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This topic has been done a lot so this post is nothing special at all, but I figured I might as well do one. As a disclaimer, this is just my personal thoughts and ideas and is 100% not final nor will they happen, this is just for fun. This also might be a long post.
These are Pokemon I feel deserve a Regional Form, Regional form evolution or even Cross-Gen Evolution to make them stand out or even make them more powerful. These forms I'm listing are by Gens and are based on aspects of the Kalos Region, real life France or even its Mythology that could help create the Regional Forms of the Region. Plus, I decided to give my ideas for what the Starters could be and their final evo's Regional form (even if it's going to be pretty obvious for the Grass and Water, not so much for Fire, that one was hard)
A quick honorable mention would be Dachsbun, a very good boy who debuted SV so it's not going to be in Legends which is a shame because a baguette, croissant or some other French bread Regional form or Evolution of Dachbun sounds good. I could imagine the evolution being Fairy/Fire (for it's references to its Ability and it looks like baked bread) or Fairy/Ground (due to wheat coming from the ground) and those type combos haven't been done yet so hopefully LZA can fill those different combos up.
Another honorable mention is Charcadet as it could have a similar scenario to Eevee and have it's evolutions be of different types and based on different weaponry but it's an SV mon so sadly, it can't be the case.
Another disclaimer is that I'm not the best at explaining things but again, it's more like a brainstorm and not really serious
Starters:

• Serperior (Grass/Steel): Snivy and Piplup are pretty obvious for the Starters so here are my ideas for their Regional Forms. The Gen V Starters according to Ken Sugimori are based Western, Chinese (Emboar) and Japanese (Samurott) cultures with Serperior being based on Western royalty in places like Europe and is one of the few or only Pokemon based on a Manga character, Lady Oscar from Rose of Versaiise (set in during the French Revolution) and French kings like King Louis XIV.
  • My idea for this form is to take their Lady Oscar inspiration (who practiced Fencing), swordfighting, knights and Fencers to make this Serperior Grass/Steel, I tried to avoid the Fighting type because I wanted these 3 Starters to not use repeated types (Steel has been used once for Empoleon) of the past and focus on unused or rarely used types.
  • This line focuses on slash-based attacks and their stats which were Defensive and Speed based are more focused on Offense and speed. Their Hidden Ability I imagine is Sharpness and their signature move I could see being in line with Psycho Cut, Leaf Blade and Aqua Cutter being a crit-based Steel type slash move.
• Cinderace (Fire/Electric): Remember how I said the Grass and Water Starters were easy to choose and the Fire one isn't? Yeah, the Fire Starter was hard to choose because while Snivy and Piplup are based on royalty, Scorbunny has no distinction. When it came to the Fire Starters, Chimchar and Tepig were out of the picture due to Piplup and Snivy being there, Charmander and Torchic were also out since their evos have Megas, I've seen people say Torchic is the starter due to Roosters being the national animal of France but it and it's fellow Hoenn Starters have Megas and Mega Blaziken debuted in XY through a Mystery Gift when XY started so I don't see Torchic being the case and Fuecoco debuted in SV so that's off limits.
  • This left Scorbunny and Litten and Litten does have some French cat stories like the White Cat and the Mythological Matagot which takes on multiple forms other than cats but I couldn't really think of something for Incineroar so I went with Scorbunny because of it's Futbol (or Soccer) inspirations and FIFA being in France, not the main reason but I thought oh well.
  • It was then I thought about how I made Seperior to be a swordsman, a traditional knight of sorts and it gave me the idea that the first stages are based on royalty (aside from Scorbunny) but their final evolutions could be influenced by types of military/knight forces, swordsman for Seperior, line infantry for Cinderace and commander (or just Napoleon for Empoleon's case)/gunman/cannon person for Empoleon.
  • This Cinderace won't have a gun for a line infantry man but instead rushes to battle to take care of the opposing line quickly for the others to fight against the other army, so I chose Electric to represent that quickness. It's Hidden Ability could be Reckless since the line infantry's attacks can sometimes be reckless or a new ability related to it's signature move I call 'Iron Leg' that boosts Leg/Kick moves. It's Electric signature move is similar to Tachyon Cutter or Dragon Darts where it could kick the opponent twice possibly leaving them paralyzed.
  • As for it's stats? I don't think they change too much from the original, but I'd say in exchange for it's 75 DEF/SP.DEF going lower by 10 points, it becomes a bit faster and offensively strong (although 126 ATK and 129 SPE would be pretty insane, not too insane but I could see those aforementioned stat changes going to HP or something like that)
• Empoleon (WateIce): Napoleon, I think that's all I need to say... I'm just kidding, I'll keep going. I love Empoleon, Piplup was my first Starter but I always thought Empoleon's design looked like it would be a physical attacker with the blades and had Defiant until Gen IX so for this Empoleon, it would be a Physical attacker with it's SPA and SPD swapped with ATK and DEF and it would focus on cannon and 'gun' based attacks.
  • I imagine one of 2 Abilities for this Empoleon, Defiant, an Ability regular Empoleon had until SV or an Ability focused on Ball, Bomb and Cannon moves. It's Ice signature move I'm not sure of, maybe similar to Armarouge's Armor Cannon where it lowers DEF and SPD?

With the Starters done, here are the various ideas I had for various Regional forms, evolutions, etc that will never happen but it's for fun.
Dragons (because I had a lot of Dragon ideas)

• Druddigon (and an evo, Dragon/Rock): This idea I had for a Fakemon Region Dex based on Australia/New Zealand, but I thought this idea could work here as well. My idea for this Druddigon goes with its gargoyle inspiration where it becomes Dragon/Rock or has an evolution that becomes Dragon/Rock. This evolution I call Gargogon (another disclaimer, I'm terrible with names, from Gargoyle, Dragon and Don) where it embraces the gargoyle design and become something more intimidating maybe an ability relating to this aspect or having Intimidate as a Hidden Ability.
• Turtonator Regional or evo (Fire/Dragon or Steel/Dragon): I feel bad for Turtonator, no one talks about it and it's only notable for being a part of Kiawe's team in the Anime and I really liked Turtonator there, so I decided to give Turtonator some love. My idea is an evo based on the Tarasque, a type of turtle, dragon with a lion's head. What if this Pokemon evolved to be more protective of itself and appear more intimidating to others. It would keep the Fire/Dragon type but considering it's preevo would be able to use Eviolite with it's huge 136 DEF and it's good 85 SPD, I could make it as a Steel/Dragon regional form instead.
• Drampa Regional or evo (Dragon/Normal or Dragon/Fairy): I also decided to give Turtonator's counterpart some love as well, they would be based on another French Dragon the Guivre, a dragon who is said to spout a venomous breath. Ironically though, I could see this being Dragon/Fairy due to Drampa's mystical like appearance (and we need a regular Dragon/Fairy Pokemon since it's locked behind Mega Altaria) or keeping it's original Dragon/Normal type.
• Dragapult (Dragon/Water): The Regional Form Psuedo of the Gen similar to Goodra, I did a post talking about Regional Psuedos and Dragapult came to mind because I love Dragapult. My idea is related to Dreepy's Dex entry stating it was an aquatic Pokemon long ago. I wish it could've been a Paradox Pokemon to see what it could've looked like but Regional could work as well.
  • I say Regional but my idea here is what if there was a certain group of the Dreepy line that survived its original extinction and live their days within the canals of Lumiose trying not to die.
• Kommo'o (last Dragon I promise, Dragon/Ghost): This idea more fits with the Johto Region due to it's origins but I thought I'd mention it here. Kommo'o is based on monks with it's tail resembling a staff that monk's use. But something in my head made me think of another type of monk, an Onmyoji and Onmyodo from Japan. In many stories and even Manga/Anime for instance, they control spirits or the world to the otherside so what if Kommo'o was able to do a similar thing and contact spirits hence it's Ghost type. This concept again fits more with Johto than Kalos but I thought it could be interesting.
  
• Non-Dragons:
  
  • Convergent Gengar line (Dark): SV introduced the concept of Convergents, Pokemon that look like another Pokemon but aren't related and so I feel future games might introduce more Convergents so I decided to do one for the Gengar line based on the Beast of Gevaudan, a beast that wanders through the forests of France and is a man-eater. Convergent Gastly is a fuzzball, Convergent Haunter has small hidden legs and Convergent Gengar is a round wolf thing. I know Gengar has a Mega (and a GMAX) so Gengar would get more attention but well... I'm not sure what to say. This Pokemon would roam the streets of Lumiose.
  • Pidove line (Fairy/Flying): This line would be based on Pouters (a type of rock pigeon) and fancy pigeons, these are pigeons which have weird proportions (look up a Pygmy Pouter, they look very weird) such as freakishly long legs and puffed up necks that make it look like they can't breathe. What if these Pidoves were bred to look 'fancy' and ended up looking strange even gaining Fairy-like power in this state.
  • Electivire line (Electric/Ice): I love the Electivire line, so I decided to give it love. Electivire is based on an Oni but also yetis and bigfoot so what if this line was in the frosty forest above Dendemille Town who adapted to the harsh cold and gained icy abilities. This one wouldn't work in context of the game since it's set within Lumiose City and not the whole Region so this is one where it can't work but oh well.
  • Mandibuzz (Ghost/Flying): Since Braviary got a Regional form in Legends Arceus, I figured I'd give it's counterpart Mandibuzz a form based on the Grim Reaper or in this universe, how people see the reaper, a Kalosian Mandibuzz with a deathly look that peers within your soul.
  • Roserade (Grass/Ghost): This Roserade is based on Nightshades, a type of poisonous flower or any flower representing death.
  • Thievul evo (Dark): Thievul is based on gentleman thieves but could also have inspirations from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, a French author so I think Thievul would fit very well in Kalos but there's also another story about a trickster fox named Reynard the Fox. I could see Thievul having an evo here that takes aspects from the story.
  • Torkoal (Water or WateFire): This one is pretty simple, a Torkoal based on a geyser, think of a semi-Volcanion based on cauldrons and geysers of boiling hot water. I'd imagine a signature Ability where it makes its Water moves have a chance of burning the target.
  • Magmortar line (Water or WateFire): Similar to Electivire, Magmortar is based on an Oni but it's also based on a bird called a Booby (yes, that's it's name) so what if this Magmortar adapted to the waters of Cyllage and became more aquatic. Again, this likely wouldn't work for the same reasons as Electivire (set in Lumiose) but it's a fun thought.
  • Gligar and a Regional Evo/or regional Gliscor (Ground/Poison: Last one for today. Gligar is my little guy and Gliscor is cool so what if it gained a Regional form based on desert scorpions like the yellow-tailed scorpion. These Gligar and evo stride through the ground using their stingers to stun their prey. Since it's not gliding, I imagine it would be an evo I call Striscor due to it striding along the sands.

And that's it for now, I know this post is huge and it's been done already but I thought I could give my personal thoughts on what could be in LZA. Let me know what you think and I hope these random ideas sound intresting.

I have raised up a pair of hognoses since they were hatchlings, a beautifully spicy 0.1 AAA (Albino Arctic Anaconda) named Mabel and a sweet 1.0 Albino Anaconda Blond Phase named Walter.
This breeding has been years in the making and I am just over the moon! I can't contain my excitement and needed to share some cute pictures here to help me simmer down 😂
She laid 7 good eggs and 1 slug on April 13th. They've been doing so well and I have had zero problems so far- except for an odd spot on one of the eggs. I candled them for the last time today and they all look great, although the one with the "odd" spot seems to have a smaller embryo and doesn't weigh as much. They all have strong veins and are still nice and plump with minimal windowing- which is when there are slightly translucent spots on the egg (this doesn't necessarily cause any issues). I didn't take any pictures today, but here are a few from earlier on and the parents!

Rspod, i finally did it. I finally found love. started talking to this guy online with just friendship (at most, i honestly thought our conversation would last two minutes max) in mind but we clicked pretty much instantly and things turned and now we're both obsessed. none of that pussy edating shit is going on but we flirt often and spend hours talking about everything under the sun, hes smart and successful and endearing and you guys would actually love him. thats where the problems arise. this guy issnt from my area or anything and we didnt meet on a dating app, we just met somewhere online and hes pretty much perfect, hes also super entertaining and has a story for EVERYTHING. someone would have to be very creative to come up with his life specifically and convince me of it but im sure crazier things have happened. granted, i have spoken to him on the phone extensively and have seen (and reverse image searched) pictures of him and everything has matched up with what hes telling me so far, plus idk what his angle as a grifter would even be since if he ever asked me for money id instantly know something was up. so idk if i think this guy could be too good to be true because im in love OR because he actually is. any telltale signs youre being catfished/datelined/grifted online rsp? I really hope im not because i need bitches desperately and hes apparently coming to my city soon-ish

Anyone know of any good podcasts or YouTube channels that do a very good journalistic breakdown of the presidents through history and their administrations impact? I know there’s plenty of documentaries and such but looking for a good companion piece to BP for background info. I thought of this after Saagar’s often mention of Nixon in a positive light(whom I generally view in an opposite way). I’d think it be good to get the full picture of each administration and how they’ve led to today.

At Barbican hall is front row actually a good view? Or do you miss the back part if the stage? Looking at pictures it looks like you're REALLY close to the stage and it's relatively tall.

I (22F) had an uncle (28 or something M) who died of a heroin overdose. My uncle did have a hard youth, being arrested on possession charges for an extremely small amount of weed, and being arrested again for fighting back when being mugged. This part of his life is sad and I empathizs with it. He was unable to go to college for this reason, but never seemed like the academic type anyway and ended up working as a bartender. My mom was convinced that before his OD he had been sending her secret messages that only she could decipher asking for help getting clean, which of course was unlikely the case. My mom (50f) and grandparents and aunt all grieved for my uncle and spoke incessantly about him for some reason for a solid 4 years, which is weird because I have another uncle from that side of the family who passed a year earlier due to cancer and was NOT met with the same response at all. My family was unable to smile for almost two years.
Now everyone has gotten better.... except my mom. Often, she will post a picture of my brother (14m) wearing an item belonging to my uncle or doing something "just like my uncle" and make some kind of comment (ie, "just like his uncle Jaime with those skinny jeans!" "Trying on one of Uncle Jaime's hats!" "He makes that face like his uncle!" Etc . In 2022 my brother expressed to me that he was uncomfortable with this and so I told my parents, but my mom has kept going. My brother is homeschooled and has very few role models- because of this he has been struggling with a lot of gender issues (proclaiming that he is a trans woman or nonbinary and changing his mind/citing peer pressure a month after, etc) and other identity issues (figuring out what his goals and interests are). I don't think my brother should be compared to a drug addict. My mom thinks I am being "callous" and using a "bootstrap mindset" and "being unaccepting to those with mental illness and drug dependency" when in reality I am the only person in my family who carries narcan and naloxone, has taken advanced courses on neuropharmacology of drug addiction, and have since started a PhD on a very similar topic. I know how heroin addiction works. At the same time, I know that most users were exposed to heroin unintentionally (ie, through surgery or other medical procedure,, an abusive partner, etc) and my uncle straight up did lots of drugs for fun. My mom argues that this was because he had autism and depression (both of which my brother has AND I HAVE but being a woman doesn't count I guess) and that's why he took it.
My mom also brings up my uncle ALL THE TIME to people who did not meet him. My boyfriend came over for dinner and we ate ribs. He texted my mom to thank her, telling her he enjoyed the ribs. She replied "this is because I made the ribs with a sauce that has the same name as my brother who died and I bought it because they shared the same name so I put the sauce on things to help remember my brother" (my uncle did not know this sauce even existed.) this made my BF uncomfortable and he asked me what was appropriate to reply to such a text, and when I told my mom she was making people uncomfortable by talking about death and morbid things, she got mad and again said I was being heartless. My mom gets very upset when I express that I just don't care this much about this uncle (which is ironic because she doesn't seem to care much about her own uncles) and I don't think my uncle was even a very good person but ESPECIALLY wasn't worth comparing my brother to or thinking about all day but idk, AITAH

So, I deleted my last post about this book because I wasn’t totally done yet. I got done with it last night, and excuse my French, but what a fucking book (that’s totally my opinion of it). Picture…Johnny Truant universe, mixed with some Donnie Darko, mixed with some occult, and there you have it. The characters were so likable, and believable. I just happened to stumble across this book on Amazon. The only review I happen to grace over was a guy who’s title read “ it’s better than house of leaves!” They’re two totally separate books, house of Leaves is house of Leaves . But, anyway, I wanted to see if this guy was right, and although I don’t agree with him, the book was fantastic IMO. While it’s not totally horror, there is some pretty dark stuff in it, and I think at least one person in this sub would enjoy it as much as I did. I guess this is going to be a Multi volume series, so that’s great, I just hope the second volume is as good as the first.

In early 2020, while driving on the freeway, I wanted a chicken sandwich. At that time, I knew I could get one from three places: Chick-Fil-A, Popeyes, and Burger King. I couldn't tell you today how much it cost to buy from each location, but Chick-Fil-A sandwich costs were up above 5 or 6 dollars and Popeyes was selling their sandwiches, which only had sauce and pickles, but were juicy, for 3-and-change. Burger King's new chicken sandwiches were close to Chick-Fil-A quality, but at Popeyes' price.
Anyway, I wanted a sandwich and knew the closest one I could get was at Burger King. I got off the freeway and pulled into the lot. Then I saw there was a place I had never tried before, right in the same lot, called "Birdies". I went in and saw that they were selling arguably gourmet chicken sammiches, with no sides, for about $10.
(I posted a picture here, but don't want to get banned for Promotions before I've made my point)
I decided to try the original and, at another time, the spicy. Let me tell you: There were amazing chicken sandwiches. Miles above Chick-Fil-A, and Chick-Fil-A makes good sandwiches. They came on brioche buns, had custom coleslaw with pickled hot peppers in it, mouth-wateringly juicy chicken with a crispy crust (thick too!) and a delicious sweet sauce. I went there at least 3 or 4 times, thinking I would be a customer for life, despite the cost, just to support high-quality fast food where I was living.
Unfortunately for both of us (me and this fast-food company), the price was wearing me down. I pulled over with every intention of going into Birdies, but thought about the drain on my wallet and decided I would be more than satisfied with Burger King's spicy chicken sandwich. And that's when I realized There's Always A Better Chicken Sandwich, but it can't compete with the cost of a Good Chicken Sandwich.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a bridge game in Hell with Andy Rooney.

I recently worked up the courage to go to my Gyno about some symptoms I’ve been having. Painful sex, painful periods, pelvic pain when I’m not on my period, and not getting pregnant after 3 years of no BC. She was very reluctant to do bloodwork, but caved on a thyroid test, which came back normal. She also referred me for a transvaginal ultrasound.
The ultrasound technician was forthcoming that I had bilateral multiple ovarian follicles. Her words verbatim were, “This is how PCOS presents.” She asked about body hair growth, which is something I’ve always dealt with (Happy trail, more and more thick chin/neck hair as I get into my late twenties). She identified a cyst (3cm) on one of my ovaries, and the tenderness there mimicked the pelvic pain outside of my cycle/during sex.
When my Dr. later messaged me thru MyChart, she said everything was normal, including the cyst. Though this is good news, I was a little confused, since the tech put PCOS into my head during the exam. I asked, describing what was said, and she said I don’t have it because I would need to lack a period and experience hirutism — the latter rubbed me the wrong way, because that wasn’t something she asked about during my appointment.
I was ultimately referred to a pelvic floor physical therapist for pain, and can’t help but feel like I was brushed off. I am left feeling like I don’t have a full picture of my health, and don’t know if a second opinion would lead to some more clarity. I’ve heard horror stories about battles for a PCOS or endo diagnosis, so feeling like I should just give up, but don’t want to be in pain several days out of the month or feel nervous to have sex with my husband.
Any advice is welcome, or just some assurance that I’m not crazy.

Hello! I am currently working on trying to clear out a major flooding issue and overgrowth problem in my backyard, as well as large amounts of storm damage leading to dead and damaged trees. I have removed most of the human-caused debris that I could get to, and I'm now working on removing branches and tree pieces from the area. The large amounts of sitting water in the backyard has led to an unwelcome swamp that has affected the growth of the trees there.
My plan is to: clear out the human and natural debris (and keep as much of the healthy native plantlife as possible!), add soil to raise the ground level and decrease the moisture, and create a creek and pond reservoir to hopefully resolve the issues. I've already scoped out a few areas for a pond to go in that won't impact the healthy tree growth in the area, if anyone is worried about that.
My main concerns are that I have multiple trees that are grown in in such a way that there are multiple trees all growing from the same trunk (I'm not sure what this is called!). Some of these trees are already dead, or broken in half, and the others are damaged, and some of them still look healthy. I've attached pictures of a few examples (one of these trees looks kind of rotten?). Can I simply remove the base of the damaged and broken parts and leave the healthy one remaining, or will the "Bad parts" drag down the good and the entire thing need to be removed for safety? I apologize if this is a silly question. (First 5 pictures, 3 are of one "tree", 2 of the second)
Secondly, I have multiple - mostly smaller - trees growing sideways from the swampy parts of my yard. While many of these are diseased or dead and the roots are rotten, some of them are healthy and growing okay. Is it possible to save these trees after adding new soil? Can these trees by "stood up" carefully so they can be vertical, or is it too late? Are they potentially compromised in ways I can't see from having grown in water? Also attached a few pictures, but I didn't go into the wet area to get good ones - some are legitimately roots in water! (last pictures.. sorry they're hard to see what's going on, there's a lot of plants. The little root systems are covered in little mounds of moss and small bits of dirt). Note: the trees that are growing horizontally in these pictures ARE growing leaves and budding.

Throwaway for obvious reasons, I’m dating this really sweet lady. She’s creative, smart, kind, gentle, and patient with me. I treat her with kindness and gratitude and genuinely enjoy her company. But, I’m not attracted to her. We matched on hinge and her pictures somewhat artfully masked her weight. When things get frisky, I just don’t have it in me. Part of me thinks the attraction can grow, but the other half wants to move on and try to find someone where my initial primal attraction is there from the get. I do think we would be a good couple though, so I’m conflicted. Curious what rs redditors think about this.

My girlfriend and I have been together for almost 4 years now. Since the beginning of our relationship she's had some trouble with her self image. It didn't really bother me then and I always thought that she just needed a little more encouragement to realize that there is nothing wrong with her. I'm her first boyfriend so that especially made me think that it was just something that could improve over time now that she had someone in her life that would give her a lot of compliments about her appearance etc. (This is kind of how it went with my previous girlfriend). But that hasn't been the case.
She has sometimes told me that her self image changed because of me, but that doesn't show in her actions. She often lets me know that she's insecure about her appearance and she can quickly get jealous or angry at other people because they have a "revealing" profile picture or something. You can really tell that the only reason behind that is because she believes they are prettier than her and that she's jealous that she doesn't look like that. She often calls them sluts or attention seekers because of it. I really don't know what to say to her in those situations because I know that if I tell her that I think that somebody like that is good looking or something, she's gonna get very mad, so I just say she's right, while I don't always believe that.
Her insecurity is also mostly revolved around her boobs. And that's where it gets a bit difficult. I love her very much and I really think she is good looking, but I also don't like them that much. So when she asks me if I think that they are good looking I have to lie about it and it makes me feel very sad and frustrated.
It's not a big deal-breaker for me, but the truth is that I have seen much better looking boobs than hers and that I don't particularly think that hers are the best.
Anyway, as I said, I don't really have a problem with that. I believe that things like this are a preference (maybe she thinks something similar about me, who knows), but that these aren't things that people should or have to break up over. It is just that her insecurity almost seems to be growing at this point, despite the fact that I really do make an effort to let her know how pretty she is (the rest of her body is gorgeous, so that's not really difficult).
I don't think she knows or thinks that I'm not honest about her boobs, so I don't know what to do anymore. She's considering therapy, but I don't know if she's gonna go trough with that or not. I just feel like I can't do more for her than what I'm doing now. Meanwhile I'm beating myself up over the fact that I don't really love her boobs that much.
Do I tell her the truth about that? Could I help her more with her insecurity? Do I break up with her because she deserves a better boyfriend?
Please help me out.

I am looking to buy some ethically made key pieces, and I was searching for some ethically made bodysuits, preferably made mostly of organic cotton. I am new to ethical brands and I don't know many, I was searching online and I found this: https://wearpact.com/women/underweabodysuits/everyday%20tank%20bodysuit/wa1-wdy-blk but based on the pictures I worry that it would flatten my boobs and emphasise my lower belly.
Do you have any everyday bodysuit or form-fitting top recommendations that provide some waist emphasis and look good on a small chest?
Very specifically, what I am looking for ideally:

• ethically made
• ships to the UK
• waist emphasis without squashing small boobs
• not so low-cut that the boobs are showing
• simple, minimalist feminine style
• made of mostly natural materials, if possible.

I know that's a lot to ask for but any recommendations are much appreciated.

Opened a bunch of RA02 and LEDE recently so I’m looking to send a bunch of shiny cardboard off to a new home! Asking 85% TCGPlayer lowest verified for singles (plus PayPal fees). Shipping is $1 for PWE, $5 for tracking, free tracking over $40. Orders ship as early as tomorrow afternoon.
Plat Secrets have a slight misprint - the foil stamp in the bottom right corner is misaligned. I’m not sure how common this misprint is so I’m open to offers!
As always, I’m happy to answer any questions/provide additional pictures of cards.
THE GOODS:
QCRs: https://imgur.com/a/j7pv799
PURs & PCRs: https://imgur.com/a/GqmbsNg
Misprint Plat ScRs: https://imgur.com/a/UUiWelJ
ScUSR: https://imgur.com/a/Te9QDrp
Binder: https://imgur.com/a/7Pu3FuY
LIST:
• Borrelend Dragon (QCR)
• T.G. Hyper Librarian (QCR)
• Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon (PScR or higher)
• PSY-Framelord Omega (PScR or higher)
• Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (PScR or higher)
• 3x Lightsworn Dragonling
• Punishment Dragon
• Minerva, the Athenian Lightsworn
• Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times
• 3x Santa Claws
• Thunder Dragon core
GONE TO A NEW HOME:

• How old are you? What's your gender? Give us a general description of yourself.
-I am a 17 year old male from England and I’m currently studying philosophy, sociology and ancient history at college.
• Is there a medical diagnosis that may impact your mental stability somehow?
-I was diagnosed with autism at age 12.
• Describe your upbringing. Did it have any kind of religious or structured influence? How did you respond to it?
-I am an only child and lived in a secular family consisting of just me, my mum and my dad. Both of them were very laid back regarding discipline. One thing that could be said is that they gave me too much unconditional love, especially my mother. This, in turn, resulted in them not really teaching me important life skills and independence for fear of putting me in harms way. Thus, in the past 2 years I’ve had a bit of an awaking and have become hyper independent to remedy the lack of life skills and lessons taught during my early childhood.
• What do you do as a job or as a career (if you have one)? Do you like it? Why or why not?
-My ideal employment, realistically, would be a teacher. I really like the idea of taking on a task and being able to enforce original methods to attain the best possible results. That process is the general principle behind a lot of my interests and teaching is a job where it is present.
• If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?
-I Would feel refreshed. I get really tired when I’m around people. I think that may come from the fact that I tend to put on an act when I’m interacting with others in order to make them like me. This is a favourable result as the more people you are on good terms with, the more likely they are to be a potential asset to your life as opposed to a possible hinderance.
• What kinds of activities do you prefer? Do you like, and are you good at sports? Do you enjoy any other outdoor or indoor activities?
-I enjoy topics that are synthesised with progressing my main goal(s). For example, I enjoy learning about mbti because it is a component of my main goal to understand myself and thus can help me achieve happiness more effectively as I believe this is the main assignment of life.
• How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?
-I would consider my pursuits of curiosity to be loosely filtered through what may be useful to attaining a personal goal and I don’t often get carried away with ideas that have no overall importance to it. I say loosely because I can’t be certain what will be of importance to my pursuits, so for this reason I sometimes stray a from things that I know will be personally beneficial in the long term for things that could be useful, by virtue of the interconnectedness of everything.
• Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it? What would your leadership style be?
-I would really like to take on a leadership position. I think I would be good at figuring out solutions and assigning them to people based on an overall objective. However I do not think I’d be very good at leadership in practice. This is because I’m not very quick at making decisions. Thus, my leadership style would be less about leadership and more being a personal adviser to members of a team to ensure they are all going in the same direction.
• Are you coordinated? Why do you feel as if you are or are not? Do you enjoy working with your hands in some form? Describe your activity?
-I don’t feel as though I’m very physically coordinated. I often have to focus on my environment and my movement at the expense of deeper thought. I’ve never really resonated with the popular notion that walks are therapeutic and thought provoking. For me, they are stressful and prohibit any other thoughts than the ones related to keeping my movement and environment in check.
• Are you artistic? If yes, describe your art? If you are not particular artistic but can appreciate art please likewise describe what forums of art you enjoy. Please explain your answer.
-I enjoy art that operates under the pretence that art is a language. I like art that communicates meaning. The reason why I like this type of art at all when it just seems like, if communication is the primary source of my investment, I should just focus on objective language rather than something as convoluted and prone to misinterpretation as art. To this I say, art elicits emotion and creates an immediate reason to care about the message. Thus, making the point carry to greater extent.
• What's your opinion about the past, present, and future? How do you deal with them?
-Most of my time is devoted to figuring out how to get to a desirable destination in the future. By the same token, the present is also very important to me as it is paramount to the aforementioned goal. The past is the timeframe I spend the least time thinking about when I’m happy. It’s not that I don’t consciously recognise it’s value in being a possible example for the future, it’s just not something I have a propensity to think about. I really only dwell on the past when I’m feeling down.
• How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?
-My main reason for helping someone echoes an above mentioned sentiment. I would really only help someone to build good will with them, because it lowers the chances they will be a destructive force in your life. Moreover, they are indebted to you for a time which is always handy.
• Do you need logical consistency in your life?
-The primary system of logic I use is what has utility to achieving a goal. I’m not too bothered about logic for logics sake. I don’t live in the details of subjects and thus don’t care about the underlying logic, just what has the most personal utility.
• How important is efficiency and productivity to you?
-They are both really important to me. I like to see results. I always feel unfulfilled by the notion; I probably could achieve x and therefore there’s no point in doing y. I might switch to this mindset if I’m burned out as a coping mechanism for me not being able to express my desire to be productive. But that just emphasises it’s importance to me if I’m willing to change my beliefs to avoid the sadness brought about by unproductivity.
• Do you control others, even if indirectly? How and why do you do that?
-I control others implicitly by acting overly polite and sometimes resort to people pleasing to gain favour with them. This helps with the fact that I’m pretty dependent on what others think of me and their perceptions of me often supersede or coexist with my own beliefs and observations about myself, even if I can logically reason reason them to be erroneous judgements.
• What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?
-As mentioned in the desired career question, I enjoy hobbies that revolve around implementing original strategies to attain a desirable outcome. Because of this, I enjoy strategy games such total war and chess. once again, as mentioned previously another reason why I enjoy some hobbies is because they contribute to a larger goal. Such as my interest for mbti because, it allows me to understand myself, so I know how best to attain happiness and in turn, fulfil what I consider to be the primary objective of life in its most general form.
• What is your learning style? What kind of learning environments do you struggle with most? Why do you like/struggle with these learning styles? Do you prefer classes involving memorization, logic, creativity, or your physical senses?

• I get along fine with the typical learning environment of a classroom lecture. So long as the teacher is charismatic I can let my mind put on a stage performance of what’s being said and I tend to remember those quite well as my it forces me to filter everything through my own perceptions which results in personal meaning being attached to them and thus increases the likelihood I’ll remember the content of the lesson. However, I dislike when you are made to do an abundance of preselected and linear worksheets. I just like making notes with loads of arrows connecting everything. This helps me remember stuff because it displays how it’s all relevant to a bigger concept and doesn’t allow for stuff that isn’t connected to be written down so it filters out unimportant stuff.

• How good are you at strategizing? Do you easily break up projects into manageable tasks? Or do you have a tendency to wing projects and improvise as you go?
-I prefer to have a plan before action. I like to feel as though most things have been decided beforehand and I’m just reading off a to do list written by past me.
• What are your aspirations in life, professionally and personally?
-My professional aspirations are a means to an end. I want to get a job that I enjoy, is stable and provides an income, in the hope that I can stop thinking so much about it and can focus on the more personal aspects of life. Like figuring out how best to achieve happiness after I’ve stabilised my external life.
• What are your fears? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you hate? Why?
-I really fear upsetting people. Partly because I’m scared of how they will react. Especially in ways that could de-stabilise my life. Moreover, as I mentioned previously, I unfortunately have a propensity to need gratification from others and if I upset people I might begin to feel insecure in myself. A lot of what I do can be chalked up to an attempt to attain the admiration of others. I also fear not being able to make my plans and goals come into fruition.
• What do the "highs" in your life look like?
-The highs in my life often involve a dedication to a goal that gets me up every day. I’ll constantly be excited to get one step closer to achieving it. The goal when I’m happy revolves around a more thought out desire for the long term. Furthermore, this is accompanied by a disregard for the appearance of things. In these times I just focus on the character of things and perceive things through a lenses of principles and ideas. Moreover, the type of gratification I seek revolves around my capacity to think.
• What do the "lows" in your life look like?
-By contrast, my lows are aimless at best and destructive at worst. When Im considering the future in these moments I tend to forget about happiness and in turn have a bleak outlook on the future. This leads me to being generally quite unproductive. My gratification seeking becomes much more shallow aswell. It tends to revolve more around appearance and wanting others to view me as attractive. As a result of this I developed anorexia as a byproduct of trying to look more attractive in a period of stress. Moreover, it gave me something to control as I feel an excessive need to do this when I’m stressed.
• How attached are you to reality? Do you daydream often, or do you pay attention to what's around you? If you do daydream, are you aware of your surroundings while you do so?
-I do daydream, Though not as much as I used to. When I daydream it’s usually to test how something I wish to do might go if I were to do it.
• Imagine you are alone in a blank, empty room. There is nothing for you to do and no one to talk to. What do you think about?
-I would consider the main reason for my beliefs again and make updates to it that would eventually trickle down to actionable changes. If I didn’t manage to find any faults in my beliefs and principles of conduct I would keep my goal the same and think about things I could do to achieve it.
• How long do you take to make an important decision? And do you change your mind once you've made it?
-It usually takes me a little while to come to a decision, particularly if it has long term consequences, as I like to look at the external factors and see if they would suit me internally and/or if it would be beneficial to me in the future. Once I’ve come to a decision on a matter, ideologically I think it is best to stick to it because you can maximise the benefits that a particular path can provide. However, if the evidence changes and it contradicts the original reason for making the decision I will change my mind.
• How long do you take to process your emotions? How important are emotions in your life?
-It usually takes me a while to figure out my emotions. They often appear feint and undefined even though I know there’s something there. When I felt really down for months I couldn’t seem to validate my own emotions. To remedy this I tried to keep a journal collecting statistics including whether I cried, how many times? For how long? Have you self harmed in any way? this created a picture from which I could derive a conclusion. However, I have recently begun to value emotions much more than I did. Previously, I would’ve consciously neglected them. However, ever since I developed anorexia and had a really long period of time where I felt negative emotions I realise how powerful they are and how they must be utilised in your favour otherwise life wouldn’t be worth living.
• Do you ever catch yourself agreeing with others just to appease them and keep the conversation going? How often? Why?
-This is something I do quite often with people I’m not acquainted with, as I value the utility of a social connection more than convincing a few people of my beliefs. However, it happens less with people who I know well enough to comfortably make the assertion that an ideological disagreement wouldn’t jeopardise the relationship.
• Do you break rules often? Do you think authority should be challenged, or that they know better? If you do break rules, why?
-I avoid rule breaking that could lead to excessive repercussions. Since I purvey my conduct with the main intention of long term personal fulfilment some consequences that impede this mean that I generally obey rules. However if the consequences are avoidable and/or inconsequential I have no problem breaking those rules. Like cheating in exams for example.