People talk about Rent having problems, I'm sure it does, but rewatching it as an adult who has gotten much, much more accepting of it's content, I think it was absolutely brilliant for it's time. I grew up in a very conservative home, Rent was my first positive exposure to most of the pairings and expressions of queerness contained within and the way it exposed me was so smart.

What's amazing to me is that we have an avatar for the audience in Mark Cohen (like he's literally behind the camera), but unlike other media where he might have taken the audience by the hand and introduced them to all these people who are so different from the norm, he accepts all of them as normal without explanation. He's living with someone who has AIDS, he's friends with a gay man who is dating a drag queen, and his ex-girlfriend is bisexual, he doesn't blink at any of it. He treats his ex-girlfriend's girlfriend like any other ex's new partner, which may not seem radical now but my only other exposure to this situation was Ross on Friends and let me tell you it was not handled well.

I found the same-sex pairings uncomfortable at the time, but the writers gave me a great heterosexual couple to root for and root for them I did, even though they were a current and a former drug addict, both HIV positive, one was a sex worker (and everyone is just accepting of her being a sex worker!) Again, I was brought up very conservative, identifying with that couple was entirely new to me. These were people who I was supposed to accuse of moral failings but instead I just wanted them to find happiness. That is an accomplishment!

Also, the songs are just one banger after another. Honestly.

“why does distance make us wise?” - your eyes, rent

You know how bullshit rent is? Elon Musk hasn't paid rent on Twitter's main offices in, like, 6 months, and has Twitter been evicted? Of course not. Apparently, when you're rich or a company, you can just tell your landlords to fuck off and the gov won't do shit to you.

The economy, man.

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A Vancouver woman who is eight months pregnant says her landlord is threatening to raise the rent once her child has been born.

Joy Maynard and Antoine Moore are expecting their first child any day and have been living in their Vancouver basement suite since April 2021.

They told their landlord earlier in the summer about the pregnancy and Maynard said he informed them that his son is the owner of the house so they need to be talking to his son about these matters.

That’s when they said they were informed that any additional occupant would cost them $600 a month.

“We also told them that my mom is coming to visit. The son said that my mom is going to be considered an occupant,” Maynard said.

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a very normal homeowner

I was living in the sewers and was forced to pay Pennywise rent as he was eating a corpse.

hey, my name's alicia, and i need assistance for covering March's rent. I'll owe $600 at the end of the month, and while I'm job-searching again, I still need help with reaching that goal

please help a trans woman pay rent

guess who has two thumbs and a voicemail box full of scam calls and a still broken car??? it's hard not to feel hopeless!! i fill out so many applications and it feels like none of them mean a damn thing lmao!!

anyway. i really really really need the help this month. rent has been raised and i have bills to pay and i just need everything to not fall apart

i need $950 by December 31st or else i will be evicted!

please please please consider donating if you can spare it, every little bit helps take me one step away from homelessness. please spread this around!! thank you for reading and thank you for helping in whatever way you can

You spend so much time in my mind, I should charge rent.

bitches be like “this is my comfort show” and it’s literally the most depressing shit ever. it’s me i’m bitches