Hey reddit!
Im going to have a boring weekend with just cleaning and relaxing so I wanna give that 99% of energy to someone on reddit! So what attention can it be? You just want someone to tall to? Check. You want someone to give you constant affection or compliments? Check. You wanna have a new buddy that you want to keep checking if they sent you a message? Check.
So a little about me. I am 32, male from NY and have a professional job which is ending in a few weeks (yay sunmer). I am into way too many things gs and have way to many hobbies but one thing I do like is getting to know some people! I don't know it's fun, I also like to make whoever I tall to feel special so hopefully that's something you want
Appearances if you care are im 6ft, beard, glasses, short blondish hair ( a little lobger than i want), dad bod with out the kid. But who am I attracted to if that's what your looking for? Curvy and I don't mind sending a pic if you send one!
I hope to hear from you and chat away.

Having just finished watching spider-man: across the spider-verse, I feel as if there are deliberate parallels between the marvel comics Secret Wars storyline from 2015 and how the current MCU story and spider-verse trilogy are unfolding. These parallels seem to indicate that one particular character will be joining the MCU with absolute certainty, just not how many people may be thinking him to. This post will contain spoilers for across the spider-verse.
First and foremost, context for those that may be unaware. Some paraphrasing is involved but these are the general ideas that are necessary to follow along. Marvel comic's 2015 Secret Wars was a cross promotional storyline devised to reset the then comics Canon. The idea from publishing was to take all of the ongoing stories, mainline and alternate realities, keep what was working and scrap what wasn't.
In the story, the main continuity, which is known as the 616 universe, becomes aware of an ongoing phenomenon that is occurring known as incursions. An incursion is two separate realities colliding with one another, if nothing is done both realities will destroy one another as reality unravels in on themselves. The 616 heros find ways to keep their reality going when a couple separate realities present themselves, this all comes to a head when they are faced with the Ultimate universe. The ultimate universe, designated 1610, is home to many familiar faces but most importantly it's the home of Spider-man Miles Morales. Now, in this universe, Miles took over the duties of Spider-man when his version of Peter Parker is killed. And as these two realities are faced with imminent destruction, two factions of heroes from each earth decide that they are done with the fighting and board multidimensional space ships that will take them into whats next. The world's get destroyed, the heroes find themselves in a new land thats under Dr Dooms control and they begin their next steps towards fixing reality. One of the heroes that makes it is 1610 Miles morales. Eventually, in this battle world, Mr. Fantastic and company are able to usurp Dr. Doom and end up creating the current continuity of Marvel comics that exists. This current continuity which includes the alternate reality 1610 miles morales, which because of cosmic tampering is now Canon to the main 616 universe.
So thats all good and dandy, but what does it have to do with the movies? I believe that specific numbering and events we've seen in films have set the stage and are alluding to the fact that things are playing out very similar to that 2015 storyline.
In Spider-man homecoming, we are all introduced to the character of Aaron Davis in a small, fairly short scene. Aaron Davis is the uncle of miles, in fact he specifically mentions that he has a nephew in that scene. Heavily implying its miles and telling fans that miles is definitely going to be in the MCU in time. Marvel studios introduced the idea of miles joining the MCU with this scenes, all that remains is the how. Sure, they could go for a more traditional route but I don't think they are.
In Dr strange, multiverse of madness, the MCU gets, arguably, the most important exposure to the multiverse. For the purposes of this theory, most of the events in that movie don't have any relevance. The important take away is when Dr strange finds himself in an alternate reality, in that reality, he comes face to face with Christine who tells him he's in reality 838. She then elects to tell him that his reality is 616, in otherwords the MCU is reality 616. They both need to tread carefully however, since a series of devastating reality shattering events have been going on. Events known as incursions.
The parallels should hopefully be showing themselves but there's a little bit more so if you would, please follow along a bit more.
Okay, Into the spider-verse, the 2018 film that is incredible. What does it have to do with this. In that movie, we follow Miles Morales who becomes spiderman after he gets bitten by a radioactive spider and witnesses Peter Parker spiderman die by the hands of the kingpin. The kingpin creates a collider that accidentally brings in alternate reality spider-men to miles universe. His universe which is known as reality 1610. The story is of him coming into his own and accepting the role of spiderman and what comes with it, he saves the day and is able to get the other spiders home. Along the process, he destroys that very same collude that was used to bring people in.
So, from here on out there are going to be spoilers for across the spider-verse. If you haven't seen it, tread with caution.
Across the spider-verse, it's been 1 year and some months since the collider. Miles has learned a lot and has become more capable as spiderman. Early on in the movie he ends up fighting The Spot, a villain who can use black portals to move around space. While the two are fighting, we find out that The Spot is actually a scientist who was at the collider when miles blew it up. Miles is the reason The Spot exists and The Spot detests Miles for it. Miles seemingly defeats him but this leads to the spot realizing he can travel the multiverse. Gwen from the previous movie shows up to miles universe, as she has joined a spider society that works towards fixing mulitversal anomalies, in pursuance of the spot. Realizing the spots no longer there, she leaves and miles follows her, taking him on a journey across the spider-verse. On this journey, he sees that tampering with other realities, or having different realities interacting with each other, cause a reaction that destroys them. Much like the incursions of the MCU.
So, an MCU thats 616. A version of miles morales thats from 1610 with two incredible movies and one more on the way. Incursions happening across movie universes and movie franchises that represent comics from 2015. The MCU is the 2015 marvel mainline comics, the spider-verse is akin to the ultimate universe, and what does the MCU have on the horizon. An MCU movie called secret wars that many believe will consolidate the movie landscape and usher in a new era. The promise of Miles has been hanging for a few years and what better time to deliver than when Miles is at his peak popularity.
The next installment in the spider-verse is said to conclude this chapter of miles story. It's meant to bring him into a new fray. What could be better than introducing him to a new landscape with familiar heroes. His next movie is going to be "Beyond the spider-verse". Whats more beyond a spider-verse than a Marvel cinematic universe?
If you've made it this far, thanks a lot for reading along. I hope you enjoyed and its all in good fun anyway. Have a good one.

Bengali boys are CUCKS and NOT ELIGIBLE for marriage, short height, fragile built ,dark complexion as u would find many bengali women marry non bengali.
Even bollywood constantly promotes it. Now I'm not here to show how great bengali men are (because I hate supremacist theories) but to show how pathetic and muslim minded (though u target bengalis saying they aren't real hindu as u) u people are.
In world , between hindu muslim marriage, hindu girls are given more freedom to girls choice results in marrying outside .
Between western (USA, German, uk etc) and indian, western society protect more freedom to girl's choice, results in indian marrying white girls.
Within hindu society bengali, marathi,,northeast these societies protect more freedom to girls choice and their girls marrying in other hindu community.
U would rarely see a bihari, Rajasthani, haryanvi, tamil telugu girls are marrying outside. Few days ago ayushi yadav was murdered for marrying a gujjar in delhi by her parents. (Please dont mark me as anti indian, I'm just stating truth)
So, according to your logic hindu men are cuck?
According to your logic white men are cuck? ( according to u white men are short height fragile built dark etc…right?
It simply boils down to respecting freedom of choice of women. That makes it obvious that liberal community girls would marry outside because they know their community men will support it.
Now why I said some hindu communities act like muslim? Because they simply think of women as asset or property that's why they marry from other communities and dont let their asset marrying into other community.
And mostly these hindu communities complain when muslim men marry their women, but what about their act when their men marry from other hindu communities and not letting their girls to do the same?
I guess above demonstration have clearly showed No liberal community male (including bengali) are cuck Or inferior . They just don't treat their daughters as baby producing machine for their community unlike others And other conservative communities take advantage of them, and also derive sadistic pleasure out of calling them cuck simp etc. But from POV of morality (which they severely lack) conservative communities should be greatful to liberal ones.
Consider sharing it readers, any Orthodox and pseudo liberal should know reality of causation of interfaith, intercommunity, international marriages.

From The Ashley:
On cheating on her partners & having a “revolving door of men” in her life:
“I get a lot of s**t because I do cheat, or I have cheated,” Kail said.
Kail pointed to her childhood trauma as a possible reason for her cheating, but stated that she also refuses to be unhappy in a relationship.
“I also leave if I’m not satisfied or happy and I think that people don’t like that. People don’t like that I leave,” she said. “I’m not gonna stay somewhere I’m not happy. So it does kind of look like [I have] a revolving door of men, but also I know when and when not to introduce them to my kids.
“There’s people who date all the time and they don’t get s**t for it.”
On why she almost got an abortion with her fourth son, Creed:
Kail also discussed her time with Chris, which she called “by far, my most tumultuous, toxic relationship.”
“When I met Chris, it started off very toxic. I would say about six months in, I had already had a miscarriage with him. At that point, I had found out that he had two other girlfriends, full-time girlfriends. These were not side chicks. All three of us were main f**king girlfriends…I found out when I was pregnant with my son Lux. None of us knew about each other.”
Kail claimed that Chris was living with her full-time during this period.
On finding out Chris was having a baby with his other girlfriend:
“That was really hard for me to learn that he was having a baby with her,” Kail said. “I had a mental breakdown that day…I called my therapist on an emergency basis and she talked me through it. I basically blacked out. I don’t even remember what the conversation was. I accepted that he was having this child and from that point forward, I never looked back.”
Kail said she hasn’t had a good relationship with Chris since.
“I’ve never hooked up with him, we don’t talk, we don’t hang out, we’re not friendly. There’s been one or two friendly times where we’ve tried to be cordial but it ultimately just goes to s**t every time. It’s hard,” she said.
On the only reason she doesn’t try to get with Chris anymore:
Kail— who, earlier in the podcast, stated that she loved Chris more than she’s ever loved anyone she’s dated— admitted that she would probably still be trying to get with Chris if it wasn’t for one thing.
‘Here’s the thing: I don’t date men with kids. And if it wasn’t for that, I don’t think I would be done with him today,” she said.
On the real reasons she left ‘Teen Mom 2’:
“It was a really hard decision for me but I had been really struggling with the fact that I went through such a public divorce. And then the stuff with Chris was so messy. My kids are getting older, Isaac really didn’t want to film anymore. So I was just kind of feeling like, ‘Maybe this is time for me to move on,'” she said.
“My kids didn’t want to film. I just wanted the privacy and to kind of just move on,” she added.
On whether or not she would return to a ‘Teen Mom’ show:
Kail has made it clear that she is interested in coming back to reality TV, but says it won’t be on a ‘Teen Mom’ show.
“They’ve asked me a couple times to come back, but I’m so far removed from that now that I can’t see myself going back to the show, specifically,” Kail said, although she stated that she would “absolutely” be down to star on her own reality show.
On plastic surgery:
Kail also talked about the plastic surgery she’s gotten over the years, including a tummy tuck, Lipo 360 and the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) she got live on Snapchat by Dr. Miami in 2016.
“I love plastic surgery,” Kail said. “The only regret I have is not waiting until I was done having kids. I had the Mommy Makeover after my second son and I could definitely go for another.”
One thing Kail regrets, though, is getting her BBL, which she says has not aged well.
“I don’t love [my BBL]. I want it removed immediately,” she said. “Gravity is kind of pulling it down a little bit.”
When I did the BBL and I did the Lipo 360 I wanted everything to match because I felt like, ‘I can’t have a huge butt and then have my waist be small and my arms big.’ So I had it in my arms. My butt and my arms have grown insane. But now what? I don’t know what I can do about it. Gravity pulls down your butt a little bit and it just looks crazy and I can’t find jeans that fit me.
On having even more kids:
Kail has four kids currently, (and it’s been intensely speculated that she gave birth to a fifth child by her current boyfriend Elijah Scott around November 2022, but she’s never confirmed it). However, she said she’s willing to grow her litter even more.
“I am in a relationship now and yes [I’m open to having more kids]…[Elijah] deserves kids of his own,” she said.
https://www.theashleysrealityroundup.com/2023/06/02/kail-lowry-talks-to-bunnie-xo-about-her-revolving-door-of-men-why-she-really-quit-teen-mom-2-what-plastic-surgery-she-regrets-getting/

Indian men , how do you take care of your manes . I shampoo every other day but my hair gets really dry & the curls feels like a straw & whenever I apply oil I look like a pedophile uncle . Is there a middle way to look presentable but also sexy ???

I am looking to trade this varied collection of Marvel and Indie comics.
I will list the comics available and what I'm looking to trade for. I'd prefer to do a large lot for lot trade for everything rather than individual trades, but I am open to both. I'm also open to trading more comics on my end for a nice CGC 9.8 or something like that.
Here's what is available:
• I Make Boys Cry #2 signed by Benny Powell
• Ninja Funk Bella Bae #2 Tyler Kirkham Cover signed by JPG
• White Widow #2 Foil Signed by Benny Powell
• White Widow #6 Foil Signed by Benny Powell
• Captain America: Cold War #1 Timeless Ross Alpha Variant
• Women of Marvel #1 Howell Variant
• The Mandalorian #6 1:25 Ratio Variant
• Silver Surfer Ghost Light #3 Lashley Variant
• X-Men #14 Trade Dress Variant X of Swords Apocalypse
• Strange Academy #7 Todd Nauck Variant
• X-Men '91 #1 Special Collector's Edition
• Gambit #1 (1993) (Some wear)
• Neal Adam's Skate Man #1
• Transformers / Back to the Future #2B (2 Books)
• Witchblade & Wolverine #1
• Steampunk Alice in Wonderland #1B
• Bone Sourcebook #1
• Witchblade #8
• Witchblade Origins Special - Gold Stamp Variant
• Mamo #1
• Scarenthood #2
• Stern Wheeler #1

• I Am Iron Man #2
  
• Legion of X #1 Suayan Variant Trade Dress
  

• Amalgama Space Zombie #4 Risque Variant
• Uncanny X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga TPB (Poor Condition)
• FCBD Books (Various Recent Titles)
Here is what I'm looking to trade for:
• Any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, especially the Adventures series from the 80s/90s and IDW series. also The Last Ronin Variants. I'm also still looking for a Last Ronin #1 1st print. I'll trade the entire lot above for a copy of that, as that is my top comic wanted right now.
• Any Power Rangers series, especially Mighty Morphin related
• Any Spiderman series, but very interested in the current ASM run, Spider-Man (2022) Spider-Man 2099 v1, the new 2099 series, and McFarlane Spiderman.
• Any Fantastic Four series, but very interested in the various variants from the current FF run.
• Any BRZRKR comics, especially foil and ratio
• Spider-Gwen 2015 series and Gwenverse variants, etc.
• Bill & Ted series
• Nintendo Homage Variants
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Complete Short Runs
• CGC 9.8 or some 9.6 of a series I listed above
Also I am looking for action figures, preferred sealed or CIB.
Action Figures series I'm looking for:
• TMNT • Power Rangers • Spider-Man • Nintendo & Sega
If you have what I'm looking for and would like to trade, just leave a comment with some details about what you have and what you're looking for of mine.
We will both be responsible for our own shipping via USPS Priority Mail please.
I'm located in Virginia Beach, VA for any local meetups.
Thanks!
Photos:
https://imgur.com/a/mvsrdk2

Claymation: expensive for the amount you get. Worked quite well for short hair, but not enough hold long hair in small doses and too expensive for using large doses.
Cavelier clay: good, but difficult for long hair. I found that it was hard to spread diffusely through my hair which made it cling too strongly to too little strands.
Layrite cement clay: good bang for your buck, good hold even for long hair, im a big fan. Its just a bit too shiny sometimes unfortunately when applied to already slightly oily hair.
I like to experiment, so you can just suggest your favorite clay too that fits somewhere between these. Looking forward to hear suggestions?

Well, I am 63 yrs, been on hrt for 18 months, I don’t try and present, but I wear women’s clothes (jeans, tops, ect) that could go either way, when I’m not working. So I driving 5.5 hrs to visit my 93 old mom (extremely excepting, knows my whole story and supports me) for the weekend. I am wearing some more type girly clothes (JJill blue shorts and a I nice red v-neck, curve flattering, t-shirt), this time and I’ve been letting my natural curly hair grow out a bit, so its curly and colored.
I finally get there. I’m worn out and tired. I get out of the car with my little dogs and my mom is sitting out front of her condo and she is with a friend. I looked up at them and I didn’t know my moms friend, but I didn’t care how I was dressed, I was to tired. My mom says to her friend, “is that my son?“. The women replies, “No Mary, thats a pretty girl getting out of the car.“ Now get this, now my mom says.. “Nope that’s definitely my son”. The friend looked at her and said “Oh….. I get it, that’s great Mary, you should have told me earlier….”
I felt awesome when my mother told me that story afterwards.
Funny at 63 yrs you still get that thrill when someone really and honestly mistakes to for who you really want to be!! For all the bad things that happen to us, and so many of the sad things also, you gotta feel great when a positive affirmation comes your way. I did and still am feeling good.

This is a repost from a few days ago since no one responded to it
This one is kind of a shot in the dark since I can't remember much about it but here I go. This was a game just for the computer, your character is a short girl, a child but I'm not sure how young. I'm pretty sure she had blonde hair and I think pigtails. The game is from sort of a top down perspective, so that you could see the entire area you were in. I didn't progress far into the game when I played but I think the first level takes place in a laboratory, or at least a place where scientists are working on something. You start the game having to avoid getting caught by them, in order to do... something. I'm not sure if you're trying to find something or escape, but I'm pretty sure you're not the bad guy here. If you did get caught you had to start the level over. Does any one have any ideas? Thank you.

It's summer, and that means baths twice a month since we are in the lake or the dirt almost every day!! (I miss her being able to sleep on the bed 😂) we are used to short haired dogs that didn't necessarily require conditioner, and we used some old "pet spa" orange or Citrus scented conditioner from chewy, but it doesnt spread at all and it just stays in one place in the coat and also just weighs it down too much.
I'd love something affordable if possible 😵‍💫 and leave in conditioners if they work! Please and thank youuuu 🥰🥰

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--- Hr3101m973S’s perspective---
---Tuesday, 31st of October, 2682 Terran Calendar---
---Southwestern Scotland---
I ride the speeder at an altitude of 307m over the rural landscape.
I have 158 other bodies making similar deliveries across Britain right now, as well as 29 in Ireland and 11 in Doggerland. Though, none of them have quite as spectacular a view as this one does so, for the moment, this is the body whose sensory feed I’m paying the most attention to.
I see a large herd of mammoths walking at the edge of the Galloway Forest.
Though it has a better view, the news I’m carrying with this body is just as grim as all the rest.
In hindsight, it’s probably a good thing that I was such a spendthrift with regard to my fleet of courier bodies… If I hadn’t been, if I’d selected abilities that let them do much more than deliver things, they may well have been requisitioned for military use… which, I suppose, they were anyway… but there’s a big difference between delivering notices on Earth and fighting on some distant planet!
Still, if sacrificing my replaceable bodies would save even a single irreplaceable life, I would definitely have done it.
The city comes into view.
Calling it a ‘city’ may be a little generous… it only has 2,507,963 inhabitants.
That may have been a respectable city in the 22nd Century but, for context, nearby Dumfries has 7,491,509 and Glasgow has 24,339,192!
Stranraer occupies a rare middleground between the historic hamlets that are allowed to exist in the countryside and the megalopoleis where around 98.32% of people on Earth live.
I land in the northern part of the town and step off my speeder.
I get some raised eyebrows as I walk from the landing pad to the residential home.
I don’t blame them!
Before the War, every single one of my courier bodies had a full suit of elastomer over their entire body, to make them seem more lifelike… Now, though, that’s considered a luxury and, so, this particular unit is walking around with its metal endoskeleton bare, bar its uniform.
The effect can be a little offputting… though, in truth, it may also have to do with the news they’ve inferred me to be delivering to some unlucky soul.
I cross the wall into the garden and begin walking up the steps, through the mosslawn shrouded by pinus sylvestris trees, to the house on top of the little hillock.
It takes me 12 seconds to reach the door from the gate… I can’t rush, I need to give this girl her due respect.
I rap on the door 3 times and hear the knocks echo through the cavernous hall behind.
A man opens the door.
I begin, speaking in the most popular local dialect of Lallans Scots that I know to be this man’s primary speech register “Greetings, Mr Baird. I don’t know if you remember me but…”
“I remember you! I’m organic, not daft! You’ve been here enough times already…” interrupts the residential care manager, his demeanour gruff and no-nonsense “…Come in, Hermes… You can wait in the kitchen while I go get her.”
I step into the building, passing below the lowest of 5 balcony walkways into an open space with a skylight ceiling, allowing in the natural light.
I let the man lead the way to a large kitchen.
He pulls out a chair for me.
“Thank you, Sir, but I believe I ought to remain standing to make this delivery.” I respond, politely.
“Suit yourself…” he shrugs before walking off, presumably to fetch the girl he knows I’m here for.
I wait several minutes before he reappears.
The girl he has in tow is the perfect match of the file photo (though a few years older). She is average height, 178cm, and has an average build. Her skin is pale, her eyes are emerald green and her hair is long, absurdly voluminous, curly and vividly red.
She looks to be in fine physical health and is making no pretence of illness or injury, though she is scowling at me.
The grey bearded man shuts the door, leaving me alone with the girl.
“Could you tell me your name, please?” I ask, already knowing.
“Esme Reid.” she answers, truculently.
“And your date of birth, Ms Reid?”
“31st of October, 2664. Come to give me a birthday present, have you(?)” she says, folding her arms, pursing her lips and looking away to the kitchen counter by the window.
“Thank you…” I say, reaching into my bag to withdraw a letter and a large holopad with a stylus attached.
I hold the letter out to her and say “This is your conscription notice, Ms Reid. Please sign receipt of it here.” indicating the holo.
Her eyes flick from the paper to the screen before she drily answers “I don’t suppose, if I don’t take that or don’t sign for it, that’d mean I couldn’t be drafted, would it(?!)”
I shake my head and respond “I’m afraid that no such loophole exists, Ms Reid… If you have a conscientious objection to fighting, you could request a nonmilitary national service. However, you would be asked to provide some proof of your conscientiousness and…”
“I’m no bleeding heart…” she says, snatching the letter from my hand, irritably “…I’ll sign for my bloody death warrant!” scrawling her name on the pad.
Without looking at the pad, I check the signature she provided against the one on file and find it a close enough match to proceed.
“Thank you, Ms Reid. Please report to your local recruitment office in Stranraer within 14 days for your physical and psychological fitness assessments. They’ll then interview you regarding your preferences for training and deployment and they’ll try to take those into account when assigning them.
“Great(!) Maybe if I can convince my evaluator that I’m cracked enough in the head, I won’t get sent off to die like my mam and dad did(!)” she quips, sarcastically.
“I don’t think you’ll have much luck with that strategy, Ms Reid… Sol’s government have had quite the interest in weeding out malingerers these past few years… I would put the odds of success below 1%.” 0.75619902%, actually, but that’s too many decimals for most biologicals’ patience(!)
She frowns up at me and demands “I’m being such a brat about this… Why are you still being so friendly!?”
I laugh “Ms Reid, though I strongly encourage you not to express the same demeanour to your drill instructors as you are with me, you are far from the worst person I’ve delivered this news to in even the last half hour!… Right now, I’ve got a draftee in Leeds who’s explaining a hairbrained scheme involving unethically cloning a replacement to fight in his stead, I’ve got one in Bristol who’s trying to beat up my body but only really succeeding in hurting herself, I’ve got one in Edinburgh that’s run away in an attempt not to be served… by comparison, a bit of scowling and sarcasm is rather tame!”
“Huh!… Guess I’m not quite the bad girl Ms. Larch always told me I was, am I(!)”
“It seems you shall simply have to work harder(!) I believe there is a leather jacket emporium in Stranraer that still does business…”
She smiles and laughs for the first time that I’ve seen.
That’s the real reason I don’t get touchy about the attitudes expressed to me by draftees: It makes my job so much easier when I soften the blow with good manners and good humour.
As unfair as it is that so many choose to shoot the messenger, it’s understandable when you consider the messages I carry.
“Ms Reid…” I start, seriously but softly “…if you truly do not wish to fight, you know there are alternatives? You can discuss them with your recruitment officer but…”
“I got no special skills, Hermes… Nothing I can do that an AI couldn’t do faster and better… The Merchant Navy’s basically as dangerous as the Navy Navy, just less armed… the Humanitarian corps has a waiting list so long that the War’d be over (one way or another) long before they got to the point of considering me… I know where I’m going… no use in fighting it…”
“Alright, Ms Reid… I wish you the best…” I say, turning to leave.
Mr Baird shows me out of the house.
Rather than walking back to the landingpad, to retrieve my bike, I walk the other way.
My bag is still heavy with conscription notices… it only makes sense to deliver all the ones in this town first…
---Oskar’s Perspective---
---Southern Doggerland---
The evening sun plays off of the calm waves of the North Sea.
It should be raining on a day like this…
This gorgeous weather is slapping me in the face and telling me to be happy, to be content…
I know the weather does not care for the happenings of people… I know that, if it rained everywhere and every day there was a funeral, the whole world would flood… I know this… and still… I hate this contrast between my grim, internal misery and the tranquil sun drenched beach where I stand, this autumn day… There’s barely even any snow on the grass…
When this War started, I was fourteen and had two loving parents…
My Father was too old to serve, at 51…
At 37, my mother was not…
Yet, it’s not my mother’s funeral I am attending right now. That was two months ago.
No… the strongly built 55 year old man, dressed in a long white robe and clutching a Norse langsverð, despite having been a fishfarmer and not a warrior, is my father… Lars ‘Walker’ Taylor.
His eyes are closed and he lies within a wooden boat, around 80cm wide and 3m long.
This boat was never meant to touch the water… I bought it from a supplier in Bankland that specialises in funerary boats for Doggerland’s Forn Siðr community.
I already recited a poem… there’s nothing else for me to do until the singer begins.
I’m not listening to the Goði prattle on about Valhalla and Ragnarök… I’m just looking at my father’s face… oscillating between hating him for doing this to me and hating myself for doing this to him.
The sermon concludes and a blonde woman, like everyone else present, dressed in snow white funeral clothes, steps forward.
One of the three men behind her brings his bow to the three strings of his tagelharpa, another raises a flute carved out of a cow’s leg bone to his lips, the last begins banging out a slow beat on his drum.
The band would definitely be larger if so many of the Hof’s musicians hadn’t been called up to serve.
The men begin playing a mournful tune and the woman begins a wailing, melismatic melody, not in English, the first language of most here, not in my father’s native Frisian, not even in New Norse, the liturgical language of his faith…
She sings in a strain of Norwegian that was spoken centuries ago, when there were barely any Forn Siðr practitioners living.
mf♫ Eg songane søkte
Eg songane sende
Då den djupaste brunni
Gav meg dråpar så ramme
Av Valfaders pant♫mf
I have a final part to play in this ritual.
The Goði picks up the torch and lights it against a flaming brazier before beckoning to me.
I step forward from the small crowd.
In contrast to most, whose clothes are pristine white robes and tunics and such, I wear the same simple white suit that I wore two months ago.
I may be a nonbeliever but no one at my father’s Hof challenged the idea that I was the most fitting person to perform this last rite for him.
I take the torch from the man and walk to my father’s side.
I hesitate before I touch it to one of the mounds of high energy, smokeless fuel that surround his body… but only for a moment…
The flame quickly takes and, before the current verse of the song is even finished, the entire boat is engulfed in fire.
I toss the torch in and step back from the conflagration.
Minutes pass as I watch the inferno consume the entire pyre.
I barely notice the music stop.
I barely notice the crowd thinning as people leave.
I just watch as the man’s existence is wiped from the Earth.
“Have you thought about what you’re going to do now, brother?” asks a voice from beside me.
Without looking at the Pagan cleric, I dully answer “I have.”
“And, what is that… if I may ask?”
“My birthday’s in January… I’ll be drafted… but I don’t have to wait… I’m going to go to the recruitment office and request an early start to my training… by the time it’s done, I’ll be 18 and they’ll be legally able to deploy me.”
“I… see… that’s certainly… an option… Have you thought about…?”
“I haven’t, Tormund. This is what I’m doing.” I state, still looking at the blaze.
“I see… I wish you well then, Oskar…” Tormund says, sincerely.
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Summer finally seems to have arrived, which can mean only one thing - Nottingham's finest will be out and about wearing short shorts, strappy tops and generally showing a lot more flesh than usual.
It's such a rare treat to see so many gorgeous looking girls that when I get home from a trip out in this weather I often can't resist jerking off at the thought of what I've seen. I sometimes wonder whether they realise what an effect they have on us men.
So my challenge is, tell me (or show me) what you're wearing and I'll tell you (or show you) whether just the sight of you in it would be enough to get me cumming.
I'm happy to do this online but would be even happier to do it in person - I love having an audience while I stroke my cock, and I've met up with girls from Reddit a couple of times before to do it. I can host in Nottingham (West Bridgford), or I'd be happy to travel further afield (Leicester, Derby, Sheffield or elsewhere in central England) for the right person.
All levels of experience welcome, so if the hot weather has got you feeling frisky enough to try something daring, drop me a chat.
Appearance-wise I'm white, tall (6'1"), strong build (95kg). I'm also discreet, respectful and pretty laid-back.
18+ females ONLY please

Samuel Gornan. An interesting character in the lore that we don't actually know much about.
Featured mainly in PS2 Chronicles - Acquisition March 23rd, 2849, being introduced as a VS defector.
Excerpt: [ First thing, I will need protection from the Vanu Sovereignty. If given the chance, they will destroy me for this betrayal. Along with the research, I can provide ongoing value to the NC. The data I’m prepared to hand over will be useful to you much more quickly if I help your people interpret what they are looking at. ]
Supposedly, his data could have allowed the NC to get rebirth technology before even the VS.
Excerpt: [ You do understand the full potential of this technology, do you not? This will change everything. The leadership of the VS find more interest in deciphering the culture of a dead alien race than the practical application of the alien technology. Their funding and people are spread thin across dozens of research projects. If the New Conglomerate focused its considerable resources, you could beat the Sovereignty to a functional system by months. The Terran Republic by years. With luck, that will be enough time to end this conflict. ]
He was also willing to go to the TR if the NC didn't agree to his terms. But he would have been assassinated by the NC if he tried.
Excerpt: [ Insufficient. The TR will find a way to pay what I ask. Even if they don’t, the New Conglomerate will crumble. If the assassinations continue unabated, your corporate leadership will break. ]
Other excerpt: [ Felix led the defector towards the lift as Karin reached for her comm. link.
“Davis, you copy?”
“Yes, ma’am. What’s the word?”
Karin waited a moment, letting the two men get to the lift. As Felix and Gornan disappeared behind the lift doors, she responded.
“Have the snipers stand down. We got him.”
“Roger that, boss.”]
Samuel Gornan was later mentioned again in PS2 Chronicles - Acquisition: Rebirth June 12th, 2850 where he was killed off by a TR hit squad.
Excerpt: [ The details of the attack came back to me slowly, and then all at once. I had watched Felix die. I had watched Sam die. Security personnel whose names I still can’t remember laid their lives down to protect me, but they all had failed.]
[I should be ecstatic. We did it. What started with the acquisition of Sam Gornan and his stolen Vanu rebirthing research had reached conclusion. Rebirthing is a reality, and as far as we know, we’re way out in front of both the VS and TR. We’ve changed the game.
But I... can’t shake the guilt. It only saved me. Rebirthing is still far too costly to plug in more than a couple dozen people at a time. As the head of the project, I was the only one in my research division deemed important enough to get plugged in to the early prototypes. Felix is dead, and he doesn't get to come back. Sam is gone, too, when he was the one who had brought this tech to the NC in the first place! And he was, after everything, one of my closest friends.
I guess all I can do now is make it cheaper in the next iteration - find a way for it to protect more people. One day, I swear, we’ll have every New Conglomerate soldier plugged in, and we’ll all be spared the grief that comes with losing the people closest to us… but that wasn't today. Knowing that Sam and Felix could have kept their lives somehow has made everything so much harder.]
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So here comes a few questions. Did the NC actually beat the VS to rebirth technology? (while we know Henry Briggs underwent rebirth long before; we don't know when the VS was able to replicate it)
Vanu Sovereignty propagandists love to claim that the VS gave rebirth technology to the NC; but it almost seems as if the lore contradicts it. But are the propagandists actually right? Since we don't actually know when the VS reproduced rebirth technology; it is entirely possible that they finished it even before Samuel Gornan "defected".
Samuel Gornan might have acuatally been a VS double agent, whose objective was to give the NC rebirth technology, in order to prolong the war. He might even still be alive; if the VS had rebirth technology way before everyone, and he was plugged in before he went to "defect".
The reason why the double agent hypothesis is so compelling is because we don't even know if it is possible for VS to defect after becoming "enlightened" through "imprinting". Technology covered in: PS2 Chronicles - To Advance and Protect Humanity August 30th, 2846
Excerpts: [ Absolutely. Along with implants, discreet cybernetics, and some flash imprinting, you’ll be better than ever. ]
[ It’s better if we wait to address your questions. Things will be clearer for you after we begin the imprinting.]
[ Look, I’m sorry, you aren’t ready for this. I should have waited until after the imprinting, but here we are. Mr. Clay, you don’t get to see your family, not until we’re through with you. You aren’t prepared, and they are not yet part of the Sovereignty. ]
[ Oh, we count on it, Mr. Clay. You’ll likely recruit your wife yourself once you understand. Assuming she can be made to see reason we’d welcome her with open arms. If she can’t be made to see the truth, it’s tragic, but she’ll burn with all the rest. Your little girl is already ours, she just doesn’t know it yet. With our process, by the time Anni’s an adult, she’ll be an amazing specimen, a true paragon of the cause.]
So in short, it seems imprinting might be a form of brainwashing; or the very least 'data transfer'. We don't know how effective it is, nor whether every member of the VS undergoes it. The imprinting tech is utilized in 2846; several years before Samuel Gornan defected in 2849.
Also just to go over timelines, Henry Briggs drops his cover in February, 2845, and VS seemingly officially formed in June, 2845 by Chairman Willis Scott (I say seemingly since it gives Sandy Jones the title "Vanu Sovereignty Chief of Research and Development", but it is unknown whether he got that title that day or whether he had it prior; if he had it prior that would mean the VS officially formed prior to the date.)
Excerpt: Willis Scott's speech: [ We’re not siding with either of them, if that’s what you mean. But we can’t stay out of this any longer. They're going to destroy all of us, and take the whole damn planet down with them. To save the world that Vanu once ruled so that humanity can reach its full potential, we have to eradicate the threat. Today will declare our sovereignty - a Vanu Sovereignty. If only one force can live on Auraxis, it must be us.]
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Anyways, back to the subject. If Samuel Gornan was actually a defector; that means either VS imprinting wasn't done on everyone, or wasn't full mind control. Both these options I like since it means that the VS cult might not have a complete stranglehold on all of its members.
But the other option is that Samuel Gornan wasn't an actual defector; instead he was a double agent. But why give NC rebirth technology? Even if the TR wiped out the NC, that would mean the VS has one less opponent; they now just need to beat the TR who doesn't have rebirth technology yet.
But what if the VS want a forever war? Sure it is contradictory to their supposed goals; but their actions so far have been contradictory to their goals. Is it possible that the Vanu Aliens are manipulating the VS to produce a forever war for their enjoyment? This would actually fill certain plot holes. The Vanu Alien claims to Briggs never lined up in my opinion.
Regardless I find this all fairly interesting. Figured this would be a fun discussion regardless. I'm interested in reading more lore, so if anyone has links feel free to post them.

I've learned that I'm verse/switch, however I obviously don't have a dick, so I'm very insecure about it all. How would I even top? Do you just use a strap on? If so, how do you get any pleasure from it?
I would love to top, but what's stopping me is that I won't feel anything, I don't have a real dick and that I wouldn't be any good at it. I've never done it before, but I keep thinking about it and wanting it. It wouldn't really matter what gender I do it with, cus I like both, but I think I would prefer girls? I'm not sure.
But, there's a thing stopping me there as well. I'm short as hell and I know most women like taller men and most girls are taller than me even, so I feel insecure there. Which is why I've just gone with the gay identity and only met men because it feels safer (though I do have a huge men lean). But honestly, I'm tired of doing things just because it feels safe or its the norm. So if anyone has any advice or even just relate, lmk!

The amount of mental pain and cortisol spike I get from just a couple of hours after shaving is starting to take its toll on me.
Imagine having to shave everyday just to retain a youthful harmonious image of yourself because you are boyish and neotenous. Imagine the pain of still having a shadow after shaving because of your dark beard med swarthy ethnic genetics. Even after 6 rounds of laser hair removal, although some thickness has decreased, it's still dark, thick, and coarse overall.
Fucking cursed facial hair. Monkey genetics coming out on 90% of men after puberty. Literally your body trying to fuck you over. A sign of aging. A sign of death. The lucky few don't get any facial hair growth at all. But sometimes they are non-boyish and non-neotenous so they end up wishing for pubes to grow on their face to cover up their subhumanity.
I'm lucky enough to be mostly neotenous, but unlucky enough to have med bearded subhuman genes in me. On top of that I'm a poorboi. So continuing to get laser is gonna take more wageslaving just to afford. Fucking shit.
But fully eradicating this subhuman trait will not only ascend me to the next level, but will save me so much time in getting ready for anything.
Have to make a quick run to the store? No problem. I just get up and go. No shaving required.
Get invited to a night out? No problem. Quick wash and go. No fucking shaving.
Wanna take a selfie for Insta or FaceTime someone? Easy.

Fuck pubic hairs on face. I won't stop until I've eradicated every hair follicle on my jaw and mustache. I'm starting a holocaust against facial hair.

GAS THE BEARDS.