#got a real cool piece incoming tho

[barbwillbrb]

Lineart is my favorite part of the drawing process... until I make a piece with so many fucking details I lose my mind.

FUCKING ELIXIRS OF HILL GIANT STRENGTH.

FUCKING STUPID ASS BOTTLES WITH ALL THEIR FUCKING DETAILS.

WHY DID I ADD SO MANY OF THEM TO THIS BITCH.

WHY DO I HATE MYSELF.

[tiodolma]

I remember you said you hate Arthur 😗 What are your thoughts on Gwen? Do you like Gwencelot?

guinevere guinevere guinevere... RANT INCOMING. Hot takes generator coming along. brace yourself.

hmm i think she had a lot of potential at the start especially in s1. She was spunky. She had really good rapport with merlin. It felt like she and him could have done a lot of pranks and hijinks.

Then when mergana (the whole shebang) started to happen i thnk they pushed her to become more of arthur's voice of reason as replacement for the spot morgana used to hold.

it's still a little weird how she and arthur got together tbh. Like okay, her views on arthur started to change when he began saving merlin's life i in the cup of life episode. But Idk i wish we could've seen more introspection on her part?

She's not like Merlin and Morgana who had high hopes for Arthur from the very start. Both of them had been working on Arthur from the Bottom and Top. Merlin was peasantry and Morgana was nobility and they both pushed Arthur to be the kinda cool dude he was in S1. And I feel like she got pulled along by MM's efforts to see the good in Arthur. Where does Guinevere fit in all of this? In the middle… I guess because it worked! MM's efforts showed that there was hope in Arthur and Guinevere acknowledged that. Then in s2 when Merlin became more focused in thwarting Morgana in and when Morgana's powers truly awakened and her hate for Uther deepened... Guinevere was what? left to pick up the pieces? I think?

I'm saying this because in s2 both MerMor were already stepping into their destinies, the real "I want to do what's best for Arthur and Camelot." phase. Guinevere was stuck in the weird spot of just being the one who truly cares for Arthur as person.

Now I know this sounds ArWen-positive. but on Gwen's side.

The problem with Arthur tho is that once someone is kind to him he he holds that person on a pedestal and only wants to see that version ever. IDEK why in the span of five seasons, he still has a low opinion on women and girls, he still has this chivalric notions that it's a men's world and girls should just be protected and kept in the dark and that servants should just stay as servants. Moreover his attitude with the women Uther tries to make him marry is abhorrent. He doesn't like the girls who challenge and mirror him too much (like Vivian or Elena from The Changeling). For him his ideal woman is the prim proper perfect loyal- looks good as nobility type. He has this like list of what makes a perfect woman for him and it's so incel-like lol. The moment any of these make a mistake, he casts them away (yes even guinevere). He can make all those "I am doing this for the kingdom" "my love can never be" "what would my father think" excuses but what happened when Guinevere became his queeen and chief adviser? He kept things from her and won't listen to her as his voice of reason. He's honestly frustrating tbh. His ego mixes with his notion of being a "King" and a "Man" and he kept pulling rank at both his Queen and Merlin.

This leads me back to Guinevere just being pulled by the story and cleaning up all the messes ArMerGana leave behind. It's complicated. She's a reflection of whoever was close to her. When she was still close to Morgana, she thought Arthur was a prick. When she was close to Merlin, she almost shared his views of Arthur being the "best thing ever." When MerGana decided that Arthur was an okay dude, guinevere also rode that boat. When Arthur was king and was already like "magic users are all lunatics" Guinevere became like, "yass ur right u have a point." Morgana tortures and brainwashes her and she becomes the latter's ultimate weaopn. Merlin lies to her constantly and she's just "fine whatever you say Merlin teehee but i'm watching you OwO." Arthur abuses Merlin even as King and Guinvere is still like "Aww you two are so cute, but i also think merlin staying as ur servant serving you for eternity is alright."

On one hand ppl can say that she can make her own judgement. Ofc she can. But I wish I saw more? just more. What are her hopes and dreams outside of arthur, merlin, morgana or elyan? Did she want to be a smithy? did she want to be a maidservant forever? did she hope to be a lady in waiting? did she want to become an apprentice of gaius? did she want to be queen? was she not upset that merlin and arthur kept secrets from her? (this was a deleted scene from s5 btw) does she even want a kid? we dont even know that! we know nothing!

She was interesting as Queen, I admit, but bruh it was still like watching Morgana and Arthur on the throne (and lets be real she had been their representative on both times). It's annoying. And this is my point. Guinevere is like... a shapeshifter or chameleon. That's why even now we could never tell what she would be like as queen post-series. WE DON'T KNOW GUINEVERE.

it's like she was whatever the narrative wanted her to be. Maybe that's the point then, that it's her destiny to be the boat that tries to keep itself afloat as the natural disasters called Arthur, Morgana and Merlin swirled and raged around her.

the only light at the end of that tunnel i think was Lancelot. His presence made her actually pursue stuff/hopes/dreams. AND IT SHOWS. They remind me of MerGana in their intense moments in s1-s4. GwenCelot chemistry is electric as hell. THEY WANT EACH OTHER, not for the king or queen or knight that they can become BUT EACH OTHER.

When Merlin and Guinevere weren't too wrapped up in "arthur is actually a good guy deep inside, just trust me on this, give him a chance give him a chance give him a chance" moments, when Merlin and Guinevere PURSUE SOMETHING ELSE, I see honesty, I see something RAW, i can see cracks in the facade forced on them just by merely being in Arthur's presence start to fade and break down.

So yeah. Lancelot had to be killed early coz what would happen to the "King Arthur is the best and hottest sht in the universe" narrative if we had actual Mr. Anime Protagonist Lancelot Du Lac in the show?

GwenCelot needed to happen. I was waiting for it so bad. I was so excited for it. It would have been he perfect foil to ArGwen. It would have added a lot more spice to the show. It would have made Guinevere a more well rounded character with her own hopes and wants instead of the "she's the only braincell holding this group together" character. I want to know Guinevere better, all the good and the bad and not just this impossible perfect angel that the show carved her out to be.

overall thoughts on guinevere? started interesting, ended up boring, gave us nothing.

overall thoughts on gwencelot? yes pls give us the dramatic, encompases beyond all reason courtly romance that arthuriana is known for.

[stumbledownpretendalleyways]

Dream SMP characters and my thoughts on them (as of Feb 4th) as someone who mainly just watches TommyInnit and the rest of the bench trio

(/neg for some characters but i have nothing against any of the streamers)

Update: June 2022

(should update that again but i literally only watch tommy and tubbo and they haven’t done lore in a while)

Update: 15. November 2022

C!Tommy - 🥰🥰🥰

- can do no wrong.

- has suffered a lot.

- deserves a nice father figure and some peace

- FINALLY HAS A HAPPY ENDING

- you thought

- but he died in an heroic way

C!Tubbo - 🥰

- does he still likea da bee?

- best president of l’manburg

- smart for marrying rich

- cool remote base

- i-

- …rip

- actually teared up a bit

C!Wilbur - 🥰

- was dead for most of the time i watched

- manipulator

- shoulda stayed dead

- changed emoji because i feel like he changed for the better

-patching up stuff (tubbo, eret, tommy, techno,..)

- giving C!Tommy his happy ending

- fucking utah

C!Dream - 🔪🩸 HE NEEDA HIS OWN EMOJI W/ PUNZ

- do i even have to?

- manipulator, murderer, gaslighter

- mainly don’t like him because he won’t leave C!Tommy alone

- mf just don’t change

- don’t have no power over C!Tommy anymore

- DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

- oh wait you did ☺️

- no words just. he got what he deserved.

C!Techno - 🤬

- Doomsday

- Literally has no right to meddle in half the stuff he meddles in and than gets pissed at people for being pissed

- streamer funny tho

- not about c!techo… but gotta say. even though i didn’t like c!techno, i think he was a good villain. also loved how much lore he wanted to do.

C!Philza - 🤬

- literally wtf

- not a great father figure

- if tommy gives up material things dream will just kill tubbo to get to him dickhead

C!Ranboo - 🥰

- didn’t like that he stole C!Tommy’s best friend

- made up for it by sticking by C!Tommy through the exile arc

- weird bloke

C!Sapnap - 🤨

- didn’t like him for being on C!Dreams side for so long

- and betraying C!Tommy like 3 times

- redemption arc incoming???

C!Karl - 🥰

- cool for time traveling

- humbled C!Quackity

C!Quackity - 🤬

- great villain

- tortured C!Dream and even though i don’t like C!Dream, torture is a bit much

C!Foolish - 🥰

- is with C!Quackity but i still like him

- hasn’t done anything wrong really

- nice builds

- want him to have the books and power

- don’t know about the whole souls for XD thing

C!Slime - 🥰🥰🥰

- good boy

- RIP

- pls come back

C!Purpled - 🤬

- die in hell

C!Niki - 🤬

- idk but kinda iffy vibes

- streamer incredible though

C!Jack - 🤬

- doesn’t like C!Tommy

- has valid reasons

- but i like C!Tommy

- fucking screwed everything up

- still kinda sad he also ended up dying

C!Punz - 🔪🩸

- ruined my favourite moment almost a year later by revealing he never left C!Dream’s side

- traitor

- no words either

- except

- he just wasn’t making any sense

- just. weird monologues.

- had it coming

C!Fundy - 🤬

- kinda disappeared after L’Manburg right?

- idk

- oh he’s in Las Nevadas right? nvm

- was nice to tommy during exile tho

- RIP

C!Schlatt - 🤬

- piece of shit

- stay in hell

- would be funny if he came back though

C!Tina - 🥰

- has done no wrong

- vegetarian in game

C!Eryn - 🥰

- low-key C!Dream apologist

- but funny

- vegetarian in real life and i respect that

- gave C!Tommy a knife

- cool lore ideas

DreamXD - 🥰

- funny

- should’ve given C!Foolish more for the statue

- cool lore tho

C!George - 🤬

- C!Tommy got exiled for burning his stupid house and now it’s a cat café

- wtf

- not there for most things

- dream lore made me mad even if it was a dream.

C!Connor - 🥰

- con: he’s a capitalist

- but funny

- very funny

C!Eret - 🥰

- low-key redeemed himself

- just chilling in his castle

- COOL MUSEUM

C!Ponk - 🤬

- no clue in what lore he’s been

- but kanye stan so it’s a no

C!Antfrost - 🥰

- con: did the egg thing and killed foosh

- but he’s a cat so i like him

C!BadBoyHalo - 🤬🤬🤬

- DESTROYED PRIME PATH

- TWICE

- helped C!Dream escape

- C!Dream apologist

- path looks shit now

- i was mad about path. still am but it’s alright lmao

- annoys foolish and i can respect that

C!Awesamdude - 🥰

- might’ve killed C!Ranboo and let Ghostbur die but one of the few people who actually sees C!Dream as the threat he is

- unless he’s being gaslit right now

- foolish/dream/sam lore at the summer home made me feel so weird and kinda sorry for him

Ghostbur - 💙💙💙

- RIP u legend

- have some blue

C!Hannah - 🥰

- she deserved the elytra (rip)

- fairy

- pretty

C!Puffy - 🥰

- great dad

- revenged her son

- i think. did she? very confused by egg

C!Skeppy - 🤬

- didn’t keep up with egg lore

- has he been in any other lore?

- bitch for not giving tommy cat

Glatt - 🤬

- is he even a thing?

- if so i don’t like him

Sam Nook - 🥰🥰🥰

- my beloved

- good friend of C!Tommy

- :(

C!Callahan - 🥰

- is he canon?

- good boy either way

C!HBomb - 🤨

- idk

- cat maid?

Boo - 🥰

- great ghost

C!Vikkstar123 - 🥰

- deserved better

- cool guy

C!LazarBeam - 🥰

- same as Vikk

- visited Tommy and gave him a present

C!Boomer - 🥰

- don’t know much about him

- 🍑

- seems alright

C!Aimsey - 🥰

- beef with tubbo was funny

- idk what they do but seem wholesome

C!CPK - 🥰

- idk what he does really

[infinitethree]

Alright this time this is for Theo. Here’s a little context for why your father decided to jump out a window: “Ok SO! Incredibly cursed idea incoming, directed at Day. One day in your multiversal travels you come across a version of you, not Dream, but you, in a happy and loving relationship with Philza Minecraft, the other world’s version of Darkza. However this relationship came to be, whether it’s after Kristin and Phil split or they have an open relationship does not matter. What would your reaction be?”. I sent him this message. Also, I know exactly who Philza Minecraft is. It’s why I chose him and not someone like George. Have a nice day now!

Theo is starting to suspect that the askers find his suffering entertaining.

It's the only reason he can find for why the context of the incident that happened half a day ago pops into his head right when he takes a swig of his soda.

Naturally, half of it is spat back out and a fourth of it exits via his nose. The last fourth feels like it went straight into his lungs. None of those should have any liquids going through them that way, much less a carbonated one.

Plus now his shirt, the couch, and the coffee table are going to be both damp and sticky. The later two can be cleaned fairly easily--and are marred by far more dubious stains anyway--but he does not want to admit to Aver that he may have fucked up another of his casual wear shirts.

Aver–Tommy Prime–was terrifying in a way that Theo never would have imagined he could become when he first met him. You just didn’t cross the guy, because he’s the single most powerful person on the server. Aver has a stranglehold on the entire clothing and fabric import, production, and export related to the server. Anything related to that goes through him at one point or another–up to and including employing at least a dozen other Tommys full time.

He also runs off of spite and probably-eldritch coffee. The guy is cool, but he also maybe scared Theo a tiny bit. Hard not to respect, or not be glad he adored Lee. Said little brother has been learning sewing and embroidery from him for years now; Lee has a voracious appetite for learning any and every skill he could convince anyone to teach him.

Not that any of that will help him when Aver pulls out Seam Ripper to run him through. "Fuckin'--why?!" He's irritated, despairing, and overall unhappy with this entire turn of events. The Fates chitter in amusement at him, though.

I'll take weirdest things a voice in someone's head has said for 500, Alex No no some of you have said WAY weirder shit! I agree, some of you are cringe as hell Lmao look at this guy, thinks cringe culture isn't even deader than Niki Yeah, what rock have you been living under?? Same one that Lucid's sense of style crawled out from, apparently Ooooh burn

Theo puts his head in his hands and sighs. At least this train of thought might distract them from examining what just happened too closely. "Some of you have said some real fuckin’ weirdchamp things before, agreed."

Rude Hey in my defense…the frog looked tasty It was bright red tho??? Yeah like candy! Cherry flavored frog!! Bright colors means poison you piece of soggy toast Okay but if it was one of the ones that gets you high, it would have been VERY funny– Double D would have been mad tho He would have probably found it funny Not if we got Theo killed?!

"A frog wouldn't have fuckin’ killed me, I'm too incredibly pog for that," Theo argues. He’s more than a little offended that they think so little of him. They've been in his head over a decade, they should know better by now. "I would simply not die. Nature fuckin’ quivers before me."

Yeah okay, tell that to a box jellyfish Or a creeper Pfft you should go tell Sam he should quiver before you He DOES though???

His lip curls at the thought of the creeper hybrid. Sam never truly got off his shit list--his crimes may have been largely in his dad’s first life, but…well. Theo forgives nothing and no one for harming his family.

It didn't help that Theo had been forced to watch how the baseline version of the Vault went down at his dad's side. Or, more accurately, sat with him at the bottom of the lava wall and tried to ground him while they both did their best to block out Dream’s screams.

So, yeah, any Sam involved in shady shit related to the Vault was automatically on his bad side.

He's too wrapped up in his own thoughts to attempt herding the metaphorical cats in his head. This proves to be his downfall.

Wait…isn't that basically just selfcest? What the FUCK are you talking about Double D and Phil thing! Think about it, Double D is like…mostly Phil, right? I--no?? How does that make any sense??? I'm lost here too, actually No, no, that's a fair point. Double D is something like 4/5ths Philza, if we count memories as time he lived– DO we count them though??? He does! Yeah, see! Exactly! It TOTALLY counts, therefore we're entering very dangerous territory–

Desperately trying to reign in their bullshit before it ends with him needing to book a therapy appointment again, he tells them, "I'd fuckin’ appreciate if you all wouldn't discuss the idea of my dad n’ Philza being together or the--Dad is not mostly Philza, that's just fuckin stupid!"

Dee takes this exact moment to hop down from the level above and land right in front of his brother. His eyes are narrowed slightly in that way they get when he's trying to figure out if being nosy is worth the possible costs. He evidently decides they are because he asks, "...Care to explain?"

Theo isn't going to suffer through this alone; if this bullshit is being inflicted on him, he’s sharing that burden. He immediately says, "Dad got a real fuckin’ weirdchamp question asking how he would react to seeing a version of himself–him, not Dream–dating a version of Phil. His response was to just fuckin’ fling himself out the window. And now the Fates are fuckin’ debating if it counts as selfcest because of the ratio of memories that are Dad’s versus the ones from Phil. And now I got the same question for context because I was real fuckin’ confused."

After a moment to digest that, Dee gives a thoughtful hum. "I see." He pauses, and then adds, "I deeply regret asking. But since I did, I'm going to say for the sake of my sanity that it's not. As funny as it would be to tell Dad not to pull a Onceler on us, others are already doing that way more clearly. Fates, please stop creating cognitohazards. Theo is enough of one already."

Theo's outraged squawk is coupled with loud laughter from the Fates.

Dee saw where I was going with that!!! Theo tell your older brother he's the second best Wait you were thinking of Onceler??? In this day and age??? Some of us are haunted by those dark, dark times I thought it was all very entertaining, actually And that's why we keep a spritz bottle for YOU I've evolved beyond being afraid of that!! I'm stronger now. I am unstoppable– Yeah that's why there’s a second bottle with bleach. Oh that sounds painful actually. No thanks!

As always, Theo has very little clue what the fuck is happening with them. Is it a bit? Are they actually capable of spritzing wayward members of the chorus with bleach? Is he just trying to do anything to get the idea of his dad dating Philza out of his head?

Only one of those he knows the answer to for sure. He looks up at his brother and tells him, "I'm going to go find Lee and get him to test an experimental potion on me. Anything to skip past this fuckin’ bullshit." He gets up and starts to leave, when Dee shouts after him, "Clean up the soda first, you asshole!" "Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of trying to ignore the fuckin’ bullshit going in my head!" "Theo I swear to fucking Prime if you don't get back here–"

Theo hastens his pace to run and launch himself off the deck and into the air. "Nope! Go fuck yourself!" He throws a middle finger back at Dee as he gains height and, more importantly, distance from him. He curves away from that section of the house because Dee is a bullshit good shot with arrows.

…Though it may have been worth it to get shot a few times rather than deal with whatever Dee will come up with to get back at him for this.

Eh, that’s a problem for future-Theo. Present-Theo is just trying to distract himself from whatever the fuck the Fates are up to in his head.

[shortprince-cos]

Sanders Asides Reactions

Putting it below cut because uh spoilers

-ITS CALLED "GAY OR NAY" HZJSNSMSJOBS

-"Flirting With Social Anxiety" Its about time you realized Roman

-speaking of Roman, ROMANS ON THE THUMBNAIL HSBSJSBHSBSB HE'S HERE

-art is also on the thumbnail, is this what he meant by "different"?

-intros the same besides (ha) the drawn on "A" so I'm guessing this will have a lot of animation in it?

-oh!!! Its 24 minutes!!! That's more than I thought which is good!!!

-"This episode is a central viewing for the overall storyline-" w h a t

-IT IS GONNA BE AN ANIMATIC I KNEW IT

-THE PREVIEW CLIPS LOOK SO CUTE AND FUNNY I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

-omg they might do it live action too????

-oh the patreon thing is real alright, I'm ready for all the negative posts to come back on my dash

-"a little sampler...side" JDVDHNSJSB THOMAS I LOVE U

-WAIT THE TWEET WHERE HE SAID IT FEELS LIKE HIS OWN SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON WAS TOTALLY A HINT WASN'T IT

-"Flirt or Flight" GDDTDTDTDYFYFHFDYD

-oh Thomas we all do it

-me too Thomas

-ROMAN AND VIRGIL ARE GONNA POP OUTTA NOWHERE FOR LIKE 3 MINUTES AREN'T THEY

-GOOD BECAUSE I LOVE THIS

-Roman and Virgil making fun of Thomas' age DUVSJSDBDJJ YES

-the "I love you" thing omg dubdjsnsjdbhs

-"...you made me say that!" Hdjsbsjbsj

-"STOP PLAYING WITH PEOPLE'S HEARTS THOMAS" STSDYDDYDGDCUFFU ROMAN KNOWS FROM FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE

-i really like how Roman is playing a role in Thomas' anxiety, I wonder where the flirtings gonna come from tho

-Roman and Virgil, c'mon, that liar song is SO season one.

-AWWW WHO'S THIS HANDSOME GUY

-"We don't know if he's not gay." "You have used that argument on me far too many times" HA

-"He's got stickers on his laptop" "pretty gay" this is what happens when I try and find out if a girl is gay or not.

-"without having to do anything too extreme...like talking" ME TOO VIRGIL

-VIRGIL AND ROMAN BOTH LOVING THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS STICKER IS THE SOLIDARITY WE NEED

-"Pins!" HOW DOES VIRGIL DO THE SAME THING I DO WHEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOMEONES SEXUALITY DHBSNSJSB

-also Roman's "-and needles? I'm on them too." Is adorable I love you Roman I missed you so much-

-"those jokes are old-" "you would know" OMG BUD

-"the sticker-button system" omg he has a system i love that

-OMG THEY'RE BEING THE SPORTS TALKER PEOPLE I LOVE THEM

-"I don't want me to be doing this either" MOOD

-GAY

-"great he's gay." U don't sound that excited?

-"No man!" "Uh its ROman. With an R" THE HIMBO IS BACK

-"...gay eyes?" "Gay eyes." WHAT ARE GAY EYES I NEED TO KNOW

-OMG ROMANS LITTLE SHOULDER SHIMMY HSBSJSBSJDBD

-"and this works?" "Most of the time...no." Hdbdjbshsb all gays are useless its ok

-dtdtdydyxydufyxyx Virgil's test spiel hhsbsjhsh

-"that's gotta mean something." "...that he likes basketball" Thomas has been DONE this entire video and I am here for it

-"i hate to rain on your black parade, Gerrard Gay-" UXVDJDBDJBXJXBXNDN ABOUT TIME

-"you're making a mistake!" "If I am, I'll add it to the list!" WHAT LIST WAIT ROMAN-

-omg Roman and Virgil are basically playing soccer with Thomas dhdbbdndjdb they keep pushing him xudbbdhdhd

-no one:

Thomas: 👉👈

-no one:

Thomas: oh hi thanks for checking in im ✨still a piece of garbage✨

-"that's like cyberstalking...but real life" "so...stalking" "...OH YOU'RE RIGHT" WHAT KIND OF INCORRECT QUOTE DID THIS COME FROM GSHXBJXNDJDN

-the guys gonna come out from the stall isn't he

-oh this got deep real quick ahhh my heart

-OMG I WAS VERY CLOSE THIS POOR RANDOM DUDE

-w h a t

-virgil what does this mean

-WAIT

-"will Deceit continue to be the answer to all your problems?" OMG WE GOING THERE TODAY BOIS

-OMG CUTE BOI INCOMING

-"HE FEARS THINGS TOO?" VIRGIL IS A HIMBO TOO OMG

-OMG NOOO GAY PANIC WHYYY

-"one more chance at happiness...squandered." Roman are u ok

-haha jk

-hes never ok

-OMG VIRGIL

-the tiny panickey breaths hit really hard for some reason

-you're gay for Roman I know u are why else would u do that

-omg Thomas this is so cute the gayyyssss

-I would die for Nico

-"...THAT WAS YOU?" YES NICO ILY

-"nothing but a bruised ego" "*annoyed prince noises*"

-OMG MY PRINXIETY HEART ROMAN JUST PUT HIS HAND ON VIRGIL'S SHOULDER AND THEY'RE HAVING A HEARTFELT CONVERSATION AHHHHH

-omg that's it

-"emphasis on the old" ROMAN YOU'RE HERE SHDVDHBDJDHDH

-"Janus' patreon" omg Janus dghdjdhdhdh how did u do this

-"Janus' Corridor of Storred Rewards" dudbdnndbdb only Janus would have the title be that extra

-I want the shirt ahhh

-OMG THEM ALL COMING HOME EXCITED IS SO CUTE I LOVE THEM

-OMG VIRGIL WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOUR EYESHADOW IT LOOKS AWESOME

-wait does it change depending on his mood?! Omg that's so cool!!!!!!

-omg Virgil is so happy my heart cant take this!!!!! Is this the first we've seen him extremely happy and that's why his cool eyeshadow is changing?!?!?!

-"join me! No thinking!" OMG HE'S AWARE THAT HES A HIMBO HSVSJSBDHDH

-"its in France" "im listening" our biggest mistake was thinking Virgil wasn't a himbo hdbdjdnjdjdj

-omg virgil is an adhd mood

-oh and we're deep again ok

-"AHH DEMON" OMG VIRGIL ITS JUST A DOG GSBDJDBDJDN

-"DONT TELL ME TO RELAX" FSTFYFCHCCHFU

-omg im

-I cant

-that was so good dhdbdjdnjd

[pnwswiftie]

I felt owned by an employer once. He was sexist and baited me into working for him only to turn the tables and gaslight me. And to be honest I’ve never pin pointed the feeling that has sat in my gut about him until recently; until watching my idol go through the same thing on a large scale in front of the world, until what has happened, what has been happening to Taylor Swift in her industry.

Mine was a veterinary surgeon whom I worked with in the past. I left the veterinary field and started a new career. The Vet (we will call him) moved away and when he came back he contacted me with a new idea to start his own practice.

He painted me a beautiful picture of what this clinic would be like. He said he couldn’t do it without me and promised me the world. I still remember the phone call where he said the words- “you will be my practice manager, my right hand, you could run the show and have a handsome career, I’ll make sure you are set for life, you will have an opportunity to buy into the company as well, to profit share.

He offered to pay me whatever my current job paid me. I didn’t jump at saying yes. I worked so hard to be where I was and this was a big risk. My now husband was hesitant and didn’t trust him 🚩 but supportive of whatever I chose (love him). Well, im the only one of me so a month later I took the jump and put in my notice. I trusted him.

I was hired on with one other person. A male, roughly my same age, overall a nice dude. We will call him Sam. I was in charge of all operations of the front desk and all aspects of the business side of things. I started every excel sheet for income tracking, taxes, inventory. I created every document, I created the scheduling program, I set up every vendor accounts. I scanned every piece of paper that came into the clinic doors, I set up our benefits. I answered phones I handled every single client. I visited clinics and preached to people our vision, so they would refer to us (we were a referral based clinic) on my days off. I did it ALL. I also scrubbed into surgery with the Vet and Sam, as there were only 3 of us running the entire show. If the phone rang, I would answer on a headset under my face mask and handle a client or clinic call right there, scrubbed in. I didn’t mind, I felt proud to show off my multitasking skills. He would give a little wink and a joke and the validation felt nice, like I earned his approval 🚩 when I did something above and beyond.

About a year went by and I was rolling in hard earned money, that’s for sure. I was working 7 am to 10 pm some days so I always had overtime. Sam was responsible for 1 thing- patient care, and I was responsible for LITERALLY everything else you could possibly think of. 🚩Needless to say I was getting worked to the BONE 🚩 . I was cool with it tho, this is what I signed up for right? We were growing and successful and getting BUSY!

One day I accidentally found out the pay gap 🚩between myself and Sam. I had been completely naive to the fact that we were not equals, nor was I getting paid “management” but that he made SUBSTANTIALLY more than me. I gave it some energy for a couple days and vented to my husband, then I let it go. Sam was nice, it’s not his fault. 🚩Maybe he’s just worth more than I am to the company, I told myself. 🚩Maybe he has a past history I didn’t know about that made him more valuable. It definitely should have been my red flag 🚩

My relationship with the Vet was kind of like a daughter and father but 🚩 only on his terms. Fun and playful and lots of “your our boss lady!”. It would also take very odd turns, 🚩 having to do small tasks outside my morals. In the office he would call me “the office manager, the boss, it’s all up to you, hospital administrator!” yet on the phone would call me 🚩 “the front desk person” 🚩“my receptionist” to other veterinarians. It bothered me, a lot, but I pushed it away. 🚩Who am I to be that nit picky over a title? 🚩He probably didn’t mean it or misspoke, I thought.

The tricky part is that I only have little under the radar examples of his abuse. 🚩 The ones you can’t QUITE put your finger on, that you can’t QUITE justify quitting on the spot but make you feel 🚩 worthless. They continued every day. He was incredibly sweet and funny, and then 🚩condescending and cruel. It was a roller coaster to try to please him constantly. It wore on me. I came to work and to deal with it I would make lists on scratch paper. Lists of why I was starting to hate my job. Lists that I would read in the car and cry. If I wasn’t cheerful he’d come in with 🚩“PMSING TODAY?” .... I’d laugh n bite my tongue. 🚩 That’s just being friendly playful right, he knows me well enough to say that to me, we’re like family, right? But every day I felt awful. And I needed my job now, more than ever. 🚩 He knew I needed this job, too. We had just put an offer on a house and surprise! we’re now expecting a baby.

Being pregnant changed things. I couldn’t assist in surgery and xrays like I used to. 🚩He would scoff when I would have to leave for prenatal appointments. 🚩 He would be caring and kind one minute, giving me hand me down baby clothes and gifts, and then cold and dry the next. 🚩Sam could and often would sleep in and no call/no show. He would roll in at noon and jump into surgery, acting like nothing happened, they’d joke together about women in front of me and being hung over. I was 5 min late once because of a traffic jam and had to have a “sit down meeting” about attendance. 🚩 I felt so ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED. 🚩 I had never once, NOT EVER, had work problems, attendance problems, behavioral problems, in my entire history of working. This job was my LIFE. 🚩 Was something seriously wrong with me???

The last straw came when I was 6 months pregnant. He claimed that everyone was having a private “check in meeting”. He told me at mine that 🚩him and Sam talked 🚩 and agreed that I’m not the happy bubbly girl I used to be. I sat with him in the shade of a big oak tree in the grass that has since fallen in a wind storm (ironically. He said I would be getting a $1 raise and that he wanted me to take on MORE responsibility since I could no longer assist in surgery and listed basically anything he could possibly think of to tack on to my job to make up for that $1. 🚩 all I could think was... how???? I was already drowning. I finally got courage this time and said NO. My lip quivered and tears ran down my face with 🚩 stress. I brought up valid arguments but looking back I wish my voice wasnt so timid. Or that I had the courage to call out just one, ONE instance of his inappropriate behavior. But lastly, 🚩 I asked why is my title “FRONT DESK PERSON” when Sam is now “Lead Surgery Operations Director (Who Does No Wrong)??

His response sticks with me to this day. It was painful and degrading and I will never forget it. After working my ass off and building this place from the bottom, the long nights and everything I gave them... I also will never forget his 🚩 smirk . “Well you see, giving you a title like that would be like rewarding a BAD DOG with a BONE” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

🚩I was devastated. 🚩And confused. 🚩I’m a BAD DOG???

I stuck it out for the remainder of my pregnancy, working the 12 hour days up until I went into labor at work. I trained a new girl on every process, excel spread, schedule I had developed and created. I put on a fake smile and wrote my scratch lists and re-read my lists on the way home and cried. I couldn’t just quit. I couldn’t let my family down.

We had our baby and stared at his tiny toes and fingers and cried every single day that I may have to go back to my hell job. I interviewed for different clinics while on leave. I was desperate. The vet was on a sweet streak- 🚩 sending us gifts, having his wife cook us meals and checking in on us all the time. He frequently asked what date I was coming back. He informed me that when I came back I would need to take the later shift and give the new girl my current shift. 🚩She needed it, he said. He said we could discuss the title of “lead receptionist” now and could 🚩 continue to work towards my goal of hospital manager. 🚩 I accepted but I felt sick. 🚩 I felt like I had to go back to work for someone who I couldn’t trust. I felt like he owned me in the worst possible way. (At one time he even tried to tell me I had half of the PTO that I actually had saved up for maternity leave, another 🚩🚩🚩 but I saved my paystubs as PROOF)

Today I work for the clinic that we shared the building with. When they heard I left they immediately offered me a position. The Vet left to purchase his own facility. He acted shocked and surprised and in disbelief that I wasn’t returning. At first it was tough, not gonna lie. We literally ate noodles for a year because I went down to part time. But the bravest thing I ever did was RUN ♥️ I now LOVE my job and they treat their employees wonderfully and equally and have real life morals.

I actually didn’t intend for this to be a novel LOL but even if not a single soul reads this, it’s therapeutic for me to actually get my thoughts down after almost 6 years now. My advice is to ALWAYS trust your gut. TRUST THE 🚩 RED 🚩 FLAGS. Don’t let anyone make you question your character. Never EVER ACCEPT being controlled and manipulated against your morals. Choose the future over time spent in the past (thanks T @taylorswift) and work somewhere that respects you. That pays you FAIRLY. Don’t be afraid to TELL your story too because this has to STOP (I’ve almost deleted this whole thing 13x) If it happened to me I can’t imagine how many other women it happens to. Anyway if you read this then holy shit here’s a hug and CHIN UP YOU ARE WORTHY, YOU ARE NOT A BAD DOG. ♥️

[thugnan]

Secret of the Scarlet Hand (PC 2002)

Story: 4/10

Characters: 3/10

Puzzles: 3/10

Chores: 4/10

Final Rating: 5/10

I’ve only played this one once and I honestly can’t remember parts of it or the plot. I love that this was the first appearance of Soony Joon, but other than that all the characters fell flat for me. This one took the educational aspects of Treasure in a Royal Tower and multiplied them by 100, in a bad way. This game played more like a Broderbund game, the puzzles were obnoxious and the play through was erratic (not as linear as its predecessors). Some of the chores involved bouncing back and forth a bunch (like the quizzes). I don’t remember there being any glitches though.  

Plot (spoilers obviously)

Thug Nan gets an internship at Beech Hill, a museum hosting a super big exhibit on the Maya. From the get go you get the impression that maybe this museum can’t afford to do this? Thug Nan is like “wait a minute this internship is paid right?” 

They hand you a list of chores and tell you to get on it. They’re preparing for the exhibition of a giant rock monolith. While doing these chores you meet:

Joanna: Your boss as the museum’s curator. She appears a little young to be running the place and slightly desperate to get income into the museum. Low key she cute tho.

Henrik Vander Hoop: He’s fancy and has an accent. He’s a researcher and knows things about glyphs. Not v social for the most part. 

Ale-ale-jandro: I don’t think I was supposed to like this guy tbh, judging from the responses Nancy had for some of his SJW rants, but yo he’s not wrong. I might be biased as we are basically the same person tho. He works with the consulate and appears to have a close relationship with the museum. He hates Johana and Taylor because they’re pirates. 

Taylor Sinclair: I thought he was a lawyer for some reason? He’s an art dealer, and tbh I’m suspicious of him immediately. I think it’s the mustache. Idk what it is about it but I don’t like it. He calls you into his office because he’s concerned that someone is gonna steal from Beech Hill, which heightens my suspicion of him but whatever. 

As we continue to do errands, we get more of a feel for the museum’s financial situation. When you try to order supplies, the distributor tells you that he sent you to collections and to gtfo.

The next morning, you’re in your office when the alarm goes off, someone has stolen a jade relic of King Pacal’s. The cops come and go, you ask Joanna about it and she gives you the a-ok to snoop up in there. She appears to care more about collecting that insurance monies. Suspicious but ok. 

Henrik is apparently also nowhere to be seen? Suspicious but ok. 

Alejandro and Taylor subtly mention that they were both in the building at the time of the robbery. Idk why either of them would incriminate themselves like that? Suspicious but ok. 

You get a call from Franklin Rose, your dad’s friend that hooked you up with the internship. He’s like legally speaking I need u to investigate this. So Thug Nan is like “aw yee, I’ma do it because you told me to, and not because suspicious Taylor told me to.” 

The robbers left a calling card, because you know, all the smart robbers do that right? Also idk how the cops dropped the ball on this one because the culprit’s calling card is A HAND PRINT. I’da been running the show I would just hand printed everyone in the building, and called it a day. 

So you gotta do some more tedious chores, which you only are able to pull of because the wack who had your internship before you left a bunch of drawings as hints. Soony Joon, I’ma tell u now that I think you’re a mad lad, but also thank you for ur service. 

You get in contact with some other folks that were also struck by the thieves who hit Beech Hill. They send you some more clues. 

THEN HENRIK IS YEETED DOWN THE STAIRS (seriously, what is the deal with this series and stair yeeting?) I’m going to say now that the stairs that Henrik fell down were a lot taller than those of El Paso High School, I’m just saying, idk how Henrik didn’t die but ok. 

Homeboy has amnesia. Johana was booted out of the building for mismanaging the museum and being overall suspicious. You and I know what this means right? Time to trespass go thru everyone’s shit. 

Johana was not happy about being booted out, and begs you to prove that she didn’t steal the pacal relic so the cops will let her go and the board will let her back into the building. I don’t really want to do that but I guess.

I made zero effort to talk Franklin into letting her back in whoops 8D. But she can’t say I didn’t call him. 

Meanwhile Henrik’s nurse/therapist hits you up like “yo he kept saying ur name in his sleep so we think it’s a good idea for you to visit. You can help him get his memory back” Yeah? Well remember that I said that he wasn’t v social? I legit know NOTHING about him, especially since his desk is all locked up. Idk why he was saying my name in his delirium but I hope that he knows that I am completely loyal to Frank Hardy  Ned, and if I were to cheat on him it woulda been with my sweet Maddie in Stay Tuned for Danger. I guess I don’t blame Henrik tho, erryone wants a piece of this Thug Nan. What can I say? I live dangerously. (Altho for once I haven’t been attempted murdered) 

While trying to jog Henrik’s memory you find out:

Henrik probably maybe stole the Pacal, but it sounds like he had Taylor logic. He stole it so the real thieves wouldn’t steal it?

He’s in cahoots with smugglers

Alejandro called the cops on Johana, and needs Thug Nan to “borrow” some papers from her. I don’t like the way he went about it but I respect the balls on this man. 

You gotta find like 5 other relics to open the dumb monolith… great. I still don't know why would want to?

Pacal (the real dood not the relic) built the monolith to suffocate a scribe/reporter that was too nosy for her own good. My dood was harsh.

Thug Nan finds the Pacal because well… she had to. And slowly but surely it begins to come together. Tbh the plot to this game was so convoluted, that I wouldn’t have figured out what I had to do without calling Frank and Joe every other second. 

Somehow I gather all the relics I needed to open the damn box, and you know I’m starting to think. If this Pacal guy didn’t want this scribe lady to ever be found why the eff would he make a key to the tomb in the first place? Whatever. I open the box and T A Y L O R  S I N C L A I R LOCKS ME IN THERE WITH A THOUSAND YEAR OLD ROTTING CORPSE.  THIS MAN IS ABOUT TO FEEL THE WRATH OF THUG NAN. 

Anyway, getting out of there was not that hard, my girl the scribe shoulda made more of an effort, but hey she didn’t have a handy dandy glowstick like moi. When I got out Johana, Alejandro, and a recovered Henry were on the other side waiting? Instead of helping me? They were v creepily like “YOU DID IT NANCY WE KNEW YOU WOULD.” Except they used Dr. Seuss rhymes to tell me this which only made it creepier. Also they knew it was Sinclair without me telling them? Which is like cool but WhY DiDnT U StOp hIm. They play it off as “well he stole the fake stuff” THEY LITERALLY HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT.  

Um, the end?

They left a couple of plot holes unresolved I think? Like Henrik having connections with smugglers. Why did he steal the pacal in the first place? What did he know about Taylor? Who pushed him off the pyramid? Or did he really fall? Alejandro seemed to be peachy with Beech Hill after he found out that the Pacal’s papers were legit? And Johana never asked me about the missing papers, she was also let off with a warning? Okie dokes. 

[millennial-ring]

the only reason i’m answering this is to hopefully avoid more asks like this in the future since i have no intention of ceasing advertising commissions any time soon. i understand i advertise commissions a lot for various reasons and that looks bad, but i have always used the money i’ve earned for exactly what i said i was going to use it for (moving, paying bills, food, replacing ripped work pants, copays, etc).

even though i work 36 hours a week (if i don’t lose rock paper scissors and get sent home early to cut labor) i’m only bringing in like $650 per paycheck because of taxes and insurance, and the costs of living keep piling up (and no, we’re not allowed to cash in PTO anymore unless it’s over a certain amount). i moved recently and my rent is almost $200 more per month (and the move exhausted my savings). internet went up, too. it’s winter and i’m anemic af, so my heating bill’s been in triple digits since November. because of whatever weird fucking lung malfunction i’ve been having (which still hasn’t been figured out btw) i haven’t been able to walk home in the 10 degree/-5 windchill weather without fucking up my breathing, so add uber expenses. and now i’ve got to pay ssa back over $1,000 bc they overpaid me for 9 months and didn’t??? bother to tell me i was no longer eligible?? (they’ll be sending me some paperwork for that and yes i WILL be posting it when i get it so y’all know i’m legit so don’t @ me) but i could go on a whole other rant about that bullshit. instead i’m going to respond to your message

1) point me to a single post where i beg people for money. all i’m doing is advertising a service (drawing) in exchange for whatever people deem that service is worth. all the pieces used in the example took me several hours to complete. i could be asking for $30 for them (since min wage $7.50 x 4 hours = $30) but the absolute most i’m asking for is five dollars. in fact in that post i’m actively discouraging people from donating?? i don’t want a handout. i don’t want free money. i just want to be able to pay my bills and still afford a box of ramen afterwards, and selling my art is the only way i can earn a bit of extra income without selling off all my possessions 

2) pizza is a rare treat and i only ever order online deals. yesterday my roommate and i both had awful days and we decided to treat ourselves. also i eat like a bird so a large pizza is like...5 meals for me. it’s not like i’m ordering a pizza every other night and finishing it off within hours. as for the coffee, it’s also a treat that i get maybe once a week. the ebar where i buy my coffee i get a 50% employee discount so it’s hardly ever more than $3. a friend that works at the ebar will also sometimes give it to me on the house, so i’m probably spending less than $10 on coffee per month. not that i really have to defend buying small treats that take some of the edge off, but i forgot poor people aren’t allowed any kind of luxury at all. excuuuuuse me for wanting to have a somewhat decent meal and bean juice every once in a while

3) i hate avocados ;p toast is nice tho. have you ever tried it with pepper? just...plain ol bread and butter but with pepper? it’s good.

4) i have a real job, and i work my ass off, and i’m good at what i do. it pays well, i get medical and dental, PTO, i get along with everyone, my managers are really cool and easy to approach if i have an issue or a question, and i enjoy it. right now my only issue is my hours being cut to save on labor (it’s slow right now so obviously our budget for labor is smaller). i might not wear a tie and heels to work and sit in an air conditioned office and type at a computer 9 to 5 or whatever you think a real job entails, but i can assure you, i have a job. in fact, i have two now! that’s right this lazy entitled snowflake millennial has just gotten a second job to pay for their expenses. i began applying the second i got off the phone with ssa because i knew i’d need the extra income asap, but it’s been on my mind for the past few months. the manager is still working out my schedule but i’ll definitely be working even more 12 hour days soon enough. idk how to get much more real than that

5) if you think my art is shitty then...don’t commission me?? scroll past?? unfollow????? block me?????? like what did you really hope to accomplish with this message? bc i’m not going to stop drawing or offering commissions because some loser on anon called my art shitty

 6) uuuh what else was I gonna say? oh yeah

blocked

[catastrothicc]

one of these days i'll make a coherent intro post, however *bts vc* not today !!  hello and welcome to johnny's world where we're shit @ introductions and even worse at consistency. honestly i cant stick to shit someone assist. anyways ! i bring the last piece of the puzzle rocky, who for some unfathomable reason wasn't taken ?? and i cried ?? fate. uh right i'm 19 and i never fkcing learned how to read. mdt timezone. them/they pronouns. continue under the read more to kill some brain cells !! 

tw: physical and mental abuse/manipulation, drugs/alcohol and death/murder. 

here's his soundtrack if u wanna listen while u read 

DON'T DWELL ON THE PAST // ( i'm not even sure if i'm sticking to this [ looks @ admins nervously ] so things might change up if it doesn't fall w/ the right timeline. ) ( forgive the length the muse is real )

born on october 31st, 1995 ( happy halloween ) in deadtree, rocky was an entirely healthy baby received with much love by his mother and with some hesitance by his father. all he knew was how to shit and cry and life was a paradise, until eventually the months started rolling by that became three years and his mother was in a freak car accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down and with a bad case of major head trauma. 

rocky still firmly believes that she woke up from her coma by god's will even if her basic executive function skills and self-regulations were gone. she had to be taken care of just like him, and the doctor's promised she'd learn to eat on her own again and her speech problems would regulate. this... did not happen. maybe it would've, if she had lived longer, but rocky never got to see the day when he didn't have to help his mom bathe or brush her hair. 

his dad was the only source of income in the household besides his mom's monthly pension that the man would take and then disappear for days. he was bitter about having to raise rocky all on his own and even more bitter about the hefty hospital bills they were going to be paying off for the next several years. all the man wanted to do was laze about with a beer in his hand and a blunt in the other. 

from early on he was prone to anger and it often manifested itself physically, so rocky would always have a bruise or two somewhere on his body. it was fine as long as the man wasn't hurting his mom, and he couldn't do anything else but accept the rough treatment. 

he and his mom were becoming more and more neglected by his father, who only provided the bare minimum to eat and took his wife's pills for himself. rocky was already in school and he was that kid who always got off the bus running to get home. no one knew that he always ran to make sure his mom was okay while he was gone. 

he was nine years old when his dad handed him a bottle of morphine and explained to him that the whole bottle would help his mom get a good night's sleep for once. rocky, knowing how much his mom struggled to rest, took the bottle and put each and every pill in his moms hand and watched her drink them until the last one. she did go to sleep, of course. rocky thought he'd done good until she didn't wake up the next morning. 

he grew incredibly distant from his dad after this. he was already used to taking care of himself and his mom was the only reason he really bothered to make it home early, so after her death he got into every after-school activity he could manage, and when it wasn't enough, he ran around the streets with the older kids and pretended to be *cool*.

he started dabbling with the drug scene really early on in middle school, when he realized that his dad would never strive to be anything else but a piece of shit, so he decided to steal his pills and weed just like the man had stolen his mothers medication. he would sell them to his upperclassmen and never took any for himself because he saw what they could do, though eventually he did weed in high school and besides the occasional dose of ecstasy he doesn't do more than that.

one day, at age seventeen, he went home and his dad was gone. he waited for three weeks before he sold everything and fixed up a small abandoned house that became his new abode. with the cash he'd gotten from the car and the furniture he began growing his own hella dank nug, and eventually there was word on the streets about it. his dad had always been his unaware provider, but soon enough rocky joined a group as a dealer while selling his own stuff on the side.

he didn't want to follow under someone else so he got to the roots and offered the group's providers a better deal and eventually the business was going to him alone. people saw more opportunity with him and they flocked to his side one by one until he ran the original leader to the ground. honestly this kid was hella good in school and just as good in the streets. 

of course it didn't happen without a fight tho so talk about several near-death experiences !! the streets are dangerous children stay in school.

fast forward, he had what he intensely regrets with elaine-- honestly had a good time dating a rich ��good’ girl until he got real bad vibes from her and it wasn't chill anymore. felt real personally attacked that she was ashamed of him and broke it tf off. fuck a fake bitch !! 

( me: plays hero by enrique iglesias for this section ) and then shiloh came ! his lord and savior. his fkcing BAE. would do ANYTHING for this boy is2g makes me so emo i'm shAKING just thinking about it. rocky truly believes this boy is his soul mate. he loves him so much oh my godfjsdh.

at this point his drug ring wasn't at all what it is now. it was relatively small and the profits weren't all that good but he was doing what he could. he had steady members who had been with him since the start and shiloh became an addition along with his best girl giselle and (eventually) barbara. honestly the dream squad nothing could stop them they were invisible. unfortunately there was a snake in their ranks and goddamn he's glad she showed herself honestly good fucking riddance barbie. he felt real betrayed after she left but if anything he thinks it made his crew tighter and stronger. still hates tht bitch tho afTER EVERYTGIH HE DID FOR HER.

( to be 10/10 honest tho rocky is a manipulative bastard and he thinks he's real slick but barbie caught on and he feels extremely attackt )

anyways so knowing that shiloh and giselle are his tru ride or die pals ( 👀 @ giselle ) the business continues and they're still the dream squad. sure they're doing shady af things and they've always been doing them but u kno what they say there ain't no rest for the wicked !! 

he didn't at all like the fact tht shiloh pursued an internship w/ the mulani family but he tried to keep it chill because he loves and supports his bae but honestly could not do it. he doesn't personally pay too many visits to sycamore city precisely bc he goddamn loathes the mulani and moon families after all they've done to his people ( esp the moon’s ) and to think shiloh was getting involved w/ them really tested him as a person. he fcking failed because of how much shiloh wanted a pass into the city and rocky held him back but he's so goddamn proud of their love like damn. he knows he doesn't offer everything shiloh wants but he's out here tryin' his best to get his bae the life he deserves even if he's the worst street rat and everybody knows it. 

( what is he secretly doing w/ all tht money tho hmmm ) 

BABY RIDE WITH ME // in regards to the *gollum vc*  precious ( the ring )

just so the squad and ex-squad can get a feel of how rocky runs the ring i'm includin' this here

so rocky makes it a point to be an approachable leader whom you can go to with your problems and he'll have your back 100%. honestly everyone's dad there's no one left out. he keeps his status as the leader not by cruel acts to show what happens to rats but by making sure he's understood by each individual member. he's not the violent type at all unless someone really tests him but this guy preaches that people understand by words and acts of kindness not by violence and torture. he needs loyalty above all else so he offers a safe sanctuary to anyone who needs it. it comes with a price ofc but all he asks is that u do ur job and he'll keep u off the streets. basically in his group everyone has each other's backs and he's involved with everyone, not only because it helps him keep close tabs on everything but because that blanket of safety for his members is very important to him. 

when it comes to his dealers he basically lets them do things their own way as long as they're not out there hurting innocent people. he pays by commission so it's really up to the dealers how much they wanna sell and who they wanna sell it to. he doesn't force his own morals onto his peeps so if they wanna sell to junkies who are gonna overdose on their next hit then that's really up to them. he just tries to guide them by telling em' the right things to do even in a shady business like their own. 

w/ that being said shiloh is also a huge part of it, being his right hand man and all. rocky isn't all too meticulous or anything fancy like that, so he leaves a lot of decisions up to shiloh and honestly they're both huge dads just running a drug ring fjsiudhfgi 

HE KNOWS HE'S SO FUCKING TALENTED // regarding his personality 

rocky is a cocky piece of shit honestly i hate it but best concept

he genuinely thinks so highly of himself ?? even though he knows he's up to Some Shit ??

anyways i just wanted to mention that LMAO but find his full list of attributes here that i jst ctrl c ctrl v from the app. honestly will tell u all about his personality. thanks for reading this long ass, terribly structured, shitty shitty intro honestly u.... deserve a medal if u got thru it. is it too late to mention tht english is not my first language fhsuidfh 

[betteryyz]

Transcript for: “A brief history of social housing”, Sept 13 2017

Hey!

In lieu of a recording, here is a typo filled twitter transcript of the event. Enjoy:

Hey! Welcome to “a brief history of social housing”, we’ll be your host tonight. We’re live tweeting the event so follow along!pic.twitter.com/fZ2tJHixKR

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:04 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Our panelists tonight are: Greg Suttor, a senior housing researcher w/Wellesley & Claire-Helene Heese-Boutin chair of the @parkdaleland

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:06 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Our moderator is our co l-organizer @ShakerJamal1 Great turn out tonightpic.twitter.com/NDi2aUYgjY

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:07 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: we hear about in the news a lot about the price of houses, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Can you speak about diff types?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:14 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Looking around the packed room tonight @betteryyz' history of TO's housing crisis, so clear this is THE issue for young ppl. pic.twitter.com/NEHQCE245Y

— Simone Swail (@simoneswail) September 13, 2017

Big crowd here to hear about the #housing crisis in #YYZ, held by @betteryyz pic.twitter.com/tfCUx7w9tu

— Felix YYZ (@FelixYYZ) September 13, 2017

<had to do some mic troubleshooting but basically> there’s co-ops, social housing, renting, not just ownership

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:15 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: how does @parkdaleland fit in? Here I rec just checking them out as we catch up; community owned land! + leases w/local operators

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:16 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: … also tries hard to engage w/community, holistic approach where land trust 1 piece of the puzzle for neighborhood at large

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:17 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: was land trust inspired by other groups? C: other groups in the neighbourhood, other examples in the US. Situation is diff in Toronto…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:18 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… as cost of acquisition is so high, have to be more innovative than what we see. S: how has yr relationship been w/govts?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:19 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: it’s been good, have to keep lines open, received support from @gordperks and other actors in the neighborhood, potential support from…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:20 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… national housing strategy. The framework we’re working isn’t as advanced as say healthcare, which is seen as basic governance.

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:21 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: TCH entity we hear a lot about but as a millennial it’s always been around but it’s always running out of $; where did it come from?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:22 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: long story! Gov’ts do lots of things in housing we take for granted. Pre 1967 we didn’t have condos, in 70s relatively strong tenant laws

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:22 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We have a stem of financing housing, setting interest rates, gov’ts affect housing in many ways & have to decide to be purposeful about it

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:23 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Say early 1900 huge rapid urbanization, industrialization, gov’ts start doing basic programs like old age, unemployment

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:24 PM - 13 Sep 2017

1920s govt says well we do these programs so people don’t suffer in old age or from poverty; same time we have ppl living terribly

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:25 PM - 13 Sep 2017

(Think tenements, lower east side) gov’ts started thinking well we can do better if we skip need for profit. By 1940s begins to invest

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:25 PM - 13 Sep 2017

1960s welfare state gets augmented and housing seen as part of what gov’ts do, esp considering the very poor housing available at time

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:26 PM - 13 Sep 2017

From mid 1960s to 1990s we built quite a bit of social housing, and most is from that period; about 10% of all housing was social housing

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:27 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We created public entities and authorized non profit entities to build housing; then the gov’t out up a lot of money, mostly loans

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:27 PM - 13 Sep 2017

But also subsidies to help build or help operate; basic thinking we can provide low income ppl rents matched to 30% income

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:29 PM - 13 Sep 2017

By 1970s thinking shifted towards mixed income to avoid ghettoizaion. TCH does a little more social housing than most of Canada but also…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:29 PM - 13 Sep 2017

It happened when toronto was getting built out; you don’t see it as much in the 905 area.

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:30 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: seems like the govt used to think it was its job to help fund housing. Did that change?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:30 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: a couple things happened in the 90s; we had big cut backs in social spending, assistance, healthcare; some has since been restored

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:31 PM - 13 Sep 2017

But also if cuts to provinces and social housing; social housing becomes something we _used_ to do, seen as last resort instead of a mix

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:31 PM - 13 Sep 2017

But cuts to production; Feds pull back funding (a bit more than half) and pull back; Ontario meanwhile Harris at the time says,

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:32 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We’re going to devolve this to municipalities, and make the cities own and operate and pay for subsidies. That’s how the city funds TCH to

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:33 PM - 13 Sep 2017

A tune of 500M a year; it’s rather unique since most places in the world don’t force cities to foot the bill

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:33 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: were effects in Ontario more or less pronounced? G: simile but more severe. Same federal cuts but downloading was unique to ON

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:34 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Montreal region only pays about 10%; BC pays more, Ontario is anomalous. S: Claire have you seen the effect of downloading?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:35 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: prob limited perspective but seen with tenant deregulation where people are being evicted to flip properties / raise rents

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:36 PM - 13 Sep 2017

This is having a serious impact on rents housing; speculation in the market is really aggravating situation in Toronto. Take rooming houses

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:36 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Rooming houses a legacy of deinstitutionalization, ppl being forced to find a place to live w/o market incomes, found rooming houses

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:37 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Investors now conveying these into micro luxury suites and removing affordable housing. Huge impacts on the ground. Interestingly…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:38 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Parkdale is actually losing population as the city is growing as people engage in these conversions; land trust tries to take land off markt

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:39 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: housing is a commodity a& mostly not gonna change but also a huge human need & huge % of household spending. There’s a question:

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:39 PM - 13 Sep 2017

To what extent do human needs call for gov’ts to say we can’t just let market forces go wild. In many ways the 90s were a very benign time

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:40 PM - 13 Sep 2017

They were a favorable time for the middle class as housing prices went down in real estate crash & only last 3-5 years has got crazy again

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:41 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Ppl saying wait, the market isn’t working so well anymore, how should govt be more forceful.

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:41 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: think we’ll ever go back to how we used to see housing? C: I think we’ll start tying this to larger macro econ; huge $ sitting idle,

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:43 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Climate change changing the reality we occupy, will have to transform delivery of goods and services outside market forces. Also time to…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:44 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Why do we live in a society where people don’t have homes even tho we have the ability to build it? Disheartening to see wealth & suffering

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:44 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: is there a role for social housing in our neoliberal era? G: for a city to spend 500M on housing subsidies is quite a burden;

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:46 PM - 13 Sep 2017

But fiscally feasible for provincial and federa govts. Huge opportunity in existing housing since most mortgages now paid off,

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:47 PM - 13 Sep 2017

TCH can break even at $600/mo ballpark which means it can operate quite effectively once mortgages are gone. What will a private LL charge?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:48 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Trad social housing is very cost effective & can take out new loans to pay for new housing like in Sweden and Netherlands. City can’t do it

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:48 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Hopefully some more strategic thinking from diff gov’ts and national housing strategy

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:49 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: huge opportunity in co-op housing to similarly use those assets to grow more housing, want to highlight that opportunity co-ops are great

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:49 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: Okay, why are co-ops so awesome? C: people get involved! Someone worked their asses off to make cool stuff happen

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:50 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Some members pay rent geared 2 income, as low as $129/mo - can you imagine how big a diff that makes? Co-ops share responsibility, community

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:51 PM - 13 Sep 2017

In terms of housing crisis, co-ops have huge $$ in assets once our mortgages are up we can grow more; be a city builder

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:52 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: can we build more social housing? Will we build more of it? G: complicated; can’t just refinance, need new models & financing

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:53 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We need provinces to make it easier; part involves arrangements for new mortgage loans. A bank providing a loan makes it more expensive for…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:54 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… commercial operators. Similarly it needs to be easier for non profits to get funding. But we also need funding that scales w/pop growth

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:54 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Toronto has grown by 25% but our social housing system hasn’t. Where do middle and low income people find options?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:55 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Housing stock doesn’t just grow immediately to reflect new need.

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:56 PM - 13 Sep 2017

<I missed question> G: … we need to make renting a viable option can’t just be a stigmatized option; in Germany half of ppl rent

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:57 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Good security of tenure, good quality, we used to produce good quality new apartments for rent and it was a normal option for mid class ppl

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:58 PM - 13 Sep 2017

How we arrange the systems of finance to operate and encourage that makes renting more attractive option; also co-ownership

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

7:59 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: I think CMHC has an opportunity to do a lot more than what they’re doing right now. It has billions in equity that could be used

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:00 PM - 13 Sep 2017

They’re a crown corp that’s making gravy; they used to provide grants and helped with downpayments, long term not for profit loans

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:00 PM - 13 Sep 2017

If we could get CMHC to get back into providing those financial products to help co-ops to leverage and grow & create new opps, easy 4 them

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:01 PM - 13 Sep 2017

I think renting made sense when ppl were more able to save but today home ownership main way to save for most ppl/old age

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:02 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Major issue that relates to homeownership/renting. The land trust can hold a variety of assets & understand relationship

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:02 PM - 13 Sep 2017

<Claire discusses co-op cross subsidization from affluent co-op members>

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:03 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We want low volatility in our housing prices which c am be created they a land trust model, as ppl build up wealth then more ppl can come in

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:04 PM - 13 Sep 2017

<Greg comiserares on shared equity ownership modes> take U.K. In the late 90s, shared ownership became huge sector in London et al

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:04 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Imagine toronto with a few thousand new units a year of shared ownership equity, it’d be significant, a big non profit develops & holds …

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:05 PM - 13 Sep 2017

The difference between your ability to pay in equity until you can pay it off or not. 1 part of many of solution

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:06 PM - 13 Sep 2017

S: if you can change one policy, what would it be? We’re one year from next election cycles, what would you propose?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:07 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: I’m going to think provincial, province matters a lot. ON adopted a new strategy but we need a *short* term strategy w/more funding soonr

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:07 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: inter vanacy rent control!

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:08 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q&A! Q: how will inclusionary zoning hep? G: certainly one way to provide sites to co-locate aff housing with other types

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:24 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Not a golden bullet, still gonna need funding & te kind of things we talked about before the break C: land trust wld love to take adv

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:25 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: prov regs Will take effect later; what can we do to prevent watered down regs? G: tricky! C: throw it to the crowd, diverse ppl…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:26 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: what are YOU up to, how can YOU be supported? Rando: Kensington land trust! We need more young ppl involved

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:27 PM - 13 Sep 2017

R: need more people to show up and participate, generational transition. R2: chair of housing action now, re:aff housing, get involved w/us

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:28 PM - 13 Sep 2017

<there’s a third person in the crowd, mentioning I believe indigenous sovereignty? But I can’t quite make it out>

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:30 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Rachel plugs the Young Urbanist League which is a rad Facebook group you should join

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:30 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: it’s been over 20 yrs since TCH funding withdrawn, can’t one province. Raise property taxes! I think q was, what about our revenue stream

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:33 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: the city should increase its subsidy. 20 years ago the city was spending ~400M but in same period city budget has doubled…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:34 PM - 13 Sep 2017

And the city has the fiscal capacity to figure it out. C: what pieces of the city pie has grown? HECKLER: police budget!

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:35 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Rando4: also about how city assets have grown, rate at which budget grows not same as rate of subsidy Greg: yeah basically

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:36 PM - 13 Sep 2017

I missed the q, g: certainly social housing more on agenda than before C: we could definitely do more, starting to be an issue

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:37 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: this housing crisis relatively recent for middle income but always been an issue for low income who get marginalized in unfair ways

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:37 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: how do we handle speculation? G: it’s complicated, more a matter of fed and prov tax policy, in a bubble like ours that behaviour…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:39 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… is more attractive, to get investment properties, doesn’t create bubble but certainly feeds it & gov’ts need to think about it. Feds been…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:39 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… taking some steps to tweak the rules on mortgages etc. part of the picture but that behaviour doesn’t create boom in of itself

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:40 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: my dad unfortunately is an economist at the CMHC and S: unfortunately? C: well, *he* is a great dad just CMHC I have problems

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:41 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: … limited places for capital to flow, question the system we have now as speculators trying to improve their own lives, system issue

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:42 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: this is mostly buying condos to rent, roughly half the condo market & a quarter of rental market if we go back to 1970s the building of…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:42 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… rentals was done by pros but at the time rental demand that happened thru a sector structured via tax law etc made this sector happen

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:43 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Now we do rentals via investor-speculators to absorb rental deman, which then becomes part of the fuel of the boom. Structure it differently

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:44 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: OMB is being reformed, negative or positive? G: q refers to prov reducing avenues for appeal… OMB quasi judicial tribunal that rules on

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:45 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Zoning adjustments, municipal issues etc, new rules to leave more of the power with city councils. Argument is this would push prices

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:46 PM - 13 Sep 2017

G: I don’t actually know, lots of cities lack an OMB, we’ll see C: I know developers afraid of Margaret Atwood but… developers want $…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:47 PM - 13 Sep 2017

We do want an increase in supply but it has to make sense for the community and be equitable and provide aff housing in perpetuity

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:47 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: why do u think millennial aren’t flocking to housing advocacy? G: I think Ms here know better than I do; we’ve had a 2 decade period…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:48 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… where we expect less intervention from gov’t and at the time the market was working well, and that’s just how it was for ppl growing up

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:48 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Maybe folks are thinking about it. C: we have so much fish to fry? Climate change, inequality, predatory capitalism, not working for us

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:49 PM - 13 Sep 2017

I think that we have *so many issues* we are confronting we can’t even imagine our future, living day to day, housing is a pain point but

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:50 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Idk if we’ve been seeing answers and solutions that engage; hopefully land trust part of those solutions, how to think about future we want

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:50 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: do you think here’s a lack of education on the topic? C: idk if it’s education, leaders who inspired me prob not educated

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:51 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Ppl just picked it up and learned as they went along, and now they’ve created such legacies. Not easy.

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:52 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Missed q, re: Nat Housing Strat G: vi consultations, strategy end route, will create opportunities for advocacy at fed level

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:54 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Chance to advocate to the province hey here’s this framework are you going to put in more resources to make the most of it?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:54 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: within fed NHS what actions do you want to see communities take? C: fed govt negotiating w/ prov but understanding from local mp

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:56 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: co-op housing lobbies like a tobacco company, they have revenue to allow them to fund organization to access gov’t in effective strategy

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:57 PM - 13 Sep 2017

NHS will create more funding, make it more reasonable for non profits, Adam Vaughan says it’ll total $51B over ten years

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:58 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Kens land trust fellow: we got nothin we didn’t fight for! Take $15 campaign, can’t divorce issues from everything else

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

8:59 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… there are people actively working to prevent social housing, to prevent rent control, ppl are lobbying — Shaker: do you have a q?

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:00 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: I think this highlights how govt not set up to help people, systems of power set up to advantage certain groups over others

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:01 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Let’s address these systems and imagine forms of govt that satisfy the needs of most of us not just in a utilitarian way, mutual aid

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:02 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: I can put a down payment on a condo what can I do instead to create aff opportunities? G: I’m not giving financial advice!

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:02 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Solutions are not individual. Great to donate to causes if you can spare the money but not up to an individual to solve the housing crisis

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:03 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: up my alley! Buy the condo however it works for you, take care of your personal finances then provide that prop to a land trust later

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:03 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: what are other orgs that we should know about? G: housing action now, a significant body, at prov level co-op housin federation

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:05 PM - 13 Sep 2017

The Ontario non profit housing assoc, you can’t JOIN but it’s an important voice. At city lvl there’s networks, I come from Wellesley Inst…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:05 PM - 13 Sep 2017

C: uhm… @parkdaleland? I’m pretty local!

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:06 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Q: I read about all the empty bedrooms in Toronto, can we incentivize ppl rent them out? G: couple thots take it more broadly

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:07 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Homeowners renting out rooms is good and part of what’s needed and we need to adjust zoning rules. Used to have housing registries…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:08 PM - 13 Sep 2017

… but… it’s not the solution. Ppl who have he asset & don’t need the money aren’t gonna rent it out. Need to put political energy to…

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:09 PM - 13 Sep 2017

Solutions that COULD make a diff. C: we should teach boomers how to use Airbnb, get to use income in retirement, release pressure

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:10 PM - 13 Sep 2017

That’s a wrap!!!! Thanks for following along & pls join our mailing list: http://betterto.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3ce9a850cef4412ebc99f8856&id=3ffb097f37 …

— Better Toronto (@betteryyz)

9:10 PM - 13 Sep 2017