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Me: Why is starting a fic so haaaard?
Also Me: Why is continuing a fic so haaaard?
Still Me: Why is ending a fic so haaaard?
WHEN WATSON COCKS HIS GUN REBLOG IF YOU AGREE
What about the person at the grocery checkout line paying with food stamps, while ignoring the cashier because she’s on her iPhone? should you be able to get on welfare if you can afford an iPhone 6?
well for one you’re assuming that a cell phone is a luxury. My house hasn’t had a landline since I was 14 because it was less expensive for my mom to have a cell phone. It’s still less expensive per month for my mom and I to have cell phones and internet than to have a landline and internet. Also, for a working parent to not have a cell phone is ridiculous. How else is their child supposed to get ahold of them reliably during commutes??
secondly, do you realize how inexpensive it actually is to get an iPhone?? I’ve had two different ones over the years (a 4 and a 5C) and they were 100% free with my contract renewal. I’m planning on getting a 6 in the fall with my rewnewal for… you guessed it 100% free. A lot of jobs have discount purchase programs for employees or even gift their employees a work phone.
You also have no right to say what somebody is allowed to spend their expendable resources on. They might have saved up for months and months to afford the phone. They might have scraped together every last penny after bills and rent and groceries, skipping a dinner with a close friend, not replacing their worn shoes, to save up for this one thing that they really wanted. Why? Because people like you make needing help a shameful thing so they might want to hide behind a symbol of wealth so they don’t have to find out which of their friends would laugh at them if they found out (which has happened to me). Or, maybe, just maybe, because absolutely everybody deserves to have nice things that make them feel good about themselves and if its a phone then so be it.
And other thing: do you know what is a really practical gift for an older parent to give their struggling adult child? A reliable cell phone. Say what you want about Apple but they’re pretty reliable (if you don’t drop them).
You are judging people based on superficial details without knowing their stories.
Church Grim
The Church Grim (variations include: Kyrkogrimen (Swedish), Kirk Grim, and Kirkonväki (Finnish) is a figure in English and Scandinavian folklore and legend, said to be a spirit protecting and overseeing a particular church.
- They are said to enjoy loudly ringing the bells.
- They may appear as black dogs, or small, misshapen, dark-skinned people.
- In Sweden, they are said to be spirits of animals sacrificed by early Christians at the building of a new church.
- In Scandinavia, they may also appear as pale-skinned ‘ghosts’.
The dog was often seen on stormy nights and was regarded as a portent of death.
It was believed that the first man to be buried in the church had to guard it against the Devil. To save a human soul from that duty, a black dog would be buried alive in the north side of the churchyard, creating a guardian spirit (the Church Grim), in order to protect the church.
The church grim could also work as a death omen, tolling the church bell at midnight when a prominent member of the local community was near death. According to some stories, the church grim might also be seen at a funeral, looking out of the church tower in its dog form. The officiating priest might be able to judge by its expression and behaviour which way the deceased was going in the next world.
