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It's been over two years since her passing and in all the time I didn't dream of her until recently. This is going to be a long post.
TLDR; I've been wanting for my late wife to come to me in my dreams, and when she finally did, what she said to me was not something I was expecting.
I don't think I give this message any clarity unless I include information about myself.
Anyone hoping it was a profound in depth conversation, it wasn't. It is just a profound experience to me.
A couple paragraph background. I usually don't dream of real people in my life. Everyone I dream is usually fictionalized. I have my thoughts of why (as you'll read below). When I do occasionally dream of the people in my life I usually reflect on them when I do.
My late wife and I discussed often what we dreamed. She often said of mine "I wish I had dreams like yours". "You should write this down and turn it into a book". "I wish I could see these".
To give a background on how I dream. I dream in magic. I am capable of flight, telekinesis, polymorphism (usually into a wild wolf), and magic flying from my hands. In my dreams it is peopled with mythological creatures from faery tales. Tiny brownies rolling mushroom tops to their dens for soups, faerykind of all sorts, giants two thousand feet tall, castles guarded by giant foot long bees holding spears, gods of old headed of to war, laughing and jovial, discussing the feasts of wild boar they would have, the war stories they would tell during the feast, even though they all knew none of them were coming back alive. Dreams of warlocks of great power welding magics forgotten to time. In short if something fantasy has been written it was in my dreams somewhere. Don't take this paragraph as wrong. I still had modern concepts such as planes, trains, automobiles, and human peoples in these dreams as well. Think of it like this, I dreamt of a place like our own but it has all these other elements in them. Our world mixed with The Lord of the Rings, and the movies like Legend, Dark Crystal, and Labrynth rolled into one except nearly an apocalypse of it. Kind of like the Shannara series of books.
For me dealing with my childhood I turned to books, it was reading to cope. Like my dreams, books was going to a place mentally (awake and asleep), where none was going to hurt me. In my dreams my ego could manifest itself that it couldn't do in my waking childhood world. I was the creator and destroyer of worlds and here I ruled. This kind of dreaming carried on into my adulthood until I took control of my adult life.
My wife and I would discuss our dreams often (dreams were but one topic of our thousands of conversations). In my dreams I would probably display life's troubles like anyone else. Death of a loved one, conflict, desires, and all the usually mundane problems of life. It would be in the form I described above, with mythological creatures and ancient libraries, following along a storyline that would often continue like chapters over weeks and months.
In these discussions we would do what couples do. Try to interpret them. Was I having issues that I'm not addressing, conflict resolution, worrying, or maybe sometimes a dream is just a dream. In one of those dream chapters I was on the planet Pluto with a few familiars making bricks out of the regolith. The entire inner solar system had been obliterated. We all knew she was dying. She wasn't just our world. She was our universe.
I now dream in darkness in the new world I created. I admit, I've just been waiting to die.
The dream where she visited me: In my dream I'm sitting cross legged on the floor in pitch black darkness. The kind of pitch black like in a room with everything out and covered. You see the swirling black of the universe passing through your room and nothing else.
My elbows are on my knees holding up my upper body that is slumped down in a bad posture. My hands are on the floor in front of my shins and my head is hanging low above my legs.
I become aware of a light to my right side. I lift my head and turn to look. There she is. Oh wow! She is so beautiful! She is bathing in sunlight and is crystal clear. Everything around me is still pitch black.
She literally is sunlight. The only way I can describe it is imagine taking a picture of someone on a sunny beach. You edit the photo to crop the background making it all black and all you see is them lit up by the sun. Except this is very different. That cropped photo has shadows to the side the sun isn't on. A shadow of the nose on the face, or the arm on the body, or the brow over the eyes and even the clothing has shadows. . There were no shadows! She was literally exuding sunlight as if it was coming from her herself not allowing shadows to exist. The detail of her I could see down to every pore, every string of hair, every detail of her dress. When I look at her face it is like looking at the surface of the sun in those HD videos on YouTube showing a moving life of light. This isn't 4K screen I'm describing. The is 10 billion K! I was looking at her as the source of us all shown through her face. She was an being of light.
She was sitting cross legged next to me, facing towards me with her posture perfect, as she did in life. She had a smile on her face. She was wearing a full length shoulder to foot white gown that covered her arms and some of her long black hair was casually laying across her shoulders.
She was so beautiful. I can't write that enough! She looked 27, an age we always put on her birthday cake because "I can't always tell everyone I'm 21 forever". She was thin and slender, not the sick thin like she was at the end of her life. She was a healthy beautiful female in her prime with casual curves showing her feminine form.
I don't know how long I stared at her while she smiled at me. She spoke, "Can you show me your dreams?"
She let out a slight glow from her body. It partially lit up something behind her. It was still too dark to see in details but I could make it as the outline of what it was. It was shadow outline of a large oaken table. On the surface was the shadows of ancient pottery like you see that come from Egyptian sites and next to them were some toppled gourds, the kind used by people today, and our ancestors, to store water gathered from a source.
I turned back to her. She was still sitting and smiling at me. I stood up , "I am out of practice" I said in reply, while she was still smiling and looking up at me.
I was awakened and this came to an end.
Every time I think of this my eyes tear up. This hit hard.
A man sitting in the dark with an angel sitting right next to him. I was blinded in my grief and could not see her.
For those that are grieving. I hope you see your angel right next to you. Especially in times of despair when we have forgotten they are still with us. I definitely needed the reminder.

I've had invisalign for almost a year now, and I had metal braces for 2 years 13 years ago, so I think now I'm in a position to evaluate the pros and cons of both. Of course it is an assessement based on my own experience, but I think it may be useful for folks deciding which treatment to choose!
Pain/discomfort: Invislign clearly wins on this front. Braces in my experience were much more painful, after each monthly adjustment I had to eat soft food for 4-5 days. When I change my aligners (weekly), I feel pressure and some weeks even some pain but it won't last more than 24-48 hours and is not nearly as bad.
A key difference is that braces caused me a lot of canker sores, and the wires would rub my cheeks. With invisalign I had some issues when I first got buttons and hooks for the elastics but they were super mild and went away quickly. The proof is that the dental wax box that I bought is almost full.
Convenience: Braces are clearly easier to handle. You just have them on and that's it. True, after every meal you have to brush and/or at least rinse your mouth because food gets stuck. And there are certain things that you cannot eat with braces (in my case, I gave up eating burger buns, corn on the cob, popcorn, chewing gum and some sandwiches).
With invisalign you can eat anything, and that's great. But the fact that you need to take them out to eat/drink and brush or rinse before putting them back in is soo inconvenient. Moreover, I am constantly thinking about them and the wearing time. They are much more present in my life than braces were -in some periods you even forget they are there, which is impossible with invisalign.
Hygiene: Invisalign is much better: you can easily brush and floss your teeth, you can keep them clean while with braces it is more challenging. It is true that you need to be extra careful with the retainers, and is not always easy to keep them clean, and there is saliva all over the place when you take them out, but still they clearly beat braces on that front.
Aesthetics: Invisalign is marketed on aesthetics, but I wouldn't say the difference is so clear, at least as compared with clear braces (I had the metal ones and they were clearly much more visible than invisalign, but with clear braces I'm not so sure. You need to assume that you will have attachments in all or most of your teeth, including the front ones. This is what most people get, even if you don't see that on the flyers. And the aligners and attachments are not invisible. Also if you wear elastics -many of us do- depending on were they are placed, they will be visible. So perhaps invisalign is slightly less noticeable, but do not expect it to be invisible.
Cost: At least for me invisalign has been about 40% more expensive than metal braces, and about 30% more expensive than clear braces. So braces are superior on this front as well.
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Overall, I would say invisalign beats braces, and I would do it again if I had to start over -but not by a large margin and I can see why some people may want to consider braces instead.
Hope this helps!

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Good morning, happy Tuesday, and welcome to another “meeting” of our sub’s listening club. Each week, we'll listen to a piece recommended by the community, discuss it, learn about it, and hopefully introduce us to music we wouldn't hear otherwise :)
Last time, we listened to Herrmann’s Symphony no.1. Feel free to go back and listen, read up, and discuss the work in the comments!
Our next Piece of the Week is Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto no.2, op.14 (1972)
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some listening notes from A Bu [talk before concert]:

Nikolai Kapustin was born in Ukraine in 1937, and he’s a composer very well known for his music for piano, but he was also a composer for orchestral and chamber music. He has been regarded by some people as the “Russian” or so-called “Moscow Gershwin” because the both of them shared these similarities of synthesizing classical and jazz styles, but they lived in very different times and even circumstances. This piece we’re about to play is Kapustin’s second piano concerto, this was composed when he was about 35 years old. While the music itself doesn’t really need any explanation I would like to tell you a story that I find very intriguing and almost inspiring;
when Kapustin composed this concerto, he didn’t start it right away. The first thing he did was to go to this man named Boris Karamashiv. He was the conductor of the orchestra where Kapustin worked at. He had to go to Boris’ house literally to get blank music papers because he didn’t have any. And the fact is that in the 1970s in Russia, or in the Soviet [Union], it was not possible to buy music papers like you buy things in a grocery store now, you have to either be connected to music education or you have to be a member of the union of the composers, which he wasn’t. I mean, neither of them, so he had to rent papers from the conductor to write this piece, which means everything he wrote on this paper is precious, and he actually had to count how many bars, how many pages he had to write this for. So for me, I never knew that you could compose a piano concerto on borrowed paper, so I think even in Mozart’s time, it must have been something very different.

Ways to Listen

• Nikolai Kapustin with the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra: YouTube [includes arrangement score]
  
• Dmitry Masleev and Vladimir Lande with the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra: YouTube [includes full score], YouTube [concert], Spotify
  
• A Bu and the Mannes School of Music Orchestra: YouTube [concert]
  

Discussion Prompts

• What are your favorite parts or moments in this work? What do you like about it, or what stood out to you?
  
• As Bu said in his introduction, Kapustin had limited paper to write the concerto for and that determined the length and proportion of the work. Can you think of other examples in which material restrictions strongly influenced a work of art?
  
• Have you ever performed this before? If so, when and where? What instrument do you play? And what insights do you have from learning it?
  

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Hello everyone I'm a 20 year old Caucasian male. 5"9 155lbs. I don't smoke, i don't drink alcohol nor use any drugs.
So it's been almost 1.5 years that I've developed some strange symptoms, that have really deteriorated my life.
They basically started after i caught covid (i was vaccined prior with the j&j vaccine). Since then, i get heart pains all the time. They happen multiple times a day and usually last a few minutes before they go away. I've been to 2 different cardiologists who ran an EKG and echo and said that everything was fine. I also had a 48 hour Holter monitor that showed some pvc's (200/a day),but docs weren't concerned at all.
Also after covid my WBC are basically running around the 11-13k range (before that CBC's would come back fine). They were fine before i got infected, but it's been almost 1.5 year that they won't go down. My lymphocytes are also high (45-50) and neutrophils low 35-40). Everything else comes back completely fine. I went to a hematologist and he run some tests for malignancies(leukemia) but they came back negative.
One of the worst symptoms also is the spasms I've been getting all over my body. They can happen literally anywhere and they always last a few seconds before they go away. I've searched a lot about them and i guess it's most likely BFS (benign fasciculation syndrome). But it never stops. I think my nerve system has been permanently damaged.
Lastly i get random aches in my stomach and usually at the upper left abdominal region. I've had an abdominal echo and it was fine. But i get random shooting pains along with painful gasses. These are the symptoms I've been dealing with the past 1.5 year. They're all so random and I can't connect them somehow. High WBC usually mean infection, so I'm guessing that an autoimmune disease might have been triggered?
I've also found a lump in my arm. It's been there for 1.5 year as well, i showed it to my gp and he said that it's a lipoma, but it's still there. It hasn't grown but it hurts sometimes. Things like sarcoma drive my mind crazy. It feels like my body is constantly trying to kill me.
The whole thing is causing me so much anxiety and stress. I thought that things would get better with time, but no, nothing has changed and it's been so long. I'm only 20 years old and I'm afraid that I'm gonna drop dead by a heart attack or cancer. I used to be an athlete but i stopped after all these, because i became afraid. I honestly can't live like this anymore. I've visited more than 5 doctors and nobody has a clue. Any ideas?

So I have been having the issue of reoccurring UTI symptoms for at least over a year now. I have extremely painful burning/stinging during urination which lingers for hours afterwards so much so I’m crying and can’t sit still. I have to rush to go to the toilet, I am urinating frequently but little, I have been having an issue with little bits of urine coming out at random parts of that day - and it’s just become a year worth of nightmares. I give in urine samples to my local doctor extremely frequently, I have had frequent courses of antibiotics but nothing is doing the trick. I have tried D-mannose, cranberry tablets, cystitis sachets, AZO tablets, water & all sorts. It comes and goes, sometimes I’m in days of agony and other times I’m just feeling a little bit here and there. I also wanted to add that I’ve always found the start of sex really painful too, but wasn’t sure if this was anything to do with it.
On a side note, before urine infections were my main health issue, I used to have really bad stomach pains, which the doctors told me was mesenteric lymphadenitis. I just thought I’d say this as a year or so ago, my last bad occasion of stomach pain was at my boyfriends, I was trying to sit up after lying on the bed and could barely move, I had a really painful stabbing pain in my stomach. It was so bad it felt like a crushing/stabbing pain, I could barely lift my right leg up to get into the car. I thought I would mention this as I had a bladder ultrasound at the end of last year, which identified that the right side of my bodies a little problematic. Apparently I have a mild prominence of the right collecting system, which I’ve researched and believe means swelling or irritation of the tube between my right kidney & my bladder. I also have a 11mm cyst in my right ovary, which they believe is “likely physiological” and therefore doesn’t require an rescan. I also have a small amount of free fluid in the POD (pouch of douglas) which is a small area between the rectum and the uterus - which is again physiological.
I’m just getting to my wits end and really want to know why on earth I’m having these UTI symptoms of it isn’t because of a bacterial infection. I have been referred to urology and had a call today, they stated there were a few things that could be done. They said a MAG 3 scan could be done to check how my kidneys are functioning, they said I could have a low dose antibiotic for a while to completely rule out the bacteria side of things, and they suggested lifestyle changes and keeping up with D-mannose for the mean while to see how that goes.
I have also been referred to gynaecology to see if they can find anything else. I am posting this to see if there is anyone else out there who has had the same issue with reoccurring UTI pains but no sign of infection, as it’s very very hard to deal with when there’s no evident cause or cure. I may end up just getting diagnosed with interdigital cystitis/irritable bladder syndrome if the doctors come up with anything. Help.

Hi! So today I was handling reflex hammers and the sharp side of it (used for Babinski) accidentally punctured my skin. I don't think it was so deep since no blood came out, but if I look close I can see a red dot (dried blood?)
I've read enough about sepsis from wound infections that would scare me for a lifetime, including stories of people who shrugged off very minor scrapes and then ending up dying from sepsis.
Should I be concerned of getting sepsis from this? I am just super conscious because I don't know when the last time this reflex hammer was disinfected and I don't want to get a nasty bacterial or fungal blood infection from this

Alright, so I know this post is most likely gonna get ignored but I figured what have I got to lose? But if you want to save time, skip ahead to the sentence: “where am i going with this?”
So I look through the comments on 90’s trance classics that are uploaded and yeah, i have played some 90’s trance classics on my livestreams and radioshow.
And yes, I was a kid who grew up hearing trance as a kid, because my mom’s sister and her bestie Tim would be going clubbing back in the days, not to mention, one day i stumbled upon Electric Area which was Channel 6038 at the time and Judge Jules and Matt Darey played the sandler remix of Nocturnal Delight (or as Area titled it: Judge Jules-Nocturnal).
But something about childhood made me blind to how some trance tracks from the 90’s (not including euro or hard trance tracks) actually sounded.
Where am I going with this?
Well, to put it simply, 90’s trance doesn’t tickle my fancy as much as it used to when i was a child. Maybe it was also because during my childhood i was exposed to the clubland type trance because it popped up in my itunes feed back when I used my mom’s computer for tomfoolery (because who didn’t use their own computer or parents computer for tomfoolery?).
Maybe it was because cascada, vengaboys, bangbros, brooklyn bounce and the warp brothers were also blowing up the Itunes reccomended back in the day as well.
Maybe it was also because many trance producers have not reached the modern trance phase like Sean Tyas, John O Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Talla 2XLC, paul van Dyk and John Askew have.
Or maybe the majority 90’s elites of trance relied on SPEEDING up their tracks to a shuffling and jumping speed to get their crowds moving. Bingo.
Not gonna lie, as I said, I do enjoy playing some 90’s tracks, but I personally would play a rework unless the 90’s or early 2000’s trance track i intend to come across has like a wall of sound (heavy kicks, horrifying and melodic heavy bass , rides that compliment the heavy kick, and smacking claps) coming at me.
Now don’t get me wrong, I know most Djs in the 90’s didn’t immediately start out of the gate with big sounds unless their first track just happens to be a hard euro tech trance track and that trance is not really about jumping around like a kangaroo and flailing your fists around in a lasso circle but rather its supposed to possess you into a trance,
but I am the type of guy that prefers to get blasted by a mega wall of sound, which is what 90’s and early 2000’s euro trance, tech trance and hard trance do the best for me. It feels like it could shatter glass, could make my ears bleed and burn, or ram me in like a freight train or hammer banging in a nail, but that feeling makes a dj like dj launchpad, happy.
What do you think of my hot take?

Hello everyone I'm a 20 year old Caucasian male. 5"9 155lbs. I don't smoke, i don't drink alcohol nor use any drugs.
So it's been almost 1.5 years that I've developed some strange symptoms, that have really deteriorated my life.
They basically started after i caught covid (i was vaccined prior with the j&j vaccine). Since then, i get heart pains all the time. They happen multiple times a day and usually last a few minutes before they go away. I've been to 2 different cardiologists who ran an EKG and echo and said that everything was fine. I also had a 48 hour Holter monitor that showed some pvc's (200/a day),but docs weren't concerned at all.
Also after covid my WBC are basically running around the 11-13k range (before that CBC's would come back fine). They were fine before i got infected, but it's been almost 1.5 year that they won't go down. My lymphocytes are also high (45-50) and neutrophils low 35-40). Everything else comes back completely fine. I went to a hematologist and he run some tests for malignancies(leukemia) but they came back negative.
One of the worst symptoms also is the spasms I've been getting all over my body. They can happen literally anywhere and they always last a few seconds before they go away. I've searched a lot about them and i guess it's most likely BFS (benign fasciculation syndrome). But it never stops. I think my nerve system has been permanently damaged.
Lastly i get random aches in my stomach and usually at the upper left abdominal region. I've had an abdominal echo and it was fine. But i get random shooting pains along with painful gasses. These are the symptoms I've been dealing with the past 1.5 year. They're all so random and I can't connect them somehow. High WBC usually mean infection, so I'm guessing that an autoimmune disease might have been triggered?
I've also found a lump in my arm. It's been there for 1.5 year as well, i showed it to my gp and he said that it's a lipoma, but it's still there. It hasn't grown but it hurts sometimes. Things like sarcoma drive my mind crazy. It feels like my body is constantly trying to kill me.
The whole thing is causing me so much anxiety and stress. I thought that things would get better with time, but no, nothing has changed and it's been so long. I'm only 20 years old and I'm afraid that I'm gonna drop dead by a heart attack or cancer. I used to be an athlete but i stopped after all these, because i became afraid. I honestly can't live like this anymore. I've visited more than 5 doctors and nobody has a clue. Any ideas?

Hello!
I was taking the Toefl test (Home edition) and unfortunately, the staff terminated my exam and I couldn't finish it.
I don't know what to do from here. I need to grade as soon as possible, so I'm going to take a different exam (not Toefl), but the exam is ridiculously expensive where I live, so I'd like to start a process of a refund.
Basically what happened is that after the ETS software didn't work properly on the PC I was going to use, one with an external camera that can be positioned in a way they can see everything I'm doing, I was asked to use a different one. I had to fall back to a way less powerful laptop and remove monitors, keyboards, and other accessories just to have enough space for it on the desk. I did it regardless and mentioned a few times that I can connect an external camera so they can see me better, but they kept on ignoring it so I thought they don't need me to. In the middle of the test, they took control of my computer and stopped the test. I was told I'm looking down too often (that's just how I'm used to writing) and they can't see my face. Once again, I said I can connect another camera that would be better but they still insisted I don't need to. I tried my best in the next few sections to not look down and was aware of it 90% of the time. When I got to the writing section, I was looking down twice in a row (for less than a second), and someone once again stopped my test. I showed them my room, I showed them my whiteboard, showed them my work area and they saw multiple times that I had nothing near me. I told them multiple times that I can connect a better camera if there was a concern and they kept on telling me the built-in one is sufficient.
Anyone who's dealt with this kind of situation before and knows if it's even possible to expect a refund, or is it gone completely? Guess at least I know never to get near ETS ever again.

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Hi. I suppose there were many topics about this, but my question is I think a bit different (if not, sorry). How long were you ttc after stopping hormonal birth control and before seeing a doctor? After the 1year mark or before/after? When did you decide to go and what caused your decision if it wasnt after 1 year? Just time or regulating the cycle? So if anyone is interested in reading my story I am 7 cycle after stopping and we started trying immediately. And by trying until 2 months ago we weren't tracking anything. Now I am using opk but not temping because it looks too stressful to me. But I am thinking to either start temping this cycle or stop tracking at all. Last cycle I hade one (or maybe two) lh+ days (CD17) and got a period 16 days after the positive. And I was like ok that's good it looks it is regulating at least, because every other cycle I get is 33 days but the ones in between vary a lot. But then this month I had 4 days of lh+ from CD26 (one looked like + around cd17 but I wasn't so convinced so I kept testing). And now it's been 15 days from the last day of lh+ and no period in sight. Got very sore breasts yesterday evening which felt better in the morning and a pain in the shoulder this morning. Usually I get a migraine on the day or day before period but nothing yet. And ofc a stark white bfn yesterday afternoon. And the previous one that I wasn't doing opks was also very long (48 days) but I could swear that I noticed EWCM 14 days before period (I remember because it was NY eve). And with this one I noticed EWCM when I had lh surge after that it dried up. So if anyone has time to read through my post additionally to the first question would be should I go to a doctor right away? I am also living in a foreign country at the moment and I chose a gyno here when I came and asked her what should I do before ttc she just said come when you miss your period. And the one from my home country told me that I shouldn't stop BC before planning to try ttc because I was afraid of irregular periods as I had them before (tested for PCOS at 16 and they said everything was normal). So any ideas? Thanks! And sorry for the long post :)

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Like, I spent 15 dollars on new bases. Mostly for myself and to keep me from impulse adopting characters made on them, but like… I got one comment on a post I made of an adopt.
And it’s just me. Other adopt posts get plenty of interaction. Is it because I use bases, even though I use Pay to Use ones people don’t use often? My art sucks, and I’ll never post it until I’m happy with it, which may be never.
I dunno, I just feel hated.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth β. Local Date: July 23rd, 2136
Alex Baker
Two more names were given, two more bottles smashed, two very strenuous speeches were given, and the host nation’s naval power tripled.
In what was shaping up to be the most hectic week of my life, I had been pinballed around two dimensions, with everything from antiquated railroad lines to government spacecraft shuttling me from mammoth space stations to hastily built clean rooms. And now, as I found myself giving toasts at the official military function for the commissioning of Liberty and Independence, I idly wondered to myself how long I could survive under this workload.
Thankfully, this would be the last time that I had to attend a ceremony such as this, as these two corvettes had been the last of three to have been flown in and assembled before the portal had reached its maximum size. Now, with months to prepare and collaborate, rail and air infrastructure had been modernized, and the modular parts for corvettes, destroyers, and even frigates were streaming through in a display of effort similar in many respects to the logistical efforts seen in the Extrasolar Wars. Every soldier, machinist, and machine part was meticulously ordered, slotted, and shipped in a manner only made possible by thousands of years of advancement in AI algorithms, doctrinal shifts, and forced evolutions through a myriad of wars and conflicts.
Between the modernization of Earth Beta and the industrial and logistical might of the UN, it was forecast that the planet would have a sizeable fleet of corvettes, destroyers, and frigates within a matter of months.
Not the United States, but the planet.
While most of the UN’s dealings had been with this world’s US, the international community as a whole had not been ignored. On the initiative of Beta’s America, with counseling from the UN, an assembly of diplomats and dignitaries from almost every nation had assembled in the American capital of Williamsburg (Which I had also been forced to attend). With the signing of the accords of the same name, the archaic League of Nations - not having been superseded by the UN, with the Charter of the United Nations never having been written - was imbued with the powers of a global military apparatus.
With the stroke of a pen, the entire planet had been unified under a coalition not seen on this world since 1944. While they were still comparatively distant, owing to the primitive state of global transit, pledges were immediately made to train and equip the various militaries of the world - now operating under a joint command structure - as the Americans were already undergoing. Already, foreign research and attachés had arrived at Canaveral and Winola, with me having already seen the former studying the captured Federation craft.
The attachés, on the other hand, were seated just further down the table from me as the clings of glasses finally subsided, and I started treating myself to a well-deserved dinner.
Only to be immediately interrupted by a certain four-star general.
“Say, Lieutenant,” came the voice of General Jackson, seated next to me. “I was meaning to ask you something.”
Here we go again.
“Is it about the manufactories?” I asked grimly. As part of the budding effort to further mobilize and militarize this timeline’s Solar System, war planners had decided to utilize the abundant amount of metals found in the asteroid belt to assemble more ships in-system. Once the required parts had been shipped out to carefully selected asteroids - which we knew contained vital metals, since we had already mined them in our own timeline - automated drones would bore into the rocks, disassembling them into their component materials before dedicated cargo haulers brought back the liberated metals to Earth for assembly in Low Orbit.
From what I had heard, Jackson had objected to the plan, but the brass in the EAF and LREF had overridden him.
“I still don’t understand why we can’t just bring those asteroids back to Earth,” he hissed. “All the officers in that meeting just told me it was ‘inefficient.’ They didn’t even tell me why.” A large scowl danced over his face.
“They didn’t explain it to you?” I felt genuinely confused at the notion that General Jackson had been kept in the dark about such a thing. While the principles and limitations behind “towing” objects in FTL were practically common sense to us, there was no reason for those reasons to not have been explained to him.
Maybe they’re holding a grudge or something? But from what? Either way, this needs to be rectified.
“I don’t understand why they wouldn’t have told you why,” I started, “But I’ll take the liberty of giving you an exclamation right now.” I quickly moved mentally to dredge up the knowledge that had been with me since primary school.
“Do tell.”
“Alright. So you know how a warp drive operates, right?” I got a quick nod in response. “It manipulates spacetime in a way such that a ‘bubble’ of differing gravitational forces is created around the ship.” I grabbed an empty cup off of the table in front of me. “You of course have the areas of high and low gravity which allow the ship to move, but what’s important for this topic is the bubble itself.”
“A warp bubble is only large enough for the ship that it carries.” I started pouring water into the cup. “If you try to sneak in anything that won’t fit, well…” I continued pouring, only stopping once the water threatened to overtake the rim. “I think you can imagine what happens.”
Jackson gave me a curious stare. “If the warp bubble on the corvettes is too small, then why not just strap it to the asteroid itself? Cut out the middleman.”
I shook my head. “The amount of time and effort to strap a working warp drive to an asteroid simply isn’t worth it.” As my fingers spun around in gesticulation, I wove a suitable explanation for the General. “You’d first have to get a ship to carry the parts themselves all the way up there, of course. Not just the warp drive, but the power plants, cooling systems, and a myriad of other vital components; at that point, you’d practically be assembling an entire ship just to move it. The time spent doing that can be used more efficiently with the approach that the board put forward.”
General Jackson looked apprehensive for a moment before finally acquiescing. “I suppose that makes sense. I’m just wondering now why I wasn’t told about that sooner.”
The lapse in judgment from those so high up in our own military structure caused me to involuntarily tense up. “I don’t know why either, General.” I earnestly reassured him. “I’ll see to it that it gets fixed.”
“I certainly hope so, son. Now, then,” His eyes took on a predatory glint, as he immediately moved on to his next talking point. “About this ‘subspace drive’ we’re testing…”
I think my food is getting cold.
Geostationary orbit, onboard USS Independence, Earth β. Local Date: July 23rd, 2136
Marcel Fraser
“Stand by for drive test.” My voice, smooth as silk, flowed into the transmitter and was beamed towards Liberty, barely half a mile away.
“Affirmative.” While the technology I was operating had the benefit of being a millennium more advanced, the voice that came back through was still charred with static and interference.
I sat back as my subordinates continued to relay low-priority radio chatter, listening in to announcements coming in that the “subspace drive” was spooling up for a jump.
A drive, of course, that we had paid dearly for.
Constitution had limped back to Earth with a fractured, cracked hull and entire decks devoid of atmosphere; it was a miracle that she was even able to have been set down for repairs. A proper tally quickly revealed that in our engagement with the Faceless fleet, 55 of our crew, UN and American alike, had been injured, and 38 died - most of those dead being sucked into the void when their decks were breached.
The memorial service following our return was equal parts mournful and vengeful. The families of the fallen shed enough tears to dampen the ground, and no small amount of servicemen joined them. Others, like myself, simply sat stunned, still struggling to process the events of the previous day.
It was supposed to be a shakedown cruise. We weren’t meant to see combat. So then why…?
No matter who did or did not shed tears that day, everyone swore revenge for their fallen comrades. The Faceless, or rather, the “Federation” - the demons straight out of history textbooks - had reared their ugly heads once more, and eaten our friends whole. We would not rest until each and every one of them lay dead.
A great place to start would’ve been to wring my hands around Slanek.
The Faceless prisoner - a literal wolf in sheep’s clothing - was perhaps the greatest offender to our cause. A simple case of extrapolation and a look at the combat logs revealed its ship as the one to have nearly dealt the killing blow - and to still have murdered dozens of my crewmates in cold blood - all because of how we looked.
Not to mention, that’s a terrible name. Ought to shoot whoever thought of that, too.
However, in spite of my desires, we had been left with something decidedly less optimal. With Constitution out of commission for at least a month, the surviving crew - myself included - had been transferred to the just-finished USS Independence, a corvette of the same make and model; a true sister ship. Right as we were about to launch, though, we were held back several days as frantic modifications were undertaken.
In a move that I can only describe as tone-deaf, the very same FTL drive from the ship that had killed so many of us was unceremoniously hotwired into the corvette’s systems. With its power requirements and operational specifications uncovered by the UN, and a guide on how to operate the drive supplied by that thing, we were tasked with determining its speed relative to a conventional warp drive.
It’s guarded, too. Can’t even vandalize the stupid thing.
“FTL jump in T minus 30 seconds.”
An eerily similar dance from barely a week previous took place before my eyes. Again, we would be testing a novel and untried FTL drive. This time, however, it was well and truly alien; while the warp drive I had come to know hailed from a different reality entirely, it was still human. Rather than balk again at the source of the subspace drive, though, I decided to distract myself by gazing at the distant view of USS Liberty in my port window.
To determine the drive’s speed in comparison to a conventional warp drive, a simple test had been agreed upon. Independence and Liberty, the latter having been unmodified, would both warp to the same point in space near the orbital range of Pluto - a distance that would take a warp drive 18 seconds to cover. With that benchmark, it would be an extremely simple manner of dividing our own travel time over that of Liberty.
“T minus 5, 4, 3…”
Time seemed to loop as I once more found my knuckles turning white from gripping the communications equipment in front of me. Not from a latent fear of the jump itself, this time, but from what we might find at the end of it. My worries were mirrored up the entire chain of command, as well; it was why Liberty had been assigned to this test as well. While it only took our single corvette to measure and compare travel times, it was decided to include the sister ship in the event that a second Faceless flotilla was encountered.
“Zero.”
In stark contrast to the nothingness that had been the first FTL jump I experienced, I saw for a brief, brilliant moment a bright, blinding trail of white and blue light. Disappearing as fast as it had come, the view outside was then replaced by the familiar backdrop of outer space before I had had the time to process any change in scenery.
Regaining my bearings quickly enough, I prepared to receive a radio ping from the arriving Liberty. Close by, an Electronics Warfare team scoured for the telltale sign of an ion trail, a main indicator of a ship dropping out of warp. Together, we waited.
And waited.
Almost 18 seconds later, Liberty finally made its appearance, immediately establishing a datalink with our own ship. Corroborating the data between our two transit times, we quickly found the comparison between the two.
USS Liberty arrived in Pluto’s orbit in 18 seconds.
We had done so in little more than a third of a second.
50 times faster.
…
Credit where credit is due, Slanek was packing some serious heat.

Hello All. Got my first Haul on Friday the 24th. Shipped the 12th. About 6.4 kg. Never seen retail inhand for most of these so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Also apologies for formatting (I'm on mobile), pictures, and everything else that is trash. I'm very new to this
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https://www.imgur.com/a/7OjnCes OWF OW Airmax 90 ¥370 https://shop1677720904.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=5894625724&spider_token=bbda
Already worn these out and they look feel great. 9.5 and they fit just a bit snug but not enough to recommend sizing up.
https://www.imgur.com/a/v0eX5fR
VT Light Smoke Grey Dunks VT Light Smoke Grey Dunks ¥190
https://shop1372944448.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=4968759438&spider_token=4572&spm=1101.1101.N.N.5580f6d
Worn these out already too. 9 1/2 and they are perfect. Not sure but iI think these retail might not have released in men sizing or in US. Can anyone confirm?
https://www.imgur.com/a/u7kmMSH.
Black Phantom TS AJ1 PK ¥¥430
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Got these in size US 9 and the fit great. Color looks better in hand, looks too light in photos. Laces and bandana look great. Might get fk batch eventually to compare. Also paid for box but removed it even though US TaxFree is actual weight like a dumbass but oh well.
https://www.imgur.com/a/YtxKMvS Valentines AF1 ¥188
https://shop792680205.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=6074898219
These are for my girl. Fit a bit loose so iI would go half size down. Good for the price
https://www.imgur.com/a/G9cJVTq AJ4 Taupe Haze ZX ¥389
https://shop1622368742.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=5605781268&spider_token=4572
Bit of an L only because the cracking has some gold? coming thru. Got it in a 9 and fits great, looks great, but damn the gold silver shining thru the crack that scrapped off. Retails don't do this right? Only flaw that bothers me
https://www.imgur.com/a/AlE2Aay White Black University Red Dunks ¥160
https://shop1622368742.v.weidian.com/item.html?itemID=6108861609&wfr=BuyercopyURL&spider_token=f21b
These went on sale and they came out perfect. Got a 9 but should have gone 9 1/2 but still rockable. Overall worth the price
https://www.imgur.com/a/w9qukjf FoG Socks from Vsocks ¥12
https://weidian.com/item.html?itemID=4331543678&spider_token=2000
Been looking for socks but heard Vsocks got caught up a while ago and wasn in business. Was going to get a dozen but ran a test run for 2 pairs. Look and feel amazing. Will definitlydefinitely cop more
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Shipping was ¥888 and was much faster than expected. Sugargoo CS wasnt the best but iI feel they did me right. Will continue to use them. Please let me know if u got ques or want more pictures. Also apologies for cat hair.

Hello everyone I'm a 20 year old Caucasian male. 5"9 155lbs. I don't smoke, i don't drink alcohol nor use any drugs.
So it's been almost 1.5 years that I've developed some strange symptoms, that have really deteriorated my life.
They basically started after i caught covid (i was vaccined prior with the j&j vaccine). Since then, i get heart pains all the time. They happen multiple times a day and usually last a few minutes before they go away. I've been to 2 different cardiologists who ran an EKG and echo and said that everything was fine. I also had a 48 hour Holter monitor that showed some pvc's (200/a day),but docs weren't concerned at all.
Also after covid my WBC are basically running around the 11-13k range (before that CBC's would come back fine). They were fine before i got infected, but it's been almost 1.5 year that they won't go down. My lymphocytes are also high (45-50) and neutrophils low 35-40). Everything else comes back completely fine. I went to a hematologist and he run some tests for malignancies(leukemia) but they came back negative.
One of the worst symptoms also is the spasms I've been getting all over my body. They can happen literally anywhere and they always last a few seconds before they go away. I've searched a lot about them and i guess it's most likely BFS (benign fasciculation syndrome). But it never stops. I think my nerve system has been permanently damaged.
Lastly i get random aches in my stomach and usually at the upper left abdominal region. I've had an abdominal echo and it was fine. But i get random shooting pains along with painful gasses. These are the symptoms I've been dealing with the past 1.5 year. They're all so random and I can't connect them somehow. High WBC usually mean infection, so I'm guessing that an autoimmune disease might have been triggered?
I've also found a lump in my arm. It's been there for 1.5 year as well, i showed it to my gp and he said that it's a lipoma, but it's still there. It hasn't grown but it hurts sometimes. Things like sarcoma drive my mind crazy. It feels like my body is constantly trying to kill me.
The whole thing is causing me so much anxiety and stress. I thought that things would get better with time, but no, nothing has changed and it's been so long. I'm only 20 years old and I'm afraid that I'm gonna drop dead by a heart attack or cancer. I used to be an athlete but i stopped after all these, because i became afraid. I honestly can't live like this anymore. I've visited more than 5 doctors and nobody has a clue. Any ideas?