I was all “I’m gonna mail my Canadian friend lots of postcards and letters b/c I’ve now stockpiled all these prestamped cards & envelopes!”
“Man I guess I should ask if they still live in the same place in Canada…”
“Addressing envelopes is fun! This is easy why did I stop doing this??”
“Uhhhh…wait can “forever” stamps go to canada? I mean they must, how do people send postcards if you had to fill out a customs order for everything?”
“What’s “Global Forever???”
:| grdrmert. /wrong stamps
so i switched back to AbiWord after using OpenOffice for most of the year; not being sloggy and bloated by a word processor is nice.
I also found out you can change the colour of your onscreen “paper”, so I made it eggshell. [nice and duller than pure white] now if only i could replace TNR as the default font…I usually prefer to type in monospace fonts or pixel fonts; because it’s not about “the reader” and it’s purely for me. It’s the digital equivalent of thumb nailing really small.
also after a while of thinking about a thing, I tend to write my notes in code or scribbles. With a different font atleast I can feel subversive without forgetting what something meant a few years later. [really I have text files I don’t quite remember writing that just contain the names of prehistoric fish repeated over and over with a character’s name and all I know is that it was an important revelation.]
just think i could have shared with you all my overblown annoyance at ppl calling .exe files “apps” but instead you get this prattle.
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
This is really interesting and a total turn around from last I heard about Target’s stance on LGB & T campaigns and employment. I guess I’m skeptical to go “woo corporation suddenly changing ways as market acceptability shifts” when I saw other trans ppl loose their jobs at Target, that whole anti-gay debacle a few years ago….
It’s good that these things change, I guess I just don’t see it as anything to really be happy at Target about.
(via shmuffalo)
hey sweet peeps, seems the monster anthology is doing AWESOME on funding! 3,000 bucks has been hit and we’re well on our way to 4,000! you can check out the progress and contribute here
i’ve been hard at work brainstorming some interesting pin-up characters so here’s a sketch of one of the many character designs i’ve been thinking about. she’s not quite finished design wise but i’m thinking the fact that she’s a curb-stompingly kawaii bear girl made of honey might make up for this.
“she’s a curb-stompingly kawaii bear girl made of honey”
this is the best thing.
[I looked at them drippies and was like “that looks like honey…” and thought about those slime-people who mould their bodies that @theveryworstthing also drew and looked at the ears and was like “oh I guess she’s a slime” but no. it rlly was honey. a honeybear ;x;]
So I was looking at a friend’s blog and there were these cat-ovelayed-on-space pics and I was just like dude.
Schim Schimmel.
I cried all over them books and wore out all those folders dudes.