100% certain han and lando once got married for a scam and forgot to have it annulled so they were technically married for several years and one day lando comes in and goes “real quick: are we solo-calrissian or calrissian-solo? also, i want a divorce” and han is like baby no where did i go wrong we can still fix this
I’m currently unemployed and bringing in no income (I’m stay at home for the kids, since we can’t afford child care). My wife is our sole breadwinner. She earns about $60,000 a year, which isn’t bad, but it’s less than $40k after we pay for health insurance and taxes. We own a house and support four people on that income. And seriously, honestly, it’s not undoable, and we were doing fine keeping our heads above water until recently.
What changed?
With everything else going on I haven’t talked about it much, but the nugget – our 3 month old son – has a mystery allergy, or possibly a mystery health problem. So far, he’s hitting his physical and mental developmental milestones, but we can’t figure out what the problem is. His skin is continually broken out in hives, he produces bloody stools, and his breathing is perpetually wheezy. Regular appointments with the doctor, various changes to his daily routine, and dietary changes have helped the problems but haven’t cured them. It’s added both work and daily expense that we happily cover to the best our ability, but it’s absolutely made things harder.
He’s taking neocate, a fancy hypoallergenic formula that costs roughly three times more than regular formula. I’m not able to breastfeed (thanks, PCOS), and our insurance company has declined our requests for financial support to pay for the formula because he’s not actively dying (not exaggerating, that’s their literal reason). Instead of spending maybe $100 on formula each month, we’re spending three times that, and it will only increase as he grows. Even with fancy food, he’s edging dangerously into “failure to thrive” territory. He was born small – around 15th percentile for boys – and though he’s been gaining weight, it’s not at the rate he should be. Three weeks ago, he was in the 4th percentile for weight, and on Friday at his most recent appointment he was in the first percentile (he’s been pretty steady at the 25th percentile for height). Further, we thought he was doing better but then he had more bloody discharge this Saturday, so that means back to the doctor. We’ll have to afford the $300 plus each month most likely until he’s at least 9 months or a year old, and probably won’t be able to switch him to milk – until we identify the allergy we can’t even guess how much this will cost going forward. The price of this more than exceeds the wiggle room in our monthly budget, especially since we’re also paying extra doctor co-pays, extra washing prices for fancy detergent, and slathering him in expensive lotion to protect his skin.
As such, hi, I’m here asking for help. I’m keeping things really simple. If you want to chip in a little, you can:
I’ll try to write commissions of 1k or fewer words for anyone who buys me a ko-fi or supports me on Patreon, but I can’t promise when they’ll get done. Time is limited, and I get little enough time to write that it’s even harder for me to get done writing “responsibilities” than it used to be, and honestly? It was never my strong point. People who’ve commissioned me can attest, I’m really unreliable, and I feel like shit about that but there we are – I learned the hard way that’s how I am and now all I can do is try to be honest and straightforward about it, and ask that people support me despite that short-coming. What I can promise – I’m doing my best to continue producing stories and other content. That won’t change. And financial support in this would really alleviate stress for my wife and I, which would make it easier for me to get writing and such done, so indirectly, ya’ll will benefit.
Thanks for reading, everybody. Here, have a picture of my happy wiggly boy.
like, it was so well done, the badass “i’m doing what needs to be done” attitude, the fact that he carries around his daughter’s teddy bear but is absolutely terrifying when he needs to be (the camera on his face during the weasel interrogation?? i’m just… HOO boy scaredandhorny.gif) and how PERFECTLY he meshes with deadpool, the eventual comraderie, his constant exasperation that just slightly seems like admiration by the end, the smile when he says “jesus” and shakes his head at wade
i just… i shouldn’t be surprised after they did such justice to wade’s character from the jump (it’s like they just plucked him out of the comics and dropped him on the big screen ffs) but i was! i was super surprised and ELATED for it! i really wasn’t expecting them to pull off the cablepool relationship so well on screen but they DID IT
Ok but can you imagine people finding out that his hair isn’t naturally that curly? Just like someone waking him up at ass o’clock in the morning with a problem and DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAIR???
Okay, but you know all I can think of is that scene in Space Balls where Colonel Sanders walks in on Dark Helmet playing with his dolls.
Except it’s Hux and Phasma and Phasma is all “no, sir, I didn’t see anything” and after Hux gets over his ranting and raving about it he’s snapping pictures as quick as he can and ooops what do you know the Resistance has some new propaganda out all over the galaxy about how the Supreme Leader doesn’t even have real majestically curly hair. How’d they get that? Hux isn’t speaking and Poe *certainly* doesn’t know.
It’s a scandal for the next three weeks at least.
(Ok you all deserve to see what I sent to Rose)
I’m just fucking cackling thinking about Ben and hot rollers. Just like
imagine a new storm trooper. They’re sent to go wake up Ben because they
got the short straw. The last thing they hear as they dejectedly slink
out of the command room is “and remember not to stare!!!” It’s said so
offhand yet they can’t help but feel a deep sense of for foreboding. Oh
god what horrors are they going to witness???
When Ben opens the door with a snarled “what” the storm trooper can’t
help but stare. They’re pastel pink. In Kylo Ren’s hair. They’re pretty
sure they’ve only ever seen pictures of Kylo Ren without his helmet on.
And seeing him now shirtless with pink hot rollers in his hair they have
to choke down a nervous giggle that almost explodes out.
They’re grateful they’re wearing their helmet. And hopefully Kylo Ren
isn’t awake enough to notice the slight tremble in their body as they
stifle their giggles.
“Sir. They need you on the bridge!” They manage to stutter out.
“Fine, whatever.” Kylo Ren slams the door in their face.
Quickly the storm trooper hurries down the hall and finds the nearest
bathroom. Not only did they survive a meeting with Kylo Ren completely
unscathed they now know the most feared man in the galaxy uses pink hot
rollers and honestly this is the best gift they’ve ever received
Ok but can you imagine people finding out that his hair isn’t naturally that curly? Just like someone waking him up at ass o’clock in the morning with a problem and DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAIR???
Okay, but you know all I can think of is that scene in Space Balls where Colonel Sanders walks in on Dark Helmet playing with his dolls.
Except it’s Hux and Phasma and Phasma is all “no, sir, I didn’t see anything” and after Hux gets over his ranting and raving about it he’s snapping pictures as quick as he can and ooops what do you know the Resistance has some new propaganda out all over the galaxy about how the Supreme Leader doesn’t even have real majestically curly hair. How’d they get that? Hux isn’t speaking and Poe *certainly* doesn’t know.
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