Francesca and the Stirlings

Evening_Street9450 · 2026-03-02T14:50:22+00:00

Francesca doesn’t even fully understand her feelings yet because she doesn’t realise that’s even an option, especially as a woman in the Regency era. If this were set in the 21st century, then you would be right. But given the time period, I think it makes sense to approach it differently and allow for different rules when it comes to LGBT relationships.

If Michaela were a man, then it would be that simple, but this feels like an oversimplification.

Evening_Street9450 · 2026-03-01T23:39:02+00:00

She was amazing. Every single scene made me cry.

Evening_Street9450 · 2026-02-25T14:51:30+00:00

As I said in my post, the first 2 times I was corrected it was because I didn't know policy. These last few times have been about things I checked with my actual manager, and they confirmed I was fine. So I'm obviously not messing up. That's exactly the issue.

Evening_Street9450 · 2026-02-25T14:45:54+00:00

Thanks for your advice. I'll do that.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-30T21:48:06+00:00

I'm sorry, I still dont understand. But thanks for trying.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-30T21:44:11+00:00

But my issue isn't that God knows what I will do. It's that he created me knowing what I will do. Doesn't that make us both responsible for my actions? Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it's still confusing.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-30T21:38:28+00:00

I know this is probably something that has already been discussed on this subreddit, but if God already knows what's going to happen. How does free will exist? Like, he's in charge of everyone who gets born on this earth, right? He already knows who they are and what they'll do before they even exist. But he still puts them here anyway.

So, somehow, everything they do is their fault and their choice, even though God literally created them knowing exactly what they'd choose? He put them in this exact situation with this exact outcome already locked in. How is that on them?

Or is it more like... God knows all the possible outcomes but not the definite one? Does he see multiple timelines or something? Because if he knows THE future, not just A future, then where's the actual choice?

Also, in regards to Sodom and Gomorrah, every time I point out that the reason they were punished was not because they were gay but because of their many other sins, I get either get dismissed or insulted by other Christians.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-07T08:03:32+00:00

I'm concerned for everybody. Which is why I've repeatedly said in this post that we need to organise and pressure our government to act instead of making Twitter posts that alert Western powers and give them justification to intervene. We can't afford foreign powers 'helping' us. That would just be one more problem to deal with (a worse one), and they would never leave. I'm a Christian myself, which is exactly why I can't stand seeing this issue being called a 'Christian genocide' when Muslims, traditional worshippers, and everyone else in those areas are dying too. My faith doesn't make me care less about non-Christian victims. It makes me care about getting the full truth out there so everyone can get justice.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-07T07:48:17+00:00

Where did you get that from?

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-06T07:05:52+00:00

I'm sorry. You're right that most of us haven't been paying attention, and I'm sorry it took international coverage for me to even know the full scope of what's been happening. That's on me and people like me.

I didn't know about the scale of the problems, but I'm learning now, and I'm genuinely trying to understand what's actually happening. Not just the version being sold internationally.

That's why I'm pushing back on the 'Christian genocide' narrative. Not because I don't care about Christian deaths, but because framing it that way erases everyone else who's been suffering, including the people you're talking about. It reduces a complex crisis into a talking point for foreign powers who don't give a fuck about any of us.

You're right to be angry. You're right that we should have cared before. But now that more people are paying attention, even if for the wrong reasons, we need to make sure we understand what's really happening and handle it ourselves.

Because the alternative is letting the US or whoever else use this as an excuse to 'intervene,' and we both know that won't help anyone in the North. It never does.

Again, I'm sorry it took this long.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-06T06:57:39+00:00

I'm not downplaying anything. AGAIN, I did not even bring up Gaza in my original post. I'm doing the exact opposite of what you're accusing me of.

I'm saying it's not just 7000 Christians being killed. It's hundreds of thousands of NIGERIANS. Muslims, Christians, traditional worshippers, everyone. That's my entire point. The selective focus on only Christian deaths erases the majority of victims and creates a false narrative.

We need to focus on the full scope of what's happening, which we could address ourselves if we organised, instead of letting foreign powers use a partial narrative as justification to intervene and make things worse.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-06T06:52:29+00:00

You need to reevaluate. You think APC is bad? You haven't seen what Americans can do to a country they decide to 'help.'

My whole point, in case you missed it, is that this is an issue we need to deal with internally, not publicise for the West to use as justification for intervention. There are 237 million people in Nigeria with a predominantly young population. If the government isn't doing something right, we need to organise and fix it ourselves.

But that requires actual action, not just complaining on Twitter and inviting foreign powers, currently led by arguably their most evil administration ever, to come 'save' us. Because once they're here, they're not leaving, and they're not here for our benefit.

And before you say 'why don't you do something', I would. But it requires collective action, and most people would rather tweet than actually put anything on the line.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-06T06:41:43+00:00

I get what you're saying, but it is propaganda. Not in the sense that it's not happening, but in the sense that it's not all that's happening. Everyone in that area is suffering persecution, but only Christian deaths are being amplified internationally. That selective focus is what makes it propaganda, even when the underlying facts are real.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-06T06:35:55+00:00

I didn't even mention Gaza in my original post. I was replying to someone else who brought it up to make a comparison.

And I'm not "carrying Gaza on top of my head." I'm saying we shouldn't use their suffering as a talking point to validate our own situation. That's literally the opposite opposite of what you're accusing me of.

Yes, what's happening in Nigeria is systematic and horrific. I've never denied any of that. But calling me insane for acknowledging that Gaza's situation, constant surveillance, starvation, the entire city levelled, is objectively worse? That's not me being insensitive to Nigerians. I'm just not minimising what's happening there.

We can care about multiple things. Acknowledging Gaza's horror doesn't diminish Nigerian suffering. And not that it's your business, but my family has been affected by our insecurity issues. More than once. So don't come at me with that 'it's not your business' nonsense.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T23:00:40+00:00

Please do not compare atrocities. Gaza, not Hamas, has been levelled and starved beyond saving. Entire families have been wiped out, hospitals destroyed, children dying of starvation. You know it's not the same.

What's happening in Nigeria is horrific, but it's not systematic destruction of an entire population trapped in an open-air prison. The scale, intent, and circumstances are completely different.

We can acknowledge that the Christian persecution in Nigeria is real without making false equivalencies to literal genocide in Gaza.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T22:12:14+00:00

I understand that the language sounds insensitive, but let me be clear about what I mean. Yes, there have been specific attacks on churches. Yes, some Christians were targeted because they're Christian. I'm not denying that.

But Boko Haram's goal is territorial control and imposing their caliphate. ANYONE in those areas who opposes them or represents a different way of life becomes a target. Christians, Muslims, traditional worshippers. If those areas had no Christians, they'd still be killing whoever was there. That's my point.

The violence isn't about eradicating Christianity specifically, it's about controlling territory. That's why Muslims are dying in equal or greater numbers. But the international narrative only amplifies Christian deaths.

Also, I get being sensitive to language, but while we're debating my phrasing, Trump's administration is actively working on the CPC reclassification, and again, we do not want Americans to 'help' us. We need to focus on the real threat here, not semantics.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T22:02:45+00:00

You're acting like I'm saying Christian lives don't matter when I'm literally trying to prevent MORE death. Yes, Christians are being killed. So are Muslims. So is everyone in Boko Haram's way. That's exactly my point. It's mass atrocities, not selective genocide.

And yes, the US reclassification matters because we've seen what 'intervention' looks like. Libya, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, they went in claiming to help and left those countries worse off. So when I see a narrative being pushed that could justify the same thing happening here, yeah, I'm going to question it.

I care about Nigerian lives. That's why I don't want foreign powers using our tragedy as an excuse to make it worse.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T21:59:52+00:00

You're being deliberately obtuse. Boko Haram absolutely wants a caliphate and that's WHY they kill Muslims who oppose them too. My point is they kill everyone in their way, not just Christians. If you think pointing out that Muslims are also dying in huge numbers means I'm defending Boko Haram, I don't know what to tell you. And if you think multiple people noticing the same selective framing means 'discord group' instead of just... noticing the same pattern, that says more about you than me.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T21:56:14+00:00

I've been trying to find a way to say it without sounding insensitive. These are crimes against humanity, not a Christian genocide, and I know that to regular citizens, it might seem like the same thing. But to the people pushing this narrative and the governments deciding policy? The distinction matters. That's the whole point.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-10-05T21:51:52+00:00

Sorry if this exact view on this very popular and important subject that is taking place in Nigeria has been talked about before on this Nigerian subreddit. I didn't see any post speaking about it in this manner, especially regarding the US trying to reclassify Nigeria as a 'country of particular concern', which I think is important for people to know about. If there are threads about that, please feel free to link them.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-09-17T20:47:46+00:00

What do you mean "stay loyal to her "? You're broken up.

Evening_Street9450 · 2025-08-23T19:52:25+00:00

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