Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK
This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂
In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer. In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job. Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.
And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what! People are living with their parents again. But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.
A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time.
World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”
I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me
Of all a deer’s senses, their eyesight is the worst.
IT DOESN’T HELP THAT THOSE ARE POSSUMS WHO ALSO HAVE TERRIBLE EYESIGHT. XD SO BOTH CREATURES DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT WAS WHAT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE I’M DYING.
everyone in this forest is so confused and I love them
Yes! There’s a whole feature on the site called Under the Gaydar that’s exactly books whose covers and blurbs don’t reveal that the book has queer content: https://lgbtqreads.com/category/under-the-gaydar/ (note: read the intros carefully, as a couple of the posts are dedicated to books that are obviously queer but aren’t obvious that they have very rare rep.)
If you can’t safely open that link, I’ll just tell you some great options:
If you’re a fantasy person, try LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova and GIRLS MADE OF SNOW AND GLASS by Melissa Bashardoust.
If you’re a thriller-mystery person, try FAR FROM YOU by Tess Sharpe, TRUST ME, I’M LYING by Mary Elizabeth Summer (character comes into her sexuality in the second book but it’s worth starting at the beginning), BEFORE I LET GO by Marieke Nijkamp, and PEOPLE LIKE US by Dana Mele.
If you’re interested in more intense contemporary, try THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS by Marieke Nijkamp, PICTURE US IN THE LIGHT by Kelly Loy Gilbert, and PAPERWEIGHT by Meg Haston. (And set your sights on ANGER IS A GIFT by Mark Oshiro, which releases May 22.) For lighter stuff, grab CHERRY by Lindsey Rosin and WINNING by Lara Deloza.
For sci-fi and speculative fiction under that umbrella, try PROXY by Alex London, THE SCORPION RULES by Erin Bow, HEART OF IRON by Ashley Poston, and THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END by Adam Silvera.
For magical realism, you want WILD BEAUTY by Anna-Marie McLemore.
Most of those should be in the YA section at your local library as they’re all either pretty big titles or recent releases, but if you need more suggestions, let me know!
well lads weve officially reached the “computer shutting down randomly” which means i need to start looking for a new one before school… but fuck if i have anything even resembling enough money lmao
plus we have to pay rent soon and theres no way we’re even kind of gonna make it. things are great!
hey guys, we’re really going through the shit again. my mom just started a new job so things are looking up a little, but the bills are still outweighing the money shes making, so we are really sinking right now and cant cover all that we need to survive.
i only have three weeks or so until school starts up, and i still havent been able to buy anything that i need because all my money from my new job has been going to immediate necessities like food for my family and new clothes, so every time i get any paycheck, its pretty much already spent.
i am also 100% available for art/writing commissions, and samples can be sent of both for anyone interested. thank you guys so much for all your help!!! ♥
willowfoot 