carlissaok:

berlin1991:

I want everyone to know that Donald Trump is a rapist, he raped his ex wife Ivana when they were married and then strong armed her into taking it back after she made a statement. I want to stop seeing his face as a joke on here, please. he isn’t just a stupid racist capitalist pig he is also a violent sexual predator who has the audacity to blame america’s rape culture on Mexican immigrants. source

(major tw for this article, graphic depiction of rape)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDAEUIBSA

Broke af?

gingerandfair:

glitterdammerung:

ok2befat:

avari20:

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

<3 

Love this site, it’s my go-to on so many things.

Signal boost for anyone who might need this.

23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

tai-korczak:

1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
   
2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
   
4. Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
   
5. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
   
6. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
   
7. Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
   
8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
   
9. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
   
10. Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
    
11. Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
    
12. Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
    
13. Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
    
14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
    
15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
    
16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
    
17. Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
    
18. Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
    
19. Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
    
20. Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
    
21. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
    
22. Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
    
23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.