My sincere apologies for being behind on thank you’s for April and May, as I’ve been away on vacation. Coming home to a full mailbox really brightened my day! 🥰 all replies are written and the remaining ones will be dropped in the mail today ❤️
Keqani: thank you so much for the lovely post card! I loved the cute stickers and your card made me smile.
Chibi_haiku: thank you for the cute card! The cat stickers and washi tape were super cute. And thank you for the tips on improving my coffee making!
Elley_bean: thanks for the colorful Boston postcard! I loved learning about legos and I had no idea they could hold that much weight!
Melhen16: thanks for the pretty card! I loved the quote and stickers you sent.
T3ctim: thank you so much for the adorable koala card! It made my day receiving this all the way from Australia!
Destalena: thanks for the lovely German Shepard card and stickers! I really enjoyed hearing about your passion for fostering. I wrote you a novel back! Haha
Mystery sender “Christina P”: thank you for the card! I liked hearing about your love for Taylor Swift’s music and singing along in the car.
AraNeaLux: thanks for the postcard! I enjoyed learning about Minecraft and your interest in gaming.
Iz_a_bee: thanks so much for the card! I loved hearing about your passion for photography and how you’ve grown as a photographer.
Tyedyeamish: thank you for the card! It’s so cool that you’re a 2008 world record holder for most police patches collected!
Sourshrimpmaiden: thanks for the postcard! I enjoyed hearing about your love for Star Wars. The UK stamps are also cool!
Morenoodles: thanks so much for the lovely card! I enjoyed hearing about your travels to Paris and sharing some of my travel experiences with you.
Kk6321: thanks for the cute card! Congratulations on reaching the 1,000 flair milestone! I appreciated your podcast recommendations.
Princecowboy: thanks so much for the Mickey Mouse card! I loved reminiscing about Disney and Disney channel with you.
Inkyfingerpgs: thanks for the card! I loved hearing about your interest in fountain pens and learning more about them.
Pierresgirl: thank you so much for sharing your passion of shoe making with me! I loved hearing all about your classes and travels, especially Japan.
Rennbrig: thanks for the card and sharing your interest in Star wars with me! I loved learning more about it and your fav character.

Inspired by Solomon VK's Faufreluche posts.

D20	This staristocrat's badge of office
1	is a golden diadem which projects a hologram of Old Sol from its highest tine, as well as the rest of Man's Cradle-System orbiting about it.
2	is a hideous diamondoid mask made in the image of an alien demi-god from whom their esteemed house claims descent.
3	is an auroran magneto-cloth cape which flares with the oscillations of subtle fields.
4	is a porous meteoric amulet that echoes with the music of the spheres.
5	is a blade of enchained magnetic monopoles channeling ouroboric tangles of plasma - ever-glowing, their patterned glows expressing the cyclical yet self-degrading nature of the cosmos, able to cut through all but the most unnaturally enforced materials.
6	is a scepter containing a degenerate micro-verse within its topping globe.
7	is a battered helmet pulled from the suit of one of the first humans to reach outer space.
8	is a battle standard bearing the heraldry of their family, and topped with the head of a lion, preserved and animated to roaring unlife by cybernetic tubes woven through its flesh and bone.
9	is a halo of abstract mathematics, written directly on the fabric of space-time rather than mere matter.
10	is a pauldron of fused silicon, the remains of an artificial intelligence which almost overcame humanity.
11	is a dilating-lens lantern of an indestructible, orange-green alloy - fully unleashed, its actinic brilliance can guide in a ship from high orbit.
12	is a vial of their own, genetically-perfected blood, crystallized into a ruby-like gem.
13	is a crown of golden rings hovering about each other, each engraved with the zodiac of a different solar system.
14	is a famous artifact of Earth preserved within a temporal stasis-orb.
15	is a set of infrasonic pan pipes that can manipulate the minds of men and machine alike.
16	is a holy book written by the first settler of their world, in an eclectic script unreadable by anyone yet living.
17	is a shield with a brazen, hypercubic boss and a rippling purplish forcefield about.
18	is a labrys bearing edges honed to subatomic sharpness with whetstones hewn from the preternaturally dense heart of a collapsed star.
19	is a bowl holding a fractal bonzai grafted with branches of every fruit-bearing tree of humanity's homeworld.
20	is the head-sized smaragdine egg of some voidborne beast, the inevitable hatching of which is said to herald the end of the universe.

D20	This staristocrat's holdings
1	lie under a dimming sun, weakened by its fusion-harvest which forms the foundation of the staristocrat's wealth.
2	contain no life-bearing worlds, its population sustained only by technocratic hydro-pneumatic despotism.
3	bear the glassy-green sheen and asymmetrical mutations left by ancient nuclear war.
4	are mineral-rich but poor in organics and water, expending most of their export-wealth on life-giving imports just to survive.
5	produce a unique and inimitable spice, and are thus coveted by an extra-solar rival.
6	are either watery or gaseous, with dry, solid ground an unimaginable luxury - the populace living on great rafts or aerostats.
7	have recently absorbed a mass of refugees fleeing a black swan xeno-threat.
8	were enclosed from the common space of comet-cowboys, who plague it with their raids to this day.
9	are nestled among the ruins of an extinct alien civilization, probed only gently for fear of waking their automatic guardians.
10	are slowly but surely having their life-giving atmospheres stripped away by the rapacious solar wind of their red gigantism-suffering sun.
11	are deliberately kept ignorant of the wider galactic community to reduce their capacity to revolt, and so that the ruling class can portray themselves as deific through their technological capabilities.
12	are undergoing a long and delicate process of terraforming which structures cultural and religious cycles around these artificial seasons and critical thresholds.
13	are overgrown with a police state only nominally under the staristocrat's authority, and the computational bureaucracy that's arisen to process all their surveillance.
14	are infamous for their permissiveness, and abound in every sort of vice.
15	are torn apart on a planetary scale for the sake of resource-harvest and industry, and what unruptured ground exists is blanketed in choking smog outside sealed habitats.
16	were recently seized from a treasonous vassal and bestowed upon this staristocrat - the old holder's sympathizers still lurk within the population, evading the claws of inquisition.
17	exist mostly fictitiously, as moving shell-games of companies and titles.
18	are centered on an ecumenopolis with some roads paved with stones hewn before humanity's ancestors came down from the trees - its corners hide occultic dens of our darkest imaginings.
19	are generally scorching, deserts or liquid hells, their structures mirrored and extending tubes of heat exchanges and radiators like a seraphim wings.
20	are verdant in all forms of life - none go hungry, yet many are eaten, and a clan of masked physicians go about the populace to rebuke the tides of plague.

D20	This staristocrat is attended by
1	a harem of genetically-engineered Willendorfian Venuses, bearing a continuous stream of heirs who will duel over the matter of their inheritance in the arena of their crèche.
2	artful historians hunchbent over data-tablets, preserving every moment and detail of the staristocrat's life in imperishable crystalline records.
3	nigh-invisible bodyguards swaddled in light-bending metamaterial cloaks, heat haze auras ready to strike down any offense against their master.
4	clanking cyborg-knights - behind their cuirasses are tanks preserving the most loyal and chivalrous parts of their mortal brains.
5	slaves bearing explosive collars - the tribute of many conquered worlds.
6	a squadron of musclebound eunuch-janissaries raised from childhood with size- and strength-stimulating hormones and non-stop brainwashing.
7	clones of themself educated according to various traditions as diverse yet biologically-partial advisors.
8	the cryogenically-preserved heads of their forefathers, which sometimes dispense shivering, crackling counsel.
9	hovering laser-turrets fitted with targeting algorithms able to anticipate their master's desire to kill before it's consciously felt.
10	an enormous parrot with impeccable skill at mimicry, whose mind has been overwritten with every song recorded by humanity up until the time of its creation.
11	a pair of titanic wolfdogs, with metallic teeth that could rend apart a tank and hides that have turned aside artillery-shells.
12	the plush animatronic companion of their childhood, its digital personality updated to be a competent advisor.
13	a caste of butlers who've served their family for generations, bred like pedigreed dogs.
14	a choir singing their praises, the choir's lungs replaced with cybernetic jet-intakes slatted between ribs, so that they might sing unceasing.
15	a former whipping boy, their oldest friend, bearing the delicate scars of tremendously sophisticated tortures.
16	tumbling jesters dressed in patchworks of impossible colours captured from the coronas of half-real suns.
17	technotheologic angels dancing through the air on wings of incandescent blazons.
18	abductees from primitive worlds fitted with neural implants which make them believe they are simply in an extended dream.
19	a team of chefs who can prepare the delicacies of a dozen worlds, never repeating the same twice in their master's lifetime.
20	grey masters of anagathic science, whisper-arguing over the injections and ointments that will quicken them a while longer.

D20	This staristocrat's court
1	is entertained by a vapourous alien intelligence which takes possession of lesser courtiers through a fanciful hookah.
2	has its lesser members partially memory-wiped when they attend it - able to recall their skills, yet unable to remember much of their own identities, and so how to apply those skills for personal benefit.
3	is deliberately, performatively humble, held in barns and suchlike.
4	is overlooked by a cine-dome showing stars, moons, and constellations in fortuitous alignments.
5	is addicted to novelty, and constantly seeks new performances and grotesques.
6	is made up nepotistically of their siblings who did not win the contest to inherit the throne.
7	are waited on hand and foot by fragile ceramic robots imprinted with the tightly-enchained engrams of political criminals.
8	takes place entirely remotely - members are provided radio-devices with frequencies that trigger voice-like vibrations in great bells this staristocrat is in the constant presence of.
9	were at first ironically and now legitimately entranced by a bloody cult of sacrifice and agonies.
10	has been forced to accept elected representatives from among the populace by a revolt - to the grumblings of those who attained their positions through inheritance.
11	is wracked by a scandal involving mistresses overspending from public coffers.
12	is perpetually-wrapped in augmented-reality projections of mythic mimesis.
13	is burrowed among the roots of the biggest mountain of their throne-world, so that it could survive all but the most devastating attacks.
14	are all accompanied by a member of an order of courtesan-assassins implanted with acid-glands in case their charge shows overt disloyalty.
15	solve disputes among themselves with duels, and drill daily with various weapons and fighting styles.
16	is held within a hollow pyramid, with this staristocrat at the top point and many stairs and levels filtering petitioners between them and the entrance at the base.
17	is largely taken over by a conspiracy to poison this staristocrat, and even the uninvolved have begun to circle like vultures.
18	is a ring of stone thrones built to scale with the renown of the one who sits upon them - this staristocrat themself sits like a small child on a throne fit for giants - their seneschal on a stool.
19	is held around a colosseum, where gladiators and vicious alien beasts fight for their amusement and haruspexies.
20	is itinerant, a grand airship which hovers above the realms of hosting vavasours.

D20	This staristocrat's noble flaw
1	is hubris - they believe they can become like God by funding breakneck scientific process.
2	is bravery - they will fight to the last in the face of overwhelming odds, even if better options present themselves.
3	is honour - their thinking is rigid and totally un-utilitarian.
4	is generousity - they give without thinking, disrupting economies and fostering dependence with their largesse.
5	is parental love - they spoil their children on a terrible, cosmic scale.
6	is a thirst for justice - a continent has burned due to their need for a punishment fitting a truly awful crime.
7	is filial piety - their increasingly-senile dowager-mother has them tied around her bony finger.
8	is tolerance - they've cultivated cosmopolitan communities, yet failed to confront division and rising extremism.
9	is an aesthetic sense that is souring into decadence.
10	is persistence - they are a dogged obsessive.
11	is realpolitik - they've alienated possible allies with ruthlessness.
12	is faith - they lean often into outright zealotry.
13	is cautiousness - they often dive into outright paranoia.
14	is competitiveness - they're innovative, but often only in the tortures applied to defeated rivals.
15	is cleanliness - they have advanced to a purgative germaphobia.
16	is contentment - they have come to peace with all things, even if others demand their action.
17	is honesty - they will never lie, even if it benefits them and their people.
18	is is humility - they are overly-convinced of their own incapacity.
19	is romantic love - their spouse manipulates them to their knowledge yet total acquiescence.
20	is imagination - their fancies often end up unproductive or outright destructive.

Situation: 15yo girl(no blood relation), my grandmother(80yo) is her guardian. "B" started living with my wife and I(early 30s) 6 weeks ago. Full story: Parents were on and off drugs, in and out of jail types. Dad passed just a couple weeks after she moved in. Mom is on the streets, most likely. B was being raised by her grandmother, a friend of my gma. B's gma passed when she was 3. My gma took her in. Has raised her for about 12yrs. has legal guardianship. When I was 20 and B was a bratty kid(I now realize she was dealing with trauma) , I didn't care much for her. Our relationship has evolved from "cousins" to uncle/niece to more like fathedaughter.
Grandma let her move in with us. B has usually struggled with school for a while. Got in to some bad habits in 8thgrade. Ditching class kinda stuff. We found vapes (nic and thc) I and wife moved back to town 2 yrs ago, so we kind of only saw her at summers and Christmas for 8 years, so we've kinda been out of the loop most of her school years. Only know what grandma shared.
Highschool has been more of a challenge. I knew her grades were bad. told gma to bring her to our house after school. My wife and I both have education degrees(wife is a SPED aide about to start her credential program and I used to teach 6th grade). She came over for tutoring/ homework advice a couple times. I've gone to grandma's house a few times. It's just tough when I'm working full time+ and still have to do upkeep on our own house. Gma lives 20 minutes away, which isn't much, but hard to get there every/ every-other day.
ALL that to say: Since she started living with us, i've really stepped up how involved i've been with school. I'm running into issues where staff won't talk to me. And I'm looking for advice from other educators.
examples of some of the issues/interactions:
-Day 2 after spring break(she moved in during) she has an IEP meeting. Grandma had already requestd I be included. Day 1, I tried asking the office if they can resend grandma a copy so she can share it with me. I and my wife wanted to see her previous accommodations before the IEP the next day. Registrar says she can't give it to me. I Know. I just want to make sure her guardian has a copy and it isn't lost in a file box or in email. I kinda raised my voice and ended up having a convo with her sped case worker.
-a week ago, I'm trying to get her unofficial transcript to send to a charter school. Gma had it on her phone, but her phone is frustrating to use with the text enlarged. I try pulling it up to print at work so she can run it back to the school around the corner. I call the parent help center to find out what the transcript is under on the parentvue site. He said he has to talk to gma as the ed rights holder. FERPA doesn't cover how to use an app, right? Saw him in person yesterday before another IEP meeting. He remembered me because I told someone else he wouldn't help me. (he didn't help because he didn't know where the "print transcript" button was after I had gma say "hi" on speaker)
-Registrar says there's no release of information that guardian can sign. No FERPA waiver or way to extend me to be included. Have to go to the courts and be added as her legal guardian(haven't started that lengthy process). says parent help center did the right thing by not telling me how to access the transcript.
-grandma told me to arrange a meeting with me, her and counselor(re:summer school) because I work and she is retired with a wide open schedule. Called school. explain, relays to counselor. secretary said counselor can only talk to gma. I explain that she told me to make the appt. She will be at the meeting i'm trying to schedule. secretary relays and then the counselor gets on the phone. We make an appt. I understand he is limited in what he can tell me, but he wouldn't even take my call.
-we saw AP after that counselor meeting. explained the situation. He said that they could get sued giving the info. (who would the school get sued by? guardian wants me to have the info!) He gave me a caregiver's affidavit. since she is living with me, I can get the day-to-day info from teachers that i'm wanting. Later he calls me, says he looked into it. Because I live out of the boundary, she would be forced to move to the HS by our house. Which we don't want because I think there's more substance issues there. So i'm back to no info
-some of her teacher responded to my email. I was just asking their late work policy and general classroom things like that. Where do they post resources. Several of them have very sparse canvas sites(i get it, teachers are busy)half are nearly blank. 2 teachers don't post grades on parentvue website. 1 responded to me. 1 replied to gma, and she forwarded it. I had to get a different AP involved to get a response. She also called guardian before giving me the info. I didn't think class policies are restricted info.
This was a long post. I'm just really frustrated because she is going to fail and I was involved too late. Feels like staff are more concerned with following over-rigid policy and not helping me to help our student.
TLDR: 15yo living with me. Not her guardian. Most staff won't share even general info and the district doesn't have a FERPA policy or waivers/ROI

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It’s time for my ‘83 240 to go to a new home. Prices are all over the place. Looking for thoughts on my list price.
The good: In the 10 years I’ve owned it it’s been serviced religiously. Converted to a Klima AC system. Body very straight. Life long Texas car. Minimal, minimal not visible rust. Maxilite 15” Bundt wheels. 280,000 miles, factory head replacement at 97,000 miles. Very nice interior minus the driver’s seat. I’ve done little things like H4 headlights, Rigid LED lights mounted under the bumper, zebrano wood refurbished, zebrano console drink holder, aftermarket wood steering wheel, other chingederas here and there. Power sun roof, works great, no leaks. No blow-by. Dash has a couple of very small cracks. I’ve been obsessed with keeping it a beautiful dash. Cole is Light Ivory with MBTex-Sienna interior.
The bad: The driver’s seat back support is in rough shape. Have a replacement frame and hard cover for it. One power window doesn’t work. Antenna does not travel full length. Windshield has a pit or two, rear window defrost barely defrosts. The fiber optic lights for the controls switches do not work. There ate most likely other issues I don’t notice anymore but it’s small stuff. Has been re-keyed and the door lock/trunk vacuum system is not functioning.
I’m thinking $4-5K. Car is here in S. Texas. Is this a fair price?

Hi everyone!
I wanted to give a detailed review of my experience with sm global package for taemin’s metamorph concert in tokyo at the nippon budokan. I am months delayed in posting this (thanks to grad school) but I initially wrote it out of post-concert depression prior to returning to the states back in March.
buying the global package, twin ver:
the package was announced sometime in december 2023 if im not mistaken and I stayed up until midnight (pst) on 1/22 to book a twin package for ‘course c’ which was 2N3D (sunday concert 3/10) for my friend and I. The packages that included all three nights (5D3N) of the show sold out the quickest, but there were still packages available for individual show days. As a tip to make things easier, make sure to have your friends’ passport info to input in advance so the booking goes easier if you are booking a twin package. If you are the one making the booking, make sure to have the global package app downloaded as they will send you notifications along the way about day of show schedule, merch preorder, etc. They ask that you relay this info to your partner when you purchase a twin package, as you are the primary reservation holder. You also cannot split the cost while booking, it must go on one card through paypal. When booking, you have the option to request extending your stay at the hotel through sm c&c, but since we were planning to go to Kyoto after the concert, we just checked out the day after the concert as planned. Also we didn’t have any ACE memberships, but if I remember correctly, you can enter that info to get an exclusive MD benefit.
merch preorder:
Prior to arriving in Japan, we got a notification at around 6pm pst on 2/28 (11 days prior to the show) with our exclusive merch preorder links which went live at midnight that same night. The prices were in yen and you pay using paypal. I had no problem getting the MD I wanted, however since there were limits on the amount of MD you could purchase (including the 2 different pins, which were 1 per order) I had to ask my friend if I could purchase an additional pin through his MD preorder link since there were 2 different pins in this specific concert MD. The day of the show (3/10) at around 10am, we picked up the MD we preordered with ease and pulled our concert seat tickets and received our global package exclusive gift (a mag safe wallet) and let the staff know which transports we would be taking (round trip bus or one way to/from the venue). I was a ljttle disappointed in the global package benefit MD as I had seen what the metamorph show in Korea had received (I think it was a handwritten letter from Taemin and a little lego figurine of him 🤧). Everything was smooth and efficient. Even after the concert, I was able to get into the MD line to purchase more, even though most of the MD was sold out.
checking in/out of the hotel & hotel review:
We stayed at the Hotel Monterey Hanzomon which was really close to the venue and across the street from the Hanzomon subway line, so it was very accessible by public transit. My friend and I both flew into Haneda and it took a little less than an hour to get to the hotel from the airport via public transit, but after a 12.5 hour long flight it was exhausting. When I asked the people at the airport if there was an airport limousine to the area, they said it wouldn’t take me close enough to the hotel and recommended I take the subway. We had met a few people in line for the MD pickup who said that we (allegedly) had a nicer hotel than those who did the NCT 127 global package for their Tokyo dome show (same weekend) but all in all, Hanzomon was an economy hotel with nothing to write home about. I will say the breakfast buffet included was really nice and I’m glad we didn’t skip out on it. When we checked in the day before the show, we just showed our passports and checked in like any other hotel. In the lobby there was a whiteboard with all of the concert info (opening times for md pickup, bus schedules, and concert schedule) displayed in english, korean, chinese, and japanese. I was a little bummed to find out that the concert (which took place in the middle of the afternoon) was only going to be an hour and a half maximum, even though NCT’s concert was almost 4 hours (!!!) in length.
day of show:
We had breakfast in the lobby around 8:30/9ish then after that we got to the sm desk at 9:45am to pick up our md and pick our tickets for the show (thanks to the tip from another fan on reddit, well worth getting there a little before the booth opened). I did notice the ACE membership MD benefits were nice, but neither me nor my friend have any fanclub memberships. It was relatively straightforward, they checked our passports and handed us a lanyard that acted as our bus pass and then one person per twin package picks the pair of tickets at random (in sets of 2 so you sit with your friend) and we got seats in section A3 (floor) which were great. They asked us if we wanted a seat on the bus ride round trip or one way and we originally said only one ride to the venue, but my friend decided to take the bus back too once we got to the venue so we notified the SM staff and they added us to the roster for the ride back easily. When we got to the venue (an hour and a half-ish before doors) they escorted us to the front and we were let in immediately. The efficiency was incredible. They didn’t check my bag prior to entering like how they would for a concert in the US so I didn’t bring a water bottle into the venue but thankfully they had vending machines inside and concessions on the top levels of the venue. We also went to a booth upstairs to pair our lightsticks for the show, since the Japanese Shinee Lightstick app is only available for Japanese phones, so we showed our ticket locations and they were able to calibrate. The show was short yet sweet, we did not see anyone ejected for taking photos/videos but we were too scared to risk it. If you are caught filming or taking photos they will make you delete the photos/videos and kick you out with no sign of return, but I think because it was the last day and we were in the middle of a crowd, it was a little easier to get away with. There was a sadness in the air because it was Taemin’s last concert as a soloist under SM, but overall the show was incredible. One thing of note though is Japanese audiences are very quiet, they tend to clap rather than scream in between songs and there were times where you could hear someone from the rafters sneeze and it would resonate, so be prepared for that cultural difference. We still screamed when it felt appropriate to do so and the fanchants were loud but it was definitely strange to be golf clapping in between songs, especially in comparison to shows in the US where fans are barking 💀. It was nice to be able to hear Taemin speak uninterrupted during the ments, without pick-me fans interjecting their screams. He spoke exclusively in Japanese and there was no translator so we were left to guess what he was saying. A K-fan next to us was live Papago-ing his ments to Korean and I would peek and read what the translation was. Also shout out to this lovely K-shawol because she let my friend borrow one of her lightsticks! Once the show ended, everyone queued up to leave the venue in an orderly fashion and we cleaned up any trash we saw and we went out to the MD booth to buy any last minute MDs before going to the bus. On the bus, they gave us each a (unthemed) bag with some strawberry cookies and a waterbottle and we had a fun time air-dropping photos and videos from the show with other (braver) global package attendees. Everyone we met was so lovely and everything about the global package went very smoothly and efficiently.
edit: I forgot to mention that Japanese fans who had floor seats (most likely ACE club membership) received some sort of paper goods (postcard, photocard, folder etc.) upon entering the venue, a benefit that global package members did not receive. I only saw it because I went upstairs to the main entrance to sync my lightstick. I was too afraid to ask about the benefits, but I think it also might have had to do with which company you bought your ticket from (?) or where you preordered the album from (?)
closing thoughts:
the day after the show, we took advantage of the free breakfast and checked out with ease. The SM C&C staff left the whiteboard in the lobby and left a nice note for us and we wrote our thank yous on there. Overall, the package cost was $1559 for 2 people ($779 ea, 2 twin beds for 2N3D) and even though it was pricey it was so worth the convenience of not having to try to buy tickets locally, which I heard sold out entirely during fan club presale. Please note that this cost did not include airfare or transit to/from the airport. The concert coincided with my spring break and Taemin is one of my ults, I just wrote a paper on him for grad school so it was a no brainer, I had to be there no matter what lol. I was a bit disappointed in the lack of theming (I heard the concerts in Korea come with themed rooms, themed snacks, etc) and the lack of transportation to and from the airport (which I heard is sometimes an option for shows in Korea and would have been a great benefit). But otherwise the hotel was clean and convenient (a little small, but that’s how it is normally in an economy hotel in Japan), breakfast was good, SM staff were helpful and nice, and we made some new Shawol friends in the meantime :)
overall, I would absolutely book with global package again, but I would definitely want to see a show in Korea to compare the benefits. It was an unforgettable experience to be apart of the pearl aqua ocean 💎
if you have any questions ask away! prior to booking this package, I took the advice of another fan under a different thread, and it was really helpful so I wanted to offer any insight based off my experience.

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I regret sometimes to not have bought a chinese microscope but it's also a really nice object worth repairing.
When I got help to id the microscope I was well advised of the fine focus issue but only realised I really had it when using the microscope and failing to get proper focus at 100x and later getting some stage lock.
I was not able to get answer about the brass part replacement and never was able to get help from Nikon user group on Facebook (all my post got deleted immediately by Facebook and got no help / answer from moderator / admin) about why (I was hoping to get alternative source of the part or advices).
Found two discussion, one about a 3d model avaialble online (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5005716/files) and another one (https://metalworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=197697) where machinist was doing the piece in brass (usefull as some key measurements are shared).
My first attempt was a repair of the existing piece with "nylon soldering" but it was a full failure. Shrink was too important and it was not possible to bring the piece back on it's brass holder.
I looked at local fab lab type of options, eventually for home options. I was not much knowledgeable on 3d printing so I had a lot of reading to do (including in free 3d cad / gear generator options).
Adding equipement cost, resin risk and the fact that my hobby was microscopy / micology, not 3d printing, I ended evaluating 3d printing service options.
Placed a order using the 3d part found online and was I recommanded to change material to polyjet / some other resin. Eventually got the parts (3 for around 60-70$) and the fit looked fine (would likely need some extra glue) and details good enough but a few turns in the brass outer ring made some white appear on the black pieces.
Looked at it under stereomicroscope and there was some obvious shedding. The seller told me it was just holding mateial but I cut the piece in half and it was obvious that it was bad material / bad bonding / curing.
I gave a try to casting using silicon mold, also something new to me even if Ihad learned some basic of casting (latex / plaster) when I was young.
More reading and shopping and I eventually did two mold test, one a full failure and the other that was a little bit better. Size of the piece make all this very difficult. First try was with some candle wax and it was nice.
Today I tried with casting resin (task 2 resin that also had lower shrink). It was a failure at first as piece was ultra soft / pliable but I did some more reading and put it back in the mold to bring it back in it's round shape after more time it got more rigid (also have the option of extra curing step).
Positives are the piece seem to be rigid enough, not shedding under scratch test, negatives are air bubbles, loss of fidelity in details and one side being too high (overflow of resin and sanding such piece also have health concern, so would need to buy mask). It's actually not clear to me if the groove on each side is important or just a side effect of the manufacturing process.
Looking in the stereo microscope I can see further loss of detail and also bubbles defects. It does look like a mold for a unbroken original piece or even one from the brass replacement version would have helped keeping more details fidelity (as there was some fidelity loss from polyjet one).
Also there is still some lock when playing with the replacement parts so I'm worried there could be another inner piece broken (I remember reading about some kind of spring but I was not able to find more about that).
I'll maybe give a new attempt at mold and resin but would also have the option of ordering 3d printed one in another material
ps: Sorry, I wanted to share photo but new reddit editor is unusable on Ipad.

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• Magpul MOE Midlength Handguard $25
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• Holosun micro red dot/T2 riser
• x2 Glock Gen 1-4 slide releases
• 1” scope ring (used for a flashlight)
• x2 magpul 5.56 pmag dust covers
• x2 streamlight scout mounts
• x2 streamlight Protac clicky caps
• cheap double pistol mag belt holder
• sling swivel bipod
• x2 basic nylon slings (black and FDE)
• Wolf Tactical Medium Velcro belt (used briefly until I got my HC belt, actually pretty rigid/low profile)

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Tl;Dr. I want to strip the inside and outside of my car to give it QOL/modernized updates and have it look cute while doing it. I'm new and don't know where to start.
2nd attempt at this post. Will post pics in comments.
Long story short there's a lot wrong with this car. I believe it's worthy of being restored but it's going to take a lot of time and money I know.
But here's what's up with my car. I bought it from a college student for like $700. I have put in like 2k into fixing the bare minimum safety stuff. But there's still a lot that's wrong with it.
The interior is not just ugly. It is actively falling apart: the seats foam is crumbling, the interior trim is falling off, there's no panel on the hatch that protects the wires or the lock latch, the fabric on the doors will not lay flat, the driver's side door window mechanics are loose ASF, the doors all squeak and have to be slammed shut.
The exterior is jank. There's a ton of dents, chips, the top coat is flaking, so much of the exterior trim is missing, the bumpers are so rigid you can snap pieces off of it, and there are some rust spots that I know need a good patch.
The radio/ac/cruise control -(idk what to call this and for the life of me can not figure it out from Google searches or mechanics) doesn't have a radio, temp knob, a lot of the wires are just loosey goosey, cruise control is connected but doesn't work, can't adjust brightness, and I hate that the cup holders are part of that dash because it makes the whole thing fall forward on to the shifter.
The rest is just making it aesthetically.. decent. Like I want the rims to match the brake pads (like where you can see behind the rims and that little thing on the breaks is the same color as the rim idk what that is or what it's called), I want to upgrade the shifter knob to be fun and not sticky old pleather, get the windows tinted, repaint the car, and have an interior that goes with the exterior that's not factory grey.
I know I can do a lot of this myself but I don't know where to get started. I'm not opposed to going to a professional but idk what to search. I don't know what to ask for. I don't even know if a body shop would touch it or be able to do what I'm talking about.

Hello , new graduate straight to NICU for a year now. Always looking for ways to improve or change things that I find. I have a few questions about other NICU’s way of doing things because why not learn or improve to help the patients together. Couple of questions of things I’ve been curious about. 1: Our facility uses the Drager vn500 babylog/evita ventilators for conventional ventilation and the 3100a for HFOV. I’ve read that that HFOV is a mode the vents can handle but not in USA currently . Does anybody have updates or further information regarding it or actually have experience with using that feature ? 2: with the 3100a and the rigid circuit how are you all doing turns ? We have circuit through porthole and flip baby 180 and move circuit through other porthole . I have heard of the circuit coming in from head of bed and using an elbow adapter to turn head only that way . I would love to trial the elbow but the concern for laminar flow being interrupted with an elbow adapter is brought up and don’t want to risk co2. 3: we use Neo-bars with cloth tape for securing ett/ feeding tube . Does anybody have any experience with the archangel ETT holder or any other securing methods that you’ve used and liked . (Excluding taping ) Thanks for input for the loaded questions !

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Looking back on my childhood I'm realizing that my dad viewed his role strictly by the rules he needed to follow and enforce. He fit his kids into rigid roles instead of meeting us where we were at. We were not allowed to be kids; instead, many people would comment about how mature and responsible we were. I would always get compliments on how reverent my sacrament prayers were when I was a priest, when in truth I was so terrified of making a mistake, I put everything I had into saying them correctly. I was not in those prayers because only my internalized shame showed up on Sunday. No wonder I always felt exhausted and had a headache by the time I had to go home.
My dad was so proud of me because I was a righteous priesthood holder, an ideal member. I followed the rules perfectly and mentally abused myself when I made the smallest slip-up. The only way I could feel secure from my Dad's anger and and my own insecurity was by being perfect within the church. We were a family that looked so good on paper, but behind the scenes, the loneliness and anxiety was agonizing. It got to the point where I conflated lack of anxiety with peace and joy. Because my dad only saw himself as the role the church gave him, I didn't know joy, I didn't know authenticity, I didn't know myself.

This is part of a collection of notes I have made so far. Thanks to SirPavlova for insightful contributions. Comment-exclusive material is marked with spoilers, which will be my policy as the author may choose to decanonize anything said only in comments. ([MAIN DIRECTORY]: [1 taint dragons], [2 nulls souls], [3 academy Vanavan], [4a gadgets humans], [4b EVI], [5a library rules], [5b evil library], [7a Nexus glossary], [7b Nexus detail], [7c Nexus-earth war], [8a magic catalog], [8b magic], [9a Yearbook], [9b Emma’s Null, Mal’tory’s fate], [10a portals], [10b ECS crate], [10c taint], [10d dragons], [10e tainted dragon god], [11 timeline], [74 Nexus King].)

The Library

The Library is an alien entity established at or soon after the solidifying of planar Nexus. It existed before the first of the ten Elvish civilizations; its first enslaved victims have been wandering since the founding of Nexus and its repository contains ten Nexian scripts corresponding to present High Nexian and the nine fallen kingdoms, and it uses an additional, outlier cthulhian primordial script for personally-related materials [54]).
The Library was not built by humanoids, but rather by the same primordial makers who crafted the sapience-mimicking ‘gods’, the terraformed adjacent realms, and mana radiation, who are currently known only by their shadow over the present setting. The Library is one of the elder sources who existed closest to the birth of the Nexian dimensional subspace and “might have heard whispers and echoes of a time before [the creation of the Nexian universe]” according to Articord.

Construct and “god”

The Library behaves like an artificial intelligence (familiar territory if you read JCB’s other series), albeit with alien operating conditions. It uses meat bodies and physical objects as hardware, swaps ‘virtual’ for ‘ethereal’, and carefully delineates between the host for corporeal structure and its native incorporeal being.
Nexians identify the Library as a construct, but it appears to also match the character of a Nexian ‘god’, albeit one with independent will and thought. It is odd the King has not slain or devoured the Library as it threatens his narrative control, manifested most recently in making Emma Booker a Seeker to get at information Nexian states buried prior. Perhaps the King thinks he has it firmly under thumb, can tap users’ queries and submissions freely, and its utility as a resource and predator of Adjacent Realm’s information justifies keeping it around.

“What’s more, the books you see aren’t simply books. The library, the entire construct, is an entity. The books are the physical manifestations of this ethereal entity’s memories, ones that we can interact with. What I’m trying to say here is that even the library is fallible, newrealmer-” [48]
“Yeah, I do. I was informed it’s not just a neat little collection of books, an institution, or an organization in the typical sense. It’s an entity, a living, breathing being in its own right.” “These presuppositions are acceptable enough to proceed.” [49]

Library’s operation

Archive and curator and mysterious ultimate beneficiary

“We were established and constructed to perform one, simple, and unwavering task: to collect, organize, and preserve all forms of knowledge in perpetuum. For the library is eternal, but the mortal world is not. Knowledge without preservation is meaningless, and we are the keepers of meaning.” [19]

The Library’s prime directive is to archive information about the mortal world and physical goods submitted to it.
Although the library implies that its motive is to preserve a record of mortal civilization for a future after their extinction where someone will derive meaning from it, that statement does not stand up to scrutiny. There is an implicit assumption that mortal knowledge is valuable, therefore the mortal world must be valuable for creating it. Yet that contradicts with the Library’s following assertions that “It does not care for the worlds and realms beyond our own aside from the knowledge they may provide” and “The library exists to serve no one but itself”.
To be consistent, the Library’s motive must be preservation for preservation’s sake. But that too makes little sense. As a rule, self-motivated collectors usually develop their hobby out of passion for their target subjects, not indifference. The Library’s apathy towards the mortal world becomes logical when you reframe archiving as a job someone forcibly assigned to it which the Library is compelled to execute regardless of its own feelings. From there, the bendable but otherwise firm rules that constrain the Library’s trades make sense: the Library’s assignment has parameters it must obey, even if it is hurt and disrespected.
The Library’s unnavigable structure, apparent lack of freedom to fully adjust its rules to simultaneously achieve sodality with humanoids with efficient knowledge collection, and overall indifference towards mortal wellbeing strongly suggest that Nexians and humanoids are not the Library’s intended audience – the Library exists to extract value from humanoids for someone else’s benefit.
I suspect that the Library has offered Emma a lie about its prime directive, which is why it paused to judge Emma’s reactions after making the original series of statements above. (“The owl hooted deeply, taking a moment to gauge my reactions, despite very much being aware that the helmet obscured anything happening beneath it.” [19])
Given the Library’s age, its likely masters are its primordial creators.

Library Structure

Higher Plane. The Library’s world is defined by Thacea as a ‘higher plane’, not a mortal one, so part of the immaterial ‘heavens’? [51] The Library’s statements are consistent with it being another world (“Then Buddy shall lead you to the entrance hall. From there, you may exit back into your world.”) and that it is a nexus with multiple entrances: at least one corporeal entrance, and strongly-implied incorporeal entrances. Perhaps the Library is a virtual space somehow intruding upon reality.

Outside

“For in the boundless eons that it has stood, from scantily a tent in the middle of the untamed plains, to the grand spire you see before you, it has never, ever encountered a being such as you.” [49]

The Library is implied to have always existed on the Nexus although it has changed its location and appearance. Its ivory tower stands on an isolated outcropping near Transgracian Academy’s waterfall, hundreds of stories high and piercing the cloudy layer. A precariously narrow bridge with just enough space for eighty gargoyles to sit connects it to Academy grounds; the Library probably ‘owns’ half of the bridge.
The Transgracian Academy for the Magical Arts has been host to the Library from its founding during the times of one of the prior fallen kingdoms; Transgracian is older than the ~30K years of the 10th elven epoch. No one has hosted it longer than the Academy.

Inaccessibility and relationship with Nexus

As far as we know, the Library is inaccessible to anyone without Crown approval. According to Lartia, Transgracia and Elaseer are a “national security” region requiring permission from officials to travel to. Getting access to the Library requires additional authorization to go onto school grounds. Despite this stranglehold, The Library seems to be content with the quantity and quality of its visitors.

Inside

The Library’s mega-stadium-sized+ world, inside larger than outside, has a background mana concentration four times higher than Nexian typical levels, probably for maintaining twisted spaces and search functionalities. The Library can rebuild its internal space on the fly and stabilize local wormholes or portals in its stacks.
Its structure appears to be floating in a white infinite void, superficially resembling the white skybox of Emma’s projector. Depictions in the book of punishment suggest the white skybox itself houses a collective intelligence - what the thousands and thousands of foxes become when their physical-bodied presence is not required.
Entrance door. Always remains in sight despite the constant rearrangements; however, the reciprocal is not true, all the other users aren’t in view from the entrance. Probably a mirage ‘you aren’t locked in’ comfort.
Stacks. The stacks are a mix of architectural styles. They writhe and books are haphazardly kept. The foxes and owls navigate the maze without fail and use looped space to warp about.
Inner sanctum. Where the admin’s godly-core essence likely resides. Only owls may enter. Protected by the souls and bodies of enslaved mortals kept alive as punishment, those two mentioned separately.
Seeker’s respite. For Seekers of Truth or people acting on behalf of the Library outside of the treaty, but long unused until recently. Woodland adventuring inn/tavern look, entered from the same main door. I assume it will become a hangout and headquarters for naughty activities when Emma needs to hide the auras of illicit acquisitions from the school. Has books, hangings, and pictures of ancient Nexian historic interest and a register of prior Seekers.

Emotive structure

The Library’s interior design changes to fit its moods. The usual features are a stadium-like space of evermoving stacks, solid white blocks, ornate wood panels, “render distance” hazy fog darkness that allows foxes to warp, and ominous picture-frame “windows” pouring light in from an endless white abyss. When the Library is upset, it is a dungeon of claustrophobic cobblestone, lifeless grey facades accented with dark obsidian and basalt, armored foxes, and eerier hazy fog.

Library aides

The Library [Admin]

Stated directly at a few points (“The library, or the Librarian”, “The library, and indeed all of its aides”, etc.), there is a greater entity plainly called “the library” that manifests in the dome overhead as a black void impenetrable to Emma’s sensors. This being administrates the archives from the guarded inner sanctum. It may mint new Library cards because an owl appeared to go there to retrieve Emma’s card.
The lesser aides relay the admin’s psychic(?) communication and decisions to patrons when it manifests. Lower-ranked foxes normally interact only with the owls, but the admin used Buddy at one point.
The admin has more authority than the owls when determining trades, but it also appears to have restrictions or prime directives constraining its exchange behavior that it has to test against (see the quote in the “Suspending the rules” section later). According to the Librarian owl’s testimony, the admin’s suspension of the mind-scan veracity check when trading with Emma the first time might not have worked and the trade would have been arrested somehow.
The darkening of the dome reminds me of the shadow that appears nearby, but not overlapping, a tainted person having a miasma attack. I’m going to guess it is a similar principle – a thinning of local reality only perceptible to people with mana-sight so that a presence on the other side can look through it like a window. It’s not a hole, so it doesn’t change the net background levels of mana; Emma doesn’t get a spike warning.

Librarian Owls

Assistants to the Library’s admin, they serve the interests of the Library. The book of punishment depicts multiple owls, but only one has been encountered so far which wears a graduation cap. Owls take over for underperformed foxes and arbitrate complex transactions when nuance is required, literally sitting on the fox’s head. Although the foxes seem more fallible, the owls are also fallible.
Owls are more selfish and closer to the Library’s interests; they are willing to offer deceptive trades for the purpose of acquiring more information.
Owls have finite processing capability and a limited ability to divide their attention between tasks. (“I’m afraid that will not be possible. The librarian is currently preoccupied with matters far more important than your own, mortal.” [19])
Only owls have access to the admin’s inner sanctum, not foxes.

Assistant Foxes

A chunk of the Library’s processing power, reified into a fox when not a dissociated part of the white void. They have characteristics of both biological organisms and VIs, or more likely slave AIs programmed to love their labor with limited freedom because the Library considers slavery ethical. They are fallible in trades.
Foxes sync up unnaturally like a hivemind. Foxes wormhole across the library via dark hazy spots and never get lost. They have advanced sensory and detection capabilities beyond that of biological creatures that don’t seem to trigger mana bursts, although maybe we simply aren’t seeing it reported. They can eat mortal food.
Unpaired foxes accelerate research queries.

Paired foxes

JCB explains how foxes get paired: Foxes named by a user who walks into the Library are assigned to that person for the rest of their life. Foxes want to be paired with someone who can trade knowledge for their whole lifetime. They are possessive towards their user. They seem to have performance goals they hope to reach, and their trade deals are evaluated by the owls.
Paired foxes advocate for their namer or cardholder in ways the Librarian owls do not as a form of balance. They are also responsible for writing up the information exchanged to the Library.
Paired foxes develop individualism, but it is unclear if this is a VI-like “adaptive amenity” for the convenience of the user or if it is a true organic change.
Buddy. Buddy is a space cadet to the degree he falls out of sync. It is unclear if outside influence corrupts or adds “real” personality to the assistant fox subroutine, or if he is merely adapting to Emma’s user profile. Curiously, it was Buddy that initially suggested the out-of-norm observation-based deal, and he seems to have a reputation.

Slaves

Like many major Nexian institutions, e.g. Transgracian Academy, the Library enslaves sapient beings. This applies to its internal hierarchies: foxes appear to be sapient, but their allowed actions are rigidly constrained.
The Library also enslaves outside sapients. Some of them were enslaved for committing what the Library considers a crime against it. The Library says it keeps the slaves as defense for its inner sanctum.
The Library’s enslavement is eternal, beyond the sanity limits of a mortal mind. Bound souls eventually go crazy - becoming “lost.” The prisoners of the library are miserable enough to moan on cue, so they still seem to be independent minds even though they are ancient; therefore, the Library must periodically repair its slaves’ sanities as maintenance.

Patrons of the Library

“This card demonstrates the integrity of one’s character. It serves as a mark of honor, and a symbol of virtue. It shows that you have been vetted, scrutinized, and probed by one of the wisest, oldest beings in all of existence, comparable only to His Eternal Majesty in its wisdom and judgment.” [45]

Befitting a society that wrongly conflates wisdom with technical knowhow and repository size, Nexians seem to think that Library Patrons are elected because they are trustworthy and virtuous. The title is respected, and one of the few that can be earned.

“It does, however, mean that you hold rights and privileges beyond that of the average knowledge-seeker. Should you require any additional assistance, or should you wish for any further transactions, the library shall expedite it to the best of our abilities.” [19]

These rights and privileges are not yet known.
The service of a fox assistant is not one of the privileges, anyone who names a fox gets it for life.
I suspect some patronage titles are tied not to individuals, but to positions, so the accumulated value doesn’t deplete on the holder’s death. Astur’s card might be the Academy Dean’s card, inherited by successors.

Library cards

A patron recognized by the Library gets a card with their own info on it, filled out by the Library as it learns it. Library cards come in bullion-like materials, yellow gold and platinum being two.
The Library can also cast spells through the card, likely for the purposes of transactions, long distance communication, and defense. The cards are planar artifacts because the Library mentions its interior is a different reality from the Nexus proper and didn’t advise that the card couldn’t be used on another realm (although it might drain out and become useless on Earth, like a shard of impart).
Library cards actively monitor their surroundings to a degree. A non-patron attempting to touch the card with a spell was enough to trigger its attention and a counterattack. It is unclear if the library card remote views patrons for its own benefit. I note Dean Astur doesn’t keep his card on him. Emma keeps her card in a mana-resistant sealed armor pouch, so magic-based spy functions will struggle, but plain sound-based eavesdropping might work!

Library contents and deletion

Living information

Future knowledge

“Just a jolly old perusal of this here compendium of all the knowledge of the realms that ever has been and that will be?” [44]

Apprentice Ral and Dean Astur seem to think the Library contains future information, unbound from time streams. That claim should be given serious consideration as evidence suggests information causality violations are possible with prophecies, the Library insists “We know that one day, you shall reveal all there is to know”, and (forward) time travel is present in setting. That said, the Library’s fallibility suggests it is forced to behave in unidirectional linear time for as long as it is tethered to the present corporeality, or else it would be able to recover its burnt information.

Deleting Information

The library’s ineffable memory can be purged by destroying the physical manifestation of the knowledge: a book or a section of them. The Library apparently does not have the ability to “back up” or redundantly store its knowledge as a hedge against attack. Nexians refer to this as killing or scarring the Library’s living information, perhaps because its books have aura cues associated with the tissues of living things.

Prior Scarrings

The Library was scarred several times during several epochs. There was major deletion in the first elven civilization: the collectors of dues for that episode are still wandering >>30,000 years later. I suspect the major first age one was how ancient elves upgraded to human-like forms through the consumption of liquefacted human essence from Earthians hypnotized and abducted using “fairy ring” portals. The kidnappings had to be staggered across time well into Earth’s distant future because the fewer-numbered-paleolithic humans would be driven into rarity and extinction from over-harvest by abundant Nexian elves. Cannibalism came with karmatic retribution; the 30th manatype, native to Earth, was deeply incorporated into these half-elven lineages and created the first Nexian tainted. These powers led to the fall of the first Nexian civilization.

Ilunor’s attack

The Library has wards against ‘plain’ dragon’s breath, but was defeated by an “ancient sorcery” additive. The damage-boosting potion Ilunor was forced to take caused an unquenchable smoldering that slowly ate away at whatever it burnt: a very RPG-like continuous damage/bleed mechanic.
Briefly, Mal'tory seems to have tasked Ilunor with deleting information tagged with the Nexian name for Earth (or Earth sublocations). This is the answer to the Library's first Seeker mission: topic of the deleted subject. Emma’s earlier-submitted information survived because she had not revealed her home realm, and a ledger row about shards of impart gifted to various realms also survived because the submitter happened to cut off their entry before Earth by Nexian name was identified as the recipient.
Unfortunately, WPAtaMS does not follow the conventions of typical mystery stories where the perpetrator’s actions are recounted as part of the resolution for the benefit of the readers. Ilunor’s retelling of his deeds would have clarified how he either traded information Mal'tory gave him or used mana cues to find the section to burn, when the Library became aware of the damage, and how he evaded the foxes’ counterattack and escaped. (Not to mention what his interactions with Mal'tory were like, the exact orders given, and when they were issued in response to Emma’s actions.)

The Library probably cannot feel when it has been attacked

Ilunor burned a section of the Library on Grace Day 1 between 1450 and 2300. The Dean’s emergency meeting response occurred on Grace Day 4 between 1245 and 1345ish. Even though Ilunor was assaulted by foxes (whom he might have slain), the Library required at least two and a half days to discover and take stock of the damage and alert Dean Astur.

Interactions with the Eternal King’s mass memory modification

The Eternal King of Nexus uses (at minimum) mass memory modification to effect Death by Omission, insidiously deleting memories from the populace to create a false history and the illusion of axiomatically establishing reality itself. Magical signs of any mental tampering, which the Library was able to detect on Ilunor, would vanish within one generation as all the adults tell their children false history. Coupled with a roundup of contradictory physical media by the King’s agents, the omission requires field anthropology to break.
In the case of the Great War, the King deleted memories of the appearances, cultural accomplishments, works, and potentially fate of the leading rebel realm. It is unclear if this mass memory modification affects the Library, or if a separate scarring is required. Some action against the Library is necessary to prevent it from noticing the contradiction between false and true history.
This is equivalent to mass defrauding the Library. Maybe it poses a catastrophic risk to Nexus’ credit surplus if uncovered.

Museum of stolen stuff

The library accepts physical objects (‘articles of interest’) as unique ‘tribute’ for seeker hopefuls and as evidence, so it must have a depository of antiquities and artifacts that magicrealmers submitted in place of pure information. If so, these are probably also kept in a haphazard fashion that makes finding any one difficult.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Nexus looted adjacent realms and gave all their treasures they didn’t want to keep for themselves to the Library as a means of depriving the adjacent realms of their cultural heritage and ancient knowledge with the bonus of having the library interpret them for Nexus.

Library’s rules

Rules of Service

A1. The Library does not care about worlds outside its own aside from the knowledge they may provide. The lives and wellbeing of mortals and their worlds have no value outside the information they may provide. The Library disclaims responsibility for the externalities of information it trades.
A2. The Library exists to serve no one but itself.
A3. Anyone may enter the Library. Users are called outsiders by the Library’s aides, sometimes derogatorily.
B1. The library exists as a keeper of knowledge, but does not prohibit the access of said knowledge from those who seek it. The Library will not restrict deadly knowledge from a malicious seeker.
C1. The library exists as a collector of knowledge The Library seeks to maximize the total value of mortal knowledge it contains, in quantity, in depth of weight, across many categories, and with proven veracity. The library has an internal code of conduct about its manner when collecting, but does not elaborate.
C2. The library encourages exchanges of any and all pieces of knowledge no matter how trivial or how significant. It also accepts objects and people for information value. Whether it keeps them or not depends on the submitter’s intentions.
D1. The library does not exist to expedite the search of knowledge for those who seek it, with the sole exception of those who are willing to trade knowledge for this service.
D2. The library exists not to provide knowledge, but merely as a repository that may be accessed.
E1. The library bestows a title of patronage on those it deems worthy. The title of patronage grants multiple privileges, some explained below and perhaps others that have gone unmentioned. Some worlds and mortal lives have more value than others because they can provide more information. These are offered courtesy and patronage. The Library implied that it may willingly accept a temporary deficit if a transaction will keep its more valuable patrons alive for future transactions.
E2. The Library assigns a personal assistant to a patron.
E3. The Library assigns a written title of honor that shall act as a calling card
E4. The patron’s assigned calling card will summon the personal assistant and Librarian owl should the patron request an expedited transaction. Recall Ilunor was made to wait when he demanded to see the Librarian. Expedited transactions may have additional benefits, outside the Library perhaps?
E5. The patron may cancel their title, calling card, and privileges at any time they wish.
F1. The Library designates one patron as its liaison with the outside world who has responsibility for executing the terms of the extradition treaty. This is Dean Astur in the present, and he had a platinum library card. This may come with special, but unknown privileges.
F2. A user who challenges the Library’s assumptions, brings the library several novel tributes (items or people), is independent of worldly powers, and is committed to objectivity may be assigned the role Seeker of Truth and associated privileges, which include a unique Library card.
G2. The Library’s rules exist in response to reality as it understands it. Not only may new developments change the rules, past forgettings could alter its behavior.

Other service notes

The Library places itself beyond mortal judgment. Everyone but Emma seems to operate under the unspoken philosophy that gods do not exist to be judged by the likes of mortals. The Library recognizes it is fallible, so it may graciously consider mortal dissent, but as a privilege, not a right. It expects its contracts and judgments to be obeyed absolutely.
The library displays some manners and courtesy, like not “hawking a patron for every scrap of information”, but implies that this conduct is for patrons. It seems confident that it can force every user to disclose all knowledge of interest eventually. [19]
The Library’s fox assistants are not supposed to offer subjective, interpretive opinions about the information it contains. [18] Owls are allowed to offer subjective interpretations, evidenced when the owl explained Emma’s value. [19]
The Library may be duplicitous, baiting out additional information with leading inquiries [19] and offering what it knows to be nonoptimal trades taking advantage of user naiveté. [50]
The Library has adopted Nexian customs, like forcing people to wait outside after knocking and bestowing titles. [18]
The Library may offer knowledge of topics a patron may not be aware of that they can trade for their current credit if it is insufficient for their desired transaction. [50]
The Library does not like when tag-alongs benefit from library transactions and tries to exclude them. This behavior also extends to library cards. [18]

Darker, assumed rules

• The Library is under no obligation to be truthful, especially outside information transactions. In the first meeting with the Librarian owl, it stated two known lies: 1) that it is eternal - Entropy claims all lives. 2) It exists outside Nexian politics (“Here you will not find the petty squabbles of the world beyond our walls”). It also offered a third, likely lie, that it serves no one but itself.
  
• Anyone may enter the Library, but leaving is at the Library’s discretion.
  
  • Besides objects, sapients may be submitted as tribute - The Library considered Ilunor to be a submission. Since the Library doesn’t value freedom or mortal sanity, it probably archives living individuals by preserving them eternally, regardless of their will.
  • It may be beneficial to coerce, bewitch, imprison, or break apart mortals for knowledge if it is probable that allowing them to leave will result in less overall knowledge collected or a permanent loss of knowledge, as might occur if the mortal is or soon will be the last of its kind. The knowledge gained must balance with the knowledge lost from a sullied reputation with local authorities and civilizations outside.
• The Library does not promise confidentiality, so trade details may be tapped, and probably are.
  

Principles of transaction / Axioms of Trade

Three axioms govern the majority of the Library’s transactions.

Category

The classification of information into divisions, sections, and classes utilizing subject-matter as a tool for delineation.

Information trades must be closely analogous; quantity can not circumvent this rule. An owl Librarian or the greater Library entity itself determines if proffered information is comparable. For trades related to technology, capabilities must be similar. This leads to conflicts with the library’s mission to collect all information when technologies have no parallel, so there is no incentive to trade.
Category is surprisingly restrictive and abuse prone. Only after receiving the information from the patron, the Library can determine that trade doesn’t quite meet the category standards, demand additional knowledge, but then retain the information for its own archives while leaving the patron with unwanted credit that is not especially useful. The Library pulled this maneuver on Emma with the radio trade and then tried to get her to waste the credit on information she was not interested in, so she would have to make a second, full resubmission rather than more efficiently use parts to build a trade-value whole.
Being duplicitous about category is one of the ways the Library can bootstrap into topics that it can’t categorically trade for honestly: “Tell me about it, and I’ll tell you if it is a good enough match.”

Weight

The significance and value of any given information based upon its quantity, quality, and density.
A word for a word, a paragraph for a paragraph, a book for a book, an anthology for an anthology... a million novels, for a million novels.

This axiom is where the Library’s neutrality will be tested. Applied simply, a no-name college student’s term paper could be traded for a renowned scholar’s term paper that was the first-pass basis for their seminal work. If the Library prevents this trade based on significance (work by a scholar in the field is more valuable than a no-recognition author outside it), it means the Library is making subjective value judgments about better or worse. This leads to issues where royal, elven, or Nexian works, because they carry the brand-name value of Nexus, are valued higher than corresponding adjacent realm works which are less popular because of authorship rather than merit. The Library is thoroughly steeped in Nexian values, shown by its isolation and magic-favoring operations, so I expect some degree of “Nexus > Earth et al.” to hit Emma’s trades eventually. Or Emma could apply significance to her own advantage, leveraging Nexus’ general lack of literacy and education against it. A book that sells ten million volumes in Earthspace is commonplace which makes it greater-than-trade-equal to most Nexian equivalents despite not matching the cultural significance.
For now, we haven’t seen this axiom exploited too much. Emma’s show-and-tell method of giving information to the Library seems to be yielding returns with a lot of depth, which suggests the Library is extracting quite a bit of data from the demonstrations of tech.

Veracity

The authenticity and credibility of any given knowledge, ascertained by the ebbs and flows of the mana stream, and by the reading of the mind at the moment of transaction.
The library, and indeed all of its aides, simply could not determine anything about Emma’s mana-streams, let alone the mind hidden underneath that helm.

Note there are two components to this axiom: mental state and manastream state.
Manafield vs Manastream. Based on what the Library said after it defined veracity, I think the author mistakenly used “manastream” instead of “manafield”. Emma does not have “manastreams” – no magic realmer does. They are an environmental feature that permeates all of Nexus. A manafield is the personal projection of magic around oneself that carries information, which makes more sense given that Emma is unusual for not having one.
The Library can detect signs of mental tampering but is vulnerable a generation removed from a round of mass memory modification as explained above.

Consilience as an alternative to Veracity

“It instead chose to rely not on the word of the patron, but on the irrefutable truths garnered through observable phenomena.”

The rule of empirical proof the Library asks of Emma is closer to a rule of consilience: the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated lines of proof can converge on strong conclusions. When multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the individual sources is significantly so on its own. That allows Emma to get away with presenting proofs in piecemeal rather than a single topic in depth.

Suspending the rules

“Yeah, a big one actually. The last transaction I made at the library didn’t actually involve these draconian rules. I didn’t trade anything I felt was equivalent to the null with you guys. Not in category, and not even in weight. So, I’m curious as to how the rules applied to that?” “All transactions on that fateful day were a trial. A trial to see if trade was even possible given the lack of the third axiom.” “Rules exist in response to a reality that is known, Cadet Emma Booker. Should that reality change, the rules must adapt to fit that new reality.”

Following buddy’s actions, the admin made the decision to suspend the usual rules with Emma. Furthermore it had to test if suspension of the rules is possible, suggesting it is bound by subconscious directives it cannot probe except with tests.

Lies

The Library does not have an objective means of determining falsehood. It may make unfair trades by hallucinating facts based on structured deceptions it was earlier fed.
If the Library offers lies for a truth, what are the credit-back procedures? The Library owes credit equal to what was traded, and credit for being informed that it told lies, and also credit for the corrected truth. (Additional remuneration for having burdened a patron with falsehood would be appropriate, but the Library does not seem to consider mortals feelings). I suspect being given lies might be a crime that the Library can invoke its extradition treaty to address.
What happens when someone lies, perhaps unintentionally, and cannot offer a trade to even up their deficit incurred for receiving a truth for false information? Is this a crime against the Library that would invoke extradition and eternal punishment?

Diplomacy and Treaties

“Legally,” The Library does not count as either Nexus or an Adjacent Realm for the purposes of Nexian Binding Ties, Expectant Foobars, and Loremant Ipsums. The Library lied to Emma and claimed it is a party removed from most Nexian politics, when it is deeply entrenched in current and past power struggles, which is why it negotiated an extradition treaty and established a Seeker of Truth role.

Extradition Treaty

The extradition treaty the Library has with Nexus demands that every person the Library claims committed a crime against it must be turned over to it without exception, trial, or proof. There is no process of appeal, except by fiat. The Library uses coercion tactics like blackmail to ensure it gets convicts. We do not know what punishment it inflicts on Nexus for violating the extradition treaty, but the dean implied that open access is a privilege.

Punishment

The accused are turned into the Library dead or alive. The Library mind probes them to determine guilt. If dead, a living blood relative, if they have one, inherits their full punishment. The punished is first forced to recover information of value equal to the damage dealt. The library may make them immortal and send them seeking with magically compelled check-ins; these slaves are collectors of dues. I suspect that if an immortal collector somehow succumbs without paying back their dues, punishment is still bloodline inherited.
Once the punished completes their living sentence - no matter the severity, the Library rips the slave’s soul from their body and both are separately made to guard the admin’s inner sanctum for all of eternity - this eternal torture in the Library’s prison is wardship of penance. The Library reasons a crime against information preservation is an eternal harm so punishment must be as well.

Seeker of Truth

A position the Library considers one of honor. Emma earned the position with three unique tributes (two novel items and a person), direct challenges to the library’s assumptions, a commitment to the sanctity of truth, and - the failure case for most hopefuls - proof of ability to act independently from Nexian interests. The Seeker recovers lost knowledge for a reward: Emma’s is canceling Ilunor’s eternal slavery.
Tributes. One of the requirements to becoming a Seeker is giving unique, valuable, novel items or people to the Library - keep in mind the Library considers slavery moral so the willingness or rights of the tribute are immaterial. Many of these artifacts or individuals are likely kidnapped from their cultures, and it seems likely the Library keeps them eternally imprisoned, unlikely to ever be seen again. Living tributes are probably preserved via some eldritch means like the soul taking spell.
A Seeker’s library card is given a special updated border, they are allowed to enter their name into a register of prior seekers, and use the Seeker’s Respite. The library implies additional functionality (“Your card of patronage will be updated to reflect this, becoming more than a mere card, but a badge worthy of the honor of seekership.”)

Havenbrock vs. Library

Thalmin has a grudge against the library, and I suspect it has to do with information that was traded to Havenbrock’s disadvantage, either because someone else like Nexus preempted them (first come, first serve), or his people tried to add information but were not able to trade it for anything they desired and Nexus tapped it.

This theory is as big as the One Piece World, but I will try to make it simple and leave the rest for you to discover.
My theory is that the World of One Piece is ending Naturally, and it should, because that is the natural order of the world, nothing can stop it. This theory will try to build a structure of the History of One Piece since life started on the Planet of One Piece, including Kingdoms of Life, Continents, and Races.
This Theory is based on Theosophy and some Ancient Legends, before we link things with One Piece, there is some basics you need to understand. I will try to make this as simple as possible.

Chains and Rounds

• A Chain, also called a Planetary Chain, is like a group of 7 interconnected Worlds, Globes, Dimensions, Planes, or levels of existence. For Each Planet there is Planetary Chain.
• Each Chain, with its Globes, goes through a cycle of evolution called a Round. There are seven rounds in total for each Chain.
• After the last Round, all the Globes in the Chain start to dissolve. Then, there's a period of rest. After that, the Life Wave moves on to a new Chain, on another planet, to start the process again or reincarnate.
• We will focus only on One Planet's Chain, its Rounds, and it its Globes.
• Here is an easy to understand diagram of One Planetary Chain for one planet.

Globes

• The Globes are also numbered with letters, from A to G. These seven Globes/Dimensions also represent the seven states of consciousness in living things.
• In each globe, Kingdoms of Life begin to emerge as the "Life Wave" reaches its Globe, each new kingdom is an evolution of the one before it, the Kingdoms of Life emerge in this order, each appearing first time in one of the 7 rounds (each color in the diagram represents a kingdom):
  
  • Globe A= Mineral Kingdom
  • Globe B= Plant Kingdom
  • Globe C= Animal Kingdom
  • Globe D= Human Kingdom
  • Globe E= Superhuman Kingdom
  • Globe F= Celestial Beings Kingdom
  • Globe G= Highest Level Beings Kingdom
• The 4th Globe (D) is where humans first emerged on Round 4.
  
• Humans first emerged in Round 4 of the chain, and the next kingdoms will follow on the next round. Globe (D) is considered to be in the lowest level metaphysically.
  
• The other Globes are supposed to be not perceivable with human eyes but all of them are linked and form an endless ring, circle, or evolution. And on the last round of the chain, kingdoms of life in each globe somehow coexist and the barrier between them becomes less rigid.
  
• On each Globe and Kingdom, life evolves through Root Races.
  

Root Races

On Globe D of planet Earth, there are 7 Root Races of human civilization and evolution that comes one after the other. In each Root Race, a new race of humanity is emerged, and for each race there is a Continent on Earth. Every Root Race has seven sub-races, but we will not go deep into them.
Here is what is known about the previous 4 Root Races which preceded our "Adamic Race" and their Continents:

• Root Race 1: The Polarian Race). Ethereal beings that lived in The Imperishable Sacred Land.
• Root Race 2: The Hyperborean Race) that lived in Hyperborea
• Root Race 3: The Lemurian race), inhabited a lost continent called Lemuria). And later it is said that they escaped the flooding of their continent Lemuria, and went under Mount Shasta and created the legendary hidden City of Telos.
• Root Race 4: The Atlantean Race), inhabited Atlantis.
• Root Race 5: The Aryan Race), us.
• Root Race 6: Unknown. In the future.
• Root Race 7: Unknown. In the future.

Each of these races and their worlds are periodically destroyed by Fire (volcanoes and earthquakes) and Water, and then renewed for the next race. "The different masses of land sink and resurface cyclically. The shift of continents is connected with a change in the axis of the Earth and an inversion of the poles"
This means that at the end of each Root Race, a World spanning cataclysm will happen. And after each cataclysm the whole World is changed geologically. And then, "each parts of the continents of one root-race become incorporated into the continental system of the next."
However, there is something special about the continent of the first race, The Imperishable Sacred Land. This continent remains unaffected by all these cataclysms. "Because it is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the end...throughout each Round."
Sub-Races of each root race propagate and reproduce, creating new generations and variations of life forms. "There is always an overlap between two successive Root Races, the fourth began to gradually develop during the middle portion of the third". Rumors say that there was a thermonuclear war for dominance between the Third Race (the Lemurian race) and Forth race (the Atlantean Race).
Now its One Piece time.

One Piece World

If you didnt see the connection to One Piece world yet, let me give it to you.

Races and Continents

The Imperishable Sacred Land is clearly the Holy Land Mary Geoise. It is the safest place in One Piece world. The Polarians are also described as "dark-colored giants that can reduce their height to the size of an average person". Also described as the "Chaya Race" meaning "image or shadow.". And Imu could belong to this race.
Elbaf is Hyperborea. Hyperboreans were also believed to be giants compared to normal humans. The sun rise and set only once a year in Hyperborea, and the Giants in Elbaf celebrate "the death and rebirth of the sun" each year in what is called Winter Solstice Festival. Both Hyperborea and Elbaf share the same Sunny theme.
The Lemurian race went extinct by a natural cataclysm, and that might be the case with the Lunarians in One Piece. The Lunarians in One Piece might also escaped and still be alive in a hidden city. Also both of their names are similar. The hidden city or place that the Lunarians escaped to might even turn out to be Fairy Vearth.
The Atlanteans are said to be "psychic" and used magic, and they were destroyed due to the misuse of their powers. I believe that this race were the people of the Ancient Kingdom in One Piece, and the kingdom was destroyed for defying Nature, not necessarily evil. I think this reason ties with the Devil Fruits. The Devil Fruits are also considered to be "psychic" fruits based on Vegapunk's Theory.
Now what if these dreams or desires are just the results of evolution from the previous Rounds, hopes, dreams, or imaginations of previous life forms brought to this world by the Ancient Kingdom in the shape of fruits? the people of the Ancient Kingdom dont have to be the creators of the Devil Fruits, but they can be the Cause of its appearance by altering the "Life Wave".

"Anything that man can imagine is a possibility in reality" — Willy Karen

End of the World & The Will of D

Based on the Kingdoms of Life in each globe that I mentioned before, we can see that the human evolution starts from D to G, the latter being more celestial beings. D in One Piece might just refer to normal humans, and Imu might be the first born or the first to emerge from Globe G to D in the Final Round, and this Final Round might be where the One Piece events are happening now. Where the barriers between dimensions are less rigid. Also the D might refer to "Dimensional" since most of the D holders can hear the Voice of All Things, they can hear the consciousness of things that live in another dimension.
Now I mentioned before that the humans, Globe (D) is considered to be on the lowest level metaphysically. But what if we turn it upside down? the D will be on the top. Is this is what roger meant by turning the world upside down?

Planets and the "Earth" of One Piece

Now lets say you are on Earth and learned that the fate of Earth is to end on the 7th round, and the "life wave" will move to another planet. What is the solution if you want to live forever? the solution is to link all the planets together, and I think this is what happened many years ago, and I think this linking is reflected in the Flag of the World Government. If the entire world of One Piece is basically 5 planets, this means that there should be 5 North Poles, which could somehow explain the strange behavior of the compass in One Piece, the Log Pose. Now imagine 5 North poles changing after a cataclysm at the end of each Root Race.

Devil Fruits

I think the Devil Fruits can give the user abilities from different dimensions/globes that belong to other life forms consciousness in different dimensions and even from previous rounds/cycles of existance. This is might also be hinted at here when Morgan talks about the Devil Fruits. Also, the drawing of the Devil Fruits is similar to the World Government flag, but doubled many times. This could be a hint that the Devil Fruits powers are from different dimension and even from entirely different worlds. It is just big and manifold.

The link between Earth and the Moon

I mentioned before that for each planet there is Planetary Chain, and what I mentioned before was all about Earth.
The interesting thing about the Planetary Chain of the Moon, also called the Lunar Chain is that it is considered to be the previous chain of the Earth chain. Meaning that it was before like “Planet Earth”, and after the Lunar Chain completed the seven rounds, it died, the “Life Wave” was transferred to the current Earth in what is known as reincarnation.
Now this is how the process of reincarnation rom the Moon to Earth works: Life is transferred from the Moon Chain to the Earth Chain globe by globe, one after the other (from Moon Globe A to Earth Globe A...etc). This means that life forms on Globe D, were once residents of the Moon when life was in the Moon Chain.
This aligns with the story of the "Moon People" in One Piece. The moon people were probably the last of their species and they migrated to Earth when it was time for the Moon to die. This is why Enel didnt find any life forms on the Moon, only Ruins of a City called Birka and Robots.
I will stop here. Thank you for reading.
TLDR: too complex to summarize.

They have the exact same mounting system as the water bottle holder on frame on the side of the shock (rigid) I thought it would be cool if I could put like a mini storage back for multi tools or something but all I can find is the strap on ones