I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

• A forty hour work week is considered full time.
  
• It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)
• A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.
• Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.
• Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.
• Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

If you're in LGBT friendly spaces and someone introduces themselves and cautiously says they're fine with any pronouns, it is your duty to notice which pronouns the people around you tend to default to for them and ensure that you refer to them with any and every pronoun under the sun except for that one. You must.

Hey, so...

I am on Tumblr, like, all the time. It is part of my enclosure, and vital to my enrichment. I'm not here to make anyone uncomfortable, or to interact in ways people have asked me not to.

Things I do:

• Check tags related to me/my work
• Reblog things that don't seem likely to get the OP dogpiled (you are fully welcome to critique/dislike what I do, but if you do, I will not reblog it, because that will bring out the people who would rather defend me, and no one needs that)
• Read posts that do not trend into fanfic

Things I do not do:

• Search my name without the #
• Read fanfic posts or anything tagged with "speculation" or "what I think will happen" or variants thereof
• Read anything tagged with "seanan no," which is our agreed-upon "there may be fanfic here" tag
• Read anything tagged with "seanan DNI" or variants thereof
• Intentionally get people mobbed or drag them for having opinions I don't agree with, unless they're trying to argue that my books are encouraging child abuse or something equally upsetting

If you make jokes about me being the phantom of the Tumblr or living in the walls or whatnot, I may show up to make skittering noises and stare through the windows, because I will feel I have been summoned. If you don't want me to show up, either don't invoke me or put up the warding sigils when you do.

“Employees LOVE working with Shovel!!!” executive manager of the Dig Your Own Grave Division at Big Company reports. “Shovel is such a huge productivity booster.”

In unrelated news, Big Company laid off 9,000 employees today. “It’s an important strategic market shift,” that same executive says. “We just have to, now that we have all these freshly dug graves we can put them in.”

Steph: “You ever notice how Tim’s been acting… extra Tim lately?”

Jason: “Define ‘extra Tim.’”

Cass signs: Off putting. More so than usual.

The realization hits during patrol when Tim starts speaking Latin backward and scaling a cathedral wall like a lizard. He’s not evil, just slightly too limber.

Duke: “Yeah, he tried to open the Batcomputer using an incantation in Aramaic and then hissed at me when I offered him Gatorade.”

Steph: “Oh god, he’s doing the Exorcist parkour again.”

Jason: “I’m gonna call Constantine.”

Duke: “No, wait, Zatanna’s faster. And less sticky.”

Duke texts Zatanna.

Zee shows up ten minutes later, pokes Tim with a wand, and mutters a quick banishing spell.

Zee: “Nepo-baby of knowledge demons. Just mouthing off in his spine again.”

Tim drops like a sack of potatoes and sits up groaning. “Did I get possessed again?”

“Third time this year, baby bird,” says Dick, handing him a protein bar and ruffling his hair.

Tim just nods, deadpan. “Okay. Back to patrol, then.”

What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

i think it's funny when people say "yeah the writers use they/them for this character but that doesn't necessarily mean the character is nonbinary" because i guess it's true but by that logic i can say "yeah this character is referred to with he/him but they never say he's a man so i can do whatever i want" which i may actually start doing because it sounds based as fuck. if you want me to believe that action hero is a man maybe you should've been more direct about it smh.