#over-development

[nonooddo]

It’s a Family Business - …!

As ANOTHER delay in the voting on the ‘hideous development’ is approved by Olathe (for Oddo’s benefit - so he can try to get a winning vote by manipulating the Council Member numbers), now apparently moved to May 7, you just can not help getting the feeling that there is something rotten in Olathe …

Review of the Planning Commission March 2024

More than one voting, tax-paying, law abiding homeowner noticed that smell. It was the smell of fish. An odd thing to smell at the March 11 Planning Commission meeting. But there it was.

Before the meeting even started the Olathe Planning Department’s fishy chaos was fully olfactorable: the fix was in, as it were. The agenda announced that Planning Staff were backing the Oddo “town Center”…. a WHAT? The smell wafted across the room as the planners presented their incoherent jumble of fish-taco-word-salad.

sure does

But before even the rotten presentations - much more was causing a stink. Lets me explain - using a game… What’s is this? - ‘Ok, you’re on ‘the list’” - “well who are you speaking for?” - “Are you for or against the development?” “Do you intent to make a presentation?” “The deadline for presentations in tomorrow” “The deadline for presentations has passed” “The deadline for presentations is Saturday, it’s Sunday, it was Friday…” If you answered ‘what happens when I call or email with my intention to speak in the public session of the Olathe Planning Commission’, you were right… Multiple homeowners reported that they were met by a number of such responses, put through 20-questions and/or fed contradictory instructions. Not very welcoming to the public.

Talking about ‘the public’ what about the ‘requirement’ of providing comprehensive introductions…?! Anyone objecting had to provide full personal details. Developers didn’t. No one else did - for them it was all corporate offices and company anonymity. There was that feeling again; the entire process belonged to the developer - NOT to the public. Perhaps that’s just how Olathe thinks it has to be - but we know first hand that aggressive developer-HOA owners like to know who’s ’getting out of line’ … and developers making lists is ominous.

Also we are all aware that there is a modern day air of menace - even here in Kansas - that there never used be. A menace that stalks those who exercise their right to petition government. It’s uncomfortable - to say the least.

So already some people were put off. We KNOW that because they told us. People who don’t want to be on lists - even a list run by the haphazard chaotic planners in the Olathe City planning department. (Perhaps particularly them - given the potential for juveniles to be vindictive!). People want to stay off the radar of those who’s names are only repeated after heads dip and faces dart back and forth - checking out the room - ‘him… well here’s what I know about him…’

For sure there are certain types in this world who culture an air of ‘don’t get in my way’ and most of us civilians would rather just oblige. Fair enough in a rough and tumble world. But only so long as you can count on such people NOT also controlling the levers of the state or its many layers of bureaucracy… that prompts thoughts of true discomfort.

What next seemed to have more than just the tang of the fishmonger…! The Applicant - (i.e. Oddo’s Gang) was granted as long as it liked to speak - as many ‘professional’ voices as they wanted, (no opportunity for the public to challenge them or ask them any questions, of course! In fact the Commission Chairman made it clear from the start ‘DONT ASK ANY QUESTIONS, JUST DON’T…’. And if you were in any doubt about his seriousness - there were armed police all around the room..! Yes in Olathe, not Nicaragua, Nigeria or a Nazi client state last century, Olathe…! )

Any one else feeling chilly yet?

But then there was time. Time itself. An abundant resource when developers speak - was as precious and limited as our diminishing rights when it came to the objectors turn to speak. The Preserve Our Neighborhood group paid to have a planning-expert lawyer present - and guess what, he was the Only professional treated like a schoolchild by the Planning Commission.

He patiently and respectfully sat and waited ‘his turn’ to speak… for 5 - Big Clock timed - minutes. Despite repeated advance requests and even appeals to the City Attorney and the Commission to be afforded a usual professional courtesy of a full 15 minutes. No. Not for him was there to be any ‘home-field advantage’ of the kind the developer’s lawyer enjoyed. Developer Esq. had no clock on his words - he could joke and banter; thank everyone on the Commission; “oh and Staff, and my agent, and my producers and my long suffering wife….” (We began to wish it were an Oscar speech - at least the music might have welled up and spared us…! ) Then the Oddogineer, the Oddarcitect, the entire circus… all were given untimed talk time. Who needed to keep track anyway - these guys were great entertainers (with all their tall tails about how no one can count (stories or feet) and how anything is ‘Green’ because they say it is…! What a hoot they were…

No, the lowest of the low in Olathe City Hall is being a voting, tax-paying, law abiding homeowner participant exercising his or her right to petition government. (It’s funny how that phrase ‘the right to petition’ - implies it might not be just being granted a favor by a Planning Commission Chair… it’s almost like we had some - well… right! To be there…)

Being lowest on the totem poll also meant we had to stay in line. Literally and figuratively. And the order of that line also generated a distinct odor of sushi … While speaker after speaker opposed Oddo - the surprise what how it all ended. The shock of the evening was the two ‘Turkeys for Christmas’. A married couple who both said, literally, ‘no one wants to lose their freedom - but let’s speak nicely to our kidnappers and “not spit in their eye”. After all - we are going to be spending a lot of time together. And they are the boss!’ I’m pretty sure that was the speech. (I could be wrong as I was vomiting into an airline sick bag during their particular 5 minuteses)! One really has to wonder if Ricardo Oddometer himself is holding that couple’s prized Maltese in an Oddo Developments secret location. Perhaps an unrentable apartment unit - sorry, ‘luxury apartment unit’ - somewhere in Darkest Leawood…?

So right to the end - as a bunch of HOA-controlling developers all got to speak after the actual HOA membership and then Cedar Creek’s own Stockholm-syndrome couple were afforded a helpful dead-last-but-one and dead-last place on the speaker roster - the fishy smell of things did not go away.

The entire sorry, sad, statist and stage-managed kabuki left a terrible taste. You know what I mean if you’ve ever eaten a dead fish raw of the beach. You haven’t? Are you sure? Well let me tell you - you haven’t missed anything - especially not if you were there to object to Oddo on March 11. You got the taste - and it was spot on…!

Shame on Olathe, Kansas…! Shame.

They misspelled the last bit…!

[illustraice]

someone save alphonse elric and may chang from a very long suffering year

[bunnieswithknives]

As much as I love angst I think it would be funny if he just didnt give af

[hinamie]

9 / 266

[ph-cutie]

(pretty much) all the character concept arts from tha art book. because im the compiler

[drsantosgf]

to be honest, the ending wasn't my problem. it's not a horrible way to end a show that has primarily been about a dysfunctional but loving family trying and failing to stop the apocalypse. having that family die to save the world but die together and willingly and in the end be reincarnated (ish?) as flowers under the same tree, i think that's really beautiful in a way. it's the details that fuck with me. five and lila are an insane choice, no resolution for sloane, everyone kind of just fucking off and having stories with no payoff that don't actually build to anything, ray just walking out, etc. like the last few minutes weren't the worst, it's really just everything leading up to those moments that were at best highly questionable

[toorumlk]

ron and hermione photographed on the steps of their first home together makes it into the Prophet

[seraphont]

a counter to the angst

[arabella-s-arts]

Scenes/Things in Supernatural that genuinely don't make sense to me if Dean was straight:

The confession booth scene.

Sam just rolling with the fact that Dean's siren is a guy while still thinking sirens infect people through sex.

Dean being flustered by several men: Gunner Lawless, Aaron, Doctor Sexy, etc.

All the parallels between Destiel and other couples. (A big one being "last night on Earth" bc how do you do that accidentally.)

Having all the gay jokes be on Dean instead of Sam.

Paralleling Sam meeting his childhood celebrity crush with Dean meeting Gunner Lawless.

The boner Dean got when Cas cleaned up.

Dean gulping after Cas does an impression from a Western movie.

Charlie, a lesbian, calling Castiel "dreamy."

The way Mary looks at Dean and Cas when they hug.

Dean wondering why everyone assumes he's gay, while Sam not caring.

The logic that Charlie can't flirt with guys because she's only attracted to women, but then having Dean flirt with the guy for her.

Dean seeming disappointed when learning that Aaron's flirting was fake.

The amount of time Dean and Cas spend staring at each other.

Dean canonically having an orgy with Crowley.

A woman saying that she knows when someone's pining for someone else to Dean, just for us to learn that Dean was never in love with Amara.

The set design and script choices that lead to a cross in the background while Dean said "I do." to Cas after he came back to life.

That time when Dean wanted to say something and Cas was like, "It's okay, I heard your prayer." But Dean still looked like he wanted to say something important.

Amara: [about Dean] "I can see inside your heart. Feel the love you feel. Except, it’s cloaked in shame.”

If you want to have a more expansive list, @destiel-is-real-idgaf added to this one quite nicely.

[zukkaoru]

this is so important actually. the image and voice of dazai, one of the smartest people atsushi knows, manifested by atsushi's mind telling him that he knows something dazai doesn't. he can do what dazai can't. he's smart enough to save everyone, despite his doubts about himself. and he knows it, even if he needs a voice that isn't his own to say it to him.

[shushmal]

Eddie, feral: back off straight guy, i WILL bite you.

Steve, hopeful: bite me?

Robin, deeply offended: STRAIGHT GUY??

[qvert]

(smth about fighting to protect what she cares for - in the way she always wanted but was never supposed to)

There was a whole bunch of deep thoughts about this one but it’s late and I just want it off my pile so I don’t keep adding more contrast to the gold bits

I’ll elaborate tomorrow - speculation in the meantime is encouraged :*

[an-established-butt-dent]

"What have they done to you,

Old friend."

Trapped in the fade, Solas comes face to face with the remnant of his spirit.

The Dread Wolf was his wisdom, mirror to his pride. In the wake of the wrathful Evanuris, it too, has succumbed to their taint.

Or, where I'm making wild plot speculations surrounding Solas trapped in the fade. while turning my brainrot into art pieces and gifs. I'M PACING MY ENCLOSURE. Looking for crumbs and scrabs of Veilguard. Please Bioware I'm begging, feed me. 😭

[ronanlynchusurper]

i don’t think we talk enough about declan being equally as down bad and ‘all or nothing’ with romance as ronan is. like yes ronan said he would start wars and burn cities for adam’s true smile, begged god for adam after he first saw him and fortuitously had all his objects of worship were in one downtown block etc but ronan had known adam atleast 18 months at this stage. whereas declan really risked it all to get tyrian purple overnight for a first date gift after ONE conversation…the man was discussing their marriage as a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ before we even saw them kiss like what’s his excuse lmaoo

[chiquilines]

In honour of mha ending, have some old (and i mean OLD) miryumi scribbles i never got around to posting. They were the main characters in my heart