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Mohtz on Society6

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when mitski said i am a forest fire and i am the fire and i am the forest and i am a witness watching it i stand in a valley watching it and you are not there at all

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Over 150 discontented Riot Games employees walked out of the League of Legends publisher’s offices in Los Angeles today to protest the company’s stance on forced arbitration. Standing in a parking lot on Riot’s campus, employees held picket signs and gave impassioned speeches.

“We’re asking that forced arbitration be ended for all past, current, and future Riot employees, including contractors and in current litigation,” said Jocelyn Monahan, a social listening strategist at Riot, in an interview with Kotaku. Standing in front of a sign reading “Rioters Unplugged,” a play on Riot’s internal “Riot Unplugged” meetings, Monahan would later tell her assembled colleagues through a megaphone, “asking to feel safe does not make you entitled.”

Monahan had one major point she hoped to get across to her colleagues—even those who chose to stay in their desks and continue working. “We are what makes Riot great. I want us to feel solidarity and connection with each other. I want us to feel connected. I want us to feel like our voices are heard and heard in a way that matters.” Colleagues took turns speaking through the megaphone, with several admitting that they were scared to participate and be labeled “anti-Riot.” Said one, “I was worried. I was like, ‘What if I go and nobody shows up?’ I’m a little less worried about that now.” Others are showing their support with the #riotwalkout hashtag, which hundreds have been tweeting.

Today’s protest appears to be the first labor-related walkout for a large game studio like Riot. The company’s management is allowing its employees to participate and has urged managers to be accommodating and understanding. In an email to Kotaku this morning, a Riot representative added, “We respect Rioters who choose to walkout today and will not tolerate retaliation of any kind as a result of participating (or not).”

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Luna is having none of my crap.

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there’s a ton of shit you can get in life if you’re willing to submit yourself to the mortifying horror of asking for it.

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good: “may i have this dance?”

EXCELLENT: “may i have this dance?” *draws sword*

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someone being a jerk: i have depression okay????

me, who also has depression:

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the mcelroys said Trans Rights!

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me, psyching myself up to do the most insignificant, menial task

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Chelsea Manny, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Owen Jones, and Mara Wilson, log onto a Donkey Kong stream. That’s not a joke and that’s something that happened today.

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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

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worst part of adulthood so far is definitely the fact that people have the ability to contact me and i have to respond in a timely manner

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“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Wild Geese”, in Wild Geese : Selected Poems

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imagine hearing “hall of the mountian king” for the first time in 1875. the sheer chaos imagine being some norwegian aristocrat and sitting down for a nice day at the symphony and getting your entire wig and life snatched right before your very eyes