As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.
I once applied and interviewed at a bookstore cafe for a barista position. It was way closer to my home, and I had almost a decade of experience working in a coffee shop at that point.
Got to the interview, and it turned out they didn’t want a barista, they wanted someone to spearhead their new cafe, as the cafe that had been in the store before didn’t want to resign their lease with the bookshop. They wanted to put their own cafe in its place, all new menus etc. They needed someone experienced to train their new staff, to handle window displays, to communicate with the bookstore owners about changes and needs of the cafe, to be able to handle inventory and ordering.
Okay, I had basically done most of that stuff at my previous job. I asked if cafe positions would also be required/trained to work the bookstore.
They would. They would be required to run the book sale counter, stock and reshelf books, and help bookshop customers find things. They would also–despite having an outside cleaning company–have to help maintain bathroom cleanliness. They’d have to take out trash, and clean spills, and vacuum.
Wow, that’s a lot, I said. Is this a manager’s position, then?
No, I was told, it wasn’t, but there was a chance that after a training period it might become one. And that made me pause, because I’d been working as the front-of-house manager at my cafe, and I knew how much work that entailed, and what kind of money I was making, and it was only the commute that had me looking for a new job.
So I asked what the job paid.
$8. E I G H T D O L L A R S. Per hour. Barely above minimum. For all of that work. For someone they expected to get an entirely new cafe up and running, and then also do the work of the bookstore and the cleaning company as well.
I thanked the woman for the interview, said I’d have to talk to my significant other about the impact a four dollar pay cut would have on our finances, and that I wasn’t sure it was the job for me. She asked me to sleep on it, and she’d call me the next day.
This is a job I was way more than qualified for. I had years of experience doing exactly the things they wanted. It was a convenient location, close to my home–I could walk there if I absolutely had to. I did not go home and talk about that four dollar pay cut and what it would do to our finances. I knew as soon as she told me that not only was it not feasible for us, it was downright insulting. That little money? For a frankly ridiculous list of responsibilities and expectations?
She called back the next day. I thanked her again, and told her in no uncertain terms that my time was worth way more than what they were offering.
And whenever people bitch about Millennials being lazy, not spending money, not buying houses…whatever the complaint of the month is…I think about the very nice lady who conducted this interview, and how confused she was that I didn’t want the job.
south park set american culture back by like ten years by teaching a generation of white boys that offending oppressive white christians and offending oppressed minorities is the same exact thing & being asked to examine your behavior is the most outrageous imposition possible
I thought the show was suppose to be a satire piece tho??
satire that validates antisemitism and structural oppression is shit satire
probably the scariest thing about Pokemon is that there are canonically no regular animals in the world. think about that. whalers hunted Wailords for their oil and blubber. Magikarp are fried up and served for dinner and once every few months a Magikarp hatchery probably has a disaster where one of them accidentally evolves and destroys the entire facility. sometimes a sewer pipe will get clogged and they’ll send a repairman down to look into it and he shines his flashlight into the darkness only to illuminate hundreds or pairs of Grimer and Muk eyes and he prays to God before remembering that God is a pokemon too
why DO teenage girls go through a witch/occult phase? I had tarot cards and a spellbook and I knew a group of girls who messed with ouija boards and another who had ghost hunting equipment. “oh yeah Cindy’s just going through that girly phase where she tries to raise the dead.”
When a girl gets to a point in her life when the Christian/Christian-influenced culture tells her that her natural body and mind are sinful and evil, she might choose to embrace it and look for alternatives to Christianity.
How come Ryan Reynolds can go around pretty much pretending he’s Deadpool all the time and Marvel come out with the movie and no one makes fun of it, and thinks it’s great but Jared Leto does some crazy stuff to try and get in character for a role he’s super excited about and having fun and it becomes a meme and he’s trying to be “edgy”?
Because Ryan Reynolds didn’t send his co-stars used condoms and dead animals.
Jared Leto is a rapist that probably has a lot to do with it too
More prosaically, Reynolds isn’t the first actor to play Deadpool following an Oscar-winning performance the psychological intensity of which was almost certainly a contributing factor in the star’s death.
And where Reynolds is playing it for comedy, Leto (or at least the marketing around Suicide Squad) very much is trying to be ‘edgy’.
Plus Mark Hamill is still playing the Joker, and being very normal while doing so.
I do feel like it should be said that Ledger wasn’t even working on Batman when he died. It was a different project entirely, and his overdose was likely accidental carelessness owing to multiple doctors in different cities or areas prescribing him different medications that shouldn’t have been taken together, because if you’re rich enough you can wander into a doctor’s office and go “I have X issue, nothing I’m doing is managing it properly, give me something for it”, and they’ll just take your word for it. So Health Ledger’s death probably has only a little bit to do with Dark Knight (or not at all) and a LOT more to do with his well-known issues with anxiety and depression, which he’d admittedly struggled with long before Batman. The people who worked with him on Batman have never said much about him seeming “disturbed” or otherwise bothered by the role out of character, and was even one of the nicer and more upbeat people on set. The only people who have implied that the Joker pushed him toward a mental breakdown were people writing speculative articles, fans who wanted a satisfying reason for his death, and… Jack Nicholson, who was already bitter before Ledger died that he didn’t call Nicholson for advice on how to play the character, because Nicholson owns the Joker, apparently.
So Leto is capitalizing on this “it’ll make you KUH-RAZY” thing that isn’t actually a thing (because, like storywonker said, Hamill’s been doing it forever and a day with a much more manic persona for the character and is fine) and is passively perpetuating a lie about a man who, in life, was an intensely private person. Leto is trying to out-Joker Ledger by being an unprofessional dipshit who harasses his coworkers when his competition isn’t even alive. Assnugget.
Also, Ryan Reynolds understands how humor works. How he plays up Deadpool is entirely comedic. It’s good-natured and laugh-with-me (and laugh-AT-me) rather than inviting an audience to laugh at other people once he’s purposely made them uncomfortable. Leto sent someone a dead rat; Reynolds told some jokes with a few kids dressed as X-Men who were in on it. Leto is trying to ~comment on society~ with his ~edginess~ in one of those “isn’t it hilarious that people have POSITIVE FEELINGS ABOUT ANYTHING ahahaha”; Reynolds shitposts on Twitter.
People DO make fun of Ryan Reynolds. The difference is that Reynolds is in on YOUR JOKE because he started it, so it’s in good fun even if you genuinely dislike him. Leto is mistaking unfunny miscondect for quirk and edge. People are making fun of Leto because Leto isn’t in on the joke that is his behavior, so he won’t – and can’t – roll with it and make it genuinely entertaining like Reynolds does.
Not quite whump exactly, possibly more fanon than anything else, but I love all the little scenes in Avengers that imply that Loki’s connection with the Chitauri was not pleasant or friendly, but rather… painful. And all the threats and general mistrust that lead you to think why were they working together in the first place?
It’s…not just an implication, though.
Okay, I just. I love this photoset, and no disrespect to the OP, but I am getting tired of people outside the Loki fandom behaving as if our belief that Thanos mistreated Loki is “just headcanons.” There is ample canonical evidence. Like, you can take Loki or leave him. No one is excusing his past behavior, and no one is saying he’s a character everyone is gonna love. But let’s just call it like it is: Loki has PTSD from working under Thanos.
1) Loki worked under Thanos at the same time as Nebula and Gamora.Like the sisters, he was a fieldmarshal, “child,” and “collectible” of Thanos’s; like all abusers and warlords throughout fiction and actual world history, he uses the psychological tactic of taking the young specimens of a conquered civilization and assimilating them into his own “culture,” in this case an enormous mercenary intergalactic army, for his own purposes, therefore both debasing and demoralizing the enemy. Nebula and Gamora both suffered “enhancements” to their body chemistry and, in Nebula’s case, to their anatomical structure**** in order to be made better fit to find Infinity Gems. What was Loki’s role under Thanos? To secure an Infinity Gem. It is inescapable that Loki was mistreated by Thanos. Why else would he hate him so much for “saving” him and equipping him with power?
2) Why did Loki work under Thanos, if Thanos mistreated him? Because, as the Other made explicitly clear, to deny Thanos his wits, knowledge, and resources would be to be tortured and killed. If Loki wanted to ever see life beyond Thanos’s grasp, he had to provide the Tesseract.Having earth to rule in Odin and Thor’s image was just a consolation prize; Loki’s main goal was to SURVIVE THANOS. I don’t blame people for not realizing this upon seeing Avengers Assemble; the movie was enjoyable but the writing was often convoluted and unclear, making it seem as if Loki’s only goal was to be a “diva” who “freed people from freedom.” All of that was a distraction.
3) How do I know that? Not just because of little morsels of evidence, like Loki showing signs of heat exhaustion and back injury, but for bigger, more incontrovertible reasons: Loki’s conversation with Thor at Stark Tower, during the Chitauri Invasion, before stabbing him in the side. A deleted scene shows that the Other CAN HEAR LOKI and not even necessarily through the Mind Gem in the scepter, as does a scene in the gifset above, and the Other will take all of Loki’s disobedience directly back to Thanos. Therefore when Thor pleas with Loki to join forces with him, Loki is not at liberty to agree; he has to say “it’s too late” and flee, even though he is brought to tears, lamenting the “sentiment” that he wishes he could acknowledge and indulge, but it would get them both killed. Remember at this point Thor has no idea Thanos even exists, but Loki does. And Loki knows that there will be unending torture, not just from threats, but from experience, if he fails.
4) Loki hid on Asgard as Odin. Does anyone really believe that was just to be lazy, drink wine, and watch plays of himself? No. He was hiding from Thanos, particularly with the knowledge that he had sent the Aether, another Infinity Gem, to the Collector, and kept the Tesseract safely stored in Asgard’s Vault. Hell, I could speculate that he didn’t even know the Infinity Gauntlet was a fake, as Hela revealed, and thought that as long as that was hidden in the Vault, he was safe, but again, this post is not about speculation. But why is Loki so terrified of Thanos that he’d put his entire life on hold and masquerade indefinitely as Odin? Because Thanos is a monster and mistreated him.
5) Probably most importantly, Tom Hiddleston discussed the script of Avengers with Joss Whedon and they decided explicitly that Thanos AND the Chitauri physically and psychologically abused Loki. (I do not have the old 2012 interview link but if anyone reading this does, please send it).
I have more reasons but honestly? Tl;dr Thanos mistreated Loki. It’s a fact, like “Loki has black hair.” As someone who has PTSD and as someone who has training in counseling, I happen to think it informs his behavior for every film installment from Avengers 1 on. You can reject Loki as a character, but you cannot reject the facts about his backstory.
****please note that Nebula was disfigured simply in a fit of sadistic pique over how she couldn’t measure up to her sister, and later when the siblings formed a healthier emotional bond, Thanos killed Gamora in front of, and to further spite, Nebula. And anyone thinks Thanos wouldn’t also have enough spite to do direct harm to Loki?
****Bear in mind also that the Tesseract/Space Gem, while not controlling a mind overtly, does have negative psychological affects, much like substance abuse. Thanos used that to hook Loki–much like Loki used it to hook Bartonand Selvig–and provide himself an insurance policy of absolute obedience. Like, that’s also canon. Not piddling, not headcanons, not grasping at straws. CANON.
