I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered
PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org
So, there’s been great news today for anybody who wants Trump to answer for his criminal behavior. However: all of this could be for absolutely nothing if Brett Kavanaugh is seated in the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh has made it abundantly he clear that he believes that the President should be protected from investigation, indictment, and criminal charges because it ‘undermines the dignity of the office’ (I’m paraphrasing). If you want more information, see here. If your reaction to Trump getting a get-out-of-jail-free card from the SCOTUS is “Fuck that,” then you need to call your reps and urge them to oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination.We only get one shot to stop this guy being seated and once he’s seated he could be there for 20-30 years–and set this country back 20-30 years politically, socially, you name it. So get involved before it is too late. Call your reps, and keep calling until the vote.
Call script and phone numbers here. More of what you can do here.
Please share and signal boost. This is so important.
The cloture vote was today so we’ll probably see a vote tomorrow. Please call.
And if you’re in Arizona, please scream at Jeff Flake for me. He’s been yanking back and forth on this. Flake’s his last name, not his job description.
If any of them bring up the FBI didn’t find any corroborating evidence of wrongdoing, point out A) The FBI background check lasted less than a week, did not speak to any of the accusers and did not speak to any of the roughly 40 people who said they could corroborate what happened and offered to speak to law enforcement, B) Kavanaugh threw a temper tantrum and threatened reprisals at the one hearing they had (which is NOT conducive to judicial temperament or impartiality. If you were a manager hiring someone who threw a tantrum like a spoiled toddler, my guess is your answer would be ‘hit the road’), and C) Kavanaugh has been shown to have lied to the judiciary committee. Perjury is unbecoming of a judge, no?
When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.
You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.
These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.
Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.
YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO
I feel that this is relevant considering it is October and more Haunted Houses are opening up. I know it seems funny to scare the ‘monsters’ but all you do is hurt real people. So stop.
It’s not even October but I’m still spreading this
SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOSSSSSTTTTT!!!!!!! Now
Yeah…your director may want to consider reblocking
We don’t have a director? Or blocking??? It’s a haunted house bro, not a play
Reblogging for relevance-
I work at a Haunted House every October, and have been for the past few years. Our house in particular is staffed by Volunteer workers who are either earning credits for Graduation, or people who know the Family that owns the haunted attraction. In our City, we’re one of two Haunted Houses, so while we open in late September, we tend to get incredibly busy during the month of October and often work from 6pm until 2, 3am on weekends.
We do not get paid to help out. Due to our location, we get a lot of drunk guys coming through, and a lot of ‘funny’ teenagers. In my several years working there, I’ve seen Actors get grabbed and thrown, stomped on, kicked, bitten, everything. A lot of the Actors at this attraction are young teenagers, Middle and Secondary School students, so this kind of abuse is terrifying and potentially emotionally scarring.
There’s a position half-way through the house we call ‘Psych Ward’, and it’s essentially a jump scare. The scare is a corner-room, boxed in with walls and broken windows, that the Actor pops out of and shouts and taunts the people going through. October, 2012, a couple were going through the Psych Ward corner and the scare went off as per usual. The girlfriend of this couple got very startled but laughed it off and continued on. The boyfriend, however, back-tracked and went up to the broken window and punched the Actor in the face for scaring his girlfriend. The Actor, who I’m going to call Tracy, had a black eye for a good two weeks solid and the couple had to be escorted out of the house and were banned from the property. Ever since we’ve ruled that Veteran Actors (someone who’s been there for 3+ years) are the only ones allowed in this particular Scaring Spot.
He paid to get scared and then got violent when we delivered.
There are so many stories I can tell of ignorant customers banging back on scares and injuring the Actors inside, grabbing props from the actors and hurting them with it, destroying props because they thought it would be ‘funny’.
I just want to raise awareness that the ACTORS ARE STILL PEOPLE. We’re instructed to get the best kind of scare out of you, sometimes with no pay at all (like this particular attraction), so please respect our work.
We wouldn’t come to your job, mock you, and push you around trying to be ‘funny’. Don’t come to our job and do that to us!
I literally cannot believe people are angry over this post saying “don’t fucking beat up actors”
I work at a haunted hayride and a guy tried to dropkick me in the chest and knee me in the face because he thought it was funny.
I got in trouble for breaking character to tell him to fucking stop.
Ive been hit so many times this season it has left cuts and bruises. Back in 2015 I was fucking choked and dragged behind a wagon because a lady was drunk and her son had to pry her hands off me because IM NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOU OR FIGHT BACK.
Most recently, a customer groped my breasts and twisted my fucking nipples. Apparently, she did it to AT LEAST twenty other actors.
THAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU ASSHOLES. ITS NOT OKAY.
Most recently a customer fucking kicked me and sent me to the goddamned hospital.
WHEN YOU GO TO A HAUNTED HAYRIDE / HAUNTED HOUSE, REMEMBER YOU LITERALLY PAID US TO SCARE YOU.
THE ACTORS ARE REAL PEOPLE.
DO NOT FUCKING HIT US.
Why the fuck would you even do this holy shit
Hey guys i know this is out of theme but that comment from @witchcryptid was me and my old url. I plan on working this job again this year if at all possible, so here’s an added psa:
If your family or friend(s) force you into a haunting, be upfront as best you can and tell actors as they come up “please do not scare me i am too anxious / scared” and 9.99/10 times we will listen and leave you alone. just communicate with us even though we most often cannot communicate back.
We may be playing monsters, but we are NOT monsters.
Also, please remember to keep your hands off of us during your haunting, and also please try to step in or speak up if you see people trying to touch us, assault us, or talking about planning to touch or hurt a staff member.
We cannot do anything and will most likely get in legal trouble for touching you in defense.
Thank you and have a spooky fall 🌻🍁🍂🍃
I…I feel really upset that this has to be a reminder ._.
I mean they should know you’re…justacting.
jesus christ…
I don’t even do haunted houses (I’m one of those aforementioned anxious people) but boosting the signal because this is seriously not cool.
Hey guys it’s that time!!
You paid for a ticket which means you consented to be scared!
As an ex haunt monster please for fucks sake if you KNOW your reflex is to strike when scared DO NOT GO TO THESE.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE NO ONE GOES TO DISNEYLAND AND PUNCHES DONALD DUCK WHY WOULD YOU DO THE SAME TO HAUNTED HOUSE WORKERS?!?!?!?!
Please don’t attack workers for doing their jobs.
Thank you for bringing this up to the people but seriously if you where beaten up in your work and your manenger just let it happend you should sue the fuck out of this guy / find the people who did this
If you want to end this, haunted houses ought to hire me once. They’d never have it happen again. Of course someone might go missing.
I need to look into this…
I once almost kicked a guy in a haunted house in the gut when he jumped out at me. It was an accident and totally on reflex and I still felt kinda bad when my mom told me how close my leg was to hitting him. Doing it on purpose is just assy.
That is the exact spot my parents found a stray kitten. Nice little addition to the family, but would have been a terrible addition to the pavement had she not been very vocal OTL
No joke, the place where that cat is resting in this picture is called a “dead cat hole” it’s an automotive term. Don’t believe me, look it up.
This is also where I found a stray cat, she was up in there during a thunderstorm and I begged my dad to let me being her inside and that’s the story of how I got my first cat.
Please don’t skip over this without reading it and making a mental note. Even if you don’t have a car, tell your parents or whoever, and make sure to do this. You think that’ll never happen but that’s what everyone thought who had this happen and didn’t check, and that poor cold cat met with a terribly sad end.
Like, when muggle parents get a letter that their child is a witch/wizard. Do they get like a handbook for parents as will?
Because how do they explain Dylan and Martha that their child has to run against a fucking pillar to get to the train?
Is there like a cute little chart about how mich knuts are a galleon?
And do they tell them how to get to Diagon Alley? Or do some parents just go to the nearest animal shelter and ask for an owl because that would be cheaper.
Or just imagine Dumbledore sending Arthur Weasley to Hermione’s parents to explain what the fuck is going on and that magic is real…
I believe DH had Snape confirm that a member of the staff comes to deliver the letter, speak with Muggleborns and their parents about the school and other things related to it, yes. They probably also show the family Diagon Alley, take them shopping, etc.
It didn’t happen with Harry because they thought (or at least Hagrid did) thought that Harry would know all these things (possibly because Petunia did?)
holy shit, spread this like wildfire guys before November
one of the biggest and most devious tools being used against voters now is that voting locations for lower income neighborhoods and neighborhoods that are primarily black or hispanic are suddenly closed down, in the middle of nowhere, or only open for 4 hours a day
do whatever you can to help negate that being a barrier
Okay, so I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about this lately so I am writing a primer. Some of the traits listed come up in movies, supplementary materials, and characters talking about what the house means to them.
– The Sorting Hat is meant to stand in for the founders, so it will basically sort the students where the founders would have wanted them to go.
– Sorting is based on what traits you VALUE. Not what traits you, personally, possess. Hermione, for example, has the traits of a Ravenclaw, but she values friendship and bravery more. That’s why she was sent to Gryffindor.
– Founders ideals: Godric wanted to teach brave children basically to become magical heroes. He wanted them to be gutsy and unafraid to take on what needed taking on, so his legacy is leaving kids who want to be brave and care about things like daring and chivalry.
– Gryffindor’s house values: Bravery, adventurousness, heroism, confidence, a disregard for rules (in the ‘Screw the rules, I’m doing what’s right!’ sense), moral certainty, nerve, chivalry (in the ‘having a sense of right and wrong and values and doing your best to stand by it’ sense, not the ‘don’t let girls take care of themselves like they know how’ sense), courage, daring, strength of will, justice, honour, courtesy (in the ‘trying to be nice’ sense), and passion. They also have a reputation for stubbornness, recklessness, self-righteousness, and not caring about rules.
– Helga Hufflepuff didn’t have a particular kind of student she had in mind. She wanted to teach anyone who wanted her to teach. ‘I’ll take the lot and treat them just the same’ and all that. I’ve seen a lot of people resent Hufflepuff being referred to as the ‘leftover’ house, but that’s what it IS in the most wonderful way. And yes, there’s a legacy of inclusion in this house. They also have a reputation for taking those without a ton of talent or who are ‘nice, but not very remarkable’.
– Hufflepuff house values: Dedication, loyalty, honesty, fairness, impartiality, modesty, hard work, fair play, patience, kindness, tolerance, unafraid of toil, and strong senses of morality.
– Rowena Ravenclaw wanted her students to be the brightest, academically speaking, and curious, original, creative people. Ravenclaw’s legacy is having students devoted to learning and a lot of eccentricity. Sometimes they’re not always great to eccentrics while they’re in school, but a lot of those eccentrics come out to be incredibly influential and important. They also seem to have a strange tendency to attract lots of people around them. They also have a reputation for being condescending and stuck up about their ideas and learning.
– Salazar Slytherin wanted his students to be the ones with the most glorious futures and highest ambitions…he also wanted them to be pure-blood. That’s absolutely coloured the house’s legacy as houses ran in families and rich, bigoted families who angled their way to power (Malfoys, Blacks, etc.) tended to go to Slytherin, creating a tunnel fast tracking them to power and instilling more bigotry in Slytherin children, making a legacy of prejudice. That’s not all there is to the house though and several Slytherins work to improve the Wizarding World and in recent years (post Voldemort’s fall), the house’s reputation is shifting towards a more accepting one, based more on other values and away from pureblood supremacy.
– Slytherin house values: Traditionalism, resourcefulness, cunning, ambition, leadership qualities, self-preservation, determination, cleverness (in the ‘like a fox’ sense), fraternity, power, shrewdness, achievements, disregard for rules (in the ‘screw the rules, I do what I want’ sense), status, blood purity, glory, desire to prove yourself, caution, self assurance, confidence in competence
– None of the traits listed above are necessarily bad things (except blood purity, FUCK pureblood supremacy and all who espouse it) but they CAN all be taken too far and each house has a good and a bad legacy.
@luanna801 – I THOUGHT JUST WAS A HUFFLEPUFF VALUE. I thought I’d left it off because I couldn’t find the source. I have no idea how it got jumbled in with Gryffindor. I mean, being just and fair is definitely a Hufflepuff value, though I suppose there’s canon to argue that justice, as in the thing you fight for, is something Gryffindor’s value as well, but actually being just is definitely a Hufflepuff thing and I have no idea why I couldn’t find it earlier. Since I have a corroborating source, I’m definitely adding it.
PSA: Those in the U.S., tomorrow (Wednesday) around 2:18 ET you will be receiving an emergency alert on your phone for tomorrow’s national alert system test. It will be VERY noisy and incredibly jarring. You can’t opt out of this testing, for obvious reasons. Just wanted to give a heads up to my U.S. followers on the noisy happening your phone will go through so you’re not spooked (Source).
Okay, so I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about this lately so I am writing a primer. Some of the traits listed come up in movies, supplementary materials, and characters talking about what the house means to them.
– The Sorting Hat is meant to stand in for the founders, so it will basically sort the students where the founders would have wanted them to go.
– Sorting is based on what traits you VALUE. Not what traits you, personally, possess. Hermione, for example, has the traits of a Ravenclaw, but she values friendship and bravery more. That’s why she was sent to Gryffindor.
– Founders ideals: Godric wanted to teach brave children basically to become magical heroes. He wanted them to be gutsy and unafraid to take on what needed taking on, so his legacy is leaving kids who want to be brave and care about things like daring and chivalry. They also have a reputation for stubbornness, recklessness, self-righteousness, and not caring about the rules.
– Gryffindor’s house values: Bravery, adventurousness, heroism, confidence, a disregard for rules (in the ‘Screw the rules, I’m doing what’s right!’ sense), moral certainty, nerve, boldness, chivalry (in the ‘having a sense of right and wrong and values and doing your best to stand by it’ sense, not the ‘don’t let girls take care of themselves like they know how’ sense), courage, daring, strength of will, justice (in the sense of fighting for it), honour, courtesy (in the ‘trying to be nice’ sense), and passion.
– Helga Hufflepuff didn’t have a particular kind of student she had in mind. She wanted to teach anyone who wanted her to teach. ‘I’ll take the lot and treat them just the same’ and all that. I’ve seen a lot of people resent Hufflepuff being referred to as the ‘leftover’ house, but that’s what it IS in the most wonderful way. And yes, there’s a legacy of inclusion in this house. They also have a reputation for taking those without a ton of talent or who are ‘nice, but not very remarkable’.
– Hufflepuff house values: Dedication, loyalty, honesty, fairness, impartiality, modesty, hard work, fair play, patience, kindness, tolerance, unafraid of toil, justice (in the sense of actually being just and carrying it out), and strong senses of morality.
– Rowena Ravenclaw wanted her students to be the brightest, academically speaking, and curious, original, creative people. Ravenclaw’s legacy is having students devoted to learning and a lot of eccentricity. Sometimes they’re not always great to eccentrics while they’re in school, but a lot of those eccentrics come out to be incredibly influential and important. They also seem to have a strange tendency to attract lots of people around them. They also have a reputation for being condescending and stuck up about their ideas and learning.
– Salazar Slytherin wanted his students to be the ones with the most glorious futures and highest ambitions…he also wanted them to be pure-blood. That’s absolutely coloured the house’s legacy as houses ran in families and rich, bigoted families who angled their way to power (Malfoys, Blacks, etc.) tended to go to Slytherin, creating a tunnel fast tracking them to power and instilling more bigotry in Slytherin children, making a legacy of prejudice. That’s not all there is to the house though and several Slytherins work to improve the Wizarding World and in recent years (post Voldemort’s fall), the house’s reputation is shifting towards a more accepting one, based more on other values and away from pureblood supremacy.
– Slytherin house values: Traditionalism, resourcefulness, cunning, ambition, leadership qualities, self-preservation, determination, cleverness (in the ‘like a fox’ sense), fraternity, power, shrewdness, achievements, disregard for rules (in the ‘screw the rules, I do what I want’ sense), status, blood purity, glory, desire to prove yourself, caution, self assurance, confidence in competence
– None of the traits listed above are necessarily bad things (except blood purity, FUCK pureblood supremacy and all who espouse it) but they CAN all be taken too far and each house has a good and a bad legacy.
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