Congratulations for the no drugs no booze.
I recommend adding in some masturbation though, clearing out old sperm is a good thing overall. Just don't death grip and don't use porn. Your imagination is usually enough for most folks.
Perfection isn't always feasible for everyone. Sometimes harm mitigation is the right step.
Animals cannot tell you how much pain they are in. Their last days can be absolutely horrific. You have the power to spare them perfectly useless suffering.
Vets strongly advise: better a week too soon than a day too late. Because that last day is unnecessary; it's there because you couldn't stomach the decision, not because it gave your pet anything meaningful.
You will know when it comes. When your pet is dying from some stupid cancer and you did everything already and what's coming is nothing but pain, no hope, no relief, no nothing but suffering. You will make the right decision. And have someone come over, while you make their last meal something amazing, and they are eating a snack while they still have appetite to be happy about that and ignore the little pinch in the leg that brings the last sleep.
And you will grieve in ways you didn't know you could, but it will still have been right because there is no sacred point scored from letting your lil pup die a few days later in agony you could have prevented but chose not to.
- gold coins at the local coin shop
- I clear out the grocery store canned and boxed goods aisles and donate everything to the food bank
Cornish pasty and welsh rarebit are god tier. Ploughman's lunch and Lancashire hotpot are top tier. Yorkshire pudding is top tier. Haggis done right is a LOT better than you think (caveat, I was very very drunk when I tried it.)
The god of the gap? No. I believe in proof and evidence, and once you have that it's not supernatural anymore. Isn't the real world interesting enough?
Thou shalt not alter thy body? I don't remember that one
This is only true for exactly as long as the weapons are held, though. Unless you plan on holding someone at weapons -point for life, the power eventually reverts.
The problem with age gaps isn't age; it's experience and power. Three years is still a big percentage of your life right now. In ten years time, three years will not be as significant a part of your life.
Think about how different you expect to be as a person in three years. Can you even realistically imagine who you will be?
As far as relationships - they work out when the people in them have common goals, and they fail- no matter how much love is in there- when the people involved are going in different directions in life. Part of your problem at your age is that the direction of your like is likely to change drastically over the coming years in ways you cannot anticipate.
Everywhere people live there too live men tempted by easy wrong solutions to blame their problems on. The only way to eliminate that is to eliminate people.
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Vorkosigan Series
Swordheart by Ursula Vernon
You frequently want to set your clients on fire, huh
"The Accountant" has flaws, but it's still a likeable movie for me.
I think the part I like is that it posits- what if autism were simultaneously painful but valuable? Useful? Even a little Heroic? Without forcing social acceptance, without making the autistic person magically able to navigate the world easily.
It's wrong on every level about reality, but most movies are anyways so that's normal for movieland.
I dunno, I liked it. It's simple and nice. What if your pain were useful for something?
Oh! Last time we moved I found free land! All you had to do was pay for the road. Do I looked up road costs.
Nope. Noooooope.
I got them twice in reddit. One was some wildly racist whackjob who really got off on calling me stuff while making up some weird story about who I was in his head. Report and block and move on. Another was a Freemason candidate who was SUPER upset after he acted like a douche and got called on it by his own people. He blamed me for his actions. Lots of people will blame other folks for their own actions.
That's such a weird order of operations. Like, your medical conditions are simultaneously such a big part of your life, and yet also so deeply personal that it feels like they should not be part of the initial conversation, which is supposed to be shallow and light, not immediately heavy duty.
I think perhaps there are other more important considerations than mere trans-ness, like "do they have the same overall life goals that I have" and "are they taking care of their mind and body and fitness". But transness may inform those aspects. If a significant focus of their life is on their own gender, I might struggle with that. If they're already at a point where they have dealt with it and moved on to other things, then it might work. If they have comorbid issues beyond transness, like depression and anxiety, that can be a deal breaker unless they are managing themselves and putting in the work.
Before computers I was an ignorant little shit who read fiction books and fumble-fucked around until I could figure it out. All my education came from teachers in school literally talking to me in class, me reading the textbooks, me reading sci Fi, and me running around like a little feral goblin outside.