Poppy needs a locker buddy
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On campus, Poppy needs a locker for her art class, the only way to receive one is to find a locker buddy.
(It's a legit thing on my campus so it'd be funny to use this as plot.)
Also, this is my first mini-comic, any constructive criticism via DM's is welcomed!
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Here's a lovely 1850 country house in Languedoc-Roussillon, Aude, Carcassonne, France. It has 17bds, 11ba €2.835M / $3.08M. But, look at what comes with it-
A mini gothic cathedral. We'll tour the house first, then go inside the chapel.
The 1850 home was renovated and it's light and bright, but still retains an old world feel.
In the large dining room, the wainscoting is still there, but they've painted it gray. The doors were left original, though.
The kitchen has very modern cabinets, but they were made to fit into the original footprint. A table was attached to the island to make it a true eat-in kitchen.
There's also a delightful terrace that feels like you're sitting in a gazebo. The property has a pool and that might be it, in the distance.
The library has a nice fireplace and lots of built-in shelving.
Thru pocket doors is a spacious main-floor bedroom.
Either the main floor bedroom or this one could be the primary. It looks like the owners use this one. It's spacious and has a lovely fireplace.
The tub in this bath looks like a giant bowl.
This is a lovely bedroom. It's pretty big, too.
The rustic family room has an interesting large fireplace, tree trunk beams, and a mezzanine.
The mezzanine includes a large casual TV area.
A lower floor was made into a 2nd very big kitchen/dining room combo for entertaining a large group, maybe a venue for wedding parties.
Now the chapel that looks like a mini cathedral. This would be a great wedding venue.
The ornate gothic carving in here is amazing. It has an altar behind an iron railing.
The stone work is no less magnificent than in big cathedrals.
This building alone is worth buying the property. It even has a small choir loft.
And, look at the details of this loft. It's just a stunning building.
The grounds are beautiful and the private lake is large enough for a row boat. There are 10 hectares of land (about 24 acres) and they include a pool that isn't shown.
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Thanks to Ingek73 for sending a bunch of castles for sale. I was particularly fascinated by this mustard-colored house, which was the summer home for the families of the Earls of Kellie and is A-listed as an historic building in Scotland. Located in Pittenweem, Fife, it was built in 1590, and has it's own turret. 4fls., 5bds, offers over £645,000 / $796K accepted and it does need some updating.
Seriously, for under $1M, it's like a small castle. Look at this sitting rooms paneled walls. It's a little dusty, and the floors need some refurbishing.
I don't know if any of the furnishings convey, but look at how bright it is, it's not a dreary old castle by any means.
The original foyer is preserved. I would feel like royalty entering this residence.
This has to be one of the first-ever spiral staircases. Only the wood steps must've been added later. I love this.
The cabinetry is a little too modern, but it has an Aga stove, in blue (love the colors they come in) and the flooring matches.
The kitchen is definitely spacious. I wish that you could paint the cabinets and change out the hardware, but you can't do that with these- they're laminate and have built-in handles.
Hello, lover. This model costs over $32K.
It looks like they may have stripped the carpeting off the floors. This is a nice big dining room with a fireplace and built-in shelving. I can't get over how much light this home gets.
Very nice. This room can be a library or an art studio. That looks like a built-in display case in the middle.
Closeup of one of the beautiful fireplaces. I would like to darken the wood a bit, and take out the orange tinge, but that would cost a fortune.
I would say that this is a bedroom. Everything looks freshly painted white, so it's a blank slate. Nice built-in cabinet along the wall.
Nice bedroom, it has a nook.
Cute little room for a study or home office.
This bath needs some attention.
A bedroom in the process of being packed up.
Ooh, I see a potential craft space in here.
Love the red sink in this nice big powder room.
Here's a cool room. The colors of royalty.
The rooms on this floor are a bit small, but cozy.
Someone really liked red baths. The plumbing fixtures look pretty new, though.
What an interesting room. Look at the beams and the old stove in the fireplace.
The courtyard and gardens have become overgrown and need some cutting back, but they will be beautiful.
There are sea views from the upper floors. A private road provides access to off-street parking, also.
The home is located in the renowned East Neuk arts festival village, and for chocolate lovers, the town has its own chocolate factory.
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On the "terrible lyrics" discourse...
It's always interesting to me when, right before an album rollout, we have a subsect of swifties and/or simply bad-faith haters who immediately pan a new album by plucking out lyrics out of context. It seems that the curse of folkevermore will forever loom over any new album rollout because most people aren't...that bright? Folkevermore is brilliant for many reasons, not least of all because it was perfectly timed to fit the tone of the socio-cultural time it was released in. People ate it up because a). those albums were pandemic albums and b). they were written mostly in the "quill pen" style. For some reason, and perhaps this is due to a lack of wider reading, people associate "good lyrics" with flowery prose that is reliant heavily on lots of figurative language and "bad lyrics" as simple statements. And so anything that has been released post-folkevermore has been panned as a "step down" because people think Taylor Swift is only worth listening to when she releases music that people perceive, through stereotypes or general insufferableness, as artsier and therefore of more value.
I don't know if it's just a universally bad education system or maybe we don't read contemporary literature enough, but that's just not true. I love folklore so very much, and its most Keats-style 19th-century poet song, "The Lakes," is perhaps one of its weakest because it's trying too hard and some of it, frankly, makes no sense ("Tell me what are my Wordsworth" ???? Like we know that clunky-ass lyric was only put in there for a dumb ass poet reference). And then we have The Last Great American Dynasty, which contains fairly simple/ slightly kooky statements such as: "And in a feud with her neighbour, she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green." Which is way better at characterising the person in that story!!!
It was the same with the "sexy baby" lyric in Anti-Hero (IMO a very interesting lyric!). It's not about how many metaphors she can pack in or the number of stars or 2 AM dancing-in-the-rain or running-down-a-field-to-her-prince, or other fairytale motifs that makes her songs so good. It's her ability to tie a concept together or create a thread of shared ideas within an album. People are clowning on the whole "Charlie Puth being a bigger artist" because Charlie Puth isn't typically considered "high brow" and has released some pretty cringey stuff. But if you look deeper into the reason for why she included that in her song: it fits into the album conceit. The album visuals are very much dark academia, college prep, intellectuals etc. etc. This lyric is not so much about Charlie Puth as it is about her relationship dynamic with the person she is singing about. It's about how they had shared intellectual values around music. And that is the genius of Taylor Swift. She does not need to point a gigantic neon sign at a lyric saying "LOOK! LOOK! THIS IS A METAPHOR AND I AM VERY CLEVER AND YOU CAN FEEL CLEVER FOR GETTING IT!".
To end it all I would urge swifties to please read more and read widely. (I also realise just how pretentious and obnoxious I sound but hey, if we're gonna play into the aesthetic, why not?)
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