#financial conditions

[stevethehairington]

everyone i see saying "omg oliver really said eat the rich!!!1!111!!!!" are COMPLETELY missing the point of that movie. it was not an "eat the rich movie", it wasn't about class in that sense AT ALL. it was very much about desire and obsession and consumption. not class!!

[chappellrroan]

i am my mom's daughter through & through i have her facial features her smile her tendency to never be able to say no to people if they ask for anything nicely her trait of crying when angry honestly i couldn't care less about myself or anyone at all as long as she's happy & healthy

[woopsieswithnoh]

As a college student, I am very responsible with my money, and thus I do not waste it on frivolous things

[pwouted]

update on the grocery situation : we now have food [ yay ] thanks to those who donated and a lovely friend of mine we were able to get a few essentials :') so thank you guys !

unfortunately sometimes before things get better, they get worse and my oldest rabbit smokey [ he's almost 8 now !! some of u might remember him, esp since i had to ask for assistance a few yrs ago ;; ] has had reoccurring gstasis, usually we are able to treat this by giving him lots of water, hay, baby gas drops, and massaging his tum. now it's gotten so bad that nothing will work at all and it's so concerning because gstasis can become so very deadly. unfortunately the only animal clinic that is still open and treats rabbits is over an hour away.

this means a 32 dollar ride [ to and from ] unless we find someone who can take us, a regular exam starts at 80 dollars, and looking at posts online [ the vet said as of now she can't give us an estimate until she sees him ] treatment could be around $400+ so in total it would most likely be around 544 dollars [ at the LEAST ]

so i will be leaving my ko-fi below TT

i also want to say that i might be less active for awhile / leave my blog on a q mostly so i can just spend as much time focusing on him as much possible. thank you to those who read this, and those who can help, and those who can keep my sweet boy in your heart !

my ko-fi

[devil-works-hard]

What's the point of the coffins?

Something I've been thinking about recently are the coffins. Susie, Norman, Bertrum, Grant, and Lacie all get coffins- but why?

Let's start with Susie. Out of all the human characters we meet, her story is one of the most developed. She grew attached to her role as Alice's voice actress, and, after being replaced, was devastated. Joey took advantage of this, and made a deal with her. We don't learn the details, but in Chapter 3 Alice sometimes refers to herself as Susie, and we get a coffin with her name on it. It's easy to assume that she was killed to bring Alice Angel to life, but considering what we know now about how ink creatures are formed, that seems odd. If the Ink Machine can create cartoons without the use of souls/bodies (like Allison Pendle becoming Alice, Thomas Connor becoming Tom Boris, etc) what's the point of Susie's death?

Norman is another odd one. We don't know much about his past, but he knows so much about the studio. He knows about the Ink Machine and almost everything else. He dies at the end of DCTL, but we don't know exactly how. Joey also says that the ritual didn't work because "the ink had infected them for days." I'm not sure if he's referring to Dave and Norman, or other people Sammy lured. Either way, we don't know how he gets turned into the Projectionist. There's a lot of missing pieces here. Plus, with the books no longer being canon, we don't know for sure if this is how he died.

Bertrum becomes even more strange with context. We learn that he's famous, so why would anybody (Joey, Gent, or otherwise) risk killing him? There was a dispute over the ownership and the formation of Bendyland, but I'm still not sure that would warrant murder. His audio log suggests that Bertrum willingly turned himself into an octopus ride to haunt Joey, but even ignoring how that was possible, it begs the question of what happened to his body.

Also, the Ink Machine's purpose was to make living cartoons. Even if Bertrum's transformation was deliberate, what about the Projectionist? Was his transformation deliberate-- if so, who the hell came up with that? You could make the case that he was supposed to become the Cameraman from the comics, but that feels unlikely. The whole transformation thing is very unclear.

Grant's case is especially frustrating. He's important, even for a side character. We get several mentions of him in the books. He gets two tapes (one in BATIM, talking about something big Joey's planning, and another in BATDR, talking about Gent and Mr. Grey). Joey's tape in the Administration Department denying financial difficulty feels extremely directed at Grant as well, even if it doesn't name him specifically. But that's not all; Kay Lee says he hid some of Joey's more priceless assets, so even if he didn't know exactly what was going on, he was close enough to Joey to be useful.

But the most frustrating part of all of this is that we don't know what happened to him; we only know that something happened. His secretary mentions how he's constantly getting sick. Thomas calls him mangy, so he wasn't looking good at the end. His office is a mess and his last audio log is of something happening to him. The two popular theories are he was attacked, or he violently transformed. Grant even gets a coffin in the Music Department. He's as close as we get to a confirmed death.

But that's... it. That's all we get.

If he was attacked, we never learn what attacked him; if he transformed, we never see what he transformed into. Considering how bad the financial situation at JDS was, you'd think we would hear more of him, but we don't. He just... disappears.

And then there's Lacie. Out of all the Bendy cast, she was the last person I'd expect to get a named coffin. She has one tape in Chapter 4 talking about an animatronic, and that's it. Nothing really becomes of the animatronic, and (as far as I can tell) that's all we get of her. Once again, if she became an ink creature, we never see it. She's a one-off character, given importance for some reason we never hear about.

But it doesn't end there.

As we all know, there's the real world, and then there's the ink world. So are the coffins even real? Did these characters actually die? The books tell us they did, but now that the books are no longer canon, that doesn't mean much. Did they die outside of the ink world, and their coffins were added in retroactively? Circling back to Susie's case- could this mean she didn't die at all?

As much as I love the Bendy franchise, once I actually start thinking about its lore and story I get frustrated. It doesn't seem like the devs had a solid story at any point before they started writing. Characters and plot lines change, and there's not enough solid, consistent evidence to really support a lot of theories. If I had to guess, there was a significant lore rewrite between BATIM and BATDR, with the books trying to make sense of it. I would even wager that the lore got rewritten between BATIM Chapter 4 and 5- because, let's be honest, the whole "time loop pocket dimension" thing came totally out of left field.

I hope the next games (or books, or whatever installments we get next) actually take the time to address this.

[baybitez]

[surfium]

I, too, am 26 and crave revolution

[grace--le--domas]

Update

Okay so I just accepted the Phd offer and um, I'm gonna start next Feb. Super excited, good vibes all around (lowkey scared)

[crownconstellation]

my sister is going to hate my terms and conditions for loaning her her rent money when i hand her the form she needs to sign tomorrow huh

[svartalfhild]

In case anyone was wondering what the vibe is at my job, today I had to stop a fistfight between two 7 year olds while attempting to convince another two to stop saying inappropriate things before I run out of chances I'm willing to give them. This is a normal Tuesday. I'm a reading tutor.

[thedreadvampy]

absolutely sucks shit when people are like HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST PUTTING ANY CONDITIONS ON YOUR VOTE as if. the constant shift right doesn't have to do with the belief in major parties that they're owed votes by default on account of not being the other guy.

like they're going to ignore the public's wishes either way but fuck, you don't have to make it that easy for them. literally the second they get in. oh pwetty pwease Mr Biden can you wespect basic human wights? don't worry sir you'll still get my vote if not but I thought I'd ask nicely!!!!

hold their fucking feet to the fire dude. make it clear that your vote is conditional on them listening to the public on the clear and vital points.

(btw 'refusing to vote for Clinton is how Trump got in' no it literally is not. please remember that Trump lost the popular vote anyway and only got in because your country has a weird fucked up system where states are allowed to ignore how their constituents vote.)

(Refusing to vote New Labour after the Iraq War is how the Tories got in over here. Kinda. because what actually happened was we had the first hung parliament since 1979, and then the Lib Dems sold the country up the river for some minor concessions. and then Labour spent the next 10 years actively kneecapping itself by painting its own leadership as a bigger threat than the Tories, and when they had a leftist leading them they still brought the Tories to a hung parliament again in 2017.)

(anyway the point is you all seem to have a majorly inflated sense of how much democracy is involved in elections. Ultimately in cases where the race is close-run it is not the electorate that decide, it's like 100 people in positions of high power, be it the electoral college, the party leadership, or otherwise.)

(none of which is to say your vote is useless. your vote is valuable to politicians. there's a limit to how much they can get away with ignoring the public. but. because your vote is valuable, it's only useful as leverage if there's a possibility you might not give them it. and let's be clear, people WILL change direction if they're worried about losing votes. but unless you're offering them massive funding, then the only reason your opinion would carry any weight is if there's a possibility of your vote being withheld. if you stand up and say VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO YOU'VE GOT MY VOTE WHATEVER HAPPENS then like. You might as well just say 'ignore me, pay attention to those guys who might not vote for you'.)

if the centre and the left's votes are vocally assured regardless of the party's policy or stance, then the party will move right. bc they've already got you, so it's time to court the undecideds. YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT NECESSARY TO A POLITICIAN'S SUCCESS TO LISTEN TO WHAT YOU WANT. they don't care. you have to use what little leverage you have, your vote, to make them care. it's the only form of accountability we can bring about that doesn't involve, like, storming the winter palace 🤷‍♀️

[teatitty]

It's so much funnier to consider that when Hizashi said Aizawa should use Eraserhead as his hero name he was actually completely fucking around, like not in the least bit serious, so when Aizawa goes "okay I'll go with that then" he's completely shell shocked by such easy acceptance

He's incredibly worried his boyfriend is going to end up getting scammed by a shitty company in the future given how little he apparently thinks such huge life-changing decisions through

[good-death-for-the-lonely]

also good concert to everyone going to see mcr!! :D

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Put the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill!

104 so far! Help us get to 250 signers!

I’m calling on you to stand with working people, passengers and our communities by supporting Good Jobs for Good Airports standards (GJGA) in the FAA reauthorization bill. Airports should and can be strong, vibrant drivers of good jobs in every part of our country. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards are central to that mission and our nation’s future prosperity. Billions of our public dollars are invested in our nation’s aviation system every year, and we must ensure that our public resources serve the public good. That includes ensuring airports better serve the needs of our families, our passengers, our communities and the airport service workers who make it all possible.

It is evident that our air travel industry is in crisis. From record flight cancellations during summer travel peaks to mountains of lost luggage during the holiday travel season. Airports are critical publicly-funded infrastructure vital to the health of our local communities and global economy, but right now airports aren't working the way they should for travelers or airport service workers — a largely Black, brown, multiracial and immigrant service workforce. These working people, including cleaners, wheelchair agents, baggage handlers, concessionaires and ramp workers, keep airports safe and running smoothly even through a global pandemic, climate disasters and busy travel seasons. Yet many are underpaid and underprotected--even as some major airlines rake in record profit and billions of our tax dollars are invested in our national air travel system.

Domestic passenger numbers increased by 80% between 2020 and 2021, total industry employment fell by nearly 14%, leaving airport service workers to sometimes clean entire airplanes in as little as five minutes as many take on additional responsibilities outside of their typical job duties. Meanwhile, wages have barely budged for airport service workers in 20 years. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards has the power to transform workers’ lives by ensuring airport service workers have the pay and benefits they need to care for their families.

The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards would help build a stronger, safer, more resilient air travel industry by making airport service jobs good jobs with living wages and benefits like affordable healthcare for all airport workers. Airport service workers at more than 130 covered airports would be supported through established wage and benefit standards, putting money back into hundreds of local economies and helping families thrive. If passed over 73% of wage increases will go to workers making $20 or less, estimates show.

I urge you to include the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill, and help ensure our public money serves the public good.

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[naomiknight-17]

I feel bad if I boost my Ko-Fi/ask for donations more than once a month, meanwhile there's someone I follow who I swear is fundraising for something else every other day

So maybe I should get over it

[girlivealwaysbean]

sometimes my bestfriend is like an angel in disguise istg