here is a star for everyone who’s not feeling their best today (🌟)
I WOULD BE INCREDIBLY HAPPY IF PEOPLE WOULD STOP SAYING THAT THE DURSLEYS WERE MEAN JUST BECAUSE HARRY WAS A FU#%
instead of sending me nudes you can send me
pics of you smiling with ur fave stuffed animal
pics of you smiling with ur mom
pics of plants
pics of ur dog
pics of silly lookin bugs that u find
I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
*******SPOILER ALERT-PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN RISK********
Hello! As requested by so many, here is the B&N exclusive story from The Wicked King! Hope y’all enjoy! I’ll be posting my thoughts and theories about the book later today. Feel free to share your thoughts and theories with me, too! 🙃😭
BLACK WIDOW (2021) dir. Cate Shortland
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Letters to Jude from Cardan. Only available in the B&N copies of Queen of Nothing by Holly Black.
Touch.
I wanna be a villain so I can just saunter everywhere. the heroes are always sprinting, always running. you ever seen darth vader run? hell no. and I ain’t about to either.
fake dating to lovers is nice but married for non-romantic reasons to lovers is next fucking level