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Weddings Under 10K

2012.12.04 19:10 danaadaugherty Weddings Under 10K

A subreddit for brides and grooms to plan their dream weddings for less than $10,000!
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2010.06.22 20:33 katiejoh WeddingPlanning

Discuss your personal wedding planning here! Please be sure to check out our rules.
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2018.08.20 23:35 napkin_origami Let's shame those weddings

A place to shame wedding themes, brides, grooms, wedding party, in-laws, outlaws, guests, Uncle Bob, vendors... you name it, we shame it! We are NOT a sub for advice, judgement calls, or to gather opinions on if you want to know if something is shameful.
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2024.05.20 01:18 harper50056 Fake Facebook Account

On my recent post, I mentioned that I had been in a relationship with my married CEO.
Update: We broke up, and I left the company 2 months ago. We have maintained no contact since then. Suddenly, someone created a Facebook account using my name with his last name, and added his family and my friends. He messaged me to ask what was going on, but neither of us has any idea who did this.
What legal actions can I take for this matter here in Qatar?
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2024.05.20 01:18 abeteenorvegese any advice to know if box braids would suit me?

the title is pretty straightforward. i just LOVE how box braids look, and always wanted to get them done, but i'm not sure if they'd look good on me or not... i have short hair and bangs, and a big forehead with a heart shaped hairline (i don't know if it has a name, that's the best way i could describe it 😭) that looks like it's receding in some points since i've had long hair for years and they were always tied in a tight high ponytail. all these things make me wonder if getting box braids would be a good idea or a terrible one-
(since i'm white and i've seen many "cultural appropriation" debates on internet regarding this hairstyle, i want to specify that from my point of view, it's more like "cultural appreciation", i just love how they look, but if you think getting them done would be disrespectful, please let me know: i don't want, by any mean, offend anyone )
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2024.05.20 01:17 MerkadoBarkada PSE suspends PNX, C, and INFRA; Zobels sell remaining MWC holdings; TC24: Introducing MB's Trading Cup 2024 team!; The Trading Cup competition; Meet Matthew, Jenny, and Sef; Good luck team!; Alternergy's first public Q&A (Monday, May 20)

Happy Monday, Barkada --

The PSE lost 10 points to 6619 ▌0.1%

Today is MB's 5th birthday!
I'm not really a big celebrations guy, so I'm not sure how to mark the occasion, except to say that I'm thankful for your continued readership and for the community of great people that has grown up around the newsletter as the days turned into weeks, turned into months, and turned into years.
Want to see something crazy? Here's MB's very first episode.
For those who have been there from the beginning, thank you for guiding MB's development through all of my weird experiments over the years. Your comments, support, and willingness to help always leave me speechless.
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Today is something of a long episode, but I hope you'll indulge me on MB's birthday because I really hope that you'll like the segment about the team of traders that I've sponsored to enter the Trading Cup 2024 competition, and the review of Alternergy's STAR Investor Day presentation.
Hope you like it!

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  • [UPDATE] PNX, C, and INFRA suspended for failure to submit Annual Reports... The PSE issued suspensions to three companies [link] prior to the open of trade on Friday morning for failure to submit FY23 Annual Reports. The three companies suspended are Phoenix Petroleum [PNX 4.17 â–Œ0.2%; 0% avgVol], Chelsea Logistics [C 1.30 â–Č4.0%; 0% avgVol], and Philippine Infradev [INFRA 0.53 â–Č1.9%; 0% avgVol]. AgriNurture [ANI 0.62 â–Č8.8%; 305% avgVol] narrowly avoided suspension by submitting its Annual Report 38 minutes before the PSE’s suspension deadline. The ANI FY23 Annual Report disclosure erroneously reports a net income improvement of 1560% to ₱146 million, instead of a ₱146 million net loss, perhaps this oversight comes from a behind-the-scenes race to submit before the deadline.
    • MB: I’m married to an accountant who did the auditing grind for years, so I know that it’s not easy to put these reports together; they’re complex and knock-ons from problems in any of the subsidiaries can cause problems that ripple up the chain and back down. That being said, producing these annual reports is something of a bare-minimum condition of public corporate life. Every management group rides its accounting department and its auditing team into the dirt to get its quarterly and annual reports out on time. I don’t have any inside knowledge into why PNX, C, and INFRA are in this position, but I listen to the silence from these management groups. Good teams communicate with their minority shareholders in times of uncertainty, and a trading suspension is a time of great uncertainty for retail investors.
  • [NEWS] **Ayala Corp sells remains of its MWC holdings to Enrique Razon for ₱14.5-B... Ayala Corp [AC 620.00 â–Č1.3%; 131% avgVol] [link] disclosed that its subsidiaries, Michigan Holdings and Philwater Holdings, would sell their combined holdings in Manila Water Company [MWC 26.60 â–Œ1.5%; 123% avgVol] to Trident Water Company Holdings (TWC), which is owned by MWC’s current owner, Enrique Razon. The combined value of the two sales to TWC is ₱14.5 billion. The block of shares coming to TWC through Michigan Holdings was already processed and paid-for (~₱12.9 billion), and the remaining ₱1.6 billion worth of shares from Philwater Holdings will be purchased in installments over the next five years. AC confirmed that it will have no post-transaction common share interest in MWC, and that its voting stake will be “nil”.
    • MB: In a weird way, the transfer of ownership and control of MWC from the Zobel Family to the Razon Family is one of the only lasting “achievements” of the Duterte administration. I put “achievements” in quotation marks because it’s not clear how the President’s overreach into the public markets benefitted anyone other than the obvious (MWC’s current owner). As longtime readers of MB will know I have a deep respect for Mr. Razon’s business acumen and operational quality, but I don’t know that MWC customers have necessarily felt any change as a result of this transfer, and I don’t know that minority shareholders have felt any change either. So maybe it was just Mr. Razon in the right place at the right time while Duterte rode the media waves of threatening the Zobels with death and dismemberment? Yeah, it was a weird time.
  • [TC24] Introducing MB’s Trading Cup 2024 team!...Merkado Barkada** is sponsoring a team of three traders to compete in Trading Cup 2024 hosted by Investa, where hundreds of traders will be competing for up to ₱640k in total prizes based on their trading performance with ₱300k in virtual currency across the PSE, US markets, and crypto markets. This is a long competition (it runs from April 22 through July 26), so we will follow the members of Team MB throughout the contest to check in on what’s working, what’s not working, and what it’s like on the front-lines of the country’s largest trading tournament. Let’s meet the team!
    • “Hi I’m Matthew. I’m a project manager in network engineering in the telecommjnications industry and an agency leader in one of the top global brands in insurance. I have been trading since 2016. Though I like momentum trading, I found more success in position trading because it is less volatile since I can only check my open positions during my free time.” Matthew is 37 and lives in Paranaque. Trading experience: PSE (8 years), US (1 year), CRYPTO (1 year).*
    • “Hi I'm Jennelyn. I'm a Civil Engineer by profession in a government organization. I started trading back in 2020 for a year. I was reckless back then, but I've learned a lot, I'd say. I stopped trading in 2021 to focus on my career and I shifted my trading journey to learning first. Now with the Trading Cup I've found another motivation to push through. I tried day trading, and it was really frustrating and draining, so this time I'm doing swing trading through price action and volume.
    • “My name is Sef. I'm currently in college studying Management. I've been mostly self-taught but over the years I took a lot of learnings from other people. I've tried a lot of strategies but most of the time I'm a swing trader. So, I try to look for strong catalysts and take positions within times of consolidations. My implementation of it during the competition hasn't been perfect, partly due to finals week. But I trust in the process. I've been trading in the PSE for 5 years now. I only started trading the US markets and Crypto, recently. I think my current performance in the competition is reflective of my experience within the three markets. [PSE: +17.4%, CRYPTO: +4.2%, US: -11.5%]. We still have a few months to go and it's still anyone's game. A lot of the top leaderboard right now is primarily driven by 1 or 2 positions that no one saw coming, I think you can guess which stocks I'm referring to.
      • MB: Welcome to the team, Matthew, Jenny, and Sef! My goal in founding Team MB is to give readers a little insight into the thought processes behind the winning and losing trades of each team member. We have a diverse group across age, background, experience, and trading style, so I think we’ll get some interesting perspectives on the markets as the weeks go by before the July 26 finale. The team members will get to keep 100% of any prizes that they win, along with a monthly stipend from Merkado Barkada for all the coffee/snacks needed to keep focus on all three markets simultaneously. Good luck, team!
  • [NEWS] Alternergy conducts first public Q&A since IPO... Alternergy [ALTER 0.70 â–Č1.4%; 159% avgVol] presented its Q1 results on Wednesday as part of the PSE’s STAR Investor Day event, and MB was there to document its first public Q&A with institutional and retail investors since its IPO over a year ago. For me, the most interesting component of any STAR presentation is the Q&A, because it’s where we get the chance to hear the management team talk outside of the the cold forensics of the financial statements to address the hope, fear, optimism, and pessisim of the average investor.
    • On enhancing shareholder value: The ALTER team said that it’s focus is on controlling what it can control, and that as a developer, it does everything that it can to complete projects “within the timeline and committed budget”, increase its pipeline, and build good relationships with stakeholders.
    • On its growth strategy: ALTER said that its “DNA is a developer”, and therefore its “preference is brownfield development” as opposed to acquisitions. (MB note: “Brownfield” means development on land that has been previously used for some other purpose. “Greenfield” would be development on untouched land.) The management team said that it is open to being “opportunistic” with acquisitions, but that its overall focus is on “looking for projects from the ground and building them toward completion.”
    • On outlook of renewables market: “The power industry is really at the point where there is a sustained pressure towards a price increase.” The ALTER team said that there’s a shortage of power supply, and what existing supply there is will come under pressure as power plants age or weather phenomena disrupt operations. ALTER said that it’s strategy is to simply grow its portfolio into this market gap, especially over the next two years.
    • On wind vs solar: The ALTER team was asked whether it was intentional to be “more exposed to wind rather than solar”, and ALTER responded by saying that while both wind and solar are scalable, they “like wind” because it generates more electricity per installed capacity. As the ALTER team put it: “For instance, if we build a 50 MW solar, you’ll only need a 25 MW wind project to match the amount of energy that we will be generating.” ALTER said that wind is also less intensive in terms of land use to generate the same amount of energy, and that its analysis shows that wind projects generate more cash flow than solar projects.
    • On starting to distribute dividends: *One question asked when ALTER would start paying dividends, and the ALTER team responded (after a laugh) that it’s “all about resource allocation”. ALTER said that at this stage, it’s a growth company, and that it would like to use its resources to build a “sizeable portfolio over the medium term” with the goal of “increasing shareholder value.” ALTER said that once it has achieved that goal, “dividend payments would not be far behind.
      • MB:Kudos to any management team that takes questions from the public. It’s not easy to be this communicative and transparent, but as a long-term investor, this kind of insight into the management team’s thinking and analysis of their own data and the market as a whole is important. If your trading style is technical, ALTER’s analysis of wind versus solar isn’t going to matter to you at all, but if your thesis is based on bets in the power generation sector, that response might trigger some research that could be helpful. Overall I’d say that the ALTER team did very well. It was clear that they were nervous, but over time I’m sure the team will become more comfortable with answering the questions and interacting with the investing community in such a person-to-person way. Well done, ALTER!
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2024.05.20 01:16 Mysterious-Doubt8653 Successful communication?

So basically I have been talking to a friend of mine who also has osdd but like a fully formed way of communication and they’ve been helping me, as well as another friend of mine, to communicate with the others ℱ, and I think it worked! So context: I have been seeing silhouettes and feeling the presence of someone else for a while (mostly only when I’m isolated, in a dark room, and or focusing on it) but they would pass through me/not notice I was there. So yesterday, with the help of the second mentioned friend and a lot of trial and error, it finally happened: I got a clear image of what he looks like and a semi-distict impression of his name (like at first I thought it was Zeus but now I keep hearing(?) mightus). I immediately found reference images/tried to draw him (out of excitement and recommendation from the osdd friend). I didn’t try to do anything else (mostly out of fear of seeing more weird thing/backtracking) but yay? Am I taking a step in the right direction? I am also unreasonably scared posting this cause I don’t want hate/to be told I’m doing it wrong so please be nice. But over all, I’m kinda feeling good about it.
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2024.05.20 01:14 snoozyd00zy I woke up on a table and can’t remember my name


I woke up on a big brown table with chairs surrounding it in a windowless room. I slowly open my eyes and start looking around, when i become fully aware, i move off the table and collapse on the ground due to my numb legs. I get up after a minute and attempt to leave through the door which is locked.
“Hello there New comer!” says the anonymous voice echoing the room. I startle and crash my hands and back onto the wall next to me.
“Hello!? Who is that!? Get me out of here!” I scream but no response.
“I have 5 questions i would like to ask you, if you don’t mind answering them you’ll be let out in a jiffy!”
I attempt to break open the door but i ultimately fail and collapse to the ground.
“Fine, what are the questions.” I ask out of breath and frustrated
“Ok! First, What is your name?” The anonymous voice says
I sit there on the floor scoffing at the stupid question.
“My name? My name is-“
I pause. My memory is faint and as hard as i can i cannot fathom a name that i can call mine.
“Wha- What??” i whisper to myself trying to remember my name.
“What the hell did you do to me? I don’t know my name!! What did you do!?” I yell to the voice
“Ok, so that’s an unknown. Next question what st-“
“what is my name get me the fuck out of here!” I yell distressing trying to find a way out of the room.
“What state were you born in?”
I put my hands to my head shutting my eyes trying to remember but fail.
“I- I don’t know!! What the fuck did you do to me get me out!!” I yell desperately to the voice speaking from above. “Who are you?? What did you do to me??”
“Question three, Are you able to name any U.S state?”
“What? If i can’t name the one i was born in how am i supposed to name any?” I desperately say while commencing to sob.
“Please attempt to name a state.” The voice says condescending.
“Uhm i don’t know?? Uhm
 Florida!! That’s a state right?? Is that the state i was born in?”
“Florida. Question four, what is or was the color of your mothers eyes?”
i start to sob on the floor not knowing the color of my own mothers eyes. I can’t even remember my mothers name or what she looks like. I signal with my shoulders that i don’t know and continue to sob
“Ok unknown, final question, please name one fun fact about yourself.”
“Fun fact? A fun fact about me is that if you don’t let me out of here i’m going to fucking kill you!!!” I yell as i grab a chair and throw it against the door.
“Please attempt to name a fun fact. If you do not know please say unknown”
“Unknown i don’t know!! Is it over let me out!” The door bolts open to a man in a suit standing at it. I jump and fall to the floor scared for my life.
“Good job newcomer! You passed! I’m sure you have a lot of questions if you wouldn’t mind sitting here i’ll explain everything to you!” The man says
I get up and sit in the chair facing the man keeping him far enough away from me.
“Am I dead? Did you grow me in a lab? Are you going to kill me
?” I say quietly and desperately
“Excuse me? Oh God no of course not, you thought we just grew a human and put you in a tie and everything? Haha that’s a good one” The man starts flipping though some papers and starts reading from a script
“So, your name is Luke M! I’m sure you’ve been itching to know that. My name is Daniel S. You have been hired to work for Barrett industries and have underwent the procedure splitting your work and personal life memories. This is called the work-life balance and is our main core principle so you aren’t stressed about things happening in your personal life at work, and work things in your personal life!” Daniel looks at me with a smile on his face waiting for my response.
“What
” i sit there staring at him attempting to process this. “Wait. Wait. So i’m stuck here? if i will never remember anything from my personal life that means i’m.. stuck here??”
(inspired by show: Severance)
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2024.05.20 01:14 cgstories The Sleepover (part 1& 2)

I got an invitation in the mail in a pretty purple envelope covered with flowers and shiny plastic gems. It was for a girls-only sleepover, something I'd never done before. At first, I was really excited, but then I saw that it was from Jane and Mary Bardell.
The twin girls were in my 7th-grade class. They were really quiet and rarely talked. Even though they didn't say much, you could still feel they were there. I remember sitting in front of them one day and feeling their quiet energy behind me.
The back of my neck started to tingle and feel hot. When I looked back, I saw Jane staring at me. Her deep-set dark eyes looked hungry, like she hadn't eaten in days and I was the meat dangling in front of her face. Mary also looked at me, and when she smiled, it almost seemed like she had fangs.
When they did talk, always in perfect unison, they sounded flat and without any emotion. But their serious looks and voices made me feel uncomfortable, and the room felt heavy. Luckily, they usually sat in silence at the back of the class.
One day, they just didn't come to school anymore and stayed home. Maybe their parents decided to school them at home. They lived across the street from me in a neat two-story brownstone house. Their lawn was well-maintained and protected by a sturdy five-foot iron fence.
The curtains in their house were kept closed tight. No light ever came out, even at night. But sometimes, on the second floor, a curtain would move, and I'd see the twins' pale faces looking out. We'd lock eyes for a moment before the curtain closed again.
After they stopped coming to school, some kids from our class started to go missing. First, it was Eddie, who vanished on his way home. Then Katy disappeared the same way. Both of them had walked past Jane and Mary's house before they went missing.
For some reason, I just had a feeling deep down that the twins had something to do with the disappearances. I even wondered if they were really human. Maybe they were vampires. Oh, yes, they were definitely vampires! It all made sense.
"You're going," my mom insisted at dinner when I told her I didn't want to go to the sleepover. I didn't see the point since I could sleep in my own bed. Why stay at someone else's house when I lived just across the street?
I groaned. "I don't want to go. They're so fucking weird.”
"Watch your language!" Both my parents warned me, giving me a serious look.
“It’s been difficult for that family,” Dad said, “The girls had to be pulled out of school because of an illness.”
“What kind of illness?”
“Their parents didn’t say what it was, but they said the girls would like to have friends.”
“Oh, those poor girls,” Mom sighed. “They just want to have a nice and normal sleepover party.”
I shook my head. “I don’t want to go.”
“You’re going.”
And that was that.
I wasn't hungry anymore and left my dinner unfinished. I headed straight to my room and glanced out the window. I saw their pale faces peeking through the curtain in their second-floor bedroom. I closed the blinds and turned off the light. There was no way I was going to their house without something to keep me safe.
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“Your house is really nice,” I remarked, placing my sleeping bag and pillow on the floor. I kept my backpack close, making sure the crucifix I borrowed from my parents was safely tucked inside one of its pockets. I really hope my mom doesn't realize it's missing.
I was the only one who had arrived at the Bardell’s house so far. Mrs. Bardell opened the door and greeted me with a big, never-ending smile that looked like it was permanently glued to her face. Her teeth showed through the wide grin, and her lips were covered in a thick layer of red lipstick.
“That's really nice of you," she responded with a smile. “I can see why you get along with my girls.”
Mary and Jane, seated across from me, both nodded and chimed in together, “Yes, she's great, Mom. We're happy we invited her.”
“So, when are the others getting here?” I asked.
“What others?” Mrs. Bardell appeared puzzled.
“Tammy and Harriette. They said you invited them too, and they promised they'd come.”
“Oh, they're not coming anymore. They called just before you arrived to let us know,” Mrs. Bardell explained. Her big, dark eyes moved between me and the twins. “Okay girls, just sit tight for a bit. Dinner will be ready soon.” Then she went into the kitchen.
Fantastic! Just fantastic! Some friends they are. Traitors!
“They didn't tell me
” I mumbled quietly, feeling betrayed. I quickly checked my phone and texted Tammy: So you're just not gonna show up?
The message was stuck on “sending
”
“Don't worry about it,” the twins reassured me. “We'll still have a great time tonight!”
Their idea of a good time was putting on a skit they had practiced the last few days. The twins disappeared upstairs, only to return dressed in their costumes. Mary had on a gray hoodie that I thought I'd seen before, and I noticed a dark crusty-looking red spot on the sleeve. Jane sported a baseball uniform. Mr. Bardell, wearing a smile like his wife, joined in the fun. He was down on all fours, wearing a dog mask that looked surprisingly lifelike.
I sat still on the sofa, feeling completely weirded out.
As Mary ambled around the living room, her hood shielding her face and her hands tucked in her pockets, Jane and Mr. Bardell engaged in a game of frisbee. Mr. Bardell crawled around like a playful pup, zooming across the room and even leaping over the couch. Quickly, I crouched down to avoid getting hit. He then sprang to his feet, his arms bent like a dog's, proudly holding the frisbee in his mouth.
Mary stopped and glanced back. “Cool dog,” she said.
“Thanks,” Jane said, mimicking a man’s low pitch. “What’s your name, son?”
“Eddie.”
My stomach sank. That was the name of our missing classmate.
“Would you like to play with him?” Jane continued.
“I should really get home, my mom–” said Mary.
“One throw won't hurt, would it?”
“I guess not.”
Jane grabbed the frisbee out of her dad's mouth and passed it to Mary. The frisbee soared into the dining room and plopped right onto a plate sitting on the table.
“Oh! It flew into my house,” said Jane.
“I'm sorry!” Mary said.
“That's okay, my daughters are getting a kick out of watching us.” Jane pointed up. “Do you see them over there? Second floor, window to the right.”
Mary waved.
“They told me you're a friend of theirs.”
“Not exactly friends
 I mean, we went to the same school. I haven't seen them around in a while though.”
“Why don't you come inside and say hi?”
Before Mary could answer, Mrs. Bardell popped out of the kitchen, saying dinner was served. All eyes turned to me, waiting for me to make the first move.
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2024.05.20 01:14 bunnypandora2016 Is this man interested in me?

Hey everyone
I’m new here. So, please do forgive me if I’ve not posted in the right place but there’s a man in my life who I barely know (professional relationship) and when he had a student do a placement who was absolutely awful to me and I mean I genuinely suspect she’s a sociopath and I don’t say that lightly, in front of me he didn’t say a thing apart from trying to calm me down. However, the moment I left the room he went absolutely ape sh!t on her and when I say that I mean he absolutely tore her to shreds verbally and reported her for everything ie I’ve never seen him like this and he doesn’t know that I heard him defending my name etc and referring to me as ‘she’s soooo nice’, ‘she’s very nice’, ‘she’s very shy and unique’ etc which was lovely to hear but I won’t even repeat what he said to the female student because it was absolutely awful ie he was really putting her down over how she treated me and he told her if I went home and hurt myself (I’ve never given of those vibes) then it would be her fault and how he was going to report her and how she wasn’t going to get away with it and how he was going to make sure everyone knew what she had done. Is this normal for men to be this protective of shy women? And if a man defends you when he believes your not around rather than in front of you (I believe he was trying to stay professional in front of me) does that mean they also have feelings for you? This man also knew that I have autism (aspergers syndrome) after only knowing him for five days, yet everyone else in my life never knew until a good few years later, so I’m wondering if he’s been watching me closely to have known that as he stated to someone that he suspected it for a long time yet I’ve only known him five days?
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2024.05.20 01:14 AlphaBladeYiII [LES] It's hard letting go of a story or a universe that you used to love.

I'm going to go ahead and say it. I've grown bitter. And I don't know if it's me or the worlds I love.
For example, I became a Star Wars fan when I was 19 in 2016. Since then I've engaged with every aspect of the franchise: films, TV, Comics, books, games....you name it. I've found many, many stories in both the original EU and the New Canon to love. And one thing I noticed is that Star Wars as a franchise had its ebbs and flows over the years.
The Franchise kinda fizzled by the end of the 80s, but then the EU somewhat revived it in the 90s among die hard fans. Then the Prequels came along, and while they were highly divisive and criticized, there's no denying their financial success and cultural impact as they largely revived the Franchise among the general audience. Many kids were introduced to the saga through them, and they inspired a whole new wave of content for the Expanded Universe like the Clone Wars Multimedia Project.
And then The Clone Wars show came along. It wasn't initially well-received, but then became popular as it got better. However, many would say that the franchise wasn't in a good place by the time the sale came in. There were no movies, TCW wasn't exactly profitable and we were getting the Denningverse for post-RotJ books, a period that remains highly divisive. Stuff like Brian Wood's 2013 Star Wars comic also didn't help.
Then the Disney era came. And I personally divide it into two periods:
Then The Mandalorian came along and it felt great. It wasn't super deep or well-written, but it was fun and new and interesting and exciting. It was a low-stakes, bold new story in an era we were interested in. And it was nice to have the fandom united in liking it after the bitter discourse around the sequels.
2020 was pretty much the last decent year in my book. The comics relaunched to explore the post-TESB era, and the initial arcs were promising. The final season of TCW was mostly good, although a little disappointing. And Mando S2 was nice, with an amazing hype ending, although the cracks were starting to show as the series began connecting to other parts of the franchise.
The ebb from (2020-now): To me, this is an era marked by aggressive mediocrity. No films were made. Shows like *Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian S3 and Ahsoka....missed the mark for me and made me lose interest in the 'mandoverse' for a variety of reasons. I disliked Obi-Wan Kenobi overall. The Bad Batch was a good kids show, and a decent Star Wars story, but a step down from Rebels/late TCW in my book. The Tales of the Jedi/Empire were mildly entertaining nothing burgers for the most part, as they didn't have the room to tell stories and often ended up being too ambitious for their own good.
Even the comics took a sharp nosedive and became borderline unreadable for the most part thanks to MARVEL's milking and Charles Soule's mediocrity. And the books? Most of them were dedicated to The High Republic, an era that doesn't interest me because I don't care for any of the authors working on it. Andor was petty much the one bright light as a very good show that is probably the best of Star Wars live-action TV.
Looking to the upcoming slate, I'm shocked Andor season 2 is literally the only thing I'm interested in at the moment, and I certainly have no interest in The Acolyte or Rey's film or anything else. I've frankly grown bitter towards modern Lucasfilm. The post-RotJ era is poisoned because it leads to the sequels. The original heroes are generally neglected in every way that matters in new canon because Lucasfilm doesn't know what to do with them. Even The Mandoverse no longer interests me after mediocre entries.
Another example is The MCU, which I started watching in 2017. For a while, it was touted as everything Star Wars should've been. And like many, I felt that things went downhill after Endgame. I enjoyed many projects in phases 4/5 to various levels, mind you, and some I even thought were great. but there have been some entires that I actively disliked with intensity, while the Infinity Saga was meh at its weakest projects for me. Overall, It feels like there's little direction at the moment. And with my favorite heroes either gone or saddled with terrible sequels, I found myself losing interest in that verse as well. Spider-Man 4 and Daredevil: Born Again are pretty much the only projects I'm interested in at the moment.
Even in the comics, I realized that Spider-Man comics became a source of bitterness to me because of the post-OMD period. BND/Slott weren't for me because it was a direction I fundamentally resented. Spencer's run brought me back with a ray of hope, but it kept getting worse and the ending was terrible. Beyond was mediocre, and then....I don't really need to talk about the Wells run.
I realized that I need to probably let go of my favorite hero for good. Because the editorial is fundamentally against what I love about him. Even if the next run was serviceable, we'll probably get another Wells after it. Because these people thrive on rage bait and antagonizing a sizable portion of their audience.
Add all the horrible discourse online, where simply saying you're not interested in something can get stans to attack you, and I've grown beyond bitter. I realize that what used to bring me joy, no longer does. And it hurts.
Sorry for the "Dear Diary-esque" rant. I guess I needed to vent for some reason.
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2024.05.20 01:13 wellhellohno i'm completely sold on ilomilo theory

i mean it's easy to fall under conspiracy theories but after looking through a million posts on ig and twitter im convinced this is a very intentional passive promo campaign and they know exactly what they're doing. finneas playing ilomilo in march? just because?? spotify suggesting ilomilo after you finish the hmhas?? that one billie's friend that posted a screenshot of the album with ilomilo playing instead of the hmhas?? number 5710 in lunch video (july 5th, 10 songs)?? are we supposed to believe it's just random?
but my last straw before writing this post was this screenshot.
firstly, with the "when can i hear the next one" line i personally don't buy an argument of it being a nod towards desperate fans because imo this is just too sassy for a song like BLUE and such carefully crafted album. wasting last words of the album on a diss?
also, it's been 3 years since HTE. as a fan i'll gladly take anything she puts out but what was the conversation like with the label? knowing from documentary how much pressure they're usually under? "you give us 3 years and we'll give you 10 songs"? i can hardly believe they'd be okay with that.
i'm 99,9% sure this was the HIT ME SOFT (blue) part (and oh my was it incredible), and the next one in july will be the HARD (red).
anyway, what do you think? maybe someone changed their mind on this in the last couple of days?
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2024.05.20 01:12 Black-kage I really hope Oda emphisize in the religional aspect of Celestial Dragons lore

One of the things that bugs me about One Piece is that majority of their villains are just evil and they know that. Unlike Naruto whose majority of rogue gallery was trying to change their world for good.
Final Saga in particular is different. We see that World Goverment named the Shichibukai's clones as "seraphims", the celestial dragons claim to be gods, the Celestial Dragons were pissed at God Valley's people because their island named implies blasfemy alll the christian aesthetic that is around of Kuma and know the faith Giants, bucaneers and Skypeans have on Sun God.
In case of Celestial Dragons it could be different. What if the original 20 indeed shaped One Piece world as we know (placing the crazy amount of water, creating the redline, the calm belts and setting the weird magnetic stuff of the islands) but also what if they set clones in the non-sinked places but didnt have the technology to program them like Seraphim?. Reason of why the World Goverment is the way it is. It would improve greatly the Celestial Dragons because they see humans as mere cattle. And their cartoonish evil would be justified because they are indeed the gods of One Piece world.
But whats about marines. There are hints that marines could split. A good example is the Dragon-Akainu relationship set up as well SWORD. But I think that in order to make that set up work it should be emphisized the divine/religion aspect of Celestial Dragons. Why do some marines stick with Celestial Dragons? Because they fund marines? Marines could funded by tax payers. Keeping the overall WG estructure without Celestial Dragons. So why would they root for Celestial Dragons? The answer could be religion.
We already saw this with Lucci and Greenbull. They root with Celestial Dragons because they believe they are the gods of the world. We saw that low ranked marines said Saturn "holy form" rather than see Saturn devil form as something evil.
In the same way. Joyboy, the sun god Nika was the first pirate in the world. The problem is that majority of pirates seem to be rapists and thieves rather than adventurers.
Imagine being a person in One Piece world and having to choose between slavers who are the gods shaped the world and the a god who was indeed the first criminal in history but advocates the freedom of people.
I know many of things in this posts are theories and assumptions but if Oda really emphisize in the religional aspect of Celestial Dragons lore he could improve them as villains and make hyphotetical marine civil war deeper. He could pull the best antagonists out of the Big Three. Out of the traditional shonen.
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2024.05.20 01:12 SomRandomOtaku What is up with GLITCH and their hatred towards important background/side characters?

Okay... I'm not good at this, but listen to me real quick, okay?
Tessa was an important side character in episode 5 and was promised to be important in episode 4, right? We had a lot of small details to pay attention to, eg., how Tessa rubs her arm because her parents chain her up, or how there are children's toys alongside academic things like books and diagrams inside Tessa's room. By the looks of it, she grew up becoming a technician in JCJenson's before Cyn killed her and used her as a skin suit. Although it was teased in episode 6 because she couldn't pass the human verification system and how the program of the Sentinels went haywire when they were looking at her, it feels weirdly undeserved for her to die. She was basically, and probably, the ONLY human that cares about robots (or Drones in this case), actively going to the junkyard/scrapyard to fix a Drone, dress them up, and let them have their own personalities. And Cyn killed her and wore her skin like a suit. Cyn killed and wore the skin of someone who's basically the mother in her life.
Doll was the evil version of Uzi. Like Shadow and Sonic, Doll is the edgy version of Uzi (I know that I said the same meaning twice, but this is kinda my first time). Doll had both of her parents killed (given the information we have, V most likely killed her parents, but this plot wasn't brought up after episode 3), so she didn't have anyone to take care of her and had to take care of herself. She was kind of a mixed bag since GLITCH had no idea how to make an evil version of an emo girl, and went like "Fuck it, we ball" and made so many plots and subplots surrounding her that it rivals the Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's scrapped plots. I liked the fact that we could see what Uzi might've done if Khan had also been killed alongside (until episode 7 revealed the crab version) Nori. I was hyped to see something like "Main protagonist but evil but also kinda good" in my favorite show, only to be later killed off-screen in episode 7, and since her core was eaten by Cyn, there's no way GLITCH is going to bring her back.
And Uzi's dead classmates. We could've seen how they could interact with each other, and some characters even looked interesting enough to have 5 minutes of screen time in the entire show, like Rebecca (Final Girl) is wearing a T-shirt instead of a crop top, the usual kind of shirt for female Worker Drones. Or how there was one Drone using magnets to get high. Or how there was a Drone that looks like he goes "dress to impress" is a total coward. Tiny details you'd only do to characters you'd make for an episode and rarely in the season. Do you know what GLITCH does? They use Uzi's classmates as canon fodder to show that she went insane by the Absolute Solver's influence, only to be snapped out by N, leaving Thad and Lizzy to survive the Cabin Fever massacre.
I know that you have to kill off a few characters to keep the plot flowing or some shit, but holy hell, does GLITCH cranks it to 11! They give names to side characters before killing them, make Doll have too much about her that they had to kill her, scrapped Tessa as a character and replace her with a skin suit that probably won't be worn in episode 8, and a majority of the death and destruction inside Murder Drones is used for SHITS AND GIGGLES! V's sacrifice is somewhat understandable since that's what she believed was necessary, but everything before and after that is completely bogus.
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2024.05.20 01:11 User47372946 Drake Delusions

Kendrick mods deleted my post, so im posting here😮
Drake is overly praised by so many and it’s one of the most illogical things in music.
He deserves the some of the praise tho, the albums until 2015 were at least good and he has stayed really popular while many others rappers have fallen off.
But after 2015 his albums have gotten repetitive, boring & lazy. On every album theres a couple songs with a certain flow i feel like Ive heard on the previous albums like 50 times.
And his topics are so repetitive, its either how he has more money than you, how he’s better than you, something about girls that has been said for so many times or it is just the most generic shit.
+Drake fans saying he did something new on Honestly Nevermind are crazy, there is nothing new there, he just rapped lazy on some house beats, there is no creativity from him, he didn’t actually create anything new
Look at Kanye or Kendrick how there’s distinct differences on most projects and they created something new, they didn’t just copy a style
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2024.05.20 01:10 Ok_Fruit4687 Non-traditional last name change

Hi! My fiancé and I are wanting to make his current middle name our new family last name. For many reasons but mostly we just love his middle name and see that for our family name.
Does anyone know if this has been done before? Can we just both change our names on the wedding certificate? Or do we have to do it in the courts beforehand? We’re in Minnesota.
For context he wants to swap his middle and last name and then I’d just take his new last name (his current middle name)
Sorry if that’s confusing! Thanks I’m advance for your advice!
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2024.05.20 01:08 lonely_hotgirl How would you ladies handle this situation?

How would you ladies handle this situation?
It took everything in me not to be petty and bitchy about this. Like ew! You just mass send girls your # that you don’t bother remembering who you’re sending it to. And then you proceed to act like a total fool?! Tf out of here!
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2024.05.20 01:07 mashal-63009 Alevel Combination Thread

So creating this thread to help out the MANY MANY MANY confused people out there about what a level combo to take after their Olevels/IGCSE/GCSE's
Heres how it's going to work:

You know your subjects :

EXAMPLE:
u/mashal-63009 Bio, Phys, Chem Medical Pakistan USA + Harvard Year 10 Thinking of taking GP as an add on
ALEVEL AND UNI STUDENTS REPLY: tell them whether this is a good combo, what else they should/should not take, and give any advice on their choice of uni in relation to alevel subjects!

You dont know your subjects:

EXAMPLE:
u/mashal-63009 Law A2 5 A's and 2 B's in olevels awaiting results for AS Canada UK + Oxbridge interested in criminal law mainly. also super EC's in sports, namely basketball. UK national. (further 2-3 lines about your intrests, future ideas, etc.)
ALEVEL AND UNI STUDENTS REPLY: tell them what they should take and why! also any other advice they'd recommend regarding uni choice in relation to alevel subjects+extra details!
Best of Luck everyone! stay polite<3 (best if the alevel+uni students mention their grades/uni for further help)
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2024.05.20 01:07 DravenDravenDraven22 [23/M] Europe - Looking for my someone 😊

Hey there! I am a 23 year old guy, and im looking for my special someone.
I am 190cm(6'3) tall, I have short black hair, hazel eyes. My hobbies are driving, working on my car, going to the gym, play video games, listen to music and watch YouTube videos, and also play with my dog too :D I go to university to be an IT Engineer and also work part time aswell.
I am a very cuddly person, very loyal, honest, and I like giving all of my attention to the person who's important for me. If we'd get closer, I'd love to spend all my freetime with you and chat/voice call a lot, and hopefully develop a long lasting relationship, and hopefully it'll turn to irl in the future.
I'm looking for a girl who's also cuddly, clingy, kind, sweet, and who'd also be a good Passenger Princess 😋
If you'd be interested in chatting and getting to know each other, send me a message :)
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2024.05.20 01:07 arizonamoonshine Another GWAV post deleted, this time on r/pennystocks

Seeing some confusion and wanted to clear it up. The call is at 4:30pm:
https://stocktwits.com/OTC_EMPRESS/message/573397920
For those that don’t know the bullish case:
The MC based on the current stock price is approx $23M at $0.1329/share
The value of the company for 2024 factoring in assets and projected income is around $70M+. Assets alone are $40M+.
None of that factors in changing market conditions that are growing increasingly bullish for American steel - namely the Biden Steel Tariffs on a national level, and the Intel factory in Ohio that is under construction for the next 5-7 years, on a local level. GWAV has a location in Cleveland.
The new shredder that’s been delayed for the past 2 years appears to be operational now or will be operational this month. But we will wait to hear the official word. It was slated to go online April 9th. The last update on it was that they were ahead of schedule on the power hookup.
Last, a similiar but larger company Baltimore Scrap Corp. was acquired in Dec. for $177M. That company had more, but less advanced shredder machines. And they did not employ the use of AI or copper extraction and sold during different conditions.
TL;DR - There is no way this is a $23M company and I’m grabbing cheapies at open 🌊
Good Luck!
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2024.05.20 01:06 HumblePomegranate408 Looking for a roommate

Hi, I’m starting at Pitt this fall and looking for a roommate/ friends. Some stuff about me: - I’m from Tennessee - Pronouns are she/her - I’m majoring in psychology and planning on grad school - I like most movies, anything from cheesy romcoms like “Valentine’s Day” to dramas like “Alice, Darling” - Being pretty introverted, I like going out, but I also like my recharging time. When I go out with friends, I like eating out, going to the park, and going to the mall - I like reading. Some of my favorite books are “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” “I’m Glad my Mom Died,” and most of John Green’s books - I also like a good TV binge. Some shows I like are “Friends,” “The Walking Dead” (up until Glenn dies), and “Arcane”👌 - As for my other hobbies, I like drawing and playing guitar (I’m okay 😅) - Music wise, I like most genres ( I’d say heavy metal is the only one I don’t like) The artists I’m listening to the most right now are probably NF, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, and Taylor Swift, with TS being my favorite (even though my friends tease me about it) - As for my name, I’m a little paranoid and would prefer to give that to someone I’ve talked to more
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2024.05.20 01:05 dayeonwangja I (18F) confessed to my friend (18M) that i like him, he rejected me but still wishes that we stay close to each other just like before.

So I have this guy friend of mine for over a year now, I want to ask for insights and advice that would help me decide what to do next.
So when I went to another school for senior high, I met this guy, I really didn't pay any attention to him during my first few weeks at school, he's my classmate btw but I don't even know his name until a month after for a group activity, he's really good at socializing with people, maybe because he had a humorous personality, he's often loud when he's with his friends, i bet he's an extrovert, he's the type of person that would get along well with both guys and girls. I just observed my classmates during those times, I'm new to the school, and I'm bad at socializing, but can also easily blend in with people once I get to a conversation with them. Moving forward, after a few months, I got close to his circle due to our similarities with each other, they play mobile games and I often play with them during our free time after class, so basically it's like I became a part of their circle but not really, in my opinion I'm nothing more than a classmate they get along well with, but that's not the case with this guy, he's not my type at all but I find him cute because I kind of see him like my little brother, when I got quite close to him, I often sit with them at the back of our class, I talk with his circle and shares laughter with their jokes, his circle consists of 4 guys and 4 girls, 3 of the guys has their own girlfriend, including him, when i knew about it i really didn't care, i couldn't care less about it because i'm not interested at him at all, i don't see him anything more than someone who resembles a little brother, he's not young, there's like 8 months gap between our age, the same cycle continued for like 2 months, i laugh with them like normal classmates socializing with each other.
A few months later, he and his girlfriend broke up, i didn't know anything about it and got the news while they were making jokes about it while at the same time comforting him, it was like already a week after their breakup during that time and I was like "oh, really, sad to hear" then continued blending in with them like before, then that's where we unexpectedly got closer to each other, a little closer than before, not a single motive or intentions involved, everything just happened naturally, the two of us often play together, shares jokes and food. Fast forward, I kind of developed a liking to him, removing that little brother image of him.
And now after 2 months, I confessed everything to him, that i like him, and everything between, but expectedly, he rejected me, with the reason "i don't feel anything for you, because i thought you didn't like me." and included that he feels that even if he tells me that 'he does' like me, he feels like we would not last long because I still don't know him well, and he thinks that he's not the best fit for someone like me because he's 'seloso' raw when it comes to love, and thinks that i wouldn't like someone like that, especially with someone like me that has multiple guy friends (not really friends but i get along well with them), he also said that he doesn't want to get hurt again because of that (he and his gf broke up because of another guy na pinagseselosan n'ya dati), so according to him, even if it's selfish of him, it's better off for both of us the be bff's and hoped that after what happened between us, nothing changes, him and I will stay close like before. He then clarified afterwards that he does feel something for me, but doesn't want to get into a relationship with me because of that reason (the seloso reason), and he's rejecting me in terms of having a relationship with each other. We got closer after what happened, I mean he got more talkative than before, he also invites me to watch movies together too, that got me even more confused.
I clearly know that I only wanted to give him a proper confession (I don't want to keep my feelings to myself that's why I told him), I'm not ready to enter any relationships right now (he knew abt that and exactly said "ayaw mo rin naman diba pumasok sa rs? edi wala ka nawala, wala ka rin na gain so neutral lang?"), but still, I don't know what to do, should I keep our friendship going and suffer like this and hope that in the future, he'll finally consider being in a relationship with me once we're both ready, or stop everything for good and lose everything including our friendship? Does he really like me the same way I do or he just sugar-coated his rejection?
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2024.05.20 01:05 IseKai_MC Origami above (almost) everyone - DAL vol 10 cover + some illustrations

Origami above (almost) everyone - DAL vol 10 cover + some illustrations
Hello guys, since I read Date a Live, I realized that the novel has a certain quality that even more popular and cult novels do not have and that seems to go unnoticed by the fandom, the covers. Yes, the covers are spectacular and break away from the standard of most LNs, there is not just fanservice, there is not just a character striking a cool pose, we actually have covers with a certain visual narrative, whether a connection with the highlighted spirit itself or with the story itself and I will be pleased to show this to you, here are the rules:
  • Due to the oriental reading sense being left -> right of the page, the details will be presented respecting this sense.
  • A picture is worth a thousand words, and DAL is a novel so the images are even more valuable, the idea here is to analyze the covers and relevant illustrations to understand hints, references, foreshadowing, and contexts.
  • Pure fanservice images will not be taken into consideration (at least most of them). No, I’m not the type of otaku who says things like: “fanservice is unnecessary, objectification of women, too gratuitous and empty, it only serves to “excite the viewer””, the last one is even plausible and I understand those who think like this, but all the others are nothing more than cheap demagoguery. They will not be taken into consideration because in addition to not actually adding to the plot most of them are posted to exhaustion on this reddit.
  • Major spoilers will be avoided, at least directly.
{LN 10 Cover}
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  • Author's name.
The first element is Tachibana’s name, again.
  • The highlighted girl.
The girl of the moment is
 Origami? But how is Origami a spirit?
Calm down, my boy, you haven’t missed anything, in fact I promised plot twists and we have one right on the cover.
As for the spirit Origami, I want to draw attention to two things. The first is obviously her astral dress which is a wedding dress, each astral dress follows the taste of its spirit user and Origami as a child had the dream of being a wife, but there is much more than that, so this Astral Dress is a small hint of the main plot, this will become clearer in the Spirit Info topic.
The second is about the facial expression, Origami looks like she is waking up, this may symbolize that she has just become a spirit, it may be a premonition of the plot of this volume, which deals with Origami discovering the truth about her past. But this expression will be referenced in a scene that will happen 7 volumes later, when we get there I will talk about it.
  • Angel Tobiichi.
In the volume, Origami calls the spirit that killed her parents “angel”, look at the hint there.
Again the subtitle cites the spirit’s surname, the other time this happened was in the volume 4, Sister Itsuka, clearly there is a connection here as the Tenguu-Nankou fire was a relevant event for both spirits, I also believe that the work opts to use surnames if we already know the spirit of the cover and the main reason is that Tobiichi is written with the character 1, let’s go to the next topic.
  • Spirit info.
Origami is the bearer of the first sephirot and, suddenly, everything makes sense. The first important thing here is the rivalry between Tohka and Origami. Tohka is spirit number 10, Sephiroth Malkuth, the kingdom, the final receptacle that concentrates the creative force now in its densest and residual state, while Origami is spirit number 1, Sephirot Kether, force and light in its most subtle state that flows to the others, Malkuth is a reflection of Kether on a lower plane. The rivalry between Tohka and Origami reaches its definitive stage but there is still a small detail missing.
That is, Origami, among the spirits, is the closest to God. But it’s still too early to talk about this.
And yes, spirit number 10 is on the cover of volume 1 and spirit number 1 is on the cover of volume 10, I would have liked to come here and say that I discovered this but Tachibana put this information in the afterword.
Her codename is "Angel", again this word, the name of the angel is Metatron.
  • The title.
The title goes back to being in front of the spirit, in the composition “Date” above and “A Live” below and whenever this happens the rule that must be respected is, the characters corresponding to “Live” are always positioned in the belly of the spirit.
  • Background
Last but not least, the background, this time very hidden and perhaps in a horizontal strip format, I say perhaps because that part of the astral dress occupies almost the entire cover in that part. The novelty is due to the positioning of the strip that frames Origami’s legs, which gives a rather empty aspect to this cover. Referring to the position of Origami’s Sephiroth, closest to God, above the other sephiroth, as well as referring to the main scene of this volume.
The scenario is a bit hidden, there are some debris there but nothing that allows to fully identify the scene but obviously there is a fire happening there, which is obviously a reference to that relevant event again, the great fire in Tenguu-Nankou. I don’t even need to say how relevant this event is to Origami’s life, in her first illustration in volume 1, she says: “Five years ago a spirit killed my parents.”
Finally, in my opinion this is one of the best covers, again, just imagine you go to the convenience store to buy this newly released volume and find out that Origami is a spirit, just by the shock the value is already high, if you already know the story of the anime and stop to analyze the cover, the value is double the previous one, if you know the whole story of Date a Live, and try to analyze the cover in a deeper way, the value is the squared of the previous one.
Let’s open the volume.
{Illustration 2}
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There’s something different about this volume, the compositions have improved a lot, apparently a reflection of the success of the animation.
The high school student and protagonist of this story, Shido Itsuka, says: “Tohka and the other girls just want a normal life.”
But wait, Shido is tied to a chair in a strange room and there in the middle is a bottle of water. Ok, it seems that Origami really changed sides.
The wizard who hates spirits is unyielding and responds that she will not only kill the spirits, “but also the entity that made me have a relationship with them.”
In the middle of the illustration there is a crack in the wall, symbolic.
{Illustration 3}
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Another plot twist, Tohka is in full astral dress. And not only that, the spirit Tohka is making a declaration of hatred to Origami.
“Origami Tobiichi, I have hated you from the beginning, but the hatred I feel for you now is probably different from the hatred I used to have before and for that reason, this time I will intend to kill you, don’t die, Origami.”
Despite everything, this is a cute declaration because for the first time Tohka calls Origami by her name and not satisfied asks Origami to resist because even though she is angry, she does not want to kill Origami.
Tohka will gain a little development in this volume, hence the illustration, we will talk about this scene later.
{Illustration 4}
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Gentlemen, one of the best illustrations of DAL.
The spirit Origami says: “Metatron!”
Tohka says: “Origami, why did you become a spirit!?”
In a great composition by Tsunako, Tohka and Origami are referencing the positions of their sephiroth in the tree of life. Origami appears in a superior position, distant from the “camera” and in front of the sun representing illumination, Kether, while the representative of the Kingdom, Malkhut, is in a much lower position, in the foreground and with her back to the reader. So, besides everything, they are staring at each other, symbolizing the mirroring already mentioned before.
And speaking of mirroring, do you remember the illustration I asked you to keep? As I know I asked a lot I will make it easier for you, I am talking about the mono illustration number 9 of volume 2, I warned that that image would be mirrored and there it is. In the aforementioned image Origami was still wearing a basic CR Unit from AST and Tohka for the first time debuted in her limited astral dress, the reader’s angle, our angle, brought Origami almost back in the foreground, in the image now the camera position has inversed and now we are with the vision of Tohka.
A great illustration but what generates more content here for sure are the illustrations of the table of contents, I’m sure the next one will please some people here.
{Table of contents}
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Look who’s back, Kurumi Tokisaki, it’s been a while since I’ve talked about “The worst spirit.”
But there’s nothing enigmatic here, it’s just Kurumi from the back (we’ve seen and will see many backs in this volume) and as for the phrase, she just stole Kotori’s catchphrase, I’m sure she wouldn’t be happy if another character started saying “ara ara” around.
Anyway, just having Kurumi here is hype enough because, whether you like the girl or not, just her being here is a sign that something relevant is going to happen.
{Mono Illustration 5}
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Ellen seems confident, on the other hand Kotori seems impatient.
To ensure that Fraxinus does not interfere with Origami’s fight, Ellen plans to use the newest toy that DEM has manufactured, the Goetia ship (another name related to magic and occultism).
Ellen and Kotori have a small dialogue where Shido’s sister tries to provoke THE STRONGEST WIZARD IN THE WORLD, but Miss Matthers is calm today, at least until she mentions Woodman.
The duel is unavoidable.
{Mono Illustration 6}
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There is a lot to talk about here, let’s start with the context.
Origami challenged the spirits Tohka, Yamais, and Miku to a fight to the death and by being equipped with the CR-Unit Mordred, Origami is able to build an advantage in the fight, she leaves Tohka unconscious and hurts the other 3 a lot, the former sergeant-major decides to start the killing by Yuzuru, precisely the spirit she got along with the most. It is at this moment that Tohka wakes up and seeing this whole scene she begins to go through the inversion process, but Tohka manages to interrupt this process, two passages stand out.
“This power would not save anyone.” She didn’t want to save just Kaguya, Yuzuru, and Miku, she wanted to save Origami too.
“She was an arrogant, violent, uneducated, and foul-mouthed girl, Tohka never knew what was going on in the mind of that girl who always bothered her. Even so, Tohka wanted to hold that girl’s hands.”
Tohka says: “Shido, lend me your strength.” And she gets her full powers back. And so the two engage in a really cool fight, at this moment the narration becomes from Origami’s point of view, there is a detailing about the features of Mordred and the fighting movements, time passes a little and Origami begins to feel too confident. She begins to ramble about having the ability to kill spirits, she begins to think about the death of her parents, about what she saw in the DEM report of the fire in Tenguu-Nankou.
Clearly Origami is not well, finally her body collapses and we have an illustration.
Now talking about the illustration itself, this is a reference to Mono Illustration 2 of volume 1, whose differences I highlight now. The most obvious difference is about Tohka who is no longer with that serious and empty look, here Tohka is clearly angry and screaming, in a way such expressiveness demonstrates how much this girl has developed.
Still about Tohka, this time it is she who is making an attack movement, but there is no blood in this image, an indication that it was not an attack to kill.
The other difference is about Origami, in that illustration I quote how much the “expressionless” Origami demonstrated tension, effort, and pressure, and I highlight the drop of sweat on her face. Something we can’t do here because this time Origami is with her back to the “camera” not allowing us to see her eyes.
“The eyes are the window to the soul” So not showing the eyes is a strong symbolism, you can’t read the person’s emotions, you can’t even recognize the person, humanity is taken from the person and about this, this is the last illustration in which Origami Tobiichi is still human, because

{Mono illustration 7}
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Origami became a spirit.
“Hey, is it power that you desire?”
“What are you?”
Origami used [What] instead of [Who] in reflex. [It] might have guessed what she meant and laughed as if it found it funny.
“What I am doesn’t matter now.”
After becoming spirit Origami, without delay, she goes to Tohka and then we have the illustration which is of Origami using Metatron’s Shemesh skill.
{Mono Illustration 9}
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Ara, ara.
Origami was so crazy that it was only after seeing Shido and running away from there that this girl began to understand the points, mainly about who gave her the spirit powers, the mysterious “Phantom”.
She reflects a little more and realizes that a certain spirit may have the ability to go back in time. About the illustration itself, another beautiful composition by Tsunako, in it we can contemplate Kurumi, apparently on a terrace, with building lights, Kurumi appears joyful in seeing Origami.
“It’s been a long time, Origami-san!”
As for Origami, again she is with her back turned and carrying a clone of Kurumi. The anime softened but here in the novel Origami seems to have returned the “affection” that Kurumi had done to her in volume 3 in the form of a very strong “massage”. But the clone does not seem to have liked it.
“I did not come here to fight.”
“Among the 12 bullets, is there one that can go back in time?”
Kurumi makes a little suspense but answers that, yes, there is, Origami asks her to lend her this bullet.
At first Kurumi denies, but since we are talking a little more about the Kabbalah, the Sephiroth of the worst spirit is Binah, the understanding, realizing that Tobiichi would not leave there without a “yes” as an answer Kurumi asks “why?”
“I want to go back 5 years and kill the spirit that killed my parents.”
At this moment the narration enters Kurumi’s thoughts, she begins to think that Origami came to her because she felt so invincible and therefore would force Kurumi to do what she wants, if necessary.
But then Kurumi begins to think that it was just a miscalculation by the girl, a miscalculation caused by the temptation to change the past.
“And Kurumi understood so much that it even hurt.”
Kurumi accepts but will not do this for free, time travel would cost a lot of lifetime, but that would not be a problem since now Origami has plenty of it.
{Mono Illustration 10}
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Origami discovered the harsh truth.
She really went to the past, had a brief fight with Phantom, managed to be the first to take off Phantom’s "mask", also managed to hear Phantom’s real voice, and when she thought she had also managed to save her parents, when she looked down there was a little girl swearing Origami to death, the little girl was Origami herself 5 years ago.
“I will definitely kill you!”
“Who killed
 my father and my mother
 Was me
”
  • Mini review of the volume.
This was Volume 10, released on March 20, 2014, about 2 weeks before the second season premiered, and it’s a sensational volume.
First of all, it’s a volume full of plot twists, Shido in private imprisonment, Origami fighting with the intention to kill 4 spirits at once, Fraxinus being defeated by Ellen’s Goetia, Tohka returning to use a full astral dress, Origami becoming a spirit, Origami going to the past, Origami facing Phantom, Origami killing her own parents, the illustrations end there but there’s still a lot of content, Origami inverts, Inverse Origami destroys all of Tenguu City and finally Kurumi going to Shido, Shido also being sent to the past. Entertainment and tension are not lacking here.
Did you notice that the lore makes a lot of references to the first volumes? This volume also makes a point of rewarding the reader for all this time following the story, the plot twist of Origami for example, was foreshadowed back in Volume 1, when she aims at Tohka but hits and "kills" Shido, from there a big hint that Origami has the bad habit of killing, by accident, the people she loves the most.
Origami was not the only character developed here, Tohka also grows and thanks the Shido’s ideology, at no time did she deny the existence of Origami and even though she said she was going to attack to kill she asked Origami not to die.
Although short, Kurumi had a great participation and we were able to learn more about her and for someone who is known as “the worst spirit” she was quite kind.
The only impediment for Volume 10 to sit alongside the best volumes of DAL is because most of the answers are in the next volume and when we take into consideration what both have to offer, the overall impression about Volume 10 improves, after all there is a big cliffhanger for Volume 11.
Origami managed to take off Phantom’s “mask” and even hear her voice, with that we can know that Phantom is a girl and is someone Origami knows, that is, she is also someone we know.
That’s it, Origami was a spirit all this time, and next we will find out how Shido and Kurumi will solve this mess. Finally, stay with this iconic phrase that Origami says in this volume, the phrase says a lot about many things in DAL.
“I will now wield this power to defeat the Spirits. I will become the Spirit that kills Spirits. Once I eliminate all Spirits────I will erase the last one, me”.
Previous Reviews.
-volume 1 - The color of the Night.
- volume 2 - Yoshinon and the Rain.
- volume 3 - The smile of Kurumi.
- volume 4 - Sister or Girlfriend?
- volume 5 - Yamais
- volume 6 - Lilies, she likes
- volume 7 - The Dark of the Night.
- volume 8 - What do people do on Halloween?
- volume 9 - Natsumi Without Costume
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2024.05.20 01:03 XBlueXFire Some questions about Claude

Context: This is my first playthrough of second story r, and I've thus far just made it to Nede. So spoilers up to that point I guess.
So far along my playthrough, I've built up a small list of things that's had me a bit confused about Claude as a character. If anything is answered at a later point in time, then just say so.
1: How come he's such a good swordsman? I'm not really familiar with the setting, however it seemed like Claude's preferred weapon at the start was his gun. The fact he was able to press Dias during the armory contest honestly surprised me seeing as it's only maybe been a week since he landed on Expel, plus whatever time it took to sail to Laceur I guess.
2: What's up with his feelings for Rena? From my perspective, they've known each other for about a week's time, not to mention the fact that Rena doesn't seem to exhibit any kind of romantic interest herself. The whole Marze arc where Claude gets jelous of Dias just felt so insanely out of character all of a sudden. Is the game skipping over a lotta in universe time that I'm just not shown?
  1. Is Claude actually kinda mean? Dialing time back a little. In that port town that eventually gets destroyed by the earthqueake (forgot the name), Claude got pickpocketed by this kid and he initially threatens the boy to give it back before Rena calms him, he then becomes really chill with the kid. That scene also came as a shock to me at the time, since Claude up until that point had seemed like such a goody two shoes sorta character.
During the Ashton quest, Claude admits to contemplating running away when Ashton asked them to take responsibility. Granted it's laughed off so it may've been a joke, but if it wasn't, that would've been another instance of shocking character development for me.
Ive already mentioned the Marze arc where Claude gets grumpy about Dias and starts acting all grumpy until him and Celine run into Rena and Dias again. That whole segment really caught me by surprise. It was like he'd become a different person.
Come to think of it, at the very beginning Claude just disregarded his father's worries and poked the strange machine. In that specific instance I think he just wanted to show off in some fashion, but it does suggest that he might be more hard headed than I initially thought.
In a sense a lot of my points are just questioning his maturity. He is kust 19 years old, still though I expect more from the guy if he had actually gone through military training.
4: Does he actually have magic powers, or are all the abilities we use just gameplay?
5: How on god's green earth can he be calm after what happened to Expel?! Same goes for Rena for that matter, but Claude more so!
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2024.05.20 01:03 Aggressive_Ideal6737 Who would you guess are Primus’ biggest influences?

Obviously their sound is pretty unique and I don’t know much about their inspirations aside from Les being somewhat of a fan of Rush and Pink Floyd, but some bands and albums I’ve found similar elements or possible influences in are:
King Crimson (especially in Discipline)
Pixies (especially in Surfer Rosa)
Modest Mouse (especially in Lonesome Crowded West)
Pink Floyd (mainly in Animals and Wish You Were Here)
Maybe Talking Heads (mainly in The Name of this Band is Talking Heads)
I would definitely say Rush and Yes probably had some influence but I don’t know much about either of them.
What does everyone else think?
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