#this makes my head ache

[she-ra-ra-skirt]

I'm Generation X, and my parents are Baby Boomer home owners in the UK and for various reasons I rent.

My parents are getting old, so we've talked about inheritance and how they want me to buy a home with the money they leave me, so I'd be secure ie not have a scumbag landlord screwing me over all the time.

But this got me really curious. There's a huge swathe of Baby Boomers who own homes, in fact, I think it's rare for them not to due to income vs house prices for them. So as they start to die, what happens to the property market? The people who inherit will be Generation X, if they have descendants, which is likely due to the social pressures they were under, so what will they do with the properties.

I'm convinced it's the Baby Boomers who keep the housing prices high and refuse to sell their houses at reasonable costs but what about the Generation Xers, who have often be screwed over by the housing market and may have lost everything in the 2008 crash as they still had a mortgage.

Will the Generation Xers who inherit houses but already have their own rent them out at affordable prices? Or will they get instantly corrupted by owning a house outright and now being in the position of their parents? Will we look a the next generation and say this is unsustainable, we need to do something about it and band together to fix rents until wages catch up, even if that's never?

If I inherit a house that has no mortgage, technically anything I sell it for is complete profit, so even after paying taxes, the money is still something I didn't have before, so would I suddenly be like, wait, I can sell this for a reasonable price, and still walk away with a shit tonne of money?

My Baby Boomer landlady told me that it's not worth her selling the house I'm renting. So I worked it out. She probably bought it for about £20k and now wants £250k for it 30 odd years later. It's not worth that much, but she won't take say £150k as she'd have to pay half in tax.

If she sold her house for £150k, paid half in tax, and deducted the original cost of the house, she'd still clear £55k. But that's not enough for her.

£55,000 is not enough money for my greedy bitch landlady. Will her children, Generation Xers, think the same way as her, continuing to fuck both the homeowner market or the rental market by wanting rent according to their own valuation of the property?

I don't see a solution to this situation at all, and it's only getting worse. Our government does force housing developers to have a certain percentage of new builds be affordable, but of course, they're really hard to get and are very limited and everyone who bought their house hates you, as you're bringing down the value of their house by being 'scum'.

as with so many american domestic policy sins, californians ofc are subjected to it in an especially acute and vivid form, but it is a general truth that the suffering of renters/homeseekers-as-a-class is the fault of property-owners-as-a-class. why are rents here so fucking bad? why are housing prices so ridiculous? bc the property values are high! why are the property values high? bc the propertied want it that way! they fight for their defining investment, and they win—again, and again, and again. theres a temptation to work thru the explanation here at finer levels of granularity: single-family homeowner activists fight to artificially restrict supply, thus increasing the value of their main investment; landlords essentially collude to continually inflate rents, leading to cartel pricing. but in addition to being more specific and thus more dubious, these lower level explanations occlude the very direct and fully general conflict obviously at work: maybe some careful mixture of affordable housing and suburban protectionism can reduce low-grade unit costs while boosting upscale home values by insulating the two markets from one another; maybe individual landlords can be enticed to defect from the collusion out of pure self interest and thus undermine the rent hike death spiral. but you CANNOT make rents and prices go down while having the property values go up. impossible. rock too big for god to lift. if its not definitionally impossible then its one rung up on the analytic-to-synthetic ladder

and yet!! every time i see politicians and pundits talk abt the homeownership rate (ie, the rate of belonging to the propertied class), its about "oh no its not high enough this is so sad we must do smth :(" or "we are fighting to make homeownership a possibility for marginalisxd folksx! ^^". to whose benefit is (gradually) increasing the homeownership rate supposed to be? not the currently existing homeowners, bc it is impossible without marginal detriment to their idol the bottom line. not, in the near term, the currently existing non-homeowners, bc the inevitably gradual pace of the additions to the ranks of the propertied supposed to be induced by the measures proposed means for the time being the main effect for most will be to further entrench the political power of the class primarily responsible for fucking them like a dog. and besides, whats the promise here, ultimately: "your current situation might suck, but if you are one of our lucky beneficiaries, you just might get to join the ranks of those responsible for it!"

fuck you. by every step the homeowner population diminishes, there is one fewer member of the bloc to vote and fight on its behalf. shrink the leech until its small and weak enough to wrench from the body it parasitises

[dailykafka]

— October 7, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

[freckleslikestars]

Mulder, it's me.

THE X FILES | 5.20

[thefrogdalorian]

Din Djarin & Grogu + Chapter 17: The Apostate

[suguruuuuu-chan]

Every fantasy I have of One Piece is actually just increasingly elaborate ways of saving Ace at Marineford btw. Sometimes it’s showing up in the forest and letting the gremlin know he’s loved ugh

[rayroseu]

I know I'm just reaching, but the sequence of Silver waking up in the Rabbit Race feels so much like the occuring ways he's woken up by Lilia 😭😭😭🙏🙏💖💕💞💕

⬆️⬆️⬆️ This is from the Rabbit Fest

⬇️⬇️⬇️ This is the parallel of it in Book 7

also

one thing I noticed, Silver and Knight of Dawn do have similarities with their magic other than their whole white void magic... ITS THAT THEY BOTH REQUIRE A FAE TO DEVOTE THEIR STRENGTH TO 😭😭🙏🙏✨💖💕💖💕

In Japanese, they basically said the same thing😭😭‼️‼️✨✨ especially the 我に力を！！😭😭(in silver's case the way he says his line is just more ""informal"" (俺に力を) than Dawn, he says "ore ni" unlike "ware ni")

Does this mean in Silver's heart,,, Lilia is Silver's guardian fairy??? 😭😭😭💞💞💞

GRAAGHHH I CANT WITH THEM SJSHDJAJD

I know thats like obvious already but "guardian fairies" for Knight of Dawn, was the origin of his power, every time he wields his sword he dedicates his strength to them, so every battle he endures feels like its for the fairies that gives him strength and in turn, he wants to protect them (and remember that Silver's dream is to be a knight capable of protecting Malleus and Lilia (the faes he loves!!!))

IM GONNA SOB... GUYS IT KINDA FEELS LIKE he loves his father so much, he thinks his strength came from his love to Lilia😭😭

So, the thing that makes Silver strong even against his sleepiness or sadness, is true love, JDJSJDJS regardless if its not Lilia, it could be Sebek, it could be the first years...

Its mostly Lilia OFCC but it can also be from friends and in the Rabbit Fest, the first years, who are his friends😭💖💖💖🙏✨ I'm sure Lilia would be proud AJDJWJS

ALSO now this just makes me think that MAYBE Silver's and Dawn's lineage, requires them "to love someone," or "be loved" in order to be strong???

If so, THAT COULD BE A PARALLEL to the fact that the Draconia lineage also needs lots of love in order to be born... so both Silver/Knight of Dawn and Malleus/Meleanor are people who were born and whose strength centers around love— kind of like they cant exist nor grow up without it 😭😭💞🙏✨✨

WE NEED MORE KNIGHT OF DAWN LOREEE I NEED TO CONFIRM THIS KNIGHT'S BACKSTORY PLEASEEEEEEE😭😭💥💥🙏🙏✨✨✨

[limonnitsa]

@waywardprintmaker challenge accepted

original template by oakwolves!

[mourn-and-watch]

no but essek's abnormal behaviours in the last arc and especially in episode 140 are my roman empire. which is ironic because aeor is something of a roman empire itself. but in all seriousness, it was the episode that made me realise i love essek and his development so much and it kinda summarised it even before caleb's epilogue.

and i mean the "it's not fair" scene specifically. it's like, an epitome of his whole character progression from a person who put An Objectively Important Goal above all else without hesitation to someone who can't help but care for people around even more than his goal, no matter how big and relevant it is.

the mighty nein - and he alongside them - pretty much saved the world and freed an ancient city from thousand-year-long suffering. they defeated nine extremely powerful menacing entities who managed to stay out of everyone's sight for years and were so close to achieving their goal and dooming exandria in the process. they did the impossible and became heroes and somehow, they survived, even though they had bidden farewells a couple of hours ago because they had already understood what they had been facing. and nevertheless. they made it.

and none of them was celebrating.

mighty nein are basically essek's only friends. he knew them to be very unusual people, to put it lightly, loud and stubborn and completely inescapable once they consider you to be one of their own. and they showed him so much kindness and put so much faith in him, they were here playing the most atrocious music ever and digging clay in his backyard for a spell they invented just to help one of theirs and asking him if he could bring them pastries the day after they found out he was lying to them and had started a war. they were chaotic and weird and sometimes unbearable but most importantly they were carrying so much hope with them all this time - a hope they could end the war, a hope they could stop the angel of irons cult, a hope they could get better, a hope he could get better, and now, finally, that they could save their lost friend.

and that hope shattered, just like that, the moments after they'd already made the impossible. they saved so many souls - and then could not get back just that one.

for essek "my intentions were never good they were important" thelyss it just. shouldn't have mattered. they won. it could have been worse. people die and when they die they rarely come back. they should've been happy everyone else barely made it alive.

but for some reason, mighty nein being so defeated after they saved the world exposed him to that overwhelming feeling of injustice and unfairness. and i mean, there were many things essek considered to be unfair, but when i watched his first appearance and his interactions with mighty nein later on til their reunion in aeor arc, i wouldn't dare to guess that one of the things on that list would be something that personal. and personal not even to him.

the thing is, essek didn't even know who that guy was. why mighty nein cared about him so much. he had an idea, i guess, that he was their friend once, or someone in that body was. it was also a person who wanted to unleash a terrifying horrific aberration onto the material plane. it was a person very dedicated to killing essek and his friends - and they still didn't take any pleasure in fighting him. essek didn't feel strongly about lucien or molly, because he never knew them.

i don't think he mourned his death and failed resurrection. he mourned mighty nein's hope, the one they put in him when they had no reason to, the one they offered yasha in the cathedral and the one they kept after the spell for veth failed and the one they carried til the very end because they wanted it to reach molly. they had saved people with this hope. they had saved nations. they had saved the world. but they ended up feeling like it hadn't even been worth anything.

how desperate would it feel, witnessing people who for some reason always saw good in you when they absolutely shouldn't, who made literal miracles out of nothing, who ended wars and fought gods and tricked the hags and freed cities from horrors beyond anyone's comprehension purely because they thought it was the right thing to do and also loved their friends this much, silently crying over a dead body they couldn't bring back to life? how desperate would it feel to realise that with all your knowledge about time you dedicated your life to and threw away any principles for, you can't undo this? no one can. some things are left to fate alone and this time it wasn't kind to them. no matter how much good they did, they still got slapped in the face.

and it was, i think, such a genuine moment of empathy. like, essek is the character who prefers to put up a facade and act distant and self-composed but this time he just. walked away unable to watch this. the could only say to fjord that it wasn't fair. even when he was caught off guard in nicodranas he was able to explain himself and his motives to an extent even though he was a nervous wreck whose extra important plan went to hell the second the only people he cared about appeared. this time he had nothing to elaborate on. it just wasn't fair. it wasn't fair his friends didn't get what they wanted the most. it wasn't fair he couldn't do anything to make it right.

it is such a sad and beautiful and even cathartic scene because it is about person who started a war that destroyed so many lives - and then met this ragtag group of weirdos who saw a lonely stand-offish guy and said "hey, let's be friends!" and didn't even wait for him to answer. he saw them being serious and calculated and he saw them being ridiculous and extremely stupid, he saw their mistrust to outsiders and their loyalty to each other, he made spells with them and paid a visit to their hot tub, he ate their stale pastries and drank their hot chocolate mixed with whiskey, he was welcomed amongst them and in their wonderful home, both in xhorhas before they even found out what he had done and in the tower when they already knew - and then, he saw them mourning their loss, defeated and helpless, and he, a person who believed there were things more important than whole nations, let alone just one life, couldn't help but share the pain they felt. a pure display of compassion from someone who detached himself from it, who didn't believe he could grow into a better person capable of it again, but became one nonetheless without even realising it

[sanasanakun]

If you’re romancing Shadowheart as Dark Urge, our girl is straight up insane for bringing them to that lake in her big romance scene. Like not even three nights ago they were thrashing around on the ground desperate to tear her limb from limb and she’s taking them to a body of water. Alone. And she can’t swim. Like yeah love conquers all you can defeat the darkness in you blah blah blah but a LAKE? ALONE? Swimming skill level 0???? Like I get that I’ve never had a down bad situationship with a serial killer before, but we need some self-preservation here, Ms. Shart. Why not try a picnic first? In the middle of camp? Just keep the others like within a reasonable distance lmao anything to avoid the potential for spontaneous drowning😭

[chilei-the-hotsauce]

i fucking. made him move for a school project.

[welcomehome-orlakbarnett]

The Love I Lose

I wonder what happens to all the love I lose

The people who slipped from my grasp

Those I let go to protect myself

Their voices echo in my head

Resonating in my soul

All that’s left is a shade of who they are

Telling me they are sorry they cannot stay

It’s ok to uncurl my grasp and let go

Sometimes I cannot bear them to leave

Others drift away into the ether

Does that love still exist when it leaves me

Will one day it come back to my heart

Lost and found

Will I remember what it was like

To love that person again

Or will it be a stranger at my door

I hope it survives out in the world

That it is not lost to eternity

The love I bore still knows them

Even if it no longer lives in me

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[cerealbishh]

"We get to, this season, explore their chemistry and their real love and their intimacy. So we get to have a glimpse into that world that just feels so pure and beautiful and romantic! And then, sort of navigating those other circumstances once they're out in the world, dealing with real... challenges." - Isa in an interview with The Knockturnal(x)

[ratinmysewer]

mandy monday art dump!!!

[moth-yea]

I see people (mostly on pinterest) saying "Ohhh but what could curly do, they were all trapped in space!" But people never pay attention to that anya is allowed to feel. Anya is allowed to be distraught and enraged. It doesn't matter curly couldn't do anything (or at least you think he couldn't), she's allowed to feel whatever she needs to, because she was assaulted. Doesn't matter what could or couldn't have been done, you're ignoring the point entirely.

[puppppppppy]

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