#co speaks

[octaviasdread]

(don’t repost photos)

05.02.24

new modules, new reading lists, and new multi vitamins are doing wonders for my motivation

unlike the professor who released our class details three days ago - our books should arrive on time but how much we can read by next week is…questionable

at least the storms are over. storm isha tik toks were right, battling the wind as a student with no car is really not it

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Every time a streaming service puts out a new show with deliberate focus on diverse casting and featuring queer characters, refuses to devote any marketing budget to the show at all, and then cancels it for not getting enough hype, we should be allowed to ritually sacrifice an entertainment executive.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The secret good ending for FNAF ruin,,

[abstractfrog]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Mr Sherlock Holmes! Here's a litttleee celebratory comic from me

[nenoname]

"Do you always carry that calendar in your pocket?" "...Yes."

[timethehobo]

Had the thought of what if Manfred really just pantomimes normally, but because The Lighthouse is in the Fade, he can while they’re in there?

[dailymanners]

When entering any place of business, such as a store or restaurant, if a staff member greets you, then acknowledge them and greet them back.

Although for many jobs it's a required part of their job to greet you, especially retail workers, receptionists, and restaurant workers to name a few, that doesn't make it feel any less dehumanizing to say "Hello!" to another human being only for them to ignore you. Acknowledging staff members and greeting them back is important for acknowledging their humanity, they are, after all, a human being, and not an automated machine.

This is also important when going to check out at a store. If you approach the cash register, and the cashier greets you, you should acknowledge them and greet them back. Cashiers already have to deal with being dehumanized enough. The least you can do is help humanize them by acknowledging them when they greet you and speak to you.

[vampires-official]

RIP vampires who can't handle running water you would've loved hot showers

[neigepomme]

pre-relationship shenanigans.. laying on caleb's bed and playing stardew valley on your console while caleb's at his desk, playing on his pc.. you're in co-op mode and go through all the NPCs before saying "caleb, let's get married to each other instead?" and caleb damn near short circuits

when he doesn't answer and you look at him, he just stammers out a "sure pips, whatever you want." you're kinda disappointed by his lack of reaction until you notice his ears have turned red!?

[maniacace]

streaming services: *cancels show I love*

me: well now i'm going to love it even harder out of SPITE

[octaviasdread]

pip fitz-amobi receiving ‘who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?’ on the 11th may

🤝

me reading those same words on the 11th may

[n0anix]

so i started Curse of Strahdanya and you'll never guess who my favourite so far is

[pjo-tvs-version]

My favorite fictional trope is going to be the two traumatised kids who go through literal hell alone

[simplydm]

I’m really excited for ren and Martyn to be seen standing next to each other during the charity stream like 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️ and there will be 10000 screenshots on the dash

[incorrect-maraudersaandco-quotes]

The gang is making a "Hear me out" cake

Marlene: okay, my turn, you are going to love this one. Hear me out... Euphemia Potter

Everyone, but James: [starts nodding]

James: THAT'S MY MOM¿!? HOW DARE YOU

Regulus: [slowly adds a picture of Fleamont on a cake]

James:

[focsle]

I get so annoyed when people are like ‘oh those 19th century idiots with their silly understanding of things that were killing them lol’ when half of it was like…

They knew there was harm but because of various things, be it manufacturing happening out of their control, or what their access or lack of access looked like, or what assurances they were given by whom, what have you, that harm mitigation became more challenging.

Like, people knew that scurvy was treated by access to fresh fruits and vegetables (though there was sometimes a mistaken identity of believing acidity was indicative of something that’d help you, such as vinegar, which is a logical conclusion when you don’t know about vitamin c). But sometimes one still finds themselves in a place or job where that access can’t happen.

Doctors and journalists were sounding alarms about the dangers of heavy metals in dyes and makeup. But If your understanding of how something caused harm didn’t match with the actual currently-not-understood dangers (such as thinking that arsenic kills something when ingested, but not knowing about dust or outgassing) one might not be alert to the danger of it. The power of advertising, and labels, and assurances could also sway people as much as they do today.

There were journalists who wrote on the dangers of adulterated food cut with inedible materials. But if, like heavy metals in dyes and cosmetics, it was embedded in the manufacturing process, and if there was no system in place to hold those manufacturers accountable, there wasn’t much you could do. Especially for poorer families who didn’t often have access to food that WASN’T adulterated. They couldn’t afford food that wasn’t adulterated. You still have to eat.

Some doctors also sounded the alarm about the use of mercury / calomel treatments for various ailments, saying that they did more harm than good. But if that’s the most widely available treatment, if it’s the only option open to you when the alternative is ‘inevitably die horribly from syphilis anyway’, people may have taken their chances. Especially when it was also being pushed by other authority figures as being an effective miracle cure.

Idk all this to say that capitalism always kills, ordinary people trying to get through their lives are always trying to do the best they can in the circumstances they find themselves in with the knowledge they have and what’s available to them, and like…look in a mirror or something. I don’t want someone calling me an idiot 200 years from now, if humanity is still here, because my organs were full of microplastics. There’s nothing I can do about that. Criticize the greed and structures that put them there.