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Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 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 that’s 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. 

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 didn’t 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. 

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. 

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. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s 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. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger. 

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

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 “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

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 that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t 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. 

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

What if the fade being ripped open in da:i has nothing to do with templars and mages but everything to do with those weird side quests in da:o like activating the places of power and watch guard of the reaching and summoning sciences

I mean the warden did a bunch of weird shit in da:o without fully understanding what any of it does

Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

Dorian/Inquisitor commission for @howdyfromantiva

we love you bisexual kal'reegar!!!! we all scream in unison

 Shepard barely heard Kal enter the room. She had grown accustomed to the sound of his crutches with each step, but without them he was nearly silent. He settled in next to Shepard on the crate she sat on, his elbows leaning back on the window. “You got an extra one of those?” 

“Cigs?” Shepard said apprehensively. 

“Gonna just let it burn out on its own, helmet boy?” Zaeed said with one of those deep chuckles that only men over the age of fifty could replicate. 

Kal just held his hand out expectantly. “You know, this suit’s good for more than just fighting off viruses.” 

Shepard handed him a cigarette, lighting the end for him. Kal held out his arm and pulled back a strap that looked to be made of a heartier velcro. Inside was a dizzying amount of tubes and wires and circuits. He dropped the cigarette down the largest tube, which got sucked up towards his shoulder immediately, then waited for five seconds. A puff of smoke came out of the mouthpiece of his helmet. 

“Cool trick,” Jack said. 

“You think in two hundred years of living in suits, quarians haven’t found out ways to smoke? We’re a more advanced species than that,” he said, sounding quite pleased with himself. 

“Any other neat tricks that thing can do? Swiss army knives and bombs you got lying underneath the leather?” Zaeed asked, an almost hungry look in his eyes. 

“It can filter water in under thirty minutes, reserves stores of fat into emergency food supply, keeps my body regulated to a cool and casual 97.8 degrees,” Kal said, listing off with his fingers. He leaned into Shepard’s ear as his voice dropped, “and, I’m only gonna say this one to you, sweetheart, but if you wanted to follow me back across the hall to my bunk… let’s just say, there are things I can do to accommodate you.” 

Shepard snorted into her cigarette, fighting back the urge of a coughing fit. “Is that so?” 

“Maybe I’ll say it loud enough for grandpa over there, if he plays his cards right,” Kal said, blowing a puff of air out at Zaeed, who oddly enough turned a remarkable shade of pink that Shepard had never seen before. “I’ve always had a thing for older guys… and scars… and a good rifle collection.” 

Jack threw her head back and let out a barky sort of laugh that sounded more like a yelp than anything else. “Why the hell didn’t we pick you up earlier?” 

“Well, to be fair, quarians were under the vague notion that Cerberus was an overreaching, brutal pro-human terrorist organization up until quite recently, so I’d say it was a timing issue. Or semantics. Who’s to say, really?” 

hi have a nice day! this is the reminder for you to share your ublock extension that blocks AI stuff from showing up. sorry if this annoys you and doubly sorry if you already shared it (truly my bad if that's the case)

I'm not one of the people involved in the post I'm just really interested in never seeing an AI generated image again

thanks in advance! sorry!

oh, no, you're fine, i completely forgot lmao

its this

GitHub

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklis

A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

stop paying for shit you can pirate

this (OceanOfPDF) is a good website for pirating books thats a lot easier than looking for vk epubs, there are pdfs and epubs for a LOT of books and the site is the easiest to use and most comprehensive of the ones that I've found

the free kindle app (don't pay for amazon kindle) lets you send these files to all of you devices with the kindle app at the same time, you can use this site or find the email addresses for your devices in your amazon account (this is amazon tutorial for how to use the send to kindle email), the files are identical to ebooks that you buy for kindle, you can also upload any epub or pdf files from your device to google books and read them there exactly the same

this (12 Foot) is a good site for reading any articles that are behind a paywall for free, not sure it if works with academic journals and papers but it definitely works for stuff like the nyt

this (the Pirates Bay) is the classic and one of the best sites for pirating movies, tv shows, video games, books, and more, you will need to have a torrent installed to download and use these files, I use utorrent (free)

this (the internet archive) is a site that's good for a lot of stuff, its a nonproft free library type program, the book downloads do not work with the kindle app even if the file type is correct but the pdfs can be opened normally with any pdf reader

this is a cracked spotify apk, I think this one might be for android only and this is a link to spotiflyer which is an app that lets you pirate songs from spotify, youtube, and a few others to put on an mp3 player or flashdrive or cd or just to have them downloaded but separate from the spotify app, works on android, windows and mac

this is a very detailed step by step tutorial on getting ALL of the sims 4 dlc for free (it takes a LONG time to download the actual dlc, set aside at least 12 hours where you won't need to restart or turn off your computer but it works perfectly) you will need a torrent and file extractor but the tutorial links to reliable free apps for both

I mostly want them to have on screen chemistry and connection with one another.

However, true to characterization is the most important thing to me. I'll ship characters from different medias if it seems like they would get along (something I largely do with crossovers or multi-fandom RPGs.)

Hey, I wanna talk about how we do fandom! I've come to realize that I, personally, tend to differ from many others in that I highly prefer to only engage with a text as it's written, so I don't tend to really like fanon/extremely ooc characterizations and I find it hard to get invested in ships that aren't canon. My way of doing fandom isn't better or worse than anyone else's, but I am curious about how much of a minority I'm in! So:

*We've all seen ships of characters not from the same media and stuff like shipping the concept of ennui with the color blue, okay, I'm asking what you, personally, find compelling!