be a sociologist, or be a therapist. Why? Because honestly, we need better school staff. Teachers are underpaid, and staff workers don’t help enough. Speaking from my own personal situation, I know the old school staff at my middle school could have helped, yet they didn’t. So what if I had enough money needed to not have to work? I want to prevent what happened to me so that others can remember their years fondly, not as a traumatic event where the staff fucked them over.
and there is some stiff competition here at the International Penis Championships in sunny Montreal as the competitors limber up for the all important second round
aspenspeaks said: I’m so sad I found this joke before it has a bunch of notes to scroll through because you know they’re going to be gold
unless they choke in the finals! oh no it’s a wash out
Mental illness is a completely appropriate reaction to fucked up shit that’s happening around you. Idk why people don’t understand this. Behaving like you always do, wearing the same smile when everything is not fine is sometimes more fucked up. Misery is the right company for agonies.
I said this because this tweet got 30k plus likes and it pisses me off. I think white leftists of the first world should be even more miserable. It’s only right…
trying to be genuine and gentle here, but. i find this framing really weird and accusatory. the idea that people are making themselves miserable, as if its a conscious intentional choice, rather than just feeling heart wrenching grief as a natural response to the conditions of the world. is just. so mind boggling to me. of course we need to still take care of ourselves as much as possible so that we can continue living and continue pushing for a better world where these kinds of atrocities arent a daily occurrence. but to act as if its somehow abnormal for people to be upset about witnessing genocide is just??? how do you even rationalize that? allow ourselves to live? we’re not even allowed to publicly express grief because it makes other people uncomfortable.
i dont think people are falling into “the suffering olympics” or “making themselves miserable” we just naturally feel this way. its not performative. its not a choice. i am filled with overwhelming grief. i find myself in tears at random times during the day, even when i’m not actively thinking about palestine, when im just cooking breakfast or watching a silly cartoon, trying to give myself a moments break from everything, my body still feels this pain and it comes in waves whether i want it to or not. we are feeling this shit in our bones, we cant help it.
“you still have to get up tomorrow” why?? and i don’t mean in a depressed sense, i mean that the insistence on continuing to go through the motions like normal bc well we just have to is cruel and senseless. its wrong that our society treats us like automatons who can just continue on, endlessly laboring and consuming, no matter what happens. the same way it was wrong in 2020 to expect people to just continue going to work and school in the middle of a pandemic as if everything was normal
in fact i think thats part of the reason people are so depressed and miserable. the grief will always be there but what makes it unbearable, what people are trying to express is that there is no where to put that grief in our society, there is no acknowledgement of it. even mentioning that you feel this way is taboo and will be met by shaming. people are expressing their pain and shock and heartbreak and what we get in return is “your suffering isn’t noble”
a gentle fact about this world is that people will want to help you. a cruel fact about it is that you do have to put on your big boy pants and open their contact on your phone and say some human words to ask them for it
dude the attitude around parents is so weird and specific. what is that about
with almost every other relationship its like. ok to almost everyone to just back out if worst comes to worst. your girlfriend is an asshole? break up with her. your boss sucks? quit your job. your friend is annoying? stop talking to them. but with parents its oh NO you only get ONE of those you MUST maintain contact with your parents NO MATTER WHAT
‘you only get one mom’ 'you only get one dad’ i only get one 3rd grade math teacher too but you dont see ms johnsons name and number in my phone do you
It’s still kinda wild how Phineas and Ferb managed to completely hijack an idiom. Now whenever someone hears a sentence leading with “If I had a nickel for everytime […]”, odds are their brain auto fills with “I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice,” rather than “I’d be rich,” or “I could [action that requires purchasing something requiring an obscene amount of money]”. Y'know, what the idiom originally was
and there is some stiff competition here at the International Penis Championships in sunny Montreal as the competitors limber up for the all important second round
aspenspeaks said: I’m so sad I found this joke before it has a bunch of notes to scroll through because you know they’re going to be gold
unless they choke in the finals! oh no it’s a wash out
I have an awful habit of leaving things unfinished.
I don’t know if that’s a trait I picked up from my childhood but my projects always end off a cliff. I used to send my writing to friends, excited to show new updates or how much more had been written since the last, and they’d groan playfully, saying they wanted more and to keep going. But once I get that first impression and validation I no longer want to continue. Someone has seen my work and now it’s spoiled. I’m still proud of it, but not enough to finish, not enough to finish the story that I think about when I’m alone in bed. I’m the same with projects. If I don’t finish in one sitting I won’t allow myself to go back to it.
There’s a quote that’s like: I am a mess of unfinished words, of half strung sentences. I am an empty paragraph, a half cleaned kitchen. I am an unfinished love song, a letter that was never sent. I am half worked on and I am waiting for a sculptor to come and sculpt me. A painter to paint over me. I am waiting for someone to take care of me.
I am waiting for someone to move the pen in my hand and finish the rest of my letter. I am waiting for someone to walk with me to the post office and mail my letter. I am waiting for someone to sing my half finished song and to write the last word in my unfinished chapter. I am waiting for someone to complete all of me that is so incomplete.
being terrified of your friends finding out you have riveting opinions like “trans men experience oppression specifically for their gender” is honestly exhausting
it’s literally just ace discourse but people who never bought into that exclusionism think it’s cool this time
hearing “I’m gonna become a baeddel” from people you heard mocking exclusionism in ace discourse and bi lesbian discourse and transmed discourse when it’s literally the same shit just. hurts. why is itme you forfeit your morals over? why now?
and a reminder: this is how exclusionism functions
it’s the same mindset, the same reasoning, the same arguments, the same tactics over and over and over again. this isn’t a flaw, it’s a part of the design
because it’s Looking for people who are susceptible to the Mindset, but haven’t been shown an “"acceptable”“ victim yet.
people who know that you’re not supposed to hate trans women or gay people or ace people or- eventually there will come a kind of person that you Don’t understand. that’s different from you, or that you have complicated feelings towards, or that you’ve never heard of.
and people who Only know that exclusionism is bad because of the Specific Victims being targeted are vulnerable to this. can be lied to, can be manipulated.
and what makes this scary is that once someone has bought into the Mindset the Victim Can Be Changed.
ace exclusionism was a terf recruiting tactic. this is a known fact. terfs were Openly courting ace exclusionists, they Openly spread ace exclusionist rhetoric, there were terfs who came out and said that they were drawn into it Through ace exclusionism.
it was to the point that a terf post would gain some steam, and within a day the Literal Exact Same Post would show up in the ace exclusionism tag with "ace people” swapped out with “trans women.”
your friends that were willing to stand up for ace people once upon a time might not be willing to do the same in a few years if they’re walking down the exclusionism path now. it’s Easier than some people would like to admit to go from hating one kind of trans person to hating All trans people.
and that’s exactly Why it’s important to understand how exclusionism works, how radfem rhetoric works. it’s not enough to just hate a specific kind of exclusionism or to recognize that it’s wrong to hurt a specific kind of victim. because the Methods, the Mindsets, the talking points, they’re Fundamentally harmful. and you Can be tricked by them if you don’t know what to look for.
Additionally, there are people that full out hate the target, and others who will say “but they’re not as oppressed as they say they are.”
Both of these are exclusionists. Just to different degrees. And thinking the second one will almost certainly lead you to a pipeline of believing the first one.
As someone who has personally had to take those calls, they do matter. It just doesn’t matter what you say in the call: the only way your calls actually reach the politician is a tally sheet of each call received on different topics. End of the day/week, the politician gets told “you had X many calls about people wanting you to do this, Y many calls about people wanting you to do this, etc.”
Individual calls matter little, but if they get tons of calls on one topic then they take it seriously. The example above was probably during a time where the office was flooded with so many calls at once that they took the phones off the hook, which actually means that calls are working especially well. When the phones are blowing up, everyone in the office notices.
The best call to your representative does not involve you making an impassioned and well-argued case, because you’re probably talking to an intern. The most effective call you can make takes 15 seconds: “I am from [place in your district] and I am very pissed about [topic].”
OI. PEOPLE IN THE THREAD. CAN WE REBLOG THIS VERSION PLEASE. DON’T STOP MAKING CALLS.
But also as another person further up says, don’t let your activism start and stop with phone calls either.
DON’T TRUST ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU NOT TO PARTICIPATE
As a general rule, if you’re having food cravings, you should probably pay attention to that, because it’s usually a sign that your body needs something. Like, if you’ve just finished a workout and are suddenly desperately craving fries? Maybe you’re low on salt, you did just sweat a whole bunch. Period cravings for junk food? Your body’s under some stress and working hard, you need energy, and foods with a lot of fat and/or sugar are an easy way to get that.
Back in the early 1900’s when exploring Antarctica was all the rage, y'know what was a major part of everyones daily rations? Butter. Just butter. The men out on the sledging teams would have cravings to eat entire sticks of butter with nothing else, so that was included in their rations. And that happened because under those extreme circumstances, their bodies desperately needed as many calories as possible, so their diet consisted mainly of butter, chocolate, and animal fat. Eating entire sticks of butter was the healthiest possible diet for them.
That’s an extreme example of course, but my point is, there’s no such thing as inherently Good or Bad food. Anything that’s edible can be healthy under the right circumstances, just like anything can be an unhealthy choice under the wrong circumstances. Your body knows what it needs. Listen to it. Unless you’re actively going through a serious medical situation, you do not need a tightly restricted diet. Diet culture is a scam, body fat is natural and healthy, food is good for you, and calories are the fuel your body needs to power its continued survival.
Once again wizards all over the world are teased with the promise of the Superb Owl only to have all their hopes dashed by sports ball game that lasts 4 hours
WRONG
Superb Owl Time
(Courtesy of our local zoo which is home to many Superb Owls)
“genre-savvy” no i want a genre-unsavvy protagonist. scratch that, i want a genre-deluded protagonist.
i want a protagonist who is convinced until the last possible moment that they’re in a lighthearted romcom–despite the proliferation of slasher murders. give me a soccer dad who is just so determined to enjoy family vacation, despite the fact the kids summoned an eldritch deity from the lake. a preteen who is experiencing a coming-of-age saga and annoyed their parents aren’t emotionally present (the parents are distracted by a literal zombie apocalypse). endless possibilities
I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up “anime cabbage” I found the source.
Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.
A complaint, apparently in a paper.
The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.
And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.
I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.
i love learning about other cultures’ memes, especially like this
i love finding poetry in the mundane, and yesterday i stumbled upon something that just hits that spot
So, my partner has an old phone- It served them for many years now, but it has one issue: Charging it is hard. Their current charger is hanging on by a thread (literally), and can barely do its job. The phone and the charger came together: They’ve never used another charger for said phone.
Now, they’ve tried to replace the charging cord several times. But it doesn’t matter how much they’ve searched what damned specific charger the phone uses, none of them work. They finally decided to bring it to a phone shop and ask what should they use.
The guy at the shop looked at the phone for a bit, and explained: “The port itself is broken. The charger you have works with this phone because they’ve mutually broken each other into the same shape, in a way that no other charger is shaped. The port itself has corroded in a way that only accepts the charger that shaped it like that in the first place.”
And while this is of course a frustrating situation for my partner, I feel like there’s a metaphor here. I could write a goddamn story about this. These two half-broken old things have been together for so long they’ve destroyed each other in a way that keeps them from working with anything else. They’ve hurt each other in a way that barely keeps them functioning together, and have been rendered useless with literally anything else.
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