#Colony House!!!

[shima-draws]

top 5 musicians/artists/bands you like

1. AJR!!!

2. Fitz and the Tantrums

3. Misterwives

4. JVKE

5. Marianas Trench

I only listed English bands/artists to make it easier nfndn but this list would be very different if I’d included foreign artists :’D

[andallshallbewell]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[witchthewriter]

𝑭𝑹𝑶𝑴

Please tell me that there's people who love From just as much as I do??

I am definitely writing about the characters. This has become one of my favourite shows this year. I wish it was more well-known!

So I will be writing for:

Boyd

Kenny

Fatima

Randall

Jade

Kristi

Victor

Julie

Donna

And a lot of these will be platonic! But some will be romantic as well 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡˚♡

[winterprince601]

i often think about the irony of the fact that ned probably thought the wall would be one of the safest and most anonymous places for jon to go. he would be far away from anyone who might recognise him or uncover his secret identity in an order that specifies everyone who enters into it let go of all familial ties, treating your past and blood as a theoretically blank slate...

only for the long night to come knocking, and it turns out not only is jon VERY unsafe (as is everyone) but he is in a position where his blood becomes potentially very important. ned sent jon to the wall to hide the fact that he was a prince, only for that to be the very place in need of a promised prince.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I almost passed by this normal looking 1928 brick colonial in Norman, OK, but I'm glad I didn't, b/c I love it so much. 4bds, 4ba, 3,599 sq ft, $795k. This lady has style.

I'm obsessed with that Love sofa table. Look at the color. Amazing.

So much inspiration.

Love the area rugs.

It takes courage to paint a large kitchen with lots of cabinets in a bright royal blue, but it works. They look like they were dated oak cabinets, so instead of replacing them again, this was a vibrant alternative for the cost of paint and new hardware, plus new counters.

Nice little powder room redo.

The family room. Note that the walls are actually gray. The color is in the furnishings, so it will appeal to more buyers. In this room there's a fireplace and shelving. If the new owner doesn't like the blue fireplace or pink shelving, it's easily changed.

A technique that I used to use to fill up walls- I'd buy huge posters and then giant cheap plastic frames. Really, they'd look just as good as these.

The home office looks like a lovely lounge.

Love the primary bedroom. Look at the architectural feature behind the bed.

Very large suite is 2 stories high.

The en-suite has a double sink made from a triple bureau.

2nd bd. is a good size. Note that the walls are still light gray. That was a good idea if you know you're going to eventually put it on the market.

Oh, how cute. A colorful bath with a matching fish tank.

The 3rd bd. is large. Love the stripes.

And, the 4th bd. has a fireplace and room for a home office.

Look at the putting green in the yard.

There's also a small patio and a 2 car garage on the .51 Acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/503-Shawnee-St-Norman-OK-73071/58739554_zpid/

[conceptofjoy]

hc that roxy like, keeps preparing rose (and everyone else) food post canon and rose notices that she doesnt make any food for herself and she asks why and roxy doesnt know what she's talking about but rose the ever so skilled psychologist finally realizes ooOOHHHHH ITS A PTSD THING and cries herself to sleep.

[yellowocaballero]

what manhwa have you been reading? I've currently been on a very shitty romance isekai villainess kick lmao

I grasp your hands. Another pig in the trough of manwha. I'm not a huge villainess person, but obviously I have read a shitton of it. I read so much awful manwha, but the good is SO good. Everybody knows that SSS Class Suicide Hunter is perfection, but I feel like The Ember Knight is fucking incredible and not discussed as much! Everybody read The Ember Knight (if you like action)! It's incredible!

I just finished Concubine Walkthrough, which was AMAZING. So good! What a great usage of the premise! Chinese period piece concubine drama (a whole genre.) + 'player gets trapped in an MMORPG' flavor isekai + being ACTUALLY science fiction and extremely interested in the science fiction aspects of virtual reality. I refuse to read those gamer MMORPG manwhas because they're terrible, but Concubine Walkthrough is what you always wish those stories were like.

I also just read through My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me, which sounds like it should be uninteresting but it is shockingly extremely good. Very good character work, extremely slow and realistic buildup of the importance of the FL in the family, great politics/character dynamics, and the slowburn romance is even really good. Just overall extremely good writing and it was an extremely good read.

I've also been reading Until The Tragic Male Lead Walks Again, which is incredibly fun and funny through virtue of himbo buff FL and sweet and sensitive ML. The ML is disabled as well, which is also always great to see, although it still has that strange character note that's identical to Touch My Brother and You're Dead and associates a man gaining a disability as losing masculinity and blah blah blah woke brain off. I also really enjoyed Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, which does a difficult thing and makes the OP hero story actually very enjoyable. I also re-read/caught up on Lead Me Kidnap The Male Lead! which is VERY fun 100/10 recommend. Also like a lot of other stuff but those are the ones I would recommend.

Always taking manwha recs so if you got any I will definitely check them out :3.

[fatehbaz]

Between 1970 and 1973, rent strikes erupted in towns and cities throughout the Republic of Ireland. These were organised by local tenants’ associations, most of which were affiliated to the National Association of Tenants Organisations [NAoTO] [...], an umbrella organisation for local associations established in 1967. [...] [O]rganisers claimed that at its peak almost half of all council tenants in the state, or approximately 50,000 households, were withholding their rents. These localised campaigns coalesced into a state-wide movement in late 1972 with [NAoTO] declaring a “national rent strike” which lasted until August 1973. At this point, the government conceded to [NAoTO]'s demands including revisions to the B scale differential rent system, a rent freeze for those on fixed (non-differential) rents, [and] better terms for tenant purchase [...]. [T]he long-term consequences are more ambiguous [...]. Nonetheless, it was described in an article in the Irish Times as “undoubtedly the most dramatic [...] victory ever achieved in this century by tenants versus landlords” [within Ireland]. [...]

Despite the scale and significance of these rent strikes, before this project started there was effectively no information available about them. The [Community Action Tenants Union Ireland] CATU rent strike history project aimed to address this situation, which we understood as an important gap in the collective memory [...]. The project set out to leverage the history of the rent strikes to engage people and involve them in the contemporary housing movement by providing an example of the power of collective action and building connections [...]. The project has been ongoing since late 2021 [...].

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Gray (2018a, 2022) argues that, beginning in the 1960s, the urbanisation of capital created a new [...] working-class struggle in Italy, [...] characterised by divisions related to suburbanisation and geographical fragmentation. [...] Clare's (2020) analysis of [...] clandestine textile workshops in Buenos Aires highlights the importance of the spatial dimension [...] by describing how workshops are located according to a distinct socio-spatial strategy that divides the workforce and minimises outside interference, thus ensuring access to cheap, vulnerable labour. [...]

There are [...] connections between political decomposition and the loss of memory and knowledge of struggle, such as in the case of workplace restructuring after conflict to prevent the transmission of knowledge and experience between different generations of workers [...]. Responding to this situation, there has been a growing interest in recovering forgotten or suppressed histories of housing and urban struggles [...].

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The background to the CATU rent strike history project is the so-called “housing crisis” in Ireland, which, contrary to the idea of a specific moment of crisis, has been a continuous feature of Irish society since at least the 19th century [...]. A persistent challenge faced by CATU and other similar movements is that of overcoming a pervasive sense of disempowerment and persuading people that it is worthwhile to engage in collective action [...]. [T]he [housing] crisis [is not necessarily] a unique moment of dysfunction in the housing system [but is] rather [...] a persistent feature of Irish, and increasingly international, capitalism [...]. [L]and and housing have been deeply interrelated with anti-colonial struggles including the Land War of the late 19th century, the civil rights movement, and anti-internment rent strikes in the 1960s [...].

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27 oral history interviews were carried out with people who participated in the rent strikes in the 1970s [...] from various towns and cities across the Republic of Ireland [...]. Approximately 2,000 relevant articles published in local and national newspapers between 1966 and 1973 were identified and subject to close reading [...] Further data was gathered through a review of 161 articles about the rent strikes in radical newspapers [...]. Previous analyses have emphasised the atomisation of new suburban council estates and how these were part of a concerted effort to undermine working-class radicalism (McManus 2003). Beginning in the late 1950s, suburbanisation was further accelerated by the state's policy to attract [...] speculative investment in commercial office space and the displacement of working-class communities, in particular from inner-city Dublin [...]. However, [...] that fragmentation was countered in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the widespread, rapid formation of tenants’ associations organised around shared interests [...].

The interviews and newspapers produced by local tenants’ associations demonstrated the organisational density and array of community organisations [...] that fought to improve the conditions of everyday life [...]. Some of the forms of organisation that existed across many areas included collectively built and managed community centres, women's and youth committees, sports clubs, social activities for elderly people, and food cooperatives, amongst others. Illustrating the scale of community organising, in August 1973 the [NAoTO] newspaper reported that the West Finglas Tenants Association was running regular outings to the seaside that were attended on average by 2,000 people transported in 20 double-decker buses. [...] As described by [P.], a rent strike organizer in Ballyfermot:

"Street committees didn't just run the rent strike, they also ran summer programmes. If there was old people to come around at Christmas, we'd arrange for someone to cook an extra bit of dinner. It was more a living thing. It wasn't just a single issue. [...]"

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All text above by: Fiadh Tubridy. "Militant Research in the Housing Movement: The Community Action Tenants Union Rent Strike History Project". Antipode Online Volume 56, Issue 3, pages 1027-1046. May 2024. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[nando161mando]

"Immigrants didn't take away your affordable housing, rich landlords and greedy politicians did!" (EN: English)

[anda-korrado-housing]

In preparation for Dawntrail, my apartment received a makeover inspired by the Age of Exploration and private bungalows in the Amazon Rainforest. Open for visitors on Zodiark, Lavender Beds, 8th Ward, Room 36!

[andallshallbewell]

[sepublic]

I noticed the way Philip engages with magic in this very science-y way with his equations and mathematics, whereas Luz and the others with wild magic, it comes across as more spiritual in how Luz ‘communes’ with the Titan at the Knee, the emphasis on mutualistic relationships, etc.

And I can’t help but wonder if there’s some commentary here on Western Enlightenment-era schools of thought, how this went hand in hand with colonialism because you have these white guys talking about how they’re objective, they’re rational, they’re able to quantify and categorize things. And this makes them superior to those indigenous cultures and beliefs with their ‘feelings-based’ superstitions.

And this assumption of rationality, of being objective goes hand in hand with the assumption of themselves as the default, the abuse of science to justify racism such as in eugenics, etc. Yet we see how this westerner brings havoc upon the environment and ecosystem, while it’s the witches and demons indigenous who were able to co-exist, who are able to help heal this world even as they protected what was left.

There’s also the colonial consumption of other cultures as a thing to be studied and analyzed and turned into data, without any regard for the actual practices and sentiments of the culture, beyond being reduced to this foreign object of study defined by how it’s different from the ‘default’.

Thus, we have Blue Fang’s titular body part, something obviously dear to him and his family, being looted from his corpse; Actual living people reduced to anthropology to be studied and objectified. We have Palismen and magic all observed and consumed, sometimes literally, through the colonial lens. A colonizer is breaching sacred ground so he can learn about it, ignoring the boundaries of the locals. The British, for whom the Puritans came directly from, would dig up Egyptian mummies and even eat them in their orientalist fascination…

Not to mention how magic is processed literally and figuratively through an industrial lens, via Belos’ magitech; How this contrasts with Alador, who is an actual witch who participates in the culture, using his magitech to undo the damage of colonialism. Belos is demanding the isles and its magic; He impersonates the appearances of witches through the ears, and steals the Titan’s appearance after possessing her heart. So you have cultural appropriation and racefaking on top of that!

[scoriarose]

They regularly ask me to let them in the other's enclosure so they can cuddle. When Sakura thought I was pestering her sister she put herself between me and her; incredibly brave of her as she is still afraid of human hands (but much better than she use to be.)

When Sakura gets frightened she'll run to her sister and often hide her head under her.

Both enjoy exploring and doing their enrichment activities together. Seeing this on a daily basis, and the bond these little ones have with each other (and me) I think more research needs to be done regarding the current belief Hognose snakes are incapable of emotion or bonding, and are completely solitary. While both go to their individual dens after socializing, both seek each other out and cuddle together. (They are only allowed together while I'm there watching as sometimes snakes will eat each other, and they seem to enjoy having their own home space when it isn't play/cuddle time.) Sakura benefits so much being with her sister, just being near her she's exponentially braver and far less jumpy, and will watch her sister with great interest learning from her.

[vampyre-merrow]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Historic Federal Era 1742 Chanceford Hall mansion is for sale in Snow Hill, MD. It's currently a bed & breakfast and is like stepping back in time. 6bds, 7ba, 5,172 sq ft, $849,900.

Gorgeous formal Federal home. Usually, they are painted Federal Blue, but I really like the green.

Isn't this beautiful jewel toned emerald green?

Look at this little built-in cupboard and the detail on the fireplace surround.

Original hardware on the door.

Gorgeous dining room.

Impeccably maintained home.

Check out this kitchen. The fireplace is original, but the reno is wonderful. Love the corbels on the island.

It's a real chef's kitchen - commercial appliances for the B&B.

It's an eat-in kitchen, too. Nice for the family.

Beautiful bedrooms. I'm wondering if the furnishings are included, b/c even though the listing says that you can use it as a B&B &/or a private residence, "Every guest you have will forever be telling stories of your amazing home to their friends years after they have come to stay."

Each bedroom has its own ensuite.

Also, according to the listing, the home is so special, it's been featured in several magazines. This large room has a sink.

Right across from the sink there's a nice big built-in closet.

The rooms are large enough to easily fit 2 beds.

This looks like the owner's bedroom.

Nice sun room.

Little alcove w/coffee, books and games for guests.

This room in the attic looks like a family member's bedroom and bath.

This private office would make a great studio.

Lap pool under a pergola + a patio.

1.10 acres of land.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/209-W-Federal-St-Snow-Hill-MD-21863/37765499_zpid/