El alma solo

A Red Panda at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo explores the lawn.

Outwardly, it is love. Inwardly, it is meditation.

Okay Harry dear let me tell you how he knew your name:

He bought you your first knit sweater, it was red because he knew red brought out your mother’s eyes.

He was there when you got sick for the first time. He comforted your parents because he was the first person they called. “Moony come here right this second, Lily’s freaking out” 

During your first winter you liked being in his arms the best because he was warmer than the other Marauders

He took care of you so many times when mama and dada were having a date night

You were the only thing that made him as happy as chocolate after a particularly rough full moon

You liked to ran your little hands over his big scars, you were the second person he didn’t mind doing that. Sirius was the first

You made him smile even though there was a war going on and there wasn’t much to be happy about

All he wanted was you after he lost it all, he was denied that right.

He thought about you and all his friends on full moons, how all of them sat on the living room floor of the Potters and played with you, no one had died or betrayed each other

He knew your name Harry, because the moment he opened his eyes in that compartment, he thought James was sitting across him and they were back in their 3rd year.

He knew who you were because when he looked into your eyes to say “sit still” he saw Lily Evans’ eyes.

He knew your name, Harry, because you were all he had left as a reminder that everything they went through with Marauders were real.

I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you don’t know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you don’t.

THIS IS US-CENTRIC. I’M SORRY. 

1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)

2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.

3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it. 

4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if you’re in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription … first I’ll make sure you 100% know what you’re doing for safety reasons and then I’m happy to turn over a link. 

5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder that’s a good program.