Our Lady of Immaculate Depression

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- space adventures!

- found family!

- finding out what happened here before AFTER you're already lightyears away from earth!

- characters that aren't explicitly aroace but can definitely be read that way! it's not even a stretch!

if you like eva stratt you should consider: SPOILER (morally grey women with the weight of the world on their shoulders who will do whatever they must to succeed)

if you like grace you should consider: doug eiffel (goofballs who have SPOILER in common)

if you like rocky you should consider: HERA (people who are not human but are unmistakably people, doing their best to fix things and keep everyone safe, responsible when they need to be but also down for a practical joke with their goofy best friends)

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

🚨 Taylor Swift to fund childhood reading program previously defunded by Missouri Republicans.

Here’s your citation:

This is one wedding gift Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce won’t be returning: Dolly Parton singing to them

The country singer posted a sweet thank you to the couple on Friday after learning they donated $2 million to her Imagination Library early literacy program.

made this at the airport today if you were sitting behind me please dont tell

There are a lot of reasons someone might join the IWW despite not having typical employment. For one, the only way the working class can enact change is to work together against the capitalist system. Whether you have regular employment or you're totally unemployed, you're still working class if you don't own capital, and your class interests align with those of employed workers in your community. It benefits the entire community when wages are high, worker safety is enforced, and bosses are kept in line.

Joining, paying dues to, and attending meetings with your local branch gives that branch more worker power and more funding. Having more worker power and more funding helps the union fight for bigger and better changes and reach more workers.

For freelancers, joining the IWW can give you a community where you can get advice, compare rates to make sure you're getting a fair deal, recommend gigs or publications to each other, warn each other about predatory ones, and otherwise build solidarity. As an example, I (the social media volunteer typing this) have personally used IWW freelancer connections to help figure out what rates I should charge for commissions.

I recently attended what's called an External Organizer Training, which teaches people how to be the point of contact with an actively organizing workplace, something you may see referred to as a "hot shop", and provide them with the steps and support needed to unionize. It was incredibly fulfilling to be able to offer up my own work history experiences in the scenarios we were assigned. We were paired up in groups, and discussed how we might address things like how to make connections between people doing delivery apps in the same area, how to make connections with language barriers, how to prioritizing worker needs/demands, when to escalate action, and the like.

So not only was I able to share my own knowledge, but I very much learned a lot about the process of organizing. And it was also a lot easier to absorb than I expected. But this means that, in the future, if I need to, I have the knowledge of how to help someone take the steps to organize, and that makes life a little bit better for everyone. It gives me a sense of purpose, and well-being, to help my community, even if all I can do right now is attend meetings and talk about it on the internet.

In regular meetings, when I feel up to it, I've volunteered to facilitate my branch meetings -- meaning, you keep everyone on track, alongside the time-keeper. Some branches have their secretary do it, some choose at the end of the previous meeting, but we're a pretty small branch and work on a volunteer system these days. As they said, we need people to do things like track paperwork and open emails. Ideally, you're not doing these things alone, and that's, really, the whole point.

And definitely something I believe in.

My participation in our branch is largely helping with social media. I don't attend most of our branch's tabling events, like Pride, because it's too much for me to be out in the heat, on my feet, and risking covid exposure. Instead, I help make graphics, describe images, post event information, and respond to messages. It's something I can do from my home, and it's something I'm able to vary my level of commitment to as my spoons fluctuate.

It can definitely still eat a lot of time and energy, so I'd say it really depends on what your personal abilities and interests are. I know what sort of things my disabilities do and don't allow, but every disabled person is different. You might be able to do things I can't, and I might be able to do things you can't. I don't want to make assumptions.