it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why can’t i live with my best friend? why can’t i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why don’t we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?
My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmother’s best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.
It’s quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.
It’s absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.
I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.
According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.
Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.
I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.
(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).
Don’t let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really it’s just practical.
As you may or may not have seen in a previous post: I, not knowing it was fake nor having any idea how I should expect them to talk, fell for the fake Broadway Karkat comeback and, through a few emails, was convinced I was auditioning as a lyricist for them. I respect her decision to stop publishing as Broadway Karkat, and was shocked to see her return, but it turns out from what I can tell someone out there was willing to prey on my and others’ love for an old hero in order to gain some notes and, whether it was the initial intent or otherwise, steal some music.
I wasn’t ready to publish these yet, and I’m really steamed about having to post them, they were some of my best work and I wanted them to be a surprise.
That said, if you see ANY version of “Hamilton” parodied for Homestuck ancestors, “Ruins (With Strings)” with lyrics, or “Perfect Situation” for Karkat, please check here before reblogging or giving them any views/publicity, it’s entirely possible that’s my work.
Songs themselves under the cut. Do not read unless necessary.
That said, I am BEGGING you to boost this for me.
(I hate to do this, but I’m mentioning popular homestuck bloggers for help - @fadeintocase@elanorpam@toastyhat@paperseverywhere I’m really sorry about this guys and I can edit your names out if you don’t want the notifications, I just have barely over 100 followers and need this to be seen by the fandom at large.)
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If you see someone in a wheelchair stand up or walk, just keep your mouth shut. They either were prescribed that wheelchair and their insurance agreed they needed it, or they became so desperate for the mobility the chair would provide that they paid a lot of money out of pocket (because they don’t have insurance or they have a shitty ableist doctor or whatever).
It’s estimated that around 85% of full time wheelchair users can stand or walk to some extent. Think of it like glasses: the majority of people who wear them can technically see without them, but they reduce pain, improve the quality of the wearer’s life, and enable millions of people to do things they otherwise couldn’t. A wheelchair is no different. In fact, even part time users legitimately need their chair, just as people who need reading glasses legitimately need their glasses. In addition to paralysis, some reasons for using a wheelchair include pain, fatigue, fragile joints/bones, vertigo, and many, many other debilitating symptoms.
Using a wheelchair is already stressful enough as it is, thanks to iffy accessibility. Please don’t add to a disabled person’s difficulties by calling them a faker.
my favorite thing about being an artist is that there are no real limits to what u can create. anything you imagine can become reality and i think thats great
I’ve been sticking doodles to the end of the PMs i’m sending a new dirk-roleplaying acquaintance! I’m known for roleplaying kankri more than anything right now, so here are these nerds.
Art improvement seems to be real… and my blog is going to look quite a bit different when I finally update it. Ahh?? I’m very excited right now, actually
Led|Aquarius|Artist? I post doodles n whatnot, usually homestuck! Lots of reblogs, for which i do apologize.
