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Chapter 40: Cale trying so hard not to listen to Raon going on about the Prince's dyed hair/eyes. 🤣

“… Mister Cale seems to be a bit like me.”

He clocked Cale like that, not that it was hard really when Cale used the exact same tactics.

Is this the first time we learn the Crown Prince's name is Alberu Crossman?

Not knowing meant there was no chance of him getting caught up in it.

You're too funny, Cale. Good luck with that!

Lol, Cage being cheeky and calling Cale 'our little brother' on the way out.

Chapter 41: Lock offered him and his siblings as knights to Cale but Cale helpfully pointed out that that would be putting them in danger, not protecting them. 😅

Hmm so he plans on using Lock to get an ancient power for him so he can sell it to the 'Queen of the Jungle' for money. 🤔

Aw, nice convo between Billos and Cale!!

Ron finally makes his big move, what will Cale do...

Chapter 42: Cale is letting him go assassinate whoever, but he's giving him one year, as he'll need him then, and he has to write Cale now and then.

Taylor can walk again!! So the deal went through.

Cale really likes to jinx himself huh.

Chapter 43: Cage got excommunicated like she wanted. 😆 Taylor being so happy for her is so cute, their friendship is so nice!

“It has already been 30 years since this king has received the blessing of the sun to rule over this kingdom.”

Dude, you only got this position by murdering your family, not because you inherited it or deserved it.

The blood-crazed mage is called Redika, lol.

Cale's lucky no one is paying attention to him or they'd see his unusual behavior.

Chapter 44: Aw, Raon being so proud for saving everyone. =')

Redika put the last two bombs on suicide bombers and they couldn't be stopped, so Raon used his shield and Cale used his!! *glued to screen*

Chapter 45: Aw damn, some people ended up dying anyway...

Raon's response to thinking Cale was really hurt really shows how much he cares plus the weight of saving someone who's only known pain. And considering how young Raon still is...

Lol at the Alberu/Cale 'fraudulent hug'.

Chapter 46: The crown prince did not keep up his act now that he knew he and Cale were of the same type of people.

This is go great, it's not often Cale can be on the same page with someone!

Interesting, Raon knows Alberu is very strong, but unlike Cale who showed his secret card to save people, Alberu did nothing when the servants and soldiers around him died or worse.

‘I thought he was a good person, even if he had a tendency to use people.’
But that was not the case.

Hans may be quite spirited and silly sometimes but he really is a good deputy butler.

Rosalyn anticipating things also makes things easier for Cale.

On and Hong finally moved toward the Black Dragon to get a sense of relief by the dragon’s side. The strongest, cutest, and nicest individual in this room was this Black Dragon.

My heart! I want to see them cuddlinggg.

Raon pointing out that Cale worked hard too. :')

Alberu really isn't human? And he thinks Cale might not be. X'D

Chapter 47: Watching both Alberu and Cale suffer through this conversation really is hilarious.

One corner of both Alberu and Cale’s lips started to go up as they started to smile. Their smiles were pretty similar.

🤣

Ahh everyone is going to split up now. :( I know none of them will want to be away from Cale for long. And Raon, On and Hong, and Beacrox will still be with Cale as well as Hans. I wonder where the children will still in the Henituse territory?

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Two different kinds of ICE jokes, a Whale rips through a Net, Dollar store rip-offs, and a cease-and-desist playlist.

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A final deciding factor was that if Wimsey did not spend Christmas at Fenchurch, he would have no decent excuse for not spending it with his brother's family at Denver, and of all things in the world, a Christmas at Denver was most disagreeable to him.

Accordingly, he looked in at Denver for a day or two, irritated his sister-in-law and her guests as much as, and no more than, usual and thence, on Christmas Eve, made his way across country to Fenchurch St Paul.

"They seem," said Wimsey, "to keep a special brand of disgusting weather in these parts." He thurst up his hand against the hood of his car, discharging a deluge of water. "Last time it was snowing and now it's pelting cats and dogs. There's a fate in it Bunter."

"Yes, my lord," said that long-suffering man. He was deeply attached to his master, but sometimes felt his determined dislike of closed cars to be a trifle unreasonable. "A very inclement season, my lord."

Attached post-it note: "Sorry for double author and consecutive bell-centred extracts but my options are limited!"

Note from me: The bell bit (and more rain) is in the longer extract we all got.

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Christmas music has me rewatching old TV episodes and thinking about the weird meaning of "DEI" symbols in American storytelling.

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The confrontational street-preacher shtick is sometimes, rarely, intended to be a form of evangelism. More often it's just a business model.

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I have twin sons who are in college at different schools. They are good kids but a bit young for their age. I don't think either of them has ever dated. I have always taught them that they should have enough money to take a woman out on a date, and right now they aren't working. I offered to give them some cash to help them in case they do want to take someone on a date, but so far neither has taken me up on it. Have I done something wrong as a mother? Why are they so delayed? -- Arrested Development

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Dear Care and Feeding,

My sister openly doesn’t like me (and has said so publicly and directly), though we manage well enough for family events. I get along with my brother and his wife, but they are horrible at communication and interact with my sister more frequently. My dad gets along with all of us and is good at communication, but lives in denial of all weird family dynamics.

Around every holiday season or major family function, I get left out of crucial information regarding plans, transportation, emergency changes, etc. One consistent hurdle: Brother or Dad tells Sister something and assumes she will pass it on to me, and she doesn’t. I have explicitly told them both to stop doing this, and they just forget, leaving me scrambling when they ask why I haven’t RSVP’d/contributed to a group gift/etc. On the flip side, neither of my siblings is particularly good about getting back to me when I reach out to them, so asking directly doesn’t help either. (Brother and his wife are notoriously bad at responses with everyone, so it’s not personal, just frustrating.) One workaround I’ve discovered is to ask Dad to reach out on my behalf, because that guarantees an actual response, but it’s irritating that I have to resort to that to get basic information like, “What time do you expect me to arrive at your house?” Is there anything I can do to make this easier?

—It’s Mean Girls Meets Finding Dory

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I can see you're not a cook. You can't exactly dice thyme. The leaves are pretty tiny. If they're fresh, you just strip them from the stem. I suppose you can then chop them more finely, but dicing? You'd have more luck trying to dice time.

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Earlier, as Christmas Eve had turned into Christmas Day, she had listened at the window to the faraway church bell from the village ringing midnight. It was a still night and not cold, the wind in the direction to send the sound of the bell here; it would be a warm start to Christmas after the storms, and the lack of frost and cold left the landscape wintry without dignity; the bell's resonance was more pedestrian than it'd have been on the kind of crisp cold winter night tonight ideally ought to have been. Dead. Dead. Dead, the bell went. Or maybe: Head. Head. Head. The village church had only one bell so couldn't play a tune. It sounded, she thought, like someone at the back of memory hitting at stone with an axe, which is an act that'll do nothing but ruin a good blade.

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Chapter 13: Aw, they both like horror movies!!

Nobara showing off her badass side again to protect Yukino!

Nobara's smile when the little brother Aoi said she should come again!!

Chapter 14: Yukino turned down the position of 1st year drama club's team leader. She wants to keep her head down.

Chapter 15: My gosh Ookami's had a rough time of it because of her looks.

Misa doing something good for once, helping Yukino find the girl leaving the pictures for Ookami.

Chapter 16: Ookami found her girl! She's an amazing artist.

Chapter 17: Her name is Raiha and she's a third year. Aw, Ookami wants to try drawing because of her. Will they be friends or something more?

Chapter 18: Nobara was so happy to be wearing Yukino's cardigan. <3 The patterned cardigans were cute why does everyone have to wear plain ones. 😢 Conformity...

Chapter 19-20: "You don't have to force yourself to say or do things you don't like. I like how you are right now, Nobara." ❤️️

Chapter 21: So Yukino was class president in middle school and a girl was jealous of how kind and good she was and bullied her...

Ugh Nobara and Yukino are so good together.

Chapter 22: Raiha came to watch Yukino's play. <3 Nobara recognized a boy who came to watch the play? Yukino accepted the leader position and everyone was happy!

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The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II.

And that's not the most alarming thing about it.

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I accidentally overwrote the entry for ep. 4-6. 🙃

Episode 7: Ed and Al saying wearing the armor is a hobby and freaking Maria and Denny out. 😆

Sheskaaa, ganbare! I think Ed would've given her a lot of money anyway but hearing about her sick mother...

The bros find out the philosopher's stone requires human sacrifices. I mean, I'm pretty sure Marcoh warned them it wasn't a pretty truth.

Ed/Al: Tell no one about this.
Maria/Denny: *whispers about it in front of Armstrong*

D'OH. I mean it's for the best, the boys already take too much onto themselves.

I swear the hilarious expressions in FMA are the most comedic, and it can go from angsty to funny in 2 seconds flat.

Ed realizing he called himself small. 🤣

I feel like I remember quite a lot of the broader things. It's nice to still be caught off guard by the funny things though.

Episode 8: Ed being disappointed someone else thought of binding a soul to a suit of armor;;

Ed said he's never beaten armor Al but what about flesh Al? 🤔 Of course, it'd take a while for Al to be fit for fighting once he got his body back.

Episode 9: "You can put more trust in adults, you know."

Denny and Maria are so funny.

Winry forgot a part in Ed's automail, that's why it stopped working during the fight. And what does she expect him to use the arm for, he's a fighter and an alchemist.

Winry and Elicia are so cuute.

Curse my sympathy crying!

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[Originally posted in chat; I have added paragraphs for readability]

My brother has organized an ill-advised surprise party for my father's 75th birthday.

Our father is a complete introvert and also very exacting. He likes things to be a certain way, and gets tense and angry if everything is not perfectly to his taste. He hates loud places and large groups of people. Unfortunately, he's always used excessive alcohol to handle social engagements and gets belligerent when drunk.

Because of all of this, I was surprised when my brother, "James" told me that he'd planned a surprise birthday party of 30 guests for my dad at a new restaurant. The guest list includes the following extremely awkward confirmed attendees: our aunt (dad's semi-estranged sister) who is an overbearing religious fanatic none of us can stand; our mother (dad's ex-wife) who is resented by our dad and hated by our aforementioned aunt because of the divorce; and a number of neighbors who our dad has been feuding with off and on for the last 20 years.

I asked my mom why she was going along with this and she said James called in a big favor she owed him and she felt like she couldn’t say no, so he’s pulling out all the stops to make this happen.

I don't know how James could possibly think this is a good idea, except that he has a huge ego and believes this will be some fairy tale reunion where everyone will suddenly make nice. I don't mean that James is a bad guy but he has a tendency to steamroll over people and do things "for their own good." Every argument I've made against this party has prompted him to lecture me and act like he knows so much better because he's 7 years older than me.

It's true that my Dad can be difficult but I don't want him to feel ambushed on his birthday. If James keeps refusing to cancel should I warn my dad? Or do I just kick back with a glass of wine and watch the drama unfold?

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Jane thought her most beautiful present was the first she opened. It was a lovely little wrist watch. On the card with it was written "From Hyde Park and myself with best wishes. Your Mr. Browne." But presently she opened a parcel which made her forget there were any other presents in the world. It was a plain cardboard box with none of the grand American fixings of massed bows and flowers. Inside was something done up in brown paper. Inside that was an exact duplicate of David's reed pipe. On a piece of paper David had written, "Happy Christmas. I'll teach you to play this. David."

The evening finished with carols. Tim played and everybody stood round his piano. On the top of the piano, where he could keep his eye on it, was Brent's trick box. Rachel had her arms hugged to her and inside them were Posy's old shoes. Jane, wearing her wrist watch, held the box with her pipe. As Tim crashed out the opening chords of "O, come all ye faithful" everybody's eyes were bright, even Aunt Cora's, but nobody's eyes shone quite so shiningly as Jane's.

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It's apparently my curse to occasionally buy mislabeled bulbs and tubers. I mean, this is tremendously pretty but does it look like Lavender Perfection to you?

A large orange toned dahlia with white tips to the petals

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