ASKS AND SUBMISSION ARE CLOSED. I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE ASKING ME F

READ MY FUCKING PINNED POST FIRST IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEND ME A GODDAMN ASK ABOUT SPREADING INFO FOR GAZA. I AM TIRED OF IT. Pisces // 29 // genderfluid // artist // pansexual

[the-trustingguard]

I'm tired of these asks, buuuut

If Anyone is coming in here asking me to spread donations for the situation in Gaza: DON'T. i don't want to be rude or anything: But my mental health is SHIT, my paychecks are already going to helping pay for my own home (along with my mom and older sister paying alongside with me, but this is including mortgage, water/gas/cell bills/internet/car payments/food, ect. )

I'm TIRED of getting asked near daily. I'm barely making enough for me to pay off my OWN hospital bills from LAST YEAR, and still having to delay doctor's appointments (i have a foot injury that hasn't recovered since APRIL bc of this)/dentist appointments (i need so many teeth just straight REPLACED, not filled in or have crowns, like i need legit taken out, and replaced with false teeth) - so my life is SHIT rn, and i'm struggling with being able to afford anything personal for myself at the end of the day (i'm left with barely $50 to myself after *everything* for TWO WEEKS until my next paycheck) So yeah, PLEASE STOP with those asks, I CANNOT afford to donate/make a post about it/check the actuality of the donations for being actual donation posts WITHOUT risking my own health any further. LET ME ADD ONTO THIS:

ANY FUCKING ASKS ABOUT DONATIONS CAN KINDLY FUCK OFF.

[robs-your-robins]

I've talked about the Robins and their relationship with Two Face, Ra's, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze and The Riddler. But I was also asked about how the Robins are treated by Catwoman on patrol (@lost-my-gender-in-the-war) and I always chuckle over it because there are so many relationships at play here: dad's girlfriend, possible mother figure, cat burglar, uncertain ally, nice lady you sometimes meet in the kitchen in the early hours.

Dick: *tugging Selina's sleeve*

Catwoman, startled: Jesus, kid, what the hell are you?

Dick, grinning and so proud he looks likes he's about to burst: I'm Robin.

Catwoman, confused as fuck: Ah...

Dick: Are you Batman's girlfriend?

Catwoman: Um

Dick: Because I met his other girlfriend the other night-

Catwoman: His what now?

Dick: I just want to say that she's not as cool as you. I mean she's a really pretty lady and she gave me a soda when I got up to get water but she's not a superhero like you.

Catwoman, vividly recalling her last date night at Bruce Wayne's Manor and Bruce's kid appearing behind her in the kitchen asking for water: Oh, you don't say. Tell me, where is your dad now?

Dick: *motioning behind him*

Catwoman: Why don't you tell him that I'm going to rob the Museum in five minutes? Tell him that it might he best if you headed home for that night.

Dick: Why?

Catwoman: Oh, Batman and I are going to have to... Um, talk this out. May take a while. Besides, you got school tomorrow, don't you?

Catwoman: And then he's all like, I can save you.

12 yo Jason, dragging a drag of a cigarette: Yeah, dumb 1-percenters.

Catwoman: See you get it.

Jason: I mean he's always on my back about putting Robin before my studies. Just because I'm from Crime Allwy doesn't mean I can't multi-task. Besides, it's 6th grade. So-

Catwoman: 6th Grade?

Jason:

Catwoman, yanking the cigarette out of his mouth that she totally gave him: Why can't that man make age appropriate friends?

Catwoman: Robin, you're too late. That diamond is-

Tim: Yeah, Batman's got it. No, what I want to address is your thievery of my Captain Crunch on your last booty call with my father.

Catwoman:

Tim: Oh, what? Cat got your tongue? It was the last bowl.

Catwoman: Batman, you motherfucker.

Bruce, literally chilling on a high rise: What?

Catwoman, gesturing to Steph who is holding her hand: The first female Robin and you make her feel like shit? What's the matter with you?

Bruce, hurt: Catwoman, baby, I-

Catwoman: She gets a new costume. She gets all the gadgets the boys got. And she gets to drive the Batmobile. And you know what will happen if any of these terms aren't met.

Bruce:

Bruce: Yes, dear.

Steph, later: You didn't have to go that hard, Selina.

Catwoman: Maybe but sometimes you have to keep men on their toes do they know the consequences of fucking with you. You have to remind them that you aren't a commodity or luxury or anything they can brush off. You are a person.

Steph: *nodding*

Catwoman: *admiring her new tennis bracelet*

Damian: I understand you are in a complicated sexual liason with my father from time to time but please understand this in no way entitles you to act in a mothering capacity.

Catwoman: Understood.

*enters kitten*

Damian, completely in love: Who is this alrajul alsaghir?

Catwoman: I haven't named him yet. Do you want to keep him? I have a lot of cats and they need a good home.

Damian, cuddling the kitten: We can be acquaintances.

Catwoman, to herself: Scary assassin baby, evil personified? Hard nut to crack? My ass.

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[pyrrhiccomedy]

we're heading towards some record setting humidity this summer so JUST A REMINDER that if you're in any way prone to migraines, this weather is great at triggering them! Be EXTREMELY diligent about staying hydrated if you're going out, EVEN TO AN AIR CONDITIONED SPACE, and ESPECIALLY if you are drinking any alcohol at all! even a single glass of wine or a cocktail! You will feel fine for an hour or two but then you will NOT FEEL FINE. If you have a headache that isn't responding to painkillers and it gets noticeably worse when you move or change elevations (sitting to standing, not like, going to the mountains) then drink a full glass of water and go lie down in a cool, quiet, dark room until it passes! DO NOT LOOK AT A SCREEN UNTIL THE DANGER HAS PASSED. I know you're bored but it could be so much worse!

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I see this is going around again! Happy Migraine Season everybody! Remember to keep a damp washcloth in your freezer so that if you feel the migraine coming on you can lay down and press it against your forehead and temples to give yourself a better chance of ducking it before it's too late!

[literary-potato]

Also a reminder that for some folks, big changes in air pressure can also be a migraine trigger. So if you’re in an area that, like mine, is having a lot of really wild temperature swings (ie multiple very hot days that end abruptly with storms at which point it cools down a lot), might be a good idea to have your migraine remedies locked and loaded, because with migraines the sooner you intervene, the more likely it is you’ll avert the worst symptoms (and will need less medication to do so).

[the-trustingguard]

Also:

If you get headaches when the weather changes (I get barometric pressure headaches from storms rolling in)

Take medicine/do what you need to do *before* the storms roll in.

I had a headache for an entire day and took meds (just the migraine relief Tylenol) and did so before the storm came in, and made it much more bearable.

[jackalpants]

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Show your pride with our 25mm transgender pride flag pin badge. Perfect for wearing on your favourite denim jacket, back pack, or lanyard to

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[bad-love]

I just wanted to add this quote from the peppermint patty peanuts wiki page about Charles M. Schulz and his relationship with his gay cousin. The source here leads to a book that I did not read but the original source is Schulz's wife who confirmed this in an interview. If I can find the interview again I will link it here but uh. just in case someone tries to claim Schulz was a homophobe on this post again.

[quasi-normalcy]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ramshacklefey]

No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Yoga pants. Hmf.

[elodieunderglass]

people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.

From wicking up road salt.

[taibhsearachd]

The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.

[deathcomes4u]

I was there gandalf etcetc but on a different tangent...

Ima need the young people to look up the proper names for their pant cuts, because I don't think they MAKE yoga pants with bell bottom cuts.

However big you think bell bottoms are, you are wrong. These were all Bootcut or Flares. I know this because I wore them, and I look for bootcut/flare ALWAYS because they flatter my figure the best. As they are not very in fashion right now, this is difficult.

I also still have to roll up the ends of said pants because I am not tall enough for the size jeans I have to get, and as most medium to short but quite fat peop know, for some reason the clothing companies decide if the waist is bigger, the leg needs to be taller, and scale them as such. So we all have jeans this fucking long all the time.

However they are made with elastic materials now, so no, they do not wick the same way (thankfully).

Anyway have a quick guide:

This shit is Bootleg and Flare. Difference is subtle. Bootlegs are usually the most conservative, closest to the leg, Flares will hug to the knee and then... well... flare. And the flare can get really big and wavey, but it's still a flare if it cinches at the knee.

first 2 count as Bootcut (yeah even the one with the little split), third is Flare, fourth is a more conservative Flare but could probably get labelled Bootcut.

AND THIS

IS BELLBOTTOMS.

This isn't a vintage pair, but it's true to authentic 70's sizes. These were based off Sailor's pants, they typically hug at the hips and sometimes tops of the thighs, and then they just keep widening out from there. And if they are not in a stiff enough fabric to create that bell shape, they are not generally called Bellbottoms. They will fall differently and have a different name.

[evegwood]

Red Wolf on the Virtue Express was written by Lin Darrow and created in 2019 for Moonlight: a Queer Werewolf Anthology, published by McKay & Grey Publications.

[robs-your-robins]

I always imagine, Bruce being Bruce, having a folder somewhere that's shelved with some benign files that was written to be a guide on how to handle a sidekick and Bruce's diaries about the Robins but it basically a How to Care for the Robins Guide. Because let's face it, Bruce couldn't live in a world where he hadn't outlined for a plan for his babies.

Talkative Robins can compromise stealth and covert surveillances ops. Robins can be soothed with lollipops or hard candy. Ensure that Robin knows that it should be abandoned when and if there is movement.

Robins should be held always by their hands when crossing streets and never by their capes when jumping. Though capes are reinforced to hold their weight and more, safety protocols require you to grab them by hand or ankle.

Robins sometimes have the habit of being distracted. There is many ways to keep Robin on track: a gentle tap with two fingers on their shoulder or glove works the best. Always remind them of the objective of the mission.

Robins are priority. They are first protected in the field if things go awry. If a Robin is injured, it is imperative that you stay with them and get them to safety. You can always find the target again, you cannot replace your Robin.

Robins are not permitted to fly with Superman and Wonder Woman, to go running with the Flash or transport via Green Lantern magic without the necessary training. See Article 78, sub-section 346.

Robins are expected to maintain cool heads and diplomacy when dealing with the public and law enforcement. It is understandable when Robins get heated in troubled times but Robins need to be reminded sometimes that some words and phrases are not approved. This is actionable through the use of the swear jar or the deployment of Agent A or five minutes detention beneath the cape.

Speaking on capes, the use of the Bat's cape is both an area for Robins to shield themselves against adverse weather, prying eyes and also can be used for misbehaving or emotional Robins.

When Robins are faced with gory sights, which you must attempt to prevent by always entering a location firs, it is Batman's job to avert their gaze or find a way to get them away. Robins can be sent to a secondary location. But it is imperative to sit down afterwards, to discuss and allow them emote fears and feelings.

Robins' needs should be met swiftly. Robins should not consume sugar in any form before patrol. Sugary snacks and energy drinks are prohibited. However, always stock the means of feeding and hydrating your Robin within a mile to mile radius of your location. When Robins are cold, warm them. When they are hungry or thirsty, watch over them as they sate themselves. When they are scared, comfort them. You are nothing without your Robin.

Sick and injured Robins will want to go on patrol. They worry about letting you down. Do not let them. They are just kids. Let them rest, stay in with them. Ice cream and some movies wouldn't hurt. Robins come first.

And I imagine Dick finding it shortly after donning the cowl and spending hours leafing through it, reading the words through tears because Bruce made sure somebody could understand how to keep the magic of Robin alive.

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[academic-sword]

Me and my delusions about Jason and Tim being the greatest brothers duo are being fed by "Knight Terrors: Robin"

(spoilers)

This is my favourite panel in the world

They're both trapped in a nightmare, Jason's is dying alone (again), Tim's is failing everyone

After Tim convinces Jason he doesn't have to be alone, Jay decides to wait for back up instead of fighting back

After they're out of the nightmare, Jason decides to call for back up in the real world, and Tim rushes to his side

I also think Jason deliberately switching between saying "Robin" (to let him know that he deserves the mantle) and "Tim" (to establish a more personal connection) is very neat

Conclusion:

They're brothers and I'm obsessed with them

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe give me the strength to clean my room

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe PLEASE

[passion-of-l0vers]

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

thank you so much this is the highest compliment

[tintheelvenking]

OP did a lovely job with this piece. The pose they picked is a difficult one to do correctly and dynamically- the doubling over is hard to illustrate without making it look weird or poorly drawn, the low seat of the “pelvis” making the figure dip down lower (to emphasize the clutching motion of the hands) is a hard perspective to imagine without a reference. I liked the way OP chose to draw the shoulders, evoking both the hunching of shoulders that would be present in a fleshier painting and drawing out the strong, dynamic curve of the body.

The blood, the desperate clutch, the crying and the pose all suggest something religious, making the post all the more impactful with its drawing- The caramel frappe does not answer the subject, just as God does not answer the subjects of paintings who depicted the same theme.

It’s also intriguing where OP chose to put details. In amostly minimalist creation, the (relatively) detailed frappe, hands, and face guides your eyes in a a dynamic way- from the frappe to the face, then follows the line of the body out to the end of the legs- making the art more interesting to the eye.

I have a theory about the colors that I’m not sure is true, but I think the subject being black and white separates it from the frappe, which is fully colored. The blood, neither frappe nor person colored, acts as a connector between the two– the only ways the two subjects can connect are through touch and sight, both of which causes the human subject pain. Then again, I may be reading into things too much idk

[passion-of-l0vers]

okay this is my favorite comment on this entire post

[sirfrogsworth]

People are roasting this person for asking a dumb question. But I think this is a valid query and the answer is actually pretty cool.

Unfortunately, you usually get a response like this.

This is accurate. But not very explanatory. "It's how light works" just feels a bit condescending.

We need to Bill Nye this shit.

The first thing you need to know is that light competes with light. And the brightest light is always the victor.

And this phenomenon is not specific to cameras. Our eyeballs also play in the light vs light competition.

Every person with a mobile phone has already seen this effect. What happens when you look at your phone on a really sunny day?

You can't see shit.

The sun is so overwhelmingly bright that it is reflecting light off the screen that is much brighter than the light being emitted from the phone.

However, newer phones are starting to have screens that are extremely bright. Up to 3000 nits in some cases. They are able to emit light brighter than the sun's reflection.

What happens to our eyes when we go outside on a sunny day?

Our pupils get as small as they possibly can. Smaller pupils let in a lot less light. And when they are that contracted, we can only register really really bright things.

But if we are in the dark, our pupils get super big. They allow in a bunch more light. And after we adjust to the dark, we can see really really dim things.

If our pupils stayed contracted and we looked at a starry sky, it would be as blank as the phone screen on a sunny day. You can even test this with an eye patch. Go into a very bright room and keep one eye covered for about 20 minutes. Then go outside and look at the sky with each eye. One eye will see stars and the other will not.

And this should give you a clue as to how light pollution works. Light bounces off stuff in the atmosphere. And when a city shoots a bunch of light upward, that light reflects back down and is much brighter than the stars.

The brightest light always wins.

Most stars are just incredibly dim. You need to be in a very dark environment in order to see them shine. You need them bigass pupils fully activated. And cameras need either a very large aperture (lens pupils), or a very long time interval to see them.

The sun is so so soooo bright. Many thousands of times brighter than distant stars. And the moon is also very bright. Especially if you are on or near the surface. The properties of moon dust, the regolith, are a near perfect diffuse reflector. Which is why astronauts struggled to see and photograph stars during their moon excursions.

If they opened up their camera apertures and did a long exposure, they'd just get a blank white frame.

There are dozens of photos in which that exact thing happened.

This is exactly what happens if you accidentally shine a flashlight directly into your eyes.

But if we ever have a moon mission during lunar night, those astronauts are in for a starry treat. They won't have any atmosphere to absorb starlight. So they'll be able to see the Milky Way, in all its glory, with just their naked eyes.

[hempseeeeds]

also, apparently, when you are at the bottom of a deep well during daytime, and the sun is NOT directly in line-of-sight over it, you CAN see the Stars.

[sirfrogsworth]

I really hope this doesn't come off as embarrassing, but this is actually a myth.

But it is a really cool ancient myth from one of Aristotle's essays written 2400 years ago.

And I think it is kind of neat that intellectuals from back then were trying to understand and figure out how light works. And it is impressive that a myth has lasted this long.

The problem is that the sky is a giant light source. A pretty bright one, in fact. People often forget that the sky is a giant hemisphere of scattered light because the sun is so overwhelming in comparison. It's just so much dimmer than the sun, it gets outshone on sunny days.

But you can see the sky being a light source on snowy days. If you look at photos of snow, you'll notice all the shadows are tinted blue.

That's the sky getting into the nooks and crannies where the sun don't shine.

So if you were deep in a well, you'd just see the blue sky.

HOWEVER, if you were to create a deep hole on the moon during lunar daytime, you could totally see stars. You'd be in a dark environment, your pupils would open up, there is no atmosphere to scatter light from the sun, and the glare of the surface wouldn't compete with the starlight.

Aristotle was on to something, he just chose the wrong celestial body.

[thefrogman]

Naomi is an anti-vaxx dipshit and not a great person.

But I think this question was asked in good faith and is also a perfectly valid query.

Moon nomenclature can be a bit confusing. People will reference the far side of the Moon and the dark side of the Moon and conflate the two.

From our perspective, there is a near side and a far side. The "near side" is always facing Earth. And people sometimes think the side facing away from us is also the "dark" side of the Moon.

But the far side is not always in darkness. Only when we see a full moon is it dark.

Astronomers have tried to update the terminology to lunar day and lunar night, but that hasn't really caught on as popular vernacular. It's hard to undo Pink Floyd's influence.

All of this is to say, it is easy for people to get confused about the far side of the Moon being illuminated by the Sun. It's quite common to imagine it as in perpetual darkness.

But lunar night is not completely in a void of darkness. The light from the universe does very dimly illuminate the lunar backside. And while traditional optics aren't easily able to see the Moon's butt, NASA does have a special UV camera that surveys the lunar night.

It's called the "Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project."

They love their clever acronyms.

I've seen people also confused about the lighting in this photo.

The Sun is directly behind the Moon, yet the left side seems to have light wrapping around to the lunar night side.

And the reason for this makes my light-loving heart full. Because light is light and it works the same way in space as it does in my studio.

This phenomenon is called "Da Vinci glow" or earthshine. The Sun is bouncing light off the Earth, and it is reflecting onto the side of the Moon. And even though it is usually too dim to see without a very long exposure, this eclipse was able to reveal it.

Here is what earthshine looks like to human eyes adjusted for darkness.

And here is a brightened, long exposure example.

It's literally just this on a cosmic scale...

There is also moonshine, which is more than just a legally dubious beverage.

You may have already seen an example.

The left is exposed as our eyeballs would see it. And the right is brightened with long exposure and a high gain setting.

The Sun is behind the Earth, but it is shining light off the Moon and giving very dim illumination to the night side.

The Moon is a big retroreflector. You have seen a different form of retroreflection when you are driving at night and the highway signs light up as you pass. Your headlights are shining directly back at you.

The special properties of Moon dust give it a near-perfect diffuse matte reflection. And when the Sun is in the right position, it acts similarly to our car headlights and the light shines back in our direction.

A studio reflector needs to be angled just right to shine the light exactly where you want it. The angle of the light is like a bumper shot in billiards.

The Moon scatters light in all directions like a typical matte surface.

However, a non-retroreflective matte reflection on a sphere typically has a bright center and then graduates into darkness around the edges. But the Moon's super matte retroreflection maintains brightness across almost the entire surface area.

So even though the Moon is quite small compared to the Earth, its regolith creates a powerful reflection of the Sun's light. You'd think a full moon would be twice as bright as a half moon, but this retroreflective surge makes the Moon roughly 10 times brighter.

If the Moon weren't such a dusty bitch, moonlight would be dimmer and that nighttime photo of the Earth may not have been possible.

[insertusernameici]

[unicornempire]

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

[theheroheart]

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

[jack-the-bear]

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

[lets-go-steal-an-ot3]

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

[mikkeneko]

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

[melyzard]

Reblogging for the website.

[nianeyna]

yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.

[bethanyactually]

RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!

Undue Medical Debt Homepage

Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

[prettycolors]