#hate HOAs

[lovelyfirebouquet]

"Kindly go fuck yourself. If they are upset I am carrying on as normal because I thought ahead, encourage them to also acquire generators. ❤️"

One more reason to not join a HOA

[morganbritton132]

What did Dan want?!?

Dan, knocking on the Munson’s door: The HOA says that your car need to be parked in your garage. Not the driveway.

Steve: Dan, not even kidding right now. I will beat you to death with a rake.

[turtlesandfrogs]

So, for years, the chain link fence between me and my local strip mall had a 7 to 9 foot (2.1ish to 2.7ish meter) tall mountain of Himalayan blackberries on the mall's side of the fence. On my side, there has been a goat run, for years, and that mountain of blackberries was part of the reason why I got them (besides loving goats) in the first place. The blackberries are an invasive species after all, and it's exhausting keeping up with three neighbors' worth of constant invasion of blackberries and bindweed. Goats, however, love to chow down on them.

I probably shouldn't call a mountain of invasive plants nice, but the song birds did sit in it and sing in a full throated chorus, it was loaded with blackberries, and it did provide a cozy sort of privacy not usually available in a city.

Untill mall landlord guy decided to cut it down to the ground. Baring my entire back yard to the view of everyone going by. Why he thought that was a good idea, I don't know. Especially since he a) never said anything and b) actually cut some of the vines on my side of the fence.

ANYWAY! Yesterday, I finally worked my way down the list of projects to creating a dead hedge to replace the blackberries, or at least the privacy aspect of them. I put it on the inside of the goat run, because that way, it's doing double duty by being a goat impenetrable barrier, so I can plant native willows, red osier, oaks, and other trees that can be coppiced or pollarded for height control and handy staight lengths of wood for stakes or basketry or whatever. Without the goats just completely devouring them. I'm really happy about that both because yay! Privacy! and because those trees are important habitat for a large number of birds and bugs.

Also, a lot of people really like the goats, so this way they can still say hi and give them goat appropriate treats. Emily here has her hooves on the dead hedge eating some of the fresh prunings I got off a job and incorporated into the dead hedge. It's not done quite yet, so the top is still loose and chaotic, but you get the idea.

On the inside of that, I'm tempted to plant some native (and native-ish) conifers, because their fine needles apparently do a good job of filtering air pollution, I like making tea from them, and you know, mushrooms. Lots of mushrooms. I love mushrooms. I'd probably have to do some intense pruning to keep them from getting ridiculously tall (considering the size of my plot), but guess what goats like eating?

That's right, everything!

[lovelyamneris]

Happy Holidays @regrettable-username I’m your Secret Santa!🫶

[ultrabananapudding]

Me, when the guy of my dreams shows up at my doorstep, naked, and confesses his undying loyalty to me:

[cloudy-dayys]

bro literally looks like he was jus tryna go check the mail or sumn

[oblivious-troll]

Day six

Poison

Line art + close up under cut

I'm really proud of this one :)

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Totally random question but I saw your post about the Fandom thinks that needed to die (Like toastgate and season four) and you mentioned the ball game and how both Joy and the writers misunderstood the rules.

I'm begging you to explain further bc I am as clueless as Joy

I’m so glad you asked because it’s about time I broke this down in writing. As an actor and theatre educator, I have it on good authority that they misunderstood this game because I play(ed) it all the time in my acting classes at the start of every session or rehearsal process.

It’s a simple ice breaker game that’s really designed to help the people playing the game learn their fellow players’ names (so it’s already strange that Ms. Valentine made them play this and wasn’t also playing it herself, since she’s the one who doesn’t know their names, but I digress).

The rules are as follows:

1. Players circle up or are otherwise in a position that allows them to see all the other people playing the game.

2. One person starts with the ball. They choose a person in the circle to throw the ball to.

3. They do not call the name of the person they are directly throwing the ball to; they do call the name of the person they want their target to throw the ball to.

Here’s an example of what that looks like: Let’s say John starts with the ball. He throws the ball to Jane, and calls out Joe’s name. Jane throws the ball to Joe, and calls out Suzie’s name. Joe throws it to Suzie, while calling out Harry’s name— and so on and so forth.

4. The game continues until everyone has the ball thrown to them, and it ends up back with the person who started the round.

So at first, the students are playing the game correctly, in this type of order. Things only start to go awry when someone (it was either Amber or Alfie… I think it was Amber) forgets that Patricia can’t speak because of the hex, and calls her name. Whoever throws it to Patricia (let’s say Alfie) calls out Fabian’s name and it gets thrown to her.

Since Patricia can’t talk she just throws it to Fabian, and starts gesticulating wildly at Joy because she assumes that he will obviously remember her name and will know who she’s referring to since they were all supposedly BFFs once.

This is where the writers must have taken a lunch break, because suddenly the rules of the game they’d been playing accurately up to this point go out the window. Because the scene obviously wants our takeaway to be that Fabian has forgotten Joy’s name and calls her Pam when he throws the ball to her, and she thinks he’s being a jerk. There’s supposed to be a misunderstanding, but not the misunderstanding they ended up actually writing.

Fabian does clock what Patricia is trying to say, and does throw it to Joy. Per the rules of the game, he’s supposed to call out someone else’s name when he throws it to Joy. Not say her name! He was still playing the game correctly when he called out “Pam!”

Now, we can assume there’s not actually a Pam in the class, so maybe that’s why Joy interpreted like he was calling her Pam. But according to the actual rules HE WAS NOT CALLING HER “PAM” AND SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN OFFENDED BY IT!!!!

Then again, the fact that this game is so confusing anyway, that we’re still trying to figure out what actually happened almost a decade later, means that they probably should have picked a different theatre game entirely for this scene. I can name like ten icebreakers off the top of my head that would get the exact same effect the writers were going for without the confusion.

So TL;DR: According to the established rules of this game, Fabian didn’t call Joy “Pam”, he called the name of whoever she was supposed to throw the ball to.

[myshiptrashcan]

I guess Jason in my stories is a family man.

Man's wants I guess

[heavenknowsffs]

It's funny how the americans that are mostly against "the system", "the Man" or the government are 99% of the times also the most conservative people on earth

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

Fabian, yelling at Nina: You left us in the hands of him!

*Gestures to Eddie*

Fabian: No offence.

Eddie: No, I’m with you.

[scripturiends]

i know one of the biggest complaints about house of anubis was its writing but if you step back and really consider the sitcoms that were airing at the same time on nickelodeon then it’s actually stellar in comparison. one thing that really set it apart was that it was serialized and not episodic so you had to be really cohesive with the main plot whilst being able to keep ur younger audiences hooked with high school hijinks,, which was comparatively less intense with the d*n schn*ider shows but was just as impactful?? and it did so without resorting to constant physical comedy.

just as a sidebar so far on twitter the biggest criticism ive seen of the show was that it was boring but that makes sense if you’re watching an episode that was meant to be the continuation of all the other ones that you may not have seen bc it was the time of cable. streaming was still sorta a foreign concept in 2011-2013. so that was one of its weaknesses back when it was airing but i think actually as time passed by it has now become one of its strongest points because house of anubis is incredibly rewatchable. you can watch it over and over again and discover something new about the plot, the characters, even the random things happening in the background.

anyway back to the writing, one of the reasons i love the dialogue in the show is because of how witty it actually is like im sorry it’s actually so hard to find the balance of sounding sharp without being pretentious and being funny without being too childish and using big words while still effectively portraying what it’s like to be in high school. that’s in the writing, that’s in the delivery – there have been questionable acting moments for sure but the cast were definitely giving it their all.

and this was something i articulated to my friends as a commentary but i seriously love how they wrote the girls on the show. because yes nina and joy were in that love triangle but nina never plotted to hurt joy because of it and when it mattered the most, joy was there to help nina out with all the chosen one stuff. and when willow and mara found out jerome was dating the both of them, willow asked mara if she hated her and she said no. which, if you were 13 at the time would have been so crazy to think about because normally the portrayal of girls is being at each other’s throats, trying to win the guy back, one-upping each other to find out who loves who more. joy did mara dirty during the journalism arc but she straight up said “i will not accept joy slander”. kt always reassured patricia that she wasn’t interested in eddie and even helped them get back together. amber was a girl’s girl the whole show – when she was unhappy with joy it was because she wanted to protect nina. when joy lashed out at willow, she felt bad and apologized. i could go on and on about all the times the women of anubis house had each others’ backs like they would fight but at the end of the day they love each other and would protect each other. just like joy said, whatever fight they would have, it’ll be ancient history by lunchtime.

i think the same goes for the guys as well? the guys don’t fit squarely into just one stereotype. like yes fabian is the ‘nerd’ but he barely went to class. he was smart in the things he was interested in – if anyone cared the most about the school it was mara. jerome was the ‘prankster’ but they did a deep dive into his family in season 2 and we even got to see him at his most lovable when he’s fallen in love with joy. eddie is supposed to be the ‘bad boy’ but in the entirety of season 2 he made me swoon with the way he kept encouraging patricia to lower her walls and talk about her feelings. he was pretty vocal about how he would like to be cared for, and genuinely gets upset when patricia wouldn’t listen. he’s an honest and sweet friend to everyone too.

anyway im sorry i couldn’t do one for everyone but you get what i mean. everyone was nuanced in a way that i think was so advanced for network standards like i really believe nickelodeon didn’t deserve a show as good as anubis but also at the same time im not sure it would be as good had nickelodeon not picked it up and gave it the number of episodes that it did. it’s kind of like how i feel about many of the decisions in the show – nina leaving without a proper explanation, the nina/joy/fabian love triangle, mick and amber’s departures, the way they approached the jerome/mara/willow/joy arc in s3 – i hate it but i also love it. it’s my favorite thing but also my most despised thing. i can’t stand watching it but i can’t get enough.

house of anubis is flawed in the way anubis house and the kids living in it are. they do the most awful things but they are so in need of nurturing. they’re immature but also the most mature people on the show. just a collection of oxymorons that created the masterpiece that it’s always been but also the masterpiece that it’s now just becoming.

[fakeosirian]

really surreal how much time jerome and jasper spend hanging out in s2. like even before jerome gets involved with the collector they're just chillin in the library shooting the shit for unrelated reasons

[lovelyamneris]

Sarah & Victor & Rufus fancam - Civilian, Wye Oak

[husbants]

I hate people so bad