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I was going through my great grandfather's memoirs (born 3 March 1880) and came across this part, which feels eerily similar to our current times:
Our biggest handicap was the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. With men off sick we were lucky to have 50 staff. Some would come back and more would go off. I was off two weeks myself. There were many deaths in the city.
The war was over and the men were returning from France. We were working a fifty hour week. With the men returning, the trend was to repress wages and frown on a reduction of working hours. My responsibility had been increased so as I was next to the superintendent. This was fine, except my wages were the same as the day I started. They said, "You are doing a good job, but with the men returning that is all we can pay you." There was general upset. The returned men were dissatisfied with the wages offered, not only with our company and the warehouse business, but with what was being offered in general.
He then goes on to explain how they met with the Trade and Labour Council to form a union and present their demands (which were union recognition, basic wage of $180.00 a month, an eight hour day in a year's time, and a two year contract), but it all went to hell because of spies reporting back to the bosses and scabs who refused to honour the strike.
After the second day they flooded back like sheep. At Ashdown the travellers and buyers worked the warehouse without interruption of service. The strike was a washout. I was out of a job!
The night before the strike was scheduled to start the bosses even resorted to the closest they had to social media 105 years ago.
The Evening paper carried an advertisement, by all companies concerned, advising that all employees absent from work for three days, would be discharged.
(The memoirs are 180 typed pages, so I may post more bits as they catch my eye)
#Canadian history#strike#solidarity#history is an ever repeating cycle#personal#memoirs#Great grandpa was an awesome dude#absolute badass#unrelated but his grandfather - so my great great great grandfather?#was a WEAVER in the New England States woolen mills before they moved to Canada in the 'early part of the nineteenth century'
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Senator Chuchi because she is a force to be reckoned with
#I’m serious#Absolute badass#Clone wars#clone wars art#clone wars fanart#Tcw#star wars fanart#art#tbb#bad batch fanart#artwork#star wars#the bad batch#artists on tumblr
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Jesus H Roosevelt Christ Cathilda! She is soooooo cool and I love her SO MUCH!
#dimension 20#fantasy high#cathilda the black#threatening to turn captain james' face into calamari and feed it to him?!#absolute badass
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I agree.
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WAIT do lan fan too
NOT ENOUGH SCREEN TIME NOT ENOUGH SCREEN TIME NOT ENOUGH SC
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#shaina west#she's a real-life action figure#self-taught martial artist#absolute badass#kicking ass and taking names#badass women#Youtube
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I’m still mourning for what we could’ve had: Nori being a goth mom and Khan being a cool dad
#my art#comic#doodles#the dress design is based on Nori’s heart with the romantic goth aesthetic cosmetics#drawing her with different dress as if she’s a dress up doll#also I would absolutely love the idea of them being badass couple but also annoying parents to Uzi#and at the same time those are something Uzi would take after when she’s with N#murder drones#md#khan doorman#khan#nori#nori doorman#uzi doorman#Uzi#I crave badass married couple#the older the better#khan x nori#nori x khan
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Echo channelling his inner James bond
Arc trooper training coming in clutch
Fives would be proud
#mother has finally returned from war#tbb echo#ive missed him#absolute badass return#the bad batch echo#the bad batch#tbb#tbb season 3#star wars#the bad batch season 3#the bad batch spoilers
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man, i continue to be blown away by the thought put into astarion's romance, even in seemingly throwaway scenes.
i just did zethino's test of love with him at the circus of the last days and there's such a stark difference between what wins you approval with him and what wins approval with the other companions.
for those who haven't played this bit, zethino's test of love involves a dryad, zethino, testing how well you know your romantic interest by asking you personal questions about their inner lives—their hopes, their fears, their likes, and dislikes. for most of your companions, this is very straightforward: when you answer a question about them correctly, you win approval points with them. when you say something untrue or insulting, you lose approval points , bc they realize that you're trolling or that you don't know them as well as they'd hoped.
unless you're romancing astarion. in which case, you have to do almost the complete opposite to win his approval.
the other characters want you to prove you know them by answering correctly. astarion wants you to prove you know him by lying—or, at least, refusing to pick the most accurate answer.
case in point: astarion does not like it if you tell the truth about his hopes and fears. like, really doesn't like it. answering honestly about his greatest fear, in particular (his fear of being enslaved again), causes you to lose a whole 4 approval points, twice as much as you lose with the other companions for outright insulting them. you can lose another one before that for answering honestly that his greatest desire is freedom. in both cases, he'll acknowledge that you're right—and then express dismay that you'd disclose that kind of information to a stranger. hell, you can figure out from the very first question that he's not comfortable taking this test with you at all; when the dryad asks what makes astarion happy, you lose approval if you say he's happy to take this test with you now.
so if astarion doesn't want you to pick the most accurate answers for him and honestly doesn't really seem to want to take this test with you at all, which answers can you pick to win approval with him?
well, whichever ones are funniest, of course! you don't win points with him for picking the deepest, truest answers, but the silly, flippant ones that make him laugh. what's astarion's greatest desire? well, me, of course! what's his greatest fear? breaking a nail, obviously. he's delighted by your refusal to take the test seriously and actually approves more of funny, light-hearted answers than badass, flattering ones.
i just think the whole sequence is such a fun and interesting exploration of his character and your relationship with him, all in a silly little side-activity where it would've been easy to just give all the characters the same win-conditions. little details like this are really the game's brightest moments, imo!
#baldur's gate 3#astarion#astarion meta#i also absolutely love that astarion likes your silly answers about him more than the badass ones#like astarion WILL like it if you answer that he's a fearless assassin out for revenge#but he'll like it even more if you say he's a lovestruck fop afraid of breaking a nail#i just find that delightful
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Happy Mother's Day to one and all!
#USA Mother's Day#my mom is the best#but I'll allow that your's is too#Dad and I made silly pancakes#moms are the best#absolute badass
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#badass#absolutely going stir crazy#what a moment#dying crying weeping surfing horsing around#khvjyfcht4kjhbljhgjytcjyfcutfxutrxutfcjhgvg#critical role#critters#critical role campaign 3#critical role fanart#bells hells#fanart#laudna#imogen temult#imodna#imogen x laudna
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Eddie notices it first at Dairy Queen.
It's the first time since leaving the hospital that he's been somewhere with the whole party that isn't Steve's house or the Hoppers-Byers cabin. The younger children crowd the counter, talking over each other as they count their money and decide what to get, while the older teens and adults hang at the back, looking at the menu. Then Erica steps over to Steve and says something Eddie can't quite make out. He nods, winds his way through the gremlins, and places his order. When his name is called, he picks up two cups of ice cream and hands one to Erica, who takes it with a smirk and a comment Eddie can't make out, although it has Steve laughing and shoving playfully at her shoulder.
Eddie turns then to look at the other kids but none of them even seem to notice that Steve has seemingly paid for Erica and not them. It's confusing because Eddie is sure Henderson, at least, would be kicking up a fuss about it. Not even Robin says anything.
But, then again, maybe Steve owes Erica money. Or he lost a bet. Eddie is aware how fierce the younger Sinclair is in collecting on her debts, having made the mistake once and once only of asking her to buy him a soda. So, if no one else is bothered, neither is he. He shrugs and enjoys his sundae.
But then it happens again the next week at Baskin Robbins.
And again two weeks later.
When the last ice cream truck left in Hawkins comes through Steve's neighborhood and the only one to get anything is Erica - at Steve's expense, of course - and the other kids don't even grumble beyond wishing they hadn't blown all their allowance at the arcade, Eddie decides he's had enough.
"Okay, what is it with this ice cream thing???" he bursts out as they all settle back down next to the pool.
The burble of conversation stops as everyone turns to look at him, then glance around at each other.
"What ice cream thing?" Mike finally asks, genuinely confused.
"What ice cream... the ice cream thing!" Eddie splutters. "The thing where Steve always buys Erica ice cream and none of the rest of you munchkins seem to care!"
There's a collective ohhhh of understanding, but Eddie is still completely in the dark. He gestures for someone to explain.
"It's because of Operation Child Endangerment," Dustin answers, casual, like it's a normal, non-question-inducing answer.
Eddie scrunches his brows together and lets out a confused bubble of sound at the same time that Steve buries his face in his hands and groans, "I thought we agreed not to call it that."
Erica laughs and wags her finger at him. "Uh, no. Just because you demanded we change it doesn't mean we agreed to."
"...little lost here. What's Operation Child Endangerment?" Eddie asks, glancing sideways at Steve. He can see, between his fingers, that the other boy's face has gone bright red.
Steve groans again and sinks forward to let his head hang by his knees.
And so Eddie finds out everything about the summer of '85 and Starcourt mall. He already knew the basics, but he's still fascinated. Horrified. Impressed.
He watches Steve through the whole retelling, jumbled as it is by the kids all interrupting each other to add something they thought was being forgotten, and feels his heart ache inside his chest for the beautiful boy across from him. Watches him hunch his shoulders when Erica explains the deal they made, the one that's got her free ice cream for life. Watches him puff up a little with pride when Dustin describes him knocking the Russian comms operator out cold. Watches him squeeze Robin's hand when she mentions the Russian torture and drugs. Watches him tug El into a hug when Jonathan talks about having to cut into her leg.
Eddie watches Steve - brave, loyal, loving Steve, who won't break a promise or a deal even after he most certainly could - laughing with their friends, taking their ribbing and teasing them in return, ruffling Dustin's hair and splashing Erica, almost starting a party-wide splash fight.
Eddie waits until everyone is distracted by Max chasing Lucas across the pool after his cannonball knocked her from her floaty, various advice being shouted to both, then moves to sit next to Steve on his pool chair.
"That was, uh, a lot," he says quietly.
Steve bites his lip, turns a little away from the chaos in and around the pool, although his eyes still track the chase, Max having almost cornered Lucas. "Yeah, yeah it was," he replies, just as quietly.
"Pretty impressive," Eddie tells him, knocking their shoulders together.
Steve shrugs. He snorts as Max finally catches Lucas and dunks him a couple times before they both dissolve into laughter.
Eddie bumps his shoulder again. "Seriously, dude, you gotta know how cool you are."
"I guess," Steve says, still not looking at Eddie, fidgeting with his hands instead.
Eddie thinks he knows what thoughts might be running around inside Steve's head, so he puts a hand over Steve's. The jittery motions still under his touch. "Hey, you got them out of there. You didn't know what you were walking into and you all got out alive. I call that pretty badass."
Steve finally turns to him. The look in his eyes makes Eddie want to pull Steve close, hold him until that look disappears. But he doesn't, just squeezes Steve's fingers.
The corner of Steve's mouth ticks up, just a little. "Thanks, Eddie." He looks like he might say more, but suddenly Dustin lets out a whoop and they both turn to the pool. Jonathan, Nancy, Robin, and Argyle have started a game of chicken, Nancy on Jonathan's shoulders and Robin on Argyle's.
They watch, laughing, as the girls wrestle until they both go tumbling into the water together and come up spluttering. Steve's head is thrown back, his shoulders are shaking with giggles and Eddie feels a grin stretch across his face.
He leans forward to rest his chin on Steve's shoulder, his hand still over Steve's, a teasing tone in his voice when he says, "So, hey, I was wondering. What would it take for me to get free ice cream for life from Steve Harrington?"
Steve turns his head and Eddie pulls back so they can look at each other. And that's all they do for a long moment, Eddie's breathing speeding up when Steve's gaze drops to his lips.
But all Steve does is turn his hand in Eddie's grip, so he can tangle their fingers together. He squeezes Eddie's hand, then stands, grinning, tugging Eddie up with him.
"C'mon," Steve says, pulling Eddie over to the pool before jumping in with a splash. Eddie ducks away from the water, grinning like a fool. When he catches Erica's knowing smirk, he just shrugs helplessly and follows Steve in.
Maybe he owes Erica some free ice cream, too.
#steddie#stranger things#steve harrington#eddie munson#erica sinclair#dustin henderson#robin buckley#steve absolutely still buys erica all her ice cream and probably will for the rest of their lives#eddie thinks it's charming#and this further confirms for him that steve is badass#also this got way more serious than i was expecting 😅#and sometimes the characters take over#yeah i really have no idea what happened cuz this was just supposed to be funny 😅#oh well#enjoy
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Post-canon headcanon that the first time Ian has to go for a long weekend away without Mickey (brothers trip or something) he’s anxious to get home because Mickey’s been a bit ~~weird~~ on the phone while Ian’s been away, ending the phone calls too quickly and stuff.
And then he gets home to his husband sitting too still on the couch and Ian’s like “what did u do this weekend” “……nothing…” and Ian knows immediately something’s up and just when he’s about to ask more he hears barking from another room. And mickeys just like 😳
And then all of a sudden Ian’s being jumped on by a giant excited ball of fur and he’s just like “… oh what did u do”
And mickeys just like “she was sleeping under the tracks Ian I couldn’t just leave her there it’s cold and she was hungry look at her she clearly hasn’t been eating properly! And u should’ve seen the shelter nearby it was miserable she would’ve hated it there!”
And Ian knows that right now is not a good time because they’re expanding the business and there’s so much going on and they’re already so busy… but he takes one look at his husbands pleading face and knows that this dog is not going anywhere
And at first Ian’s like fine but ur taking care of her and she sleeps in a crate “but Ian-” “she’s not sleeping in the bed Mickey”
BUT then he becomes the epitome of ‘dad and the dog he didn’t want’ and he insists on buying her the expensive name brand food because “she doesn’t like the other stuff mick it upsets her stomach” and the expensive dog shampoo bc “she’s more comfortable when we use this stuff mick” even tho mickeys like she was sleeping on the streets and eating trash when I found her but ok
Then Mickey gets home late one night after helping Sandy with something to find his husband already in bed and Mickeys side of the bed is taken up by some familiar fur. Mickey laughs as he gets ready for bed “she’s not sleeping in the bed Mickey” he mocks
“shut up. get in here” Ian mumbles sleepily and Mickey just laughs as he slots himself into bed between his husband and the dog
#gallavich#mickey milkovich#ian gallagher#shameless#they also give the dog some badass name like Harley or bazooka or smthn#it’s also an absolute mutt like a mix of about 6 breeds that they aren’t 100% sure of#and they love the little mongrel sooooo much#about a year later Mickey goes away for some week long security expo thing and he gets back to Ian having done the exact same thing again#headcanon#galladads but dog edition#also Mickey basically brings her home bc he’s lonely in the apartment without Ian#ianxmickey#ian x mickey#also the image of Mickey walking into the shelter with the dog and just being like NOPE#and walking right out#gallavich headcanon
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yall cling to duke as "the normal one" like your lives fucking depend on it. like why go to such lengths to ignore everything incredible abt him canonically in favor of kicking him to the side bcs you headcanon him as boring. like do you understand how not quirky cute and progressive yall sound. You would never do that to your faves and frankly I think some of you are just afraid that he might just be more interesting that whatever made up version of your favorite batboy you have in your mind
#instead of learning anything abt his past his trauma his personality or interests you can show off your 'im not racist!' badge bcs#in all your kindness you went outta your way to include half a sentence abt dukes favorite ice cream being the normal kind or his#favorite music being the normal type and none of yall better start on that 'he pretends to be normal! or hes just normal incomparison to his#badass more interesting more developed siblings!!' like go fuck off#the signal#duke thomas#dc comics#batfam#batfamily#tim drake#jason todd#dick grayson#bruce wayne#< and no im not gnna apologize 4 main tagging bcs the amount of posts in the duke tag that have absolutely nothing to do w him#yeah yall r gnna have to cope#thought bubbles
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vacation sketches
#my art#fanart#digital art#sketch#one piece#one piece fanart#op fanart#sir crocodile#nico robin#op crocodile#op nico robin#one piece robin#one piece crocodile#i kinda went off memory with the bananawani hehe#robin's alabasta design is soo badass. my absolute favorite of hers
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*sobbing* eddie munson would have loved the byers twins *back to sobbing*
#he would have absolutely adored will and el:((((#will would’ve been his dustin#he would try to get el to think her hair and tattoo were cool and badass :(#they would have loved him:(#stranger things s4#byler tumblr#will byers#eleven hopper#jane hopper#eleven byers#eddie munson#stranger things spoilers#steveddie#steddie#willel#byler#the fruity four
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