I suffered a severe injury when our house was b0mbed while we were inside, resulting in me being hit by iron shrapnel that is still stuck inside my body and causing me constant pain. So I need a high c0st to be able to perform my surgery and remove these pieces of IRON.

I suffer from severe anemia, which requires immediate treatment and special supplements to prevent my condition from worsening. The c0st of medication is extremely high, so I hope you can h@lp me raiise the funnds to purchase my medication urgently. I desperatly ne-ed your supp0rt to prevent my condition from deteriorating further and to alleviate my pain and find some relief. Please stand by me.

the best way to avoid out-of-character moments in your fics is to write about characters who are so obscure that they don't even have canon personalities. "he would not fucking say that" well he wouldn't say anything if this was canon so hey what can you do

My dad and his girlfriend broke up again (and also it seems like my dad lied about having appendicitis and being at the hospital to get her attention??) and now I might have to cancel a big trip I was looking forward to to sit around and try to dissuade him from driving drunk everytime he tries to 😭

He actually asked me to go buy him alcohol this time instead of trying to drive to get it himself which is encouraging!

had an incredibly stressful vivid nightmare but upon waking up the only memory is the phrase “squid pro quo”

all roads lead back to the loneliness i felt as a child

[ID: a video shot from the floor of a room. A black cat quickly scoots into frame, staring at the camera with enormous round eyes. End ID.]

My unnecessary two cents is that ppl in the imperial core are prone to viewing "benefiting from imperialism" as some sort of personal attack on their character or moral standing (& the higher moral ground they believe they have the more they resist this idea, imo) -- like you realize that its just factual. In a somewhat similar way to the principle that men as a class benefit from misogyny

The monetary plunder of imperialism on a gradient being "walled off" based on class race gender citizenship status etc. etc. does not make the imperial core a tragic outlier, this is the case in most if not all places, including places that are outside the empire. But fact of the matter is some people have imperial warfare in their countries or the ever present threat of imperial warfare in their countries and you do not, some people have to worry about imperial aggression and extraction on top of the million things that you worry about, and you do not, some people have to worry about massive currency fluctuation/degradation and the exponential impact this has on their ability to live their lives well or at all, and you do not, some people have to worry about access to minimally upwardly mobile jobs based on their ability to "speak english" regardless of what their native language may be or what the dominant language of their environment may be, and you, for the most part, do not. And on and on and on. Everything is affected. All the little or big things that add up to make some peoples' lives relatively easy and others' lives relatively impossible -- these things exist everywhere, but for those living outside the core, there's more often than not an added, significant layer of instability and insecurity and wanton destruction, alongside the pervasive feeling (and reality) of there being nowhere to go to escape from the way of things. Bc of how the world is ordered. Namely in a manner that ensures that wealth and bounty and opportunity only flows one way at the explicit expense of the other and the gates between these places are, largely, locked off