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gringos discover miami (real)
#I watched the vid and yes it is actually about miami but they keep specifying Doral which#Is Techincally its own city. but no one really treats the smaller cities in dade county like that#they’re more like neighborhoods#like if it’s not homestead and it’s not Ft. Lauderdale your address is going to say miami on it Most of the time#there are certain locations where they will specificy more often though. the more expensive the real estate the more likely they are to#specify. cause rich people. it’s a clout thing.#like oh yes I live in coral gables~ heehee yes I have an condo in key biscayne as well~#but if you put in ur zip code for shipping it will give you the option for miami or the More Specific Location™️#cause if you go by what maps say the vast majority of people here do not live in Miami including me#and yet that’s what my address says. the city limits really make no sense at all#because it’s all just an endless slab of concrete anyway#with no real difference till you hit the Weird zone that is between homestead proper and the edge of the city#though that’s rapidly being developed. I’m getting off topic#also the vid is unnecessarily dramatic#long story short. lots of boats. airport nearby. the average citizen is a poor immigrant. not hard to figure things out
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the city I live in had to take down a big old tree on public property down the street from where I live but before they did it they stapled a sign to it giving the reason (tree was dead and rotting and was a threat to the road and power lines) and then included contact info for objections to removing it to be brought before the city and idk I know it’s not much but I just think that’s….nice. like a nice acknowledgment that people have connections to plants and particularly big old trees around where they live and should at least be able to be like Please Do Not Cut Down This Big Old Tree For A Parking Lot Or Something. their reasoning for this one was super valid and they did indeed remove the tree earlier this week but quite frankly I was just like. surprised to (at least in theory) be able to have a say in it at all lmao
#I didn’t realize until I saw it when the sign went up that I’m just used to the cutting down of big old trees like they’re objects. you kno#like. man#idk if they put this on all trees they take down or just the ones in high traffic neighborhoods#but it makes me think like. Could you imagine if you had to do this whenever you cut down a tree for a new development or smth#and therefore the larger the land purchased for a new Walmart the more individual trees they would have to do paperwork for#to the extent that the hassle of fielding the trees in public record would outweigh the hassle of like. buying already developed land#and reusing it#?#also. the ability to enter objections for every tree to cause further problems lmao
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(threatening) we’re GONNA be friends
#finally. finally I have gotten these kittens out of the abandoned building in my neighborhood!!!!!!#they seem much less spicy than the group from the same mom I got in the fall thank god#they’re just looking at me like 👀#whereas the other litter was actively like MURDER. MURDER KILL BITE HISS!!!!! 🔪 🔪 🔪#names genders etc to come I have GOT to shower after I crawled around in that dilapidated garage full of spiders and raccoon poop#msg me name suggestions if u like!#also mom is going to get neutered tomorrow so NO MORE KITTENS. thank god
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disappointed I might not be able to take the real estate finance class in my program <- insane sentences. what have I become
#ive recently become serious about the thought of trying to start a community land trust im like daydreaming about community ownership of my#building#we’ll have a childcare co-op and a community kitchen….we’ll pay land rent to the manahatta project and have a mutual aid fund#for people who get in a bind#like I know all the details together are impossible without serious money behind it but life could be a dream…#personal#anyway I’m thinking through the steps and they’re like. step one get a job in housing operations (im fucking trying dude) while getting more#into mutual aid communities in my actual neighborhood#step two uh get good at finance. or find someone who is. work at a land trust maybe.#step three: ??
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some of the people in those notes are in a different world
#‘oh well I guess I’ll own my childhood home someday’ damn#don’t even have one of those the last house my parents were paying a mortgage one we got a foreclosure on and were given#several months notice to pack up and leave#my parents are making more than they ever made in last and they’re still just paying rent#no hope of owning a house in a place like this especially#there’s very few options in a tourism industry town#rich people buy up all the homes to rent out as vacation homes#apartments are around $1200 at minimum to rent#for shitty studio apartments in bad neighborhoods#also scary seeing people like ‘aha I’ll just wait for my parents to die😅’ wtf you sound like a columbo villain or something#pisses me off as someone who had distant step relatives acting like vultures over inheritance while their parents were dying of illness#disgusting behavior
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I think Dirty Little Secrets is interesting so far. And I’m surprised I haven’t seen more about it. It feels different than PB’s usual in some ways
#choices dls#choices dirty little secrets#choices#choices stories you play#playchoices#yeah it seems like they’re still gonna lean heavily on smut#that’s no surprise#but at least the LI has a little allure to him#and we’re not fucking cheating for once 🙄#I’m sure the HOA bitch won’t be too different from their usual antagonists either#she def gives Vanessa from MoTY vibes#but I like the messiness of having a book centered around a neighborhood#I wanna know all the tea lol#and I want our neighbors gossiping about us and the LI#and obviously I’m especially intrigued by Sadie saying he killed his wife#the mystery aspect makes all of this even more interesting#so yeah overall we’ll see how PB handles it#hopefully they learned from the mistakes they made in MoTY with Vanessa and the PTA#and hopefully they don’t drop the ball on the mystery like they usually do#which is honestly very likely since they have a tendency to ignore plot in favor of smut 🤦🏽♀️#either way though I’m tentatively optimistic#choices app
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Antis: “Jason Todd is a cop!!!!!!”
Also antis: “Hello FBI I’d like to report a fanfiction.”
#okay I think it’s out of my system now.#no wait okay ‘the homeless youth returning to his neighborhood to fix things is MORE OF A COP…#…than the rich dude who goes into the neighborhood he DOESN’T live in to PATROL for people who look like…#they’re doing a crime’ SURE IS A TAKE.#definitely no classism here!#IT’S OKAY IF YOUR FAVE IS A COP IT’S FICTION.#‘Noted CIA agent Tom King wrote Bruce Wayne thinking About Morals so Batman CAN’T be a cop!’
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I can’t find it now but I think I’ve posted previously about my kid’s slightly overbearing neighborhood friend, yeah that has devolved into an unfortunate but hilariously concerted effort between Charlie, my mom and I to literally hide from that kid daily
#the mom too it’s becoming a little TWO much#they’re obsessed#was kinda like haha silly at first now I feel like they’re hiding in the bushes waiting for us after school at any given moment#We moved neighborhoods but we haven’t moved schools and I feel like I’m running into them even more than when we lived there#I joked when we first got the house that they’re gonna follow us but now I’m half expecting it to happen
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Ahhhh the job I thought i didn’t get bc they never got back to me after my interview (which I thought went really well) just reached out to me bc apparently the person they tried to hire backed out.,.. and now its gonna be like another month of wondering if I’m gonna have to decide if I want to move to another state where I don’t know anyone. And i was kind of relieved when i never heard back bc I’m really happy here with my family and gf and friends but the fact is my job here is a contract with very slim hopes of developing into a real job with benefits and i live with my parents bc i love them and our house and our town but i know i have to seriously consider this opportunity bc it would be a good career move and i want to live a rich and interesting life. But I don’t want to talk about it with anyone irl because my dad has covid which has been my number 1 fear since the start of the pandemic (he’s 71 and immunocompromised but he’s doing well and not needed the hospital) and I just want to be able to only worry about that I can’t even talk about the job thing which i drove myself and everyone around me crazy with already back in October. Which is why I’m just posting it vjfdhk I’m being tormented by forces beyond my control i feel like this is the sort of thing it would be really helpful to believe in God about
#like people who say He has a plan which i guess is comforting but his plans are so inscrutable they may as well be random. but some people#think he wants the best for us??? which seems so unlikely to me I can’t even try to believe it#anyways i think my dad willbe fine but I’m worried about long term health issues which would make it really really hard to move away bc my#mom is already basically disabled. and i want the house I want it so bad but I can’t afford to buy it from them bc our neighborhood has#gotten sooo much more expensive then it was when they moved here in the 80s and i know they’re planning on selling it to fund their#retirement. but i love it here so much I want to live here forever and die here but its not realistic and maybe it would be easier if i#moved away and put down roots somewhere else and then it will be less painful when they sell the house and less painful when they die#i just want things ro stay likethis forever I’ve#spent so much time these past few years walking around this neighborhood its like the veins in my arms i can live other places i have for#years but they never get this deep im so scared for the futuy#future but there’s absolutely nothing i can do to stop it. except kill myself i guess but it’s#not nearly at that point yet ckgdf it would make a lot of people very upset. it is sort of comforting to remember though i have that option.#god i hope they don’t offer me the job I’m a wreck just thinking about it#i really haven’t made any special efforts to reach out to them or anything. obv I wasn’t their first choice i have no idea if I’m their#second. i think they really liked me but I’m guessing im younger and less experienced than other candidates#hi if ur reading this btw its me a stranger on the internet and you know something my closest friends and family don’t know. congrats#I’ll talk to someone in a few days when my dad is feeling better. really hope my mom doesn’t get sick too she’s been coughing a bit but#testing negative. idc if i get covid i actually hope i get it bc that will prove I didn’t give it to my dad asymptotically#that’s not a secret i toldmy mom she was like jesus Christ don’t think like that
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always thought having a balcony was the height of luxury but now I have a balcony and I’m like Whar am I supposed to do with this? stand outside in the freezing cold and gaze over the parking lot????
#this has been a post#in high school we moved neighborhoods and while they were building our new house we had to stay in like#an interim house#that was waaay bigger and more expensive than what we were moving into#but since we were renting and it was temporary it was fine#anyway my room in that house had a balcony which was really nice!!!#but that was overlooking like a beautiful open field with mountains in the distance totally private and remote n stuff#(I also didn’t use it much because we lived there in winter and it was also cold dhsksjs)#but here it’s just. parking lot. dumpsters. trees! that might be pretty in the spring but they’re all dead rn :(#if I lived on a higher floor I’d have a view of the river but alas#it’s not even a nice river as far as rivers go it’s a very dirty river
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Hi yes obsessed with these tags from @abyssalzones because I hadn’t fully thought it through but yes yes yes
Image description: [Screenshot of tags from @abyssalzones “#I know I talk about this fucking show all the time know but re-examining gravity falls remembering alex hirsch grew up in piedmont #california was so eye opening for me. that is one of the richest parts of california #and a massive part of the plot hinges on the stans having grown up worrying about being breadwinners for their family #but the thing about this. is that Alex fundamentally cannot understand ford’s motivations to escape his home life and go to college #because in all likelihood he didn’t have to worry about getting into calarts #he didn’t have to worry about getting a job making a show at disney #so he literally has no reference point for ford OR stan’s situation financially #like no wonder he thinks ford is selfish. he literally has never had to fight tooth and nail for success #autism rant over”]
I think one of the most important parts about film and tv analysis is never forgetting that no matter the genre or setting, the story is probably being filtered through the perspective of a person who lives in California
#gravity falls#also more information on piedmont#so there’s a city called Oakland that was essentially founded by ship and port workers#and then when there was redlining and white flight all the white folks in Oakland created their own “city” called piedmont#like Oakland is divided into the flatlands which is pretty poor#the hills which is where the rich oaklanders are so imagine how fucking rich and afraid of poor (let’s be clear: poc) ppl to live in#fucking piedmont#and for the record: most ppl from the area do not think piedmont is separate from Oakland unless they’re from piedmont or one of the other#bougie neighborhoods#sorry for going off but this also annoys me
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i can’t remember if i told tumblr about this already but whateva. i’m still thinking abt the dude who was hitting on me so hard this morning on my way to class. and i’m still thinking abt the hinge comment i got this morning that said smth like “you’re the kind of woman men used to go to war for, and id be first in line” like damn what was in the air that was making men NEED me
#only solidified my idea that i’m actually suuuper toxic tho lmfao#bc i CONSIDERED giving the dude this morning my phone number or my snap (eugh) or whatever#but i was like hmmm no i won’t because i’ll just get bored and ghost him within a few days anyway#id rather just bask in the massive ego stroke than actually get to know this guy more#he was lowkey genuinely gorgeous tho but yknow. i just like flirting i don’t like relationships#and regarding the hinge comment; i’m toxic for THAT bc i have my hinge neighborhood set to madrid#bc when i was studying abroad i got like 12x as many likes every day bc it’s a bigger city#and the dudes there are hotter than they are here (on average)#i never actually like anyone/match with anyone on hinge anymore bc i just want to get all of the likes#and not actually engage with anyone LMFAO#but i think the most toxic thing of all is the fact that i Recognize that i’m a toxic person#(esp regarding my ghosting addiction)#and yet i don’t change anything about myself. bc i don’t care bc i think it’s more fun this way ;)#thinking abt those things that are like ‘if you’re ever convinced you’re a bad person just remember that bad ppl don’t realize/don’t care#if they’re bad or not’#and it’s like oh lol you mean me? you mean exactly how i feel abt it? lmfao sickness 🤙🤙🤙🤙#again. it’s just way more fun and comfortable for me this way#and my narcissism gets a real kick out of it too LOLL
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Socialize your small dogs with bigger dogs.
I don’t care if you think it’s unnecessary. Just do it. Teach them how to act around big dogs.
If you’re worried about your little dog getting hurt, keep an eye on your dog and have the big dog owner do the same.
I am saying this as an owner of two Italian greyhounds (little dogs) and someone who has worked with big dogs extensively. My dogs were socialized well as puppies but there’s so many people who have small dogs that don’t know how to act around big dogs (or anything else) because the owners coddled them as puppies. There’s always a stark difference between the little dogs who were exposed to big dogs and the little dogs that weren’t.
Little dogs have the same rules as big dogs. You don’t just lose all those pet owner obligations because your dog can fit in a purse. Teach your dogs to behave as puppies and it’ll be easier for both of us.
I don’t normally beg for reblogs, but I desperately need this message to spread. The only way to prevent the existence of horrible, yappy rat-dogs is to train small dog puppies before they grow into that dog. Only you can prevent bitey little shit gremlins.
#I swear to fucking god#Train your damn dogs#There’s a Yorkshire terrier in my neighborhood who’s the sweetest thing because she was well trained and socialized#And then there’s the shitty little Jack Russell who bit my dog for no reason#And nine times out of ten#The dog is an overbred purebred dog that their owners got because they thought it would be easier#It’s not#little dogs are just like big dogs but they’re more prone to nervousness because everything is so much bigger than them#Teach your dogs to cope before they take it out on other animals
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I wanna know what it’s like to live in other cities cause every damn time I do a long walk here (ESPECIALLY at night) I end up so fucking angry!!!!! Like super pissed off and deeply bothered at the world!!!! and idk if it’s just the disparities and contrasts of issues *here* that bother me so deeply or if it’s more stuff related to modern US/western society in general, or if it’s a little bit of both and I’m just more sensitive to it here cause it’s more visible to me.
#but like djsjdjeje I got SO MAD last night walking around cause I didn’t know where I was and accidentally ended up walking through#a wealthier neighborhood. like range rovers and mowed lawns and ADT security signs#and it was night and I was just walking along and it was empty except for three older couples with dogs#all of them had like. lots of lights on them and were very visible whereas I was just in a hoodie and shorts#none of them smiled at me or acted like they were comfy with me being there. and I was like fuck off#and it was like. if you get uncomfy with someone who you perceive as… poor and visibly neurodivergent??? then like.#how shitty do you treat everyone else? how many POC do you call the cops on? how many disabled ppl or more visibly trans ppl do you stare#down and glare at? how do you treat the unhoused or addicts or anyone else who isn’t rich and white and old who god forbit walks down the#street you live off of??? sorry for existing in a public space???#but to me I really get pissed off cause these ppl hate on the suburbs and act like they’re sooooo progressive and are helping the world and#are so morally righteous blah blah. but they can’t even see that they’ve turned their own CITY that they LIVE IN into a suburb#by ridding their streets of the *painful eyesores* that they don’t want to see and by pretending harm doesn’t exist!!!!#like good for fucking you!! I get they don’t want to have to face the fentanyl crisis and homelessness and mental illness 24/7#but like. what about the people experiencing those things? your solution is to push them away where you can’t see them and not provide any#direct help or sense of community and then just expect them to magically feel better and be stable and happy and disappear#????#like no!!! they are all people too!! you can’t ignore them or sweep them away!!!! we exist and we deserve compassion and community!!!#we are a PART of your fucking prescious progressive community!!! fuck off and treat us like it!!!#and also stop shitting on the suburbs when they have more poor people than the official city does now!!! like fuck OFF#googoogajoob
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I really hope Diego gets a job at the Holocaust Museum because them both him and my mom would be working near downtown. If we decide to still sell the house we might be able to move to the White Rock area
#I used to work in that area#delivering pet food#and it’s one of my favorite neighborhoods#in all of Dallas#the only one I like more#is Bishop Arts#but the houses down there don’t meet our needs#in most cases#they’re all small bungalows#on tiny lots
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#having to put up an argument w parents just to be allowed more freedom bc of them being overly sheltering & restrictive of where i go is.#its so exhausting that i literally am not allowed to go anywhere w/o them hovering over me or so on#not even allowed to go for walks solo in my own apartment complex at any time of day because they’re THAT overly sheltering#legit if i wanna go for a walk i HAVE to go w one of my own parents yet sometimes i LITERALLY WANNA GET A W A Y FROM THEM#WHICH IS THE POINT OF THE WALK. GET AWAY FROM THEM & THE HOUSE & YET. THEY FORCE ME TO HAVE TO WALK W ONE OF EM. or worse both.#im glad that the circumstances left it to where they HAVE no choice & HAVE to let me go w whatever is ‘more favorable’ for them except it#isnt favorable at all for em its just ‘which freedom would we rather allow you to have’#but neither option is one they wanna give me i can tell. just a matter of which they let me have.#imagine constantly anytime you wanna go out w/o em somewhere your parents whip out a whole ass talk abt how there’s robberies/crime/danger#& how its too dangerous to go out & do x or y thing#i literally cant even go walk in my own neighborhood w/o that kinda immediate commentary or them bringing up just#the most recent crimes that happened to enforce this whole reasoning why i shouldnt be allowed out#even tho im. what. fucking 27??? sucks that i have chronic illness bc ik thats what gives em so much leverage over me#not even gonna comment abt them using my disabilities against me as a way to keep me hostage#i will call it keeping me hostage bc they’ve never let me have freedom at all#even when i was in uni on campus i was expected to contact em constantly & them expecting i go home v often & shit & since im kinda.#@ their mercy a lot it was not much of a say i had in the matter esp bc i came down w health issues around then so? yeah#i wont get too much further into this bc i can say. a lot abt how obsessively overprotective they are but.#regardless.#ishtar rambles ;#ngl its this reason along w other shit thats why im afraid of what’ll happen once i FINALLY have the funds & resources to move out#which i can! also get into that!#but. another topic another time.#not even also gonna get into their backhanded ‘yknow what let them do what they want#’let them go & learn their lesson’ like excuse me???#they want me to have a bad exp so they can say ‘i told you so’ ik it. i know this bc theyve done it before#& then used it as justification to tighten the leash on me
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