#HOAs suck

[losech]

Did you know that the best way to have a beautiful lush lawn isn't to drench it in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides? It's rotational grazing.

That's right, livestock.

The impact animals have on grass is tremendous. They crop it short, trample it into the ground, and shit on it. All of which, when not done excessively, is exactly what the grass needs. Grazing stimulates new growth. Stomping and scratching "till" plant matter into the soil without disrupting it. Manure adds essential nutrients back to the ground.

A key to this process is the word rotational. Keeping the animals in one spot and never moving them will eventually result in no plant matter, and if you don't add enough bedding or remove manure on time, an unpleasant smell. You need to put the animals into a pen or "tractor" and move them every day or every few days, allowing them to graze and forage without eating and digging everything up. Each patch of grass needs a rest period where no animals are present for a while so the grass can regrow and the manure break down into the soil. This is a well documented, low impact, and highly successful process that many small (and some large) farms and backyard livestock enthusiasts employ.

You cannot accurately replicate this process with mechanical and synthetic means. You create a sterile polluting environment devoid of important microbes, insects, topsoil, and plant diversity. It needs constant attention because it's not a thriving symbiotic ecosystem.

A huge benefit to small scale livestock such as chickens and rabbits is they can give you that beautiful grass with very little cost. Chickens can eat leftovers, taking care of an important source of food waste. They also eat bugs and greatly reduce the umber of pest species without killing all the beneficial pollinators as well. Chickens provide eggs and meat in return. Rabbits love plants like clover and dandelions, put them in areas with weeds and they will take care of them for you. A few rabbits can provide several pounds of highly nutritious meat.

You can put a pen of chickens or rabbits in one spot for a while, continuously adding new hay and straw (this is important) until it's built up a bit, then remove the animals and let it compost. Put your garden there the next year. Or, if you have a set spot the animals live, collect their manure and bedding, compost it, and add it to your garden. Composted animal waste and bedding is a wonderful addition to gardens that synthetics can't come close to.

These small animals solve two issues at once: that perfect green lawn and food insecurity.

But often, keeping small livestock, especially within city limits and in HOAs, is illegal. With the current climate surrounding inflation, supply chain issues, and increasingly erratic weather, having a stable food supply not only close to but at home is becoming more and more important.

But people aren't allowed to feed themselves, due to legislation telling them what they can and cannot do on *their* property.

It's absolutely ridiculous and needs to change.

#food #food security #farming #chickens #rabbits #livestock #gardening #HOAs suck #legislation #mind your own fucking business #i hate lawns

[mysticdragon3md3]

#hoa #memes #humor #hoas suck #resident evil #capcom #official twitter

[draavelve]

Well shit Tumblr you might be right

#the general vibe lately has just been balh #HOAs suck #people suck #fuck #shouting into the void

[little-pondhead]

Because I started thinking after my brain snails came up with the Sun Dial ship (Clockwork x Ra's):

What if Clockwork had a fling with Thomas and Martha Wayne? Has that been done yet? Because I really like the name "Escapement Pearls", or something similar. Escapement because it's one of the mechanisms used in clocks, and pearls because of how the Waynes died. (Or is it too close to the Pitch Pearl ship??)

@starlightcat04 If I have to think about this so do you.

#dpxdc #pondhead blurbs #who has that one shared doc with all the dpxdc ship names #i forgot where i saved it and i need to Consult The Ancient Texts #do i need to submit the names to a committee or something #is there an hoa i need to suck up to #the fanlore website only has the more popular ship names #dammit do i have to write romance to get it out there #AH

[valengory1234]

Remember this part?

#all the adults on this show sucked! #house of anubis #hoa #mrs andrews #joy mercer

[karshmallow]

[OCs] originally drew for a tiktok joke but i liked enough to post for real :)

#i do have a tiktok but its literally just to dump videos so i can send to my friends. bc discord sucks w sending videos #my art #my ocs #dnd #thuy #hoa #hien #thuy is the only fighter in this group so shed be the one taking the heavy hits in any fight </3

[malleleothreesome]

i wish i could have a silly little day on tumblr but I have to read my 80 page HOA document to see if the boomer condominium overlords will ALLOW me to get my new dishwasher (that i bought on black friday like a true, miserable adult marching towards death) DELIVERED AND INSTALLED on the 23rd as expected or if I have to cancel the delivery because there are too many rules for me to abide by and my soul is simply too tired to jump through the necessary hoops to comply.

#i cannot stress enough do not buy a home with an HOA #i have a condo in LA so it was unavoidable but if you can avoid it by all means please save yourself #they wont even let me change my fucking BLINDS because the windows belong to the outside word I guess and not to me #guys i am an idiot and i only skimmed the HOA docs while i was buying the home #because i thought the only relevant thing to me was the pet policy #when i found out a few weeks after i moved in about just how many rules there were I cried my eyes out #the worst is there is always some elderly woman with nothing better to do than be the HOA police #speaking of dishwashers have you noticed they all fuckign SUCK im hoping this one i bought doesn't suck #my last word of advice is that word on the street is to NEVER buy a samsung refrigerator #i mean its hard tho cause they look so cool....u know....... #they come in so many colors.....................like pink #.................its so.................................tempting............................. #but apparently they break and theyre like impossible to fix and its like a horrible waste of money......... #but i cant help but be like.......................but what if that DOESNT happen to me????????????? #like what if samsung got their shit together and i can just have a really cool pink refrigerator #guys im fucking rambling because im procrastinating reading the HOA doc lord HELP me

[oblivious-troll]

Final thing (and context for the sword I posted yesterday) I'm posting until I actually finish the mini comic 😅

Because it's kind of a spoiler I'm putting it under the cut, but I'm just proud of it and the final version won't show the full outfit with colour :(

Ancient warrior Salim with and without his sword

#my art #salim othman #house of ashes #hoa #wip #fanart #this outfit sucked to do but it didn't come out too bad #this outfit is genuinely the reason this is going to be a short comic lmao #troll talks

[vagabond-pinky]

man the Quarry sucked

House of Ashes my beloved fr

#the quarry #house of ashes #supermassive games #heres hoping directive 8020 is better #i was seriously disappointed by the quarry and the devil in me #and little hope sucked too #like I'm not asking for the games to be as good as hoa but like #all i ask is maybe as good as man of medan? #layne post #plus like didn't they learn from until dawn?? #god the demonization of romani people christ #it went from dull to straight up offensive

[yackers]

RANDOM FAVOURITE MOMENTS 12/?

#the colouring SUCKS but classroom scenes are awful #anyway this scene is so good #house of anubis #hoa #random favourite hoa moments #jasper choudry #fabian rutter #miss valentine #s2 #gif set

[anactualsphinx]

playing an isekai baldur's gate run hoa-style (i am eddie and alex is patricia) and every dialogue is preceded by at least 5 minutes of deliberating what line a character will say

#sphinxposting #bg3 #hoa #sometimes making them do unreasonable things just for the Scenes :) #eddie causing the entire goblin camp to attack us after he wouldn't kiss a goblin's feet #patricia is beefing with shadowheart :) #astarion hates patricia but is friends with eddie #failing deception checks hurt less because they suck at lying

[mysticdragon3md3]

#hoas suck #lawns #grass lawns waste water #plants #alternatives #i still don't understand what about the HOA guy's neighbor is there to complain about #hoa

[just-your-average-cryptid]

it really feels so strange looking at like plain fields of grass or those grass strips along/between roads knowing that it was made to be that way.

like this is not a grassland area. most of it is either former forest land that got clear cut for House and Citrus Plant or former sandhill habitat depending on specific place, but neither of those are meant to be just plain empty fields of short grass

it’s just. sad, knowing what it could be. I grew up five minutes from a nature preserve and it honestly spoiled me with how much you could see in the first 20 minutes (raspberry! yellow-shouldered blackbird! gopher tortoise! lizard’s tail!) compared to 90% of what you see in developed areas over years

and then you have people who think that their lawn is the pinnacle of landscaping bc it’s Just Grass doused in 3 gallons of poison and free of pesky bugs like ants and bees or “weeds” that ruin their Nice Suburban Aesthetic complaining that it’s just ~so hard~ to maintain their pitiful withering st. augustine lawn that dies when it’s a day ending in y.

it infuriates me but it also makes me so sad. you don’t know. you just don’t know what you’re missing out on. I highly encourage looking up tapestry lawns and xeriscaping bc native plant gardens are just so pretty and you will not believe how many species you’ve never seen before will become regulars in your backyard.

contact native plant groups (many will send you seeds!) research the biome you live in. find out what plants support local wildlife. and remember, your HOA can’t do anything if you plant endangered species and declare your lawn/backyard a preserve ;)

#it speaks #anti lawn #native lawn #that is an actual thing you can do btw #you can try to work with them if they don’t suck but honestly screw the HOA #and for the love of fluff do not choose to plant st augustine grass it’s so bad

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

sorry 4 vagueposting i'll do it again. i shouldve unfollowed when they started being super duper gatekeepy about their fave tbh

#the captain's rambles #this is NOT about the person who was an acephobe its someone else 2 clarify #like RAAAAAAAGH im so sad their art is so good but . :/ #big L for the new beepo fan numero uno .... #but that aside. it is kind of a red flag when you take the jokes of “oh ermmm im ackshually the only one who writes this guy correctly” #and then scoff / turn your nose up at people who like the SAME CHARACTER but come from a different part of the fanbase #we're NEIGHBORS. and buddy? you're the annoying ass HOA member nobody likes cuz youre pretentious #let people have fun and be a little nuts about how they portray beepos. its not that deep #IM NOT GONNA LIE. THIS SHIT KINDA SUCKS SINCE IM BASED OFF OF THEIR ART. LIKE NOT EVEN JUST APPEARANCE WISE. THAT IS ME. - 💥 #<- words from our resident fleetway fictive . hai fleets #HEY. - 💥 #anyways rant over we're gonna go eat and shower n shit BLEHHHH

[ultrabananapudding]

Monster hunter AU where Jason is tasked to kill the beast who resides in the woods but he accidentally falls in love with said beast

Jason came out pretty cool, but medusa Salim became a bit too cute to fit the vibes I had in mind for this AU so I'm going to have to scrap his design lmao

also I can't draw snakes to save my life so medusa Salim is a no go 😔

#Nicky is the healer who makes sure Jason doesn't die during his monster hunting #Salim is just chilling in the woods when Jason pays him a surprise visit #Zain is also there chilling #I really really want to draw Salim as a cool monster but I SUCK at drawing cool monster designs #au #monster #wip #doodlemania #my art #hoa #jalim #I have found the perfect pose for Salim where both his massive thighs and boobars are on display lmao

[belovedfarseer]

Its a shame that well of ascension has so many bad elements that turn people away from mistborn entirely, because hero of ages is honestly so worth it

#like i get it and im aware that many of the issues from woa carry on to hoa (damn those acronyms suck) but like #hoa is fun #im having a blast rereading #its really a return to form its almost as good as final empire #the politics of mistborn are Mediocre to Bad i know this and thats a fair reason to drop mistborn altogether dont get me wrong #but hero of ages... man this is GOOD #probably owes to the fact breeze is no longer a pov character KSHENXJSNZKSN #fuck breeze fr