#and it’s taken since august

[braxiatel]

In the daytime Pearl E. Moon is a caretaker at the beloved family theme park, Scarland. At night she dons her mask and her hard hat and becomes Hermit City’s very own superhero, THE CLEANING LADY. But trouble is brewing in the seedy underbelly of Hermit City, the likes of which THE CLEANING LADY has never seen before. Old foes return, but this time it is neither THE CLEANING LADY nor Hermit City in their scopes, but rather each other. The mad GOAT seeks revenge on HOTGUY and his partner-in-crime, POULTRY MAN. The stakes are raised when the GOAT calls on his old ally, THE RED KING, and the dastardly duo of POULTRY MAN and HOTGUY form an alliance with the equally eccentric and explosive TATMAN.

There is only one thing standing between Hermit City and the impending war of the villains: THE CLEANING LADY!

Based on the idea of this post!

#hermitcraft #PearlescentMoon #hermitcraft season 9 #docm77 #GoodTimesWithScar #gtws #hotguy #Grian #poultry man #renthedog #Mumbo jumbo #hermitcraft fanart #art #digital art #hermitblr #mcytblr #buttercup trio #rendoc #I can’t remember their non ship name duo name soz #my art #I have never made anything like this before #i basically taught myself to do digital art through this piece #and it’s taken since august #so if you enjoyed it please consider reblogging? #no worries if not it would just mean a lot to me #it’s been a big passion project #the void collection

[sandersinabox]

I wish I didn't live in capitalism hell and that I could take some time off work to recharge since I'm so burnt out

#of course being burnt out at your normal job isnt a thing #you just work until youre dead #i havent taken any time off since august and im so so so tired #hoping and praying they change my schedule so i have friday and sunday off again and i only have to take saturday off to get a 3 day weekend

[alexios]

i do not want to work at all today and i'm really struggling staying on task. i think i just desperately need to take a day off that isn't a sick day so i can enjoy it

#validation.txt #i haven't taken a single day off since early august #and its been a stressful time at work..... layoffs and priority changes and just Mess

[hythlodaes]

literally counting down the minutes until work is over !!!

#week off babeyyyyy #literally the longest break i’ve taken since last august #and that was bc i was so sick w c*vid 😵‍💫 #gg txt

[cicadagaze]

this just in: i refuse to let my injured wrist stop me from doing shit so i'm making a white patch based on my pathetic beast of a cat

#cicada blabs #clangen #cicada's sprites #don't worry i'm not actually using my wrist THAT much #i'm not touching the screen i'm using the track pad #and i'm just using my right hand to move the cursor and my left hand to click #i'm also working on another set #but uh. they're taken from another person #and i realized i should. probably contact them first to ask if it's okay that i recreate them #so that's put on hold for the moment #bc technically there's two people i gotta ask because both were working on them #and the thread is locked and inactive since august sooo. yeah. #gotta actually dm them lol #i think it'll probably be fine bc i'm not planning to release them publicly #i just really like some of them and want them in my own game #anyway this is very interesting to figure out #since the sprites don't have a defined chin #and she doesn't have white on her chin #i'm also doing other white patches in this set #one is based on a mime 👍

[verrietty]

#havent taken a photo of myself since August what's wrongggg with me

[discoreptile]

Wee ha

#Arright here I go again I gotta do some of these when I gotta vent #posting this on the 17th of August #So the elestral thing is going alright. My focus has shifted a LOT there but I'm still working with em #But the majority of my work comes from another client now. It's another one of these things that I'd love to make by myself #But someone else is making it and wanting me to do the art and music. It's gonna be huge. What a life it is. Anyway #This gif is from yet another project I started recently. Separate from Smile More HoaM and anything else. I keep fucking doing this #But this one's strange. It reflects my current working skills I've built up all these years. A multimedia experience that has a start n end #featuring all your favourite elphame characters in a new style. I'm enjoying making it but there's one problem #I haven't worked on it in like a month and a half #Work is piling up. Pixel art is something I don't do for myself anymore #It's not even a case of “as soon as I have time to myself my fingers can't move" it's that I just do not have any spare time lmao #I meet Ashley once or twice a week. We still play digimon a lot but we're taking this month off since she's petsitting and can't go out lat #My flatmate has basically taken the summer off work since his job pays well enough for him to do so #so having him around to play games with is nice. Feels awkward taking baths with him in the house tho lmao #He is kind of the only reason I take breaks. I got pikmin 4 and it is incredible. Genuinely might have replaced Digimon World as 1st place #Mum took Andy and I to Netherlands recently. It was incredible. I played in a local digimon tournament and ate shit #Have just been so excited about travelling lately. Ashy taking me to manchester soon and I think we'll go london next spring or sooner #Worried I'm overdoing it with the tags so I'll sign off here. Work is stressing me out but it looks like big things are happening. #OH MY GOD I HAVE STOPPED BLEEDING BTW. Like almost altogether. Haven't in like a month. The trick is in the big box I rest my feet on. #It's too tall. I tried replacing it with a pile of folders half as tall and my bleeding fucking stopped. No crohn's disease or anything. #Just a big stupid fucking box. Anyway see you

[diodellet]

Thinking of Outer Science-fying Book 4 of Twst...

(yes that means ob!jamil as kuroha uwahhh i present to u exhibits a and b:)

(do u see it? im grabbing u by th shoulders and shaking u, am i making any sense hahahaha)

Like it just makes sense on a meta and visual way to make Book 4 way more of an angsty, heart-wrenching timeloop of trying to get through That Damn Boss Fight (all while dying lots of times in the process)

I say visual because the Snake of Clearing Eyes is a manipulative and violent motherfucker, and apparently its true form is a "solid black snake with red eyes" like huuuh.... it's as if the parallels literally write themselves

and I also say meta because lots of us players got stuck trying to beat him (by players i specifically mean /me./ I was stuck there for a week. deadass died fighting ob!jamil 4985034853 times and all i got was this cool title to slap onto my profile)

++On a lighter note, waaay after everyone's recovered from the ordeal, I think it'd be fun to see everyone else tease remind jamil of the funky shit he said during his overblot (ngl mans said some wacky things after a dope monologue like!! dude cuda stopped there but he kept going man i think the ink got to him oof)

EDIT: I JUST REMEMBERED... HOW COULD I FORGET SUCH BANGER ONE-LINERS THESE FUCKIN CLOWNS HELPPPP

kuroha "welcome to my womb" 🤝jamil "whoppee" viper

#since its kagepro day #happy august 15th!!! #i can never stop listening to the songs from there #IK the anime was eh but #the rearranges were good! #UGH i was worried abt coming across as crazy but idc anymore #if i have to go crazy thinking abt this i aint goin through it alone #if anyone who followed twst when it started (or even knows artists on pixiv) knows art of jamil as kuroha pls hmu #even plain ob!jamil fanart from circa 2020 will do pls tw*tter is so hard to search through #i need to see it for science for research for further enlightenment for-- #thank u riddle and leona for being the easiest ob fights (vil and idia were super easy too bless) #fuck u azul and jamil i h8ted the entire ordeal of their fights #ill prolly never write this but UWA my braincells are giving their final hurrah for the day #scrnshots are taken from the viddy link the translation is by sunnysubs #quotes taken from the kagepro wiki beware spoilers #twst book 4 spoilers #kagerou project spoilers #dellet-asides

[brattybottomdyke]

i was gonna take slutty halloween costume pictures today bc my mom’s not home…but im so tired and just wildly unprepared

#by wildly unprepared i mean i don’t look good rn #plus logistically i think i need someone to help me zip up the back #and then maybe someone to unzip it 👀 #im kidding #or am i? #but anyway anytime i think about taking pictures on a certain day bc i have the house to myself… #when that day comes im almost never in the mood #reasons why i haven’t actually taken any new content since…august? #woops #bottom.txt

[blasphamoustraitors]

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#august living #me chanting to myself on this t d ov #its ok to have dysphoria its ok to have dysphoria its ok to have dysphoria #bc i put an outfit that was kinda against school rules but vry much for the euphoria of it all together today #and then i did some fun more like metal head masc type makeup when i got home bc we got let out early #bc the building our schools in had the water shut off at lunch for maintenance #so i felt rlly fucking Man today and like. in a way that is so so so so close. so close. to how i wanna be. #that now that its later and ive taken and posted selfies and can look at them and go hes right there. hes right fucking there. #im having a dysphoria flare #god. god!! i haven't gone to any dr since my last check up for last years seizure #i haven't seen my gp in. like 2. years #the thought of seeing her and being like yes my records do say i had a medical event im here for gender tho. #is so fucking daunting. #but finding a new dr for gender sounds. worse. #the thought of diying is not a distant one but i know who i am and i wont keep track of like labs or other shit like that by myself #i want to not be a coward with medical stuff but i am!! i am and i hate it!! its ruining my fucking life and i cant fucking stop it

[alto-tenure]

I think this is the first time I haven't had a cat in my profile picture in literal years

#according to google photos my pfp pre-august 2022 was taken in feb 2018 so i'm just gonna assume i've had it as my pfp since approx then #meaning that it has been at least Five Years since my pfp on this acc depicted anything besides a cat #i'll probably change it back if/when darklaw gets eliminated #btw the aro flag is to indicate Me not because i hc her as aro #usually it's both 'character i hc as x' and 'i am x' but this time it's just for me #so i can keep the green color balance

[fingertipsmp3]

Lads should I go to pride

#i haven’t been to one since 2019. i wanted to last year but. The Knee #(dislocated my knee on 21st may; pretty much every pride near me was in june; i couldn’t walk properly until august.. etc) #i’m more or less fine now and i want to go. i just don’t have anyone to go With #literally all of my friends either have small children and are impossible to plan anything with because of that #or they are in america. and are impossible to plan anything with because of THAT #like i know what’ll happen if i ask my best friend if she wants to go to pride with me. she’ll say ‘yeah’ then never follow up #in october of last year she literally invited me to a small local pride and i said yes and she said okay i’ll let you know what the plan is #and then i didn’t hear anything so i assumed she wasn’t going anymore and then i found out she went without me #we literally only ever hang out to do mundane stuff. like run errands together. i don’t think we’ve ever gone to an event together #unless it was by accident. like when i ran into her at the kite festival #she’s taken all of her close friends on trips in her van except me #i get invited to birthdays but she never wants to see me at new year’s or anything like that #so i don’t think i’ll bother inviting her to pride #i can go by myself. i’m an adult. i don’t know what i’ll wear but i’m sure i can put something together #personal

[squidfeets]

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#oh my god my boss had absolutely no fucking respect for me anymore #zero trust whatsoever #like i literally told her that im gonna get shit taken care of before my time off next week #and she still emails me this morning like “heres all the ways i think you could still get this done” #and that email was worded in such a way that its clear she thought i was trying to weasel out of doing work #as if i wasnt literally working on it when she emailed me #she reads any amount of ADHD forgetfulness as intentional malicious dishonesty #AND HAS A KID WITH ADHD #and of course there was when i told her about some transmisogyny ive been experiencing since transitioning here #when she told me that i was paranoid and reading into things #i.e. making it up #i need a new fucking job but id really like to make it to my next work anniversary in august #so i can claim another full year on my resume

[daisychain-unchained]

not feeling very Peace and Love today

#i haven’t been out socially since January #yet the day before I’m finally about to is when I have to babysit adults #now I get to spend the entire weekend wondering what I’ll come home to #and if my parents are gonna kill each other while I’m gone #i am once again living august Osage county #and my mother is Meryl Streep #when she’s not on her pills she’s unstable #and then when she finally gets them she puts them away somewhere to try to better portion them but can’t find where she put them!! #the anger issues are just so absurd #the way they act about their pills in this house is insane #if this was the 1950s my entire family would be lobotomized #i feel like 80% of my life has been listening to people complain #but I can never say what I’m thinking or it’ll make it worse #last night I had to ask her to stop talking out loud to herself on the couch so I could sleep #once she’s at that level it takes hours to gear back down #i was looking forward to seeing my friend but now my mood has taken a blow #i dread her asking so what’ve you been up to! #and I’m thinking lol dying inside but let’s talk about you! #anyway just venting bc therapy is expensive ✌️😗 #rambling on

[hevendor]

first actual day off since august wat shud i do ...

#ive taken lil breaks every now n again since august but ive always had things i shudve been doing looming over me lol #now i truly dont have anything to do bsides like normal chores ... #i have many options but idk which ones to choose from ..

[fatehbaz]

Good question:

In the United States, many jails and prisons can and will charge you money for every single night that you spend imprisoned, for the entire duration of your incarceration, as if you were being billed for staying at a hotel. Even if you are incarcerated for years. Adding up to tens of thousands of dollars. What happens when you’re released?

In response to this:

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So.

You’re getting charged, like, ten dollars every time you even submit a request form to possibly be seen by a doctor or dentist.

You’re getting charged maybe five dollars for ten minutes on the phone.

Any time a friend or family tries to send you like five dollars so that you can buy some toothpaste or lotion, or maybe a snack from the commissary since you’re diabetic and the “meals” have left you malnourished, maybe half of that money gets taken as a “service fee” by the corporate contractor that the prison uses to manage your pre-paid debit card. So you’re already losing money every day just by being there.

What happens if you can’t pay?

In some places, after serving just a couple of years for drugs charges, almost 20 years after being released, the state can still hunt you down for over $80,000 that you “owe” as if it were a per-night room-and-board accommodations charge, like this recent highly-publicized case in Connecticut:

Excerpt:

Two decades after her release from prison, [TB] feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes. [...] “I’m about to be homeless,” said [TB], 58, who in March [2022] became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. [...] All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars [...]. Critics say it’s an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in some places to scale back or eliminate such policies. Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019. [...] Pay-to-stay laws were put into place in many areas during the tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and ’90s, said Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California who is leading a study of the practice. [...] Connecticut used to collect prison debt by attaching an automatic lien to every inmate, claiming half of any financial windfall they might receive for up to 20 years after they are released from prison [...].

Text by: Pat Eaton-Robb. “At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt.” AP News / The Associated Press. 27 August 2022.

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Look at this:

To help her son, Cindy started depositing between $50 to $100 a week into Matthew’s account, money he could use to buy food from the prison commissary, such as packaged ramen noodles, cookies, or peanut butter and jelly to make sandwiches. Cindy said sending that money wasn’t necessarily an expense she could afford. “No one can,” she said. So far in the past month, she estimates she sent Matthew close to $300. But in reality, he only received half of that amount. The balance goes straight to the prison to pay off the $1,000 in “rent” that the prison charged Matthew for his prior incarceration. [...] A PA Post examination of six county budgets (Crawford, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lehigh, Venango and Indiana) showed that those counties’ prisons have collected more than $15 million from inmates — almost half is for daily room and board fees that are meant to cover at least a portion of the costs with housing and food. Prisoners who don’t work are still expected to pay. If they don’t, their bills are sent to collections agencies, which can report the debts to credit bureaus. [...] Between 2014 and 2017, the Indiana County Prison — which has an average inmate population of 87 people — collected nearly $3 million from its prisoners. In the past five years, Lebanon’s jail collected just over $2 million in housing and processing fees.

Text by: Joseph Darius Jaafari. “Paying rent to your jailers: Inmates are billed millions of dollars for their stays in Pa. prisons.” WHYY (PBS). 10 December 2019. Originally published at PA Post.

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Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by using criminal, civil and administrative law, according to a new Rutgers University-New Brunswick led study. The study [...] finds that charging pay-to-stay fees is triggered by criminal justice contact but possible due to the co-opting of civil and administrative institutions, like social service agencies and state treasuries that oversee benefits, which are outside the realm of criminal justice. “A person can be charged $20 to $80 a day for their incarceration,” said author Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of Rutgers' criminal justice program. “That per diem rate can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees when a person gets out of prison. To recoup fees, states use civil means such as lawsuits and wage garnishment against currently and formerly incarcerated people, and regularly use administrative means such as seizing employment pensions, tax refunds and public benefits to satisfy the debt.” [...] Civil penalties are enacted on family members if the defendant cannot pay and in states such as Florida, Nevada and Idaho can occur even after the original defendant is deceased. [...]

Text by: Megan Schumann. “States Unfairly Burdening Incarcerated People With “Pay-to-Stay” Fees.” Rutgers press release. 20 November 2020.

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So, to pay for your own imprisonment, states can:

-- hunt you down for decades (track you down 20 years later, charge you tens of thousands of dollars, and take your house away)

-- put a lien on your vehicle, house

-- garnish your paycheck/wages

-- seize your tax refund

-- send collections agencies after you

-- take your public assistance benefits

-- sue you in civil court

-- take money from your family even after you’re dead

#abolition