#plus paying my rent!

[bioethicists]

irt poverty/homelessness + alcohol use (esp with @butchfeygela‘s tags on my post)- people really underestimate the function that substance use/alcohol use can have for someone who is unhoused. being unhoused is boring, cold, painful, + lonely. substances can allow the 8 hours panhandling to get the $45 you need for a motel to fly by. alcohol reduces your perception of the cold + can knock you out whben you can’t sleep. substances can help you cope with the physical deterioration from malnutrition, constant stress, + sleeping outside. substances can provide social connection with others who you would otherwise not enjoy or help you cope with being alone.

not only that but- many unhoused people are stuck in a seemingly inescapable position. the pathway to financial stability or even housing is difficult or even impossible. in the wake of that hopelessness, the downsides of substance use start to seem insignificant. arrest? you’re getting arrested anyway for sleeping outside, peeing outside, standing in the wrong place, etc. physical danger? you’re already beat the fuck up, anyway, right? loss of relationships? you’ve lost most people already. inability to keep a job? nobody will hire you + you can’t stay employed, anyway, because you have no car + no shower.

perhaps for you or me, the cons of heroin use or binge drinking nightly greatly outweigh the pros. that isn’t the case for everyone. if we are really serious about ending overdose/addiction, we need to start looking at giving people lives worth recovering into instead of shaming them for their own hopelessness.

[trans-xianxian]

I don't have any money cuz I had to pay my housemates rent and he hasn't paid all of it back yet so I texted him this morning like hey are you able to pay me back 180 so I can take pollux to the vet but he could only give me 100 so now she just gets to suffer I guess

[nillial]

the circle of life is that when ur in 4th grade u watch gravity falls and u say omg mabel is just like me fr. and then when ur 21 u rewatch gravity falls and u say omg mabel is just like me fr. so then u have to draw her older . thats just how it works

[mik-mania]

i hate doing this but long story short, my last job stiffed me on my paycheck so i have a whole month of bills that have gone unpaid.

anything helps but i specifically need ~$50 by the 24th or else my car insurance policy cancels.

i have adopts in my ko-fi shop, but if u just want to be kind u can donate to my ko-fi ;w;

im also open to doodling for donations so if u want a doodle lmk as well

(if ur feeling super generous i also need $400 for rent.

doordash has been slow lately and ive used all the adoptables money so far for rent, but every single day is another $10 late fee. i got it down to just 300 but its back up to 400 now because of late fees.)

[queenboimler]

UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL AID OFFICES CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES

[rowanthestrange]

Today I learned B&Q have TARDIS panel wallpaper

[13/14’s TARDIS colour ; 9/10’s TARDIS colour]

[starlightazriel]

all are started, not sure when each will be complete but i'm updating my works in this order

• bee 11

• necessities 5

• glass heart 2 tied in with an anon request

• another request lol

see hash tags for unhinged explanations cus i've literally been so inactive i miss yall

[aefensteorrra]

well. I signed the contract and put the deposit down for a flat and move next week!!

[windwardstar]

I fucking hate how landlords can just fucking raise your rend endlessly. And that it's oh we need to raise it to keep pace with the cost of living. Like fucker you're the cost of living. You're a big company just trying to drain people of all the money you can. You don't care if the people living in your apartment can afford it only that you get money.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Life update - found out I got a job in NV, did the math and realized it would be cheaper to donate my furniture and extra stuff and move by plane, my dad flew out and helped, in 3 days packed and donated and cleaned and moved from FL to NV with 8 checked bags + 2 carry ons + 2 backpacks and about 15 packages (mostly books going media mail rate) in the post. Now I’m living with my parents again.

I am so exhausted and sore from moving furniture and cleaning frantically and moving almost 50 lb luggage.

While i was waiting for my dad to return the rental truck people kept staring and smiling it was amusing kids could not look away from me and my mountain of bags

[johndonneswife]

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

my one lunch break is my one break and this is the coworker that was "helping" me in my class yesterday. And by help I mean she sat and a chair and left me to do everything by myself

[iamthekarmapolice]

think we’re (I’m) back to feeling about moving flats the same way i did about moving to Berlin on a smaller scale. alternating between feeling excited about it to feeling a dread in my bones. it’s easy to forget now but for the first few weeks i was here my emotions swung wildly from ‘yay i can’t believe im actually here!!’ to ‘get me the FUCK out of here i can’t believe i was so stupid’ and eventually the change was much more gradual and the ‘get me out of here’ was less intense. that’s what i imagine will happen here

[flavia8]

Applying for a loan to buy a car, hopefully it's fine. I should be able to Qualify rather easily for a 19,000 dollar loan. And I can swing 500 dollar per month payment MAX but if I've calculated it correctly the monthly payment should be 350, then plus insurance at like 150, I should be good! As I earn like 3000 a month.

The car is a 2015 Bright Yellow Jeep Wrangler that my mom's friend is selling! I hope I can get it :)

[imwritesometimes]

just when I was starting to get back into sims again they released an update and now all my sims' eyelashes are fucked up 🤦‍♀️

[eats-the-stars]

hate my sister's shitty good for nothing boyfriend. can you imagine being a 30yo man with two kids who won't even scramble an egg. Not for his kids, not for his girlfriend, not for himself. literally if my sister doesn't leave out pre-made meals when he's watching the kids he will rip up bread or pour them dry cereal or open a granola bar and make himself microwave dinners. like, lowest effort possible. but if i mention this to my sis, she'll be like "no he's definitely cooked for the kids! he scrambled an egg for them once! i watched him do it!" but it's like...so he scrambled one egg in the last five years. just to like, prove he can? at your direct insistence? should we all clap? like seriously. hate this guy. had to really hold back recently because he had someone over and he was interacting with the kids more than usual for appearances, and he had to keep asking me and my sis what the 5yo was signing because he barely bothered to learn his own son's primary form of communication. i was so tempted to say "that one means 'go home' but you wouldn't know that because you don't take them anywhere." so hard to hold that in. If I had to describe this man in two words they would be these: Low Effort. Not quite bare minimum, but JUST enough to convince my sister that it would be too much hassle to get rid of him. he's stupid as fuck, but just smart enough to quickly stop shit like screaming obscenities at the kids for doing normal kid things. and he once stomped on my headphones and broke them in a fit of rage, but gave my sister money to replace them so it was "fine." Like, my sister thinks that he's just struggling with his anger issues, because he had a bad childhood, blah, blah, and oh he would never actually hurt her or the kids. and like, good for you, but i don't trust like that. genuinely hoping he gets struck by lightning and dies instantly.