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What radicalized me was Conservative philanthropy.
I've said before that my parents were property managers, which is to say, the people real estate investors who owned apartment buildings hired to act as landlords for them. And they and a lot of my other relatives were really big into investing in real estate as a means of creating generational wealth. (This has not worked out for us, by and large. Some have given up, but others are still hustling today.)
This means that when a local government wants to create a Taskforce on How We're Totally Addressing the Housing Crisis, You Guys, and among all the shelters and charities desperate for funding, they look to appoint someone who can represent the landlords who control most of the housing here... they appoint the kind of people I end up sitting next to at Thanksgiving dinner.
So this story I just shared about landlords and government and housing benefit payment dates?
Yeah. That got shared with me by a conservative. Someone who knows I'm a fruity socialist leech now, and wanted me to know that this was proof that the private sector CARES!
Actually, it was part of an argument about how government or nonprofit housing wasn't a good solution to the housing crisis, because the private sector "can do it more efficiently". The landlords saw something was really wrong and they were having to evict a lot more people than usual! So they called up their buddies in office and got it FIXED! Let us join hands and sing!
I, meanwhile, knew that benefits recipients had been screaming about this problem to national newsmedia for months before the landlords stepped in, so I was less than impressed. Imagine a type of noblesse oblige that only takes notice when they realize they're making people homeless when they might have made a profit off them instead.
Every time conservatives pat themselves on the back for how good they are to the poor, I can't stop seeing just how good to the poor they aren't, most of the time.
(And also: I know how the economics work, and how most of the time the landlords couldn't afford to just let people stay for less money. Mortgages need paying. But that doesn't inspire me to let the landlords off easy; it says to me that we really do need radically different funding models for housing.)
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“You’re so quiet, what’s on your mind?” My body is a prison and my soul is its prisoner
#it’s so weird when you think you have a friend#and then they turn around and act as if they never even knew you#like???#I did nothing to you???#but now all of a sudden our long conversations in the drive have now gone to being blanked#not to mention she’s now buddy-buddy with our landlord who she hates?#this entire situation is weird and i don’t understand it#actually borderline#actually bpd#bpd#bpd feels#bpd thoughts#bpd problems#bpd stuff#bpd mood#bpd shit#bpd blog
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the place me and my roommate were supposed to move into today was so disgusting and uninhabitable we just took our stuff and left and now we're gonna be staying at airbnbs and hotels until further notice/until we can find a new place hopefully quickly...........im in my homeless drifter era y'all!!!😍😍so if im not as active then thats why LMFAO
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#bro was literally trying to rent us a silent hill apartment#we already paid first and last too which was 2700k and he said hes not gonna refund us EVEN THO WE DIDNT EVEN MOVE IN!!#like first month i get BUT NOT EVEN THE SECOND MONTH?? all landlords go to hell#looking back at the og listing like.....yeah i can see why he never took pics of the outside......literally looks like a landfill😃#we're SO LUCKY that uhaul allowed us to keep our things stored with them bc if they insisted on our shit still being dropped off#we woulda been so screwed/forced to move in and then would have had to hire ANOTHER uhaul to move back OUT lol#AND I HATE MOVING the idea of unloading all of our stuff just to pack it again literally makes me wanna perish#but even tho i may be a homeless drifter rn that wont stop me from also working on my oneshot between searching for places😍#the oneshot has a smut scene at the beginning LMAO and smut takes me forever to write so id been putting it off#but now that im over that hump (pun intended) i think ill be faster now brrrrrrrrrrr 9k words so far#its probs gonna be like 40k LMFAO maybe longer... idek#but also ill be hella busy trying to find a home so LMFAO who knows...chat im so fucking TIREDDDDD🧎♀️🧎♀️#my moms trying to see if she can fight him and get our money back but it aint lookin good bros#if i randomly open commissions then youll also know why LMAO
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Death trap apt. The "bedroom." You can't stand up, and look at how narrow it is. If you get up in the middle of the night, stumble and fall down those stairs, good night nurse.
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Little message for any Americans who come across my blog:
REJECT YOUR HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION!!!!!!
GROW NATIVE PLANTS AND/OR CORN ON YOUR FRONT LAWN!!!!!!!!
Not saying you HAVE to! But HOAs are still a stupid idea anyway.
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And if you can’t do that. Defy them in any way you can. No matter how small it may be.
FUCK HOAs!
HOAs can eat shit!
Feel free to reblog the shit out of this one if you wish!
Also please reblog my posts on sending aid to the Armenians and the Assyrian people too! They’re on my blog.
#personal stuff#dougie rambles#political crap#for any yanks out there#anti homeowner association#fuck the HOA#housing#homeowner association#anti lawn#anti mowing#fuck HOAs#rewilding#homeowners association#corn#reblog this#anti HOA#no more mowing#pollinators#tenant rights#anti landlords#fuck landlords#neighbourhood associations#kill your lawn#lawn#fuck lawns#signal boost#signal b00st#signal boooooost#please reblog this#reblog the shit out of this
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#kitchen essentials
#live for a cow themed dish 🐄#genuinely makes me feel kind of insane to be living in a new apartment after just assuming I’d be living in my studio apartment forever#love the apartment!!!! it’s nice and there’s a lot of room & it feels like home!!!!#it’s just kind of hard to process#finally finished fully moving all the stuff and cleaning the old apartment today & texted my landlord who I loved
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hi.
#i know most of you didn’t even realize i was gone#but man…#my mental health was like in a state of 📉📉📉 in the past 30 days like we love being mentally ill and fucking insane <3#it was mostly bc i panicked and started obsessing over possible water damage in my flat kind of out of nowhere#like it started when my landlord came to check my bathroom bc my downstairs neighbours had water stains on their ceiling back in july#which had been caused by their shower curtain apparently but i was already spiraling when my landlord told me so i was sure it was my fault#i was assuming it was bc of me bc i had sometimes been spilling some of my bathwater and i was like WHAT IF IT HAS GONE THROUGH THE FLOOR?#and it didn't help that it has been hot af and very humid in my apartment LIKE WELL OVER 25 DEGREES AND 60% HUMIDITY#anyways i couldn’t shake this not matter what i tried and my fucking insane brain made me think i was going to get arrested for like#flooding the whole building or for causing some sort of mold infestation#i had SO MANY panic attacks; i wasn't able to sleep; i wasn't able to eat; i was on edge and panicky basically 24/7 so fun fun fun :D#and i kept waking up in the middle of the night and HAD to go check my walls or the space below my kitchen#it was compulsory like i couldn't not get up and go check and tbh i would've thrown out all of my furniture if i could've to check for mold#(and shhhh i know how fucking insane this sounds but having a mentally ill brain that's anxious all the time does suck ass sometimes 🥲)#(the worst thing about it tho was that i was SO AWARE of how insane about this i was being and yet i couldn't stop losing my mind over it)#(also i was so ready to move tf outta here bc i couldn't handle being triggered 24/7 which is why my mom let me stay with her last week )#i was so out of it that i couldn't even let myself do the things i usually enjoy... like at all#like watching my shows or spending any ungodly amount of time on tumblr... or replying to messages i got from people who i love#ig this goes to show HOW bad this actually was for me mentally bc usually tumblr and my shows are like my safe place#anyways we finally had a leak detection dude come over today and we had him check the water levels in my walls#and he said everything is fine and he specifically told me i should stop worrying about any water damage BC THERE IS NO WATER DAMAGE#he also said that the weather has just been insanely humid this year so it's not surprising that the humidity levels are higher than usual#i’m still a bit scared about some possible mold but ig this is good enough for now#i am aware how ridiculous this must sound for anyone who's reading this now but couldn't let it go not even with meds so let me live pls :(#TLDR I WAS GOING THROUGH IT BUT I AM BACK I THINK AND I AM MOST LIKELY GOING TO START BOTHERING YOU WITH MY GIFS AGAIN <3#AND I JUST REALIZED I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN ANY OF THE HEART KILLERS STUFF YET ASIDE FROM ONE OR TWO PICS LIKE :(#OH AND I NEED TO START WATCHING SUMMER NIGHT ;_;#sabrina talks#@AIRENYAH GIRL I AM SO SORRY I WILL PROBABLY REPLY TO YOUR MESSAGES LATER TODAY OR TOMORROW MORNING ;_;<3
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many of y’all have never had to stop everything, and i mean everything, you were doing to the surprising sound of deafening chilling siren to literally save your life and, boy, does it show.
when i say deafening i mean a deafening volume, like on the street, from public buildings rooftops everywhere. full fucking volume. chilling? the sound is universal, btw. here’s a taste, hope you never get to hear it live.
and stop everything? why’s that? you have 0-90 seconds to get to protected area. it varies between the safe room in your house to the shelter in your building, to the one across the street, to the stairs at the building (center of the building, missiles tend to hit sides), or simply get as far away from your car and protect your head. and oh, yeah, i mean stop literally everything. from easy things like watching tv, writing, eating, playing and cooking to things you wouldn’t believe you can cut in the middle like showering, driving, breastfeeding, sleeping, pooping and anything you can think of. you have to stop sprint to the protected area as fast as it can. oh, yeah, even if it means, meeting your neighbors in a towel with shampoo still in your hair or at 3am. or both.💩
#israel#jumblr#iron swords#or half naked after STUFF?!???!!!#strange partners???#neighbors cringe is a real war treat#SoundCloud#ID RATHER DIE THAN SHARE THE SHELTER WITH MY LANDLORD FUCK THIS
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SHORT DP X DC WRITING PROMPT #2
(Possible crack/one-shot continuation for the Lair of Mystery au)
All of a sudden I had a really stupid idea. Does the House of Mystery have a bathroom?
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Constantine: Any of you know how to fix a leaky sink pipe in the bathroom
Danny: ...This place has a bathroom?
Constantine: *sputters* What do you mean? It's your house?!
Danny looks at Constantine with a blank expression and puts his hand on the Brit's shoulder.
Danny: John. Sweetie. Buddy. I'm dead. I don't NEED a bathroom.
Constantine puts his head in his hands with a long-suffering groan.
Constantine: Do you know how to fix a leaky pipe or not? You're pretty much the landlord here.
Danny: Oh. Yeah sure. Just let me get the tool box from the lab.
Danny disappears and leaves Constantine with a dumbfounded look on his face.
Constantine: Wha- LAB??
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Could just be the tiredness talking but I laughed a lot more at this than I probably should. To the person who said Danny was JLD's landlord, THANK YOU.
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dp x dc crossover#danny's lair is the house of mystery#billy and danny are video game buddies#danny and constantine are drinking buddies#the house of mystery has a floorplan that's also a mystery#danny is the landlord#writing prompt#prompt#dp x dc prompt#Lair of Mystery AU#sleepy-writes-stuff
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I FINALLY MOVED OUT TO A NEW PLACE!!!
i'm absolutely exhausted and i still need to unpack so many things and i still need to buy a proper desk and restock my groceries & supplies and a do a whole lot of other things BUT i'm hoping to get settled in soon so i can get back to the creative endeavors™️✨
love yall, stay safe, take care, and good vibes 🫶🏻
#rin rambles#i dont want to bog this with negativity but i do want to share stuff so imma do it in a way that makes me look forward and not backwards#honestly this wasn't the place that i actually wanted and got excited for several months ago#i had to make adjustments because unfortunately the landlord was a huge red flag and i decided i didn't want to sign#and sure enough she never returned my security deposit of 1.5months until this day despite saying she would every day for like a whole mont#and though it is hard and devastating i don't want to potentially sabotage my own future so i've decided to not take any legal action#i just hope. that that money can be of use to her in some way. get her out of a tough spot perhaps#it was a struggle to get to this point of actually feeling fine letting go without breaking down but!!! it's fine. i'm fine#and karma will find a way if it was truly done out of purely malicious intention!#i'm closing that book and stowing it away lovingly into a shelf because if anything it was. a powerful lesson.#as much as it sucks. never. ever. trust a person when it comes to business or transactions. no matter how 'put together' they seem#always have everything on paper and never EVER pay something until they demonstrate that they can be trusted#anyway#the people helping me move today were super friendly and nice and it made my day!!#and so far i love love love the privacy so much. a bathroom all to myself? a kitchen countertop?? for myself??? that's so crazy#i had to battle thru cobwebs and (fored to) cured my arachnophobia by force /j#and there was a power trip unfortunately but overall everything seems nice! i would have liked having the room on a higher floor but ah wel#ough my back........... _(;3」 z)_
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We planned and booked stuff for an entire 4-day vacation in like 2.5 hours today and I’m so proud. One of the reasons I haven’t actually traveled anywhere in years (certainly not for more than a quick weekend con where we had one activity and that was the con) was that the thought of having to plan things for myself seemed so overwhelming and too full of steps that it made me give up before I ever started.
But we did it together! Bast found a cute hotel close to the places we want to visit that is within my budget and has scenic views, and I scoured tourism websites for restaurants for every meal and reserved a table for a fancier date night. I got us full access passes that cover a bunch of historic sites and tickets for a ghost tour and an arboretum, and we found an art museum and an aquarium. All that’s really left is to search up where we can park.
Oh and I’ve got to put in for the time off from work.
Which is the reason we’re going on vacation.
To give me a break from work, for a reason other than ‘will lose these days if I don’t take them off before the year’s over so I end up taking off the entirety of Liminal Spacemas and staying home full of winter-y holiday staring-into-space-ness instead of really feeling like it’s a break.’
Haaaaaahahahahaha vacatioooooon~~ Gonna GO SOMEWHERE with BAST and it’s gonna be NICE.
#kidk says stuff#no really I literally haven’t been anywhere since the last Connecticon we attended in…oh shit was it 2018 or 2017 idek hnnngh#pearl the landlord voice: I work. too. hard.#planning on hitting up a restaurant with a full menu of whiskey cocktails before the ghost tour and being like#what’s up ghosts it’s ya boy!!! but internally. I will not disrupt the ghost tour for others#bast has been on vacations but not me cause I hate flying and have been being self-depriving also#((don’t worry I haven’t held her back it’s just me who’s gone nowhere))#((when she goes away I sit at home pining. this time we will go TOGETHER!))
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The anticipation shakes of adrenaline to confront someone is unmatched
#can’t avoid me on my own porch#gonna shout down as the landlord leaves#bitch you thought#actually bpd#actually borderline#bpd#bpd feels#bpd thoughts#bpd problems#bpd mood#bpd stuff#bpd shit#bpd blog
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"Flying"* broom from Kiki's Delivery Service
*Suspended from the ceiling by fishing line, held in place by magnets originally put in place for a smoke detector.
Except for the fishing line I didn't have to buy anything for this so that was great.
#studio ghibli#kiki's delivery service#jiji the cat#jiji#kiki's delivery service radio#diy#do it yourself#craft#it's mostly made from trash let's face it#also no need to worry for my safety#yes the old smoke detector did fall off in last year's summer heat and humidity#but my landlord was forced by law to install new ones so i'm fine#my stuff
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Thanks to pulsatingmeat for sending this horrid "newly renovated" 1bd, 1ba apt. for rent in Calgary, Canada. They are calling it a condo and want $900mo. No smoking, pets, or parties. Shared laundry.
It's in the basement.
I'm guessin' you have to walk thru this mess to get to it at the far end.
It's more of a studio, b/c this is your combination bed/dining/living room. Oh, and the furniture comes with it.
I hope the new tenant likes the industrial look, b/c check out the kitchen ceiling. I don't see a stove or fridge, just a sink.
The bath is actually the hallway and the toilet doesn't quite fit.
See? It's the hall leading into the living area. There's a door at the other end, though. Is this stuff legal in Canada?
https://www.rentfaster.ca/ab/calgary/rentals/condo/1-bedroom/victoria-park/furnished/580571#dialog-ngdialog1
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People would call you communist for this (lol) but the solution for the housing crisis we have all over is to set a minimum and maximum price per square meter that you can rent/sell a place for and that maximum price per meter should be adjusted so that it never exceeds a specific reasonable percentage of local salaries. Also, governments should be tougher on places not being fit to rent. No, you shouldn't be able to rent anything less than 45m² as 'a flat', that's either a room or a storage unit.
#liveblogging my life#the actual communist answer is that we shouldn't have to pay for housing or food at all#and if we want to go on vacation there should be communal resorts that people can stay and do activities in#but since that's utopian and far-fetched#something else that i would do is to implement this same policies for food prices#food prices shouldn't be able to rise padt a certain amount#also each person should only be able to own 2-3 properties max#taking into account both stuff you buy and stuff you inherit#(idk how you factor split inheritances into that but we'd work it out)#and you should only be able to rent out one of them btw#and your rental income is split 50/50 with your local government AFTER taxes#no hoarding that money to yourself you hand some of it over to the community#you shouldn't be able to be a landlord like as a job#it should be like a side hustle that brings you some extra cash a month#but it's not able to buy you a whole house or several#oh there should also be a cap on the number of rental properties per town that are allowed to be rented out to tourists#anyway vote for me
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#anyone here know stuff about hanging things from the wall? specifically how much weight a screw can take#i hung up a little cupboard thing earlier today. wanted to put books in it#but now i worry that they are too heavy#(its one of those ikea eket cube things like 35cm on all sides so it doesn't fit *that* many books#BUT they are almost all hardcovers and large formats so still quite heavy)#because i just used whatever screws (50mm and universal anchor thingies) without asking anyone first#what if i picked the wrong ones. or rather how can i assume i picked the right ones.#they do seem a bit flimsy#i worry the whole thing will come crashing down and i'll have to explain a huge hole in the wall to my landlord#if someone could put my mind at ease that'd be great i dont want to call my father he will just act like im stupid#which yk fair enough but also. urgh.
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