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gloriousgoateedragon · 3 months

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#grey sweatshirt #grey hoodie #six pac abs #washboard abs #gay gif #gif #muscle gif #couch surfing

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unusual-apprentice · 1 month

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I AM NOT A TEENAGE BOY I PROMISE

#weird aesthetic #alt girl #joint #stoner #vans #damn yankees #takis #adult woman #stoned #couch surfing

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fitbearcatcher · 7 months

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Relaxed n waiting fur

#furpect #hairy chest #furry chest #man fur #hot muscle #furry pecs #hot hunk #bearded #handsome #scruff #couch potato #couch surfing

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chronicallycouchbound · 10 months

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Homeless Delicacies and Finding Unhoused Joy

When I was 10 years old and spending most nights sleeping in parks or couch surfing, someone showed me an amazing dessert: canned frosting on graham crackers. You can eat it anywhere, and the frosting stays good for quite some time even kept outside the fridge. It was super sweet and brought me so much joy, I ate a whole sleeve of graham crackers and half a can of chocolate frosting in one sitting.

When I was 16, I came out as trans and quickly after, was forced to leave my family for the last time. I remember talking to my sister about me being trans, trying to explain the hurt of misgendering, how it felt for her to listen to me about it, her telling me she loves me no matter what. And afterwards, we ate chips ahoy cookies covered in frosting.

When I was freshly 18 and sleeping on a floor with no heat, my love and I shared nilla wafers dipped in strawberry frosting. It was cold and uncomfortable but we still laughed and held each other while sharing a simple snack.

And now I’m a couple months away from being 23 and I’m revisiting these memories while eating this overwhelmingly sweet snack. I’m reminding myself that younger me was being cared for all the time, in so many ways, by my community. And I still am. The support I’ve been given throughout my life has been so beautiful, even while it hurts that my family of origin didn’t support me.

Happiness comes from the root word ‘hap’ meaning chance. Like in perhaps or mishap or happenstance. It’s based in circumstances, so if you don’t feel happy when life isn’t going well, it’s appropriate, and shouldn’t be expected of you. But I feel that joy is different.

Joy is that same core emotion as happy, but you can find it in other ways. It’s not unwavering positivity, it’s being thankful and making peace with what you can. It can coexist with a feeling overall displeasure with your life or the situation you’ve been put in. (Note: I recognize that not everyone feels this way, this is just the framework I think in and it helps me cope).

For me, finding joy is much easier than finding happiness, particularly when happiness is unattainable given the happenstances. And I need joy to get by. I need to be able to laugh and smile and feel loved and in community. I think everyone needs that.

As someone who’s unhoused and has spent most of my life that way, I can confidently say that unhoused joy isn’t shown to people who haven’t experienced it themselves. Our community lives in public and yet we’re so invisible. It’s bittersweet sometimes to see other marginalized communities being uplifted, their happiness shown on TV, their joy alive in the streets. I wonder when unhoused people will have that. Our lives are based around despite pleas, hoping to survive every day, fighting so hard with no rest.

And still I seek to find joy every day. Today, that joy is found in frosting on graham crackers.

[Originally written on 6/20/22]

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allaboutjmo · 1 year

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📸 Day 9 of 28DaysOfJMo: Jen Meme

Jen during her appearance on Couch Surfing

#jennifer morrison #jmo #28 days of jmo #couch surfing

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starlightvld · 11 months

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Last Line

I'm done writing for tonight, but I thought I'd share my last line from tonight's writing session because it's a fun one. This is from the second chapter of Couch Surfing, from Ghost's POV:

He fucking did like it, and it was fucking unprofessional.

No tagging today, but if any writers out there see this and want to share the last line you wrote, feel free to tag me!

#cod mwii #call of duty #soapghost #soap x ghost #ghostsoap #couch surfing #fan fiction #my wips #OG Starlight

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jelly-1998 · 6 months

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Today I piled everything I need day-to-day into my car to start couch surfing until I can find permanent housing. Is this what it feels like to be a stray animal that people feed and let sleep under shelter?

#housing #housing insecurity #couch surfing #feeling like a stray animal

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spockvarietyhour · 2 years

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Inside Llewyn Davis

#couch surfing #becomes the same and indistinguishable #Inside Llewyn Davis #Danny watches Inside Llewyn Davis #Hide and Queue

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gonerface · 9 months

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I've barely been on here lately but so much has happened like wth

#got houseless #moved lots of stuff #couch surfing #someone I know her bf got attacked right before I went to get her dog #took care of many pets #had to travel a lot from one place or another #some random shit #eventually got to sign a contract #got broken up with #life has been too much #still is #and then my recent ex decided to text me #like wtf????

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author-mandi-bean · 8 months

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Was Jack Kerouac Full of It?

I used to think I'd wanna drive and travel forever. For a long time, nothing sounded better than hotels and fast food and logging miles. Life would be one big adventure composed of entertaining anecdotes and scenic routes. But coming home felt so good.

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elliesbelle · 3 months

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emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

#emily’s finally found housing after couch surfing at friends’ places for months #they’ve got a lot of debt rn on top of bills and rent #rn they don’t have food in the house and they’re starving #they don’t deserve this at all they are so kind and i literally hate to see them suffering #please please pleaaase donate and reblog #they don’t ask for much but they deserve the world #mutual aid #crowdfunding #donation post #belle speaks

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mymomisdrunkagain · 7 days

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Home has never been sweeter!

Welcome to my world! Hopefully, as I meander along, posting sporadically and probably unnecessarily, there will come a moment when these delightful little tales from my amazing life brighten someone's day out there... and, if not, well, i'm guaranteed fuel for even more stories so i can try again another day!

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nyxouroboros · 7 days

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Home is where the sloth is

#couch surfing

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leerichmond · 1 month

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#help #couch surfing

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chronicallycouchbound · 8 months

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Some info about Point In Time counts and statistics around homelessness in the United States!

[ID: Slide 1 of 9, White text on a grey background reads: "Any statistics around homelessness are greatly under-represented, here's why" next to an arrow directing to the next slide, at the bottom, it reads "chronically couchbound"

Slide 2 of 9, in the same style, reads "The numbers that tell how many unhoused people are in the United States are done using something called Point In Time (PIT) counts." the bullet point below it reads: "PIT numbers are used to identify needs for services, and help shelters qualify for funding." The last bullet point reads: "PIT numbers only count people who are legally considered homeless (couch surfing isn’t considered homelessness, legally) This means PIT counts are only counting people in shelter beds, and those visibly sleeping outside."

Slide 3 of 9, in the same style, bullet points read: "Pit counts are the only required count of unhoused people in the US across the country." the next reads: "Every other year, official PIT counts include people not living in shelters, however, many communities try to count both sheltered and unsheltered people every year." The final bullet point reads: "These counts are the closest to an accurate representation of homelessness we have in the united states, and still is lacking."

Slide 4 of 9 reads: "Why?" at the top of the page, below reads bullet points: "PIT counts are done on a random night in January every year." the other bullet point reads: "On this random night in January, it’s often freezing. When I was unhoused in New England winters, I can tell you I wasn’t sleeping outside. I’d stay up and walk around if I couldn’t find a place to crash, and sleep in the daytime. I knew sleep meant death. Most people who do sleep outdoors are usually hidden well because that means warmth and safety."

Slide 5 of 9, in the same theme, bullet points read: "Most shelters simply do not have the funding to staff outreach workers to go out to do full PIT counts. Even if they have the funding, it’s hard to find unhoused people, so staying out the whole night as an outreach worker is difficult." the next bullet point says: "From unofficial counts done similarly to PIT counts in warmer months, it’s easy to see booming numbers of unhoused people. More people aren’t unhoused in the summer, it’s just less dangerous to sleep outdoors."

Slide 6 of 9, in the same style, bullet points read "PIT counts especially misrepresent unaccompanied youth, disabled people, and other marginalized people, because they’re often couch surfing or more hidden from the public while homeless. Couch surfing is not legally considered homelessness." The next bullet point reads "Many communities report zero unaccompanied unsheltered youth, which is often inaccurate in reality." The final bullet point reads: "Lack of youth shelters, and beds in youth shelters, play a huge part of this discrepancy."

Slide 7 of 9, in the same style, bullet points read: "The lack of knowledge, safety, and support in accessing services makes it harder for youth to be connected with service providers and less likely to be counted in PIT numbers." The next bullet point reads "Increasing awareness of PIT counts, and local service providers could help give more accurate counts, but we need more youth-based services that have active outreach teams in order to achieve better (and more accurate) counts of unhoused youth."

Slide 8 of 9 reads: "What can you do to help?" at the top of the page, below reads three bullet points: "Share this post & comment to spread awareness" The next bullet point reads: "Volunteer with a local homeless service provider, such as a shelter, nonprofit, or soup kitchen to help with PIT counts" The final bullet point reads: "Share, contribute to, or create local resource guides, or add or verify information for resources online (such as on Google or the shelter app) to ensure they're up to date."

Slide 9 of 9, the text reads : "Follow for more: Chronically Couchbound" Below the text is the logo, a white silhouette of a house, in front of it, a black silhouette of the disability symbol, and behind it, a light grey "prohibited" sign. The logo is on a black square background. End ID.]

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joegeniusblog · 6 months

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G.L: HOMELESS?

G.L. is a neighborhood woman I became almost acquainted with about 12 years ago. Our paths crossed at a Fenway CDC meeting concerning the Huntington Ave. branch of the YMCA’s plan to demolish their old gym and enable Northeastern to expand with the blessing of Mayor Menino in spite of the fact that the mandated Institutional Master Plan(IMP) had been circumvented and Northeastern was disregarding…

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