u/FormerDeerlyBeloved

You two are perfect for one another in every way--you make each other happy, accept the other's flaws, help to fix what's broken inside and make you both better as people. If ever there was an argument for the one-soul-split theory, you two are it.

One night, as you're wrapped in each others' arms, you have a vision. You are going to sie--maybe in a year, maybe in a decade, but definitely before your time. You see heartache for your surviving partner, days, weeks, and maybe years of depression and grief, but ultimately they will heal and move on.

Here's the catch: you can only stop this future by breaking things off before the vision passes. You can't stop your death--that's coming regardless. But you can save your partner the grief of losing you, give them a chance to find new love and avoid even knowing of your passing. It'll hurt them at first when you break up, but slightly less than if you'd died after a happy relationship of love and laughter.

Do you leave your soulmate now, or when you leave this mortal plane?

When arguing about why he shouldn't go undercover, O'Doyle specifically says "I **never** lie." Not "I **can't** lie," just that he doesn't do it.

I assumed he COULDN'T lie because of the whole Fae blood thing, but after the whole "Because then my mother wins" in the next episode, I'm re-hearing some lines with added context.

That also adds something to the whole "The hologram lied, not me," from the pilot. O'Doyle isn't compelled to clarify, he does it because he wants it to be a HUNDRED percent clear he's being honest.

The purring in my lap fades to silence, and I start to slip away without a single regret.

I've been what I call "99% sugar free" for seven weeks now--it used to be 95%, because I allowed myself one canned coffee a day. Back when I first started, I mostly limited myself to water for drinking--no diet sodas, nothing flavoured, etc. I thought giving in and drinking a diet soda would gradually allow me to justify just ONE regular soda...then another...then up to three a day (I was a really big sweet tooth before)...

Now that I've discovered I really like Splenda coffees, I'm broadening my tastes. Dr. Pepper Zero, those little water flavour packets, I'm even eating candies with stevia instead of sugar. But I can't shake the feeling I'm...cheating somehow?

I've got a lot of support from my family and friends for going sugar-free, but it feels like I'm "not really sugar free" if I just find an alternative artificial sweetener. Nobody told me I was, and I know it's ridiculous--it says Sugar-Free right on the packaging!--but I can't help but feel like this. Does anyone else struggle with this?

I can't shake this feeling like I'm cheating somehow.

You know that old factoid about how severe cases of scurvy reopen your old wounds long after they've healed and scarred over?

Imagine the power to force the emotional equivalent of that on your enemies. Maybe you go small--make them mad about something they decided ultimately wasn't worth the stress, until they can't stop thinking about it.

Or go big--open every emotional wound they've ever had. Make them relive the grief of losing their mother, the sorrow from day they had to put down the family dog, the helplessness and anger from getting pushed down by a bigger kid on the playground. Make them relive the feelings from every breakup, every insult, every bad feeling they confronted and worked past. Make it as fresh and as painful as the day it happened.

Erase their entire character arc in an instant, or paralyze them with the collected anguish of their entire life. Because no hurt lasts forever...without a little nudge.

Most exotic pets are large--tigers, lions, alligators, all large enough to conceivably eat an adult human. Boa constrictors can kill babies or even smaller pets, and wolves are much bigger than people tend to think.

If science could shrink these majestic beasties down, would you want them in your house? Things to consider:

-- In this situation, exotic pets of this size are completely legal in all jurisdictions.

-- The animals are shrunk down to the size of their nearest currently-legal counterparts: a housecat-sized lion, a crocodile the size of a bearded dragon, an anaconda the size of a corn snake, etc.

-- The strength of the animal is similarly decreased to be proportional to their new size, but sharp and pointy appendages remain dangerous. Further, they don't need the same amount of food as their full-sized versions.

-- You can only get these animals from special cloning labs that create them to be small--no grabbing from the wild and shrinking them down to sell to people.

I said, "Maybe..."

For context, I am currently 5'1" and 198 lbs. Suppose I get my hands on some kind of growth ray that allows me to scale up proportionally to make my daily walking commute easier--bigger body, longer legs, shorter walk.

I don't want to be a nuisance though--at a certain size, I'd be big and heavy enough to crack pavement with the gentlest of steps, leaving destruction in my wake. How much bigger can I make myself without damaging the city when I walk to work?