Looking to trade any of the following games for games on my want list. I'm only looking for complete in box games that are in excellent condition. Looking for CIB NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Turbografx, Neo Geo and some others. Full want list here - List
Gameboy
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX CIB
Atomic Punk CIB
Bubble Bobble Part 2 CIB
Pokemon Emerald CIB
Pokemon Firered CIB
Revelations: The Demon Slayer CIB some box wear
Rhino Rumble with Box no manual
Car Battler Joe CIB
Cima: The Enemy CIB
DemiKids: Dark Version CIB
DemiKids: Light Version CIB
Golden Sun: The Lost Age CIB
Gradius Galaxies CIB
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Protoman CIB
Shining Soul CIB
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 CIB
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts CIB
Final Fantasy Legend CIB
Final Fantasy Legend II CIB
Final Fantasy Legend III CIB
Neo geo Pocket All CIB
Metal Slug: 1st Mission
Bust-a-Move Pocket
Fatal Fury: First Contact
Magical Drop
Pac-Man
Pocket Tennis
Puyo Pop
SNK Gals Fighters
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash capcom
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash snk
SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium
Nes
Adventure Island 3 cart
Cowboy Kid cart and box
Dragon Warrior II CIB
Dragon Warrior IV CIB
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns Cart
Mega Man cart
Ninja Gaiden III cart
Power Blade cart
Wayne's World cart
Bomberman 2 cart
The Jetsons cart
Sqoon cart
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja cart
Power blade II with box
Mega man 3 cib
Ps2
Chulip
Dokapon: Kingdom
Fatal Frame
Rule of Rose
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Under the Skin
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis -- Premium Box
Growlanser: Heritage of War -- Limited Edition
Growlanser Generations -- Deluxe Pack
Sega Cd/32x/saturn
Popful Mail
The Space Adventure
Kolibri CIB
Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
Super Nintendo
Demon's Crest cart
Earthworm Jim CIB
The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang cart
Earthbound CIB minus box tray & scratch n sniff
Sonic Blast Man II cart
Turbografx
Godzilla
Air Zonk with outer box
Bloody Wolf CIB with outer box
Yo Bro CIB with outer box
Camp California
Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
Dreamcast
Bangai-O
Cannon Spike
Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage

So the last few years have been rough.
*note* if you're a "cheaters will always be cheaters type" tldr is don't bother reading or commenting
BACKSTORY 2019-2023 child nearly annual broken bones, lots of stress and specialist visits.
2018-2024 my wife got her associates as a medical assistant and is almost done with her bachelor's and final quarter internship while working full time and that has been hard for me. The lack of time for me and my son has really made an impact.
2019 I was injured at work and 2020 had my first surgery to try and preserve an ankle joint. That surgery ended up failing and while recovering I ended up mangling 2 fingertips in a wood jointer. 2020 I had to make the transition to a sahd on workers comp and have been since then. My lifestyle of hiking and fishing was upended because I could barely be on my feet 3 hours a day and uneven ground killed me not to mention the whole covid thing was pretty isolating.
All of 2021 was supporting her being a surrogate for a couple in City X (their egg/sperm). So, lots of trips checks and giving her injections. It was kind of proving myself to her because I was terrified when our son was born in 2017 and didn't help as much as I should have. Especially the first 3 months. Really, I didn't find out until later. We had conversations and fights at the time and id step up to do more and she would agree and tell me it was all okay. Then another fight saying I wasn't doing enough/anything and asking more and me being upset and confused. I guess at the time she was afraid to ask more, or tell me what she wanted, or her feelings, and the postpartum depression and initial feelings of abandonment didn't help.
Anyways the surrogacy went okay. I was there and supportive. Rubbing her feet and back. taking on extra load when she was tired etc. And hey I didn't pass out at delivery this time XD The end was a bit hard with 2 inductions needed and a massive 9.5lb baby and a stuck shoulder.
Then a few weeks after birth in November 2021 the nightmare began.
Out of nowhere she started hemorrhaging. She had to have an emergency D&C to stop the bleeding and scans showed a mass. Turned out the surrogate baby's placenta had some cells turn cancerous and attach to her uterus (Choriocarcinoma). 3 months later and the first 3 agent chemo failed, and her numbers were skyrocketing because it turned treatment resistant. They had to hit it with 5 types of chemo (EMACO) leaving future fertility a coin toss but more than a hysterectomy. By May 2022 the tumor marker was gone, but it was 6 months of intense monitoring and 6 months of monthly monitoring. The whole time she was in an intense spiraling depression questioning life. The meaning of all it, and how all her childhood trauma was fair. That no god would let a child live that. And questioning every decision in her life and wondering what things could have been like if she went a different direction. Feeling like she missed out on opportunities early in life. If this might be all there is (we have been together since she was 17). She said she felt like reality wasn't real and this was make believe at times.
Summer 2022 she made a new mom friend. She was pretty toxic and selfish. She used my wife for personal benefit and to go places. Yelled at her kids and treated the oldest from a prior marriage as less than (girl doesn't know her dad and when she mentioned she was part Mexican she freaked out and denied it because of how conservative and anti Mexican her new dad and his family is). Like never offered a dime, but expected food, gas, tickets, and gifts. She drove my wife nuts with that behavior. but she was desperate for a friend and loved her kids. Her friend would just talk shit about her partner pretty constantly and say my wife should be unhappy in her relationship too. Shit talking husbands behind their backs became like a mutual thing and I def hated it
Sometime 2023 she jumped into fantasy romance and fantasy smut /erotica. This progressed to an AI chat smut generator.
May 2023 monitoring was over and she was officially cancer free and had been on a health/mental health quest..
The mental health part started early in the year and she was seeing a therapist for depression and anxiety alone as well as her long list of childhood trauma. Off hand her therapist told her a few times she didn't know maybe just divorce me or something. I was super uncomfortable with this as it was completely outside her practicing scope and I didn't feel she should be providing relationship guidance, especially without me or the rest of the story. I felt a bit attacked and didn't even get the chance to give my perspective or account and felt that is pretty important after being here for a decade. A lot of negative points get omitted by her.
Summer 2023 she had some tough diagnosis for other chronic issues. Narcolepsy Dissociative Identity disorder Depression And a sleep disorder
I initially rejected this as I didn't want to accept these chronic and incurable conditions and insisted it has to be something else, that she's okay. It was taken as rejection of her.
Fall 2023 she reached out to a childhood ex bf a few states away and started an emotional affair. They kept in infrequent contact over the years and nothing ever came of it before. He has been unable to move past her or have meaningful relationships in 13 years. At first he pushed her away and rejected it, but after a month by Nov it was a thing. Texting saying I shouldn't worried because they dated before, but he ended up coming out as gay, calls in private, staying later after work. I gave it the benefit of the doubt but got burned. I found out in December the second time she wanted a private call in the car, and I checked her phone.
We started marriage counseling in Jan and I started my own therapy search as well as a condition of hers. She agreed to no longer contact the boy showed me the sent message ending it and blocked him. By Feb I found him listed in her phone as Saraa and found deleted texts and calls. In therapy she wanted to keep him as a friend and only friend and I tried this. She asked if a PO box would be okay for a birthday present, and I said no. That it crossed a line. It was also super close to Valentine's day. Next therapy I couldn't handle the anxiety and feeling physically ill when she used her phone, and we went through Jan again break off block etc.
In Feb the therapist recommended a separate space for conflict as we work on things. That too much conflict triggered her dissociative identity disorder. It was either a hotel as needed or a rv/camper. My wife was set on a camper and the only way to get a newer one was to add my credit/income to hers for a loan and I was uncomfortable on a $20k purchase. She assured me the intent of the camper was working on us and not separating/divorcing. She brought up me not having chores completely done all the time and I poured myself into it if that was making her unhappy over the years.
During this time in March I found out she got the secret PO box and had yet again resumed texting entirely deleting her logs. She had valentines gifts. birthday gifts, long distance electronic bracelets, and had an easter basket coming. Everything was put together into a box to be gotten rid of. That effort I had for chores and making everything spotless kind of died. Like there was that recognition that that obviously wasn't the problem. We lived completely separately for a few weeks until she could make a choice. We split our son and had almost zero interaction. Eventually she chose and I saw a notebook she used once in December. Basically she has started outlining a story envisioning herself as the lead character in once of her romantic fantasies and cast me and the other man as competing love interests
April and early may there was nothing. We did therapy and tackled our issues slowly. Together. Our future plans: college vs baby and the ticking clock of fertility and ifs after chemo. Etc
Last week she was going out for lilac picking and didn't text me for 2 hours and said she was at the beach. Later she showed me something in her email and I saw discord emails about a pw change and login. One bad gut feeling later and the next morning I see she deleted the discord emails and check our phone plan and her phone and see missing texts. I put in a phone record request for recent texts and text/call logs. She woke up and I said it did it and she said I was disgusting. Then admitted I was right.
She says after breaking it off she was worried he would hurt himself and just wanted to be sure he was okay and admitted to 3 texts and the discord call which i verified. Said that he was in therapy for his issues. She said she didn't want to bring it up to me because I would make it a fight and she thought she could just get away with a few texts to make sure. That she felt responsible for how much he had been hurt too.
So I did what I do with extreme anxiety and checked her work bag. I found an old journal they shared Jan to mid-march. Kind of confirmed again what was going on. Also revealed she lied to me about the trailer, or him? She couldn't get it without me and told him it was to work on separating from me easier. Yeah I kept pics in case this goes downhill because yeah, I'll gun for EVERYTHING. I'm sure that being tricked into signing a $20k contract under false pretenses for her personal benefit, secret po boxes, lying to our therapist repeatedly, secret texts, expecting gifts from the other man, career over spending time with family and a serious personality disorder on top of narcolepsy making a job hard to keep down wont do her favors at divorce/custody hearings.
So its all fresh for me again. I already have extreme anxiety and the autism doesn't help with reading/understanding people the best, although my gut intuition and pattern recognition are catching stuff fine.
WHERE I THINK I AM
Looking back, I can see that the personality disorder and narcolepsy are apparent. Dream delusion and memory issues from the narcolepsy make separating dream from reality hard as well as just recalling what happened. So whether not the "not feeling like reality is real" was a dream delusion or a full-blown dissociative episode... I can also see that messaging him was a "new" personality state. Maybe it's a manifestation of the trauma of nearly dying from cancer, maybe it's a fragment of her young identity that was created to survive her traumatic childhood resurfacing after nearly dying. But her interests and perspective massively shifted at that time and there was a clear separation between her with me and her with him. It was like this regression back to 15. Like she was molding an identity to fit his desires and interests. She took up tarot and witchy books, different music, painting, rockhounding (my interest), dried bouquets, dyed her hair and got multiple piercings. Even getting caught there was that click in her whole demeanor.
I can see how her friend may have jaded her towards me by all the shit she talked about HER husband. I can see that throwing herself into fantasy smut to cope flooded her with portrayals of unrealistic romance. That she progressed that by using an AI smut bot to hold those conversations with. Then she directly tried to process her own reality through the lens of those novels in that journal.
This "relationship" was "I love you, we can be together in 10 years". He wasn't going to leave his cushy job. Or his state. He didn't want to be a stepdad. He didn't want to support her career or have any involvement in it. She couldn't leave my state. Never saw illicit photos. No discussion of sex. It was like exactly what you think some lovestruck preteens would come up with. Like just a fantasy. No talk of bills or finances. Of moving. Of any substantial tangible entanglement.
Somehow that's easier to handle
I love her and don't want to leave her. But i desperately think she needs serious help and have told her I want her to do therapy 2x a month (on top of marriage therapy 2x).
I also think if a secret or deleted text happens again, I've got to take off the kid gloves and fight for it all. Cause well showing up at the dude's door would end in prison.
I'm sure this happening right as I fully got over last time and took a trust leap of faith on a "gay" friend that burned me will make it harder. I get the last few years have been garbage luck and I get almost dying can have profound affects though. She had been utterly loyal for 5 years (believe me I checked as we agreed to ie open book). Tying to see this with an open mind.
I get my exact expectations are muddy and part of this is just putting it into words to process for me, but I value if someone has any good input

The Conqueror
He was aboard the Conqueor, training in that majestic vessels Fighting Pits. Akurduana, his sworn shield, was being rough with him today. He had only left Lieutenant-Commander Fabius' Medicae on the Pride of the Emperor the day before and Tessarius' jabs and kicks were opening sutures.
"Throne of Terra Tess," he yelped as the Astartes dealt him a savage punch to the ribs. "Can't you give me a moment to breath!?"
Fulgrim's Muse was answered by a backhanded fist that sent him sprawling onto the sand. The Muse lay there, sucking in sand and air in equal measure. Then he felt Akurduana lift him gently by the neck and stand him up.
"The Primarch wishes you to be combat ready darling. I will mold you into a perfect combatant to fight beside her. I can not fail in this task as you are mine own charge. To do anything less than that would be beneath me."
Tessarius Akurduana smiled at the Muse as the man found his breath and legs once more.
"I'm a Remembrancer Tess. I writre stories of the Primarchs great deeds of heroism and glory so they might live as long as her. I'm not a warrior."
"You are not," Akurduana smiled. "Not yet"
Another hour passed. Akurduana pulled his punches as best he could, but he was still a Trans-Human. A warrior of the Adeptus Astartes. What was the Muse to someone like that besides a bag of meat waiting to be turned into a wet smear on the ground. Lieutenant-Commander Fabius had done surgeries on the Muse at Fulgrims behest. He was akin to some of the Primarch Lorgar or the Lions oldest companions. But he was no warrior. He was a writer. A Rembrancer.
"Come now my friend," Akurduana cooed lifting him up by the nape of his neck. "Still more to learn I think."
No.
"No," the Muse said, battered and bloody.
"I do not relish this task darling," Akurduana frowned. "But Fulgrim has seen me to it...another hour at least."
"NO," the Muse shouted, feeling something well up in his chest and escape through his mouth.
Tessarius Akurduana was sent flying through the air, a billow of sand following him. The World Eaters in the other pits stopped their duels and stared for a moment before the Butchers Nails drove them back into their frays.
The Muse rushed to Akurduana's side.
"Tess! Tess!? I'm sorry...I...I didn't know!"
As the Muse hunched over Akurduana, noting the horrible bruising on his chest the Astartes started to laugh through broken teeth. Lumbering to his feet Akurduana put a hand on the Muses shoulder.
"That," he said spitting a mouthful of blood into the sand at their feet. "That is something we should practice. Another hour darling. Do. That. Again."

Throwaway account. Context: I 24 female recently got married to my wonderful husband 37 male. We met at a volunteer event and instantly connected. He’s a professor of the same subject at University that I majored in engineering. He is PERFECT and he checks out all my boxes that I found are extremely rare: he is devoted to God, has high morality, doesn’t drink or smoke, very organized and meticulous so on and so forth. He’s also a little goofy, and I love it❤️( loves Star Trek and building Lego sets). 7 months of a whirlwind romance we’re married. Since we’ve been married I noticed some major changes and I think it’s mostly my fault. I love cooking and since I am an ABD I introduced him to alot of new food from my cuisine and in our culture we sometimes feed our loved ones food that we prepare( I know, kind of infantilizing but it’s how we show love). Recently he’s been asking me more and more to feed him and after dinner I also give him scalp massages that now he says he can’t fall asleep without. Initially I happily obliged but now I’m getting concerned, where did the independent man go? Also, I make him bento boxes for lunch with cute shaped rice balls, but I didn’t know that he’s been posting pictures of them in his socials🤦‍♀️, (tbh I don’t think it’s a good look for a 37 year old professor to post a starfleet Combage shaped rice ball ,that all his students might be able to see) He has also been following me every where I go, last Friday I went to play tennis after work and I didn’t know until after that he was watching the game the whole time , he also went to my last mani pedi appointment with me after work. I know it’s lovely that he wants to be close to me, but gosh I feel suffocated and then I feel guilty cause my husband is perfect, and he’s not doing anything wrong and I should be grateful but I just wanna don’t know … I’m irrationally upset at this, I don’t know what to do and I don’t wanna hurt his feelings

One of the main criticisms of religious institutions is the argument that religion propagate bigotry like homophobia or sexism. Like when Sam criticizes Islamic ideology. The problem with this line of thinking is bigotry predating religious institutions. Human beings are inherently irrational and baked in with bigotry.
Xenophobia and tribalism are traits natural selection favored for survival and those traits are of course seen in man made institutions like religion. A good example of the irrelevancy of bigotry in religion is the eastern religions.
Buddhism makes zero mentions of LGBT discrimination but homophobia is still alive and well in majority Buddhist nations. Dharma contains no mention of a Buddhist caliphate but listening to monks like Wirathu in Myanmar or Gnanasara in Sri Lanka would put al-Baghdadi to shame.
While a western audience would associate suicide bombing with Islamic extremism, my experience with suicide bombing is the terrorist organization LTTE. Which was an ethnic conflicts over territory in Sri Lanka. "Tamil Tigers “perfected” the use of suicide bombers, invented the suicide belt, and pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks" https://time.com/5575956/sri-lanka-history-suicide-bombings-birthplace-invented/
Human beings will always be irrational, always be territorial and always be bigoted. Attributing these traits to religious ideologies seems to be misguided.

I've been watching reaction videos of people watching the (in my opinion) greatest AVGN episode of all time, Spider-Man. It's just so hilarious and has so much charm. The people watching it for the first time were all having belly laughs, as well as myself.
These early episodes were so great, and Spider-Man is the top of the top. First off, the camaraderie between Bimmy and Kyle is palpable. You can they are true friends and are having genuine fun making the episode.
Beyond that, the frustrated reactions are all genuine. It's real stuff, and it carries through. Everyone who watched that episode was on the floor laughing.
The timing is pretty much perfect, with Spider-Man starting off vouching for his games, but slowly deteriorating into hating them. And, that song at the end? It's catchy and hilarious.
Literally, every new AVGN episode is missing all these elements. The show has become such a pile of garbage to the point where I can't even watch one for more than a few seconds. AVGN is horrible now.
I blamed James' wife.

Despite having started to own 4K blu-rays in 2017 via steelbook releases of certain movies, collecting 4K blu-rays didn't become something I really got into until 2021 once I finally acquired a device that can actually play them. I plan to one day take photos of my collection, but for now, here's everything I own in list form. I still haven't gotten round to watching all of the 4K blu-rays I own, so the black circles next to some of these titles indicate which ones I have seen while the white circles indicate the ones I haven't.
● 2001: A Space Odyssey (steelbook) ○ Akira ○ American Psycho ● Avatar - collector's edition ● Avatar: The Way of Water - collector's edition ○ ○ ○ Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy ● ○ ○ ○ Batman: 4-Film Collection ● ● ○ The Dark Knight Trilogy ● Joker ● The Batman ○ Blade Runner 2049 - collector's edition ● DCEU - Man of Steel ● DCEU - Batman v Superman - 4K Remaster ○ DCEU - Suicide Squad ○ DCEU - Wonder Woman ● DCEU - Zack Snyder's Justice League ○ DCEU - Aquaman (steelbook) ○ DCEU - Shazam! (steelbook) ○ DCEU - Birds of Prey (steelbook) ● DCEU - Wonder Woman 1984 (steelbook) ● DCEU - The Suicide Squad (steelbook) ○ Deadpool (steelbook) ○ Deadpool 2 (steelbook) ○ District 9 ○ Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time ● Dunkirk ○ Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children ○ Kingsglaive -Final Fantasy XV- ○ First Man ○ Goodfellas ● Inception ● Interstellar ○ Kingsman: The Secret Service ○ Kingsman: The Golden Circle (steelbook) ○ The LEGO Batman Movie ○ ○ ○ The Hobbit Trilogy - Extended edition ● ○ ○ The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Extended edition ● ● ● The Matrix Trilogy ● Oppenheimer ● Pacific Rim (steelbook) ○ ○ ○ Planet of the Apes Trilogy ● Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (steelbook) ● The Prestige ○ Ready Player One ○ Scott Pilgrim vs the World (steelbook) ○ The Shape of Water (steelbook) ○ Sonic the Hedgehog ○ Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ● Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (steelbook) ○ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ● Venom (steelbook) ● Venom: Let There Be Carnage (steelbook) ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Star Trek - Original 6-movie collection ○ ○ ○ ○ Star Trek - The Next Generation 4-movie collection ○ ○ ○ Star Trek Trilogy: The Kelvin Timeline ● ○ ○ ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga ○ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ● Solo: A Star Wars Story ● Tenet (steelbook) ○ Titanic ● ● Top Gun - 2-movie collection ● Total Recall (1990, steelbook) ● The Transformers: The Movie (steelbook) ● ○ ○ ○ ○ Transformers - 5-movie collection ● Transformers: Bumblebee (steelbook) ○ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (steelbook) ○ Turning Red ○ Violet Evergarden: The Movie - collector's edition ● Watchmen - The Ultimate Cut ○ ○ ○ X-Men - 3-movie collection ○ Logan ● Your Name - collector's edition
And just for fun, here are the movies I've seen via 4K blu-ray but don't own: ● Blade Runner ● Terminator 2: Judgment Day (it looks fine, shut up)

(Asterisk)
I don’t think this post will last long.
One thing I’ve learned over these past few years is that life isn’t like the movies. In the movies, the widower learns to love again and they walk hand-in-hand into a sunset as the credits role. The trouble is, they never show the scenes in between.
I need to dump an old fashioned rant – it won’t make sense, I just need to say it… because I’m in one of those scenes tonight.
I don’t know what’s happening to me right now. Dotty saw it all over my face earlier and she asked me where I was. She’s so good to me and so kind. She wanted to know if I was okay. I was looking at her as she spoke but I had to look down and stop myself. Because I damn nearly told her that I didn’t know who she was.
It’s a simple relapse, nothing more. It’s just that it’s been a lot this week. And I loved her so much.
I have a rule with Dotty, and I would impose it tonight. It’s a good rule, really, and it works either way. All we have to do is say, “I need to be irrational for a little while,” and off we go - no questions. Though I know she hates not asking questions, but I always let her after.
I think PJ brought his mother closer when we had our rowdy discussion because that’s what he needed to do. Part of the deal we brokered was that he could remember her out loud, any time the moment struck him, and he has. We all talk about his mother every day and have from the moment she left – it’s not that. It’s just different with PeeJ. It’s more personal.
He said things that only he would – because PJ sees the world as only he does. Well, maybe not only. He sees the world like I do. And that’s the hitch.
Nobody tells you that the things you’ll miss the most are the little ones. He misses the little things. And for a while, he told me what they were. He misses, for example, how she always asked, “What am I?” before adding whatever fit the moment.
“Mommy, how do geese know when it’s time to fly south?”
“What am I, and ornithologist?”
He misses the way her ankle clicked when she walked, but only in the morning. He misses how she loved to sing, but never got the lyrics right. He misses how she would lead him down wild paths of fantastic stories just to get him to do things, and then blow it all up in the end.
“And it was because of that one book report that a young Hemmingway would change the world.”
“Wow, really?”
“No. But my point is…”
Suzie’s memory is alive in this house and will be for the rest of our lives. It’s just that, recently, it’s been less of a cliché. And I wonder if how I feel tonight is the way he’s felt all along. I don’t know if that makes sense. He’s just a boy; his view is different from mine; his world is smaller. But he sees it just like I do.
I come here to be honest because it helps. The things I can’t say out loud, and all that. The trouble is that honesty is a moving target where things don’t always stay true. In the moment, for example, I wish I had let Dotty go, because I want to be alone. I don’t want to have married again, it was a mistake. Tomorrow will be different.
It’s hard to love Dot and not feel as though I’ve betrayed another promise; it’s always in the back of my mind. And it’s hard to have these thoughts and not see Danny’s face that night, when he lost his temper and yelled, “She’s dead, Mack.”
It wasn’t supposed to be this way and I wonder if I've just been playing along.
I’m also conscious that something more is missing. I watched the boys playing basketball earlier and I watched Zach. He’s perfect. I’m fairly convinced that, had Zach not been hurt, I would have simply stopped living that night, in any real sense of the word. I hate me for that thought, but I’ve had it before. And I wonder if I would have been the same father. While Zach needed me, I had a reason – I will always see to the boys. I feel selfish seeing to me.
The moment in the car with PJ yesterday was substantial – I think I called it one of the most significant moments that I’ve ever shared. There’s a void now, where once there was guilt. People dream of being relieved of such a burden, and here I am wondering what to do without it. Typing that now, I think my epiphany is that if the boys are alright, then I have nothing left but to look at myself. I’ve known this, I’ve said this before. I guess it’s just different when the time actually comes.
I never had a moment to say goodbye – I never saw her again, not even after because they wouldn’t let me. I had no time to process it all and maybe that’s why I came here. If it’s true that in some weird way the idea that I didn’t have time to process it all saved me then, it’s killing me now. I think it’s hitting me at last, for as insane as that may seem and for all that’s happened since.
I’ve always been a simple man, astonished by my own fortune and eternally grateful for it. I came from nothing, but I had it all. I want to type “I still do” but losing Suzie breaks the math. And it feels like nobody will ever understand why. She was my life.
I’ve moved on, I’ve held the hands of my son as they moved on and I still do. I’ve found love again and I’ve motored through the transition with sincerity and a dose of frank honesty. I’ll never lie to Dot. And I do love her – more each day in fact. And I am astonished that the world would offer me something as wonderful, twice in a lifetime. But I hope you see that there remain some things that I still can’t say out loud.
Maybe I just need to feel bad tonight.

Hey so i did not see anything about this on the web but i got to ask, Can Iron Man walk at all or is he in a constant flight mode? I think he could use it as a option because it would be nice to go down every now and then and play behind your tank or something. Btw it is perfectly okay if he is in a constant flight mode too this is not a rant.

Hello. I am a very young adult man with no family (lost to drugs unfortunately) and a badly paying job. I live in Kansas and I am trying to move to Washington, in a specific city, so I can be near someone I know. This part is not gonna change, I know what's best for me, and moving in this specific city is what I am going to do. This is also due to me needing their availability for rides and such, as I do not have a car.
That said, I need to move ASAP. Due to severe issues and my current living situation putting me in physical danger, I need to be out of here by the end of the month, before these changes take place. I'm planning on moving June 1st, arriving the 2nd. I have been endlessly searching for the last few months to no avail. Either the apartments are way too expensive, like, 1,500+ dollars a month, or, they're not available until months out. I found a perfect apartment suited for me, within my budget, etc. But the woman I was talking to told me she'd send me an application, and after calling every couple days to follow up on her empty promise, she finally answered my call today and said something along the lines of,
"I'm so sorry! I know we planned on you being sent the application about a week ago now, it's been in my drafts. But unfortunately the units you were looking at are now taken. I can send you the applications now, and we can get you in here as soon as September!!"
Obviously that isn't going to work for me, and I was highly saddened to find out that the one apartment that would work for me was out of the question for such a silly reason, like her saying she forgot to send me the application, despite me calling every other day checking in to see when she'd send it.
I have poor credit due to my illogical decision when I was 18, letting my druggy mother use my credit card, and I haven't been able to pay it off in it's entirety yet.
Most apartments require you to be making at least 3x rent per month, which isn't in the cards for me, as I am moving states.
I would prefer to find something that pays a utility or two, but that seems to be non-existent. There aren't even any options without utilities paid.
I've been searching and searching, lowering and lowering my preferences, to the point where now, all I require is a roof and a water source. Yet, I can't even find that.
I 'spose I am just posting this here to see if anyone with more knowledge than me has any advice on how to find low income/affordable apartments.
TLDR: I am poor and no apartments are cheap enough for me. I NEED to move from Kansas to Washington due to a dangerous situation and emergency, by June 1st. I have 0 time to push it out. Very stressed and feeling defeated.

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Just because you’re transported to another world, doesn’t mean you’ll escape from your pain.
Abused by her parents, thirteen-year-old Frances only wants to be safe and for her life not to hurt so much. And when she and her class are transported to the magical world of Durannon to fight the monsters invading the human kingdoms and defeat the self-titled Demon King, Frances is presented with a golden opportunity. If she succeeds, Frances will have the home she never had. If she fails, Frances will be summoned back to the home she escaped.
Yet, despite her newfound magic and friends, Frances finds that trauma is not so easily lost. She is dogged by her abuse and its physical and invisible scars. Not only does she have to learn magic, she has to survive the nightmares of her past, and wrestle with her feelings of doubt and self-loathing.
If she can heal from her trauma, though, she might be able to defeat the Demon King and maybe, just maybe, she can find a home for herself.
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Frances and company catch up before the final battle.
***
“Hold on. How would he win this battle if we outnumber him and surround him?” Ginger asked.
“He could target our leadership. Focus on killing Titania, Antigones, you and Martin,” said Ayax.
“Only, he’d have to kill Sebastian and Megara, as well as Edana and you too, Frances, along with a whole list of targets. I’m not sure how he could pull that off,” said Elizabeth.
Ayax grimaced, brow furrowed, but Frances knew the answer to that question.
“Thorgoth doesn’t need to find half the targets he’s after. Myself, mom, Titania, our strongest mages and the rest of the people that will be on his list have leadership positions. Like it or not we’ll be involved in the battle and he just needs to find us on the battlefield. A well-placed spell and he’d snuff any non-magic person out,” Frances said.
“So what do we do then?” Martin asked.
Frances’ heart was pounding, for she knew the answer, but was afraid to give it life. Yet what could she do but tell what she knew was the truth?
“Take the battle to him. Thorgoth will have to operate by himself with maybe just his Royal Guards. We need to hold him and his escort and defeat him before he hurts everybody else.”
“So, all the Otherworlders, our best mages?” Ayax asked.
“Not all of them. But my mother and I, Jessica and Leila, Dwynalina and Jim and Nicole, with a few Otherworlders holding off his guards,” said Frances.
Elizabeth pursed her lips. “Ayax and I can go after Queen Berengaria. I can’t imagine her going far from her husband.”
“This is assuming we can at least split the attention of the dragons and keep them occupied of course,” said Martin. He touched Ginger’s elbow. “Not that I don’t trust you dear.”
“Oh I know, but it is a consideration.” She swirled the wine in her cup. “That means Martin and I will be directing the battle with Sebastian and Alexander.”
“It’s likely you’ll be the overall commander with Martin. Alexander and Sebastian would then take charge of their own contingents,” said Elizabeth. She bit her lip. “Do you feel up for it?”
Ginger shrugged. “I mean, we have to—”
Elizabeth reached out to pat her friend’s shoulder. “Martin, Ginger, you know we have every faith in both of you, but if you need help, there is no shame in asking for it.”
“Besides I think we’re all scared. I know I am,” Ayax said with a smile. Even so, they could all see how her tail looked like it was trying to twist itself into knots. Frances figured her cousin wasn’t trying to hide her fear, just trying not to alarm or panic them.
Martin sighed. “I think that’s the problem, Liz. Duty compels us. Love binds us. So I know no matter what happens, I know we’ll stand together to face him. Still, we are afraid and while I know I won’t run, I worry that fear may cloud my judgment at a crucial moment.”
Ginger wiped her eyes, but her tears now flowed freely down her cheeks. “How do I know I won’t panic, and make a bad call? How do we know we are all coming back? We can’t. I…I guess we have to accept that, but I don’t want to lose you. Any of you.”
Drawing her friend into a tight hug, Elizabeth gently patted Ginger’s back. “I don’t either. I suppose that for me, I’ve always looked to my faith in God, and in you all. Have we not triumphed in all we’ve faced?””
Frances found herself nodding, her throat unclenching and the tight nervousness in her shoulders and neck fading. What remained was a faint feeling of lightness that lifted her chin.
“You’re right. We should believe in ourselves, and hope. Hope for a future when we win this war. Hope that our good will triumph over Thorgoth’s evil. Hope that in a few days, we’ll be home with our family, and our friends.”
Martin gave Frances a wondering look. “How are you able to hope that?”
Frances smiled. “I think that I have always been good at having hope. I didn’t realize it until now, but even in my darkest moments, I always hoped that I would find a place where I could be me.”
Ayax stood up, raising her glass. “To faith, friendship and hope. May it see us all through our final trial.”
Rising to their feet, the five touched glasses and drank deep. They all were smiling. The pain and fear in their hearts soothed by the hope they held and the determination to see each other once again.
***
“Frances, can I walk with you?”
Frances would never have said no to her best friend, and she could tell that past Elizabeth’s bright smile, her friend was worried. There were just too many small signs learnt from years of friendship. She was scratching behind her ear, and her eyes were narrowed just slightly from the tension in her face.
“Of course,” said Frances, falling in beside the tall Otherworlder. “How are you and Ayax?”
Elizabeth giggled. “We’re great! Fantastic even. She and I are even talking about what we might do after the war. We have so many plans and well, I kind of wanted to talk to you about that.”
Frances waited as Elizabeth continued to walk beside her, lips pursed.
“I know that after the war, I’m choosing to stay here with Ayax, with all of you. I just…” her voice trailed off, and her walk slowed to a crawl.
Taking a slight breath, Frances touched her friend’s hand. “Liz, you know it’s okay for you to doubt that.”
Elizabeth stopped and shook her head. “Oh no, I don’t have any doubts about my decision. At the very least, I’m past the point where my doubts aren’t going to change my decision. I know I’ve changed too much in the past seven years. I’ve come to terms with my sexuality. I’ve fallen head over heels in love with a woman who loves me just as much. I’ve commanded armies, led soldiers into battle and helped to make decisions affecting hundreds of thousands of people. I can’t go back pretending I’m Grade 8 and neither do I want to.” She squeezed Frances’s hand. “My decision is the right one. I know it in my heart and I’ve prayed about it. I can do a lot of good here and me going back? That won’t just hurt the people I love here, but it’ll hurt me and my family at home. I can’t hide who I’ve become and I’m proud of what I’ve grown into.”
Frances closely studied her friend knowing Elizabeth wouldn’t mind her staring.
“So what are you feeling, Liz?”
Closing her eyes, Elizabeth sniffled. “Guilt. It’s stupid. I know I’m making the right choice. I’m sure in my heart that God is encouraging me to make this choice, but I still feel guilty.”
“How could you not? You know your family loves you.”
“And I’m abandoning them. I know I’m doing the right thing but I still feel like I’m doing something wrong,” said the Otherworlder.
Frances hugged her best friend, squeezing her tight, hoping that her warmth and touch could comfort the woman who she’d trusted as much as her own mother.
“Liz, if they are everything you told me, they’re going to be alright. Have faith in them, like your faith in me and your friends.”
Elizabeth let out a sigh, but returned the hug. “Thank you, Frances. If…if the worst comes and you are sent back without me, go to them. Tell them I love them.”
Tears in her eyes, Frances nodded. “I promise. If you are sent back, I will take care of Ayax.”
Elizabeth let out a gurgly hiccup. “Thank you. I know you will.”
***
The historic coronation of King Martin and Queen Ginger would found what would be known as the Congrey dynasty. Con for Conthwaite and Grey for King Jerome’s dynasty.
It was an unusual coronation as King Martin and Queen Ginger were long-betrothed but not married. Yet King Jerome and Queen Forowena’s wills had been clear. Apart from that, the coronation involved as many of Eridale's traditions as possible in light of the circumstances.
Down the parade route attended by all those that could be mustered, King and Queen marched in at the head of an honor guard composed of their closest companions. These included Frances, Elizabeth, and Ayax, who held three poles of a crimson banner that hung over the pair. The fourth corner was held by Martin’s sister Mara, who wore a slightly undignified grin. Yet, nobody could really blame her.
Martin wore a black-white checkered tunic with red-gold trimmings and shoulder epaulets. His trousers were dark gray with again red-gold tassels. Ginger did wear a dress. It was of a dark maroon with silver lacing. A bejeweled gorget studded with emeralds hung from her neck and her ears sparkled with dark blue sapphires.
There was one minor alteration. As the procession marched up to the entrance of the old Goblin Empire palace, on a raised wooden dais dressed with elaborately embroidered carpets stood the attending dignitaries. They included all the other Erisdalian lords and ladies such as Viscountess Katia and Lord Tarquin, dressed in all the finery they could muster. Other notables such as Prince Timur, representing the Kingdom of Alavaria, Grandmaster Edana of the White Order and Alexander and Eloise of Erlenberg stood proudly side by side.
Towards the center of the dais were three figures. King Sebastian and Queen-Consort Megara, and the former Queen Janize. Sebastian and Megara were standing, holding Queen Forowena’s crown, whilst the heavily pregnant Janize sat, holding King Jerome’s crown. Thorgoth may have taken their decorated helmets, but he did not have their ceremonial attire.
Martin and Ginger stepped out from under the awning, giving their bearers a brief nod, before taking the last steps up the dais.
Whistling a spell, Megara touched her throat with her wand. “Who stands before the crowns?”
Martin knelt to one knee. The bearers of the awning followed. “Sir Martin of Conthwaite. A Knight of Erisdale.”
Ginger curtsied low. Frances nearly split her lips as she grinned at her friend’s perfect form. “Ginger. Just Ginger of Erisdale.”
Janize’s expression was unreadable as she rose to her feet. There was a slight archness to her features, and yet that could just be how she lifted her haughty cheeks.
“As witnessed by all, and by the King and Queen of Lapanteria, do you swear to defend Erisdale with all means at your disposal including force of arms?”
“We do.”
“Do you swear to uphold the laws of the land and the rights of Erisdale’s citizens?”
“We do!”
“Do you swear that until your dying breaths, to govern and reign over Erisdale not for your benefit, but for the benefit of the people and for their future generations?”
From her kneeling position, Frances frowned. That wasn’t quite the right oath. The wording was “Do you swear to govern over Erisdale wisely and justly?” She supposed that she might have missed it, or maybe there was a variation.
Yet as she noted her fiance’s face, she noticed his eyes were wide and her mother’s eyebrow was arched.
Not skipping a beat, Martin and Ginger bellowed. “We do!”
“Do you swear that you will do your utmost not to make the same mistakes as your predecessors and do whatever it takes to preserve Erisdale’s peace, even if it may cost you your lives?”
Frances blinked. Janize had gone completely off script. There was no fourth oath.
However, Martin and Ginger only hesitated for a moment as they exchanged a glance and looked up to meet Janize’s gaze.
The blonde woman’s eyes were bright and the hands holding Jerome’s crown were trembling ever so slightly. Frances had wondered why she’d insisted on doing this. Martin and Ginger had wanted to approach her to ask if she was willing, but the enigmatic former queen had surprised them by demanding they allow her to crown them. She now had an idea as to why.
“We do,” said Martin, smiling.
Ginger returned that smile. Blinking back her own tears, she took a breath. “In the name of Queen-consort Forowena and your brother, King Jerome. We solemnly swear.”
Janize closed her eyes, a single tear running down her cheek.
“Then as the last heiress of House Grey, I pass the crown of Erisdale on forever. Long live the Congrey dynasty. Long live Martin the Hero of Erisdale and his queen to be Ginger, whom I dub Erisdale’s Burning Heart.”
Lifting Jerome’s crown high, she set it onto Martin’s head. Swiftly taking Queen Forowena’s crown from Sebastian, she set it on Ginger’s head.
“Hail King Martin and Queen Ginger!” Janize bellowed as Martin and Ginger rose to their feet.
The crowd chanted back, their voices filling the great cavern. “Hail King Martin and Queen Ginger! Hail King Martin and Queen Ginger!” Frances could barely hear her own voice over the crescendo. The call that they all raised. Like the sound carried up into the void, she could feel herself be carried up. It was like she was floating on the power of their united song.
Turning around, Martin and Ginger smiled at Frances. Their eyes were wide, and she could see them clasp each other’s hands tightly.
Frances found herself standing on her feet, the pole to her awning in her hand. Without a second thought, she stabbed the pole’s spike into the ground. As her hand dropped to Alanna, she paused for a moment before her mind caught up with her body, and she nodded as if to herself.
Drawing the estoc, Frances raised her blade high, saluting her two friends.
“Long may they reign! Long may they reign!”
Elizabeth was right behind her, hammer raised high. Ayax followed suit with her staff and Mara and the rest were soon drawing their weapons. From the corner of her eye, Frances even spotted Morgan and Hattie raising their wand and staff.
“Long may they reign! Long may they reign!”
***
Helias glanced over his shoulder toward the accursed city. Despite the distance, there was a tremble in the air of Kairoun-Aoun itself.
“Helias?” Sara asked.
“Sounds like they crowned Martin and Ginger. They’re going to attack soon,” he said.
Sara nodded, her tense jaw the only sign of the worry that had seized the harpy-orc. As gently as he could manage with his rough, scarred hands, he wrapped his arm around her waist.
“Sara. We’re going to be fine.”
“You’re lying,” she said with eyes fixed forward.
The general couldn’t help but wince. “Sorry.”
Slowing in her stride, Sara placed a hand over Helias’s. “I still appreciate you trying to comfort me but I would prefer you to tell me the truth. How bad is it?”
Helias looked around. “Thorgoth may pull off a miracle and get himself and Berengaria out. However, a lot of Alavari are going to die.”
“What are you going to do?” Sara asked.
“I’ll have to attend this meeting and see what Thorgoth is planning. We’ll make a plan after that.”
“You and I know it’s not going to change anything,” Sara said, looking up at her husband, who could not meet her gaze. Yet, she didn’t push him away. Instead put her hand around his waist, drawing him closer.
“I know, but I want to be sure,” said Helias in a low tone.
“I understand. See you soon,” said Sara.
***
Helias found himself exchanging side-long glances with Glowron. The pair sat, both leaning forward toward King Thorgoth and a pacing Queen Berengaria, who’d finished explaining tomorrow’s strategy.
“Do you have anything else to add, my good generals?” Thorgoth asked. The king still smiled easily as he swirled a cup of wine in his hands.
Glowron shook his head. His tone was short but he kept this expression neutral. “No sire.”
The goblin general was Helias’s superior in rank and social class. The fact of the matter was that if Glowron had no objections, then there was no way the tauroll could object.
And still, Helias felt bile rise in the back of his throat. He froze, ever so briefly. Closing his eyes, he shook his head. Nothing mattered, except for Sara and Gwendilia.
“No sir. I’ll have my troops ready for tomorrow.”
That should have been that. They would have been dismissed to prepare for tomorrow’s suicide mission, but the king’s whims had other plans.
King Thorgoth put his cup down and leaned forward. “Oh come on my good generals. Surely you have something to improve on this plan.”
Glowron’s expression remained blank, whilst Helias smiled. “Your Majesty, you were the one who taught me everything I know. I can think of nothing I can add to your strategy.”
Queen Berengaria strode toward him. “You’re usually so talkative, Helias. Are you sure you have no other thoughts?”
“I beg your apologies, but I do not have any further additions to your plan, Your Majesty. My lord Glowron?” Helias asked.
“I do not either, my liege—” Glowron fell silent and Helias’s tail stiffened.
Thorgoth and Berengaria were no longer smiling and with a few more steps, the harpy queen had put herself behind the two generals.
“Let me be plain, we are now not asking you about how to improve the plan. We are asking for your thoughts. Give them.”
The Demon King’s remaining dark eye was narrowed. The other was now covered with a black silk eyepatch, the remains of the scar that Queen Forowen had given him, a discoloration scouring a line along the side of his face and right over his ear. In spite of the king’s injury, Helias felt nothing but cold dread dry his mouth.
“Your Majesty, my only thought is that we have no option but to follow your plan. No matter how we got into this situation, the only thing we can do is go forward and try to win this day,” Glowron said.
“And do you blame me, Glowron?”
Helias watched, eyes wide as somehow the much smaller goblin general continued to meet the king’s eyes. “I would be lying to you if I said I didn’t assign some responsibility to you at all, but I believe we ought to have thought of the possibility of such a trap. So the responsibility is mine as well.”
Thorgoth nodded. Out of the corner of his eye, Helias saw the slightest of nods that Berengaria gave to her husband. Alarm shooting his gaze back toward the Demon King, Helias found the full attention of his sovereign and sometimes uncle directed right at him.
“And you, General Helias?”
Lie and he might not be able to make it convincing enough. Tell the truth about what he thought about this war and he was never seeing Sara and Gwendilia again. Thorgoth hadn’t just been hurt, his pride had been wounded and he was now backed into a corner. It would be unwise to anger him, but what to say? What could he say?
All he could think of, and see was his child and her adoring gaze. All he could feel was the touch of Sara’s hand against his. They’d become closer than he could have imagined and were more than just companions with mutual goals now.
If he was to die, then maybe he could tell this truth.
“I am mostly thinking of my wife and my child, my king. The coming battle has me greatly concerned with how dangerous it shall be.”
Thorgoth narrowed his eyes at Helias for a brief moment. The tauroll, staying very still, waited for the presumed reaction by Berengaria.
Whatever Berengaria did made Thorgoth arch an eyebrow.
“I thought you didn’t consider your wife to be worth much,” said the king in a mild tone.
His mind racing, Helias ran with the idea. “She has responded well to the constraints and discipline I’ve enforced on her. She does nothing but facilitate all my needs and has served me well.”
He could feel Berengaria’s eyes narrow, but Thorgoth was already leaning back onto his chair. “Good for you. You are dismissed.”
“Thank you, sire,” said Helias, almost unable to hide his sigh of relief.
***
Author’s Note: While I wish I could have spent more quality time with Martin, Elizabeth, Ginger and Ayax, I do love the best-friend/team that I created for Frances. This chapter and the last was my little way of giving each of them a bit of time with Frances before the final battle.

It is for the facebook page activity. English isn’t my first language and I accidentally wrote it too long… 💀What have I done they don’t even reward diamonds 🫠🫠🫠
1
After knowing Eric was killed by the cold arrows, in countless lonely night, Celestine doesn’t remember how many times she couldn’t help but sobbing underneath the moon. Everything from that dreamlike memory turns against her, making regret and yearning as her tear. The secret they have shared and the happiness they have experienced for only a short while, now is remaining as a hole in her which fills with unspeakable agony.
Yes, unspeakable. As long as the Fairy and the Sanguine are still enemy, the knot of her mind could never untie, no matter how much concern and care were shown to her. Because the reason she couldn’t relief can only be a secret that bury in her deepest mind.
2
Her fairy friends bring her brushes and pigments, expected that Art could be a way to heal her. When she picks up a brush, the flashback of that moonlit night of the first time she met with him is very much clearly recalling in her mind, as if it was happened yesterday. Tear droppes from her bowing head, a strong feeling bloom in her heart, ‘If getting to understand the thing he liked, can I get closer to him?’
In later days, she spends all her days to soak in the world of color. Except it is a way to commemorate her beloved one, sooner she has found that art could also be the way to express her true feelings beneath the deepest side of her mind, and so she feels so much relief than before. Years and years, by the artwork in her memory which she has seen from talented him as a goal, she worked very hard to improve her art skill, in order to paint the world he has seen. Every years, she would paint the lake where he drew and where they‘ve met once, until one day, she found that her skill has already been to where she has once wished to reach. “I could see the same view as you now…”
Somehow, a feeling of emptiness comes over Celestine.
3
As she walks to home in the deepest forest, the thick woods gradually cover the moonlight and the starlight from the sky. Beneath the shadow of branches and leaves, she takes out a new canvas, and starting to draft an appearance of a person.
“He had a pair of branch-like dark wings without feather and unlike any fairies, the black and light purple suited perfectly outlines his artistic body, the pair of high heel boots quietly brought out of his sexiness, and that slightly worn hood whispers his mystery. He looked so dangerous with his bone hands but I was so much into his touching. When he took my hands into dance, the moonlight fell on his flowing silver hair, making lively of his….”
…How was his face looked like?
Celestine, then sinking into shocked.
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A few days later, a friend who visited Celestine has found that her house was in a mess. There were a lot of canvas scattered around everywhere, which were all depicted about the same person but with an erased face. However, Celestine herself was nowhere to be found. The only thing the fairies could find after a long while, is an existence who is known as Mrs. Bone.
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4
“I finally meet you… I finally meet you… I finally meet you…”
A repeating whisper echoes in the Shadow City, no body knows how did the master of this voice entered into here. Leading by a Sanguine, the fairy who holds tight of a skeleton which is wrapping by some muddy, broken clothes in her arms, kneels in front of the throne of tomb. The giant wings of white devil and black angel spread, showing the glamorous body and the blood lust gaze of the queen from that dark throne.
"Are you gonna pay for your desire, even if the cost is to render yourself into darkness?", she asked, with a slow, arrogant voice.
"Show me your madness then, soak your soul into BLOOD!"
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5
Putting on a dress that made of the bone under her feet, to make herself a well-match wife to him - You’re in black, I’m in white, and we’re in bone.
Upon the cluster of rose and bone, the man who has only bone remained, opening his “eyes”. He is unable to speak, since he has no throat. (But this will be just temporary)
He has never expected that he could awake from his everlasting “sleep” in this form, seeing the world, and meeting her once again. Her atmosphere seems slightly different, but still, her light skin is as beautiful as the moon of Lake Bovaly, her purple eyes is as deep as the sky of Shadow City, and her tender smile is like the meteor they’ve seen together, which streaks into his very heart. Tears that reflects the color of the blood moon shud from her eyes, and he just reaches out, wipes her tears away from her endearing face. Yet she holds his hand and rubbing her face with it, to feel this touching of long lost - she has been waiting for this day for so long in countless lonely nights. And now, she’s not the girl who has only the understanding of the art he likes, but also has learnt the desire of blood that root in his sanguine nature - it is for the sake of maintaining the spells of his resurrection, rebuilding, and existence. But most importantly, for the sake of LOVE.
“Even death could never separate us anymore.”
-End-
Thank you for reading and Sorry for my grammar and weird story🫠

I’m genuinely just tired and empty after our last interaction. I (20f) take off work to see them for nearly a month and I just ask to go with my boyfriend and his family since they’re inviting me for their summer trip to a nearby city for memorial day weekend. And it turns into an hour+ long lecture about everything they hate about my boyfriend and what they dislike about me.
I have a traditional Mexican family who are really dug into the traditional (machismo/marianismo) thinking. Because of this: •they don’t recognize him as my partner ever even though i begged them to for months (2year relationship) •barely recognize him as a person “ese muchacho o este persona” •hate that he doesn’t respect them •hate that he didn’t eat at the restaurant they invited us to (devours the leftovers every time) •really offended that he sat cross cross at the table when I do it constantly? •don’t think he can provide for me •judge the fact he isn’t working a full time job while he’s getting a clinical lab postgrad degree •don’t think he’s “man enough”
And shifted it onto me when they were satisfied: •3 years of calling me easy and not fully believing i’m going to graduate college (i’m getting magna cum laude at the end of the year if i keep getting A’s🤞) •hate how I don’t talk to them anymore •really circled back on how they don’t know who i am anymore cause i’m not as happy as i was in HS •think i’m a pushover dog in my relationship •say there’s nothing wrong with my hobbies but think i should stop buying warhammer bc “i’ve spent enough on it, it’s time to move on to practical things” •are upset i don’t communicate when they used to tell me as a kid that i should be quieter •are upset it feels like i don’t want to be back at home and it’s like yeah no shit i am tired of getting shit on constantly.
He hates my parents because of how they treat me and he’s tired of seeing me cry. He treats me well and I feel genuine love and care from him. It isn’t perfect since we still fight sometimes but we hold each other accountable and i’m the luckiest girl in the world to have someone like him choose to support me everyday. I don’t want to waste effort crying over this so i’ll probably just watch youtube until I pass out but man I’m just done. But i’ll have to mask and act all excited and outspoken until i go back to school :(

Sarah had mentioned Paradiso before and it sounded nice enough. When she said she wanted Aja to officiate our ceremony...well, we had some time while the Cabinet got ready to quiz us about what happened on Tau Ceti II. I set a course for the Porrima system by way of Volii and off we went.
I wise man once said, "you'll get distracted by bullshit every time." Well, we barely arrived when we got a strange request for assistance from resort security. There was also an unknown ship in orbit that didn't match anything in the database. Sarah and I shared a look. "After the wedding...and the honeymoon," she said. Yeah, there was a reason I was marrying her.
Arriving at Paradiso
It turns out the welcome robot at the spaceport will take your picture (for a "reasonable" service fee, natch). We got there just before dawn, which was perfect timing for what we had planned. Sarah wasn't thrilled with what was open at that hour for food, though.
\"Gourmet\" Chunks...right
Sarah's mentor, Aja, and her mom were waiting for us on the beach when we got there. Aja was everything Sarah described. Her mother was actually...well, I expected her to be nice. She wasn't as abrasive as Sarah implied. In fact, she seemed to share a lot of personality with Sarah, which might have been where some of the friction came from. The ceremony at dawn, at least, was lovely.
Vows at dawn
The resort rooms were luxurious. They also cost enough that Sarah and I could have gone to Enhance! and swapped bodies. (She just read that and smacked the back of my head.)
Getting comfortable in the room
A hell of a view...and the scenery was nice, too
The amenities of the resort were almost worth the price.
Rooftop dining with a view
Chlling at the beach
That was good for a day or so...but there was no way we were going to just lounge around at the resort, no matter how comfortable. Sarah once told me she loves to explore for fun and that's one of the things we have in common. The staff let us know that most of the wildlife on Porrima II was docile and non-threatening. Sigh...that should have been a warning sign.
We headed out in the evening, since the night was bright under the stars and we were still adapting from ship-time. We followed a path outside the resort and discovered where the staff live.
Staff quarters aren't to the same level as the guest rooms
A little further, and we were able to wind our way into the jungle and start exploring the area. There were some interesting things visible on the orbital survey map and the wildlife was interesting.
This guy was the biggest local lifeform and was pretty inoffensive
The pods on this tree were filled with spicey seeds that were a little like cardamon
Things started to get...more typical of our experiences...when we discovered a large crystalline cavern.
Crystals big enough to climb
Sarah's eyes lit up when we wandered inside and discovered this massive crystalline cathedral. The insides of the crystal opened passages that were mazelike and gave us plenty of places to explore. Of course, we weren't the first people to find it...
Crimson Fleet pirate met a gruesome end
Of course, the body had a slate filled with final words. More people would probably live longer if they focused more on trying to heal their wounds instead of preserving their last thoughts for posterity. The unfortunate looter was gored by something that sounded a hell of a lot more dangerous than any of the local wildlife. We hadn't seen anything more dangerous than a small flying raptor-like bat in our explorations so far.
The telltale roar let us know exactly what we were facing and gave us flashbacks to Tau Ceti II. Luckily, Sarah and I came loaded for terrormorph, despite the assurances of the staff. We prevailed, but my wife came dangerously close to being eviscerated.
Terror in paradise
I would have been fine heading back to the resort, but Sarah wanted to continue our exploration. "We've dealt with the most dangerous thing for kilometers around already, love. Let's not spoil things by leaving before we've finished our survey."
Trekking through the wilderness, we came across some mercenaries fighting a SECOND terrormorph. It was easy enough to snipe the beast while he was fighting them. Then we had to snipe the mercs when they started shooting at us. Why does Ecliptic seem to only hire assholes?
A natural arch surrounded by predators
It was when we found the THIRD 'morph attacking wildlife near a natural stone arch that Sarah finally sighed and agreed to return back to the hotel. Three burrowing, mind-reading, chameleon-skinned super-predators was enough for a single honeymoon. In fact, the universe seemed to be telling us that we needed to head off to meet up with Hadrian before terrormorphs started showing up and asking for immigration visas in New Atlantis.
Of course, we had to stop by the resort security office on the way out...but that is a story for another time...
These guys definitely need some natural sunlight.

The rift between them has caused a lot of tension in my family and now my mom wants to be in the life of her newborn grandson but refuses to address or try to mend things with my wife.
Little history: I probably introduced them too quickly. My grandmother was in town in south Florida about to move here from Illinois for a retirement community. My wife, girlfriend at the time, came with cookies or some form of baked goods like she usually does when visiting someone as a sign of affection and respect. Where it went wrong from here I have no idea. I suppose the initial crack was when wife scheduled a skitrip for her and I to have as a 1 year of dating anniversary present. We are not rich, this is a huge gift that made sense to her since I refused to let her pay rent. Our combines salaries are barely over 120k. So wife calls mom 6 months in advance because she is a planner for the sole purpose of asking my mom to watch one of our four dogs. Wife has already paid in full for the trip. Yet Mom decides it is a great idea to instead use the opportunity to hop on and take a family trip because it is the last time the family will have for a family vacation - I am the oldest of two boys and two stepsisters, my mom married the guy she left my father for who has twin girls of his own that were in the womb during the infidelity. Anyway mom completely takes over and decides to make our one year gift a family vacation, so she books tickets for a hotel nearby. Wife is bold but at the time not bold enough to stop my mom in her tracks for overstepping a boundary. At this time she still respected my mother and kind of let herself get steamrolled.
Probably skippable Family history: Now I have always had issues with my mother, resentment for leaving my father for my stepdad behind my own fathers back and constantly trying to keep brother and I from seeing “Disneyland dad who doesn’t do any of the work but gets all the fun.” my mother was very strict growing up, always bringing us to church and making my father feel guilty for not bringing brother and I on his weekend. So mom marries stepdad age 11, divorces him around 13 after asking me advice for her relationship and i encourage her to move out. Then remarries him and moves us back into his house age 15. Here I begin rebellion and normal teeenager stuff but stepdad won’t butt in because he isn’t my “biological father” so would have my mom intervene brother and i from behind the scenes. For example, I am young and messing around on the piano because music is important and I never had any formal training and mom comes in to tell me stepdad “wants to know when the concert is going to end because it is a little annoying.” Anyway, they have me prescribed adderall at 16 and in the parking lot holding my first prescription I am told that they would like me to move out and in with my father, who had chased us every time mom and stepdad moved several miles away (5 moves from age 5-15 all in one county). Anyway, brother and I are recovering alcoholics with (my) slipups triggered from interactions or visiting my mom, which mom claims is genetics from my father alone and has nothing to do with her. Maternal grandfather, mother, and I have some nasty temper problems which certainly are exacerbated by drinking (at least mine and moms).
Skitrip revelations: Wife and I are on the way to brothers graduation in Chicago, and wife has yet to reveal to me that my mother has taken over her massive investment of a couples ski vacation and it will now be a family vacation for mom, stepdad, brother, two stepsisters who are all getting out of gradschool. On the way to the airport I am told the news by future wife of my one year surprise. So I get upset and call my mom to call it off. She obliges my request and now holds resentment against me and now wife for “ruining her last family vacation.” Fine, whatever. Mother never says a word about it for months until we are out for a distant family members birthday dinner and at a table of about 8-10 people that are having a group conversation and gets real close to my wife’s ear and tells her privately along the lines of “you deprived our family of our last family vacation.” During this time my wife is frantically tapping my leg under the table because my mom can get a little aggressive. My mom saw this and later (privately to me) mocked her for doing it to my leg under the table.
Christmas blessings: Closer to Christmas maybe 2/3 weeks later we went to go see my mom and my mom had a couple drinks in her (not an alcoholic like brother and I just very sensitive to a couple glasses of wine and occasionally some hidden sips of wine or something) and invites my wife to Christmas church and out to dinner after because the family needs photos for a Christmas card and future wife “will be the photographer for it.” Now this can easily be a nothing comment but given the way my mom had been making future wife feel, it was taken as an insult. So wife declined church and showed up to family dinner just in time for photography session to be over.
The distance: Then mom moves to a fancy house up the coast and invites us up to visit. At first it is ok to bring the 4 dogs then the day before she says they will not have dogs at the house and we can easily find a sitter. 2 Dogs don’t get along, they need to be separated always as there has been two attacks on one from the other, so we can’t trust someone to come to the house and keep them separate and we won’t board 4 dogs it’s too expensive for us. Anyway we go back and forth being invited with the dogs then they retract the offer and say pick one dog to bring and leave the others and it’s just annoying, so we say forget it and don’t go. But my brother becomes engaged and decides to throw his engagement party at my mom’s new place near the beach. Great. First all the dogs are welcome, then day before they say it is too chaotic and she will pay for a small hotel room for one night for future wife and her dogs and my one (the attack dog) can stay in a crate at the house with me but I may not leave the dog to stay with her. And no reasonable cheap hotel in the area is going to accommodate 4 dogs. Anyway wife is stressed but feels obligated to come because I am the best man and I stay at the house while she checks her dogs into the hotel. Wife had made a cheesecake and brought it up in a separate car from me, 4 hour drive by the way, and night of.. my mom says no desserts for engagement party dinner, the dessert is themed or some crazy stuff. Wife shows up to dinner a little later and very flustered because of the situation plus I had relapsed on a bottle of whiskey a couple days prior to seeing my mom. Related, I don’t know. Anyway. Mom has had a couple drinks and future wife and I are talking about having children and religion comes up. Mom asks what we were thinking of doing about baptism or not and I jokingly said (guiltily to get on my moms nerves a bit) that he would have a bris and would love it if she would come to the bar mitzvah. now my wife’s mom was forced to convert from Catholicism to Judaism for her own mother in laws acceptance for a failed marriage so wife is not religious, but it hurt my wife and reasonably so when my mom replied “oh, son, I raised you better than that.” Still no acknowlegement of fault from that comment and mom thinks wife is “overly sensitive, dramatic, and childish” for wanting an apology for it.
Weddings: Future wife becomes current wife. We had gotten engaged on our next anniversary trip she planned for us. I proposed on our bike and barge through tulip season in holland with our feet in the water of the North Sea after a picnic in the dunes. her family business manufactures photo albums for professional photographers, so aside from our families all being divorced, estranged, difficult, and us trying to save money, we did not have a wedding, we just did the paperwork within a month of the proposal. I had already decided to have a baby with her before the trip so we were trying. 2 weeks before brothers wedding in Tennessee we become pregnant, so we break news immediately as to not steal limelight from brothers expensive wedding. Mom says she will cover cost of rental car so we can save money. Ok great. She books the tiny car and we pack it and head up the Smokey mountains to the cabins we are staying at. Two cabins for grooms family, one for his mother and one for his father, ten paces from each other: they havnt spoken but twice im since divorce in 1995 but through lawyers. Grandmother, mother, stepdad, 2 stepsisters and one boyfriend stayed in mom’s side. Wife and I stay at father’s side cabin with just his wife. His Wife’s 3 daughters and family’s stayed a town away down the mountain among extended family. Anyway, beautiful wedding takes place. My wife is sent into town to collect flowers and run errands for my mom which she happily obliged to since she is a solitary person and did not want wedding day drama. Day after, we are loading our rental sedan with our bags. Mom and grandma need a ride to the airport and our flight is before theirs so they will drop off the car for us 4 hours or so after we go to the airport 5 hours from current time. We’re loading the car. Stepcousin passed out in mother’s cabin night before and needed a ride. Disorganized brunch for 20 people is trying to be made. Father’s wife’s daughter books a reservation for 10 people which include her family, her sisters, me, my wife, dad, and their mom. My stepdad had left for home at this point as he had taken his own suv instead of flying with my mom and 90 year old grandma. So mom is trying to pack grandma in the car with bags and my wife and stepcousin. At this point mother asks stepmother if she and grandma are on reservation for the brunch. Stepmom says no they are not, she wasn’t sure of their plans. Mom says under her breath “fucking assholes, so typical,” and she goes into a bit of a rage to which my stepmom says here “it’s ok I will call and add you two it’s no big deal.” So we continue packing the car and realize we won’t all fit. So my wife tells my stepcousin to go ride with my father to the restaurant 10 minutes away we will meet you there. Mom says to wife, “no you go with the father.” Wife says “no I am going to ride with my husband” mom gets close to her face with her finger and says “this is my car, you can fucking Uber!” Wife is 6 weeks pregnant at this point and it all escalated from here. wife and mother start yelling at each other swearing at each other and we get into the car, mom behind wife who was in shotgun. 2 occasions on the trip I had to stop the car because mom had taken off her seatbelt to stand over the seat and scream in my wife’s face with so much vigor that spit came on to her face multiple times. I’m trying to tell them both to behave and mom sit down shut the f up. Mom is telling wife to get the f out of the car and find a ride, she has no right to speak because she’s “new here” (dating and living together for 3 years at this point). The following brunch she apologized in a crowd with a hushed voice at a table of 20 people trying to have a group conversation again privately to my wife “I’m sorry you get so upset” and my wife told her “that is not an apology.” The following several hours in the car with grandma and stepcousin and wife were some of the most uncomfortable moments of my life. At a gas station I pulled my mom aside and said I need ther to give a huge apology, that it was so nasty and inappropriate, my brother and I are used to abusive language and aggressive behavior but to my pregnant wife and any other human being it is disgusting and unacceptable. Sitting in the car was quiet for many hours until we got to the airport. No speaking about what happened just mom happy go lucky about Tennessee and Dollywood and wife and I in shock, cousin still half in the bag from a fun wedding, grandma 90 years old probably confused about what happened.
The family groupchat: Im waiting on an apology from my mother to my wife who is extremely hurt and expressed to my mom loads of time she needs to reach out and apologize. We’re not talking until she will do so. It is bugging me and keeping me up at night. My appendix flares up and I am admitted to the hospital with emergency appendectomy. Still pregnant Wife suggests I reach out to mom to let her know what’s going on. So I text mom I’m at the hospital and will have surgery. I send a pic or something that on my end says hasn’t gone through. Mom group texts our family group with stepdad, his daughters, brother and his wife, and grandma that I am in the hospital and attaches the pic I sent of me in there. Then she continues to rave about the success of her startup company and how they got FDA approved clinical trials finally completed or some pivotal moment that made the text about her. Wife and I are in a hospital so the picture comes up on moms end as unable to have been sent. Mom assumes that my wife has blocked her phone, so mom removes my wife from the chat. Wife is rushing home to take care of the dogs at this point and is not alerted on her phone, but on everyone else’s phone it clearly reads “(mom) has removed (wife) from the chat.” Immediately I text my mom and basically say how dare you do that to her she is the one who insisted I let you know out of respect and mom responds with blah blah she did this she did that I will not have it. So I go back to the family chat and remove mother. At this point I let everyone in the chat know what my mother has done and how she refuses to take responsibility for how she made my wife feel, address her feelings, apologize or do anything at all to reach out about the wedding incident or even inquire about the wellbeing of the pregnancy for her first grandchild. Stepdad finally steps in and tells me “enough.” Grandma says “shame on you.” I am dumbfounded. This is a hush hush family that hates to have anything out in the open and likes to maintain a picture perfect image. For examples; 1) I and wife were on the family Christmas card of a photo taken at the wedding that the whole world received except for wife and I. 2)brothers alcoholism was to remain hidden from the family as was his rehab treatment and how it affected his career. Now understand that they like to keep things quiet but that is not how I want to handle my problems, these things trigger alcohol use and violent outbursts on my part that I no longer wish to live through. Now appendectomy’s are pretty simple so I recovered quickly (it don’t rupture we just took it out). But during the time I was scheduled to be under anesthesia, stepdad reaches out to wife to have a chat and clear the air. Wife waits until I come to so i can be there and I hear the conversation. He claims to be here as a middleman like a business meeting to fix things once and for all. Wife and I are like wow great. He then proceeds to double down on my moms behalf that they will not be apologizing or meet any of her demands as she had already apologized as confirmed by 90yo grandma who was in the car and my mother herself. The term he used was stalemate to describe the situation. Wife and I are shocked but she has me keep quiet to show me what he will say. He proceeds to yell at her and they were screaming at each other, again steamrolling the conversation assuring us that he was down the middle yet maintains that mom has made a sufficient apology that needs to be accepted and wife needs to grow up and move on, then wishing her luck with the baby and a nice life. Next day I call stepdad to see how it went. He reassures me that he has done all he can and everything is back to normal. At this point I call him out and tell him I was conscious and explain to him what an apology is. But there is no dialogue with this guy like there is no dialogue with my mother. He proceeds to talk loudly over me like she does and basically call me a piece of shit for the amount he and mother have done for me. I speak to him first time like I never have before by calling him a hands off father and a pussy of a man who finally reaches out while he thinks I am under anesthesia to yell at my wife then pretend it’s cool, and I basically tell him he has never done a single thing for me to try and develop me into a man or nurture me as a child into an adult, but he thinks taking me on fishing trips and ski vacations are equivalent to love and nurturing growth and development just like my mom does. I reassure him that he has no right to talk about family being that he ruined his own as well as mine and couldn’t even tell my dad to his face that it was him who was sleeping with my mom behind his back when my dad came to him very upset as a friend when he got an anonymous phone tip at work one day. Then him and my mom laughed about it in court when my dad brought it up during the divorce. We ended with swearing and I felt very happy for finally giving my true feelings to him.
The birth: Months go by and nobody has said a thing. I can’t sleep at night seeing how much love I am getting from my father and his side for the baby, and my wife’s family, then thinking about how my own mother hasn’t reached out a single time. I’m dreaming about beating up my stepdad and it’s driving me mad. So weeks before the due date I reach out to my mom begging her to clear things up and apologize to my wife. Nothing. A week later i tell her how disappointed and abandoned I feel and want her in the family. Nothing. Baby comes a couple days early. Everyone is excited. Mom texts me begging for photos and to let everyone know. I tell her my brother and two stepsisters have received photos. I ask her to please reach out to wife she still needs to make amends for what’s happened between them and all she needs to do is reach out. Mom’s responses have been defensive, derisive, projecting, playing victim and referring to herself as a kicked puppy. Telling me my wife needs to apologize to her and making the conversation about mother son instead. She is beating around the bush. And she is sending me photos of my own baby that I did not send her. Her friends are congratulating me that I did not tell. Again she is pretending that everything is ok and it is not. She asked me to apologize to her husband for what I said on the phone that day. I said ok, watch this. So I sent the guy a message that was very apologetic and not passive aggressive or backhanded comments in any way. Still my mom won’t say anything.
Now: Baby is 6 days old. He is the best thing in my life and I wish my family were involved but it seems like I am living in a fantasy world where everyone can be happy together. I can be a jerk and have a terrible relationship with my mom, but I want more than anything to just feel loved enough where she can swallow her pride and make amends with my wife. Thats it. And she asked the other day to put a family group chat so everyone can be involved… for real? I know she is stressed with a high pressure job, but it seems heartless to me. She asks what big items she can get for the baby. Mom, baby is here we have everything for a couple months already. I said the biggest thing you can do is reach out and have a heart to heart with my wife so this rift can end and we can at least be cordial if you two can’t get along. I don’t think it will happen.
How do I mend this relationship between my wife and my mother?

CANCER ZODIAC TAROT READING - UNEXPECTED INCOME MAY 2024

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I proposed to my fiancé in December of 2021. We live together and love one another, she’s not a perfect woman and I am sure not a perfect man.
Pros of being with her -Great at cooking -Attractive - Supportive -Cleans -Studious -Helps with finances if needed and willing to go 50/50
Cons -Nags about work -Less sex overtime -Emotional outbursts -Lack of trust in me (I know it should be earned) -Toxic past relationship
Now if you’re reading this the Pros may outweigh the cons but there’s one thing I’m concerned about… The marriage laws. 56% of marriages end in divorce and 80% initiated by women. Why should a man sign a contract that benefits the other party more? Look I don’t have any resources or assets at this point of my life but I am afraid of divorce man, why would I invite the government into my life? Society makes it if as two people don’t get married after a long time being together something is wrong about the couple…
Men I come on here to just hear your thoughts on marriage because after doing my research on it I’m kinda fearful to get myself into it at this point.

I have the biggest crush on a new starter at work. She came out of nowhere and it's like she's just given a whole new spectrum of colour to life.
The first time I saw her a few weeks ago, her eyes seemed to sparkle. My first thought was of how pretty she is but it's just snowballed. I decided to retail-flirt by offering to take a task off her hands, just to get us talking...and it's really worked. We're super friendly now. And she smiles at me so much and laughs at my shitty jokes.
She's a single mum and, god, the protective instinct in me just wants to give her everything. The way she looks at me sometimes, the way she is around me, the way she asks to work with me and likes being around me and the way she smiles at me, I'm hoping beyond reason that it's mutual. I've only just realized I've mentioned her smiles twice.
I help her every which way I can and I'm super conscious of the fact I'm trying to be charismatic and confident but then we get to talking and I can barely get the words out because she gives me such chills.
On Monday morning (we work nights) she seemed kinda sad, and I was hoping she'd swing by my area (lol) so I could see if she was OK — she did, but before I could ask, she asked if I needed a hand, followed by "please say yes so I can hide", i.e., so they couldn't find something else for her to do. But she didn't just hide; she did help. And she stood close to me and told me about her favourite ice creams and drinks and such. My heart was singing. This was also the first time I really got chance to check out her body, too, and I nearly fell over (I always pay more attention to someone's eyes when I really like them, and my sex drive always dies too, which is weird). We ended up just standing around talking, not even working. Just stood there. God it was perfect.
I'm booked for Thursday night through Sunday morning, but often work Sunday night to Monday morning too. This works well because she's booked for Saturday night through Tuesday morning. This morning (Tuesday) I actually walked down to work to 'get some shopping' as an excuse to see her for all of thirty seconds because I didn't get chance to say goodbye properly on Monday morning. She was shocked to see me, asked "what are you doing here, you crazy man?!" I said I was shopping when I wanted to say "I could not bear waiting until Saturday to see you again".
Right now I'm kind of nervous about tonight. I don't usually work Wednesday nights, but out of nowhere my manager got in touch to ask if I could come in. I agreed to, purely so I could spend more time with her — but now it occurs to me that that slot might only have become available because she's backed out. If that's the case I'm going to collapse in the car park and cry over my fate.
This has paralysed me. She is all I can fucking think about. I won't be creepy with it. If it isn't mutual, that's that. I'll still help her out, still be friendly (my most recent ex, with whom I'm still extremely close, told me that one of the reasons she found herself feeling the same as I did at first was because she knew I'd be fine with her not feeling the same), but I've not had a crush like this for a long time. It's exciting, and terrifying, and exhilarating, and just about every other intense feeling numbed by the rigours of life.

Because experimental bass music is on a different planet than mainstream music, I decided to create a list of awards for the weekend:
Michael Jordan greatest of the weekend set: Tipper. This was Jordan’s 98’ Bulls. Tipper will play more sets in the future, but 90 minutes? At Suwannee? With that many emotions? Dude left EVERYTHING out there in only a way that can be described as Jordan esque.
Lightning McQueen I have one more gear set: Jade Cicada. We have seen Jade reached 5th gear before, but my oh my did that set take me to 6th.
New Kids on the Block sets: Herbalistek and Allen Mock. Those boys set the bar way too high on Friday.
Boomers gonna boom set: Detox Unit. Detox Unit blew me the fuck away at Secret Dreams. It was up there with Tipper for set of the weekend. This set felt repetitive and formulaic in a way that made me feel like my father listening to his favorite vinyl for the 100th time. No hate to Detox. He’s brilliant. We just need to see some new music or at least new edits for the live format.
Usain Bolt fastest set of the weekend: Random Movement. Who would’ve known D&B could be that fast
Don’t Worry Be Happy feel good set of the weekend: Ooga. The dude is so passionate about his music it’s infectious. How can you NOT like a dude that care free dances to his entire set?!
Small Stage to Main Stage set of exponential growth: Crawdad Sniper. Man oh man can I not wait for him to play when it’s dark outside with top notch visuals. His sound is already there. That set blew me away.
Julliard Classically Trained set: Cumulus Frisbee. That set scared me. That set mesmerized me. That set had me in a trance. The detail was top notch, and his studio portfolio doesn’t do him justice.
Spouse approved foreplay set: Resonant Language. Resonant Language got me good and ready for my first Jade set in person. Without Res Lang I wouldn’t have been so fulfilled by Jade. What a set and what a night.
True Spirit of Suwannee set: Pheel. Dude killed it at 11:30 AM. There’s a reason we showed up too. What a trouper. Shout out to Pheel.
Pineapple Express perfect stoner sets: Living Light and Mantismash. What a unique experience to get these two before tipper.
Credit to u/SandzFanon - Divine Moment of Truth award. Quanta created the perfect soundscape to bust out the deemsters. And what a divine moment it was.
What a festival! Let’s run it back in 2025.