In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
allofthefeelings
fleurdeliser: “ myjusticecake: “ hellchilde: “ ineedtothinkofatitle: “ riningear: “ I made a thing and I 100% encourage sharing it with as many people as possible through all means possible. ” as a former Gap employee… yes ” They are also often...
riningear

I made a thing and I 100% encourage sharing it with as many people as possible through all means possible.

ineedtothinkofatitle

as a former Gap employee… yes

hellchilde

They are also often seasonal employees who received minimal training basically just to prepare them for working for a few weeks, so be patient because they’re probably freaking out.

myjusticecake

Please please please be kind to service people. Even when they seem short or a bit rude, consider that they may have been at their jobs for hours and taken shit from a lineup of assholes before you got there. If you smile and treat them like a human being, chances are that you will improve both the quality of service you are receiving AND their day.

fleurdeliser

And I don’t give a flying fuck how bad the service you’re receiving may or may not be. If you make an employee cry or need to excuse themselves, YOU are the problem. Just be kind.

nonnegative

Honestly, I’ve worked Black Friday and customers are by and large very very polite that day because raising hell on Black Friday means you can’t get off to the next store and sale. Slow as fuck days were always worse.

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little-miss-falderal

Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.

Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.

Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.

Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.

Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.

Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.

Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

http://hesychasm.livejournal.com/187818.html (via onelastwaltz)

My husband came to me today and said, ‘I just spent $50 and I think you’ll think it’s silly and a waste of money and I’m sorry.’ I asked him what it was and he said he pitched in for a fanmade billboard to try and keep his NBA team alive and wake up the owners. He looked so sheepish!
I was all, ‘do you even know me?’ as if spending money on your fandom is a waste.

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If you’re new to fandom, don’t hide it from your mother! You’re all in a music club, book club, or part of my writing group. Except for those of you who went to school with me and later moved away.

Source: hesychasm.livejournal.com
how do you know those people? fandom