#never mind rent

[batwynn]

Is there an amount of financial assistance that would make a material difference at this point?

I mean, yes.

But it all depends on if anything we try even works, and I hate the idea of taking folk’s money, trying, and failing all over again. I’m so very tired of trying to build something and having it fail because everything just… seems to always go wrong.

There’s some options, but they’re out of reach as of now and the cost is just too damn high or the work required is something we can’t really do. Every option requires thousands of dollars and in-person help in some way.

There’s better states I could move to and get healthcare in. (Cost: starting at maybe 7k for the move with truck rental gas hotel, and maybe a low downpayment on a place but probably would need to be more)

(Massachusetts has more and better doctors and we’ve lived there before so it wouldn’t be a strange land) But the move would cost thousands, and neither my mom and I have the energy to manage all the packing, moving, driving all on our own. We’d need physical help, or money to hire buff people lol. And then… rent every month pretty much anywhere in MA is high. If we could even get into a low income place, the waitlists are years long and residents get priority. We could RV it to Mass or another better state, but see below:

There’s my mom’s RV plan, with the med stock up and vacation through Canada for a few months. (Cost: honestly, way too much. Even with a loan, I’d need another $10-20k just to get the RV)

But I can’t get a loan big enough for the costs right now because for some reason everyone just jacked their prices way up suddenly. It would have to be a drive-able one, and I’d need to be able to trade in my current car that I owe on. I can get maybe 19k in a personal loan, but they’re all starting at 30k-60k for junkers from the 90s (name of my memoir) that are leaking shit heaps.

There’s hunker down here and hope for the best. (Cost: I don’t know. At the very least $10-30k maybe? I don’t know how much some of these things cost yet because a big part of the problem is there’s no one who does certain jobs around here that calls back or shows up.)

Which means money that needs to be poured into the house to make it actually livable again. We have no hot water heater, and the entire hot water heater and bath area needs to have the floor replaced and a new tub put in. We have mold that needs to be killed. We need new insulation and a wrap for the underside of the house. (That would fix the mold problem) Plumbing stuff needs to be done. We need the electrical updated before it kills us. We need a real fence by next winter because this snow drift bs is killing us all because the assholes next door won’t let us put up a temporary snow fence on their barren fields. I’d still need to find a dermatologist, but at least the house would be safe and like… legally livable so someone could come cat sit while we drive 12 hours. It’s not great, and I also still have an issue with the home ownership at this time. (I don’t own it, but the person who does doesn’t communicate and doesn’t really take like… landlord type responsibility. I mean, how we’re living right now is a human rights violation and a violation of a good 100 something state laws lmao 🥲)

We find somewhere in southern maine to live again. Either a house rental, or rent to own, or downright own (lol sure). (Cost: Moving costs again, downpayment for any of the three starting at $7-10k. Rent to own and or own: $100k and up.)

This would be nice, ideal even. I’d have options for dermatologists in and out of state because they’re closer, no need to switch residencies so we could qualify for low income places. But everything in southern Maine is expensive expensive, and the rents on apartments are just too high for the shit you get. (No one needs to be paying 3k a month for a shitty little place you don’t even get to own and you get lead poisoning from like our last place there.) Again, this falls into yet another cost heavy option with future costs.

This is kind of what I meant by I can’t really be saved by money. It’s too much. It still requires finding and getting to a doctor who can help on top of that too much money. At this point, I’m thinking of just applying for that 19k loan and giving my mom her bucket list beluga experience because I don’t think either of us are making it once they cut our health insurence and her SSDI. And she loves belugas so much. (To be fair, I also love them so 100% worth it)

[liketolaugh-writes]

Okay but Danny Phantom and Fairly Odd Parents is such an interesting study in contrast

Because while they're both products of their time (ugh the aughts ugh) Fairly Odd Parents shows what Butch Hartman thinks severe neglect looks like, and the differences between the Turners and the Fentons are very clear in that way

The Fentons are silly! They do silly things, like put lab samples in the fridge and weld things at the dinner table. They embarrass their kids and get easily distracted at plot-convenient points. They mess up cartoonishly all the time but they go to such massive lengths to protect their kids.

The Turners? Are mean. They tell Timmy to his face that they don't give a shit about him. They complain about what his being born has cost them. They openly wish they hadn't had him, they ditch him as much as they possibly can, they never listen if he asks for help (which he usually doesn't.)

And you set that next to the Fentons and it's obvious that, while the Fentons are massively fucked up... Hartman never meant to imply they didn't care.

I don't know where I'm going with this, I just think it's interesting

[pokeberry5]

thug beatdown round 2: electric boogaloo

(extras, cw flashing gif:)

alt:

the fit:

[thejanisimiike]

rejanis on twitter

[moonbugs9058]

Lassie has got to be getting heart palpitations from the things Shawn does to him, right? Like the flirting and the ass slapping? He had to have some kind of inward reaction when Shawn outright called him a good boy. I refuse to believe he didn't get at least a little bit fluttery about that. Maybe he's been getting heart palpitations and, because he's in denial, he refuses to believe it's because he's in love with Shawn so he's like "yeah I'm going to have a heart attack pretty soon. My chest's been all weird on me for a couple of years now, and quite frankly I'm surprised it hasn't come to take me in my sleep."

Maybe he knows he's in love with him but he still doesn't want the fluttering in his chest to be because of Shawn's obnoxious flirting because he can't believe "high-school grade flirting" is working on him. Because that's just embarrassing right

[gayofthefae]

Will haunting the narrative as both the innocent who was wrongfully destroyed AND the one that got away.

Season 2 Will impacting everything Mike does from that point forward just as much as Will's death impacts everyone.

El thinks of him when she confronts Brenner about the mind flayer, we know things like that. But Mike also thinks of him when he tells El he loves her.

They're all thinking of him. The last time they saw him.

The way he was never the same.

But Mike is thinking about the last time he saw him.

Losing him.

The way they were never the same.

(The way he can't get him back)

Yes, Will's disappearance changed everyone's trajectory forever. But he also changed Mike. He also made Mike's personal and romantic life impossible to return to after him.

He haunts more than just the people who mourn his death.

(The sole purpose of Mike's season 2 separation from El in the first place is so that he can never truly go back after Will)

[onlyxmcbride]

if you show anyone the caryl reunion scene from the book of carol that doesn't know a thing about the walking dead, everyone would assume that they were a couple separated for a decade.

the face touch UGH I'm still not over it and the way she buries her face into his neck/shoulder. somebody needs to put me down because I can't cope 😭 (not my gifs, sorry idk where I got them from)

[hyperfixationsposting]

the grandmother/granddaughter dynamic between lilia and alice is something i will never stop thinking about i love them sm :((

[starstruckodysseys]

i know i’ve said it before but i have to say it again bc guys i love liv skyler so much. she got into stanford and didn’t tell anyone. she steals things from walgreens she doesn’t even want. she’s a people pleaser who doesn’t actually know what she wants but she’s working on it. she’s so genuinely kind. her first instinct upon realizing she had autonomy in movie world was to attempt to punch her henchman. she asked what a cool word for drugs was. she attempted to crush a guy’s skull and failed so hard the actual guy whose body she was in told her she might be going too far. she later attempted to crush her coworker’s skull the perfect amount and succeeded. she interrupted what might have been a very important moment to snark at her coworker. she accidentally got into two of the wildest bets ever. she’s a certified weird girl (affectionate) and i adore her

[qualityrain]

you put a stop to that sweet, sweet fairytale kingdom

that is the distorted world where i

met you

shuake week day 1: fairtytales / reunion / secret relationship

[bleue-flora]

Wait... Dream was born on August 12, 1999 and Dream was arrested in the Disc Finale on January 20, 2021 soo... wait, wait, wait, that means he was only 21 when he was imprisoned for life in a small lava covered box!... Did I do that math right? 21?! Man was barely able to drink legally in the United States and they gave him a life sentence in a boiling cell with nothing but lava, raw potatoes, a clock, and some books?!... oh my god...

[jackietaylorsghost]

Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller THE LAST OF US: 101. When You're Lost in the Darkness

[marzipanandminutiae]

Me, flirting: did you know that many 19th-century beauty manuals advised putting on cold cream before you went out in the sun to prevent sunburn? And some recipes for cold cream back then contained zinc oxide? So they might have accidentally invented sunscreen?

[dykedvonte]

I think acting like Jimmy’s struggles on Earth were like legal or related to being a criminal are so odd. Not in a bad way but just odd.

Like don’t get me wrong, I personally believe he’s had a run in with the law but I feel like it’d be minor, not even something that would get him a record. It could’ve, but it was dropped, not worth the time to pursue someone that down on their luck, probably not a dime to his name.

He’s a bad guy don’t get me wrong but it’s seems like his issues were with not being well-adjusted? In the whole sense, he’s snarky and unnecessary rude. He’s quick to anger and says things to pit people against each other. He likely doesn’t have many friends and we know he’s not financially well. I think tacking on bad traits diminishes the fact of what he did. Trying to fit him to that obviously evil arch type is a little bland to what he actually is. He’s normal enough to be a minor blip on the radar and that’s how he gets away with what he does.

Jimmy is ultimately scared of being in trouble. He gets into it but panics. He hates being confronted and he just doesn’t do things were he knows or perceives a bad outcome will happen to him.

[this-is-chaos-magick]

why do Agathario stans on Twitter keep insisting that Wanda is straight?😭

Like hello? wanda?...hetero? the Wanda "love is for souls, not bodies" Maximoff ?? The woman who's incapable of having straight children? Like mind you...Wanda would have still fall in love with vision even if he's not shaped like a man...that woman is anything but straight....