David’s Ascension AU (me and @ttoba were talking about it yesterday)
The story under the cut
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radiocga
ruinedchildhood
wolfpainters
illmamnim
justafictionlover
I’m all for fighting for marriage equality in the LGBT community. But we’re so focused on that no one knows about this problem.
W…wait Thats a thing????
Yep! The man I refer to as my husband? We aren’t actually married. We can’t be.
If I married him, the government would literally expect me to care for him and be his sole source of income. He would lose all of his benefits, including SSDI. Spouses are expected to share income and that effects ALL of his benefits, even his health insurance. We simply can’t afford to be married.
But it goes even further than that. If I were disabled, our incomes would STILL be combined, meaning BOTH of us would have our benefits cut.
For people reviving supplemental income, their benefits can be cut anywhere from 25% of their current income all the way down to 0%
In fact, one of the stipulations of receiving income under the adult disabled child program (which provides benefits for people who were disabled before age 22) is that they LITERALLY never be married.
I normally don’t link to blog posts as resources, but since social service resource sites like to dress this problem up and make it seem smaller than it really is, I’m gonna call it appropriate! Check it out!
I’m upset about the situation in case you couldn’t tell.
Hrnngh… This makes me angry.
klancefixs
Dirty Laundry
Title: Dirty Laundry
Author: Anon
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 85,000 Approx.
Chapters: 9/9
Pairing: Keith/Lance
Summary: "Two whole months of free laundry in exchange for two weeks of being my fake boyfriend. Deal?”
Keith hesitated for a moment. Was this really worth it? Hardly. Lance was an asshole, and he wasn’t sure what fake dating would entail. But, free laundry was free laundry, right?
“Alright, it’s a deal.”
Or: Lance makes the mistake of telling his Mom he has a boyfriend coming home with him for Christmas. Keith makes the mistake of agreeing to be Lance’s ‘fake boyfriend’.
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OR: The most popular Klance fic out there, the one, and only, Dirty Laundry! Yes, I am sure that mostly everybody has read this by now, but it is such a good fic to come back to every once in awhile. I love their slow burn, and I love the uncertainty of it.
momfricker
unsatisfiedkitty
“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.
A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.
I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,
“I am the manager.”
a thing for one of my favorite posts on this site
EDIT!!!: THE WRITER’S NEW URL IS ohdionne!!! Please credit her instead of facingthewaves! (See please that facingthewaves is empty now, no posts and no customization!)
illmamnim
prinnay
Hello all! If you see my artwork pop up on Amazon absolutely do not buy it! It is 100% stolen and I guarantee you it’s terribly made on top of being, well, -stolen- art. These theives are jacking my art (and several other hard working artists I know!) and coloring over the signature and slapping it up on Amazon. Dozens, possibly hundreds of people have bought from them already. Just know you are buying stolen goods :( If you see any please contact me. I’m honestly thinking about lawyering up or taking serious action as I have been fighting this Amazon theft for weeks (you report one store; several more pop up in its place like a hydra)
Thank you all again for your help in this! I got as many reported as I can and waiting on results/hearing back from Amazon. They seem to be taking their sweet ime :/ Regardless, thank you
ruinedchildhood
