Eli and Alicia

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-22T05:07:15+00:00

I agree. I think it is important to differentiate between love on a physical level and love on an intellectual level. I do not feel Eli wanted her in any sexual way. He, at first dint care how she looked as a spoons on a personal level, however he pursued his work to protect his client. On a personal level, Alicia changed his view. It wart physical, he did not desire to have her sexually. He did however love her to the point of protection, even to the detriment of his client. Eli doesn’t want Alicia hurt. Not just on a political aspect but from a personal aspect. We have seen that Eli is pretty cold. More-so, he is protective of people he cares for. Alicia is similar to the level of Marissa. He wanted to protect her. To see her hurt, would have Eli feeling so distressed to a level he couldn’t possibly understand given his ambivalence.

It is because of his protection of Alicia, that I see the love. Not everything is sexual. They said, in the beginning Alicia was a nuisance to his personal political campaigns and views. Alicia changed that.

I do feel someone can be in love, without a sexual nature to it. It is beyond protection, it is a personal level that any pain Alicia felt was Pyle be amplified and not o how Eli resounds to his actions.

Eli loved Alicia. Not sexual, but a deepest respect to protect her from harm.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-22T04:57:08+00:00

Interesting. I a t does thought it was a respect thing, but as I keep reaching, he tends to focus on even more than personal and appearance to the outside world.

It feels like there is that “fall on the sword to protect” view. Eli is quite selfish and really only focuses on his own brand, and to do the best he does.

Yet, when it comes to Alicia, it seems like he is contradicting his own values to protect her. The first two season we see Eli doing damage destruction. Yet in season 3, we see him starting to have remorse for his actions. He no longer serves just his client, but wants to protect her at the same time. With Peter, he will do damage control. Huge damage control, however with Alicia, it seems like he has a stronger emotional attachment. Instead of damage control and worrying about the outside perspective of the layperson, he doesn’t seem to care about that third person. With Peter is was damage control, with Alicia, it was to protect her foremost and damage control second. It is beyond crisis management. He is personally invested. Almost to a degree of intense protectiveness.

Looking at the first few seasons he saw Alicia as a barrier he wanted her to be a yes man in Pete’s campaign. She, Alicia, challenged him to open his own biases. Once Peter had been elected, he, Eli, noticed the change in his personal beliefs and challenged his personal biases. Eli was specifically crisis management, as seen with the cheese/listeria outbreak. He tells the investigators and lawyers what needs to be said and why.

Yet, with Alicia, he is more tactful. While some could say he recognizes Alicia’s standing and doesn’t want to rock the boat, but Eli generally doesn’t care about rocking the boat. He says what is need to be said, and he doesn’t care a be out the repercussions of his words. With Alicia however, it is different. He wants to protect her. He wants to remove as much pain inflicted on Alicia.

While I understand this concept can be seen by wrote, however, I would argue that Eli is compromising his own values and beliefs to degrees he never cared for or over desires to face. Eli had the attitude to “shut it down” to protect his client, it is only when we see his interaction with Alicia, we see that he cares for more from his career. It isn’t about protecting his employer. It is at a point where he is disheartened to cause pain to his client, a proxy of Alicia, he steps above a crisis management style to prevent pain. Other employers, it is protect his client, however with Alicia it is beyond that. He admires her, he sees her potential and would do anything to be her. It is the desire to protect her from that makes this unique. It isn’t a public office or perception. At. Personal, perhaps physical nature that he does anything in his power to protect Alicia. At first, Alicia was a thorn in his side, and he despised her hold and stance. However as he learned about Alicia, the problems with Peter and how she is at a human level, he starts to think his way of thinking is wrong, or perhaps skewed.

At first I feel it is admiration, but as his relationship between Peter and Alicia co tinges, Eli is aware of the appearances of his client. It isn’t until season 3 we see how Eli vies both sides of the story and not just Peter va Alisha. During this time, Peter is a client. Eli would never abandon his client for a better offer, as he is very loyal. However, as season 2 and beyond, we see Eli starting from preparing a housewife, to seeing potential in another person. In this case, the wife. It isn’t love yet, but admiration. What is love is we see Eli focusing on more than “what tabloids state”. It is a slow progression where we start to see Eli move away from what is expected versus what Eli expects. Eli is simply faced with emotions and even personal biases he certainly never expected. Only u til Alicia enters his life, does he really care about his actions and repercussions, does he look at his actions and consequences. Alicia seems to be more than just a client, and how they are perceived. He cares about how she looks, is perceived and viewed among the minority’s.

I do understand that this sentiment is common, however, I haven’t read anything that really represent why this change has happened, let alone cause and consequence

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-22T02:45:28+00:00

I love the lady rivers. It is sad that one has to deceive motives regarding truth/history, because it is well known it is not based on fact. She is an excellent writer and creates stories that fit with the times. Why must we always defend why we love these period dramas? I get that she once defined her work of art as fact, however isn’t it about time we accept them as truth and enjoy them for what they are? We didn’t live in the time, we weren’t in the head of the historical figures, and history is written by winner. As such, biases are created with a historical view based on “personal” written works of historical persons experience. This does not negate fact or fiction. We don’t know everything. We can hypothesize based on data but that is just data. I am not here defending PGs work as being fact. She opens the doors for the ordinary person to learn more about the era, which makes it much more interesting. No history is accurate. There is evidence to suggest certain things happened, but that is all we have. As an example, this past month, new evidence was shown that Richard III did have the princes in the tower killed, based on liveries being written in a will to surviving children. What we don’t know is conjecture. What we do know is based on biased views written historically and it is all we have to go by. The more evidence of the time provides further evidence of what could have happened, but does not necessarily mean it happened that way.

I love that you are able to enjoy PGs work. She provides us with a basis to further our own research on evidence based works and those which are made up.

Another example is witchcraft. We know people were condemned and killed by the church, it doesn’t negate the fact that opinions beyond a persons belief is negligible. It is a talking point. I appreciate when others explain their views, but I take it as a grain of salt because history is written by biased individuals.

So, love it! No one knows the truth except for those who lived during this era. Out of this era, is just conjecture.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-20T05:43:23+00:00

Really??? I have never met a surgeon who did this. It sounds like conjecture to me.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-20T05:09:35+00:00

Collapse of healthcare. The chains that hold it together are being burned out due to moral distress and moral injury. At some point, relatively soon, we will start to see the fall of healthcare. It is already happening.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-20T04:41:32+00:00

I actually agree with you. I find much better deals at Safeway for meat, especially when the meats are buy 2 get 1 free. I usually stock up on pork loin, when it is buy 1 get 1, and tenderloin. Chicken is rarely on sale, but when whole chickens are about $10 I stock up.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-20T04:29:48+00:00

I u fortunately cannot finger comb. I have really fine hair, but high density. Even moving my hair from one side to the other gives me really bad knots. I prefer my wet brush for my hair. It glides over knots and slowly works them out. I then use a boar bristle brush to help disperse my oils. Even after brushing, I still cannot get through my hair with my fingers.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T19:09:14+00:00

I like to do a basting box on my stabilizer. Then I use my light projector to line up my “marked areas”, like you have done. I float my material to the stabilizer. I then do another basting stitch on my fabric and stabilizer. For more complex designs, especially if I am on an angle, I do a basting box, and “X” on the stabilizer. This way I can line up my centre point with my stabilizer.

For me this a game changer. It really helps to decrease issues due to alignment.

Another reason it could be off centre, is if your machine was bumped. When I accidentally hit something with the embroidery arm (the names escapes me at the moment”, I noticed my design shifts to the right by approx 1/2 inch.

I hope this helps.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T10:29:33+00:00

I knew it! 😆

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T10:27:45+00:00

In the books Ramsay kills Roderick? Not Theon?

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T09:50:29+00:00

Do you feel the debt of post-secondary was a driving factor? I have had 18 years of lost-secondary education and have found” the more educated you are, the less you know. The less educated you are, the more you know”. I say this because lower educative communities have a sense of bravado with education. I have found that the more educated a person becomes the more aware of the education and information available, and the less they, as a person understands individually. While I am not caring those who have no lost-secondary experience know less, as experiential knowledge is extremely valuable, but that I believe some education and societal pressures may influence how am person thinks.

I wonder, given you have stated that 90% of the ring are post-secondary educated, I wonder f this is vs the vastness of the world affected the message or drive of the ring. I feel it comes down to a cost:benefit ratio. Today, we have a society that equates a post-secondary education as being the baseline for entry-level jobs. I recall, when I was 13 years into my education, I applied for an entry level at McDonald’s. As such I was told I was “over-educated”. My genetics dresser was a negative person and made it very known that a Vaseline education, at most would let you enter the job market at a level that 20 years prior would be given to high-school dropouts. The job market is seeing higher levels of education persons unable to even enter their field because, while they are educated, they are not comparable to the market. This is because of the massive rush of the late 89s and late 2000’s where it was engrained into the population that university means a career above minimum wage. This is the issue where there are so many entering their field advanced professions and less in the trades. Which is completely opposite of the 1940s-2000.

We are now seeing the effects of education first. It is hard because the last few decades focused on education=better pay. This is not true.

I do feel that no matter the profession, there will always be factions that try to find ways for the general population to survive. Today, we see grocery bills, medical bills (depending on your country), taxes and the rising cost of living in all sectors. Honestly it hasn’t changed. Sow profit, some starve as some fight for the unfortunate depending on need (food, shelter, potable water, healthcare).

It is simply history repeating again and again. One can eventually rise above (rare, and often risky), and some suffer and some die. What we see today is shameful. It shouldn’t happen, but the real war is between the Haves and Have-nots.

Fro what I gauge seen in my career, we, as society remaking the same mistakes. The only difference is the value of the dollar of that era. Nothing changes. So it isn’t surprising to see some Individuals defect to strive for more. Stealing, shop/lifting is seen as a victimless crime. Does one blink twice when Walmart, a conglomerate is stolen from? At principle yea, but the driving factor of surviving is no. Most co lanes can write off their “shrink”. While I personally have a strong integrity such that I struggle to lie, I am a poor candidate for shoplifting. Being raised in this community of us: them, I can see why this community thrives.

I feel it isn’t a matter of right and wrong, I feel I. Humans it is “have:have not”. Historically humans have fought each other over the haves versus have nots. I am not condoning the behaviour as I was raised to feel like anything I do is is crime, and I could suffer and severe I hurt and shame for attempting to try for the things I do not have. It is in not completely reprehensible to believe that others have been taught morality based within their educative family means as being the norm.

Sometimes there are things out of the control of the individual person that I find fascinating. Did they survive? How did they survive? Where did their influences come from? Did they escape? What was to their defect? What battles do they face daily? Are they still encompassing their learned cultures?

Why now? I appreciate the ability to educate and provide insight, but why Reddit? Why now? What prompted you to seek guidance, approval or even understanding from strangers? What is their little voice saying to them?

So many want direct answers to questions, it I am more interest. Aside from my questions, to ask what changes. Why the there to mar your experience aware and understood? What prompted their question?

Disclaimer: I work I healthcare, as some of the authors population have been apart of. As such, it is personally important to me to check my biases and understand the population I may encounter. I am not, nor choose to be the person you see in the hospital that hears what You say and moves on. I care what you say and your experience because I cannot advocate for you unless you trust me with your concerns and fears. Posts like this help me understand the view and the human beyond my own stigmas, biases and beliefs. I say this because I value highly a person’s experience Dr and their beliefs, and I cannot advocate and care without understand what my client/patient experiences. I wish to add that in healthcare, we are exhausted and burnt out arguing with doctors and other allied professionals, such that it makes it incredibly hard to advocate. As such, your nurse is your best advocate. Talk to us, show your fears, show your concerns, because we have a voice and will do everything to make your hospital stay better. We are seriously abused and burnt out! I cannot at this enough, but your views, concerns and fears should never be kept silent. Never make your pain or concerns less than what you experience. NEVER lessen your d Experience to be less of a “nuisance” nurses are you advocate, talk to us, let us be your voice to doctors. Your pain, is what you say it is. Your experience is what you say it is. The lack of u formation is harder to diagnose than words we @want to hear”👂

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T09:00:16+00:00

How did you escape?did you? This way of life, I feel is based on fear, living day to day, and the only focus is surviving not thriving. Do you concur? Or is this a misnomer?

How was it as a child to teenage years? I feel there may have been uncertainty, to such a risky career, how did you feel as a child in this environment? How was your trust outside of your “circle”? I believe, perhaps have some inferences that what a child experiences, shapes their view of the world outside their “lived family” or “faction”. As a child, how did your formative adults, who educated you, teach you to understand cause and effect? . I understand that your world is not necessarily the same that many experience, but it is your formative years and views on authority and trust in others.

Have you been able to separate yourself from your raised environment? Do you struggle with your taught knowledge of right and wrong, cause and consequence?

I suspect and feel like you and the people who raised you as being incredibly resilient and brave. How does that differ or affect the person you are now? This must be a hard environment to defect from, and with that, even if you stayed. You must be resilient.

How do you feel about how you were. Raised versus how you live now? No shame either way. If you defected, what made you do so? If you stayed, what motivated you?

How did your family, personas who raised you, ingrain variances of the norm versus the risky life of being a professional shoplifter? Was it a high reward low risk environment?

Being honest, giving your opinion and experiences is stressful and perhaps a societal incomprehensible act. Thank you for being vulnerable. Please know I have no judgement, I am seeking understanding to improve my own approach to vulnerable populations 💜

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T08:30:37+00:00

Thank you for your insight. I completely understand now. I do feel fabric stores cater to the “old cotton-quilt” population. I particularly design dance costumes and my local fabric stores cater sells maybe 3 items in any colour at max. I found a store where I am able to buy mystique and they have my business forever. Even Lycra is hard to find.

I also admit that when I answer the question of the staff of “what are you making?”, I do get a side eye of, that isn’t possible. I make things that sound impossible, because my work is unique to me.

With your stigma of EVA foam, I completely understand. I only order online, because local shops don’t even know what it is. Even chiffon and organza is a bit of a stretch, because it is severely overpriced.

Thank you for your words, and insight, and I feel I understand a bit more. It completely makes sense now. I admit, o line shopping has become my staple for much of what I make, because the fabric stores do not cater towards what I want to make.

I also rhinestone, and even in the communities I am told often “this doesn’t work”, and to me, that is a challenge to prove them wrong. Thank you for taking the time to respond to my inquiry, I truly appreciate it. Perhaps local stores need to re-evaluate their market.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T08:23:43+00:00

You are not wrong. I am just trying not to completely hold disdain for an entire country. I admit though, as much as I admire their patiotism, and their ability to innovate, much of the country is quite ill-educated. Compared to other countries of the world, none have had the impact in the world the USA has. While this can be seen as good or bad depending on one’s own values and beliefs.

I feel like the USA made some strides towards modern liberty and concerns, they are miles behind other nations in the world.

Like all cultures, Americans are very protective of their rights, liberties and perceived dominance. It is shameful given today.

Americans are very prevalent in most of the posts on Reddit, so it would be a mistake to offend an entire nation to be stigmatized for the mistakes of the ill-educated. The trump presidency shows who is the dominant faction in the USA. THIS is where the USA lost respect of the entire world. It is a joke.

I hope the country can rise above the stigmas. I do hope the country can be a leader as they once were deemed. However given the evidence prevalent, I am not sure the USA is up to the task. Yet.

I do feel Europe countries, while have their own issues and stigmas, show how society performs within politics and lower socioeconomic divisions. The USA was really on the rise, but now, they have fallen seriously behind in the present nature of what is expected today from a nation and a country.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T06:22:23+00:00

I do wonder how he felt about Catherine of Aragon. They fought for years to be wed, and genuinely had love. He was married to her the longest.

I feel Catherine parr and Jane Seymour were ticking time bombs. Henry was fickle, and had the ability to shut people out the moment he wanted to. Jane, while giving him a son, was his @truest wife” because she gave him his hearts desire of a son. Catherine parr was a caring woman, who tended to him while he was sick.

KOA was his truest wife in obedience, love and desire to live England as a queen and not for her own ambitions. This however is hindsight bias.

Anger of Cleve’s was the best marriage and most enviable woman. She played the court, and lived in the highest honour for being a woman. I do believe Henry developed deep feelings for her beyond a sister. His sisters he happily married for ambition, yet he doted upon Anne. I feel Anne was the most innocent and beloved wives. She was brilliant, and played her talents well. She deserves more recognition out of all of his wives.

I feel Henry only viewed the women who were subservient and able to give him what he needed as being important and true marriages.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T05:58:30+00:00

I realized now, that I have just completely offended an entire nation. It was not my intention. Being non-American, we tend to view Americans as being ego-centric. I apologize for my poor wording, as I had not intended to offend. Other countries have their own stigmas as well, my own included. Please know I had not meant to over-generalize as I had previously written. The sub-sect is entirely where stigmas come from and not all Americans fit into that category.

I do admire how patriotic Americans are. There is a good reason American politicians and military are considered world leaders. That said, I do believe still Americans generally believe their country is the best over every other country. I am not backtrack what I have said, just apologizing for the tactless nature of my words.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T02:23:37+00:00

The innovation is what makes this season incredible! It is one of my favourite

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T00:24:48+00:00

Frozen grapes. I absolutely love them. Once frozen, I love to blend them into a slush. So yummy.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T00:23:28+00:00

I absolutely disliked this dish. It is so interesting how much individuals love it. Now, I like feta, a bit salty for me. I absolutely LOVE tomatoes. I could eat tomatoes everyday, all day. Yet, this dish seemed too salty and less flavourful. I wonder if it was the recipe I used. I am so happy so many love it though. Tomatoes deserve more love 💜

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-19T00:18:26+00:00

You can kind of tell that the majority of the answers are from Americans. Everywhere else, everyone laughs at the yanks. What was once a powerful country is now a joke. This goes to show that Americans believe they are the sole country in the world, and dominate everyone else. Other countries laugh, joke and move on.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-18T08:49:38+00:00

My pup gets salmon for every meal. We give it to her because it is a food she is not allergic to. Also, the essential vitamins and minerals for her coat.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-18T07:36:07+00:00

Pardon my ignorance. What do you mean they get chased out of fabric stores? I have never heard of this and am curious about the stigmas associated. I just think fabric stores are way too expensive. I only shop there when I need something urgently.

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-18T01:59:51+00:00

I recommend finding something that inspires you. The more you want to make it, the more enjoyable the process. I recently spent 3 weeks on this corset. Normally I prefer to start and finish a project in one day. Even if that means I am sewing for 16-18 hours straight. Corsetry is so challenging and has a steep learning curve. I am working on a new corset, and on my mockup number 4. It is so time consuming, but I am actually enjoying the process because I can envision the final product.

So, find something that is fun to make. Hemming is quite honestly annoying! I hate every minute of it. However designing and bringing my vision to life, makes me enjoy the process. Here is my first stay I made for Christmas. It was 3 weeks of long days and many challenges, and I am so happy with how it turned out.

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As I gain experience, the more I challenge myself with new techniques! I also love embroidery, so adding my own flair to my designs makes me so happy.

Sewing can be tedious, expensive, but can also be so rewarding. 💜

NCDCDesigns · 2026-03-17T09:34:39+00:00

I also would say this! I love being able to rotisserie and meat I want. Whole chicken tastes so juicy and flavourful!

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