welcome to the menagerie

reblogging things that i like 

[cheaphalloweencostume]

having a normal one on twitter

[dango-king]

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[altraes]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Alabama Police department flaunting all the homeless people they’ve arrested. 

That ripped blue line flag really make the image. And they just stand there and smile not really considering what they actually ‘accomplished’.

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Stop giving people like this privacy…

[cryinfermerica]

Not cool at all.

[dragon-rider-baby]

Well, on the surface, this looks pretty bad. But another perspective is this: have you ever tried to buy a meal for one of these panhandlers instead of giving them money? My experience has been that they won’t take it. They want the money. Generally, they aren’t homeless. To say they are homeless is just a tug on the heartstrings so you’ll give more money. One specific panhandler I know about lived in a comfortable, but not fancy, home, rode a mid-expensive bicycle to “work”, and made, on average, $1200 tax free dollars a week. That’s nearly $5000 a month with no taxes taken out for anything. Nice gig there. So, based on these types of people, cities started passing ordinances against panhandling, which, no doubt, hurt some ppl who are truly homeless and just trying to get some money for whatever they need. There are homeless shelters and tent cities in most big towns and cities, and there are free meals offered by churches, the Salvation Army, and others, so panhandling just might not be what the signs say. Just a different perspective on this.

[luckyladylily]

I’ve been in a position to have to beg before, I don’t want you to buy me an unhealthy meal when I am probably already full. I want money so I can buy diapers for my daughter or medicine for my wife. I need cash to avoid having to raise a 5 year old autistic child in a TENT FUCKING CITY in sub freezing weather while being harassed by the police every morning. 

Also food stamps are a thing you moron, this is the ONE THING that is most reliably provided for us and it is the only thing you assholes want to give. We don’t want to be pulled away from what is effectively our fucking job so you can get a good feel spending $5 to give us a shitty third rate meal - $5 that could actually do something for us if you were not such a distrustful prick and just gave it to us instead. I’m so very sorry that I want to plan my life more than one meal in advance so I can have just the smallest amount of confidence that I wont be dead by tomorrow morning.

Not one of those signs even says anything about food or being hungry! People are begging for medicine and shelter and work and you offer them a fucking McDouble and large coke. Of course they are going to refuse! And then you use it as an excuse for why those dirty ungrateful poors might actually deserve the treatment they get.

I have no idea what third hand bullshit information you are getting that pan handlers make $5000 a month but it is frankly absurd and insulting. I am legitimately angry. So my friend who has to go out and offer blow jobs on the street to afford her medication is just doing it for fun huh?

I’ve seen the police round ups of the poor who sleep in tents outside the homeless shelter that is filled to capacity. I know that there isn’t half as many beds available as are needed and many homeless shelters are not fit to server the needs of many of the homeless. I know how dangerous it is to live in a tent city.

And get this, I live in a city that is well known nationally for how well we handle our homeless problem.

You and your ‘different perspective’ can go to hell. God knows that if hell exists that is the direction you are headed.

[geekandmisandry]

Offering a different “perspective” in something you haven’t experienced is always risky, but that one up there is just…wow. So disconnected from the reality of what they are judging.

[dango-king]

These people arent thinking about the cost of tampons and bras. Underwear. Socks. Theyre not thinking about the cost of deoderant and soap. Toothbrush. Toothpaste. A gym membership, so that you have somehwhere safe and warm to take a shower a few times a week. The price of gas, if you happen to be 'lucky' enough to be living out of a car.

These people arent thinking about haircuts and razors. Clean clothes. For women mostly, makeup. They say "why dont they just get a job?" Without thinking about everything they'd need, just to get an interview. :/ let alone, work for a few weeks. You dont just magically get an apartment the second you get a job.

[maureen2musings]

new moon

visualldreams

[catasters]

[motriarch]

[stimman4000]

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[wildlyunlikelybabe]

I suddenly understand why jewelry is expensive

[gisellesdoodles]

come my darling homeward bound

[akatsukiarts]

Draw the new sasuke meme

the REAL reason sasuke left the village

[0dinkyicarus]

Lonesome Crow.

[tocif]

i just wanted you guys to know theres a porn parody of the force awakens and just when this storm trooper dude starts feeling this bitch up, kylo came in and started doing his usual tantrum shit in the background unprovoked, meanwhile oblivious to all thats happening and let me tell you no porn has ever cut me so off guard and brought me to tears in .01 seconds until now

[jakface]

Caiterhe and I were laughing about this for like, 10 minutes.

[fujiwara57]

Higuchi Yūko ヒグチユウコ (Japanese, b. 1957, Tōkyō 東京).

[u-c-h-i-h-a]

[christinasketch]

"What if..."

Painting study that I took too far

[surfacage]

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche

[lyonface]

A happy accident when I color corrected for the other lighting angle and this one turned out way better than the other.

I posted a bunch of sad stuff, let’s have some smiling egg, shall we?

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