#quarantine living

[reasonsforhope]

"During the global coronavirus pandemic, China built dozens of makeshift hospitals and state quarantine centers, some out of steel container boxes. They became closely associated with the anxiety of mass testing and the fear of sudden lockdowns.

Now, cities are turning the huge centers into affordable housing units for young workers in an attempt to revive the country's economy post-COVID...

Just over a year ago, these apartments were used very differently: for medical triage and quarantine facilities. Beijing alone built 23 of these makeshift facilities, designed to hold up to 23,000 people at a time.

"It was not very cold yet but they told me to pack my belongings," remembers Hudson Li, a Beijing resident who was quarantined in one of these facilities, called fangcang in Chinese, in October 2022...

Less than two months after Li was quarantined, Beijing lifted most of its COVID restrictions. Li says he still associates the fangcang with a feeling of helplessness and fear: "It has been over a year already, but I definitely have PTSD from the pandemic, from the fear of scarcity and having to stock up on a lot of medicine and food."

Attracting young tenants with low rents

Now the fangcang across the country are undergoing a minor transformation and turned into apartment units for young graduates like Li. The changes are an effort from local authorities, who have been tasked with restarting economic growth and supporting small businesses after nearly three years of ruinous lockdowns.

Populous cities like Beijing are also trying to bridge the housing affordability gap between high real estate prices and low salaries, on average, for young workers. In the northeast corner of the capital city, near its airport, one fangcang with more than 4,900 units has been rebranded the "Jinzhan Colorful Community" — a reference to the bright hues of paint — and now offers amenities like a canteen where residents can grab a cheap meal before or after work.

Another fangcang facility, in the northeastern city of Jinan, has been turned into 650 units for skilled workers inside an industrial park.

"Given that the current overall [COVID] epidemic situation in the country has entered a low level, revitalizing the fangcang for other housing purposes is worth learning and thinking about all over the country," Yan Yuejin, a housing analyst, told Chinese media.

The fangcang, once a symbol of containment, are now supposed to represent dynamism and growth.

"I have complex feelings about this. The facilities were built using public funds and not rented out transparently," Li says. "But I do have to say you will not get anything more affordable than these apartments. They are very price competitive."

A list of rental prices for a Beijing fangcang converted into apartments shows most rooms are Rmb1200 (USD $170) a month, low for Beijing."

-via NPR, December 9, 2023

#china #covid #quarantine #affordable housing #housing #beijing #jinan #apartments #real estate #housing crisis #cost of living #good news #hope

[yesloulou]

No Brakes Ep. 2 (x)

#arm tat content and backward cap content <3 #daniel ricciardo #f1 #no brakes #* #** #what made him go from using oak in the living room ironically to having a fucking. lime washed wall in his kitchen??? #maybe quarantine does that to a man idk

[ladydevena]

His antlers won’t fit (😔) so I’m giving him a sword instead. 🤷🏾‍♀️

#Due to my self contained female monthly time induced quarantine I dont want to see people in the real world #im currently just being a hobbit #with my music and movies #and drafting mode activated #side note I have paint swatches from Home Depot #I’m thinking of painting my living room #pro tamlin #tamlin #acotar #tamlin acotar #tamlin week

[mittysins]

Uhhhhhh Essie enjoyers come get this wip ig?

#non kink #listen all I’m saying is that some preg artists on tumblr have their fandom niche #and that I would not mind being that one artist who draws a pretty drow with imposter syndrome an unhealthy amount #seriously he’s been such a comfort character since I started watching live during quarantine #he means so much to me #and I would love nothing more than for my art to motivate someone to find the source material #and discover the MASTER craftsmanship that is his character #we’re a sha/dow/gast household btw #what’s sexier than wizards N #m draws #m in progress #yes I got so excited to start painting that I didn’t even finish the flats

[songpasserine]

today I was chilling vodka in my freezer to depression-drink alone, and then I remembered I can just leave! I drove straight for the woods, with a picnic blanket and snacks and poetry and a narnia coloring book. and it didn’t make the sadness go away entirely but it reminded me how much I like myself, how much I love the world. there’s no moral to this story but I hope you get the chance to read a good poem or eat your favorite candy or find some beautiful flowers or see a funny raccoon this week. I hope we all get to live in peace and grow up together

#thinking about that poll about whether your 12 year old self would like you #very sentimental about my little nebulous tumblr girl gang all struggling to find our way through adulthood together and build good lives #sometimes I feel like I’m still in a quarantine mindset where I CAN’T leave and I have to STAY sad. but I can literally leave!!!!!

[bellamysgriffin]

this is in no way in defense of ariana grande’s ex husband or whatever bc idk anything but between this and joe alwyn, everyone acts like the only reason fame could interfere in a relationship is if the guys masculinity is too fragile to handle someone being more important than them. like that could be true but like having to take security everywhere you go, even though it is necessary, is a very big demand and definitely changes the kind of life that you live

like, let’s not pretend that being the significant partner of a very famous person doesn’t require you to live a certain kind of life that might not work for somebody.

#idk i just read that things changed post quarantine when #their lifestyle was affected by her fame #and then i saw like a hundred tweets comparing him to joe and mocking them both #and yeah MAYBE they felt threatened #but you might want to live a more private normal life and it can be difficult to reconcile that #with a partner who is in a different places and is choosing a different lifestyle than you #dana rants

[lesbianpegbar]

i thought this was gonna be a kinda poorly written but fun gay romance. why did i just read a 200 page war epic about the inevitable and horrific downfall of a kingdom and a man who thought himself untouchable

#they were like hey theres a drought. theres a refugee crisis. theres a xenophobia crisis. hundreds of thousands are displaced #a father tried to find a doctor for his sick baby and got cut off the city wall he was trying to scale and crushed his baby on his back #and got his neck snapped and died. theres guerilla warfare. thousands died in battle. its now all out war #theres some peace now. nevermind a deadly plague broke out. the plague is a curse where the souls of the dead of the people you're killing #are invading the bodies of your citizens and completely taking over their skin in contorted tortured living faces. #you amputate a mans leg. theres an earthquake. everyone has grown to hate you. theres nothing you can do. #you are literally holding up your home and its history and if it crumbles its your fault. #the man whose leg you cut off screams at you and begs for his leg back. the sick escaped quarantine. theyre begging you to heal them all #everyone is sick or dead. the enemy just broke through the walls. the city is burning down. you broke your leg. you are immortal #anyway #i feel normal #tgcf #mine

[ao3screenshotss]

Top five most unhinged things to put in an ao3 comment in ur opinion

this one had me so stumped i actually ended up finishing my homework but anyways

i'm ngl all ao3 comments are unhinged in general so it's really hard to think about so i’ll just try my best

screaming about how horny you are for a character - bonus points if it’s an oc

the fucking wall of hearts - how do you even have time to do all of that in the first place

creepy analysis - either of the fic or of a character

WRITING YOUR OWN CONTINUATION TO A FIC THAT WAS EITHER NEVER FINISHED OR WAS A ONESHOT

maybe when you quote parts of each chapter that you like and then write your reactions and the comment ends up going past the character limit

#i’m in love with the one piece live watch blog their responses to their asks are so amazing #i used to do that last thing for one of my favourite authors (you know who you are - buggy lady) and then i got in trouble for not paying #attention in class (it was quarantine) but it was so worth it i kinda wanna continue doing it again #thank you for asking!! pretty sure it didn’t live up to either or our expectations but i got it done #plus the homework thing was true but i’m actually really grateful to you for doing that so thank you so much #i’m going to sleep at 3 instead of my expected 5 #ask game replies #kiwi-smug-silvalina

[tearlessrain]

me: I just really want to live alone out in the woods without roommates

relatives and more outgoing friends: I don't know, that always sounds nice at first but it can get really lonely after a while. you might not like it as much as you think.

me: haha sure

me, two years into living alone out in the woods: ... yeah they didn't know what they were talking about, this is fucking great

#I don't have to share my kitchen I don't have to wear headphones I don't have to hear anyone else talking and/or fucking at night #I can arrange the living room furniture however I want and monologue to myself while I'm cooking #it's just me and a rotating cast of seasonal birds/fish #and the landlords in the yard but you can't have everything #I mean granted it would probably be better if I hadn't moved out here during quarantine because I'm basically feral now #but even so I regret nothing

[lemongrablothbrok]

Hehe hey remember that brief period in time when Mike Nesmith (The Monkees' lead guitarist and resident asshole) looked almost identical to Jimmy Page (who was not yet but would be Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist and resident asshole. I mean, a bigger asshole than the other members. Which I can't really say for The Yardbirds which was his band at the time, lest we forget Eric Clapton, who is/was at least as much of an asshole as Page, is also an alumnus of The Yardbirds. Anyway)? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Anyway, a few key differences between these two control freak stick figures of undeniable talent but dubious likeability: Mike Nesmith could actually drive (and with proficiency) a car as well as a motorcycle (as well as -- I believe -- an airplane?) and punch a hole clear through drywall (true story), whereas Mister Black Magick on the other hand didn't (and still doesn't? Not sure?) have a driver's license, was not reasonably safe on a motorcycle even as a passenger (true story), and any attempt to do bare-knuckled physical damage to the structural integrity of a building would probably result in Jimmy looking like this:

Thank you for coming to my "How to Tell the Difference Between the Lanky Raven Haired Lead Guitarist Douchebags in lemongrablothbrok's Favorite Late '60s/early '70s Pop/Rock Quartets Where There's Two Capricorns and One is Some Cute Lil Guy Named Jones and the Other One is This Bitch Right Here" TED Talk. I forget why I did it in the first place, I think I was bored. And because comparing and contrasting arbitrary shit is my jam.

Also a couple months ago I had this dream that Led Zeppelin had their own TV show like The Monkees except it was them. Which would have been fucking wild. I blame those charmingly domestic indoor shots from the Chateau Marmont photoshoot for planting such zany ideas in my subconscious.

#the monkees #led zeppelin #mike nesmith #jimmy page #alternate universe where everything is the same except led zeppelin has their own tv show where they live together #hijinks ensue #also i don't think nez is nearly as sweaty as page but then he grew up in texas and probs has a higher tolerance for heat #i'm going to regret this dumbass post in the morning but right now i'm overcaffeinated and stir crazy from nearly 1 week in quarantine

[lesbianfakir]

If I was a STEM person and not cursed with my affinity for humanities I’d be doing unethical mad scientist shit to transplant my consciousness into a life sim of choice. Can someone work on this for me? I’ll let you stick wires in my brain

#ever think about how much easier you’d be at life if life was like animal crossing or stardew valley #I mean during quarantine I basically lived in animal crossing #I’m tired :/ #lea talks #lea off topic tag

[pissfizz]

I forgot that ni hao kai lan really is just chinese dora. Whatever she’s cute and I love her and I love all her little animal friends and I love dora so that just makes me like it more

#i LOVED dora as a kid I was obsessed with her #it was dora then hello kitty then mlp. those were my big childhood phases #and then I moved here and I became a book nerd #and also had a massive mythical creature phase. mostly mermaids and unicorns #dragons and fairies were short lived but prevalent #after book nerd was anime phase one then stranger things and it MASSIVE fixation #then queer media and western cartoons #then quarantine hit and I fell back into anime #specifically fixated on Yamaguchi from haikyuu #and now I’m more in my rhythm game era #edit somewhere in between Yamaguchi and games is my avatar and sk8 eras. btw

[more-jon-mess]

If anyone is still actually following my blog from the dgd days... bless you... currently listening to afterburner and feeling so many complex emotions about the state of the DGD fanbase in 2020 LMAO

#getting to wait a whole year for the tour afrer it was announced... #afterburner live show... #gay jon mess and gay tilian conspiracies??? because of 1 lyric #everyone bitching about how awful it was the second it came out... #meanwhile me thinking it's a fucking work of art that completely encapsulates my quarantine experience lol

[absolutebl]

Am l the fist to ask, did you see where GMMTV is doing a remake of Cherry Magic, with ...

Tay Tawan and New Thitipoom

... if you can believe that ?

I just crafted a massive thoughtful response to this and crashed Tumblr's editor, I really HATE their new editor. I have to remember to save as a draft so it switches to the old one that's so much more stable.

TayNew & Cherry Magic 

Anygay, the upshot was: I saw it in GMMTV’s line up and this casting worries (but does not surprise) me. I'd prefer it if with TayNew they had reversed the dynamic (had Tay play the uke) since I think Tay is better at physical comedy and New is better at reserved pining. 

I offered up other GMMTV pair options (JimmySea, EarthMix, JoonDunk?) that might be better options for these particular characters, and that I think Wabi Sabi and OhmFluke might have been the superio choice. Although I understand that it’s GMMTV who can afford to adapt. 

I think the Parks could do it for Korea.

And the See You After Quarantine? boys for Taiwan. 

I like watching multiple adaptations and remakes. Love Stage!! is a trip (I did the manga, anime, live action yaoi from Japan, and then Thailand’s BL). So is Fated to Love You - I highly recommend that journey if you are someone interested in romance as a live action genre, your watch order is: Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Japan, China. It’s truly an experience to get to see all the different countries takes on the same content. Each one is so much itself about it. Believe it or not, China is actually my favorite version. 

#asked and answered #thai bl #japanese bl #adapted from a manga #live action yaoi #Fated to Love You #you are my destiny #Love Stage!! #See You After Quarantine? #semantic error #JimmySea #EarthMix #cherry magic #30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard

[hellishfig]

sometimes one decides to start rewatching a crown of candy because one misses the amazing roleplaying and storytelling in said gorgeous, wonderful season

and sometimes one who chooses that path suffers the consequences (i.e. screaming internally every ten seconds and the overwhelming urge to punch a nonexistent piece of cake in the face)

#literally on episode 3 and i love them all so much and i KNOW. i KNOW what's coming #i always watch the complete experience and let me just say #i do not live in los angeles. i do not even know where the nearest denny's is #and it was released during quarantine #and yet. had i started watching d20 3 years earlier #NONE of that could have stopped me #i would have astral projected to the denny's nearest to brennan lee mulligan and tried to fight him #i would have failed. but i would have tried #dimension 20 #d20 #a crown of candy #acoc #acoc rewatch

[ghostzzy]

in 12 hours we get the keys to the new place. in 24 we will have many boxes there and less here, and more and less every few hours as we shuttle things over. in 60 the furniture will be moved. in 72, i can go to sleep in my new bedroom.

#i am too exhausted to really feel anything but. i am having phantom pains. #i think i’m really sad to be leaving this place. it’s the first place i lived without my parents. #and the first room i slept in consecutively every single night without doing the divorced kid 60/40 shuffle. #and it was a really lovely place to live especially during the quarantine times. it’s been a good home to us. #i’m gonna miss living here. #izzy.txt