Ms. 20 Something

You need an instant ease from the life where you got plenty of every hurt and heartbreak

[cherubg1rl]

[ouroborosmotifs]

most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

[ouroborosmotifs]

like this

[stargiirl27]

toxic mothers are wild they'll really be like "I never said that" like ma'am yes you did cause it's been ingrained in my head since I was twelve

[wetpinkorthodoxy]

Wild, unthinkable ideas: 4 day work week, nationalised broadband, nationalised energy companies.

Totally normal ideas: ban protesting, kill 150,000 people and accept permanent food shortages.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

"AOC didn't pay $35,000 for a Met Gala ticket she got invited" that's not the problem babe the problem is accepting an invitation from a capitalist in the first place (and yes a "Black woman immigrant designer" who owns a fashion house is still a capitalist) to model her dress with an extremely milquetoast and uncontroversial statement ("tax the rich" is literally a Biden campaign promise lmfaooo) at one of the most exclusive gatherings of rich people on the planet and exchanging niceties with them and getting your picture taken with them while BLM protestors are being brutalized literally right outside the door all while purporting to be a "socialist" and one of the foremost left-wing lawmakers in the United States. If you can't see why that makes her look like a fucking clown I don't know what else to tell you lol.

[seasicle]

and THIS is why we are going to therapy in an hour

[seasicle]

spending a minute trying to make myself miserable for whatever god forsaken reason. my boyfriend told me he thinks hes in love with me and i dont think i deserve the kindness that hes given me and i dont think i deserve the position that ive been put in regardless of how hard i may have worked for it do you think youre special more worthy somehow is that what you think of yourself? that you deserve any of this? LOL.

[heartlessqueen]

if you keep swallowing the anger back, it’s going to choke you

[firstgrave]

you’re not a better, more moral, or more accomplished person than homeless people. you’re not a better, more moral, or more accomplished person than drug addicts. you’re not a better, more moral, or more accomplished person than sex workers.

[firstgrave]

as i see people genuinely celebrating so many sex workers losing their jobs/main source of income today, you are not more deserving of respect or compassion than sex workers and you’re not more deserving of respect or compassion than drug addicts or homeless people.

[theconcealedweapon]

[alarajrogers]

How is flipping burgers less skilled than packing boxes? Flipping burgers is certainly more dangerous.

[theconcealedweapon]

Unskilled labor and skilled labor are arbitrary classes created to pit laborers against each other instead of them teaming up.

[hotasiangirlsinyourarea-archive]

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

[gaycommunist]

i’m all the ages i have ever been

@swarnpert // haruki murakami “norwegian wood” // laura mathis “no most” // russian dolls // sue zhao // “eleven” sandra cisneros // “deathless” catherynne m valente // “memento mori” crywank // “untitled” keith haring, 1982 // dante and aristotle discover // jenny slate // @psychicdonuts

[lora-mathis]

[what-even-is-thiss]

A good way to know whether or not you have middle class privilege is if your family had a large stock of food staples just lying around.

I mean at any given time you’ve got a huge box of cans of tomato sauce, a huge bag of rice, a bunch of spices in your cupboard, a bunch of noodles and pasta just kicking around, and several cans of soup and frozen dinners for when you’re feeling lazy.

When one of my cousins moved out for the first time my aunt got her stocked up on staples. Flour, canned veggies, spices, sugar, rice, anything that doesn’t go bad in a few days. All that cost over $400 upfront.

After that initial investment in all that stuff though, living gets a lot cheaper. All your staples almost never run out all at once. So in one week you probably just buy some perishables like meat and veggies and maybe buy another giant bag of rice because your current one is sort of getting low.

So when people on the internet tell you that they can teach you how to make gourmet ramen for less than $3 they’re technically right but they’re also assuming that you just have a lot of these staples lying around and can afford to buy in bulk. Maybe the amount of miso paste you used only amounts to 10¢ but the entire bag cost $12.

If I only had 20$ to eat this week I’d already have a bunch of canned stuff and grains in my cupboard and I could probably afford to buy some cheap vegetables and meat. But if someone couldn’t afford to pay $400 to fill their cupboards up the first time they can’t rely on there already being rice when they only have $20 at the end of the month. They need to buy food as they want to use it. So in their situation it makes sense to buy a $1 hamburger from McDonald’s or a box of Mac n cheese and some milk to cook it with. Not vegetables that cost just as much as that box of Mac and cheese and won’t feed nearly as many people.

My dad and his siblings spent a good chunk of their childhoods being poor after their dad’s business went under and something they often tell me is that “the poor can’t afford to be thrifty.”

So anyways if you’re poor you probably already knew this but if you grew up lower to central middle class like I did you might not. And you might’ve wondered why people often get so mad in the comments of those videos that claim to make meals that cost less than a dollar. It’s because that bulk bag of rice from Costco you’re pulling from costs way more than a dollar and those videos don’t take that into account. They assume that everyone watching can afford to be thrifty.

[cvntyblogger]

relationships with ur parents are so weird, arent they? like... i hate you for what you did, i love you because you bring me soup when im sick. i want to get away from you. i feel safe with you. i want to run away from you. i want your hugs. i wish you understood me. i wish i understood you.

[glintglimmergleam]

absolutely maddening that the conversation about 2021 underemployment ("i have so many openings at my business!! why is no one applying?!?") is all about low wages.

yes of course you ought to offer a living wage. but unpredictable schedules, no sick leave or vacation, no health insurance, all of that matters too. a lot more than people realize.

raising salaries is necessary but not sufficient

[guerrillatech]