Vixen-fox-kitsune - Otaku Out Of The Closest

During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

Reblog If You Can Take Off Your Bra Without Taking Your Shirt Off.

this one is going out to all the fandoms who are on this site.

Verizon bought Tumblr, and is censoring Net Neutrality posts.

But this post is not on the net neutrality tag

Your site, your blogs, are under the dominion of the enemy.

don’t let them take what is rightfully ours!

At this point, Ajit Pai, the FCC, and service providers such as Comcast and Verizon are openly, brazenly ignoring the will of the American people, and are in the process of making laws which will damage the quality of life, and in many cases the livelihoods, of people and businesses across the nation.

Though Ajit Pai was appointed by the President of the United States by legitimate means, he has shown that he is in spirit an enemy of the people he is supposed to represent, and a traitor to the United States government, as are those in Congress who side with him. The government must serve the people because the people are the basis of the government’s authority, and those members of it who refuse to do so are by definition traitors, enemies. What has been given can, and indeed must, be taken away.

There will be a reckoning.

And the service providers, they will not be safe.

megamind is… autistic