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Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

#been thinking a lot about work lately and the more i think about it the angrier i get #this post answers some things i've been wondering about recently #such as 'how much did people really used to work back in history' #because even though their tools and processes were less efficient they got a whole lot done #meanwhile with our 'highly efficient' tools and processes in modern times we're still working ourselves to the bone #ultimately: the industrial revolution and capitalism have rotted our brains beyond compare #yay :o) #writing #history #work #capitalism #idk how to tag #long post /

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Millennials and Gen Z? BUY SHIT! OWN THINGS! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE!

Listen to me.

You do not want this future to happen to you I promise you. Because the minute you enter into a subscription existence you allow for a possibility of losing everything. Why?

Well, because when you stop paying then you stop having.

I buy my cars outright for this reason.

I have not thrown away my DVD collection for this reason.

I still have my old-school ipod for this reason.

I buy songs I really like direct from the artist on top of my subscription for this reason.

I back shit up on to my external hard drives rather than depending on a cloud only for this reason (which reminds me that I need to do taht this weekend).

If someone ELSE is holding the physical source of what you're paying for? YOU DON'T OWN IT. You're just giving someone your energy and time for permission to access it.

You're leasing your existence.

Don't fucking fall for it, do you hear me?

It's bad enough we have to lease our water, our heat, our internet and our entertainment.

Buy what you want outright WHENEVER YOU CAN. Then do anything you can to maintain it in the face of planned obsolescence. I promise you, there will be a moment when you will be glad you did

Because aside from relationships? Things are literally all the system let us keep in this existence so don't lease your fucking possessions if at all avoidable because at this stage in capitalism we're all a few bad days from being unable to pay those leases. And then what? Then you only have what you can keep and those comforts and necessities that will keep you going, I promise you. Don't let there be anything more that can be taken from you than absolutely necessary.

#yeeeeup #this is why i try to just Buy Things outright when I can #I'm in enough debt already I don't wanna get my shit reposessed #idk how to tag this

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on my hands and knees. scrubbing sticky spilled beverage off of the floor. it was heavily flavored with (artificial) vanilla, had a strong scent. so sticky, so much sugar. a customer had dropped a beverage can. management had said “don’t worry, we can write it off, it’s not that expensive. go wipe it up.” outside, it was snowing, heavily. there with me on the floor, puddles of melted snow, grimey, brought indoors by customers’ boots. apron stained. while there, on the floor, repetitive scrubbing, i considered that an English sugar-plantation-owner in Barbados in the 1790s was likely to have been 5-times richer than their wealthiest land-owning (white) childhood friends still living back in Britain proper. i wondered how vanilla has come to be so inexpensive. (is it actually “inexpensive”? or do landscapes and people still die to grow and harvest it?) where did this vanilla come from? where was the coffee grown? all of this sugar just tossed aside. like nothing. 125, 200, 350 years ago, vast amounts of people were enslaved and died for this sugar. entire communities, whole cultures invaded, destroyed, to bring Empires sugar, the Georgian-era equivalent of this spilled “BANG Birthday Cake Bash (TRADEMARKED) Keto-Coffee Protrein-Enhanced Energy Drink” which i’m scrubbing off of the floor, on my knees, almost in an act of worship. “we can write it off.” in 1540, how many people were murdered in Central America by Spanish colonizers to acquire this amount of vanilla for shipment back to a court in Iberia? in 1610, how much reward would an Italian merchant vessel have earned for delivering this coffee from North Africa to Venice? in 1805, how much cash would a London tea-shop-owner have paid for this sugar? all so easily acquired, now? in 2020, how many people still work and die so that these ingredients can be shipped to the Europe and the US, offered at such “inexpensive” price? now all of these substances are just … a sticky puddle on the floor? a stain on the apron? after scrubbing the floor, i entered the walk-in cooler, the white noise of the fans a reprieve, to read the list of ingredients on the labels of the coffee/energy drinks. “guava.” “acai berry.” “Nesquik Double Chocolate ready-to-drink milk.” how did it get here? a loud ringing. motion detectors. customers are entering the store. too much stimulation. supposed to be “working.” don’t know how long i have stood in the cooler. deep breath. attempt to revert to normal workplace behavior and thoughts. had to go back to “helping customers.” cannot openly discuss botany and colonization and land-theft of Regency-era British Empire. i leave the cooler. same day, a co-worker: “hey, check out the new hand lotion, really helps with the bleach burns, smells awesome!” me: “oh?” she says: “coconut and vanilla!” again my thoughts are dragged away: “what harms have come to the islands of the South Pacific? how did this substance extracted from tropical plants find its way here, to this snowy landscape? why is the coconut-oil lotion so cheap? who paid the real cost to bring it here? this process was not passive. which institutions stole local plant knowledge and patented this variety of the plant? who was forced under duress to harvest the coconut?” violence.

#fave #inspiration #writing #history #food #cuisine #this is somewhere between an essay and poetry and i love it

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highlight quotes;

“… she returned to eating meat after learning that the soybean and corn monocultures that accounted for much of her vegan diet were wreaking havoc on the environment.“

“When we first opened, people were surprised at the prices,” he said. “But our costs are much higher than what a giant company pays. We are paying to have control over the quality of our animals, what they are being fed, how they are being treated, transported, slaughtered and cut up. Once people understood that, the business took off.”

“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.”

“You can’t be healthy unless the animals you eat are healthy,”

“Rather than being passive and just not supporting an industry I don’t like, I’m taking an active approach by taking thousands of dollars out of it, “ he said. “When people come to me, they aren’t going to Costco for meat.”

#i love this #responsible animal husbandry and farming is SO important to me #meat #animal death / #vegetarianism #ask to tag #inspiration #reference #resources

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(runs in, posts this adorable commission I did for @/mythey on Twitter, and runs away) please enjoy :D

#pokemon swsh #piers #gym leader piers #pokemon #pokemon sword and shield #art #fanart #commissions #fan character #elton john

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looks like Avery found a friend at the beach! :D

(of course I draw this kinda stuff in November.... :’B)

#pokemon swsh #slowpoke #galarian slowpoke #avery #pokemon trainer avery #art #fanart #fanart sunday #pokemon #traditional media

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Commission for @moyaofthemist of their OCs Charlie and Frances! two cute li’l ladies in love <3

#furry #hippo #manatee #moyaofthemist #art #commissions #commission #cute #black and white

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Assorted Witch Hat Atelier doodles for Fanart Sunday! I love this manga so much, y’all. For the girls I really wanted to give them all unique facial features! :3

#witch hat atelier #tongari boushi no atelier #qifrey #olruggio #coco wha #riche wha #richeh wha #tetia wha #agott wha #agathe wha #art #fanart #fanart sunday #black and white #fantasy #brushbug #brushbuddy

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it’s Pocky Day!~ and I haven’t been drawing much for fun lately, but I just HAD to doodle something for my new OTP

(yes I’ve seen chapter 41 don’t @ me ;____;)

#witch hat atelier #pocky day #orufrey #qifrey #olruggio #art #fanart #black and white #cute

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Captain Misurn needs to wash his hair better!!!!!!!

(I love these two)

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #captain misurn #kabru #captain mithrun #mithrun #misurn #art #fanart #fanart sunday #traditional media

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Leon used Nuzzle! It’s super effective :^)

(I just finished the main game in SWSH and ugh... I love them... I love them so much ;;)

#raileon #pokemon swsh #gym leader raihan #champion leon #chairman leon #pokemon #art #fanart #fanart sunday #traditional media #kissies~

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I caught up with Dungeon Meshi recently and hooooo boy, things are really getting interesting... tho also I’ve found a new ship 👀

I just think they’re neat!!!!!

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #captain misurn #captain mithrun #kabru #art #fanart #fanart sunday #black and white #misurn #mithrun #i prefer misurn bc it sounds like misery heheh

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here’s some extra little Stag concepts! I set out to design a nonbinary hunk, a thunk if you will, and by God I did it. also I’m very proud of their number pun, hehehe.

#pokemon #pokemon swsh #bug type #trainer stag #art #fanart #oc #pokemon oc #stag #bugs #insects

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just dropped these Pokemon OCs on my Twitter!

in the first pic, we have my OC Stag with our dear buddy Avery... Stag is a Bug type Gym Trainer by trade, but their real passion lies in studying non-Pokemon insects! Non-Pokemon are rare in this universe, but they’re extremely important to determining the science of what both Pokemon and non-Pokemon ARE. thus, Stag studies them! Stag themself is a very levelheaded sort, I tend to characterize them as being like a human capybara. However, that does not mean they don’t have a sense of humor... which plays interestingly with Avery’s attitude :’3 yes I ship them together, I do what I want and also I wanna draw a comic or two about them if I can muster up the energy hehehh

the second pic has my dear lady Micah!!! I came up with her because I thought it’d be cute if Melony had an adorable wife (since Mel has a little wedding ring!); thus I designed Micah based off of the female Galar Worker trainers! Micah herself is an architect who oversees construction projects, and aside from that she’s done lots of research on the unique architecture in Circhester. She’s technically Gordie’s stepmother, but these das Gordie tends to get along with her better than he does with Melony! .... ^_^; small steps, eh? in any case she loves her entire family a whole lot.

thanks for reading!!

#pokemon swsh #pokemon sword and shield #pokemon trainer avery #avery #cufant #art #fanart #character design #stag #trainer stag #architect micah #micah #melony #gym leader melony #tagging her even tho she's not here cuz THATS HER WIFE #i'm cringe but i'm free #pokemon #pokemon oc

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also, let me offer you a slightly off model Octo Tartar during this trying time (I missed playing the splatfest bc I was sick and sleeping ;_;)

#splatoon 2 #splatoon #commander tartar #octo expansion #octo tartar #art #fanart #character design #there's so many little details that are off here lol

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h-hewwo ;w;

I’ve been very dead over here, haven’t I? Sorry about that... I’ve been dealing with some health stuff this past month, on top of the previous tough shit that life dealt me earlier in the year. I’m feeling a little bit better now, though, so have some art! This is a little updated ref for my fursona, Snoot aka the Snootlebeast that I started working on a couple months ago!

#fursona #character design #furry #sfw furry #snootlebeast #art #original

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Hello, I’m not dead! Life is hard at the moment, but I bring you DnD character commissions!~

These are commissions for @/princesquish (left) and @/griller_117 (right) on Twitter of their DnD characters! I had a ton of fun with these, I hope you enjoy them too!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dragonborn #firbolg #commissions #art #these guys were extremely fun to work on lol