I Want To Preface This By Saying This Is Not Victim Blaming. This Not Calling People Online Lazy Or Grifting

I want to preface this by saying this is not victim blaming. This not calling people online lazy or grifting or whatever.

But an underlooked proponent on why some people are nearing homeless and crowdfunding heavily rn is bc society has failed you by making it as inconvenient as possible to learn about social systems and programs that already exist to help your situation as well as not having enough programs and aid.

Lemme give some examples. I have been unemployed for 10 months. My mom told me about a paying job training program a month ago after I already decided to mive in with her to find work, because nothing was coming up in my own city. My best friend didn’t know about affordable housing assistance in my state until she talked to my dad about it on a chance encounter. Some people on here have to see posts about much cheaper alternatives to their current prescriptions or medical plans because its not in the interest of their doctors paychecks to tell them about it. I would have waited to get vaccinated and not have crowdfunded for Uber money if I had known they were going to give free vaccine rides the next month. But I wouldn’t have really known this until I opened the app once that program started, because it is in their interest to keep taking my money until its their desired time for me to reap their “generous” services.

What I’m trying to say is that this is an under discussed aspect of how capitalism fails people. When you are forced to make your life and work and finances so singular and self interested, you are cut off from community and equivalent social services to proper government assistance. You literally don’t know that there is help somewhere out there for you unless you’re told.

Wintarmanoth Claire is so flipping cute! and traumatized, is there a possibility we could see what she looks like in First Frost for comparison?

Sure!

Breathing Underwater by Hot Milk

new ask game: what’s the character archetype that makes you go “of course you would say that” when i post about it?

Re: You know exactly what I am gonna say, but: came back wrong and any variation upon it, especially mixed in with haunting the narrative sauce. I see you. I know what you are.

That tracks, but the premise! You see the vision, the intrigue of coming back wrong, of haunting the narrative even while alive, of being forever changed by an unimaginable experience, having people that would go to hell just to bring someone they care about back. Even if they’re changed and just a tiny bit wrong, it’s okay they’ll love them regardless.