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People who wear glasses! What is your reason for wearing them?

nearsighted

Shortsighted

Astigmatism

A secret fourth thing? (Put in tags!)

Don't wear glasses/see results

I have an astigmatism and retinitis pigmentosa :)

Nearsighted girl here 🤓 - H :)

#migraines can cause vision issues #I need reading glasses all of a sudden even though my eyes are like 20/20 last I checked #gotta love neurological bullshit

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some of you need to romanticise the fucking paragraph break

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he had it coming

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REBLOG IF ITS OKAY TO TALK TO YOU.

Please.

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February 21, 2023 - FINAL UPDATE

For a chronological timeline of the entire Harper strike, click here.

Today was the Harper Union’s first day back at their desks.

Collective action works.

The union tweeted out a full summation of their agreement with HarperCollins here, but the highlights are as follows:

Minimum wage increase, immediately to $47,500 with a ramp-up to $50,000 by 2025.

A $1,500 bonus for all union members, presumably to partially offset the costs of being left without a paycheck by their company since November

Guaranteed annual raises for all marked satisfactory or above

Union letter and membership card included in new-hire packets

Joint Labor/Management committee to meet monthly

Time on aforementioned committee and/or all company-sponsored DEI activities will be seen as and paid as work time (as opposed to the free labor junior employees were expected to contribute previously)

Juneteenth and Presidents’ Day added as permanent paid holidays (as opposed to, you know, a one-time publicity stunt a la June 2020)

Return-to-office not mandated for union employees until July 1 (currently, Harper expects employees to live and work in NYC)

The above are just the guaranteed, contractually mandated changes that will be implemented at Harper. This does not include the ripple effects that have already begun in the rest of the industry.

Collective action works.

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Chaos in Ocean l Mark Dobson l Cornwall, England

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Sirius: sorry, I was busy being a bad bitch. Can I cry in your arms now?

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Please reblog if you don’t mind

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don’t let anyone else ruin your day. it‘s YOUR day. ruin it yourself.

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Sorry to all those "sirius can sing" stans...but headcannon sirius black sounds like a dying cat singing in the shower and he thinks he sounds angelic...and james changes the subject when he brings it up, peter runs out of the room and remus never shuts up ab how he actually sounds like he's being murdered when he sings "Is there Life On Mars?" by David Bowie

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Walburga: GO TO YOUR ROOM SIRIUS. YOU'RE SUCH A BLOODY BRAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.

Kreacher: what did master do wrong?

Sirius: Called my self a son of a bitch...

Kreacher *shaking his head*: No one is more hated then he who speaks truth

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So excited to share my artwork for this year's @dragonageannual charity calendar! 🐺🌿

I had a wonderful time collaborating with such an amazing group of artists, writers, translators and mods 💖

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January 26, 2023

For the full timeline and tons of information on the HarperCollins strike, here’s the long post.

It has been FIFTY-SIX days since the HarperCollins Union went on strike… and Harper has at last agreed to sitting down with an independent, mutually agreed upon mediator to at least discuss the Union’s demands.

What this means:

- The pressure is working. Brian Murray and the leadership at HarperCollins have spent the last fifty-six days lying, spinning, hiring scabs, and doing everything except speaking to their union employees. That they’re even willing to talk now means the steady pushback has made things uncomfortable.

Therefore: Keep writing to [email protected]! Keep supporting the strike fund! Keep buying your books through the union’s Bookshop page! And keep sharing the union’s posts online and in your in-person communities!

- The strike IS NOT OVER. No agreement has been reached. Do not post reviews of Harper titles, accept work for any of their imprints, submit manuscripts for consideration, or in any way cross that picket line.

Additionally: The union is holding two separate rallies for folks in New York. The first, on January 31, is for industry professionals. The second, on February 2, is outside the NewsCorp HQ and is for everyone. If you’re not in the metro area and can’t attend, I’m sure folks would appreciate online support. New York is cold and gross and wet right now.

This is not the time to ease up, but rather to push HarperCollins, News Corp, and Rupert Murdoch even harder to cede to the beyond reasonable demands of their employees and to put an end to this absolute farce that they initiated.

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Sometimes people comment on my posts about how they miss the Dragon Age games and I'm like...cannot relate I play them on repeat, constantly, like a hamster in a hamster wheel. Yes this is my 16th run of inquisition. Yes this is my 10th run of da2. What of it?

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Today was absolutely terrible, but I also rediscovered how much of a game-changer it is having the Hobbit soundtrack on in the background while completing mundane tasks. Scrubbed the kitchen floor to Howard Shore’s “An Unexpected Party” this evening.