But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that thereâs a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young sonâŚon 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?
Let me tell you a thing.
This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and thatâs it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then.Â
This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didnât have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together.Â
AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing.Â
You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already.Â
Bake your own bread. Itâs easier than you think. Hereâs a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic.Â
She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called âLiving Below the Lineâ where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days.Â
Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and thatâs a fabulous feeling.Â
Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. Thatâs your super emergency money. Make sure they donât charge by the month for lack of use, though.
I donât care if it sounds like an advertisementâyou wonât be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical healthâand dammit, foodâs right in the center of that.Â
If you donât need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this.Â
Reblogging for all the impoverished students. Jack is the breadline queen. And if you donât need this – donate to your nearest food bank, stat.
Reblogging for students, working folks, and everyone whoâs ever had to choose between essentials at the store because you can only afford milk OR bread, not both.
So you want to make an OC?: A Masterpost of Ways to Create, Develop, and Make Good OCs!
i made this masterpost in hopes that it helps you in making your own OCs ah;; it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! if youâd like to add more resources then go for it sugar pea (´ăŽ`)!
i hope youre all lying and hyping your cv/resumeâs up
i have never gotten an interview and not been offered a job position after it
I mean lets be honest if everyone else is gassing theirs up like no tomorrow and youâre being as honest as you can who th are the recruitment team going to be more interested in
Thereâs people working in my banks head office with me WITH MUCH MORE EXPERIENCE than me BUT ARE GETTING PAID LESS
weâre doing the exact same job role
the point Iâm trying to make here is if youâve handled finances for a company youâre now what i would call a treasurer my g, if youâve done admin work you are now a secretary (or as Iâve put Management secretary)
you help some kid with his homework? youâre a private tutor.
keep your bullets points for the job role as concise and important sounding as possible AND ALWAYS EMPHASIS THAT YOURE A TEAM PLAYER IF YOURE GOING TO WORK IN A TEAM.
go into that interview room and get your story straight the night before and remember that interviews are two way conversatons yes they might be grilling you but at the end of it make sure to grill them BACK. do you have any hesitations about my qualifications? my suitability for the job? any feedback on my cv? how long have you been working at this company? do you like it here? whats the work environment like?
I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS GET THE SAME FEEDBACK WHEN THEY GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH ME
âive never been asked those questions beforeâ / âyou were one of the strongest candidatesâ
throughout the interview emphasise that youre about progression, that you want more responsibilities than you did at your previous job, tell them the hours here are more suitable for me than my last ones were, AND WHEN IT COMES TO SALARY NEGOTIATION its all about continuity. tell them again that it boils down to progression. make up a reasonable figure for how much you were paid in your last role (do your research for how much the industry youre applying to or the role youre applying for pays, base it on that) tell them you expect more than you were previously paid. do not give them a figure. progression is your primary focus, tell them if youre progressing youre happy. leave it at that.
LIE THROUGH YOUR TEETH AND GET THAT MONEY
I had an interview yesterday, at the place Iâve been temping, where I busted out the âis there anything about my skills or background that makes you concerned about my fit for this jobâ question for the first time.
Neither of my supervisors had never gotten it before either. They had to think for a while, and then it turned into them telling me how great I am and what they love about me.
This stuff is real. I would also say: none of it is lying. This is taking experience that you normally downplay and write off, and putting it in accurate words theyâll understand.
Itâs hacking the capitalist system. Why ISNâT helping a kid with homework âtutoringâ, when the only thing missing is a paycheck?
Itâs especially important for anyone who isnât a cis white man, because many of us are so thoroughly trained to feel like we are not good enough.
Privilege tells people they can fake it, and that theyâre good enough just as people and can learn the skills on the job. Abuse and oppression tell people they arenât good enough as people and that even their high skills are probably below average, and that unless they had the specific job title or were using certain skills officially, nobody will think it counts.
The goal is to at least fake the confidence of a privileged person, to give the employer a chance at seeing the skills that youâve been trained to undervalue.
I would also say to answer any query of âHave you done [X small task] before?â with âI have, but itâs been a while.â Or, âI have, but it was a slightly different program.â
100% THEY WILL GLADLY WALK YOU THROUGH EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, and I stress âgladlyâ because claiming prior knowledge boosts their confidence in your abilities and any slips you make are already covered by your caveat.Â
blackstoic may have deactivated their account but this advice is fucking gold and all yâall looking for jobs or who think you might one day need to look for a new job PRINT THIS SHIT OUT AND STAPLE IT TO THE WALL.Â
YES, so i recently wrote a paper about jewish pirates and merchants for a thesis and used a shit ton of archive information and secondary sources (which are detailed below).
As we know, Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Some remained behind, known as conversos, who managed to hide their Judaism and remain behind. Others went into Calvinist Holland, but a majority of them went to Brazil, which was Portuguese-owned. The Jews there were known as marranos (pigs), but they were the first group to begin harvesting and collecting sugar by themselves. The marranos grew to have nearly 200 sugar plantations that they worked themselvesâ they traded with the Dutch, primarily. Sugar was hella expensive and Spain was hella jealous.Once the Iberian peninsula split (~1640s), Spain came in and took the land for themselves, either massacring or otherwise coercing the Jews to give up their Jewishness. They were kind of out of options, because Holland was engaged in war with Portugal and England was still not super friendly to the Jews, so they moved to the Caribbean.
Jews had been on Jamaica since about 1510, though they called themselves Portugals. They managed to get together a plea for England to get into Jamaica before Spain took it over, so Cromwell sent the English.
During the time in-between, Jews (Moses Cohen being the most famous Jewish pirate) roamed the seas with other âBrethren of the Coastâs. Because the Iberian diaspora had sent them all across the Old and New World, they had vast intelligence networks. Jewish merchants in Jamaica knew when ships in Spain were leaving, what they were carrying, and where they were going. Jewish pirates took revenge on the Spanish and, unlike the English, release the slaves from their bonds and either kept them on or took them to Haiti.
Jews are the best donât let anyone fucking tell you otherwise.
Regarding the Jewry, Hereby Expelled from Spain, 1492. trans. Aaron Marx, coll. Jacob Rader, The Jew in the Medieval World (Cincinatti: Hebrew Union College Text), 1999.
Amsterdam Jewryâs Successful Intercession for their Immigrants and Businessmen, January 1625, trans. Jacob Marcus, coll. The Jew in the Medieval World.
Blacker, Irwin. Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1596-1600. Vol 3.
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1661-1668. (National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England), 7/24/1667.
Taylor, John. Taylorâs History of his Life and Travels in America and other parts, with An Account with the most remarkable Transactions which Annuaille happened in his daies (1688), trans. John Robertson.
Ockley, Simon. The History of the Present Jews throughout the World, 1791, coll. Jacob Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World.
Secondary Sources
Davis, David. Inhuman Bondage (Oxford University Press: New York), 2006.
Finkelstein, Norman. The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World, (iUniverse: Nebraska), 2000.
Glitz, David. The Religion of the Crypto-Jews, (UONMP: Albuquerque), 2002.
Holzgerg, Carol. Minorities and Power in a Black Society: The Jewish Community of Jamaica, (Lanham: North-South Publishing), 1987.
Kritzler, Edward. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, (Anchor Books: New York), 2008.
Selzer, Michael. Kike! A Documentary History of Anti-Semitism in America (Oxford University Press: New York), 1972.
Taylor, S.A.G. The Western Design: An Account of Cromwellâs Expedition to the Caribbean (Kingston: Institute of Jamaica and Jamaican Historical Society), 1969.
Tolkowsky, Samuel. They Took to the Sea, (London: Thomas Yoseloff), 1964.
Zahedieh, Nuala. The Merchants of Port Royal, Jamaica, and the Spanish Contraband Trade 1655-1692Â (Leicester: Leicester University Press), 1978.
Youâre going to fucking stink to high heaven. Thatâs puberty. Get a good deodorant, shave your armpits or become a hermit. Even then, youâll still probably stink.
Right around 3-6 months on T, youâre going to be in itchy, unbearable agony as your new hair grows in. I scratched so badly that I had welts and blisters that scarred. Iâd scratch in my sleep. It never stopped. It was brutal. Hydrocortisone cream and anti-itch powders will help. Avoid having your skin damp for prolonged periods. Avoid excessive heat. Donât wear spandex. Compression clothing such as tight boxer-briefs or binders will make it worse. Crying like a little baby does not help, but you will doubtlessly try this, no matter how manly you think you are. We are all little babies during this time.
Binding causes scars under your arms and on your shoulders. It also causes acne. Cystic acne.
T promotes muscle growth and fat loss⌠and hunger. If you make bad food choices, you will gain weight, no matter how much you think T is a magic weight loss potion. It is not a magic weight loss potion. On that note, you will gain weight. Muscle weighs more than fat. I dropped 3 clothing sizes but gained 30 pounds in weight.Â
Your genitals will hurt. Your dick is going to rub against your underwear or packer if itâs not properly positioned under your skin. You will master the awkward cowboy walk to the bathroom to fix it in a way that draws the least attention. Crying like a little baby does not help, but you will probably do it anyway.
One day, youâre going to wake up and the first thing out of your mouth will sound so unrecognizable that you think youâve switched bodies with someone else. Itâll be like going from Avril Lavigne to Morgan Freeman overnight. At least, thatâs what it will feel like to you. Crying like a little baby is acceptable when this happens.
Everything causes acne. Even your acne meds. You canât fix it. All you can do is live with it until your hormones stop going haywire.
Some lucky transmen experience temporary uterine insanity. That is, your uterus goes insane and starts cramping randomly. Some endocrinologists theorize that itâs due to the muscles increasing in size from the testosterone so rapidly that they cut off their own blood supply. The pain level from this ranges from âa bear on PCP ate my toe offâ and âI just took a shotgun shell full of lemon and rock salt to my external genitalia.â Crying like a little baby does not fix it, but you will do it. You will probably have random bleeding, painful intercourse and lower body weakness. Go to your doctor. Get pain medication. Try to avoid getting addicted to the pain medication. Donât send nudes of yourself to Pizza Hut when high on the pain medication (as I have done).
Sometimes your voice will break completely in half and you can sing baritone AND soprano. This is great at parties. It gets even greater when youâre drunk.
Drinking before a blood test will mess up your results and may lead your endocrinologist to change your T dose when itâs not necessary.
100mg/week is not the gold standard magic-making dose. Thatâs where most endocrinologists put you until you figure out the best dose for yourself, with blood tests to monitor your levels so you donât make your heart explode. Sometimes itâs more, sometimes itâs less. Itâs trial and error. Donât inject T into a vein. Thatâs really stupid. Crying like a baby will not help. Youâll probably hurt yourself and look like a giant idiot in the ER.
You will mess up your injections frequently. Golf-ball sized swellings, redness and heat can be common even without infections. Sometimes it will hurt so much that you canât even walk, sit down, masturbate or shit without being in horrible agony. Cry and move on. Biofreeze will be your best friend. Note: wash your hands after applying Biofreeze, especially before you attempt to use the restroom. Ibuprofen helps with the pain better than tylenol and is less likely to make your liver turn black.
People who donât know you well, such as your favorite barista or your pharmacist, will stop recognizing you at some point. This is normal. Use it advantageously.Â
T will change your emotional responses to things. A lot of people think that it makes you angry and this is not always true. You may have stronger emotional reactions to things. You may have less strong reactions to things. You may get sad where you once got angry, and vice-versa. This is normal. Adapt. If someone tells you that youâre being an asshole, listen to them. Itâs also appropriate to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Your informed consent sheet will tell you that your genitals will be drier than the Sahara in the summer. This is not always true. In fact, sometimes the opposite can happen and itâll be quite swampy. Learn to adapt. Or get Summerâs Eve. Sadly, they donât make it in Axe scents.
If youâre under 21, itâs possible that you might get taller. Remember the growing pains you used to get as a child? Now imagine those but 500% worse. Thatâs what it will feel like. You will also have to relearn your spatial relationships with the surrounding world. You will be awkward and clumsy. You will knock things over and be in a constant state of bruised.
You will be less iron deficient on T if you stop menstruating. If you have iron-deficiency anemia, it may clear up entirely.
The copper IUD contraceptive Paraguard can cause your periods to come back. Transgender men looking for an IUD are encouraged to choose Mirena, which is infused with progesterone. Progesterone-only hormonal contraceptives such as Depo-Provera, Implanon/Nexapro, the morning after pill and some daily oral contraceptives are less likely to interfere with your HRT but will likely worsen your acne, cause weight gain and affect your moods. If you are under 25, are on T and have Mirena placed, it is likely your body will reject it. This is very painful and itâd probably be less painful if you stuck both of your feet into a bear trap. You will cry like a little baby. You will also throw up and shit yourself.
Do not attempt to STP while intoxicated. If cis guys canât control their urine streams while intoxicated, you sure as hell canât.
And just to piss you off: Testosterone therapy is a subjective experience. No matter how much you can prepare yourself for the changes, youâll be surprised by whatâs happening to you. After you start T, itâs likely youâll feel lost. You spent a lot of time and mental effort getting to this point and now thereâs not much to do but wait. At some point, your changes will slow down. Some day, youâre going to wake up with a beard and not remember the time you didnât have one. And neither will anyone else. So just be and stop worrying.
To all the dudes who need to have this info before having freak-out episodes because any or all of these things happen to you!!
A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many âHow-To-Drawâ tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought Iâd put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! Iâm by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background.Â
I like to look at the bookmarks people have made of my works â especially then notes they leave. Â Anyone can do this â just replace YOURNAME with your AO3 username in the following URLs (note that there are two things to replace per URL) and paste into your browser:
Note: Creators, please donât feel bad if you do this and donât get any results. Most AO3 fanworks have 0 or 1 bookmarks, and the rate of recs is far lower â even when bookmarkers leave kudos or comments, or leave a nice note in a bookmark, they often donât click the rec box.
Warm fuzzies (recs with notes):Â ao3.org/bookmarks/search?bookmark_search%5Bbookmarker%5D=-YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Bquery%5D=YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Brec%5D=1&bookmark_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&bookmark_search%5Bwith_notes%5D=1
All bookmarks with notes: ao3.org/bookmarks/search?bookmark_search%5Bbookmarker%5D=-YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Bquery%5D=YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&bookmark_search%5Bwith_notes%5D=1
(Keep reading for more options, and to tell me whether I should build a bookmark viewer tool.)
just moving along like everyone else 