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by @robbiel1
Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna, Italy) by Massimo Battesini
⢠Music of the Week: 1965 - Zella Day â˘Â
this is my The Voice audition song i'm telling yall
- Buttery Flaky Crust -
one of my favorite videos of all time
Minimum wage: $7.25
$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290
$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160
In every Southern state (didnât have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven?Â
Because Bernie Sanders supporters arenât going to fact check him, and theyâll ignore any contrary evidence thatâs presented to them anyways.
Things like this really tick me off and Itâs not political or anything but itâs the fact that you think all that money is there. Hereâs what I mean;
That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88. Â Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so letâs double it to get the budget. $543.75. Thatâs GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so weâll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, weâll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2 Â = $839.Â
Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.
But again, you seem to think thatâs fair. So letâs proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work.Â
Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesnât despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.
Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 youâre lying.
You are so focused on rent that you arenât thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and itâs not possible to live off that in 2017 America.Â
And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably wonât qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they wonât help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month.Â
Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?
just finished the first season of the legend of korra and i am shook
Music Pick of the Week: Willow Smith - Jimi
{ sheâs one of my favoriteâs i love her unique take to music }
in case you were wondering, flint still doesnât have clean water.
itâs been over three years.
[Girls] there is no boy cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education.
Michelle Obama (via cwote)
Udaipur, Rajasthan
look at me - i will never pass for a perfect bride
so i know i already made a retold mulan post but i just LOVE MULAN SO MUCH so hereâs another
in the original myth mulan isnât really a clumsy fish out of water. sheâs strong and smart and the reason she goes to war is because sheâs the most qualified person in her family to fight, regardless of gender.
so how about this: mulanâs a fighter. she knows exactly who she is, like in the original myth, sheâs knows how to be the blossoming flower and the great stone dragon. sheâs still mulan though, so she still doesnât memorize the silly ways sheâs supposed to be a good wife and has little patience for appearing graceful while pouring tea. sheâs innovative and courageous and beautiful, but no one is under any illusions about what kind of wife sheâll be.
and the matchmaker is the matchmaker for the li family as well, for this great big part of china. and general li wants his son to be married before he goes off to war, wants his son to have a reason to fight to live, like a wife waiting for him. and the matchmaker reads the stars and the tea leaves and the astrology charts, and no matter what all the signs point to one thing: the honorable li shang is destined to marry the insolent, arrogant fa mulan.
the matchmaker isnât going to let that happen, she refuses to be responsible for that disaster of a wedding. so she sends her most beautiful girls, the ones that are obedient and quiet and know their roles, the ones that are eager to marry into the li family.
and each of them are entertained and met and sent back. shang is many things, but smooth isnât one of them, he has nothing to say to these quiet girls who smile at him, feels large and awkward around their polite smiles. so he and his father go to the matchmakerâs village, shang reluctantly and his father to demand she stops messing with them and provides a proper bride.
itâs on the day that mulan and the other girls are parading in the street. shang sees a girl - mulan - hurry into the end of the line, jumping over a bench and darting around a careening wagon to get there, and stifles a laugh.
then thereâs no reason to laugh at all, because a group of huns have decided that this village is in their way, and attack.
everyone scatters, women hide, children hide, and most of the men do too. shang and his father join the fight with some of the other men who hadnât hid, and these men are starved, clearly not with shan yu, so even though theyâre outnumbered theyâll likely win.
shang sees a hun go to attack the girl heâd seen earlier, the girl for whatever reason hadnât run and hid. the hun raises a sword above his head to strike her down, and shang is so sure heâs about to see this pretty girl lose her head.
but she doesnât. instead she rolls out of the way, and pops up, headbutting him in the stomach. she takes his sword from his now-slack grip and plunges it into his chest. without hesitation or pause the girl joins the fight, swinging the sword expertly and cutting down every man who stands against her. soon theyâre fighting back to back, and shang has never felt more in sync with another person. she cuts off the head of the last hun, and shang has never seen anyone more beautiful than this girl, dress ripped and make up smudged and covered in blood that isnât hers.
âmulan,â one of the other girls says, peaking out of a store front, âis it over?â
the girl, mulan, looks out over the dozen dead men and says, grimly, âitâs barely begun.â she searches the crowd, finding and old man and yelling, âgather the bodies, weâll burn that at dusk outside of the village. everyone else,â her eyes sweep across the gathered people, and shang is struck by the fact that this girl isnât well liked. thereâs anger and disapproval in many of the faces, but theyâre listening. these people donât like her. but they do trust her. âletâs clean this all up. these were bandits, not soldiers. thereâs nothing more to fear.â
âwhat if there are more?â the other girl asks, arms wrapped around herself.
mulan raises her stolen sword and says, âthen i will slice them to ribbons. this is our village, and this is our country. any who would try to take it from us - from me - will suffer the consequences.â
and it shouldnât be comforting, hearing words of violence from this young girl, yet everyone around them relaxes, and gets moving, gather the bodies and tending the wounded.
âwho are you?â his father asks, and someone who doesnât know him might think he was angry, but shang can tell heâs impressed.
mulan turns to them and bows, âmy apologies. i am fa mulan, daughter of fa zhou. thank you for helping us.â she stands, and shang meets her eyes for the first time.
he swallows, and blurts out, âyou - you fight good.â
his father coughs to hide his laughter, but mulanâs eyes crinkle at the corners. âthank you. you do as well.â
and they just keep standing there smiling at each other until his father claps his hands and is like okay - theyâll have to report this to the emperor, no time to dawdle, have to go now.
so they take their leave, and shang thinks this is the last time heâll see fa mulan.
except thereâs still the draft, and this time mulan doesnât take no for an answer, wonât hear of it. her father is injured and old and she is young and fit to fight. she will go in his place.
so she arrives at the camp, prepared to pretend and lie - except she goes to meet her commanding officer and itâs him, that boy who had fought with her. shangâs eyes widen, but theyâre in front of too many people. he can see it on her face, her fear, and she hadnât shown any fear when she was facing down over a dozen huns, but she does now. so he makes his choice and says nothing, pretends he buys her story.
she tracks him down that night and demands an explanation. he says this war is too important to kill good warriors, whatever gender they are. he swears to keep her secret. mulan is his best soldier from the beginning, and means to treat her like anyone else, but itâs impossible. she isnât like anyone else, is strong and smarter and braver than them. they argue tactics, and sheâs the only one who can give him a workout in hand to hand, and he doesnât have trouble finding his words with her. he finds himself falling in love with her, but doesnât say anything. sheâs not here for love, sheâs here for a war. he vows to say something if they survive this, but itâs unlikely that will happen.
they head to the front earlier. they get there in time to provide back up for his father and his army, and itâs a loss but not a slaughter. his father is too distracted to notice ping is the girl from the village. all he knows is this soldier had led the second wave of attacks, and it was thanks to her any of them were alive at all. they prevent half of the huns from getting through the pass, but thatâs still an army heading for the imperial city. the general is injured, so mulan and shang lead the army after him.
they find him at the mountain, and just like before mulan uses the cannon to destroy the army. she knew it would spell their death, but it was worth it, for her people, for her country, for her family. this time itâs shang that wonât accept her death, that tries to drag her unconscious body to safety. only he fails, and mulan becomes buried under the snow.
they return to the city, and shang is besides himself - the woman he loves is dead, she saved them all and sheâs gone, and heâll never recover from this. only he canât tell his father this, their friends. they think he mourns a friend, not the woman he wanted to make his wife.
except mulan survives, and sees the other huns as well. only she kills them there before they can get to the city, and decides this is for the best. fa ping dies honorably in battle, and fa mulan is free to return home to her family.
so general li decides that itâs time to go to that matchmaker again, and demand she stop playing games. the matchmaker confesses that she thought the bride was unsuitable, and the general demands she send her anyway.
so mulan has barely had the chance to settle back home when the matchmaker shows up at her door saying sheâs sending her to see a potential husband, but not who. so mulan shows up all made up to li household and shang drags himself into the room, already resigned to a loveless marriage, when they see each other. âmulan?â he demands, and his father is all pleased because itâs the fighting girl from the village.
but then his son starts crying and they run to each other. shang picks her up in his arms and she clings to him, and shang is babbling about how he thought she was dead, and mulan is so overjoyed that sheâs with shang, and shang wants her, that she kisses him without explaining.
except now shangâs father demands an explanation. so they give it to him, the whole story comes tumbling out, and he stares hard at her, and remembers her as ping, the brave soldier that had saved them all. heâs not upset - he ecstatic. he goes to the emperor and tells him everything, and the emperor officially offers mulan an officer position in the army. she accepts, as long as shang is by her side. shang seconds this, and they set in motion the plans for the wedding.
fa mulan and li shang get married and lead armies and live happily ever after, just like the stars intended.
read more of my retold fairytales here
by @alexhainerphoto
⢠Freaks and Geeks | S01xE04 â˘