Theres No Easy Way To Start Off This Post.

There’s no easy way to start off this post.

Brookhill Village in Charlotte, NC, is being demolished. Hundreds of African-American families are going to be evicted, and their are no plans to offer them any sort of affordable alternative to their homes, which are now being demolished.

Developers like Shook Kelley are actively demolishing the neighborhood and replacing it with higher-end housing that will “attract millenials” without a second thought of what will become of Brookhill’s current residents.

In other words, this is another step in the process of gentrifying Charlotte, making it essentially unlivable for all of the communities that have lived here throughout its entire history.

The developers and architects of this project to displace an entire community have continued shamelessly and unchallenged, what little publicity this event has received has been glamorous news reels, talking of plans to “revitalize” a working-class community.

This Thursday, December 13th, I hope that I can help change that.

A small organization has gathered around the purpose of offering some kind of meaningful resistance - I am proud to say that I have been doing what I can to aid in these efforts.

The main goal of everyone involved has been to organize a community meeting this Thursday in order to rally the community to defend their homes.

However, as you can imagine, this is not as simple as handing out flyers and expecting everyone to be there - I must once again stress that the residents of Brookhill are working class families who work long hours, and need a material reason to show up in opposition to a developer who is literally burning down flyers and posters that mention the event.

The organization, STP Charlotte, has vowed to do their best to provide transportation to and from the meeting as well as provide food and child care at the meeting itself. As you can imagine, this costs money.

If you have the money to spare, I ask that you send what you can to help organize this meeting. This really means a lot to me, but it would certainly mean a whole lot more to the families living in such a precarious housing situation.

Google Pay: [email protected]

Venmo: @STP-CLT

If you can’t spare any money, consider reblogging this post, and if you know anyone in the area, be sure to let them know.

The Trial by Franz Kafka

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An adaptation, of the intro at least of Kafkas novel The Trial, done for a class where we are... well reading Kafka!!

Might refine it more but I’m tired and I need to type stuff for it!

this is SO dumb but take it. the idea just decided to eat my brain

Fellas…. is it gay to like a crazy, independent anti-villain that will club you?

So I finished Tuca and Bertie

Spoilers below but honestly the last episode felt super weird??? But yeah below the cut!

So like, the whole season has a lot of good points about how both their lives are hard and I actually FUCKING LOVED episode 9 because that shit was great but when it got to the finale it was suddenly all HOLIDAY THEMED. Like, I dunno felt out of nowhere and the progression of time wasn’t really there?

But that’s not my main issue, for the first half of the episode it’s REALLY GOOD, the issues that Tuca and Bertie are going through, mainly Bertie with both Speckle and the bakery guy blacklisting her are super interesting especially with the shows theme of being a woman [mostly on the bakery part, Speckle at first seemed overblown but I kinda felt for how he lashed out, but still]. It felt like a really good depiction of a powerful man using said power to put down someone because he can.

But like, soon into the ending suddenly EVERYTHING is going right? And I’m not saying they deserve it because yeah they deserve a happy ending but the fact its suddenly PERFECT? Like, it felt like it happened in 4 minutes. Suddenly Tuca and Bertie are doing Berties whole bakery thing and getting it out there?? I mean the fact they out the bakery guy for being an asshole was good and that felt real but RIGHT AFTER suddenly its just “Oh yeah shit the episode is ending soon uh... LETS JUST HAVE IT ALL GO SUPER WELL RIGHT NOW!!!”

It just felt weird? It didn’t kill the show for me or make me not wanna rewatch it but it was super weird ending wise.

I dunno still good show watch it.

wait