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Nothing crazy, just my daily that I’ve been slowly cleaning up. Got the black wheels, tint, front lip/side skirt look, and I’m trying to keep it simple instead of doing too much.

I know it’s still a Malibu, so I’m not acting like it’s a race car 😂 but I like how it sits right now.

What would y’all rate it 1–10, and what would you change first?

I feel like Chesterfield residents need to pay closer attention to what’s happening right now. We keep hearing about growth, new development, new housing, better business, and how Chesterfield is becoming one of the places people want to move to. Cool. But at the same time, we’re seeing the other side of that growth: old infrastructure, environmental issues, roads/sidewalks people have been asking for forever, schools needing more support, and county services trying to keep up.

The Shoosmith Landfill situation is wild. A landfill in Chester now reportedly needs $173 million to prevent an environmental disaster, while the owners say they can’t afford the cleanup. That’s not just some random business issue. That’s the kind of thing that can become a taxpayer issue, a water issue, a property value issue, and a “why did nobody stop this earlier?” issue. And this is happening while the county budget is already stretched. VPM reported the FY2026 budget left 175 full time positions unfunded and about $300 million in capital costs projects on hold. The county’s own FY2027 budget write up says 99.8% of the operating budget is going toward existing services, leaving only about $2.7 million for new initiatives.

That tells me Chesterfield is not just dealing with one problem. It’s dealing with a pattern: growth is moving faster than the systems built to support regular people. So my question is: when residents ask for sidewalks, safer roads, better school support, better waste oversight, better drainage, and basic infrastructure, are we being told “there’s no money” because there really isn’t or because the county keeps reacting late instead of planning early? Not trying to be dramatic, but this is the stuff citizens should actually be talking about before it becomes a crisis. A landfill problem, budget pressure, delayed projects, and fast development all connect back to the same question: Is Chesterfield building for the people already living here, or just trying to keep up after the damage is done?

One thing I can’t stop ruminating on is that in a show full of unhealthy coping mechanisms, Princess Carolyn’s may be one of the worst because it’s the most admirable on the surface.

BoJack numbs himself with substances and self-sabotage. Diane spirals into depression and overanalysis. Mr. Peanutbutter avoids depth with constant optimism and movement. Todd escapes into chaos.

All of those eventually get recognized as problems.

Princess Carolyn’s is different.

She takes pain and converts it into usefulness. She gets abandoned, overworked, disappointed, heartbroken, lonely and instead of falling apart in a way people can clearly name, she becomes more efficient, more competent, more needed.

The worse she feels, the better she gets at solving everyone else’s problems.

And because of that, the world doesn’t really tell her to stop. It rewards her. It depends on her. It calls her impressive.

That feels darker than a lot of the show’s more obvious damage, because her suffering is constantly being translated into something socially valuable. She is one of the only characters whose coping mechanism can be mistaken for success.

That’s why so many of her loneliest moments land so hard for me.

Not because she is unloved exactly, but because so many people “love” the function she serves in their lives. They love that she can fix things, organize things, absorb things, carry things. But none of that is the same as being deeply, truly seen.

It makes her one of the bleakest characters to me.

BoJack gets judged. Diane gets worried over. Todd gets dismissed but also protected.

Princess Carolyn gets admired while she quietly disappears into her own competence.

I think that’s part of why Judah matters so much. Not because he “saves” her, but because he is one of the first people who can meet her on the level she has built her entire identity around without simply using her for it.

Curious if anyone else reads her this way, because the older I get, the less Princess Carolyn feels like the “together” one and the more she feels like one of the most heartbreaking people in the whole show.