Moved to SpiritGuardianOfTheWaters

Updated Sept 7th. ,2021.

Tumblr = Publicly Write

Italic = Written on Discord (Privately)

Bold = Written on both here and Discord

*Please do not send any memes or thread requests here! Please refer to the blogs below, or DM me on Discord at Ari#9429 if the muse you want is either no longer active or does not have a blog. *

Voltron

Lance - @coolblueprotector

Keith - @theofficialteenkeith

My Hero Academia

Blue Exorcist

Bon

Renzo Shima

Yuri On Ice!

Yuri Katsuki - @grandprixyurikatsuki

Seung-Gil Lee - @stoiciceskater

Hobbit/LOTR/TKOTWR

Êlúriel (TKOTWR) - @starlightofthefiremoon

Aragorn (LOTR)

Full Metal Alchemist

Tba.

Archive/Original blogs that will stay up but no longer active.

If you wish to write with any of these muses, I will likely ask for it to be over Discord since I've grown more comfortable with private writing than public. Also easier for me to get notifications.

@coolblueprotectorarchive9721

@spiritguardianofthewatersarchive

@starlightofthefiremoonarchive

@grandprixyurikatsukiarchive

@stoiciceskaterarchive

@theofficialteenkeitharchive9721

@officialslutlance

@firestarterkogane

@hunkshay-lovechild

@purplepaladinnumberone

@blueflamedinferno

@darkshadowinthenight

@electrifiedcircuit

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

If you leave your home (especially at night), make sure you are with someone. If you have to walk any major distance, do not be alone. Walk in groups, pairs, bring protection, keep 911 on speed dial, keep your phone constantly livestreaming to different social media platforms, etc.

Do not be alone today, especially if you feel like you're someone who can be easily taken advantage of, overpowered, attacked, held down etc. Do not trust men inviting you into their vehicles, and do not trust men approaching you in groups.

This is important: Do not be alone. Stay safe. Pass this message on.

I worked as a dishwasher at a dorm kitchen when I was in college. Dishwashing is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me to load the machine, how to run it, and what to do with the plates and things when they were clean, and I needed to learn how to do this efficiently so that the kitchen didn’t run out of plates during mealtimes. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

I worked on a sandwich line for a summer when I was in college. Food service is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me how to make the sandwiches, how to prepare the salads, and how to prepare the desserts. I had to learn how to work with the folks in the prep kitchen, with the wait staff, and with the other people on my line. I had to be trained how to open and close, because sometimes I would get those shifts. I had to learn how to work quickly and efficiently so that our customers would get their meals in a timely manner, and so that everything was prepped and clean for the next shift. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

That whole “special skills” thing? It’s classist and probably racist.

Unskilled jobs are poorly paid because the employers can get away with it, and that’s pretty much the whole reason. They are permitted by our capitalist society to exploit workers, especially those workers who are most disadvantaged.

“Unskilled” workers make our food, take care of our kids and our elders, stock our grocery store shelves, clean the spaces we use, and do hundreds of other things that make our lives easier. “Unskilled” jobs require a fuckton of physical labor. Don’t those things merit good compensation?

When I sorted bills for my university, I got paid really well cause while I was only part-time, the job itself is not deemed “unskilled”. Despite me literally just sorting stuff by numbers. Look at a number, put it between other numbers. All day every day. I even was allowed to have as much coffee and tea as I liked from the office kitchen for free.

When I worked for Subway for a month, I had to learn within 2 hours:

exactly where and how to cut the bread to make both sides equal

what sauce to recommend with what topping

how much topping to scoop per half

what all the breads, toppings and stuff are called and being able to rattle them down on command

how to use three different vegetable cutters

how to use their oven (that thing has like 9 buttons that all do different shit and none of the buttons got ANY symbol or word on it, all are just black)

what the day’s special was for every day

what the price for stuff was without looking at the sign or being at the cash register

when to change the gloves (all the time, for every little shit)

I also had to go to a 2 hour food sanitary training before hand to give me a certificate so I was even allowed to work at Subways.

The judge denied her because she could do these “easy” and “unskilled” jobs.

Cashier.

Server.

Maid.

Fast food (I forget what the job title was but my brain went to Starbucks).

If I need to tell you why a maid service isn’t unskilled, you’ve never tried to clean a whole (relatively clean) house in under an hour. Shit, those badasses can have a whole house vacuumed, moppeds, every flat surface wiped down, dusted, toilets cleaned, and mirrors clean on under an hour. How do you clean a mirror in less than 5 minutes and not leave streaks? Pure witchcraft.

And fast food workers and cashiers have to stand all day (this is a person with joint issues primarily effecting the knees, hands, and back). Not to mention I’ve had friends that worked as cashiers at grocery stores. They have to memorize the most frequently bought produce, and their product code. Do YOU know what a good fruit is and it’s code for the grocery store?

Because every time I buy it, they know EXACTLY what it is. (It’s really delicious but under ripe very toxic. Don’t buy it unless you know what you’re doing.)

Also servers. I actually have many friends that are servers. Balancing a whole tray of food? Especially drinks, soups, and heavy trays? That IS A SKILL! I DARE YOU TO TRY IT!

Calling jobs unskilled is classist and abelist.

Not sorry.

Oh, and physical labor jobs like farm work, picking fruit, lawn work, whatever. Sorry to say but yeah. That’s a skill. I dare you to try that shit and not bitch and moan about how heavy it is, the long hours, the rain, how hot it is, or just doing a job that a lot of physical labor for 8 hours a day with omg a lunch break.

Bitch, I dare you to try to stand at your desk for the entire work day without bitching about your feet hurting. If you can’t do that, how the fuck do you think you could do any of these jobs that require a shitton of physical labor? Requiring the strength and endurance to stand for hours on end or to carry heavy shit of hours on end, or with in 100°F all day IS A FUCKING SKILL.

“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

“Lady Tilda and the Dragon”

If there's anyone that means the world to you, or you love with all of your heart, or they ever help a bad day become good, please.. Please tell them. Take every ounce of courage you have and tell them right now.

Hold the people you love as close and tight as you can.

A former co-worker of mine just lost her baby brother on Saturday. A boy who meant more than the world to her and she practically raised as if he was her kid. A group of vendors I work with just lost their baby brother. A man that helped them when needed without asking and always gave his best.

The Class of 2015 at my high school just lost one of their own again. The Class of 2016 lost an alumni that helped some of us decide where we wanted to go and how to get there.

I didn't know him very well personally, but he was only 24 years old. We assume he was likely drinking and driving, but no one knows the story yet. I went to school with this man- It could've been anyone. I'm hurting with the fact of it could've be someone so close to me, while these coworkers are hurting with the loss of a loved one.

Please don't drink and drive. Please don't text and drive. Pay attention to what you're doing. Think for others who may not be thinking for themselves. Let the people who mean the most to you know that they mean so much to you. It's so easy to forget it some times..

Also a huge mood

Brad Pitt

On April 4, 2014, I released the first announcement of the very first version of RPThreadTracker. It was kind of a messy project at first - really, I originally set it up for my own personal writing use and didn’t expect it to go anywhere.

But people found it, and they used it, and they sent incredibly nice feedback and for six and a half years now I’ve been thrilled to help support all of you in the RP community on Tumblr and keep this tool useful and up to date. It has been an amazing learning experience for me in so many ways and I’m so glad I’ve been able to be a help to so many people as well.

Unfortunately, I have reached a point where I can no longer commit time to maintaining the site (as you may have all noticed, given the dearth of updates lately) and general usage has also dropped steadily in the last few years since the Tumblr porn ban, which is making it harder to justify the amount I’m spending on hosting and data storage every month. So I am sad to say I will be closing RPThreadTracker.com down permanently starting Feb 1 2021.

It’s my hope that this two-month leadup will give plenty of time for anyone still actively using the site to export their threads (there’s a tool for that on the site!) and get settled with a new system. I’m happy to assist anyone with this that needs help. On Feb 1, I will be shutting down the site and deleting all stored databases.

Also, as a note - the code for RPThreadTracker is 100% open-source; I would completely support anyone else who wanted to make use of it for a future tool. Feel free to get in touch with me if that’s something that interests you.

Thank you again to everyone who has supported the site over the years. You all are fantastic and I wish you all happy writing forever.