The Phantom's Lair

I'm sick of internet negativity, so let's combat it: reblog this and saying something nice/pay a compliment to the prev in the tags.

i just wanted to draw bernard with red robin

dadchuck is everything to me

i love everything about this troll stuff though

"i'm literally looking at one right now dude"

(via @rlyehtaxidermist)

4) Velma still tries

to Heist the book ala the

Velma edition.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Last night I dreamed that someone invented a new version of chess called Rookmeo and Juliet where two rooks are in love and trying to run away together. To achieve this they have to make it to the other side of the board, but these rooks don't have any visible signs to differenciate them from the rest, just a small mark in their base. Neither of the players knows what rook from the other side is in love with their rook, so they have to play a regular game of chess, fully aware that they might unknowingly kill the lover of their rook. If they kill it, the game keeps going, but their rook betrays them, switches sides and turns into a second queen for the other player. People wrote a ton of essays about the symbolism and metaphors of that version of chess and the creator didn't have the heart to tell them that he simply invented it because he thought Rookmeo was a great pun

This guy always takes his chocolate art to the next level!!... Omg!!

(Source)

You can’t make wood out of chocolate!!

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You can’t make giant matches look that tasty!!!

LOL

We need HOAs or some idiots will paint their house purple or put tractor tires in their front yard.  If you want tractor tires, don’t move to a HOA neighborhood.

I couldn’t even fathom how horrifying it must be to live somewhere there are...purple houses and and yucky stuff in people’s yards. Thank God I don’t have any real problems like that.

listen my Nonna and Nonno live right by a purple house (it’s a nice lilac) and as a kid I was fucking obsessed with it because purple is my favorite color. I’d go nuts whenever we passed by it. Also it had a purple mailbox to match and it blew my mind.

No more HOAs. More purple houses.

imagine trying to control what someone else can do with or on their own property just because you don't agree with their taste in decor

NO MORE HOAs MORE PURPLE HOUSES

Related, becuase I just had to move:  “just don’t move into an HOA” Do you know what a PAIN IN THE ASS it is to find NON-HOA Housing? Very nearly everything in the CO front range that isn’t a rental has an HOA these days!

Short list of the Shit the HOA at my pervious house tried to pull:

HOAs are invasive, bigoted, corrupt and cruel institutions that should never have been allowed to be created.  If you live in and HOA area, showing up at the meetings to tell people what the fuck is wrong with them, Joining your HOA board to protect your neighbors and possibly organize the dissolution of the HOA is one of the best things you can do to protect the marginalized members of your community.

FUCK HOAs AND LONG LIVE THE PURPLE HOUSES AND TRACTOR-TIRE GARDENS OF THE WORLD.

Are y'all telling me this shit is actually LEGAL?

Here’s how to get an HOA to leave you and your purple house tf alone

cant stop thinking about this post. 😔

direct action

HOAs, IN THEORY, could be such a force for public good, and that’s what’s maddening. Imagine if an HOA was like “well we’ve got all these houses and this one empty lot, pay your HOA dues and we can install a community food garden!” or “leave your contact information on the HOA residents-only webpage if you’re willing to be an after-school dropoff for children in our community who may not have a parent at home” or “hi, Sally, we’ve noticed your yard’s gone rather hogwild and things weren’t like that before your husband passed last year, do you need some help? We have some folks in the HOA who can help you with maintenance, no charge.”

Instead they choose isolation over community in the name of a unity that’s in image only, and that’s really, really sad.

Friend of mine bought a small house, an old one in an old neighborhood. She had no idea it was an HOA neighborhood until the day she moved in. They arrived with paperwork she "had" to sign or things would get "complicated", aka do this or we're gonna make life hell for you. She immediately told them no, she has no desire to be part of the HOA, and they about blew a gasket. Went from civil to wtf real quick. They tried sending her violation reports, demanded she pay fines, threatened her, etc. What they didn't know is she's petty and gives zero fucks. She also lives keeping paperwork nice and tidy.

Shit hit the fan when she installed a wall around her property. A 3 feet tall 2 foot wide wall around her yard. Topped with gorgeous iron work with sharp points that make climbing dangeous. Think Addams Family Lite. They tried to stop the construction because she was using the /wrong/ company (a mutual aid group she worked with). Send her fines and fees, and made the mistake of sending a copy of the HOA contract with a forged signature.

Ooooo...it got so ugly! She remembered the HOA post here about that happening to others and, well, the HOA broke up because of other fuckery on top of this. But it was mostly due to her dragging them in court for fraud, harassment, disturbing the peace, trespassing, stalking, and a few other things. She was petty about it too, looked into every fucking thing she could to destroy them.

I was informed that you not, in fact, obligated to sign the HOA contract. It's not a legal requirement. When you look for a home, make sure to ask about the possible HOAs, and look at the details of your homeowner's contract. Sometimes HOAs have that shit written into the purchase. If you see it, change the contract, put your initials and date in the changed sections, and see how the real estate agent handles in. This is legal, btw.

Don't sign the HOA contract, learn the laws regarding yard stuff (did you know you can apply to have your yard declared a wildlife reserve?), and be petty af when the nosy neighbors won't mind their business.

an HOA in denton recently strong-armed a developer into removing balconies and a sidewalk from a plan for new apartments because 🥺🥺🥺🥺 what if the yucky apartment people can see us 🥺🥺🥺🥺 least reactionary HOA behavior tbh

Wait a minute, I can just change stuff in a contract before signing it? How does that work?

You can change anything you like in a contract so long as nobody's signed it yet. Once somebody's signed it then, obviously, any revisions have to be sent back to them for approval (since they didn't see and approve them when they signed it). Your landlord/real estate agent won't sign the contract until after you, so before you sign it you can make whatever changes you want. If they don't agree to the alterations, they won't sign the altered contract. A contract is a two-way agreement.

cosplaying :')

New Crow Time 🎀🏅

Straight up OVA or fic idea: Shinichi wakes up seemingly in his old body, and is overjoyed. But things aren't right, and not in the same way as "he simply never found a full cure and grew up as Conan."

He goes around, and no one treats him as if he's ever been away. There's no sign of the Detective Boys. No one else has ever been living in the Kudo house, either.

No one brings up Edogawa Conan.

At first he thinks it's because they don't connect them, or something. But that doesn't make sense.

Murders left unsolved. Ran still waiting for him to have the guts to admit his feelings. Superficial relationships, because he'd still been so caught up in his own head that he'd not taken others seriously.

Some people, he still knows - Hattori's number is still in his phone, but when he calls the other detective, he's far more belligerent than Shinichi expected... because Shinichi had been the one to be just as invested in their "rivalry."

Others are nowhere to be seen. He asks around for if anyone's heard of some called Haibara Ai, or a girl of that description, but no one does. Nothing comes back.

There's something on the news about Kaitou Kid being wanted for several murders - and Shinichi knows that if Kid's wanted, then the real killers went free. He wonders what the thief is doing now, and if the next trap he gets himself into will be the one that gets him dead.

This... he realises that he's seeing what would have been if Conan had never existed - if he'd never been turned into a kid for his hubris.

As much as he's always hated that kid, he made Shinichi grow up, made him form relationships that meant something, allowed him to help under the radar.

If this was an OVA, I'd say that's where he wakes up. If it's a fic? He'd then have to figure out what to do next, who to trust with what's happening to him, and who'd believe him.

Holy Carp I want this fic now