She used to say she was the kite and I was the line. She was a
creature of the clouds and and I was a creature of the earth. And she’d
say that without me she’d become untethered and she would float away up
into the… And then without her, I would just, you know, crash, just drop
right down to the ground, and, you know. But together we… […] You know,
look, we weren’t
perfect, but we were always kind. And we loved each other hard. And I
love her today just as much as I did in the beginning. The kite and
the line.
“Just a reminder last year on Thanksgiving that Natives were being tortured with dogs, illegal scare tactics, being run over by angry white ppl all to protect our water and this year on Thanksgiving they are now cleaning up 200,000 gallon oil spill on a South Dakota reservation”
I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.
Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:
The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.
The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.
Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.
Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business.
This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.
Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday
ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday
LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY
This goes double for Thanksgiving. More and more places are opening late on Thanksgiving; Gamestop is opening at 3 PM on Thanksgiving. My employer is and always has been open 24 hours on Thanksgiving.
Sometimes going out is unavoidable, please be as kind and understanding to the people forced to work as possible.
Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying.
1. Find your minimum wordcount sweet spot. If you write 100 words, do you just keep going? I don’t. My minimum wordcount sweet spot is 1,000. I might stop when I hit that, but usually I won’t. 1k can easily become 3k if all goes well. Your minimum wordcount sweet spot is the lowest goal you can set that by the end of it you’re ready to write more. Find it, use it, swear by it and be ready to change it as your sweet spot changes.
2. Do some character backstories. Write about their lives in the past. Think about your story, but what’s going on in the background. It might give you plot ideas. It might get you hype to write about them again.
3. Assess your Future Plot. Do you have no future plot? That might have you stuck. Do you have a lot of future plot but you just don’t know how to get there? Buddy it’s time to take the train off the tracks. If you’re blocked up because you don’t know what’s happening next, your outline needs editing. And on that note…
4. Get Hype About What You’re Gonna Write. Think back on your WIP and the root idea that got it started. Think about failed WIPs with concepts you adored. Do you like black markets? Characters who one-up their abusers? Do you want to wax rhapsodic about character x’s clothing choices? Are you vying for another fight scene? Guess what you’re doing next! Doesn’t fit the plot? Doesn’t matter, you can the plot. If you’re writing something from scratch then you still have room to play. Go on a tangent. Wear your self-indulgence like a badge of pride.
5. Bore yourself into it. Do what you can to remove all distractions from your immediate area. This means something different for different people. Me with my ADHD, I give myself less-favorable options. I don’t hate doing dishes, but I’d rather write. But then at some point writing will become excruciating, and I can go do the dishes. If I really want to be in the flow, I cut contact for a whole weekend. Not everybody has a whole weekend. Try for an hour, half an hour. Go for as much time as you can get away with.
I pity the future generations that have to deal with gen z ghosts that yell “yeet” everytime they move everything around the house to creep the owner out
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