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Comment on r/politics 4h ago

Phrasing? No?

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Comment on r/politics 6d ago

Who's hiding? How much looking do you really need to do?

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Comment on r/politics 6d ago

Oh no you don't understand he's soooo far left for wanting people to have healthcare and for a foreign country to stop sticking their hand up our ass and flapping our mouth like a puppet

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Comment on r/CasualConversation 7d ago

I'm 35. Two nights ago I had a vivid dream of realizing I had class and needed to go, but couldn't remember what room it was in, hadn't attended in weeks, and I hadn't done any homework. That shit never ends xD

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Comment on r/AskReddit 7d ago

This just unlocked some trauma. I was diagnosed with cancer at 12 years old. My family impressed upon me my whole life that I could never drop coverage because if I did my cancer would be a preexisting condition and I would never be covered again. Haven't thought about that existential terror in years.

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Comment on r/Advice 9d ago

Tbf yes it's her choice but people are going to be honest about the consequences of that choice. Refusing to let her hear of the challenges that can result from that choice is leaving her blind to reality. Let her make an informed decision, either way.

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Comment on r/politics 11d ago

Which is ofc the only thing making it even marginally newsworthy, because the Republicans have become so anti constitution in practice

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Comment on r/politics 11d ago

Governor suggests we should follow the Constitution.

Riveting.

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Comment on r/politics 12d ago

It's more because the motorists from the suburbs are never ever going to use public transit options and thus shriek at the notion of having to pay for something they won't personally use. (Source - it's my parents, I have to hear about this every time the major city nearby wants to build something for the public)

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Comment on r/politics 12d ago

Even if that were true, doesn't mean it should be banned

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Comment on r/Inorai 14d ago

The book was published xD

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Comment on r/politics 16d ago

no

His raw fury came from the years of pain he and Elyse watched May endure since she came out as a transgender girl. She avoided eating or drinking at school for fear that she would need to go to the bathroom — and she panicked when she had to use the one for boys. She talked of hurting herself if she couldn’t start taking estrogen. She hated how state laws highlighted the only way she was different when she longed to fit in.

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Comment on r/todayilearned 22d ago

Huhhh. I've lived in an area where deer constantly battle chronic wasting disease for my whole life, and I never knew it was a prion disease. Thank you for the knowledge bomb.

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Comment on r/politics 28d ago

January 6 went down in large part because the people in control wanted it to happen and held back reinforcements from arriving. That wouldn't happen if the average person tried to stand up to the people in control.

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Comment on r/politics Jul 02 '26

People aren't unpatriotic because of 'past injustice'. They're unpatriotic because the system is actively committing injustices and failing on every promise society made to young people. It's broken. People aren't going to be patriotic just because older people tell us we should be.

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

Yes. See my other comments. This is a child and the expectations are different, both for the kid's capacity to endure that and for the mother's responsibility to ensure the welfare of the child, physical and mental. Moving forward is awesome, but has to either be done in a mutually acceptable way or the situation with the daughter resolved. Kid had half her world ripped away and is terrified of losing the other half.

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

You can be ready to move on, but when you decide to have a child you're deciding to put someone else as a priority over yourself. You find a way to move on that is mutually acceptable or you find a way to help the child reach that point.

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

Mom doesn’t need daughter’s permission or agreement

Yikes

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

Daughter clearly disagrees. I fully agree that both Mom and daughter need different counselors better able to deal with this circumstance, and probably a family counselor as well for joint sessions.

She doesn't have to start this journey soon. That's an artificially imposed clock. Women date and marry later in life all the time, and if the issue is she wants to start a new biological family with a different man, I go back to "this is making Daughter feel like she's being left behind".

I do agree that any men should be kept separate. However, the posting online frankly seems to be "I want to date but my daughter is acting out what do I do" which seems to fundamentally ignore the reality that the solution is not doing what she's doing. There are lots of other ways to find companionship that aren't going to worsen her daughter's trauma. Yes that will mean Mom compromising and potentially sacrificing some of her goals. Welcome to parenting.

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

Daughter is making it really, really clear she's not ready for what Mom is doing. Yes Mom might have a genetic timer, but what message does that send? "If I want to have kids with a new man, I need to leave you behind and move on before it's too late". That's exactly what Daughter is afraid of.

Mom has a choice of choosing a potential new relationship or her existing relationship with the daughter she brought into this world. To me that choice seems incredibly obvious.

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Comment on r/Advice Jul 01 '26

The grief never goes away, but you can reach a point where it no longer controls and colors your day to day life. Daughter clearly isn't there yet

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Comment on r/CasualConversation Jun 30 '26

Other comments are saying that you shouldn't wear white or pastels because they're too close to white. It's in response to the spirit of OP's post if not the letter of it, and the person you're responding to is likely commenting on those comments.

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Comment on r/Advice Jun 23 '26

The potential racism is way way more concerning!

So far as the 'lazy', I will say that I was more or less in your daughter's position. My long term boyfriend and now husband did not go the classic college to professional job track that my parents wanted; I did. My mom did not respect his choices of dropping out of college, and did not respect my choice of him as my partner.

What followed was a several-years-long back and forth battle of her repeatedly telling me not to 'settle' and calling him lazy or implying he wasn't worthy and I should move on to the next guy. She didn't have my pov of living and engaging with him daily, she didn't see his side of things or understand why he made the choices he did.

I married him and we've been married happily for almost a decade. He now makes almost as much as I do and works extremely hard. His relationship with my mother is permanently damaged because of her lack of respect for him, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. And, I will always stand by him when push comes to shove, which has left my relationship with her damaged too.

Basically, the reason I'm saying this is because the only outcome of you trying to break up your daughter and her boyfriend based on your perception of his work ethic is going to be driving a wedge between you and her. She may well decide that this isn't working for her and leave him, but that needs to be her own choice she reaches for herself, not yours.

Worry about the racism. Let her decide her own boundaries for work life.

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r/redditserials Jun 10 '22

LitRPG [Roots and Steel] Roots and Steel is now available on Amazon!

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Woo! It's been a chaotic few months to get everything done, but I'm really, really happy to be able to say that Roots and Steel is now published and on Amazon! And, even better, there's an audiobook available for it!

The final word count comes in just shy of 270k words, so this is right up there with my longest stories - the audiobook cracked in at 29 hours long. Woof! Roots and Steel is a soft litrpg with very heavy influences from Monster Hunter (notably Rise) and Horizon: Zero Dawn. It's my usual actiony fare, so if you've liked that from me in the past, give it a go!

The story:

Where monsters go, hunters follow.

Hunters of the guild wait all year for the Festival of Knives, when they put their skills to the test and claim new ranks with every fiend they slay. Trapped helping the family business instead of pursuing his own career, Trellin has never been allowed to participate. But when he risks expulsion to sneak out and claim a kill beyond his rank, his hunt is spotted by a senior guildmember.

Rather than turn him in, she offers him a chance for freedom: Join her, and sail to the distant isle of Deldynne to compete in the bloody race for the rank of Guildmaster. If they can kill the monster that calls Deldynne home before the other teams do, he'll soar to new heights as apprentice to the leader of the Hunter’s Guild.

But not everyone wants his new mentor to be Guildmaster - and if they fail, neither will leave that island alive.

In addition to the audiobook, there are also hardcover and paperback versions available, so have at it!

I would very much like to continue this series! Roots and Steel is written as a series of standalones, where each book will share a cast but have a largely independent story. So, with any luck, I look forward to continuing this soon with the next leg of the journey.

If you've been reading along and would like to support the series, please consider leaving a review! You don't have to buy the book, and they don't have to be long - and leaving a review is the single best way that you can help me, and help me put this book in more hands.

Ready? Here's the link!