#assessment appeal

[cutmytaxes1]

Grundy County IL Assessment Appeal

Grundy County assessor values all real estate and personal property in the county. Check your home and property is worth lower its assessed value. But How ? Reach https://www.cutmytaxes.com/illinois/grundy-county-assessment-appeal/

[oconnor2023]

DuPage County IL Assessment Appeal - Cut My Taxes

DuPage County assessor values all real estate and personal property in the county. Check your home and property is worth lower its assessed value. But How ? Reach https://www.cutmytaxes.com/illinois/dupage-county-property-tax-reduction/

[foxflowering]

i'm going to start gatekeeping being a hater. i am! if you want to rip into some booktok book for being superficial, ridiculous, brain-rotting, frothy nonsense, whatever, you have to provide me with a list of the books you've read over the last 24 months. because some of you bitches smugly asserting your intellectual superiority over one another are not reading shit !

[icewindandboringhorror]

It's always interesting to hear about people's weird/unexpected "alternate life paths". Like, something that you could have done with your life, a job you almost took, a school you almost went to, etc - that was still actually realistic enough that it could have happened, but NOW it seems to not suit your current personality.

Like for example, I currently hate advertising (how manipulative it is, brands trying to be 'relatable', social media amplifying it to an obnoxious extreme, etc.) so much that even seeing a little ad before a youtube video is grating to even witness, but there was a point in time where I was genuinely seriously considering going into marketing/making commercials as a career lol. Or like, I have a relative who was very inclined to be a pastor when they were younger, even though today they're a super strong atheist, etc. etc.

[pinkberrypocky]

pmmm rewatch live notes: ep 7

this episode is so good for the kyoko sayaka of it all. god the fucking tree of knowledge fruit of knowledge symbolism in this ep is SO

Kyubey is such a victim blamer

When Sayaka gets upset and ask why he didn’t tell them about the soul gems he says because they never asked which shifts the blame the them

The way he makes sayaka feel the pain of being stabbed to prove his point about teh use of soul gems is SO FUCKED

Hes trying to make them thankful to him for fucking with their souls by torturing them and saying look how bad it would have been

Mother gothel core tbh

The opening is madoka core madoka pov and the ending is homura core homura pov

I said this already but the part of the opening where madokami embraces madoka  makes me literally feral

Madoka is so upset and horrified by the realities of the situation that she is unable to accept them as reality and make decisions that have any real impact (again literally me fr)

Until the end of course

Homura looks so hurt when madoka asks her why she is always so cold

Her hair shadows her eyes and she looks at her marked fingernail with disdain

When kyoko leads sayaka to the church she is a black silhouette against a yellow/orange sky

Kyoko kicks down the door to the church and crushes a beam beneath her feet

Kyoko offers sayaka an apple before trying to convince her that being selfless is not the way to go

Sayaka rejects it 

Representative of rejecting the fruit of knowledge and stubbornly keeping naivety

Kyoko’s dad is lowkey just a cult leader who was really bad at it

The way kyoko holds the puppet of her dad up in the lore drop is representative of how she held him up in his religious efforts by making her wish

Kyoko also used to think of being a magical girl as a way to save the world but now she knows better

Sayaka is blank staring at kyoko during the whole story

She cannot truly listen to kyoko bc if she did she would see that kyoko is right and where would that leave her?

Kyoko says “If you wish for hope an equal amount of despair will come” AAAAAAAA

Homura wishes to be with madoka who is the personification of hope and in fighting for that she gets life after life of despair

Kyoko says that she only thinks about herself but that’s really not true at all otherwise she wouldn't be trying to enlighten sayaka

In a way kyoko is the same as her dad, preaching to others about how they can be saved only to never be listened to 

Sayaka condemns kyoko for stealing the food and has a weird moral high ground about not eating them because of it

As if she thinks she’s better for not having to steal

She so blinded by her view of the world at this point that she can’t recognize the class difference and privilege that she acknowledged in earlier eps

Actually speaking of the duality of kyoko’s wish reflecting her character that kind of applies to all of them

Madoka wishes to create hope/eliminate despair/loneliness and in the process makes it so that she is forever alone and takes on everything for everyone else

Sayaka wishes to heal kyosuke and ends up not letting herself be with him since she no longer sees herself as human

Mami wishes to stay alive and ends up dying in ep 3

Homura wishes for madoka and ends up in a world without her

When hitomi and sayaka talk about kyosuke and hitomi admits her feelings they are the only ones in the restaurant 

All the other seats are drawn in but empty

When madoka asks to come witch hunting with sayaka sayaka says “you’re too kind”

Mirrors what homura says often

Sayaka admits that she is failing at being a warrior of justice when she wished for a moment that she hadn’t saved hitomi so that she could be with kyosuke 

The reason she has such a big breakdown is bc this isn’t just about kyosuke its about her morals that she is living for being proved wrong in an undeniable way 

So what is she even fighting for?

When sayaka is fighting a witch that night she no longer cares about getting hurt since she knows she will be fine as long as her soul gem stays in tact

We only see her silhouette in black against a white background

Reflects her black and white thinking

The witch forms branch like shapes to attack her

Being attacked/hurt by the tree of knowledge

Blood on her face forms tears as she laughs and smiles widely

She says it works to detach herself and she doesn’t feel anything anymore bc her whole world has ended bc her ideals were her everything and now she can’t even have those

[cinnasaur]

WELLL i got a letter basically saying "we have determined that you're disabled as fuck. someone will contact you soon" which i think means my application was approved??? i think i just gotta go do a bunch of paperwork and hang in there a little longer and then i will be sooo relieved to not have to beg for food money again

[anetherealpoetess]

really interesting development in glen powell's conservative dog-whistling which i highlighted on this tumblr a week or so ago now. the new york times has just covered twisters among other films pandering to conservatives (article is behind a paywall here):

and why is this happening? the article states:

"Ticket buyers in red states were the fastest to return to theaters after the pandemic, while those in coastal cities were the slowest. Some large markets, including San Francisco, have not fully recovered, according to studio distribution executives."

so. twisters is a conservative film. this is really evident in both its star and its director dog-whistling to republicans in interviews, but also in the film itself: the female star of the original not being invited back even for a tiny cameo, the hero of this film being republican-coded, no climate change mentioned even in passing, a character outright stating the heroine in this film "cannot be trusted" because she is from new york, the anti-intellectualism, the rodeo scene, a male character mansplaining to a female character, a meteorologist, basic facts about tornadoes, etc. i could go on.

and why is this a problem besides the really obvious? well, GLAAD's broadcast findings reported a dramatic decrease in LGBTQ+ representation last year. this trend is going to get worse. storytelling is regressing politically. less LGBTQ+ characters, less female characters, less any-characters besides straight white christian men. (yeah. religion is a big one also. look at the meltdown over the harmless paris olympics opener.)

we're going backwards, and they'll disguise it as "we don't want to preach a message. we just want to entertain." but we all know what their real intention is: making as much money as possible, even if it means shafting anyone who is not a conservative straight white christian man. (hollywood really saw women flock to the barbie movie and said, "we need more movies about toys!" and not, "we need more movies about women.")

twisters is a sub-par film. that's not the issue here. the issue is it's a canary in a coal mine. it is one of the first big blockbusters post-pandemic to brazenly cater to conservative audiences. i mentioned in my last post olivia culpo's soft-launch as a trad-wife was immediately highlighted and called out on tiktok. powell did not face this immediate backlash because he's a man. he has more room to play. i'm actually shocked the new york times called twisters out. i respect it though.

[lesenbyan]

No matter how often you say you're not getting your hopes up, you always do, don't you

[boabel]

today was absolutely horrific if u can pls send in random tbosas hcs to cheer me up 😭

[cutmytaxes1]

Kane County | Assessment Appeal

Kane County assessor values all real estate and personal property in the county. Check your home and property is worth lower its assessed value. But How ? Reach https://www.cutmytaxes.com/illinois/kane-county-assessment-appeal/

[oconnor2023]

Kane County | Assessment Appeal

Kane County assessor values all real estate and personal property in the county. Check your home and property is worth lower its assessed value. But How ? Reach https://www.cutmytaxes.com/illinois/kane-county-assessment-appeal/

[ofglories]

No comment on the assessment of his knight.

[butimnotseventeen]

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[pagetorn]

spent my whole lunch talking to a man who continued to talk in circles about his assessment and the taxes he's paying because the property sold for 450k in 2020 and the assessment was 300k so it was increased to 370k due to comparable sales, his sale, and the RENOVATIONS that was done to the property. sir, it's 2023 not 2020.

[orchidbreezefc]

this is somewhat off-topic from the premise that different body types are equally appealing, so forgive me that, but the male sitcom writer model of heterosexuality makes me think of the 'odd couple'* dynamic: a feminine, sensitive, neat freak who elicits endless homophobic jabs vs a loud, rude, hypermasculine slob drowning in ladies.

like bitch, where? you can't honestly expect me to believe that even straight women would prefer a slovenly, crude nightmare over a man who, what? enjoys poetry? goes to the opera? showers? not to mention gay male characters who fall for straight dudes with unwashed asses--kings, i'm so sorry an ugly bitch like straight male writers would say that about you.

the wildest example of misjudging men's attractiveness in both directions that comes to mind is netflix's daredevil, where matt murdock is supposedly getting laid left and right and foggy nelson can't get a date, because matt is conventionally attractive and foggy is, what, fat? but the thing is, foggy nelson is a fucking catch. he's hilarious! he has weapons grade charisma.

and yes, he's pretty hot imho! perhaps i wouldn't think so without the personality, but like op said, he's not attractive despite his appearance. it's like a reverse of that incel cycle where a man's bitterness over his looks puts people off; foggy's so appealing as a person that you go yeah, sure, i can work with this. i can get into that for sure.

and of course matt is very hot, love to see that man half-naked and bleeding, but going on a date with that man and trying to have a conversation seems like a recipe for crawling out the bathroom window before the entrée arrives. was it meant to say blind people can be desirable too? that's nice and all, but fuck, matt murdock is a social nightmare. he's got a face and body that makes you want to chat him up and a personality and demeanor that makes you turn around and leave.

*i've never seen the o.g. odd couple so idk if it's actually rancid in this way, but you know the trope.

I think there's a real tragedy in the way straight men don't see themselves the same way that people who are attracted to men see them. If you ask a straight man to describe what an attractive man looks like, there's very little variety - the masculine male ideal is tall, broad-shouldered, square-jawed with a cleft chin and built of sculpted muscle. The stereotypical image of an Alpha Male, someone whom he could respect, and envy.

And sure, there are plenty of women, gay men and people of all sorts who are attracted to to this specific type, even exclusively attracted to it, there is so much more variety in this, both in the tastes and their subjects.

The stereotype of "hot wife, ugly husband"-couples was drawn from the observations of straight men, from their own perspective. Women going after men that men find unattractive makes no sense to them, and they figure that women are willing to overlook being ugly if a man's funny, smart or rich enough. If a woman insists that she's attracted to a specific man who isn't attractive by their standards, they'll assume that she's lying.

The tragic part is when a man who believes himself to be ugly grows bitter over this, developing a foul personality which people do find repulsive, and then uses their repeated experiences of being romantically rejected as proof that they're physically unattractive, insisting that surely women would overlook his heinousness if only he was tall and muscular enough, and had the right bone structure. The self-feeding vicious cycle of being a bitter incel is born.

The thing about "ugly men with a good personality can still be attractive" is that they're usually not even ugly. Some people do genuinely find fat and hairy men, thin and delicate men, short men and feminine men attractive. There's as much variety as in cheese, you can't compare aura to brie. And just like in cheese, as long as you're not toxic, somebody's into that. You just need to find the right wine to compliment it.

[caymannewsservice]

Social welfare overhaul reaches final stages

Social Development Minister André Ebanks (CNS): Two years after the Financial Assistance Act was passed in parliament and a year after the regulations were implemented, the Needs Assessment Unit will officially become the Department of Financial Assistance (DFA) on 10 October, as work continues on reforming the delivery of welfare assistance to those in need. A number of changes have already…