#Poor Lifestyle

[literatureaesthetic]

📍marylebone, london — vowing that one day i'll move here, and it'll be my forever home. truly never felt so in love with a city before

[aliveaudiencegang]

my arthur returns from the dead au would involve an arthur who’s slowly learning about the modern world through the lens of his own. so he sees cars as horseless chariots, lights as magic fires, tvs as moving paintings etc. anyways one day he gets pickpocketed by a masked assailant and arthur just straight up stabs him. merlin’s like WHAT THE FUCK WHY. and arthur’s confused because hello?? he was just attacked by a bandit. like the ones he and the knights use to butcher all the time. keep up merlin.

so now merlin has to be like new lesson. nowadays we don’t tend to resort to murder so quickly ok.

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN VAMPIRES CAN'T EAT DRY COCONUT UNDER THE WINTER AFTERNOON SUN WITH THEIR MEEMAW? NO WONDER ARMAND WENT INSANE!

[xeavy]

Is the circle of life is the wheel of fortune 🥹🎶🎵

[werewolfetone]

Another historical fiction error I enjoy is when the author clearly vastly overestimates the living standards of poor people of the period. by what means does this peasant in cork ireland in the 1840s who owns exactly one acre of land and does not speak english in this book have separate bedrooms containing a suspiciously modern amount of furniture for every single one of her strangely low number of children

[nashvillethotchicken]

Louis Claudia and Lestat really are iwtv's respective Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina and Bobby Brown

[mxwhore]

holy shit, what's the story of colon puncture if you don't mind answering?

I was chronically constipated for most of my childhood and i ended up in the hospital twice because of it. The last time it happened i was like 9 years old and I woke up in the worst physical pain ive ever been in my life to DATE, literally screaming in bed, unable to get up. My mom, freaking out, took me to the hospital, where the pain magically disappeared. The nurse suggested that i was making it up and my mom was extremely confused (and pissed) since ive never been the type to fake illnesses to get out of school, but then the doctor arrived, pressed on my stomach when i proceeded to destroy some more eardrums. She immediately had some x-rays done on me, which revealed that my bowels were beginning to TWIST & TEAR to accomodate more shit. The end.

[pixelbots]

Anthon got all prepped up for a fishing trip. He unfortunately didn't catch any fish and got swarmed by mosquitoes instead. So he ended up staying home. Progress? What progress?

[darlingcloudie-9]

Live laugh love Kumonoue & Yuichiro’s straining relationship 💕

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Knuckles: "Why don't you have a wife?"

Wade: "Whoa, well, how do you know I don't?"

Knuckles: "Do you have a wife?"

Wade: "Well, no."

Knuckles: "So why don't you have a wife?"

Wade: *sigh* "To be honest, women find me the opposite of being irresistible."

Knuckles: "Which is?"

Wade: "Unapproachable."

[cherritaxo]

Hey babes! If you haven't picked this book up, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. It's alot more insightful thank you think! So much depth about the rich and poor and how to get out of the rat race! You can buy it here:

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[piastristimtams]

who the fuck made this and why is oscar sunburnt into oblivion good god

[edge-oftheworld]

also, we gonna acknowledge how much streaming services are killing the viability of the music industry? Ashton saying he’s been part of billion stream songs and they pay next to nothing should be REALLY BAD NEWS that has us thinking of the artists who don’t manage to break through with anything like youngblood or she looks so perfect

some maths for you: a billion streams=roughly $3 million for the artist. divide it up between not only 4 people but the co-writers as well and then subtract all the expenses they needed to create it (an album costs around $20k to do cheaply, but for a big hit song you’ll want to spend a lot more on promo etc). I don’t actually know how much would be left, maybe a couple hundred grand each, but the chances of getting more than one of these out per decade are very slim unless you’re one of the top few artists

because BILLION STREAM SONGS ARE NOT THE NORM for most artists. 5sos have about 10-12 billion streams all up I think? multiply these numbers by 10. they get most of their money from touring, all artists do so if you want tours to be accessible for poorer folk we need to make sure our artists can earn a living from their recordings too

[dirtytransmasc]

Spider can't connect and see Neteyam again like the others.

I can just imagine how badly that hurts him, the permanence of it.

I can see the kids bringing Spider out to the Metkayina's tree of souls and him just...floating there most of the time. Sometimes he swims down and will hold himself there, watching the tree. Thankfully the mask allows him to stay down for a decent amount of time.

It'll become a routine, the sully kids + Tsireya, Ao'nung, and Rotxo bringing Spider out and taking turns throughout the day sitting with him.

The adults will notice eventually, but I am not sure on their reactions though I think it would all hit them pretty hard when they remember that Spider can't connect.

god thats so eerily correct and depressing.

he'd just sit there, for hours and hours, begging for forgiveness, crying, mourning. he knows quaritch would have never hurt him, neteyam didn't have to go back for him, he never had to die. he knows going back for quaritch was wrong, he hopes his brother knows why, knows what spider himself has yet to figure out.

he begs eywa to give him a way to connect, a dream, a vision. to kill him if that's what it will take to see his brother again, to get to say goodbye to say he was sorry.

I think jake and neytirir would be at a loss as to what to do with him. spider refuses to be moved most of the time and when they do get I'm out of the water he disappears for hours, avoiding everyone.

tying into my ronal adoption au (cause its one of the few things my brain has let me have a coherent thought about recently) the idea of tsireya and ao'nung going to him specifically makes me ache with something vicious. they see their new baby brother, hurting, grieving, longing for something he may ever have and they can do nothing but watch, maybe hold him if they're lucky (I feel like he would try and throw them off, throw everyone off, deny himself of any comforts). ronal and tonowari would try and help, they would try and keep him within their hut when they finally get him out of the water, but its no use because he is determined to make himself pay for his brothers death. I personally relate to this type of loss, when I couldn't make up to a passed family member, when I couldn't connect with them as I hoped after they passed, I took it as a sign I was unworthy of it, so I put more blame then necessary and punished myself subsequently; that seems like a very spider thing to do.

I don't know, just the image of him floating in the water, paralleling lo'ak at the funeral, for hours at a time, maybe reaching for the tree or screaming within his mask. its so off putting and just depressing. it's like the ultimate representation of grief. it makes me feel so horrible, especially cause I relate to that feeling. throw his family in the mix, old and new, all equally desperate to help, but completely out of their depths on it.

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Grocery shopping/Food

Inflation is a huge thing right now and people keep asking how to lower your grocery budget. I grew up poor. Here are some tips I learned over the years. Just my opinions/tips:

There are alot of things a person can do to build food stability- IF you have the space and resources.

First one is gardening. An herb garden, a patio pot garden or a yard garden. I also did little stints of guerilla gardening, which is basically planting veggies in weird places. You can Google victory gardens to see how they used to do it back in the 40's.

Also, if you have a house with a yard, consider planting a fruit tree and some fruit bushes.

But as far as grocery shopping goes, if you have a limited budget & are on a weight loss journey, the first thing you should do is stop (or severely limit) shopping from the inside grocery aisles.

Why?

Because these foods might seem inexpensive, but it is really common to overeat those foods. They are designed to be hyperpalatable.

I recently saw an episode of Heavy where the person was cooking 3 boxes of some meal.... and eating them all.

If you buy these foods at all, you need to practice portion control with them. Check the box for the serving size and then divide it into individual servings before you start eating it.

It is really important that you don't beat yourself up for wanting this food. It is designed that way. Your body is a biological machine of sorts and it has evolved to *want* foods that have certain levels of fat, salt & carbs. It is because these are the foods that helped us survive.

When shopping the perimeter, I normally take a walk around to see what foods have volume so a low price. Some suggestions are potatoes, collard greens, radishes. But really, I will try anything that is low cost. Give it a shot and see if you like it.

That is how I starting eating collard greens. Walmart had huge bags of them for like $2. I bought a bag and threw in some greens with every meal. Why not?

You don't need designer greens that are $10 a pound.

So yesterday, the thing I would have bought for cheap and tried was fresh bunches of turnips greens for $1.29, and mustard greens for about the same (I am traveling tomorrow so I won't have time so cook it).

Be curious and explore. You may be able to find ways to stretch your budget using unpopular foods. Unfortunately, the internet has popularized some previously staple foods - eggs, cottage cheese, cauliflower etc. But do what you can with what you have, and use portion control so that you are making things last.

Sometimes you can find frozen foods for good prices- I found pags of peas at Walmart for $.84. Peas! Hell yeah! I added Pease to everything. Peas have some protein and a good nutrient profile.

In contrast, a box of weight watchers protein candy bars were $5 for 4 bars. ON SALE. Ugg. That is a treat option... but those food products are so freaking expensive per serving I am trying to limit those.

Other things I did was watch videos on how people got by in the depression...and try some of those meals. Read older books and see what they were eating.

Our food acquisition has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. People used to do alot more foraging, hunting, & fishing. We don't have access to some of those things anymore. And if you do have access, definitely try those things as well. If you have access to buy food from a farmer/rancher, do it.

Now we have food deserts. But that is a post for a different time.

[vaugarde]

i really like hz28. i feel like in any other kids show, the antique dealer would have been revealed to be an impersonator of diana’s friend as a part of some convoluted scheme. because anyone the good characters vouch for cant be bad, right?

but no, its the same guy, it really is diana’s friend, he just took a turn for the worst because his life went in a different direction than hers, and he has to confront that by the end of the episode. its really refreshing