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Check if your city has this program!!!

"We're working with several partners to serve different communities around the country. @UnitedWay offers immediate assistance and access to rides at https://t.co/bNqtYzSOz9. For info on how to work with our other partners, check out https://t.co/yyaIw36gKT"

Basically... go through their links to every different agency... contact each of them... and ask each of them how to do it?

Fortunately, the United Way (which runs 211) was a little clearer.

Basically, if you're in one of these cities:

Atlanta, GA 

Austin, TX 

Baltimore, MD 

Boston, MA 

Cleveland, OH 

Cincinnati, OH 

Denver, CO  

Des Moines, IA  

Detroit, MI  

Houston, TX 

Jacksonville, FL 

Louisville, KY  

Minneapolis, MN 

Omaha, NE 

Philadelphia, PA  

Pittsburgh, PA 

Salt Lake City, UT  

San Diego, CA  

San Francisco Bay Area, CA 

Springfield, MA 

St. Louis, MO 

Tacoma, WA  

Tallahassee, FL 

Tampa Bay Area, FL 

Ventura, CA  

You can call 211, or text 898211, to ask about the program. (Tbh they'll probably make you call, to ask you a few questions so they know if you qualify.) Then they'll tell you what to do to use it.

My subject this time is FURRET.

So, everyone knows Furret, the gen 2 normal ferret haha Furret walk haha meme. Furret is, in its pokedex, stated to be 6'/1,80m tall. The problem is: people are not properly representing this height.

You see, in real life, we measure an animal from head to tail. A good example of this would be the snow leopard.

A snow leopard is said to be 7'/2,1m long, head to tail. Its body measures 4'/1,1m long and its tail is 3'/1m long.

In Furret, we must apply the same logic, because if we don't, it's going to look like THIS

Ridiculous, right? Many people like to represent Furret like this for the shock value.

But when we apply the head-tail logic to its length...

Voilá! A perfectly believable little boy!

The first birthday of the year goes to none other than the iconic lazy cat himself! Bob has been in every game so far, as  a god among men. He was the first villager ever designed, and he knows it. He has the play hobby and he adores running around and enjoying life (and dancing). His favorite coffee is black kilimanjaro, and he adores the song Neapolitan! He’s very good at yo-yoing and one day he’s gonna be a detective! Wish him a great birthday, and Bob may just grant you a fantastic new year!

Good RIDDANCE 2020! 

okay pretty normal, let’s look at the interior photos—

WHAT THE FUCK

here we see the first example of a pattern that will recur throughout the house, which is that once your eyes adjust to the bonkers dictator chic marble-and-gilded-everything, you notice some pretty egregiously shoddy workmanship. look at how that baseboard intersects with the outlet. look at how the marble… uh, thing on the wall (i was gonna call it a fireplace but it’s not a fireplace, i have no idea what that is) has gaps and weird angles wherever two pieces meet. it’s like they’re trying to recreate versailles on an ikea budget

i… don’t hate the kitchen. i mean, obviously it’s ugly and #toomuch and there was zero effort made to match the very modern appliances and sink to the cabinets, but still, i’m a sucker for a pass-through and a big sink with a window above it.

this ceiling Fucks but the wrinkly, uneven curtains and terrible caulking around the faux-column in the middle anti-Fuck

why did we suddenly completely switch aesthetics. why is there an old TV set into the wall at floor level. why is there a tiny set of doors next to it. why does the fireplace look like an asset ripped from the original dark souls. i feel a sinister presence sucking at my soul the longer i look at this photo

i feel like whoever designed this monstrosity started with the dining room and then once they’d finished it realized they’d blown half their budget on just this one room. it’s so overdecorated that the gaudiness feels intentional, like it’s a statement rather than a side effect of genuine tastelessness. i can applaud that.

here we have the antithesis of the dining room. i don’t know what this room is supposed to be but i hate it. i’m pretty sure everything in this photo literally came from ikea. there is a lack of commitment here and it is rancid

ladies, gentlemen, distinguished colleagues, we have now hit the cornerstone of any great tacky real estate listing: the heart-shaped bathtub! this one gets bonus points for being next to a gilded mirror and surrounded by bright red damask wallpaper. as a bathtub i’d give it a 1/10 because those angles look incredibly uncomfortable, but as a place to shoot my lover through the heart while wearing a gauzy fur-trimmed bathrobe before fleeing with our ill-gotten fortune i’d give it a solid 11/10

here we are with the lack of commitment again. this literally looks like the kitchen in my college dorm but with a weird fringey lamp and some curtains that are absolutely too long for their windows

again, the mix of styles here is just killing me. half damask wallpaper and carved wall panels, half normal-ass bathroom? really? isn’t there anything truly unhinged left in this house? anything truly opulent, decadent, off the chain, extravagant, gaudy—

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT BAY BEE!!! THAT’S MORE THE FUCK LIKE IT!!! COMMIT! TO! THE! BIT! GO BIG OR GO HOME! IF YOU’RE GONNA STICK A CEILING DOME IN THE FOYER OF YOUR SUBURBAN TEXAS HOUSE IT HAD BETTER BE TWELVE FEET IN DIAMETER AND PAINTED WITH DOZENS OF FLOWERS OR ELSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE??

and finally, to close out the show, a reminder that this entire acid trip of a real estate listing took place in an ordinary, modern single-story house in texas, one with a backyard and utility boxes on the exterior walls and neighbors who may be blissfully unaware that they live mere feet from a yawning pit of madness.

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