Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.
Jessica Soffer (via writingquotes)
Broke af?
But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?
Let me tell you a thing.
This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then.
This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together.
AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing.
You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already.
Here’s her list of kitchen basics.
Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic.
Make your own pasta–gluten free.
She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.
Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section.
She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days.
Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling.
Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.
I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that.
If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this.
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She’s amazing. She even argues with UK politicians
Getting salt from gamer boys in my inbox.
Listen up turd turrets, I WANTED to just play video games, I WANTED to just have fun, I NEVER wanted my gaming to be political or a struggle, I just wanted to play.
But you wouldn’t fucking let me, you brought up my gender, you judged me based on it, YOU made it political.
So now I WILL wreck everything with my fucking feminism, I am the feminist nightmare you fucking created.
Witness me.
Ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
Here’s the thing I will never get: I gather most of the guys heading up the abuse of women in gaming are straight. Why don’t they WANT more women in gaming? Like, if you’re straight, and you’re a super hardcore gamer, wouldn’t women taking an interest in video games be the most awesome thing ever? WTF?
Remember that John Green thing about how being a nerd is about being able to unabashedly, unironically LIKE stuff and be EXCITED about stuff? I think that was one of the best things he’s said, and it’s one of my favourite things about geek culture – the idea of just being super into stuff, wholeheartedly and excitedly, whatever it is.
Part of being excited about your stuff should be being excited to find other people who are also excited about the same stuff, so you can share your excitement.
Have you ever seen one of those videos of people having a Star Wars wedding or something like that and thought, “Wow, that’s cool, they totally committed to their thing.” That doesn’t happen if one of them gets all, ‘Oh, so you like Star Wars, eh? I bet you don’t even have a B’Omarr Monk action figure still in the original shipping box.’ ” And it certainly doesn’t happen if one of them is all, “HA HA HA HA HA I HOPE YOU GET RAPED!!!” No, it happens when they’re both like, “OMG YOU LIKE STAR WARS I LIKE STAR WARS TOO LETS MARATHON THEM ALL THIS WEEKEND AND WE CAN GET INTO A HUGE DEBATE OVER WHETHER OR NOT R5-D4 REALLY HAD A BAD MOTIVATOR OR WHETHER IT WAS SABOTAGE!!!” And then they get to live the life.
So what the fuck?
See also that study I reblogged a little bit ago about how it’s the lower-performing male gamers who mostly abuse female gamers.
you know when youre watching a tv show and you feel like youre coming to a part that youve seen gifs of on tumblr and it gives you a rush of excitement like oh boy this is what we trained for
So today in German class we read a text about the romantic era. It started with these words:
What’s romantic? Is it intimate togetherness by candlelight in a well-tended restaurant? (…)
And I was like:
Yes…
I think that’s…
Pretty romantic
