Hello!
I am looking for a partner to join me in building and exploring a realistic, character-driven story. I got my start in the days of snail mail and AOL Instant Messenger; but prefer Discord, for obvious reasons, for every facet of roleplaying - planning, writing, and general conversation.
I write in the third-person, past tense, and consider myself literate. I have done both quick-fire and novella-length stories but prefer something in the middle. Medium-length replies that keep the story moving forward, while providing the other partner with opportunities to react. My sweet spot is somewhere between three and five paragraphs, per reply.
I adore tropes. They are popular for a reason, right? Some of my favorite tropes include a reunion of old friends, a chance encounter between two strangers, and forbidden romance. Even with just these three options, the possibilities are more than endless.
Some examples of this might include:
Crossing Paths - Muse A and Muse B had been closer than friends until High School drama had them parting ways. A chance encounter, years later, however, finds them wanting to revisit what they had, once upon a time.
A Mystery in Cindermoor - Muse A and Muse B meet - in person, for the first time - in the town of Cindermoor. What starts off as exciting, however, quickly turns terrifying as all of the town's residents start to disappear without a trace.
Snowed Inn - Muse A and Muse B find themselves stuck - in a cabin, up in the mountains - after a winter storm prevents the rest of their friends from joining them on a vacation that has been planned for months.
Know that I am more than willing to welcome any idea you might have. Is there something you’ve been dying to play out? Tell me about it. Is there something you tried to do in the past, but, for one reason or another, were unable to? Tell me about it.
If any of this sounds interesting to you, or you think we might get along, please, do not hesitate to reach out.
Have a wonderful day!

Hello!
I am looking for a partner to join me in building and exploring a realistic, character-driven story. I got my start in the days of snail mail and AOL Instant Messenger; but prefer Discord, for obvious reasons, for every facet of roleplaying - planning, writing, and general conversation.
I write in the third-person, past tense, and consider myself literate. I have done both quick-fire and novella-length stories but prefer something in the middle. Medium-length replies that keep the story moving forward, while providing the other partner with opportunities to react. My sweet spot is somewhere between three and five paragraphs, per reply.
I adore tropes. They are popular for a reason, right? Some of my favorite tropes include a reunion of old friends, a chance encounter between two strangers, and forbidden romance. Even with just these three options, the possibilities are more than endless.
Some examples of this might include:
Crossing Paths - Muse A and Muse B had been closer than friends until High School drama had them parting ways. A chance encounter, years later, however, finds them wanting to revisit what they had, once upon a time.
A Mystery in Cindermoor - Muse A and Muse B meet - in person, for the first time - in the town of Cindermoor. What starts off as exciting, however, quickly turns terrifying as all of the town's residents start to disappear without a trace.
Snowed Inn - Muse A and Muse B find themselves stuck - in a cabin, up in the mountains - after a winter storm prevents the rest of their friends from joining them on a vacation that has been planned for months.
Know that I am more than willing to welcome any idea you might have. Is there something you’ve been dying to play out? Tell me about it. Is there something you tried to do in the past, but, for one reason or another, were unable to? Tell me about it.
If any of this sounds interesting to you, or you think we might get along, please, do not hesitate to reach out.
Have a wonderful day!

February 5, 1995
On May 8, 1991, seven years after her father's death, a graying, impeccably groomed former Miss America named Marilyn Van Derbur walked to a podium in a small auditorium on the University of Colorado's Denver campus. Announcing a family gift of $260,000 to a university research program on child sexual abuse, the onetime Outstanding Woman Speaker in America said that her late father, Francis—a millionaire philanthropist whose name was inscribed on the local Boy Scout building—had repeatedly violated her between the ages of 5 and 18.
Van Derbur said she had no conscious memories of what her father had done to her until she was 24. She had coped, she said, by somehow splitting herself. A high-achieving "day child" skied, played the piano and studied hard—utterly failing to incorporate any awareness of a mute, terrified "night child" whose legs, she said, were repeatedly pried apart in the darkness by her father's insistent hands.
Van Derbur thought she was speaking only to the people in the room that night, but a reporter was there taking notes. Her secret—the kind once taken to the grave or contained in the female domain of gossip—was about to cross the border into the public realm and become news.
Within a day or two, radio talk shows were debating whether she was lying, deluded or telling the truth. Her total "forgetting" of repeated horrors for many years seemed to defy common sense.
Three days after the speech, Marilyn Van Derbur's oldest sister, Gwen, an attorney in Hillsborough, Calif., told the Rocky Mountain News that she, too, had been molested by their father—but she had never forgotten. With that, most questions about Marilyn Van Derbur's credibility and memory ended, and last year her father's name was removed from the Denver Boy Scout building.
But the floodgates had been opened. If power consists in part of determining whose stories will be told and whose believed, the balance of power was shifting. After nearly a century in which many psychiatrists—most of them [cis] male—dismissed such reports as hysterical fantasies, women and men who were sexually abused in childhood lost patience with being spoken about and began to speak for themselves. It was as though Lolita had taken the pen from Humbert Humbert's hand.
The revelations began in the 1980s at 12-step meetings for Adult Children of Alcoholics; they were whispered to a new generation of mostly female therapists whose clients were financially independent women. By 1994, more than 800,000 women had bought a self-help book called The Courage to Heal.
A window had opened, letting in darkness rather than light. Never before in history had so many women accused so many seemingly respectable men.
Little attention has been paid to the feelings of parents accused of abuse—either the innocent or the guilty. Now a comforting counter-explanation for the nation's wave of [incestuous abuse] revelation is being advanced: The problem is not abuse so much as an epidemic of false memories of it, fomented by therapists who suspect it when none has occurred.
The most formidable intellectual champions of this view are cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, the author, with journalist Katherine Ketcham, of The Myth of Repressed Memory, and Pulitzer Prize-winning social psychologist Richard Ofshe, the author, with journalist Ethan Watters, of Making Monsters. Both argue that an [incestuous abuse] recovery culture—purveyed in self-help and pop psychology books, on TV shows and by reckless therapists—has induced thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of women to falsely accuse their parents.
Loftus, a cognitive psychologist and an eminent memory researcher at the University of Washington, is not a therapist but a hard scientist, an expert on the malleability of memory. She is skeptical of all therapeutic theories (such as the concept of "repression") that have never been scientifically proven and skeptical of "recovered memories" of abuse because, as she writes in her book, she was secretly molested by a male baby-sitter when she was 6 and has never forgotten.
Her concern for the falsely accused has been shaped by nearly 20 years as an expert witness in criminal trials. As she described in a previous book, Witness for the Defense (1991), she tells juries that memory is not a pristine videotape, but subject to distortion, reconstruction, over-dubbing and erasure from stress, retelling, suggestion and the passage of time.
As she recounts in the current book, Loftus began in 1991 to apply her research to the incest debate. She got five university students and colleagues—about 20% of those who tried—to get a younger relative (in two cases young children) to report a mildly traumatic "false memory." They did it by mixing accurate details with a false event—mentioning a familiar shopping mall, for example, and then "reminding" the subject of being lost there until rescued by a fictitious stranger. Based on such limited studies, Loftus speculates that traumatic "memories" of [incestuous abuse] have been implanted unwittingly by therapists in thousands of women.
This view is supported by about 16,000 parents who have contacted the False Memory Syndrome Foundation of Philadelphia since 1992 to say they have been wrongly accused. Their daughters (and some sons), they say, developed "false memories" after reading The Courage to Heal, joining an [incestuous abuse] recovery group or being hypnotized or encouraged to draw or write about their childhoods by their therapists.
[...]
Making Monsters also uses case studies to build a broad attack on all therapy centered on the past. Therapy, Ofshe and Watters argue [...], is less a science than a system of influence, suggestion and belief. In the office, clients construct "narratives" of their lives that usually highlight what the therapist thinks is important: childhood trauma, perhaps, rather than present time. Do women benefit, he asks, from a life lived through a rearview mirror? It's a provocative argument, though it seems overstated: What happens to us affects us, after all.
[...]
That said, their books are not the dispassionate work of scientists. In Ofshe and Watters' book, the [incestuous abuse] recovery movement—composed primarily of women who have never forgotten memories of garden-variety abuse—has "morphed" into the "recovered memory movement," a quasi-cult of hysterical women devoted to explaining away all present problems by dowsing for a traumatic past.
[...]
While decrying as "pseudoscientific" the credulity of [incestuous abuse recovery] therapists, both Ofshe and Loftus seem remarkably uninterested in the vagaries of memory of those who have sexually abused children. Psychotherapists who work regularly with such men and women report that they frequently have alcohol problems that affect memory, or deny what they've done and admit or remember it months or years later.
Loftus makes only a glancing reference to Marilyn Van Derbur, and Ofshe does not mention her at all; nor do they discuss many other cases that might contradict these books' central article of faith. Loftus, curiously, does not include any reference to a scientific study she co-published last year in the Psychology of Women Quarterly; in the study, which would appear to contradict the title of her own book, more than half of the 105 women questioned at a substance abuse center reported having been sexually abused as children, and almost a fifth of that group reported a period of total forgetting, after which their memories returned.
Ofshe, for his part, tells readers that by "conservative estimate" 15% of "recovered memory therapy" cases eventually involve allegations of ritual abuse. That statistic is as unscientific as the wildest overestimates of incest; it comes from a voluntary survey of 500 members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, the support group for accused parents.
Almost all of Ofshe and Watters' case studies are hidden behind pseudonyms from independent inquiry, forcing the reader to trust the writer's conclusions rather than see how they were reached. The looseness with which he treats the material is evident in Chapter 6 of Making Monsters. Here he tells the story of "Jane"—a Washington state woman called Lynn Crook who has identified herself in a letter she circulated to the media disputing Ofshe's account. In Ofshe's account, Crook was led down the garden path by self-help books and therapists until she fabricated horrible memories of sexual abuse by her father, a respectable physician. Two of her sisters, apparently caught up in the hysteria, supposedly then interpreted vague and ambiguous memories as signs that they, too, had been abused. Crook sued her father (both Ofshe and Loftus appeared as expert witnesses at the trial) and, reportedly to "empower" herself, sought out a local newspaper reporter. As the chapter ends, she appears headed into the delusionary territory of satanic ritual abuse: She recalls seeing a crowd standing around a bonfire in masks, robes.
Although this chapter is told as though Ofshe and Watters can read Crook's mind—her "heart races" at one point—they did not interview her or the sisters who testified on her behalf. The tale is an embellished reconstitution of the court records, and discrepancies in the details do not inspire confidence in Ofshe and Watters' contention that Crook's memories were caused by reckless therapy and the reading of self-help books. The authors have fiddled with the timeline, making it appear that Crook read and positively reviewed The Courage to Heal before, rather than after, she recovered memories of abuse. Crook, in fact, never told anyone that she had informed a local reporter of her suit against her father to "empower" herself; she responded to a phone call from a reporter who ran across the legal filing. One of Crook's sisters supposedly testified that her father had once told her to close her legs; the book, however, omits the last half of the father's reported sentence—"or I'll think you want me." And while Crook's therapist's notes did refer to a frightening memory of people standing around a bonfire in masks, the reference to robes was invented, making the memory sound more indicative of the delusions of satanic ritual abuse that Ofshe seems eager to find everywhere.
Ofshe omits from this account any reference to his own role in the lawsuit. In the court records, Judge Dennis D. Yule comments: "Just as (Ofshe) accuses (therapists) of resolving at the outset (to find) repressed memories of abuse and then constructing them, he has resolved at the outset to find a macabre scheme of memories progressing toward satanic cult ritual and then creates them."
Inaccurate reporting like this takes a book like Making Monsters beyond polemic to backlash.
Sadly, we live in a world that produces its share of Jeffrey Dahmers, Ted Bundys, John Wayne Gacys, Susan Smiths and Francis Van Derburs; the public face people turn toward the world may have little relation to the one expressed in private. Yet if these authors have ever met guilty parents, they haven't written about them. They seem to accept most protestations of parental innocence at face value, even those as half-hearted and ambiguous as "I don't remember doing this" or "I don't think so."
They write movingly of the anguish of parents whose daughters accuse them of horrible crimes, but seem remarkably insensitive to sexually abused children. Families in which [sexual abuse] charges surface are described as "shattered"; but families in which [sexual abuse] really happened were secretly shattered long before anyone brought the truth to light.
[...] the danger is that books like Making Monsters and The Myth of Repressed Memory will once again silence women and men from speaking—and being believed—about very real abuse, and will create a new breed of experts who will once again presume to know the truth.

i've seen a decent number of people say babble and reach's new video is more nuanced, and has gotten a larger amount of approval than i would've expected. i'm a lil triggered by that and i was hoping some of those people could come explain their perspective, because you must've watched a different video than i did.
here's my perspective:
they start by trying to give themselves a leftist resume by listing progressive policy positions they agree with, right before swapping into transphobia (trans athletes). right away you should see they have a conservative arc. this is why intersectionality is important in leftism, we live in america. lots of people hold some progressive values while also having an overarching reactionary attitude. holding a few good takes on healthcare and social services doesn't mean you're not transphobic, lack intersectionality and constantly cut content furthering the goals of right wing shitheads.
they then go on to try and say their views are commonly held among black men, so are you saying all those black men are conservatives? no, idiot, but they are in america. i'm a half mexican half white man and i held transphobic views because i grew up here, just like you, and have been conditioned by the systems that oppress trans people. it doesn't mean all people with non-leftist opinions are conservative, it means all of them have felt the effects of propaganda and have yet to break it. but instead of helping anyone break out of it, babble and reach have decided "no this is actually good and okay, because lots of people agree with me :)" that's a slippery slope really quick. intersectionality is not something we get to agree or disagree on, it is a must. framing trans issues as something that is two sided means you're validating the most disgusting kind of neckbearded nazis, even if you aren't one of them yourself. there's only one side here, human rights.
they say they started looking down on bernie because two women took his microphone? this is just a funny ass side note. they're so unserious, imagine changing your mind about a politician because he let two people disagreeing with him speak instead of his policy issues lololol so unserious
here's my final and longest point. near the midpoint/end they start talking about trans issues as an analog for differences in leftist politics etc. how do ya'll not see how gross this part was? let's start with how they say they only talk about issues affecting them, and living in a liberal city means left wing issues tend to effect them. okay bitch, what sports teams are you on? which trans athlete kicked your lil ass so hard you had to go and cut a hundred anti trans videos? tell me how trans athletes affects you. tell me how anything trans related effects you. it fucking doesn't. they cut video after video using the same right wing slant that matt walsh and ben shapiro use. whether or not they agree with trans healthcare in private doesn't matter if their public output & how they use a decently large platform is stoking hate towards trans people every chance they get. also, trans athletes in sports isn't an unimportant issue. it's the tip of a spear that is used to dehumanize trans people, until they're shoved out of social life altogether. in fact, multiple studies have shown being socially accepted is the biggest indicator outside of medical transition that keeps a trans person from s*****e. this entire video amounted to one thing: them trying to justify their transphobia and overall reactionary slant by taking an enlightened centrist/left leaning "stance" that doesn't line up whatsoever with the content they're actually cutting. being anti-misogyny and holding a few good policy positions doesn't make you free from america'a conservativism, it means you took a baby step. congrats, take the rest of the walk and stop being transphobic little bitches.
i'm sorry for the essay, this kind of transphobia just really irritates me. my partner is trans and they run into this kind of transphobia way more than the matt walsh style nazis. don't let these assholes trick you into thinking they're free from a conservative slant just because they present with civility and agree with some of your positions. intersectionality matters.

Hello Everyone!
First of all I'd like to say, welcome to the nearly hundred new members that we picked up at WildRoseCountry over the course of the election! Thank you also to the over 300 members who have been with us for longer. You're our bedrock, and I really appreciate the increasing engagement we've seen here in the past few months. It's taken a good deal of patience get this sub moving, but I think we've finally got some momentum. This time last year we had less than a quarter of the members we do today. And I think we're well on our way to making our growth target of 500 members for the year. After last night's purges at Alberta, there's probably more than a few people looking for a new Reddit home. Feel free to use word of mouth to reach out to folks who you think might be a good fit. I don't tend to scream out our existence at the top our lungs, but I think we can start to be a little more confident.
I also want to apologize. I haven't always been able to be as engaged as I'd like to be with the sub. I've been very busy with work lately and all the joys and labours that come with having a young family. I think if I could have put in more time we'd have landed easily more than 100 new members over the election period. I'm still going to do my best to recruit, provide content and keep this place from turning into a generic reddit mad house. I'd just like to ask for you to be patient with me. Know that I'm a really open easy going guy and if you have any thoughts, suggestions or concerns you can always reach out to me through chat. Hell if you just want to roll an opinion on hockey by me, I'm good for that too! Alberta deserves a better provincial sub. One that actually represents its people and our values. If the election confirmed anything, it's that we are the majority. I'm doing my best to contribute to that, but I'm only mortal. I only wish I could give more, sorry for that. And thanks for your patience. One thing that I hope to get to in the coming moths is to refresh some of the standard messages, descriptions and links for the sub. Feel free to give me a poke if you have any thoughts on that.
I'd also like to give an extra shout to the group who was involved during last night's election live chat. I had a blast! It was enough for me to wish for another election soon. Hopefully the situation federally obliges us sooner rather than later.
On to other matters!
What a night! It wasn't quite as big a quite as big a win as I had hoped for, but a lot of it came down to extremely tight races. You can't win all the breaks unfortunately. But, an outright majority of Albertans spoke and opted to re-elect conservatives to another majority term in Alberta. And in that regard, they came in at the high end of my expectations.
Now it's time for the UCP to get down to the business of governing. With a renewed mandate, they can put to rest the notion that Albertans are no longer interested in conservatism. It is worth remarking that Smith herself did not campaign on many of her more strident positions like a police force, a pension or even the Sovereignty Act. Though I do think that she alluded to the latter in her victory speech when addressing Ottawa last night.
I think that makes the order of business clear though. As much as I appreciate many of these positions, the party's priorities in government are going to be bread and butter issues like economic stewardship, fiscal management, healthcare access and efficiency, protecting our education system, public safety and addictions. There's going to be a lot of work to be done on those files to warrant putting some of these other positions at a lower priority. I hope that in the coming mandate, the UCP continues to deliver on those core files. That's what's going to ensure another mandate in 2027. But a lot of these other items are part of why I'm a UCP supporter. I think Alberta's sovereignty is critical. What I hope to see is a slow and steady approach. I'd rather see one of two of those positions delivered on in full rather than have them try to take on too much at once and get nothing done. And I think it deserves to be said, where we ultimately need to go as a province is our own constitution that lets us put to writing what it means to be Albertan and cement it in law.
We are Alberta's conservative subreddit, but we aren't the UCP's subreddit. No doubt many of us, myself included, are engaged politically. All I would say is that that doesn't make us blind partisans. Fair criticism of the performance of the government and it's leadership is always going to be welcome here. It also doesn't mean that we will always agree with one another on every topic either. So just a reminder to be respectful to one another in disagreements.
We also aren't only a political sub. This is a sub where you can post about anything going on in and relevant to the province. So as we move out of the high intensity of the election period and the likely impending calm of summer. Feel free to bring up other topics and share photos and stories too!
I'll just close on an important thought on the meaning of conservatism. We are the centre. Not just here in Alberta, but everywhere. We're the ones who prioritize our long held ways of life against radicalism. It has been said, that everyone is right wing about the things that matter to them. Here's some quotes that I find very meaningful in my own personal political philosophy.

I think that what makes conservatism distinct as opposed to philosophies on the left, is because conservatism is empirical and fundamentally cultural, conservatism actually does differ to some degree in various entities. Whereas liberalism and socialism and the real ‘isms’ are belief systems regardless. You’ve got to transform whatever society it is into that.

-Stephen Harper

There is an additional thing that makes conservatism both beautiful and frustrating. Unlike liberalism and socialism and corporatism, which are, by their nature, deeply utilitarian, conservatism is deeply poetic. It loves the gothic, the quirky, and the strange. Unlike liberalism and socialism and corporatism, it praises (true) differences and even celebrates them. Person A is talented at this, and Person B is talented at that. Each person brings his or her talents to the community, there to sharpen them as well as restrain our many flaws and arrogances.
So, what exactly do we want to conserve? This is a question that every person and every generation must ask.

-Bradley J. Blitzer

Society is indeed a contract.…[But, a]s the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born….Changing the state as often as there are floating fancies,…no one generation could link with the other. Men would be little better than the flies of a summer.

-Edmund Burke
Conservatism at the end of the day, is about a people being ourselves and standing up for ideals in a changing world. The point isn't to be rigid, but as change comes it's up to us to integrate or reject ideas in our own way that's respectful to our customary way of life. Being proud to be ourselves, being open while also being critical. If there's anything I'd hope to accomplish for Alberta at this community, it's that. So, with that...
It's an honour to be among you and to help make this community a reality. Cheers to members old and new! Cheers to last night's victory! Cheers to Alberta! And God bless you all! (even if that's not your thing)
Sincerely,
-SJO!

This comes up ALL. THE. TIME.
Someone will give feedback that a particular feature is hurting someone's passing, and that person will reply, "But cis men [have septum piercings/have long haiwear makeup/whatever]!" as though that changes the fact that it's hurting their passing.
Here's the thing: People are evaluating all your features TOGETHER when they make a guess about your gender. They're basically assessing every feature they've noticed, adding them all up, and deciding whether they end up leaning toward M or F.
For any feature, ask yourself, "What's the split between cis men and cis women with this trait?" People aren't consciously picking apart your every feature, but this is basically what they're doing instinctively. I'll give this example like there were a 100-point split scale:

1. Face shape: 65 F / 35 M
2. Shoulders as wide as hips: 15 F / 85 M
3. Voice: 55 F / 45 M
4. Dangly earrings: 95 F / 5 M
5. Septum piercing: 80 F / 20 M
6. Simple, boring clothing style: 35 F / 65 M

And they add them up: 345 F / 255 M and assume you're female, even though you have some masculine traits.
I made up all the numbers here, and realistically they don't all have exactly the same weight (having a high voice is a lot more likely to get you read F than wearing expressive clothes), but when someone tells you something is "hurting your passing," they generally mean it has too many F points. You might still choose to keep it, but you're going to want to add M points somewhere else to compensate.
And the part that's really unfair is that some guys just got lucky with genes that start them off with a lot more M points than others. It is what it is. Even with cis men, there's a wide range! But they can get away with more F points because nature gave them a head start on M points.
And that's why cis guys can get away with something that you can't yet, because they have a head start on M points and it's usually only one or two high-F things they're doing at any given time--and they're not enough to cancel out all their M points.

Hello,
I'm planning to visit a doctor soon but before I do that I just want to be prepared for what I might be diagnosed with. To be honest, I'm a little worried to visit a doctor because what if he just disregards my symptoms. I will give a background of my story first.
To begin with, I was sexually abused at the age of 8 and then after the abuse I have also made deeply regretful sexual choices that I'm ashamed of. I didn't realize what happened to me was wrong until very recently when I reached out to other CSA victims online. I used to minimize the abuse by saying to myself that I was a dirty child and I enjoyed it. After the first abuse ended at ten at the hands of a caretaker, the second abuse started when a family friend started a sexual relationship with me at age 11.
I used to have a emotionally unavailable parents and a very absent father who although lived with us but didn't provide for us and I can say gave up on us, he also had anger management issues. Both of the sexual abusers started their acts under our roof but my parents didn't even notice. After our father gave up on providing for us, my uneducated mother just threw us at our aunt who although kindly took us in but sometimes could be unintentionally toxic. Furthermore, we lost our status and had to live without papers in a extremely expensive Middle Eastern country so I missed out on many opportunities I could have had like other kids.
I was extremely aware of our situation as a kid, I was basically forced to mature at a young age. I knew how bad our situation was and I felt alone even when I was surrounded by my family. I couldn't reach out to anyone because I felt like no one could understand me. To cope with all that I started daydreaming, I created a whole new life in my head with a whole storyline in my head. In fact, I had multiple storyline some involving fantasy elements. In addition, I was also overly sexual as a child, I still struggle with hypersexuality but I have come to a point where I can't perform sexual acts with someone because I'm extremely insecure and face terrible body image issues.
That's a part of my story. If I continue, this post will get really long.
In conclusion:

• I'm extremely hypersexual, to the point where I can be thinking about sex even when I'm in completely normal situations like in a class. Some of these sexual fantasies can be messed up and taboo.
• I have an extremely hard time focusing on studies and I have terrible memory, I noticed that recently I have a hard time with vocabulary. I might motivated to do something but will lose that motivation shortly resulting in me starting a lot of stuff but leaving it unfinished. I also kind of zone out while driving.
• I had a terrible anxiety disorder at the end of 2018, which I think I started to live alongside with but then I got OCD. I believe it was onset by the anxiety disorder, I'm not sure. The OCD leads me to have disgusting and gruesome intrusive thoughts and I also have contamination issues. On the contrary, It didn't give me a clean and neat place. I still struggle with anxiety.
• I was so deep into maladaptive day dreaming that I neglected my real life and as a young adult, I awfully regret it but I still catch myself daydreaming and talking to myself. I have a complete conversations with people in my head.
• Horrible self image issues, this is based on facts as I don't have features that match the beauty standards or are considered beautiful.
• Intimacy issues, the sex abuse and regretful sexual acts have led me to sex aversion. I can crush on people who are gorgeous and way out of my league to the point I get obsessed and become anxious at the thought of not seeing them or them moving far away or getting married or hurt. I want to become like them too, dress like them or act like them. Do I have feelings or am I just a creep?
• I'm Gay in a Middle Eastern country.
• I hate social situations. I like staying at home. My interests include watching new movies and shows, especially fantasy ones.
• I feel like a child in an adults body.
• I have meltdowns and sudden bouts of extreme anger. Sometimes I make up situations in my head about my loved ones dying or getting hurt or my mom embarrassing me in public and I will get so angry. I love my family but suddenly I get so hateful about them.
• I get scared so easily and can't cope with loud noises and get scared when people fight around me loudly, I get scared when cats fight too sometimes. I'm a coward basically. I even hate certain smells or sounds that people make like chewing loudly.
• When things happen around me like a car accident, I feel like somehow it's my fault and I'm guilty even when I was not involved in it. For example, I'm with a friend and he maybe dings a car, I will feel guilty.
• I'm so lazy, I can't do anything even if it requires minimal effort.

I have been suicidal too, I imagine myself committing suicide and think about the effect it will have in my family and loved ones. I commonly used the method of hanging in my suicidal fantasy. I remember thinking about suicide as a teenager too. It’s kinda serious now.
There could be more, I don't remember.
Sorry for the long post but please give me your opinion about the mental illnesses you think I might have.
Feel free to ask more questions.
Thank you so much for reading.

Alright, apologies for the delays, but we're back now! Gonna keep trying for Tuesday mornings, and hopefully the post notifications will start working soon.
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Memory Transcription Subject: Ensign Sifal, Arxur Dominion Fleet
Date [standardized human time]: October 18, 2136
“Oysters are a local delicacy here in New York,” said David, gesturing towards the little molluscs in the spread. “Long before we were called the Big Apple, New York used to be called the Big Oyster. We’re on a major estuary, so these little guys used to be everywhere before environmental damage and overfishing tanked their numbers in the early 20th century. Thanks to the work of a few grassroots organizations, their population was on the upswing again until the recent, ah, irradiation incident.” David looked bemused. “What’s the radiation shielding efficacy of water again?”
“Halved per seven centimeters,” I rattled off offhandedly, hoping my measurements would translate to something he recognized. David held his hands approximately the correct distance apart to visualize it, and grimaced. I guess oysters live in the shallows.
I poked the little pinkish tan creature with a claw. It squished slightly. “Hey, are these still alive?” It looked whole in any event, minus the top half of its shell. It smelled lovely.
David blinked. “I think they are, technically?”
My eyes lit up. “I’m impressed! All this talk about pampering your prey, and then this? You Terrans didn’t seem like the type to eat live food.”
David’s eyes went wide. “They, uh, don’t really have a central nervous system.”
“So more the exception than the rule,” I mused. Even when the humans let their instincts out, they picked targets that felt it the least. “I suppose you really do tend to actively shy away from cruelty.” David shrugged, and I picked up one of the oysters. “Any other fun oyster facts I should know?”
David considered for a moment. “I dunno. I suppose oysters are traditionally considered aphrodisiacs?”
I froze with the creature halfway to my mouth, and stared at David incredulously. That was an unexpected turn. Why was he feeding me an aphrodisiac? We weren’t the same species. What was I meant to infer from this? Humans seemed happy to look for friendship and companionship outside of their species; were they inclined to go further, given the chance? I certainly wasn’t. What a bizarre notion! I mean, alright, I had to confess that I was at least curious, but that wasn’t the same type of interest. It was intellectual, rather than instinctual. But barring the sudden establishment of an alliance and a cultural exchange, I was probably leaving forever within the next hour or so. Given the time constraints, our current conversation was more than adequate to sate my curiosity.
I hoped I wasn’t reading too many layers deep into casual conversation again, but I had to decline politely. “Listen, David, you’re a very interesting man, but I can’t imagine making you and I work.”
This got a surprisingly good-natured sounding laugh out of the two scouts, and it was directly mostly at David. Alright, lucky me! It looked like I’d misread the conversation, but they thought I’d made a passable joke. No reason to disabuse them of that notion. I had to take my social victories where I could find them.
“A terrible shame, but I’ll just have to carry on somehow,” said David, smiling and trying to play it off as humor as well. “Frankly, I’m just surprised the Arxur seem to be this relaxed about same-sex relationships. Took us a while to figure that one out.”
Now I was confused again. “Arxur don’t really do… relationships,” I pointed out. “Also, I’m sorry, I thought you were male?”
David looked taken aback. “I… I am.”
“Then we’re not the same sex,” I said.
Alright, now everyone was staring at me like I’d made a social faux pas.
“I’m sorry,” David said slowly, “but I don’t think I ever asked you which gendered pronouns, if any, you preferred.”
“She and her,” I said, even more confused. “I thought it was obvious.”
“No part of that was obvious!” shouted Charmaine.
“My apologies,” I said in my best amused monotone. “I’ll try to display more sexual dimorphism in the future.” I let my eyes briefly flick down to where the female Terran scout’s shape differed from her male colleague. “Shall I ask my armor quartermaster for a padded breastplate?”
David aggressively swatted at the air for silence, while Charmaine growled offense at the word “padded” in particular for reasons unknown to me. David had a natural demeanor of a respected elder that the scouts seemed to pick up on and defer to. I wasn’t quite sure why; he barely looked older than the soldiers and I. “I apologize,” the chef said. “I tend to pride myself on my knowledge of as many topics as I can find, but I find myself coming up a bit short on the subject of herpetology.” That translated to the study of reptiles and then also amphibians? Why would those two be grouped? Even David seemed suddenly stiff on the subject. “I also can’t imagine that you folks have the same gender roles that we do,” David continued.
“The same what?” I asked. The term had barely translated.
“Gender roles?” he repeated. “Like… what’s expected of you by society based on your gender?”
I still didn’t follow. “I’m sorry, is this a mammal thing?” I guessed. “Half of you have to waddle around vulnerable for a whole gestation period, and now you’re grappling with second-order effects on your culture?”
David considered this. “That’s… hrm. That’s not entirely accurate, but not entirely inaccurate either?” He had a brief moment of gesticulating like he was reading an invisible book on the ceiling; he seemed to do that anytime he was trying to remember something. “I don’t think that’s generally true with other mammalian predators, at least. Like, with more solitary predators, the mothers often need to be strong enough to hunt and fight on her own, but humans aren’t solitary. It all gets really muddled when you take into account how much of human behavior is dependent on the assumption of group dynamics.” David shook his head. “I dunno, this isn’t really my area of expertise. So, what, the Arxur just…?”
I shrugged. “Arxur are Arxur. Around half of us can lay eggs. The end.” I took a sip of water, and David topped it back up from a bottle without comment. “Hatchlings are raised by whichever relatives feel like it, or else by state-sponsored boarding schools. I was raised by my father’s sister, who had a knack for training difficult children.” I idly scratched at an old scar on my left arm. “Her lessons were… useful.”
This was beginning to dredge up memories, so I reached for my oyster again. “Alright, may I continue? This isn’t going to start stirring any weird urges in me, is it?”
“Eh, probably not,” said David. “Certainly not enough to bring you around on… God, what do I look like to you? A guy who’s squishy with small teeth?”
“Hm,” I said by way of noncommittal half-agreement. There was no need to insult him about it. I popped the oyster into my mouth. I was honestly disappointed. It had a satisfying crunch to it, I supposed, but it mostly tasted like chalk. There was maybe a hint of some nice flavor in the middle, but I could hardly notice it over the taste of the shell.
David’s eyes were wide. “I… I’m sorry, I should have clarified that we don’t eat the shells.” He showed off his puny teeth. Like most humans, his fangs were millimeters away from fully vestigial. “Don’t think I could if I wanted to. The meat’s detached. You can just slide it with the juices right into your mouth. Try again?”
Only moderately deterred by my error, I picked up another oyster, held it like a small cup, and drank the creature. Alright, now we were getting somewhere! The briny taste of the sea added a natural seasoning of salt to an intensely savory morsel. It had a lovely chew to it as well, as the creature came apart in my maw. I could see why humans considered oysters delicious enough to compromise their morals over.
“Fantastic,” I said. I wanted more, but I thought I’d try the other options first. The next item was a shrimp cocktail. “Now, I see this one also has a shell?”
David nodded. “Thin and chitinous, but I still don’t recommend it.” He showed me a picture of a small insectoid creature. “We remove the heads and limbs of the shrimp before serving, but the shells are sometimes left on to be peeled at the table.”
My claws made short work of the little creature’s meager defenses, and I tossed it in my maw whole. This one seemed lightly cooked, but I didn’t mind too much. The flesh was a touch rubbery, but came apart so easily that it nearly felt stringy. It had a slight off-taste that was almost gamey, but grew on me. I dipped a second in a reddish condiment to the side. It was acrid and bitter, to the point where it overpowered the shrimp’s flavor. It was refreshing, but didn’t quite seem to match the dish by my estimate. “Cocktail sauce,” said David, making note of my facial expression. “Traditional, but not my first pick either. Try the white sauce? That’s a homemade garlic and herb aioli. Matches most crustaceans nicely.”
He wasn’t wrong. The aioli was much less tangy, and complemented the shrimp without overpowering it. The garlic and herbs added more flavor notes to harmonize around the gamey taste of the meat, and it added some much-needed fat to what was otherwise a fairly lean bit of meat. “This is better,” I agreed.
Finally, there was a dish of… “Tuna tartare,” David repeated. “It’s a raw fish, lightly seasoned, and chopped to make it easier to chew.” He flashed his teeth again. I flashed mine back. He blinked.
The small cubed pieces of fish were an incredible shade of dark red, and almost translucent in spots. It looked like red meat, or maybe gemstones. “What did you add to make it this color?” I hoped it wasn’t fruit juice.
“Oh, nothing for color,” said David. “Touch of soy sauce, little sesame oil, some spices, splash of vinegar. I’d normally add something for sweetness, but I’m gonna hold off on serving you sugar substitutes until I know what’s safe.” He pulled up a picture of a fairly large scaled fish, gutted and hanging from a hook. The inside was ruby red. “But yeah, no, tuna flesh just looks that color.”
“I’ve never heard of a fish with red meat on it before,” I said, “but after that pink one, I suppose it’s hardly the oddest thing I’ve seen today.”
David shrugged. “Eh, I’m just doing simple fare today,” he said. “Basic Earth foods. None of my usual trickery.”
I tilted my head, confused. “Trickery?”
David sighed. “I normally do a lot of, uh, molecular gastronomy. Dishes that use knowledge of chemistry to vary the flavors and textures in unexpected ways. Like, for example, one of our signature dishes is a cod filet cooked in lamb tallow. Cod is bland, and most of the lamb flavor is in the fat, so with a bit of finagling, this results in a piece of fish that tastes like lamb. You expect to taste fish, and you get the flavor of red meat instead.” David rubbed his eyes behind his odd civilian model holo-lenses. “The problem is, if you’ve never had cod before, and you’ve never had lamb before, you’d just… assume that cod tastes rich and gamey instead of bland. Trickey of this sort requires you to have preconceptions that I can undermine.” He shook his head. “Not that it really matters, since nobody’s wanted to order lamb-flavored anything since the fucking summer.”
“Why not?” I asked. “What’s changed?”
David pulled up another picture on his holopad. “Take a guess,” he said wryly.
He showed me a picture of a quadrupedal Venlil, and I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at its dumb fluffy face.

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is venturing into autobiographical territory for his big-screen feature debut. About My Father, a comedy based on Maniscalco's own relationship with his father and extended family, is set to hit theaters next year.

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Maniscalco's stand-up is based around his family life and upbringing, often revolving around his life with Italian immigrant parents. Beginning his career in the early 2000s performing at open mic nights, he has released five stand-up comedy specials as of 2022, with the two most recent exclusively released on Netflix. While he has appeared in supporting roles in films like Tag, Green Book, and The Irishman, About My Father will mark Maniscalco's first leading role in a major production. Maniscalco is co-writing the screenplay with Austen Earl, and Laura Terruso is on board to direct. Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Andrew Miano, and Judi Marmel will produce for Lionsgate and Depth of Field. Lionsgate will also handle distribution.
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When does the About My Father come out?
About My Father’s official release date is Friday, May 26, 2023. There are 15 other movies coming out on the same date, including The Machine, Kandahar and The Little Mermaid.
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However, it will be available to stream on the Peacock platform soon. Disney+ typically follows a 90-day period before its theatrical releases come to the streaming platform. That means we may see the live-comedy version of "About My Father" come to Peacock as early as August 2023.
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Summer and early Fall is also the likely date for a release of About My Father for Blu-Ray and DVD, though no specific date or timeline has been given at this time. As for a VOD release, the film will likely be available to buy digitally a few weeks before the inevitable streaming release for $20 USD.
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About My Father cast
Leading the cast is stand-up comedian turned actor Sebastian Maniscalco. This is gearing up to be a big year for Maniscalco as he also stars in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Spinning Gold. He’s previously had roles in Green Book, Somewhere in Queens and The Irishman.
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Maniscalco stars in About My Father alongside his Irishman costar Robert De Niro. De Niro is a two-time Oscar winner who has been seen in classic films such as The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, Casino and Taxi Driver. In terms of his comedic efforts, he’s been featured in the Meet the Parents franchise, The Intern, Dirty Grandpa and more.
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Joining the Maniscalco and De Niro are:
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Leslie Bibb (Jupiter's Legacy)
Anders Holm (Inventing Anna)
David Rasche (Succession)
Brett Dier (Jane the Virgin)
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'About My Father' Is a Love Story Between Father and Son
About My Father is both exactly what you'd expect it to be and also one of the most pleasant surprises of the year. It's in the vein of the studio comedies of the early aughts like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Meet the Parents while also having a bit of Wedding Crashers thrown in there as well. It would have been extremely easy to have its sense of humor built completely around one-note stereotypes but director Laura Terruso, as well as co-writers Maniscalco and Austen Earl, don't go that route. There is something so sweet and honest about the film as it's a romantic comedy where the love story is about the bond between father and son. Ellie's wealthy family aren't portrayed as villains nor is Salvo portrayed as some antagonist father. Instead, the film establishes very early on that these two families are from different worlds. The film opens with Maniscalco narrating a montage about what it means to be Silician as well as reminiscing about his childhood, so by the time we meet Ellie's family, Terruso doesn't antagonize them, but instead shows them as otherworldly. For example, when we first meet Lucky he's stepping out of the family's helicopter wearing a flight suit that makes him look like he just walked off the set of Top Gun: Maverick.
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De Niro's track record in comedy has had some mighty heights, the aforementioned Meet the Parents, Analyze This, and Silver Linings Playbook, as well as some dismal lows such as Dirty Grandpa and The Big Wedding. Fortunately, de Niro is in fine form playing Salvo, who is directly based on Maniscalco's real-life father. In a role that feels almost the polar opposite of Jack Byrnes, de Niro gleefully throws out witty one-liners about being an immigrant, building Nintendos out of wood, and Che Guevera. He's clearly having a wonderful time on set, and he truly does feel so natural as this character (it probably helps that he met up with the real-life Salvo before and during filming). He plays Salvo like he's that relative that you only see at family reunions who lives in his own world, talking to you for hours as you sit next to him while downing your fourth bottle of beer, not annoyed, but having the time of your life. Paired with Maniscalco's everyman, the two leading men have excellent chemistry, bouncing off of each other extremely well. Leslie Bibb, Kim Cattrall, David Rasche, and Anders Holm all get their time to shine as well, but the supporting cast's biggest scene-stealer is Brett Dier as Doug who garners some of the film's biggest laughs every time he appears on screen.

While men have their “boys clubs,” we are “the office girls.” After working in account management, finance, business management positions for the last 5 years…if I hear this phrase one more time I will need to be sedated.
It’s especially weird when men say this about their employees or colleagues who are the same age as them. The funniest part: the mandatory compliance training this year featured a skit about this exact issue.
They are women, with names and titles. Stop that

One of Geth's key functions as the central god of the Faidan Elves was his overseeing of the growth of boys into adult men. Between these two states lay a category of older adolescents and young men known as lirinnai, who represented a transitional state between boyhood and manhood. A lerinna took part in warfare under the tutelage of a veteran warrior, but he did not possess the full range of responsibilities of a male householder, as he was unmarried and lacked dependents.
In this hymn, which celebrates manhood as a gift bestowed upon the Elves by Geth, a group of lirinnai are on the eve of becoming full adult men and are soon to be married. Their bachelorhood is being put behind them, and they are dressed in fine clothing and jewellery, typical of a wedding. Their physical constitutions are said to be well developed and suitably strong, made tough by the rigors of warfare and sporting competitions, two key aspects of Elven masculinity, as well as by Geth's blessing. Likewise, the passionate energies and reckless bravery of youth are also said to be the creation of Geth, and here are celebrated as productive forces, though forces perhaps soon to be put under the control of maturity through marriage.
Geth is described as a guiding force, helping the young men of Faida navigate the liminal state between youth and adulthood, likened to helping someone ford a river from one side to another. No doubt the increased responsibilities of marriage and family life, which were coupled with great responsibilities to society in general, were a cause of anxiety among some young Elvenmen, and Geth acted as a comforting presence during this transition, as well as a model to emulate.

Geth, lord among lords, look upon your sons
Gathered before you here in fine array
Of spider silk and jewels of gold and amber.
Still in the flower of youth, but soon to shed
Their bachelorhood in favour of the bridal bed.
You guide the youth by hand across the ford
Which runs along the river which infuses
The wide-pathed earth with good fertility,
Bringing them to the bounds of manliness,
Complete and perfect in maturity.
You give the youthful Elvenmen of Faida
Their handsome countenance, their lovely faces,
With shoulders broad and arms replete with strength,
Their muscles made in war beside their mentors
And on the proving grounds of sporting contests:
The footrace, ball-throw, bull-jump, archery,
Boxing and wrestling, most beloved by you
Above all other means to hone the body’s tone.
Now look within the city, lord, and see that
The lusty youths of Faida, filled with fire
Of lion-hearted deeds of manliness
And lustful passion, put within their hearts
By your strong hand, Geth lord of Elvenkind,
Are gathering around the sacred tree
Beside the lovely maids of rosy-cheeks
Who play coy in the dance, but seek delight
Beside the side of growing manhood where
One's womanhood belongs in marriage bond.
Geth, look upon such happy revelries,
The joys of blooming manliness, bestowed
Upon the youth of Faida by your hand
With utmost liberal generosity.
Your famous work, the fine delight of life
On good display, as clear as shining day
For all to see with joy within their heart.

One of Geth's key functions as the central god of the Faidan Elves was his overseeing of the growth of boys into adult men. Between these two states lay a category of older adolescents and young men known as lirinnai, who represented a transitional state between boyhood and manhood. A lerinna took part in warfare under the tutelage of a veteran warrior, but he did not possess the full range of responsibilities of a male householder, as he was unmarried and lacked dependents.
In this hymn, which celebrates manhood as a gift bestowed upon the Elves by Geth, a group of lirinnai are on the eve of becoming full adult men and are soon to be married. Their bachelorhood is being put behind them, and they are dressed in fine clothing and jewellery, typical of a wedding. Their physical constitutions are said to be well developed and suitably strong, made tough by the rigors of warfare and sporting competitions, two key aspects of Elven masculinity, as well as by Geth's blessing. Likewise, the passionate energies and reckless bravery of youth are also said to be the creation of Geth, and here are celebrated as productive forces, though forces perhaps soon to be put under the control of maturity through marriage.
Geth is described as a guiding force, helping the young men of Faida navigate the liminal state between youth and adulthood, likened to helping someone ford a river from one side to another. No doubt the increased responsibilities of marriage and family life, which were coupled with great responsibilities to society in general, were a cause of anxiety among some young Elvenmen, and Geth acted as a comforting presence during this transition, as well as a model to emulate.

Geth, lord among lords, look upon your sons
Gathered before you here in fine array
Of spider silk and jewels of gold and amber.
Still in the flower of youth, but soon to shed
Their bachelorhood in favour of the bridal bed.
You guide the youth by hand across the ford
Which runs along the river which infuses
The wide-pathed earth with good fertility,
Bringing them to the bounds of manliness,
Complete and perfect in maturity.
You give the youthful Elvenmen of Faida
Their handsome countenance, their lovely faces,
With shoulders broad and arms replete with strength,
Their muscles made in war beside their mentors
And on the proving grounds of sporting contests:
The footrace, ball-throw, bull-jump, archery,
Boxing and wrestling, most beloved by you
Above all other means to hone the body’s tone.
Now look within the city, lord, and see that
The lusty youths of Faida, filled with fire
Of lion-hearted deeds of manliness
And lustful passion, put within their hearts
By your strong hand, Geth lord of Elvenkind,
Are gathering around the sacred tree
Beside the lovely maids of rosy-cheeks
Who play coy in the dance, but seek delight
Beside the side of growing manhood where
One's womanhood belongs in marriage bond.
Geth, look upon such happy revelries,
The joys of blooming manliness, bestowed
Upon the youth of Faida by your hand
With utmost liberal generosity.
Your famous work, the fine delight of life
On good display, as clear as shining day
For all to see with joy within their heart.

I've already explained why Origins, although my favourite or one of my favourite AC games, is mostly perfect but has a few inaccuracies here along with why an earlier dynasty than the Ptolemies would have been better.
However, assuming Origins stays the same and it's Odyssey and Valhalla I had to change:

• ODYSSEY (option 1) - Take Darius' flashbacks in Persia from Odyssey's 'Legacy of the First Blade' DLC and make that the whole game. You play as Darius in the Achaemenid Empire. Similar in some ways to Origins, you take down a list of targets and eventually kill Xerxes, but then things start to spiral out of control. You try to do the same with the new king Darius II, but the drama with your brother happens (all of this is like we saw in those flashback cutscenes) and although you can't kill this new Persian king, your final target is your brother, which you kill in a scripted sequence in Macedonia with a Spartan mercenary (like how you killed Cesare in Navarre in a scripted sequence in Brotherhood).
  
• ODYSSEY (option 2) - The game is a sequel to Origins and continues Bayek's story. He leaves Egypt, now purged of the Order of Ancients, to fight them elsewhere; his mindset being that going on the offensive is the best way to defend Egypt from this happening again in the future. The map goes from the Roman port city of Antioch in Syria to the Parthian Capital of Ctesiphon (around where Baghdad, Selucia, and Babylon are/were) in Mesopotamia. This gives us the AC1 feel of having two opposing nations to travel between. For one reason or another, you collect several First Civilization artifacts that, similar to Revelations, lets you see (play through) several memories of the assassin Darius from ancient Persia (therefore kind of merging option 1 into option 2). There are also Aya sequences like Origins had, with you occasionally having scripted missions as her in Rome.
  
• VALHALLA (option 1) - Set during the Viking era in mainland western/central Europe, with middle third of the map being the Kingdom of Lotharingia, the western third being West Frankia, and the eastern third being East Frankia. You're part of the intricate diplomacy and warfare between these three successors of Charlemagne as well as deal with Viking raids.
  
• VALHALLA (option 2) - Viking era eastern Europe with the Kievan Rus and their fights against Slavic rebels, (proto)Catholic states to the west, and Scythian + Central Asian nomads to the east, with the big cities being Kiev and Novgorod. With a third, seperate city (like how Norway is seperate from England) being Constantinople, ruled by the Byzantines. Also, some scripted missions raiding into Abassid-controlled North Africa.
  

What would you guys have preferred for the RPG trilogy?

I've seen a lot of posts online about folks complaining about the MGTOW community, and often times rightfully so, but the worse part is that a lot of the time they get them mixed up with the Men's Rights movement, which usually puts a lot of backlash on this community for something other men have done. Why is it that so many people seem to mix the two up? And why don't they just do the research on a topic they're apparently so invested in they feel the need to backlash it, and end up fighting against the wrong group?
I don't wanna seem hateful or anything to anyone or any group at all, I'm just genuinely curious as to why some folks do this. As in, fighting against a movement, but not even doing the research to realize their fighting the wrong one.

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I don't understand this. Nowadays many men say that they run of the idea of getting married and even have children and they get shocked in fear when they even heard the words divorce and child support. However some decades ago men were willing to get married and even remarry and it seems that they had more opportunities for marriage than now.
I am brazilian and here in Brazil divorce got only a legal tool in 1977. My parents met each other for the first time in 1990(my father chased my mom in the hospital where both used to work and she felt unconfortable and my mom asked why the hell he was pursuing her and he told her he wanted to date her).
When my dad saw my mother for the first time in the middle of 1990 he was paying alimony for his ex-wife(he still pay alimony for her - she is over 70 years old now) and he was also paying child support for my older half brothers who were children by the time.
I have heard from older people that it used to be pretty common for men want to remarry after a divorce even with lifelong alimony laws and child support but it seens that nowadays if a guy say that he wants to remarry when he needs to pay alimony and child support and had to left his house people would say that he is crazy or something.
What happened through time to make many young men not want to get married and even be afraid of the idea of marriage? Alimony is rare nowadays.

I am an M21 soldier from Germany and currently not on duty
I started roleplaying last year as a hobby, but unfortunately had to take a break for job reasons. Since I now have time again, I would like to start writing a story again and am looking for a partner who is older than 18
My suggestions would be:

• story set in the Warhammer 40k universe
  
• attack on titan story
  
• Man in the high castle type scenario/with a espionage,diplomacy plot
  
• a WW2 or WW1 story
  
• a Marvel/ Agents of shield story
  

All of these ideas can also contain sol and romance elements of course.
These suggestions should only represent a framework where we can orientate ourselves with our OC and ideas. For example romance elements like (enemys to lovers etc) or sol elements and others can be built into the story aswell. If you have a completely other idea you want to discuss or talk about you can of course also message me and tell me about it!
I haven't finished working out a plot yet (only the men in the high castle plot is worked out) but I would be happy for creative input from my partner, in general I would like us to create the story together from start to finish.
I would then discuss everything else such as boundaries, oc's, plots and additional questions and ideas in the DM's.
By the way, I've had severe sleep problems for years, so I'm often online at night or early in the morning. If you are interested and at least 18 just send me a DM!
And a small rant at the end for those who have read it completely (which should actually be all of you)
is it the case with you too that most of those who respond to your request obviously didn't even read your post?
And a very large proportion of the people you start talking to and plotting with just disappear mid-conversation and ghost you
and then, when you've already planned and built a story together and you're actually already in the middle of the rp, after a few days, out of nowhere, so many people start not answering and then ghost you too.
And I don't understand that, of course it's quite normal that priorities and preferences can change or shift, or that you just don't feel like it anymore for whatever reason.
but where is your Upbringing?! How disrespectful and rude can you be that you act like that too someone who has put a lot of personal life time and free time into the joint project, simply ghosting and abandoning it and him/her like a dog on the street who doesn't know whether its owner will come back again.
Simply disgusting too me, and too all of you out here in this subreddit who just steal the life time off others or simply entertain themselves with ghosting or writing with as many people as possible just because you are bored. I really really hope the karma will get you, and to the others who has experienced similar things, i am sorry for you but you are not alone with it and it’s definitely NOT your fault.
Sorry but this needed to get out lol

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