#surprise surprise most of this applies to me

[aquotidianoddity]

I keep seeing posts like this about Finland and homelessness and I wanted to add a comment to correct some misinformation. To be clear, this isn't a criticism of Finland, just the way the information is being presented.

This post doesn't say it, but I've seen others that say that Finland has "ended" homelessness. This is not true. Finland has about 3500 homeless people, about 2/3 of which are living with friends or relatives. Finland has made huge strides in reducing homelessness and poverty-based homelessness is almost non-existent (meaning that homeless people usually have a social problem that prevents housing: debt, drug or mental health issues, or violent living situations).

Finland also doesn't "give you an apartment." The philosophy of "housing first" means that the social services in place are available to you regardless of your situation and their goal is to help you find your own apartment as a first priority. There are no sobriety or health requirements to receive them. The only prerequisite is that you're homeless or about to become homeless.

There are many services available to help you find and keep an apartment: social workers, housing counseling for those who don't know how to look for an apartment, and advice for approaching landlords when you have a mark against your credit, you have debt, or you're unemployed. There is also public housing; however, this can be limited, wait times can be long, and applications are prioritized by need (for example families with children and people who can't get private apartments because they've lost their credit details are prioritized)

There are also other services that are available to everyone, which help prevent both homelessness and poverty. The government pays a housing allowance to everyone whose income is under a certain amount (about 1600€/month). For example, as a student with no income my housing allowance is 313€/month and my rent is 480.

Unemployment benefits have no maximum time limit. There are some higher, wage-based unemployment benefits that have a time limit (300-500 days), but if you don't qualify or you run out of days, you can get the minimum benefit, about 800€/month.

If you can't work because you're sick, the government pays you 70% of your wages or a minimum of 800€/month for those with low wages or no job.

If your income isn't high enough to cover your necessary expenses, or if you have no income (perhaps you've temporarily lost your right to unemployment because you didn't apply for 4 jobs per month) and no savings or assets, the government pays you a basic income aid. This includes about 550€/month for food and necessities, the rest of your rent after the housing allowance (up to a certain maximum), plus the exact amount of your water, electricity, renters insurance, and medications. Other urgent and necessary bills can also be covered if they're approved. For example if you're evicted from your apartment and can't afford your new apartment's security deposit.

This is kind of the tip of the iceberg when it comes to welfare in finland, but these are some of the main pillars that most people will use at one point or another. All of these add up to a system that prevents homelessness before it can happen and supports people with issues to get back into a home and maintain it.

This system is unfortunately under attack by our current right-wing government. Health and social services are being underfunded and the conditions for receiving certain benefits have been made less generous and less flexible. The current government has a goal of eliminating long-term homelessness by 2027, but with their policies, I would be surprised if they achieve this.

Also let me know in the replies or my asks if you want to know more about welfare in Finland! It's one of my special interests and I have a lot of experience both working in the field and receiving it myself

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[bbstudio17]

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT 💋

Pairing: Mingyu x reader

Genre: fluff, comedy, angst (if you squint!)

💋: As you got ready for your date, your hair didn’t want to cooperate, but luckily for you, your boyfriend is here to help you!

Warnings: swearing, insecurity, pulling hair, impatient reader but Mingyu, being the therapist he is, helps you

Wc: 810

Author’s note: As a curly girly myself, I really felt this, deeply 😞

++ if you want, check my Chan Drabble ^^

Snap shoot!

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As you complained under your breath:”Fuckin’ stupid!” You recklessly pulled on your hair.

“If you don’t fucking cooperate with me I’m going bald!” You shout to your hair, as if it was a real person.

The first thing Mingyu heard was a loud thud on the ground. And in between seconds he stood by your room, still behind the door.

“My Love..?” Asks hesitantly, knowing how bad your frustrations could end up.

After a moment of silence he heard you sigh.

“Sorry, sweetheart, you can come in,” you say from to other side while you sit up straight, still one hand tangled on the top of your head as you scrunch your coils.

Mingyu slowly opened the door just to see you, half crying as you apply some more product in your hair. He tightened the grip on the door handle before walking up to you.

You just look at him with big teary eyes and a pout. Making him hold in his laugh.

“It’s not funny gyu!” You whine as you aggressively placed your so-called-working definition brush on your makeup table.

“Baby, what’s wrong?“

“Curls are not goddamn curling that’s what.” You meaninglessly laugh, kinda maniacal, ready to pull on your hair once again but Mingyu stops you by placing a hand on your shoulder.

“Love, getting angry has no use..-“ He starts. “And I’d think you’d be more frustrated if you actually pulled your hair out ,Ey?” Mingyu lightheartedly jokes.

“I have every right to be angry!” You groaned. “Because of these stupid curls we’re late for our date, and that’s my fault!”

“Dressing up to feel comfortable doesn’t really sound as a faulty thing to me..-“

“But everytime I try to atleast style them, it becomes frizzy..!!”

“I just— I just want to have straight hair, like everyone else. Everytime I straighten my hair, I felt more beautiful. But when these show up,” you picked a strand of your hair, “I feel so.. Ugly.”

Mingyu shakes his head and caresses your cheek as he kneeled down to face you on eye-level properly.

“Don’t, ever,” Mingyu says sternly, “make me hear those words out of your mouth again.”

“Y/N, you’re fucking beautiful; with both straight and curly hair. I know everyone has already said this to you loads of times, but your hair is unique!— and personally— your curls are the most beautiful thing in the world.” He reassures, with a big grin on his face.

“The way it suits your adorable face,” he starts,”The way it coils up so beautifully yet, so differently everytime. That’s what makes it so gorgeous baby.. that’s what makes you gorgeous by being apart of you.”

“Thank you Mingyu..” You try to bite away a smile, but Mingyu caught you right away.

He leaned closer to you to give you a soft and comforting peck on your lips. You smile into the kiss; His touch always seems to make you feel raw— vulnerable, but in a good way.

As he broke the kiss he stood up.

“Let’s start over hm?”

“But, what about our date?” You follow his actions, looking up surprised.

“So what..? Our plan was to walk through the park and just buy some pastries for later. Very basic if you ask me.”

“But..-“

“No,no!” He tsks you, his pointer finger wiggling side to side, “change of plans, we’re staying home today. When you’re done with your beautiful patterns, we’ll go to the convenience store to buy some ingredients for cookies,” He emphasized the word cookies on purpose while you look at him in awe, sparkling eyes on full display. “And when the baked goods are in the oven..” Mingyu playfully sighed before saying his next sentence, “You can decorate my hair—“

“Oh my god, My baby!!!” You shouted, rising from your seat and practically jumping on your boyfriend. Making him giggle.

With your hands connected to the back of his neck, Mingyu’s hands immediately found your waist, locking you in.

“I’m serious, thank you so much for making me feel comfortable and confident. Every time I feel like throwing tables, you’re always there to console me. What can I do to repay you..” you looked at him, eyes full of sincerity and vulnerability. Nobody has really seen this side of you and you only show it to Mingyu.

“Baby, all I need you is to be yourself, that’s what I’m here for.” Mingyu says, his smile never leaving his lips.

With one last loveable peck on the lips you returned to your seat as Mingyu sits on your bed. Before grabbing your brush, you looked at him one last time and found him putting two thumbs up in the air.

“I’ll be your emotional support.” He teased making you roll your eyes playfully.

“You always were, gyu.”

“I know, now get back to work!”

—- Yeah, he really is your emotional support.

[imp-thing]

Is this anything (template by jkijqz on Twitter)

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I was talking with a friend about the canon named women of Les Mis and decided to experiment to see who those are according to Les Mis fanworks.

Behold: your top ten women of Les Mis.

[neonfretra]

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>_>

to give myself a little bit of luxury of expressing emotions in my own house (blog) LOL

its always a little sobering to remember that the people that joke with you would joke ABOUT you if they knew just that much more or less about you. when you start talkin one way it sets the precedent that its acceptable with you to do the same, when you start makin somethin normal thats when people start repeatin the same thing over and over...!

i see the private jokes, i see the public jokes, i see the tags and the reblogs and the posts where you censor names and teams. what would somebody else see?

would you believe that the things yall make fun of about players are seen by people it also applies to? its because um. i see jokes about things that im not the most confident about, surprise! ^_^ quite a few things even! even if its something that i dont really care about nowadays, it still. makes me sad a little bit. to remember that things i cant change about me are commonly accepted jokes </3

would yall still respect me if you knew what jokes apply to me? would yall still respect me if we didnt share the same interests?

i dont really think its shallow to. care less about the feelings of someone you dont know. i just think its easier to make fun of people youll never really know or the text on a screen than a human that will react to your words in real time LOL i know you know theres a real life person behind everything, its just hard to internalize that reality sometimes

im the ugliest son of a gun you can imagine . i look like the person youre making fun of . i look like you .

please be nice to me <3

lukewarm take of the day

i think that joking about physical traits isnt funny its just mean </3 strabismus (eyes pointing in different directions) isnt ugly or funny some people just got balls in they sockets. spelling out speech impediments (or speech pediments even!) to point out how funny or weird they say it is mean... sayin peoples facial hair looks like the most evocatively ugly visual thing you can think of is making fun of how the hair follicles in their face. are distributed?

even if the people you talkin about probably wont ever see it... these are physical traits anyone can have . these are even... traits people reading your post are going to have? these arent bad or good traits just traits and makin a point that they arent normal no matter how hard the post makes you laugh is kinda mean to everyone thats gotta pass you by

you can say it not about the looks and its just about the personality, you can say you got the same traits!!! but like. people wake up and put the same skin on one leg at a time every day and no one body is truly unique... no matter how specific you try to be youre goin to be cruel to many people

maybe we should... consider keeping judgement of physical traits to ourselves?

alt title: :(

[billdenbrough]

fundamentally disinterested in the recurring discourse about kevin's drinking that aims to a) make it his Specific Problem To Focus On And Overcome when it is a crutch and coping mechanism to get him through a Much Bigger Problem (emotional fallout he can't square with by himself, culture shock, trauma, loss of his extremely wildly co-dependent relationship w riko, losing the structure of the nest, mourning a future he was meant to have, processing a grave injustice, anger and fear and desperate grief, all of which is his Actual Specific Fox Problem) while he builds himself back up, and b) thinks that even if it is a problem (more on that later), it's the foxes' problem to deal with.

like. it's just not.

yeah, he doesn't drink until he meets them. they gave him that habit, and in traditional terms, they're (the monsters specifically) a 'bad influence'. but these are the foxes. this is kevin day, son of exy, whose meteor is crashing spectacularly through no fault of his own. there are no traditional terms to be found here. the framework for it literally doesn't exist. neil comes into the foxes with more conventional expectations—appalled at the athletes' substance use, his horror at matt's trip to columbia, his steadfast and early repeated stance that none of the foxes should let andrew treat them the way he does, and certainly not nicky—and tends to engage with them less as the series goes on and he folds himself into the foxes. the thing about the foxes is that they've all been in pits deeper than they are tall. and some of them got a helping hand on the way—erik, andrew's extreme intervention methods, stephanie walker—and wymack was always waiting for them on the other side, ready to throw down a rope, but all the foxes dragged themselves out of their own holes. often not alone, often not without assistance, but at the end of the day, they have to do it.

there's that line neil has about aaron in that scene that got deleted when the timeline shifted around, when he thinks about how aaron got this far in life on his own, surviving on willpower and sheer desperation. that applies to aaron in a way that's a little more acute than some of the rest of them—boy who doesn't let the foxes in bc of andrew, boy who doesn't let nicky in bc he doesn't know how, boy made of flinching and seeking an escape and grieving the one who hurt him—but is broadly true for the foxes en masse.

this isn't to say the foxes can't help each other, but it's not their job. it just isn't. they'll keep kevin alive, keep him safe, keep him flanked and contained within their ranks. they'll fight tooth and nail in this battle with him, fight to get him to that championship game, fight to get that trophy in his hands. but that's all they've agreed to. that's all they're responsible for, in this covenant they've made with him. he says they can make this happen, and they're going to get him to that final game, but it's up to him what state he's in when he gets there.

like. they're foxes. they've been triaging their whole lives. they hate each other and they hate everyone else more. they're the kids with their backs up against the wall. half of them are addicts. i don't think kevin is comparable, personally; he's getting through a horrific situation with a coping mechanism. that's not the same thing as battling yourself to stop using. but that's not really the point of this. what i'm getting at here is that to the foxes, it's easy math: kevin who can lean on vodka and andrew and wymack and the foxes to stay upright when he's not ready to stand on his own two feet is still a kevin who is standing. a kevin with one less piece of scaffolding to lean on is a kevin who falls over, a kevin at risk of complete collapse, a kevin one phone call away from running back to the master, a kevin one crucial loss away from not ever making it back to himself at all. they're triaging. this is low on the totem pole of things they have the room to care about. they very much have bigger problems, both individually and even just kevin-related. if alcohol makes seeing the boy he knew best in the world and moved in tandem with his whole life and who destroyed their entire legacy and his entire life in one move — if alcohol makes facing that boy easier to stomach, then, fuck, why would they take that away? they're foxes. they've all got their demons. this is what kevin needs this year and a half to let him face his, that's all. they can understand that. it doesn't have to be pretty, as long as it keeps him in the fight. that's the priority.

i think there's absolutely space to explore this in fic and art and fandom in a way that maybe does explore it as a Problem, both that it's an active problem for kevin & that it's something to explore other foxes helping him with (there's a t&n fic that i've been gnawing at the bit to read for months that seems poised to explore this premise, and that's super up my alley)! i just think we're in different territory when we're talking about the series—and its characters and dynamics—in a conversational rather than transformational way, and end up talking about this like the foxes are responsible for kevin's choices. i love kevin day. i read these back at the start of 2015 & he's so dear to me that loving him was the blueprint for how i feel abt kageyama. but it's been pretty weird to see how the conversation has been translating Loving Kevin Day into... thinking the foxes are doing wrong by him with respect to this in actual canon. like that's just not how it operates there

[sea-buns]

circumstances be damned, the mental image of the eggs fumbling around with cameras is adorable. can you imagine? little qsmp home movies? just a bunch of little clips and moments where the pov is like 2 feet off the ground? all in that vhs tape-level video quality? it's too precious.

i can also see the eggs with the audio from that gumball ep where the kids made a movie with little cardboard title cards and commercial breaks. specifically the annihilator commercial. pomme as anais. are you seeing my vision?

[fantasticalleigh]

we talk a fair game about hating AI on here but there's that one extremely obvious AI made reylo fanart that keeps floating around from time to time and a lot of people have fallen for it and reblogged it and the person behind the account makes a ton of other AI art using disney characters and i try not to get annoyed about it because at first glance it's kind of convincing if you don't know what to look for but i think as a whole we need to get better about recognizing AI art if we're saying we're not going to support it. idk. t

[karmaajr]

how I felt being held back in class by my english teacher, thinking she was gonna yell at me for not doing my homework (like other teachers, mostly my english ones) and then she somehow validates me without meaning to and actually speaks kindly to me?? like I'm sorry what??? I've never had a teacher actually see right through me like that? like, holy shit.. I guess I'm actually gonna like english this year >,<

[000png]

survived new employee orientation day 👍

[sysig]

Getting up to trouble is his speciality (Patreon)

[brooklynisher]

It feels weird to say because it's such a popular song and it was also a big meme song back in the Vine days, but I think Mad World is very Commander Cosmo-coded

Specifically the Pentatonix version because I don't associate it with the meme and also it sounds a lot more intense compared to the original which sounds very soft. I feel Commander Cosmo is more intense than he is soft. Also, I just like their version more

[animucrystal]

is every tumblr fanbase cursed to be annoying as hell i need everyone to get off their high ground about epic the musical

[lil-miss]

Every single time someone is “surprised” that I’m smart I have the inexplicable urge to dissect their brain or make a necklace out of the spinal cord.

[omarwolaeth]

thinking 'bout how the lads interact with what the bracelets represent, especially in their decks

[im-still-a-robot]

i think...you should make a neocities for your dnd character >:)

I am hanging this ask above my desk like homer simpson. By god I am going to struggle through the back pain and headaches to make this neocities for you my dear friend. Thank you.