dean's quick desperate attempt to strip sam of agency is almost always in line with him trying to preserve a sense of self & protect himself
like there's more nuance but sam is extremely important to dean as a person and is CRITICALLY necessary to his being as an unearthed part of him
sam is simultaneously dean's every relationship all at once. His everything as far as a human can be and also a primary foundation to his whole being
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I missed your voltron posting it reminds me of why I fell in love with the show before (gestures) everything
people are always like 'katie how can you possibly still enjoy talking about voltron?' but what people don't understand is that voltron is like a ready-made meal kit for me. i don't like voltron because i think the show was good (it was Not); i like voltron because i'm too lazy to develop ocs of my own & the vld characters are juuuuuust enough like blank slates that i can commit blatant daylight robbery and steal them for my own purposes
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“She's not acid nor alkaline
Caught between black and white
Not quite either day or night
She's perfectly misaligned
I'm caught up in her design
And how it connects to mine
I see in a different light
The objects of my desire”
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Landlords are different from other jobs though, in that their income comes mostly from rents, in a way it doesn’t for say, entrepreneurs.
yes, and landlords as a drag on the economy has been pointed out by economists foundational to the field, like ricardo and smith, but as long as you have private real property of any sort, and as long as leasing that property is legal, you will have some quantity of landlords in your economy
the question is, what specific negative outcomes are you looking at and wish to avoid? because only once you begin to identify those can you begin to make real policy decisions. is not enough housing being built? are rents rising too fast? is it too hard to enter the property market? do you just want to increase the rate of home ownership? these are all, like, operationalizable. you can do something with them.
"landlords are parasites" isn't, really. it has a negative effect in both directions: it raises the hackles of anybody who owns property (which, again, unless you're in favor of mass expropriation and/or collectivization of housing, is something a nonzero number of people in your society will own), and it doesn't suggest any specific policy solution, besides "do things which hurt landlords' interests."
but hurting landlords doesn't actually necessarily help everybody else! there are lots of ways to make life worse for random groups of people that do not, in fact, help society at large. and the policies that do in fact make a difference very often aren't, like, satisfying as revenge. they're boring, unsexy stuff like improving tenant protections, or encouraging tenants' unions, or building social housing, etc., etc.
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👀 imagine in a future update, the Subway brings you to Unova. It's a small area to explore, not sure where that would be. Anville town probably?? Eh it's a idea for the distant future we don't gotta figure that out
—Rando Anon
Ps. Skedaddle skedoodle, I am a wet noodle
Emmet's 10 heart event consists of taking the farmer on a date to Nimbasa and we do have a trip to Anville Town planned as a station repair event (after unlocking the subway)! We posted this earlier, but you'll meet Cilan in Anville Town.
I wouldn't say Unova is exactly a small place to explore though ^^;;
If I do add it as a map you could freely explore (via the Train Station mod, of course!), I'm worried about if people would expect to be able to do things other than walk around (and waste precious daylight before you pass out at 2...). It's just a lot of walking space!
Outside of events (your guided tour with submas!), the Unova maps are mostly there for the novelty of it all. You would be wandering around aimlessly in New York. It's not like you should go around chopping down trees or start swinging around a sword at Pokemon. There's no real incentive to go there gameplay-wise. Unovans don't exactly care about the farmer as a tourist either.
But eh... If we do end up making Anville Town an accessible location, don't expect to be able to barge into other people's homes
▷ Station Steward Thylak
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I put some Very subtle foreshadowing in the latest posted chapter of Properties and I desperately wish I could point at it with a giant sign so you can all pick up on my fun foreshadowing
But I can't. That would be cheating. And spoilers.
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can u tell that perhaps i have thought too much about supernatural to the point where my own explanations for the inconsistent lore and characterization have bled into my memories of the show. is it obvious. i hope its not too obvious.
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not particularly excited about the next waterparks album but i've grown such an emotional attachment to parx it's hard to let go so in the end i guess i'm still looking forward to whatever awsten puts out
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