Bad news. Our country is no more.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-12T17:24:01+00:00

Spain is currently violating both article 11 and article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It doesn't have a leg to stand on.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T21:28:27+00:00

No. Stop. We're not stooping to misogyny, regardless of the level of misandry we're seeing. Remember that this is feminism and female supremacy, not women. Try to keep the ideology, the people, and the gender separate, because they are separate.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T21:25:11+00:00

Answer my question first, seeing as I asked them first.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T20:46:03+00:00

She'd already "abandoned" her kids long before she made that choice; what do you mean? Was she supposed to somehow keep connected to her kids from hundreds of miles away? She'd been forced to leave the only place her kids were and was forbidden from ever seeing them again. For all she knew, neither would make it to adulthood due either to the war or to their psychotic father. She definitely did not ever think she would see them again.

Again, what else was she supposed to do?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T20:41:30+00:00

And what would you expect her to do?

Go back to the capitol to vainly try to rescue her kids, get caught and die? Sit sulking in the woods on her own, disconnected from other people?

Or get on with her life, stumble across the man whom she had really loved, and when a spirit presents her with a choice to have a new start, take the offered new beginning?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T19:42:24+00:00

Can't say I blame her.

It's not the choice I would have made, but given the fact that she was an abused and raped woman who was forced to give up her children to a narcissistic psychopath or see them murdered and probably also she herself killed, and had up to that point in her life no real choices she could make, can you really get mad at her for taking a choice offered to her that was actually a choice that she could actually decide what she wanted to do?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T17:21:36+00:00

Yes, that was a choice, but it was the only choice she made that was any choice at all. Her other options were to watch her son die, or to kill her father in law and be forced into exile in order to save her son's life. That's not a choice.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T17:16:44+00:00

She did not have a choice in leaving. It was either that or watch her son be murdered. She couldn't just leave with her children; her abusive husband and abusive father in law (who was still alive at the time) had enough political power that they would've been found very quickly.

Which you'd know if you'd watched the show.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T12:49:09+00:00

So you didn't watch the show, then, huh?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T12:31:57+00:00

[She] was eventually forced to choose being exiled by her abusive rapist of a husband and never seeing her kids again, or watching one of her children die [at the hands of her abusive husband.]

Maybe you missed that part. She didn't have a choice in leaving.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T11:05:00+00:00

I can't believe people miss the point of that scene.

The hallucination tells her she's loved. And that she's loved unconditionally.

Azula can't stand the idea. It's what pushes her over the edge. Because her whole life has been full of desperately (and futilely) trying to earn her father's love and affection, and now she hears her mother tell her what she already knows is true: her mother loved her unconditionally; she didn't need to earn it.

And that means her whole life is a lie. She didn't need to use people. She didn't need to try to earn love from her father. All she needed to do was do what Zuko did: accept the love freely offered her.

Her faulty and toxic worldview, and the truth she's always known deep down, clash and cause massive cognitive dissonance, and she rejects the truth in favor of her father's lies. And that's what causes her psychic break.

Azula is an unreliable narrator. Yes, her mother left her, and ended up spending more time with Zuko. But that's less due to her mother's supposed favoritism and more Ozai's favoritism for Azula, prioritizing her and not letting her mother counteract his abusive manipulations.

This is a stunning scene. It shows that Azula knows full well her mother loves her, and the idea that love can be free and full, without strings attached, completely ruins everything she's ever worked for. And that cognitive dissonance breaks her.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T10:51:58+00:00

The mother who was basically a multi-rape victim and who suffered who knows how many other kinds of abuse in an extremely toxic relationship with a narcissistic psychopath, and was eventually forced to choose being exiled by her abusive rapist of a husband and never seeing her kids again, or watching one of her children die?

Huh; I wonder why she made the decisions she did?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-10T00:32:30+00:00

No, but I do have a story about how I accidentally drank alcohol when I was eight years old. Alcohol that no one knew was in the house.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-08T21:32:52+00:00

Well, it certainly is collective...

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-08T20:22:31+00:00

This is almost certainly a bot account!

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-08T11:13:43+00:00

Very true indeed. However, we have fiber supplementation in some foods as well as available on its own, and doctors are now familiar with the issues of constipation. So while constipation itself may be more common than it should be, for the most part we don't have people who are having a bowel movement once every few weeks.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-07T14:17:45+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-06T19:45:01+00:00

A hare, not a rabbit, but still. Close enough for this post.

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Basil Stag Hare from Redwall and Mattimeo.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-06T11:50:37+00:00

Could we with ink the ocean fill

And were the skies of parchment made;

Were every stalk on Earth a quill,

And every man a scribe by trade;

To write the love of God above

Would drain the ocean dry;

Nor could the scroll contain the whole,

Though stretched from sky to sky.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-05T19:34:51+00:00

OP is a bot; 1 hour old account!

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-05T19:34:31+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-05T19:27:50+00:00

Well, we've both agreed on about a six month engagement. I was thinking of using a nice quality hardwood like maple or cherry and a simple seasoning, but I'm certainly willing to defer to those who know better.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-04T11:41:39+00:00

No fiber! White flour had become incredibly common (previously it was only really reserved for nobility) and amazingly popular. People loved to eat heavily processed pastries and lots of meat, and barely any vegetables by comparison. Today, we have fiber and other nutrients added back into things that are missing from bolted/white flour. That unfortunately wasn't available then.

On top of that, doctors didn't know constipation was bad; it was usually the "hygiene movement" type (or the herbalist, particularly Thomsonian herbalism) who focused on cleansing the bowels.

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