#Alpha Structural

[formeryelpers]

Alpha Structural, Los Angeles área, https://www.alphastructural.com/

We’ve contacted Alpha Structural a few times, most recently for foundation repair and a seismic retrofit. The other companies gave us similar estimates in the $25,000 range. Alpha’s bid was over $100,000 and did not include the cost of the permits. The contract also mentioned that they would not be responsible for any damage to the house that occurred during the repair. Even worse, they made it sound like they were the only company capable of doing the job.

The other companies were licensed foundation companies, so this claim seemed ridiculous and the bid didn’t seem serious.

I contacted them for another job and they never responded.

They might be good for complicated hillside repairs. We will not be contacting them again.

3 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[lurafita]

It's supposed to be about the meeting, Magnus!

Raphael: "Everyone in favor of Magnus never being made to keep protocol of the cabinet meeting again, say aye."

Every downworld leader: "Aye."

Magnus: "I take offense to that."

Raphael: "Do you need me to read the latest one you wrote?

'The meeting, as always, began at an incredibly inconvenient time, which prevented my boyfriend and me from a quality make out session. Non-the-less, Alexander Lightwood started the discussion about unimportant statistics and looking glorious while listing incredibly boring numbers. I did not care to note them down, being distracted as I was by the tousled hair he hadn’t quite managed to tame down, before the mood killers, otherwise known as the downworld Leaders, entered the room.'"

[that-heretic]

If cotl was modern I image the Lamb would be so brain rotted and just start saying and bunch of slang Narinder can't even begin to comprehend.

[tumblweeds-omegaverse]

one of my favorite things to play around with, in omegaverse? changing what something "usually" means.

family = parents and biological children in a shared household?

not any more its not!

family = a group of friends who share a house together like they have for years, even after forming partnerships with others or having kids

family = a queer platonic couple, the kids they adopted (despite being able to procreate together if they wanted to), and the neighbors that are like siblings to them

family = three generations of parents, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends who might as well be family, who rally around each other in good times and bad

family = two lifelong best friends who went from playing together as kids, to raising families, to growing old, while becoming the cornerstones of their neighborhood

family = one big old polycule spread across multiple households, and the assortment of kids who have called them aunties and uncles from day one

family = a happily single person, their pets, and the network of friends that they feel safe going to whenever problems are bigger than one person should carry

family = a couple, their newborns, the siblings who help out, and the grandparents who are first in line to babysit

family = a single parent, their kids, and a very robust support network

family = a group of people who care about each other but aren't compatible when it comes to sharing a home, being very supportive - just from a distance - with or without other elements

and the fun thing is, you can slot any type of person into these setups!

make the two best friends look like the default "boy meets girl" rom-com pairing but with zero sexual tension.

make the people who sound like the most stereotypical suburban family, incredibly queer visually.

want your packs to be multi-generational households by default? go for it!

want to explore belonging beyond the nuclear family or the quest to create one? sure thing!

it gets even more interesting based on the social positions of the six sexes.

(in my head: primary sex = alpha, beta, omega. secondary sex = male, female. to keep from having to list them all, its "six sexes" but in some settings there can be more or less)

for example: what if there's a society that separates alphas and omegas as a general practice? it's the task of all omegas to run the towns and villages and see to their defense; alphas, on reaching presentation, are trained to watch over the land and tend to the region as a whole. if the two groups tend to mix mostly with those they share a classification with, how do their family groups appear?

or what if the society is arranged less like our human ones, and more like specific animal groups? if your packs operate more like a bee hive, how does that change their view of family, future generations, and group membership?

basically: there are lots of types of families, even irl, so making packs unique is more fun to me than going "parents and their kids" despite that being the most accurate to actual wolf pack structures

(though, since that structure isn't super typical to how we show families in media, i do kinda want to explore an established one! just not super interested in the "couple meets and raises their first baby" part because there's already a lot of focus on that as what "happily ever after" looks like. i want to get into how the following generation finds meaning and sets goals without doing as their parents did)

[camellcat]

thinking about making a pack au where they actually stick closer to hyenas than whatever the fuck they did in that episode

bc uh he-LLO? hyenas are like... one of the BIG popular matriarchal animals and we just acted like xander was all scary now? pshh. I mean he was hyenas are scary but buffy is absolutely highest rank top dog here no wayyy he'd be all scary to her since they're already y'know a "pack" of sorts. like I'm pretty sure he'd still defer to her. plus willow! her making friends with buffy first and just generally being a girl he'd rank below her as well (though I do wonder where his stance with giles would be)

and I get that xander already sorta had a new clan with the other possessed kids but even then why was HE at the top of that hierarchy?? in fact it was so barely structured at all I'm only assuming xander was a high rank bc he's just one of our mains. and the shot of them all walking ofc where he was front and center I can read basic filmmaking choices lol

but also hyenas have FRIENDS! they have cliques and groups within their own clan. isn't that so cool? why did they just disregard xander's friendship with the scoobies? I think the fact xander had friends and quite loyal ones is like important? I mean okay I suppose it's all he's in this clan now he's cut ties with the scoobies, but to me at least I think that's kinda boring haha. though actually even if xander had the support of the scoobies, with how that clan were already a group before xander and not with xander at all, he'd actually probably be like real goddamn low anyways instead of more equal like it was shown

look I really have no idea about any of this I've just been looking up hyena facts for the past hour bc I thought it was neat. I simply think they should've done more with this instead of oo look xander's all feral and evil when they literally chose hyena to be their animal. like ooookay then whateverrrr lame

[peonyblossom]

yeah. yeah, you should’ve.

[ragnarokhound]

how goes your wip

The bad news is, werewolf wip is on hold because I have lost control of my life.

The good news is, I am almost done with the reason I lost control of my life. the worse news is that it's aob:

“Jason, what is this?”

Jason looks up at Tim from across the kitchen table in Wayne Manor, brows scrunched and mouth twisting around his own mouthful of omelet in a grumpy frown. He doesn’t bother swallowing first, and bits of egg fly out when he replies.

“The fuck’s it look like?”

Tim eyes him, kinda grossed out, but mostly confused. It’s too early for this. “It looks like you made me breakfast?”

Jason looks between Tim and the frankly beautiful ham-and-mushroom omelet steaming on the plate he’d put down in front of Tim about two minutes ago. Tim had been so absorbed in his coffee and waking up, that he hadn’t quite clocked it at first. That it was very likely meant to be for him.

“If you don’t want it—” Jason says, a weird note in his voice as he reaches out.

Tim hauls the plate in close, grabbing the fork and hunching over it protectively. “That’s not what I said.”

[edwardos]

Very old screenshots of my mod.

[samanddean76]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki Characters: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Donna Ackles, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Jensen Ackles, Omega Jared Padalecki, Omega Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Omega Donna Ackles, Top Jensen Ackles/Bottom Jared Padalecki, Top Jensen Ackles, Bottom Jared Padalecki, Non-Graphic Rape/Non-Con, very brief - Freeform, Part of the Societal Structure, Canon-Typical Violence, Revenge, Or Justice, soul mates, Angst, Love, Magic, Time Travel, Prophetic Dreams, Jensen Is A Mystic, Angst with a Happy Ending, The Sequel To Jared's 41st Birthday Story, all the feels, Righting a Wrong Series: Part 6 of The 2023 Birthday Collection, Part 2 of The Workhorse Verse Summary:

Alpha Jensen is just a little boy when he begins to dream about his Omega, who is the village workhorse, and every night the other Alpha's hurt him in ways that Jensen cannot begin to understand. In an effort to help her only child, Donna brings in an instructor, Mr. Morgan, who teaches Jensen all that he will need to know so that he might be able to rescue his Omega one day.

The problem with that scenario? Jensen is a sickly Alpha who was born almost two hundred years after his Omega. How is he supposed to save his soul mate when he can't even save himself?

*****

This is the follow-up to The Workhorse which was a story written for Jared's 41st birthday.

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

Sometimes I do have the urge to make an omegaverse sideblog because I think I could do quite well and as a bonus it would be a fantastic way to advocate about the family structure of wolves and change some people’s knowledge from the outdated alpha theory to the actual pack structure observed by biologists while still working within an understandable medium

[hitheeprithee]

wait hold on...you should oc post on main where can I hear more about these silly guys

HI HI HI HELLO YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD

So I haven't posted a Ton about them but Cam and Apollo (and Paul) are the main characters from an original story I'm writing!

It's a sendup of a supernatural romance novel where I said what if there were three werewolves and they were all gay for each other and the het love interest did her own thing <3

I honestly really wanna post about them more (and honestly might do so v soon seeing as I wanna keep writing them real bad) but they are, essentially:

Paul- Heir of the pack, meant to be the hyper masculine alpha dude his father wanted him to be but actually just a bit of a soft, anxious, and generally sweet (if oblivious) guy. Medium build, lil bit of a soft tum, mousy brown hair, soft brown eyes <3 So deep in the closet he's coughing up mothballs

Cameron (Cam)- Paul's childhood friend and communal trickster/wrongdoer, Cam is a scrappy yet perpetually cheerful omega on the lowest rung of the social ladder. Would kill for Paul but would much rather live with him, far away from their pack, maybe in a nice little house together... Knows he's gay but still working on admitting he's into Paul. Short king, strawberry blonde hair, super fast runner and message boy for the pack

Apollo- Brother of the woman Paul is arranged to be married to, from a neighboring pack. Whoops. Built like a soldier cuz he basically is one, tall dark and glowery, the image of an alpha dude except he's a beta. He may or may not be running away from his own gay-induced problems back home but wait what's this- a man so nice you literally can't hate him and his spitfire best friend who either hates your guts or is flirting with you and you like both against your will? Well heck.

What will these boys get up to <3

[betterbemeta]

I'm 30 something right now and I don't know how it is for everybody else but I remember that a vast amount of my ground-level skills were driven not by formal education but by simply needing them to do something I enjoy. Online adoptables are so cute so I need to learn how to make a folder on the computer to save them. If I want to use the chat room I need to type on the keyboard. If I want to not suck at pokemon I need to be able to read what the moves do. I 'obtained' the oran berry, what's that mean?

I can't imagine all of that's gone but instead of blaming kids about what is gone maybe we should be horrified that they live in some kinda wasteland where they can't go anywhere and there's nowhere to go anyway and the easiest stuff to do is to get passively farmed like dairy cows, and they don't even get paid for the rest of their time.

I hate that the "Gen Alpha can't read." conversation so much because people are taking this as a chance to call children stupid and their parents monsters instead of having a very real discussion about how the education system is flawed by design, covid fucked up everything socialization wise, these parents having little access to child care and more work hours leads them to lean on things like tablets and phones to watch their kids more and more, teachers are more overworked and underpaid than ever leading to them leaving the profession in droves and that's only like the surface level issues. There's a myriad of factors at play here, not just that "The kids are spoiled screen-addicted brats with no imagination and their parents are childish spoiled millennials who just let coco melon handle everything."

[stagejakkal]

being sick then getting the whole week off for snow has just absolutely fucked my brain in regards to college, this online english class is going to be the death of me

[spotforme]

why didn't i see the newest sketch before?!?!???

ohmy god yeah it is on bar as always but i am just reeeally distracted by the fact that only his other armpit is shaved. Tank? Tank what's going on buddy? except the light homophobic jest pf course, get it together Tank

[elliot-amy]

what should she dress up as this year?