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Okay, two character concepts, need your help choosing for me. Give me multiclass splits and must-have feats/abilities/subclasses. Let’s say starting at level 1.
Option A. Nighty Knight Female Monk/Paladin who fights in pajamas instead of armor. 13 STR, Max DEX, high CHA/WIS, dump INT. Half-Elf for stats? Open to other races. Would like to have the stealth skill so she can tip-toe past open doors and not be noticed.
Option B. Night Knight Male Twilight Cleric/Cavalier Fighter. Typical Cavalier only loves the moontime. Probably high-elf for style, but maybe that shader-Kai kind? Lance/shield/mount - the whole bit. Diplomatic for chivalric reasons, but maybe dump INT because he’d be kind of a fop.
What do you think?

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I just recently turned 16 and I’m sure this could be relatable on a certain level; the feeling of not wanting to grow up but at the same time feeling glad ‘aging’ is natural so i can finally leave ts behind. My mom’s always been someone i felt i could trust and talk to but it wasn’t till i got into my teen years that i’ve purposely distanced myself from her even when she asked me to open up to her. I was never sure why i did that but when i remember the times i’ve tried to do so, she’d bring up how bad her childhood was. I always showed her sensitivity towards her experiences but i always end up feeling worse than before, feeling guilty for even feeling sad for whatever reason, believing my ‘suffering’ wont ever be serious until it meets her own. Ive gotten so used to her telling me to be ‘strong’, more specifically if I’m feeling ‘sad’ to push through. The few times i did breakdown she’d begin with a lecture, talking about how i mustn’t ever show my little sibling such ‘weakness’. I figured this could cause a trauma or something, to see an older sibling be so weak, and to this day i haven’t told anyone but my notebook how i feel. The last time i came to seek her comfort was when i felt i was genuinely going to find myself irreplaceably hurt, she only looked at me and said casually ‘you need vitamins is what you need, have you tried exercise?’ And that was the last time i ever asked for her comfort, i have no idea why it felt like a last jab at me, what’d i do to deserve it? I feel as if that was enough to tell me she was anything but sensitive, id compared her to a robot so much it makes more sense then anythings shes ever told me. Now her yelling; i feel like I’m pretty much ‘immune’ to it. My older brother gave me the tip “don’t say anything at all, just let her do whatever and it’ll be over faster” and it works like a charm, because before i had known, id attempt to get words in and get called disrespectful for interrupting or talking back. Theres so much i haven’t mentioned about my issue, id really appreciate an alter of perspective on this at least.

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I want to apply for a STEM major like Engineering or Computer Science. I for sure want to ask my sophomore english teacher for a letter since she really likes me, but I’m trying to decide on who to ask for my other one. I’m stuck between my Honors Chemistry teacher, my AP Calc teacher, and my US History teacher, all from junior year. My history teacher was also my hockey coach, so he knows me personally. My chemistry and math teachers also like me, but they don’t know me as much on a personal level. I know it’s good to have a STEM teacher write a letter if I’m applying for a STEM major, but I’m not sure if I should pick a STEM teacher over another teacher that knows me more outside of school. Any thoughts on which teacher I should ask?

I had no plans on writing a longer post than anything I wrote this whole semester at college, but there's a TLDR if you want at the bottom.
I recognize that largely this is no longer the place to post suggestions, but I figure there's no harm in sparking thoughts in other people. Inspired by what I thought of while replying to the earlier post about memory beasts being obtainable through maps.

Personal Experience recently

I'll preface this with the fact that in all my 5,104.5 hours, I have never once actually attempted to use the Harvest beasts, even though I (for every league except the last and the current) ran my memories and captured the beasts. I'll admit to using them each once or twice, to see how they work as well as test if I could get incredibly lucky, but after comparing the outcome to the cost, I decided it is not worth it for a user of my general wealth.
That's a problem I've encountered a lot more increasingly lately as I've been taking it slower and slower, but especially this league has been bad. While a lot of the early/majorly important stuff have been getting easier to obtain (specifically with the introduction of the Black Morrigan), the more mid through entry late-game stuff has been increasing in price. 9d per attempt at veiled boots, priced out of best in slot farming unless you drop a MB/HH in the first 2-5 attempts, 10.5d for a divination scarab to HOPEFULLY get a full Mageblood/Mirror Shard in under 9 maps. It has never been worth it as a (level 100 most leagues, multiple characters, usually total worth of around of a mirror) somewhat laid back player in my eyes to actually USE a 10d drop. Sure I could drop a full mageblood in a map, but I also could not. Sure I could get lucky with my first pair of boots and get MS/Chilled, or I could get it on the 15th attempt, spending 100d+ on what used to be a relatively cheap process. The boots are around a 20% chance to get a specific mod, a charge ring, or an explode bow is astronomically small, and the odds of them dropping has been reduced time and time again. If I wanted to make a bow myself, I'd have to not only imprint and roll the implicits I want (3-5d per attempt pre-project, 10d per attempt now) with extremely unlikely odds, but Id even likely want to get a 3 implicit bow considering the massive investment, which I would ALSO need to roll an exorbitant amount of harvest "synth an item." This is no longer something that is feasible for someone who drops a mirror, even if they have all the required knowledge already. A year ago today if I dropped a mirror, I could go for attempting to make myself a stupidly nice bow, and sure it likely wouldn't be mirror tier, but I would've at least thought about trying. Whether it is a falsehood in the first place, or because of the insane cost of crafting high tier items, hat sentiment is now gone.
I'll be the first to accept that this is a problem for the 5%, and not the majority nor the 1%. I've considered myself a 5% player, though maybe some of you would say I'm a 1% and the mirror crafters are the 0.1%, but that's not the point. I am nowhere near the point of being comfortable rolling Exceptional IchoEmber for the 1.5% damage boost after finishing my Orbs of Conflict. I settle for 1-2 good mods on one Elevated/Awakened item rather than making 5-10 and using the best while selling the remaining. I'm okay with "only" a 130% adorned, and non-synth implicit jewels. I play the game for fun, and that's it. Fun to me is optimizing/improving without being meticulous; would I like to one day have a mirror tier item on every slot in a character, maybe, but I don't think I ever will.
That's a lot of text just to say "I'm not rich (in game) and the game is getting less and less accessible to my wealth bracket" but it makes me think a lot about why the game is feeling less approachable as time goes on, and maybe this is it. This also doesn't even address the Einhar Beast portion of the post.

Continue Revitalizing Einhar to Revive mid-tier crafting

I would not by any means consider myself to be "a crafter" but I have always crafted my own gear because I enjoy to do so, and enjoy learning the mechanics. Would a super high mirror tier crafter have more accurate input? Most likely. But we are not mirror tier crafters. We don't have mirror shops, or stream on twitch, and we are still baffled with some of the items the people who TRULY understand crafting can make in this game. We browse the reddit, and we likely have a knowledge difference similar to that of a Professor and a Student.
And that's okay.
What isn't okay in my opinion is that the last thing that I feel like was truly introduced as a "new" crafting mechanic rather than easier access to another mechanic is Eldrich implicits. Sure vivid vultures are in the game, but I have never had the money to even think about them. I've never synthesized my own item since Harvest league because it's cheaper to buy one or 2 mod synth items, and I've never used a watcher eye reroll beast. Even though Eldrich orbs (chaos etc.) are rather expensive due to the extreme value they provide, there is a limit to what they can be used for. Nobody would rather have an Eldrich Dmg per power charge/Mana res efficiency helmet than a Synth 92% res multi/+1 power charge, and that would mean that for the VERY end game Eldrich orbs often cannot be used, and thus do not cost unreasonable amounts.
My idea for Einhar Beasts is to make the memory beasts available through mapping, but a similar and/or weaker variant.
What this looks like to me is a keystone for Bestiary behind Natural Selection (More likely for less common) that allows you to obtain beasts through other mechanics, while also specc'd into those mechanics, something like: "Unnatural Optimization" or some play on the former's name, that has "Allows artificial production of Beasts from other League Mechanics."
This could be a couple things, my original thought was for the Adolescent Vivid Vulture: Reroll a Synthesis Implicit Modifier on an item with 2 or fewer Synthesis Implicit Modifiers. This could be gated behind an Atlas Passive along the lines of "There is a 50% chance when upgrading a Harvest Crop to Unique it would instead become an Adolescent Beast." Or maybe 50% chance to be accompanied by? I'm not a numbers guy and I don't enjoy running current Harvest, so I don't know the impact either would have. This would essentially open up mid tier beast crafting without damaging the current insanely high tier crafting we have, aside from potentially making it (barely) easier to approach. An Incursion Beast that "Randomly Removes or Adds 3% Quality to an Uncorrupted Gem" Or maybe the same for gem level. Takes out the "Nothing happened", but also can't obtain double corrupt, basically an upgraded Vaal Orb Something fun like a Vaal Side Area Beast "Adds a COMPLETELY random corrupted implicit to an item." so maybe you get +1 Arrows on your body armor, maybe you get Resolute Technique on your +attack crit body armor. An Ultimatum Beast that "Adds 15% quality to an uncorrupted item, and randomizes the quality." A Breach Beast that "Creates a random non-atlas armor with a single Breach modifier" or "Turns a Breach Unique into a random iLvl 75 armor with one related modifier" to also add some value to breach itself rather than just as a source of monsters. An Expedition Beast that "Sets all modifiers on an uninfluenced item to Tier 3." (Expedition doesn't need anything more imo, it's in a very comfortable place with Rog early, then the others later) A Legion Beast that summons a Highly Experienced General? Idk this is the one that doesn't make sense, but with exp issues now Legion is essentially just a source of incubators, which is alright but doesn't FEEL good.
Maybe you would need some other lines in Unnatural Optimization to include "The Scarabs glinting with gold shudder" and you just need a scarab, Bestiary, and then that mechanic; or maybe you don't. Maybe it just adds modifiers to give ways to engage with content you enjoy outside of "Hey kid, I heard you like quant."
Returned as finishing the TLDR: Maybe even just throw all these beasts into Einhar encounters in Kirac missions? It gates their spawn rate and forces them to be rare, but also allows for some amount of "targeting" by being able to select "Capture the Artificial ____ Beast" as your mission instead of "Complete the ____ encounter"

Why EinhaBeasts?

Well, the dude's cool. Only person on his level was Z̵̢̢̫̬̈́̏̿a̵͍͔̪̚ṅ̶͍͖̟͊͐á̷̞͐̓͊̕ but she got stolen from us. I also wouldn't mind Einhar revealing he can just teleport through space and time on a whim to join me and Alva to hunt for treasure or to tag along and help kill Chayula.
Also, a lot of the issue I take with this game (that largely has/is been/being fixed) is that content often requires you to Do X so you can have fun with Y. Find Contracts so you can run Heist, get Sulphite so you can run Delve. There is also "farm Delirium and you can run Simulacrums." The difference being that you don't NEED simulacrums to have fun with the content. Compared to clicking 3 or 4 rocks is the Delve "content" in maps, and opening a strongbox while hearing Huck's voice lines is Heist's "Content" in maps. Delirium IS the content, Simulacrums are a separate optional location, and many don't even run them.
In truth I LOVE the implementation of Beasts: they are a miniboss in the content they belong. In maps you will find all types of tough, boss-like versions of monsters you have seen, that aren't necessarily just "same mob but in yellow." They summon waves of monsters, or effects, or have generally neat interactions that stir up the monotony of mapping (AND STILL CAN BE BYPASSED WITH ENOUGH DAMAGE) without feeling like it is pulling you away from mapping. It adds to the content it is found in, and even more seamlessly than Essence/Strongboxes because there is no interaction to start them.
You could enter a Breach and all of a sudden see a Red Beast spawn in a similar fashion to a Breach Lord, or see a Beast Marker in Expedition and say, "Okay, miniboss time let's not make him too hard." Maybe wave 11-13 in Ultimatums have a chance to spawn a single Beast that you need to kill in a time limit, or that stingy prick Merchant in your Incursions could have a chance to be replaced with a Beast you can capture.
You might actually enter that Vaal Side Area for once? Even if only to check if the boss has been replaced with a Beast and then leave.

TL;DR

Here we are, you made it. Thanks for reading if you did make it through, and thanks for checking this out if you didn't.
1. I play the game a lot, and have a lot of time, and I'm rather wealthy as a result; but I don't optimize and I play for fun so not THAT wealthy. 2. We have seen a lot of expansion of crafting mechanics (Awesome!) for early, middle, and high end, but lately we have been losing access to only mid-tier crafting (Not awesome!) which widens the gap 3. Items are always priced off of optimal use (10d scarabs, Hinekora's lock, vivid vultures, etc.) rather than casual use. 4. Because Items are priced based on the best use, it leads to many feeling uncomfortable using the items THEY FOUND themselves, because they would likely be able to just sell it for more value 5. Implement mid-tier Beast Crafts (inconvenience fee included via Menagerie) to add lesser versions of Harvest Beasts and similar for many league mechanics. Examples located right before "Why Einhar" 6. Beasts are very non-intrusive in the content they are, and serve to enhance the content similar to a Deli boss, medium challenge for medium reward, skip/remove when you are past medium rewards 7. Einhar cool, thanks for reading, enjoy the farming stupid beast

*UNRELATED BUT RE:JINXING IT: it dont be silly (says the guy who hasnt shaved in multiple weeks now lmfao but thats more a camaraderie tradition thing with the team/my brothers) but WE in NY should know better than anyone even the Pres Trophy 'curse' doesnt effect us (the last 3 we got to the FINAL the last time, got knocked out in game 7 of the ECF by Tampa when they were in dynasty mode, annnnd won the cup in 94, the year we won the PT, plus this year worst case another ECF loss....
*TO THE MAIN POINT(S)* ill keep em brief cuz im sure u get the idea and also have opinions of your own but lets try and respect eachother as fellow humans but right now moreso AS FELLOW RANGERS!
THE REASONS IF UR JUST HERE FOR THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF IT:
1.) Igor > Bob - i know these are the two only ELITE goalies left though Oett is playing really well but not on this level...these guys can steal series but i lean Igor cuz A.) theres a reason we got Quick as a backup after he literally played in LAST YRS playoffs lol, to rest Igor for long series/posteason, the longer it goes the more that edge can help - also looking at their playoff numbers Igor's got most covered (i dont really put much into GAA and more into SAVE % as a former minor goalie cuz if u have great defense etc it helps but save % is just how well YOU did against ON GOAL SHOTS aka goals if ur not there (and also 'big chance' bob and igor are abotu tied but Bob also hasnt faced a team as offensively talented as the rangers (atleast right now the way the playoffs are goin, not that FLA is a slouch)
2.)Special Teams, they made the diff in CAR a few times, and CAR was meant to be top 3 at PP AND PK...well as we know it duidnt go that way for their ST's and not only are we scoring SH goals keeping teams wary but going into this series our PP is 31.4% and FLA's PK is 22.1% - thats gonna give 3 or 4 goals on avg against any goalie/games at this level facing a PP as clinical as NY (personally i do worry it could be worse as Fox looks to be playing injured and sturggles to pivot as well/agility so being our top 'QB' on the PP could be an issue)
3.) LIneup - again its hard to seperate these teams but i STILL think we have a slight edge in all 3, OFF (they're more top heavy, we get scoring up and down the lineup - ALSO we have teh 'good' problem of picking Rempe for more physical, Blake Wheeler is back AND Chytils at full health, obv cold but i trust Lav cuz he earned it and also he sees way more than we do behind the scenes. - Point is say Mika or Panarin have a garbage game/series or dont show up theres on fire Laff AND Trocheck, very solid Roslovic and i doubt Mika AND Bread dissapear at the same time but theres one player OBV not mentioned for a reason...Kreider.
As Kreider has adjusted his game to being a deflecting netfront presence vs the 'speed power' in his earlier game but (legacy game aside aka the #RalieghRallyNattyHatty lol) but the point is over the last 5 years EVERYONE knows thats his game and he still leads the league in tip ins...its the fact they CANT STOP HIM from doing something thats generating goals and if they DO put enough effort into stopping him itll leave more time and space for others...
****BONUS REASON***** this effects everyone AND strategically cuz u get 2 periods vs 1 of the 'short switch' and as the home team in a poss game 7 not only is IGOour record at MSG inane but that building will be exploding...its been proven many times refs tend to favor home teams likely due to subsciouscious pressure from the crowd (like giving a 'bs makeup call' which many former refs admit is common) but also as the home team THEY have to put their lines out first so we can 'react' instead of putting out a physical 4th line only to see them put their big guns out etc
*I know this isnt all like, shockingly insightful but just antsy so thought id see what yall think or if yall knew this info too or agreed/disagree?d

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I am overall, fairly proficient with ChatGPT. I’ve been a plus subscriber since almost the beginning, but I regularly run into issues with session recall. I know that it scrapes data up to certain token limits unless specifically asked. It often can find something from early in a conversation if given specific instruction to do so.
My question is whether anyone has advice to take my chatGPT to the next level. I am unfamiliar with how to use the API, but am willing to learn. Can anyone provide or direct me to a resource that might help with long form content development? I primarily use it for proposal writing, where I have long strings of boilerplate language that needs to be more bespoke to the specific project without sacrificing experience/credibility details. I’m sick of entering a long form example and getting to fine tune section by section. I know if there were a way to achieve more tokens per exchange or even conversation, it would do a lot better.
Thoughts or advice? I really appreciate any help that is more than surface level.

So I am 31 years old I stand at 5ft8 and 255 lbs. I was 267 lbs 5 weeks ago when I started doing muay Thai again after many years of a break.
I have been getting exhausted hitting the bag, pads, drilling and in particular sparring. Obviously I'm obese and that's a huge factor. But for anyone who was or is big have you any advise as how to not be so exhausted? Or to improve stamina etc.
I am eating at a calorie deficit and have been losing weight. I got my diet nailed down and I will not be breaking it. I have been training muay Thai 2x a week for 90mins and also I have been doing one fitness class a week.
But I do just be physically tired so quickly. I have yet to quit due to the exhaustion. I have done everything I have been asked and then some. But this week in particular I have been so tired hitting the heavy bag and sparring. On about my 3rd of 6 sparring partners I am just plodding along so tired and I am so slow and exhausted. Thus meaning I'm just being lit up and unable to properly defend myself or strike back.
I remember being in my early to mid twenties and weighing 170 lbs and being so fit and fast and my stamina being excellent. I am having a hard time mentally and physically adjusting due to my large heavy frame.
Another issue I would love advice on is sparring with much smaller people. Previously being younger and smaller I had average power. But know with being so heavy I have insane power. I sadly have been hurting my much smaller partners with my punches (I am wearing 16oz gloves) and kick pads. I am not even using 30 percent of my power and I am hurting people unintentionally. I have been relegated to only sparring people of equal weight and my coaches who are very big and far more experienced. To which I am encouraged to hard spar and I very much enjoy that and it's helping me learn tremendously and I can go at a faster pace while still hitting relatively hard. I feel bad as I am not allowed to spar with any women or any smaller people except on rare occasions. On the rare occasions I do spar with smaller people I'm afraid to hit anyway hard at all as people complain about me to the coaches. Even though they are kicking me in the legs full force and punching me in the face full force.
My coaches have explained the limits on who I can spar are due to my size and strength. My second issue as previously mentioned as the sparring progresses with more and more partners. I get so tired and I am just blocking or getting hit as my sparring partners are so fast and have such good stamina
Anyways sorry for the long post. I am autistic and I tend to overthink things and ramble.
Essentially I am looking for any advice or tips etc with some of the issues I am struggling with.
I will keep training no matter what and I will get better and continue to lose weight and hopefully get to a level of stamina similar to when I was younger. At this lightweight height currently weighing heavy weight 😳.
Thanks 🙏 anyone who can assist me.

TW: Transphobia/Transphobic violence mention, PTSD-related language
I want to start with saying I do really enjoy the celebratory messages shared by trans folks (both on and off line) when it comes to their transition anniversary. It’s an incredible milestone and a sign that change and growth are always possible, even in times shadowed by violence and political attacks against the trans community.
That being said, the impending one-year mark has personally put me in this weird funk that I only recently realized might be the “Anniversary Effect.” As much as I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer to socially (and a little later, physically) transition, this time last year was probably one of the most difficult periods of my life so far. I came out during a time where I was also handling other changes (New job, becoming fully financially independent, moving to a new city) and also had to regularly be onstage in front of an audience for certain public events. I was treading the line of (mostly) presenting masc to the world and then masking all of that around family (who I waited to come out to after moving into my own place, lol).
By all accounts I would say I’m pretty satisfied with my life now. I have a secure employment, a loving partner, a supportive community, and family members who (after some difficult conversations and time/distance) have slowly come around and are making genuine efforts to understand me. But even then, it’s like the fight-or-flight response is ingrained at the molecular level. I wake up from nightmares where I can’t recognize myself in the mirror. I feel myself becoming more irritable and snappish, even with friends who have been along for the ride since the beginning.
I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around this nervous response. Even when facing transphobic attacks or microaggressions in the past I’ve always stood my ground and brushed off the incident fairly easily. Yet, what should be a happy (or at least neutral) event is really testing my willpower.
Anyone here have similar experiences or thoughts surrounding transition milestones? Any tips for navigating this period? Either way, thanks for listening 🙏🏼

Hi fellow diabetics. I've recently moved to working nights (permanent, not rotating pattern) and was wondering how other night shift workers deal with their diabetes. Up until the start of this year, I've been pretty good at looking after my diabetes, but this gradually got worse for a number of reasons. I test regularly and haven't had any major issues until this past week, where my bloods have been sky high and difficult to bring down (believe this is because of a majorly disrupted sleep pattern from being on a stag do). Just wondering if anyone has any tips on how they manage diabetes with working nights? I'm sure it's all comment sense stuff but this is the first time I've really been concerned about my glucose levels M, 31

I (29F) and husband (32M) have been together for five years. He's the love of my life: attentive, empathic, proactive, intelligent, funny, caring, interesting, and much more. I still cannot believe someone like him exists. He deserves the best in the world. I've always been a hopeless romantic and very affectionate to people in my life. I've always given more than I've received (emotionally, materialisticly and physically) and was fine with that, because it is in my nature.
Well, when I met my husband, he was the first person who matched my vibe. He was even worse than me which I had to learn to accept in the beggining because it was all new to me. I still have a lot of trouble not feeling discomfort or appreciating his gestures. Nonetheless, he made me feel seen, loved, and I've experienced and got things I could have never imagined. I knew he was the one for me, I've never doubted that and I still don't. If anything, I feel like I am lacking and the lesser one in the relationship.
I feel ashamed, disappointed, and dumb. Somehow along the way, I've started feeling smothered by the things I appreciated so much before. I feel like I have lost myself, the affectionate person I was. The best way I can describe it is there is no need to anymore, since he does all the work.
As background, I think I show my love in gifts, gestures and acts of services: buying him flowers and a cake when he comes back home after leaving for a while, or buying him something he wanted for a while, or something that made me think of him, writing him a heartfelt specific message about what I love about him, preparing a special night, cleaning the house before he gets home after a long shift/when he's busier, or making a new three services meal just because. I've never doubted that my mom loved me because of all the gestures and help she gave me. She didn't need to tell me she loved me constantly or give me physical affection, because I already knew. Therefore, those are not my automatism and I've had to learn to incorporate them inside our everyday life, even if they don't mean much to me. As far as I've known, words and closeness can just be a facade and the formers demand more thinking and personnalization (not bashing anyone who prioritize those love languages, just trying to explain how they make me feel on a personnal level).
I know the next paragraph is a lot of people's dream, and these "bad" scenarios even sound silly to me. Boohoo, my significant other loves me, but I feel confused about these new feelings. For examples: he always wants to be with me. He loves me very deeply and lets me know he does by telling me multiple times a day. He always compliments me, even in front of others, but I don't appreciate PDA. He wants to hug me when he comes back home or I do, but I often feel overstimulated/overwhelmed. He wants me to aknowledge everything he says or do, and finds it odd how silent I am. He uses my slangs, eats what I eat, do what I do. He wants to know how my day was, and he most of all never wants to disappoint me in any way. This means asking me if I want a spoon or fork with a meal, in a bowl or a plate, to eat at the table or on the couch, if I want water or if I'm good. Asking me if the food is good the second I put it in my mouth. He also has terrible earing which means I have to repeat my answers a lot. He's also terribly clumsy, which means when he does something, it will probably give me more work than if I did it myself in the first place. This has the exact opposite effect of what he's trying to achieve, because it is all these questions that makes me annoyed.
I do get writing this that it's a toxic cycle: he tries to gain my affection, it ends up doing the opposite, he doubles down, and so on and so forth.
As far as what I've tried: I do ask for time alone, but feel it breaks his heart everytime. He feels rejected and I know it. I've tried to explain to him my feelings, but for him it is foreing. He thinks it's a lack of love on my part, that I don't like him as a person...
I now do get short-tempered and annoyed. Something as simple as kissing my head makes me want to move my head so he can't reach it. I hate myself. I hate what I have become, and I need therapy ASAP before it ruins a good marriage.

I feel like a lot of academic articles and criticisms I’ve read of different kinds of works of literature analyze those works in terms of structuralist elements. How certain characters and aspects represent certain meanings and how those meanings interrelate to represent some grander idea. However, I haven’t read much, if any, analyses that actually unpack what makes great lyricism so moving, that give a kind of behind-the-scenes breakdown of what makes Virginia Woolf or Shakespeare or Pynchon’s works so effective at the level of language. The one paper I’ve read that gets a little into this is Stephen Booth’s essay Shakespeare's Language and the Language of Shakespeare's Time, if that helps gesture towards the kind of thing I’m looking for. Is there a specific school of thought or prominent academics within this field I should look up, or any foundational works I can read?
Edit: sorry for the typo in the title. I’m writing this while listening to a video at work and about 60% of my attention is towards that.

Hello, everyone^^
I'm looking for a buddy to practice Korean so you can contact me if you want, but before that I will share some more information to find my "target audience" if I can say so.

1. First of all, I want to mention that I want to find not only a buddy but a friend because I believe that being interested in each other as in personalities would help as to stay motivated and meet regularly.
2. I want our conversations to be not in a chat but in a video call format. We can use Zoom, Google Meet or everything that you find comfortable, but please consider the fact that I don't want to have only chat.
3. I want to find someone who has approx the same level as mine (I mean sure if you have higher level or even a native I would appreciate it so much as well). My level is full 1급 or 2급. But more like... the transition to the second level.

Thank you so much for reading it)) You can write to me in direct^^

Ok so I do want to say I'm Christian. I'm not talking about videos that are related to Christianity, birth, or loss or anything like that. If you mention God in a video not related to Christianity (like saying "you need God/Jesus Christ", quoting one of the 10 commandments on something someone did illegally or something like that), then that's ok.
What I find annoying is watching a video that's completely unrelated to God or Christianity (ex: a cartoon, TV show, animatic, etc) and people just randomly come on and start writing essays of Bible verses. If it's a comment trend on YT and someone randomly comes in and writes a Bible verse, that honestly annoys me. It's ok if you want to spread word about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but not every single damn video needs your Bible verse comment.
Not everyone believes in God just like how not everyone believes something from other religion...or even if they're atheist. Not everyone who watches a video is looking to read a Bible verse in the comments

Senior year of college, in a specifically high level, required English major class.
So, only the furthest along on the English major track.
We had our final resesrch essay, which was like 30% of the grade. I'd say we all tried really hard obviously and are very familiar with the expectations. The class was probably about 25 folks big.
Like, working for a week or so and getting everything together and coherent and whatnot.
I had one friend in the class that was really confident. He put tons of hours of work, research and writing and revising. And he was a smart guy, always had good insight in class, good responses, in my opinion.
We turned in our essays and waited for them to be graded.
The day arrives when we get them back, at the end of class.
We shared our grades and congratulated each other.
Except my one friend.
He was sitting at his table and kind of ignoring everyone and looked super upset.
We go over and ask what he got, and he just kind of shook his head and looked defeated.
He got a 34%.
At the top of the page, in red pen, was "Is English your first language?"
And it was marked with red pen aggressively, like comments everywhere, things struck out, his thesis statement had an actual line through the whole thing.
I know for a fact this guy took his time working on it, like probably over the course of weeks, and he was an advanced English major like the rest of us.
He was defeated. Absolutely decimated.
We all encouraged him to go to the professor and ask what happened, and if he could revise for a better grade, but the hurt from this guy was intense.
I don't think I've ever felt worse for somebody academically.
"Is English your first language?"
Yikes, dude. I'd have cried.