#essential industries

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Packers Vote For Union," Winnipeg Tribune. October 30, 1943. Page 17. --- In a vote taken at the Canada Packers' St. Boniface plant Friday night more than 1,000 company employes approved local 216, United Packinghouse Workers of America, as their sole collective bargaining agency.

It was reported that the overwhelming majority of 1.007 favored the union. There were 70 votes against it, and 18 spoiled ballots. The question posed the workers was: "Are you in favor of being represented for the purpose of collective bargaining with Canada Packers Ltd. by Local 216, U.P. W.A.?"

The secret vote was conducted at the plant under the authority of Chief Justice A. E. McPherson, recently-appointed commissioner of inquiries into the long dispute between Canada Packers management and employes. Harris S. Johnstone, regional industrial relations officer, for the department of labor, Ottawa, is assisting the chief justice.

Earlier this week company and union officials reached a settlement on the dispute and signed a four-point agreement. One of the points stated that the question of representation should be determined "and the usual procedure of an election among production and maintenance employes be conduct- ed by the Dominion department of labor."

Adam Borsk is the field representative of local 216, U.P.W.A.

#winnipeg #packing plant #meat packing #meat packers #union affiliation #union recognition #united packinghouse workers of america #st. boniface #canada during world war 2 #meat industry #industrial relations #essential industries #regulatory state #birth off the technocratic state

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

#it actually would be way better if they didnt work and made no money bc businesses would abandon them #this isnt like stocks where everythings abstract and is essentially gambling (i dont understand stocks) #like ppl in the ad industry create things. that make a tangible and quantifiable impact on the business #which is then used in further ad planning. it is NOT all smoke and mirrors #like its fake in that the industry is not providing a necessary service the way like. grocery stores are #but its not the level of fake where everything is abstract like theres deliverables #moreover there is an extensive body of academic work specifically on how to make ads more effective #ALSO i think some of u views ads like. as if they have a win condition. which is you buy product #but in current advertising this is pretty rare and comparatively ineffective #which is why you see MANY ads which dont seem to be selling anything in particular. or which have nothing all to do with the product #the 'win' condition for THAT kind of ad is something more like 'viewers remember our name' #like. ex i would say ads for temu have not been effective on me bc i havent bought anything from them #but temu probably thinks they were SUPER effective on me because i talked abt them like 5 different times at work #and i do in fact know exactly what the company does and what they sell #and they were able to capitalize on the reputations of existing companies (wish shein etc) to build their own brand #good idea generator

[waitmyturtles]

Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: He’s Coming To Me Edition

[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. Today, I’ll cover He’s Coming To Me, how this show centers Thai-Chinese/Asian culture, shipper culture, and the brilliance of Ohm Pawat and Singto Prachaya. THIS IS A LONG POST.]

I’m gonna have to hold myself down for this one. He’s Coming To Me. This kind of show. HCTM is ABSOLUTELY the reason why I created this project watchlist in the first place -- to watch this kind of show. This show cements my utter respect and passion for the work of Aof Noppharnach. This guy’s work needs to be taught in schools. 

I’m like -- after days of finishing HCTM, and furiously and hungrily rewatching episodes, I am still shaking my damn head at this show. I knew it was great, but y’all didn’t prepare me for ITS GREATNESS. (And to be watching it the same week as Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars -- it’s been an Aof-themed moment, and I’m a touch overwhelmed by EVERYTHING I’ve absorbed.)

I am actually contemplating -- I’m seriously contemplating this! -- if I like this show better than either Bad Buddy or Moonlight Chicken. I know, I KNOW. I’m not talking about the story, the structure, the filming, the writing and direction. I’m literally just talking about my own damn preferences. I might just LIKE this show better, for what it held, what it told, and how the show showed so much respect for its story.

And there’s a lot I want to touch on in this piece, so as usual, a little list for myself:

1) Where this show came from vis à vis the watchlist, and what I think it meant by way of previous BLs 2) The Asianness of the show and how it transcended the usual BL tropes 3) A celebration of Aof’s favorite themes, and how cool it was to see them being born in HCTM (including the theme of young/first love that I haven’t seen before in his work) 4) A hopefully brief and not angry reflection on shipper culture, homophobia, Ohm, Singto, and how that affected HCTM in the annals of Thai BL

Without having seen his My Dear Loser work, or his screenwriting for Gay OK Bangkok 1 and 2 (which I plan to watch after the OGMMTVC is over, in preparation for Only Friends): HCTM is the first full Aof vehicle to enter my watchlist. So just quickly looking behind me: I’ve had shows like Love Sick, SOTUS, Together With Me, Love By Chance -- shows that began to toe the line, then define the line, then sharpen the line of what BL was. As I wrote in my Love By Chance review last week, I felt that LBC was the first show on my watchlist that felt like a true derivative BL, complete with tropes that had been born during Love Sick and SOTUS, and sharpened over those first few years of the Thai BL industry growing.

So it’s 2019 now, and we get He’s Coming To Me, both written and directed by P’Aof. Tropes? No tropes. What a flip from LBC.

Instead, we get an absolute head-first dive into many of the themes that we see Aof continued to play with in his later works. For me, HCTM evoked Moonlight Chicken the most, especially for what I call the Asianness of this show -- Aof’s unabashed focus on Asian cultural themes and threads that create structure and movement for his characters.

Before I get ahead of myself, I want to thank @telomeke very deeply for chatting with me about how I could learn more about Thai-Chinese culture, because themes and behaviors related to Thai-Chinese demographics are clearly common in Thai BLs, and I’ve felt that it behooved me to learn more about the culture (or as much as I can from the internet) as I continue to review these shows. But @telomeke reminded me that a lot of the assimilation of Chinese cultures and populations mirror the cultural mixing that took and takes place in Malaysia, where a part of my family hails and where I’ve spent a good portion of my life. So I’m relieved that I actually understand more about Thai-Chinese culture than I gave myself credit for, BUT -- that’s only a caveat, because I still have so much more to learn.

I say this because I’m using this word, “Asianness,” to describe in part at least one impression I have about HCTM, which is taking seriously the theme of ghosts and what role ghosts play in a human’s life. We see very often in Japanese doramas the practice of praying at an altar honoring past ancestors -- ancestor culture and worship are big in Japan, and the doramas don’t shy away from that. We see temple trips all the time in doramas and BL doramas -- especially during New Year’s. (Our Dining Table being just the most recent one.) We see Buddhist temple culture in Thai BLs often -- in KinnPorsche, in Bed Friend, in Big Dragon, and very especially in Moonlight Chicken.

I think what I want to point out here, if I can say it eloquently, is that a Western viewer might find more notable in an Asian drama, than in a Western show, the inclusion of practices of spirituality. In the West, spirituality might be indicated by a trip to a church, or prayer. But it strikes me -- and maybe this is because I’m a first-generation Asian-American, my eyes open to ALL the differences between my culture and America -- that Asian dramas incorporate the practices of spirituality more seamlessly, because practices like lighting an incense stick and giving a quick prayer before breakfast is more culturally embedded in places like Japan or Thailand. The practice is there, and you just do it, because that’s what you do for your culture. (I often see a stick of incense lit and burning next to a plate of fruits in the early mornings when I jog past Thai restaurants. It’s just -- what you do.)

It struck me, and I still wonder about it, if Western viewers may have thought that Thun was going overboard with his interest in Thai-Chinese Buddhist practices, including being so diligent about offering alms to the passing monks, going to the temple for merits, and keeping electric incense sticks on him to make sure that Med wouldn’t disappear. An auntie on Whatsapp might cock a curious eyebrow, but also regard Thun as a “good boy” who’s devoted to the temple.

In any case, this struck me particularly deeply, because I think, if P’Aof had been a little more abashed, that he could have toned this theme down -- the theme of the everyday practice of Buddhism.

And he didn’t. He didn’t tone it down. He leveraged it as THE major theme of the drama: that ghosts exist in Thai-Chinese-Buddhist culture and practice, and that some people can communicate with ghosts, including both Thun and his mom. 

The ABSOLUTELY wonderful @telomeke​ affirmed this for me, writing so eloquently: “Underlying HCTM is an unshakeable belief in the spirit world, and it's also a given ... for a majority of people in SE Asia and Thailand in particular that the spiritual realm is as much a part of the everyday world as much as the physical reality of what we can see and touch.”

The reason why I’m hammering on this in particular is because it categorizes the show as one that is utterly representative of A SPECIFIC CULTURE -- just like Moonlight Chicken, with its commentaries on spiritual and economic practices of the particular place of Pattaya. @telomeke​, I know you have specific feelings about the ending of HCTM, which I’ll get to in a moment, but I think for me, the ending of HCTM is deeply satisfying BECAUSE of this connection to Thai-Buddhist culture, what it says about ghosts and spirits, and how they continue to be incorporated in the ongoing life of a young Thai adult like Thun. AND, I appreciated that the ending skirted, just slightly, what we might have expected about someone losing their lover (à la Eternal Yesterday). Thun only temporarily lost Med... but Med still doesn’t quite exist. And I think there’s layers there that I’ll hopefully get to teasing out, either here or in a future post.

Going back to BL tropes and structures... I mean, HCTM was just like, yo, I’m gonna play in another ball field. I’ll have more thoughts on this after I watch Dark Blue Kiss, but at least, as far as I’m aware WITHOUT having seen DBK yet, that it’s not until late 2021 that P’Aof begins playing in the BL sandbox, takes his toy dump truck, and turns the tropes upside down in Bad Buddy.

And I see, in HCTM, P’Aof laying the groundwork for the themes that he DOES love, that I happen to love, and that get repeated in his oeuvre:

- The theme of community: the need for young and old queer individuals to interact with other queer individuals (most recently depicted in OS2/BBS/ATOTS) - The theme of NOSTALGIA: Med having never left his moment 20 years prior, listening to the same music of Thun’s mom’s generation (nostalgia being most recently depicted in Moonlight Chicken) - The parable of 1,000 stars: what it means to be the last star on which to make a wish (most recently depicted in ATOTS and OS2/ATOTS) - The anguish of coming out: Thun, Uncle Jim, Li Ming, Pran coming out to Dissaya -- all heavy, all impactful, all different stories that carry heaviness and their own meaning to each of these incredible characters

And there’s so many more. But what I really want to do, to get up on the rooftops that P’Aof loves so much, and YELL TO THE AIR is:

THE GENIUS, THE SHEER GENIUS, of linking these themes -- many of these as ASIAN themes! -- to specific issues that face the queer community, such as coming out, and being invisible (like a ghost) in a majority cishet society. 

GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. Oh, the pain in my heart. This is exactly what I wrote in my notes while rewatching the show: “This is the first time we get Big Cultural Themes outside of issues with the queer community -- and Aof LINKS the Big Cultural Themes WITH queer issues -- the brilliance of it all.” Just like he did subsequently in Moonlight Chicken.

What was so beautiful to me about He’s Coming To Me -- and how it was channeled with GENIUS TALENT AND GRACE from Ohm and Singto -- is that, unlike Moonlight Chicken, this was the story of one young man who needed to sort out his feelings. And there was another young man, a young man who was killed, who HAD begun realizing his feelings, but was trapped by station (from a rich family) and role (the only son in a family). Med even said, it would have been impossible for him to come out as the only son of his family.

As far as we knew, Med had only come out to Kwan, Thun’s mom, before he died. Med may have very well been attracted to other men before he died -- but we see him VISCERALLY attracted to Thun, and vice versa, and that burst of first love for both young men, IN THE CONTEXT OF Thun’s spiritual practice and abilities to BRING Med to “life” in Thun’s life -- I mean. I’m shaking my head. It’s a parable for manifesting what you want in your life, and making it happen. 

And yet, what HCTM also touches on, is that many times, you DON’T get what you want in life. Med WILL disappear one day. He will be reborn. It wasn’t his time at the moment of the ending, but it will be his time one day. Thun only has Med temporarily -- we don’t see the WHEN of that. 

BUT. I would posit (and @telomeke​ and @wen-kexing-apologist​, I wonder what you think of this), à la OS2/Bad Buddy, that P’Aof is OKAY with us not seeing this, and not necessarily considering the ending of HCTM to be a happy ending for Thun and Med. Because he knows -- and he knows that his Asian viewers know -- that Med WILL leave Thun one day. Not yet, though. Thun still has a little time to grow wiser and older and stronger. But Med WILL disappear one day. He had been hinting at it all throughout every episode of the series. He will have to leave Thun’s side. 

I think the way the show ended was graceful. It leaves that door open for Med to find his rebirth, because was a good kid and deserves to be reborn in a happy life. It allows Thun time to grow through his first love -- first love being such an important theme to this show. It’s COMPASSIONATE to Thun, very similar to me to the kind of compassion that P’Aof showed to Uncle Jim throughout Moonlight Chicken, and just now in OS2/ATOTS to Phupha. But it’s also rooted in the SPIRITUAL REALITY that Med WILL leave -- just not yet. And P’Aof is saying, I didn’t need to show y’all, because y’all Asians already know, Med’s outta here one day. 

The other thing to note about the ending is that P’Aof had already shown a tremendous amount of Thun’s pain. Thun wasn’t necessarily HAPPY in this show. He was curious, exploring, and loyal to Med. While Thun is clearly a young man who DEMONSTRATES happiness -- MY GAWD, the 19-year-old smile of Ohm Pawat!!! -- I wouldn’t say that he was a happy child. He lost his dad young. He was SCARED as hell for potentially letting his mom down. And: he had a lot of secrets to keep. The secret of being gay. The secret of being able to see and talk to ghosts.

“He’s coming to me.” Thun comes out, twice. He’s gay, and can see ghosts. 

Even though others can’t see ghosts, I can. Even though others aren’t gay, I’m gay. Mom: I’m different. 

When Thun sobs for Med while holding onto the jar of stars in his bedroom. When Thun spins around, looking for Med on the rooftop in episode five. When Thun calls for Med and Med isn’t there. Thun is alone. He is alone with his secrets, and Med is not there -- he is NOT coming to Thun in those moments -- and Thun is left alone, different and unique, as he has been his whole life.

I’d posit that that uniqueness is particularly difficult to deal with in collectivist Asian societies as in Thailand -- which led, in part, to Thun not knowing the language of his feelings as he came out to Med in episode five on the rooftop, and being SCARED, to his bones, to come out to his friends and his mom in episode six.

For 2019: I see this show as being ahead of its time, way ahead of its time. I have lots of theories as to why this show isn’t considered a more striking part of the canon of Thai BLs, and the incredible @bengiyo​ and @shortpplfedup​ have helped me to understand the magnitude of the impact that P’Aof made in breaking up the KristSingto ship to pair Singto with Ohm -- and how the fan shippers came for HCTM, and pushed GMMTV to hide this show for years before finally releasing it on YouTube with subs.

But besides that fucking bullshit, which I’ll return to in a second, I also want to note that maybe -- considering that we have more years now, after 2019, to consider the massive trove of Thai BLs that exist now -- the skirting of the still-nascent BL tropes framework was too early for many when this show came out. As I’ve demonstrated here in this piece -- this show’s complicated. There’s A LOT A LOT. I mean, I’m in love with P’Aof’s work because I LIKE HAVING A LOT in my shows. But you go a flip side and you get Together With Me and MaxTul with love bites and throaty kisses (in the words of Seinfeld, not that there’s anything wrong with that). 

HCTM is heavy. It carried a lot that wasn’t overtly sexual by nature, like many BLs at that moment in 2019 and right beforehand (randy Perth, randy MaxTul, etc.).

I understand from @bengiyo​ and @shortpplfedup​ that, because Ohm needed to move on from Make It Right and the OhmToey ship due to Toey leaving BL after MIR, and Ohm joining forces with Singto, that Ohm received massive criticism, and continues to be a subject of criticism and bullying today (some of which I’ve seen on this site). And that Singto was also the subject of online bullying as well.

With all of this in mind -- Ohm, Singto, and the unique nature of HCTM -- I’m continuing to mull over the issue of homophobia in shipper culture. If BLs are reduced down SIMPLY to the pairings that lead these shows -- and that there’s an EXPECTATION that the shows NEED to depict certain acts of queer sexuality, SPECIFICALLY among actors who identify as straight -- that seems straight up homophobic to me.

I can see HCTM being too ahead of its time to begin shifting that paradigm. I’ll see what Dark Blue Kiss does next in the Aof oeuvre from this purview, but what I want to get at is:

IT IS CRIMINAL THAT HCTM ISN’T MORE WIDELY KNOWN. This show is affecting me literally at the same level as Bad Buddy and Moonlight Chicken.

What HCTM HELD by way of Asian culture and spirituality, by the RESPECT IT HAD for the experience of first young queer love, by LEVERAGING the ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE OF ACTING OF OHM AND SINGTO (omg, AND SINE INTHIRA, are you kidding me?!?!?), and, oh shit, by BRINGING THAT ALL TOGETHER? To TELL a story of queerness and spirituality in Thailand?

Fuck. I’m just shaking my head. If it’s too much for the shipper folk, then... okay, go off. Leave the good stuff to me and the fam that GETS IT — the fam that gets that what we’re watching is ART, and not intended vessels for fantasy and fetish.

Last notes. I just want to say that in my SOTUS reviews, that I theorized that Singto would be brilliant when paired with a really good actor, and HCTM proved it to me. If it weren’t for this fucking shipper bullshit, I would have liked to see Singto and Ohm paired again.

Ohm is probably the most prevalent actor on my Thai BL list. I get that he was nicknamed “the king of BL,” and that he’s been the target of bias for that label and his predilection for being utterly brilliant in telling queer stories (thank you to @bengiyo​ and @miscellar​ for helping to fill me in on this).

Let me just say that this man is a goddamn MASTER. @shortpplfedup​ nailed it in her Ohm appreciation post.  @absolutebl summarizes why Ohm is singular in this BL space. Shippers who want to bully the mans, bring him down or whatever, spread misinformation, I want to say, angrily and rudely -- fuck off, and be afraid of talent in y’alls lives. 

With the tangle of homophobia and cyberbullying that seem to have an overstated impact on the Thai BL industry, it is a damn shame that Ohm doesn’t get more of his flowers, because he makes shows better. I mean: this guy OWNS ROOFTOPS. Episode five of HCTM?! Episode five of Bad Buddy?! Get this guy on a rooftop and he will SLAY. Pair him with people -- Singto? Nanon? Perth? OHM MAKES THESE GUYS BETTER ACTORS than they ever were previously.

I say the following, in all honesty, with a touch of disdain, of condescension, and sadness, for the people who don’t watch this show because it doesn’t have pectorals or hot make-out sessions, and because it features actors that many fans might want to bully:

HCTM does not have the reputation that it deserves. It’s not just a good show. It’s an HONORABLE show. For me, it pays homage to Asian cultures and practices that I relate to. It features a story of queer revelations and love that is written with passion and respect. It features probably the best acting I’ve seen so far on my watchlist. And it features two actors who were willing to subvert expectations, at the risk of their own careers, to tell this story, as written and directed by one of of the most brilliant, subversive, experimental, and creative filmmakers I’ve ever watched in Aof Noppharnach.

I want and need BL fans to appreciate Asian culture more in these shows. And I want and need BL fans to appreciate human behavior development as well. Because P’Aof is telling stories out here, stories that can enrich our lives. I wrote in my Bad Buddy thesis that BBS will be required viewing for my children. HCTM joins that list. HCTM makes me want to be a better Asian mother, and to make a world for my children where the experience of first love and coming out can be regarded not with pain, but with celebration and joy.

[It’s going to take me a while to get over HCTM, but I’ve already begun Dark Blue Kiss, and am having a FABULOUS time with it. That opening theme! P’Aof and JOCKS! Yum. Another frappé, please.

Here’s the updated list! Much to the chagrin of everyone-I-know-on-Tumblr (I’M SORRY @shortpplfedup​), I’m adding a VERY fast rewatch of ATOTS. Blame it on Our Skyy 2. I’ll want to watch ATOTS after the cinematic affair that is ITSAY, and after I’ve seen P’Aof do his thing on two existing series in DBK/Kiss and Still 2gether. ATOTS was my very first P’Aof series, and I want to rewatch it in chronology.

Here we go. As always, I’ll take recs, comments, etc.!

1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 2) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 3) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here) 4) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here) 5) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 6) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here) 7) Love By Chance (2018) (review here) 8) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) 9) He’s Coming To Me (2019)  10) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018) (watching) 11) TharnType (2019) 12) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (I’m watching this out of order just to get familiar with OffGun before Theory of Love -- will likely not review) 13) Theory of Love (2019) 14) Dew the Movie (2019) (not an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but I want to watch this in chronological order with everything else) 15) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) 16) 2gether (2020) 17) Still 2gether (2020) 18) I Told Sunset About You (2020) 19) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche) 20) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 21) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake Of Rewatching Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS 22) Lovely Writer (2021) 23) I Promised You the Moon (2021) 24) Not Me (2021-2022) 25) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 26) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch 27) Secret Crush On You (2022) [watching for Cheewin’s trajectory of studying queer joy from Make It Right (high school), to SCOY (college), to Bed Friend (working adults)] 28) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 29) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 30) My School President (2022-2023) 31) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here) 32) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) (Cheewin’s latest show, depicting a queer joy journey among working adults)]

#he's coming to me #hctm #ohm pawat #singto prachaya #thun x med #med x thun #thai bl industry #shipper culture #asian culture in bl #asian culture in thai BLs #turtles catches up with old gmmtv #turtles catches up with thai BLs #turtles catches up with the essential BLs #the old gmmtv challenge #ogmmtvc #backaof noppharnach #aof noppharnach

[kdinjenzen]

Imma be real, it’s deeply upsetting as a trans voice actress to see everyone pouring out love for Bridget (Guilty Gear) and Lily (Zombie Land Saga) while simultaneously nearly ignoring Catalyst (Apex Legends) and other trans woman characters.

Every time I see the internet simping for a trans femme character their VA is a cis woman.

And then half the time the cis woman who is voicing that trans femme character is a TERF (Poison - Street Fighter).

I wish, very much, that people cared about the real people and real experiences of trans people as much as they care about fictional characters.

#also YES it is super telling that the most beloved and widely drawn trans women in games are essentially loli-girls #it says a LOT about how the world and industry want to see us #and it also shows that they very much like using our identity as free advertising while still getting their fettish-points in too #it’s so disheartening

[velvet-vexations]

We know Kipperlilly hated the Bad Kids but how are we defining 'hate'? This is a longshot but what if she wasn't actually planning on targeting them personally for death etc. until that first meeting in the cafeteria? Because she approached them with serene grace then and for awhile after despite BLeeM's amazing acting it making it visibly clear she was struggling to not respond negatively to the bullying. Sure, she arranged for Frosty Fair to be held at the Thistlespring's, but we now know that wasn't about Gorgug at all and he may not have been personally in danger from what they were attempting. Maybe she even expected Kristen would be grateful for reuniting Cassandra with Ankarna.

Of course, I don't think Cassandra wanted to be reunited with Ankarna, Ankarna is obviously evil and all of this is evil, but what if the Rat Grinders have been hoodwinked this whole time, or at least up until a recent point of no return? Yolanda and the Loams could have died purely from Ankarna filling them with too much rage, it's possible the RGs had no intentional part in making that happen.

So like, what if Kipperlilly obsessively hated the Bad Kids, yes, but was on at least some level aware it was irrational? Because she'd gone all these years without blowing-up or striking out at them at all, maybe she knew to some extent that her hatred was disproportionate if only in regards to what they personally did wrong, right up until she finally had a face-to-face conversation with them and one of them literally entered the election just to keep her from winning?

The only crease to this is that for as much as Brennan has been desperately trying to signal to the IHs that Kipperlilly isn't Solace Hitler, and partly because of that, it's unlikely Euegnia is intended to be wrong when she speculates that Mazey only isn't dead for practical reasons and describes Kipperlilly finding her as holding her grave hostage.

#dimension 20 #kipperlilly copperkettle #but honestly IMO it's a rare BLeeM L to describe it that way like that's just succeeding at the goal of finding a dead person #and everyone is in the adventuring industry has the attitude of defining adventuring as essentially murder and plunder #and we can't say “well it's not that bad in comparison” because obviously there has to be SOME moral norms #but digging up graves just to cast Speak With Dead or find some mcguffin someone was buried with is so within the scope of adventuring #so calling that desecration is a huge stretch IMO

[myothertardisisonthemun]

#i come at this with no agenda no not at all i definitely haven't written countless letters to MPs trying to save a similar museum no.... #there's no reason i am tagging this #powerhouse museum #i could be thinking about any #museum #like #questacon #or the #Museum of Science and Industry #or maybe im thinking of #London Science Museum #it could be any #technology museum #or #science museum #It's going to be the Tumblr #Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences #and we will never let a CEO earn half a million a year while she denies funds for essential maintenance and strips out educational content #if i had more spots i would have added in one for the history of communications exhibit and #the Emergence of AI exhibit the old founding director proposed but as you can tell #i am very much grinding an axe right now

[nansheonearth]

Dear french people in america:

Please fucking tip

I don’t care about whatever cultural norms you have in france, people here need tips to pay rent. And no, a back of house fee is not the tip. If it were, it would say “tip” not “back of house fee”. 

#france #wages #workers rights #work #service industry #essential workers #o

[send-me-a-puffalope]

um so guess which genius got escorted back to the front of TSA by three police because they forgot their trainer balisong in their backpack…

#HELP 😭😭😭 im 4’10 and 100 lbs of pure anxiety #those police did NOT take me seriously JSJAJ #i essentially just told them it was a fidget toy (it wasn’t bladed at all) and they were just like #‘uh. don’t do it again ig’ #💀💀💀 #rip my $115 squid industries balisong tho #you will be sorely missed #MY FUCKING WALLET #THAT WAS A BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR MYSELF LAST YEAR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i was on the verge of panic attack for like a solid 10 minutes there tho cause i thought i was gonna cause us to miss our flight #nat’s rambles

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Packers' Help Problem Solved," Winnipeg Tribune. October 28, 1943. Page 13. ---- PACKING plants in the province which 10 days ago required between 700 and 800 new workers today had all their requirements filled excepting for a few experienced butchers which they would employ if they could get them. Within the next week the Farm Help Service said these probably would be available.

With their labor quotas supplied the plants were now in a position to avoid a pile-up in stock shipments at their yards such as occurred 10 days ago. Many of their new workers have to be trained for a short time to reach. the required standard of efficiency.

Most of the new help came from farms in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, a direct result of the intensive canvass by the Farm Help Service during the last three weeks. About 200 came from Saskatchewan.

Help is still being solicited for other essential industries, such as lumber camps, pulpwood mills, fuel wood camps and the base metal mines. Volunteers are still coming in and allocated to where they are most needed by the selective service board.

The full time requirements for these industries, it was stated to- day, may not be filled because there are not enough men. Selective service officials today said there were hopes they could come reasonably near it but in the meantime the only course was to place the workers where it was considered their services were most needed.

#winnipeg #packing plant #meat packing #agricultural labourers #farm workers #manitoba farm help service #farming in canada #labour shortage #canada during world war 2 #meat industry #meat rationing #essential industries #war economy #manpower shortage

[intersectionalpraxis]

Please do your research before purchasing essential oils. I cannot stress this enough.

I used to work in an aromatherapy shop and based on my experiences -the best 'advice' anyone can give you is that despite any amount of training the store/employer provides its' employees (even if it's extensive) -you still should be connecting to a trusted/reliable doctor/medical professional you know.

There will always contraindications to essential oils (like never use them when you're on certain medications/are breastfeeding) -for instance, Peppermint Oil can help most people with headaches but it promotes vasoconstriction so folks on high blood pressure meds need to be careful or avoid it altogether. Or the fact that a majority of oils are never safe to use when diffusing around pets & babies (there are some but even so, you shouldn't be diffusing around a child under two and certainly not without ventilation and not for hours everyday). There's no doubt there are some great benefits to aromatherapy, but being properly informed about them is key.

Also, just because something is 'natural,' doesn't mean it will be better for you. The purist/'clean' alternative to 'x' discourse that is often attached in marketing campaign's/or is insinuated within the wellness industry is problematic & is meant to exploit people, who sometimes come into aromatherapy because of distrust of the medical industrial complex -which is of course valid, but please be wary & ask questions.

I have seen troubling things online yet again, and I know this isn't my usual content but it's important to talk about.

#feminist #do some research #essential oils #aromatherapy #ableism #wellness industry #fuck capitalism #commodification #healthism #medical industrial complex

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

"Yeah, this won't have any lasting affects on my psyche," I say as I click on my 17th Scary Interesting video of the day.

#kee speaks #i don't even know where this channel came from but it showed up on my recommendations last night and now it's my entire youtube algorithm #if you like horror or true crime you might find it interesting #there's a whole series on people who have died while spelunking or deep sea diving #or people who have had to survive on deserted islands #(like people who lived on basically a sand bar?? for 15 YEARS?? what the fuck??) #most of the stuff i've listened to today are essentially people vs nature #and one video was about to veer into industrial accidents and that was too much for me #ALSO: the narrator is like really descriptive?? Like some of the incidents he talks about is almost like listening to #someone's first hand account or as though you're listening to a written story #if that makes sense #he's very detailed #and if he's talking about an image that is shown on screen that is specifically relevant #he'll say 'for those listening only' and then describe the photo #and it's fantastic

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Apparently, everything we know about light, optics, biology and evolution is just a lie and a big conspiracy to... *checks notes*... sell you glasses.

As expected, behind every single "alternative medicine" grifter is a product they want to sell you.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-glasses-influencer-samantha-lotus-says-she-can-heal-your-eyesight-for-dollar11

“You may have been told that you need glasses, but that’s actually a lie.” So says Samantha Lotus, a self-described “holistic master coach” and Canadian online wellness influencer, who says she can teach you to see clearly again for only $11. Lotus is offering her tens of thousands of social media followers the chance to throw away their glasses and heal the “spiritual, emotional, mental and physical reasons” behind their bad eyesight, according to an Instagram post. Lotus says she teaches “holistic multidimensional healing” methods and has already healed her own eyesight, so that she no longer needs glasses, according to her social media. In a post on Friday, Lotus claimed she had 338 people signed up to take her online masterclass. But there’s a catch: “If you’re closed minded and want to stay a victim, this is NOT FOR YOU,” she writes.

Someone actually paid to attend, "so you don't have to." After over an hour of ramble, it pivoted into selling essential oils and other nonsense.

#Samantha Lotus #Big Optometry #glasses #conspiracy theory #conspiracy theorists #eyesight #scammers #alternative medicine #essential oils #quackery #wellness #pseudoscience #pseudoscientific bullshit #holistic medicine #wellness industry #religion is a mental illness

[wayti-blog]

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

#work #life #balance #harmony #nature #responsibility #respect #woods #industry #enterprise #economy #paradigm shift #transformation #useless jobs #essential work #society #service #free time #henry david thoreau #quote

[raineyraven]

can i just say that it's very obvious when a good omens s3 theorist isn't a writer

#this applies to a lot of good omens s3 speculation ive seen #but especially the coffee theory #like. do you think a proffesional writer who has been in the industry for decades would craft such a dramatic and tragic season finale #that highlights the motivations weaknesses and insecurities of each character #just to later say that one of the characters minds was being tampered with #that would essentially ruin a really well written moment of revelation and seperation between two very deep characters #nevermind the fact that the scene was very in character #and the narrative framing didnt paint aziraphale's decision as strange or suspicious at all #also the idea that crowley and aziraphale will make up early in s3 #havent seen many people actually believe that one but its still worth mentioning #because a season finale that divided them both so terribly by revealing their innermost wants #sets up a full season of attempts and fails at reconcilation persuasion and understanding really really well #just saying #thats my rant for the week. peace #good omens #good omens 3 #crowley #aziraphale

[pummelingbat]

see, i actually think the problem with Gorillaz getting any kind of feature-length film and/or an animated series that is plot driven at all is that by this point in the band's existence it would be impossible for them to produce something that would meet fan expectations...

i've noticed that the nature of Gorillaz as a largely decentralized collaborative project means that everyone wants something different out of it, you know? fans tend to engage with it on wildly differing levels, depending on how engaged they are with a specific era of the band, a specific take on the characters, with the the actual musicians behind it, etc etc etc... by now the idea of "Gorillaz, but as a concrete narrative in a linear medium" has been so long hyped-up that i'd be willing to bet every demographic of fan has a very specific vision for what that looks like. and you just can't cater to all of them at once.

esp given the Gorillaz track record over the years of taking on projects that are way, way over-ambitious for the resources it has, i feel like through no fault of the band it'd be hard for the final product to be anything other than underwhelming...

idk Gorillaz is so interesting to me because of how amorphous it is, and always has been, as a project. i feel like that's just a quality that's been baked into the concept from the start, and i really wonder if trying to fully tie that down would please anybody as much as they think it would.

#txt #like rise of the ogre works because its so... idk. diagetic? #it feels organic bc its not. idk. trying to tell a dramatic story necessarily. its just a whole lot of flavor text essentially. #and i know i say this literally all the time but plastic beach was never finished for a reason lol #gorillaz are at the whims of so many things... damon and jamies interest in it. the capricious music industry tastes. #whether or not it can actually monetize itself in a post-mtv world. which its struggled with consistently since phase 3. #im sorry tis is so fucking long i just think thoughts

[bandzboy]

also btw if anyone finds articles about either the boycott, scooter braun being called out, or about zionism in the music industry in general or even anything positive about boycotts in the music industry you can send it to me so i can post on the dove's melody project blog!

#other than that blog being informative for boycotts #i also want to post articles and other things in the same vein essentially #like news about anything relating to music industry palestine and people making efforts to get zionists out of the industry #tris.txt