Some motherfucker from the suburbs of a big city had the audacity to tell me, a person whose entire family is from a notorious Rust Belt city and who’s uncle still works the night shift at the glass factory, that factory jobs weren’t important in America, and that unions didn’t matter…
Be so serious right now, the bread factory and meat packing factory next to my hometown shut down and the 30,000 people that lived in surrounding towns and worked there, lost their jobs and their livelihoods because the state I live in decided to Union bust like it no tomorrow
The only thing that has protected workers in the Rust Belt is unions, not the government and the state government has been determined to shut down any, and all unions which results in all of the people in places like my hometown losing their jobs.
So your ass, coming from the fucking suburbs of Chicago doesn’t get to tell me that unions and factory workers arent important just because you live in a town where the high school teachers have fucking PhD’s and get paid more than an entire family of generational factory workers. Your lived experience does not hold up to the blue collar towns in states you look down on.
Unions are, and will always be the best and most effect way to protect workers from exploitation and the government and every single human being that has a job benefits from the work of unions in the decades past.
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Also, where I am ( for now? ) is where metaphors and excuses go to die.
You see, if we go one hour east, we are in the middle of the upstate New York farms, and I didn't see too many family dogs...
If we go two, there's a bridge crossing into Canada called the Rainbow Bridge. A young autistic me was very confused five years later, after that trip when ppl were discussing their pets.
If you go three total hours, you're either in Toronto or can get to most of Ontario, and guess what, no one's ever heard of Stephanie, is there something you want to tell me?
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your local rat is starting the process of getting their new wheelchair finally! wish me luck! aaaah!
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you know what they need to standardise? refillable products. I refuse to tie myself to a brand by purchasing their (unsustainable unless used for X00 refills) cases for their refills in a specific shape that only the one company use
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Y'all will all be sorry once I'm a licenced HAM radio operator <------- loves signals and waves
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Shooty i am having a thot for the untitled 1920s gangster AU…. Arthur seeing reader wearing a cheongsam, or qipao if you speak Mandarin and not Cantonese. I know that it will be more appropriate if Lee wear it, since she is canonically Chinese-American and maybe you will try to make the 1920s AU less OC-ish!? But from my limited knowledge cheongsam or qipao originated in 1920s Shanghai, and Talking Bird is set in the late 19th century…. This doesn’t make much sense anymore but can’t you imagine!?!?
unfortunately i only speak mandarin 😔
i haven’t decided yet on whether i want the untitled 1920s au to be oc-ish or not (tho let’s be real, every reader character i write inevitably runs into self-insert territory bc i am insufferable), but i do like this scenario a lot…hmm… maybe could set it in a 1920s gatsby-esque st denis mayor’s party where the theme is “the orient” and lee ends up having precisely zero amount of fun bc people keep on thinking she’s a server instead of a guest and thus keep on trying to hand her empty champagne glasses. cue unexpectedly running into arthur. encounter goes from “what the fuck are you doing here why the hell would someone invite you” to “oh you’re trying to commit a crime. well. i hate it here. i’ll give you a hand.”
in the meantime have this messy sketch i did at work of 1920s lee in qipao
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my phone is on its last breath I cant get it to charge past 3% godspeed everyone it was wonderful knowing u
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SOOOOOMEONE GET….THE GRILL OUT OF THE RAAAAIN…
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