#the previous house we lived in

[mashkaroom]

https://twitter.com/decoratedshed/status/1532538910546477056

okiee, thinking abt this bc of this tweet: i and my family have been on the whole very lucky with our housing situations BUT discrimination against single mothers, despite being illegal, is SO prevalent even in progressive areas with comparatively progressive tenant protections (Boston area in my case). When my parents divorced, my mother could not move out of the house despite desperately wanting to because literally no one would show her places. She claimed this was due to a law that didn’t allow landlords to evict single mothers. I have literally not been able to find a single trace of such a policy, so whoever she got this from I assume must have either being lying, or else this is a widespread misconception that people use as justification for discrimination despite no such actual protections being in place. But also literally this past year when we were moving, with my brother and i both legal adults, people LITERALLY just stopped responding when she said the lease would be “3, me and my two children”. Should be noted that my father had no such issues. And this was before even asking for income, so this isn’t even a question of income difference. I was talking about how the search for a new house was a dialect tour of russian boston, but this was literally because like 70% of the people willing to show us their houses were either russian landlords or russian real estate agents, bc they saw a fellow russian instead of a single mother. All this to say, community support is so important, but it should NOT be necessary for basic fucking necessities!

#i think that's what this tweet is about? not 100% sure #don't rb probably just want to kind of get this out there! how fucking bizarre is that! #i really can't understate how lucky we've been with our landlords and housing #the previous house we lived in #though very poorly maintained #had the benefit of being unheard-of cheap for the area #rent was raised pretty much with inflation and not at all during covid #and also the landlord let us submit rent late on multiple occasions #and when they asked us to move out they gave us at-will tenancy for an additional severl months past the expiration of the lease #moreover we had at least one at times multiple people not on the lease living there for most of the time #and landlords did not say anything #they were chinese immigrants and i think this had everything to do with it #the house we lived in before that was also extremely cheap and this was because the landlord was russian and rented it to us at #(or even below??) mortgage rate as an act of solidarity #so the fact that moving would have been tremendously difficult ended up being fine. but we are by far by far the exception #also worth noting that we were on a waiting list for affordable housing pretty much since my parents' divorce #so like 2010-ish? #and the one list we got off of (over a period of 10 years!!!) ended up being i think like $50 less than what we were paying for that house #but for like 2/3 of the space #all this to say 'just move' 'just apply for affordable housing' is frequently neither an option nor a solution! #this is also why i don't like the 'kill all landlords' thing #i know it's not serious and everything but nevertheless #also there's obviously a huge difference between 2nd-home owner and 'owns 1000s of units' landlord #BUT that kind of thinking really shifts the blame away from the systemic and onto the individual #is frank the landlord who made it possible for us to live as we did my enemy? no! #but the fact that your quality of life depends entirely on one guy whose only thing is he owns property not being an asshole #shouldn't even be a possibility! #i just think in general how much we've been insulated from systemically-induced disaster by individual generosity #like once our car broke down and my mother's rich friend just gave her her old one #but i remember my mother had a full breakdown about it and i didn't really get it at the time

[amphibianaday]

Hello I would like to request your favourite little freak(amphibian) for day 1432

day 1432

#amphibian #frog #toad #european common toad #i had to look up what 1432 means but i think its cute #i interpret this as just my favorite amphibian which is the common toad #i think you can tell from my art that its one of the amphibians i instinctually go for when i have no specific species to draw #i know its a boring answer but its a good frog. plain and simple #and its the one i've actually interracted with the most irl :) #and more specifically we had a toad that lived in the drain in the cellar in a previous house #its where we had all the laundry stuff. so we called him laundry frog. he is like the patron saint of laundry. to me #laundry frog specifically is my favorite little freak #laundry frog #oops i think i forgot to save the alt text #it should be fixed now but i have no idea how that works in relobgs

[phoenixcatch7]

Love the idea of each previous hero's journey being mostly lost to time, such that each time the cycle starts again absolutely no one picks up the very obvious clues that might lead them to the hero.

Oh, you've named your blond haired blue eyed child Link, have you? That's a good name!

Oh, he's found a strange red and white maned horse he's named epona who has utterly bonded with him? How unusual!

Yes, the princess Zelda is the same age, isn't she? What a good omen for the family!

We know he doesn't talk much, but he's the sweetest lad, don't worry!

Don't fret, dearie, his wanderlust will abate when he grows up, I'm sure it won't get him in too much trouble before then.

Prodigious little swordsman, isn't he? He would make a great knight if he wanted to when he's older!

Oh? Rumours about a long forgotten temple in the woods? How strange! Are you sure it's not just the children telling stories?

Look at him in his armoured green outfit! That hat looks lovely on him - where did you find it?

#It's so funny #In just about every Zelda I've played there's been about a hundred signs link is In The Building and no one ever notices #Twilight Princess was the absolute worst everyone just kept bringing up Its The Hero stuff and it just was not clicking #By the time we got to epona I was half tempted to make a bingo card #Heck he even has a tree house!! #Strong oot time genes there XD #There's something about loading up a Zelda game and going 'yup. This is a Zelda game alright' but NO ONE in universe notices #YOU ACTUALLY LIVE THERE YOU GUYS STUDY THIS IN HISTORY CLASS #it also opens up the great trope of link casually knowing stuff from previous lives he absolutely shouldn't and nobody taking it seriously #Until he comes back with the master sword #Some of those games were particularly bonkers and if the specifics never got recorded then there's no way anyone would believe them #A zora princess tried to marry the hero?? Lmao try writing fanfic #Listen I know it says the hero came from the woods but kokiri don't exist he would have just lived in a cottage or something #How dare you besmirch the hero's honour! He would never lower himself to base property damage! Never mind pots! #No hylian can ever wrestle a goron are you insane?? #Talking boat.... Sure #But you just KNOW Zelda would get some scholars and they'd hang off his every word #I love fics where link just casually references some world shaking knowledge (ie rito being zora descended and their own squid ancestors) #Or what the divine beasts were named after #Or what time travel feels like #Or that the myths hylians came from the skies are true #Or what one Zelda did when she vanished centuries ago #Or what the giant skeletons were #That kind of thing #Sorry I rambled #long post #legend of zelda #loz #loz zelda #loz link

[balladofmoony]

a little collage for dstg lily of @mayescapade because honestly lily evans and the phoenix are all i think about these days.

#at the top we have our order of people and i am kind of hoping they are well and happy in that memory #look at the nasty dementor! #and beautiful cradle <3 and of course regulily scene #lily and phoenix are the characters of the show #look at the little bird... that fucking bird #also some documents from lily's previous profession. my girl turned out to be a phoenix after all #i will always think about how she lived in a burning house and carried in herself always #btw this was supposed to be a he is for me collage idk lily kind of stole the spotlight #i will always love you dear girl hope you find peace #oh i forgot we have some burning in our eye #also 2 thank you jude for such a masterpiece i love dstg with all my heart

[welcometogrouchland]

Also what if I said the show taking time to show that Luz and Hunter aren't unhealthily dependent on one another post time skip the way they were in thanks to them (but still close seen in Luz's patches on her clothes or Hunter taking time off work to go to Luz's bday) actually plays in to the cycle of sibling betrayal motif w/ the Clawthornes and Wittebanes????

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #luz noceda #hunter toh #bc like. both of the previous generations of siblings had incredibly small/non-existant support networks outside of each other #the wittebanes were orphans and bc Caleb was philips caretaker as well as his brother #(and also just kinda. a pattern with philip) #he loves caleb on the condition that he agrees with and stays with philip. and when Caleb stops meeting these conditions love is revoked #in the form of. yknow. murder and cloning and then murdering the clones #bc again it's less about the ambiguous abandonment and more about the 'living a life i don't agree with and therefore can't be part of- #-due to my own selfishness and bigotry' thing philips got going on #a mindset that would be understandable for a powerless child but is ridiculous coming from a 400 year old god king #Lilith is ALSO in a state of preoccupation and arrested development when we meet her! #the thing that drove a wedge between the Clawthorne sisters was the fact that they were no longer each others codependent supports #Eda had Raine and is clearly closer/at least gets more undivided attention from their parents #not that eda's life is all rainbows and sunshine- she's still an outcast. but she has people other than Lilith #everything we see from the gallery nucleus art to edas old photos portrays the hagsquad as eda's friendgroup. not Lilith's #and years later in s1 even when Lilith is at the top of the boiling isles social latter she's still hung up on Eda #both bc of her guilt but bc she seemingly has no friends who are also her equals #she wants her codependent support system back no matter the damage it'll cause to Eda #bc much like philip she's sort of in a state of arrested development #it's a theme with toh antagonists #the difference being Lilith tried to grow up too fast and was never able to move beyond her teenage conceptualisation of maturity #so she's good at pretending to be mature when really she's not #all this to say that Luz and Hunter don't have this problem outside of thanks to them when they're at their self-hate peak #luz has her mom her owl fam Amity Willow Gus. Hunter now has Camila Gus and Willow and eventually Darius #they don't NEED to be the only one the other can count on and bc of that they're not gonna lose their shit when the other does something- #-they feel they can't/don't want to be a part of #anyway I'm out of tags but. this was a good move writing wise actually even if i love their dynamic. we got a whole special abt them

[andersdotters]

One thing I really dislike when reading posts is when people state something as fact when it's hearsay at best. "Furina was the first person to receive a vision from Neuvillette." "Arlecchino gets rid of orphans that aren't good enough to become child soldiers."

If something is implied, say it's an implication. If something is assumed, say it is an assumption. Even if someone is guilty by association doesn't necessarily mean they do it themselves. Don't pass things as fact unless it's explicitly stated, no matter how much it sounds like it could be true.

#the arlecchino one is a big one for me #yes the fatui do purposefully take in orphans to become child soldiers #yes they do/have experimented on children #but it is also explicitly stated in lore that when arlecchino defeated the previous and took over the house of the hearth she changed thing #she told the orphans that they need to value their lives and has scolded them for not doing so multiple times #she changed things in the hearth for the better to the point it became a 'safe haven' for the orphans #that being said.... #is she using these children? yes #is she training child soldiers? yes #does she actually care about the orphans? we cant say #does she care about all the other crimes the fatui does? probably not #is she complicit in the crimes of the fatui? yes #did she help fontaine out of the goodness of her heart? no #is she sane? no #can she be trusted? no #has she personally done away with orphans that didnt fit the bill? we dont know #same with furina #are archons canonically aware of the people they give visions to? we dont know #was furina the first person he gave a vision to? we dont know #when you do character analysis implications and assumptions only lead to misunderstandings and misreadings #the only text you can trust is what's canonically stated #tbh even the idea that neuvillette gave her that vision casing #maybe all hydro vision users made by him from here on out will have that casing and furina isnt special #we just dont know #only time will tell

[anotherpapercut]

sometimes I feel like there's a narrative on here that like. people who work and live not with their parents in their 20s are somehow privileged and its really annoying as someone with 0 family and 0 built in support system lol

#this has nothing to do with the previous post i was just reminded of some unrelated posts I've seen #like i get what people mean but i really dont consider it a privilege to have to graduate at 16 and immediately start working to pay rent #causing a severe worsening of ny physical and mental state so that i can afford to eat #and i would just like to say for the record that id never judge someone for living with their parents because im so envious lmao #just like. of the idea of having parents that would take care of you. ive always been so fascinated by that #because my sister got married at 19 to get out of the house and then depended on her husband bc she also has trouble #working due to disability. were both physically and mentally disabled so we have that in common lol #and then she had to contend with becoming entirely dependent on a man who then had incredible power over her #and now theyre divorced and she has to try to figure out how to do all this stiff at 33 that our mother never taught us #and that ive figured out on my own over the past 7 years. and i just think damn i wish we had family lol #like maybe if we even had 1 relative who cared enough to like. check in with us even?? let alone help #thats always just seemed really incredible to me. and ill never really be able to wrap my head around it

[maraeffect]

okay today was like the first time since surgery that i've been able to exist as a human outside my house!! and i had a great time even though i am PAYING FOR IT. HEAVILY 💀

#god my ribs are KILLING ME SLOWLY #anyway i had a good day 🥺🥺🥺 last night my partner and i woke up at the same time #bc we both had to pee. and i totally forgot but when we laid back down i told her ''i'm hungy..'' #bc it was like 3 am and i didnt wanna get up. so i just wanted to complain lol #but she woke me up to a big breakfast she ordered in like ''hey it made me sad that you were hungry jn the night- #so i got you and i a big breakfast 🥺👉👈💖'' and UGH it made my heart so happy #and then we chilled out before i decided i could handle leaving home and wanted to go to the mall #and i had a really good time existing in public!!! im getting a little depressed from being bed bound #i FINALLY got after laughter on vinyl after wanting it for like almost 5 years 😭😭😭 #and some cute stickers!!! anyway yeah i had a nice day w my baby and it made me happy 🥹💖 #as much as im hurting badly rn it was worth it for the lil date 💖💖💖 pain meds should help soon anyway #im just glad to have finally gotten out of the house #chatter #round 2 #also let me just say my previous thoracotomy did NOT prepare me for this one. #turns out the open version is VERY DIFFERENT. which i knew but god its so stark when youre living it #p sure by 2 weeks post op last time i was relatively fine!!!! almost back to normal #oh and uh #autumn

[immortalsins]

on a positive note it's the first night in my uni house with all 6 friends here, i'm so excited to spend the next 2 years cooking next to each other and filling the kettle for all of us and deciding which hand soap to get for the bathrooms and asking if we've locked the front door and checking the water meter it's going to be so much fun

#does this cancel out the previous negativity #we were all in the uni flat together but this is different. its a proper house #shitty yes but we are all so happy #my autistic ass living with 5 good friends and making them all laugh in our living room is surreal to be honest who would've thought

[gil-estel]

one side effect of House Viewing is that we're now actually seriously talking about finishing the basement (into an in-law suit that would become My Space)

#id be paying for it #so the main thing would be drawing up a legal agreement stating that i have equity in the house equal to the increased appraisal value #(we cant put my name on the deed for tax purposes and its not like i dont trust my mom but i want my net worth to reflect that investment #in case i need to apply for a loan or whatever #im actually kinda excited about the prospect of getting to design my own space! #itd be a 1br 1ba with a kitchenette and a decent sized living room #previous owners already framed and stubbed most of it #so the biggest structural thing would be to install another window in the bedroom

[apeshit]

just had a super lucid dream but i was scared the whole time so it wasnt super fun

#canto vii #i got to fly this time and it helped me be less scared because i got to establish that i was the only flying person in that world #AND #in previous flying dreams ive had issues with starting up from nothing / still air and always flew rly slow #but this time i had hummingbird wings which was much better 👍 smart #if i was stuck inside and scared i would just fly up to the ceiling #i was in this movie theater by myself that was showing jerma stuff #and a guy walks in from the front and i follow him out and hold his hand becUse im scared as fuck of the dark giant PT-like 4 hallway buildi #ng we’re in once we step outside of the theater room #and he keeps telling me hell take me to the exit but he keeps announcing whats going to happen so ut takes my ability to lucid dream away bc #its always whatever he predicts and my willpower to prove him wrong was never enough for whenever we’d turn a corner or go in a room #until one time i tell him to stop talking and go ‘this is outside right??? it is!! lets go!’ #and then it was #and then i left him and flew up high and tried to find a place to live on the island i was on #it felt like kikis delivery service #but also incould interact with a mini version of every house on the map like wooden hollow fake houses with fake people inside #but they were like 1.5 inch wide house figures #there were a lot of couples with a lottt of childreb #i dint think i ever went to a house #i started dreaming of being in my house with jett but i still had wings but i was scared #like i knew i was dreaming but was afraid of the dream becoming scary

[visionbuild]

/  it lit just hit me now how we are kind of a.lhaitham and k.aveh’s neighbors

#;ooc #ooc #the house on the left is where we stay in s.u.meru #and the house on the right across the bridge is a.lh.aitham and k.a.veh's #we could lit just visit them right away #I FINISHED THE STORY QUEST- #my opinion on a.lhaitham hasnt changed; i love him #and i love k.aveh; im happy we got to see him #i'll ramble a lil about their interactions later; under my perspective #but for now i just find it funny i never really thought about this until i left their house #as for the quest itself; i dont know what to say bc i just finished it; i enjoyed it and we got to see more of his personality & thoughts #the main topic was interesting and #on an important side besides showing us more about his train of thought #we got to see a lil bit of the situation of s.umeru in the present after the fall of the previous grand s.age and stuff #so that was nice to see #i want to know more about how this big matter affected everyone's lives; its the kind of content that #makes me feel the story is more mmm tangible? i dont know how to express it properly #dont take my word on this but if i recall correctly #i.nazuma kind of left me wondering a lot #or at least to me; #i would remember if the situation of the nation was brought up´but #im remembering k.oko's ei's a.yato's yoi's quests and #they were more about them or specifically about some npc

[sunday-ruby]

oh im feeling so violent

#our printer is fucking junk #i cant print a lease agreement #getting my id would be SOOOOO much easier in the previous house we lived in FAWWWK #lance.txt

[psychosomaticdeicide]

Maybe the American people (besides the ones with a grieving process built into their culture) don’t have a good relationship with death and grieving.

#incoherent screeching into the abyss #idk how to react to being told someone wished for 5 years and those 5 years are up #I started avoiding but I know that’s not the best thing to do #but everything has been fucked #by previous interactions that resulted in thoughts that were more than bad #and we live in the same fucking house so it’s not like I can fucking leave

[welcometogrouchland]

I am gripping you by the shoulders and begging you to listen when I tell you teens want to be outside so bad. We want to be outside so fucking bad you have no idea

#ramblings of a lunatic #WE DON'T LIKE STAYING INDOORS ON SCREENS ALL DAY EVERYDAY ITS NOT FUN IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD #yes there are exceptions and yes we like to do it more than previous generations but by god if it doesn't take a toll on your mental health #AND WE KNOW THIS BTW. WE'RE COMPLETELY FUCKING AWARE OF THIS FACY #*fact #but it's like. there's such a lack of options sometimes #like for example- i live in a pretty small town. walkable but not without some effort #there's no shopping centre (mall for americans) and maybe 3 parks (one of which is up a hill on the far side of town) #there are community centers but they're underfunded and don't cater to teens- especially not as casual hangout spaces #so like. unless you corall all your friends into one persons house (me and my friends generally go out in a group of 8-10 ppl- #-so while going to one persons house is doable it's not the most convenient and again this a small town. lots of the houses are small too) #or are willing to hangout at a park (a place where there's generally going to be young children and their parents- #-which isn't a deal-breaker by any means but can make kids feel like intrusions or even be perceived as sketchy) #(this is generally what me and my friends have to come to terms with everytime we hangout since we usually do it in the park) #then like. where the hell do you go?? yknow?????? #also plenty of my friends live in rural areas where it's a 20 or 30 minute drive into town and only one of us has his license #all this to say #I'd really love to see some statistics on what the hangout habits of kids from different living areas is like #because i have a feeling that kids who grow up in big relatively walkable cities with public transit and nice hangout spots #are getting out of the house a lot more often than a bunch of lower and middle class teens scattered across rural country spaces- #-and a town with little to no space for them to just exist without doing some kind of activity to justify their presence #this isn't even touching on helicopter parenting that prevents kids from being independent #anyway yeah i wish i was not on my phone so much i enjoy life better when I'm not on it but. god does not love me so <3

[omarwolaeth]

It's such a tiny innocuous thing that really doesn't matter, but I feel like calling duel monsters a children's card game (when it's fundamentally baked into everyday life, and your social existence is judged by what you play and how you play it so very intensely, for everyone in-universe) is an absolute injustice to what it is for that universe of people.

#marwospeaking #The following tags are a rant. please skip if you are not interested in reading a whole rant #to be clear. actual real life ygo sure. you can call that a children's card game (even if card game is just easier anyway) #but. in universe you Would Not call it a children's card game. not even sure you'd call it a game at that point #ygo worldbuilding fascinates on different levels. and to be honest this thought came to be via the abridged Shun compilation video #because he does mention children's card game (paraphrased) often earlier on in reference to in-universe duel monsters #but. for some people it literally defines if you die or not (Shun Was/Is In A War). for others it's your ticket to not go to jail because #you're too powerful to not be let off the hook (survival of the fittest kinda stuff really) #if you even dare not show up to a match. with crowds Equal To A Football/Soccer Championship. your family is in social ruins (Yusho) #these cards house spirits. and can be used for so many varied things between ending the world. starting the world. and coldblooded murder #and treating all of that as though its below a character. not because they're untouchable. but because of an age demographic #I feel misses a point about Arc V that I'm not sure I can quite articulate without sounding fully manic #in other series too! Synchro causes the world to end because it attracts some giant anti-synchro bois (meklords) #Numbers can either possess or take the form of someone's personal desires and feelings (Titanic Moth and Hope Harbinger are the same card) #(just different monsters because two different people used the exact card) #The God cards. the sacred beasts. the whole of GX's dimensional shenanigans and most definitely Yubel and Winged Kuriboh #Even in Vrains. which is very mild compared to the previous 3 installments. its still baked in their society. Its just aggregated #into cyberspace. That's not mentioning the Tortures that revolved around duelling to train AIs on children's brains so you could have.. #.. cyber immortality. and then you choose to kill the AIs that you see as like children to you - mentioned directly to your biological son #ANYWAY. tldr. Having an in-universe character calling Duel Monsters a children's card game outside of DM specifically is a fundamental.. #.. misunderstanding of how important it socially is in-universe. and it'd be much more understandable for someone whose life isn't dictated #by how well he can play it to say anything along the lines of 'its beneath me!!' than fuckign Kurosaki Shun are you kidding me. #We won't make an actual point at how the social lives of people don't seem to be solved by talking as much as duelling. no. we'll say.. #.. its for children so we can point and laugh at how weird it is!! Buddy I Have Fallen Asleep. #in other news exploring the navigation of a world where talking out problems would be weird without a duel to communicate should be.. #.. done way more often. This world is as anti-talk no jutsu as much as it is very pro-punch no jutsu. #arc v #< because part of this was inspired off of some of Shun's abridged lines early on