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My first rec would be "be more specific". Rural vs urban poverty are very different, as is poverty between countries (What programs are available? And how easy are they to access?), and the experience of it changes drastically based on your other identity factors. A black man with undiagnosed depression living with three roommates is gonna have a very different experience than a vietnamese woman with a kid and a husband who's still struggling to make ends meet.

Then, look for people's stories that are similar to the ones you want to write about. Talk to people who live in poverty. Figure out what you want to write about, about it.

I want to write poetry about living in poverty but I need some reference first. Does anyone have any recs?

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#Kumon white tea my beloved

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Experimenting with a limited palette

#looks like a china print!!

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TW insects it's time to learn all these drawing rules or something………but i'm too lazy

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Olives with metallic pencils

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This is site with the most chronically ill users per capita that I've seen, so that tracks.

"Autistic characters in popular media are always robots or aliens" I mean, that's just not true. Autistic characters in popular media in fact span a wide range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to):

Time traveller

Former cultist

Morbid little girl

Grown in a tube

Ambiguously foreign

Talking animal

Curse victim

Tech support

Raised by wolves

Ninja assassin

World famous detective

French

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My Starlight!

Painting by me

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A gray day

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Sunset

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smells like spring

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The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is holding two pieces of rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail and White Hat are in the background.] Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.] Cueball: Boop! Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!

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Is the "them" the "someone" or the "acquaintance"? I can presume the "they're" is the "someone".

If you hear someone describe an acquaintance as "a cancer", will you think lower or higher of them if you find out that they're into astrology?

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Who wants to chill with these furry pals?

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Snoqualmie Falls, WA. Acrylic on canvas

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Alexander Miles, a prominent African-American inventor of the late 19th century, is best known for his groundbreaking invention - elevator doors that could open and close automatically. This invention transformed the safety of elevator rides, with automatic doors now considered a standard feature in modern elevators.

Born on May 18, 1838, in Circleville, Ohio, Alexander Miles was the son of Michael and Mary Miles. As a young adult, he relocated to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he worked as a barber throughout the 1860s. It was while living in Winona, Minnesota, in 1870, that he met Candace J. Dunlap from New York City, who later became his wife. After the birth of their daughter, Grace, the family moved to Duluth, Minnesota.

In Duluth, Miles enjoyed significant success as a barber, setting up a barbershop in the four-story St. Louis Hotel. He smartly invested his savings into purchasing a real estate office. His business acumen led to him becoming the first Black member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1884, Miles constructed a three-story brownstone building in an area that later came to be known as the “Miles Block.”

While taking elevator rides in his buildings, Miles noticed the dangerous risks associated with manually operated elevator shaft doors being left open. Determined to solve this problem, he invented a mechanism that allowed elevator shaft doors to operate at the correct times. The mechanism, which involved a flexible belt attached to the elevator cage touching drums positioned along the elevator shaft, automated the elevator doors through a series of levers and rollers. On October 11, 1887, Alexander Miles was granted a patent for his life-saving invention (U.S. Patent 371,207).

In 1899, Miles and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he started The United Brotherhood, a life insurance company for Black customers who were denied coverage by White-owned firms. Eventually, Miles relocated to Seattle, Washington. Prior to his death on May 7, 1918, he was considered the wealthiest Black person in the Pacific Northwest area, largely due to the income from his invention. In recognition of his contributions, Alexander Miles was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

Read more about Alexander Miles here.