I take it you didn't see the Maleficent origin story movie that does in fact give her a tragic history and grievance
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I recently read a fantasy novel called Silver Under Nightfall that has to be one of the first proper poly novels I've ever seen
The main character has an obvious attraction to a woman, and a confused lust for her husband. Both the husband and wife are into the main character. It's not high literature but I had a blast reading it anyway
combining alcoholism and the stock exchange with a bar game
Oh for real VA-11 Hall-A is finally getting its sequel?
in real life
Biden is exceptionally ornery, and incapable of being reasoned with when in that state
It's funny to me (in a sad way) how this shit is the only way to see Biden becoming lucid and coherent
Man slurs and stumbles and mumbles his way around 90% of the time, but the moment anyone pushes back he goes into full attack dog mode before reverting to brain pudding ten minutes later
Cyprus is loaded with NATO spy bases and SIGINT shit, because of its location near to the Middle East
0% chance she actually did any of those to earn a living
I don't doubt she held those positions, the same way a bored retiree becomes a cashier - something to pass the time with that she could quit whenever she felt like without consequence
I haven't had a single job where I haven't had to undergo weeks of training and months of building muscle memory to become adept at, yet every fucking job posting seems to demand years if not decades of experience and dedicated expensive training programs/education/certification, even for the most basic shit
Like what the fuck for? Give me a week's crash course and let me loose, there's nothing about 80% of (non-specialist, I'm obviously not talking about doctors or engineers or whatnot) jobs that someone can't figure out on the fly
They're actually against code in a lot of places these days specifically because they're hard to grip and turn for anyone with reduced grip strength, and a pain to open with occupied hands
If a house has them they can stay, but for renovations or new builds a lot of people are going with regular paddle style door handles
Monitoring, however, was not easy. For one thing, we had a hard time finding out what was really going on in China because doctors and scientists there appeared to be afraid to speak openly, for fear of retribution by the Chinese government.
Meanwhile you just know that if China had given detailed reports with precision breakdowns of every case in every province with tracking numbers and as much data as humanly possible, this ghoul would go full 
and accuse them of obfuscating data
Oh wait
This basically fucking happened
I remember a solid week of absolute pearl clutching and fainting that China was about to deorbit and drop a used booster rocket onto some random (white) city in the world... A year ago? Two now?
China had obviously calculated the trajectory for it to land in the ocean like every other space agency in the world, but the news was going feral about how China was going to just drop it on people and kill thousands out of carelessness
And then the booster splashed down into the water as China said it would. You had a few libs sniffle and go "w-well it could've missed a-a-and landed on Australia!" and then that was it. No reckoning with the story, just buried it
And much like with the excessive camber that a lot of people think is cool on cars (where the wheels flare out sideways), pre-loading a desert truck is usually pretty subtle, only a few inches up and down. Noticeable but functional
Lots of street trends like the Carolina Squat and Stancing take these concepts and jack them up past 11 into pure ridiculous territory
The related trope of the hero not killing the villain after the villain has spent a whole story possibly killing, and the hero themselves just probably killed a ton of nameless goons to get to the villain, drives me up a wall