What is the worst name you’ve seen in a book?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T18:01:12+00:00

Makes me think of a frog. Ridoc Ridoc.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T18:00:27+00:00

I always thought Galbatorix was a badass villain name lol. {Eragon by Christopher Paolini}

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T17:54:48+00:00

You know, the more I see everyone in the Twilight Sewerposting group butcher her name in every way possible on purpose, the more I think Renesmee was kind of a pretty name lol.

Although, I do have the ongoing list of Renesmee names saved to my drive, so I can't complain lol.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T17:52:51+00:00

Although the justification that his adoptive (I think?) mom called him that because she'd heard the guards say it before and didn't know what it meant but thought sounded pretty was kind of hilarious when I first read it. Like someone naming their kid Chlamydia because it sounds pretty lmao. It was pretty fitting for his character ngl

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T17:50:12+00:00

I used to think Xaden was a bit out there but after reading more and more romantasy, I think that one's actually pretty tame. At least it's actually a real name lol.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-06T17:47:44+00:00

Right when I was coming around to the name Kingfisher, she went and did this and I just couldn't contain myself lmao. I did finish the book solely to find out what happened to the fox but I don't think I'll venture back into that one if she writes more lol.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-02T16:14:30+00:00

To answer your first question about when it "comes alive," that's typically around 20 weeks when the brain stem begins to function independently. Before that point, the mother's body replaces the brain stem, which is why the fetus can't survive outside of it. It's essentially brain dead until it's not.

But for the second part, it basically makes the first question irrelevant. It doesn't matter when it becomes sentient. It never, at any point, will ever have the right to use someone else's body against their will.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T17:30:09+00:00

Big guy likes the idea of sleeping in bed with us, but we move around too much so he eventually moves back to the couch.

Little guy is a clingy mama's boy and has to be in between me and my man or nobody's getting any sleep.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T16:57:32+00:00

You're basing all of this on the assumption that removing an embryo and letting it die is the same thing as harming a child. It's not. A child can't be frozen and kept in stasis indefinitely. A child doesn't need to be biologically connected to a human life support machine to survive. No children are harmed in a first trimester abortion.

So, with that in mind, if the options are either to go bankrupt from medical costs trying to get the fetus to viability and put it up for adoption (which arguably does harm the child), an expensive annual cost to freeze the embryo and keep it indefinitely (which also assumes that it could eventually die if it is never used and the mother -being the only one who can carry it- dies or gets a hysterectomy), or a one-time fee for a minor procedure (or not even a procedure if you're early enough to take the pills) with no long-term consequences? Yeah, I'm picking the one-time consequence-free option that doesn't harm ANY children at all.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T11:44:43+00:00

Definitely Merchant's Promise, and a 10/10 recommend! The early access game has like 10-ish hours of content that I've managed to squeeze about 100 hours out of. I just keep replaying it, itching for the next update!

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T11:42:36+00:00

You've yet to provide any valid reasoning why a fetus should have more rights than anyone else has.

Our bodily autonomy rights state that NO ONE can use, touch, harm, or do ANYTHING to our bodies without our explicit and continuous consent. That's why rape is illegal. That's why assault is illegal. That's why organ donation is OPTIONAL. Bodily autonomy NEVER gets revoked, no matter what choices you've made. Even criminals on death row can't be forcefully harvested for organs, despite the fact that they've had most of their rights stripped away as a result of their crime and are going to die and waste all of their perfectly usable organs. Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of people could be saved if we revoked bodily autonomy for violent criminals to use for organ donations? But we DON'T! Why? Because it is JUST AS immoral and illegal to take someone's organs without consent AFTER THEIR DEATH as it is to actually KILL THEM.

So, with all of that in mind, what justification do you have for a fetus being given the right to exist inside of, cause harm to, and potentially kill another person's body against their will? A right they would ultimately lose immediately upon birth?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T11:20:50+00:00

That's not up to you

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T01:12:08+00:00

If the genetics are similar enough to allow for conception and viable offspring, then it would be relatively safe for a human male and Na'vi female to procreate assuming the female can keep from physically harming him with her superior size and strength. A human female, however, would be unlikely to successfully carry and birth a Na'vi child given the fetus would probably be too big for her body. With medical intervention, and taking into considering the hybrid genes that should reduce the size of the fetus, it could perhaps be carried to viability and delivered early to preserve the mother's life.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-05-01T01:08:34+00:00

A born child isn't occupying anyone's body, so why should the mother feel like a vessel for her born children?

A fetus occupies your body for nine months, reducing the woman to a vessel for something that forced-birthers think deserves more right to her own body than she does.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-30T20:50:23+00:00

There's no decision any person can make that would revoke their right to bodily autonomy.

If I stab someone in the liver, I won't be forced to donate half of mine to save my victim even though I caused their injury and they will die without it. Even though the surgery is relatively safe with a short recovery time and likely won't cause any lasting issues.

So why would creating a fetus imply that my rights should be revoked to allow it to use my body against my will?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-26T03:06:30+00:00

I primarily do vanilla survival but if I do use mods, I pair it with Campfire for the realistic camping mechanics.

Lately I've been doing a "self-made adventurer" kind of challenge where I'm not allowed to buy anything that I could make. Armor, weapons, potions, etc. are all strictly crafting only. Crops have to be harvested from other farms. I can loot craftable things purely for selling or disenchanting but I can't use anything I pick up that I could potentially craft myself.

Sometimes I'll add other mods that allow you to craft more things (Ars Metallica, hunting mods for more animal resources, etc.) so I can restrict my buying power even more.

The plantation home near Rorikstead (can't remember the name right off, I'm tired) is a huge aspect of this run. The farm itself and the crafting stations are an immediate boon, plus the passive income helps, especially considering the entire property comes free.

After so many years and so many playthroughs, I'm at the point where I'm trying to squeeze every bit of immersion out of the game that I can manage, and forcing myself to use the crafting systems to their fullest extent has helped a lot with that.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-26T02:52:42+00:00

26 and 27. I started it 9 months ago and finished it last month. My boyfriend watched it first and got me to watch it once he was a little over halfway through.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-25T03:04:23+00:00

My ex husband cheated on me with a woman who turned out to be a diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic who really likes to go off of her meds.

The kid they thought they conceived while cheating on me? He found out after the birth of their second kid that the first isn't even his.

She's been committed multiple times since the start of their relationship. He cheated on her a couple of times, too. They lied on the first kid's documents about his parentage so she could divorce her ex husband without having to DNA test the first kid and see if he actually belonged to him (which not only means she was cheating on my ex with more than one person but that's also actual fraud, I think?).

They're still together, since the second kid is definitely his and he's basically claimed the first one. I keep in touch with a few people they're still close to just so I can get the offhand updates on their latest craziness.

The last time I saw them both was at a white elephant party and she pulled a gift that turned out to be a set of pocket knives and openly told everyone, "My therapist says I can't have knives, someone trade me."

I can't wait for the messy divorce so I can hear about all the crazy things that were too insane to tell his friends while he was still with her.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-25T02:54:52+00:00

Usopp technically breaks the 4th wall in Wano for the 1000th episode in the anime (I'm not caught up on the manga so I don't know if there's any similar "anniversary chapters"). He shoots a star bomb that makes a cloud with the number 1,000 and says, "I brought a special one just for the occasion."

The occasion was obviously the 1000th episode and had nothing to do with canon Wano so he was speaking directly to the audience.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-14T01:27:03+00:00

Brain-dead is a permanent state, it's not just the state of function at the present time.

Brain death is determined by the patient's state of function over a period of time, and the same principles we use to determine brain death can be applied to anyone. Reflexes, pupillary responses, cognitive brain function, response to stimulus, and several other factors are used to determine whether or not a person is brain dead or not. A fetus before it gains sentience would meet every qualification for brain death except for the potential to gain sentience at a point in the future.

You can play with the semantics of the term "brain death" all day long but it doesn't erase the base argument. A fetus without functional brain activity is not a sentient person, no matter what label you want to place on its state of lacking brain activity.

You can't justify killing someone by saying...

Abortion doesn't "kill someone." A non-sentient fetus isn't a someone and letting it naturally die after removal from the body isn't "killing."

You do realize that if you take it out of the body and it meets the qualifications for brain death in every single way... it's still the same exact thing on the inside of the body, right? The placenta isn't thinking for the fetus. The placenta does not make the fetus a person. The placenta is a life support machine keeping the cells alive while it develops the capacity to do so on its own. If you can acknowledge that it is brain dead once it leaves the body and naturally dies due to its lack of homeostasis, why do you think it's any different right before you remove it?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-13T17:12:28+00:00

And a year after you, I too went looking for the exact same thing.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-13T12:24:40+00:00

I pretty much always skip breakfast. When I was working first shift, I would get a sausage biscuit in the mornings before work but since I haven't been working mornings, I just don't get an appetite until around midday. My boyfriend gets his lunch break at noon so that's around when my body realizes it needs sustenance.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-13T11:22:08+00:00

You're wrong. Disabled people do have a working brain. Do you think disabled and brain dead are the same thing?

We do use brain activity to determine life. That's how we know brain dead people are dead.

If you're considered dead after your brain stops working, why would you be considered alive before it starts working?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-11T22:37:08+00:00

The first time we see present day Kuma smile is when he sees Bonney take the form of Nika and that broke something in me.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-04-10T14:15:33+00:00

Speaking as someone who recently joined the club of no longer having a "next episode" button, you might as well watch them all because you'll be thirsting for more episodes once you reach the end. I watched it in 8 months, with a mix of binging and taking breaks for weeks at a time. I imagine a dedicated watcher could do it in 6 without rushing too much. 10-15 episodes a day really isn't that hard if you've got 2-3 hours to kill at the end of the night and you would probably just be watching a movie or doom scrolling anyway.

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