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being a saw fan on tumblr is seeing the most gut wrenching heart destroying brain eating bone dissolving teeth gnawing post about Amanda and then the next post being “hes so baby gurl 🥹🥹🥹” and it’s strahm covered in blood just absolutely soaked

#why is your baby girl a middle-aged man actively bleeding out #me tho

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me doing stuff but it's not the desired stuff (adding to my 100+ pages worth of a zombie apocalypse tv show idea that'll never see the light of day instead of writing an essay for english about a book I was supposed to read but didn't)

#the yapper yaps #writing #creative writing #writers #writeblr #writerscommunity #screenwriting

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No one is ever going to be Will Graham level of down bad cause why did he start eating human meat and giggling at cannibalism jokes just to try to get with a man that already wanted him so bad he willingly turned himself into the police to prove his love for him? Idiots.

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Paul Simonon smashes his bass, on this day, September 20th, 1979 in New York City.

Photo by Pennie Smith

#clash reference

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Tfw not even your serial killer dad has the serial killer genes but you do

#i used to be such a riverdale fanboy (Yk when it was still cool) #and I think I stopped watching around the time that guy tried to fly to space in a handmade rocket

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I wish I knew how to quit you

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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“we aren’t a double act” said dan from dan and phil

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so i put my hands up theyre playing my song the evil skull flies away

#YOU CAN'T JUST PUT A POST LIKE THIS ON MY DASH WHILE IM IN THE LIBRARY #I NEARLY STARTED LAUGHING

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so i put my hands up theyre playing my song the evil skull flies away

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#I'm 5'7" (i actually am) and used to be kind of insecure bc I was a bit of a shortarse given that here in Ireland anyway men are on avg <5'9 #then i went outside and was like 'there are very few men in which I'm wildly different heights from' #you guys are fucking lying

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very funny that when will imagines abigail he just puts her in his clothes. he doesn't really have time to think about that rn

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x01 || 3x02 || 3x07

#when you literally try to invent time travel to fix your past mistakes and bring your family back together

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x13 || 3x04

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free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

#amanda young

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i still think about "aye moira am oan the protein" way too often

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I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!

If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)

You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)

You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)

You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)

You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)

Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.

I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.

The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.

I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.

I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.

The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.

Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.