#wildcat strike!

[nando161mando]

[jonasgoonface]

"don't tighten your belt, clench your fist" did some work for the rowdy folks at Inicjatywa Pracownicza.

[evilhorse]

‘Cause I ain’t seen the fight where I can’t hold my own!

(All-Star Comics #71)

[rosemist50]

Part two of the Ivypool's Heart cats: All of the wildcats! Spoilers under the cut.

OKAY SO I thought I would have a harder time trying to make SIXTEEN tabby wildcat designs, having never drawn a design for this type of wildcat ever before, but I actually had fun with it. Had to do a couple practice sketches in my notebook to get the overall shape and feel down, but I think they came out alright. I found that image at the very end on a TikTok of someone talking about the European Wildcat (assumed to be the ones in the books), and I thought I'd put it here since it was a big help to me for designing these guys. If you look you'll notice that some of the wildcats look less like the 'pure' European wildcat; Strike Slash with his white underside, Purr Roll's bouncy fur, and some look more; Bound Hunt and Leap Growl. The thought process here was that over time with Galestar's line and other hybridizations the wildcats would become more hybridized, slowly drifting away from the 'pure' European wildcat. Bound Hunt is, in this respect, an example of what a completely non-hybridized wildcat would look like, and follows much of the image from that TikTok.

ANYWAYS, to start we have Tumble Leap and Stalk Purr, the first two wildcats the traveling cats meet, and their three kits Pounce Whisper, Stretch Blink, and Hunt Leap. Then is Bound Hunt, Galestar's second mate. And after is Strike Slash and Wish Stalk, who are also mates, and Claw Stretch and her daughter Hop Scratch. Then the elders Prowl Sleek, Hunt Growl, and Spring Claw. And finally the spirit guides of Whisper Claw for Pounce Whisper, Leap Growl for Tumble Leap, and Purr Roll for Stalk Purr.

[captainjonnitkessler]

I want to be clear that I am NOT an expert in trade unions: My experience is limited to the IBEW and I’ve only been a member for four years. That being said:

My experience thus far is that 99% of being in one is the same obnoxious bureaucratic bullshit as national politics on a smaller scale. Everyone loves to bitch about the administration: It’s corrupt, they’re just giving themselves raises for doing nothing, the business manager is doing his “recruiting” exclusively in the bar, the negotiators are licking the contractors’ boots, we inexplicably voted to give the golf club ten thousand fucking dollars, they don’t actually care about us, they’re just sitting on their asses doing politics while we work to support them. And then you ask “so are you going to meetings and voting?” and the answer is always “hell no, I’m not giving up an evening a month to go listen to a bunch of bullshit”.

Obviously I 100% support forming and joining unions, they offer way more protection and support than non-union workplaces, and they’re a powerful force for labor rights. Just . . . remember they’re just made up of all of your coworkers, including the ones you hate, and they require the involvement of the membership to actually function. It’s a lot of compromising and politicking and bullshitting, it’s not a magic bullet to fix labor problems. Half the time I can’t even agree with my coworkers on what the problems ARE, much less how to fix them!

[vakarians-babe]

i wanna say just for clarity's sake that, during the length of the SAG and WGA strike, since promotion is considered crossing the picket line and there are grey lines around online content like cosplay as promotion and scabbing (according to SAG's own statements, promo for any properties that are being struck/would have been struck if released today is to be avoided, even in cosplay), i'm not gonna be making any fan content of any struck properties, nor will i be reblogging it. i'll go back to reblogging stuff for struck shows and movies and such when the strike is over, but until then stuff will be staying in my drafts. solidarity forever!

[obsessed-with-everythings]

Doesn’t the term wildcat strike sound really cool? Sexy, even?

[proustianrevelry]

absolutely hilarious when writeups about the 1914 Christmas Truce conclude "yeah, some people tried to do it again in subsequent years, but it never really happened for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

IT NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS A CAPITAL OFFENSE

Lions Led by Donkeys put out an episode discussing this, but the soldiers doing this were the equivalent of American GIs in Vietnam refusing to shoot first: They were doing exactly what their commanders didn't want them to do. Many of the soldiers in 1914 negotiated informal ceasefires with soldiers on the other side against direct orders from their officers. Both allied and axis governments attempted to bury the heartwarming Christmas Truce story, and when it leaked via neutral countries' press, British High Command deemed such actions "fraternization with the enemy" and warned that any soldier caught chatting up Jerry, at Christmas or otherwise, would be court martialed and, if found guilty, executed.

Humanizing the enemy is bad for morale, and generals already knew the western front was going to be a long, slow war of attrition.

Management always sees workers bonding with each other as a threat, and they're right. :)

[antiwaradvocates]

[incorrectpowerrangersquotes]

[camphorfreya]

Wu-Wednesday - 8 Strikes of the Wildcat on Mixcloud

[fox-bright]

Wildcat strike! Wildcat strike! These fucking assholes should be ashamed! Wildcat strike! Wildcat strike! Stop the trains, stop the trains, stop the trains!

[evilhorse]

Sorry, Huntress—didn’t mean to get ya inta dis!

(All-Star Comics #70)

[almostfini]

[eusuchia]

not sure how the use of the term wildcat strike got so misplayed but I suspect it has to do with it sounding extremely cool

[pebblezone]

Feeling like a Yuma morii Pokémon card