A while ago, I thought it would be a good idea to read ALL of the YCMAL ‘verse in chronological order. This didn’t happen, because I haven’t had that kind of time, but I’m happy to say it’s now at least possible!
This whole spreadsheet would have been impossible without @greenleaves-never, who was responsible for the beautiful timeline that kept me organized, and who was kind enough to let me use that timeline. 🙂
A few things to note:
This spreadsheet contains every main story chapter, placed to the best of my ability. I’m sure there are mistakes, but I’ve also included some brief notes explaining the placement of some chapters.
Other than YCMAL itself, this timeline doesn’t have any paid content (so no Patreon-exclusive or Kickstarter-exclusive stories).
This guide contains some (but not all) outtakes. If I can find exactly where they’re meant to go in the timeline, I’ll add them, but there are a lot of them and they’re low-priority. These are all greyed out; there are still links, but they’re not necessary if you just want the main story experience.
Professional hockey players eat 5000-6000 calories per day.
Carbs for energy. So many carbs. Protein for muscle-repair. 12 oz. steaks for breakfast. Six meals a day. Eating even when you’re not hungry, because you must.
Probably not candy or greasy fast food, but fat is fine. Fat is great. Fat is calories. Fat-free yogurt and delicate egg white omelets have no place in this diet.
Bitty comes home from the farmers’ market flushed with success. “I bought a cow,” he announces. Jack peers over the back of the couch, struck, momentarily, with a vision of Bitty coaxing a Jersey cow on a rope through the kitchen door. Perhaps it could live in the guest room?
“That’s, uh,” says Jack. “That’s good?”
“She’s currently an adorable moppet’s 4H project, but she’ll be butchered in June, and delivered in boxes, so I have to go shopping for a chest freezer next weekend. Summer project: I’m going to learn how to make sausage! And you, Mister Calder Memorial—” Bitty points both index fingers at Jack and beams like a maniac, “are going to eat even more protein!”
…bitty, who shows love by feeding people southern home cooking….and jack, who has to eat 5000+ calories a day…the ultimate power couple honestly
Honestly my favorite part of this post tho is the idea that Jack was totally prepared to accept that a live cow was going to be living in his guest room.
hartbeat (gay black woman, makes vlogs and sketches, you might recognise her from that gifset where she wore watermelons and danced)
ash hardell (nb bisexual, makes videos about lgbt+ education)
dodie clark (bisexual, queen of music on youtube, you’ve probably heard ‘she’ and ‘sick of losing soulmates’ already, just a wonderful person tbh)
riley j dennis (lesbian trans/nb woman, makes social justice videos, trans lesbian sex education, she gets a lot of hate though so seriously send her a nice message if you like her vids)
neonfiona (bisexual, makes vlogs about both serious and light hearted topics, dating riley dennis and they’re so fucking cute)
missfender (bisexual, has a satirical ‘i don’t bi it’ series, super funny and cute)
thomas sanders (gay, former viner, makes short sketches and cute stuff)
hannah hart (lesbian cutie of youtube, makes videos of her getting drunk and cooking badly, wonderful person)
ingrid nilsen (lesbian/queer woman, makeup guru, lots of vlogs about being femme)
jordan shalhoub (bisexual woman, makes videos about fitness and health, you probably recognise her from buzzfeed)
kat blaque (black trans woman, makes videos about feminism and racism)
maggie mcgill (lesbian, reviews plus-sized clothing, vlogs about gay stuff sometimes but its not the focus of her channel)
marina watanabe (bisexual woc, makes vlogs about racism, feminism, lgbt+ issues)
miles chronicles (trans guy, you probably know him already, soo many videos about memes)
kaitlyn alexander (nb person, queer, does covers and original songs, vlogs about gay stuff and occasionally does lets plays, you probably recognise her as lafontaine in carmilla)
rose and rosie (lets be real you know exactly who they are lol)
this list is already amazing as it is, but hey, a few more names wouldn’t hurt anybody:
alex bertie (trans guy, also makes videos about his transition, has some fun videos with his partner jake edwards, a great and fun guy)
shannon beveridge (lesbian, you probably know her, she is funny and makes amazing videos about being a wlw and just other great, fun content)
mitch & scott (they are the guys from Pentatonix, I am not sure if scott is bi or gay but he is definitely queer, and mitch is gay, they are amazing singers, and they make funny videos)
mandi & tara (both lesbians, married, it is a family channel, they have a daughter called Lennon Ray, 2 dogs, and they are gonna have twin girls in a few months, they are really cute family vloggers)
domo & chrissy (married, woc, have a kid, family vloggers, you probably know them already)
jamie raines (trans guy, makes videos about trans issues and also has videos with his fiancee Shaaba, they both are very cute and funny)
dulceida (hispanic vlogger, I don’t speak spanish so I can’t tell much actually lmao, but she is a beauty vlogger and sometimes makes videos with her wife Alba, they are really cute)
mosco moon (scottish vlogger, queer, makes great videos about everything scotland and has the cutest scottish accent)
I now know firsthand that going to a car dealership is…an experience.
I went going exactly what car I wanted and I imagine that if you don’t know that much it’ll be easier for a dealership to screw you over when you get there by feeding you misinformation about a car, manipulating you into buying a more expensive model, and etc.
I had already done all my research online so I knew what I wanted. Down to the color. (Green is my favorite color!)
So boyfriend and I went (I followed Tumblr’s advice about bringing a man lol). And I test drove the car and loved it just like I knew I would. And THEN the real dealership experience began.
The bottomline is that I knew my credit score and so I knew what kind of interest rate (APR) I should expect. I also knew the manufacturer price of the car (MSRP) and I knew how much they were selling for on average in my area ($3k less than MSRP).
So I knew what I was going to pay and I had already decided on that in my head.
So dealer #1 (a white guy–this is relevant to mention lol) brings back the first set of numbers. He cushions it with making small talk and flattering me on starting my PhD in August. He also chats up boyfriend.
The numbers were bad. I could tell looking at it. Although they didn’t say the APR, I knew that my monthly rate shouldn’t be that high based on the number of months I’d be paying it. Also they only gave me $2k off MSRP.
I noted that the sticker price was too high because I can go to another dealer and get it cheaper and they knocked off another $1k.
And then I asked him what the APR was. He was very evasive and kept telling me to look at the monthly payments because that’s what “really matters.” No, what really matters is what I’m paying for the car overall which is the sticker price + state fees (unavoidable) + interest rate.
Dealer #1 finally told me the APR and it was 3x the rate I knew I was eligible for. I told him that’s not gonna work. He turned aggressive and said that I’m a first time buyer and I can’t expect better and that I’m being unrealistic to expect a lower rate and etc etc.
So I said that my bank quoted me a rate half that much and I’ll just go through them and buy later (at a different dealer). Because I want the car but there’s 2 other places I can go to get it in my area.
Then all of a sudden dealer #1 could get me a better APR. His next offer was 2x what I wanted to pay. I said nah that good enough.
Then they brought out dealer #2, who was a Black guy. He didn’t sit down and instantly start talking about the price. He said a bunch of small talk and said some stuff about being Black lol. Tryna be chummy chummy and connect with us on a racial level.
Then he tried to push the same numbers as dealer #1. I said I know I’m young and I don’t have a math background but you’re charging me way too much for this car and I’m not going to buy it at that price. Period. I said: get the APR down and I’ll buy the car. He kept telling me it wasn’t possible and I said okay…I won’t buy it.
But then he was like wait…lemme run the numbers. And ta da! He came back with the right APR. Also zero down. And payments lower than my target.
This whole process took 5 hours.
Moral of the story:
– know as much as you can before going to a dealership so you can focus on the numbers
– know your credit score so you know what your APR should be
– get approved through an independent bank for a loan so you have leverage to negotiate with a better rate from the dealer
– don’t focus on monthly payments. Times that by the amount of months so you know what you’re REALLY paying
– threaten to walk because stuff magically happens at dealerships when you do lol
This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
I know resources like this are often not directed towards poor white people (especially significantly disabled people, who are excluded from most of the advice here by default), but things like this are what we need more discussions of, not hearing the five millionth excuse for poor white people denying their white privilege and being racists.
And I know I often have complicated feelings about my own identity and racial ancestry but I could use resources like that too, because socially I am benefiting from systemic racism against others, including those of my own family who didn’t move towards white assimilation as much (this shit can be complicated for people with mixed ancestry).
But there’s so little of that discussion, particularly if you’re like me and you’re too disabled to do most standard “activist” stuff. I know articles like this one exist, but they are few and far between.
We do need to be discussing what we can do to work towards real and substantial racial justice, reparations, reconciliation, decolonizing, etc. instead of trying to excuse ourselves and others for our roles in this system. And I know I’m not perfect on this front myself and that we have a long way to go in trying to build this, and I often don’t know what my role could be based on where I am now, but if we never even start trying we’ll never get anywhere better.
boosting this because it’s important
this is wonderful.
it’s something i’ve wanted for the longest time. i’ve been afraid to even ask, “is there anything a white person can do to help, though” because just phrasing the question sounds entitled. but the fact is, there’s a huge resource of people who want to help in the fight against racism, not out of ‘white guilt’ but because human beings are basically cooperative by nature. i’ve wanted to say, “use us! give us a to-do list!” because all i ever saw was don’ts, and some of them conflicting – like whether or not to go to BLM protests, for instance. i saw people being scathing about the women’s march on washington because “oh yeah white people will turn out in pink hats but where are they when cops shoot kids” and i’ve seen people being scathing about whites showing up to BLM marches “like they expect a cookie.” that doesn’t exactly give a person confidence as to what action would be helpful, you know?
i’m not assuming this site is definitive or that everyone agrees about the actions listed. but it’s early days yet. what makes it a !!! moment for me is just that actions are being listed at all.
yes, i will do as many of these things as i can do. thank you. i’m in.
A NYC grad student working on food stamps for her thesis has released a free cookbook for those living on $4/day.
SIG NAL BOO OO OO OOOST
hello
oooooh this is so nice!
I believe it’s important to eat well, even when you’re strapped for cash. It’s good for your health and energy! This cookbook is full of delicious and healthy recipes, the ingredients of which are fairly inexpensive.
I ACKNOWLEDGE THIS WOMAN AS A FELLOW WARRIOR AND A FANTASTIC HUMAN BEING.
Boost so hard. Feeding yourself well is a challenge when you”ve got little income
I HAVE BEEN USING THIS COOKBOOK FOR MONTHS AND IT’S AMAZING 100/10 RECOMMENDING EVERYWHERE
(just to give you an idea, my food budget is 30 euro/week at most [about $38] and I have to maintain a healthy diet due to weird medication side-effects and yeah, basically this book is a lifesaver if you’re broke but need to watch what you’re eating)
Reblog to save a life. Because it’s easy to find food for $4/day, but most of it tends to be garden variety junkfood
(The pdf is free, I repeat, the pdf is free)
And yeah, even if you’re not going to use 90% of the recipes, it’s always good to have spare recipe reference points. To quote a dear departed Portland television pitchman, “Free is a very good price.”
If you can afford to buy it, I urge you to do so! It’s a great cookbook with great pictures and it’s important to support the author! (If you can!) 🙂
We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.
We are sorry if you don’t
fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America)
once this lady spilled her McDonald’s coffee on herself and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn’t know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald’s for $1 million
That’s what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald’s in question had previously been cited – on at least two separate occasions – for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn’t win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid; she won it because the McDonald’s she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time of the incident.
(I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve “full thickness” tissue damage; we’re talking bone-deep, with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?)
Yeah I’m tired of people joking about either the “stupid” woman who didn’t know coffee was hot or the “greedy” woman making up bullshit to get money.
She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.
So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. “The label SAID it would be HOT, STUPID.”
obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case
obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement
it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing
watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why everything you think you know about this case is bullshit, and explains why tort reform is bullshit in an entertaining and informative manner
The woman injured in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third-degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs, buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body’s surface. These injuries that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts; during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight.
She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.
The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.
Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.
The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation-happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It’s an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a burn victim’s suffering into a throwaway punchline.
During my first month with my therapist, I was given this worksheet to read and work on. She noticed that while I was talking with her, that my thoughts followed a lot of these. I wasn’t aware that my anxiety had brought me down paths of low self-worth and stinky thinking.
After a couple of weeks of talking with her, she gave me this worksheet to work on.
While, at first, I thought these weren’t going to work out, I was very surprised to see just how easy they were to use . My homework at that time was to identify which sort of thinking I used on the regular and which ones would best challenge them for me.
So, what do you think? Do any of the maladaptive thinking patterns sound like you? which ways would you like to untwist your thinking?
just moving along like everyone else 