The difference between the Stellaron Hunters and the Godslayer Protocol squad is so funny to me.
The Stellaron Hunters are a ragtag found family who are beloved by the Finality and using what's probably a cat's ability to see futures and timelines to save and doom worlds for the sustainability of the universe after they've all suffered horribly. They're wanted by the IPC and their bounties could fun your entire bloodline.
Meanwhile the Godslayer Protocol are just having like. A sleepover in jail. They're painting their nails and carrying around a bug god's body which they're gonna use to kill another god. They've all committed crimes against nature.
Truly the duality of man
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"...[W]e must continue to challenge the societal arrangements that leads to preventable pain and suffering. Marriage can be quite beautiful and sacred, for example. Marriage can also privatize dependence: it encourages people to enter relationships for resources and benefits, like health care, savings, and tax deductions. I was nineteen years old when I got married, mostly informed by my faith tradition. I was also in love, but very poor, and marriage offered me a stability that I never had as a child. I was so lucky that the person I married was kind, thoughtful, and also very much trying to figure out his relationship to Christianity and his evolving manhood.
When we divorced nine years later and became friends and co-parents, I realized how the marital benefits I once aspire dot have did not make sense. I could remove him from my health insurance to account for the divorce, but I couldn't add any of my uninsured siblings, whom I would be related to forever. And our children had two options for insurance because they had parents who went to college and worked jobs that offered it, but independent contractors in my family did not have an option that wasn't a financial sacrifice.
If we focused on meeting the healthcare, employment, educational, and housing needs of people in society, then those who want to marry could more freely enter those relationships in their terms, and people who needed to escape because of violence could more easily leave without worrying what will happen if they get sick and need to see a doctor.
We should heed to calls for investment in the programs, opportunities, and laws that make everyone free and safe. Here too, universal basic income can help, allowing people to meet their basic needs and not rely on potentially sexually exploitative intimate relationships for income. Removing benefits from marriage accomplishes this, too. With universal health care, and other programs like free and quality childhood education, people vulnerable to violence have more free range to move, live, and practice healthy lifestyles."
-- Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
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You know, I think that if you're Alabasta-era Crocodile's basement wife, Robin absolutely knows about you - it's not like he's keeping you secret from her (it's no use, really, she's too smart for her own good, plus it'd be too much work to keep you hidden from Ms. All Sunday and that man wants to relax here and there, alright?). It makes him a little more vulnerable, a bit more liable - but the most fucked up thing about it would be your and Robin's relationship.
You learn about her and immediately fear for your life - he's found someone new to play with and you're going to end up as gator chow, you're sure of it. For a man who likes the finer things in life, little old you has probably lost their appeal - and you know that he isn't the type to simply kick you to the curb. You jump at every little noise and worry yourself to tears until you learn that she's been in on whatever shady business he gets up to for months, that's she's by no means some sort of replacement. It's both relieving and terrifying because it just means that he's so removed from reality that he has no shame in letting other people know about you. That he thinks you'll never get out of this, that he thinks he has so much power that it doesn't matter if she knows about his dirty little secret or not.
Even worse is that she just doesn't seem to care. After that initial fear wears off, you might think that she could be at least someone to talk to, someone to fraternize with a little (you're not delusional enough to think that she'd be able to get you of of this, much less that she'd want to) but those blue eyes always remain cold, her smile polite yet empty. You can't ever get close to her, no matter how hard you try - she pities you, a little, and humors you with her presence when it's appropriate but not much more than that. It's no surprise that her mere excistence will make you bitter; because while you're both bound to a terrifying man, she is free to walk the streets if she so wishes. It's like a pedigree housecat envying its free-roaming neighbor, fat and well-cared for, yet never able to taste the freedom the other has.
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Hi!!
Why do you think lwj didn't say anything in wwx's defense on Mt Phoenix while jiang yanking did? Like he did use bichen against jzx but why didn't he say anything?
Because Lan Wangji rarely speaks and, instead, usually lets his actions speak for him.
Lan WangJi rarely spoke when he was outside. Even when they debated cultivation techniques during Discussion Conferences, he only answered when others questioned or challenged him. With utmost concision, he overcame, without fault, the lengthy arguments of others. Apart from this, he almost never spoke up. And thus, when Jin GuangShan was interrupted by him, he experienced a far greater shock than annoyance.
—Chapt. 73: Recklessness, exr
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