fullpraxisnow:

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

leftboob-enthusiast:

Like no offense to my friends and family but if I had the chance to abandon this timeline for a medieval fantasy land I would absolutely do it, goodbye student loans and depression hello cool magic shit and most likely an early death by the sword (as it should be)

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

histrionicintrovert:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

well maybe if adoption was more accessible to single parents and lesbian couples, witches wouldn’t have to go haggling for people’s firstborns

ironically all the people I’ve heard of who’ve been out here stealing people’s firstborns are evangelical Christians and border agents, while the witches and queer people I know oppose stealing children

holy shit