I know there are probably at least a dozen posts about this. But I couldn't resist offering my own thoughts and experience.
American Idiot is one of my favorite albums of all time. It speaks to me in a way almost nothing else does. Every spring, around this time, I listen to the entire thing multiple times.
The end of AI has always given me a nostalgic, bittersweet feel but it's evolved. As a college kid, it was just a nice little end of the year send off. As a young adult who's gone through quite a bit, I understand and empathize with the real message. And I cannot for the life of me avoid crying when 'Whatsername' plays.
I think of the lyrics over and over. The power barrage of chords and emotions coming at you. The epic finality. Jesus knows he's never going to see Whatsername again and nothing can change that. A long lost love. No closure. He has to live with his mistakes even as he's grown up and moved on. The fact he can't even remember her name, a long lost love...it gets to me.
Sorry for rambling, but I just wonder if this song has the same impact on anyone else. Hell, I even wrote out a hypothetical scenario about Jesus and Whatsername encountering each other by chance and how that would play out.

Hey guys, Airbnb is reporting earnings today and I wanted to know everyone's thoughts on it. So far they're looking to hit $1.8 billion in revenue, marking a solid 20% year-over-year growth. Guys, that's insane. That’s not just good; it's their best first quarter ever. We're looking at a net income of $117 million compared to a net loss of $19 million last year. The turnaround story here is all about scaling revenue while keeping a tight leash on expenses and raking in some decent interest income. This rocketed their net income margin from a shitty -1% to a pretty decent +6%.
So here I'm gonna outline my bullish thesis on Airbnb and try to justify buying calls for earnings. I want to know if it's a good idea.
Cash Flow and Share Buybacks
Free Cash Flow (FCF) hitting a massive $1.6 billion, thanks to increased bookings and margin expansions. What does Airbnb do with all that cash? Buybacks. They’ve bought back $2 billion worth of shares and just announced a new buyback program up to $2.5 billion. This rewards shareholders and boosts EPS.
Bookings and Travel Trends
Travel isn't just rebounding; it's evolving. Airbnb’s total Nights and Experiences booked jumped by 19%. 36% spike in cross-border bookings. Long-term stays (28 nights or more) are also doing well, making up 18% of all bookings. This isn't just a rebound; how and why people travel is changing.
Supply Growth
On the supply side, Airbnb boosted its listings by 18% year-over-year. That's growth across the board... North America, Latin America, urban, non-urban, etc. More supply means more options for consumers and more revenue potential for Airbnb.
The Analyst's Angle
From what I've read all analysts are keen on Airbnb's performance, noting the resilience in travel demand and robust financial health. Looking at pre-earnings forecasts there are strong expectations based on prevailing travel trends and economic conditions.

My thoughts

Airbnb is doing pretty damn well in our post-pandemic world. They're capitalizing on new travel behaviors, like increased interest in international destinations and longer stays, which could be a long-term trend rather than a short-lived reaction.
So guys, what’s the play here? Airbnb seems to be on a solid path with strategic stock buybacks, strong quarterly performances, and robust growth prospects in the travel sector. You can grab shares if you're looking for a growth stock with some stability and bullish market sentiment. I'm going to grab calls tho. IV on calls actually doesn't make it seem like it's worth doing. If you expect a 5% bump AH, calls won't be profitable due to the premiums right now. 5/10 160c is $5.80/share. But I'll go ahead and grab the 165c just to see, it's a little cheaper at $3.75/share.

Hey everyone, hope your day is going great so far! This might be a long post, so buckle up for a read.
We moved into our current home about 5 years ago. We initially lived one door to our left, but our nextdoor neighbour was quite old and my dad decided to buy his house and gut it for us to live more comfortably. Well, the neighbours to his right are something we had no idea about. At first we never really heard from them as we were 2 doors away, but now that we lived next to them, it became apparent that they did not have any sort of respect for us. The mother runs a daycare program out of their home, and it seems like they have been adding to their property to cater for this.
There are numerous smaller things which have caused my folks grief over time, but this most recent development is really setting me over the edge for some reason. For context, we have 2 dogs, and any dog owner knows that dogs like to keep a close eye on their home turf. Yesterday, my younger dog (who is quite territorial) started to bark like mad because the daycare’s clientele (a few parents from what I heard) were standing a few feet in on our front yard. My mum works remotely and having our dogs bark incessantly is quite a large distraction for her.
She went outside to politely ask these folks to have their conversation on the neighbour’s yard, and promptly explained why. These people not only ignored her, but were extremely rude, saying things such as “She’s crazy”, “Don’t you have somewhere to be?”, and my favourite: “what are you gonna do, call bylaw on us?”. This is also apparently not the first time this has occurred; a few weeks ago the same people had parked their cars in front of our driveway. My dad went outside to let them know they could not park there, to which the response was “I’ll only be a minute, calm down!”
My mum actually just stood there and watched them continue chatting for about 10 more minutes. She eventually went back inside to continue working.
I guess my question is, why is this even a thing? As property owners, this is so incredibly disrespectful to my parents who just want a peaceful existence. They shouldn’t have to deal with such ignorant people on our front lawn all the time (this is becoming a trend in recent weeks), and the neighbours do not seem to care or mediate it whatsoever.
I guess if it comes down to it, they’ll have to call bylaw, but I wish it didn’t have to come to that. In the scenario that it does, what would you do to prep for something like that? Is there any way we could reinforce the stopping of that behaviour for good?
Also curious as to what one would need to run a daycare, surely some sort of permit right? Just want to make myself as knowledgeable as possible on the situation at hand so I can help my folks out.
Thank you for taking the time to read! Have a great rest of your day!
TLDR; parents are being blatantly disrespected by neighbour’s daycare clients and they don’t seem to care, what can I do to take action against it?

Namo Amituofo.
Hi everyone I had a question which is confusing me and would love to know your opinions.
So I was reading about the Dharma declining age and how it is split in 3 parts, the 1st part lasting 500-1000 years, the 2nd part 500-1000 years and the last part some either 2500-10,000 years depending on the source, now I read online from Theravada sources that the Maitreya will appear in 2500 yeras time from now which seems to soon especially is our lifespans will have to go to 10 years first then he will come when we live 80,000 years that isn't possible in 2500 years, but I was watching jiawen's video on Maitreya Buddha Pureland and she said he is in heaven and will appear in about 247 million years instead which makes more sense to me, I then went on Wikipedia and this confused me even more
"In all Buddhist traditions, Maitreya is prophesied to be the next Buddha who will arise in this world. He will attain Buddhahood far in the future (proximally 2000 years from now - 5000 years after Sakyamuni's Parinirvana)" which seems to suggest 2500 years as said by the Theravada and possibly some Mahayana but "According to traditional Buddhist sources Maitreya's advent is not imminent and instead will happen millions of years in the future" seems to suggest what Jiawen was saying it was gonna be millions of years from now.
So what is the answer because there is a big diffrence between 2500 years and 200 million years, the only logical answer I could think of is Maitreya in heaven will become a Buddha in 2500 years but won't appear on earth until Millions of years when his life in heaven naturally comes to an end.
Would love to know your opinions on this my fellow Pureland Buddhist Brothers & Sisters.
Namo Amituofo

I'm just gonna immediately start this off with; My OC has a pretty grim backstory and if you're sensitive to heavy themes including death, famine/rot and religion/cults I'd suggest not roleplaying with me. I will also only roleplay with people over the age of 18. Lying to me about your age will not be appreciated and will get you immediately blocked everywhere if found out. If I'm ever going to be away for more than a few days, I will give you a warning, you do not have to do the same but it is preferred. My timezone is Irish Standard Time.
Now that I've said all that, Hello, Im Donna, and I'm looking for someone to roleplay with. I write advanced lit and I'm an experienced writer, usually writing 2-5 paragraphs per response in 3rd person, however it can get shorter or longer depending on the setting, previous response and scene; some scenes just need one or two paragraphs max.
If it isn't obvious by the title, I am looking for a bloodborne or fantasy victorian era type roleplay; But we can add any type of twist to it that you'd like. Enemies to lovers, begrudging allies to lovers, soulmates/red string trope, etc. They're all clichés but I love love love them. I'm also 100% willing to adjust things to make it juusssttt perfect. If you're actually reading this tell me your Zodiac sign in your first message. Personally I think she would go great with someone who isn't as accustomed to the area or her ways as her but eager to learn; Someone she can teach her ways to and bond with.
I roleplay on discord which I will give you once a proper basis is established. Here is the OC I will be using, the character sheet is specifically for the bloodborne roleplay. If you want to do a victorian roleplay I will change her backstory up to a bounty hunter & Yharnam to London to fit that, & I can also change her age if you would prefer that, but I will not change her appearance, specifically her scamissing eye under any circumstances. (please stop asking.)

Name: Valeria Ferrnante.
Age: 36.
Shy lesbian hunter of hunters & witch, taxidermies in her free time.
Abilities: blade combat, gun combat, illusions, animal handling, taxidermy & bone preservation.
Physical appearance: mid-back length neatly cut slightly wavy dark black hair (usually hidden under her mask &/ hat) usually tied up in a bun. She has a soft, round face with a big burn like scar & a missing eye on the right side of her very pale face that she is very insecure about. Her face is comprised of a thick straight eyebrow, thin upper lip & plump bottom lip and a big green eye. Standing at 6 foot her body has a very noticably slim build, and her voice is a soft and soothing medium-deep older woman's voice. Her body is covered in scars from years of hunting, though her scars & body are usually well hidden under her clothes. When "working" she wears strictly all black in the form of a long trench coat, feathered cloak, gloves, neat pants, boots and tophat. She has a belt around her waist on top of her coat which holds her gun, blade and a few other tools. She also wears a black plague doctor mask with herbs in the nose to drown out the smell of blood and rot. Her casual clothing usually consists of a black floor length dress and boots, & her nails are always painted black.
Personality: Pretty terrifying when hostile, and very introverted when on neutral terms with people. However, she is a gentle soul and will actively go out of her way to help a vulnerable person, stranger or not, that is injured or in need. When friendly with people, she's purposefully vague and quiet about her past and who she truly is, making sure to keep some distance, but when very close to someone, she becomes an entirely different person, completely vulnerable to whoever it is and loyal like a dog to no end. She is very hesitant to show her face to most people due to her scarring, unless she truly trusts them. She takes on other people problems as her own and feel as though it's her responsibility to protect and look after the people she loves, causing her immense guilt when a loved one is hurt or lost. Though, she struggles to get past the neutral stage with people, finding herself unable to trust easily.
Background: Originally of foreign descent, she was raised by her single mother and uncle in isolation in a small village. This village was very exclusionary to outsiders, teaching the ways of their religion to only a select lucky few. Valeria was one of the few who was talented enough, eventually learning to conjure complex illusions using different plants and their pollen. But that is a life that is long behind her. In her early teens, a great illness called the rot struck the village of which quickly killed her mother, leaving Valeria and her uncle devastated and completely lost in grief. The more of the village wiped out by the illness, the more restless Valeria became, being drawn to tales of Yharnam, somewhere she could go to seek a cure for this blight. In the end, Valeria herself would contract the rot and with her great fear of suffering the same fate as her mother amplified by her right eye beginning to rot, she would leave the village and head for Yharnam, of which the village and their uncle heavily disapproved of. Once arriving, barely on her last leg with her right eye and the skin around it almost completely rotted by now, she signed a contract for the cure as long as she served as a hunter for some time. She did just so, and once her time was up, she eventually joined the hunter of hunters covenant after watching many of her comrades succumb to blood drunkness. She keeps to herself and chooses to stay fairly isolated, her worship for her gods becoming deeper in isolation. After meeting and losing a few people on the way, she now resides in an old house with a lake out the back that's situated right outside of Yharnam, many animals congregating there as she regularly feeds the animals before herself.

If you're interested in roleplaying with me, shoot me a message with whether you'd like to do the bloodborne or victorian route, I'll get back to you ASAP!

Is gonna be a bit of a long post.
So let’s clear out couple of things first.
I do not have any hate towards all women themselves but I dot have some strong disagreement with feminists of nowadays.
I’ve recently been spam by meme about women vs bear vs man . And about the question “if men didn’t who would protect you? “
I do genuinely believe, that is not right question
As obviously is self explanatory but it still doesn’t solve your life.
And here where it comes my solutions answequestions to say to any feminist
The right question is :
If man didn’t exist, who would run your basic day of life?
You see technically you feminist you couldn’t even go to the bathroom with the help of a man!

• as 90 % of daily life is run in the background by men
  
• you couldn’t have even shelter as 99% of house are built by men
  
• guess who install the toilet?
  

-And guess who you call when your toilet is full of shit and doesn’t work?

• you feminist you couldn’t even have full electricity as 90% of electricity power plants/ grid are built by man and maintained by man

-you couldn’t have the basic pavement of the street Jesus Christ !not event the light city illumination
-farming as well
-sewage treatment / and garbage.everybody laughs of those people but are the reasons why we don’t have colera and other diseases

• fuel that runs your car , even that one is almost fully managed by man

and this is just a tiny aspect of how our society runs.
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So as said , every tiny aspect of a life of a feminist as been run in the background by men, despite nobody force those women to not do those job !
Feminist claim so hard that we are so dangerous, something to be avoided at all cost but , they can’t even be independent between themselves.
I always thought that, if we are such terrible being , just leave , build your own city built solely by women and run by women solely , after that we can start to speak, but until that days are just words not facts !
Again there are plenty of wealthy women out there, why not built your massive city or community built solely by women ? We used to have massive religious cult living in ranches why they can’t do just that if they think we are so dangerous?
END OF THE DISCUSSION 😎Checkmate
Once said that
I’m glad and feel blessed to have hard working man and women on every level of our society on a daily basis; together we can accomplish so much more than divided .

I always see post about the DM being a drug addict or some shit like that. In my case she (DM) is far more happy and successful in life than me. Meanwhile I'm sitting here drinking kratom/kava every day and throwing in chugging the occasional over the counter cough medicine in the mix.
I hear voices regularly, I believe them to be real people at this point somehow living in my skull. One of them has had the tendency to be really abusive and another to be very loving and supportive, always calling me a sweat heart, though I learned the hard way this was platonic, I've gotten better about respecting her boundaries. I call her Amory. On top of this I also have bipolar, diagnosed schizoaffective bipolar type. I'm questioning the schizo part though because these voices seem like real people that are stuck inside my head. I'd question if I had some sort of OSDD with no switching but my family has always been very supportive and loving so I'm at a loss as to what these voices are. The mean one certainly causes a lot of trouble in my day to day life and I can be pretty shitty back to it because after a certain amount of being yelled at and attacked while playing guitar I simply can't take it and I end up screaming in fits of rage.
All I want to do with my life these days is drink kratom, kava, and energy drinks, vape, and play guitar. We're both 20. Luckily I'm not drinking cough syrup as much though.
She is unhealthy in her own way, very arrogant and dismissive of others, overall just cold but she used to be warm for me back when I first started falling. She says she's a narcissist, like at least she's self aware. I have my own shit and probably have my own flavor of cluster B as well, though I'm only diagnosed with Schizoaffective Bipolar Type 1, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. They might have me down for OCD as I had that as a diagnoses in the past (contamination subtype) but still have a lot of intrusive thoughts, although now it's about pretty much anything, mostly relating to being a good or bad person.
When I'm feeling alright I don't really use the drugs much. Aside from the cough meds because sometimes I find it helpful to just disconnect and assess my life from a neutral objective perspective, and tripping is just something nice to do on occasion. The kratom is used to help free me from anything related to poor mental health that makes life feel like a nightmare, and the kava is used to give me an occasional, brief 30 minute headrush to add some spice to life. Kratom is almost daily but I actually feel alright today so I don't feel a strong draw to it.
I used to struggle with popping pills I was prescribed for ADHD in non-medical doses (I was prescribed 20mg of Dexedrine and would pop upwards of 60mg at my worst). After that I started smoking heavy amounts of cannabis and that's how I met what I'll simply call the mind folk, mentioned earlier in this post. That was pretty scary at first, they actually warned me to stop hitting my oil pen before it got real bad. Then before I knew it shit hit the fan and I was having severe Deju Vu and sensations of impending doom, like I had lived this life before and could tell I was about to meet a terrible fate. A voice began saying "we have to go now! we have to go now! they're almost here, they're coming, come on! we need to go!" practically on repeat.
No one has ever lit my soul on fire quite like she did. Her very aura is intoxicating to me, which is odd because others find her to be sort of cold and cruel but occasionally fun to talk to but not much else than that. Most just say she's "interesting, but not the best person".
At this point I'm just trying to move on but I keep coming back, thinking about her has to be one of the hardest addictions to quit. It keeps me stuck in the past. Sometimes I wonder if it's even healthy to consider her my TF. My mindset going forward is going to be one of self improvement and moving forward, of leaving the past behind me.
I'm tired of running in circles and rotting away. I'm tired of thinking about someone who really doesn't seem to care for me much. Best thing I can do is forget and live the best life I can without or with her. Probably without.
Though with all my mental shit going on I don't know if that's possible. I'm just going to stay true to myself, play my guitar and hopefully one day be good enough to make a small living off of it as a session musician. While I do enjoy fields such as math, computer science, chemistry, and psychology, and growing up aspired to write code for a living. I know that I'm wired to be a creative and anything else would be suffocating.
I just love the tactile feel of guitar. When the creative juices aren't flowing I can find satisfaction in mastering mechanics, so that when they do flow I can express myself even more clearly. And I also find that poetry flows from me like a fountain. That being said sometimes I do yearn for some sort of highly prosperous career in some STEM or otherwise highly acclaimed field just so I can look to everyone who's even put me down or doubted me and proclaim "LOOK AT ME NOW BITCHES", that's not truly what I'd enjoy.

Hello,
I am thinking of moving to Spain/Catalunya (specifically Barcelona) in November this year, and hope to be able to rent my own flat* for the first time. I have shared with people for a decade, but had never rented a flat on my own, nor have I ever lived in Spain/Catalunya. I have a tenuous working knowledge of Spanish, but as for the rest, I'm pretty lost and would appreciate some pointers.

1. What is a reasonable price range to expect for a small-ish 1 bed flat on the outskirts? I'd like to keep it under 800e and I've seen a few listings on Idealista around that price point, but idk if they're scams haha.
   
2. What does renting look like in Spain for a foreigner? I'm an EU citizen and have a steady income. What kind of checks are done (references/salary/guarantors)? How much would a deposit be?
   
3. Any other things to keep in mind?
   

*Yes I've done my soul searching about being an expat in a gentrified city. I'm originally from an Eastern European country far poorer than Spain so I'm not taking feedback on the ethics of moving there.

Hi everyone,
I (24/F) have used Reddit a lot throughout the years to find people with similar experiences with migraines. I never made a profile or a post but felt due to recent reoccurrence of migraines in my life, it might be helpful to just air out my feelings/ show my thoughts and experience to those who might feel the same.
I'll start with my experience with migraines:
I get migraines with visual aura. They happen in 'stages' I like to call them. 1st-very first indicator is visual aura (can lose anywhere from 20-70% of my vision with what looks like I just stared at bright lights for too long, except it lasts for ~30 min). 2- I get searing pain in one half of my head and eyes along with confusion and fatigue. 3rd- sometimes I experience difficulty speaking/ lose feeling in my hands and face (pins and needles). 4th-nausea/ vomiting. Whole ordeal lasts around 4-7 hours and can feel the effect of it for days after as I recover from it. Only thing that helps is sitting in a hot shower with the water beating on my head and sleep if I can manage.
Migraine History:
My first ever migraine was probably around 10 years old (started period at 11). Throughout puberty I would get them probably 6-10 times per year (which may seem like a dream compared to some other migraine-getters. My hat is seriously off to you and just know I feel your pain and can't imagine the battle and anxiety you face.)
Around 15 years old they started to taper off to maybe 1-2 times per year and then by 17yrs old they vanished. Now enter: Combo Birth Control, which absolutely messed up my body. I would spot for 2 weeks and then have periods for 2 weeks and like clockwork was getting migraines once every 2 months again. After about 6 months, I quick BC cold turkey (which I've since learned I should have NEVER been prescribed that since it's a stroke risk- my Dr KNEW I got these migraines as well) and the migraines stopped.
17-19 years old-No migraines
20 years old- 1 Migraine
21-years old- 1 Migraine
No migraines for 3 years and now at 24 years old I've experience 2 Migraines back to back in Feb and Mar 2024.
So far none in April or May yet.
Nothing in my lifestyle has changed except since Jan 2024 i've been spotting in between periods which is highly unusual for me personally. I have a suspicion my migraines are closely tied to my hormones.
Medication/Supplements:
I went to a Neurologist in March and I was prescribed Nurtec along with liquid Ibuprofen and antiemetics. I also take Magnesium. MRIs came back fine. My neurologist basically said that they are no longer trying to find causes of migraines and have switched completely to symptom management/abortives. Such a disappointing thing to hear.
I take nurtec every other day after my period ends for about a week and a half (or until I'm past ovulation) and I have not had a migraine since. But because of the infrequency of the migraines, I have no idea if this is actually working or if i'm just not getting migraines.
Side note: I also have a xanax prescription for flying, not everyday use. I'm kinda scared xanax triggered my last migraine because I had taken it a few hours before flying and ultimately had to leave the airport and miss my flight home because of it. I've taken xanax to fly a dozen times before with no issues. Now i'm scared to take the one thing that calms me down lol.
Questions for the group:
This all being said: I have almost debilitating anxiety from the cadence of these migraines as I really don't know if and when they will hit (I don't take xanax for this-just when I fly). The reoccurrence of these in my life has been soul crushing, I really thought I was in the clear and some higher power cured my brain the past 3 years. I'm scared to drive to the grocery store or even Target (which is my happy place) because my very first symptom is visual aura. If I could pay money to get migraines without visual aura I would, I'll take any of the other symptoms over the vision loss.
How do you guys deal with this? I feel like i'm losing freedom a little bit here, I'm terrified to drive. I'm terrified to fly on a plane because what if one strikes while traveling solo. I also try to come up with an exit strategy whether i'm at an event/party. I have the most amazing boyfriend who is literally my rock, but at the end of the day I want to be able to live autonomously and not be afraid. Every time something in my vision changes even slightly I have a full blown panic attack and take Nurtec.
Do any of you who experience visual aura have a solution/medication/magic trick that has stopped you from getting visual auras with migraines?
Side note: very afraid to get pregnant in the future because of the suspected link to my hormones.
In case anyone is wondering: I work 100% remote thankfully
TLDR; Visual Auras scare the bleep out of me. Does anyone have a remedy?

I am battling a court case. I have a long psych history of multiple suicide attempts and psych ward stays where I was emotionally tortured, misdiagnosed with trillion illnesses, almost drugged to death, there were attempts to murder me, leaving my soul raped, and it's still bleeding...
I am 28. I am battling a serious case, and they want to either put me in a psych ward or prison, and that will not happen, I will be dead on the early morning of 11th of may. Everything ready and set up.
The court case began when I sent a threathening text message to my parents who abused me throughout my life to the point of me not being able to function anymore. Because of that text message, the police got me hooked, and they labeled me as a dangerous criminal. The antipsychotics and other pills doctors forced on me in hospitals damaged my frontal lobe, my natural brain chemistry, and I only began recovering recently. Letters kept coming to my parents house from court. A forensic psychiatrist was the one who had the case in his hands. I never showed up to any of court hearings, which resulted in blocking my bank account and sending it into staggering amounts of debt for legal expenses I won't be able to pay.
The nightmare is in all of this is the fact that absolutely no one can help here. All piled up and stacked against me - police, psychiatry, parents, I am not allowed to work, defend myself in a dangerous situation because if I do police will see all my records and I will be dead. The nightmare of all nightmares- there are no close people in my life. I run a risk of being involuntary hospitalized if I go and open up to an LGBT help institution. I always felt like an outcast within all kinds of groups, gay, straight, all of them. I am pretty, but I was hated for my personality which is a complete trauma response. No one ever liked me, everyone avoided me, describing me as dark, bad energy, and I am still being described in that way. I never had a boyfriend and I was homeless. Survived brutal bullying in school, and still today, I am being laughed at and bullied on the streets for my walk, fashion, high pitched voice, I simply radiate complete gayness in a facist, catholic european country, and people think we choose to be this way, while it is completely opposite.
People who work in LGBT fields are extremely emotionally weak, afraid of dealing with serious situations, people are lost, everyone is just waiting for the world to end and they are tired of everyone and e v e r y t h i n g while at the same time indulging in hedonism, partying, making love and enjoying life outside the work place. Massive irony
It feels like humanity has been hijacked by some invisible, destructive essence. On top of that, who am I in this world, no one..Just a piece of billions.. If I went seeking for help now, they would not only be scared and shocked because of the nature of the situation I'm in, they would feel obligated to institutionalize me, regardless of the fact they know I could get brutally killed in hospital / prison. My parents are exactly like the same as parents of Britney Spears, the only difference is - mine want me dead so they can live life fear free, and Britney was abused while they were taking her money.
The mistake I made was believing my parents are evil because I am gay. I come from extreme wealth. My father.. just the thought of him turns my stomach, and the image of him tgat keeps popping up in my mind sends me into a spasm. My mother is even worse, there is no way to describe her mental illness in words we use on earth. The way she talked was either whispering, or extremely loud, aggressive voice. Something I have never seen, heard, not even in the psych ward.
Eventually, I saw it happens to people all around the world, regardless of sexuality. I never knew they were severely sick in the head until I discovered the raised by narcissists subreddit. It was in that moment my jaw dropped while reading what people go through.
I am starting to come to conclusion this all might have been predetermined and I came to this earth to pay for what I did in past lives. I was never spiritual until life led me to this point. I believe the way you die determines where your soul goes. I am departing with a painless method.
I am spending my last days hiding in a small hostel room, listening to love songs, daydreaming about distant worlds and coming to peace with the fact that I simply h a v e t o d i e b y m y o w n h a n d s.
My life on this planet had some wonderful moments.. I feel a little bit sad for leaving, I enjoyed my solitude and my own company.. I was my own best friend and I still am. I feel love, I feel sadness, but also a deep respect for myself and my body, and I am the captain of this biological computer. My heart aches for all the people who actually die while tortured in pain, this world is a horrible unsafe place where you can die in a second and I despise being aware of this.... Anyways I send hugs to all of you darlings please remember to fight and fight and FIGHT. The fact I fought with blood and sweat and ended up in this situation where I have to end myself doesn't mean your fight will be in vain, some of us are damned beyond repair, while some get through it and enjoy the rest of their life, and I hope you are one of them...
Love
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Worried, anxious, or concerned? Come to Jesus and focus on him and he will give you perfect peace.

Jesus my mind regulator->Jesus my mind renewer Jesus my mind correcter
The Bible talks about the Spiritual mind and the carnal mind.
The word of the Lord declares how they that live according to the flesh are distressed, annoyed, or worried by the things of the flesh[which give pleasure and satisfaction to the lustful disease of the body]. But they that live according to the Spirit[set their minds on] the things of the Spirit [on the Spirit’s desire and objective]. With also stating to be carnally minded is death[separation from God], but to be spiritually minded is life and peace[eternal life and perfect peace on earth and in heaven because they regard things in heaven important]. And that if we live in the flesh we shall die, but if we through the Spirit meaning because or by of the Spirit put to death the sinful and lustful works of the body, we shall live. Therefore I say thanks be to God who is my mind regulator. But the question is what are you minding? What are you concerned, worried, and anxious about? Is it you standing before God without sin and saving others, or do you just seek to give your own self-pleasure and satisfaction following after fleshly lust and desires?
The bible says where your treasure is there your heart will be, meaning what you are concerned about the most is where your actions will be. What do you treasure spiritual things or lustful and sinful things?
Jesus says the eye is the light of the body and that if thine eye be single, thy whole body should be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness**!<-Oh, how greatly do you mind worldly pleasures and not the things that be of God!** For if you were focused on the Spiritual things your body meaning your actions would show you regard the spiritual things, your soul. But if your eye is evil, then you are so focused and caught up in the sinful things of this world that you can't do anything for God. And the end of that is death.
But thanks be to God who is a mind regulator. How by his spirit the gift of the Holy Ghost) he regulates our minds daily if we let him, to mind the things of the spirit in renewing our minds with the word of God. And if any man have not the Gift of the Holy Ghost he is not his.
Therefore Repent(turn away from your sins and turn to God following his commandments which are written in the bible), be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and be filled with the Gift of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues, and set your mind on the things of the spirit by renewing your minds with the word of God. In Jesus name, Amen.
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As I mentioned in a post earlier today, I have decided to embark on the religious studies journey by preparing a special study guided series of self paced dynamic verse by verse incredibly high level of studies in secular and spiritual development of the world cultural and religious traditions that's going to include numerous types of sources texts from every single type of practice I can unearth thanks for the Good old Google and Bing research resources.
This started with the Gnostic texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls with the Gospel of Thomas and the Book of Enoch. It has been a few weeks and I have literally gotten so far ahead of myself that it seems like I am overdue and overwhelmed by such an amazing task. This is why I am not sure if I should really be posting it but if not here, I would not know where to ask for advice and feedback and guidance and editing and moral support and even research assistance and input from anyone whose willing to assist in any capacity.
There's nothing to do except process the questions and help with the commentary and limitations of this format and the hope that there might be at least ONE human being that's interested in similar things that's willing to help in whatever capacity they can....
I had plans of trying to make it easier for everyone by trying to finish at least one full text before posting others, but I don't think it's possible because I keep going from different ones back to these then to those then back to that regardless of the fact that I am confused and staring to get burned out before I get started....
So I have changed my mind about finishing up one to present for the group and will simply be posting some daily stuff for your input and feedback. I'm not trying to make you convert to any faith as these guides will cover every single type of practice eventually.
Today is Wisdom of Solomon day so I have to unpack my own stuff here and I have no real formal plans yet for how to present it all, that is based solely on the fact that I am also doing this for my own spiritual growth and development and so there's no formal plans for publication as a project yet....
Anyway this is a basic overview of how I have been working on my project and I love the fact that you still might be reading after that long winded meandering message!
WISDOM OF SOLOMON
Wisdom of Solomon Outline:

1. Introduction (Chapters 1-6):

• Addressing rulers and kings
  
• The pursuit and benefits of wisdom
  
• Reflections on divine wisdom
  

1. Wisdom in History (Chapters 7-9):

• Solomon's request for wisdom
  
• Wisdom's role in various historical events
  
• Contemplation on divine attributes
  

1. Wisdom and Idolatry (Chapters 10-11):

• God's guidance in history
  
• Consequences of idolatry
  
• Divine justice and mercy
  

1. Divine Wisdom vs. Human Wisdom (Chapters 12-15):

• God's protection of Israel
  
• Contrasting divine wisdom with human folly
  
• Punishment for wrongdoing
  

1. God's Just Providence (Chapters 16-19):

• God's interventions in history
  
• Divine providence and care for Israel
  
• Consequences of disobedience
  

1. Wisdom as a Guide (Chapters 20-21):

• Moral lessons from history
  
• The role of wisdom in human life
  
• The contrast between the righteous and the wicked
  

1. Call to Righteousness (Chapters 22-24):

• The importance of following wisdom
  
• Wisdom's divine origins
  
• The benefits of embracing wisdom
  

Study Guide Questions

1. Symbolism:

• Explore the symbolic meanings of key elements in the text, such as wisdom, righteousness, and folly.
  
• Analyze the metaphors used to convey deeper spiritual and moral truths.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• Investigate the historical context of the Wisdom of Solomon, considering the cultural and political milieu of the time.
  
• Examine secular perspectives on the text, noting its influence on philosophy and ethics beyond religious contexts.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• Uncover esoteric or hidden wisdom within the text, delving into allegorical interpretations and hidden meanings.
  
• Explore how esoteric knowledge is conveyed and its significance for those seeking deeper spiritual understanding.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• Discuss the theological themes present in the Wisdom of Solomon, such as divine justice, mercy, and the nature of God.
  
• Examine how these theological concepts align or differ with other religious traditions and theological perspectives.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• Identify the types of individuals mentioned in the text and explore how their engagement with wisdom contributes to their spiritual development.
  
• Discuss the transformative journey depicted in the Wisdom of Solomon and its implications for readers seeking spiritual growth.
  

For exercises, activities, readings, and examples:

• Exercise: Analyze a specific passage from the Wisdom of Solomon, discussing its symbolism and how it relates to broader themes in the text.
  
• Activity: Compare a selected verse from the Wisdom of Solomon with a similar concept or teaching from a secular philosophical work.
  
• Reading: Explore relevant passages from apocryphal texts or the Dead Sea Scrolls to identify common themes with the Wisdom of Solomon.
  
• Example: Provide a case study of an individual or community applying the wisdom found in the text to navigate a moral or ethical dilemma.
  

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Chapter 1, Verse 1:
"Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth. Think of the Lord with goodness, and seek him with sincerity of heart."
Themes:

1. Symbolism:

• The call to "love righteousness" symbolizes the importance of moral and just leadership.
  
• "Seeking the Lord with sincerity" symbolizes a genuine and wholehearted pursuit of divine wisdom.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• The address to rulers reflects the historical context of addressing leaders, emphasizing the moral responsibilities of governance.
  
• The concept of seeking God's guidance resonates with broader ethical teachings in various cultural and philosophical traditions.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• The verse hints at esoteric wisdom by emphasizing the inner disposition of rulers and their connection to divine principles.
  
• Explore hidden meanings within the call to righteousness and sincere seeking of God.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• The theological implications involve the relationship between righteousness and divine favor, highlighting the importance of ethical conduct.
  
• Consider how this aligns with or challenges theological perspectives from other religious traditions.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• Rulers are encouraged to grow spiritually by cultivating a love for righteousness, suggesting that moral development is integral to leadership.
  
• Reflect on how individuals in positions of authority can spiritually evolve through ethical governance.
  

Exercise:
Reflect on a historical or contemporary leader who exemplifies the principles outlined in this verse. Discuss how their commitment to righteousness and sincere seeking of higher principles impacted their leadership.
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"For he will be found by those who do not put him to the test, and manifests himself to those who do not distrust him."
Themes:

1. Symbolism:

• The idea that God is found by those "who do not put him to the test" symbolizes a call for genuine faith and trust.
  
• "Manifesting to those who do not distrust him" suggests the importance of a sincere and unwavering relationship with the divine.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• The notion of not putting God to the test reflects a biblical caution against demanding miraculous signs.
  
• Explore how this concept aligns with or differs from testing or seeking evidence in secular and philosophical contexts.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• The verse implies esoteric wisdom by emphasizing the subtleties of divine manifestation, which may require a certain disposition or spiritual state.
  
• Discuss the deeper meaning of finding God through trust and the absence of doubt.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• The theological implication is a call for genuine faith and trust in God's presence.
  
• Consider theological discussions on faith, trust, and divine revelation within the context of different religious traditions.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• This verse suggests that spiritual development involves cultivating a trusting relationship with the divine, rather than testing or doubting.
  
• Reflect on how trust in the divine can contribute to an individual's spiritual journey.
  

Exercise:
Explore historical or biblical narratives where individuals either demonstrated unwavering trust in the divine or faced challenges due to testing God. Discuss the outcomes and lessons learned from these narratives.
🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃🌃 Chapter 1, Verse 3:
"For perverse thoughts separate people from God, and when his power is tested, it exposes the foolish."
Themes:

1. Symbolism:

• "Perverse thoughts" symbolize moral and spiritual deviation, highlighting the impact of one's inner disposition on the relationship with God.
  
• The testing of God's power symbolizes a lack of trust and reveals the foolishness of such attempts.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• Explore historical instances or secular examples where moral or perverse thoughts led to a separation from higher principles or values.
  
• Consider how the testing of authority or power is viewed in different historical and philosophical contexts.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• The verse implies esoteric wisdom by emphasizing the spiritual consequences of perverse thoughts and the folly of testing divine power.
  
• Delve into the hidden meanings of "separation from God" and the exposure of foolishness.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• Theologically, the verse underscores the impact of moral choices on the relationship with the divine.
  
• Discuss theological perspectives on the consequences of moral deviation and the testing of God's power.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• This verse suggests that spiritual development involves guarding against perverse thoughts and avoiding attempts to test or challenge divine power.
  
• Reflect on how individuals can cultivate a mindset that fosters a closer relationship with the divine.
  

Exercise:
Explore historical or literary examples where characters or individuals faced consequences due to perverse thoughts or the testing of authority. Discuss the broader moral lessons conveyed in these narratives. 🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄
Chapter 1, Verse 4:
"For wisdom will not enter a deceitful soul, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin."
Themes:

1. Symbolism:

• "Deceitful soul" symbolizes insincerity and moral duplicity, suggesting that wisdom requires authenticity.
  
• The idea of wisdom not dwelling in a "body enslaved to sin" symbolizes the incompatibility of wisdom with a morally compromised state.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• Explore historical or secular perspectives on the relationship between wisdom and personal integrity.
  
• Consider how different cultures and philosophical traditions view the role of wisdom in virtuous living.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• The verse suggests esoteric wisdom by highlighting the spiritual prerequisites for the indwelling of wisdom.
  
• Reflect on the hidden qualities that make a soul receptive to wisdom and explore esoteric interpretations of the text.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• Theologically, the verse emphasizes the alignment of the soul with moral principles as a condition for receiving wisdom.
  
• Discuss theological perspectives on the interplay between wisdom, virtue, and the state of the soul.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• This verse implies that spiritual development involves purifying the soul from deceit and sin to make it a suitable vessel for wisdom.
  
• Reflect on how individuals can actively work toward creating conditions for wisdom to flourish in their lives.
  

Exercise:
Analyze a historical or literary character who experienced a transformation from deceitful or sinful behavior to a more virtuous state. Discuss the role of wisdom in this transformation and the impact on the character's life.
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Chapter 1, Verse 5: "For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit and will leave deceitful thoughts behind, and will be ashamed at the approach of unrighteousness."
Themes:

1. Symbolism:

• "Holy spirit of discipline" symbolizes divine guidance and correction, emphasizing the transformative power of discipline.
  
• The departure of the holy spirit from deceitful thoughts symbolizes the incompatibility of divine guidance with moral compromise.
  

1. Historical and Secular Context:

• Explore historical examples or secular perspectives on the role of discipline in personal and moral development.
  
• Consider how different cultures view the concept of a guiding and disciplining spirit.
  

1. Esoteric Wisdom:

• The verse implies esoteric wisdom by linking discipline with the holy spirit and suggesting a spiritual transformation.
  
• Examine the deeper meanings of discipline and the spiritual consequences of deceit and unrighteousness.
  

1. Theological Implications:

• Theologically, the verse underscores the role of the holy spirit in guiding individuals toward righteousness and away from deceit.
  
• Discuss theological perspectives on discipline, divine guidance, and the consequences of unrighteousness.
  

1. Spiritual Development:

• This verse suggests that spiritual development involves embracing the discipline of the holy spirit and distancing oneself from deceit and unrighteousness.
  
• Reflect on how individuals can cultivate a receptive spirit for divine discipline in their journey of spiritual growth.
  

Exercise:
Explore religious or philosophical texts that discuss the concept of divine discipline and its role in guiding individuals towards righteousness. Discuss the similarities or differences with the Wisdom of Solomon.
I will stop here since it's already overwhelming long and I have been working today up to the end of Chapter One just with Wisdom of Solomon.
I will post the Book of Enoch stuff later on which is already much more in depth with the commentary and study materials and I think that it's coming along nicely. This is just beginning so I figured it was a good skeleton to illustrate where I start off then I will give a much better clue 🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️ to where it's headed later today when I can format the Enoch stuff for posting.
Thanks in advance for checking it out and please don't hesitate to repost in places that might help out in their own ways, even if it's to roast the hell out of me (no pun intended, if that's even a pun!)

In or around the end of 2020 our landlord, let my husband and I know that they were planning on selling the home that we were living in. They were not going to be renewing our lease but that we were able to stay here until they either sold it or we could buy it. And the timeline of when they were going to list the house for sale when they were going to sell it and everything fluctuated so frequently. At that point, my husband and I were in no place to even purchase a home so we had no clue what we were gonna do, but we instantly started working on his credit where we could obtain look for a home to buy because we knew that we didn’t really want to buy this place because it’s not, the nicest place it used to be a duplex at one point in time they opened it up to single-family home and it was just not really what we wanted. So we got a real estate agent once we got approved for a loan and started our house search and the market was horrible. We could not find anything to buy let alone rent, so with a lot of back-and-forth from our landlord about they were going to sell it. They weren’t going to sell it. They might want to move in here. They might not want to move in here and then just pressuring us to come up with a decision if we wanted to buy the home and trying to rush us we decided we just go ahead and buy the home because we were scared we were about to be homeless because we literally had nowhere else to go. About six months prior to us actually purchasing the home in July 2021. They had made us leave the home for a few days because they had to do some work to the house because there was termite damage underneath the front seal is what it was called between the foundation and the actual framing of the house. And they had also done a insurance claim on the roof and put shingles on the roof and kept the rest of the money for themselves so so rush to make a decision like that and fear of being homeless we went through with purchasing the home. We started to actually look at the house and wanted to do some like renovations, new flooring stuff like that, and when we went to the floors, we realize that the floors were so out of there was no way we could put the locking laminate flooring that we wanted down until we figured out why it was so unlevel. The whole front of the house has dropped like 2 inches because they themselves went in and replace the front seal of the house without a permit us not being knowledgeable about anything like that. We didn’t know they didn’t know what they were having on the roof is that it hasn’t been replaced ever and they didn’t pull permits for that either so now we can’t get homeowners insurance to cover but 25% of our roof even though we know that they put new shingles up there, we can’t prove it. And the roof has a very very noticeable dip in it. I’m pretty sure it’s leaking and I was going back through our contract that we signed our agreement at the lawyers office when we actually purchased the home and it says that no work could have been done on the house prior to it being sold within I think it was like nine months or so and they had in fact done work on the house without permits. So I guess my question is what should I do? Do I have a case can I sue them for these things we have tried repeatedly to reach out to these people without any success. They literally had had multiple rental properties throughout the county and surrounding counties and went and like sold them out from underneath their tenants and I’m pretty sure moved out of state, any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Me and my bf are currently/recently living in his parents house with his siblings(they’re home from college) while I go to college through the summer and he is working. I noticed we don’t have sex as much as we used to and I figured it was because he was stressed and didn’t have the time to do anything with me. I know he loves me and he tries really hard to make me happy, but I can’t help but feel like he doesn’t find me attractive anymore. I have gained about 20lbs since we first started dating and I feel like maybe this is part of the reason he doesn’t want to have sex as much.
Another thing is that almost everytime I attempt to initiate he says no, not tonight/not right now. The other night he asked if I could give him a bj and I did because I wanted to and I did enjoy it. Afterwords I asked if it could be my turn, but he said he didn’t have the time and that he had to study. I’m not gonna lie, that really hurt my feelings. He had the time for a bj but not to make me feel good too? He then went on to say He was a bad bf and all that, I just told him he wasn’t and that it was okay. I tried to let it go, blame it on him being stressed and having more important things to do. But aren’t I important to? It makes me feel like there’s something wrong with me and he doesn’t think I’m pretty anymore. I don’t know what I should do or if I should just let it go.
In the past I’ve told him about how I felt upset that most of the time I have asked for sex it was a no, and that I just didn’t understand why. All he said was that he still thinks I’m attractive and that he’s sorry. It makes me not want to ask for sex at all because I assume he’s going to say no. Don’t get me wrong, it is always okay to not want to have sex or to stop at any time and I would not be upset at him for that. However it just seems like we only have sex when he initiates or when he wants it. We’ve been dating for a few years and it’s always been like this. We went from sex a couple times a week to maybe once every 2 weeks.
Am I wrong for feeling like this? Please tell me your thoughts. Do you think he’s just stressed and I’m overthinking? I don’t have any ill intent and I would never make him do something he doesn’t want to. but after a few years I can’t help but question why it’s been like this.

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Selvin tried not to panic, as the Prometheus, took even heavier fire, from the hordes of Cerian spacecrafts and drones. Millions of lives were in his hands since Saphyra's ship was taken out. Making his ship, the closest allied ship to the planet. Now just maintaining a couple of Aeromachs for evacuation was starting to seem impossible. In addition to being surrounded, by Alcra's forces, who continued to press closer to the Prometheus, didn't make it any easier.
The princess had already ordered him to surrender and lower his shields, which he adamantly refused. He had to give it to the crew, for holding themselves together. Sarah and Saphyra had trained them well. One of the cadets came running to him, delivering a report.
"Sir!" They called out.
Selvin nodded. "Yes, cadet?"
The soldier relaxed and delivered her report. "Unknown forces are pressing past the Cerian forces from behind us. If my assumptions are correct, they may be the forces of Kiros."
Selvin stepped back. 'This was the worst-case scenario.' However, an idea struck him, making him want to take advantage of the situation. He turned back around to speak to the rest of the crew. "Everyone, begin slowly retreating from our position. Send word to the remaining Aeromachs. Get into Formation I and lure the two forces into fighting each other. Focus priority on rescuing and getting our people out of there!"
The crew nodded in agreement and got to work immediately, but moments later, they were hit, by several more missiles. This time, coming from the forces of Kiros...
Zelha vs the Novas...
Norah jumped up at the massive flaming fist, bearing down on them. "Static: Tardad!"
She punched the flaming fist, as a massive strike of lightning reinforced her. Then, coursed through the giant, while she poured in billions of volts, until the giant, with a massive explosion, dissipated along with it.
Then she spun around just in time, as the princess tried to catch her off-guard and to the Nova's despair, successfully. The flaming kick crashed her back down into the ground and dragged her across for some distance.
Norah managed to stay on her feet, but her body was ringing from the force. However, even as Zelha landed in front of her, she did not falter nor hesitate to call out to the skies. "Static: Berserker!"
Lightning reinforced her body and settled with an electric armour over it, while charging her up, to the maximum she could hold. They lunged at each other, trading intense blows, intending to kill.
Norah struggled, unable to take any more of the princess' strikes. The only advantage, she managed was speed. With quick reflexes, she drew her sword as Zelha missed a left fiery swing at the Nova's head and slashed her gut, with billions of volts.
"Static: Sadaa!" She yelled, as the princess along with the rest of the horizon, behind her, was sent crashing through the plains.
Norah appeared above her, with a blue sphere, trying to finish her off. "Converge: Easifat Raedia!"
A beam of lightning, shot forth out of her hands, racing to swallow up the child Atlas. However, to her dismay, she started to get pushed back instead, as a wave of fire, ate away towards her.
Norah was frantic, the princess was much stronger, but not as fast as her. However, that wouldn't matter, if her hands didn't stop shaking. She knew she needed to end this as soon as possible.
With quick thinking, she sidestepped away from her beam, while maintaining its strength with an electric clone, to not alert her opponent of her intentions. Then, she manifested an electric spear, behind her.
"Static: Harbatan!" She yelled as she chucked the spear with lightning speed and caught the princess off guard while causing violent tremors as her body struck the ground. Kicking up rocks and dust in a small electric explosion, while sending out an enormous shockwave.
Norah heaved, trying to catch her breath. She could feel her fingers, and parts of her body, beginning to seize and twitch all on their own. As the dust settled, the Nova, almost gave up, as the princess stood back up again, seemingly annoyed rather than weakened, from her last attack.
Zelha shook her head. "Do you actually think you have a chance?"
She reached into a pocket, pulling out a USB-like syringe. "I've seen that medicine that weakling injected into the other insect. We have something similar, but not as useless. I guess, I have to give you guys and those Hashin some credit. You all have done a number on me. Might as well be safe and show you some true despair."
Norah was not in the mood for any surprises, but the princess continued and injected her neck. The Nova watched as orange veins, started to creep up all over Zelha's body, with rings of fire, beginning to crush the ground.
"We call these Dosers. Liquidated lifespans, for us to consume on the go. My siblings hate relying on this, but I don't mind, as long as it can make the battle, a lot more fun." She said as she struggled to hold it all in.
Norah didn't blink, but the princess disappeared and reappeared with speed, she could not fathom, then punched her straight into the sky, with devastating force. The Nova flipped around to try and kick her as she reappeared right behind her. However, her leg was caught with ease, while Zelha proceeded to deliver another strike, covered in flames, right into Norah's gut and caused her to lose consciousness for a second, as she was sent flying back once more through the sky.
She reopened her eyes, as she was about to dip back down to the ground, and saw the princess, bearing down again above her, with her entire might. "Inferno Fist, Demolition!" Zelha yelled as she punched the Nova while enveloping her body in violet fire, as the Nova crashed into the ground, causing an intense, violent earthquake, and promptly fell unconscious.
The princess laughed. "She's still alive after that? I might have to keep her. I can't believe, she pushed me this far." However, suddenly a jolt of fear, washed over her, as she turned her head towards the sky. "There's no way. They can't be here!"
She began jetting towards the Emperor's position. "Father!"
Kayed vs Demil...
Kayed's head teetered back, as immense power coursed through him. His skin became magma-like, with his veins glowing across the cracks, while pulsing colours of black and reddish-orange. An ash-coloured skull with three blood-red whisker marks running horizontally, over another three running diagonally down like tribal markings, manifested over his head.
His hair glowed full silver, then dropped back to even drops of silver all along his hair. His eyes went white, as they rolled back, then came back glowing hazel. His bodysuit started to burn off, showing the veins coursing through him and across his chest, but he quickly raised tough sheets of metal over the pants, to keep them from burning.
Then, the skull shattered, as several geysers sprouted up from below them and shot lava into the sky. Following intense tremors, large fissures, and volcanoes erupting all around the continent.
Demil watched the Novas' transformation, with awe. "That technique... The Hashins used it, but why does this one feel different? Are you prepared, to give up your life to fight me?"
Kayed gritted his teeth, as he started to feel his life drain away, by the second. "With the strength, they've given me... I'll be sure to take you down."
Demil blinked, missing him move, as it was too late for him to react. When his eyes reopened, all he could do was eat the punch covered in magma, to the face, as he was sent hurdling back. The prince recovered in midair, putting up his arms to block a follow-up, from the Nova.
He smirked, trying to ignore the pain of his face, fixing itself, back up. "It seems I won't need to hold back against you."
Energy, unlike any Kayed had ever experienced in battle, burst out of Demil, carrying hot winds and stinging his face. Reddish orange veins, pulsed in intervals all over the prince's body. His hair was now glowing streaks of silver. The prince laughed out loud, then returned a strike back at the Nova, shaking him, with incredible force.
Kayed reeled back, realizing, that they were now at least nearly equal in strength. Then they lunged at each other, throwing earth-shaking lethal strikes, at each other, while trying to gain the upper hand.
Kayed found an opening and took it, manifesting a condensed heated sphere of magma in his palm. "Erupt: Kura!"
The ball, took Demil, back down to the ground. Resulting in a massive massive explosion, several kilometres wide.
Kayed raced towards the center of the explosion as it died down, seeing the prince already standing back up while creating his own condensed sphere of lava. "Origin Erasure!"
He launched the beam at the unprepared Nova, frantically raising up another sphere of his own. "Erupt: Nihayiy Burkania!"
The two beams, collided, sending shockwaves throughout the land, as hot winds rushed past the both of them. Resulting in a draw, but Kayed didn't hesitate. Pointing his hand at the ground, he yelled once more. "Create: Muharib Shaj'ah!"
A clone of him made out of magma, but covered in titanium and diamond armour, rose out of a fissure below him and raced toward Demil. The prince smirked and placed his hands together.
"Two can play at that game. Magma Battalion!" He yelled, as hundreds of warriors, modeled after the prince, intercepted and overwhelmed Kayed's clone.
Kayed gritted his teeth, at the wasted energy, but he didn't let it deter him, as Demil began making his way towards him.
The Nova dropped his hands to the ground once more. "Erupt: Malik Alsama'."
Tremors, followed by a huge crevice opened up below them. The prince looked down at the last second, as a massive magma dragon, sprung out of the crevice and chomped down on him, in midair. However, to Kayed's dismay, the prince remained in one piece, as he held apart the dragon's jaws, to avoid being swallowed. While the dragon's tongue continued to whip him, to force him inside.
He struggled, trying to keep the mouth open with one hand, then aimed the other inside of the dragon's mouth, blasting it, point-blank. Flames coursed through the dragon's throat, and out the back, erasing a mountain in the distance. Then they crashed together below, as the dragon, reformed itself and took back to the skies.
Kayed hopped onto its back and flew towards the prince's landing site. Wary, as his side effects, had started to signal early.
Demil got up, as his body, and arm reformed themselves. "This is fun! You're actually a real threat. It's been a while since anyone other than my siblings could even challenge me!"
The Nova wasn't entertained by his words and ordered his dragon to blast him. However, Demil raised a tough titanium curved dome, shielding him from the blast of fire and magma.
"I won't lose to you!" He said excitedly, as he dropped underground and reappeared out of a new crevice, shooting up with the force of a volcanic eruption below the dragon.
"Volcanic Fist!" He yelled, as he struck the dragon, from its underbelly, and blew it apart, as he crashed into Kayed's raised arms, shooting them, both up into the air.
'He's way too strong, I have to finish this in the next few minutes, otherwise, I'll run out of time.' the Nova thought to himself.
Demil laughed out loud, enjoying his fight. "Come on now, show me more of what you're capable of!"
Kayed returned a strike, blocking another coming from Demil, as they freefell back to the ground, landing, with a massive tremor, yet continuing to trade blows. His blood splattered all over the ground, with burn marks appearing all over his body. He was beginning to reach his limit, in addition to his wounds starting to take a toll, on top of the technique.
The Nova jumped back, watching all of the damage he inflicted on Demil, healing itself back to normal. "That regeneration ability is annoying." He spoke out loud, as he tried to regain his breath.
Demil chuckled. "It's your fault for being a mortal. That's why, we are the chosen ones. The ones who will bring humanity and all living beings, closer to God."
Kayed gritted his teeth angrily. "You think God, chose you soul-less monsters to lead us? Stop being delusional!" He clasped his hands together, gathering up the last bits of energy he had left. "Don't worry, I'll be sending you closer to God. In the next minute, I'll make you realize, that you were never special."
The prince braced himself, feeling the amount of energy, the Nova was gathering. "Let's see about that." He said, as volleys of magma, rose around him and rotated with incredible speed. "Rain of the Underworld!"
Kayed dodged the first few, as he leaped into the air, to avoid them, but the rest surrounded him, with no way to escape.
"Ahahahaha! Die!" Demil laughed maniacally.
Metals rose up quickly from the ground and shielded the Nova, as he was bombarded by the attack. The prince, let up after a moment, heaving and trying to see the state, he left him in.
The metal deformed shield glowed bright hot from the onslaught and somehow still held together, but broke apart a moment later, revealing Kayed, still in one piece. However, his skin was starting to peel and flake off, as cracks began to show up evidently all over his body.
Still, he ignored the pain and didn't take his focus off of his mission. "Erupt: Complete Borehole!"
The ground below Demil cracked open and spread dozens of meters wide as he began to fall. Leaving him shocked, as this was the first foreign opponent, that he felt like he couldn't read.
The Nova had directed his energy to the center of Rennaya, digging away in both directions as they fought, until he created a perfect borehole, to the core of the planet.The prince caught himself and pulled together a launch pad from the crumbling rubble, then tried to leap up out of the hole. However, Kayed hovered above, with a sphere of lava rotating faster than sound.
"There is no escape for you." He said as he placed his hand forth, forcing the prince to instinctively try and block it, as the he pulled together more rocks and rubble to shield himself. "Erupt: Nihayiy Burkania!" Kayed yelled, as Demil was pushed back down. Struggling to hold his shield together, with all of his might and continued reinforcing it with tougher materials from the planet, as he descended down lower.
Suddenly, the beam stopped, but moments later as he thought it was safe to fly back up, Kayed struck down, breaking through the shield, and socked him in the face. Behind him, trailed a lamp, made out of glass and amplifying light from a ball of lava, floating within. The prince was thrown further down into the abyss, asthe Nova plummeted after him, while coating himself in iko to protect himself from the pressure.
Each time Demil tried to stop, he would get struck by the walls, manifesting hands, columns, and whips, over and over. Until light began glimmering below them, out of the end of the massive tunnel. His eyes grew wide, realizing what Kayed was aiming for. He reached into his pocket, gripping the content tightly as he was smacked down further by another metal hand. Then injected his neck with it, the moment he was free.
His wounds, which took time to heal, instantly popped back up, as massive spikes of energy coursed through him. He couldn't help but chuckle as he blocked a column, about to slap him down, and blew it into smithereens, while the streaks in his hair glowed harder.
Kayed came in a second later, shocked to see his strike blocked easily, then was sent flying into the walls as a follow-up. The heat was starting to rise around them, as the walls combusted, turning into magma, from both of their energies.
"You've dug your own coffin." The prince spoke as shards of magma showered Kayed in his position, putting out his light.
Demil smiled and raised a lamp of his own, a little above them, to try and see what happened to the Nova, through the smoke and falling debris. However just a little to his left, he dodged a volley of magma, and then glanced back into the dark.
Kayed appeared from the shadows, eyes, and hair, giving him away. "Forbidden Art: Limit Breaker." He whispered, then launched himself with frightening speed at the prince, trading blow for blow, then knocking him back down on his journey.
"Why do you persist on throwing your life away for lowly mortals? They will die anyway! With this much power, your potential could be far greater!" The prince tried reasoning with him, as he blocked a burning strike, sinking deep into his arm. "Stop this. Let us cleanse them together brother, for the good of all mankind!"
Kayed ignored him, as he continued to spin around and kick him into a wall. "I could never trust you, to know what's good for us. Life means nothing to you or your family. As long as you're alive, my planet, my people, and my comrades are in trouble."
He coughed blood, wondering if what he was doing was going to make a difference, but that thought quickly went out of the way as he struck Demil down further into the hole. The light at the end of the tunnel, blared at them, before revealing the majestic, undisturbed, planetary core, spinning in harmony.
The drone, watching Kayed, could no longer keep up with the temperatures and switched to telescopic zoom to continue keeping the world, up to date on the scene. His performance was moving many people across the world to tears. Saphyra had thought many times to switch the camera off. However, they had always promised complete transparency. So she decided to continue although it pained her, not being able to do anything from her main body back on the Moon.
"No, no, no I can't be defeated. I won't be. Believe this mortal, I will win!" Demil yelled out, unaware of how his face was going to become in the next second, as it got punched in once again.
Limit Breaker, forced all of the last dormant energy a user possessed out, ignoring their pain with adrenaline, and giving them the ability to go all out, even if their body, couldn't handle it anymore. So Kayed, knew he needed to make the most of every second. Because the moment it stopped, Demil could overwhelm him.
The prince drew his sword, swinging frantically and trying to escape his fate. However, with quick instincts the Nova dodged each swing and cut his sword arm off then proceeded to stab him through his chest, nearly missing the core. Then, shielded his body with rocks from the exit of the borehole, cooling him down, to hold out as long as he could.
Demil's voice broke, as he blasted Kayed point-blank, with multiple volleys from his remaining arm. "You can't do this! I'm a prince of Ceria! I cannot lose... I... I was chosen!"
Kayed smirked. "This is the part where you should repent. It's over for you. Even mortals, have a way of defeating, those who believe they have escaped death!"
The core's heat, plus his side effects, started to take him, as his body began to crumble and burn into ashes. He said the his last rites in Arabic, then drove his sword, deeper through the prince's chest, diving them both into the burning core.
Notes:
Tardad means resonance in Lebanese Arabic
Easifat Raedia means thunderstorm.
Sadaa means Echo
Harbatan means spear.
Nihayiy Burkania means final volcano
Kura means ball
Borehole is a hole made into the ground, to discover oil or water. Countries have tried to dig to the center of the Earth, but were obviously unsuccesful. The longest one ever attempted was 12.2 km or 7.6 miles deep, in Russia, called the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Apparently though Exxon Gas drilled an oil well to about 12,376 in 2012 beating it. That's 15 times Burj Khalifa and longer than Mariana's Trench.
It would take atleast 38 minutes to reach the center of the Earth.
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After a fourth one of these in a matter of two weeks, I had to post this somewhere.
After 18 years on eBay I am going to have to stop offering letter mail. The amount of issues I have experienced in the last month alone just hurts my soul. I give buyers an option to either select free shipping or $3.50 tracked to help them.
The ones that go with free shipping are the ones opening up disputes on me I find. Either card is missing or it’s not a 10. My descriptions are as accurate as possible and I always provide high detail pics in my listings. I respect the processes involved from both sides and take this seriously.
People now open disputes without contacting you first for any problem. The thing that bothers me is the communication style of these people. They all speak the same way. No detail or punctuation. All lower case. Shortened words like k or thx. Three of four with feedback scores less than 30. Just low effort. eBay sides with them everytime. Even when you have all the proof and provide more info, doesn’t matter. My account is above standard. Always has been.
My heart right now, man. This is why we can’t have good things. Back to $6.96 shipping tracked and insured when it costs me $10. People still reach out to complain about the shipping costs and ding you under reasonable shipping costs.
What world are we living in? Tough times for sure. You can even see it through simple transactions.
End of rant. 😒

I'm just gonna throw myself on the bonfire of guys in the UK looking for someone to love. But confidence is key so here I go.
So to be upfront I've not had a date in about 4 years at this point (thank you COVID) and it'll be three years in June since I was in a relationship so its been a while.
I'm overweight at the moment but I'm working kn that. Diet is helping weight loss journey so much more than exercise but I am also working myself to maybe running a marathon. I'm trying so bear with me on that haha.
Outside of being a bit chubby I'm 6'1, black hair that I'm currently growing out, brown eyes and broad shoulders. I give the best hugs guaranteed.
I work full time but my job is hybrid remote so I work 3 days from home most weeks which is pretty good. I work on a service desk if you're curious which if you've ever seen 'IT Crowd' yeah I do ask a lot of people if they have turned it off an on again.
Currently live alone in a rented flat in Harrogate so good train links with York and Leeds and other spaces beyond.
Personally I'm a homebody. I like a bit of me time and relaxing at home but I am always down to spend time with my friends, be it heading around to someone else's for games or heading out on the town for drinks. I'm flexible like that.
I do wanna travel more. Always wanted to visit Japan. I am a bit of like an anime guy very interested in Japanese culture that kind of thing. I like gaming too. Big thing for me though is I play D&D. I do a lot of DMing for various groups.
I love story telling I love creating worlds and sharing them with other people.
Would love to share my world with you if you're reading this x

Hello, F (23) in a long-distance relationship with my gf (F 22) for almost 6 months.
I swore I'd never do any L-DRs ever again, with how all of my previous L-DRs went to shit (Been cheated on, the frustration blablabla anyone who has been in a long distance relationship know the drill.)
Yet, I let my guard down and I fell in love again. I fell quite hard, so hard I didn't keep my own promise. We even met in person ; I have to say, when your partner is living in another country, it's like having your own tour guide and it was truly amazing. She showed me around her town, I'm gonna spare the details but.. it was in overall a great experience for the first meeting. Her parents were cool and in overall I enjoyed my stay and spending some time together with your significant other like you've always dreamt of feels, pretty great. Not everything was perfect, we all live differently and I also happened to have a bit of cultural shock for some stuff, but in overall it was great. (Note: This was back in March.)
Reality check. I was so used to always having her around etc ; since I came home, everything feels.. grey. I really miss her, miss the moments we've had. Thank God my jobs keep me busy or else I'd be having a hard time, but it just doesn't feel the same anymore. I missed some determining details: my gf and I are complete opposites ; I work two jobs, live on my own, hobbies, I'm already thinking about my future, saving money, etc.. I feel like I can say I'm ready to be an adult. Well, for my gf, she still lives at her parents, doesn't (look or) have a job since she quitted her last (a bit before we met), she's broke, stays on her computer all day, etc... She's more of a lazy person and I can't stay in place.
At the beginning, I didn't mind it. She waits for me all day to be done with my shifts so we can call, hang out, play games together etc... But now, as our relationship starts to sound more serious (She wants to leave the family cocoon and move in with me, but we've agreed it's too early for now), I'm worried about her ; she's not actively looking for a job, she does nothing all day but gaming. AGAIN, maybe it's because I'd hate to be in her shoes or I'm just crazy but.. we're not 14 anymore. We're adults, we HAVE to somehow enter adulthood and move forward. Imagining her doing nothing for herself, for her future self.. PAINS me.
At first, I thought she was having a hard time and I did ask her (still asking her) if she's okay. If she needs to see a therapist, if she needs to talk about things that might cause her to stay in this spiral. She always said she's fine. I asked her why she still hasn't done more job research to.. get back on tracks and start living, you know.. "I don't need to, as long as I'm at my parents." was her answer.
As days pass, I'm feeling more lost than ever in my relationship. Since she mentioned she wants to live with me, I started to save money. I somehow managed to convince her to find a job at her city hall but since she applied, she didn't hear from them and doesn't seem to want to find out if she has been chosen for the job. I think her laziness, if I can call that, is starting to piss me off. It angers me so much sometimes, whenever I asked her what are her plans for the day and she says: "Nothing." or "Waiting for my gf to be done with work."
I tried talking to her, asking her if she's truly okay with her situation. "Are you happy with the life you're living?" I can't tell if she said it in a sarcastic way, but she said yes. I tried multiple times to talk her out and help her, but she gets mad at me and asks me to stop lecturing her like her mother does. I don't know how long I will keep up with this, but it has definitely started getting to me. I can't even talk to her about "us", our future "us", because I'm scared there's not gonna be one.
Being with someone that's lazy is really draining, it affects me so bad.. I'm scared for her, I'm scared of what she's gonna become if she stays like this for too long. But, every time I tried to have a serious conversation with her, she avoids it and tells me not to lecture her. Just from that, I cannot imagine how our lives would be if we lived together ; she'd be a stay-at-home while I work my ass off to afford this lifestyle? For now, there's no way I can afford that. Thanks for still being here, if you're reading this far. I'll get to the point.
I love her so much, I haven't been with someone this amazing in so long, she healed something in me that she didn't even break. But.. I can't stand hearing from my family, friends and coworkers that she's lazy, I'm starting to think they're right. I don't feel proud saying my gf does nothing all day. Yet, I feel like she might need more time to figure things out, it's not easy these days finding what you wanna do with your life. But in this economy, you can't afford to stay inactive for too long.
What do you guys think? Am I in the wrong for being mad at her ? Don't be scared to be honest, I'm so confused with my feelings. I feel like I'll be in the wrong if I choose to break up with her, she's always been so sweet and caring.

I was listening to songs, spending moments in nature enjoying my solitude brings me strength to my inner compass, I have been 2 relationships I knew they were not for, I knew the guy is not my target segment, but realizing cuz I gave up on what I felt right for me and got insecure recalling my friends advice and how they dismiss things I regard red flags, then red flags manifest just the way I felt it would! Cuz my heart knows who it wants, I promised myself this time, I will never follow anyone else’s inner compass, I will follow mine because that is how I always got waaaay ahead in life when everyone couldnt always imagine or see what the future could be, but I manifested the future i imagined always through believe and work toward it, following the strenngth of my heart… so the Translation of part of a song I admire by an Egyptian singer called Mohammad Hamaki, it just gives me hope and I know will give hope to anyone who been patiently waiting for real love that everyone denies its existence and maybe discourages them and ask them to change their self to manifest that true love or to give up their desire for real authentic warm loving love experience, I hope you enjoy the lyrics, I translated it myself to deliver the feelings in English cuz it is originally Arabic:
🎶🎼🎤I have spoken about you to the people and the days, They said it was a fantasy, but I said it is reality, not illusions. They said you are an angel I dream of, and not human, I bet on you, and now, I am the winner. I have drawn you in my imagination, Before I was with you, And years I have been waiting for you, Living on the fire of longing. They said about me in nights, Living in a false hope, A poor one following a mirage, And eventually, he will wake up. And here is the poor one, now envied, And they do not understand, and they asked me how I knew, That one day I would meet you among the rest of the people, And I replied that I followed the feeling.

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Selvin tried not to panic, as the Prometheus, took even heavier fire, from the hordes of Cerian spacecrafts and drones. Millions of lives were in his hands since Saphyra's ship was taken out. Making his ship, the closest allied ship to the planet. Now just maintaining a couple of Aeromachs for evacuation was starting to seem impossible. In addition to being surrounded, by Alcra's forces, who pressed closer to the Prometheus, didn't make it any easier.
The princess had already ordered him to surrender and lower his shields, which he adamantly refused. He had to give it to the crew, for holding themselves together. Sarah and Saphyra had trained them well. One of the cadets came running to him, delivering a report.
"Sir!" They called out.
Selvin nodded. "Yes, cadet?"
The soldier relaxed and delivered her report. "Unknown forces are pressing past the Cerian forces from behind us. If my assumptions are correct, they may be the forces of Kiros."
Selvin stepped back. 'This was the worst-case scenario.' However, an idea struck him, making him want to take advantage of the situation. He turned back around to speak to the rest of the crew. "Everyone, begin slowly retreating from our position. Send word to the remaining Aeromachs. Get into Formation I and lure the two forces into fighting each other. Focus priority on rescuing and getting our people out of there!"
The crew nodded in agreement and got to work immediately, but moments later, they were hit, by several more missiles. This time, coming from the forces of Kiros...
Zelha vs the Novas...
Norah jumped up at the massive flaming fist, bearing down on them. "Static: Tardad!"
She punched the flaming fist, as a massive strike of lightning reinforced her. Then, coursed through the giant, while she poured in billions of volts, until the giant, with a massive explosion, dissipated along with it.
Then she spun around just in time, as the princess tried to catch her off-guard and to the Nova's despair, successfully. The flaming kick crashed her back down into the ground and dragged her across for some distance.
Norah managed to stay on her feet, but her body was ringing from the force. However, even as Zelha landed in front of her, she did not falter nor hesitate to call out to the skies. "Static: Berserker!"
Lightning reinforced her body and settled with an electric armour over it, while charging her up, to the maximum she could hold. They lunged at each other, trading intense blows, intending to kill.
Norah struggled, unable to take any more of the princess' strikes. The only advantage, she managed was speed. With quick reflexes, she drew her sword as Zelha missed a left fiery swing at the Nova's head and slashed her gut, with billions of volts.
"Static: Sadaa!" She yelled, as the princess along with the rest of the horizon, behind her, was sent crashing through the plains.
Norah appeared above her, with a blue sphere, trying to finish her off. "Converge: Easifat Raedia!"
A beam of lightning, shot forth out of her hands, racing to swallow up the child Atlas. However, to her dismay, she started to get pushed back instead, as a wave of fire, ate away towards her.
Norah was frantic, the princess was much stronger, but not as fast as her. However, that wouldn't matter, if her hands didn't stop shaking. She knew she needed to end this as soon as possible.
With quick thinking, she sidestepped away from her beam, while maintaining its strength with an electric clone, to not alert her opponent of her intentions. Then, she manifested an electric spear, behind her.
"Static: Harbatan!" She yelled as she chucked the spear with lightning speed and caught the princess off guard while causing violent tremors as her body struck the ground. Kicking up rocks and dust in a small electric explosion, while sending out an enormous shockwave.
Norah heaved, trying to catch her breath. She could feel her fingers, and parts of her body, beginning to seize and twitch all on their own. As the dust settled, the Nova, almost gave up, as the princess stood back up again, seemingly annoyed rather than weakened, from her last attack.
Zelha shook her head. "Do you actually think you have a chance?"
She reached into a pocket, pulling out a USB-like syringe. "I've seen that medicine that weakling injected into the other insect. We have something similar, but not as useless. I guess, I have to give you guys and those Hashin some credit. You all have done a number on me. Might as well be safe and show you some true despair."
Norah was not in the mood for any surprises, but the princess continued and injected her neck. The Nova watched as orange veins, started to creep up all over Zelha's body, with rings of fire, beginning to crush the ground.
"We call these Dosers. Liquidated lifespans, for us to consume on the go. My siblings hate relying on this, but I don't mind, as long as it can make the battle, a lot more fun." She said as she struggled to hold it all in.
Norah didn't blink, but the princess disappeared and reappeared with speed, she could not fathom, then punched her straight into the sky, with devastating force. The Nova flipped around to try and kick her as she reappeared right behind her. However, her leg was caught with ease, while Zelha proceeded to deliver another strike, covered in flames, right into Norah's gut and caused her to lose consciousness for a second, as she was sent flying back once more through the sky.
She reopened her eyes, as she was about to dip back down to the ground, and saw the princess, bearing down again above her, with her entire might. "Inferno Fist, Demolition!" Zelha yelled as she punched the Nova while enveloping her body in violet fire, as the Nova crashed into the ground, causing an intense, violent earthquake, and promptly fell unconscious.
The princess laughed. "She's still alive after that? I might have to keep her. I can't believe, she pushed me this far." However, suddenly a jolt of fear, washed over her, as she turned her head towards the sky. "There's no way. They can't be here!"
She began jetting towards the Emperor's position. "Father!"
Kayed vs Demil...
Kayed's head teetered back, as immense power coursed through him. His skin became magma-like, with his veins glowing across the cracks, while pulsing colours of black and reddish-orange. An ash-coloured skull with three blood-red whisker marks running horizontally, over another three running diagonally down like tribal markings, manifested over his head.
His hair glowed full silver, then dropped back to even drops of silver all along his hair. His eyes went white, as they rolled back, then came back glowing hazel. His bodysuit started to burn off, showing the veins coursing through him and across his chest, but he quickly raised tough sheets of metal over the pants, to keep them from burning.
Then, the skull shattered, as several geysers sprouted up from below them and shot lava into the sky. Following intense tremors, large fissures, and volcanoes erupting all around the continent.
Demil watched the Novas' transformation, with awe. "That technique... The Hashins used it, but why does this one feel different? Are you prepared, to give up your life to fight me?"
Kayed gritted his teeth, as he started to feel his life drain away, by the second. "With the strength, they've given me... I'll be sure to take you down."
Demil blinked, missing him move, as it was too late for him to react. When his eyes reopened, all he could do was eat the punch covered in magma, to the face, as he was sent hurdling back. The prince recovered in midair, putting up his arms to block a follow-up, from the Nova.
He smirked, trying to ignore the pain of his face, fixing itself, back up. "It seems I won't need to hold back against you."
Energy, unlike any Kayed had ever experienced in battle, burst out of Demil, carrying hot winds and stinging his face. Reddish orange veins, pulsed in intervals all over the prince's body. His hair was now glowing streaks of silver. The prince laughed out loud, then returned a strike back at the Nova, shaking him, with incredible force.
Kayed reeled back, realizing, that they were now at least nearly equal in strength. Then they lunged at each other, throwing earth-shaking lethal strikes, at each other, while trying to gain the upper hand.
Kayed found an opening and took it, manifesting a condensed heated sphere of magma in his palm. "Erupt: Kura!"
The ball, took Demil, back down to the ground. Resulting in a massive massive explosion, several kilometres wide.
Kayed raced towards the center of the explosion as it died down, seeing the prince already standing back up while creating his own condensed sphere of lava. "Origin Erasure!"
He launched the beam at the unprepared Nova, frantically raising up another sphere of his own. "Erupt: Nihayiy Burkania!"
The two beams, collided, sending shockwaves throughout the land, as hot winds rushed past the both of them. Resulting in a draw, but Kayed didn't hesitate. Pointing his hand at the ground, he yelled once more. "Create: Muharib Shaj'ah!"
A clone of him made out of magma, but covered in titanium and diamond armour, rose out of a fissure below him and raced toward Demil. The prince smirked and placed his hands together.
"Two can play at that game. Magma Battalion!" He yelled, as hundreds of warriors, modeled after the prince, intercepted and overwhelmed Kayed's clone.
Kayed gritted his teeth, at the wasted energy, but he didn't let it deter him, as Demil began making his way towards him.
The Nova dropped his hands to the ground once more. "Erupt: Malik Alsama'."
Tremors, followed by a huge crevice opened up below them. The prince looked down at the last second, as a massive magma dragon, sprung out of the crevice and chomped down on him, in midair. However, to Kayed's dismay, the prince remained in one piece, as he held apart the dragon's jaws, to avoid being swallowed. While the dragon's tongue continued to whip him, to force him inside.
He struggled, trying to keep the mouth open with one hand, then aimed the other inside of the dragon's mouth, blasting it, point-blank. Flames coursed through the dragon's throat, and out the back, erasing a mountain in the distance. Then they crashed together below, as the dragon, reformed itself and took back to the skies.
Kayed hopped onto its back and flew towards the prince's landing site. Wary, as his side effects, had started to signal early.
Demil got up, as his body, and arm reformed themselves. "This is fun! You're actually a real threat. It's been a while since anyone other than my siblings could even challenge me!"
The Nova wasn't entertained by his words and ordered his dragon to blast him. However, Demil raised a tough titanium curved dome, shielding him from the blast of fire and magma.
"I won't lose to you!" He said excitedly, as he dropped underground and reappeared out of a new crevice, shooting up with the force of a volcanic eruption below the dragon.
"Volcanic Fist!" He yelled, as he struck the dragon, from its underbelly, and blew it apart, as he crashed into Kayed's raised arms, shooting them, both up into the air.
'He's way too strong, I have to finish this in the next few minutes, otherwise, I'll run out of time.' the Nova thought to himself.
Demil laughed out loud, enjoying his fight. "Come on now, show me more of what you're capable of!"
Kayed returned a strike, blocking another coming from Demil, as they freefell back to the ground, landing, with a massive tremor, yet continuing to trade blows. His blood splattered all over the ground, with burn marks appearing all over his body. He was beginning to reach his limit, in addition to his wounds starting to take a toll, on top of the technique.
The Nova jumped back, watching all of the damage he inflicted on Demil, healing itself back to normal. "That regeneration ability is annoying." He spoke out loud, as he tried to regain his breath.
Demil chuckled. "It's your fault for being a mortal. That's why, we are the chosen ones. The ones who will bring humanity and all living beings, closer to God."
Kayed gritted his teeth angrily. "You think God, chose you soul-less monsters to lead us? Stop being delusional!" He clasped his hands together, gathering up the last bits of energy he had left. "Don't worry, I'll be sending you closer to God. In the next minute, I'll make you realize, that you were never special."
The prince braced himself, feeling the amount of energy, the Nova was gathering. "Let's see about that." He said, as volleys of magma, rose around him and rotated with incredible speed. "Rain of the Underworld!"
Kayed dodged the first few, as he leaped into the air, to avoid them, but the rest surrounded him, with no way to escape.
"Ahahahaha! Die!" Demil laughed maniacally.
Metals rose up quickly from the ground and shielded the Nova, as he was bombarded by the attack. The prince, let up after a moment, heaving and trying to see the state, he left him in.
The metal deformed shield glowed bright hot from the onslaught and somehow still held together, but broke apart a moment later, revealing Kayed, still in one piece. However, his skin was starting to peel and flake off, as cracks began to show up evidently all over his body.
Still, he ignored the pain and didn't take his focus off of his mission. "Erupt: Complete Borehole!"
The ground below Demil cracked open and spread dozens of meters wide as he began to fall. Leaving him shocked, as this was the first foreign opponent, that he felt like he couldn't read.
The Nova had directed his energy to the center of Rennaya, digging away in both directions as they fought, until he created a perfect borehole, to the core of the planet.The prince caught himself and pulled together a launch pad from the crumbling rubble, then tried to leap up out of the hole. However, Kayed hovered above, with a sphere of lava rotating faster than sound.
"There is no escape for you." He said as he placed his hand forth, forcing the prince to instinctively try and block it, as the he pulled together more rocks and rubble to shield himself. "Erupt: Nihayiy Burkania!" Kayed yelled, as Demil was pushed back down. Struggling to hold his shield together, with all of his might and continued reinforcing it with tougher materials from the planet, as he descended down lower.
Suddenly, the beam stopped, but moments later as he thought it was safe to fly back up, Kayed struck down, breaking through the shield, and socked him in the face. Behind him, trailed a lamp, made out of glass and amplifying light from a ball of lava, floating within. The prince was thrown further down into the abyss, asthe Nova plummeted after him, while coating himself in iko to protect himself from the pressure.
Each time Demil tried to stop, he would get struck by the walls, manifesting hands, columns, and whips, over and over. Until light began glimmering below them, out of the end of the massive tunnel. His eyes grew wide, realizing what Kayed was aiming for. He reached into his pocket, gripping the content tightly as he was smacked down further by another metal hand. Then injected his neck with it, the moment he was free.
His wounds, which took time to heal, instantly popped back up, as massive spikes of energy coursed through him. He couldn't help but chuckle as he blocked a column, about to slap him down, and blew it into smithereens, while the streaks in his hair glowed harder.
Kayed came in a second later, shocked to see his strike blocked easily, then was sent flying into the walls as a follow-up. The heat was starting to rise around them, as the walls combusted, turning into magma, from both of their energies.
"You've dug your own coffin." The prince spoke as shards of magma showered Kayed in his position, putting out his light.
Demil smiled and raised a lamp of his own, a little above them, to try and see what happened to the Nova, through the smoke and falling debris. However just a little to his left, he dodged a volley of magma, and then glanced back into the dark.
Kayed appeared from the shadows, eyes, and hair, giving him away. "Forbidden Art: Limit Breaker." He whispered, then launched himself with frightening speed at the prince, trading blow for blow, then knocking him back down on his journey.
"Why do you persist on throwing your life away for lowly mortals? They will die anyway! With this much power, your potential could be far greater!" The prince tried reasoning with him, as he blocked a burning strike, sinking deep into his arm. "Stop this. Let us cleanse them together brother, for the good of all mankind!"
Kayed ignored him, as he continued to spin around and kick him into a wall. "I could never trust you, to know what's good for us. Life means nothing to you or your family. As long as you're alive, my planet, my people, and my comrades are in trouble."
He coughed blood, wondering if what he was doing was going to make a difference, but that thought quickly went out of the way as he struck Demil down further into the hole. The light at the end of the tunnel, blared at them, before revealing the majestic, undisturbed, planetary core, spinning in harmony.
The drone, watching Kayed, could no longer keep up with the temperatures and switched to telescopic zoom to continue keeping the world, up to date on the scene. His performance was moving many people across the world to tears. Saphyra had thought many times to switch the camera off. However, they had always promised complete transparency. So she decided to continue although it pained her, not being able to do anything from her main body back on the Moon.
"No, no, no I can't be defeated. I won't be. Believe this mortal, I will win!" Demil yelled out, unaware of how his face was going to become in the next second, as it got punched in once again.
Limit Breaker, forced all of the last dormant energy a user possessed out, ignoring their pain with adrenaline, and giving them the ability to go all out, even if their body, couldn't handle it anymore. So Kayed, knew he needed to make the most of every second. Because the moment it stopped, Demil could overwhelm him.
The prince drew his sword, swinging frantically and trying to escape his fate. However, with quick instincts the Nova dodged each swing and cut his sword arm off then proceeded to stab him through his chest, nearly missing the core. Then, shielded his body with rocks from the exit of the borehole, cooling him down, to hold out as long as he could.
Demil's voice broke, as he blasted Kayed point-blank, with multiple volleys from his remaining arm. "You can't do this! I'm a prince of Ceria! I cannot lose... I... I was chosen!"
Kayed smirked. "This is the part where you should repent. It's over for you. Even mortals, have a way of defeating, those who believe they have escaped death!"
The core's heat, plus his side effects, started to take him, as his body began to crumble and burn into ashes. He said the his last rites in Arabic, then drove his sword, deeper through the prince's chest, diving them both into the burning core.
Notes:
Tardad means resonance in Lebanese Arabic
Easifat raedia means thunderstorm.
Sadaa means Echo
Harbatan means spear.
Nihayiy Burkania means final volcano
Kura means ball
Borehole is a hole made into the ground, to discover oil or water. Countries have tried to dig to the center of the Earth, but were obviously unsuccesful. The longest one ever attempted was 12.2 km or 7.6 miles deep, in Russia, called the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Apparently though Exxon Gas drilled an oil well to about 12,376 in 2012 beating it. That's 15 times Burj Khalifa and longer than Mariana's Trench.
It would take atleast 38 minutes to reach the center of the Earth.
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Hello. I’m gonna use the term ‘MOL’ even though she technically isn’t, she’s my boyfriends mom.
I (19F) live with my boyfriends family and have done for almost 2 years. It’s hard at times, his family shout at each other a lot, which is something I left my own home to get away from.
My boyfriends sister (16F) is very socially awkward. She never talks to me or looks me in the eyes. When she sees me she runs away. I do not have a problem with this as I know what it’s like to be in her shoes. She wants nothing to do with me. Because of this, I very rarely talk to her. There was an incident last year when I went away to visit my family for the week with my boyfriend, she went into our room and cut up all my clothes and destroyed all of my makeup. I do not know what provoked her to do this and neither do her parents. She was shouted at for it but was not made to pay any of the damages so I ended up paying out of pocket in the end.
Fast forward to Friday, I was in the nail salon and my boyfriend was waiting in the car. He gets a phone call from his mom (it was actually his sister who has snook away with her moms phone) and started calling me names. My boyfriend ended the call and later told his parents about this incident. MOL says “I’ll speak to her about it” and said no more. Later on, my boyfriend went downstairs to shout at his sister for the incident. His mom jumps into defence mode and says that what his sister did was okay because “she was only joking!”. She then preceded to start name calling me as well, with his sister on the side lines egging her on. I was still upstairs at this point. There was a lot of screaming from his mom, calling me all sorts of names. I did nothing to provoke this. The day before seemed fine and they didn’t seem like they had an issue with me. They later apologised (not to me, to my boyfriend who was made to pass the apology along) and have continued like nothing happened.
Should I move out? 🫤