me: hey how long is this thing going to last
someone: haha you just want to know when you’re off the hook
me: hah
me: (actually i just need to allocate the right expectations and backlog of energy and make sure the rest of my day falls in good accordance with it so that i don’t feel time-crunched and propel myself into a hysteria because if i don’t know how long this thing lasts or when it ends i can’t possibly know when literally anything else starts and my entire life becomes an unraveled realm of anarchy with no rhyme or reason and how is that not terrifying to you)
me: hey how long will this take
someone: oh like twenty minutes
me: ok
*an hour later*
me: *clinging to every learned social skill i can think of with the desperate hope my distress and exhaustion doesn’t show*
someone: hey we’re almost done don’t be so crabby
me: *smiling* *internally screaming at this SENSELESS CHAOS*
someone: hey do you want to do [involving time-consuming thing]
me: hey that sounds fun! when were you thinking?
someone: oh we’re doing it right now
me: oh. like. now-now? like right now. like you want me to stop what i’m doing and get up and do this thing with you, suddenly, with thirty seconds of warning. now. like this second. immediately. now?
Symbolic
Neoliberalism
Just so everybody knows, this interpretation of the Yale strike is from Fox News. What is actually happening is if a graduate WORKER must stop fasting for health reasons or otherwise collapses, they can start eating and another graduate worker can take their place.
My graduate worker’s union just fought my own university tooth and nail to keep our benefits and make our lives more liveable. Graduate workers and students are paid poverty wages, when we often are supporting our own families while under the poverty line. Don’t let this shitty interpretation of a very real struggle going on in so many US universities color how you view union struggles in higher education.
This is a good lesson in right-wing propaganda. Pretty much anytime you see folks fighting for legal rights and respectful treatment characterized as frivolous like it is here, you can be sure it’s being misrepresented to manipulate you into opposition.
This particular tactic is meant to take advantages of people who don’t know about a particular issue by presenting it in as negative a light as possible, knowing that most folks will reflexively defend their original position on an issue rather than change it when presented with new information.
The original tweet is in response to a tweet about Ellen Maud who sought out medical help and was routinely told to just lose weight. She later died of cancer.
writing ITTR chapter 38: in which Dorian Lestrange becomes a gay rights activist out of sheer spite, due to a misunderstanding.
Remember when I said I’m dropping the goal word count to 30K? I ended up writing 45K, which is 9 chapters of ITTR. Since a few days ago ppl picked the number 11, I’ll write 2 more chapters before i start editing and posting. That’ll then be iA 11 weeks of updates.
And then I’ll get back to TTN and the commissioned TTN-spinoff oneshot.
Fanfic authors: READ THE WHOLE FUCKING PAGE
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN AS A WRITER. I SAY THIS AS A READER AND A PROFESSIONAL GENRE EDITOR.
On one hand, this is great advice. Rly good.
On the other hand, fanfic authors: no one should expect perfection (or excellence, or anything tbh) from you, since y’all aint getting paid and the point is for y’all to have fun. So don’t feel the pressure to write well. God knows that’s what killing me rn.
Like idk I’m stressed again and remembering that I had most fun writing when I was just starting and not thinking about how to write well.
Did republicans forget Obama isn’t President?
There’s like no way they know what the word impeachment means.
Careful or we will get impeached too
i hate needing to sleep so fkn much
marlowfication 