Gabbyness

stereotypical swedish accented host 1:  oh, stop it, you’re too kind

guest: the mushrooms. de-licious

host 1: actually, we picked them ourselves.

guest: oh really?

host 1: yeah, yeah

american: where?

the music falls silent as do the people. a person chokes on their drink. everyone but the guest stare blankly into their food. 

guest: i’m sorry did I say something inappropriate?

host 1: oh no, it’s nothing, it’s nothing

host 2: don’t worry about it, yeah, don’t worry

guest: ah okay, thank god, yeah no i was just wondering where you picked the mushrooms

the party falls silent again

host 2: han var jävligt nyfiken, var han [somebody’s being fucking nosy]

guest: i don’t understand, what’s going on? have i said something inappropriate? i’m just wondering if you have a “spot” like where you pick your mushrooms, like your “mushroom spot”?

host 1, throws utensils down, raises voice and stands up: okay now you’re crossing the line, now you have- nu får du- i have to ask you to leave, please

The old dude said okay because it was impolite to refuse. But he kept is super vague. And kept up thinking of excuses why not today. And he started going to the forest at absolutely ridiculous hours to avoid his new companion.

I think in the end they went together once? And for the first time in ages he didn’t find much? And his neighbour finally got the hint?

If it works it works.

Sex pollen? Trekkie house wives invented that trope.

Going into heat? Tekkie wives said were gonna write it.

Fuck or die was basically trademarked in Trekkie fic

Any common lewd or ship trope in fandom existance? Thank some 25yo+ ladies who were really into Star Trek.

Mary sue is literally named for a (i believe) self insert into Trekkie fic.

Sex Pollen: 50/50 credit between canon Poison Ivy and Star Trek (1966/1967)

Heat: Star Trek’s Pon Farr, but also canon elements of Sime-Gen (which, haha still draws from Star Trek) 

F/uck or die: see Pon Farr again 

Mary Sue: was coined in 1973 by Paula Smith who wrote a parody fic entitled “A Trekkie’s Tale” in her zine Menagerie, basically as a rant response to a trend in characterizations.

“Any common lewd or ship trope in fandom existance? Thank some 25yo+ ladies who were really into Star Trek.”

Unions are fucking awesome. The union got us bumped up to danger pay when the job (in a highly explosive environment) used to be minimum wage, in a business where I have literally had a supervisor tell us that if we could keep everything running smoothly with no delays that shift and get everything scheduled loaded up onto the boat, that we’d pull in a full million. For that one shift. Fuck yes, pay us fairly to risk our lives for you!

Back in the Eighties, it wasn’t just government and public sector workers that were unionized, it was around 60% of most jobs in the US (and I believe similar numbers here in Canada), and things were on track to have pretty much everyone unionized when Reagan took over and did everything he could to kill them off. Remember “trickle-down economics”? The idea that if you allow individuals and corporations to make obscene amounts of money, they’d turn around and pump that money back into their businesses and the local economies and benefit everyone, and not just fill out their own bank accounts? How well did that work out?

Thanks to our union, our income was tied to inflation. When inflation rose, so did our hourly wage, by the same amount. Recalculated annually. Afternoon shift? Extra dollar an hour. Night shift? $1.50. Boss tries to make you do something stupidly unsafe? Or make you work through your break? Forget it.

Unions have your back; unions make them behave; unions would stop Jeff Bezos from forcing his employees to pee in goddamned jars rather than taking breaks. Unions are what made the minimum wage a living wage. Union-busting is why it isn’t a living wage anymore, why you have to work two or more full-time jobs to break even in the city, let alone get ahead.

Unions are worth a hell of a lot more than the price of an Xbox paid out over twenty-one paycheques a year at no interest.

“<— WHO PROFITS FROM YOU THINKING LIKE THIS? Hint: it’s not you.”

Delta commissioned that sign. Delta paid for its design and printing. Delta posted it. Think about what’s in it for Delta. 

They would not bother posting signs like that if the unions did nothing for you, because the unions doing nothing for you wouldn’t cost them anything. It wouldn’t cost them more pay, or the cost of better working conditions, or the cost of not being able to step all over you the whenever and however it’s convenient for them.

That $700 video game console doesn’t prevent them from profiting more at your direct expense, and that’s the only reason they have any interest in your entertainment purchases.

They are not interested to see you happy with your new video game console. They are interested to see you unprotected. They are interested to see you sell your sword and shield for magic beans that only work in video games. They are interested in you consoling yourself with a new game (paid for by you) when they fuck with your hours or tell you you don’t get a raise this year, again. They’re interested to see their profitable unfairness made only your problem.

- mary oliver

A piece of queer history, from St Thomas’ Church, Osbaldwick, York:

“Here lyeth the body of Mr Richard Wright who lived as Partner with William Hutchinson Gentleman, of the City of York In great Union for 35 years Remarkable for justice and fidelity Who died April the 5th A.D. 1747 Aged 60 years

Here also lieth the body of William Hutchinson Esqr Who Departed this life January 5th 1772 Aged 89”