#memes aside

[this-blog-is-for-good-vibes-only]

NOT AGAIN .

Poor Longan… they just want friends guys….. 🥺🥺🥺

[somerandomdudelmao]

Okay, I need to know, how in Hell did Oscar got to be part of Nasa? Like, seriously, as far as I know the people there have to be smart and in good health (including mentally), so how is he, a guy who admitted skipping Biology classes a lot, an astronaut?!

Oscar walking into NASA with no education and a folder filled with monster fanart instead of a portfolio.

[pinketine]

If RTGame has a million fans, then I am one of them. If RTGame has ten fans, then I am one of them. If RTGame has only one fan then that is me. If RTGame has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against RTGame, then I am against the world.

[coldgoldlazarus]

Me: Man, I just really don't care for the direction the Kazimierz stuff went in. And I feel so disconnected from the mainline plot because I'm still stuck in Chapter 6 while everyone else is on like, 11 or 12 or something.

Me: And given the aforementioned Kazimierz problem, am starting to wonder if the Reunion plot is really going to land as well as I had hoped, either; is the neoliberal vibe a problem unique to the jousting honses, or is that just the canary in the coal mine? Between all that and the gameplay burnout, maybe I should just back off more for a while...

Hypergrif: Winged Serpents real, hot evil feathered snake milfs spotted in your area.

Me: Fuckit, I can stick around a while longer yet...

[bagelrites]

Listening to Glass Animals' Dreamland album while writing dnf fanfic kind of slays actually

[sundaeserenade]

me when people take time OUT OF THEIR DAY to draw fanart for a fic i mostly wrote on the toilet

[forgottenbones]

Steamed Hams

[iwillwringyourneck]

[myoonmii]

Some might say he didn’t take the news well

[stealth-black-leg]

Thinking about the Cross Guild/Strawhat Tripartite parallel.

You have the ever-lucky clown and the trickster god

the current greatest swordsman and the next in line

and the transgenders

[whumpfish]

I have a disability lawyer. Retained one after my first application/auto-rejection for benefits. It has not sped things up, the government still ghosted them for a year and a week, but my odds are better than trying alone. A friend advised me to call my state/congressional rep if this doesn't work.... Apparently it can work wonders in an election year.

Disability benefit application is a grueling, agonizing, lengthy, dehumanizing process that I would avoid if it were remotely possible. And I wouldn't be able to do it at all if I didn't have housing security. (I am American. To my understanding, Canadians have more or less Medicare without submitting to this nonsense as a consequence of citizenship, so idk how comparable my experience with my government is to yours, or how necessary the whole nightmare would be if the need for insurance isn't a thing.)

My advice is start an avenue of study that will let you make a living from home, like medical transcription. Many trade schools have programs that can have you work ready in 9 months. Idk what disability you have, but if you can reliably hold information in your head long and short-term, put on headphones, and type for a standard work week, it beats the shit out of living like this. I wanted to do it myself, but between the pain and the brain fog and the number of doctor appointments, it became clear pretty quickly that this was not going to work for me. But if it sounds like it could work for you, do that.

My disability cost me my own graduate career. It was devastating. All I can pass on there is diversify your sense of self now. My entire identity was bound up in my academic career. It was what I was, it was who I was, it was all I was. When I was done with my undergrad studies, my friend group and I spent graduation excitedly smacking each other in the arm and going "That's us in two years! That's us in six years!" as the MAs and PhDs walked the stage after us. I didn't know how to not be a student, I didn't know how to not plan on teaching at a college myself. It took me years to recover, and I got myself into some bullshit I didn't need to following that loss because I had no sense of self.

You have to be more than the love of your life. Whether it's a person or a career or a religion or a role, you have to be more than that one thing. You have to be able to afford to be a little less for a while, be able to absorb the shock of loss without the sky falling.

If you are in danger of becoming unhoused, look around for transitional housing options offered by charity programs. Catholic Charities runs a housing development in downtown Dallas for people who are underemployed/otherwise without immediate prospects. It's my own fallback plan in the worst-case scenario. There is often an application process, so checking availability and getting a jump on that could be a good thing to start now, depending on how dire things look at the moment. Especially if it would require you to relocate away from school during your grad studies.

So, this got long, but it's literally everything I can think of. Hope at least some of it helps.

Anyone who has lost the ability to work as a result of disability... any advice? I think I need to start preparing for this very near eventuality.

I can't get on disability assistance here because I am only allowed to have CA$5000 in savings and I currently have more than that because a) I'm trying to finish my undergrad and get a PhD, b) I technically have other money I can't access because of financial abuse and c) I need to save CA$8000 (at least) to $11 000 (realistic) for a wheelchair that I desperately desperately need. Not to mention a $30 000 service dog which I also desperately need plus my CA$8000 hearing aids which are only meant to last 4 years and are currently pushing 5.

I don't have a partner. All my close friends are also disabled or don't have money to spare or both. My parents are the financial (and other) abusers. The only family I feel safe with are academics and have a child so money is very tight. I'm gonna be on my own if I can't continue working and I won't be able to keep my place to live since my tuition is over $5000 which is the max I could have on disability assistance and my housing is dependent on my studying.

Advice desperately needed and welcome. Even if you're from a different country (I do a lot of disability advocacy work so I am pretty good at parsing out what's useful from US-centric advice)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

No time to play. You are being sent away.

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[honeypleasejustkillme]

had to edit this one but basically :)

[titenoute]

Meme redraw OG Rayman prefers to choose kindness whenever he can...

V.2 :

But sometimes, you gotta send a message.

[enderose]

I’d apologize but also, I saw the opportunity and took it-

Have a dapper Skulduggery doodle

[unnonexistence]