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AITA for not prioritizing my relationship?

My (28f) partner (30m), let's call him Tristan, and I were due to get married recently, but the wedding was immediately canceled by a shooting (unidentified shooter) that left my uncle dead and myself obviously distraught. As a detective, I have since taken over the case to bring my uncle's killer to justice, doubly so because it has since become clear that the people behind the shooting are the same people who were behind my father's cold case murder when I was 13, which you can imagine was a formative experience for me—it was actually the reason behind my career path.

The wedding's on hold for now until I've managed to solve the case and get the closure I need to move forward, but that's brought on its own set of challenges. It's a very complex case (meaning there's no telling how long it'll take me), which has made Tristan's upset about my "throwing myself into my work" and hurt that I don't consider having a wedding to be a priority. Look, I'll be the first to admit that I've had a bit of a one-track mind lately; just recently, I worked til I passed out at the office and slept through the dinner date Tristan had prepared for us. I'm not proud of that, but I still feel like he could cut me a bit of slack. Not that I would ever bring this up to him, but when we found ourselves in a similar situation but with the roles reversed not too long ago, I was there by his side even when he was emotionally unavailable, and I can't help but wonder why he can't put himself in my shoes now.

Because now it feels like we're caught in an endless loop of Tristan getting upset over my attention being taken up by work → me explaining that I just need to solve this case before I can go back to being the attentive partner I usually am while reassuring him that I love him and still want to get married → him claiming to understand → us making up, and then him bringing up the same issue not long after even though the circumstances are still the same (i.e., the thing we agreed needs to happen before things can go back to normal? It still hasn't happened. But I'm trying.). At this point it feels like he doesn't care that my life is imploding—he just wants me to drop the case because it's inconvenient and dangerous, never mind that his case was at least equally (if not more) dangerous, and I still worked it till the end, so why doesn't the most important case of my life get the same grace?

Tristan says I take him for granted, and I swear I don't, but maybe some perspective might help, so,

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was kenna white? i don't remember kenna being white or at least, not THIS white, i swear to god she was at least tan.

I don't believe there was a set race (esp since we never saw her dad to be sure), but they def whitewashed her badly. Personally, I do not view Adriana as white and I don't quite view Kenna as white either, as some TC&tF characters appear racially/ethnically ambiguous to me, which I kinda dig, because it plays into the fantasy element to me. Still, I can't help but take this new bullshit reboot as implicit confirmation that PB wants to canonize Kenna as white, but I will ignore it because this will NEVER be TC&tF to me.

But at the end of the day, even if she were canonically white in the original TC&tF, she's still not pale, or blonde, or blue-eyed, so this is just nasty on many levels.

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I think the MC of Olympus doesn't have so much knowledge of the main core of Greek mythology and prefers to study about the more secondary things, in some scenes the MC seems to know more about obscure or small things in mythology than main things.

It genuinely annoys me so much. If it were the other way around, that's one thing, but seeing MC fail at the most basic mythology but then pull some comparatively obscure knowledge out of the hat is illogical to me. Like wdym you don't know that Persephone is a daughter of Demeter or potentially don't know who Prometheus is, but you're out here knowing the Greek name for the Furies and their parentage?

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Gotta feel bad for all his subsequent wives and children, then.

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It’s always so inconsistent when MC can know stuff like this but can’t know that, say, Demeter has a daughter who’s a goddess (Persephone).

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It'll forever be missing ID hours on this blog, but I do have to say, the one silver lining from it being over is that now that I'm playing a handful of books a week and not spending diamonds on any of them, that diamond count is steadily climbing UP. Still like 400 diamonds down from where I was before my TE series replay, but ah well. Baby steps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Buuut, on the other hand, looking up how many currently releasing books I'm playing now that ID and TO are over (4) made it truly sink in that Fridays are now just OR days, which sucks bc I think that book is ass but at this point I'm committed to mining it and seeing just how bad it gets. Oh, AND BOW is almost over (that one I do vibe with), and none of the two (2) upcoming wide release books that appeared on the last email's schedule (nor the announced ones still unscheduled) appeal to me (and also the scheduled ones are shorts, not full-length books) so maybe we're not gonna be climbing far for long.

Save me nonexistent future book (probably TE3 at this point), save me

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I miss Guinevere :/

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Yeahhh, playing three chapters in one day is not my preference.

I miss when the releases used to be spread out across the week rather than just two days.

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HE REPROPOSED I ASDHGDJSHK I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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This whole do-over date has me 🥺🥺🥺

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AITA for wanting my bastard ex dead?

There was a time I (f??) had it all—I was free, homeowner to a lakeside house I worked like hell to fix up, and entrusted to take care of the Power that flows through this place, all for just the price of holding off the persistent assholes of the local development group trying to strongarm me into selling so they could tear up the land for their bullshit project.

Enter one particular asshole: Arthur (m??). He started out as obnoxious as the rest of them, but he was able to win me over and I made the mistake of letting him into my sanctuary, of falling for him. It'd be a hell of an understatement to say I was apprehensive of telling him about my... connection with the Power, but I let my guard down and everything spilled out, but I swore him to secrecy, and he was able to get his colleagues to back off and leave the place alone. Or so I thought.

Arthur and I eventually got married and had a beautiful baby girl, Marie, and that's when the other shoe dropped. Because Arthur betrayed me, betrayed our family. Because he broke his promise and told those greedy snakes at the development group took everything about the Power, and they wanted it for themselves. And they bided their time until our daughter was born to use her for leverage, so I wouldn't resist when they stabbed me in the heart and dumped me in the river—my spineless husband watching, letting it happen.

Well, they can kill me over and over again, but they can't hold me forever. And when I come back, I'll come for all of them. I'll come for him.

Can't tell me he doesn't have it coming.

Update: KILL THEM ALL!

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WOOOO MY REAP POINTS FINALLY OUTBALANCED MY BLOOM POINTS

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...that's all from the TO bonus finale scene? When will I learn that these diamond collections hardly ever pay off in a satisfying way?

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Bffr

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Not a jumpscare in the middle of the release schedule 💀

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Gabe Adalhard graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Bryce Lahela School of Friendzoning

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in yesterday's episode, you have the option to train with ares or athena. in the end, you can flirt and make out with them (i just got the scene with ares, but i think we have one with athena as well).

Ohhh. I know we got that choice, but I didn't realize that you could kiss the one you chose. It seems kind of strange to have something with Ares if a player romances Aphrodite, though.