ID: "Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something. There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something."
male and female are not opposing forces that cancel each other out. you're allowed to be both, at the same time, even, if that's how you feel. you can be a boy who's a girl. you can be a girl who's a boy. same with masculinity and femininity. they're not mutually exclusive. you don't have to sacrifice one to have the other. you dont have to choose one to like and one to hate. you CAN have both, again, if that's how you feel.
Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people don’t get this.)
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesn’t matter what it’s for.
You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
“What if I spend the money that day?”
Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.
Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
That’s so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And here’s the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.
There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!
transyasha
thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now
THERES A WHAT
OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS
I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!
perksofbeingdisabled
Read till the end for the important info
Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life
intothedarknessigo
This shit is why conservatives think disability is fun pampering, because they see disabled people have to come up with ways to get rid of the money and to them it looks like they must be rolling in excess.
why have we in modern society society collectively decided that like 5-10 virtue names are normal (Faith, Hope, Charity, Chastity, Verity, Prudence, Patience, Joy, Serenity, etc.)
and only for girls
and if you pick ANY OTHER NAME or give a virtue name to a boy AT ALL
it's now Weird
@theoriginalmarmaduke and I are rotating this thought like a veritable lathe
some blogs i follow for fan content but others i am 100% just there for the person so when theyre like oh sorry for turning into a so-and-so blog im like. i would watch you liveblog the phonebook.
dashboard simulator
mutual 1: [one million posts about a fandom im not in. in the span of five minutes]
mutual 2: M. Caelius too must not pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the unhappy change, either of his fortune or disposition, which marked the latter part of his life. As long as he was directed by my influence, he behaved himself so well as a tribune of the people, that no man supported the interests of the senate, and of all the good and virtuous, in opposition to the
mutual 3: patricide would fix me
mutual 4: [5000 word theoretically informed breakdown of a book i have not read]
mutual 5: #omg this reminds me of the roman legal system
mutual 6: cannibalism is so mainstream now we need to start posting about necrophilia
mutual 7: so a detailed prosopographical analysis of this roman family reveals that actually they all died due to being haunted by an ancestral curse
mutuals 8-10: this tv show is actually just sophocles’ oedipus. to me
mutual 11: [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags]
mutual 12: here’s why these two words actually have NO etymological connection!!!
mutual 13: i’m just like this 18th century lawyer but a girl
mutual 14: cicero big naturals
mutual 15: scurvy is inherently both transgender and sexy…… put the rot in eroticism or whatever
mutual 16: she moby on my dick until i doomed by the narrative
Below: my attempt at a retelling of Tam Lin, with a little more emphasis on the Baby as a central concern.
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The first time Janet goes to Carterhaugh, in the early spring, she wears a green cloak on her shoulders and a gold ring on her finger. She's curious, not stupid. She knows the prices Tam Lin is said to demand for trespassing, and she is prepared with every option.
The second time Janet goes, in the later spring, she wears her cloak but does not bother with a ring. She is more confident now, since her first meeting with Tam Lin, and thinks the cloak is a price worth paying to meet the fairy man again.
The third time Janet goes, it is summer. She wears no cloak, and wears no ring; and when she plucks the rose and Tam Lin appears, she sees him notice this even before he meets her eyes.
She smiles at him.
Later, when she wakes in the wood, she wakes alone. She finds her way home by moonlight, and wonders if she will ever go to Carterhaugh again.
okay was anyone gonna tell me that the protagonist of the diana wynne jones book i most wanted to read as a child based off the title and have only got around to reading now was explicitly attracted to girls and boys and dreamed of being a boy or did i just have to read it myself
I wish three things came up more often when discussing Fire and Hemlock, and they are:
1. The uncomfortableness of the age difference is intentional, it’s a theme of the novel! DWJ knew it was uncomfortable, she did it on purpose, and we know this because we see terrible age-difference relationships deliberately echoed and mirrored throughout the story. It’s thematic!
The primary one is Laurel, of course. God, Laurel gets her suitors very young (Tom was orphaned and essentially adopted by Laurel at age 13, enslaved to her via the Obah Cypt by age 17, and presumably married not long after. And Laurel puts her eye on Leslie when he’s thirteen as well and then starts dating him when he’s 15.) But Seb is also an example, and not just because he pursues Polly even after she yells at him that she’s “too young!” but also because we learn he manipulated and dated Mary Fields in addition to Polly — Tom’s ex-girlfriend, who we can presume is ten years older than Seb. And of course we get little details like David Bragge, who Polly realizes was flirting uncomfortably with her when she was far too young to understand it. Or how Mary Fields treats eleven-year-old Polly like a catty romantic rival to Tom. Like… it just keeps coming up. I do think that some of the horror of Tom’s situation is not just realizing what he’s having to do with Polly to stay alive. It’s also hating how his situation (forced on him by Laurel) is forcing him in turn to be a sort-of Laurel to Polly.
2. I’ve said there are mirrors to the age-difference in the novel — there are also a lot of mirrors to Laurel herself, and to her possessive type of “love”. Those mirrors feel important to me. Ivy is a major one (I seem to recall DWJ herself describing Ivy as a “failed Laurel” though I may be misremembering). Seb is another major one, and far more deliberate than I noticed at first. The thing is, he doesn’t just try to pull Polly away from Tom by playing the role of her beau (which he admits is an intentional ploy, in that shouting match with Mr. Leroy at the fair). It’s also that he mimics Laurel’s approach to possessive love, and not just by being visibly manipulative. Remember that he takes Polly’s photograph and hangs it up — just like Laurel does with all her victims. I think we are meant to notice this. Photographs are powerful in this book, and it is typical of DWJ to seed this subtly and leave it up to us to see the pattern. Oh, and there are other smaller mirrors to Laurel, of course, such as Joanna exerting possessive control over Reg (to the extent of her priorities totally overriding Reg’s, to the exclusion of his own daughter). Oh, and of course: Polly herself.
When Polly does her bit of black magic and invades Tom’s space, to try to force him to speak, it is the closest she ever comes to behaving exactly like Laurel over Tom — as if she owns Tom, and can command him and force him.
I think it’s one of the more interesting parts of the novel, how Tom almost becomes like Laurel in how he takes over Polly’s life when she’s young, and Polly almost becomes like Laurel in how possessive she grows over him. I love the way DWJ does this. And it’s why that ending is so satisfying to me. As DWJ says herself: “…it was precisely by hanging on to Tom and being overcurious that Polly had lost him…. It was clear to me that the only redress she could make was the reverse of possessiveness — complete generosity… She has to love Tom enough to let him go…”
The Janet approach to beating Laurel by hanging on to Tom is too similar to how Laurel operates herself. This is one reason DWJ keeps having the words “dead end” appear at the ending, when Polly is trying to figure out what the hell to do — she realizes that defeating Laurel is a losing game if it ends with both Polly and Tom replicating different parts of Laurel’s dynamic. They need to find another way forward. Hence Polly’s challenge, and the strange battle between Tom and Mr. Leroy… Both Polly and Tom create a new type of ending to the Tam Lin myth.
And, at this end, they’re finally free to talk openly about how they’ve both hurt one another. But also how they’ve saved one another. They don’t know if they’ll work as a couple. But they’re able to meet each other as equals for the first time.
3. And now, the big one.
(Also, let me put a break here because this got long.)
Repost my old fanart of Fire and Hemlock.
Since I've started thinking about rereading this again after reading DWJ's Reflection: on the magic of writing.
Super clever steampunk styling with wa-fashion elements: here two leather belts are hold together by a red obijime to mimic traditional tasuki (sleeves holder). I love this SO MUCH!
From this past note, here is how you tasuki is usually done+ some other way of tying up sleeves:
#what if I'm both a 2 and a 5#but NOT a 3. I can follow a somewhat complicated recipe...probably...but I've tried cooking multiple things at once. well. okay I can do it#and have done it but ugh it is stressful and takes me longer than it should#but like cooking is easy take the food add some kind of flavor add some kind of heat. done#anyway overall probably a 2
Me, sometimes, out of nowhere, at no specific time and for no specific reason.
Does this work for you?
I can do this all day
have fun deciphering this one
This is a kingdom hearts teaser trailer
I want a whole bible printed like this
We have eaten
the solicitor
that was in
the guestroom
and which
you were probably
saving
for your real estate deal
Forgive us
he was delicious
so sweet
and so youthful
Streaming companies are the landlords of media. You will rent in perpetuity, and never actually own anything.
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3. Go forth brave soldier
