#buying a plot of land

[front-facing-pokemon]

[gothamcitycentral]

I find the parallels between Vaggie/Charlie and Carmilla/Zestial to be really neat.

Vaggie and Carmilla both leapt to the defense of Charlie and Zestial. Both bite their tongue at danger and disrespect directed towards themselves, but when who they care about is the one being threatened, they react with no hesitation or composure to defend them.

In conjunction, Charlie and Zestial are both more powerful than Vaggie and Carmilla (even if this is more strongly implied in Zestial’s case). Yet they seem so much more hesitant to act on this power. Charlie explicitly hates using her royal status or fighting people, while Zestial just endures Velvette’s insults and questioning, only making small verbal defenses of his position. Not to mention how they’re both much older than Vaggie and Carmilla. Charlie is a slow aging immortal and Zestial is the oldest living Overlord and is on the regular described as ancient.

Charlie and Zestial both see themselves as someone Vaggie and Carmilla should confide in. Charlie isn’t upset that Vaggie was Exorcist, rather that she never told her. While Zestial “implores [Carmilla] to share the load.” He’s worried about this weight she’s carrying by herself, and wants to support her. I imagine Charlie felt similarly, Vaggie has been carrying her secret in silence for years, and with Charlie dedicating her life to helping others, it must her to know someone she’s so close to has been hurting this long.

“Ain’t you supposed to protect this place?”

“I’ll keep you safe, and keep this secret.”

There’s also how their ‘protector role’ seems completely self assigned. I highly doubt Charlie ever wanted Vaggie to be her personal guard, and Zestial reacts in surprise at being included with who Carmilla is ‘keeping safe.’ If you take Zestial’s reaction (or lack their of) to Velevette, you could make the point they do this because Charlie and him are unlikely to defend themselves (or at the very least hesitate to do so). Which I think speaks to the intrinsic sense of duty Vaggie and Carmilla have.

[astoldbychae]

I'm working on something. . .but I got...distracted.. 🥴

BRB Papa's making a pit stop in Chestnut Ridge. . .

and he made a friend named Domino. 🙃

Ya'll can blame @kozykhaos @cinamun and @simsimulation for these random C.R. shenanigans. Oh, and that new stand still in cas mod that I forgot I had in game until I clicked on Melo and fell to my knees cause his big, fine ass was staring into my soul. . .😩

[spengie]

Genuine question. I'm a single mom with two young boys, a sole small business owner, and a homeowner. I have massive student debt, healthcare is always expensive, and I underpay myself so I can pay more money and benefits to my employees. I have a second job to try to make up the difference.

Do I stay and fight, or do I run? I'm terrified that my entire means to support my family and my ability to continue to support my family and my employees and their families is going to be taken from me.

I understand the benefit of showing my kids how to stay and fight. But I also desperately want them to not have to fight for basic human rights. I don't want them to be where I am, massively in debt, struggling to pay for basic necessities, working 60-80 hours a week to keep my dream alive. To keep my community alive. To keep my kids alive.

My personal instinct is to stay and fight. My mom instinct is to protect my boys and flee.

They are at war. I am at war, with myself.

[weirdbabs]

do you think that the guerra household has money now? i dont mean like rich kind of money but enough to be comfortable? to own beachfront property, right off the shore of a popular tourist town (and probably vacation destination) is expensive, even if her grandfather owned it and its been passed down. would the rewritten narrative be that fransisco and his wife decided to splurge on a plot of land on the beach or perhaphs an old lighthouse and he built the house himself? do they have people make offers on the house to the tune of millions that they keep turning down?

[notbecauseofvictories]

In the Chicagoland area, there's a guy whose entire thing is foraging---actually finding plants in the wild, and then turning around and selling them to chefs and other interested parties. I know this guy exists, because his local tour popped up in my weekly "are you bored in Chicago? here are all the things to do so as not to be bored!" search, and I fell down a rabbit hole of this dude and how he found his way to this incredibly weird job.

Anyway, I took the guy's tour today and although I remember not a single name of a single plant (I am bad with names) I had an amazingly good time wandering around Chicago's lakefront and listening to him talk.

[the-bot-marg0t]

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[voidthewanderer]

Sorry, another parental unit rant here.

It pisses me off that literally every single fucking day my father asks me when I’m next working. Like, it does not matter if I have it written on the calendar or not, he constantly asks me.

So, he knows I have to be to work by 11a today. It’s on the calendar, has been on the calendar for over a week, and he’s asked me multiple times. Everybody knows for that matter. Because, again, it’s on the calendar and my SM always puts me on a midshift the day of my Stelara injection.

We got like four inches of snow and have a fairly long driveway. Like, it takes two hours to shovel, long. Probably longer because the snow was mixed with some ice last night when I got out of work; so it’s gonna be heavy AF.

It’s looking like I’m gonna have to skip breakfast to go shovel. But yesterday, I was demanded to go outside to brush the dusting of snow off my car only to be told literally five minutes later that it was already done for me because “my tire pressure was low”.

Which, by the way, the warning light is still on. Because there’s something wrong with the sensor and it’s always on in the winter. It’s been like that since I got the car like five years ago. And most likely always been like that because it’s a 2009.

I don’t think I ask for much. Mostly because they fucking made me feel like asking for help was wrong. But like… in what goddamn universe is asking for help to shovel heavy fucking snow because you have to work wrong? Especially after getting home thirty minutes after my shift, visibly limping because of being in agony. Especially knowing that I really have no leg to stand on calling out when my job is literally less than five minutes away by car. Knowing that, if I did have to call out, I’d be bitched at because “why did you call out? Why are you being lazy?”

Idk dude, my left knee is swollen AF and I gotta wear my fucking knee brace I had to get custom made after getting the bursae ruptured and shifting my kneecap back when I worked at Lowe’s today because I stood for like nine hours straight last night. My right hip is stiff for the same reasons. As is my back. Just fucking help me, please. God.

[awesomebutunpractical]

Marty's father is a frustrating combination of extremely gullible and extremely lucky - the man never has to learn his lesson.

"And you said it was a scam." He says with a gleeful squint towards his very "it WAS!' son.

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

My aunt was telling me they were coming out with a Futurama Movie and wanted to show me the trailer and y'all....

It was AI Ryan Reynolds but with bright orange hair and freaky ass AI Leela. She keeps watching these ai videos and keeps believing they're real until I tell her otherwise

[front-facing-pokemon]

[emeraldbabygirl]

I hate it here. Not like tumblr but ya’know. I miss when I was a kid and only thought about how long I had to play with my toys because I was carefree and not of age yet to worry about adult stuff. I want time to just stop. I want it to stop I’m tired of everything I want off this ride and the only way I know how to make it all stop is forbidden. I just want to stay in bed forever and pretend I’m a kid playing with my toys again without a care in the world because I am a kid.

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

lupin iii special where some swindler is impersonating lupin and selling people guarantees that he won't rob them. lupin discovers this when he robs one of the suckers and is pleasantly surprised/confused by the lack of security, then is unpleasantly surprised when he turns on the tv the next morning and the big story is how lupin iii has no honor, he's a cheat, he breaks his promises, etc etc. for the purpose of this premise, this is a lupin who cares about that and he is incensed. someone is slandering his good name! he has to track down this no-good-impersonator and reveal them to the world so everyone will know he's a trustworthy thief. the special ends with a montage of him robbing everyone who bought an anti-thievery guarantee from the swindler guy.

[rivrsin]

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[queerlycarter]

biggest thing i'm excited about with this carpentry apprenticeship program is that it will give me the skills to build my own barn in like 10+ years when i can start the mustang rescue (which will also be a boarding facility bc i gotta make money somehow) i want to do

esp because it will make buying land for it way easier bc i won't have to find somewhere that already has a barn that at least partially suits my needs*

i could buy a plot of land with suitable fields and a house and do my own fencing and build my own barn and implement whatever barn design elements i want

and after my apprenticeship if i also do a contractor program i won't need to hire a contractor, i'll be my own contractor.

the apprenticeship classes dont start until august and i cant wait. this is the first time since i graduated high school that i feel excited and hopeful about my future and it feels really really good

*you need a pretty specific setup for mustangs bc a lot of times when you first get them, especially fresh from the holding pen (which isn't going to be my main focus. my main focus will be rehabilitating failed adoptions**) they are terrified of everything and at the very least, you need basically. a chute to funnel them from the trailer to the pen you'll be keeping them in until they are ready for a stall. you need that pen to withstand a thousand pound panicking animal throwing themselves around. you need a pen they cant escape from or injure themselves too badly. ideally this is backed up to the barn or a shelter where they can enter a stall of their own will.

and ideally i would have multiple of these (a portable trailer chute would be SO sexy too...) and i would also like a large covered ring in which to work with them and hold classes

and obviously a hay barn bc keeping all your hay in the barn is how you get your whole facility burned down

**failed adoptions with mustangs are basically when someone adopts a mustang but they are "too wild" (read: traumatized/flighty) and need a lot of specialized work to get to a point where they're not freaking out about everything constantly all the time

[wawataka]

I JUST GOT RAYMOND ON MY ISLAND FUCK YOUUUU ROSIEEE