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The Krakoa stories are my first foray into X-Men comics and I adore them. I've been doing my best to keep up but I've only read up to the end of Reign Of X and haven't started Trials yet. I've been trying hard to buy and read them in order but it's been pretty confusing. So far as I'm aware it's Trials of X Vol 1-2 then Inferno, then X Lives/ X Deaths Of Wolverine then the rest of Trials. Is that right?
My confusion gets worse when I hear about Destiny Of X. Figuring it's the next Of X series I search it up on Amazon to see if it's been listed so I can put it on my wishlist. To my surprise, it's already there for purchase which is strange because Trials Of X 12 isn't even out yet. What's more, it came out in December along with all twelve volumes... and is only in French.
I decided to google Destiny Of X and Wikipedia lists it as the sequel to Reign Of X and what's more, Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry for Trials Of X. Have I messed up? What's going on?

My brand new M1 13” MacBook has a noticeable to the naked eye difference in the hinge gaps in the left and right sides where the display meets the top case.
I would say it’s around a 0.5mm difference, with the left side being much closer of a gap. Hinge operation seems normal without any sounds.
Can I chalk this down to manufacturing tolerances or is this an issue that may cause long term damage to the hinge or display in any way?

So to put things lightly my ex and I are both mtf trans people. I wasn’t when we first met. I ended up transitioning 1 1/2 years into our relationship for it to end for this reason while we were buying a home to move out of my mothers house. Out of solidarity I put them on the title and offered a spare room and minimal bills so they can get it together and can have some of the equity from the cash sale. I started seeing someone new recently and had them over without asking ( we work opposite shifts and I have known this guy I’ve been seeing for 4 years) and I get a request to have some guy she barely knows spend the night at our house (the house mind you is semi in disrepair and she is sleeping on nothing but the couch . Her choice) I decline for several reasons my main being I don’t really want to meet the people you are seeing and I don’t want them using my stuff.
A fight ensues afterward via text explaining my feelings and they were just sort of dismissed and I was made to feel like I’m being the jerk, but I feel like I’m being reasonable as she is the one who broke it off with me. She shouldn’t even really be living here. Just feels like I’m getting taken for a ride.
TLDR am I the asshole for not wanting to have my ex’s suitors in a home I pay the majority of bills on / am the sole holder of the loan.

Hi there!
I created a Nintendo Account a while ago to save my data for Pokemon Unite. I don't have a Switch, so I played it on my Android phone. After some time, I uninstalled it, and a few days ago I wanted to play again, so I installed it again.
When I tried to log in my account, it said that I need a Google Authenticator code. I didn't configure the 2 step verification in that account, so I don't have the Nintendo account attached to my Google account, therefore there is no code. There is an option where I can enter an alternative code that should be in my mail inbox, but I don't have it.
I tried contacting support, but it says I need the serial number of my Switch console, and, as I said, i do not own a Switch.
I run out of ideas, and I don't know what else I can do.
I hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance!

I have a world save in Minecraft that I want to copy the chunks over into another world save. The area I want to copy and paste is probably 40000x40000 blocks, maybe more. And it won't be in the same spot (x,z) as in the original world, it will be centered at the origin (0,0).
How can I do this? 1.19.4 Java Edition
I tried using MCA Selector but after I copied the chunks over it created weird issues where there's just blank empty areas in parts of the world I copied over - the bodies of water stop, mountains are vertically sliced out, etc. and there's just air in those places.

i am a male that lives in the uk, and is very invested in politics (you will see why i put that later.)
it is constant. sometimes in different locations in my home city.
it all started around 2 years ago, when i first got interested in politics.
i was simply walking under a subway, under a road when i heard a sonic boom. i turned, my brother doing the same, as we saw possibly the worst fear of any person interested in politics.
a nuke
as someone who knows a decent amount about nukes, (and types of nuke) i believe this one seemed to be a weak ground explosion a low altitude airburst. around a second after the explosion me and my brother were pinned to the edge of the subway by shrapnel and pure force.
the next thing i knew i was running to my local co-op, (in my opinion a good choice as it is one of the largest buildings in my area and had many spaces where i can hide away from windows.)
i was joined by freinds, and of course my brother why he has followed me all this way i don't know, he would walk away from me the first chance he got lol i entered the shop, grabbing a pack of drumstick squashies (they taste good) before leaving the shop again and trying to start a car.
dreams simmalar to this keep occuring, and they have never stoped.
the even worse fact is that im supasticous (im not that one carzy witchcraft hippe who beleves in healing cristals ect.) i would just take that as a sign of smth, esspecally with the situaton of the world right now.
stay safe guys, and make sure to read a guide or two about how to survive a nuklear fallout

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I am pondering if it is an option for my parents home and my own home, where some of the the floors are fine, just ugly, lol (all chosen by other people — eg previous owners, original developer etc).
What I’m already aware of is: - overlay can’t be done if the foundation floor is already poorly installed as there will be popping - doors might need to be shaved down as the floor will now be taller
Would love to hear from people who’ve tried this about price, choices of design, quality, experience etc.

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I (22M) started my company back in August, right out of trade school for electrical. At trade school i learned a lot about PLC’s, ladder logic, as well as standard residential and commercial wiring. I took my first step into industrial maintenance to either become a PLC technician down the line, or work my way into an associates degree for electrical engineering.
My plant manager told me after my skills have been assessed, my wage will increase. I mentioned it to him after 6 months, and he said he’d talk to my maintenance manager, who told me he won’t give me the raise, because i’m not trained. He then proceeds to hand me packets explaining how you progress through different “electrical technician” and “mechanic” roles, by expanding your skills and meeting certain requirements, and that’s how he dictates wage. This completely makes sense, but he then he tells me i meet the requirements to be certified as a base electrical technician/mechanic. This confused me, because if i’m already meeting a requirement for a base maintenance position, then i should be due for the wage increase, because it means i should be trained, which should be separate from a promotion to “electrical technician I” or “Mechanic I”.
My boss has also been unable to tell me what dictates being trained.
Being in the field for 10 months now, i can say i’m very comfortable with the basics. Being on 3rd shift i slack on PM’s, but always keep up with production. I feel like i’m there.
My company offers fairly good benefits and a really good 401k, and after a year of employment they’ll pay for my associates degree, so i really do want to avoid leaving if possible, but at the same time this whole thing really has me questioning where to go in my career. I want more money, and also kind of hate the grunt work involved in maintenance. I feel like i want to get an electrical engineering degree yet don’t even know what i’d do with it. Being a straight up PLC tech seems like it’d be simple and decent money, but i really want to work my way up to at least 6 figures, as quickly as possible, without committing to a 4 year degree.

I'm in the process of planning my first home server build with the primary focus of NAS and small gamer sever hosting (e.g. 2-5 player vanilla Minecraft). Currently I'm looking at an i5-10400 CPU with possibly an ASRock Z590 motherboard.
Storage is an area that confuses me a little. I'll probably get an NVMe for O/S and possibly running the game servers but I need a larger storage pool for the NAS where I'm looking at something like TrueNAS for management. This is an area I don't know that much about though..
At home I have a 2 bay synology NAS in RAID 1, that's about as far as my knowledge in this area goes. What do I need to know? What technologies do I need to be aware of? I keep reading about ZFS file systems etc. If I started with 2 drives in RAID 1, could I expand later and change the configuration to RAID 5? or am I locked into that from the start? If I start in RAID 5 with 4 drives, can I then expand on that by adding more drives? or replacing those with larger drives?
Ultimately I'm trying to work out how far I need to plan ahead on this. How easy is it to expand in the future? and what do I need to be aware of?

Anyone facing this issue where sometimes offline content does not work on flights? This has been happening to me for Apple Music and YouTube premium downloads. It’s frustrating when you download something before boarding and then you’re stuck on a long flight for hours without any of the content playing back. I tried restarting the phone, toggling airplane mode on/off but had no luck. It seems to work fine after landing and receiving carrier reception and turning airplane mode back on. Only workaround I’ve found is to put the phone on airplane mode and check before taking off. Sometimes it takes 4-5 tries. After take off once there’s no reception you can’t do anything.. Also quick Google search didn’t help me with any solutions so here I am. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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“The Milky Way is nothing now”. That’s what Jess said in 2511, when he created a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence, where and for the first time, robots transcend their makers’ intelligence. The big cities on earth were run by the A.I. as a system of the humans’ lives, and not only a simple system in a machine. It developed to be extremely complicated as it could create things by itself, authentic ideas and systems, which solved several world-wide problems that humans by themselves could have not been able to solve before. It kept getting better and better until it desired to hit the stars. So, the A.I. designed a model of an excellent spaceship that could generate its power and all the resources needed by the nuclear energy to keep going through the space; that spaceship was Hellforbidya. Jess was amazed by what he saw. He stood there and thought, how could a normal Harvard graduate build a very smart system which made that divine spacecraft model.
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As a more superior place than Utopia. Hellforbidya required a leader who could steer this city. A person who was worthy and could match all that distinction it had. Jess was the chosen one. Nobody would have been better than him. Only the creator of that colossal ship is capable of being the ruler of its magnificence and complexity.
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After 13 years, in 2528, Hellforbidya was set and ready to discover new worlds. Jess stuttered in the charm of Hellforbidya, “It was like nothing, and nothing was like it. Throughout the past ages, humans dreamt of piercing the limits of space, and it is an honor for me to be the one who accomplished our dream. It can’t fail as the Titanic did. We will fight gods up there”. In reality, this journey was meant to be a way of finding a new suitable planet for humans to live on. However, only a few people of the noble ethnicities got the permit to go on that trip, and they left the earth and the rest of the people on it - “the creatures of planet earth”, Jess expressed- behind them.
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By 2530, Hellforbidya took off as was planned for. Traveling at a bit higher speed than the speed of light. Passing all these planetary systems. The sublime Hellforbidya was unstoppable. It was getting closer to the borders of the Milky Way. The moment this ship reaches the next galaxy, Andromeda, is the moment when the humankind reaches their most glorious pinnacle.
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While they were proceeding out of the Milky Way, Jess noticed something strange. The ship's system was not responding, as it was reporting numerous errors related to the engines room. Weirdly enough, there were no errors after 2 minutes. Jess thought everything was fine up to the time Hellforbidya began slowing down until it completely stopped. “We are not moving”, Jess’s assistant went into the cabin. The A.I. system showed that the ship was moving perfectly, though. All of a sudden, this spacecraft flashed the opposite way, at its full speed, heading towards the solar system. Jess tried to stop the ship, but these attempts failed because the system is now in charge. Jess still didn’t know what was going on, but when he glanced at the screen all sorts of errors and alerts appeared there.
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People started leaving their dwellings. Freaking out, they knew that was not supposed to happen. Jess kept desperately trying to fix things up. He couldn’t. The A.I. took over the whole ship. On his knees and the tears in his eyes, Jess came up with the idea of shutting all the engines down so he could corner this horrible trouble in the system. Rushing to the engines room, the right engine blew up. The ship was massive, but people could hear that explosion. A huge fire started in the engines. This forced Jess to get back to the cabin and mess up with the system as it was his only hopeless choice. He looked at the right side of the ship but there was no right side. It was just the wreckage of it.
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People were screaming with fear. With no sanity in their faces, they escaped the fire to the left side of Hellforbidya. As luck would have it, the earth was lined up perfectly for the crash. 3 minutes for the great collision, people committed suicides. Killing themselves one after the another. Jess sat in the cabin, waiting for his death. But for the first and the last time, Jess thought about others rather than himself, and he chose to self-destruct the nuclear generators in the ship. He was uncertain of what he really wanted. Did he care about people’s lives on earth, or was he just committing another suicide like others did? He pressed the button of his death and turned his humongous Hellforbidya into a hell for Jess.

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Phase 0) Digital Economics 101

The Digital Economics 101 module will open 1 week prior to the cohort start date.This is an onboarding module that will get you up to speed so we can get straight into the material.This will be required to finish before the start date.

• Gain a deep understanding of all of the pieces in the digital economy.
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Every day I hear people going on and on about trying to find their niche.I also hear people talking about how they don’t know how to combine what they love talking about with what will sell.You already have the answer. You just don’t have the clarity.

• Develop a long-term strategy to create your own niche — meaning you don’t have to worry about your “competition” playing status games.
• Discover your life’s work, curiosities, and obsessions. I see too many people that are uncertain about this for years.
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There is one thing that separates those who make it in the digital economy and those who don’t.It’s the quality, articulation, and perceived originality of their content.The content you post has to make sense to the people you attract.Everyone has a different voice and tone that they resonate with. That they are congruent with and trust.It has to change their thought patterns or behavior — that’s what makes you memorable.That’s what separates you from the sea of people posting surface-level copy-cat style posts.Example and putting my money where my mouth is:

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Most people are sitting on a goldmine of skills, experience, and knowledge (that they can use to help people 1-2 steps behind them).That is what people pay for.Considering 95% of the market are beginners… if you are good at something, you can help them get to your level (no matter how “basic” you think the information is).Do you not watch basic content all day anyway? People don’t want new information, they want to be reminded of what works.

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You aren’t making money because you aren’t promoting yourself or your offer.That is literally the only way to make money. Have something desirable and consistently put it in front of peoples’ faces.In Phase 4, I will show you how to systemize, automate, and be consistent with simple promotions.You will be able to make money without having the chance of forgetting to do it (or letting fear of failure get in the way).

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Love my friends. Dislike sea cucumbers and sand sticking to sunscreen-ed warm skin. Would like to visit Antarctica, Oregon and the Hebrides. Currently learning to skateboard, writing a book and spamming memes at my friends. Training to be an astronaut.
Fond memories include: hiking in Gatinaeu park, getting an impromptu star chart reading from an old lady in a cafe, dressing up as a kitsune for a fantasy fair, eating volcanic eggs near Fuji, jetskiing in Brunei, petrichor in Singapore in the middle of the day during class.
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A story I wrote a while back. (To put it more accurately, a year ago.) Submitted it for the college Magazine, and recently uploaded it to Wattpad. But it didn't do much. So I decided to just put it on here. Any kind of feedback would be appreciated.
Being the idiot I am, I'm not sure what genre to place it in. But I'd say it's an action - drama in a somewhat fantastical setting.
The Blurb is as follows:
"Undera night sky lit by two moons, a Witch loses her family, and begins to succumb to the dark, violent side of her powers - Bloodlust.
During this desparate struggle, she comes across a Bishop - a soldier of this city, whose sole purpose is to kill her kind.
Who is this Bishop? Will the Witch survive? And who am I, the being who wants to share this story with you??"
And here's the full story. I hope you enjoy.
Oh, what a beautiful night.
The two moons in an elaborate dance, one in the arms of the other as they glow amidst the darkness. Wouldn't it be a heartbreak, for the king to abandon his queen at the brink of dawn, leaving her alone and defenseless?
Of course, my king already had. Even worse, he might've even let the hunters on my tail. Just the thought sent shudders through my spine. My dear melancholy, I thought, you won't be here for long. "I've cried with you far too long. Perhaps I should send you with my lover, let his blood wrap around you while you sleep. Perhaps I should let his cries wash away all that you weep."
I wanted answers. But, a deeper, more primal part of me needed revenge. But if I wanted either, I needed to act fast. I was being hunted. The people of this world, they call us witches. They call us the spawn of the devil, to be hunted and burned alive. I know this isn't true, I remember my parents' faces as clear as day. Damn it, I wish I just had a normal life. I wanted peace, quiet. I wanted a happy life with my husband.
"You are desecrated by the demon himself!"
"Get out of my sight! Begone!"
The memory of Anton's words, curled in utter disgust.... They hurt. Once, long before this, I could almost see the smile on his face, taste the uninhibited love in his gaze, feel the steady warmth of his embrace...... And now... Why? Why, you.......... Why?
The question turned into a haunting melody, trying to tear its way through my skull with a violent cacophony, only to fade into a whisper drumming in sync with my footsteps, as I tracked him down through the shadows. Was he the answer?
Or just prey? A rat to devour?
That thought worried me. No, I-I didn't want to hurt Anton, but.... But he had done the same, was still doing the same. The streets were quiet, the houses all around closed shut. No doubt, there were hunters, the Bishops, tracking me down. But I had become accustomed to sneaking around without leaving a trace.
I wished, sometimes I could be one of those lucky women hiding in those houses, with nothing to fear but the outside. They could just stay in their homes and live the lives they wanted.
But, the increasingly manic voice from within spoke, you had that. For a while. How long did it even last, until he kicked you out and left you for dead?
My footsteps quickened seemingly running towards my prey. Or maybe, away from whispers that were becoming hard to deny. And then, I found him. Right there, in the darkness, all alone.
Ready to speak.
Or to die.
And all of a sudden, I felt my knife slide home. Blood, sweet and magnificent, rose in the air. Every cell in my body rose towards it, parched for a taste.
Just a taste.
I stumbled under the ferocity of the thirst, my will pushed to its limit to keep it under control. His life was fading out.
I had to... I had to look him in the eye. I turned him around, and it wasn't him. It wasn't him.
Oh god, it wasn't him.
It wasn't him it wasn't him it wasn't----------
"Ophelia, what the heck have you become?"
I slowly turned towards the source of the sound, knowing the horror on his face I'd be forced to see. There it was, but somewhere in the miasma of repulsive emotions.... Was it concern? Did my dear Anton still care? Did he still... still love?
Something fell on my thigh, soft, and warm, disappearing seeping through my dirtied clothes the moment it touched. And it was then I realized - it was blood. It was all over me, across my lips, on my hands, seeping into my fingernails. It was overwhelming me, wrenching sense and sanity away. Was it too late? Was I past the point of no retu------
The next moment, I realize I'm.... falling. Further and further, but I can't find the floor. I can't feel my legs, my arms, my mouth. It's as if every part of me except my soul has disintegrated, vanished into thin air. I look around me. There are so many like me. Witches, humans, the faceless, the feral. The victim and the criminal. They are all the same. WE are one and the same. I don't feel my consciousness fading away, but rather.... It bleeds, it swims around like a drop in an ocean, a single grain of pollen among thousand others flying away. It's coming all together now, fusing and joining and mixing with the others, and into the will of one great being. It's like..... Like the God accepting us into His womb, letting us be a part of His plan, and giving us one last gift- vision, His vision, to see the world as it really is............. And the ones we left behind in this world.
The process seems so painful - I can feel emotions that aren't my own, emanating from within me, while my own emotions are scattered over this pool of collective consciousness. It swirls and splashes around, slowly moving towards a source, rather than away. The closer I get, the lesser I remember about myself. I'd be concerned, unhappy even, weren't it not for the fact that along with myself, I could also feel myself forgetting the world I had lived in like an insect, while I dance around in the memories of others. It's all mine, and what's mine is also others'. There isn't an "I" anymore. There's just...... An ocean. An ocean of serenity. A desert, devoid of pain and suffering. An oasis of peace.
Just......Anton. Look after him, my Savior. And my----------------------
-Era Vulgaris-
Ah...... Another dead one coalescing into me. A woman, full of hopes and dreams soaked and squandered away by sorrow and hatred and envy. Don't fret, little one. You can rest now. Be in peace with yourself, and this broken world. Now, where were we? Ah, the woman finally lost it.
Her self-consciousness faded away the very moment that drop of blood dripped onto her tongue. What was left, was a husk of its former self, hungry for blood and power. I hated watching this, though I'd seen this a million times over. Even the part of me that was once that poor girl was undoubtedly horrified at what she'd become. It's okay, it's okay. It'll work out in the end. Trust me. Your loved ones shall come out whole from the other side.
Especially, I thought, if the Bishop beside him is truly who I think he is.
The word "Bishop" brought a bit of warranted concern to the residual piece of the girl, which meant I had to spend some more of my energy and attention to calm her down. So, I thought. Where were we?
The husk of the woman lunged for her former lover, only to be denied her prey by a sudden tackle to the ground. The assailant swiftly rolled out of harm's way, spinning around and aiming a rather large revolver right at her head.
"Freeze. Or the bullet goes in your head."
She didn't respond in kind. Instead, she... It. It, reminded the small voice that was once part of her, now just in pure disbelief at what she was looking at. It looked him dead in the eye, wailed its vocal cords out and slit its own arm, letting the blood spurt open all around her. The dead carcass beside her became her fuel, swimming towards and into heIt, as its own blood slowly morphed into clones of its own. All contorted and manic, just like the original. All at once, they converged right at the hunter, eager to churn out the flesh. One sneaky little figure, however, sneaked right out of sight and right towards its/ her husband.
Yeah, it was her husband alright. All these bright little memories sparkling from within the dark, right up until everything tore apart- Wait. Oh n-
A hailstorm of gunshots shattered the rain of noise that drenched the night. And just like that, almost all the clones were gone, fading into a cloudburst of blood from which they had risen. The husband, Anton, screamed, "The blood- it'll burn!!" But the hunter rushed through regardless, through the blood.
True to his word, the blood began to boil and corrode away all the protective plates and clothing, but the man himself was strangely unaffected. Rather, he became seemingly faster, as he kicked away the witch, the original form out, just a mere fraction of a second before it could rip out Anton's jugular. My heart was in my throat. Or at least, the newly assimilated soul felt that way.
I was more interested to as to how the Bishop appeared to have changed, as if a limiter on himself had been removed by the blood. As if a blind man had finally been given the path towards light.
By the time it could recover, the Bishop held the previous position once again- only this time, aiming at the creature's belly. That, is what I was worried about. The poor woman was pregnant when she lost control. "Now," he said. "Don't move."
The woman's soul suddenly began to wrench its way out towards her body, trying desperately to save its offspring, its child. Its only ray of hope. It took a considerable effort to keep her in control, much more than what I would once require. Well, I thought, all the more reason to let things go as they should.
Anton went to protect the thing that was once his wife, right up until the Bishop changed his aim towards him.
Anton paled, but understood the message. He returned to his previous position, his crosshairs pointed right at the woman's swollen abdomen, and waited for her to react.
She didn't.
She stilled, almost stuck between her primal urge as a creature of blood, and a maternal urge as a creature of warmth.
The hesitation was enough for the hunter to make a decision.
"Rest in peace."
The gun fired.
A single bullet exploded into a hundred smaller shells, penetrating the witch - not at the abdomen, but straight through the head. The man beside him just puked at the gruesome scene, unable to bear not just the brutality, but the heartbreak of it.
The hunter turned towards him. "Put yourself together. Besides, you put her in this situation."
The remark halted Anton from his state of disgust into a fit of near-violent rage.
"What? What the fuck do you know, you lowlife? You're the ones who kill innocent women for just the smallest suspicion of their nature. You fucker! Die in the womb you lived in you-"But, he couldn't hold on to it. Just couldn't.
Anton broke into tears, his guilt, his pain and his loss flowing down his face and falling at the cold ground below him.
It--It wasn't a nice sight to see. He cried, and cried, and cried, sometimes in reminiscence of the small moments that he'd shared with his loved one, sometimes in despair of the things he'd done. He could blame all he could, curse all he could. At the world. At hunters. At God. Even himself, but that would not bring his love back to life. It wouldn't bring his unbor---
A tiny, yet strong innocent wail interrupted his downward spiral.
"Anton. Your child." With that brief phrase, the Bishop laid a fragile infant in his arms. Crying, with hair barely formed, yet Anton could see it- It was her child. Her and his. THEIR child. But......
"IT's- It's a girl. Won't you-"
"Well, I think it would be rude of me not to turn a blind eye your way. I cannot see, after all. Besides, I think this child deserves a chance. For the mother who, in the throes of death, chose her child over revenge. And," he said, patting down the man's shoulder, "the pathetic man who still wanted to save his wife, even if she was no more. Now go. Get the fuck out of here. I gotta pick up the corpse and collect my payment. Oh, and, uh... What happened here, all of it- you don't remember a thing. Got it?"
He didn't need even the slightest of threats. The guy thanked the Bishop and, with the now smiling babe, walked away.
Another figure appeared from behind the hunter.
"Was that a good decision, Navy?"
A Faceless one. Quite devoted to the Bishop. His question held a tone of concern, but a sense of curiosity dominated his voice as he asked his question.
"Grayson," he said, placing his shotgun onto the floor as a walking stick, "I never overthi-"
"Shut up."
A careless shrug. "Alright. You got me. You want me to be honest? I.....see myself, as weird as it sounds. In that child, in that man. Even in the fuckin' witches. I kill them for a living, Gray. I wake up every morning to load a bullet carrying their name."
"You hate them. Simple as that."
"But a really small part of me..... It- I don't know, Gray. Sometimes all I do is say thanks to this stupid world we live in. A world where everyone wants to fall in love but there's no room for it, in the grand scheme of things. You know, it's times like these that make me glad. Better off believing in a dream world of love and peace, rather than knowing this nightmare of an era. An Era Vulgaris, if you will."
Indeed, in this we might just be kindred spirits. Hm... well, there's definitely a potential in him, to become what I need him to be in the future. I just.....
Well, I'll let this run its course.
After all, it depends on whether she can will herself a future worth salvaging. For there was another one spying on the hunter, another witch whose paths would cross with his. And that path would either fall in place like clockwork, or blow up every plan and contingency I'd made into smoke.
Till then, I guess it best to rest. Kick back and watch this Era Vulgaris consume itself in its vanity, and see if something will come out whole the other side. Rest well, Navidson.
And thank you.
Something settled, and that's when I realized the woman's soul had finally accepted its fate, fading into the primordial soup. Broken, scared and all bled out, and yet she put up a hell of a fight.
The human will is quite extraordinary, is it not?

Folks ,who identify as non-binary, could you please share what your experience with having that gender identity has been? How do you know? I like to dress androgynously and I'm straight but I'm not sure whether I can identify myself as non-binary. Not sure what that means.

I keep seeing things mentioned about people wanting to create music, and about how they wish they could be as creative as Travis and shit, so I just kinda wanna make a post about the negative sides of making music, the side no one really talks about. Unless you're interested in reading the ramblings of some random dude on the internet about something the majority of you likely won't relate to, just skip this post. Also my apologies if this doesn't really flow the smoothest, I didn't write these paragraphs in order since I kept deleting them and going back and reworking then completely.
Even though everyone's different I will speak on my own personal experience with dedication to creating music, I'm only 19 but I'm totally like hooked into it, I've always enjoyed the process of creation and growth but it feels like the more I improve and the more i progress I just begin to feel even emptier. I wouldn't consider myself extraordinary but for being completely self taught and independent I feel like I'm doing pretty well, but the fucked part is I'm at the point where I realized I could be the most successful and revolutionary artist in the game but the second I turn my computer off all of that progress just ceases to exist anymore because all of that success isn't mine, it's my music personas, the real fleshy me is still a nobody.
It has given me extreme identity issues. I graduated 11 months ago and since then I haven't existed as a person, all my time and energy has been dumped into music, I'm over here throwing away my golden years by making beats and spitting into a microphone.
From sunrise to sunset all I do is either make music, listen to music, research music, and think about music. I have the fucking knowledge of a 50 year old I've put so much time into this.
Haze of interference by bedwetter "I'm standing by a microphone, I'm yelling at a wall, pick a thousand names you're still nobody at all" those final few lines resonated with me on a very personal level when I first heard them because it's true, you invest so much of your life into this shit and for what?
I'm a rather decent producer, an amazing engineer (mixing mastering) and a decent writevocalist, but no matter what there's never this point where I feel like it's enough, there's always something that can be improved or done better.
My mental health is also just shit in general I can't go an hour without having suicidal thoughts, when I was 17 I took an ungodly amount of pills to kill myself which resulted in seizures and temporarily stopped my heart. When I arrived at the hospital I full on described my mental situation which is something I've never done and haven't done since. The doctor asked me 2 questions 1. Are you going to kill yourself when you get home? I said not immediately but maybe another day. 2. Are you going to hurt anyone? Absolutely not, I'm one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet :/ The doctor then just sent me home?? I tried to ask for therapy or anything that would at least give me the opportunity to get professional help and I didn't get shit. The only reason I haven't truly committed is because I'm afraid of doing it in a way that wouldn't 100% guarantee death. If I had a gun it would've been lights out a long time ago, and that's not even a debate. I don't fear death, I fear the process of dying, it's painful scary and pathetic.
I've posted nearly 3 hours of decent music since I've started releasing (march 2022) all of it was written and mixed by me, the majority of it was also produced by me, I've gotten thousands upon thousands of plays in total which is decent for someone so new and absolutely no promotions, but it just leaves me feeling like my whole existence is nothing more than a Instagram account and a SoundCloud page.
I've retired temporarily and semi rebranded just so I can try to actually make unique and experimental music instead of the rather played out raw emo cloud rap music I've been making.
I always feel bad for people that want to get into music because it's such a life consuming process if you actually plan on trying to become something worth mentioning, and again I'm only 19 and I feel like this so I can't even begin to imagine how horrible it would feel 20 years from now.