Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has been in the media all day talking about the rail strikes and god what a great spokesperson he has been for them.

Here he is handling some ridiculous line of questioning from Kay Burley who is trying to suggest the union will be encouraging violence on the picket lines and referencing the 1980’s miners strikes, which is pretty absurd for a whole host of reasons:

Here he is calling Chris Philp, a Tory MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport a liar approximately 900 times for spouting nonsense on Newsnight (I can only post one vid so these will be links)

Here he is telling Richard Madeley he’s talking “twaddle” for asking him if he’s a Marxist, which tbh I think was polite because imo Richard Madeley is just a c u n t xx

And if you’ve any uncertainty as to why rail workers are striking, these two clips will be a good place to start

They’ve been on strike ever since

Ramirez on Thursday was among Southern California hotel workers who voted overwhelmingly to authorize their leaders to call a strike if their employers don’t agree to major wage boosts in contract negotiations covering 15,000 workers in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

The authorization was approved by 96% of those who voted, Unite Here Local 11 said Thursday night. If a contract agreement isn’t reached, a strike could begin as early as the Fourth of July weekend and would be the largest in modern U.S. history, the union said.

The previous record holder happened in 2018 when nearly 8,000 housekeepers, bartenders and other workers walked off the job at 23 Marriott hotels in eight U.S. cities, including San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. That strike lasted more than two months before final contract agreements were reached.

So yeah I don’t talk about it lots but Manva’s ending is that something snaps in her when Gortash is killed, she empties her mind in full monk mode to avoid the overspill of grief in losing Orin and Enver, and crawls onto the top of the brain vaguely thinking of her Father’s will but also with a spark of… something in her gut.

And she starts her rampaging through Faerun with her thralled servants and eventually gets an audience with Bane, who asks her to defect. She says she will only do it if he returns Gortash, which he sees as a very silly cost, but agrees to it. So she becomes the chosen of Bane, and with Gortash returned continues the work of subjugating the sword coast. Bane courts her well, and Gortash is fucking fuming, but knows that he has to play along to survive. Without the threat of her father and without her crushing powers, they could have a normal ish relationship! If Bane wasn’t more interesting…

But Bhaal isn’t done with her either, and it sparks a conflict between Bane and Bhaal. Myrkul offers his chosen status to the resurrected Gortash, who can’t resist accumulating his own power again, and the whole thing threatens to blow up once more.

Before it can, a bunch of other chosen including Elminster, Dara, Cattie Brie and other high power adventurers finally take down Manva and her poor acolytes. Because although Ao “doesn’t let gods intervene” this false god? She’s getting a bit too big for her boots.

Yet another piece by @speaching for “Why So Serious?” by Lulu_Rythmea & @huntressundone on AO3!!!

Seriously, my dude. The DETAIL.

I’d also like to say, why the fuck are you following me if you hate all men. I am a man, what are you doing

Nothing pisses me off more than when people talk about my friendships with mid-support needs autistics and other people with differently-wired brains as if I am descending to help them because I’ve taken them on as a charity case. That is NOT true. Oh they’re a burden because they’re neurodivergent? WELL GUESS FUCKING WHAT: SO AM I! THE REASON I HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS WITH SO MUCH SHIT WRONG WITH THEM IS BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF SHIT WRONG WITH ME. WE ATTRACT EACH OTHER! WE LIKE EACH OTHER! IT’S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND!

So because I just reached 600 followers and more so really I need something to kick my ass into gear and start doing art again, I’ve decided to hold a Choices art giveaway.

How it’ll work: I’ll put everyone’s names into a randomiser and draw from there. I’ll DM the winner and they’ll get a free Choices fanart. If they don’t respond within a couple days I’ll draw again.

To enter you need to be:

Following me on this blog

Reblog this post before February 2nd.

Swear conversations at work today, after I spent thirty minutes explaining to some newbs why no one should work on strike days, are just like this

Clearly I have a ways to go

One of our DnD group Heartily Disapproves of our catnap plan but is non confrontational enough that he just sat in a long beat before saying “OK” to our proposed action and I’m still laughing about it to myself.

“. . . [Q]uestions like “Why do you love horses so much?” didn’t quite get the job done.”

this is so embarrassing to admit but I have a problem with skin picking and I picked a literal fucking hole in my scalp and of course I lost all the hair in that area and I was fucking devastated and horrified cos it’s like between the size of a nickel and a quarter BUTTTT the hair is starting to grow back thank fucking fucking FUCK I hope it all comes back in that area and none of the follicles are too damaged to grow 🥲🥲🥲

Now…we weed out the scabs!

TW: Scabbing, stitches

I have a bad habit of picking at my skin, and I’ve already accidentally pulled out a few stitches from the scabs of my top surgery scars. Why am I like this why can’t I stop

oooooo I HATE the curb

Violet Tears

New profile picture and first show of drawing actual people on here. The flowers are violets ofc and the moth wings are those of the Southern Pink-Striped Oakworm Moth