#fixed incomes

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Navigating Long-Term Care Insurance

Insights and Resources for Aging Individuals Retirement brings a whirlwind of changes, and with it, the necessity to revisit and reshape one’s financial plans. The market fluctuations, adjustments in Social Security, and significant personal events, such as the loss of a spouse, all have the potential to alter retirement strategies. Among these considerations, long-term care insurance emerges as…

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[by-izzmizz]

Low effort art strikes again.

I realised I can't paint background without feeling like I'm volunteering for a tadpole insertion.

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polish twewy

[milkywayes]

It's been a while since I last plugged my print shop and ko-fi tipjar, and my follower count has doubled since then, so for everyone who's new here:

Hi! Thank you for wanting to keep up with my art, it means a lot! If you've ever wanted to support me beyond likes and reblogs, the print shop offers a variety of sizes and options and I can always add a print you'd like that's missing from the lineup (just shoot me a message!) Or leave me a tip on ko-fi if you want to make my day :)

I'm a small fry as far as tumblr art blogs go, and I don’t have it in me to spend my art time chasing trends and drawing for more popular fandoms that aren't my one true love, Mass Effect. Any small gesture of support means the world <3

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im never finishing this ＿|￣|○

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[seventies70s]

Yes, baby, Reyner and the gang are back.

[absolutebl]

To my noble ABL, 🙇

Since you brought up the subject yourself, and I couldn’t find the relevant info in your tags, I’d like to request your advice. You see, I’m on social welfare, love BLs/QLs/GLs as much as the next person but I don’t have an enormous budget. So getting a premium on all streaming services (Gaga, WeTv, iQIYI, Viu, etc.) is definitely out of my reach. But could you maybe briefly xplain what services there are, whether they’re free and (most importantly) which one is most worth a paid subscription?

Thank you so much in advance.

Yours truly,

— Thel. 💚

P.S. I promise I’ll like and reblog your advice once you’ve published it! 🙏

Okay so I did a deep dive statistical analysis a while ago (which streaming service is worth your money on strictly BL grounds) and that is here:

I go into who has what, how much, and quality of subs. I'll repost and tag you. I also go an a huge rant about rewarding content providers so there's that too.

Since then iQIYI has come up a lot in terms of squatting content, but I still feel like they are one of the worst user experiences (I mean I pay and they still serve ads? that's bull) and most dangerous in terms of data mining and parent company. So be on your guard with both them and WeTV. It's why I'm unsure about upgrading my WeTV.

Since you specifically requested low income advice here it is:

YouTube. It's free, a lot of the Thai stuff is there, or airs there first. My advice is SUBSCRIBE to the channels that host the content and then use your Subscribe tab as a feed. Also like and comment on the videos. You are getting this, essentially, for free (you will need to sit through ads) but please be generous and give back to the content creators/channels. Especially the small ones like Strongberry. The kindest thing you can do as a consumer is subscribe, like, comment. ALSO this will train the algos, so when new (smaller) channels come along with obscure BL the algos will know what you like and recommend it to you. (Even grey stuff, although that won't last on an upload for very long. So that's my other tip, watch ASAP.) If you need to create a second/dummy gmail/google account for this (anonymity), then do that. Just use a different browser for all your BL content. A VPN can help with this. For example a lot of the GMMTV shows that are now on iQIYI in the USA are on their YT channel in Europe (or Thailand of course), to you just need to set your VPN to a different location, and can watch them on YT.

Subscription services with free content options like Viki or WeTV. Last I checked quite a few of the older BLs on Viki were available without a PAID subscription (this might have changed) same with WeTV. You need to sit through ads, but there are some shows there.

Gagaoolala paid. If you are going to pay for any streaming service I always suggest this one. Not only are they the cheapest of the bunch (and there is only the one level of money which is something like $6.99 a month), they have a lot of older prestige and more obscure content and they are queer focused. This is a Taiwanese platform and I like and support everything about it. Which I don't say about many streaming services. If you have a fixed income and limited budget then being thoughtful with your money is often difficult, Gaga allows for both.

After that, the others are all pretty similar in terms of cost to content value. That blog post above does go into your grey and less savory options. Since I rarely consume free (savory or not) I can't really speak to the situation right now.

Time once was the only way to get things was grey or fansubbed and so then I felt better about doing it, but now almost every new piece (even from Japan) has some kind of distribution deal with some streaming platform.

You have another option which is to wait until most of the shows you want to watch have finished their runs and then subscribe for only a month or two, binge everything, and then unsubscribe.

Generally the slow season in BL is end of the year. So if you have some time in December -February, this would be the time of year to do that. (Most of the major shows are done and no new ones have started up.)

I hope this helps.

[voidcreations]

Dolly in a dress

[crimsontentacles]

You know, I think I am allowed to be salty for a second on the account that my day job went from "learning new technologies, putting together cool things and being satisfied with the results" to "making 69 versions of the same video for tiktok algorithm" to "overpainting GenAI slop 8h a day". I think I have a right to be frustrated and disappointed.

[dolls-self-ships]

I’m gonna be honest I’m excited for the stream tonight but I’m really not looking forward to the onslaught of billford content I’m gonna be seeing in my feed

[miodiodavinci]

(empty look of death)

[crimeronan]

me, knowing i have a disease that gets worse in winter and that i will feel bad until winter is over, as i have every year for the past two decades: damn, this blows. why do i feel bad.

[skunkes]

begging for a completely reasonable Win in my life didnt work at all so now im back to begging for the most unrealistic fairytale shit possible to cope

[reegis]

possibly minor Crisis i was going to finish my current projects & maybe open commissions again afterwards but??? my apple pencil is dead and seemingly will Not charge??? iv tried a couple different things & im leaving it alone for now hoping it works 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻but if not idk what to doooo aaaaaa i cant afford a new one rn & doing art is everything to me 😭 pls i Just barely managed to not end up homeless less than a month ago i dont need this too