Neil would absolutely financially cripple Billy to keep him at home well into Max being an adult herself and out of the house.
He demands gross amounts of rent once he’s 18 to ‘live under his roof’ but Billy doesn’t make quite enough to get his own place so he has to just save little by little in order to get away but Neil keeps requiring more from him.
Billy has to pull sickies after a beating, so how he can’t save this week? He has to just cough up cash to Neil. Then when he does have enough funds, his car starts having issues so he has to try and fix it himself but he doesn’t have the garage he used to in California so now he’s stuck paying the auto shop to fix his baby. There goes his savings.
And the cycle repeats. He busts the dry wall after an outburst? Savings gone. He pops a tire? Gone. He breaks his arm during a row with Neil where they’re both drunk and angry? Gone again.
He can’t pay Neil to live at home yet also to live and save to escape, and if he can’t do that, how will he survive anyway? That’s the lesson Neil’s driving into his skull. “You can barely afford my roof, you think you can afford to pay for your own?”
Neil using any tactic he can to keep Billy with him, even as he gets older, and Billy unable to/feeling like he will never leave anyway so he just…gives up and deals with it. Assumes this will be his life forever, whether he tries or not. The universe gave him a shit hand and now he just has to live with it, doesn’t he?
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my period is trying to kill me. i’m sure of it.
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Kudos to Sailom for having, like, morals or whatever but if my smokin’ hot frenemy offered to be my sugar daddy, I would say yes please. You want to pay me not to tutor you? Sure thing, Daddy. Same time next week?
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First drawing of the new year!
Whenever Cosmo is too busy to take Barbie shopping, he gets his satellite investors to keep her busy for a while. The ̶u̶n̶lucky two this time are Kerberos and Styx
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s2ep7 of the bear is so nuts..... so exhausting i need like a week off..... loved it. also. also.. the berzatto brothers......i'll be thinking
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where do all the 40+ dykes hang out?? i need 2 start cruising 4 ones dat want a sugar baby or at da very least sum cute arm candy
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one of the really fascinating things about chronic illness and ableist doctors is how little they trust me to distinguish things about my body
I think for them it's very easy to say 'okay pain caused by nerves is a dull diffuse pain and pain caused by joint dislocation is also a dull diffuse pain so I need to do further testing to distinguish them'
but for patients who live with it it's very easy to distinguish the two! in fact with as much time as I spend with it I'm very good at telling what my body's symptoms mean! they're important warning lights for managing my condition!
nerve pain feels different than joint injury pain and they respond to very different treatment! it's extremely beneficial for me to learn the difference so of course I have!
it's just so frustrating for my doctors to go "oh your wrists hurt? let's do a nerve assessment" and for me to say "I don't tend to get nerve pain in my hands and that's not the pain I want addressed" and then have the doc go "ehhhhhhhhh let's run the test"
i feel like I'm constantly having my personal experience on this dismissed, on everything from distinguishing low blood sugar and low blood pressure to differentiating the types of fatigue and sleepiness I experience
disabled people tend to know their own bodies best, and the bulk of management of their conditions will be done by them alone, and I just really wish doctors would listen to them a little more.
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