modern lotr au is just a bunch of gay stoners go on a camping trip and get lost
Tag: drugs cw
Dear People Who Smoke
I don’t know if you have considered this but stop smoking in areas where people are forced to wait at. Don’t smoke at crosswalks. Don’t smoke outside doorways. Don’t smoke at bus stops. People with asthma or other breathing conditions or people that idk DON’T WANT TO BREATHE IN YOUR CIGARETTE SMOKE are trying to get to places and need to be able to breathe. Stop smoking in crowded areas. stop smoking in crowded areas. STOP FORCING NONSMOKERS TO SECOND HAND SMOKE.
This may be news to some people, but this applies to marijuana too.
Did you know that people can be horribly allergic to things? So while you enjoy getting high, I have to leave ASAP or find something to ventilate my air so that I don’t suffer horribly? Be considerate.
Also: please don’t smoke in your apartment, because it’ll get into your neighbors’ apartments too.
This also applies to vaping! Even ignoring the science coming out that says it’s not better than cigarettes, it is still!!! Not clean air!!!! Which still!!! Sucks for people with breathing problems, allergies, and even scent triggered issues!
THANK YOU I swear to god if I have to dry heave another time because some fucking asshole keeps smoking in crowds I’m going to flip my shit.
Sometimes I think back on the time I spent working as a barista, and it seems SO STRANGE to me that “coffee shop AU” has become synonymous with narratives that are low on conflict, high on wholesome romance. During the year I spent working at a coffee shop:
- A coworker of mine took a bunch of psychedelics, walked through some strangers’ plate-glass door, and threatened them with a bowie knife, leading to his arrest and imprisonment (and, needless to say, a late opening for the coffee shop that morning).
- Another coworker, an ex-military type with a young wife and a new baby, decided to smoke up for the first time ever with two other mutual coworkers, in the back of one of their trucks; and ended up having a three-way with them which ended his marriage.
- I had a nervous breakdown, stopped being able to eat food or hold conversations, and ended up sleeping on my coworker’s couch for three weeks before she finally called my parents to come collect me.
- Multiple store managers were fired for embezzlement. (Reminder: this was within the space of a single year.)
- Yet another coworker, who was seventeen at the time, started dog-sitting for a couple of regulars in their (I’m guessing) early 50s, and ended up in an ongoing creepy and incidentally illegal ~relationship~ with them both.
- Various employees discovered, in the course of cleaning the bathrooms: couples fucking in the bathrooms; junkies passed out in the bathrooms; drunks puking in the bathrooms; both adults and children weeping in the bathrooms; a woman bleeding all over the bathroom from a gash in her throat (??); a dude standing in the middle of the bathroom floor and pissing in the opposite direction from the toilet, so that when the employee opened the unlocked door she got piss all over her (????).
- The owner of the bridal shop across the street was exposed as both abusive toward her employees and also cooking the books, which led to my coffee shop taking on a couple of untrained and weirdly conservative bridal shop workers for a few months while the bridal shop was shuttered and sold to new owners. Later the larcenous former bridal shop owner came down with some horrible disease which caused her to lose both her hands.
- There was a regular universally referred to as “Sketchy Steve,” who came in at 7am for a three-shot latte with room for Seagrams 7, and dealt drugs to all us baristas. I actually, at one point (I cannot believe I was this stupid), went inside Sketchy Steve’s house, and allowed him to spend like half an hour showing me his collection of découpaged outlet plates and also soliciting me for sex while I uncomfortably yet studiously declined.
- Right before I started, the store manager had walked off the job in the middle of a shift, and ¾ of the employees had walked out after him. None of them ever returned.
Like, working on the front lines of food service was the most operatically sordid professional experience I have ever had, and one of the most surreal; and it is hilarious to me that THAT, of all jobs, is the one that has come to stand for soft-focus domestic romance in fandom circles.
This is the Coffee Shop AU we deserve.
Two of my managers got fired for having an affair with each other. There was this guy I never really talked to, so one time I see him and ask how his weekend was. He says “I wanted to drop some acid but I couldn’t find any.” Never saw him again.
I had a friend whose manager used to sit in the backroom doing lines of coke before opening at 7am. It was and I quote ‘the only way to deal with this shit’.
My own manager, who was heavily pregnant at the time, told an asshole customer to take their latte and shove it up their arse, before walking out and promptly going into labor.
We had homeless people sleeping in our dumpsters who used to throw the trash back out at us when we opened the lid.
I have myself uttered the phrase “M’am, I am the manager” after they dumped a cream cake over my head because it wasn’t what they ordered except it was. They even pointed at it first and said “that one”.
I had a customer piss themselves out of defiance when we asked them to leave. Then when the police were called they did it again, like some vengeful piss camel.
I’m telling you friends, I have stood at the precipice of hell, I have stared into the void and plummeted into the depths of humanity and it tips less than 20%.
Found it. The origins of everyone starting to send me the phrase Vengeful Piss Camel instead of Crucifix Nail Nipples for a short time. Amazing. I do not miss catering.
I think leftblr is a little too quiet about sensible drug policy and that’s really telling 🤔
Access to clean needles should be free
Testing kits for fentyl and stricnine and other laces should be free
Narcan should be free (and is given out by a lot of opioid awareness groups thank god)
Access to methadone and suboxone should be free
And this is all like… really basic stuff. I personally want full repeal of the scheduling system and other measures regarding the prison system
Drug addiction is a direct result of suppression of certain populations and the pharmaceutical industry’s push for the normalization of opiate use.
Anti drug policy is almost entirely rooted in racism and it serves to build up our prison system, while simultaneously denying addicts access to safe withdrawal measures. The war on drugs never served to help the people as a whole, and always served to isolate people of color and divide the classes even further. There’s a reason mostly poor people and/or people of color face real time for drug charges.
OP, the original post is not exactly the best one to stick an informative post onto and that’s really telling🤔
Dude I don’t give a fuck how my information is presented. If you’re not automatically willing to review your politics when someone brings up a justice issue, despite how it’s initially directed, then you’re still a baby leftist.
The left has an absolute problem with ableism, especially racialized ableism. As a recovering addict I’m allowed to make posts that make you question if you’re doing enough for neurodivergent people.
all people in prison for possession should be freed and given the economic and therapeutic means to recover from their addictions. widespread programs to provide employment and housing and community to addicts should be implemented and free to use. ideally, leftists should support decriminalization of drugs, widespread information about hiv + fentanyl + infections/safe injection habits and basically all other effective harm reduction techniques.
harm reduction rhetoric has been coopted in a lot of ways to become a neoliberal biomedical prevention technique with the purpose of protecting “””the innocent””” (i.e the talking points are about preventing the spread of HIV rather than protecting the health of addicts, who are still deemed irresponsible and unworthy by the public health system, hence why harm reduction is not seen as often in prisons) and leftists have a duty to reassert harm reduction as an act of radical compassion and grassroots public health.
I think the reason why Sorry to Bother You works in a way movies like Wall Street and Wolf of Wall Street didn’t in the whole “being a rich asshole is bad” message is that it:
– Presents a clear alternative to that message, shows why that alternative is better than being a rich asshole, and gives the protagonist a reason to work toward it that is genuine instead of just hollow moralizing.
– Doesn’t put that much focus on the “lifestyle” of being a rich asshole. There is an orgy scene (CW for that if you’re sex-repulsed btw) but there’s like one tit max from that which isn’t blurred out. Also the cocaine-use is definitely not glamorized. Instead it puts way more focus on the regular everyday characters and what regular everyday people can achieve just by being themselves.
For this reason, I honestly don’t think this movie is that similar to those movies despite the comparisons of it to them.
all those ‘say no to drugs’ assemblies in school where WACK i never once had the pot head kids push the Devils Lettuce on me. they’d be like ‘hey u wanna smoke some of this here Blunt of Marajoouana?’ and i’d be like ‘no thanks i dont smoke’ and they’d be like ‘ok cool’ and never bother me about it again
drinkers? NO CHILL AT ALL. even into adulthood people act like i’ve slain their child when i say i am completely sober. like every single time i’ve said no to drinking some person is like ‘what about jello shots there’s barely any in it’ or they’ll leave me a solo cup of wine ‘in case you change your mind’ and when by the end of the night i haven’t had it they’re all ‘you didn’t want any?’ LIKE? YAH I SAID I DIDNT?
anti drug psa’s are fine but they gotta talk about drinking too bc never once did anyone i know who did drugs push me to do it too but everyone i tell i am sober tries to find a way to get me to drink like i said ‘i am sober but change my mind’ or smth
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