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phoenixyfriend · 11 months
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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.
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emodennis · 5 months
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ok so glenn said dennis would be a russian blue cat
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also hi here’s me i met him
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thefiery-phoenix · 10 months
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT
This is an announcement from @thefieryphoenix, my blog got terminated for no reason and the Tumblr services seem to be of no help on what to do, they're barely replying to my emails and I've emailed them about 3 times till now, I'd really appreciate your help on how to get my account back, I feel empty 🥲🥺
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phoenixtakaramono · 2 months
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hi! any spoilers or sneaky peaks on the untold tale? i've been anxiously waiting for the new chapter 😫 your writing is on another level, i swear. i reread the first five chapters like more than 4 times each. i'm also loving your characterization of binghe!
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Hullo, hullo, anon! 💞 It makes me heartened to hear that you like The Untold Tale! And I’m glad you’re liking my characterization of Bingge! I personally like my yanderes in fiction, and it’s always somewhat hilarious how wild and simp-y Luo Binghe’s POV and dialogue/ thoughts can be compared to Shen Yuan who’s just doing his best, haha.
We haven’t reached TUT’s position yet on my WIPs to Update list, so I haven’t been posting much sneak peeks of the upcoming ch6 yet since the majority of it is still in my rough note form (reminders of what I want to happen, dialogue that needs to happen, specific foreshadowing or worldbuilding, etc) and not the pretty final draft form y’all see on AO3. But I am very frank in my replies about what’ll happen in the AO3 Comments section so spoilers are abound there, haha. If y’all want a Spoiler Free experience, do not check out the Comments section. I answer questions and even gift spoilers (even copy and paste certain scenes that haven’t been published yet) to certain readers as thanks for leaving me long essay-long comments or just plain any comments that’ve made me happy.
There’s also a jokey April Fools version of what’ll be in ch6 that I’d tweeted out: TUT ch6 threadfic (April Fools edition). You can read it there if you have a Twitter account but essentially it’s scenes to expect—but butchered with American and British colloquialisms I have a certain writing process where I go all in on the fandom belonging to whichever WIP I’m working on updating, and at that time I wanted to show why it’d be a bad idea if I jumped back into writing TUT under this mindset and how it’d be jarring, haha. TUT has a certain writing style unique to C-novels and light novels in general, so I didn’t want to detract from that experience!
If you want a direct spoiler, this is what to expect from TUT ch6:
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Shen Yuan’s shark tank meeting with the Jade Emperor’s Court (and SY finding out who is his celestial family in PIDW)
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Luo Binghe’s POV, after his meeting with the celestial fortuneteller Shen Yuan (featuring a short cameo from Ning Yingying)
I do, admittedly, miss the SVSSS fandom a lot and really can’t want to return, my lovely dear readers, but I have to be a responsible multi-fandom writer rotating through my list of WIPs in an orderly fashion so it’s fair for everyone and wait for their turn and can only promise the patience will be worth it (to preserve the magic of it all)!! Thank you for your patience! I am heartened to hear there are people still reading and waiting for my return! I’ll share new sneak peeks as I’m live-writing it, once I’m ready to pivot back to TUT. ✌️ There also exist some other spoilery kernels but I’ll leave one more hint:
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And after ch6, will be the Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky chapter where y’all will find out whose new poor cannon fodder’s identity he’s transmigrated into almost as a direct consequence of Shen Yuan’s transmigration as a celestial sharing the Protagonist’s Halo with Bingge in this new danmei genre he’s created (laughs). I’m excited because I get to finish up and debut the prettier illustration of ASTtS that’s been gathering dust in my computer files. If you’ve seen the WIP, yes, it’ll be the final version of this concept art I posted before as a sneak peek.
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phoenixtherobot · 11 days
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Shout-out to those people who left hermitswap requests in my inbox that I haven't touched in 2 months. Would you believe me if I said I was working on some right now?
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azulas-daddy-kink · 1 month
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Sometimes I randomly think about how much I hate Meelo and make myself upset.
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phoenixparadox · 6 days
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With your Titan OCs, you’re going with the idea that King has a lot of siblings, right?
This is because of Nightmare!Bill asking King if he recognized the skulls of his siblings, yeah?
I personally thought that they meant siblings in the metaphorical sense that they were his fellow young Titans rather than his literal siblings.
But I do like your idea and would love to hear more about it.
Not all of my ocs are related to King, only three of his direct siblings are alive, but he is also related to quite a lot of other Titans, because King’s dad had so many freaking eggs that at least a few of them were able to survive in the past. King and his surviving siblings hatched so late because of their close proximity to Titan islands, which messed up the climate and forced them to delay their hatching until it was safe.
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phoenix-is-here · 1 month
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It's my birthday today !!!! 🎈 🎈 🎁 🎂 🎁 🎈 🎈
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endlessly funny to me that no matter the configuration Jason Peter Todd Wayne's name is just 4 first names
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hanniejji · 1 month
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If Diluc's bio kid au is nicknamed phoenix then what is the adopted kid au that Diluc saved in the other universe?
Is that one a falcon, ember or what? FALCON PUNCH 🤜
WHAT I DONT REMEMBER THAT ONE I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WROTE ANOTHER DILUC WITH A CHILD MC WHAT
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fangirling-phoenix · 7 months
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[SCREECHES]
TUMBLR LIVE ON MY GOOD CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN DASHBOARD??????
IT BROKE CONTAINMENT?????
OH I HATE THIS
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phoenixyfriend · 4 months
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I think referring to the James Somerton situation, or the hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows videos in general, as "YouTuber Drama" is really underselling the level of academic dishonesty, intellectual theft, and malicious misinformation being discussed and spread by this man and others like him.
This isn't makeup gurus accusing each other of being inappropriate at a birthday dinner or a philosophy channel getting in hot water on Twitter for having a controversial queer celebrity do a voiceover line without fully vetting everything he's ever said.
It's large scale plagiarism and hundreds of thousands of dollars of profiting off other people's work without even credit.
(And 64k in scams. That too.)
And no, I didn't know who any of these people except Harry and Todd were until now, with the exception of MAYBE having heard of Internet Historian in passing, so I had that same "who even are these people" response as most of you.
People like James are why I cannot in good faith just Tell people my college major.
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emodennis · 9 months
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i had a dream charlie called dennis a faggot and an idiot and dennis replied “i’m not an idiot” and everyone went batshit crazy
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thefiery-phoenix · 4 months
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IN HONOR OF ALL THE VICTIMS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TO THE ISRAEL PALESTINE WAR
The Lost Child
In fields of battle scarred and torn,
Where death and destruction reign supreme,
A young girl weeps for her lost form,
Her innocence forever claimed by fate's extreme.
Her eyes once bright with hope and dreams,
Now dimmed by tears and endless screams,
She wanders through the bloody scene,
Searching for a glimmer of serene.
Her heart once full of laughter and cheer,
Now heavy with grief and fear,
She carries on with steady pace,
Through the chaos of this endless race.
Her body weak from hunger and pain,
Her spirit worn by constant strain,
But still she holds onto life,
With every breath, a will to thrive.
For in her eyes, a fire burns bright,
A flame that flickers with each new light,
And though her world may be undone,
She knows she is not alone.
In this desolate landscape of despair,
She finds solace in her own prayer,
A whispered plea for peace and grace,
That echoes through the empty space
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phoenixtakaramono · 4 months
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If you give me something meta or “reimagine” a classic genre/trope while paying respectful homage to why they’re classic and/or timeless—and the execution is good, I will love it to pieces.
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Peace and love to whoever came up with the whole thing of calling a character your best friend. Truly it has infected my mind and is now the first thought when i see any character i love
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