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100% Grade A Trash

@merlinsbed / merlinsbed.tumblr.com

I am: a very frustrated and unmotivated potato, possibly Scully, a sensitive little jellybean (she/her/they/them)
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word count: 10,008

rating: T

characters: Lan Jingyi, Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Mo Xuanyu

notes: almost a full year later I'm finally posting chapter 3 of this fic lmao

summary: Lan Jingyi thought apprenticing to renowned florist Hanguang Jun would be the most exciting thing to ever happen to him. Three months into his apprenticeship, he's having serious doubts that his teacher even wants him around, much less wants to teach him. Until he accompanies Hanguang Jun on what at first seems like a simple case of a wandering zombie.

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draconym

Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

Thank you for your patience, tumblr. I have been at work all day but now I am home and ready to build this horse you asked for.

First, let's pull up the poll results alongside an average looking horse. I have calculated the size of each part of our horse in relation to Average Size.

Next we will adjust our horse's components according to the specifications.

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Finally, let us properly assemble these parts and see how it looks.

And there you have it. Great work team. No notes.

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girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

Replace "reddit" with "reveddit" in any reddit url to reveal deleted or removed comments. If the comment/post was deleted too quickly after it was posted, it may not pull it up, but it works most of the time

girl after reading a post on tumblr dot com with a reblog by user impossiblepackage, moving her cursor over to the url of the aforementioned reddit post, using her mouse to highlight the word “reddit”, typing out the word “reveddit” in its place, hitting enter, waiting with bated breath as reveddit loads, finally content as the deleted comment is displayed in front of her eyes containing the information she sought for so long.

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prokopetz

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

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v3rb4tim

Incredible one-liners as always

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ranpd

😳 <- this emoji but without the blush or romantic connotation. im not blushing im staring you directly in your fucking eyes

if you excuse the bad editing it would look like this

can we hit 150k before this piece of shits one year anniversary

u know before yellow emojis took over as automatic, the one we used for this exactly was O_O . which has unfortunately become the shortcut for the stupid blushy one. but we also used to emphasize the emotion by making the mouth bigger, O_________O . there was also o_O , for when you're weirded out, and o_o for small weirds or intrigue. you could use a period instead of an underscore for the mouth, o.o, O.O, which was a little more like shock.

there was also -_- for when you're annoyed. -_-* for pissed. the asterisk is a forehead vein. a very bad day or very bad joke could result in -___________-********** .

anyway that's your history lesson for the day, dont forget your roots.

let us also not forget the meekest of them all: ._.

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Is your local MP a landlord?

You can find the register of interests for the Australian federal parliament here and find out! It'll show you all the properties they own and if they're to live in or if they're investments.

That way you know which politicians stand to directly benefit financially by keeping rents high and housing unaffordable for the rest of us and then VOTE THEM OUT!

Albanese is a landlord with an investment in Dulwich Hill, NSW! Prices for houses there have GONE UP 18.2% IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS! (April 2023-2024) and the average cost of a house there has nearly doubled from $1.4 million in 2019 to over $2.2 million in 2024! That's almost a million dollars more expensive than it used to be in just 5 years!

Would you trust this man to decrease the cost of housing - when he's benefitting off a million dollar increase in personal wealth in just a few years?

What about Peter Dutton? Well his latest register of interests shows an investment in Brisbane CBD (where prices for apartments/units have gone up 8.9% in the past 12 months!).

However - previous register of interests showed a much larger investment portfolio with investments in Kingston ACT and in Queensland: Moreton Island, Palm Beach, Spring Hill, and Camp Mountain.

An article from the Australian Financial Review in 2018 reported that he's been an active property investor since 1992! He buys and sells properties often - including that Palm Beach property that was worth $2.3 million back in 2018. That means he specifically benefits from the Capital Gains Tax discount introduced by the Liberals back in 1999 which overwhelmingly benefits investors who buy and sell houses at a profit. This led to the graph of housing affordability vs wage growth to look like this:

Peter Dutton is a landlord! And not just a passive one - but a one whose personal business interests are in the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from sales!

Would you trust this man to decrease the cost of housing considering a constant growth of pricing benefits him immensely?

What about Adam Bandt, leader of the Greens? Well no surprises here - he has NO investment properties and is NOT a landlord! He only has one house, which is the one where he lives, and is paying a mortgage on it.

Adam Bandt is just a guy trying to sincerely tackle the housing crisis from the crossbench.

This is Julie Collins, Labor's current Minister for Housing and Homelessness. She owns three properties - two residential for when she's home in Tasmania, and one when she's in Canberra.

The third is an investment property in Queensland (specifically Darling Heights, Toowoomba) she bought in 1992 for $127,000 - and is estimated to have more than QUADRUPLED in value since then. The median price there is currently a pretty modest $544,000.

Now, the thing is that property is under her husband's name - which is why the register of interests also lists spouse's interests. Members can't just put their assets under their partner's name and then not have to report them. So that's why it's a really handy tool for transparency!

What about the Shadow Minister for Housing? If the Liberals and Nationals get into power who do they want to be in charge of housing? Michael Sukkar:

Naturally, he's worse than Labor because he's a Liberal! He has three houses - TWO of which are investments! The Liberal Minister for Housing is hoarding multiple for himself! I don't think he cares too much if the rent gets increased on you.

One is in Ringwood North, where the median price for houses is $1.28 million - but that's after a 9.7% increase in the past 12 months.

The second is just listed as being in Canberra, which is not a suburb so it's unclear how much that property has appreciated in value - but the average for the city of Canberra is 2.1% over the past 12 months which is surprisingly low.

The ACT by the way is the ONLY jurisdiction in Australia with a cap on how high a landlord can increase the rent in one go - all other places allow a landlord to raise it as much as they can get away with. Not at all coincidentally: the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia where Greens are in a power-sharing alliance for government with Labor.

Better housing policy starts with Greens in the balance of power. This is not an assumption - this is a provable fact that we can see happening right now. If we can make that happen federally we will finally see real action on the housing crisis.

What about Max Chandler-Mather, the Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness? Well his register of interest shows he doesn't have ANY property - he's not even a mortgage owner. He rents. He personally gets it because he lives it day to day!

No wonder he and the Greens fought hard to force Labor to amend their $10 billion housing fund to secure an additional $3 billion in funding for social and affordable housing, as well an amendment to ensure that a guaranteed minimum of $500,000 from the fund would be spent on housing, unlike Labor's original plan of investing $10 billion and maybe spending money made off the returns, maybe losing money.

When I say that voting in Greens is the way we fix the housing crisis I'm not making assumptions - I'm pointing out the reality of having a progressive voice in parliament that actually understands what it's like having insecurity of housing. The Greens have ALREADY had a significant difference to housing in Australia!

Max Chandler-Mather's livelihood is personally impacted by the housing shortage and the power of landlords - power that Labor and Liberals do not intend on limiting or regulating.

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ihni

Fuck streaming services, I want physical media with extra material! I want behind-the-scenes, I want commentator tracks, I want deleted scenes, I want alternative endings, I want BLOOPERS!

Gimme my damn bloopers back!

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