Ghostbusters: The Animated Series (52x11) would be a sequel to Ghostbusters II and prequel to Ghostbusters: afterlife .bringing back The original crew for New Adventures facing New ghosts,New villains and Meeting New characters while Walter Peck and his crew try to unmask ghostbusters as frauds to society.
the tone would be very Pre-school being focused primarily on comedy and aimed for 4 year olds kids .but that wouldn't stop having moments for adult fans like being shown Vekman and Dana's wedding and having a special last episode focused on showing Egon leaving his family and friends and taking all the equipment and ecto 1 to Summerville.
the series would be animated by Sony pictures animation in partnership with a Canadian studio and would have Canadian voice actors such as Devin Mack As Winston zeddemore and Barbara Mamabolo as Janine Melnitz .
*Note: Walter would have the personality and same goal as Crocker from The Fairly OddParents

:-:- Full Name: Jade Camar Race/Ethnic Group: human Class/Occupation: ranger Character Nature: cheerful and outgoing # Character Details :-:- Gender: female Age/appeared age: 25 Facial Features: (in the pic) Hair: hair bun (in pic) Eyes: brown eyes (in pic) Distinguishing Marks: freckles on her face Significant item: (in pic) Body Type: (in pic) Color Scheme: (in pic) Gear: (in pic) Animal Companion: none Action/Pose: (in pic) Others: she is smiling while being serious. # Character Persona :-:- Alignment: chaotic good Personality Traits: cheerful, outgoing and funny Ideals and Goals: learn more about the creatures of the world Bonds and Flaws: naive and too nice for her own good # Other :-:- Visual concepts: her clothes and hairs floating in the wind. Backstory: Jade grew up in a village in the middle of a forest. Due to her environment, she quickly learnt a lot about survival skills and archery. Her parents were artisans and they often took Jade with them when they had to travel to sell their goods. Up to 18 years old, she couldn't leave the village without an adult with her, not that it stopped her from trying. She always got caught and severely punished. When she got her majority, she started to help the village by hunting and setting traps around the forest. During 7 years, she learnt more and more about the world and decided that she wanted to see it with her own eyes. She asked her parents to help her and they accepted after a long and tiring chat. They craft her her quiver and asked Jade to come back one day to talk about her adventures. 

One was just chilling with the reindeers and the visitors were seriously concerned for the reindeers safety until I explained to them that it is a completely nonvenomous snake which can and will leave anytime it wants and certainly not endangers any animal or human. (they did not believe a young female but that's another issue), second was in the park next to the zoo and the people were also really concerned and keeping away from it. Only I went towards it and tried to "herd" it towards a bush where it will be hidden. WE ARE IN A COUNTRY WHERE EVEN THE VENOMOUS SNAKES ARE REALLY HARMLESS, WHY ARE THEY ALL SO WORRIED?

Hello again!
Actually my head hurts and my back hurts too. Maybe even my heart. I wrote this essay for 2 days straight. It is of better quality than my previous pieces, both in content and style. It's also the longest so I felt an obligation to deliver it as interesting as possible. Extensive essays are pretty tendious, I'm aware but I think I created an insightful and stimulating analysis for a character that doesn't get the attention he deserves. This is not just a hollow phrase, as I claim this essay uncovers unheard of depths of Gorou Amamiya respectively Aqua Hoshino.
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Preamble
In the past we discussed Ruby's genius during her Audition with Frill and Akane. To sum it up: She's acting her whole life as the innocent and pure idol girl Ruby Hoshino but what fuels the encryption of her true self is her traumatized core identity as Sarina which she hides through acting.
Since this identity was passed down to her new life, her trauma was likewise passed down as well and as a result it predispositions her new life's psyche. After the loss of Ai and Gorou she yet again finds herself trapped in a repetitive cycle of her previous trauma of parental abandonment. That's why in her deep reflection during the audition she would overlap Sarina's and Ruby's psychograms seamlessly. It's the same all over again.
We discussed yesterday Gorou as Ruby's father figure while evidently Ai had a function as a mother figure to her (to Sarina actually) - or to be more precise the loss of both as surrogate parential figures associated as dear to her heart people triggered Sarina's trauma of an abandoned child through Ruby again. This in short is the nature of her repetitive traumatic cycle. Sarina-Ruby is acting a smile in both lifes while nobody seems to notice the ugly feelings deep inside her. Even when she had a reverse act coming out at the audition, Frill and Akane wouldn't conceive that these feelings weren't part of her auditional act but actually the naked truth.
However the point of this essay is not to talk about Ruby - although she will certainly be useful - but this time to explore to which extent the predisposition from the past life and the traumatic repetitive cycles are as principles applicable to Aqua in order to gain access into the very dephts of his soul. This will allow us to methodically understand the true nature behind his lately menacing character plot. I swear it's the first time you hear these takes.
In the long run this essay will also substantiate my analysis of Ruby, because if this is applicable to Aqua too then it's fair to say that we uncovered a symmetrical primary structure the Author intended to construct for these twins. (Mirror) Symmetrrial relations are indeed indicated between them on a lot of levels, some essays on this sub discuss that exhaustively.
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So, we established Sarina's traumatic identity to be a predispositional factor for Ruby, vice versa we now have to establish the same for Aqua. It'd be misleading to ignore Gorou's core identity if we want to grasp Aqua's actions - or perhaps even his acting? Aqua too is stuck in a repetitive cycle triggered from his past life's supressed trauma. We will in this essay explore the depths of it like never done before. Eventually we gain a completely different understanding of revenge that actually haunts him more than it does Kamiki.
You kow, the other day I read an essay where the OP would refuse to call Aqua Aqua anymore and instead refers to him now as "Aquamarine" because he/she is apparently mad at his current behaviour. This to me is kinda funny but also instructive because it goes to show a fundamental misunderstanding of his character, which I believe is shared by many people. Be mad at Gorou Amamiya - if you dare - because this would actually be engaging.
However, we will see that he is like Ruby stuck in another repetitive cycle of trauma and the purpose of this essay is to raise awareness while not to excuse him blatantly but to point to the tragic and dramatic nature of his mind and soul. Because at this point it's safe to say that what we currently see is literally what we get. Aqua will not become visibly handsome any time soon. Better aknowledge and comprehend his actions now and save yourself later from phony bitterness, anger and other unreflected undermining reactions. Instead that be bitter and angry with compassion. Because if you don't appreciate his struggle you won't fully grasp the Cathasis that follows, which - under the impression that Aka is cooking some really good stuff - would be a shame. Finally I'm strongly hoping that this essay might enhance some people's future chapter reading experience.
Without further edo lets dive into it.
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Gorou Amamiya
Gorou's core determining trauma is not that easy to grasp on and that's mainly because his cope is vague while his upfront personality apppears mature and he as an individual is also highly functional, both as Gorou and Aqua. He appears to us as a well adjusted middle aged man: He went to the Medical University in Tokyo, dated women sucessfully and eventually became a Doctor and kinda just knows how to handle stuff. He is also a walking encyclopaedia, so feel free to ask him anything!
On the contrary site: Gorou seems to be a loner, an Otaku in denial who lives quite isolated in Japan's rural backwaters. After his study years in Tokyo he moved back to his hometown. We don't know the exact reason why he voluntarily choose this kind of isolation, probably to take care of his grandmother. When he came back to the hospitel as Aqua he referred to his coworkers as "colleagues I was close to" which implies a certain distance and a lack of other related people in the town like for instance actual friends that he would want to meet. After he learned that nobody of his past colleugues work there anymore the "social question" of his past life fizzled out.
The rural working place granted him a lot of free time at the hospital, So he met his emotionally undemanding social life with escapism into Idol-Culture respectively Ai Hoshino. And surely this "quirk" is the first indication that this man doesn't just maintain an introverted but healthy Work-Life-Balance as a doctor but actually tries to cure away some void: A normal man just doesn't scream joyful in a patient's room like a fanatic over an Idol show. This beginning scene doesn't just serves as a quirky comic relief but sets a fundamental tone to his character. A little later the coworking woman in EP 1 wouldn't quite believe his copium about a shared memory with Sarina as the reason for his idolization of Ai. And since he didn't gave her a clear answer if he would or wouldn't date Ai he at the same time disclosed a personal obsession as to be part of his allegedly idealistic and pure motives. We will get back to their conversation later, as we will find out that Gorou was actually honest and righteouss about his claims.
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I know, I know. Still haven't mentioned the elephant in the room:
His dead mother.
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What is Guilt?
When for Ruby the reoccuring event of her traumatic cycle is parental abandonment then for Gorou it is the feeling of guilt "for being born at the expense of his mother" (C75). In other words to feel responsible for her death.
Gorou lost his mother during his birth but he eventually got adopted by his Grandmother who took the role as his mother figure. The fact that he was actually raised by family laid the foundation for a some what functional personality. In fact he for his personal development received maternal love from his grandmother, thus the trauma which he recycled over Ai's death is fundamentally different from Ruby's.
But at the same time... it isn't different at all. Here is the why:
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What is Love?
We found out in the essay about Gorou as Ruby's father-figure that she'd eventually develope a romantic love interest for her father-figure due to the stagnation of her psychological development as part of her inherited "curse" through reincarnation with her trauma. While Ruby's body would mature and develope, likewise Ichigo as a father-surrogat is not present in her life, Sarina's soul would still be bounded to a confused relationship she development during her hospitalization. Sarina's love for Gorou was a childish inmature expression in a phase where the father is the only male person of interest in a young girl's life. But the anxiety to lose a dear father like figure again after she was abandoned by her biological father would also urge her to express a childish romantic interest for her Doctor. If he marries her he can never leave her again. A differentiation and overcoming of this developmental phase didn't happen for Ruby because the memory of Gorou would force herself in a obsessive spiral until she confused herself to desire actual romantic love from him, her father-figure. The playful jokes about marriage when Sarina becomes 16 have turned to a personal life goal of Ruby. When she found out about his death it triggered the trauma of parental abondenment and unleashed all her self-destructive feelings. A death wish that already was present during her life as Sarina and after Ai's death but had been intercepted by Miyako as a new mother and also through the hope and longing for Gorou's acceptance of her - both as Sarina and Ruby, but moreso in Ruby because this confused desire found a fleshed out embodiment in a sexually developed girl's body.
Well and Gorous obsession over the Idol Ai isn't that far off from this. Because what Gorou actually seeks from Ai is unconditional love. The kind of love that isn't just receivable by a surrogate mother but the very personal love that only a biological mother can give to her child in the very early infant stage. In Ai's eyes he would feel a kind of dangerous tease of this deeply hidden desire and while he never actually understood the reason of this longing or even that it's related to a surpressed trauma over his dead mother, he do felt mystically pulled into Ai's realm and felt a glimpse of hope for unconditional "Ai" (Ai when written in Kanji means Love) through her idolization.
But keep in mind that he is a full grown man. He already experienced a mostly sufficient mother figure in his life - the Grandmother. Of course he would never realize what the cause for his troublesome obsession over this teenage girl Ai Hoshino really is about. He eventually developes just as Ruby for Gorou a confusing sexual interest for the "unconditionally loving mother" that he projects onto Ai. Likewise Ruby developed a sexual interest for her idolized father figure Gorou.
Interestlingly enough the chat with his coworker on the roof about Ai fully displayed his confusion. In this scene she was a bit like a therapist, while he would reveal his trauma to her. The irony of course is that neither he nor her realize it: On the one hand he indeed seeks pure and idealistic form of "Ai", unconditional love of a mother for her childt. At the same time it's distorted by his sexual maturity which would try to find fullfillment through romantic and sexual "ressources".
The romantic fantasy is an impuls of the conflicted adult body that carries an infant's hidden wish. An unfulfilled infant lives deep inside of Gorous heart as a surpressed trauma over his mother's death who couldn't give him the most exclusive form of maternal love.
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The Selfish Love
We found the inverted similarity between Ruby's attachment to Gorou and Aqua's attachment to Ai. But it's worth to point out that in relation to Ai - and what I mean by that the quality of the relation Aqua -> Ai vs. Ruby -> Ai - there is a crucial difference in the form of love they want from her and it is mainly rooted in the different developmental phases they both are "stuck" in terms of the form of desired maternity.
Ruby's longing for a mother is transferable. Since she probably received the kind of unconditional love of an infant herself but was only abandoned at a later age when she became sick, Sarina could compensate it with Ai's love and even Miyako's after Ai's death. Ruby was kinda temporarly stabilized since she believed in meeting her idolized father again. It's not like Ai's death hasn't affected her but she is in her longing for maternal love actually more mature than Gorou. I will explain later how. Ai is for Ruby from this point of view "interchangable" just like Marina. But it is a yet to observe in the coming chapters how and when Sarina will "release herself and her mother from the expectation that a mother should love her child" (C119) but to me it seems like Sarina has a solid foundation to overcome this issue through her movie role of Ai.
But what about the kind of love Gorou craves for? Well for once we know that he doesn't seek something transferable because in fact a transfer that could cover the kind of maternal Love Ruby seeks he already received from his Grandmother. He wants the pure, innocent and idealistic love of a mother for his infant, for him it can only be re-created and satisfied in the impossible yet odd realm of supernaturality, A reincarnation as an actual infant with intact memories of his past life in the hands of an actual loving mother. This is the only but also the absolute solution to meet the innocent and pure minded wish of the traumatized infant crying in Gorous heart.
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"When I woke up, I was in heaven [....] for now, I just want to live this baby life to it's fullest"(Chapter 1)

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A normal well adjusted adult would perceive this situation as a nightmare. Being a baby stands in the heaviest contrast to the inherited soul of an adult. "I am a f'cking grown man, goddamit. Why am I a baby? I'm right now the most vulnerable, dependend and defenseless being, this situation absolutely opposes my proven and experienced self identity as a grown up" This is what a normal adult would think and he would hate this unintelligible situation he found himself randomly in. It's basically a curse. Also he would want to go back to his family, friends etc. Gorou on the other hand is a loner and suffers a tragic supressed trauma. So now we beginn to see how all the hings come together. Such a joyful and innocent scene as presented in the Manga has a dark meaning behind it.
To embrace the role of a cute liltte baby with the same joy and happiness it implies an actual desire to do so. To assert that this is yet another casual comic relief scene just to start his interesting journey as a MC misses the point. The plot started when he fanatically cheered up his Idol over the TV of a patients room.
Likewise here and there his personal desire in Ai and "Ai" would blend out the surounding world. Aqua ignores the premise of his reincarnation that he was murdered by Ai's stalker, because he wants to stimulate his deeply supressed desire. Gorou ignores the patient's needed rest when Ai is on TV, because he wants to stimulate the same desire. In relation to Ai Gorou is selfish right from the start. It's a very inmature selfish love towards her as an Idol and a mother, in fact this form of love is the most inmature and selfish love imaginable because it's born from the tragically denied desire of the most vulnerable and inmature human form: The Infant. In fact, that he as a doctor couldn't supresse his selfish will to disturb a resting patient was a pivotal moment to prelude the great lengths this desire would go to experience stimulation. His behaviour as Ai's baby is a derivation and the purest and most innocent enbodiment. Because this time it's materialized in the body of an actual infant. Gorou has become the human flesh of the traumatically supressed infant's desire living in his heart.
Gorou at this point is absolutely unwilling to give up the situation he found himself in. The infant has completely taken over the adult's mind. At one point he would even thank the culprit and ompletely misjudge the actual situation they are in. This - for such a reasonable and smart but apparently selfless man like Gorou - is astonishing to say the least. In relation of it's meaning in terms of trauma and hidden desire it's comprehensible.
The infant's longing is the most fragile form of love imaginable. If it misses it's chance it's all over again. It only came into life through an absolutely impossible miracle. This selfish little desire, for a long time well hidden as a surpressed trauma, feed by escapism in Idol-Culture, will do anything to blockade interferring reason. The reasonable adult Gorou is completely cut off.
The adult Gorou who's identity as an dedicated professional who is willing to go to great lengths to support his patients while rolling back his personal gain. The adult Gorou that for once let his selfish wish take advantage. This adult Gorou will end with the corpse of his mother in his hands.
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The Reenactment of a Tragedy
"Unconditional love" - it should be pure and innocent yet it becomes the very reason for his self-destroying malicous decades long torture and agony.
With the death of Ai Aqua for the first time conscioussly witnesses what until then was just a deeply hidden ugly non-verbalized traumatic experience. Before Ai's death Gorou never realized the existence of it, let alone the depths of it nor how it affects his personality structure.
But now while he is the accomplice witness of an unfolding nightmare - with the heart of an infant and the brain of an adult - the surpressed trauma actually has a real reenactment...
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"I could never forget... The rusted metal-like smell of her blood penetrating my nostrils. Nor could I forget how the warmth slowly left her hand" (C51)

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This is probably the most impactful moment of self-realization in the Manga in terms of Gorou's psyche. Yes, Gorou's. These words reflect the core traumatic experience of Gorou's birth that was reenacted by Ai's death. This is not about Aqua and his roleplay as the Son of Ai Hoshino and it's certainly not the trauma of a fan who lost his favorite Idol.
These are the words of a newborn that could never forget the rusted metal-like smell of his mother's blood penetrating his nostrils. Nor could he forget how the warmth slowly left her hand. Can you imagine what he's actually describing her? How his mother was slowly bleeding out and dies while she was holding her newborn in her arms?
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Postpartum bleeding or postpartum hemorrhage is often defined as the loss of more than 500 ml or 1,000 ml of blood following childbirth.
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They were alone, Gorou was exposed to his dying mother until her last gasp. This shocking tragic accident describes the first moments of his early life as a horrifying Dispair.
And we can immediately see, that Ai's death scene was personally ment for Gorou. It's not a coincidence that Ruby would by shielded behind the milky glassed door while Aqua would be exposed to the fullest with all his senses. It's because the repetitive cycle of his personal trauma was ment to unfold exclusively to him. In the closed door that shields Ruby also symbolizes the earlier expressed maturity of Ruby's seek for maternal love. This little physical gap and the muffled visual and audible senses are a quintessential symbolization of the difference in the form of love Ruby and Aqua seek and quintessential to the importance of the circumstances of her death to each of them.
Likewise Ruby's discovery of Gorou's corpse as a triggering event of her personal trauma through the guidance of the crow was exclusively ment for her to experience. Aqua was "excluded" in the sense that he wouldn't recognize how important that corpse is to Ruby because then it would be immanent that they know each other, which at that point is not in the god's interest.
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Now you might ask yourself: Okay, but why wasn't his desire fullfilled after some time, for example after he passed by the biological infant state? Why would he crave for this kind of love for years until her death? After some time he should have come to his senses and tell her about the danger, right? And why would he still follow her idol performances as a dedicated fan when we established that the idolization was only a surrogat expression of Gorou Amamiyas surpressed desire?
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The Reenactment of True Love
Gorou and Ai share a common goal. Ai wants to unconditionally love somebody and Gorou wants unconditionally to be loved. The reincarnation of Gorou as Ai's son sets the framework for a realization of both wishes.
The unconditonality of Ai's devotion that Gorou seeks from her as a mother isn't fullfilled. He early on realized through the performances he would witness as Aqua on TV that she looks at the camera and her fans with the same eyes and smile as she does at her kids. The purely physical devotion of a mother that takes care of her children like bathing them appears to him as an mechanized act, her mere obligation as a legal guardian. it's like "shaking hands" with a Fan after the idol concert. "Lies are an exceptional form of Love" she said to Gorou on the roof top (btw why is everyone opening up on that roof top, is it really like a therapist session whenever somebody enters it :)) thus he suspect she's acting towards her children the same way like towards her fans. Sure, a normal child wouldn't be that suspicious but Aqua is still a grown man and fully grasps the artificiality of his role as particular Ai's son. Eventually after all those years Aqua would still crave for an actual true expression of unconditional love that is exclusive to him. And Ai still was trying to love somebody but was yet too scared to express it to her children.
Now we can see why he would persist on his role as her son and supersede the danger of the culprit who killed him. For years he would ignore it because for years he was still crave for his desired love.
Just the fact of being supernaturally pushed to be her son wasn't fullfilling the desire of the infant at all, since deception and a lie is the core of this relationship. He would naturally jump back to old habits and absorb more love from the Idol Ai Hoshino over TV. But when Miyako took the twins to her concert and their cute dance triggered Ai's most sincere maternal smile it was actually a great moment of hope for Aqua.
This whole thing with the smile was pretty instructive. Because as you recall Ai was during ego-surfing reading the opinion of a fan who said her smile and expression wouldn't be convincing at all. Well I can't prove that this anonymous poster was Aqua himself but for the point I want to make lets just assume that it exactly articulates the impression Aqua shares with the poster. They both think that she lacks convincing emotionality "on stage" - a mysterious expression because for Aqua who is roleplaying this mother-son-relation it's also as observing her "on stage" at home. And his expectation as a child towards a mother is as obsessive as the expectation of a fan towards his favorite idol.
Unfortunately he gets "betrayed" (or maybe not, I will elabore later) because a little after Ai found this new and wonderful smile she would mechanize the same expression on stage for her fans, thus it lost the unconditional intimate character which should be exclusive between a mother and her child. Ai is the best and most ruthless liar of all time.
At the same time - lets entertain that he in fact was the anonymous poster - Aqua still has a lot of selflessness at his core personality, especially as he grows up, more of the upfront "Gorou" comes out again. It's not odd to assume that he really wanted to help Ai in her development as an famous Idol. I actually like this idea a lot and it's coherent with the type of Guy Gorou/Aqua outside of his very personal desire is: A carrying fine guy who genuinely wants the best for the people he feels close to.
Chronologically it also makes sense. She was holding Aqua on her lap and was complaining about the little money she makes. She was frustated and felt stuck. She said she wants to provide for her family. Then she went to her dance lessons and there she would sit down with her phone and read that message about her smile. Aqua could have predicted that she would ego-surf and therefore posted that tweet. Later on the concert Aqua and Ruby would reveal the "star power" that can influence others. A mirroring "star power" influence Aqua would perform on Kana's first idol concert when she exactly like Ai had trouble to express the sincere smile and joy.
On top of that the apparent "push" of Aqua has a certain providing husband-like character to it. Ai says she wants to provide for the family. In the end it's Aqua's interferrence that supported her wish. In this moment he acted the identity of Gorou the doctor when he was looking out for her best interests as a pregnant woman, a bit like a loving and carrying husband.
In a a future contrasting juxtaposition fine moments like this will help Aqua to realize that the amount of guilt he feels for her death is exaggerated and unfair since he genuinly was also looking after her even as her child. And of course we all remember his influence on Gotanda after she was cut out of his movie.
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Gorou's core determining trauma is not that easy to grasp and that's because it's coded as emotional raw data into his subconsciousness. There is another very important trauma at the core which prevents him from realizing the importance of that love that was finally granted to him in Ai's last moments. He didn't realize that this was an sincere reenactment of true love his dying mother gave him after his birth. This frame in the anime gives it basically away: Her hair like the hair after an extremely painful deadly birth. She is all sweaty, exhausted and anemic but also the truely happiest woman she ever was. It's like saying: There is no point of feeling guilty, I'm so glad I gave birth to you, my son. I love you...
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And is there even any base for guilt at all? The chapter "What is Guilt" in this essay turned out to be the shortest one. It's maybe also the grand tragicirony of Aka's story. "Guilt" and revenge for it's sake occupy Aqua's entire purpose in life, yet it has the most fragile irrational foundation, born from trauma and self-misunderstanding. One final thought: It's also not forgiveness. The kind of love that Gorous mother expressed for him after her birth wasn't forgiveness as it implies guilt. No, she is simply happy and unconditonally loved her son. He is not guilty.
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The next chapter in PART II will be called "The Reeactment of Violence" and in this we will find hidden links between Gorou's trauma with a father-figures in his life, the missing father who impregnated his mother but wouldn't provide for him, how this is reflected on Kamiki but also expressed in Aqua's husband-like behaviour towards Ai, but also his poisoned relationship to his Grandfather and how all of this comes together on the scenery of Ai's murder. And much more....

A few days ago at the Stanley A. Milner library in downtown Edmonton, parents were seen protesting the “Over The Rainbow Storytime” event, which involved a drag queen reading to children at the library. Likely based on the concerning news reports about the inappropriate undertone of the events, parents have seemed to start already mobilizing against the existence of the events in their cities, like the parents in Edmonton.
Drag queen story hour normalizes activities with strong sexual components to children, and is well outside the bounds of what is appropriate. The drag queen who read to children at this event, Felicia Bonee, like most drag queens takes part in sexualized performances, which he posts excerpts of on Twitter.
Felicia also links his boyfriend’s Twitter profile in his bio, where he promotes his Onlyfans account, which is a subscription service where people mostly sell explicit images of themselves. The boyfriend even posts blurred-out naked pictures of himself on Twitter, promoting his Onlyfans account.
This is not, and should not be, an entertainer for children. It raises the question of what a man dressed in female costume, caked in makeup, who usually does raunchy shows for gay adults, is personally getting out of reading books to kids?
Both Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood NDP MLA Janis Irwin, as well as the legacy media outlets, promoted and played cover for the drag event at the library, implying that those who were against the event were bigoted.
https://thenationaltelegraph.com/regional/the-ndp-the-media-and-an-onlyfans-edmontons-drag-queen-storyhour

I came across the post 2019 Fantasy Bingo Card Using Eurovision Songs (yes, seriously) by u/improperly_paranoid and as it is still Eurovision month, despite Eurovision 2023 ending 2 weeks ago I was curious to see if I could make this work for the Bingo 2023 card and Eurovision 2023 songs because it seemed like fun.
For those not in the know, Eurovision is an annual song contest where participating countries send an entry to compete for the opportunity to host the competition the following year and show off about their culture, it's a lot of fun, very camp and participating countries get to vote for the results. This year for the first time voting was expanded to non participating countries such as: the United States, Canada, Kosovo, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Mexico, Hungary, Slovakia, UAE, Turkey, and Chile. This interval performance of Love Love Peace Peace should give you a better idea of what it is all about. Eurovision often has fantastical elements, such as a woman floating in space above the Earth, an inflating lightning dress, not to mention funky video game inspired entries, and even a stick figure imaginary friend.
I think I've made my point, anyway if anyone doesn't know what Fantasy Bingo is then check it out! It's a yearly challenge to encourage diversifying your reading, I had a lot of fun with it last year and the community aspect is great for gathering ideas for themed cards, asking about if a book fits and seeing what everyone recommends.
Rule 1: Once a country has been used for a square it cannot be reused
Rule 2: Only songs and performers from Eurovision 2023 are eligible

Now, the Squares.

First Row
Title with a Title: Future Lover - Brunette (Armenia), although Queen of Kings would also work here I need it for...
Superheroes: Queen of Kings - Alessandra (Norway), I mean look at that cape! If she isn't a superhero I don't know who is.
Bottom of the TBR: I Wrote A Song - Mae Muller (United Kingdom), Mae performed as the final act in the Grand Final so was literally the performance we'd been waiting for the longest. Alternatively Luxembourg, who are returning to the competition in 2024 after a 30 year absence.
Magical Realism: Bridges - Alika (Estonia), a piano that plays itself.
Young Adult: Breaking My Heart - Reiley (Denmark), very bright and feels like it has a younger target audience.
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Second Row
Mundane Jobs: Who the Hell is Edgar? - Teyas & Salena (Austria), about singers and a dead writer ghostwriting.
Published in the 00s: What They Say - Victor Vernicos (Greece), okay obviously none of these songs are published in the 00s because that goes against Eurovision rules, however singer songwriter Victor is 16 years old...Yes this is an age joke, he's the youngest singer in the competition this year and he was born in the 00s. Plenty of other contestants for this year are born in the 2000s as well, including Brunette.
Angels and Demons: Blood & Glitter - Lord of the Lost (Germany), no blatant angel/demon iconography this year so I had to stretch the definition a bit, with this song embodying the notion that everyone has both angelic and demonic characteristics. Serbia's song does namedrop the Devil, but I need that song for later.
Five Short Stories: Flag Parade featuring short live performances from previous highly successful Ukrainian acts, showcasing the history of Ukraine in Eurovision interspersed with UK songs due to the UK hosting on behalf of Ukraine.
Horror: Like An Animal - Piqued Jacks (San Marino), this song might come the closest to straight up horror this year because of the lyrical content, alternatively this staging may qualify Romania's entry for this square.
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Third Row
Self-Published: Carpe Diem - Joker Out (Slovenia), as far as I could tell only this song and Future Lover - Brunette (Armenia) are self-published this year.
Set in SWANA Country: Tell Me More - TuralTuranX (Azerbaijan), this source explicitly mentions Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Published in 2023: Promise - Voyager (Australia), this is a freebie since they are all published in 2023. Check it out, this band knows how to put on a show.
Multiverse/Alternate Realities: Eaea - Blanca Paloma (Spain), again I'm stretching a bit here, but this song does have a very otherworldly feel to it.
POC Author: Heart of Steel - TVORCHI (Ukraine), Jimoh Kehinde was born in Nigeria.
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Fourth Row
Book Club or Readalong: Cha Cha Cha - Käärijä (Finland), the song everyone is watching on youtube, it currently has the most views of all the live performances of the 2023 show, with 15 million views.
Novella: Mama ŠČ! - Let 3 (Croatia), the shortest song this year according to youtube. Also Croatia did get to the Grand Final, but their semi-final performance video on youtube is shorter for some reason.
Mythical Beasts: Unicorn - Noa Kirel (Israel), it's even HM
Elemental Magic: Break A Broken Heart - Andrew Lambrou (Cyprus), the most elemental mage in Eurovision 2023, we get a waterfall, rain and fire. Shoutouts to Romania for their firey performance and Georgia and Estonia for their water iconography.
Myths and Retellings: Soarele şi Luna - Pasha Parfeni (Moldova), use of multiple folklore characters with the lyrics written by Pasha's wife Yuliana about a beautiful marriage, you could definitely argue this is a retelling of their own love story.
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Fifth Row
Queernorm Setting: Because of You - Gustaph (Belgium), a camp song described by Gustaph as "an ode to the queer community".
Coastal or Island Setting: Solo - Blanka (Poland), features a coastal background.
Druids: Power - Diljá (Iceland), she's got plant powers.
Featuring Robots: Samo mi se spava - Luke Black (Serbia), a lot of video game iconography, very moody atmosphere and a big robot boss to fight. TVORCHI's Heart of Steel also fits here.
Sequel: Tattoo - Loreen (Sweden), a surprising amount of songs work for sequel, as we had 6 returning performers from previous Eurovisions/Junior Eurovision including Pasha Parfeni (Moldova), Marco Mengoni (Italy), Monika Linkytė (Lithuania), Gustaph (Belgium), Iru (Georgia). But Loreen fits best here, as she returns from winning Eurovision 2012 with Euphoria to win again in Eurovision 2023. Making her the second person to win Eurovision twice.
With a few stretches to make a Bingo challenge meant for books work for songs, it sort of worked. How about that.

You can find the original post exploring how colour is used in Lottie’s costuming here.
In the final two episodes we see Charlotte wearing mostly very dark colours but with hints of blue in ep 7 and more overt gold/yellow in ep 8. Both outfits stick within the Yellowjackets colour theme that she wears throughout but symbolise different things.
Blue - this is the leader Charlotte wants to be and wants the other YJs to see her as. Gentle, guiding, in tune with her surroundings, able to help them.
Black - darker colours begin to appear in Charlotte’s outfits as she spends more time with Nat and becomes the most prevalent colour when all of the adult YJs are gathered together. It could foreshadow death and specifically Nat’s death but I think it also shows that all of the adults share the same inner darkness and trauma from their time in the wilderness.
Yellow - this is the leader Charlotte is. Queen Bee, followed like the sun by her heliotropes but not necessarily with any real power. It’s almost a colour of artifice for her. The fact she is wearing it in the finale shows that she thinks she is in a position of power, the leader, but this isn’t the case - especially as the dominant colour in her outfit is still black. I also think the choker is a very deliberate reference to throat-slitting.
Burgundy - burgundy should be associated with Lottie at her most dangerous, connected to the Wilderness (as an adult) and least trustworthy. I expected to see her in burgundy for the hunt but I think that was an immediate tell for the audience that the hunt wasn’t going to be successful or actually connected to The Wilderness. Both her retort to Shauna and her seemingly lost and confused by the end of the episode show that the connection wasn’t truly there. Perhaps this is a mirror to Teen Lottie saying she can’t hear It anymore and handing over her power. I also wonder if the lack of belief from the other YJs destabilised Charlotte’s belief.
Hope you enjoyed! Love to discuss it further in the comments.

Title mostly but I’m going to add back story since it could be helpful with context.
I have a small hobby farm with about 8 acres of property and the property line to the south has a river running through. The river is deep enough to pull water from, and the previous owner hooked up a pump with underground plumbing and everything. The whole system is really awesome and convenient for getting water for gardens and our livestock no matter where you are on the property. I’ve got close to 6 spigots that the system feeds, and they save me an absolute ton of time and energy.
The only problem is the switch to the pump is not in a convenient spot. It’s connected to a sub panel in a shed that isn’t really close to the house, or the animal pen. It would be really nice to have a two pole smart switch that I could turn on with my phone wherever I was. I wouldn’t be opposed to a switchbot, or something that could mechanically turn the switch on and/or off, but it seems like switchbot only works on rocker switches?
It’s a 220/240 (I can never remember which it is. I’m in the US and it used two circuit breakers with one bar so it’s 2 standard circuits.) so I can’t just simply wire up a regular smart switch. Google seemed less than helpful, and I posted over in DIY as well, and the closest I can get is possibly a pool pump switch, or a timer, both of which I am not opposed to, but I really want to exhaust my resources and learn a few things along the way. It’s not completely inconvenient to run it while I’m outside working and such, but the main reason I want a smart switch is because often times I need to water the gardens overnight and Id rather have it on a schedule so I didn’t have to go all the way out there to turn it on and off every day. Thanks in advance for any help!

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richard the cockroach is a adult animated TV show by Sega cockroach named Richard griffin named in quahog it was Christmas i decided to buy him on Amazon i found one weird enough saying DON'T WATCH THIS OR ELSE WILL DIE it was a joke to buy it
it arrived in the post office cover saying Richard The Cockroach 6 with a poorly drawn illustration of adult animated TV show he had black holes with no nose and no mouth one of my bedroom drawer
the next day it was Christmas put disc in DVD player i watched TV a few minutes later i heard screaming and crying from my room horrifying sight on the TV it was image of Richard Chris Lois quamire Joe Meg Carter minion tubeworm and Brian all in complete darkness they all lost their nose and mouth and they had black holes of eyes the colours were dark what sounded like distorted version of the richard the cockroach theme song
my brother got up he had blood running down the eyes nose mouth and ears told him to go down the stairs i then told my parents take brother to my hospital i went into the living room put disc in DVD player and started watching to my surprise there was no language selection Sega logo warning previews DVD menu or theme song instead it went into the title card which was just text in Canadian on a black background i translated it and it said Quamire Kills Everyone but i continued watching
the episode started with quamire sleeping he stole his money quamire woke up see that figure was running away with his money TIME TO KILL THAT FUCKING ROBBER FLY i was shocked since that episode continued swearing however quamire pulls out the fly swatter and shooting the figure in haltere hyper animated blood and beak matter everywhere
quamire said finally that shitty robber fly is dead now time to kill Richard quamire went to Richard's house where Richard was sleeping quamire pulled out fly whisker and sliced Richard in half Brian was shocked he then about to bite quamire quamire pulled out the fly swatter and shot Brian then he heard sounds of sirens and quamire said oh shit as he back to the house and locked the door QUAMIRE THIS IS THE POLICE OPEN UP
quamire busted down the door with a grenade and fly swatter in his hand WHITE POWER N***ERS and started shooting the police police pulled out the fly swatter missing all of bullets the police was about to shoot quamire quamire shot the police hyper animated blood and ovary matter everywhere
then quamire saw a police helicopter in the sky as quamire threw the grenade at the helicopter YOU CAN'T KILL ME YOU SON OF BITCHES I'M THE GREAT QUAMIRE the grenade exploded hyper animated blood and body parts flying everywhere as the helicopter flew down and crashed quamire looked at the screen with a devilish smile on his face lasted for a minute announcement came after break on cartoon network it then cut to the advert until they nothing but the gore
another advert came it was advert for Coles on cartoon network never series like warner bros animation they are back to richard the cockroach on cartoon network another title card came up saying in Canadian Quamire Kills Everyone Part 2 i didn't watch a part 2 so i took out the disc and put it in blender i watched as blender broke the disc into tiny pieces so i buried it along with cover i need go to hospital but first i watch the TV i then heard of voice saying want to watch more and i looked around to see a bloody quamire plush with a bug spray i threw the doll into the bin and continued watching TV
i went into the hospital i didn't really care since my brother died of the same so i have nothing about everywhere
if you see a episode of richard the cockroach 6 don't watch it

Well I ran into that crazy lady again. But this isn't going to pan out quite as you might think from the title. I made a small update in my previous post about how I'd repainted my truck white. Well in the time since then, I did also get new plates. Before painting, I pulled some dents and DIY repainted the entire truck for cheap using high pressure wide spray cans. A friend helped me gloss coat the truck for cheap too. The Silverado looks good, if not inconspicuously normal. Most I tell can't believe it's a spray paint job. With the new look to the truck, I figured the odds of me ever running into the crazy lady who previously owned my truck again were practically nil. But I guess it's just too much of a small world. However this time I was more of a bystander to the main event.
I was back in the same area I'd previously encountered that crazy lady in. Only this time I was helping a friend's brother move on Saturday. He'd bought a foreclosed fixer-upper house, and was moving into it after having made a few renovations. My truck was fully loaded and towing a trailer. And it took two trips to get everything. My friend's brother was also transporting stuff in his own car as well. As part of the deal, the brother bought us lunch. I suggested the diner I ate at least time I was in the area. And so we went. The food was as good as I remembered. And we had some good fun talking and eating. But when we were nearly ready to go, that's when the crazy lady entered the establishment. I recognized her almost right away. She looked just the same. Was even wearing similar clothes. Only this time she had a small dog inside the purse tucked under her arm. Not sure of the breed.
When she went to find a table, one of the employees told her that as they'd told her the last time, they do not allow pets unless they're service animals. Crazy lady said her dog was a certified ESA, but the manager with a deep groan said that as he'd previously told her, an ESA was not the same as a service animal. And therefor not an open pass to bring it anywhere she so pleased. Then said she could not dine in so long as long as she had the dog with her. She made a big scene of saying she was being discriminated against, and that she needed her ESA doggo. But the manager was a rock and told her to either order food to go and wait for it outside, or don't get any food at all. Crazy lady yelled that this was outrageous. But I guess in that moment she finally realized how much she was embarrassing herself, and did actually order food to go. And the manager reminded her one more time not to bring the dog in again before she went out the door.
I pointed out to my friends that was the crazy lady I'd previously told them about. And they both laughed and said "No way!". I took the time to recall the past incident before we paid our bill to leave. As we went outside, the crazy lady was out there loudly talking on the phone with someone. I don't know who, but she was very irate. And she was letting her little dog poop in the greenery just outside the diner and didn't pick it up. As we were walking past her, she locked eyes with me. But she didn't seem to recognize me at all. She just gave me a distressed sounding "What are you staring at!?", before I just excused myself by saying "Nothing at all." and kept walking. She watched me walk all the way to my truck and get in it. And she did seem to stare at the truck and me for an uncomfortably long time before finally going back to talking on her phone. I drove away to go back for the second load and that was it. Kinda mundane I know. But that's what happened. I'm actually very glad she did not recognize me or the truck. It seemed like she almost did. So I guess my new paint job worked just fine.

Hiya, I'm Marnes, 29M from Belgium :) I've a relatively simple but well-filled (busy) life, and while I've got everything taken care of, I lack a significant other to really complete the happiness, as well as the types of interests others have that let them organically meet one out and about. So if you have some room in your life and mind, and want a guy to fill that special spot of belonging, please read on.
I'd like to find a girl to talk daily with about work, hobbies, household, basically anything interesting that happens in our days, with occasional pictures and links. To confide in about anything and everything, give some priority to in free time, send happy selfies to, give goodnight kisses with emote lines, have some adult fun with. Someone I can grow attached and affectionate to, and find that unique, highest level of comfort, contentness, and togetherness with. My player 2, if I may be so cheesy.

About me

Without spoiling too much, I work in IT and medical intervention, and my personality quite fits both stereotypes you're probably picturing now: often quiet and methodical as a geek developer would be, empathic but rational as emergency work requires. I have my passions and dislikes, try to balance my social energy between not having the spotlight on me but also not being a wallflower, do new or impulsive things from time to time. If I had to pick something that's clearly off-center about me, it's that I can overthink/overdiscuss stuff because misunderstandings and predictable mishaps grate at me.
The last two years I've finally been living alone in my appartment and tasting all the freedom and responsibility. This personal headroom let me finally deal with some physical and personal flaws I used to have, so it has been a great period and I feel better than ever before. I just wish I could complete my circle of few but great friends with a girl who means the world to me. I'm just not comfortable and myself in most "going out" places, and I refuse to fake/force interest in something as a faux premise to meet someone.
I don't have pets but love others' and animals in general. You'll get my best recent picture with a relative's cat if you ask for it. I don't and won't have kids.
If it helps you relate:

• favorite games are single player stories with strong plots and emotions or beauty, instrumental music and pretty graphics: Metroid, Metal Gear, SOMA, Titanfall 2, Zero Escape, Stray, Ori, Valiant Hearts, Outer Wilds, Abzû...
• funny/cute/daring slice of life anime like Nichijou, Ijiranaide, Lightning & Sweetness, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Yashin Dropkick, but also some action like some of the Gundams or friend recommendations like Odd Taxi
• occasionally a movie or series: I clearly prefer one-offs in action/mystery/sci-fi over cinematic universes and superheroes. The Rock, Shutter Island, The Expanse, Stargate, 6 Days, Upgrade, Kingsman, Hacksaw Ridge, ...
• my music collection is a loooot of soundtracks from games or fan albums (85%), some TV things (10%) and a few random hits

About you

I guess I'll resonate best with someone rational, chill, smart. More of a scientist/techie than an artist, but everyone and every hobby has an artsy side. A limited social life like me, so that we'll have time, energy, and geniune interest for each other. Mature and reasonable rather than unpredictable and emotional. If your face and life go on instagram daily, you hang out at parties every week, or I feel like words are cheap and I don't mean anything of value to you, it won't work.
Physically, I don't have a favorite haieye color or something. Mine are brown/brown, and I'm starting to settle on short hair and short beard. The more "plain"/natural, down to earth, relatable, ... you look, the better. I do love artificial hair color, prefer short hair, and love to see a piercing, but don't take it as a necessity. There's nothing remarkable about my looks either, just that I wear glasses and you might spot the scar on my cheek. I'm a little overweight like most people, and you can be too, or you can be thin, average, athletic, short, tall...

Practical

Let's meet at first in reddit chat, but I only like to use discord to talk. I work 9-5 mon-fri and try to sleep by 1, so I can mostly be active in the evening. East coast US is okay (made it work with someone for 9 years), outside there or the EU could be tricky in terms of timing and relatability. Visiting each other eventually would be great, but I'm mainly looking for something online. Not open to moving, don't want kids, don't have pets but I love the pets of others.
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Hello, I'm new here.
First of all, I'd like to ask if there are any British people in this community, specifically people who were alive in the 1980's, or if not British then maybe still in Britain in the 1980's, and watched television back then. Maybe you'll might understand what I'm talking about.
I'd like to talk about a British TV commercial from the 80's that I watched when I was about 4 or 5 years old - ish. I would guess the commercial must have been broadcast on TV from around 1987 to 1989-ish (or maybe slightly later). I can't remember exactly what what the commercial was advertising for or what specific brand, but I think it's most likely that the commercial was advertising for frying pans.
In the commercial, a fried egg was poured into a frying pan, and as soon as it started frying, the fried egg grew hands and attempted to use those hands to crawl and climb out of the frying pan, but as soon as it got to the top of the edge of the frying pan it fell back into the center of it. I don't think this commercial was intended to be creepy, I think the commercial was meant to be cute, comical and light hearted, but this commercial creeped me out as a kid and even put me off eating fried eggs at the time, thinking it would grow hands and come alive and wriggle and jiggle inside me... or something (I eventually grew out of that phobia).
I think the message of that commercial was that the frying pan was non-slip and that the fried egg has no chance of slipping out of the frying pan by accident no matter how hard it tried? Or something?
I think hands of the fried egg in the commercial were stop motion animated, and to make the hands look like they were part of the fried egg, they would have to make it out of white clay and cover it in gloss to give it the same texture as the fried egg... or something... And although the egg looked realistic, the hands looked cartoony... They didn't have fingernails or any other details, I would guess they looked similar to Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario's gloves, and I can't remember it they had 4 or 3 fingers.
I don't remember hearing any narration in the commercial, it did have some instrumental music but I'm not very good at describing music so... sorry. The music wasn't creepy or anything though...
I haven't seen this commercial since back when I was 4 or 5 years old, and although I don't want to make a super big fuss about it since there are far more important things than British 80's commercials, personally I would love to watch this commercial again after such a long time (because I like to re-explore irrational childhood phobias). But although loads of British TV commercials from the 80's have been uploaded to YouTube I can't seem to find the specific commercial I'm looking for.
I can't remember which TV channel I watched it on, but if it's any help, I was living in the Thames Television / LWT region when I watched it. I was living in Yorkshire as an adult many years later and I asked a couple of friends of mine there if they could remember the commercial and they both said they might have watched it but are not sure. So it's possible that commercial might have aired on Yorkshire Television too or possibly nationwide.
Back in the 80's We had only 4 TV channels in Britain and only 2 of them would show commercial breaks. Satellite and Cable was also optional but when I was 4 / 5 my parents didn't have Satellite or Cable. Also in the 80's ITV used to split up into different channels for different regions of Britain. Thames and LWT for London and the surrounding areas of London, Yorkshire for Yorkshire, TSW for the Westcountry, and so on... (nowadays it's different). They did make commercials that aired exclusively for these specific regional ITV channels (I can remember seeing a few Meadowhall adverts on Yorkshire). Maybe the Fried Egg commercial aired exclusively on Thames / LWT, but I don't see why they would advertise a frying pan company exclusively on Thames /LWT. Maybe it's for something else? I don't know.
I can only remember watching the advert like 2 or 3 times or so at the time, so it's possible that the ad was rarely shown on TV. And having not seen it on YouTube yet, it's also possible that the commercial didn't survive on people's VHS recordings and has become lost media, along with the Hitogata commercial from Japan and the Encarnacion Bechaves commercial from the Phillipines. Either that or maybe because I can't remember what it's advertising for, it might have been on YouTube for a while by now and I've missed it.
Another friend of mine suggested it might have been a Tefal advert but I think she thought I was talking about the "Eggheads" commercials, which I wasn't.
Any help would be great!

Hello,
I am an ordinary 21y/o adult who has a favourite cooking pot (I’d be happy to share pictures and to tell you why this pot is awesome if you are interested haha).
I study law with no intention to practice it whatsoever. I simply enjoy learning about it but would like to keep it as a hobby as to avoid the effects of routine transforming passion into stressful boredom over time. In my free time, I enjoy spending time helping out different charities, I notably spend hours in animal rescues. When I am not there grooming horses and walking goats, you can usually find me either in my room aimlessly writing lines that will rarely be read, or at the local rink, softly gliding around the ice.
I would describe myself as someone spontaneous, clumsy, and kind. I find a lot of joy in the small things of life and love to write endless lines about them.
I am looking for a penpal with whom I can exchange email/snailmail full of little trivial things. I would love to be this stranger with whom you feel you can share anything, knowing that you won’t be judged but appreciated for it. Tell me about the drama going on at your workplace (I’m a sucker for drama, but only when I am not involved), about how your holiday went (tell me about the warmth of the sand, the smoothness of the snow, the way your friend Clara fell head down into a puddle, ...), about how pretty are the flowers boarding the path of your morning walks, or how you found yourself a new obsession for cabbages (naturally, as there is hardly anything as beautiful as a person talking about something with great passion, regardless of what said interest is).
So if this is something you would like to share with me, feel free to send me a message. I would like to exchange emails at first, but I do also greatly appreciate the depth and authenticity of a good old letter.
Hoping to make a genuine connection,
A.

Hello!
Welcome to my little corner of reddit!
I'm looking for a partner for the end of the world. (I'm only half joking about that by the way.)
About me:
I'm an aging punker and liberal leaning. I'm a lover of all things weirdand ridiculous. I'm located in Central Pennsylvania. A divorced father of two. (We share custody 50/50 and there's minimal to no drama.)
I have my own place, my own car, a stable career, a good credit score and no unreasonable or excessive debt.
I pride myself on being vulnerable and authentic always and I don't mind showing that to my partner.
I'm emotionally intelligent and emotionally available. I've been described as witty, playful, attentive and funny. I'm definitely an old soul. I jokingly say I'm an analog man in a digital world. To me, it's not about the destination, but the journey.
I'm an avid music lover. I collect vinyl. I also dabble in woodworking and DIY. I love to kayak and be around water. I'm a huge fan of documentaries and I do love a good cheesy 80s horror flick. Fall is my favorite season and Halloween is my favorite holiday.
I love animals. I love both dogs and cats equally but I'm currently a cat dad.
I'd describe myself as someone who usually takes the road less traveled and I kind of do my own thing when it comes to my interests. I've been told that I'm more of a chaotic good. My Myers Briggs personality type is ENJF-A if that tells you anything.
My love languages are quality time and physical touch. After some consideration, it's kind of impossible to have physical touch without quality time.
Some of the physical touch I enjoy is receiving beard scratches, giving from behind hugs and foot rubs to my partner. I'm also a snuggler and hopeless romantic.
I have the time and energy to put into someone. I've done a lot growing over the past couple of years and I finally feel like I'm ready to find my forever.
I'm also not vanilla.
Here's a pic of me. https://imgur.com/a/VrRp9Lu
About You:
I tend to be more attracted to feminine energy and girly girls but I understand if that's not for everyone. I'm open to all races and ethnicities. I do have my preferences but I'm definitely not picky.
I love curvy, cute and cuddly women for sure.
I'd love for you to not be vanilla as well and somewhat exploratory. Please have a sense of humor. A good flirt to roast ratio is a love language all it's own.
Please be located close by or willing to put in the work to communicate and travel or host of need be, because I am.
Please also be consistent. I don't want to be the only one to carry on the conversation. Ghosts need not apply.
Please have an open heart and an open mind for love. I promise you if you do, our lives will both be enriched by one another.

I've been active in KS fandom for 6 years and a half now and it's time to debunk some common misconceptions that I'm still seeing until this day. I have actually written an informative post one years ago, and while I don't like the self-promotion, I suggest a read because it answers to some questions I'm currently seeing in this subreddit lately. In no way I'm implying I am an authority in this fandom, but I collected a lot of information first-hand (I personally met Koogi twice, one of which was an exclusive meeting with a selection of lucky fans, I talk about it here ) and while i think everyone's opinion is valid, we shouldn't ever forget to respect the author first and foremost. Also we should take into account that our views are more often than not filtered through western lenses. Koogi is a Korean author that writes mainly for a Korean audience of adults. Most of the time I've read misconceptions about what a BL is, and what I suggest is to find reliable sources, especially coming from Asian people, if you want to know more about this genre. What I could say before I start is that BL doesn't mean romantic story with a healthy relationship. Some BLs deals with dark and sensitive themes, like rape, pedophilia, abuse etc. but this doesn't make them less a BL. The common denominator is that all BLs involve a relationship between two males. The relationship could be sexual or platonic, healthy or extremely toxic, this doesn't matter.

Misconception: Killing Stalking is only a psychological horro Fact: Killing Stalking is a BL thriller.

It has always been in the BL category on the official site where it has been published since November 2016. The site is Lezhin. In a Q&A that you can find on Lezhin, Koogi explicitly stated why she chose this genre: she grew up with BLs so it came naturally to her. Moreover, during a fan meeting in 2019, she called her work a yaoi (BL) thriller in front of her audience and said she is not that much of a fan of horrors

Misconception: Koogi stated KS is not a BL. Fact: Koogi never said Ks is not a BL. It's a false, made-up statement.

This misconception comes from the fan wiki, which is not a reliable source since everyone could write it. Sadly it spread in the fandom but there are no proofs Koogi ever said that because she never did it. You can check all her interviews and her personal twitter and you'll never find anything about this :)

Misconception: Koogi doesn't want to be related to BL and she hates shipping art between Bum and Sangwoo Fact: just look at her Twitter ;)

Koogi not only wrote a BL (thriller) herself, but she is a big fan of BLs. She said her favourite BL author is the Japanese mangaka Harada. Now, if you never heard about Harada, their works masterfully deals with very dark and sensitive themes, sometimes even more fucked up than KS itself. In one of their works, Nii-chan, they wrote the relationship between a young boy and the pedo that groomed him. All of that with great subtlety. Nii-chan is a BL, accept it or not. Koogi also loves Jun's Dark Heaven a Korean BL that involves themes like drugs, abuse and crime. Also, if you give a look at Koogi's twitter, you can see how she has no issues to RT some romantic or erotic art between Bum and Sangwoo, and sometimes enthusiastically react to them with a comment just like she did with this very NSFW art :) She isn't just supportive of her fans, but she clearly likes that.
Also, more important, she drew erotic art herself (this is just the last example). If you think she doesn't like or she condemns this kind of content, you are very wrong about it.

Misconception: There have been controversies because KS is a psychological thriller and people say it is a BL. Fact: the only controversies Koogi faced are of another nature.

Tbh in the western fandom that thing about BL/not a BL is still a thing, but Koogi doesn't even know it because it's just a western fandom thing. Koogi and the Asian part of the fandom (Korean and Japanese readers) never questioned it is a BL. Koogi got criticism for her work but for another reason: the depiction of femicide, especially Jieun's murder. Some Korean fans dropped the story after the end of season 1 because of it, attacked Koogi saying they hated Bum for that. Koogi said she was very sad people attacked her character and while Jieun's death was a hard choice, it was an important and unavoidable part of the plot. The controversy arose again when the KS drama has been announced. Some feminist groups asked the production to be stopped since there is a worrying surge of misogynistic violence towards women in Korea, and they were afraid that some perverts would have used the drama footage of the actresses for their porns. As for today we know nothing new about the drama, but I think Koogi is taking care of the issue.

Misconception: Koogi said she didn't want KS to be a romance Fact: Koogi said she didn't want to trivialise an abusive relationship as it commonly happens in many stories.

Well, it is true that Ks is not a romance per se, but Koogi meant something else with that statement. There are so many stories, especially BLs, that depict abusive relationships. One of the most popular at the moment, still on Lezhin, it's Painter of the Night by Byeonduck. I have nothing against the author or her fans, it is just an example. This story, set in the ancient Korea, involves a noble kidnapping a lowborn, forcing him to paint for him. Especially in the first part of the story, the noble, who has been severely abused in his childhood, rapes several time the painter, forces him to sexual acts, abuses and beats him. At the current point of the story (more than 100 chapters), the painter is deeply in love with his rapist, because the rapist became a better person for him. There is still no actual explanation why the painter fell in love with the guy that beated and raped him several times, there is still a big power imbalance, but no one questions this story is a BL or a romance. And once again, it's ok if you like it, since it's fictional and nobody is truly hurt. Koogi didn't want to write the usual story where the abuser magically change for love and the victim falls in love despite being raped several times. First of all, Ks is not about Stockholm syndrome, a common trope in so many BLs. Bum canonically has Borderline Personality Disorder and he had a crush on Sangwoo before finding out Sangwoo was a killer. Bum didn't develop feelings for his captor because Sangwoo was occasionally kind to him, Bum had a severe, untreated mental illness that put a huge toll on his view about relationships and people. With this I don't mean Bum is not capable of real feelings of love, he actually is, but he doesn't stay with Sangwoo because of Stockholm syndrome ( that to be honest, it is still debated to be a real syndrome by many psychologists). Sangwoo himself, while actively trying to change for Bum, never actually changed and fell back to his abusive and destructive behaviour. The ending of the story (and the title itself) shows the tragedy of the cycle of abuse, that is very hard to break without any help. Even if Sangwoo and Bum had genuine feelings for each other, and Koogi confirmed it , their relationship was doomed to fail because of the abuse. This is what she meant, their relationship couldn't work because a victim could never be safe in the hands of their abusers and abusers don't change for love (without a huge amount of external professional help at least) I'm sorry for the long post, but I hope I answered to some common questions. I tried to bring the objective facts I know. My wish is that we always respect each other in this fandom, but above all we should respect Koogi, without her we wouldn't be here.

i don't know what i'm doing with my life. i just want to lay in bed all day doing absolutely nothing. i'm in my second year in high school and i'm already tired as fuck. not in a sense where i'm tired of academic stuffs and whatnot, i'm just so tired of life in general and i feel so empty. i feel entitled and i feel like i'm meant for greater things but that's just me having baseless assumptions and being plain narcissistic. i don't want to go to school anymore. i don't know if it's the social anxiety, my untreated depression or negative mindset, i just do not want to conform and be a functional member. i want to die by my own hands, that would make me feel like i am in control of my fate. i don't want to imagine myself dying from accidents or other circumstances, i want to jump off a building. i want to feel the freedom of falling and having myself killed after. i don't know if i'm feeling shit because i reaally want to be liked but i am unable to attract people meanwhile my bestfriend collects people like some kind of pokemon and i am always seen with her. she's so effortless in everything she does and she deserves to be liked but i feel sick about it because i'm doing everything i can with my appearance yet no one would look my way. lol idk i'm just feeling so petty. personality wise, i'm fucking trash too. my moral compass is crazy, i've stolen stuff from stores and i'd feel some guilt yet my heart would reaallyy tremble and that's the only time i feel like i'm alive. i'm antisocial but i want to be loved yet i push people away because i'm just lowkey looking down on them because i'm a fucking narcissist whose rotten to the core. i probably deserve to die. i am ungrateful who gives 0 fucks about the adults around me and only feels things on a superficial level. i am not capable of loving people but i want to be loved. i feel so unwanted and worthless and it's the reality i'm facing, i amount to nothing and i imagine that people wouldn't want to involve themselves with me. can i even change for the better? i want to be normal yet i think i'm bound to live a life so rotten while the people around me would get to enjoy life. i don't fucking know anymore, i'm tired of everything and has lost interest in everything. in times like these, i often turn to philosophy for consolation but i'm tired of that too, i want to die but my favorite manga series hasn't ended yet and i still want to watch and read hundreds of anime and manga titles before i die. maybe i'm just some weird otaku whose a neet aspirant? i don't fucking know i don't think there's anything good in life for me. everything is so empty and bleak and i'm tired of my superficial relationships with people and i'm tired of my personality, i'm tired of interacting with people, i want to do solitary confinement, i don't want to get up and face people, i'm so tired of society, everything is futile, why must i live in the first place? everything is absurd yet i'm not and absurdist, just a nihilist who feels completely empty and is done with life in general.
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i'll kill myself after i've completely watched 500 anime titles and 250 manga titles. camus once said that people should devote their lives into the things that is keeping them from killing themselves but idk man is wasting your time being a neet really that rewarding? the idea itself is superficial unlike some noble deeds of living for the sake of others or living for your passion and goals in life. i don't know anymore. i don't plan on going to school tomorrow but i can't tell my parents about it since they'll question me and i hate explaining myself so i'll make up excuses and go somewhere far and hope i'd get run over by a truck or something, or maybe even decide to jump off a high place.

Hello,
I am looking for a friend into Rp to be my friend and Rp partner. Indeed, I am looking for partners for Rp on the long term only. Please don't ghost, if you're busy let me know. Just as I would for you. I am looking for people who are sympathetic, kind, and understanding of my handicap.
I'm looking for people who would accept to play canon characters for my Oc women. I can do double Rp without any problem. Please don't play the canon too OOC. I would also make efforts on my side. We will always find an arrangement 🙂
I am French so please be patient with my English.
Some of my scenarios require the person to play multiple canon characters, as some of my Oc's are polyamorous. But in very unic case I'll be ok for you to play just one.
Lot of my prompts are alternative universe and I don't follow the canon stories 100%.
I am only looking for people 18+ because I am an adult myself.
Here are the fandoms I'm looking for:
*****Video games *********

• Zelda: I'm looking for someone who would play Sidon, or a male zora for me. But also a bird man (I can't find the English name), or a yiga man. Or Dark Link.
  
• FF VII: I'm looking for Rufus, Tseng, Reno, Rude. Or Sephiroth.
  
• FF VIII: I'm looking for Biggs and Wedge. Or a male Oc Galbadian.
  
• FF XV: I'm looking for someone who would play Ardyn Izunia
  
• Animal crossing NH: I'm looking for Tom Nook
  
• Sonic: I am looking for Shadow
  
• Mario: I'm looking for Bowser or Luigi
  
• Rune factory 4: I'm looking for Dylas, Vishnal
  
• Rune factory 5: I'm looking for Murakumo, Ryker, Reinhard, Luca
  
• Monster hunter stories 2: I am looking for Zellard
  
• Resident Evil - I'm looking for Albert Wesker
  
• Metal Gear Solid I - I'm looking for Johnny Sasaki
  
• Devil My cry - I'm looking for Dante and/or Vergil
  
• Tales of Symphonia - I'm looking for someone to play a Oc desian (male)
  
• Tales of Xillia - I'm looking for someone to play Alvin, Wingul, Gaius
  
• Tales Of Zestria - I'm looking for someone to play Dezel, Zaveid
  

***Manga/Anime *********

• Demon Slayer: I'm looking for these characters Obanai Iguro, Tengen Usui, Kyojuro.
  
• Jujutsu Kaisen: I'm looking for these Satoru Gojo characters
  
• DBZ: I'm looking for these characters Cooler, Perfect Cell
  
• SNK: I'm looking for these characters Erwin and Levi
  
• Tokyo Ghoul: I am looking for Amon, Shuu
  
• One punch man: I'm looking for speed o sound sonic
  
• Hunter x hunter: I'm looking for Feitan
  
• Saint Seiya - I'm looking for Milo or Camu or Canon
  
• Chobit - I'm looking for a male persocon
  Shiki - I'm looking for someone to play a male Shiki or Mutô Tohru
  

*****Movies************ - TWD: I'm looking for Daryl Dixon
*****Caroons************

• TMNT 87: I am looking for Shredder
  
• Highlander (old cartoon): I'm looking for a hunter male Oc
  
• The simpsons: I'm looking for these characters Fat Tony, Legs, Louie, Johnny Tightlips