#Homeless Awareness

[major-fukkup]

I think the government should spend more money on low/no income housing and less on installing stupid structures on benches that make it impossible to lay down (and to be clear other anti-homeless structures)

people who can't pass credit checks still need housing. people who don't have credit at all still need housing. people who can't pass criminal background checks still need housing. people who have been evicted before still need housing. people with past unpaid rent still need housing. people who can't take out loans still need housing. people who can't pay off their mountains of debt still need housing. people who don't or can't work still deserve housing. housing is not an "investment". housing is not the act of "borrowing" property from someone else.

housing is necessary for human survival, no matter how poor, disabled, addicted, insane, or bad with money someone is. every single person on this planet requires housing. everyone. money does not belong in the affairs of housing. housing does not wait for money to come. housing is a human right, that EVERY human deserves, regardless of how much money they make, if any.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Danny: You want me to what?

Tim: Give this letter to Batman for me.

Danny: Why?

Tim: I need to tell him something, but I can't give him the option of capturing me.

Danny: But he can catch me?

Tim: He doesn't want you.

Danny: Damn, alright.

Tim: No, sorry, I mean - look, just give him the letter and don't tell him anything about me. Here is 10k in cash. Can you do it?

Danny: For 10K? Yeah, okay.

Ten hours later

Danny: LET ME OUT

Bruce: It's okay, son. We're going to help you get your memories back.

Danny rattling the bars: I'm not Tim Drake. He just hired me to give you the letter!

Bruce: A letter claiming Tim Drake was tired of his life with us and that he was going to become a regular citizen, so don't look for him? Your only involvement with the letter and him is that he paid you to delivery it?

Danny: YES!

Bruce: And the fact you both look exactly alike has nothing to do with this?

Danny: I don't question it. You start questioning stuff and bad things happen to you

Bruce: Bad things like memory loss.

Danny: IM NOT TIM DRAKE. LET ME OUT.

Bruce: Until we know what they did to easrse your memories I'm afraid your going to remain in containment.

Danny: WHY!? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING

Bruce: You stabbed Jason

Danny: No, he rudely walked into my knife

[juliansdiary2]

End of the Month of July and my Homeless awareness campaign

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 113

Danny was falsely arrested. How dare the store. He may look homeless being on the run from his parents and all.

But really.

All he did was stuff the item in his pocket so he could help someone grab an item.

They didn’t even give him the chance to explain. He had the money. Sam insisted on giving him cash before he ran.

When they took his fingerprints he really didn’t mind. He was running from his parents not the government. As soon as he was left alone he’d high tail it out of Gotham.

To bad he wouldn’t be left alone. Being Bruce Wayne’s kidnapped son was not on his bingo card.

Now Bruce Wayne billionaire had never expected to have his son be found. Never for him to be found stealing food and obviously homeless.

[amygdalae]

have never understood why squatting is considered a crime. loitering too. sir you have been arrested for the crime of....chilling. and hanging out. and taking a little nap

[foldedchip]

[dhddmods]

When will people start listening and caring?

When will people stop ignoring the epidemic of eating disorders that comes from our society? When will people acknowledge orthorexia? When will they stop promoting false diets and listening to diet culture? When will people stop equating fatness with health, and realize that fat people can be underweight too? When will they stop mocking fatness or treating it as an undesirable trait, and instead start treating it as a natural human variance? When will people care that fat people are being refused life saving or life improving surgery, on the basis of their weight? Or that fat people aren't allowed to donate their bodies to science?

When will people care about disabled people (including those who cannot communicate, work, upkeep hygiene, etc)? When will they care about the lack of even the most basic of accommodations, for physical, sensory, and neurological disabilities alike? About how literal doctors cannot be trusted to give people proper treatment, especially if they have highly stigmatized conditions?

When will people stop fakeclaiming, and instead think about how "fakers" are VERY likely to just have a somatoform disorder or some other condition that they are misunderstanding? And that fakeclaiming creates more harm than good?

When will people start caring about all forms of neurodivergence, and stop picking and choosing what to support? When will they stop acting like there is an "evil disorder" or "abuse disorder"?

When will people stop listening to pop psychology? When will they stop using stigmatizing language towards neurodivergent people (misusing terms like narcissist, sociopath, psychopath, OCD, PTSD, bipolar, schizo, etc?) When will they stop saying "empathy/sympathy" when what they really mean is compassion or kindness?

When will people see that a majority of sexual offenders don't have a paraphilic disorder? And that most people with paraphilic disorders are pro-recovery? When will people view it as a genuine disorder that they do not choose to have?

When will people stop being so obsessed with traumagenic vs non-traumagenic plurality, and focus instead on the oppression all systems face? Focus instead on the severe lack of research into plurality (and all stigmatized mental conditions)? Or focus on how there are still doctors actively attempting to "debunk" plurality?

When will people start caring about the horrendous justice system? The literal torture of prisoners (isolation, physical abuse, emotional abuse, ableism, sexism, etc)? The focus on punishment over rehabilitation? The constant false imprisonment, especially of those who are part of marginalized communities?

When will people start caring about homeless people and people in poverty? When will people care about the homeless people in the streets, most of whom became homeless due to disability, abuse, or being underpaid or given impossible bills to pay? When will people care that thousands of houses are sitting empty right now, when they could be housing a homeless person?

When will people care about the violence happening in the Middle East, and the people who are losing their homes and are desperate for aid?

When will people start listening to Indigenous people when they explain that they are still actively facing erasure and genocide?

When will people start caring about the countries which have its citizens trapped (ie; North Korea)?

When will people start listening to the racism BIPOC still face all around the world? Or BIPOC people in the LGBTQIA+ community, and how race directly correlates with their queer experiences?

When will people learn the difference between sexual attraction, libido, and sexual arousal? When will they acknowledge that ace-specs and aro-specs can be partnering or non-partnering, and that neither is better than the other? When will they acknowledge that anae-spec, apl-spec, afam-spec, and asen-spec people also exist, also experience unique oppression, and that the term a-spec includes them? When will they stop using "a-spec" to mean "aroace-spec"?

When will people stop enforcing monogamy onto people, and allow ethical non-monogamy and non-partnering people to thrive?

When will people listen and realize that people can have complicated relationships with their gender, sex, attraction, hence why contradictory labels (lesboy, turigirl, m-spec lesbian, m-spec gay, etc) exist? Or that they could have multiple genders, a mixed gender, split attraction, or fluid attraction?

When will people start listening to trans men, intersex men, and other queer mascs when they explain their experiences with transandrophobia and androqueerphobia? When will people stop telling them its "just misogyny" (when that argument could be used for ANY gender or sex oppression in existence, as all gender/sex oppression has a basis in misogyny?) When will people accept that queer mascs deserve to have words to explain their SPECIFIC experiences, and how the words transandrophobia & androqueerphobia are meant to describe how misogyny intersects with anti-masculine, anti-trans, anti-intersex, and even anti-BIPOC rhetoric?

When will people stop putting "cis men DNI" in their bio, actively pushing away cis queer men and forcing trans people to out themselves?

When will people stop imposing new binaries on people ("TMA/TME")? When will people stop using transmasc & transfem as catch-all terms, and acknowledge that many non-binary people fall into other categories, like transandrogynous, transneutral, transnull, transgenderless, transxenine, transoutherine, transaporine, multigender, or multiple of those categories? When will people stop gendering HRT?

When will people start normalizing non-binary specific labels, rather than forcing every enban to use binary-centric terms when many of them don't want to?

When will people stop using AFAB & AMAB as synonyms for mulleripathian and wolffipathian? When will people understand that AFAB =/= born with a vulva and AMAB =/= born with a penis? When will people stop saying transness is "identifying against your AGAB", when that's not the case for many enben and intersex trans people?

When will people start listening to the countless intersex people who explain the horrific medical abuse (genital & reproductive mutilation, hormone abuse, misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, stigmatization), selective abortion, and exclusion they face? When will they stop using the terms DSD/disorder of sexual development, urogenital disorder/deformity, reproductive disorder/deformity, hormone disorder/endocrine disorder, and chromosome disorder to refer to intersex traits & variations?

When will people start listening when intersex people tell them that the h-slur is a slur (even when it's used on animals), and to use other words (ie; cosexed) instead? And that intersex animals aren't examples of transness in nature?

When will people understand that intersex is a large spectrum, and that it is not synonymous with cosexed, and that not all intersex people have mixed sex traits? When will people understand that intersex and perisex are not personally selectable, and that being intersex is born and something you develop during puberty, and that "transintersex" is impossible? When will people stop fetishizing intersex stereotypes in pornography? When will people stop using salmacian or transintersex, and use aphrodisian or other terms instead?

When will people stop using intersex people's existence or medical abuse as a "gotcha" towards bigots? ("Cis people are allowed to get hormones but we aren't", "trans people are valid because sex isn't binary", etc)? When will perisex transgender/transsex people stop saying they "wish they were intersex" or pretending to be intersex to doctors in order to receive treatment (which perpetuates the medical abuse intersex people face, by implying that intersexuality needs "correction")? When will people realize that all anti-trans laws are also anti-intersex, and it's not "misdirected transphobia", but rather very direct and intentional in most cases?

When will people stop gendering brains? When will people stop gendering sports, and instead categorize them based on physical size and skill? When will people stop gendering restrooms?

When will people start caring about female genital mutilation, which is still prevalent around the world? Or male genital mutilation, which happens in some cultures too?

When will people stop demonizing a woman being hairy, muscular, or not traditionally feminine? Or a man being not traditionally masculine?

When will people start caring about reproductive rights? When will people start teaching about comprehensive sex education? When will people teach intersex variations in school, when it's super simple to do? Or queer sex? Or pregnancy symptoms? Or how STDs can be passed through any sexual contact, not just genital-to-genital sex?

When will people take sexual violence seriously? When will people stop blaming it on clothes or flirtatious behavior? When will people stop acting like sexual violence is just forced penetration? When will people realize that oral rape, forcing fetishes/kinks onto others, stealthing (messing with or lying about condoms/birth control), sending unsolicited sexual images or comments, asking invasive questions about a person's urogenital & reproductive anatomy, and spying on people in vulnerable states is sexual violence?

When will people understand that making intimate fanfiction or fanart of real people to post it online (without that person's consent) is harassment?* (*Writing or drawing things about real people privately is different, you are allowed to fantasize, but posting it online IS harassment - even if you think they'll "never see it." And it's different if you are making content about the characters that they play rather then the actors themselves.)

When will people stop being pro-birth? When will people care about the thousands of people with uteruses who are being forced to carry the fetuses of their abusers, or fetuses who are unfit for life (as in, literally will not survive outside of the womb)? Or how children and teenagers are being forced to carry pregnancies? Or the people suffering from ectopic pregnancy who aren't allowed to get it removed? Or the people who can't have tumors or cysts removed because removing anything from a uterus counts as an "abortion" by law in some locations?

When will people stop supporting eugenicist ideas, and calling it "pro-choice?" When wil people start encouraging others to consider that their child (born or adopted) might not be able-bodied, able-minded, or perisex, and that they have to be prepared for that if they want to be a parent?

When will people care about the millions of children in foster care? When will people care about how messed up the foster system is? How kids are constantly being abused? How many kids get stripped away from their families at a whim the second that CPS is called, even when it's unjust? How families who cannot afford or function to feed or tend to their children have their parental rights removed, instead of being given the financial or health aid they need? How most foster kids age out and end up homeless or in abusive situations?

Will people ever listen, or will they forever ignore or stigmatize marginalized communities? Are you part of the problem?

Will you ever stop treating these things as merely internet discourse, and instead treat them as the serious issues that they are?

[dy-mph-na]

Life Advice: Answering the Question "Why does God keep sending me the same lessons, when will it be over?"

This is advice I am commonly asked… I’ve found, through experiences the lessons keep coming for two things either: you have not learned all you needed to learn from the set lessons, have not been perceiving them the entirely correct and on par way or its because God is simply just trying to test you in a way to confirm whether or not you’ve actually learn and grown from the trials and tribulations, lessons ect. ect. Keep all focus on The Lord, remember that everything really is a premeditated lesson and act as he would in any given situation.

You always reap what you sow, it is just how our universe works, the good may come back to you in small amounts overtime or a big blow-up, all at once. Same goes for wickedness, it always comes back to you. Some of these lessons are full of death, suffering, pain– yet you come out much stronger and overtime you become grateful there is absolutely no use of sitting in self pity or doubt, especially whilst going through these lessons, it will only hurt you.

[ethaninthewilde]

wanted to share something good!!!

In early 2022 I moved to Sydney from Perth at 16 to get away from an abusive family and have a fresh start. Less than 2 months later I lost my job because I started having seizures, and it got to the point where I was having ambulances called almost every time I left the house. I had to stop studying, I was deemed medically unfit to work, and I became homeless as a result. I was rejected from almost every youth crisis organisation in the city because my seizures made me an "insurance liability" or they just didn't know how to or didn't want to deal with it; I lived in the one youth refuge that did accept for me 3 weeks before they told me I had to leave because I was becoming more and more wheelchair-reliant and they didn't "have capacity to accomodate that" (despite initially telling me that my disabilities were not an issue and I could stay for at least 3 months), and I became homeless again. My NDIS was rejected. I finally got a room in a sharehouse with 8 other people in October last year, but my room was up 2 flights of stairs and I was having to physically drag myself up and down everytime I needed the kitchen, the bathroom, anything. I was watched almost every time and it was humiliating and horrible and I hated it but at least I had somewhere to sleep.

Yesterday I picked up the keys to my own semi-accessible apartment. In just over 2 weeks I will be 3 years clean of self harm. My seizures appear to be decreasing and I've reenrolled in uni (half-time). Next week I have my final assessment for my DSP (australian verson of SSDI) application and then that should come through soon.

I am so proud of myself. I don't want to jinx it, but I feel like I've finally gotten through it. I can breathe now. I did this myself, and no one can take that from me. Reconciling where I am right now with younger me who genuinely didn't think I'd make it past age 14 has me in tears.

[doomdoomofdoom]

THEY SET FIRE TO THE MAUS???

The fire happened last friday/saturday night, perpetrator(s) unknown.

People have been putting band-aids on the burnt spot. I am in tears.

Apparently they'll be fixing her today already!

[secretarysong]

making it a goal of mine to finish any one of the mayzuke oneshots i have sitting & collecting dust in google docs within the near future...

[agnesandhilda]

do you think kaiser is normal about money

[quetzalpapalotl]

Strange thing to ask, but do you know where there's this post about how at least cop Optimus is on the ground and weirdly pretentious(I think that's the closest word here?) the archivist job thing is? Like telling Ratchet "Medic at Dead End."

No strange at all!! I'm actually kinda good at finding tumblr posts and love doing that for people.

Unfortunately I don't think I can help, I don't know the post you're talking about and it doesn't seem like something I would even have reblogged. Despite IDW1!OP being my favorite, I won't pretend like he was remotely in the right for being a cop, I'm more interested in how that wrongness informs his character. Also I don't feel the need to compare him to other Optimi over who's more righteous, I like the other ones too. TFP Optimus is also a fave.

[tubbsmccracken]

Being Invisible to Others

Kevin Lee, the street artist behind the thought-provoking masterpiece "the invisibility of poverty," has created a powerful work of art that delves into the complex and often overlooked issue of poverty. Street art, like the piece by Kevin Lee, has the unique ability to communicate powerful messages to a wide audience in public spaces.

"The invisibility of poverty" likely explores the concept of poverty being present yet often unseen or ignored in society. Through his art, Kevin Lee may be shedding light on the struggles, hardships, and challenges faced by individuals living in poverty, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and addressing this pressing social issue.

Art has the remarkable ability to evoke emotions, spark conversations, and raise awareness about important societal issues. Kevin Lee's masterpiece serves as a poignant reminder of the realities faced by many individuals and communities affected by poverty, urging viewers to reflect on their perceptions and attitudes towards this critical issue

[ang3l0fde4th4ndd0gs]

Not my usual content but:

Life Advice From A 19-Year Old Who's Been Homeless Off And On For Around A Year:

Cheap hotels are nice yes, but save around 50 dollars more than the actual price of the room because there is ALWAYS a deposit

If you live in a car, always keep a 20$ emergency gas fund, even if your funds are low, you'll suffer further if you're stopped on a highway somewhere

WALMART/HOME DEPOT PARKING LOTS ARE IDEAL FOR SLEEPING! They are less likely to kick you out or fine you for staying too long

Always, always, if you have a phone with service, sign up for any food/gas rewards you can get. You'll be able to eat more often for less money

Any work is good work. Even if you aren’t making enough for rent, you are making enough to live

Baby wipes, dry shampoo, deodorant and cologne/perfume will help with hygiene. You can also wipe your teeth with a tissue or a napkin. It may not be much but it is better than being unhealthy

Keep wasp spray with you. It doesn't make you a threat but it will defend against a threat if you find yourself in danger

Once again, for people who are staying in cars, BLANKETS, it gets buttfuck cold at night so PLEASE have as much warmth as you can afford/store. These are cheap at Walmarts and thrift stores, even if it seems gross it is better than hypothermia, believe me