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I have an ergobaby 360 but my son seems to drown in it, even with a newborn insert. He’s 6 weeks old and 9.7lbs so not tiny, but I think this will work better for him when he’s a bit older. In the meantime I want something less fussy and less structured, and breathable for summer (our ergobaby is very thick and seems like it will be better in winter).
I’ve read lots about the Tula FTG and the LennyLamb Light but most of the reviews I can find seem to be sponsored or based on free product samples which I find unreliable. Does anyone have any experience of these and can advise?
One thing to note is that I have quite narrow shoulders so I have a marginal preference for cross back strap, which I know the Tula can’t do, but unlike the Lenny the Tula is available in linen which might outweigh that issue… but am I missing another UK-available brand that might be better?
Before anyone suggests I visit a sling library, yes absolutely but unfortunately my local one is still an hour away and they only do monthly sessions which get booked up several months in advance! The only local lady stopped doing it as she said she didn’t make enough money so there’s no private consultants near me either sadly.
Grateful for your advice!
Hey guys. I'm really torn, because there's a plane ticket booked for tomorrow morning, and there is my partner and his family waiting for me and here's my dad who doesn't want me to go. For the context, I moved to another country were my partner lives and lived there for 4 month. I then returned to my hometown because my father was sick and had to be in a hospital for a month, then he was discharged from hospital. I stayed with my dad and my sisters for 3 month. And my in laws pressed on my partner and he booked a flight for me after having a discussion with me. And yesterday my family said that they didn't want me to go. I really don't know what to do. My partner, my dad and sisters have an attachement issues, because neither of them don't want to let me go, or provide with a solution or advice.
Today in the morning my dad said that I can go, and one sister said it's up to me to decide and she said maybe I should go, another sister is still mad at me for leaving behind my sick dad like that. I assured my sister that I would come back after a month or so, she then said that what if I would be late and if something happens I wouldn't be able to say goodbye. I then said maybe I'll return after week or two, and from their implication I got an assumption that neither of these solutions work for them. I talked about this with my partner, he said that he understands me but he's under a constant pressure from his family, which is totally true by the way, because his family do really want to know when I am going to return, and an hour ago or so sister in law wrote me to conform whether I'm returning tomorrow or not. When I talked to my partner, he said that there is better solution for me is to stay with my family, it would mean that the relationship with my in laws would become worse from now on. And the ticket cannot be returned, and he lost money.
I really need help, because I look like a complete asshole because in either way I can't please people. And nobody seems to be on my side. My solution was to go back and recompose my in laws, and stay with my partner for some time, and get some of my stuff like some clothes, then return and stay with my dad. I don't know what to do.
I (19m) am insecure about a lot of things,the first one is my height ,I am just 5'5 ,you could say my body did not grow after the seventh grade,I have really short arms ,feminine fingers and surprise surprise little pp. also I am ugly .Now these are not the worst parts, If I had to just live with myself maybe I would have made my peace,but lets be real I am going to get married to some girl,now here is where the problem begins. I took a drop for jee this year but still I am getting 91 percentile, I might get into some lower nits or go to some private engg college if i want cs. So the problem is I cant get the thought that my future wife is going to get railed by multiple dudes , while I have and will spend the rest of my 20s working for my career,if I work hard through my college years ,grind all those 4 years and secure a high paying job,who am I going to do it for,some chick who is sucking dick right now ,making out in public bathrooms and hooking up with strangers, It is easy to say that no seal no deal but lets be real what are you going to say to a 28 yold women that why is she not a virgin? are you going to ask her body count in an arranged marriage when they leave you for 5 mins to talk?are you going to say to your parents get me a younger girl so might be she would be a virgin?All the grind that I did was for some women's 30s?
I just get really depressed when I think about it,If I go to the gym it is not going to increase my height,i will only put on a little muscle and the look like short bull. I worked this hard , so many sacrifices and what do I get from god. I know I am not an attractive person ,so if a girl marries me,she would be only be doing if for money, like she whored around in her 20s but now need to settle down so here i come. I will never be loved for what I am ,and I know you would be laughing by know but mann this hurts , it hurts like hell. The best I can pray for that she does not cheats on me or files for divorce and takes half my stuff away. Like I want to know from you guys, all those insta reels with link in bio of indian girls getting railed don't you wonder that ,that gurl might be your future wife ( i am not into any cuck stuff) like what if you married her and after six moths you found a video of her and her ex, I keep getting crazy about these imaginatory scenarios .
I know I am in the wrong here , She loved a guy and had sex with him,big deal, but the thought that the first time we have sex ,she is going to think about all those dudes who were better than me, there is going to comparison and i am going to fail just like i fail myself everytime. How I am going to love such a women and have kids with her?? I know for a fact the the first time i have a child i am going to think about am i the father,that is the level of paranoia that i have. Please help me , every day I wnt to kill myself ,I cant live more like this loser, I don't want to be that dude in the porn movies, Some of you might be laughing at me right now but I don't know what to do, I have cried multiple times while writing this. I sometime think that i will never marry but what sort of life it would earn and fuck prostitutes..Why did god made me this way why,why is there so injustice ,what sin have i committed to deserve this? PLease help me out of this misery
So Chris is someone who gets photos with celebrities all the time right? He just chases them down, gets a pic and post it with the correct tags right?
Well if you go through Chris's Instagram he has a whole block of 9 post just for Drake's tour in 2018. It's super clear though only some of these post are from that tour. The ones where he has the VIP pass are clearly from that night. But the one with offset, cardi, and Quavo are clearly from the VMAs. Outfits match. Then the one with ovo40 has the right date but is in front of the 4 seasons hotel. Found another picture he was tagged in with the same shirt and building to confirm.
He does have a picture with Drake's dad and his fit matches for the Brooklyn shows. But Drake's dad sstops and talks to fans, plent of videos of it.
But I've always seen Drake walking out first in those videos and you know what he used as the picture for Drake? The same one he got in 2017...
So he made a whole ass add for Drake's tour and didn't even get a pic with him or any other preforming artist. Then on top of that post it as if trying to act like the pics are related to the tour???
What other reason could there be than he is a massive dick rider for Drake? If that is the case than his article and statements need to be read while considering this man has misrepresented information about Drake before. And as someone who takes pics with celebs all the time and is a journalist this is a clear credibility issue. Don't feel like that would reflect well when applying to work for a newspaper.
Sorry for no links. On mobile and shit is hitting the fan.
I'm sorry that the post is so long!! I am NOT asking for a diagnosis. I'm asking if I read the symptoms right. And I don't self-diagnose.
I (16f) am not diagnosed with autism, but I had two psychologists tell me that it is possible I have it, and my current therapist told me I can get diagnosed. I suspected I could have it for some months now, but now that I could get diagnosed I start to doubt it.
I was never bullied, never made fun of, never anything. But I was always shy, awkward and kind of weird. I always struggled with communication and socializing, and I told it multiple times to my mum, but she always told me that I am just a "shy and introverted person". Like no, mum, I can't make or hold a conversation, I never know what to say, sometimes I can't bring out words for several seconds. When I was little I barely spoke up in class, and now I haven't raised my hand in two years (in class).
But I'm not that sensitive to sounds. Sometimes I can be in loud places without a problem, but when my sisters start talking too loudly and too much, I get overwhelmed. But I am very sensitive to smells since I was young.4 And often when I am in overwhelming places or situations, I shut down anf speak only when necessary, and the world around me doesn't feel real. I don't know what that means though.
About the routines, I don't know either. Like, I have my routines I HAVE to do (like wakinp up, washinf my teeth then face, and eat afterwards). I also like to come home from school and not leave the house afterwards (I could cry if my mum unexpectedly tells me we leave somewhere) and I hate leaving home in general. But when plans change or get canceled, I could cry. Some days ago my friends and I wanted to go studying to the library. My options were going home or to the library. So when it turned out that the library was closed and they wanted to go study in the park, I went home. Because park wasn't an option. And I was almost crying, I was so upset about it.
I don't know if I have a special interest. I would say books, because I am so obsessed with reading and buying books, and they have to always look brand-new. Not even one crease anywhere. And I was obsessed with Harry Potter since I was 8 years old. That would count too, I guess.
And the stimming part I am unsure. I do move something all the time. I always move my legs, bounce it or something. Or shake my hands a bit. Fidget with my hands. Blink my eyes weirdly. I developed a weird movement with mt head (my mum always jokes it's like a chicken). And if I don't visibly do those things, I move my toes a lot. Like, a lot. I even move when I fall asleep.
I have my ways to do things in an order. I love to arrange things in their colors, heights, appearance. And similar.
I don't know what to think of it. I could be autistic, but what if I'm not? Then the assessment would be unnecessary and embarassing. What would you do in my place? (I'm sorry that it's so long!)
Feel free to ask me some (more specific) questions!
i called 9 dental offices today, all from the database of my insurance. only 1 was actually taking new patients (or taking my insurance at all...) and could not see me till the middle of july. oh goody! i'll just hang out for the next 2 months with 2 giant holes in my teeth, a chunk of which fell out last night.
my dad would roll over in his urn if he could hear how medical professionals talk about not accepting medicaid because they can't make a profit. (literally had my dentist last year take an xray to confirm i needed a filling but said she wouldn't fill it because she wouldn't be taking medicaid anymore because she couldn't turn a profit. said it to my face.) there are so sooooooo many more important things than money in healthcare. yes, money is needed to live, but if you go home after a long day and take joy in how much money you made knowing full well that you are letting people suffer when you have the power to help, may the gods have mercy when you meet them.
I feel alone and sad most times. I don’t think anybody really cares about me. My parents (poor people who c chose to have kids) used to drag me on the floor, told me that nobody loves me and told me I’m going to be kicked out of the house for just existing since middle school. I was never a bad kid, I was really quiet at home. My birthdays weren’t celebrated unless I asked my mom to buy me a cake or ask her if I can have money. They let my older sister hit me, call me slurs, harass me.
Nobody believes me, I tell teachers (I wanted them to call cps), drop things here and there, but get immediately shut down. Some of them tell me that I need to remember to take care of them and buy them a house when I’m older, but most of the time, they just ignore me. They probably think it’s a hassle to be involved in student’s life. I don’t feel like I have anybody to talk about this with. I don’t feel like I have any adult that could help me or care to really listen without risking anything.
It was just recently that my parents found out I was a national finalist, going to a top college on a full ride that they stopped calling me dumber than my older sister who went to community. They started showing up to my award ceremonies, and constantly reminding me that when I’m older I’m going to buy them a house, take them out everywhere, etc when they do simple task like giving me money or taking me to school. I kind of liked it, but I got annoyed whenI felt like I was being used by them.
At my honour ceremony, I wasn’t valedictorian (they get medals) but I graduated with highest achievements. My parents were upset at me, asking me why I wasn’t this or that. My mom Called me ugly afterwards, I didn’t know what to say after that. I’m only treated correctly when they mention how much I owe them in the future, or when another parent is impressed by me.
I feel guilty not giving back. They are immigrants who don't speak english or have a sense of how to fill out documents or anything normal people can do, always dependent on others. I think they have a learning disability.
I achieved everything I wanted by myself in secret to prove them wrong, and I got what I asked for. For my parents to like me and brag about me more than my sister. But I really just wanted to be loved & appreciated in a “normal family.”
I want to disappear out of this world, no funeral, forgotten from everybody’s memory. I want to die every night when I come home from school, I feel miserable for working so hard . I don't have friends who understand, and I am guilty of ghosting my parents who will be homeless if I don't help them.
Home depot sold out the 2x 4amp hour normal 18v ryobi batteries for 99$. It was a special buy of the day deal. Wish they'd included that in the ryobi days, this ryobi days looks a little more of a money grab than last year's.
This time they want 99$ for a 2amp hour and 4 amp hour normal batteries with a free tool. Last year they had 2,4,6 amp hour HP batteries, well this year they only have 2,4,4 for the same price.
Not to mention they already have deals running on the multitool, jigsaw, and sawzall where you can get 2,4,4 amp hour HP batteries with one of the tools for 200$. Literally the same case as ryobi days.
I'm going for the 2,4,4 if it can be hacked, if they can't be hacked then I'll just wait until a holiday.
Is it worth hacking the 2,4 amp hour normal battery bundle?
I feel alone and sad most times. I don’t think anybody really cares about me. My parents (poor people who c chose to have kids) used to drag me on the floor, told me that nobody loves me and told me I’m going to be kicked out of the house for just existing since middle school. I was never a bad kid, I was really quiet at home. My birthdays weren’t celebrated unless I asked my mom to buy me a cake or ask her if I can have money. They let my older sister hit me, call me slurs, harass me.
Nobody believes me, I tell teachers (I wanted them to call cps), drop things here and there, but get immediately shut down. Some of them tell me that I need to remember to take care of them and buy them a house when I’m older, but most of the time, they just ignore me. They probably think it’s a hassle to be involved in student’s life. I don’t feel like I have anybody to talk about this with. I don’t feel like I have any adult that could help me or care to really listen without risking anything.
It was just recently that my parents found out I was a national finalist, going to a top college on a full ride that they stopped calling me dumber than my older sister who went to community. They started showing up to my award ceremonies, and constantly reminding me that when I’m older I’m going to buy them a house, take them out everywhere, etc when they do simple task like giving me money or taking me to school. I kind of liked it, but I got annoyed whenI felt like I was being used by them.
At my honour ceremony, I wasn’t valedictorian (they get medals) but I graduated with highest achievements. My parents were upset at me, asking me why I wasn’t this or that. My mom Called me ugly afterwards, I didn’t know what to say after that. I’m only treated correctly when they mention how much I owe them in the future, or when another parent is impressed by me.
I feel guilty not giving back. They are immigrants who don't speak english or have a sense of how to fill out documents or anything normal people can do, always dependent on others. I think they have a learning disability.
I achieved everything I wanted by myself in secret to prove them wrong, and I got what I asked for. For my parents to like me and brag about me more than my sister. But I really just wanted to be loved & appreciated in a “normal family.”
I want to disappear out of this world, no funeral, forgotten from everybody’s memory. I want to die every night when I come home from school, I feel miserable for working so hard during. I don't have friends who understand, and I am guilty of ghosting my parents who will be homeless if I don't help them.
Issue Fifty Written by u/VoidKiller826 Edited by u/Predaplant Arc: Revelations *************************************************************
Greetings, people of Gateway City. This is your new peacekeeper speaking. You might know me as the White Magician, a rather crude name, but I will accept it considering Man’s World's lack of creativity. However, you may also call me Circe, and I am here with an important message that your news station will deliver for all to hear. SCYTHE is no more: their HQ is under my and the Red Centipedes’ command. The Commander and his soldiers are dead and buried, as you all wished to happen. I was more than happy to oblige you if it meant depriving your stupid President of her next chance for reelection. Any survivors of the prison break are being hunted down by the people they locked in cages, who are more than happy to round them up as they once had been themselves. But none of that’s important, for this recording is only to be heard by one person: Olympos, Wonder Girl, or whatever the fuck new title name you want to be called. This message is for you: You are to surrender yourself to me here in SCYTHE HQ in the next five hours, and in turn, I will not destroy this piss-end of a city. If you fail, I promise you, I will make Coast City look like a picnic by the time I finish with Gateway. That cow you call Wonder Woman is dead, and I will make sure everyone else will follow her if you don’t comply with my request. Your mentor learned a valuable lesson when she tested my patience. *************************************************************
Spears Apartment - Gateway City: [...President Cale has announced the complete closure of all access to Gateway City following the prison break that occurred in SCYTHE’s holding facility hours ago,] said Cassandra Arnold from GateNews, the city’s main news station.
[We still have an unconfirmed number of escapees following the message sent by the White Magician, but the President has assured GateNews a solution will be found.] Vanessa Kapatelis watched the TV in dismay. Pacing back and forth in the Spears duplex apartment, she had the TV on to pass the time while Ares worked on helping Helena and Cassandra upstairs.
“Here,” Vanessa turned away from the TV to see Tanya Spears handing her a bottle of water. “Something for you to drink.”
“Thank you,” Vanessa accepted the bottle. “I would prefer a beer, but this will make do.”
“My mom has her wine collection in a locked cabinet,” Tanya noted, pointing at the kitchen. “She doesn’t know that I know that, but I can get you a bottle?”
Vanessa chuckled. “Thanks, but I don’t want a girl your age to be walking around with alcohol or to get you in trouble with your mom.” She twisted the bottle cap and slowly drank. “I needed that… it feels like I’ve been dry for months.”
“It’s actually been 3 hours,” Tanya said, sitting on the sofa and opening her tablet to look over the internet. “I hope what she said wasn’t true… about Wonder Woman not being around…”
Taking a seat by her side, Vanessa saw that Tanya was reading through the report on what happened to SCYTHE. The escaped convicts had taken control of the SCYTHE headquarters and equipment after killing many of the agents that had stood in their way.
Seeing the photo of SCYTHE HQ burning angered her. That place should represent the absolute shield of Gateway. Now, it had come under the control of the convicts that they were supposed to stop because of
Aeeta Branwen. A name that had made her happy now belonged to a stranger who had lied to her all this time.
Memories of their most intimate moments came flooding back: their first conversation, their first date, their kiss, and the morning after their date in her apartment. It was a moment when she thought she could finally stop grieving and move on from what happened to Coast City. And now, that had been disintegrated into oblivion.
In anger, she crushed the bottle with her hand, spraying water all over the table and the floor.
“Shit!” Vanessa stood up, finally realizing her mistake. “I am sorry!”
“Oh, it's fine!” Tanya ran to the kitchen to grab some paper towels. “It’s just water.”
“I know it’s just…” Taking the paper towel, the two began wiping the floor and the table. “I have a lot on my mind.”
“I’ll bet with everything that happened,” said Tanya, giving Vanessa a supportive smile. “Your friends are getting hurt, and you can’t do anything but watch. It would piss anyone off. I know it did with me when the RedCent guys invaded EE Tower.”
“Yeah…” Vanessa sat back on the sofa. “But this… I not only possibly lost many friends, but I was betrayed by someone I loved, someone who I thought was the one for me…” she said, distraught, as tears ran down her face.
Tanya, without saying anything more, hugged Vanessa closely. Despite them knowing each other for only a few hours, Tanya knew that Vanessa was in pain. Watching her loved ones being hurt by someone that she trusted must have been a hard truth to accept.
The doors upstairs opening and closing caught the two’s attention. Looking up, they saw Somya Spears descending, looking exhausted, like she had gone ten rounds in the ring. As she reached the ground floor, Tanya ran up to her mother, hugged her close, and guided her to the nearest chair to rest.
“Is everything alright, mom?” Tanya asked, worried.
“Yeah… just felt that I might take that long overdue vacation…” Somya answered, leaning against the soft chair with a tired sigh. “Maybe we’ll go to Paris like you wanted, Tanya…”
More steps followed, and Ares, or Mars as he insisted to be called, followed Somya, pulling his folded-up sleeves back. Unlike Somya, he didn’t seem any different from when he went upstairs to help the Sandsmarks, but the few strands of hair on his face told a different story.
“How are they?” Vanessa asked, walking up to the former God of War. “Are they ok?”
Ares turned to Vanessa. “The girl has a lot of heart, far too stubborn to let a beating keep her down.” He said with praise, impressed with the former Wonder Girl’s willpower. “Her Sumerian blood will help her heal in only a few days, but it won’t help her mental wounds after I told her the news about her mother.”
Vanessa had a lot of questions about what he had said, especially the word Sumerian; perhaps Cassie was not simply half-Olympian. However, she focused on the most important detail in his explanation. “What happened with Helena?” She asked in a worried tone. “Is she-”
“She is alive,” Ares said, but his expression shifted, frowning, making her nervous. “Physically, she will recover, she has only a few cuts and bruises. Even a human like her can heal those.”
“But?”
“But it's the spell Circe struck her with. It is unlike anything I’ve seen because it is of her creation,” Ares explained, and Vanessa ground her teeth together when she heard the name belonging to the stranger who hurt her and her loved ones. “Whatever she used, it is affecting her very soul, slowly killing her.”
“Like a virus?” Vanessa asked, and Ares nodded. “Magic can do that?”
“It does,” Ares answered. “Magic can create a nuclear bomb if the user has the patience for it. And Circe is a master at it, one of the very best and most gifted witches on the planet, so making something like this would be as easy as making a cake for her.”
Magic had never been SCYTHE’s priority, but the Commander still made them study anything related to the subject in case they had to face it. Vanessa had never expected to see it at this scale.
“Can you break it?” Vanessa asked. “Find a way to break the curse from Helena’s soul?”
Ares took a deep breath, pocketing his hands. “It’s too complex to break. I will admit Magic is not my strongest suit, but even if you bring in someone knowledgeable, it would be a while for them to break her creation,” he explained. “You need someone at her level of knowledge when it comes to magic, and I am not the best person to face her in that department.”
“Then we call for a specialist, anyone, really,” Vanessa said in desperation. “If this is like a virus, a curse, then we bring a surgeon to cut it out! Maybe Cassie can use her Justice Legion connection, or maybe you can call someone for a favor.”
Vanessa's desperation was clear. She was willing to call for the Justice Legion, the very people she swore to go against for their vigilantism, if it meant saving Helena Sandsmark, her promise be damned.
“The spell is growing far too rapidly. By the time you find someone, it will be far too late,” Ares said solemnly. “The only person in the world who can break the spell without any problem or fear of failsafe is Hecate, the Goddess of Magic. She was Circe’s mentor, and she taught her everything she could about magic. No matter how complex it is, Hecate would understand it.”
“She can help us?”
Ares shook his head. “No, she has no interest in helping the world unless it is connected to her directly, and even then, dealing with her is the worst-case scenario because there is a chance she’ll side with Circe before she even thinks of helping us.”
“So what now?” Vanessa asked, sounding defeated. “Just let Helena die? Let Cassie suffer? Let Circe win?!” she shouted angrily, finally addressing Circe by name. All of this explanation from Ares told her one thing: that the Witch had them beat, and they couldn’t do anything about it.
Ares didn’t react to her outburst, while the Spears looked worried. Tanya, for her part, tried to walk up to calm Vanessa, but the War God raised his hand to stop her, shaking his head and giving her the silent sign to let Vanessa be.
“There is one way: it will be quicker if we act fast enough, but it would take everything from all of us for it to happen,” Ares said, beginning his explanation. “There is a chain link connecting the spell, from the spell caster to Circe. This means it can be broken if we force Circe to release the chain connecting her to Helena…” he explained, letting his words be understood by the occupants in the room before finishing with one last note. “Killing Circe would also break the binding if she didn’t leave any contingencies.”
Vanessa gritted her teeth. “So we have to make her break the spell, and hopefully she doesn’t screw us over… or we kill her, and hopefully she still doesn’t screw us over even in death?” she asked, and Ares nodded. “What kind of person is willing to put in all that work? Just for revenge? On Diana, who is long gone?”
Ares shrugged and turned to the Spears, his gaze focused on Tanya, his daughter. Someone whom he never thought he would meet again was facing him, without knowledge of their blood relations.
“Possibly,” Ares answered, taking a step back. “But if there is one thing I know for sure, Circe does not put these kinds of bindings without any reason. Whatever that reason is involves Cassandra Sandsmark and whether she will choose to make Circe break the spell or kill her, tainting her forever.”
Silence came to the room, letting Ares’s words sink in for all occupants, which might have been the same words he said to the Sandsmarks.
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The room of Somya Spears was quiet, with the only sound being the breathing of Helena Sandsmark lying on the bed sleeping. The room was spacious, with an expensive queen-sized bed as expected from an interim CEO of one the largest companies in the world.
Seated a few feet away on a chair was Cassandra Sandsmark, dressed in fresh clothes given to her by Somya after throwing off the bloody tattered ones she had arrived in. Watching her mother closely, Cassandra’s mind was racing, especially after what Ares told her about the curse Circe placed on her mother, slowly destroying her soul bit by bit until she was nothing but a husk.
“Dammit!” In anger at their situation, she crushed the armchair, tearing its arm off like it was made of paper. If she was stronger, faster, and had the heart for it, she would have stopped the Witch, stopped her from hurting her city, the people of SCYTHE, and those caught in the crossfire, stopped her from hurting her mother…
She buried her face into her hands, tears running down her eyes as she despaired. Everything she worked on after Coast City evaporated was ground up under a very powerful enemy out for revenge.
Considering Circe’s ultimatum, her city could well be gone by the time this was over.
“Artemis… please be safe…” she whispered. She had nearly had a panic attack when she heard the news of the Amazon heading to SCYTHE HQ to stop the prison break, and then… nothing. No matter how many times she dialed her phone, there was no one answering, and she feared for the worst.
She heard her mother coughing, and Cassandra was quickly by her side. “Mom!” she called for her, holding her hand.
“Cassandra?...” Her mother said her name weakly. Her skin was becoming paler, a clear sign that the curse spell was working. “Are you… ok?”
“I’m fine, Mom,” Cassandra answered, covering the bandages hidden inside her clothes. “We’re safe.
You’re safe.” she said, tightening both her hands around her mothers.
“Did you… break something?” She asked, looking at the chair behind her. “You shouldn’t be… doing that… we are guests…”
Cassandra laughed, her tears falling away. “Sorry… it’s just… it’s been a hell of a week…”
Helena touched her daughter’s cheek, noticing the bandage on it. “You’re… hurt…”
“It’s alright, Mom. Just a few bruises,” Cassandra assured. “You shouldn’t worry, you know I can take it…”
“I am your… mother, Cassandra,” Helena said, facing her daughter. “Demi-God or not… I will always be worried… scared for my little girl.”
Cassandra’s tears came back. Seeing her mother remain strong despite everything made her happy, and she was terrified of losing her.
“So… my soul is cursed?” Helena asked.
“You heard all that?”
“Can’t not… with all the swearing…” Helena noted, giving her daughter a small smile. “You shouldn’t swear at people, Cassandra, especially those who are trying to help.”
“I know, I know,” Cassandra said. She had gone off on Ares after he explained what happened to her mother, and she might have overreacted when she put all her anger on the former War God. “It’s just… I don’t want to lose you… not while we can fix this.”
Helena sat up on her bed, fully facing her daughter. “Which is why… I don’t want you to make the wrong choice.”
“I won’t,” Cassandra said with a low tone. “I will make Circe free you from this curse-”
“No, Cassandra,” Helena grabbed both of Cassandra’s hands with hers. “That is not what I meant…”
Cassandra raised her brows, confused. “Mom?”
“I heard everything… from Circe’s spell… how it works… and how it can be broken…” Helena said, shocking Cassandra. “I know you already decided what you feel you have to do.”
Cassandra didn’t answer, avoiding her mother’s disapproving gaze accusing her. Ares said the quickest way to break the binding and the spell was either by forcing Circe to break it herself or by killing her, severing the connection.
But if what Circe said was true, that Diana decided to kill her instead of making her surrender like everyone else who faced her, that means there was no chance the Witch would submit willingly. She would rather die than give the satisfaction of admitting defeat.
Which left only one solution where she could save her mother.
Helena sighed, knowing what decision her daughter might have made. She held her hand tightly and changed the subject. “I have to tell you something…”
“No, mom. You’re not giving me the
‘Dying Speech’, not while there is a chance we can save you-”
“It’s about your father,” Helena cut her off, shutting Cassandra up. “Your real father…”
Cassandra remembered Circe calling her Daughter of Enlil, not Zeus. Ares said he was a friend of her father, which confused her because Ares hated Zeus, so it wouldn’t make sense that he would help out even if they were his siblings.
“
Enlil…” Cassandra said the name aloud, and Helena’s eyes widened, her breath hitching when she heard the name. “Circe… she called me Daughter of Enlil… Child of the Sky...”
Helena took a deep breath, bringing her daughter closer. “Yes… that is true…” she began. “You are not Zeus’s daughter, Cassandra, nor you are an Olympian in any way… but you are in fact… Sumerian… Mesopotamian,” The elder Sandsmark brought her youngest closer and spoke carefully, as if worried that someone might hear them. “Your father is Enlil, the Sumerian God of Wind… and he was the kindest man I have ever known…”
From then on, Helena explained Cassandra’s origins as carefully as possible, pushing on even while the spell affected her. She explained how she met Enlil, a man with golden hair similar to Cassandra’s, who introduced himself as an expert in Mesopotamian history during an expedition in Iraq. They had become rivals at first due to their clashing personalities, but how that developed into respect, to eventually falling in love after a very lengthy adventure that sounded like the plot of The Mummy.
And that love resulted in Cassandra’s birth. He helped raise her with Helena for the first year and a half before he disappeared because he had Olympian enemies and had to leave them to keep them safe.
While she explained all this, Cassandra’s mind went to another piece of critical information. Her father’s true identity had never been the most important thing for her. But what made it important was what Circe told her about Diana’s true reason for coming to Gateway City. It wasn’t just settling in a ‘piss-end of a city’ the more she taught about it, the more she realized the terrifying truth behind her mentor’s reasoning for coming to the city.
Diana was sent to find Cassandra, a
Sumerian Demi-God, the Olympians greatest enemy since the Titans, and eliminate her. The prophecy of the Godkiller that they had feared might have come from Cassandra, but all it did was start a long, personal, and bloody war between two women because of the gods' demands for blood.
And now, she, Artemis, and Gateway City suffered the consequences. Even after Diana’s death, Circe would not let her hatred for what had happened to her go, and if it meant destroying her mentor’s legacy, she would do it.
‘Diana…’ Cassandra thought in sadness.
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SCYTHE Sub Base - Industrial District: “I am not sure how you were able to do it, but you somehow found an ever more depressing place than that HQ of yours. It makes the cell you put us in look like a five-star hotel room,” said one Pamela Isley, formerly Poison Ivy, seated in the middle of a large room behind a large table. Around her were what was left of the SCYTHE agents they had saved during the escape, all working to get the makeshift base they had hidden up and running.
Alexei Abramovici, the Bloodcrow of SCYTHE, glared at the former supervillain, not happy with her comment. He turned to one of his men and began barking orders, “You! Get the goddamn Black Room working! We are running blind here!”
‘Worker drones even without their Commander.’ Pamela looked on unimpressed at the agents. She had never been that sympathetic to the plight of cops getting killed, especially militarized ones. The once mighty and feared peacekeepers of Gateway, who went to war against all the crime syndicates and the Red Centipedes, were now a mere little squad that won’t be able to protect a mini-mart, let alone every escaped convict under the command of the White Magician.
“Man… the signal here sucks!” complained Miguel Barragan by her side, raising his phone and trying to catch any kind of signal. “Could barely talk to my boyfriend when I called him, and can’t connect to the internet,” he complained. He tried once again to call but he couldn’t find a signal. “Useless brick…”
“We are underground in a bunker previously owned by Neo-Nazis, Barragan,” Pamela noted. From what she had heard, this used to be an old RedCent hideout that SCYTHE took over after the war, using it as a smaller base in case of emergency. “Not receiving any signal is part of the appeal of the place.”
“Bunker, huh…” Miguel chuckled. The name Bunker reminded him of the super name that he picked out; the more time passed, the more convinced he was that it was the right one.
Pamela gave a confused look at his expression and shrugged it off. Turning to her right, she saw the silent Emily Sung staring off into the distance. Unlike Barragan, Emily had other matters on her mind. Whatever she sensed or saw back at SCYTHE HQ freaked her out, like seeing something she shouldn’t.
Just as Pamela was about to ask her how she was feeling, a knock on the large blast doors echoed around the base, loud enough for all to hear. Quickly, everyone felt tense, and the SCYTHE agents covered the door as Alexei signaled them to aim their weapons. After the news of the escaped convicts taking control of SCYTHE HQ and their equipment and weaponry, the agents knew that they were being haunted now by the convicts looking for revenge, so they were not taking any chances.
“Would you mind opening the door!” A familiar voice said behind the door, a voice Pamela recognized right away. “I have a bloody Amazon here, and I would like her off my fur!”
“Barbara?” Pamela realized.
“Minerva? As in the Cheetah?” Alexei asked, eyes narrowed with suspicion. “She could be working with them, with
the White Magician.”
“She isn’t,” Pamela answered, glaring at the SCYTHE soldier for the accusation. “She would never ally with the psychos you had under lock and key.”
Alexei scoffed. “That woman got a cemetery filled with people who say otherwise, and she hurt the mother of someone I know.”
Before the two could argue, Miguel stood up and decided to take action. He extended his hand, forming a large arm construct from it, and grabbed the handle of the blast door. With one pull, he opened it wide. Barbara entered. Her feline form made some of the SCYTHE agents tense, and weapons were still trained on her.
“Quite the welcoming committee…” she noted in sarcasm. “Now, would you be dears and get this woman some help?” She adjusted the unconscious and bloody Artemis on her back. Her blood covered Barbara’s fur.
“Medic!” Alexei called for an agent nearby before turning to Miguel. “And you, don’t use your freaky powers until I order you to do so.”
“Sorry tin man, I don’t speak fascist,” Miguel responded with a smirk, and Alexei glared at him.
The medic quickly came to Barbara and guided her to a nearby makeshift hospital room, which had a bed and various equipment to help the SCYTHE wounded. Barbara went in haste, and gently, with the help of the medic, they placed the injured Amazon on the bed, her blood soaking the white sheets red.
“How the hell did you even find us?” Alexei asked as he and the others entered. “I made sure I covered all our steps.”
“You did,” Barbara noted, stepping back to let the medic check on Artemis. She turned to Alexei and pointed at her nose. “But one of you has a very special pheromone that I can smell for miles,” she said with a smile as she turned her gaze to Pamela. “Still with those rose scents around you.”
The redhead smiled. “Maybe it’s that mark you left on me.”
“More than you think, Pammy.”
“Christ…” the medic gasped, catching everyone’s attention. “How is she still alive? And how long has she been like this?” He asked, examining the injured Amazon.
Her armor was wholly wrecked, beyond repair. Her headpiece was half broken, and the gauntlets and braces on her arms and legs were dented and unusable. Her injuries were severe: open wounds, slash marks, and burn marks were all over her body, and judging from blows on her armor, she might have had a few broken bones as well.
“Didn’t bother to look at the time with some of the grunts that were sent after us,” Barbara answered, leaning on a nearby chair as fatigue finally set in for her. “But these Amazons are too stubborn to die, and I know that from experience…”
The number of times Barbara thought she had beaten Diana only for the Amazon to get back up and beat her back was many, and it frustrated the woman to no end, but now she couldn’t help but be in awe at the resilience of these warriors.
“Her Amazon gifts will heal her,” Barbara noted. “But I am not sure how long it will take…”
“I doubt it will take more than a few days at least…” the medic noted, bringing out some bandages and wrapping them around her arms. “She will need a miracle to even walk out of here on her own two feet.”
“Uhmm…” Everyone in the room turned to Emily Sung, who stood by the doorway. “I… I think I can help her heal faster.”
Barbara and the medic gave her an odd look. To better explain it, Emily brought her hands together, and a small flame began to form from her palm. However, they weren’t bright orange flames; they were blue flames, and they didn’t feel any heat from them.
“I developed this technique while training,” said Emily. “It's a fire spell that doesn’t burn, but it heals people. I first used it on Miguel when he hurt his hands, and it was instantaneous,” she explained, and Miguel showed his fully healed hand as if he was demonstrating it. “But this will be the first time I will heal someone with this severe of injuries…”
Pamela and Barbara looked at the blue flames with wide eyes. In Pamela’s case, she was told that Emily had powers, and from Miguel’s description, she had the power of all the elements. However, seeing it firsthand and feeling it from just that tiny flame made her sense there was power behind it, warmth, like the sun.
“Do it,” Barbara said, taking a step back. “At this point, if we need magic to get her back into the fight, we better get to it before we lose her for real.” She turned to the shocked medic. This was the first time he would ever see magic in play. “And you, guide her in whatever wounds need to be healed.”
The medic nodded. It was better than nothing. With his guidance and Miguel’s support by her side, Emily went to work to heal Wonder Woman, who was in a state of life and death if they didn’t work fast enough, all while Circe and her crew were out there terrorizing the city.
“What’s the news out there?” Alexei asked after the three left the infirmary room. “We are in the dark here, and I couldn’t radio in anyone with the pieces of junk we got. Not even my brother, who was trying to get as many agents as possible.”
“Brother?” Barbara asked before she realized who his brother was. Her expression became solemn. She remembered the Warhammer who stayed behind to slow Circe and her crew, giving Barbara a chance to escape with Artemis on her back. “The guy with the Hammer…”
Alexei furrowed his brows, noticing the change in her expression. “What happened to my brother?”
Barbara took a deep breath and began explaining everything that had happened: the White Magician’s true identity, her taking over SCYTHE HQ, her ultimatum to Wonder Girl, and finally, Anatoly Abromivici’s sacrifice to save them.
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Somewhere in Gateway… With the loss of SCYTHE and their headquarters, the surviving agents didn’t have the necessary support from the intel agents in the Black Room to fight off against the newly revived Red Centipedes, now grown more powerful with the help of the escaped convicts, more than happy to exact revenge.
With the bridges closed off, SCYTHE’s weakened state, and Wonder Woman being presumed dead, the city had been thrown into chaos. Streets filled with criminals and looters taking full advantage of what had happened, stealing anything from everyone across the island.
Red Centipedes roamed the streets with military trucks, taken from SCYTHE after their HQ had fallen to the White Magician’s control, making full use of their hardware to hunt down any surviving agent, delivering the message that they were the new peacekeepers of Gateway.
“Let me go!”
A woman, a worker from Taco Whiz, was being dragged from the streets by a group of RedCent grunts. Taken into a nearby corner, the RedCent dropped the worker on the dirty ground. Their eyes had terrible intentions behind them.
“Come on, man,” one RedCent grunt said from behind to his buddy. “We are supposed to find those SCYTHE fuckers, not mess around.”
“You’re serious?” The buddy looked at his friend like he was crazy. “We’ve been locked for months in SCYTHE’s cells; we can have a few minutes of fun.”
“Please! Don’t do this!” The woman screamed, tears falling from her eyes, afraid of what they would do to her. She tried to stand up and run away but was quickly pushed back down on the pavement.
The RedCent approached the woman, who crawled away from them in fear. “Come on, girl, I just need to release all this stress after being locked up for so long!” He proclaimed, giving the woman a leery look before turning to his buddy. “Hey man, I can share! Maybe we can get someone else from the street-”
The RedCent stopped speaking, catching his breath for a moment after he saw his buddy lying on the ground face first, knocked out cold. Looking up, his eyes widened in shock when he saw the person standing before him. “You’re… you were supposed to be dead?!”
Covered in heavy bandages and wrecked NIGHT armor, and carrying a mace in his hand and a pissed-off look on his face, Commander Hector Hall stood before the RedCent grunt like a dark spectre coming back to life. Kicking the knocked-out buddy aside, the Commander looked between the grunt and the terrified woman before he hardened his glare at the RedCent.
“Stay back!” The RedCent grunt aimed his weapon, hands shaking in fear. “I said stay the fuck back-”
In a moment, Hall moved at such a speed he looked like a blur, cutting the distance between the two. With one swing of his mace, he smacked him squarely on the head, sending him to the ground.
Hall turned to the woman he saved, who looked at him in horror. “Go… get to safety…”
Without another word, the woman ran toward the exit and into the streets, away from the alley. Now alone with the two RedCents, Hall grabbed the knocked-out buddy and woke him up, making the man see the bandaged-up Hall looking down at him with hateful eyes.
“You… I want you to send your boss a message…” Hall began, making him face the Commander. “Tell the White Magician,
Circe, that I am declaring war on her and on anyone who stands by her side.” He turned and walked up to the other grunt, who was crawling away from the Commander in fear, grabbing his bleeding head. He begged for his life, but Hall ignored his pleas. “And this
, this is for my men that you Centipedes have killed…”
He lifted his bloody mace and brought it down like a hammer on the begging Red Centipede as his buddy looked on in horror. He lifted it up once more to reveal the man’s head was crushed like a watermelon.
Commander Hector Hall was still alive, and as long as he was still breathing, SCYTHE would remain standing to fight against all threats against Gateway City.
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Hello if anyone actually ever sees this i just would like advice on want to do based on my parents. TW⚠️
Okay to start some background info is im 14 years old and have no way to make money. To start off if i don’t get any actual good advice im probably gonna end up dead. Hello, im AJ i want to talk about my life and how I got here in this place typing at 2:15 on a Thursday night. All my problems started in 3rd grade when my brother ran away from home when my drunk father tried to fight him. After he left i had no one left which lead me to being sad and the burdens of my family being put onto me as I got older I stopped talking which started my selective mutism. In 6th grade is when my depression hit a all time low and i started smoking vapes to try and make myself feel better i started hanging out with the wrong people to make myself feel something which also made me a masochist not in a sexual way In 7th grade the only person I had at this time was my cousin and we hung out more until her brother SA her infront of me and made me watch so we tried to run away cause he’s like a “golden child” so we knew her parents wouldn’t believe us. Long story short her dad found us threw her against the wall and chocked her. We was banned from seeing eachother and i lost everyone which lead me to the stupidest thing i could’ve done which obviously is smoking more and i started drinking💔💔 i would leave home and go to middle school drunk to feel sum. Okayyy time skip to this year (8th grade) As i said earlier my dad is an angry drunk and my mom is emotionally abusive which causes me to constantly be in fear and stress which cause me to start to lose weight from being under so much stress. When my dad comes home i immediately go in my room scared he’ll find something wrong with the house and yell at me about it. And with my mom I’ve been asking for a therapist since 6th grade but she says she’s looking she never does. In my house i can’t show any negative emotions cause I’ll get yelled at it’s to the point that I’ll just hold stuff in and refuse to cry until i reach a breaking point. My mom refuses to respect any opinions as simply just not touching me as (i don’t liked being touched cs of the thing with my cousin) she won’t stop and thinks it’s a game until i freak out and raise my voice a little bit and than she yells at me for raising my voice then it’s about my grades then it’s how she’s sorry she’s such a bad mother. Apologies literally don’t happen in my house unless it’s her saying that my dad can finish yelling at me for a pen misplaced then say “give me a hug” and if i don’t he gets mad again i don’t want to touch them i never do and never will. I’m currently online school which unfortunately causes me to be home often and every time I’m home i can literally feel the energy being drained out of me. In my house hugs don’t happen being comforted doesn’t happen the last time i was comforted was by my brother like 2 weeks before he left my dad got home drunk like usual and and came upstairs to yell at me until i was sobbing and left the room and my brother came in and whispered quiet so my dad didn’t hear is that it’s okay he does it cause he loves me. That’s the last time i felt warmth from my family that didn’t feel forced or fake. I love my brother so much i wouldn’t of been alive if it wasn’t for him right now but it’s honestly to much for me to do I’m currently failing all my classes and won’t make it to high school cause I’m under stress of my parents constantly every time i stand up i almost pass out out from my lack of eating cs of stress. I’m just done i need advice before i literally js kms cs it just looks like the only way out.
All my friends right now come from work. And they ain't nothing wrong with that. I just wanna meet more people.
I go to the gym in my free time. I'm first generation American, so If u racist against brown people please skip because I don't wanna hear that shit and we got no business hanging out. I remember a dude in school who distributed an underage girls nudes was making fun of my ethnicity. Like ok, being brown not a crime but being a pedophile is motherfucker.
I been working on myself the last couple of years. I'm proud of having the same job for the last 145 days - it helps it's a good job. But real talk I been turning over a new leaf. Im grateful to the universe.
I'm looking to make friends who could help me grow as a human and a son. I'm big on eating healthy and I want to live a life which sets forward a little change to make us humans think about why we treat each other and the earth and the animals around us so poorly.
There's a African proverb which says, 'if u wanna go fast, go alone. But if u wanna go far, go together'
This is a new reddit account because I am making an intentional online persona for myself. My last one was mad random. One love reddit.
This is a post just to follow up on Dalya Karezi from a couple days ago regarding entering medschool in Australia because they deleted their post and account. Sorry you're going through a lot like you said in your post and if you need to talk to someone please feel free to reach out to me to talk. Your mental health is important.