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                    "Survive! Gwanggong! /
                          Survive! Obsessive Gong!"


                        [NovelUpdates Page]

Chapter 1: Gwak Seon-woo wakes up in a game world with a system 'nudging' him into being a 'gwanggong'. I would not survive this, my temper would flare so hard. He can't talk normally, he's forced to take a cold shower and he can't even shop for himself. And his house is all black and white. He's probably not even allowed to smile. And the body isn't his real one, though he didn't react much to it besides noting the features. I hope he finds some form of freedom or this is going to be irksome.

Chapter 2: Seon-woo and his co-worker had had a conversation in the past about what exactly a gwanggong is because the co-worker was making a BL game based on a novel about one, so that's the game Seon-woo is in. Seon-woo isn't even allowed to talk on his own in front of others and is forced to choose mean dialogue/actions or actions that force him into situations.

Chapter 3: He met Seo Eun-jae at STARBOX (lol) and the system tried to push feelings onto him to like him, in this chapter he also meets a guy at work, Gwak Seung-hyeon, where he is the CEO. "At this point, Seon-woo felt like crying." SAME MY GUY. Great, Seung-hyeon feels inferior to Seon-woo and develops feelings for Eun-jae.according to the profiles.

Chapter 4: The throwing away the sub scene was so hard to read. 😭 ...Yet I can't stop reading, hoping for some sign of the system breaking or at least not getting worse.

Chapter 5: How it describes how awful the attempted brainwashing feels... What does the System have against fooood. Was it all because it was waiting for Eun-jae to offer him dinner??

Chapter 6: Seon-woo seems to be finding little ways of getting around the System, like the 'what's so funny/handing a towel' thing? Eun-jae isn't a real person like Seon-woo but I still pity him to for being moved around the board for the game too.

Chapter 7: Seon-woo is forced to bring Eun-jae home with him. Seon-woo defies the system and loses a bunch of points. I wonder why Eun-jae is so persistent in talking to Seon-woo? Because his role is to teach Seon-woo love as the shou?

Chapter 8: On the way to a family gathering. Seon-woo and Eun-jae are getting closer, Seon-woo realized how sad it was that Gwanggong' doesn't have any friends so it attempted to open up more to Eun-jae. Seung-hyeon is put out that Seon-woo had gukbap instead of his sub, but Seon-woo only had the gukbap because Eun-jae was so insistent on paying him back for his help. Oh, and his score is not looking good. 10 more points before a debuff...

Chapter 9: The chairman's youngest son Sang-cheol is the one who is corrupt and Seon-woo has to investigate, he picks at Seung-hyeon because apparently his dad was chairman's middle son and he's dead and there's more to it. I'm so happy that Sang-cheol's corruption is giving Seon-woo the chance to act in a Gwanggong way to earn points while also helping Seung-hyeon in a small way.

Chapter 10: A flat tire is cause for -8 points, geeze, I thought his thoughts about not being able to help the old man had made the system deduct them. I guess it's because he 'let' Sang-cheol score a point over him. *rolls eyes* I'd love to be in Seung-hyeon's head at this point.

As frustrating as the System is, I'm quite enjoying this story and am eager to see where it goes. I'm scared that the debuff would be the System taking over for a while, like forcing him to be awful until his points are up. I'd rather it be something like 'chance of an accident happening'. Though it might be something like 'bad stuff happens to your company and people start to faith in you'.

Gukbap looks really tasty btw, anything with rice is a plus for me haha.
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I'm even not bad at decluttering, so long as it's okay to literally throw everything out. (They'll sooner or later send another copy of that late bill, don't worry! And you can always order another birth certificate, probably.)

But I'm not so good at routine maintenance. Does anybody have any already set up daily/weekly/monthly/periodically checklists for various areas of the house that they can recommend?
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"Full Moon ni Sasayaite /
Until the Full Moon"


Matoh Sanami, 1998

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Summary: Marlo has a problem. On the night of the full moon, this half-werewolf, half-vampire undergoes a mysterious and terrifying transformation: He turns into a girl. Desperate for a cure, his parents call on Doctor Vincent, a long time family friend. But Marlo wants to keep his condition secret from Vincent's son, the vampire playboy David. Unfortunately, the secret gets out, and a new problem surfaces: David is interested in Marlo's female form! If a remedy can't be found, their parents believe the next best solution is marriage - a marriage between Marlo and David!

My comments: Marlo and David's fathers are brothers, the former living in America, the latter in Europe. When Marlo's condition appears, they go to David's family for help (David's father is a doctor). Marlo and David were childhood friends, David would drink from Marlo during the night. "I like you best" is what little Marlo said to David, who took it to heart. When Marlo realized his own feelings he avoided David. David doesn't care if Marlo is a girl or boy, he just likes him.

I didn't understand the whole 'what do we do, he's my only child...oh we'll marry him to David' thing. He's still a guy all day, he can still sire children, and so what if it's a girl, he can have another child. Just like another other couple's chances. Or hey, why not let a girl inherit for once? Why does Marlo have to give up his inheritance to another man?? And can he even conceive without a period? Patriarchy, man.

At the end of volume 1 there's a story where a vampire visits the Yamu tribe and meets one of the Yami. The Yami doesn't change sex under the full moon but his childhood friend wants him. The Yami ends up changing after falling for the vampire and going with him. This story was found in a legend book Marlo's mom found and she switches the names to the boys'.

Volume 2 tells the story of Holly (David's mother) and Marlo and David's wedding. Holly's fate was so sad, she found love and a family but in doing so lost her life. And to think David probably lost his mom around the time Marlo started avoiding him. Speaking of, Marlo's mother is a werewolf, how has she lived all this time? The boys are said to be 100 or 200 years old at least.

As for the main romance, David was a womanizer so Marlo has some insecurities, and Marlo has an ex-girlfriend who caused some drama but it's not drawn out too long IMO. David and Marlo do kiss while Marlo is in his normal form and I think in time they'll get more comfortable as two men and not try to wait until the full moon so much (I hope lol).

I definitely had a deeper reading of the manga this time but still came to the same rating that I gave volume 1. I will be reading the sequel at a later date.

Review of Volume 1 from March 8th, 2011
[My BookCrossing Entry]

Got in a box with other goodies from my good friend! *_*

Before I began I was a bit leery because of the style (it's been a while since I read some FAKE so I couldn't remember how I felt about it). However, when I read it I really came to like it, and the story is pretty nifty too.

The one thing that did bug me a bit was the gender issues. Marlo doesn't like when David touches him when he's still a man, yet he only becomes a woman one day a month. Marlo as a man has admitted to loving David, but I do think he has some homophobia/prudish issues.

Then there's Marlo's old girlfriend Ira who stopped trying to get him back after finding out he changed into a girl, saying she wasn't interested in women. Yet David, who says he's straight, still loves both sides of Marlo. A part of me thinks maybe she was still attracted to Marlo even as a women, but it wasn't really made clear besides her getting mad at being teasingly called a 'lesbo'.

I really liked the oneshot, maybe even better than the main story. XP

7/10 stars

Content warnings
-Gender essentialism
-Some homophobia
-Melodrama but things are wrapped up pretty quickly in each case.

My rating: 7/10
Mood:: 'crappy' crappy
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posted by [personal profile] conuly in [community profile] agonyaunt at 07:08pm on 13/09/2025
My husband is the middle of five siblings. The three oldest were high achievers who earned advanced degrees and are now comfortably retired, living far from their hometown. The fourth, a brother, has struggled all his life. After four years in the Army, he drifted between unemployment and low-paying jobs, never able to support himself. His parents covered his expenses or let him live with them, even paying for his car while he worked as a pizza-delivery driver. He also developed substance-abuse problems.

After my husband’s father died, the brother stayed in the family home, supposedly caring for their mother but, in fact, exploiting her. He drained her accounts to feed his habit and neglected her care, and after her death he was convicted of elder abuse — something his out-of-town siblings hadn’t realized was happening. Before she died, their mother begged them not to let him be homeless.

Because the brother couldn’t maintain the house, the siblings sold it and split the proceeds. With his share, they bought him a mobile home and placed funds in a protected account, which covered rent and utilities for nearly 10 years until the money ran out. They eventually transferred the bills into his name and explained how to manage them.

He rarely communicates with the family, except when he’s in trouble. Once on his own, chaos followed. He claimed that his pizza-delivery job was enough to live on, but he missed rent, faced eviction and squandered money on predatory car loans and endless repairs. Last year, his siblings discovered that his car had been repossessed and his water had been shut off for six months. His trailer was collapsing from a leaking roof, and garbage was piled everywhere. Yet he had never asked for help. They stepped in, restored utilities, reclaimed his car, cleaned his trailer and signed him up for Social Security. But he quickly burned through a lump-sum back-pay benefit (he said his account was hacked, though he was more likely scammed). Soon after, he fell behind again, and his Social Security is now being garnished by the I.R.S.

The mobile-home park wants him out for unpaid rent and unsafe conditions. He’s clearly mentally ill, but perhaps not impaired enough for a sibling to secure guardianship. My husband and his siblings want to honor their mother’s plea to keep him housed, but contributing to his rent payments and repairing his trailer isn’t financially sustainable for them, and none of them want to take him in because he’s horrible to live with. Social services might help, but he resists cooperation and can’t manage on his own.

So they wonder: At what point do they stop trying? Are they obliged to sustain someone who refuses to sustain himself? Do they owe him the effort of seeking guardianship, or is that more than can reasonably be asked? — Name Withheld


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posted by [personal profile] conuly at 02:01pm on 12/09/2025
I'll try to remember to upload the pic later. It's not a very good picture, but then, I was wary of trying to get too close.

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Shared Warmth (1056 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 黄金台 - 苍梧宾白 | Golden Terrace - Cāng Wú Bīn Bái
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fu Shen/Yan Xiaohan
Characters: Fu Shen (Golden Stage), Yan Xiaohan
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Slice of Life, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Two moments in their relationship in which Fu Shen and Yan Xiaohan take care of each other.

September 13th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] dancing_serpent in [community profile] c_ent at 01:55pm on 13/09/2025 under
The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

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September 12th, 2025
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September 11th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] conuly at 06:18pm on 11/09/2025
Beautiful weather and all.

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Haikyuu!!
season 1

Episode 1-3 rewatch: Kageyama is extremely ambitious, he's really good but not a teamplayer, Hinata is on the short side but is a good and fast jumper and was only able to practice with armatures but he practiced constantly. Kageyama doesn't think Hinata is weak, he's impressed with him but scolds him for not doing enough.

The part with the vice principal's wig flying off and landing on the captain's head...I can't. I forgot about the humor in general in this show.

Hinata finally found a way to train on the level he needed, Kageyama finally gave a teammate a real chance partly fueled by Tsukki's taunting, Hinata is improving ahhh. I'm guessing we're going to see Tsukki start to care?

Tanaka is such a gremlin. 😅

Episode 4: "The [volleyball] player is not a soloist, but a member an orchestra. When the player begins to think, 'I'm special,' [that player] is finished." What a great quote!

I like that Hinata started defending Kageyama whenever Tsukki started calling him King. Not just because he knows it makes Kageyama mad but because he sees how it gets to him and that Tsukki is using it to hurt him.

The eye catches are creative and cute. :'D

Hinata getting caught in the net! And the "is it bah or gwah!" 🤣

Ahh so exciting, they're learning and getting along better. 😄

Episode 5:
They won and learned a lot~ And they got their uniforms.

The practice match was announced and it's against Kageyama's former school. They specifically asked for him so they're probably going to try and take him down several pegs.

The Kageyama/Suga scene, Kageyama's really trying. :)

Hinata's finally got his own team~~

So many hilarious moments in this episode!! (Will Hinata be okay;;)

Mood:: 'full' full

Posted by Fred Clark

In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand that I did not understand that at all.
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posted by [personal profile] conuly at 05:58pm on 10/09/2025
We are not responsible for your lost or stolen relatives.
We cannot guarantee your safety if you disobey our instructions.
We do not endorse the causes or claims of people begging for handouts.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Your ticket does not guarantee that we will honor your reservations.
In order to facilitate our procedures, please limit your carrying on.
Before taking off, please extinguish all smoldering resentments.

If you cannot understand English, you will be moved out of the way.
In the event of a loss, you’d better look out for yourself.
Your insurance was cancelled because we can no longer handle
your frightful claims. Our handlers lost your luggage and we
are unable to find the key to your legal case.

You were detained for interrogation because you fit the profile.
You are not presumed to be innocent if the police
have reason to suspect you are carrying a concealed wallet.
It’s not our fault you were born wearing a gang color.
It is not our obligation to inform you of your rights.

Step aside, please, while our officer inspects your bad attitude.
You have no rights we are bound to respect.
Please remain calm, or we can’t be held responsible
for what happens to you.


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posted by [personal profile] conuly at 05:25pm on 09/09/2025
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

Not many of us get to die for our beliefs.
bluapapilio: Izumi from A3! (a3! izumi)
Source

"Kenkyo, Kenjitsu o Motto ni Ikite Orimasu /
I Will Live with Humility and Dependability as My Motto"


[NovelUpdates Page]

Chapter 1: Pretty much the prologue. When Reika is 5 years old, she realizes that when she was an in adult in the modern world, something happened and she was reincarnated into an otome game called 'you are my dolce' where 'Kisshouin Reika' was a villainess who bullied the MC and tried to snatch her LI before falling into disgrace. Of course the current Reika doesn't want that fate so while she still has to go to the academy so her parents don't freak out, she plans on avoiding getting close to anyone and keep her head down.

Chapter 2: Explanation chapter on how the school works. The elite who started Zui'ran in primary are part of a privileged group called Peony Society or 'Pivoine'. Reika thinks about how she'd prefer a friend to followers. The school is really advanced, it has a lot of modern tech and lots of sports stuff etc.

Chapter 3: While Reika is at the salon, she catches a glare from Kaburagi Masaya, the Emperor (the protag's LI from the manga) when she's thinking about a funny scenario about him.

Chapter 4: Reika spends time with her family. She has a brother she didn't know about from the manga who she gets along with. Her mother came from somewhere else and didn't get to be in Pivoine, so likes talking about it with Reika. The father is disappointed she isn't getting close to Masaya.

Chapter 5: With her brother's help, she manages to get her mother to let her go to cram school to ensure she can have a life after her family's ruin. Her brother is unexpectedly crafty. XD

Chapter 6: Summer vacation. So this is literally a modern world, Reika is going to Tahiti and her followers to Hawaii. We learn that Masaya has a childhood friend, Shuusuke, who fujoshi shipped with each other in Reika's past life. OG Reika and Shuusuke did not get along. Reika has an existential crisis over his hair not being honey-colored like in the official manga illustrations lol

Chapter 7: Summer vacation scene, summer vacation party. Reika has a reminisce about her past. Totally agree with her on 'all you can eat buffet'. XD

Chapter 8: Reika makes her brother ring a bell with her at the party, people comment on it being like a pair of newlyweds then she makes him dance with her. 😂 She's really testing his noble patience this chapter.

Chapter 9: Oops, Masaya and Shuusuke are there even though they're supposed to be on vacation still. Reika is embarrassed at being seen dancing as the only little kid. The reason the childhood friends were there was to make their older childhood friend Yurie's birthday. Yurie is Masaya's first love.

Chapter 10: Reika finds a way to sneak out during break time at cram school to get commoner treats. Yurie's friend Aira has taken a liking to Reika which is a problem because it brings her closer to Masaya. Shuusuke also has his eye on her.

The chapters are short so it's easy to read, but for now I take a break. The next chapter is in her brother Takateru's POV, interesting!
Mood:: 'hungry' hungry
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To my relief, the stray cats didn’t forget me over my summer elsewhere; my morning run is now reliably interrupted by a belly-patting session with Miké-chan in the park, and one of the green-eyed cats near the nighttime junior high came immediately over to say hi when I went past, winding in and out of the fence and bonking its forehead into my hand.

How does everybody save (non-work-related) files as a rule? As with so many things I am old-school and inefficient; at the end of the month, the latest version of everything I want to save goes onto a couple of USBs, stored in different places. If it’s the middle of the month and I want to be sure to save something, I email it to myself. I never use GoogleDocs etc., everything is on my hard drive + memory sticks.

Work: Someone in a translation I was editing had come up with “adversary management,” which confused the hell out of me until I realized the intended meaning was “adversity management.” Presumably “adversary management” is a little more active…

I found a decent, simple recipe for limeade and have made it twice with very good results. Actually the first time, I couldn’t find limes in the supermarket and had to make sudachi-ade instead; even more of a pain to squeeze (it takes three or four sudachi to make up one lime), but just as good taste-wise. Lovely tart pale-green summer drink, and the kitchen smells deliciously limey as a bonus.

My mom reminded me of a piece of graffiti seen years and years ago which became a family joke: “I love grils. / [Different handwriting] You mean girls. / [Different handwriting again] Hey, what about us grils?”

Courtesy of the farmboys as usual, I learned the Chinese word for post-its (便利贴, convenient stickers) and duct tape (大力胶, really strong tape). Also 心急吃不了热豆腐, you can’t eat hot tofu when you’re fretting, roughly equivalent to “hold your horses, calm down.”
Earlier this year the actor Zhang Zixian was among the farmboys’ visitors; he’s the one whose nuanced performance as Wang Shi’an in The Rebel absolutely blew me away, and it was mind-blowing in another way to see him out of character: cheerful, comic, laid-back, with a bit of a stammer, obviously very likeable but coming off nothing like either poor screwed-up evil Wang Shi’an or one of the most gifted actors in the business, for all that’s what he is. Performers are something else.

Speaking of performance, Y and I went to Takarazuka a couple of weeks ago because they were reviving their production of Guys and Dolls, which has been one of my favorite musicals all my life. It was very disappointing on one front: the Japanese book and lyrics, dating from the 1980s, are limp and awkward and miss the point entirely more often than not, an extra shame because the original English ones are so sharp. (I know it’s a tall order to turn good English lyrics into good Japanese lyrics which are also singable and mean the same thing, but it has been done! The Japanese lyrics for the latter-day Gershwin musical Crazy For You are a masterpiece.) Also the audience was very subdued, hardly rippling with laughter even at the punchlines that survived into Japanese (“Tell him I never want to speak to him again! And tell him to call me here”), although Y figured this was just a cultural thing. Still, the dancing was very good (including the traditional Takarazuka Grand Staircase at the end), and the singing was a lot of fun: you get used very fast to the “men,” ie women playing otokoyaku, singing contralto instead of tenor/bass, and the second act in particular was riveting. This is from a much earlier production, but the staging doesn’t ever seem to change, and it gives you a good idea of what the otokoyaku sound like (Shibuki Jun as Sky Masterson singing Luck Be A Lady). Parenthetically, it amuses me that Takarazuka is obviously much stricter about policing YouTube than about B站. Also, we killed some time wandering through the theater shop looking at the vast quantity of performer headshots etc., reflecting that the gorgeously androgynous otokoyaku overlap interestingly with the occasional gorgeous androgyny of male C-pop (and J-pop and K-pop) singers, approaching from the opposite side as it were. I imagine there have already been papers written about this as a cultural/sexual/sociological phenomenon.

Music: I’ve probably posted it before, but Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 devolves (or rather sublimates) into jazz in the middle of the second movement, which I can never resist. I’ve linked it with a timestamp here (Mitsuko Uchida’s recording, with notes on YT by the astute Ashish Xiangyi Kumar), but listen to the whole thing if you have a chance.
Also, Jiang Dunhao song of the post (because I can): his own 铁皮火车不停开, sung live sometime last year, which I find very comforting.

In purely personal stuff, I’m depressed and annoyed with myself for taking no steps AT ALL toward ever getting anything I’ve written or translated published, in spite of helpful suggestions on all sides. I’m struggling with the pessimistic feeling that it’s all pointless: I’m terrible at promoting myself (either to agents/publishers or to would-be readers), I’m probably not writing anything that would suit the publishing zeitgeist, I don’t have connections who would do the promoting for me and nobody will take on a writer cold at this point in time, I don’t know the ins and outs of the process of getting translation rights etc., I can’t bring myself to try to get a novel published through what now seems to be the typical route of short stories*, and so on and so forth. Obviously the solution is to get off my ass and at least TRY, and if I fail disastrously in terms of original writing, then to look into self-publishing, but it’s very hard to get rid of the WHY BOTHER YOU WILL FAIL (and probably poison the waters by doing it wrong the first time around) dark cloud.
*Short stories. I think I’ve said so before, but my mind just seems to work in novel lengths? I never can think of anything I want to write as a short story. I have written lots of short story-length fics, but by virtue of being fanfic they’re all kind of…within novel-length [or drama-length, you know, long-form] continuities, not completely freestanding. I don’t know. Ideas for doing something to deal with this?

Photos: Very few, because it’s been too damn hot and humid to be motivated to photograph anything. My limeade and some flowers and the balcony with sudare at sunset, Koron-chan taking her ease, and also WARNING for people who don’t like creepy-crawlies, a very elegant centipede. I thought it was a lot like Oliver Melendy’s encounter …something which looked like a tiny, elaborate trolley car. It was perched on a leaf, standing firmly on ten blunt little round feet that could have been wheels… The whole creature was a rich cinnamon brown color, and along each of its velvety sides was arranged an ornamental row of creamy scrolls., but if you are more Mona than Oliver, maybe don’t click.



Be safe and well.
September 10th, 2025
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Ninjago
season 6

Episode 1: Throw Darreth in the bin. 😡

Master Chen's 2nd in command Clouse escaped from the Ghost Realm, tried to use the Djinn Nadakhan but got used instead, now the Djinn is free and has framed the ninja for various crimes. "From fame to frame" as Misako puts it;;

Nya is really struggling with how the media doesn't take her seriously - girl fans are jealous that she gets to 'hang out with the cute guys' while Darreth thinks her place is showing girls how to do makeup and talk about her crushes. This leads to her rejecting closeness with Jay and hurting his feelings, especially because he previously saw them together in the future mirror.

Episode 2-4: So the ship and Misako did get captured. :( And Ronan is alive. And tasked with capturing the ninja in return for a clean slate lol here we go again.

Great, now Nadakhan tricked Misato. I thought you at least had to agree to wish for things before the Djinn went for it. >_< WTF Jay, you want to wish Nya to fall for you?! I sense foreshadowing.

Greaat, now Lloyd and Zane were taken out by Ronan. Right when Zane was about to say how to take down the Djinn. Aaand Nya and Kai. And Jay and Cole. This is infuriating. I hope Ronan gets his just desserts for real later, can't believe I thought he redeemed himself. :/

Talking about escaping prison right in from of the guards lolol Welp they're free but the thing they need to take down Nadakhan...is on Nodokhan's own ship. 😐

So it sounds like Nya really doesn't have feelings for Jay besides just plain not wanting to be in a relationship right now.

Welp there goes the foreshadowing coming true. Jay you idiot. It's not about you being born in a junkyard, listen to her explanation and respect her!! Her tone was weird though when she saw his new 'secret base' by anyone would be impressed I guess.

Episode 5: Why didn't Zane just wish for Pixel back?? Instead he put everyone in danger by wishing for it all to go away. Cole spilled the beans on Jay's wishes. Good. Jay is not my favorite person rn.
Mood:: 'thirsty' thirsty
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posted by [syndicated profile] slacktivist_feed at 09:03pm on 10/09/2025
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posted by [personal profile] conuly in [community profile] agonyaunt at 04:02pm on 10/09/2025
Dear Annie: I met my husband three years ago, about eight months after he lost his first wife of 20 years. Their marriage was often toxic, and she was very abusive toward him. After she passed, he was ready to move on.

Right away, I knew something wasn't right with my husband. In his mid-50s, he was having short-term memory issues, falling frequently and struggling with his mental health. After seeing his health care provider and enrolling in the Veterans Affairs health care system, we discovered he had suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries during his time in the Army. That diagnosis led to him becoming a 100% service-connected disabled veteran and allowed him to receive the care he needed for a better quality of life.

His family, however, waged a war against me for helping him, accusing me of manipulating and "brainwashing" him. My husband has distanced himself from them, and we're no longer on speaking terms. My husband has a lot of anger toward them as he suffered for decades without their help or support.

His parents, who live in another state, are elderly and in poor health. I fear that if he doesn't reconcile with them before they pass, he will resent me. I love my husband with all my heart, and this has been a hard road. I just want the very best for him, unconditionally. Any advice? -- Wife on the Defensive


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