Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
ds9 B plot where Miles and Keiko agree to try an open relationship: Keiko has crazy bisexual sex with half the station while the chief exclusively fucks an increasingly tired of it Julian as he vents his marital insecurity
Caption: [My wife and I got married in Vegas. A little bit because we didn’t want to invite any family we didn’t like. We got to be like “Ya know Elvis said there is only eight seats, so your homophobic grandma is gonna have to skip this one. I’m kidding of course, I love that she’s hateful”. Actually when we originally got married, we did get married in Vegas, but we didn’t have Elvis do it. Uh my wife wouldn’t let me. Something about her dignity (laughs).
But we did go back recently and we had Elvis renew our vows . I love Elvis. (laughs) I freaked out the whole time, like “Hi Mr. King” and he was like “Hi third lesbian couple of my day”. And we pulled up to the chapel they were actually finishing up another lesbian wedding that day. Which made me really happy for gay rights, uh, but also way to steal all my thunder ladies on my special day. Elvis and the lesbians was supposed to be our story and now we got to share it with Sarah and Taryn. And they seem nice.
So we had Elvis officiate a good old lesbian vow renewal, you know. He sang, we sang, I cried, it was beautiful. And I thought that was going to be the end of this nice story that I’d get to tell you guys but no, Elvis pulled my wife and I to the side and he asked us you know, “ Do you ladies like the sky? Because there’s gonna be an amazing meteor shower tonight and I don’t want you ladies to miss it”.
And I looked at my wife and I went, “You picked great! This Elvis controls the weather” (laughs) and he was right! There was an incredible meteor shower that night. As we’re driving out of Vegas I looked at my wife and I’m like “We got to come here more. Magic Elvis and the lesbians was not on the website. You got to come here to find it”.]
OP of that post blocked me, so i’ll say it here: I get that “who will do the shit jobs” is a bad faith question, but I feel like the best response addresses the demeaning of blue-collar workers instead of proposing that their jobs don’t actually need to be done by specialized knowledgeable workers
Believe it or not, a lot of people would be perfectly happy working a so-called “shit” job if they’re paid well and have reasonably safe working conditions.
There’s no reason to assume the septic tank guy is miserable with his lot in life or that he finds it demeaning to be the septic tank guy.
wastewater literally is a shit job and pays better than most, and you don’t need a college degree to make a national wage average of 24 to 28 dollars an hour starting and because you can test out to advance in grades you have an easier time of getting pay raises compared to most jobs.
Yeah but I bet 90% of the people there choose it bc the money and not a passion for working with wastewater
Do you need a passion for it to be happy doing it?
Sometimes a job is just a job. No shame in that.
Most people reserve their passion for things that are not their jobs, like their friends, lovers, and families.
We are not all meant to be great artists, scientific researchers, and world-savers.
This will not change in the communist solarpunk utopia of the future. Nor should it.
That said, there are people who think cleaning is fun and sanitation is interesting, and just don’t want everyone else to treat them like shit because they don’t work in an office. The revolution will (hopefully) take care of THAT problem.
It also wouldn’t hurt us to show more appreciation for the people who do the jobs that make life better for all of us. Doctors and lawyers and entertainers make valuable contributions, but so do the people who produce and sell the food we eat. So do the people who clean up our messes. So do the people who drive us around in buses and trains and hired cars. So do the people who fix things that break.
No job has to be horrible. What makes work horrible is the way corporations try constantly to get more and more work out of fewer people. It should be possible to have a good time at work with the people who are there with you. You shouldn’t be so rushed that you can’t have a conversation while you peel potatoes or scrub the floor, and there should be people around to have one with.
