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Striking Great Deals When Buying Your New Ottawa Home

A new home is definitely going to be one of the biggest investments of your lifetime. It is natural to want to get the best possible deal when you are searching for home for sale in Ottawa. However, with a competitive real estate market and fluctuating prices, it can be challenging to know how to negotiate and strike a great deal when buying a new Ottawa home. Let us explore some tips and strategies for getting the best possible deal on your new home purchase.

Firstly, it is important to do your homework to know more about the current market conditions. This means staying up to date on real estate trends and developments in Ottawa, including changes in housing inventory, interest rates, and local economic conditions. By understanding the current state of the market, you can identify areas where you may be able to negotiate a better deal.

Another key strategy for getting a great deal on the house for sale in Ottawa is to work with a knowledgeable and experienced real estate agent. An experienced agent can help you navigate the complexities of the buying process and can provide valuable insights and guidance on negotiating a fair price. They can also help you identify properties that are priced below market value or that have been on the market for an extended period, which may be more likely to be open to negotiation.

In addition to working with a real estate agent, it's important to be prepared and flexible in your search for a new home. This means having a clear understanding of your budget and priorities, as well as being open to different neighbourhoods, property types, and amenities. By being flexible and open-minded, you may be able to identify properties that are undervalued or that have potential for appreciation, which can help you get a better deal in the long run.

When it comes to negotiating the purchase price of your new home, it's important to be strategic and patient. You should also be prepared to make concessions or adjustments in your offer based on the seller's response, such as adjusting the closing date or offering a higher deposit.

Another important factor to consider when negotiating the purchase price of your new Ottawa home is the condition of the property. However, it's important to be realistic and fair in your expectations, and to work with your real estate agent to determine a reasonable estimate of the repair costs.

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This is probably small in the grand scheme of things, but how did Emilie being noble play any impact in the story at all?

I mean, I'd get it if it was just a small detail to help deepen Emilie's character, but why nobility of all things? I don't know, from what I'm seeing so far, the whole "Emilie renounced her noble title" shtick just feels worthless if it's not going to impact the story or add depth to Emilie's character (like maybe upbringing or personal values?).

I don't know. Like everything else, the noble part just feels shallow and means nothing to the story, especially for a character like Emilie, who is the plot device for the whole show. Any detail about her, like her personality and life story, is supposed to influence the story and characters one way or another, namely Hawkmoth since she's his driving force.

So what was the point?

For context, this ask is about Félix's play which says that Emilie gave up her title to be with Gabriel. I'm gonna give a slightly larger section of the transcript of the play for full context, but the relevant but is at the end of the last paragraph:

Félix: The king and queen's twins grew up, each day as different in heart as they were similar in body. The firstborn, curious and brazen, despised life at court and escaped at every opportunity. The younger daughter, well-behaved and respectful, did everything she could to please her parents, and stayed quietly in the castle. Félix: (as Mr. Graham de Vanily) Oh, my queen. Did we entrust our legacy to the right princess? Kagami: (as Mrs. Graham de Vanily) She will fall in line, eventually. Félix: Confident that she would settle down as she matured, the king and queen allowed the curious princess to leave to study beyond the sea in another kingdom. There, she immediately found true love in a humble tailor. Félix: The tailor was making clothes so magnificent that they revealed the beauty of the soul of anyone who wore them. Although it made her parents furious, the curious princess gave up her rank, her wealth and her kingdom to live a bohemian life with the tailor.

Story wise, I have no idea why any of this was added since it adds nothing to canon. It's not like this finally explains why Gabriel and Emilie are poor while Amelie is wealthy. Along similar lines, it's not like Amelie's title has ever mattered. Prior to this play, I don't think that we even knew that she had a title or that she was the younger sister. The play is all about explaining things that we never had reasons to question in the first place.

My best guess as to why the writers wrote this pointless backstory is that they wanted to make Emilie seem even more pure and perfect so they went with the tired old trope of a rich girl giving up material things for the sake of love and art because good pure women don't care about material things! Only nasty, shallow women care about money. (Way to play into sexist tropes, guys.)

There may also be cultural elements at play here given that France doesn't have the greatest history with nobility, so giving up a noble title may be seen as good and pure to a French writer, but I don't know enough about French culture to say that with any certainty. If anyone who reads this blog is French and would like to chime in, then feel free!

While we're on the topic of the play, I wanted to point out that the above quoted passage is why I say that the Graham de Vanily parents can be as kind or as abusive as you'd like to make them. It's incredibly vague and you can read into it whatever you want to read into it. Were they good loving parents who were just upset about their daughter living in poverty or were they miserable controlling classist who Emilie fled England to get away from? It's up to you because you can get both reads from this. The play commits to almost nothing of value. Politicians could take lessons from this impressive level of noncommittal writing.

A better version of the play would have focused on things that actually matter to canon like the details of finding the miraculous and/or Emilie learning she's sick, but you could only have those details if they were coming from Nathalie or Gabriel. Félix is a terrible choice for a character to tell us the show's backstory because he knows so little of it, thus the play focusing on his largely pointless backstory.

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MY BEST FRIEND MADE ME A COPY OF CALL IT EVEN FOR MY BIRTHDAY😭😭😭

[zoe-oneesama]

I'm interested in your AU Precure x Miraculous. You said that fairies can't use magic on their own (as a Precure fan, you're partially right, that even though they are magical beings, they don't know how to use magic *in Precure, for the most part, magic is learned * but there are fairies that have powers similar to kwamis *ignoring the human form of some of them* like Chiffon and her psychic powers or Ha chan) So, in your au, how did the fairies do to create the "magic hero items" ?

This is why I don't have much info lol since the only Precure I've watched is Kira Kira Precure A La Mode. 😓

But IN KKPCALM, at the very least Chourou, the old mage Fairy, created a compact plastic version of the cafe to make it portable, so we'll just work off that and assume any physical "Miraculouses" were made with an old Fairy. Possibly working with the original Precure of the series Lumière, which actually helps with lore and being the origins of why Fairies want to work with humans so much. It also helps that she has a French name to tie in how she and the fairies learned of the Miraculouses (ignoring that the Miraculouses are "from" Tibet).

I was inspired to do the crossover because KKPCALM's Precures have both a cooking and an animal theme, so their superhero forms are based on their animal forms, but their attacks are based off baking, which is one of the clues that they're not True Miraculouses. (Though some Fairies, like Macaron, do try to fake it though by mixing the animal and baking inspirations.)

So technically it can work with any Precure power, you just have to assign them an animal.

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Alyanette August 2024

Alyanette August is just around the corner!! Are you ready?

Be sure to tag me in any work posted and use the tag #alyanette august starting August 1st!

Please don't include any leaks or major spoilers, S5 and specials (Barring the London special) are fine

please add the prompt title in the tags so I can sort through them easier

I won't reblog any NSFW or age-restricted works, but make whatever you'd like!!

Have fun and take it easy!

prompts below

 Coffee shop

 Trust

 Secrets

 Awakening

Kwami-swap

Crown

 Water Balloon Fight

 Unexpected Visitor

 Ghost Stories

  Arcade

  Hot Chocolate

  Reconnection

  Photography/Photograph

  Homework

  Coming Out

  Cottage

  Stargazing

 Flower Picking/Flower Crowns

 painting/crafting

 Mystery

 Modelling

 Ghost-hunting

 Spirits/Demons

 Beach

 Lucky Charm

 Party

 Interview

 Cookies/Baking

 Suspicion

 Aberration

Reveal

If it goes well, a discord server may be made dedicated to Alyanette and Alyanette August Special thanks to @monflures and @what-is-going-on-im-confused for help with the prompt list, and @ninadove for helping tell me how to do this!! You're all wonderful <3

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year @luckychatons! I hope your holidays were good :) Here is some cozy Feligami for the ML Secret Santa exchange hosted over at @mlsecretsanta!! They're on a sleigh ride date; driving a carriage is a skill Felix definitely has.

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2023 Ladynoir Fic Rec List

It’s the end of the year which means it’s finally time for the ML Big Bang’s yearly fic rec lists! We’re really excited to bring you our contributors’ favourite fics started this year to supply you with plenty of reading material while you’re waiting for the Big Bang fics’ publication in January.

all of your flaws and all of my flaws (are laid out one by one) by @coffeebanana

Ladybug and Marinette have both been acting strangely since Monarch's defeat, and Chat Noir would give anything to know why—to be able to help them. He just…didn't expect his answers to come when Ladybug drags him to his father's statue in the middle of the night along with a bag full of spray paint.

This fic explores the aftermath of the season 5 finale and provides some badly needed hurt/comfort, lovesquare communication, and vandalism ; )

with this ring by @thelibraryloser

She thought “you and me against the world” had sounded like lopsided odds before, when she hadn’t even dreamed “you against me” was a possibility. Or maybe she had dreamed it, but at least in those dreams he’d had cold blue eyes and a stark white mask. The villain she’d fought today had looked at her through her partner’s own bright green eyes. It wasn’t meant to be this way.

It tore at my heartstrings! It deals with a unique Ladynoir 'enemies' premise in a beautiful way

Let Me Count the Ways (aka Chat Noir's List of Ladybug's New Habits) by @sariahsue

Chat Noir thought it might be a good idea to start keeping a list of all the strange things Ladybug had been doing lately. It might help him to figure out what it all meant. There was the stumbling, the stuttering, the blushing. It had appeared out of nowhere. No, that wasn't quite right. It had all started when they were dancing at the gala, when she'd been so nervous that she tripped over the perfectly flat marble floor and smashed her face into his chest.

Like Smoke from a Furnace by @wackus-bonkus-maximus

Marinette and Adrien give up their Miraculous. Ladybug and Chat Noir never meet again.

It's hard to categorize this. Is this a ship or is it gen? It's strictly Adrienette because they're married. But pre-reveal. It forks after Kwami's Choice and asks the question: How would LB cope with LB and CN never getting their miraculous back after Kwami's Choice? But the story's title seems to indicate that this is kind of a "forbidden Ladynoir" fic because it's an allusion to the potentially devastating effects of "looking back" when you shouldn't. I've read this fic like a dozen times and am completely obsessed.

telepathy by @thelibraryloser

There’s a certain amount of telepathy created after several years fighting beside someone. It’s a mix of chemistry, history, and probably a bit of actual magic, and it comes down to this: Chat Noir usually knows exactly what his Lady is thinking. So, when a bike messenger hands him a three digit number written on a piece of hospital stationary, he knows exactly what Ladybug is asking him to do. He just can’t believe it. 

soft and sweet and much ladynoir! <3

A 'Super' Guide to 'Super' Dating by @mysticraven20

When Ladybug just scrapes into the top 10 of Paris’ favourite heroes list, she asks her partner and her best friend for help. After they decide she’s not personable enough, which in result, makes her unapproachable, Marinette goes out to try and become one with the public by writing her very own dating blog. As the blog turns into an overwhelming hit, Marinette finds herself in an awkward position, once again falling for the guy she’s always longed for; a guy who has started his own search for love following her ‘Super’ guide to ‘Super’ Dating.

I just love the idea of Ladybug writing a dating column as she tries to find love in the city.

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feather mark (drops this and scatters)

[yeet-noir]

Rose's record: I love Juleka 🥰😘😉-

Juleka:

Rose's record: - And I love Ivan, Marinette, Adrien, Alya, Luka, Mylène, Nino, Nathaniel, Miss Bustier, Mr. Damocles-

Juleka:

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(SEASON 5 SPOILERS) Andre disowned Chloe and adopted Zoe, while Chloe was banished from Paris with Audrey.

...did Andre essentially kidnap someone else's child? Cause Mr Lee is alive and well, right? I don't think you legally adopt someone else's kid. Did Mr Lee consent to this? Or did he kick the bucket off screen?

[bittersweetresilience]

ladynoir in my bookmarks for @sleepysebris and @luckychatons

our hands would not be taught to hold another's by @ladyofthenoodle (38,147 words)

Adrien knew that wasn’t fair to blame Ladybug for this. There were rules, and now that Master Fu was gone, it was her job as the Guardian to enforce them. There were rules, and he knew the rules, and he broke them. He hadn’t meant to, but he did. That didn’t make losing the ring hurt any less.

downpour by @frostedpuffs (7,080 words)

Ladybug and Chat Noir tell each other their ages during a heavy rainstorm, but with the new bit of information they learn about their partner, they start developing other sorts of questions a little too deep for two teenage kids.

All My Life by Faithxoxo (12,080 words)

The thing Marinette is quickly realizing, is that love means more than wanting to spend every day with someone, or knowing their schedule by heart, or wanting to get married and have three kids with them. Loving someone means being able to talk to them for hours, and missing them all the time, and trusting them with your life. Her mind always goes to one person, and it isn’t Adrien.

Ma Chérie by Miss_Nihilist (4,912 words)

Chat Noir is ready to move on and start pursuing a girl in his class. Before he does, though, there’s just one thing that he needs from Ladybug. Too bad that it’s the one thing she can’t give him.

Like Smoke From a Furnace by @wackus-bonkus-maximus (7,518 words)

Marinette and Adrien give up their Miraculous. Ladybug and Chat Noir never meet again.

I (Wish I) Knew You by @buggachat (49,733 words)

University has been hard on Marinette. Making new friends and maintaining her grades is a lot easier said than done when she has to disappear at odd times to fight akumas. She’s struggling, and with Alya away with family and Adrien painfully out of reach, she’s never felt lonelier. If only she could talk to someone who really understood her struggles... but it’s not like Chat Noir would know anything about loneliness. Right?

all of your flaws and all of my flaws (are laid out one by one) by @coffeebanana (7,968 words)

Ladybug and Marinette have both been acting strangely since Monarch’s defeat, and Chat Noir would give anything to know why—to be able to help them. He just... didn’t expect his answers to come when Ladybug drags him to his father’s statue in the middle of the night along with a bag full of spray paint.

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

I did this a bit ago with just season 5, but now I want to see on a grander scale:

To clarify, this does not mean your favorite episode, but rather, your favorite episode of this ship. Because this had to be whittled down so much to fit into the amount of spaces available for a poll, this doesn't include every Ladynoir episode, so feel free to click other and put your episode in the tags!

This is for the purpose of satisfying my curiosity of ship trends in ml, so please share for a larger sample size!

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Do you think they should have made Colt a good father to Felix? Or are you fine with him being a bad father?

I don't think that Colt should have been anything. He died off screen before we even met Felix and Felix is a minor character. Why is he getting more backstory development than Kagami when Tomoe is alive and actively involved in the plot? Wouldn't it have been far more interesting if the play was her story?

But if we must include the mustachioed cowboy man, then I would make him a good father or, at the very least, a mediocre one. I'd do this for reasons that have nothing to do with me wanting Felix to have a happy childhood. I'm fine with him having a tragic past! The problem is that this is a story and, in terms of story telling, there is no reason to give him a tragic past. It adds nothing to the story. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that it detracts from the story, but we'll get to that in a minute. First let's go over why it's a pointless addition.

In his titular episode, Felix is a brat who tries to destroy Adrien's life. Those actions actually made more sense when we thought that Felix loved Colt and was acting out over Adrien not coming to Colt's funeral. Now that we know the full story, we're left asking, "Okay, so, why did Felix do any of that?" And don't say that it was to help him get the ring because it didn't help him get the ring. He got it from hugging his uncle and there were far simpler ways to get a hug.

And why did Felix even want the ring? That has yet to be explained because, in Strikeback, he was planning to go out of the country as "Adrien" without ever offering to exchange the ring. He simply stole the fake peacock and got out of dodge. He had no possible way to know that Ladybug would come to him for help, allowing him to offer up the miraculous and use the ring to sweeten the pot. I also don't believe for one second that he needed to sweeten the pot. He could have offered up the miraculous and nothing else and Gabriel would have gone for it. So once again, what was the plan with the ring, Felix? What was the plan?

While we're on the topic of Felix getting the peacock, Colt being abusive adds nothing to that plot either. Whoever has the peacock can snap any sentimonster out of existence. Felix could have the best damn childhood on the planet and it would still make perfect sense for him to want the peacock!

The only reason to make Colt abusive is if you want to explore that and use it to develop Felix's character, but I have absolutely no faith that they're going to do that. Colt is the Jagged Stone nonsense all over again. They're introducing a very serious issue that would dramatically affect the psyche of most people and then acting like it's no big deal. I think I saw someone say that Colt was only introduced to shut up the people calling Gabriel and Emilie abusive by showing us "real" child abuse as if abuse was an Olympic sport and you need to qualify for the team. I'd buy that theory, but I wouldn't bet money on it.

Even if I'm wrong and they are going to explore Felix's trauma, I still think it's a bad move. There's a thing called compassion fatigue. It's commonly experienced by health care workers who deal with traumatic cases day in and day out, resulting in thing like the inability to feel compassion for your patients because your compassion meter has been rung dry. You can experience a lesser form of this just from watching the news. Story after story of people in need to the point that you're desensitization to these events evoking horror or sorrow.

When you're telling a story, you need to keep this phenomena in mind and be very careful when introducing multiple sources of trauma. The more trauma you introduce and the quicker you introduce it, the less impactful that trauma will be for your readers. If you're a good writer, then it will also be less impactful for your characters. Allow me to explain with a quick example.

I had a brief Marvel phase and, while I never wrote anything for that fandom, I made up a few stories in my head. A lot of them revolved around my favorite character, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man). Tony becomes Iron Man after being kidnapped by terrorists and I love confessions of traumatic backstories, so I was working out how to do one for him and the Avengers to help bond the team. Then I realized that his teammates are all orphans and that the majority of them were raised in poverty. Most of them have also gone through scientific experimentation of some sort and not all of it was voluntary. In other words, in the world of the Avengers, Tony's trauma isn't really special. His team might sympathize with him, but they wouldn't be deeply impacted by his story the way I wanted them to be because most of them have gone through equal or worse trauma.

Circling back to Miraculous: they keep heaping trauma on these kids and it's a terrible move. When Adrien was the only character with a messed up home life, things were interesting.

Now? Well, this is the current list of characters with a messed up home life: Kagami, Zoe, Chloe, Adrien, Felix, Luka, Juleka, and probably Lila. Add in Rose's serious illness, Mylene's mother abandoning her, and Marinette's traumatic past dealing with a straight up hate campaign on top of all the trauma introduced over the course of canon and I just don't care anymore. I am drained dry. They have introduced way too many serious elements without exploring any of them in depth and that is a massive writing faux pas.

Generally speaking, when telling stories, you should default your characters to whatever a happy home life is in their universe unless you're going to do something with the non-happy home life. Non-happy home lives complicate stories and you don't want to introduce a complication if you're never going to explore it. This is why I think that Colt should have been at least a decent parent. It's also why you'll see me say that Emilie should be at least a semi decent parent even though canon has made that option impossible unless you ignore a lot of the unpleasant implications found in Adrien's backstory.

While I love evil villain couples, Emilie is in a coma, so she can't be Gabriel's co-conspirator and I personally have no interest in her waking up to start a new villain arc. When she wakes up (or finally dies), the Agreste's story is over and so she basically has to be nonthreatening for that ending to work. It also circles back to the issue of keeping the trauma tight and focused so that the trauma you do include really pops!

Reminder that the above is a discussion of story telling, not a commentary on what makes real people interesting or the commonality of home life issues. There's also nuance I didn't get into because this was already really long. Writing trauma well is a really fascinating and complex topic.