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My work for this year’s Invisobang!! I had so much fun working with @quishaphantom for their fic One Phantom Two Phantom along with my partner artist @friendzoned61 !! (Here is her work!!)
it IS spooky season. to me.
seeing someone comment landfillcore under a holiday decor haul a few years back permanently changed my consumption habits. what an evocative word. I think about her all the time
Obsessed with this positive affirmations IG page.

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the affirmations instagram page is a gold mine
I hate when I open a drawing app and try drawing something and then it looks bad. to solve this issue instead of opening my drawing app I simply lay down, do nothing, and feel a combination of guilt/shame. this is a skill I am much more practiced at
wait, so it's like gambling?
it appears so!
that's so awesome I really gotta make more art
Deeply unhappy that this turned out to be true
i know i'm cringey and i like silly things but those silly things make me happy and it's all i got in this world sometimes
Being silly and enjoying yourself is good!! I'm fully of the belief that being cringey is often just being open with your feelings and too many people are so used to numbing themselves that they don't like it when you care about things. Whimsy and wonder and fantasies and silly things and being dramatic has literally kept giving people the will to survive for thousands of years through terrible things on personal and massive scales. We have to give ourselves permission to be happy, or else what's the point
“no crew, no help, just pure hustle” cut to this poor woman bawling her eyes out. what the fuck is wrong with people? why is this being framed as a good or impressive feat? this person makes below poverty wages already. Burger King meanwhile takes in $27 billion in global revenue every single year. everyone involved in making this woman endure this should be tortured and force fed chicken fries until their heart gives out. fuck this country.
"while customers watched in shock"
WHILE THEY FUCKING STOOD THERE, KNOWING SHE HAD NO HELP, AND JUST ORDERED LIKE IT WAS GODDAMN NORMAL? Like I'm obviously not saying they should be jumping behind the counter to help out, I'm saying who looks at this and thinks, "Damn, that's messed up, but I'm still gonna give this company my money." This isn't like she's running her own business! She isn't making extra because you ordered your Whopper! She's getting paid the same salary!
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, yeah, but there sure as fuck are people who will recognize the unethical bullshit going on and then just shrug and take advantage of it anyway. What the fuck is WRONG with people.
Update, she was fired from her job.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/burger-king-mom-went-viral-153113130.html
Nykia Hamilton went viral in July after a customer recorded her working a shift entirely alone at a Burger King
“[Burger King] fired me because I’ve been late because of my kids,” she explained through tears. “My kids come first. Y’all don’t pay for no babysitter, or nothing.”
Yeah, so, I mean that whole "absolutely not even an ounce of support where he's really needed" theme really just keeps on getting hammered, wow.
This is why you never give even 100% to an employer, and certainly not more than that. They will not reward you going above and beyond, they will not remember, they will simply kick you to the curb and replace you.
Here's her GoFundMe:
I am a 25-year-old single mom of 3 who works 2 jobs. I just went viral for working on TikTok. I… nykia hamilton needs your support for Suppo
consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about
Teen: *gets a job*
“I GOT THE JOB!”
Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family
Teen: *gets all A’s*
“I worked really hard!”
Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.
probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
This hit hard
I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.
After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, “why are you always cleaning the fridge?” Like, I didn’t mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, “one time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.”
Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.
My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, “they’re starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because it’s expected of them, but they’re still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.”
Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.
For a german exam I had to argue against an article that was essentially „kids these days, they don’t care about anything and are constantly on their phones“ and really it was the easiest essay I‘ve ever written.
Teens don’t talk to adults bc adults only ask „so, how‘s school“ to then interrupt them two sentences in. And because they can’t engage in a conversation about buying houses and working in a bank. I would’ve loved to talk about philosophy and politics and history with family the way I did with friends and in class but because I was young no one took what I had to say seriously.
And no, teens aren’t always on their phone. They’re on their phone when they’re bored. You think I‘m on social media when I‘m with my friends? When I‘m talking about something I‘m interested in?
Maybe the reason kids are so distant and always on their phone during family parties and the like is because you‘re failing to engage and include them.
Whoop there it is
When you respect kids, they really respond and learn from you. But if you treat kids like “theyre just a kid, what do they know??” then you’ll never find out.
As a Disneyland Cast Member, I’ll add my own experience onto this –
Very frequently, when I first speak to a child while I’m at work, they’ll kind of withdraw and act uncomfortable and shy. Their parents will then rather frequently tell them to not be shy and try to coax them to talk to me – whenever that happens, I always, without fail, politely dissuade the parents from pressuring them.
“I’m a stranger,” I’ll tell the kid’s parents. “I don’t blame them for not talking to me – if they were anywhere else, they’d have the right idea, to not immediately trust me.”
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen that same kid – simply after hearing their initial reaction being validated, instead of reproached – immediately open up to me after that. I also cannot tell you how many times that child and I would go on to start a friggin’ marathon conversation, and I got to hear all about how great their day was or what their favorite Disney movies were or what rides they liked and didn’t like or how much they like a certain Disney character or song…all from me validating that initial feeling and showing genuine interest in what they had to say.
This isn’t just young children, either. I will always remember being positioned outside the Animation Academy one day and starting up a conversation with a young lady, perhaps 12 or 13, who joined the line with her father a full 25 minutes before the class was supposed to start. Now keep in mind, we do a drawing class every 30 minutes: there was no one else in line at that point, and no one else joined the girl and her father in line for a full fifteen minutes. So I could tell pretty quickly that this girl was very emotionally invested in getting a good spot for the drawing class: a conclusion all the more bolstered by the fact that she had a notebook under her arm. I asked her if she was an artist – she said yes, but seemed uncomfortable at the question, so I skipped even asking her if I could see her work, instead admitting that I myself wasn’t very good at art, but that I’m trying to get better and that I love the history of Disney animation. On the screens around us was video footage of different Disney concept art and animation reels, so I pointed one of them out (for Snow White) and asked if she knew the story behind the making of the movie. Upon confirming that she didn’t, I proceeded to get down on the floor so I could sit next to her and her father and dramatically tell the whole story of how “Uncle Walt” created the first full-length animated motion picture, even though everyone and their mother thought he was an idiot for even trying, and how the film ended up becoming the first Hollywood blockbuster. After the story was over, the girl’s father said that his daughter really wanted to be an animator when she grew up, and she finally felt comfortable enough to open her notebook and show me some of her artwork. It was wonderful! Every sketch had such character and you could tell how much work she put into it! And I could tell how much telling her that – and sharing that moment with her, where we got to connect over something we both really enjoyed – had meant. And after the class was over, she sought me out to show me what she and her father had drawn – and sure enough, hers was great! (Her father’s was too, really. XD)
People, kids and teens included, love sharing what they love and how they feel with others. You just have to give them the chance to show it.
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
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I feel like I am obliged to add one more thing: don’t ever think that the kids won’t feel your unspoken judgements cause they do!
I felt always like a ‘problem’ in my family, until I was about sixteen, I got this teacher who was litterally the first to tell I was worthy. He changed my life up till this day.
Also how do grown ups imagine how ‘we’ will ever learn to engage in conversations with adults properly if you don’t teach us?
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I told one of my new coworkers (who is 26) that he was doing really well and that I was proud of him and his progress. I thought he was going to start crying for how quietly he said “really?”.
Positive feedback makes the biggest difference to everything.

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Hold, the bulb whispers to itself, biding beneath the earth. There will be a day for me. The fields will clear and then I can grow as I know I can, let loose all this green kept shuttered in the seed. When the other roots make room for me. When the wind wanders calm. When the soil is soft, weathered down the rocks and frost with spring-melt. Stay your stem. Wait, it whispers and whimpers and wails– wait– til the winter has fallen back and round again, and patient, polite, withered, it waits.
The Indianapolis Star, Indiana, July 26, 1925
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Happy 100th birthday, celebrate with a hundred beer bottles full of ice
& you know what it actually IS lifechanging to smile at strangers & say please & thank you & goodmorning & compliment someones outfit & help someone in need & be more accepting of loving other people just because they are other people!!!
it is!!! Especially right now when happiness is hard to find! The little moments are huge, and if you want community then you have to be a community member
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NORMAL PERSON: Hey, whatchadoin? ME: Um… writing. NORMAL PERSON: What are you writing? ME: A story. NORMAL PERSON: A story about what? ME:
Hey wouldn't it be funny if like, hypothetically, I applied for an art residency? Something outside the US and maybe a little fancy... like, as a bit. Because I've been sad and my career isn't really going anywhere and I could use some community and direction in my life... Again, hypothetically. Wouldn't that be soo funny?
Well, joke's on me I guess
To be clear, I applied for this a little over a month ago. I didn't expect to actually get it. But I am genuinely very excited
Only problem is it's going to be pretty expensive, and I was already struggling to budget for next year so uhh...
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Any help would be appreciated