#in my Morris era

[crispyanonart]

I might be switching from freelance to corporate

I feel like I'm entering Joja Corp

[skillful-satu]

UGGGH????? I JUST WANTED A TREND WITH THEM....

YouTube - Tiktok

[starstruckodysseys]

posts i plan in the middle of a kohl’s parking lot

never stop blowing up as textposts* 1/?

*i know some of these are not textposts do not get on me. “things stolen from my pinterest” sounds less cool

[mcsiggy]

yeeee haw

Oc!

[noxexistant]

hello hello @the-delancey-brothers i unfortunately cannot add videos to posts so i am having to be annoying and tag you but re: this post

in uksies, it’s canon that oscar is older!

[bugsinshoes]

this idea has been rotting in my brain ever since my lovely mutual @nellandvoid made this post with my ocs !! i HAD to make some sort of follow-up scenario sooooo here it is !

laurie also got into her fair share of fights with her bullies in high school, so i can imagine her and silvia bonding over punching people and getting into brawls and whatnot (she wouldn't ACTUALLY fight silvia, i just thought this was a funny haha hypothetical situation)

also bonus live silvia reaction:

they're freshmen, silvia. ignore them 🙄

[joja-co-official]

Me joja co man I am on my knees begging you to stop using the wet emoji, joja already has enough sexual tension in it with Morris/pierre fanfic you do not need to add to the smut please sire

i'm sorry it has enough what in where

[redandfranticfeelings]

i rewatched less than hero because i thought it would be a chill comfort episode but i forgot this scene and how it gets me 😭😭😭 she deserves this love 300%

[sparrow-in-the-field]

I am too sleepy to write fr but just sleepy enough to feel uninhibited in sharing a silly idea for the Cormorant fic I had

Basically Chuck writes Roger a letter after they get to the jorty(tm) cabin in Oregon and since Bobby hasn't written yet, Roger decides to share the letter with Joe and Joyce so they can have an update too

Joe reads it out loud so Joyce can hear and most of it is just about the train journey and how they were so excited to see Stub and Shorty, etc.

Joe, in the zone of reading aloud, continues, "I miss you already, Rodge. I'm not sure what our sleeping arrangements are going to be tonight, but if I find time alone I will think of you as I--" Joe stops reading out loud, but his eyes continue to scan the page. "Oh my god."

Roger clears his throat, grabbing the letter from Joe. "Oh yeah, that last part's just for me, sorry."

"There's like a whole page left!"

Roger smirks, although his cheeks are also flushed. "Yeah."

"You guys hadn't even been apart a full twenty four hours yet when he wrote this!"

"I know," Roger sighs wistfully, looking down at the letter he is carefully folding to return to his pocket. "I miss him so much."

[girderednerve]

i have once more Read a Book !

the book was jim morris' cancer factory: industrial chemicals, corporate deception, & the hidden deaths of american workers. this book! is very good! it is primarily about the bladder cancer outbreak associated with the goodyear plant in niagara falls, new york, & which was caused by a chemical called orthotoluedine. goodyear itself is shielded by new york's workers' comp law from any real liability for these exposures & occupational illnesses; instead, a lot of the information that morris relies on comes from suits against dupont, which manufactured the orthotoluedine that goodyear used, & despite clear internal awareness of its carcinogenicity, did not inform its clients, who then failed to protect their workers. fuck dupont! morris also points out that goodyear manufactured polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at that plant, and, along with other PVC manufacturers, colluded to hide the cancer-causing effects of vinyl chloride, a primary ingredient in PVC & the chemical spilled in east palestine, ohio in 2023. the book also discusses other chemical threats to american workers, including, and this was exciting for me personally, silica; it mentions the hawks nest tunnel disaster (widely forgotten now despite being influential in the 30s, and, by some measures, the deadliest industrial disaster in US history) & spends some time on the outbreak of severe silicosis among southern california countertop fabricators, associated with high-silica 'engineered stone' or 'quartz' countertops. i shrieked about that, the coverage is really good although the treatment of hawks nest was very brief & neglected the racial dynamic at play (the workers exposed to silica at hawks nest were primarily migrant black workers from the deep south).

cancer factory spends a lot of time on the regulatory apparatus in place to respond to chemical threats in the workplace, & thoroughly lays out how inadequate they are. OSHA is responsible for setting exposure standards for workplace chemicals, but they have standards for only a tiny fraction—less than one percent!—of chemicals used in american industry, and issue standards extremely slowly. the two major issues it faces, outside of its pathetically tiny budget, are 1) the standard for demonstrating harm for workers is higher than it is for the general public, a problem substantially worsened during the reagan administration but not created by it, and 2) OSHA is obliged to regulate each individual chemical separately, rather than by functional groups, which, if you know anything at all about organic chemistry, is nonsensical on its face. morris spends a good amount of time on the tenure of eula bingham as the head of OSHA during the carter administration; she was the first woman to head the organization & made a lot of reasonable reforms (a cotton dust standard for textile workers!), but could not get a general chemical standard, allowing OSHA to regulate chemicals in blocks instead of individually, through, & then of course much of her good work was undone by reagan appointees.

the part of the book that made me most uncomfortable was morris' attempt to include birth defects in his analysis. i don't especially love the term 'birth defect'—it feels cruel & seems to me to openly devalue disabled people's lives, no?—but i did appreciate attention to women's experiences in the workplace, and i think workplace chemical exposure is an underdiscussed part of reproductive justice. cancer factory mentions women lead workers who were forced to undergo tubal ligations to retain their employment, supposedly because lead is a teratogen. morris points at workers in silicon valley's electronics industry; workers, most of them women, who made those early transistors were exposed to horrifying amounts of lead, benzene, and dangerous solvents, often with disabling effects for their children.

morris points out again & again that we only know that there was an outbreak of bladder cancer & that it should be associated with o-toluedine because the goodyear plant workers were organized with the oil, chemical, & atomic workers (OCAW; now part of united steelworkers), and the union pursued NIOSH investigation and advocated for improved safety and monitoring for employees, present & former. even so, 78 workers got bladder cancer, 3 died of angiosarcoma, and goodyear workers' families experienced bladder cancer and miscarriage as a result of secondary exposure. i kept thinking about unorganized workers in the deep south, cancer alley in louisiana, miners & refinery workers; we don't have meaningful safety enforcement or monitoring for many of these workers. we simply do not know how many of them have been sickened & killed by their employers. there is no political will among people with power to count & prevent these deaths. labor protections for workers are better under the biden administration than the trump administration, but biden's last proposed budget leaves OSHA with a functional budget cut after inflation, and there is no federal heat safety standard for indoor workers. the best we get is marginal improvement, & workers die. i know you know! but it's too big to hold all the same.

anyway it's a good book, it's wide-ranging & interested in a lot of experiences of work in america, & morris presents an intimate (sometimes painfully so!) portrait of workers who were harmed by goodyear & dupont. would recommend

[rayneydare]

I was updating my CD collection so decided to take pictures of my whole collection.

[volfoss]

talia deserved betterrrrr

[ofweave]

" but he doesn't want to go back. my little star's happy here. " strahd looks at gale with a dark grin. there's definitely more to this story, but it is the truth. which might be worse. < nat 20 persuasion. >

strahd's voice slides over gale like warm, scented oil — he'd find it unnerving if it wasn't so pleasant. as courtly as any waterdhavian high noble and possessing the ethereal, unique beauty most if not all vampires seem to do, gale cannot help but find the man most compelling. he wants to believe the words to be a lie — but it makes sense, doesn't it? like gale, astarion was always drawn to power ; and it is power under your dominion, still, whether it is wielded by your own hand or that of your beloved's.

he'd left the comforts of waterdeep, the security of his teaching position at blackstaff, rushing to what he had believed to be his once adventuring companion's aid. he'd feared mystra's ire with the amount of weave he'd had to spool together to even enter @strvhd 's domain ; once there, surrounded by dread and gloom, gale had been certain he'd been in the right.

and yet—

❝ i ... see. ❞ the usual intone of his voice is gone, in their place flat, choked out words. beaten—but unbowed. gale visibly rallies himself. ❝ in that case, if astarion is to spend the closest fascimile to eternity here, in this place, surely he would not begrudge me a visit. ❞

[fangirlwithasweettooth]

I DONT WANNA LIVE FOREVER IS THE PIANO SURPRISE SONG TONIGHT?????? OH MY GODDDD

[noxexistant]

modern au delanceys are both prescribed a whole host of psychiatric meds from years of attempted treatment and management through the care system/juvenile detention. oscar is frequently unmedicated because he forgets or neglects to take his meds, but morris is on stuff that causes severe withdrawal symptoms if he’s even a few hours late taking it, so oscar has him on a strict routine. he never forgets morris’s meds, as little as he cares about his own.

[ranticore]

some more horse guy fashions, specifically historical

erased the mandolin for this one goodbye mandolin i couldn't be bothered drawing you

so my thought process for this is like what would a society of, lbr, british ppl who are horses value and how would that translate into what they wear if they specifically don't have a taboo against nudity. these fashions are pre-florian conversion (florian was the guy who gave them all government-mandated shame) and considered traditional (the full coverage dresses are also traditional but to a post-florian period so those would be called like. idk. classical). they were still in use in the enclaves north of ironwall for quite a while. anyway returning to the point, the answer to 'what they value' is movement. in actual horses, herd hierarchy and social function is based off movement - free movement for animals for whom the flight response is so strong is an incredibly important thing. dominance in horses is expressed and reinforced by controlling and curtailing the movement of subordinates. for these people, free movement was enhanced by kinetic fashion - free-flowing garments like capes, loosely-pinned headgear with feathers and floaty cloth, and noise-generating devices like bells and chimes were all used to elaborate and enhance the appearance of somebody's gait. the overall look was mostly based off of morris dancers (pheasant feathers, bells on the legs, handkerchiefs) because i like the tie-in to suppression of folk dance by puritans. i think these guys would have some great folk dances

in much the same way trainers are just normal everyday footwear now, game kerchiefs/flags were worn in non-sports contexts because it suffused into the mainstream and became Cool. the flags were used in a game similar to tag rugby if you've ever seen that played (where snatching people's flags is used instead of full contact tackling, forcing someone who's been 'tagged' to stand still until the flags are returned). as i said before somewhere, centaur team sports go incredibly hard.

the tail ornaments were status symbols and in appearance a bit like the traditional show turnout of shire horses. woven grass and straw could be used for a temporary ornament like these, but metal or carved wood were really impressive, and very common gifts of favour between romantic partners. more flags could be hung there if you wanted to be really cool

variations of this style of mane décor were also employed (they loved their ribbons)

in the same time period, Ironwall fashion was a little bit different. These expensive caparisons were usually purchased secondhand after a real horse was done wearing them, with distinct front and back halves of different length. The garments would usually have the original liveries removed and replaced by generic religious iconography as few centaurs would ever have their own heraldry. Later, in the Georgian and Victorian eras, full coverage to the pasterns with a single undergarment was the only acceptable option (that's the classical style now) The rest of the picture is self-evident, but centaurs at the time wore additional... equipment on the withers which were called a variety of very colourful names but mostly referred to as gelding bars (as in, they will geld you if you sit on them). they were metal and spiked. these were introduced by the florian government to discourage the grossly inappropriate contact of one person's legs around another. previously there was no great taboo against riding on a centaur's back, it wasn't super common but nobody was like "this is basically public sex" until our pal centaur cromwell i mean florian came along and decided this was the work of the devil. young people were also made to wear these to discourage the homosocial behaviour very common to the mid-20s age groups of both sexes, and they also had a place in preventing stallions from wrestling (ironically increasing the danger of their fights because well now all we can do is stand back and kick). the wearing of these devices was mandatory. headcoverings were not strictly necessary, and neither were fully-wrapped tails, but some especially devout citizens took to it quite well.