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[bradsbackpack]

The Solo Traveller Surcharge: Navigating the Extra Costs of Going Alone

Solo travel can be a liberating and transformative experience, offering unparalleled opportunities for self-discovery and adventure. However, there’s a side to solo travel that often goes unnoticed or unspoken: the solo traveller surcharge. Whether it’s higher accommodation costs, the challenges of dining alone, or the dreaded single supplement on tours, going solo can sometimes mean paying more.…

[lizzybeeee]

Am I the only one who thinks it's fucked up that the Mortalitasi are parading about King Markus's corpse...as opposed to letting the next in line rule??

He's alive in DAI - old, but very much flesh and blood - and we know this because the venatori use blood magic on him to get him under their control. So, what is he in DATV then? Are they implying that he's a lich? That he still has his mind? That they've got a spirit in there?

What do they gain from this? Cassandra's, what, 64th in line for the throne? So there's a bunch of potential heirs just hanging about -> potential heirs who want the crown because we know that Cassandra's parents were executed for trying to overthrow him.

Cassandra may not be fond of her family, but I can't imagine her letting this slide. This is the type of shit that gets an Exalted March called down on you! Especially if she's divine?! Nevarran's can be 'death-focused'* yes, but they let the living rule and not the dead.

It's their belief that when their soul passes through the Fade it results in a spirit being displaced - so they have the Mortalitasi find the spirit a new home in the Necropolis. That is their job - they maintain the Necropolis and, according to DATV, sometimes deal with awry magic.

The potential relation to a Divine or the Head of the Seekers, the King of Nevarra, is having his corpse puppeted about by a mage...and no one seems to care?!

Is this not super fucked up to anyone else?!!!

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Edit - I put this down in the tags but I think it's important to point out: In all the previous games up to this point not once has a mage, manipulating a corpse like this, ever been portrayed as quirky or funny. This is not the norm of what the Mortalitasi are supposed to do - they honour the dead they do not puppet them.

Thedas is a world very strongly intertwined with faith, especially the Chantry. It is Nevarra's attitudes towards death and their burial practices that distinguishes it from other Andrastian nations - they still have the Chantry, the Templars, and the Circle of Magi just as the rest of Southern Thedas has.

It's impossible to imagine any Divine (Leliana, Cassandra, or Vivienne) hearing of this occurring and not taking action against this. It's extremely strange that Emmrich bemoans that half the nobility know this has occurred when this action should be seen as nothing short of an abomination to the faithful - including Emmrich.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

i assume it's probably fine but i wanted to ask anyway- is it ok if i write something that includes beforan eridan being kankri's custodian?

ya go for it, i dont own homestuck, much less random hcs hahahahahahah. for the record, you dont have to use this, but in my head, beforus!eridan is a motivational speaker

[howgalling]

RATCHET!! old man in some joint aid oil <3 drinkable additive. i was going to put him a tungsten and carbide drink but i thought this suited him better hehe

[zouisalmightie]

i feel like all i ever do is complain about my job like there are some parts i really love about teaching but then some days i want to run and nosedive out the window

[angelmush]

your post (july 9th) abt being happy and content with your life made me so fucking happy wow

oh that's incredibly sweet!! i meant every word, i'm in a very happy place in my life at the moment. i still get horribly anxious about things sometimes but my baseline is consistently in the range of neutral to good, which is a foreign but welcome feeling :))

[sasssydaddy123]

It feels odd when I see women posting about "healing" their relationship with their body by going from being calorie-counting Tumblr thinspo, super skinny to calorie-counting, Instagram muscle mommy, bodybuilding. Like no girl you're just jumping from one extreme obsession with your physique to another, both manufactured and promoted by the health industry to squeeze as much money and energy out of you as possible, telling you that you need certain products and supplements to reach your goals and be happy while simultaneously telling you you will never be good enough, putting you through an endless cycle of making goals, reaching them, then realizing you're still not as fulfilled as you were promised to be. But whatever makes you happy I guess

[victoriannarwhal]

Oh, silly working class peasants, don't you know that you're supposed to be living frugally? Avocados, Starbucks, and breakfast are for the bourgeois. Now, go home to the closet you live in and go eat your gruel. Stop complaining, you lazy cow.

[the-monkey-ruler]

If wukong drank the pregnancy water do you think he’d want to get an abortion or keep it? He could transform so that the baby would be delivered safely. And he’d probably leave it to be looked after by the woman kingdom if he did.

Honesty I think Wukong in the book wouldn’t keep it as his first priority was to get to India first and he seemed pretty fine with helping Bajie and Sanzang with getting the abortion water. Monks leaving the family and all that.

But if he was to keep it then honestly I think he would take the baby with him on the road. Why keep it with some strangers when he is Sun Wukong? Great Sage Equal to Heaven?! He doesn’t know those women and I wouldn’t blame him if he didn’t trust them either. He would just have the baby strapped his back and still being killing a million demons on the road. If anything the parental instincts just kick in harder to make him fight more.

Is that the safest thing? No, absolutely not. But I can see him doing that. That or he just goes back to Flower Fruit Mountain and asks his monkey troop to keep his baby safe while he finished the journey. Can visit them legit with just a single leap and they are about 6 years into the journey, and would need about 8 more years to wrap up. Of course, this is just right before the Six Ears Macaque arc. Would be such drama if Six Ears got to the child while Wukong was away.

Could be an interesting premise def!

[soft-girl-musings]

i am going to throw my sister's phone in a blender bc wym you have two separate sets of headphones and you can't use either when you keep your twitch stream running out loud every waking fucking moment

[turbocao]

I've been taking some supplements to help with my exhaustion this past month and it's been like night and day. I never thought they'd make such a big difference. I'm trying to make them last for one more week, so I've skipped a couple of days in a row and suddenly I'm exhausted again. I've already set an appointment with my doctor. Why did I think I was being exaggerated or whiny or making things up...

[running-in-the-dark]

my niece stayed with us last night. it was pretty fun this time, probably because I was feeling better (if I'm already in pain or exhausted, I can't handle it). after we dropped her off, we talked to my mother for a little bit, and then drove to my in-laws. we were there for a few hours and because the guys were busy outside, i ended up talking to my mother-in-law for most of that time. it was... kind of good? I don't know. she actually showed some real emotions, just a little bit, but hey that's more than ever before! I even gave her a weird little shoulder squeeze/side hug, it was so weird.

anyway, I almost fell asleep in the car on the way home because I was so tired, and actually did fall asleep immediately on the couch.

[oysterie]

I would rather have acne for the rest of my life over cutting out dairy and sugar ftr

[smilesobrien]

oc-tober day 8: past. spoiler alert: the girlies are not coping...

[lacewise]

Many, many YouTubers are way too comfortable misinforming their audience because they want to take a “controversial” stance on an issue.

A protest that isn’t immediately focused on the issue protesters claim to be solving isn’t a protest at all—it’s bad performance art. You should not be platforming bad performance artists as if they’re serious people accomplishing a serious mission, especially uncritically.

Many people may be too young to remember this, but this is also how mass media radicalized people into ecoterrorists, and goodness knows how far back that set the public understanding and acceptance of climate change, because acknowledging it was happening at all instantly became a “radical” position instead of a fact. You can look for yourself and find people just… kind of hoping it would sort itself out.

Why aren’t these groups educating people so the public lobbies for change instead of pulling pointless stunts? (I’ll give you some hints, it’s because it’s much harder, takes much longer, and there’s a lot less glory in it—you don’t make nearly as many headlines. Not for decades. But if your goal is making headway instead of getting attention, it’s the way to go.)

I just watched a video that should be titled “Dunning-Kruger for Activism” and I’m… not okay after reading the comments. If the argument is “they’re not as bad as corporations”, the random people you meet on the street will never support them. Your “activism” has instantly failed. Your argument has lost and you have ceded ground. Ground you needed to get anywhere.

[theheartofmine]

i’m so glad i found a doctor who actually listens to me and has immediately helped me try and figure out what’s going on with me. i’m tired of feeling bad but i have avoided seeing doctors for years because i was so scared they wouldn’t listen to me or blame it on my anxiety or other mental health issues and it is just. so nice to be listened to.