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Send help, I’m trapped

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Today’s the day to Remember. Remember the 5th of November.

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Reblog if you don’t exactly understand why you have as many followers as you do but you’re grateful & love them all anyway

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Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger. 

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

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The ice caps are melting and the desert flooded? Alright, who let Chester McBadbat have a turn with the wishes again?

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I can imagine not everyone's gonna agree with me on that one somehow... But also I can only ever talk about my own experience, so here we are

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i hope you find five dollars that you lost between your couch cushions <3

Thank you! Just paid bills and am now broke 😭

Hope you find a 20 on the sidewalk!

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Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

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Watching Kubo and the Two Strings. Ngl, I’m heavily reminded of Damian Wayne.

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(starts raising his hand before everyone else, just less confident about it than his classmates)

(remembers nearly all of the gibberish password that was told to him in a rush, only forgets the last two characters)

(replicates moves that he's only seen once (yes he also replicated RIPeter's move but I'm not screenshotting that bc it's long and complicated))

(figures out how to immobilize a guy that could escape any enclosure/trap)

(notices something is up/off with Gwen immediately, politely follows her lead and doesn't dig into it)

(continuation of above: realizes she's hiding something about her mission from him, decides to spy on her to figure out what)

(has information the Spider Society doesn't; figures out what the Spot is doing before any of them do)

(action plan made in 0.2 seconds)

(keeps up with what Miguel (a scientist from the future who has at least a year and a half of hands-on experience with the multiverse) is talking about)

(mentally calculates the timing of a giant spinning machine so that he can pass through safely and none of the Spiders can follow him)

(lmaooo you cannot do the same move twice on him, he learns too fast)

(this one speaks for itself. he really did have a plan)

(remembers how to use the Go Home Machine after seeing it be used once)

(immediately figures out why he's in the wrong dimension)

in conclusion, please never say/imply that:

Miles is not on the same academic level as other Spider-nerds

Miles is less capable in fighting/combat than other Spider-people

Miles is not as good at strategy than other Spider-people

Miles is too naive/childish/optimistic to have practical intelligence or pick up on when something bad is going on under the surface

Miles's smaller amount of experience means he is generally less competent/capable than other Spider-people

EVER again ok thank you!!!!

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Happy Birthday to my favorite Fox (‘s child) Naruto!

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idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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Reblogging this specific addition, because it means everything to me.

Jon Kent, current Superman and son of the ORIGINAL Superman, may have just panicked and done something stupid.

Ghosts are, apparently, not sentient in the eyes of the government.

Ghosts are, apparently, actively hunted by the government.

His new buddy Phantom, who helped him fight off Metallo, is actually a legitimate ghosts, and now there's a lot of weapons pointed at him.

Jon, unable to really see straight anymore, maybe, perhaps, just a little bit, panics.

"You can't shoot him, he's my pet!"

The GIW agents freeze.

"He's your what?"

"I'm your fucking what?"

Jon needs to stop talking.

Jon does not stop talking.

".....Pet. Pet's don't have to be...be sentient. Like rocks. Pet rocks."

Everyone is staring at him. He needs to clarify that he's bad at coming up with excuses and tell Phantom to run.

Instead, his concussed brain makes him reach out a hand and grab Phantom's sleeve.

"Mine. No takey."

Phantom has gone from looking outraged to concerned.

"You can't-!"

"No, no, it's true. Also; we're late for walkies." Phantom says, giving a nervous fake laugh as he moves closer and holds Jon up. This is a good thing, because Jon isn't too sure he should be standing anymore.

"But pet rocks don't need to be taken for walks?" One of the agents asks, bewildered.

"No, moron, it was an example." Another agent snaps, thumb blurring as he scrolls through his phone.

"Can a ghost go for a walk, or does it just float? Like a balloon." A third wonders, gun lowering.

Phantom takes advantage of their confusion and hoists Jon in the air and through multiple buildings, making them intangible.

Jon stops paying attention after the fifth one.

He decides to take a short little nap instead.

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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

- Maggie Smith [ 1934 - 2024 🕊 ]

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reblog for wider sample size! tell me who you picked and why in the tags or replies ☺️

(ship chosen based on what i perceived to be the most popular fanon ship for batfam members)