#poverty blogging

[ooklet]

my villain origin story is pantry moths

[melsdreamweaving]

In a world where dreams were once of homes,

Jobs were paid in rent,

Not loans.

No more the promise of a place to call your own,

Instead...

You live with family,

And it’s all you've known.

A shift so quiet,

Yet loud and clear,

Where owning land was once so dear.

But now,

With rents that climb so high,

The dream of owning starts to die.

Work you do,

Hours you spend,

No longer enough to meet the end.

So you return to familiar faces,

Find comfort in shared,

Smaller spaces.

The world we knew,

Now turned around,

Where house-buying jobs no longer abound.

Rent-paying jobs,

Then living with kin,

As the struggle for a home begins again.

-"The Shifting Dream"

[oscargender]

Heartbreaking: “problematic” danmei everyone told you to avoid is actually pretty decent and has mildly interesting things to say about poverty and class

[deep-space-lines]

can't wait til I start this stupid job so I won't have to be doing commissions all the fucking time to buy groceries, this shut sucks the joy out of art so much. I wanna be drawing ultrakill stuff & personal art & doing crafts & reading books but every time I sit down to do something for me I'm thinking about the fact that I should be doing commissions. I'm so glad I didn't go into art as an actual career, I would hate myself so much forever

[anghraine]

Politics vent, though not about specific politicians:

It is wild to have conversations about White Poverty in the US and the desperate straits in which conservative white bigots allegedly live with left-wing white people who have never ever been poor. It seems like they just can't process that creative/literary people like J and I could conceivably have grown up in actual for real poverty and ... idk, it feels very patronizing (and frustrating) at times.

[reasonsforhope]

If you're wondering why I set up ko-fi membership stuff after I really resisted monetizing in any way for so long, btw... Honestly, it's because taxes and some big surprise vet bills this month kinda. decimated my savings. by a lot.

Normally I'm okay enough financially, but I'm in a really high cost of living area, and it's just been a really rough month in a lot of different ways.

So, if you're interested in supporting me or my work, whether it's with a membership or a one-time thing or whatever - and only if you can genuinely afford it - that would honestly be amazing and more helpful than I strictly like to admit

As an extra incentive, if this ko-fi thing goes well, I'll commit to actually answering asks and shit again lol

Either way <3 <3 to all of you

[ranticore]

using placeholder eohric as a kind of transition to florian penal laws lens but honestly I do kinda prefer the modern era ironwall characters... ahh they don't even know about the harpy slums

[3liza]

Seattle has a mutual support internet provider run by cool locals but unfortunately they don't reach my area. fortunately FOR THEM I am based, lainpilled, and capable of accessing the roof of my building. there's a tiny house village (basically programs to make little trailer or shed houses for houseless people) about a block from me too so I think I might be able to be the guy who provides internet for that community and I would really like to do that as much or more than getting free Internet for myself. I hope they can use my help

[golden-letters]

i keep thinking damn everyone's out having fun being on holiday and i'm working and i ask myself what's the point then i realise it's not about having a point or not. i don't have the money to travel abroad. i only have the choice of rotting in bed or doing something with my time. i am going to choose the latter.

[acutabovetherest]

I wish there was a way for me to die without traumatizing my loved ones 💔

[sheisanimposter]

Tomorrow is my very first day at a real university at 32 years old. I grew up in rural poverty where the system likes to keep people like me, but I will soon be the first person in my family to hold a 4 year degree.

As a child I related so much to Raul Dahl’s Matilda-the reader in the tv family-but as I grew older education became more and more of a privilege than a priority. The reality of hardship buried my love of learning.

I recently unearthed a clip from a vhs tape of my first day of first grade and barely recognized my childhood self. She was unable to contain her smile as she got ready for school, she was ecstatic, she couldn’t even sleep the night before. She LOVED school.

Now it’s the night before my first class and I am so giddy. I can’t sleep.

I know to my classmates I’ll look more than 10 years older, but this is who really lives inside me and I’m so proud of her.

[ooklet]

"it looks like the cab broke down about ten minutes ago but he's on his way now"

i'd actually prefer that he not be on his way if the cab broke down thanks

[rotpretty]

you're covered in your own shit?

Uh yeah /srs. I have ulcerative colitis, quite often my ostomy bag leaks, and when you're in poverty like I am, you kinda just... tape it back on and cope. It's disgusting, it's foul, I would not wish this on most humans, but the other choice is to literally sit in my bathtub covered in shit, do nothing, and sob my eyes out. Or die, but like I actually enjoy living despite this.

[purposeastro]

I'm not But

To all rich people. You've everything you want in life ( material things ) don't you ever feel taking Sanyaas , leaving everything behind get to know what your real life purpose is? In this illusionary world Don't you ever feel lost. Missing something?

I'm overflowing with debt and still want to leave everything behind but I gotta repay my debt in order to do so 🥲

[bugbyte]

Ah, so once again our SNAP benefits have been turned off for mystery reasons, and of course Monday is a holiday so of course nothing can get done about it until Tuesday at the earliest.

The social services worker assigned to our case is either inept or contemptuous and I cannot tell which, maybe both, but this is a years long saga where she gets our paperwork (which we spend the gas money to hand deliver, it’s a hike to get there) and then she just doesn’t deal with it. And everything gets shut off.

I think we have enough to get through these few days and a tiny bit of cash if it goes sideways, but if you ever believed that getting any kind of assistance is easy or lazy, it’s not. I am regularly doing secretarial work for people getting paid by the state because they don’t keep copies, or notes, or remember to look at things.

Anyway I love, love, love this twice a year nonsense that is an immensely stressful struggle for no reason. What a well functioning system. Have I mentioned that stress makes my pain flare up? Stress makes my pain flare up. My right arm and leg have been on fire for days and also feel like they’re full of broken glass. I have been sleeping very poorly.

Good times!!!

I cannot wait for some ambiguous point in the future where I can afford like, a chest freezer, and somehow stock some food ahead that isn’t just non-perishable stuff. We have an ordinary freezer but it’s very tiny. The idea of being able to grab frozen ingredients or even pre-prepped dinner or leftovers seems like such a luxury. The dream.

[nando161mando]

Reason #30284 why Corporations and it’s subsidiary are bad