What is a cute thing i can post on my boyfriends wall

You can check my post history to see the full story, but my WP had a ONS in Vegas and now, we are starting to reconcile. (So I changed my flair! Haha)
So Saturday night, I was just feeling so, so alone. We spent every weekend together for 3.5 years and this change has been just heartbreaking. I found out I was pregnant days prior and told him over text, and he was onboard with me terminating. Right now is not the right time, especially if we want to fix this relationship.
So at 1am, I called him and he answered. We spoke from 1am to 4:30am. We talked about our entire relationship, how we feel, and just everything really. We sobbed and we laughed and it gave me hope. We briefly touched on the ONS without detail, I just needed some answers to burning questions. We agreed that we will go over that night while in CC so there is a mediator.
But gosh, it was so good to hear his voice. He was so happy to hear mine. He told me he started journaling, and was cuddling with my Snuggie/robe thing at night to help him sleep, because it smells like me. He’d say goodnight to me in his journal. I don’t know why, but that broke my heart and fixed it at the same time.
He apologized again, and this is the first time in our relationship that we were completely honest with each other. It was terrifying, and hard, but it felt good. We realized we cannot protect each other from hard emotions in order to preserve our image of each other (if that makes sense?) we realized that we would get caught up with the good things and just sweep any negative thing under the rug, big or small.
He showed me everything he needed to show me, without me asking. Apps deleted, people blocked, everything. Told me his plans on how to change his life and change himself to be the man I deserve. And I believe him. And I forgave him.
I told him that he has to do the work (self reflection, IC) in order for us to work. He has no choice if he wants me back. He agreed, and I said I will meet him halfway so I can be good for him too. He’s showed me his booked appointments, I showed him mine.
I told him I still can’t see him in person yet, because that will be way too much and he respects that. We are still low contact but we did text a bit last night, I just wanted to thank him for his honesty.
I was worried about calling him, because I was scared about how I would feel. Anger? Resentment? Complete apathy? But I felt none of those in the moment. Once I heard his voice, I knew it will be worth it to give R a try. This was step one.
I don’t know what the future looks like yet, but I am cautiously optimistic. What I do know is that I love this man, and that we are both willing to do the work.
Together or not, I just want both of us to feel happy and secure with ourselves.
Thanks for reading 💛

Posting this just because I’m curious what you guys think: is my coworker in a relationship yes or no.
Around 2 years ago my coworker joined the company where I was already working. I’m part of a supporting department and due to his function we work closely together. We go along really well and in the past months this developed into a lot of flirting, texting outside of work, going to have some drinks on Fridays after work together etc. We’ve kissed on 3 different occasions, the last time being around 6 weeks ago.
From the beginning he always stated he was single. When we got closer he told me some things about his previous relationship with his ex. She is still part of his friendgroup. Around February I ran into him on a night out and we were just having a casual chat when his ex interrupted to have a talk with him. She turned to me and said: “oh I’m sorry, my boyfriend is really drunk” referring to him. As far as I know she has no idea who I am or that we work together. He later apologized for her behavior and said that she did this more often when he was talking to other women. I found it a bit strange but whatever.
In April we were at the same festival and when his ex was around he asked me to not approach him to avoid drama. During the festival we kissed twice and he did efforts to meet up with me.
Recently I fell ill and I’m on sick leave as of the beginning of this month. Therefore I haven’t spoken much to him.
Today he posted pictures from a city that he is visiting on a worktrip. His ex commented something like: “oh almost as nice as our trip to X❤️” This made me wonder: what if she is not his ex and that he is actually in a relationship.
What do you think?

This will mostl likely be my last attempt in trying to find someone for awhile. * Do Not message me just to ghost or block me! Think it through before you message me!! I don't want to get emotionally hurt again.*
Greetings future partner ❤️ I'm still searching for you. I have to be honest and say that I am losing hope trying to find you.Please be somewhere. I want my search for a partner to be over. I'm seeking adventure in my life with someone I can call a forever partner. I'm tired of the loneliness and the sheltered lifestyle that I've lived. It would mean a lot of you could read through this post so that I could make sure we are compatible. Even if we start off as friends that would be fine.
Here's to new beginnings and new connections. PLEASE make sure you READ through the WHOLE POST also please be respectful when messaging me * *If you're the type to be impatient, block, or ghost easily, then save both of us the trouble and DO NOT message me! I'm not trying to come off as mean but I'd much rather you not message me if you're the type of person to do that. If something isn't working just let me know. We're all adults.
Greetings, I am seeking a long term relationship monogamous with the end goal being matrimony. I am not one for playing around and being used casually as it doesn’t suit me personally. Ideally I'd prefer a man that has his life already in place so that I can be able to share life with him and for him to take care of me. I would expect my future man to have a fiscally stable job and be able to support me and our future family. I wouldn’t be opposed to being a housewife. There are few reasons why I would like to work or work part time: 1) Being abandoned with nothing, 2) I want to feel fulfilled and not bored. Happy to discuss possible dynamics, I'm flexible. I would love a synergistic partnership where we are both able to mold our minds and fill our hearts with warm affection. I will be there to support you throughout your journey and celebrate every moment with you. I want you to be proud of you just as you are with me. I want to show you that you are truly cared for and appreciated by gestures of love such as massages and other forms of entertainment. I would expect the same from you as well. Even if we are both working adults we can still make our relationship work in the best way possible. I have seen this come out well for people who are dedicated and willing to make their relationships work. For a strong relationship to occur I would expect effective (transparent) communication from you. If you are going to be busy just be honest and let me know you won’t be able to talk to me.Also, if you need your space both mentally and physically let me know. I understand that we all have our lives to attend to but it is incredibly important for people in a relationship to be transparent when circumstances arise in a timely manner in order to avoid future conflict. If this relationship isn’t going to work I would expect you to tell me and not ghost or block me before giving me a reason why. We are all adults so I would expect nothing but maturity. Starting out I don’t want the pressure of sex to be pushed onto me. I’d rather let time tell in all of its glory.
Now onto my true introduction
My name is Angie and I'm from Georgia in the United States. I've been lonely for quite some time and find it hard to find a soulmate in IRL. What I'm looking for is someone who I can connect with and have wholesome conversations with. I want to be able to treat my future soulmate well just as much as they do me. The biggest part of a long lasting relationship is the ability to communicate openly without worry. I'd love it if my significant other has a dark sense of humor and continues to crack me up non-stop. As cheesy as it may sound I long for those late night calls and cute texts. I want for us to drive out the very best in each other; become our support system. A little bit about me is that I grew up in Florida and not too long ago moved to Georgia. I'm currently in college to become an RN but I'm also passionate about cosmetic chemistry and nutrition so I may seek to build my own business in the future. I'm passionate about science and theoretical applications especially within the medical field. I'd appreciate it if my partner is open minded about varying topics and welcomes healthy conversations. Appearance wise I'm open to seeing if we have a connection and feel as long as you are well groomed and practice basic hygiene you are good. Although, I must say that attraction is key in a relationship so I will have to go off on that as well. To add on, I enjoy playing video games, exercising (I've been slacking off lately), cooking and baking (vegan), playing board games, reading, exploring nature, playing sports (basketball and soccer) for fun, and trying new experiences. I hope to save up and travel someday. It would be nice for my partner to be able to set up our travel itinerary.
My Physical Description:
I am a black woman who’s twenty five years old (almost 26 in December) with Afro-Carribean, Japanese and Swedish ancestry. I’d still consider myself black presenting since that’s more along the lines of what I appear as phenotypically. I have dark brown curly hair (Mainly 3c type curls) and brown eyes. I am 5 '4 on the thicker spectrum (not at all obese but thick boned and have thunder thighs). I am trying to exercise more to become fit. I used to weight lift when I was younger but since then have lost lean muscle mass. Having a partner that is willing to work out together sometimes is rather rewarding. A man who has drive and appeal is incredibly sexy. I would also like to point out that I am curvy and noticeable in certain aspects (I’ll leave it up to you to decide).
*You have to be MINIMUM 21 to date me *
If distance is an issue and you aren't willing to commit then DON'T MESSAGE ME!!
If you will be too busy to pursue a relationship then DO NOT contact me!! * *Again, No ghosters or blockers!! Seeking a person who seeks a relationship with God and/or is open to one MUST be free from venerial diseases (must be willing to get tested) Bonus points if you're vegan Ideally I would like someone that is taller than me (I’m 5’4) I prefer a man that is fit or trying to be. I'd prefer someone who is fiscally stable and able to support the both of us* A big red flag for me is smokers. It isn't good for your health nor is it sexy to me.* It's important for me to point out that I want children in the future and need someone who may want that as well. If you're interested in how I look and want to know more about me, message me. Although I don’t make it a huge deal, I do prefer White and East Asian men. But I do love all types of men and welcome them. As stated before I emphasize communication and would prefer you to be honest and say if something is wrong instead of ghosting or blocking without stating the reason. Fair warning if I can be socially awkward sometimes and don't know what to talk about so please be patient with me as I'm learning to be better conversation wise

I’ll try to be concise.
I have played the game for 1000 hours now, starting around June ‘23. I have seen the game in many different states and have very critically analyzed the game at all points. Today, I have mostly lost interest in playing since GBMM and multiclassing first came about. Although the latter is gone, the game feels very empty to me and I can’t find the enthusiasm to play it lately over other games, which is unusual, as this has happened before but normally a week or two off gets me instantly re-hooked. I think there’s something wrong and I want to figure out as a community if others feel the same.
I’ve talked to a lot of people in various discords to get some impressions of how we feel. Below are some things I’ve started to consider, while I could add a lot of context as to my personal arcs and opinions of these systems, I’ll save that for discussion.

1. Marketplace - is it actually worth it?

I initially didn’t like the idea, but came around to it because of the convenience and the ease of selling and buying. I wanted to keep original trade, but changed my mind. However, this system has had an insane subtle impact on this game, and I’m wondering if we might need to let it go for something else. I could go on about all the shit this has changed, but the short version is infinite stock of good loot led to it being very common for any player to have really good stuff on demand well stocked, and it’s changed the economy and looting system immensely. Is it actually worth it, or might the game be better without?

1. Matchmaking - have these been truly better for the game than random chance?

I’ve never liked any of the systems they’ve come up with for this yet, but some people do. However, these have a cost - changing the way players interact with the game significantly. I’m sure many of you can explain all of pros and cons of this, but the pros need to be really good to keep up with the cons. Could these systems we’ve tried work, are they only weak because of marketplace? Or do we need to get rid of them or replace with something better. I personally would like to see a 3-4 tier system based on kills like hunt showdown with tweaks to increase relevance to dnd.
Feel free to respond to the post with ideas about the two systems I’m most interested in at this moment, but also if you have other ideas of the problem, please share clearly what system you think might need the most attention, either by removing it or tweaking, reworking etc.

I made some good decisions along the way and I don't want to go into them suffice to say I came from a bad place and now own a few properties, work in IT and have a nice life. I am 53 and my wife is a few years older. I am in great shape and walk 250 miles a month. My wife not as good of shape and has had cancer. We have been together 25+ years and are very happy. We don't have kids and neither of us are close with our families. Both of us have traveled a lot and speak multiple languages. We have a nice home in Florida in a desirable and upper middle-class area. We also have a home outside the US where we can spend the summers. We both are altruistic and do a few things internationally. I work remotely for an incredible company, in a stress free 30 hour a week 6 figure job. They are supportive of my travels and charity work and will literally help me relocate anywhere in the world I would like through some international affiliates. I am bored of Florida but its nice for a lot of the year, we need to live somewhere in the US and the beaches are lovely. We looked all over the US (we lived in multiple states before coming to Florida) and all things considered, we cannot find a better place than where we are, especially knowing we can spend the warm parts of the year in a nice climate. So I feel like I have been preparing for this moment in my life for 30 years. I am committed to Florida, I like the other place we live too (sorry to be vague). I know I do things to make the world a better place but..............
I have so much now and the opportunity to do anything I want and go anywhere I want. I need to ensure I make the right decisions and maximize this opportunity. I don't feel like living this life for the next 10-15 years is really the best idea.
I am casting a very wide net here and I know this does not sound like I really have a problem. Hearing what you heard, please know this is not some BS post, it is 100% real, and I really would like advice from others of what they would do with their lives from here on out if they were in the same position. I want to make the world a better place and continue to give my life purpose but I also want to enjoy it more than I do now as I don't do many fun things at all and have few hobbies. Thank you for reading and I appreciate your response.

TLDR; This guy I don’t really know clearly has feelings for me. He seems sweet but I’m hesitant because I’m trans and his parents are apparently conservative. Guy is also trying a bit too hard and recently tried to impress me by potentially lying about being a fan of theater.
Heya, so I’m curious to see what people’s thoughts are on a little… situation I’m in. I (transmasc Junior) realized recently that a classmate (male Junior) almost certainly has feelings for me. I’ll call him “Kay” for now. Let me explain.
In my 6th period, I don’t really interact with people much. I’m certainly not shy, but it’s one of those core classes that has a mix of everyone and non of your usual crowd, so you end up struggling to make friends. Theres this small group of guys that I get along fairly well with, they’re accepting of my identity, really chill, and just the kind of dorks that I love surrounding myself with. Because I’ve always sorta had those four, I’ve never breached out to the rest of the class. Which is why it was unusual when another guy (who istg I had NEVER interacted with) approached me while we were changing seats for assigned groups and suddenly said hi. This is Kay.
It was a simple greeting and I thought nothing of it. I asked if he was in my assigned group, and he didn’t really respond and awkwardly shuffled away. Alright, a little weird, but nothing harmful and I forgot about it.
Two days later, the whole class is waiting outside for our teacher to show up and open the door. Kay suddenly approaches me and asked how I was. Reminder that I DON’T KNOW THIS GUY. I didn’t even know his NAME until a week after our first interaction when I overheard the teacher call him. He knew mine though, and I ended up feeling ridiculously guilty for it for that week I was trying to figure out what was happening.
Anyway, I digress.
When he asked me how I was, I was honest and told him I was looking forward to going home because of how tired I was from rehearsals. He asks about what I was rehearsing for, and I explained that I’m in my theater classes’s final show where we host it entirely on our own. But because of how little time we were given, we’ve been hauling ass with rehearsals that last from right after school until 7:30 at night. Then he did something that no one has ever done to me before:
He asked me to save him a ticket. He WANTED to go to this play I was in. No one besides immediate family ever wanted to go to a production I was in. Like… fuck, okay, if that isn’t a sign, I don’t know what is. I told him that I’d let him know when tickets went live.
Flash forward to that following Monday, our teacher spontaneously decided to change up the seating layout in her classroom and told people to sit wherever they wanted that day. I took a random seat and Kay sits, not next to me, but like a table over. I guess trying to not be too obvious? But then he hits me with this ringer “Hey Evan! How was your weekend” It was alright “Did you go to prom?” (Prom was that previous weekend)
Woah.
Now that felt like he just asked me if I was single.
So I tell him “Nah, not this year. But I will next year, for sure.”
His response? “Oh! Well, if you’re not going with anyone, maybe we could go together next year?” Then followed by the quick backtrack of: “As friends!”
Oh. Oh he is stupid. But it’s a kind of cute stupid that I don’t actually mind all that much. It’s sort of endearing how silly it is.
We don’t interact too much after that, I would note that during a class debate where we were split into two teams, he and I happened to be on the same team. Really, I was the only one on my team debating (and, not to brag, but to totally I won my team the debate and I was arguing the opposite of what I actually believed in), but he was the only one who tried to pitch in. Now what he said was out of pocket and didn’t match the stance I was going with at all, but it was sweet how he tried to help. He even leaned over after everything was said and done and thanked for winning the debate for my team.
Really, he seems sweet, but I barely know him. All I know is that he’s in the Medical Technology classes (based on how he wears scrubs once in a while) and apparently plays Call of Duty because he asked if I played. I might download it, just in case he asks again. I’m not the type to fall head over heels quickly. It takes me time. Especially as a trans guy who needs to be careful who they befriend and date because I never know what someone’s opinions of me or my identity is. Or if they even realize I am trans. I dress rather androgynous, leaning towards masculine, and my hair goes down to my collar bone in a sort of wolf-cut mullet thing. I’m short. I don’t passes very well, a lot of people tend to think I am just a bit androgynous rather than transmasc. I should be starting hormone replacement therapy later this summer, but this guy doesn’t know that. Sure I’m not traditionally feminine in the slightest and he has to be okay with that if he’s got a thing for me now. But does he know to what extent that goes? Is he just hoping for a tomboy girlfriend and not a boyfriend? Fuck, man, I don’t know.
With Kay, I’m particularly concerned because when I brought this up in my Theater class, I got two different responses which were not… great. One of my classmates literally squealed “EW!” because apparently he wasn’t a great guy in middle school. But I’m willing to see past that since that was 3+ years ago. People change and middle school tends to bring out the worst in everyone (middle schoolers are VICIOUS). But then my teacher had this sort of “Oh no…” kind of look. She explained that he’s a sweet guy, but his family is also extremely conservative. However, his older brother is apparently gay, so there’s that. Does he take after his brother or his parents? I genuinely have no clue, but I am praying to whatever got that is out there that he’s the former.
So yeah. Terrified of giving this guy a chance. I’m not disinterested, I want to give it a chance, get to know him before deciding how I feel because I literally have no way of knowing until we can have actual conversations beyond “how was your day?”
Then there’s today. We had another short “how are you” conversation and I told him I was stressed (again, because of my show), and he laid it on heavy that he was hoping to go, and I told him “Yeah! I remember you asking me to save you a ticket, but I’m not confident in its quality right now. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a theater production, but if you haven’t I wouldn’t want this one to be your first.”
He responds with: “Oh no, it’s not my first time, I’ve seen Hamilton and the nutcracker and stuff like that. I like theater.”
I was so excited at first because I thought he genuinely had an interest in Theater, but then a minute later I realized we saw both of those shows in our history class: one was Hamilton on Disney+ and we watched it when we were learning about the Revolution and what not, the other was when we saw a Ballet troupe perform the Nutcracker in our theater because our teacher was a guest dancer in it.
This. Mother fucker. Pretty much lied to my face to impress me. I don’t know if I should feel flattered that he’s trying so hard or insulted that he thought I’d fall for it.
I don’t even know how I feel. I almost want to just call him out and tell him to just ask for my number instead of trying to be someone he’s not to impress me. I might just do that. I’ll think about it.
Anywho, give me your thoughts on the situation. I’m at a loss, and tbh, my friends aren’t being the most helpful. Meanwhile my mom is telling me to play hard to get, which just feels cruel considering how hard he’s already trying.

My Hello, I (F25) and my bf (23) have been together for like 3 years. I would like to talk about myself a bit first. I'm not very outgoing person and not very good at socializing either. My boyfriend brought me almost everywhere to hang out with his friend group which included one guy and one girl beside my bf. They've known each other since high school. I hang out with them occassionally along with my bf but I don't talk to them that much. Let's just name my bf's guyfriend "John". John always tries to find a way to start a conservation with me, he notices whenever I left behind when we were at Zoo or smth like that. John also checks me up on my IG stories pretty quick like he's the first one to see what I post on my IG. I saw him staring at me in the way that he is in love with me whenever i tried to do something in front of him like petting his friend or talking. He always asks my bf what I'm up to, like with my school and other work stuffs. I tried to start a conversation with my bf about this issue and my bf seemed to just avoid talking about this by just responding "Mmm". My bf just told me that "Don't worry! You're not his type". This is the only thing my bf said to me about this matter. Also I feel like my bf tried to show his affection towards me more when it was only I, my bf and John hanging out. And then I saw John looking right at me whenever my bf was trying to remove the hair from my face or wiping the food around mouth. I just want to know whether I am overthinking or there is something going on. Thank You. Any advices would be appreciated.

I just joined reddit to write this post and I don't expect people to comment, I just wanted someplace to post about my feelings. I am sorry if my english isn't the best it's not my native language. TLDR: a former friend of mine abused me and my girlfriend psychologically and lied to me for about 6 years. Now everything escalated, the "friendship" ended and I regret texting him a very awful message.
I (20f), my girlfriend(20f) had a friend (19m) who we knew around 6 to 7 years. We went to school together and did everything together, on almost a daily basis. After school, 2 years ago we started mostly talking over discord with him because of college/work and last year everything changed. He started ignoring us most the time, we just thought he was stressed because of work but he ignored us for multiple weeks on end. We decided to talk to him about it and even offered him to just text us once on the weekend or something. But the more we tried to understand the more he ignored us, if we would ask him if he wants to go out he answered with "no" nor did he want to speak to us. Other people would probably just get over him but both us didn't want to lose the friendship until now. Last month he just started telling us that he doesn't care about our friendship and I kinda understood (as far as you can, in that situation) and I mentally gave that friendship up, because of his actions. My girlfriend wanted to continue the friendship and offered him a compromise, he can just meet up with us once in 2 months and he accepted it. Forwarding to a few days ago he just blocked us everywhere, except WhatsApp which baffled us, because he told us that he will not leave without saying a word. Before I continue I have to mention that I went through a toxic friendship that lasted 12 years and he knows about that. My girlfriend called him and later told me what he said because he didn't want to talk to me. In short, he blames me for everything because he jealous of me because I got together with my girlfriend and he seemingly had a crush on her for 4 years. Non of us knew that and we would never think about that because all he talked about was being gay and in love with every dude who talks to him. The effect of that jealousy was that he started to hate me and told her that he never saw our "friendship" as a friendship. I was so hurt, because he didn't even tell me himself and not only that, but he also hurt and used my girlfriend. I just cannot forgive him and I hate him so much. He deliberately did the same things my former best friend did to me to get me to end the friendship. And he begged my girlfriend to stay friends with him, luckily she is not stupid and said that she never wants to see him again. I on the other hand couldn't talk to him, he refused to talk to me and started telling my girlfriend that he is going to maybe explain on a short message what he felt but not really and before I get the opportunity to answer him he'll block me. And the whole situation made me feel like a burden and absolute horrible human being I just started to hate him even more and out of anger and disappointment I wrote him a very horrible message and blocked him and I don't really feel bad about it. And of course he had to complain about that to my girlfriend that via text and told her if she agrees on anything in that message she should just block him, which she did. That whole situation messed with my mental and I am even more scared that people around me secretly hate me. As bad as it sounds but I hope that men will never find happiness for what he did, not only to me but multiple people. I just wanted to get that off my chest and I hope I will never get hurt that badly again in my life. I hope the post ist coherent and in some way understandable.

Long time cabinetmakefinisher carpenter. Got a call from a GC I was referred to, he needed someone to install a flat pack IKEA kitchen short notice, this week. 22 boxes to be assembled and installed with crown, was offering $2100, this is in So Ca. Now I’m busy with my own work for clients I have which means I would have to set aside that work and go do the kitchen job putting my own clients on the back burner. I really don’t need the job, but I will help someone out if they’re in a bind but you need to make it with my while too. I countered with $2500, I have to travel an hour and a half each direction in traffic to get the location, I have a diesel van and the diesel is just under five dollars a gallon. Since I haven’t seen the job, no clue as to what condition the walls are in whether they plumb floor level or even straight I’ve seen it all and that can greatly affect the install time with Euro style cabinets. He counter $2200 and that it shouldn’t take that long, a guy can assemble and install six a day so it shouldn’t take me more than four days to do. That’s fine if everything goes well, but again he’s asking me to drop my clients to help him out to get his job done on time. I said take it or leave it, I don’t need to sit in three hours traffic to go to a job when I can do the same thing in my shop and make the same amount of money. Again, am I wrong here?

So, I just got through watching One Piece and I have a few theories. To be honest, I haven’t looked to deep into what's already out there, besides just clarifying some facts for myself online so feel free to show me some things that I have missed. It’s possible some of this is already circulating around. I really just want to try and put my ramblings into one place. Spoilers for One Piece!
Ok, so there's a few separate theories to this but most of it has to do with Blackbeard and his motivations. One thing I find interesting is that Blackbeard, even since he was a part of Whitebeards crew, has been looking for very strong devil fruits and seems to have intimate knowledge of the ones he is seeking. The first one he sought out was the Dark-Dark fruit which among other things seems to be capable of stopping, and possibly stealing other devil fruit powers. One of his crew members, Shiryu, was seen to have the Clear-Clear fruit ability which already belonged to another character. I have to assume he knew about this before he found and acquired this fruit. Which begs the question, why does he know so much about this fruit? He is now able to use that power to steal powers for himself and his crew. We haven't gotten confirmation that the Dark-Dark fruit can do this, but just like a lot of things about this post, I’m going to be assuming that this is the case. In stealing these devil fruit abilities, he has to be very aware of not only what these fruits can do but who is currently using them. Law, in a recent episode, even alludes to the fact that he is hunting down devil fruit users. Now Burgess has the Strong-Strong fruit. Again, where is he getting this information? He obviously knew what Whitebeards devil fruit was capable of from the time he spent with him, and decided that of all the devil fruits he could have, he wanted that ability. Granted, it is an incredibly strong fruit, one worthy of an emperor of the sea, but with his intimate knowledge of devil fruits there had to be a reason Teach went after that one for himself. I think I have a possible answer.
Now this next part, I think is a common theory floating around out there but it is necessary for the rest of what is to come. Teach is one of the only people we have seen have multiple devil fruit abilities. This is crazy enough in itself, but if you notice, he stopped at just the two. Why not just take many devil fruit powers for himself and become the strongest out there? I think it's because he has the Zoan type Cerberus fruit. I mean, his jolly rodger is a Cerberus head. This could possibly make him three beings in one, allowing him to have three devil fruits. A Zoan type Cerberus fruit, a Paramecia fruit in the Quake-Quake fruit, and a Logia in the Dark-Dark fruit. Teach is smart. I think a big part of his motivations led him to intimately knowing about the powers of these three fruits. He knew if he acquired the Cerberus fruit then he could hold three devil fruit abilities and somehow figured out where that fruit was. Then I think he knew that if he joined Whitebeard for long enough he would eventually be led to the Dark-Dark fruit and be able to steal other abilities which were already taken. Then, once he had the opportunity he stole the most important fruit for his purposes, the quake-quake fruit.
Making even more assumptions, we need to look at the ancient weapon Pluton. What we know now is that Pluton is a world ending weapon, specifically a ship that was built a long time ago in Water 7, and that those blueprints were passed down until they reached Franky. We also just found out that it is sunken beneath Wano. Wano is a country that has massive walls built around it. The ancient settlement far below what is now Wano is where the ship actually resides, and those walls would need to be broken to retrieve the ship.
Now we're gonna talk a bit about the World Government. Specifically in regard to the Five Elders. Each one is named in some way after a planet in our solar system. St. Topman Warcury (Mercury), St. Ethan Baron V. Nusjuro (assuming the V. is for Venus), St. Marcus Mars (Mars), St. Shepard Ju Peter (Jupiter), and St. Jaygarcia Saturn (Saturn). The three ancient weapons are the rest of the planets. Uranus, Poseidon (Which the roman name would be Neptune), and Pluton (or Pluto). Poseidon, we know is also a person, Shirahoshi. It would make sense that Uranus and Pluton were also actual, physical people. But Pluton is a ship. However, we have seen before that ships in the One Piece world can have their own spirits, or personas. This has been shown with the Going Merry and the Sunny. The exact lore behind how this happens isnt totally clarified and so I think there are things about it we haven’t been told yet. It's possible that Pluton is not just a magnificent war ship but also holds the spirit of what may have been one of these Elders of the World government. Some kind of all encompassing power that has had major effects on the world in the past.
Now, going back to Blackbeard for a sec, if he does have a Cerberus devil fruit that has more interesting implications. Cerberus is the hound of Hades, the three headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld. Another name for Hades is Pluto. It is very possible that Blackbeard works for this ancient weapon and that with the powers he has acquired, specifically with the quake-quake fruit, he intends to break the walls of Wano and finally release Pluton. He is, afterall, not too far from Wano at this very moment. It is possible that Pluton has been behind all of Blackbeards motives and actions.
Not only that, but Hades, the guardian of the underworld, is in a way the devil himself. I also think that not only is Pluton a person as well as a ship, but he is the original creator of the devil fruits. This might be one way to explain Blackbeards intimate knowledge of so many devil fruits including where to find them. Now, among the celestial bodies of our solar system that I listed, two were not accounted for. That was Earth and the Sun. I think the Sun is obvious to find. Joyboy. Nika the sun god. But then we have Imu, this new character who seems to be the head of it all. Umi, or Imu backwards, in Japanese means “the sea”. The whole world of One Piece is covered in the sea. So Imu could perhaps be our very own home planet, or at least some kind of embodiment of it. Now, if all of these Elder, these god like beings have some kind of dominion over different aspects of the world, then here is the conclusion to my theory.
Pluton and Imu at some point got into a big fight, likely over the creation of devil fruits. Imu took Plutons spirit and sealed him away in this world ending ship and then sunk him to the bottom of the sea, beneath Wano, putting up those walls to keep him there, and then declaring that all devil fruit users would be cursed by the sea, which he rules over.
Anyway, that's just some thoughts I had, but please help me fill in any things I might be missing and let me hear your ideas on all of this!

I haven‘t told any of my friends about this and I just can‘t. It haunts me so much and I just need to share this.
All of us were in quarantine and my mother was affected the most by being tested positive. She has a lot of health complications, but she didn‘t want to go to the hospital because she was afraid she would never leave. It was a very hard time and my father was adamant on never leaving her alone in the room and I hated spending time with her then. I couldn’t stand it and I feel so horrible, but I was only 15.
The same week, the deadline for a school trip that was eventually cancelled approached and my parents didn’t want to let me go. They are very strict and even though I could understand their concerns, I felt like this was another case of „we love you and want to protect you“ where they are just being paranoid and absurd. I begged and pleaded with them to let me go because I couldn’t stand the thought of being left out of another thing my classmates shared with each other. My mom was very tired and sick and she told me she wants what is best for me and that she loves me. I left the living room, locked and slammed my door. I didn’t say I love you back.
I sat on my bed and watched a show where the main character had a fight with her mother and wasn’t speaking with her, and then the episode came on where the protagonist’s grandmother tells her how her last conversation with her son (protagonist’s father) was a stupid fight where she hung up on him. She said that there is no time for hanging up and not speaking in this life.
That night I went to sleep and thought, what if I wake up tomorrow and my mom does not? What If her last words to me were „I love you“ and I met her with silence? It haunts me, I cried that night and I am crying now.
I have a complicated relationship with both my parents and my mom still gets really really sick once a year. It’s hard but I‘ve become kind of numb to it. I‘m sorry if this post isn‘t very coherent.

Hello! I have never used Reddit before, and I wasn't quite sure what to title this post, or what subreddit to put it in.
I have a half sister, and recently it has been bothering me that I do not know anything about her at all. She in is pictures from when I was little, playing with me and my brother, however I do not remember her much but from photos she often played with us. If I had to guess, she was a teenager or in her 20s when I was a toddleyoung child (and now I am in my late teens). My parents have zero contact with her due to an unfortunate situation in which she had stolen from them and other members of my family (I think she was a little bit troubled growing up with a strange environment on her mother's side - she is my Dad's daughter - and it resulted in her doing bad things. I don't think I can fully blame her for much that happened for them to fall out as there are probably two sides to every story, but I know it was very upsetting for my Dad and apparently she was quite nasty to him). Additionally, I know that after everything happened my Dad tried to contact her / keep in contact with her which resulted in very little, and that her mother often tried to manipulate her against him or would not make her aware of his reaching out.
This is honestly all I know of the situation and it troubles me deeply that I know so little. I haven't asked my parents much about it as I know it upsets them (mainly my Dad, I truly cannot remember a time he has every mentioned her name) and that I haven't really cared at all about the fact I have a sister until the past couple of years. It didn't really hit me until around 2021/2022 that I should have a sister and I don't due to things that happened when I was too little to understand, now all I have of her are old photos and the knowledge that we would play hide and seek a lot.
I decided to search from her online a bit after I turned 18, sparked by a boy I knew who's own Dad reached out to tell him on his 18th birthday that he actually had a half brother which made me wonder for some reason why my sister has never reached out to me. When I turned 18 I felt a little as if someone owed it to me, as if she should message me since I'm an adult now. I found her Facebook and Instagram, but she was private on both / had no posts. I only knew it was definitely her as the accounts had the same profile picture and a few of my family members also followed her Instagram account. It shocked me seeing her face, I thought she was beautiful and looked nothing like me (except maybe the eyes) and it felt like there was this whole person that I deserved to know, apart from some photographs, that is now a grown woman. It hit me quite hard after that, like I finally understood she was a real person.
For some clarification, some of my Dad's side of the family are still in contact with her (I am assuming). I didn't know this until I was maybe 15, and my parents didn't exactly know it either. I don't think my Dad was upset his family were in contact and seeing her, more that he was not involved in the process (his family isn't the nicest/it's a weird situation that is too much too unpack here). It happened when we were at a cousin's birthday party and suddenly my parents were extremely uncomfortable, and after an hour or two we got my brother (who was it the other room) and left. Turns out, my Dad's side of the family had invited her to this party without telling him, and she was there in the other room. Sat next to my brother and my Nan, whilst my brother was completely unaware. He had no idea who she was, and none of our family had decided to tell him? That is a specific part I cannot get over.
Anyways. I've just found her LinkedIn profile, and I am honestly desperate to know anything about her as there isn't anything online at all other than her name and a few photos (most of which from the 2010's). The whole situation just upsets me deeply. Why hasn't she reached out at all? I get why she would have reserves, maybe she doesn't want to, but it still hurts me that I have zero connection with her, know nothing about her but her name, because I should have a sister!!! It also makes me angry, because she is a grown woman now and was so much older than me at the time and why would she not want to make me aware of her, and I now constantly find myself dwelling on if she even thinks about me at all.
I know I should ask my parents (probably my Mum) about the whole thing, maybe explain my upset about it, however I am currently at University and I feel like it is more of a face to face conversation. I also do not get to see my Dad's side of the family much at all, and I would really never go to one of them about it as it would feel like a betrayal to my parents instead of just asking them. There is also the fear at the back of my mind that I will somehow run into members of my Dad's side of the family and that they are with her, and I will be totally unprepared for it.
I don't know. I don't want to reach out myself. I don't even know if I am posting this in the right place. Just a bit of a vent (my friends vaguely know I have a half sister but I've never gotten into it much and don't want to drop the conversation on them), as well as asking for some advice or if anyone has ever had a similar situation. Thanks for reading if you have.
TLDR: I have a semi-estranged (?) half sister and I don't really know what to do about it

What the fuck is actually wrong with me?
So over the weekend I had my niece and cousin at my house while my uncle was visiting. Niece was telling our uncle “Yeah I don’t care when my mom gets mad and yells. I think it’s funny. I use my phone while she’s not looking and she doesn’t think I know where it is but I do. She put it in water and she doesn’t know my phone is waterproof and still works.” This girl got her phone taken away for good after cat fishing a little girl, letting that girl tell all her deep dark secrets and vent about her moms suicide all for my cousin to make fun of this girl and spread all the info around school.”
So I told my mom. My mom’s raising her and I think it was a disrespectful thing to say so I let my mom know. Turned into a huge fight. I have posts in the past about my mom being unstable and a drunk but she’s been “better” (hiding it better) since January. My mom told me to tell my dad what niece said because usually when niece gets in trouble, my dad babies her and offers no support to my mom (so I thought) so I called my dad and I told him that and he already starts defending niece.
Then my dad drops the bombshell. He said if I told my mom any of this, he would know I’m the one that told. He said he’s not defending her when she gets in trouble, he said it’s the way she gets in trouble. He said my mom pulls my nieces hair and was pushing her into the wall. WHAT THE FUCK.
So I went off on my dad. I told him if that shit is going on over there he needs to leave. He tells me “where do you want me to go?” I told him I didn’t care he can blame my moms drinking all he wants, he can blame her for what’s going on with him and niece but if he’s allowing that behavior and keeping it a secret it’s not just my mom it’s him and he hung up.
It’s me too though. I’ve posted about this happening to myself countless times. I happened to niece once, it was a a huge ordeal niece came to stay with me but hated my house and went back after 3 days.
I keep on forgiving her because I want a mom. Why the fuck do I want a mom so bad at 30? Why am I allowing my daughter to go there every weekend not knowing what goes on?
I’m so pissed off at myself

I (35F) want to leave my abusive husband (32M combat veteran) so badly but I don't know the best way to do it. I'm sorry this is so long but I'm begging for help, insight, any reassurance...
He says he used to have major anger issues but I never thought he would take them out on me. He has PTSD and a traumatic brain injury which makes his moods unpredictable.
I talked to his ex two days ago and she said he shoved her once, put his hands around her neck during a flashback, and also had a gun pointed at her during a flashback. He said they were engaged but she insisted they never were. She also said he was supposed to pick her up from the airport one time but he texted back saying he couldn't, because he wasn't sure if he was going to do something bad to her.
His abuse started when we moved in together while we were still engaged. I found out he had been on Onlyfans at the beginning of our relationship and just shortly before we got married... I was angry but I downplayed it and thought I could get over it. All it did was cause massive trust issues that have never healed and never will. He was subscribed to one of his exes and he also messaged one of the girls asking to meet just shortly after I stayed the week at his place for my birthday.
I spiraled mentally once the anger phase passed (severe depression and anxiety) and told him what I saw. He tried to deny it but when I said I knew his "pictures" he caved and said he wished I never told him and punched the headboard of our bed. He's my only source of comfort so I went to him countless times telling him I was still struggling with my trust issues and worried about whether he was still looking at other women, because he is subscribed to tons of women like that on Instagram and Tiktok. I started snooping looking for any evidence I could get so I could finally convince myself to leave him.
Everytime I confronted him about what I saw he made excuses and flew into a rage at me for snooping, screamed in my face, threw objects and furniture around (including our wedding rings and he broke my engagement ring in the process), punched walls, threatened divorce, demanded me to leave, or walked out without saying where he was going which made me call the police one time to look for him. I blamed myself because I was the one snooping and I told myself how would I feel if my partner constantly snooped on me? I blamed myself for everything and still kind of do. But he says it's his fault I'm like this and he just has to deal with the consequences.
Other times he says he has changed and it's my fault for getting in my head all the time, that my lack of trust is always so hard on him, and that my depression and anxiety are constantly dragging him down even though he says he's doing everything right to make me feel better. When I come to him to talk he usually sighs or treats it like a chore.
He says he beats himself up everyday for what he did and has apologized multiple times. But I never see any true regret. He told me "everybody else gets over their problems, why can't you?" He says he went through so much worse in the military than I have ever gone through and he got over his problems, so why can't I? That I need to "unfuck" myself and "everybody has depression."
One day when he came home I was feeling very low but he was in a bad mood already and he came at me, screaming that he's getting tired of me always being down and threatened divorce. I asked if he hated me and he looked at me and said in a really frightening way "if I hated you you'd be dead." That crushed me. Another time I got mad and said I was this way because of what he did to break my trust and he screamed at me multiple times to STFU, "waaah waaah waaaah you're always a Debbie downer" and threw in my face "you have no friends." He said he was done with the marriage but I talked him into staying because he has me so convinced the problem is me.
Other things... rough/forceful/demeaning sex... always saying "fuck you baby" in a cutesy way as a way to interact when we're doing our own things separately... slamming a controller down on my knee accidentally because he flew into a rage over losing a game... continuing to yell and saying he wasn't allowed to express anger even when I said it was scaring me... telling me once "I don't THINK I'd ever hurt you" (physically)... almost never helping with house chores and shopping... using me for money even though he makes more than I do with his disability payments... insulting my mother who helps us financially... trying to kick my cat one night when he couldn't sleep.
He's always so mean and critical of complete strangers when we go out and he acts like a macho narcissist who has everything figured out and he knows the right way about everything, like someone who is super opinionated to an obnoxious extent.
There's more but this is the worst of it all.
I read Lundy Bancroft's book asking myself if he's really that bad because 90% of the time he's good and loving. I know what I'm involved in and I know how much I've trauma bonded with him. But I've reached the point where I wake up every day in panic and despair knowing I'm still here and I want to get out. I already tried to leave before with a go bag and my cat but he talked me back. Some days I still try to convince myself the good times are worth staying for because I'm exhausted and I just want a good day for once. I've been miserable for months but I'm a pressure cooker now just waiting to blow. I'm falling apart.
I know I'm going to talk to a divorce lawyer and at least see if I have a case to have him evicted through a PFA. In that case he would be moving back in with his dad but he'd be close by. I could get the locks changed but I wouldn't put it past him to stalk me and try to hurt me (PFA or not -- he is suicidal anyway and has a lot of contempt for laws and the police), vandalize my car, or try to break into the apartment to hurt me or my cat. I don't even know if I would still be happy here where all these bad memories happened. And I wouldn't feel safe for myself or my cat everytime if I left the apartment.
The only other option is moving back in with my alcoholic narcissistic mother (my abusive alcoholic scizophrenic brother lives with her too) who doesn't know how to provide emotional support and hasn't been supportive at all throughout this marriage except financially. I would have to live in her garage, trust her not to let my cat loose if I go out, and make multiple trips back to my abusive husband still in the apartment to get all my belongings and furniture. He doesn't work, he's on school break now for summer so he's always here. I know I can get a police escort but they're not going to wait around for me to pack up the entire place. Almost everything is mine.
My husband might even just volunteer to leave and move back in with his dad like he has done before. I might not even need a PFA. I'm more afraid he'll try to hurt me if I actually get one versus if he just left by himself. I also don't know if he would offer to leave then just try to come back and hurt me before I could get the locks changed. The landlords constantly ignore the residents so I'd have to wait days or weeks for a lock change. Our lease ends next March.
I don't know what to do. All I want is to be by myself again with my cat in a safe place and it seems like no place and no escape plan I can come up with is entirely safe or secure. I'm at a loss but I can't keep living like this.

This is an update to my first post here. You can read that post for more details and numbers.
Here's the short summary - 32M, Married, 2 young kids, working in US as a SWE.
Fire Target - 10 crores by 2028
Expected expenses after FIRE - 30 lakhs per year (3% SWR)
NW 6 months ago - $742k + 2 bedroom home fully paid off in India
Update:
Here's the breakdown of the investments and the NW growth in the past 6 months.

• Stocks: $614k
• 401k: $200k
• HSA: $28k
• Emergency fund: $20k
• Total: $862k

Stocks value increased a lot due to recent market growth. I already maximized 401k for this year and with employer contribution and market growth, it's value also increased a lot. Added few thousand dollars to HSA as well. But I'm planning to withdraw around $5k for paying some medical bills later this year.
I had around $60k in emergency fund 6 months ago, I had to take $40k for some huge purchases (car and few other household things) as I didn't want to take high interest loans. I'm planning to start building it again back to $60k.
Overall I'm happy with the growth in the past 6 months. I had few financial goals for 2024.

• Increase NW to $900k (Savings, maximizing contributions etc). I think I'm on track.
• Buy a used car for less than $30k. I ended up buying a new car for $40k.
• Purchase a plot this year in my home town for building my dream post FIRE. This is still a WIP.

I also spent quite a lot of time diving into FIRE subreddits and learned a lot by reading others experiences, journey and etc. The more I read about FIRE the more I'm convinced that FIREing before 40 is what I really want in life and I started listing down what all I want to do after RE.
I have so many things in my list that now I don't think I'll have enough time to do all that. Now a days I don't worry about growing in my career, no frustration for not getting promotion etc. Instead I just keep my heads down and do my work and enjoy my life with my family. It's a liberating feel and I'm so excited about this whole journey.

My family has always been of great minds. I hated it. Growing up and having to study day and night to try and live up to them was extremely exhausting when I couldn't care how things worked as long as I was happy. I gave up but somehow everything kept turning out to be true.
Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had for breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.
"...umm "My family has always been of great minds. I hated it. Growing up and having to study day and night to try and live up to them was extremely exhausting when I couldn't care how things worked as long as I was happy. I gave up but somehow everything kept turning out to be true.
Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.

"...umm "

Part two of the noodle demon.
Now that this creature knelt before me I realized that the room I was in was so terrible quietly you could hear everyone's ass get tight in anticipation of what would happen next.
" ...what...are you. "
I spoke carefully to the being that had taken the shape of myself. It still took my breath away and my throat was dry.
The beast was a deep green. The color mixed with shades of grey streaming from it. The longer I looked at it I could see it getting closer to what I looked like shaping itself.
From small flowing green tendrils to an arm they grew as they twisted and made bone then muscle and finally skin.
It locked eyes with me and it smiled deeply at me. As it formed the face finally.
" Your vassle. "
My eyes had not moved to the crowd at all but even though the lights hit the stage so hard it was enveloped in smoke.
The creature's eyes glowed as it answered brightly, not figuratively. This thing's eyes were glowing.
"To serve you, We are bound by blood magic. I am a reflection of your desires, Master, " it said, its voice now a whisper in my mind.
It began to stand up as my grey suit began to form on it and by the time it stood fully up it had copied what I looked like.
" let me explain everything. "
My body frozen in fear woke up with adrenaline as I blinked and a flash of green smoke covered my vision as he teleported right to me face to face.
Its body turned to smoke and went into the slits of my eyes. I felt visions follow me in my peripheral vision but surprisingly no pain followed power filled me and it felt like one hell of a drug.
My body and mind altered.
I was now in a very dark place with no walls or light except my reflection on the floor which waved like water.
I took a step back looking around and back to the reflection of me on the ground.
Soon the water rippled and my reflection fell through the floor like gravity was inverted. he flew upright and water fell off of him as he looked at me as he now stood straight ahead of me. He was just reflecting in the water but now eyed me down.
Collecting my nerves.
I begin to speak.
" what do you want..."
He was still in my form and stood perfectly straight. Now with water dripping from his...my hair.
Slight stubble with hair that hung down and my hazel eyes were not present within him but I was greeted with a swelling acidic green that doubled the size of my pupil.
" to serve you. "
He made no other movement than putting his hands behind his back like a soldier at ease.
I could not tell if it was lying or not.
" ...is that it? "
" I am the embodiment of your fear desires and brilliance. You have shaped me. Your desire for solitude birthed me. I will aid you in shaping the world how you see fit. Your reality becomes mine. "
There was a slight echo in the room as he spoke.
" wait...where are we "
I questioned haphazardly
" your mind. "
An awkward silence was in the air until I spoke
" so...am I just standing on the stage not making a sound? "
He gave me a concerned look.
" no...time has frozen outside for you. You may sleep here without having to in the real world so to others you look as if you never rest and you may think and plan what to do in battle here. For them, it will be about two seconds...Do...do you not have any knowledge of what I am? "
Suddenly I felt bad like I had encountered someone famous and I had no idea who they were. A slap in the face like a popular kid meeting someone who had never heard of them. Ego shattered.
" ok sorry no. I...don't go around reading about...monsters?"
I felt like was I saying the n-word of the demon realm not knowing if that word was offensive.
He folded his arms a little upset.
"Are you not a warrior? "
" well...no I...just watch TV and cook here and there- "
The demon cut me off
" weak. "
" excuse me? "
" look. I am an immortal being and after a while you get bored. So I'm sorry if I may be a little upset after being bonded with some nobody. "
I got quiet and I was a little annoyed that I was being roasted by some demon that I just met.
Its form wavers and eyes begin to open on its skin. Cheeks forhead etc.
"After being a god for so long it's fun to play with limitations. Makes things extremely exciting. "
" what do you mean by that? "
" look. You can only be so entertained by the same things. Life gets boring and now...you are going to help me with this. I get to have pure entertainment while you get every wish you could ever want. A mutual bond no? "
He then closed his eyes annoyed and the other eyes meshed back to his skin.
" though... the TV is not that interesting...life is what gets the blood pumping"
I felt the need to quickly change the topic
"Are there others like you? "
The room began to take shape very slowly as the water floor turned to wood and walls went around us.
" of course. You may meet them one day "
Confused and curious I pressed.
"Meet them? "
" yes. Summoning one of us is considered a threat to them. "
He spoke while opening and closing his newly found hand except backward.
" hm...no that don't look right "
I quickly responded
" Wait! How is doing that a threat! "
"Well, one doesn't just accidentally Summon one of us to suddenly get powers beyond human control. "
I thought back to how I summoned him by accident with some food I made.
" well...funny story but I summoned you using my breakfast..."
I had never regretted speaking so much as in that moment.
" What... "
Acid dripped from his words. Literally. His pupils split in half and his bottom jaw ripped open like an ant and curved giving sharpness to the bone.
"Please don't kill me. "
The room began to look like a cozy cabin with a fireplace and he slowly went back to normal.
" I would if I could. I've never felt so disrespected. We are bonded by your blood. If you die...I die. "
Suddenly I felt at ease by this new information.
Then a thought came to my mind
" ...God's can die? "
" you did hear me, right? "
The SAS from this guy was unneeded and I was starting to miss him being on his knees as weird as that sounds.
" so...all that power gone.... in an instant... "
" well...no actually God's powers don't just disappear they transfer to whoever killed them...wait...hold up."
He suddenly had an epiphany.
A smile grew on his face and he grabbed my shoulders
" you! You are going to help me kill the other gods! "
He sounded proud but I let him down.
" ha! No. "
" oh come on! Don't be like that. "
He did a pout.
"Look, man. I'm not killing gods for you. Just because you are bored. "
" hey...they might send people to kill you because you bonded with me. "
"What did I ever do to them? "
"They have a system to this stuff. They like to build and watch things play out. You're a problem. That can mess it up. So...they kill ya...to be honest, I don't know any other way to explain it, man. You know people normally just use my power to kill people and become a king and know this already. "
"This is outrageous. "
" bro. Look if you do this I will be able to get their powers and you will be able to do so much more than what I offer "
I tilted my head
" what can you do? Know what never mind. I will just talk to them and figure things out. "
He groaned and his form melted down sagging and it shot back up reforming
"Is there not anything that you want? Anything in the world? Gods don't put themselves in physical forms. They give people power and can make beings to hunt you. And if they care enough to come down themself. Ha, good luck."
I stopped and thought about it trying to weigh the options of pissing off higher beings.
Suddenly. I found something.
"Can you bring back the dead..."
He stopped confused.
" well...no "
" then I don't want anything "
" wait! "
He threw his arms out pleading
"I don't...but another God does..."
He crosses his arms smiling. He had left the question hanging letting me reconsider his offer.
I stopped and thought for a while before looking back up to him.
I let out a sigh and looked him in the eyes
" ok...you are going to help me get my father back. "
The demon smirked.

Let me first say that in the five sailings my wife and I have been on since Princess has had the current Plus and Premier Packages, we have not once purchased either of them. That is not because I am opposed to them, nor do I think that they are a rip-off and only a fool would pay for them. On the contrary, the only reason that we did not go with a package and chose to pay for our dining, beverages, deserts, wifi, gratuities, etc., etc. a la carte was because I sat down and did the math to see if it were a good deal or not.
I am not cheap, but I also like a good bargain and would pay for one or the other package in an instant if it were to save me a few bucks. The reason I am writing this post is because I see so many replies and comments on this subreddit saying that the packages are a no-brainer when anyone has a question about them, and I just want to get this out there that that is a silly idea. There are a bunch of questions that should go into deciding whether to Plus/Premier or go Standard. So I'm going to put some of those questions that should be considered out there.
But first of all, if you don't really care if you save money or not, you just want the freedom to do what you want to do and not worry about the cost, then that is a good enough reason to buy the package and God bless you! Do it and enjoy your cruise!
But if you are really curious if you need the package or not, these are the things you should be considering:
1) What is my itinerary? Is this a cruise that is in a new, interesting port everyday? Is this a cruise that has multiple and extended sea days? This is important because that package will mean squat if you are off the ship. However, if you are doing a trans-Atlantic or Hawaiian cruise, and you're looking at 4 straight sea days, that's a different story.
2) What ship am I on? Princess is known for the similarities found throughout its fleet, but that does not mean that every ship is identical. What, if any, casual dining options are on board? What are their hours of operation? What specialty dining restaurants am I looking at? Did I make reservations? Am I flexible enough to wait to be seated and miss my desired showtime?
3) Do I need or want wifi, and do I need it the whole cruise? Maybe you do, but only you know the answer to that one. You can pay for wifi for the day. And maybe you will have cell service in port. And I'm platinum, so wifi is half price, anyway.
4) Have I taken a good look at those premium deserts? Good grief! Two per day! Maybe two per cruise, maybe. Forget about unlimited...
5) How much will I drink? Maybe this is where you really don't want to care, and if it is your first cruise, then maybe you have no real idea. I've been on enough cruises with Princess that I know what I like to drink on a daily basis and what my wife drinks. We are more than happy to pay for our drinks as we go, settling up at the end of the cruise.
As I stated at the beginning, my wife and I have been on five different sailings with Princess since they introduced these packages: two 4-night, one 5-night, one 7-night, and one 11-night sailing. Two have been Mexico, one California coastal, two Alaska. We are sailing Alaska again in 3 weeks on the Discovery Princess. I've sat down and done the math on all these cruises, and we've saved anywhere from $102.59 to $358.50 on each of these cruises going Standard fare. And we eat at the specialty restaurants at least twice each cruise, do the casual dining, get deserts, have wifi when needed, pay full gratuities, and drink whatever we want, and do many other things not part of the packages.
Finally consider this: Princess is not losing any money selling the packages to as many passengers as they can. Why do you think they push it so hard on their website, through travel advisors, and even once they already have you captive on board the ship?
None of this is to say that you should not buy Plus or Premium if you want to. But if you really are curious as to whether you should or not based upon dollars and cents, then, please, don't ask randos on reddit. Do the math.

Issue with vehicle running lean at idle and highway speeds if you have any I sight and don't want to read the whole thing
So i have a question, hoping someone might have some insight. I recently bought a modded 2012. Didnt know exactly what was done besides the usual. Well I thought that the snout bearing and/or isolator was going bad so I ordered a gm snout kit amd proceeded to attempt an install. Got the supercharger off to find it has a solid isolator already but more importantly, the snout and blower are ported. Meaning I cannot just install the new snout.
So I resealed the snout and supercharger to vehicle. I also installed a flex fuel sensor at the same time. After I was done drove vehicle to find it went lean. Hp tuners says fuel trims defaulted to zero and vehicle is running off of mass airflow. Defaulted to no fuel trims is another issue altogether. The main concern is when it does read it is +24 to +30 fuel trims in both banks. I already was home at this point so I had limited tools. Started spraying around with carb cleaner thinking I messed up a seal or sealant. No change when spraying around, but I couldn't quite get to the underside. Next, I unplugged the mass airflow sensor to find fuel trims return to normal. This tells me either the sensor went bad for some reason or there is unmetered air in the engine. I did some more looking around at my vacuum lines and everything but nothing came up. Blocked off evap purge and pcv system, no change. Removed and plugged vacuum lines to the vacuum actuator, no change. Finally removed supercharger again and inspected all my sealant, and everything looked good but I resealed it anyway.
Fuel trims are still high, mostly around +25. Brought it in and connected a power smoke machine to it set at 5psi. Can only see some coming out of the air raid intake pcv port. Sealed up the port and reinstalled, no change. Mass airflow at idle before was 2.1 lb/hr and now it is 1.9 lb/hr
Only thing I can think of at this point is something was wrong before and it was tuned for whatever was wrong and now that I "fixed" something it is now tuned incorrectly. Posting this on hp tuners as well but figured maybe someone has some Information

I want to start off by saying that I am aware that both Konami and Crypton Future Media are different companies with different businesses. The original intention behind my previous post was because I wanted it to be an empathy post where we could both share how we aren’t getting great things for 2024 this year, and possibly craft some theories of why this may be the case for one, or both companies if common problem and grounds could be found. That post was for people who love and know about DDR and Vocaloid.
For people who knew only about the DDR side, I apologize for having the post mainly one sided about Vocaloid at the very top. The reason for this was because, as I said in a comment on my previous post, I had been following the problems of the Miku Expo since day 1, and it got to the point where I could list many and possibly all the bad things off the top of my head.
DDR, meanwhile, I literally had 1 statement made, and I gave instructions to search up KAC 11th talk and you could find the video made by Dr. D Gaming on YouTube. I DID KNOW about what the content covered, but, because I had learned about it just yesterday, I would have had to sit down and type details on my post while rewatching the video because it’s not possible to instantly remember a near 30 minute video without repetitive watching for some people.
You can stop reading at this point because down below is the reason why I brought Vocaloid here. If you are still curious anyway, keep reading. I will also include DDR first this time unlike in my last post. It will be from memory without looking at the video again, but it’s better than nothing. Plus, you could always search for the video yourself to verify and get more information.
The reason why is because I was exploring the possibility that, possibly by coincidence, both Konami and Crypton Future Media did not like westerners, and they had pretty much gave the community watered down or no events at all.
For DDR KAC, such problems are:
You must know Japanese in order to be qualified for KAC because the final round will be in Japanese(this was shown and removed on their website as shown in the video. Note:It might have been a previous KAC year, but I’d have to go back and check)
You must pay for your own flight(literally had no problem flying overseas players from previous years)
iamchris4life along with 3 other people had their KAC entries called into question, and could be disqualified if not addressed. I imagine that they had very good and strong reasons, but was still turned down anyways. Konami even had the audacity to say to their face they appreciate and hope they continue to support them.
If you were disqualified from KAC ever, you’re never participating again.(That would pretty much narrow the event down to Japan only)
There was a KAC song that was region locked specifically to Japan
Various things here if I could remember them.
Last one I can remember. While not a problem, it’s an acknowledgment from the DDR champion of this year, HIBKI. They knew the technicalities is a bs reason to keep players outside of Japan from participating as kind of implied if you know the context behind his champion speech(seen in Dr. D Gaming’s 11th KAC DDR video)
For Vocaloid, a lot of things at the Expo went wrong. These things are:
Limited merchandise(100 glow sticks when literal thousands are coming to the concert)
No communication about the LED screen(It’s important to note that fans have pointed out that there is no difference between transparent glass screen and LED screen because it’s fine as long as the screen is integrated with the stage. When that happens, it can cause the same immersive effect that the Vocaloids are truly there and on stage.)
Unable to refund tickets(turned off by the organizer which would be Crypton).
Tickets for the Europe tour being released on the day of the concert, meaning, there was almost no way for Europe fans to know about the transparent glass screen switch before it was too late.
False advertising(the Vocaloids being projected on to the glass screen like years prior before this 10th anniversary)
The no glow stick rule other than the official ones by Crypton(this lead many to believe that the transparent glass screen + projection would be used, implying that it was not going to be an LED screen)
Crypton is not addressing the backlash until the NA tour ends, or possibly, until the Europe tour ends which would be the end of the year. If we assume we are getting a response at all(this could be a debatable problem. I can kind of see why they are waiting until the end of the tour)
As you can see, while these are very different events, and situations, it could come off as them hating westerners. Someone on my previous post had wrote an interesting theory that perhaps for Konami, there are 2 different management/team members. One goes for global expansion because they see potential. The other doesn’t want to take the risk creating mixed messages. Naturally, my reply would be that we had the team members who weren’t going for global expansion this year.
I also kept this insight in mind just in case if Crypton also has more than one management and is facing a similar problem.

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Please read all, important warning included. Do not interact unless you can voice call right away ☺️🌸
So what’s up? My name is Angel. I’m a creative, empathetic girl with lots of love in my heart. You know what’s cool about you an I? We both happen to be humans walking on this earth and on reddit in this exact moment. So we at least have one thing in common. That means something, right?
So just some background a bit of a warning I recently got diagnosed with DID // multiple personality disorder. What this means to me is I have the regular me as well as a little kid both living inside the same body. To most I seem normal but if I feel comfortable and have my guard down, my other personality might wanna come out. Just be patient and respectful and ofc I’ll do the same! Or if it’s sounds too weird, just don’t interact ☺️ My voice will change and I’m just very much will change into a little kid overall. so pls just be nice.
That’s not the only thing about me though. I purposely left this post kind of vague so we’d have more to chat about. Today I went shopping and I’d love to show you what I got. I have a birthday coming up I’m really excited for too. Other than that we can talk about conspiracy theories, spirituality/religion, childhood/trauma, kinks/sexuality, unpopular opinions, play would you rather, talk about our best day ever, share our favorites -food, music, Reddit pages and more.
If you read all, please give me a short introduction and what you’d prefer to voice call on. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with responses so sadly ignoring anyone who just says “hey” or who didn’t read the whole thing.