Hey there, currently pulling an all nighter for funsies after a really long week has me wanting to just burn the midnight oil. Currently about three bong rips in and feeling really damn stoned and I'm ready to see where the night takes me! Come along and join me?
I work full time as a graphic designeartist for a big company. I luckily work from home full time and spend most days drawing/designing/photographing/video editing whatever is needed of me as im kind of a catch all media person. Outside of work I'm heavily tattooed and am always thinking up the next thing I wanna get put on me. I am currently working on my 2nd sleeve, this ones a leg! I love hardcore and live at shows. Most of my closet is black band T's and spooky button downs.
I like staying fit and eating healthy, I love reading and am a big fan of sci fi/horrofantasy. I live for Warhammer 40k and Dungeons and Dragons. I love horror in general and can binge horror shorts/movies all night as I love being scared. I'm SUPER into the paranormal. I watch a ton of pro wrestling, I love cooking too!
Hope to hear from you!

Hi,
20(M) here soon to be 21, I've not planned what to write in this post, everything I'll be writing I'm thinking of it at this moment so, bare with me.
Starting from school life, I was never good at studies I don't even know wether I'm an average student or a below average student becuz in some classes I've performed good and in some classes I had failed miserably. Everytime I sat down for studies it was just for show becuz if I didn't my mother would beat the shit out of me. I was unable to pay any attention, used to play with my toys or daydreaming at its fullest, by doing all this i used to pass my time of studies and get up for playing or watching TV and yes I never had much friends either becuz being a single child my mother never let me step out of my house which created a gap between my school friends and taking advantage of my isolation they used to bully me.
My dad got me admitted to the best school of my city and the very first day i realised this place is not for me becuz everyone was studious and I stand no chance against them once again I felt isolated and not home i barely passed that school tbh I was about to fail but I'd told my class teacher that next year I'll be switching school and I'm greatfull to him he understood and let me pass despite me faling in 4 subjects.
So in class 8th i moved to another school which had a very bad reputation in my city becuz the students were chappri and not so studious and I loved that school probably the best moments of my life were made in that school yk ANDHO ME KANA RAJA yes this is what I was there in very less effort i used to score way more which made me so called top 10 students of the class, I was still bad at maths and science but I really enjoyed social studies and English I used to score 95+ in both of these subjects and tbh this was the point of life, I had some gut feelings that I'll manage to passout from school somehow but I'll never be able to crack any entrance exams or do any jobs becuz again that requires effort and time which I don't have but I never realised how bad things are gonna get becuz I was just 13yo but I had this feeling in me.
So fast forward to 2020, got my 10th boards results it was 78% with 95/100 in social science and 67/100 in science I was terrible in maths thanks to my friends who let me cheat and score passing marks. Now time comes to decide what to choose in 10+2 and like most kids I took PCB why you may ask "becuz i wanted to become a doctor??" Heck no I took PCB just to escape from maths unaware of the fact that now physics and chemistry will become maths and why not arts or commerce you may ask considering I scored 95 in social science well SAMAJH ME HUM KYA BOLENGE HAMARE BETE NE ARTS LIYA HAI yes this was the reason, anyways I joined ALLEN after the first lecture itself i realised I fucked up by taking PCB and my dad's 2.2L just got in vein in that NEET coaching. Anyways 2022 comes I gave my 12th boards without even knowing the chapters of my subjects except English I still managed to score 70% becuz the school principal was my dad's friend and tbh that school was particularly know for cheating in exams so I did exactly that everyone from that school did.
Now comes the NEET exam and I scored 003/720 my parents expectations were shattered i felt so bad for them and tbh I don't blame my parents for anything which happened to me they did everything that was best for me maybe they don't realise my ADHD my lack of competitiveness in this rapid world I just feel I was never born to them I still love them want to make them feel proud but I cannot atleast in this conventional manner like every other individual does.
After my first attempt of NEET i prepared for CLAT (my dad was always against it becuz he's also in the same field and didn't like his job) anyway I scored 28/120 in 3 months of preparation from scratch I told my father that give me 1 more years I'll secure my state NLU he didn't believe and got me again into NEET prep this time I scored 87/720 which gave more hope to my poor dad that in 3rd attempt I'll score atleast passing marks which is arround 150 despite me telling him to putting me into college and on this 5th may I gave my 3rd attempt and I told me dad that I'm expecting the same results as last attempt but this time he lost it he threw all of my books he broke my laptop abused me both physically and verbally and he has clearly said that he'll not put me in college and will just feed me keeping me in home becuz he thinks I'm useless which probably I'm but I'm yet to give up on life now my house don't feel home to me anymore and I'm done watching my friends and peers enjoying their life in colleges.
Sorry if I got carried away and overshared but I cannot write something without oversharing.
Now I've decided to move out on my own I've no job just 12k rupees left in my account i had one laptop which my dad broke last night I want to get myself diagnosed for ADHD becuz i realated with every damn symptom and I'm done with panic attacks and this constant fear of losing in life always in my mind which has me so weak in the past 6-7 months I've lost like 40kgs of weight i always feel tired and weak I find it difficult to lift a bucket of water.
I thinking to Move to Delhi idk where I'll stay I've relatives living in Delhi but I'm not gonna stay with them.
My skills:-
I'm fluent in English speaking and writing. I know basic 3D modelling and Video editing. I've basic knowledge of real estate. I'm passionate about cars (i would really enjoy a career related to this field)
Apart from that I can learn any vocational skill quickly.
I don't care what jobs I've to do now becuz there's nothing left for me to loose no expectations, no self respect, no grades, no luxury and no privileges.
Idk who'll read this and if you've any advice please give. I JUST WANT MY LIFE TO GET BACK NORMAL WHICH I SEE IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE.
After all this I've realised one thing that I was always escaping from good schools to bad schools, from responsibilities and from problems. I was cocooned by all the privileges which I had and all the escape mechanisms which I made either by daydreaming or cheating the system and now when they are gone I've realised I'm Fucking useless not compatible for this competative world.

I apologize if I’m an idiot or whatever but there is this crazy lady who kept asking me for money for a while and I was polite to her but didn’t give her anything. Well like 6-8 weeks ago she saw me in a bodega and started yelling about how I “stole” her “Apple Watch”. I am not convinced she ever had one seeing as she is clearly homeless and on something although I’m not sure what. I do have one that is about 1000 years old (I think gen 2) and I hate it and it’s been in a drawer for at least 6 years. She asked me what color mine was and I lied and said it was black (it’s silver and white but who cares I’m at a point where I’ll just throw it at her and someone can give her $5 for it) but she was like “ohhhh mine is black! You stole it!” I’m generally a non combative person and don’t know what to do in these situations but she has done this now in 3 different shops and the shop owners know me so they back me up or help me get away.
Today (yesterday) I got home from doing stuff with my mom for Mother’s Day and she was across the street from my apt and started yelling at me like “hey! Hey! You! Fucking bitch! You’re the bitch that stole my watch!” Etc etc loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear. Oh yeah and then “ok bitch I know where you live now! I know where you live!” And I kind of snapped and was like “I did not steal your watch! I don’t care about it and don’t need it and don’t want it! Leave me the fuck alone!”
And I went inside and she stood outside of my building for over an hour. I called 311 (wanted to know what my options were) and they referred me to 911 (I asked them to do a wellness check on her and they were like “you want us to do a wellness check on someone who is harassing and stalking you?” I was like “well she is clearly unwell”). They were useless. I don’t know what to do here. Like I was assaulted a few years ago and they caught the guy but he didn’t show up to his court date and the city was like 🤷🏻‍♀️ so I just don’t know what I can do here at this point. Does anyone have any advice?
Edit: I asked for the wellness check because the alternative was for the cops to come and interview me and her and for her to see that which I think would have made me significantly less safe

Hi all, I’ve got a general question to throw out here, and could use some input/experiences.
To start, I’ve been a practicing pagan/witch since 2017 and part of my local coven (technically a circle but will use coven for consistency) since around 2018. For the longest time I was the “baby” of the group (high school aged when most of the others were older adults), and they watched me grow older and become more in tune with my craft. Feeling more confident in myself and my craft, I led my first Full Moon Esbat this past February. While I was anxious at first due to how large the group was (the largest group we’ve had in over a year, insert Meowth “I’ve got a lot of people to disappoint” here), I felt the energy as we went through it and got a lot of compliments afterwards. I felt so ecstatic, and was excited to lead my next ritual.
Come Beltane and the New Moon. Due to scheduling conflicts with the UU church we meet at (in the process of becoming a CUUPS chapter) we had to combine both events into one and do it at a later date than the actual Sabbat/Esbat. I had a bad anxiety dream about the ritual going wrong that morning upon waking up, which is normally the sign of an omen for me. I tried to brush it off and mentioned it during setup, and the others said it would be alright. Time for the ritual. Compared to the 25 or so that showed up to the February Full Moon, only 11 people came to Beltane/New Moon. We did the ritual outside to use the bonfire and maypole, and bugs proved to be an issue. The maypole itself didn’t go as planned (I misread the dance tutorial and was confused why it wasn’t working), and I had a hard time not flubbing my words and keeping the script in the right order, which was frustrating due to my neurodivergence.
While I did get really positive feedback (the Cone of Power chant being especially powerful and someone saying the maypole dance was the most fun they’ve ever had), I couldn’t help but beat myself up about it when I got home. Feeling as if it didn’t go as well as planned/hoped and that people didn’t like it. One of our co-founders assured me it went well, but I couldn’t help but dwell on it (it was past 9pm, after all). Does anyone else who takes on a position like this struggle with similar impostor syndrome or impostor syndrome-like feelings? I hope I’m not the only one.
TL;DR: Led Esbat in February that went super well. Led combined Sabbat/Esbat for Beltane/New Moon and didn’t go as well as planned/expected. Received lots of compliments but still struggling with impostor syndrome. Has anyone else felt the same?
EDIT: Mobile totally butchered the formatting LOL Got it all fixed on desktop XD

I have never in my adult life seen such an explosion of people calling anything outside of a gun skin 'pay to win' content than I have since the Unheard Edition drama from BSG, and I'm frankly sick to bastard death of every other extraction shooter catching a cold just because Nikita sneezed, so let's talk about what pay to win actually is, and where ABI needs to draw the line in order to not derail its own hype train that, all going well, will see it at least eat into Tarkov's playerbase outside the wipe hype months.
I'm getting older, and I remember the first time I ever had adult money being around the release of the first iPhone and not long after it, the free-to-play revolution with the rise of League of Legends (unfortunately) and an explosion in the popularity of mobile gaming. Come 2012-ish, the evil geniuses at Clash of Clans and Candy Crush (and eventually the slimy pricks at EA) realised that if even just a small percentage of their player base could be manipulated into spending small amounts of money often enough, they could make way, way more than they could with traditional one-and-done license agreements.
It sucks, it's evil and it's been discussed to death. Even South Park did an episode about it. But it was so popular and so lucrative that it became a sort of de-facto standard for live service games to try and hook a few thousand whales and keep the freeloaders around to basically serve as content for the people spending thousands a year on a 'free' or heavily discounted game.
For someone casually playing something like Candy Crush (one of the first games I ever encountered that was truly pay to win) on their lunch break, it maybe doesn't matter so much if players paying for the game get to use more moves and skip a few levels ahead - right up until the point where the free players are competing to finish a level first to get paid currency to even allow them to finish a level at all. It then becomes pretty tempting to shell out a few bucks here and there to beat the level, if you have that kind of genetic makeup, because you are quite literally shelling out cash to skip levels and progress in the game. It's extremely direct. Sick of not being able to beat a level ('win')? Spent $10 and we got you, you can go back to crushing your candies or whatever the fuck.
Of course, you can fetter away as much time as you want playing Candy Crush on your own without spending a cent, but a game that is more concretely social and has a strong PVP element is a different story, right? You can't just give people who spend heaps of money on a free to play game Ubermensch superpowers, right? That defeats the purpose of keeping the freeloaders around at all, because they won't stick around if it's as trivial as someone else parting with a few bucks to make a fight impossible for them to win.
Wrong. Diablo Immortal made $500mil against an $11mil budget in its first year, and has some of the most egregious pay to win mechanics any of us have ever seen (outside of those insane China-only MMORPGs).
In Diablo Immortal (when it came out), you could pay actual money to:

• Increase the likelihood or even guarantee spawns of legendary gems that directly boost your character when you do certain dungeons and allow you to bypass stat caps (while bypassing caps placed on the quality free to play characters get on those gems),
• Use those gems to increase your resonance and overpower your character even more,
• 'Awaken' your gear to open up slots to get even more pay-to-win gems that buffed your character, even in PvP.

This is a direct exchange of money for increasing your odds of winning individual fights and beating other players. This is paying to win the game. It's the same as Candy Crush letting you spend money to not have to compete with the other players over the gold bars you need to finish some levels, except it's even worse because free-to-play players have a hard cap on how good the RNG legendary gems they do find can ever be.
People have been talking about EoD in Tarkov being pay to win for over half a decade now and the argument has become pretty irrelevant because despite the huge furore in the months after it was announced, it wound up meaning very little. You get some extra stuff when a wipe starts, but none of it is anything worth writing home about because you'll have access to it all anyway once you hit 15 and unlock the flea.
One thing people get a bee in their bonnet about is the secure container. The Gamma case in Tarkov is one of the main things you can buy to make the first couple of wipes you play a little more bearable. Those 5 extra worry-free slots mean you wind up spending less money replacing meds and ammo in the early game and, if you are like me and suck and die a lot early-wipe, you can hang onto juicy bits of loot to help you get a head start. The fact of the matter is, though, for your first wipe or two, you are still going to be fucking awful at the game and have a pretty miserable time for the most part because that's just the nature of the beast.
You also get a bigger stash, which helps you spend less time selling stuff and organising your loot and saves you a lot of Roubles upgrading it the unpaid way.
Is that actually paying to win, though? Especially considering the Kappa container is available to everyone for the same amount of effort, and that you can upgrade your stash (with a huge amount of effort - I did it my first two wipes, never again) to EoD level without spending any money?
No. It's not even in the fucking ballpark compared to Diablo Immortal or what EA tried to pull with the lootboxes in Battlefront 2 or any of the other unconscionable shit these companies have pulled in the P2W industry in the last decade. Your minute-to-minute raiding experience is not impacted by having a standard account over an EoD account. My gamma has never once won me a firefight, eaten a bullet for me, saved me a hot dime on a flea market purchase, increased my health pool, increased my damage, given me bonus XP, or given me extra stamina, and in fact the better I got at the game the less I found I needed it at all. Its sole function is to hold keys and injectors, and to save you some time having to grind out roubles to buy ammo and meds by sparing you from losing them if you do die. That's it. The key point is, if you manage to extract, your gamma was basically worthless.
Enter ABI's monetization. The hysterics over this game MAYBE having subscription secure containers needs to stop. It is a perfectly fine way to monetize a free-to-play extraction shooter. It's $5 a month in the mobile version, which would require you to use it consistently for over 2 years to equal a single EoD purchase. Considering I usually dip out 3-4 months into a wipe, I probably would have come out even.
Where Tarkov did go wrong with EoD, and what I see no one ever talking about, is the trader rep bonus. Holy shit. This did and does to this day completely easy-mode the first 20 levels of a wipe for my EoD account. This is incontrovertibly paying to win. Starting a wipe 10 quests for each trader ahead of standard edition accounts in trader rep is criminal. Since I bought EoD I have never been gatekept by rep to level up a trader, not once. That means I have earlier and cheaper access to better ammo and armour and weapon parts and there's just straight up nothing a standard account can do to catch up to me.
TL:DR; What I'm getting at is, it is not P2W and is in fact pure pay-for-convenience/expression to monetize:

• Obviously, anything purely cosmetic,
• Any means of reducing some of the consequences of dying, including item insurance return times and secure containers - again, all this does is make it very slightly less punishing to die, it will never save you, get you a kill or help you extract, and a paying player will not have an edge over a free player in the minute-to-minute gameplay based on their container,
• Purchasing any gear that you already had available from traders or the flea market (i.e. cash for roubles/Koens) - I think Tarkov should even do this because it's such a laughable decision for a player to make considering how easy it is to make money once you learn the ropes, and bad players with good gear are basically loot piñatas for the rest of us. ABI makes this an even better idea since it has great inherent protection against RMT with its loot return mechanic.

It is maybe P2W to monetize:

• Stash space - depending on the degree to which the different tiers of stash space change, and whether or not it's possible to grind stash space for free, also depends how much you need your stash space to complete tasks - from what I have seen of ABI, this is minimal.
• Flea market slots - again, how many more slots are we talking?

It is definitely P2W to monetize:

• XP bonuses, trader rep bonuses, access to daily/weekly quests, anything that gets you through the portions of the game that unlock trader items for purchase faster,
• Direct buffs to your stats, even via consumable items - health, stamina, carrying capacity, hungethirst, breath holding duration etc. obviously with exception to injectors that any player can find or buy on the flea,
• Anything that protects you from game mechanics to which your F2P counterparts are vulnerable, such as the Unheard editions Scav Radio,
• Any exclusive items F2P players can't buy that impact minute-to-minute gameplay, like guns, optics, bags, armouhelmets, meds, grenades etc.

My roommate has taken in a friends dog while they’re on vacation and just leaves it in his room. I can understand keeping it in there while he’s at work, but even when he’s at home he doesn’t let it leave, or take it outside for walks before he goes out again and leaves it alone in the evenings. It’s been 3 days and I constantly hear it whimpering and wanting out. I tried talking to him about it and he kind of just brushed it off and acted like it’s not my business and said he’d take it out “eventually”. What do I do?
tldr; Roommate looking after friends dog and has been keeping it in his room for 3 days straight and won’t let it out for anything
Edit: this has been starting to piss me off in particular because I had a childhood dog pass away fairly recently, so not taking care of a dog in your care doesn’t sit right with me even more right now

Rumours and speculation wants the first teaser trailer for Agatha to be released at Disney Upfront in 3 days where Disney will showcase new promotional footage for the rest of the 2024 theatrical and Disney+ slate.
This is the continuation of a series of posts I'm doing to prepare people for upcoming releases by listing everything that we know about them. Check the previous posts out if you missed them (Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts), Daredevil: Born Again.
As always, all leaks are taken from the Source Accuracy Database, and only reliable sources are chosen to make these compilations.

Official Information

9-Episode (~40-minute each) Series Releasing This Fall

Synopsis

Agatha Harkness finally breaks out of the spell Wanda Maximoff had trapped her in and is ready to go back to her murderous ways, only to realise she is powerless. The only way forward is for her to embark on a journey to get her powers back with the help of an unlikely friend or two.

Crew

• Head Writer: Jac Schaeffer^{(WandaVision, VisionQuest, Early Drafts of Black Widow and Captain Marvel)}
• Directed by: Jac Schaeffer, Gandja Monteiro^(Wednesday), Rachel Goldberg^{(Resident Evil, American Gods, Gen V)}
• Cinematography by: Caleb Heymann^{(Fear Street Trilogy, Stranger Things 4)}
• Composer: Christophe Beck^{(Ant-Man Trilogy, WandaVision, Hawkeye)}
• Production Design by: John Collins^{(Art Director on WandaVision)}
• Edited by: TBA
• Costume Designer: Daniel Selon^{(Assistant Costume Designer on WandaVision, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Blue Beetle)}
• Executive Producers: Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Mary Livanos^{(Captain Marvel, WandaVision, The Marvels),} Jac Schaeffer, Brad Winderbaum^{(Head of Marvel Studios TV, Animation and Streaming)}

Cast

• Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness

RETURNING FROM WANDAVISION:

• Emma Caulfield as Sarah Procto"Dottie Jones"
• Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis/"Mrs. Hart"
• David A. Payton as John Collins/"Herb"
• David Lengel as Harold Procto"Phil Jones"
• Asif Ali as Abilash Tandom/"Norm"
• Amos Glick as "Dennis the mailman"
• Brian Brightman as Sheriff Miller
• Kate Forbes as Evanora Harkness

NEW CHARACTERS:

• Joe Locke as Billy Maximoff
• Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal
• Ali Ahn as Alice Wu
• Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale
• Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu
• Miles Gutierrez-Riley as TBA
• Maria Dizzia as TBA
• Okwui Okpokwasili as Cicada
• Bethany Curry as Crow
• Athena Perample as Fox
• Marina Mazepa as Snake
• Britta Grant as Rat
• Chau Naumova as Coyote
• Alicia Vela-Bailey as Owl

Leaked Information

While the show underwent several subtitle changes from "House of Harkness" to "Coven of Chaos" to "Darkhold Diaries" , Disney revealed a couple of months ago that the show was simply titled "Agatha" all along (wink wink) and all these subtitles (including the subtitle "Agnes of Westview" previously teased by Joe Locke and Aubrey Plaza on Instagram) were actually episode titles all along, and this was just a marketing tactic to keep the series relevant.
According to leaks, this seems to be the final episode order: Ep 1: Agnes of Westview Ep 2: Coven of Chaos Ep 3: The Witches Road Ep 4: The Green Witch Ep 5: House of Harkness Ep 6: TBA Ep 7: Three of Swords Ep 8: TBA Ep 9: Darkhold Diaries
The first episode of the series features Agatha still trapped under Wanda's spell and living in Westview as Agnes. We briefly see all the recurring WandaVision cast returning including Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis/Mrs. Hart, Emma Caulfild as Sarah ProctoDottie Jones, David Lengel as Harold ProctoPhil Jones, Ali Asif as Abilash Tandon/Norm, David Payton as John Collins/Herb, Amos Glick as Dennis the mailman and Brian Brightman as Sheriff Miller.
While these are all confirmed to be part of the cast, we also know through leaks that Evan Peters will also return for a short role as Ralph Bohner. And no, his role is not getting retconned.
So, back to the first episode, we follow "Detective Agnes" trying to solve a murder in Westview, with the help of Aubrey Plaza's character who appears as a mysterious FBI Agent. At first, the victim is a Jane Doe, but as we get closer to the end of the episode, we realise the dead body is actually that of Wanda Maximoff. While Elizabeth Olsen doesn't physically appear in the series and the victim's face is always covered with a morgue blanket while on screen, we do see a toe tag on the body reading W. Maximoff.
Of course, none of this is real. There has been no murder in Westview and Agatha is not a detective. It's all just a fake reality/scenario that is playing in Agatha's head, but we learn that the "FBI Agent" is in fact real and throughout the whole episode, she has been trying to nudge Agatha and help her break out of the "Agnes" spell that Wanda put her on.
Once Agatha does break free of the spell and returns to her real self, she wakes up in her home in front of Plaza's character who we learn tis actually Rio Vidal, aka the Green Witch, aka Agatha's ex-wife (Agatha is bi), an original MCU character.
Through flashbacks, we learn that Agatha and Rio were married back in the 1600s, before Agatha had got her hands on the Darkhold, and they even had a son, Nicholas Scratch. But, once Agatha found the book of the damned and became obsessed with it, she slowly started losing herself to it and getting corrupted by its evil power, resulting in her sacrificing young Nicholas, her own son, to Mephisto (Mephisto is referenced by name, but does NOT show up)
Once Rio found out about this, she and Agatha broke up and Rio has been trying to get revenge on Agatha ever since. It was shortly after this, that Agatha's mom and her coven of witches put Agatha on trial for her use of black magic, but Agatha killed them all and travelled the world, stealing other witches' powers.
As we can understand of course, Rio will be a villain in the series, who appears crazy and obsessive at first, but is justifiably very hurt and angry and feels great contempt and hatred for Agatha, so it's unclear why she was helping her break out of Wanda's spell in the beginning.
The Green Witch (a title equivalent to the Scarlet Witch) is supposed to be one of the oldest and most powerful witches in the MCU, even more powerful than the Scarlet Witch. She uses the powers of Earth and nature and we'll actually see more "witches of color" in the series with special abilities, but Rio is not the only villain in the series.
There are 7 other witches seeking revenge from Agatha, and those are the daughters of the 7 witches from Agatha's mom's coven who Agatha sucked the life out of during her trial.
The coven of the daughters is called the "Salem Seven" and they are led by Okwi Okpokwasili's Vertigo. Each member of the Salem Seven can transform into animals. Vertigo can turn into a Cicada, Bethany Curry's character into a Crow, Athena Perample's character into a Fox, Marina Mazepa's character into a Snake, Britta Grant's character into a Rat, Chau Naumova's character into a Coyote and Alicia Vela-Bailey's character into an Owl.
Back to Agatha now, once she is freed from Wanda's spell, she realises that she has no powers anymore, and thus she needs to get them back.
So, her plan is to visit the Witches' Road, a magical pocket dimension, which can only be entered if you're part of a witch coven composed of at least 6 members and only if said coven sings a special song called "The Ballad of the Witches' Road" (which contains the lyrics "Down, down, down the road - down the Witches' Road"). Only the Scarlet Witch and the Green Witch can enter the dimension on their own.
This dimension has immense magical power and can grant travellers their wishes, so Agatha plans to wish to get her powers back. Thus, Agatha decides to go out and recruit her own coven in order to venture into the Witches Road.
Episode 2 is all about the coven recruitment, hence the episode's title, "Coven of Chaos".
Joining Agatha's coven are

• Patti LuPone's Lilia Calderu, a 450-year-old Sicilian witch whose power is divination and whose trial is tarot. She runs a psychic shop and Tarot cards will actually have a bigger role in the series, indicated by the crew gifts being Tarot cards and one of the episodes named after a Tarot card (the Three of Swords). The Three of Swords card actually represents the show's themes.
  
• Sasheer Zamatta as Jennifer Kale, who runs a skincare shop in the series called Kale Kare. She is being sued by some customers who got burns using her products. In the comics, Jenifer has a very rich history which is very connected to various corners of the Marvel Universe. More specifically, she is part of the Cult of Zhared-Na, run by her grandfather Joshua Kale. Zhared-Na was an Atlantean Witch who prophesized Atlantis' sinking and was exiled for it. The Cult of Zhared-Na was based on the Florida Everglades where Man-Thing lived in the comics and thus he happened to save Jenifer's life one day and the 2 became really close friends. Later, Jenifer joined the Midnight Sons. It's unclear if they will follow any of this lore in the MCU, but Jennifer's introduction on its own is exciting, because of the possibilities she brings along.
  
• Ali Ahn as Alice Wu, a witch who's working as a security guard at Hot Topic in Westview Mall. These 3 witches, Lilia, Jennifer and Alice will be the other "witches of color", each with their own distinctively coloured powers and special lore similar to that of the Scarlet Witch and the Green Witch.
  
• Debra Jo Rupp's Sharon Davis who also hops on the Coven bandwagon, despite not being a witch herself. She plays a more comic relief and "anchor" type of role in the rest of the series. She's basically playing the role of the audience, reacting to all the weird, magical things happening around her as a normal, everyday person, and asking questions, creating opportunities for exposition dumps. She dies in Episode 7
  
• And finally, Joe Locke's William Kaplan, aka Billy Maximoff, the second protagonist along with Agatha. So what's the story here, how is Billy Maximoff alive and how did he turn into a 16-year-old William Kaplan? Well, it is revealed in a flashback that Billy and Tommy were actually real children with their own, very real souls; and when Wanda destroyed the Hex, those souls were left aimlessly wandering around Westview.
  

Thankfully for Billy, his wondering soul happened to "witness" a fatal car crash were 13-year-old William Kaplan lost his life. William was not from Westview, but from Eastview, and he just happend to be near Westview when the Hex fell. Billy's soul, in an instinctive attempt to survive, and utilizing Billy's magical abilities, managed to enter William's body just as his soul was exiting, and took over his body, bringing it back to life.
Billy suffers from a small amnesia as a result, as his memories and William's memories basically become intertwined and weaved together. Now, 3 years later (Fall 2026 in the MCU timeline, aka around the same time as SI and The Marvels), Billy/William is 16, living happily with his supportive parents, Jeff and Rebecca Kaplan (played by Paul Adelstein and Maria Dizzia) and having a loving and caring relationship with his boyfriend, Eddie, played by Miles Guiterrez-Riley.
All 3 of them only appear in 2 episodes and have limited screen-time, but it's emphasised how supportive and loving they are, because Billy does not care enough about Wanda to leave his new family behind and save his real mom, even after she learns the truth about his lineage.
However, when the coven reaches the Witches' Road, Billy plans to use his wish to bring his brother, Tommy, back to life, since Tommy cannot possess another body due to his lack of magical powers. Tommy doesn't appear in the series, but it is teased at the end that he is out there somewhere and Billy and Agatha set out to find him (the 2 protagonists end up developing a mentomentee relationship), reportedly setting up a Wiccan show which was in development last year at Marvel Studios. It's unclear if the show is still happening or if this plot of Billy and Agatha finding Tommy has been integrated in VisionQuest and/or Young Avengers.
Billy is described as a teenager with a dark sense of a humour and a fanboy at times. He carries a pocket spell-book with him at all times. He is the most important and necessary part of the coven since he is a "compass" that will lead them to the Witches' Road.
However, it's not Agatha who seeks out Billy, but Billy who seeks out her. The official statement the government gave about the Hex incident was that it was an Avengers training exercise, but some Redditors don't buy this cover-up, some of whom are Westview citizens who experienced the Hex and want to get the truth out. When Billy reads these Reddit theories, it nudges his memory about who he really is and he goes after Agatha to find out more about his identity.
He sneaks into her house in the first episode, when Agnes has just broken free of her spell and he witnesses Agatha and Rio fighting, hiding in Agatha's room's closet.
When Billy first meets Agatha and eventually asks her whether his mother is alive, Agatha doesn't give a definite answer, and when Billy confronts her for a straight answer, she says "If you want a straight answer, ask a straight witch".
Later in the series, we learn that Wanda is indeed alive and is trapped at the end of the Witches Road, setting up a Children's Crusade storyline for the upcoming Young Avengers project.
Billy also does get his blue energy crown at the end of the show (similar to Wanda's energy crown), but not his classic blue suit.
For anyone worried about representation, the show will touch both Billy's (or William's to be exact) Jewish heritage and will explore both Agatha's and Billy's sexuality.
"Agatha" has been described as NOT a super-hero show, but a dark, supernatural, horror, adventure comedy.
While the majority of the show will take place in the Witches' Road, we will also revisit Wundagore Mountain.
Finally, talking about the Witches' Road, Marvel filmed a Witches Road Special Presentation concurrently with the show, written by the showrunner Jac Schaeffer and directed by Gandja Monteiro, that would have been released on Halloween, right after Agatha. The special contains a completely different coven of witches and it is a prequel set thousands of years in the past, showing the origins of the Witches Road dimension.
Now, the special has been integrated in the series, as one of the episodes (likely episode 3 considering its title).
What do you guys think about the series? I am personally very excited to dive into the Witchy side of the MCU, revisit Westview, get to know Agatha and Billy better and see the set-ups for Children's Crusade and the return of Wanda. The story also sounds intriguing with Agatha's past coming back to haunt her.

Hello we just ended our last home game of the season helping City make a strong push to their title lol. I came up with some awards(some are not!) and my own answers. let’s discuss and add on your award if u have any other ideas!
Player of season: Palhinha, Leno and Castagne worth a shout. But it’s definitely Jedi for me. the improvements he made this season has been tremendous.
Signing of season: Between Castagne and Bassey. Iwobi fell off abit recently. I think Bassey edge it for the improvement in quality over his replacement Ream, than Castagne over Tete.
Disappointment of season: Wilson for his inconsistency. Tosin( for not extending his contract)worth a shout, but he has had a great run of games with Bassey.
Surprise of season: Lukic worth a mention, but definitely Muniz.
Game of season: the multiple 5-0s, win over arsenal and spurs or even the thriller at Anfield. But it was the 2-1 win over Man Utd for me. The time it got scored and the counter attack by Adama… indescribable feeling.
Game to forget: 0-2 loss against burnley, no contest.
**EDIT: Silly me forgot about Goal of season: gotta be Muniz against Sheffield. Honorable mention - Harry’s curler against WHU, Jiminez backheel
Let’s discuss!

So last week was my boyfriends birthday and I got him an xbox gift card as a gift, i never asked him what he planned on using it on.
I sent him the giftcard code when i got back home and we played one game for a little bit and then we got on Rainbow six siege and noticed he used the giftcard on my account, instead of on his and i got upset and asked him why he would do that whenever I got it for a gift for him and not for me, yes we BOTH use the account but im mostly the one whos on it and i would’ve preferred for him to use it on something he wanted for himself.
I am thankful hes so selfless, and spent it on me and i thanked him for it but I still would’ve liked him to get himself something.
TL;DR:I bought my boyfriend an xbox giftcard for his birthday and he spent it on me instead of himself
Edit: for clarification, by upset i dont mean i got mad and yelled at him i just mean i was a little bit sad and disappointed because i was looking forward to him getting something