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Minor Yangchen books spoilers ahead.

Burdened by an extremely “active” avatar state, she was frequently haunted by the memories of past avatars, even avatars that lived thousands of years before her, from a very young age.

Because she experienced vividly every previous avatar’s life, she quickly realised that her predecessors mostly regretted not being decisive or not acting exactly in the moment they needed to act. (Hindsight is 20/20)

She was an absolutely brutal airbender, she frequently asphyxiated people, blew their eardrums, and even used infrasonic waves to torture people and interrogate them for information. She was hardly a pacifist.

She even turned the western air temple into a prison and airnomads into jailors. Eventually getting excommunicated and banished from the temple as a result.

With all of that said, she basically transformed the world, and her legacy is that of peace, development and progress. She is the GOAT.

Like i’m no foreigner to Brussels having a big poverty and wealth inequality problem .

But how come this city has simultaneously some of the highest mortgage burden in the whole country while also having the lowest median income in the country?

Even Ukkel’s median income is quite far below the country’s median income (wtf?)

How can people afford to live in this city? The numbers just don’t make much sense. It seems that people who live here are simultaneously poor and have insane housing costs.

Source: https://www.belgiumdata.com/en/belgium-home-affordability-explorer

I’m becoming belgian soon which means I will be able to vote on the next round elections.

For the commune level stuff last elections it was easy to find someone who closely aligns with what I personally believe, I just needed one person and some research a couple of weeks before elections day i was able to find someone very promising.

Regional / Federal / European level is a completely different ball game, career politicians and party circle jerking becomes much more common and it’s a mess to try to keep up with everything going on.

stemgedrag.be seems still at its infancy. Journalism is and always been clickbaity and I feel lost at how to tackle all of this.

So what are you guys doing to keep up with what’s actually going on and who to vote for?

I’m not going to share any details that are considered spoilers at large incase you haven’t read the Roku books yet.

Roku was a fire nation 1%er and while he is a master fire bender by the start of the first book, his combat skills are really lacking, if anything it’s non-existent.

He lived in an era of relative ease and prosperity up to this point and immediately left to the southern air temple when it was revealed he was the avatar.

He obviously barely received any offensive skills in the air temple and while he was a master air bender by the start of the second book, he basically was kind of useless fighting an enemy he doesn’t want to seriously injure or incapacitate at all.

No burning someone, no collapsing someone’s lungs, no Zahir style airbending.

This is a huge contrast to all the other avatars we see, yangchen mastered the elements AND the avatar state at what seem like a record time and her books starts of with her being a fully fledged avatar. So a huge departure from that.

(The yangchen books are arguably the best written avatar material out there. Don’t sleep on them)

And Kyoshi starts off as an earth bender and she’s also Kyoshi, enough said.

This is very specific so let’s just hope they don’t come across this post. But at the same time this is more or less just a retelling of events rather than an actual vent so here it goes.

Basically i’m going through a « when it rains it pours » situation, I have contracted chlamydia, Gonorrhoea and monkeypox a week after going through a horrible two weeks of food poisoning.

I feel like I really incurred the wrath of the gods or something, my mental health is not doing great either as I have to process going through all of this all while neglecting my career and hobbies.

When I told my NP this morning that i see blisters of the pox on my genitals and that i very likely have monkeypox, he seemed really frustrated and asked me to quarantine with my other partner who also has the pox.

I really don’t want to leave the comfort of my home while i’m sick to spend what is basically a month in quarantine with a partner who i feel my relationship with is not ready for this kind of stress.

Would i be the asshole if i stood my ground or argued otherwise? I feel like i would still ultimately respect my NP’s wishes and i honestly feel guilty and selfish for prioritising my comfort over his safety but at the same time i feel like i shouldn’t be expelled from my home because i’m sick and i feel icky about all of this.

Update: I’m on my way to my partner’s place, feeling absolutely devastated. But it’s a decision i will regret the least. Monkey pox is horrible for those who are unvaccinated, please take the vaccine.

I was wondering if there is a guide somewhere on how to declare taxes for transactions you did on Degiro.

Got a message on myminfin that the government suspects that i have bank accounts outside Belgium.

Just wondering whether this is because my partner uses Degiro and we’re fiscally linked or is it because of my Revolut account and i need to take some steps to declare it.

One of my partners (lets call him Mario), have made it clear today that « He doesn’t like being the side piece » in any particular social situation and that he doesn’t like spending time with my partner(s).

This is heartbreaking for me, it is one of my biggest joys in life when my partners interact with each other and seeing my partner interact with their partners as well.

The situation seems to be shifting from me being part of a polycule to me having a second seperate family basically.

I have my own version of « i can fix him » which is kind of like « with time he will feel secure enough because of the overwhelming amount of validation i provide ».

But honestly? It’s quite naive / delusional of me to think my relationship with someone will change them in exactly the direction I want.

And i’ve come to notice, that with my nesting partner, lets call him Jim, i kind of simply accepted him for who he at the end, and the things i wanted to « fix », i didn’t end up fixing at all.

So now i feel like i’m at a crossroads and a decision that will influence a lot how my life will look like is being made for me, and it’s too big of a deal for me to accept.

Anyone here been in a similar situation ?