alle bin ich.

Mady. German @ heart. Kiralyn Hanh Harrison October 25th, 1995 - August 7th, 2014 Ich trage dir bei mir für immer

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ELIZA DUSHKU as MISSY PANTONE  BRING IT ON (2000), dir. Peyton Reed

[tutta-mia]

Jovelle Schaffer

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[handcrafted-in-germany]

“Or maybe home is just two arms wrapped around you when you’re at your worst.”

— (via danagray)

[itskellykline]

Heidelberg, Germany

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[irrationalliberal1]

YOUR generation

YOUR generation was the generation where two teachers could afford to buy a 4-bedroom house in San Diego, CA and then afford the mortgage and raise 2 kids in private school (my parents did this).

YOUR generation was the generation where one parent could work in Financial Aid at the local college and the other could raise 2 kids in a 3 bedroom house (my now-retired coworker did this).

YOUR generation was the generation where you could wash dishes to put yourself through college and law school (my uncle did this).

MY generation can’t buy a home when the average cost is $440k and a combined income of two teachers is only $70k, and they have to pay 35% income to rent, let alone trying to afford children.

MY generation has both parents working, one or both working 2 jobs just to buy food, not even able to afford a family vacation every December.

MY generation is in student debt on average $29,400.  And we have scholarships but they only cover 40% of the cost and when law school costs $120k for 2 years, you do the math.

So don’t tell me that it’s MY GENERATION that fucking things up.  We’re only 25, we didn’t get in to the war in 2001 (we were 11 years old), we didn’t de-fund mental health institutions in 1975, we didn’t decide that grants and scholarships should be funded less and tuition should cost more, we didn’t raise the housing market 7000% (my childhood home was bought for $95k and sold for $750k 20 years later).  MY GENERATION didn’t do any of that, YOUR generation did.

So don’t tell me I “just” need to “get a better job” or that I “only” have to send my kids to “a good school.”  Because it doesn’t work like that anymore.  And don’t blame me.

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[goddamnxthree]

I finally graduated school last year and am working as a new registered nurse heading into another year of a pandemic. I make $29/hr and despite my excellent credit, I cannot afford to comfortably buy a home (median cost for a 3 bed 2 bath is $300k… 5-6 years ago, you could buy the same house for less than 100k) in my area. My car is going to be 10 yrs old and has 180k miles on it. Used cars here > 5 years old are going for upwards of $15k depending on what you’re going for. Gas is $3.20/gal right now, I pay about $50 to fill up and I have to fill up at least 1x/week because my commute to work is 45 min to and from. Cost of living keeps going up. Now more than ever I am hyper-aware that a single medical emergency will deplete my savings and ruin my future. I feel discouraged all of the time these days. “Go to college and get a degree for a job that is needed and you’ll be set”. I heard that all my life. I did it. Now what?

[colder-than-the-winter]

Für mich. Weil ich es mir endlich wert bin.

[luciusmafoy-deactivated20140324]

The Japor Snippet

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My goal is to be so warm and full of light that no one has any idea the kind of terrible shit I’ve seen and been through.

[lizziebennet]

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”

— Sappho (via sublimesea)

[kristina100000]

your honor. my client and i dgaf

[ms-demeanor]

By the way, the way that No Child Left Behind impacts the trade worker shortage in the US is because in about 2002 shop classes, home ec classes, auto classes, etc, had their funding diverted into teaching kids how to pass standardized tests so that the schools could continue to pay teachers and keep the library open.

It's hard to figure out that you might be interested in plumbing as a career when you've spent twelve years learning how to pass multiple choice tests and having ceramics and band as the only available electives.

This is one place where I actually WILL do the generational thing and say that Millennials and Gen Z got completely fucked in a way that older generations didn't.

It's actually really fucking hard to repair a cabinet when you've never had a shop class. It's really goddamned difficult to learn everything about car maintenance on your own through youtube videos instead of in a semester of auto shop. It's really goddamned difficult to figure out you want to be a plumber or an electrician or a welder when you are eighteen years old, have been taught to pass tests and cajoled into applying for college, and you've never handled an air compressor or used a socket wrench.

[bokehm0n]

House siblings.