Day: December 8, 2017

Sign the Petition

bogleech:

mcmansionhell:

I am begging every single one of you to sign and share this petition. Patreon is introducing a new fee system that burdens patrons with fees instead of creators, creating a mass exodus of patrons who are cancelling their subscriptions to all creators, not just me.

I make my entire living on Patreon and this severely threatens my financial stability. I am a full-time student with one more semester left of school. These disgustingly greedy changes could destroy my livelihood, my finances, and could leave me unable to pay my rent, bills, and tuition. These changes could literally ruin my life. Besides, as a creator, I am more than happy to pay these fees rather than needlessly burden my Patrons.

If anyone has any suggestions for other platforms or other ways I can continue to keep the lights on, please sound off in the comments.

I am absolutely terrified and upset and beg Patreon to reconsider.

Edit: After seeing other Creators posting similar proposals, if you are a small-dollar Patron who is planning to unpledge or leave Patreon but still wants to support my work:

Ko-Fi

Paypal

Thank you all for your continued love and support. 

– Kate Wagner, author of McMansion Hell

patreon is all that pays our rent 😦

Sign the Petition

pacificpikachu:

Please look at Benny the perfect rooster keeping as many of his ladies warm as he possibly can. He has four hens underneath him in these photos. It’s mostly old, disabled, or especially shy hens who tend to seek him out for warmth.

Source: pacificpikachu

I can’t help but feel kind of grouchy again at how only one of the size range limitations tends to get addressed when “bigger bras” come up. When all but one of the companies’ size ranges specified stop at a 38 or maybe 40 band, that’s really not helpful for a good chunk of people who need the larger cup sizes too.

But, I’ve gotten grouchier after running into more trouble where I am now than in the US with band size as a limiting factor. It’s not nearly as hard to find the lower end of DD+ cup sizes in brick and mortar stores, while over a 38 is much trickier. (I hate ordering without first trying on that specific style first, as hard as it can be to find a good fit with tolerable fabrics in person 😬)

I was perversely glad to lose enough weight from illness so my ribs started sticking out some. Which was just enough to be able to wear some 40s again, for a lot more options. Including from too many manufacturers/sites with lines catering to larger cup sizes, I might add.

I remember some discussion years ago at (I think) Shapely Prose, with someone having inquired about Bravissimo maybe stocking some larger band sizes. The response? A slightly more polite version of “sorry, we don’t want our brand image associated with gross fat people”. (Wish I could find that comment thread now.)

Now I might fit into some of the bras they’re selling, unlike when people started recommending them to me. That sort of response didn’t exactly make me want to associate myself with their business, however.

But yeah, given the demand for sizes over a 38, or possibly 40 if you’re lucky–and how often potential customers do need larger sizing on both measures in the same garment? That seems like a very possible line of reasoning, too often.

Yet another of those cases where besides it being frustrating to try to find suitable clothing, that just doesn’t seem like great business sense if you want to sell clothes. Hardly an unusual situation, which makes it that much more frustrating.

Citing “regulatory chaos” caused by the fight over who is the legal leader of the regulator, the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union called on a federal court to remove Mulvaney, Trump’s budget director, and affirm Leandra English, the CFPB’s deputy director, as the proper acting head of the bureau. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, represents a new legal front in an ongoing battle over who should be running the regulator. English has insisted she should run the agency after being named deputy director by Richard Cordray, who resigned in November. But Mulvaney has been named acting director by Trump, and has announced a freeze on new regulatory work while he reviews agency policies. English has her own lawsuit against the administration pending in federal court, but Tuesday’s lawsuit marks the first legal challenge against the administration by an entity regulated by the CFPB. “The Credit Union does not know who is validly in charge of the CFPB, who is authorized to make the rules, or whose rules to follow,” the credit union said in its complaint. “The Court must resolve this regulatory chaos. It must determine who is in charge of the Bureau. To the Credit Union, it is plain that Leandra English is the only lawful Acting Director in charge of the CFPB,” the lawsuit said.

Credit union sues to block Mulvaney from leading CFPB
(via k-pagination)
Source: dendroica

fierceawakening:

regurgitation-imminent:

myprettynightmare:

Anyone else terrified that they are toxic and manipulative and just can’t see it? Or is that just me?

A lot of people who’ve been abused think this. It’s very common for abusers to try to convince their victims that they, in some small part, deserve the abuse.

And a common way of doing that is to frame the defensive tactics of the victim as bad, manipulative things.

All the time, tbh. I have absolutely no idea what acceptable anger is and I often get told that no one even knew I was mad when I worried I was going too far.