#For Ellie

[step-n-wolf]

He’s a real nowhere ham

Sitting in his nowhere clam

Writing all his nowhere spam

For nobody.

[sillyrenae]

having a bad day so i'd like to show you all my cat (moonpie) in a necktie, if that's okay

[sturionic]

Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.

[shadowwolf146]

@honorarybigsister

[l0velysmut]

family: “why are you just sitting in ur room smiling at ur phone?”

me who’s been reading smut about fictional characters for the past 6 hours:

[billy-crudup]

THE LAST OF US 2.01 "Future Days" (2025) | THE LAST OF US PART II (2020)

[step-n-wolf]

Found the weed that makes you gay call that a Yaoi Wowie

[step-n-wolf]

Goth Bird boyfriends

a photographer captured a wild black vulture preening a northern caracara. while this interaction may seem strange, considering the birds are not in the same family, they are both scavengers and regularly interact over meals of carrion.

source: (x)

[roseguided]

𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒, 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐘. a trait, she often thinks, the young woman had inherited from her. ellie's father, in their youth & even after the world ended, always did tease her for her unrelenting, building anger. when anna was angry, it was best to leave her alone .. to let her calm down on her own. but, ellie was being almost, to her, unreasonably persistent in it. though, could she really be that upset with her ? ( joel & anna lied to her. for years, they held onto their mutually shared secret in the hopes of keeping her safe. ellie didn't need to know, nothing could be done about it now. the fireflies were gone, but her daughter was safe. ) knocking on door, anna peaks her head into the garage ellie had claimed her own. ❛ hey, el. ❜ the mother greets with a small smile, stepping in before closing the door. ❛ what're you workin' on over there, kid ? ❜

[ @svnbleach liked for a starter ! ft anna williams for ellie williams. ]

[pedrohub]

PEDRO PASCAL & BELLA RAMSEY The Last of Us Season 2

[emmabeeart]

Ellie and Joel <3

[step-n-wolf]

Nathaniel Rateliff, looking at Michael Bublé and preparing to absolutely dial up the homo for this song because he’s not a coward: Skill issue

The problem: you are Michael Bublé, it is 2011 and you would like to make a Christmas album. Your producers want you to sing the classic Christmas song "Santa, Baby," but if you sing it as intended, it's gonna come off as, like, super gay

The proposed solution: you will rewrite the lyrics to the song to imply a platonic friendship between yourself and the man in red, making Santa a real bro who's gonna help you get laid by some hunnies, with cool, masculine gifts like a steel blue convertible, a yacht and tickets to a Canadian hockey game

The reality: the combination of the eroticism of your voice and the inherently sexual vibes of the song means you create a story about a closeted gay guy desperately repressing his desire to - as the kids say - fuck that old man, no homo'ing your way through asking him to trim your tree, promising you'll be such a good boy if he treats you well, and begging him to slide down your chimney

[pedgito]

THE LAST OF US Season 2, Episode 6: The Price

[shoot1ngst4r]

going out of your way to search up [insert character] ANGST and all you get is smut

[h0pp3r]

Fuck it @elliebytheshore moodboard

This may only make sense to me