My Favourite Ship Dynamic Is “me And The Bad Bitch I Pulled By Being Autistic” But You Can’t Tell

Eleven: We don't talk about the War Doctor no no no. We don't talk about the War Doctor. But...

Ten: It was my wedding day.

Elizabeth I: It was our wedding day.

Ten: I was hunting Zygons, and there wasn't a time fissure in the sky.

Eleven: No time fissures allowed.

Ten: The War Doctor drops in with a wrinkled old grin-

Eleven: PARADOX!!!

Ten: You telling this story, or am I?

Eleven: I'm sorry, sandshoes, go on.

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Heteronormativity, or as we say in Germany

"Business owners around the country are offering up a lament: 'no one wants to work.' A McDonalds franchise said they had to close because no one wants to work; North Carolina congressman David Rouzer claimed that a too-generous welfare state has turned us all lazy as he circulated photos of a shuttered fast-food restaurant supposedly closed 'due to NO STAFF.'

Most of these complaints seem to be coming from franchised restaurants. Why? Well, it’s not complicated. Service workers didn’t decide one day to stop working — rather huge numbers of them cannot work anymore. Because they’ve died of coronavirus.

A recent study from the University of California–San Francisco looks at increased morbidity rates due to COVID, stratified by profession, from the height of the pandemic last year. They find that food and agricultural workers morbidity rates increased by the widest margins by far, much more so than medical professionals or other occupations generally considered to be on the 'front lines' of the pandemic. Within the food industry, the morbidity rates of line cooks increased by 60 percent, making it the deadliest profession in America under coronavirus pandemic.

Line cooks are especially at risk because of notoriously bad ventilation systems in restaurant kitchens and preparation areas. Anyone who has ever worked a back-of-the-house job knows that it’s hot, smelly, and crowded back there, all of which indicate poor indoor air quality. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Environmental Protection Agency recommended increasing indoor ventilation to fight the virus, but such upgrades are costly and time consuming. There is no data available on how many restaurants chose not to upgrade their ventilation systems, but given how miserly franchise owners are with everything else, one could guess that many, if not most, made no upgrades at all.

Ventilation issues are deadliest for line cooks and other back-of-house jobs, but there are other reasons why food workers’ morbidity rates shot up. Food workers are much more likely to be poor and/or a racial or national minority, and poor people and black and Latino workers are much more likely to die of complications from the coronavirus.

Restaurants are often intentionally short staffed, making it difficult to take time off, so sick workers likely still came to work (and infected others in the process). Bars and restaurants are COVID-19 hotspots, and service workers and customers alike get sick after prolonged restaurant exposure. The difference is that many of those customers have health insurance and other safeguards to prevent them from dying of the illness; 69 percent of restaurants, on the other hand, offer their employees no health benefits at all.

When coronavirus is spread at restaurants, and restaurant workers make little money and rarely earn health benefits, it’s no wonder morbidity rates are so much higher for food service workers. But rather than collectively grieve the deaths of tens of thousands of the people who serve us and keep us fed, and keep such tragedies in mind when considering the state of the food-service industry labor market today, business owners and their political lackeys call these workers 'lazy.'

There are, of course, also living, breathing people who have decided they do not want to risk their lives for $7.25 per hour and no health benefits. That is a perfectly rational decision for the homo economicus to make. Given how dangerous restaurant work is during a viral pandemic, if restaurant owners really wanted more workers, they would offer living wages, health benefits, and adequate personal protective equipment. But all the wage increases in the world won’t bring back the dead.

There aren’t enough people working in the service industry, and service bosses have somehow turned that into our problem, into something we ought to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t fall for it. Profits accumulate because of labor — without workers to exploit, the owning class can’t get richer. Capitalists cannot exploit the labor of the dead, so when large swathes of the working class die, they turn their ire on the living.

This is a barbaric response to mass tragedy. Workers across the country and the globe are dead or grieving. We shouldn’t risk further tragedies for a paltry minimum wage."

- Sandy Barnard, "Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage." Jacobin, 5 May 2021.

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

watching agatha all along and heartstopper back-to-back is so great like i get to watch joe locke fight for his life by playing the guitar with a stab wound and then turn around and watch him being soft with his boyfriend on the beach. and there are canon lesbians in both. life is so magical.

excerpts from fics i will never write

small things that says i love you

Regulus cleans James’ glasses and that makes James love him even more

the short and sad life of RAB

Regulus watching the sunrise through his life

i’ve been missing you my whole life

Sirius is set to leave the Grimmauld Place, Regulus asks for a favor

is your anger bigger than your love?

In the aftermath of the prank, Remus gets help from an unlikely person

who’s fault is this?

James and Barty argues but nothing has changed, Regulus is still gone

i dont want to be lonely again

James doesnt want to be lonely and Sirius promises him he wont ever be again

i love you please let me go

Narcissa loves Alice so much that she lets her go

a mother’s advice

James for once wanted to forego his mother’s advice

she can ruin me

Marlene finds that Slytherins can be kind of addicting, especially Dorcas Meadowes

i cant

Black brothers never ask because they already know the answer

not him, anyone but him

Regulus’ whole world shifted when James said, “It came back. The cancer.”

Has anyone told the BBC that they can make season 6 of Merlin or a movie or whatever with the same speacial effects budget and we would all still watch it.

Like I don't give a shit if that dragon looks like I rendered it. I just want to know if Merlin and Arthur's wedding is in the spring or would they go for a winter one, because they are not like other girls.