#ACTIVELY LOSING MY MARBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fbfh]

It's not just me right?????? You guys are actively losing your shit and all sense of decorum too right??????????? I need to bite him right fucking now. Every Evan Peters character I've come into contact with has completely and utterly fucked up my brain chemistry and I've only seen four of them. And one of them was fake Pietro from wandavision. I was disproportionately attracted to him too. GOD what is it about Kit Walker that fucking makes you go into heat around him?????? It's like the strongest pheromone attraction ever. He exudes it. There's no escaping it. When you're around Kit Walker you're going into heat like a fucking omega. He's... he's a switch too but like a service switch. He loves getting topped by you so fucking much, it feels so good when you use him to get both of you off. God the way you scratch your nails down his back and chest when you're bouncing on his cock like that. It's so good it feels unreal. You squeeze around him so tight, a mixture of your arousal pooling at the base of his cock, dripping onto his balls as they tighten up and twitch, desperate to fill you up, to make a couple little babies with the love of his life. Other times he knows when you need him, when you need him to lay you down and make sweet love to you until morning, until all you can think about is your husband and how much he loves you. And he does, he loves you so much he almost doesn't know what to do with himself. Almost. He knows every spot, every move, everything to say and do to make you feel as good as you make him feel. He wants you to feel loved, appreciated, beautiful and special and like the absolute dynamite knock out that you are. But you know what you really want to do when you see him like that??? All soft and relaxed and casual, sleepy and smoking in his underwear?????? You're so overcome with the desire to fucking suck his soul out through his beautiful cock that you think it must be an act of god. He doesn't realize how fucking attractive he is, how female gaze, what he does to you. he really genuinely does not realize what he does to you. so when you see him like this and can't stop yourself from straddling him and slipping your hands under his shirt and grinding against him it always comes as a surprise. every time. it's especially surprising when you're making eyes at him and dropping big hints but he doesn't realize what kind of hints they are at first. you see him lying there like that and sit on the bed next to him, resting your head in his lap and looking up at him. you slip your hand under his undershirt, caressing his warm skin where it rides up. you bat your pretty eyes up at him and he touches your cheek while he talks to you around the cigarette in his mouth. even just his voice alone is enough to have you squirming, so he really doesn't realize what he's doing to you until you scooch over and start mouthing at him through his underwear. he lets out a flustered laugh as it finally clicks, and he takes the cigarette out of his mouth, the smoke wafting gracefully out of his lips as he chuckles, watching you closely. you squeeze his thighs and press your face into his cock, desperate for him. you can feel him start to harden and grow against your tongue and lips, leaving a wet patch on the fabric as you literally drool over him. you can taste some of the precum you're drawing out of his cock, getting it to weep just for you. god, he even smells good, so masculine and ready for you that you want him even more. everything you're doing feels so good, Kit finds himself already moaning shamelessly before you've even pulled him out. when you finally pull him out, finally lick up his shaft and press sweet little kisses to the tip that draws the most beautiful cinematic moans out of him, when you finally get a taste, you both know you're in for a long night. he watches you with such deep love in his eyes, he wonders how he managed to find someone as wonderful and amazing as you are. you must be an angel, he thinks, there's no other explanation for it.

[stormbreaker-290]

scandalous outfit alert

Pretty boy on his knees <3

OH GOD OH FUCK

O H MY

JESUS CHRUST

OH STARS ABOVE-

[ourpretender]

ollie comforting all of felix's presumed lovers for incredibly Friendly Reasons surely . . .

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

being sick as an adult sucks. wdym my mom won’t just automatically make sure I eat food instead of exclusively drinking Gatorade all day. wdym I have to ask my roommates to make me dinner. I have to Venmo a friend money to buy me more Gatorade?? I can’t focus enough to do homework??? I hate this.

[lookalivesunshine2007]

did you guys know theres a PHYSICAL BOOK COPY OF THR SUNSHINE SCREENPLAY YOU CAN BUY????? anyways it gets here in two weeks im gonna throw up

[bradshawsbitch]

I just saw this on Pinterest and instead of “yes very good book,” my first thought was “grumpy chef” help me

OH MY GOD STOP (this is me not being able to comprehend that people think or associate things they see with grumpy chef Brad??😭🥹)

but omg alksjdjkasjd, and the cup of black coffee (or tea) is so on brand too? he'd drink black coffee or just plain tea and I feel like Bambi would be like "there is not a single funny bone in that body huh?" and he'd remind her of his hilarious Heathcliffe joke

(bye I took this too far I love him sm pls someone send help😭💀)

[quarklynx]

I think maybe working on this project nonstop for over a week might have driven me a little crazy, I just wrote a pop song about contact dermatitis

[soupis4ever]

the ending of totk makes me want to ugly sob btw. not just because of the actual ending cutscenes but because of that final final boss. it's so swag it makes me want to scream and cry and break things

[tothelongnights]

💫

[right-there-ride-on]

If I ever post about twitter-esque discourse on here you have permission to burn me at the stake

[alyssng]

i have to catch up w everything SJKFNKSFJ unfortunately i dont think i have the capacity to be writing full length fics, so i might be doing some smaus w the main cast!! maybe they're hogwarts au or maybe just regular college au we'll never know until they're posted !!

(now i just gotta figure out which platform smau writers use to make the fake texts and tweets....)

[thr4shit]

FCJVHHVHGNGHH H YHTUGJGVLBV-

THE BEBISS

I saw this post by @polyhornet and something fucking possessed me.

I refuse to be normal about this, I need you all to consider the absolute poetry of kissing the tummy of a vampire that just drank your blood.

Like, do you understand, do you see the vision?

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KO-FI

[aercnaut-archived]

i fuckin hate being afab in a male dominated field

[punkrott]

been having a very strange and uncomfortable few days bwargh

[mostlysignssomeportents]

"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics

Tomorrow (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

It's been 143 days since the WGA went on strike against the Hollywood studios. While early tactical leaks from the studios had studio execs chortling and twirling their mustaches about writers caving once they started losing their homes, the strikers aren't wavering – they're still out there, pounding the picket lines, every weekday:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/how-hollywood-writers-make-ends-meet-100-days-into-the-writers-guild-strike.html

The studios obviously need writers. That gleeful, anonymous studio exec who got such an obvious erotic charge at the thought of workers being rendered homeless as punishment for challenging his corporate power completely misread the room, and his comments didn't demoralize the writers. Instead, they inspired the actors to go on strike, too.

But how have the writers stayed out since May Day? How have the actors stayed out for 69 days since their strike started on Bastille Day? We can thank the studios for that! As it turns out, the studios have devoted so much energy to rendering creative workers as precarious as possible, hiring as little as they can getting away with and using punishing overtime as a substitute for adequate staffing that they've eliminated all the workers who can't survive on side-hustles and savings for six or seven months at a time.

But even for those layoff-hardened workers, long strikes are brutal, and of course, all the affiliated trades, from costumers to grips, are feeling the pain. The strike fund only goes so far, and non-striking, affected workers don't even get that. That's why I've been donating regularly to the Entertainment Community Fund, which helps all affected workers out with cash transfers (I just gave them another $500):

https://secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2?df_id=8117&8117.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T

As hot labor summer is revealed as a turning point – not just a season – long strikes will become the norm. Bosses still don't believe in worker power, and until they get their minds right, they're going to keep on trying to starve their workforces back inside. To get a sense of how long workers will have to hold out, just consider the Warrior Met strike, where Alabama coal-miners stayed out for 23 months:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/warrior-met-strike-union/

As Kim Kelly explained to Adam Conover in the latest Factually podcast, the Alabama coal strikers didn't get anywhere near the attention that the Hollywood strikers have enjoyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyMHf7Yg0Q

(To learn more about the untold story of worker organizing, from prison unions to the key role that people of color and women played in labor history, check out Kelly's book, "Fight Like Hell," now in paperback:)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

Which brings me to the UAW strike. This is an historic strike, the first time that the UAW has struck all of the Big Three automakers at once. Past autoworkers' strikes have marked turning points for all American workers. The 1945/46 GM strike established employers' duty to cover worker pensions, health care, and cost of living allowances. The GM strike created the American middle-class:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-18-uaw-strikes-built-american-middle-class/

The Big Three are fighting for all the marbles here. They are refusing to allow unions to organize EV factories. Given that no more internal combustion cars will be in production in just a few short years, that's tantamount to eliminating auto unions altogether. The automakers are flush with cash, including billions in public subsidies from multiple bailouts, along with billions more from greedflation price-gouging. A long siege is inevitable, as the decimillionaires running these companies earn their pay by starving out their workers:

https://www.businessinsider.com/general-motors-ceo-mary-barra-salary-auto-workers-strike-uaw-2023-9

The UAW knows this, of course, and their new leadership – helmed by the union's radical president Shawn Fain – has a plan. UAW workers are engaged in tactical striking, shutting down key parts of the supply chain on a rolling basis, making the 90-day strike fund stretch much farther:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-18-labors-militant-creativity/

In this project, they are greatly aided by Big Car's own relentless pursuit of profit. The automakers – like every monopolized, financialized sector – have stripped all the buffers and slack out of their operations. Inventory on hand is kept to a bare minimum. Inputs are sourced from the cheapest bidder, and they're brought to the factory by the lowest-cost option. Resiliency – spare parts, backup machinery – is forever at war with profits, and profits have won and won and won, leaving auto production in a brittle, and easily shattered state.

This is especially true for staffing. Automakers are violently allergic to hiring workers, because new workers get benefits and workplace protection. Instead, the car companies routinely offer "voluntary" overtime to their existing workforce. By refusing this overtime, workers can kneecap production, without striking.

Enter "Eight and Skate," a campaign among UAW workers to clock out after their eight hour shift. As Keith Brower Brown writes for Labor Notes, the UAW organizers are telling workers that "It’s crossing an unofficial picket line to work overtime. It’s helping out the company":

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/work-extra-during-strike-auto-workers-say-eight-and-skate

Eight and Skate has already started to work; the Buffalo Ford plant can no longer run its normal weekend shifts because workers are refusing to put in voluntary overtime. Of course, bosses will strike back: the next step will be forced overtime, which will lead to the unsafe conditions that unionized workers are contractually obliged to call paid work-stoppages over, shutting down operations without touching the strike fund.

What's more, car bosses can't just halt safety stoppages or change the rules on overtime; per the UAW's last contract, bosses are required to bargain on changes to overtime rules:

https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Working-Without-Contract-FAQ-FINAL-2.pdf

Car bosses have become lazily dependent on overtime. At GM's "highly profitable" SUV factory in Arlington, TX, normal production runs a six-days, 24 hours per day. Workers typically work five eight-hour days and nine hours on Saturdays. That's been the status quo for 11 years, but when bosses circulated the usual overtime signup sheet last week, every worker wrote "a big fat NO" next to their names.

Writing for The American Prospect, David Dayen points out that this overtime addiction puts a new complexion on the much-hyped workerpocalypse that EVs will supposedly bring about. EVs are much simpler to build than conventional cars, the argument goes, so a US transition to EVs will throw many autoworkers out of work:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/

But the reality is that most autoworkers are doing one and a half jobs already. Reducing the "workforce" by a third could leave all these workers with their existing jobs, and the 40-hour workweek that their forebears fought for at GM inn 1945/46. Add to that the additional workers needed to make batteries, build and maintain charging infrastructure, and so on, and there's no reason to think that EVs will weaken autoworker power.

And as Dayen points out, this overtime addiction isn't limited to cars. It's also endemic to the entertainment industry, where writers' "mini rooms" and other forms of chronic understaffing are used to keep workforces at a skeleton crew, even when the overtime costs more than hiring new workers.

Bosses call themselves job creators, but they have a relentless drive to destroy jobs. If there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers – hence all the hype about AI and automation. The stories about looming AI-driven mass unemployment are fairy tales, but they're tailor made for financiers who get alarming, life-threatening priapism at the though of firing us all and replacing us with shell-scripts:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

This is why Republican "workerism" rings so hollow. Trump's GOP talks a big game about protecting "workers" (by which they mean anglo men) from immigrants and "woke captialism," but they have nothing to say about protecting workers from bosses and bankers who see every dime a worker gets as misappropriated from their dividend.

Unsurprisingly, conservative message-discipline sucks. As Luke Savage writes in Jacobin, for every mealymouthed Josh Hawley mouthing talking points that "support workers" by blaming China and Joe Biden for the Big Three's greed, there's a Tim Scott, saying the quiet part aloud:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/republicans-uaw-strike-hawley-trump-scott/

Quoth Senator Scott: "I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely":

https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1704136706574741988

The GOP's workerism is a tissue-thin fake. They can never and will never support real worker power. That creates an opportunity for Biden and Democrats to seize:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/#now-make-me-do-it

Reversing two generations of anti-worker politics is a marathon, not a sprint. The strikes are going to run for months, even years. Every worker will be called upon to support their striking siblings, every day. We can do it. Solidarity now. Solidarity forever.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/#strike-to-rule

[commandertartarsmoocher]

Going on a date with him 👉👈 <3

Imagine being the jellyfish dropping their ice cream onto the ground only for some unhinged weirdo inkling boy to come and pose with it while you shed tears in the background

Close enough, welcome back Commander Tartar.