Firstly, I prefer myself with these tattoos than not and they both have meaning to me. The pumpkin for fall and Halloween being times I have the only pleasant nostalgia from as a child with trauma and my son being conceived in October + the blue bird represents my son. The Charles Darwin think" branch represents me as a scientist and what soraked my love for science. want to get another tattoo for our second yet to exist child and that's when I started overthinking and analyzing my placement.
I notice the space in my inner arm where everything could have been placed just about 1 or 2 cm over to the right (more towards my armpit) and then the pumpkin wouldn't awkwardly peep out onto my outer bicep and be even more subtle and inconspicuous in placement, BUT then it would be very hidden and really hard to see at all, unless my arms are held just right or something. I thought this was a good happy medium? really want to be able to see my tattoos at this point in my life because they bring me joy. I thought about these designs for years and the locations. I'm a 31 F.
These were my very first tattoos and got them together. love the Darwin placement, although now I'm like maybe it could have been smaller, and the pumpkin bird one didn't study how it looked when my arms were by my side so much with only the outline. thought it was placed pretty far inwards guess wouldn't to be able to see it a bit? had him replace it twice and then It got harder to see well because the sketch ink was everywhere. should ask or specify what dimension next time and draw on myself with washable marker at home constantly until am happy with my placement before going. did imaginary placements at home, but in the end, here am not happy with it entirely months later.
l just feel like hindsight is 2020 unfortunately and there are things I didn't realize or think about, like future tattoo additions. I did not realize how attracted I would be to getting more. I thought I was probably only going to get one more tattoo and now I'm just dreaming up so many. Thank god I have some rationality to my impulsivity.
I had thought about these ideas for years, but when I finally decided to make the leap to finally get them, I feel guilty that maybe my excitement lead into a bit of impulsively and not throughout thinking through EVERY aspect of the tattoo.
Not looking for ridicule or shame. A bit of a perfectionist here and looking for validation. In the end, I tell myself that do love my tattoo. am glad can see it and the tattoos themselves have their initial meaning and the meaning of nothing can be perfect and that you love and you learn, so to speak.
I want my next tattoo to be more out next child. The blue bird on the first tattoo represents my first baby and feel that the next tattoo has to be equal in size and be visible to me because want my children to be equally loved in life and depicted on my arm . My husband thinks I'm ridiculous, but feel like ingest that subsequent children get jipped so often and atleast don't want to do that to him / her with my tattoos. doubt they may ever be like "well why does he have a bigger tattoo than I do? You can't even see the tattoo you got for me." Ect.
Anyone else have similar thoughts for their children tattoos?

So, after riding the highpoint that was the simple, yet lovely designed Catapult last week, we now have the complex, yet experimental design that is the Cataphract.
Cataphract is a word to describe a soldier that is wearing a full suit of armor. So it's name is very fitting to a 70-tonner that is meant for pure combat. Yet the Cataphract was more envisioned to be the next evolution of frontline battlemechs (until Davion curbstomped it) by incorporating top-of-the-line electronic warfare systems, much like it's brethren, the Raven.
The Cataphract, alongside the Raven, is one of those few "new" mech designs of the 31st century. I learn very hard on the word 'new' as the Cataphract is what the Capellans are good at doing: Fucking things up. Underneath the Cataphract's skin is the trapped souls of a Marauder, a Shadow Hawk, and a Pheonix Hawk. Yes, the Cataphract is a FrankenMech, and the Capellans are mad scientists. Well... mad engineers, more like.
So how does it perform in MW5?
To me, its... um... fine. I guess. Like it does what it needs to for a heavy mech, but... it just lacks real a shock factor. It looks good, very robotic looking and such. So it's got style points. :3
There is lots of models to choose from too. So you get a pick of the litter if you want a Cataphract.
The 0X and 0XP are your baseline Cataphracts. Carrying your EW packages with decent weaponry like a large energy weapon, two medium energy weapons, and a medium ballistic slot.
The 1X strips out the electronic warfare systems for more energy hardpoints in the torsos.
The 2P are of course your melee type. It's just a 1X with a large melee weapon.
The 2X spices up the 1X by replacing the medium energy slot for a small missile slot.
The 4X is a bit different. Downsizing the engine by near half, putting two medium ballistic slots in the arms, a large energy slot where most the engine was, and even a small missile slot snuggling up next to the cockpit. This thing might not go fast but with a endo steel chassis to boot you have lots of room to play with it. My preferred model.
The newest addition from Solaris Showdown is the VE1. Hulking around with three medium ballistic slots and two medium energy slots can lay the hurt on anybody in front of you. It's really the cousin to the hero variant.
The IM (Ilya Muromets) is what the VE1 ripped off of. Practically the same as as the VE1, save for a small energy slot and a upgrade slot. Tattered in Star League star symbols and even having lore for its proud Capellan pilot, Grigori Kovalenko, who used this Cataphract to hunt down any other Cataphract in non-Capellan aligned hands. The short story is on the Sarna Wiki if you're interested.
Hero Rating: B-
The Cataphract to me is a nice gesture of trying to evolve the heavy mech gameplay by incorporating EW modifiers. But as a MW aligned Battletech enthusiasts, the game really doesn't make me care too much about it.
I'd like to know, if in strategy, the Cataphract pulls it's weight on the TT or BT2018.
(Tips for players who are unaware: You can toggle your ECMs to disrupt mode to keep missile boats from laying into you too much.)
I also just dislike the feel of the Cataphract's weapon layout. Most of the models keep their weapons in the arms with one spare in the torso, for when you eventually loose an arm. It's not bad, but you need to balance it very carefully.
Sorry for how long it took for me to come back. Had some pretty hard days recently. Trying my best to keep going and keep posting. Yesterday was to Remembrance of Tukayyid in the Battletech universe which reminded me that MW5C will come out this year. This game series really helps me get by and these posts have given me the discipline to keep me focused.
Next time - The humble and well distinguished Blackjack.

Looking for some crowd-sourced opinions on flooring restoration/covering in a new-to-me 1850s home
I've got some awesome old pumpkin pine flooring I love in more common areas but the upper floor seems to have been painted a few times, possibly since original, and at least once with maybe lead paint. Absolutely have been neglected for ages, definitely cat urine and sewer gas permeated in therm (long story). There's a very flaky brown over some grey and in places even a blue. Boards have some classic oakum gaps, aren't the most flat from age/wear, some are a little loose.
I can't subject myself to tens of thousands on additional (possible lead) remediation to sand/scrape, paint strippers didn't work well, and wanted to poll the sub on options to cover.
My hope is I could get some LVP down so I can spend time and energy on doing the right thing preserving and protecting the more common areas, addressing immediate needs of the place. Has anyone else here been forced the wrong way on this subs usual "floor lottery?" What have you done and how "flat" have you had to make the floors? Loose lay or thin stuff work well enough over irregularities?

i feel like theres so much to explain and i dont know where to start. i know many of you are hopeful that your exes may comeback, but i was dreading this. i shouldve known it was coming. and its just progressed so much that i dont even know how to begin to handle it.
ex has been in my life since 2016. on and off hardcore long distance relationship. i cheated in 2018, and we met in person for the first and only time in 2020. it was a fucking surreal experience with this person. everytime he’d come back into my life id lose myself in him, and id become an entirely different person to the people who knew me. something in me changed after our last breakup. sure, i cried and sobbed like a bitch but i also felt relieved. it helped me accept that what we once had is long gone.
current boyfriend/father of my child i met in 2018 and is who i cheated with. this detail is so fucking important because it highlights my major flaw in all this of going back and forth between these two men in some horrible emotional whiplash rollercoaster over the past 6 years. also just the general fact that im a piece of shit and my mistakes will forever haunt me.
i never cheated again, but i would rebound continuously through each one as they decided if i was worthy enough for a redemption arc at the time i suppose. i have a lot of other mental issues and my own onslaught of trust issues that always are too difficult for me to expect someone else to stick through. each time with each one it would end in break up and cycle repeat.
i got pregnant in 2021 due to just plain irresponsibility. choices were made. honestly feel like i should crosspost this into some parenting subreddit because of my extra irresponsibility bringing a fricking child into this mess. me and his father have always had a consistently toxic dynamic and we broke up not long after he was born due to the fighting getting way too bad and my worries of it affecting how our son will grow up. im a firm believer of two separate happy parents over two together miserable ones due to how i grew up. i stayed single and happy and worked on myself until the day before my birthday in 2023 when my ex contacted me. i folded. i was lonely. my current boyfriend had already fooled around with multiple girls during our separation and i just folded man. we broke up the day before my sons birthday, not even a whole month later, due to many issues and me just knowing that it didnt feel right anymore. i mean, it wasnt right. i felt like i was jamming a square peg into a circle hole. we agreed on no contact. i went absolutely sick with grief of the realization id never want to try again after that and filled our Minecraft world with a shit ton of sentimental words and builds. then i moved on. i deleted the server from my list, and i said goodbye to that part of my life naively thinking that would be that.
i was pretty okay being single again, got some much needed recovery time. i got back with the father on my son in October 2023 after he spent the entire month showing how much he desired for us to be a family. pumpkin patches together, boo at the zoo, the whole nine yards. we officially decided to try again on Halloween and have been trucking along this rocky road of love for the past 7 months. publicly changed our relationship statuses just last month. april 2024. im such an idiot for leaving the server like that. ex found it and i can imagine how it made him felt. i mean, i dont fucking have to imagine! he messaged me to tell me! and i replied like a dumbass! so he messaged me again. and again i replied. the last message i sent was “you are not a bad person. now please stop contacting me it makes my heart hurt and head heavy” after image #3.
i know i need to tell my current boyfriend. i know the only reason i havent yet is because of some obvious unresided feeling. he just keeps messaging me and i dont know what to do anymore. probably just hit the block button. fuck. i dont know how im expecting reddit to help with this. i thought about marking this as a vent because that is what it is but i do desperately need help. a therapist would probably be more fit. currently all i want to do want is curl up into a pathetic ball, close my eyes, and have my past disappear.

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All I can truly say is… enjoy the show! (Fair warning, it's like VERY long, and features some pretty wild stuff, even for the MonsterVerse)
We open off, after the Legendary and Warner Bros. credits, with a first-person view of what looked like an unknown creature, a Titan by the looks of it, silently stalking and prowling through a dense forest, hiding in the shadows. There is a group of Great Apes, foraging for food by the looks of it, walking around, until the first-person Titan grabbed a log between its jaws and threw it at a distance, diverting their attention to the sound, while the Titan zooms to a different angle and watches. Back to regular camera work, leader Ape looked at the log in confusion, before the mystery Titan zooms in and takes out one of the other Apes, alerting the others and drawing their weapons, and soon enough, all the other Apes were taken out quickly and efficiently with its environment, until the leader was left.
The Ape brought out a stone knife to defend itself, swinging at the attacker, but the mystery Titan was too fast and kept slashing at different angles, until it finally went for the kill by revealing it had a group of its own, then wounding its legs, biting down on the neck and snapping it. The mystery Titan leader was dragging the corpse away, until it sees the knife, and sniffs it, before the creature made a panicked sound and zooms off somewhere, the rest of the group following it. The camera zooms in as it shows a footprint of the mystery Titan as whatever epic opening you thought of in your mind plays out, as the title is emblazoned through your vision.
Kong wakes up in his throne at Hollow Earth, greeting Suko, who tags along with him as he gets his trusty Axe and ventures out of the Living Caves (what Skar King's kingdom is called in the GxK Novel). Kong greets Jia (Kaylee Hottle), her mother Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry), as he and Suko venture off. Kong was minding his own business and doing usual Kong things, until he noticed something off in the environment. It isn't until he takes another step that he realizes when he almost got impaled by an improvised deadfall trap with a Titan's skull. Kong was shocked that another creature supposedly knew how a trap worked, until Suko noticed something near the trap, a footprint. The same one in the beginning. The human cast contact one of the world's best animal (also Titan) tracker, Oliver Huntley (Robert Pattinson). After recruiting him, he identifies the footprint as a theropod, but not like one any one recorded by the humans. Suko, using his tracking skills during Skar King's tyranny to use, managed to find out the origin of the footprint's trail and zooms off, causing Kong to follow and the humans to join in.
Meanwhile, we see a plains area, where there is an Outpost monitoring any activity in this recently-discovered area. The crew inside report no disturbances or any proximity alerts, which causes them to slightly cut loose and not worry about anything. Until the whole Outpost was blaring red, with a warning that there is a breach and the Outpost has been compromised. One of the crew checks their scanners, only to be dumbfounded, because while there is clearly something causing damage to their base of operations, there's nothing on the scanners that indicate as such. That is all they realize before they see the shadow of a large claw on top of the Outpost.
Back with our heroes, they follow Suko as he follows the trail, which leads them to the inside of the large forest, named "The Tangled Hole". Both Ape Titans stopped, seeing that the trail runs cold. Until there was a loud explosion, which startles all the protagonists. They follow the new trail, of smoke, to its origin. The now-ruined Outpost we just saw getting destroyed. Everyone, even the Great Ape duo, was clearly in shock at the carnage, until Kong almost got killed by a snare trap connected to a pitfall trap. Kong easily evades the trap, but now knows something is up, and something is still here. He was proven correct when a giant raptor Titan. A Deathrunner. Soon another one shows up, and another, and another until the heroes are swarmed by about five of them. They engage Kong, and Kong specifically, suspiciously enough, in a battle, and due to an impressive amount of pack teamwork and coordination, Kong almost loses, until Suko comes charging in to one of them with a stone knife and jabs it into one of their sides, wounding it enough for Kong to slam his axe onto its back, killing it. The Deathrunners know when to cut their losses and retreat, but not before another one grabs the stone knife in its jaws.
The humans and Titans follow the Deathrunner's trail, until Oliver stops the human team by telling them there's something in the area, a cavern-filled lush vale, filled to the brim with flora and fauna. Like, significantly so. Kong and Suko stop, until they sense something, shadows flitting in and out of the fog of the vale before the creature lunges out and reveals itself as a… baby Skullcrawler, about the same size as Suko or smaller! The baby Crawler, shockingly out of character, playfully and affectionately acts like a dog to the stunned Kong, who doesn't know what to do. On the one hand, this was the same creature that killed his parents. But on the other, this one was a baby and was acting friendly.
The Baby Skullcrawler gestures Kong to follow, and he does so. The humans were in awe, seeing a Skullcrawler, of all things, acting like a great friendly big guy. Meanwhile, the Deathrunner Pack retreated to their den, where thousands of Deathrunners stop to stare at the Pack as the two Praetorians make way for them as the one holding the knife drops it and reports of what happened to their Queen, Gaw. Gaw sniffs the knife, and snarls at the scent of blood of her own and the scent of Great Ape, before she softly caws and nuzzles the pack members (yet ANOTHER Hollow Earth Alpha who treats their subject MUCH better than Skar King), then barking and bringing an army of her own, rushing off to follow Kong's scent. Back to the heroes, the baby Skullcrawler leads Kong to the deeper reaches of the vale. Kong's journey led him to the biggest cave there was, filled with Skullcrawlers, until the Baby Skullcrawler leads Kong to their Alpha, the Father of the Skullcrawlers, the First Skullcrawler… Halakrah.
Kong was immediately filled with traumatic memories as we get a flashback on the night of his birth, when Skullcrawlers massacred his tribe and his parents on Skull Island, leading Kong to roar as he charges in to battle Halakrah, to which the Alpha Skullcrawler responded in kind. Suko and the Baby Skullcrawler (who I'll name Verto) tried to stop their fathers from battling to the death, until a rumbling interrupts them, both looking to see a rather large cave-in collapsing, before a barking comes out, Gaw and her Deathrunner army having caught up to them. Halakrah sees his Skullcrawlers getting overpowered and attacked by the Deathrunners, causing him to roar out in concern for his children, and Kong to look in shock. Kong and Halakrah look at each other, forming an uneasy alliance, before they both charge in to fight the Deathrunners, although they try to one-up the other.
Kong and Halakrah hold their own against the Deathrunners as they overpower the Skullcrawlers, who shockingly aren't that aggressive and aren't immediately devouring any Runners they kill. Still, Kong eventually battles Gaw, while Halakrah battles her Praetorians. While the Alpha Skullcrawler managed his own, Kong landed some good hits on Gaw, before she wrenches the Axe from his grasp, and almost digs her teeth onto Kong's throat. Suko screams in worry, before Verto leaps onto Gaw and mauls Gaw's back, which distracts her enough for Kong to get her off him and throw her to Halakrah, who tail whips her onto her Praetorians. The Praetorians were about to attack, before Gaw stops them and orders a retreat. Kong and Halakrah look at each other in a sort of grudging respect for one another, but it seemed that Suko and Verto were getting along just fine, to the amusement of the humans. So for the sake of their sons, (and because Kong has grown fond of Verto) Kong and Halakrah at least try to play nice together, which is going to be needed when the Alpha Skullcrawler joins the heroes to avenge his children.
Gaw snarls as she realizes Kong and Halakrah are likely on her trail, before one of her pack members directs her attention to a specific location: a large plateau with a foggy gas encircling the middle and top. Suddenly, Gaw realized she had an idea. Back to the heroes, Kong and his allies were reaching an acid pool /swamp. After a few minutes of suspense, where Oliver told them something was watching, the heroes were ambushed by the Deathrunners. Despite the Deathrunners using traps and the environment to their advantage, the humans' HEAV had combat capabilities for some chance to fight back, while Kong and Halakrah had a better understanding of the Deathrunners and were easily defeating them… until Kong hears a cry of help, and turns to see Verto getting dragged by a Deathrunner. Halakrah roars in worry, before Kong charges in and leaps at them, saving Verto and impaling the Deathrunner onto a tree branch. With the Deathrunners getting more aggressive, the heroes retreat to the Living Caves, escaping the Deathrunners. After a breather, Halakrah stares at Kong… before bowing down to the Great Ape, out of gratitude for saving his son's life. Kong gives a nod at this. Meanwhile, at the plateau, Gaw and her remaining pack dispels the fog covering the top, before grabbing the stone knife, coats Kong's scent on a log, and tosses it up. Another Titan's eyes glow at the inside of a cave as it smells Kong's scent on the projectile, before roaring as it leaps out.
Back at the Living Caves, the humans and Titans take a breather, before Halakrah notices the giant pit where Kong and Skar King fought, sniffs the earth, and lets out a growl of what sounds like both anger and sorrow. He sniffs around, and finds a Skullcrawler's skull. And another. And another. Kong and the humans were stunned at seeing so many of them, and Jia's touching of them has her tell them that their markings revealed that they were the same Skullcrawlers from Skull Island. Suddenly, why Halakrah was so aggressive to Kong made sense. Skar King enslaved and kidnapped a majority of Hollow Earth's Skullcrawlers - his children - and selectively bred them to be the most aggressive they can be. The reason they were so hypervorous was because to maximize that, he starved them to the brink of taking just about anything, and sicced them on the Great Apes on Skull Island, for daring to rebel from him. Kong realized this as well, which made him look at Halakrah in a new light, until the Alpha Skullcrawler senses something. Both Kaiju get ready as they, their kids, and the humans traverse out of the Living Caves and journey further, following a new trail… until they get ambushed again! This time by another Alpha, the First Warbat and the Mother of all Warbats, Nozuki.
Nozuki was furious at Kong's supposed attempt on her life, as she battles the King of the Apes. She puts up a pretty good fight, but Kong holds his own pretty well against her, and that's before Halakrah joins in on the battle, together defeating the Mother of the Warbats. Just as Kong was about to slam his axe down on her, he gets tackled by Gaw, and Halakrah gets pinned down by the Praetorians. Nozuki was taken with them too as the Deathrunners take the Kaiju… except the humans, who used biomimicry to hide from the Deathrunners and trail them to their lair. At the Deathrunners take their prey to the lair and trap them. Nozuki sees the humans trying to break the three's "cages" with the help of Suko and Verto, and relays this to Kong, who bided his time as Gaw enters to kill him. Gaw reveals a male Deathrunner's skull next to her den, revealing that she used to have a mate, but thanks to the Skar King yet again, most of her pack back then was lost, including him. Gaw was about to execute Kong quickly, until he broke free and smashed his fist into her. Kong quickly broke the other two free, before grabbing his Axe and running with Suko and Verto. Halakrah and the humans follows, and after some hesitation due to Kong not killing her when he had the chance, so does Nozuki.
Just before she chases after Kong, Gaw barks to a female of her pack, as she directs her 3 offspring to the female, basically telling her to take care of them for her, as she runs off, her army of thousands following her. What follows is an epic chase scene as the Deathrunner swarm upon Kong, who eventually gets cornered in the middle of a dead end, a stony area filled with crags and spires. Kong was cornered by the Deathrunners and an enraged Gaw as Kong prepares to fight them off. Until the rocks up above get disturbed by something, burying some, but not all of the Deathrunners. All of them look up to see Suko and the humans, who guided Halakrah to help him, and they do, the Alpha Skullcrawler charging into battle and taking down the Deathrunners with newfound ease, which bolsters Kong as he rushes in, with both the Axe and his fists. Alas, one of the Deathrunner Praetorians managed to trap Kong in rubble, slip through the attacks and was about to lunge to the humans to cut out the support, until Nozuki arrived and tackled the Praetorian, sending it off of a cliff to its death. Nozuki was dumbfounded at Kong's mercy and generosity, and wanted to repay the favor, which she did so. Nozuki joins as an ally of Kong's, helping to turn the tide in battle against the other Deathrunners as Kong battles Gaw. In the climax of the battle, just as Gaw is about to attack the humans' HEAV, Kong tackles Gaw into a wall, and slams her down, causing the earth to collapse and for the two to fall into a hidden Vile Vortex, and causing their allies to join them.
On the Surface World, Gaw and Kong were spat out in Aruba, where they almost immediately pick themselves up and continue fighting. Soon enough, their other allies were launched into the country, they also continued their brawl. Halakrah and Nozuki were keeping the other Deathrunners and the other Praetorian at bay while Kong battles their Queen. Kong's battle continued until Gaw managed to wrench the Axe away from Kong and toss it away. The two began dodging and weaving on top of buildings as they clashed. Gaw managed to tackle and pin Kong down, pinning his arms with her feet, and was about to land the killing blow… until Suko charges in with the Axe, riding on top of Verto, and slams the Axe on Gaw's side, wounding her and forcing her off of Kong. The King of the Apes recovers immediately as Gaw tosses the Axe from her side, lodging it blade-up and drags Kong into the fray again.
Halakrah and Nozuki defeat a majority of the Deathrunners, but every time they defeated one, five more replace it. Eventually, the area where the Vortex is starts glowing. To the humans, Bernie speculates that the reason why is because so many Deathrunners are going into it, then the energy is building up before it releases into a massive explosion of energy. And sure enough, that's what happens. Kong, Gaw, Suko, Halakrah, Verto, Nozuki, and a majority of the Deathrunners were catapulted into the sky and began fighting mid-air. Gaw and Kong let out some equal amounts of punishment, but Kong managed to grab her and as Gaw tries to bite his throat, Kong looks back and, upon hitting he ground, uses his momentum and throw-slams Gaw away from him, and into the path of the Axe, impaling Gaw and killing her. As the rest of the combatants fall down, the remaining Praetorian sees his Queen's corpse, and issues a retreat, as all the Deathrunners scatter back to the Hollow Earth, their battle strategies gone without their Queen's strategic and analytical mind. Kong roars in victory, but sees Suko still plummeting. Kong roars in worry as he tries to grab Suko, only narrowly missing the little ape's fingers, before Halakrah leaps off and grabs him, both plummeting into the ocean.
As Kong and his allies watch in suspense, they see Halakrah emerge out of the water with a still-living Suko, who excitedly raises his hands for the whole thing. Kong and Halakrah share a look, this time not with hostility as their first meeting, but with mutual respect, and Kong extends that same gaze to Nozuki, who responded likewise. All three Alpha Titans let out a triumphant roar, as Halakrah and Nozuki enter the Vile Vortex back home. The ending scene shows Halakrah letting out a roar to announce his presence to his children as he feasts on a well-earned victory meal, Nozuki flies back to her plateau cave and tends to her babies, and Kong returning back to the Living Caves, with Suko as the cave's inhabitants let out a roar and celebrating yet another victory for Kong and avenging the Apes at the beginning.