Hi! I'm sorry if my post isn't as nice looking at the others, but I hope you like my idea! I enjoy world/story building and Black Clover! I'm looking for someone to be Yami to go along with an OC of mine.(I'm also looking for a Nozel but that story is just romance)
Our story will start after the elf arc. After that, we can make a completely new story. After Julius met with the Captains regarding repairs, Julius requested Yami to stay behind and come to his office. Julius explains to Yami that he has a daughter. One of the walls in his office opens to reveal a gorgeous Elven woman with gray skin. She was a dark elf and emitted no magical power, like Asta. Julius entrusts her to Yami and the Black Bulls as he can no longer keep her hidden since he has no Magic.
The jist of my idea is she's already kind of smitten with Yami as her 'father' has told her a lot about everybody. She has extremely powerful magic that is effective against devil's and she and Yami go on a quest to find out more about her heritage so she can control her magic. I'm happy to change anything and make more plot points. This is just the main idea I have for this particular OC.
I'm looking for a longterm roleplay partner who is literate, 3rd person, and detailed. I usually match my partners length. I'm fine with doubling so we can both get someone we want. I need my partner and all characters to be 18+ since this roleplay will get explicit at times, but thats not the focus. I prefer a mix of romance/slice of life/action to keep it interesting but this main focus is probably romance. I'm happy to discuss any and all other aspects with you! We can go along with the anime or make something completely new. The romance between them will be kind of a slowburn. I'd like for us to build a world we're both happy with. You need to have discord.
I have about 8 years of roleplay experience (back when IG and kik were really popular so starting in 2012) and am trying to return to it. I'm 23F and my timezone is +1 CST but I'm fine with any time difference. I'm a SAHM so I understand life gets busy and you can't respond all day. Just also let me know ahead of time if you'll be unavailable for an extended period of time. Feel free to dm me!

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Today we will do things veeeryyy different than during the main character study of Gorou Amamiya or Aqua Hoshino but I assure you it won't be less interesting. It was by pure accident that I stumbled over an old book I haven't touched for a long time, a book that goes by the title "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. It's from the late 19th century.
The story revolves around the rich and handsome Dorian Gray and a portrait of him painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's cynical hedonistic worldview: that beauty and ruthless self-centered sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life while ethics and morals are the natural enemy to this philosophy. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted by some supernatural force and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and visually records every one of Dorian's sins in grotesque expressions.
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Now what I discovered during my excursion of a book that I actually didn't really enjoy at all to be quite frank, were similarities in both conception but also psychological realities for both Gorou/Aqua and his father Hikaru Kamiki. From time to time his monologues would sound like commentary to understand what is going on in Hikaru's mind, while the mystic circumstances of Dorian Gray's picture and his eternal youth have strong links between Aqua and Hikaru who indeed are lookalikes. Aqua by that is Hikaru's portrait which will age and visually record every of Hikaru's sins while Hikaru pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful. It all culminates to Aqua's movie role of the culprit in which Aqua will be the living proof of Hikaru's sinful life and eventually lead to his downfall. This is also Dorian's fate with his potrait.
I know, this sounds so unbelievably far stretched but believe me I'm thrilled about the actual similarities and the integretiy of the psychological templates that found their way into Oshi No Ko. I firmly believe it's not accidental. And since I enjoy ONK but not so much Oscar Wilde's novel I'm glad those in itself truely interesting psychological types found their way into Aka's work.
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AQUA HOSHINO AKA DORIAN GRAY
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Trivia:

• In Greek the name Dorian means "child of the sea" or "gift of the sea". The name aquamarine comes from aqua (Latin for 'water'), and marine, deriving from marina (Latin for 'of the sea')
• Dorian is described to have gold hair, blue eyes (and rose-red lip)

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In Chapter III of the book we get to hear about Dorian Gray's tragic family background and this is already the first strong indication that 1. the similarities are real 2. what we discovered about Gorou's grandfather / family background could have been more right than wrong.
Now, the story behind the birth of Dorian is slightly so different then Gorou's but the general notion in a short poetic summary within the novel sounds pretty familiar:

"So that was the story of Dorian Gray’s parentage. Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance. A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime [NOTE: HER FATHER, DORIAN'S GRANDFATHER KILLs HER LOVER, DORIAN'S FATHER]. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man [NOTE: HIS GRANDFATHER]. Yes; it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect, as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.... " (Chapter III)

Isn't this interesting? And there is another very cool symbol. Dorian - after he witnessed the first changed in his potrait - had to hide the picture in a diferent room of his mansion where nobody could find it and witness "his soul" which is captivated in that portrait that gets uglier and uglier with each day of his sinful life. About that room:

"He had not entered the place for more than four years—not, indeed, since he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a study when he grew somewhat older. It was a large, well-proportioned room, which had been specially built by the last Lord Kelso for the use of the little grandson whom, for his strange likeness to his mother, and also for other reasons, he had always hated and desired to keep at a distance." (Chapter X)

So we have: A drama between mother and father, child born in pain, mother dies after giving birth, boy left to soltitude and tyranny of his grandfather who hates him for physical likeness to his mother (in PART II we wrote: Gorou would remind his grandfather every day of his own failure and guilt for losing his daughter), always hated his grandson. This is just literally everything we found out in PART II of our character study!
And the man with this background gets reincarnated in the body of a human being which looks exactly like his father Kamiki, thus is his "portrait" or "The Picture of Hikaru Kamiki"! But this portray inherited Gorou's trauma which is expressed by the symbol that the portray lives in the "trauma room" which had been specially built by his grandfather.
Also the metaphor's of "play-room when he was a child and then as a study when he grew somewhat older" goes hand in hand with what we figured out in the "THE RIGHT TO DREAM" essay about how Gorou's childhood-trauma and the guilt-complex provoked through his grandfather's abuse induced him to study medicine instead of striving for his own dreams as a result of him living in this "study trauma room".
Additionally "He had not entered the place for more than four years" - like Aqua who hasn't entered his trauma room for 4-5 years after reincarnation until Ai was murdered in front of his eyes! This reenactment placed him back into this room of guilt.
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Another interesting story revolves around Dorian's first love with the actress Sibyl Vane. While we can look at this "Arc" from the perspective of Dorian as represented by Hikaru and Sibyl represented by Ai - and we certainly will because actually looking at Dorian as the representation of Hikaru will be even more intereting then the things we have to say about Aqua right now - we can also look at it from the perspective of Aqua and Ai/Akane, which we'll do now.
Dorian loves theater and one night his curiosity leads him into a shappy filthy working-class theater, one with lousy actors and a lousy orchestra. It's essentially the last place a delicate creature would expect greatness. However there at a performance of Shakespears "Romeo and Juliett" he witnesses Sibyl playing and falls for "her" instantly.
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"But Juliet! Harry, imagine a girl, hardly seventeen years of age, with a little, flowerlike face, a small Greek head with plaited coils of dark-brown hair, eyes that were violet wells of passion, lips that were like the petals of a rose. She was the loveliest thing I had ever seen in my life. You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill your eyes with tears. I tell you, Harry, I could hardly see this girl for the mist of tears that came across me. And her voice—I never heard such a voice. It was very low at first, with deep mellow notes that seemed to fall singly upon one’s ear. Then it became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautboy. In the garden-scene it had all the tremulous ecstasy that one hears just before dawn when nightingales are singing. There were moments, later on, when it had the wild passion of violins. You know how a voice can stir one. [...] Harry, I do love her. She is everything to me in life. Night after night I go to see her play. One evening she is Rosalind, and the next evening she is Imogen. I have seen her die in the gloom of an Italian tomb, sucking the poison from her lover’s lips. [...] I have seen her in every age and in every costume."

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Aqua's similar rememberance of Ai in a sigfnificantly less pathos drivin manner.
Sibyl Vane is Dorian's ultimate ido. She can perform any of Dorian's romantic ideal heroines from the most captivating drama's written, in utter artistic perfection. He is "her" ultimate fan:
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"Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.”
“Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play,” he cried, “even if it is only for a single act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.”
“You can dine with me tonight, Dorian, can’t you?”
He shook his head. “Tonight she is Imogen,” he answered, “and tomorrow night she will be Juliet.”
“When is she Sibyl Vane?”
“Never.”
“I congratulate you.”
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"My God, Harry, how I worship her!”
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“Harry! Sibyl Vane is sacred!”

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To put it into Kindaichi's words in ONK C97:

"You'll find people with those eyes ... once in a while. Deceptive eyes that have the power to make lies look like truths. It's the best quality for an actor"

The concept of great acting is basically reduced in the symbol of eyes for the sake of keeping the lore a little bit simpler in ONK, but essentially he just means that sometimes there are special actors who can just perform like if they are literally what they perform.
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Dorian approaches and courts Sibyl, and soon proposes marriage. They love each other. Dorian invites Basil and Lord Henry to see Sibyl perform in Romeo and Juliet. Sibyl, too enamoured with Dorian to act, performs poorly - also to the anger of the theater audience which left early because of that-, which makes both Basil and Lord Henry think Dorian has fallen in love with Sibyl because of her beauty instead of her acting talent. Embarrassed, Dorian rejects Sibyl, telling her that acting was her beauty; without that, she no longer interests him. The heartbroken Sibyl eventually commits suicide on this very night.
Now, we find every element of that story in the history between Aqua and Akane but in a reversed construction. Akane joins LoveNow but because of her personality she fails her role in this reality tv setting. She gets rejected by the audience and the audience is even angry with her. Under that pressure she attempts suicide. However after she studied Aqua's ideal role she becomes of great interest for both him and the audience. This is essentially like Vane performing Juliett or Imogen or what not but with the difference that Aqua just loves one Idol: Ai. Structurally it is similar though and Aqua falls for her role. During LoveNow we have the same realization inside Aqua and Dorian, so the plot reverses back but without tragedy: Aqua rejects Akane as serious love interest between her real self and him, telling her that hei's only interesting in her as an actor, just like Dorian rejects Sibyl by telling her that acting was her only beauty.
Dorian to Harry:

"Ordinary women never appeal to one’s imagination. They are limited to their century. No glamour ever transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them. They ride in the park in the morning and chatter at tea-parties in the afternoon. They have their stereotyped smile and their fashionable manner. They are quite obvious. But an actress! How different an actress is! Harry! why didn’t you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?"

Well, in a screwed way this is also applicable to Ryosuke's issue, who loved Ai for her role but hated her for her real self and eventually kills her for it, as her real self not only is different but essentially is in total opposition to her role as an idol. Dorian describes a similar screwed misogynistic view on women: The actress is mystery and the only thing worth to love, the ordinary woman is the absolute opposite of it, disappointing and unworthy to be loved.
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By the way the director of that working-class theater is described as a stereotypical jew and while I of course do not endorse antisemitism or racism it still is kinda funny that Kindaichi, the director of Lalalie Theater Company and Akane's boss is always depicted with a pretty unusual big and oddly shaped nose while the name Toshirou that means "quick, clever, sharp" and Toshirou's surname Kindaichi that means "gold/metal, money/cash, currency". Pretty stereotypical if you link it to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"...But the theater itself also has some working-class vibes to it, since it's implied that back then they opened workshop classes for orphans and probably generally troubled kids without real guardians. Addiotionally he gave Akane the smallest bouquet at the Japan Actor's Award with the explanation that theaters are financially not doing great. Well if it's a reflection of theaters in general, his theater in particular or his personal greed I can't tell. His name implies the latter and the cost of a bouquet surely doesn't ruin a theater. But probably it's still a general observation because theaters are indeed a dying genre.
Some quotes about the "Jew" in the novel:

"A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar. He had greasy ringlets, and an enormous diamond blazed in the centre of a soiled shirt. ‘Have a box, my Lord?’ he said, when he saw me, and he took off his hat with an air of gorgeous servility. There was something about him, Harry, that amused me. He was such a monster."

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"On the first night I was at the theatre, the horrid old Jew came round to the box after the performance was over and offered to take me behind the scenes and introduce me to her. I was furious with him, and told him that Juliet had been dead for hundreds of years and that her body was lying in a marble tomb in Verona. I think, from his blank look of amazement, that he was under the impression that I had taken too much champagne, or something.”
“I am not surprised” replied Harry.

This is just a little odd observation, in the epilog we'll find a more cheerful representation of Kindaichi (well, cheerfulness is of course a limited ressource when it comes down to that man :))
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While most of the time the monologues and thought processes of Dorian mainly concern Dorian as the representative of Hikaru, we have here and there sober reflections on what his soul - which is trapped in the potray - would probably experience, thus what he would experience if he'd have his soul inside his own body. Thus we can read this at the same time as a comment on what is going on in Gorou's / Aqua's soul, which is quite interesting. In the following quote for example it's about the nightmare of having a phantom of your guilt following you everywhere you go, essentially a description of Aqua's delusional vision of Gorou who blames him for Ai's death:
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"And yet if it had been merely an illusion, how terrible it was to think that conscience could raise such fearful phantoms, and give them visible form, and make them move before one! What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep! As the thought crept through his brain, he grew pale with terror, and the air seemed to him to have become suddenly colder. Oh! in what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin. "

18 years after Sibyl's suicide her brother James Vane found out Dorian's identity and swore to kill him. He saw Vane lurking for him and panicked, feared for his life. But later he'd reflect that this must've been just a phantom. That's the story behind that quote in that novel. However he would calm after some days and think that he's out of danger.
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It was not till the third day that he ventured to go out. There was something in the clear, pine-scented air of that winter morning that seemed to bring him back his joyousness and his ardour for life. But it was not merely the physical conditions of environment that had caused the change. His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm. With subtle and finely wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. Besides, he had convinced himself that he had been the victim of a terror-stricken imagination, and looked back now on his fears with something of pity and not a little of contempt.

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We ultimately experience a similar transformation in Aqua's temper after he learns about the apparent death of his father from Taiki. He was away all night (the "night" is a symbol here) but finally came back "in the clear, pine-scented air of that winter morning that seemed to bring him back his joyousness and his ardour for life" He steps to the window and gives Ruby an reliefed smile for the first time since Ai's death:
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It's not directly "winter" although Ruby's wearing a pyjama which indicate that it's also not summer, but the symbol contracts with the Takachiho arc which we can't spare for Aqua's transformation. What for Dorian was a mere material process of healing his tension and therefore would go away after 3 days of bedriddenness is for Aqua a inmaterial soul-process and he has to put a meaningful end to the phantom of Gorou in his head. And their stay in Takachiho surely appears to be in a winterly setting. This novel must've been of great inspiration for Aka and so he honors it by reimagination of the mental images Oscar Wilde created.
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"Our father died long ago. There's no way left to avenge Ai. So what should I do? My... revenge..." (C 68)

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Aqua is finally free and live normaly but when the news about Takachiho appeared he knew he has to somehow find his corpse so that he can "burry his phantom'" so to speak. The corpse of Gorou would be his symbolic proof that it's over, that he has nothing to fear anymore. Eventually Akane and Ruby find it.
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\"Keep out\" meaning keep this rotten and grotesque thing out of his mind. It's over.
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Correspondingly Dorian would soon after his "winter-morning" go on a hare shooting in some rural countryside (=Takachiho) where they would by accident shoot James Vane who still was following Dorian. James was finally dead and Dorian could finally close that chapter.
This is everything I could for now link to Aqua without talking about Hikaru's links to Dorian. So for now we have to stop the analysis and call it a day.
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Epilog
So I hope I could convince you to look at ONK from this perspective. This is just the beginning though, the actually interesting part we will only tackle in the next essay Because I believe we can learn a lot of Hikaru's ideology through the character of Dorian, his hobbies, his views, his extreme hedonistic sensualism, perhaps even his relation to his portrait.... It actually concerns me: My very first essay on ONK like a month ago was a half serious schizo theory about Hikaru's involvement in the plot so far where I made the assumption that he probably constantly observes Aqua from far away for years but now - if we apply "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to his personality then this in fact is real.
Dorian would in fact over the years go into his secret room and look at his portrait with a weird for us the next time to explore interest and strange reflections. Maybe there is really more to it...
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Lets end for now with a somewhat luckier characterization of Toshirou Kindaichi. Because he actually looks a lot like the author Oscar Wilde himself:
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“All charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

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As always: Thanks for reading!
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So I recently tryed out PS plus for a month and ended up playing Devil May Cry 5, but now that my subscription has ended andif I wantef to buy the game on it's own will my data still be there or do I need to start from scratch ?

Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, a distinguished champion of Orthodoxy and a great teacher of the Church, came from an illustrious and pious Christian family. He studied the secular sciences, including philosophy, but most of all he strove to acquire knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and the truths of the Christian Faith. In his youth Cyril entered the monastery of Macarius in the Nitreia hills, where he stayed for six years. Theophilus (385-412), the Patriarch of Alexandria, ordained him as a deacon, numbered him among the clergy and entrusted him to preach.
Upon the death of Patriarch Theophilus, Cyril was unanimously chosen to the patriarchal throne of the Alexandrian Church. He led the struggle against the spread of the Novatian heresy in Alexandria, which taught that any Christian who had fallen away from the Church during a time of persecution, could not be received back into it.
Cyril, seeing the futility of admonishing the heretics, sought their expulsion from Alexandria. The Jews appeared a greater danger for the Church, repeatedly causing riots, accompanied by the brutal killing of Christians. The saint long contended with them. In order to wipe out the remnants of paganism, the saint cast out devils from an ancient pagan temple and built a church on the spot, and the relics of the Holy Unmercenaries Cyrus and John were transferred into it. A more difficult struggle awaited the saint with the emergence of the Nestorian heresy.
Nestorius, a presbyter of the Antiochian Church, was chosen in 428 to the see of Constantinople and there he was able to spread his heretical teaching against the dogma about the uncommingled union of two natures in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nestorius called the Mother of God not the Theotokos, but rather Christotokos or “Birth-giver of Christ,” implying that she gave birth not to God, but only to the man Christ. The holy Patriarch Cyril repeatedly wrote to Nestorius and pointed out his error, but Nestorius continued to persevere in it. Then the saint sent out epistles against Nestorianism to the clergy of Constantinople and to the holy emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450), denouncing the heresy. Cyril wrote also to other Churches, to Pope Celestine and to the other Patriarchs, and even to monks of several monasteries, warning of the emergence of a dangerous heresy.
Nestorius started an open persecution against the Orthodox. In his presence one of his partisans, Bishop Dorotheus, pronounced an anathema against anyone who would call the Most Holy Virgin Mary the Theotokos.
Nestorius hated Cyril and brought out against him every kind of slander and fabrication, calling him a heretic. The saint continued to defend Orthodoxy with all his powers. The situation became so aggravated, that it became necessary to call an Ecumenical Council, which convened in the city of Ephesus in the year 431. At the Council 200 bishops arrived from all the Christian Churches. Nestorius, awaiting the arrival of Bishop John of Antioch and other Syrian bishops, did not agree to the opening of the Council. But the Fathers of the Council began the sessions with Cyril presiding. Having examined the teaching of Nestorius, the Council condemned him as a heretic. Nestorius did not submit to the Council, and Bishop John opened a “robber council”, which decreed Cyril a heretic. The unrest increased. By order of the emperor, Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria and Archbishop Memnon of Ephesus were locked in prison, and Nestorius was deposed.
Soon Saints Cyril and Memnon were freed, and the sessions of the Council continued. Nestorius, not submitting himself to the determinations of the Council, was deprived of priestly rank. By order of the emperor he was sent to the faraway place Sasim in the Libyan wilderness, where he died in grievous torments. His tongue, having blasphemed the Mother of God, was overtaken by punishment -- in it there developed worms. Even Bishop John of Antioch and the remaining Syrian bishops signed the decrees of the Council of Ephesus.
Cyril guided the Alexandrian Church for 32 years, and towards the end of his life the flock was cleansed of heretics. Gently and cautiously Cyril approached anyone, who by their own simpleness and lack of knowledge, fell into false wisdom. There was a certain Elder, an ascetic of profound life, who incorrectly considered the Old Testament Priest Melchizedek to be the Son of God. Cyril prayed for the Lord to reveal to the Elder the correct way to view the righteous one. After three days the Elder came to Cyril and said that the Lord had revealed to him that Melchizedek was a mere man.
Cyril learned to overcome his prejudice against the memory of the great John Chrysostom (November 13). Theophilus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, and uncle of Cyril, was an antagonist of John, and presided in a council in judgment of him. Cyril thus found himself in a circle antagonistic to John Chrysostom, and involuntarily acquired a prejudice against him. Isidore of Pelusium (February 4) repeatedly wrote to Cyril and urged him to include the name of the great Father of the Church into the diptychs of the saints, but Cyril would not agree.
Once in a dream he saw a wondrous temple, in which the Mother of God was surrounded by a host of angels and saints, in whose number was John Chrysostom. When Cyril wanted to approach the All-Holy Lady and venerate her, John Chrysostom would not let him. The Theotokos asked John to forgive Cyril for having sinned against him through ignorance. Seeing that John hesitated, the Mother of God said, “Forgive him for my sake, since he has labored much for my honor, and has glorified me among the people calling me Theotokos.” John answered, “By your intercession, Lady, I do forgive him,” and then he embraced Cyril with love.
Cyril repented that he had maintained anger against the great saint of God. Having convened all the Egyptian bishops, he celebrated a solemn feast in honor of John Chrysostom.
Cyril died in the year 444, leaving behind many works. In particular, the following ought to be mentioned: commentaries On the Gospel of Luke, On the Gospel of John, On the Epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians and to the Hebrews; also an Apologia in Defense of Christianity against the Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). Of vast significance are his Five Books against Nestorius; a work on the Most Holy Trinity under the title Thesaurus, written against Arius and Eunomios. Also two dogmatic compositions on the Most Holy Trinity, distinguished by a precise exposition of the Orthodox teaching on the Procession of the Holy Spirit. Cyril wrote Against Anthropomorphism for several Egyptians, who through ignorance depicted God in human form. Among Cyril’s works are also the Discussions, among which is the moving and edifying Discourse on the Exodus of the Soul, inserted in the Slavonic “Following Psalter”.
Today we commemorate the repose of this great Father of the Church. He is also remembered on January 18, the date of his flight from Alexandria.
(from oca.org)

So...I believe there were or are people who link natural catastrophe etc. to homosexuality, claiming that the disasters are God's answers, God's wrath for the homosexuals.
I claim that might very well be, in part yes, God sends us all these disasters for the Homosexuals and others.
He sends the whole world all that calamity because of the homosexuals and others who have to SUFFER in our world. All the pain, grief and agony that people abused, exploited and ostracized have to go through, it all comes back, it all build up, the whole world becomes depressed and corrupted in their ways from it, and one day God's wrath just spills over and great misfortunes can happen.
Maybe the only good thought about this is, that God usually allows peril to happen with the perspective that people might get together, overcoming their prejudice and enmities and grow together and grow alive again by handling the difficulties together.
We all better should hurry now to get together. The devils are already waiting, to make this world their world once too many humans have fallen away from God. Like they like the planet to heat up, for all the plants and animals that God had given us to take care of to wilt and die and to become a nice place for them to live in. Don't allow them to take our precious life, the green and blue and turn it red and black and grey of the metal of machines of destruction.
I really hope people will get things together and join back together and give up all sin and destruction and let humans be free again, in peace and in dignity. I believe this would mean the whole planet could recover, and all the life could be preserved like God intended. Just people would have to get over their oppressive and abusive behavior towards each other and the nature of the planet.
So what is your opinion: does Christ want to preserve the green and blue, will he bring peace to it, or will he destroy it to make way for his world? When will people stop hating homosexuals so at least that part of God's wrath could end?

Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, a distinguished champion of Orthodoxy and a great teacher of the Church, came from an illustrious and pious Christian family. He studied the secular sciences, including philosophy, but most of all he strove to acquire knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and the truths of the Christian Faith. In his youth Cyril entered the monastery of Macarius in the Nitreia hills, where he stayed for six years. Theophilus (385-412), the Patriarch of Alexandria, ordained him as a deacon, numbered him among the clergy and entrusted him to preach.
Upon the death of Patriarch Theophilus, Cyril was unanimously chosen to the patriarchal throne of the Alexandrian Church. He led the struggle against the spread of the Novatian heresy in Alexandria, which taught that any Christian who had fallen away from the Church during a time of persecution, could not be received back into it.
Cyril, seeing the futility of admonishing the heretics, sought their expulsion from Alexandria. The Jews appeared a greater danger for the Church, repeatedly causing riots, accompanied by the brutal killing of Christians. The saint long contended with them. In order to wipe out the remnants of paganism, the saint cast out devils from an ancient pagan temple and built a church on the spot, and the relics of the Holy Unmercenaries Cyrus and John were transferred into it. A more difficult struggle awaited the saint with the emergence of the Nestorian heresy.
Nestorius, a presbyter of the Antiochian Church, was chosen in 428 to the see of Constantinople and there he was able to spread his heretical teaching against the dogma about the uncommingled union of two natures in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nestorius called the Mother of God not the Theotokos, but rather Christotokos or “Birth-giver of Christ,” implying that she gave birth not to God, but only to the man Christ. The holy Patriarch Cyril repeatedly wrote to Nestorius and pointed out his error, but Nestorius continued to persevere in it. Then the saint sent out epistles against Nestorianism to the clergy of Constantinople and to the holy emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450), denouncing the heresy. Cyril wrote also to other Churches, to Pope Celestine and to the other Patriarchs, and even to monks of several monasteries, warning of the emergence of a dangerous heresy.
Nestorius started an open persecution against the Orthodox. In his presence one of his partisans, Bishop Dorotheus, pronounced an anathema against anyone who would call the Most Holy Virgin Mary the Theotokos.
Nestorius hated Cyril and brought out against him every kind of slander and fabrication, calling him a heretic. The saint continued to defend Orthodoxy with all his powers. The situation became so aggravated, that it became necessary to call an Ecumenical Council, which convened in the city of Ephesus in the year 431. At the Council 200 bishops arrived from all the Christian Churches. Nestorius, awaiting the arrival of Bishop John of Antioch and other Syrian bishops, did not agree to the opening of the Council. But the Fathers of the Council began the sessions with Cyril presiding. Having examined the teaching of Nestorius, the Council condemned him as a heretic. Nestorius did not submit to the Council, and Bishop John opened a “robber council”, which decreed Cyril a heretic. The unrest increased. By order of the emperor, Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria and Archbishop Memnon of Ephesus were locked in prison, and Nestorius was deposed.
Soon Saints Cyril and Memnon were freed, and the sessions of the Council continued. Nestorius, not submitting himself to the determinations of the Council, was deprived of priestly rank. By order of the emperor he was sent to the faraway place Sasim in the Libyan wilderness, where he died in grievous torments. His tongue, having blasphemed the Mother of God, was overtaken by punishment -- in it there developed worms. Even Bishop John of Antioch and the remaining Syrian bishops signed the decrees of the Council of Ephesus.
Cyril guided the Alexandrian Church for 32 years, and towards the end of his life the flock was cleansed of heretics. Gently and cautiously Cyril approached anyone, who by their own simpleness and lack of knowledge, fell into false wisdom. There was a certain Elder, an ascetic of profound life, who incorrectly considered the Old Testament Priest Melchizedek to be the Son of God. Cyril prayed for the Lord to reveal to the Elder the correct way to view the righteous one. After three days the Elder came to Cyril and said that the Lord had revealed to him that Melchizedek was a mere man.
Cyril learned to overcome his prejudice against the memory of the great John Chrysostom (November 13). Theophilus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, and uncle of Cyril, was an antagonist of John, and presided in a council in judgment of him. Cyril thus found himself in a circle antagonistic to John Chrysostom, and involuntarily acquired a prejudice against him. Isidore of Pelusium (February 4) repeatedly wrote to Cyril and urged him to include the name of the great Father of the Church into the diptychs of the saints, but Cyril would not agree.
Once in a dream he saw a wondrous temple, in which the Mother of God was surrounded by a host of angels and saints, in whose number was John Chrysostom. When Cyril wanted to approach the All-Holy Lady and venerate her, John Chrysostom would not let him. The Theotokos asked John to forgive Cyril for having sinned against him through ignorance. Seeing that John hesitated, the Mother of God said, “Forgive him for my sake, since he has labored much for my honor, and has glorified me among the people calling me Theotokos.” John answered, “By your intercession, Lady, I do forgive him,” and then he embraced Cyril with love.
Cyril repented that he had maintained anger against the great saint of God. Having convened all the Egyptian bishops, he celebrated a solemn feast in honor of John Chrysostom.
Cyril died in the year 444, leaving behind many works. In particular, the following ought to be mentioned: commentaries On the Gospel of Luke, On the Gospel of John, On the Epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians and to the Hebrews; also an Apologia in Defense of Christianity against the Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). Of vast significance are his Five Books against Nestorius; a work on the Most Holy Trinity under the title Thesaurus, written against Arius and Eunomios. Also two dogmatic compositions on the Most Holy Trinity, distinguished by a precise exposition of the Orthodox teaching on the Procession of the Holy Spirit. Cyril wrote Against Anthropomorphism for several Egyptians, who through ignorance depicted God in human form. Among Cyril’s works are also the Discussions, among which is the moving and edifying Discourse on the Exodus of the Soul, inserted in the Slavonic “Following Psalter”.
Today we commemorate the repose of this great Father of the Church. He is also remembered on January 18, the date of his flight from Alexandria.
(from oca.org)

Hello. Happy Punching Bag Day!
I was getting a lot of comments & messages about this old post I made and how all the download links were dead, so I've gone through and added new ones.
I've also updated the discography to include everything after Ann. Enjoy!
Brother's Can't Be Friends (2008)

• Carry Me Down The Street
• I Wrote A Book
• Jim Bogart
• Molly
• Not Yet
• So Sick We're Dead
• The Winds
• The Bells

I Hate My Friends (2008)

• You Wouldn't Be Laughing
• Lipstick Covered Magnet
• Lonely Eyes
• Taking My Uzi To The Gym
• Current Events
• Pale Beneath The Tan (Squeeze)
• Push-Ups
• Twelve Feet Deep
• Be Nice To Me
• If You're Happy

My Grandma vs. Pneumonia (2009)

• The Bass is Too Loud
• More Than It Hurts You
• Flying Model Rockets
• Somebody Else
• The Distance That I Fell
• The Wrong Way
• I Think Your Nose Is Bleeding
• Christians vs. The Indians
• The Cops
• The Supply of Power (La La La)
• Just as Big, Twice as Swollen
• Silver Shinbone (Bucket Song)

Singles, Oddities, Rarities

• The Bongo Song
• Today is Not Real
• If It Were Up To Me
• Hello World
• Trampled
• Water-Gun-Knife
• Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses)
• Egg Salad Sandwich
• Burn Harvard Burn
• Noodle Monster
• Get Numb
• Allentown
• Just Stay (Kevin Devine Cover)
• Voodoo Magic
• Lover Boy

Alternate Takes/Demos
Note: This section is different takes/recordings/demos of songs that are on other albums.

• You Wouldn't Be Laughing (Alternate Take)
• Hello World (Alternate Take)
• Trampled (Alternate Take)
• Somebody Else (Alternate Take #1)
• Somebody Else (Alternate Take #2)
• I Think Your Nose Is Bleeding (Alternate Take)
• The Beers (Alternate Take/Demo/Bsella Original Version)
• The Beers (Special Version)
• Tommy (Demo)

Self-Titled (2011)

• Flashlight
• Maps
• Looking Like You Just Woke Up
• Mountain
• Rhode Island
• The Beers
• Father
• Swimming Pool
• The Boredom Is The Reason I Started Swimming, It's Also The Reason I Started Sinking
• Bathtub
• Legit-Tattoo Gun
• Hooped Earrings

Talon of the Hawk (2013)

• Au Revoir (Adios)
• Skeleton
• Swear to God The Devil Made Me Do It
• Twin Size Mattress
• Peach
• Santa Monica
• The Feud
• Funny You Should Ask
• Tattooed Tears
• Lone Star
• Backflip
• Everything I Own

Rose (2014)

• Flying Model Rockets
• Lipstick Covered Magnet
• 12 Feet Deep
• Jim Bogart
• Be Nice To Me
• Awkward Conversations

GDP/The Front Bottoms Split (2015)

• Wolfman
• Handcuffs

Back On Top (2015)

• Motorcycle
• Summer Shandy
• Cough It Out
• HELP
• Laugh Till I Cry
• Historic Cemetery
• The Plan (Fuck Jobs)
• Ginger
• 2YL
• West Virginia
• Plastic Flowers

Needy When I'm Needy (2016)

• Tighten Up
• Joanie
• Katana (Demo)
• Would I Lie To You (Demo)
• Sexy And Alive (Give An Inch) (Demo)
• All For You Sacrificial Ritual (Demo)

Going Grey (2017)

• You Used To Say (Holy Fuck)
• Peace Sign
• Bae
• Vacation Town
• Don't Fill Up On Chips
• Grand Finale
• Trampoline
• Raining
• Far Drive
• Everyone But You
• Ocean
• Bonus Track 1
• Bonus Track 2

Ann (2018)

• Today Is Not Real
• Somebody Else
• I Think Your Nose Is Bleeding
• Pale Beneath The Tan (Squeeze)
• Lonely Eyes
• Tie Dye Dragon

In Sickness & In Flames (2020)

• everyone blooms
• camouflage
• jerk
• the truth
• montgomery forever
• the hard way
• leaf pile
• new song d
• Fairbanks, Alaska
• love at first sight
• bus beat
• make way

Theresa (2022)

• More Than It Hurts You
• The Bongo Song
• Hello World
• The Supply of Power
• The Winds

You Are Who You Hang Out With (2023)

• Emotional
• Outlook
• Punching Bag
• Clear Path
• Not Joking
• Paris
• Fake Gold
• Brick
• Batman
• Finding Your Way Home

I am looking for a manga where the mc fights a lot and the female lead gets assaulted by the people he fights and she transfers away then he later sees her mute and disabled and regrets that he didn't save her. So he makes a deal with a devil girl to go back in time to save her.

Skip this if you'd like: *(I've been wanting to play a souls game since 2019 and have only just gotten the chance to do so. I was so excited to begin with but after having played ER for a bit, I almost feel betrayed/disappointed.
I first found out about the souls series in 2019 through FightinCowboy's Dark Souls 3 Walkthrough. At the time, I must have been about 13 and did not know anything about gaming. So, you can imagine just how enchanting that game seemed to me. The visuals and the story seemed absolutely perfect. Soon enough, I burned through most of his other souls content except for DS2 and Bloodborne.)*
Now, quite a few years later, I've managed to secure the opportunity to actually play one of these games. For reference, I've completed all of Limgrave, fair amount of Liurna and have just started Caelid. That aside, I have, in my time spent outside the game, looked up the lore and the different endings and it all seems sooooo very ?boring? or even unnecessarily cryptic/abstract.
So, what's my huge problem with the storytelling?
You're living in the aftermath of the events that are actually of interest. Imagine you were there when the Elden ring was shattered. Imagine you were fighting the war against the dragons in Leyndell. Imagine you had the opportunity to steal the rune of death and assassinate Goldwyn. It would be much more fun imo if you could go on missions, so to speak, carry them out and see the story progress in the moment rather than having to read cryptic NPC dialogue and item descriptions to piece it all together. I know that some of the missions I've mentioned above don't exactly seem like they'd overlap in terms of who your character would be aligned with or where your character would be at a given time but if fromsoft had started with something like, I don't think it would be hard at all to hammer out these problems. Plus, I think in the end, it could all still have ended with the endings we currently have.
As it stands, you're essentially roaming a dead world and (aside from NPC side quests), there's not that much to give it life. The catacombs and caves are cool for the first 2-3 times and then it's just like "c'mon, really? This again?" I also wish there were more closed areas, like more castles and shit. Maybe those come later on in the game so I won't bitch too much about that.
Credit where credit is due though: the game is a visual masterpiece. This aspect of fromsoft's games have only gotten better since Demon's Souls. Soundtrack is epic and plenty of cool weapons from what I've seen in yt vids.
In the end, I must say that this is only my opinion but I needed to vent about this. If there's anything that I've understood incorrectly, please do correct me; I want to try and like the storrytelling but as it stands, it's just bad to me. So much so that even a sexily serious brit voice cannot convince me to like it.
P.S: The dung eater is solid waifuu material; good job fs.

Bit stuck on what my best course of action should be now that federal payments are starting back up soon. I’ve not had to pay them considering I graduated in 2021. I have been paying the minimum payment on my private loan and after August when I finish paying my cc debt off, I’m using that extra money ($700) to go towards my private loan on top of the minimum payment ($468). I refinanced my private from the devil herself, Sallie Mae, and dropped my interest rate from 13% to about 8% and will keep refinancing for lower rates as time goes on. Should I stick to my plan on how I’m paying off my private since the interest rate is higher and then pay minimum on federal? Also what would the best repayment plan be for me? I’m guessing the best way would to pay as little as I can until I’m done with my private and can throw all that and more towards my federal. Any feedback appreciated!

Greetings, fellow Redditors!
Today, I would like to initiate a discourse on an insidious attitude that pervades our community and, by extension, our society. A toxic undercurrent that masquerades as righteous indignation but is, in fact, a manifestation of deeply rooted insecurity and envy.
We've all noticed the comments, the snide remarks that masquerade as banter. When an individual posts a photo of their new car or a fine meal, these elements hastily crawl out of the woodwork to belittle and undermine the achievement. They taunt with passive-aggressive comments, suggesting unearned wealth, decrying the person as a pampered offspring or an illegal money churner. The scorn they pour onto people enjoying the fruits of their labour is disturbing and reprehensible.
Moreover, they delight in their mediocre circumstances, brandishing their struggles like badges of honour, as if poverty were a virtuous aspiration and not a systemic failing. This is not a call to ignore our societal issues but to dismantle the misplaced pride some harbour in refusing to rise above them.
Remember, it is not noble to stagnate, nor is it a virtue to resent those who strive. Success is not a crime, and it should not invite scorn. Let us not romanticise poverty nor demonise affluence.
To those of you who continue to thrive amidst adversity and who continue to scale the ladder of success, I extend my most profound admiration. You stand as beacons of aspiration, and your victories should be celebrated, not criticised. Do not let the bitter grumblings of a resentful few diminish your accomplishments. Stand tall, stay strong, and continue to succeed.
The culture of envy, masked as virtuous modesty, is nothing more than a salve for personal inadequacy. It's high time we recognise these sour grapes for what they are: expressions of a failure to compete in the race of life, a flimsy excuse for personal inadequacy. And such an attitude deserves not our sympathy but our collective condemnation.
Let this be a reminder for all of us to check our attitudes. Are we promoting a culture of growth and success, or are we wallowing in the self-satisfying mire of resentment and failure?
Let us elevate our discourse, celebrate achievements, and support each other in pursuing success. It is only through such mutual upliftment that we, as a society, can indeed prosper.
Disclaimer: This post is not intended to belittle anyone's personal circumstances but to challenge certain harmful attitudes. Always remember that everyone has their own journey and pace in life, and success is highly subjective. Be kind, be empathetic, and strive for personal growth.

Greetings, fellow Redditors!
Today, I would like to initiate a discourse on an insidious attitude that pervades our community and, by extension, our society. A toxic undercurrent that masquerades as righteous indignation but is, in fact, a manifestation of deeply rooted insecurity and envy.
We've all noticed the comments, the snide remarks that masquerade as banter. When an individual posts a photo of their new car or a fine meal, these elements hastily crawl out of the woodwork to belittle and undermine the achievement. They taunt with passive-aggressive comments, suggesting unearned wealth, decrying the person as a pampered offspring or an illegal money churner. The scorn they pour onto people enjoying the fruits of their labour is disturbing and reprehensible.
Moreover, they delight in their mediocre circumstances, brandishing their struggles like badges of honour, as if poverty were a virtuous aspiration and not a systemic failing. This is not a call to ignore our societal issues but to dismantle the misplaced pride some harbour in refusing to rise above them.
Remember, it is not noble to stagnate, nor is it a virtue to resent those who strive. Success is not a crime, and it should not invite scorn. Let us not romanticise poverty nor demonise affluence.
To those of you who continue to thrive amidst adversity and who continue to scale the ladder of success, I extend my most profound admiration. You stand as beacons of aspiration, and your victories should be celebrated, not criticised. Do not let the bitter grumblings of a resentful few diminish your accomplishments. Stand tall, stay strong, and continue to succeed.
The culture of envy, masked as virtuous modesty, is nothing more than a salve for personal inadequacy. It's high time we recognise these sour grapes for what they are: expressions of a failure to compete in the race of life, a flimsy excuse for personal inadequacy. And such an attitude deserves not our sympathy but our collective condemnation.
Let this be a reminder for all of us to check our attitudes. Are we promoting a culture of growth and success, or are we wallowing in the self-satisfying mire of resentment and failure?
Let us elevate our discourse, celebrate achievements, and support each other in pursuing success. It is only through such mutual upliftment that we, as a society, can indeed prosper.
Disclaimer: This post is not intended to belittle anyone's personal circumstances but to challenge certain harmful attitudes. Always remember that everyone has their own journey and pace in life, and success is highly subjective. Be kind, be empathetic, and strive for personal growth.

-Conan is a walking power fantasy with infinite strength and stamina. He's a high-level Skyrim character with maxed out melee skills. Elric is always in terrible physical health and can barely sustain his life. With Elric's blood condition, you'd expect someone like that to be bedridden for life, but no, Elric embarks on epic adventures anyway despite being on death's doorstep every day. Elric's reliance on drugs often adds another layer of tension to the story, because his means of sustenance aren't always available. If he's completely cut off from medication, he's at the mercy of his enemies.
-Conan can brute force his way through most situations, which can be fun to read, but I'd rather just pop in Doom Eternal and do the brute forcing myself! Elric can only use brute force when he is physically well-sustained by souls, drugs or magic. Stealth, wits, and magic serve Elric as much as his sword does, leaving you guessing how Elric may win.
-Conan has no relationship with his god, Crom, because Crom refuses to help people who pray to him. Elric, meanwhile, has a very close partnership with his god Arioch... who is basically Satan. And by "relationship", I mean a series of Faustian bargains which might help Elric win battles, but indebt him to a devil. Elric is also friends with elemental spirits, like the Poseidon-like sea king who offers Elric aid freely, though Elric is usually in situations where only demonic power will help.
-Conan is a very simple dude with a simplistic moral compass. He eats, drinks, slays, and is content. Elric is an extremely conflicted character. His entire race is evil, but, like Drizzt, tries to abandon evil and embrace good, leaving his homeland on a quest for enlightenment. Unlike Drizzt, Elric constantly fails at being good despite his best efforts. Its tragic and interesting to watch Elric try and become good so he can save his empire, only to dig himself deeper into the hole. He basically goes into a Bloody Nine rampage whenever he unsheathes his demonic sword Stormbringer, which has a mind of its own, and tries to impose its own murderous will upon Elric.
-Conan is completely victorious. He never loses, his plot armor is immeasurable, and he is always the moral victor in whatever situation he's in. He is benevolent, he is powerful, and failure is inconceivable to him. Elric is a Shakespearean tragedy and a walking atomic bomb. He's closer to Macbeth or Scarface. Elric's plot armor is thinner, and even when he DOES win, sometimes he'll cause so much destruction (to both his own soul and others') that you'll wonder if he deserved to. Elric's loved ones have little plot armor either; Conan has no home or loved ones to return to, while the entire reason for Elric's quest is for him to save his people from the doom he foresees. Every one of Elric's victories just brings that doom a little bit closer. I have to wonder if Joe Abercrombie has read Elric, because Elric's "victories" often resemble the Bloody Nine's.
-Conan's enemies are kinda meh. He has no rivals who can match him with the sword. No Vergil to his Dante, no Gary Oak to his Ash Ketchum, no Edgeworth to his Phoenix Wright, no Sub Zero to his Scorpion. Elric has his cousin Yyrkoon, who nearly equals Elric in intelligence and fighting prowess, and even gets his own runesword to fight against Elric's own. Later, Elric meets other powerful baddies who actually prove a match for him. His worst enemies, however, may be his best allies: his own devil-god Arioch, his own demon-sword Stormbringer, and his own will to resist his fate, resist the gods, and the impending doom of his crumbling empire.
-Conan's story doesn't really end. Chronologically, "Hour of the Dragon" is his last story, and that just ends with him choosing his queen. We never get to see how his reign over Aquilonia goes after that, due to Howard's tragic suicide. Elric's story DOES have a definitive ending, and goddamn, it is satisfying. One of the most satisfying endings in all of fiction. Though not one of the happiest...
-There's nothing like Elric's relationship with his sword Stormbringer in Conan. Conan is a loner and triumphs by making temporary alliances at best. Elric needs Stormbringer like Gollum needs the One Ring, and their relationship is just as toxic and destructive.
Elric's weaknesses, his self-destructive powers, his moral conflicts, his futile war against fate, his powerful enemies, and the completeness of his his story arc all make him more fun to read than Conan.

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Children / Western Theme
Estimated year of release: Early 2000’s
Notable characters: Cowboy or maybe American Indian with bow & arrows
Notable gameplay mechanics: It’s so simple, it’s a sidescroller, you have to hit the bison that pass on the high screen, pressing space bar for shoot and use the arrows on your keyboard to move from left to right
Help me please 😩

You Ain't no cowboy if you've never roped a steer from the back of an Enduro.
I'm looking for ranch hands, field techs, or just do-it-all type workers. My farm will focus on dairy and beef production. RP encouraged. :) Farm construction will start this week. Feed procurement to follow. We hope to bring the animals home sometime in the next week or so.
Starting a new game online with multiple farms. Heavily modded dedicated server on PC. Most players on between 6-11PM CST. More on weekends.
Send me a message for details.
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Hey everyone, Im completely lost for words at this stage. I never thought I would be coming here or asking for advice about this I’m general. I am terribly addicted to sports betting and slots. I don’t know what to do it’s every single time I get paid I think how can I double this? But I lose it all every time! I have lost so much money it’s beyond memory but easily over 150k which is mind blowing to me. My wife’s birthday is next week and I just went to the casino to try double my money to take her on a nice holiday and I’ve lost it all. I have no money left I genuinely don’t know what to do! I’m not looking for sympathy I just want to know some methods on how to control this and get my life back. I feel like I have a virus in me with this and it just will not go away. Please any help would be much appreciated. Note: I live in Australia where slot/pokie machines are everywhere and gambling ads are constantly bombarded on tv and social media everyday. I’m not blaming them or anyone else I just want some advice on how people overcome this. Thank you for your time

Hello,
I am looking for Rp partner and new friends. 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.
Please keep the canon characters not too OOC.
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 Rengoku, Obanai Iguro, Tengen Usui, Kyojuro. An male demon Oc. Azaka, kokushibo.
  
• Spy x family : I'm looking for the twin brother Yu Briar
  
• 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