u/Nicole_0818

Like, in the recent episodes when they discuss the ruach of God, I'd love to be able to put that in and find other places where it's at in the bible and see not only it's definition but how its often translated. Something easy to use, and easy to understand for someone who doesn't know the languages. Sorry if I spelled that Hebrew word wrong, that's just how the Spotify app said it was spelled, it had closed captioning displayed the whole time they talked all through the episode.

I just don't have the money for some expensive program right now. I also need online content or ebooks/audiobooks because I'm vision impaired.

I’ve only just watched through episode four, I’m watching a little every night after work.

I really like some of the voice acting for the characters too. Like Ash and Dino and Shorter. I know everyone hates Eiji’s voice, and to me he does sound inexperienced, but the actor’s voice itself does fit him perfectly in my opinion.

Watching the sub always took me out of it cause it’s mostly American people in America speaking Japanese.

The only names I know of are the ones I grew up on like Beth Moore and Max Lucado. Who do you like to read? I want to get audiobooks either on audible or spotify from such authors.

I believe on websites it would be sorted under "christian living" content. Not bible studies, really, but books you could easily convert to a sermon series. Whatever those are called. I haven't touched one in years, but we had a lot of them around the house growing up before my mom got super careful about who she read from. And not in a good way.

I hope this makes sense. I’m wanting to try some books I missed out on as a kid and teen. I want a nice, comforting book without actually rereading something I’ve read so many times that I’ve memorized it. I welcome childhood books and YA books and classics.

Here are some of my favorite books that fit the bill:

- Harry Potter (the whole series, but especially books 1-3)

- White Fang

- Call of the Wild

- Torn Away by James Heneghan

- Jane Eyre

- Anne of Green Gables

- A Little Princess

- The Outsiders

I think Ella Enchanted and Redwall sound interesting so they’re on the list already. I remember seeing a trailer for the movie for the Ella enchanted book and thinking it looked fun, and I had a friend who loved the Redwall books.

I like the fantasy and historical fiction and fiction genres. Books I’ve read lately and loved include The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, the Thursday murder club by Richard Osman, and I’m halfway through Remarkably bright creatures and I love it! I have A Gentleman in Moscow on my TBR.

Preferably something I can borrow on Libby, or listen to the audiobook on Spotify or Audible, or buy the ebook on kindle. I’m vision impaired so reading a real physical book is difficult and strains my eyes.

Edit: WOW thanks so much everyone for all your suggestions! I have so many books to check out now.

Deaton and Derek did not seem to know each other, which I found odd once it was revealed Deaton was the Hale pack emissary. The McCall pack seems to rely heavily on Deaton for medical care and advice. But I didn’t get this impression about the Hale pack. I assume the Hale pack just took care of themselves medically. Assumed maybe Derek’s mom only went to Deaton for advice.

Are these assumptions accurate?

How do you think most packs treated their emissary?

Do you think all of the emissaries come from a similar background, like in terms of what they know and can do and offer?

Deaton and Derek did not seem to know each other, which I found odd once it was revealed Deaton was the Hale pack emissary. The McCall pack seems to rely heavily on Deaton for medical care and advice. But I didn’t get this impression about the Hale pack. I assume the Hale pack just took care of themselves medically. Assumed maybe Derek’s mom only went to Deaton for advice.

Are these assumptions accurate?

How do you think most packs treated their emissary?

Do you think all of the emissaries come from a similar background, like in terms of what they know and can do and offer?

All the fruits I like are on the banned list. I know to Whois high fructose corn syrup. Honey and molasses too, apparently? Which are all in a lot of things. Like I’m not even sure what cereals I can eat! The only not plain one I found is cocoa krispies…

This does explain why so many random things seemed to trigger me that were dairy free. I always had orange juice with breakfast. All the fruits I like are high fructose. High fructose corn syrup, molasses, and honey are in basically everything it feels like.

Is there anything else I need to know? I wasn’t expecting this at all. But it does all add up when I think about it.

Idk where I got this information but for some reason I had it in my head that the series begins around January February 2011 and ends early in the new school year in 2013 around August or September. But I was just rewatching S3 episode "Anchors" and noticed that the Sherriff's board has calendars on it for the months of Feb. 2012 and April 2013 and Nov. 2013! It's when he was going thru old cases and seeing which ones he thought may connect to the supernatural. Through which they found out about the Malia Tate case.

I had a whole basic timeline and I'm realizing I may need to redo it now.

This is the timeline I had made, roughly:

S1: Spring 2011 (Scott's Sophomore Year)

S2: Spring 2011, still

S3: Fall 2011, Scott begins Junior year after a time skip for the summer; 3B begins sometime in October;

S4: Spring 2012

S5: Fall 2012, through sometime in October ish

S6A: Spring 2013, picks up after a small time skip for the holiday break

S6B: August 2013; Beginning of Liam's new school year and Scott/co are about to head off to college. So late August 2013. It's teen wolf, the college kids wouldn't miss the start of their classes, so 6B cannot last more than 1-2 weeks time; they were about to leave to move into their dorms when the season started

Idk how much stock I am suppose to put in the Sherriff's planning board thing which clearly states it is at least November or December of 2013. I also have no idea where I got the years from. It could be a simple one-liner I based the years around, tbh.

Is it 2011-2013 or is it supposed to occur later? Or do you think the writers had no idea themselves?

Liam seemed so scared to disappoint them back in season 4 and then nothing ever happened. I always expected them to find out eventually. Do you think they would become pack allies like Melissa and Chris and help? Or do you think they would take it badly and be overprotective like Lydia’s mom, Natalie Martin?

I headcanon that Liam’s parents found out he’s a werewolf during or after the hospital battle in the final episode. They probably had a long overdue talk afterwards. 

I also don’t believe Liam’s mom is nurse like most of the fanfics write. She would have shown up if she worked with Melissa and Dr.Geyer. I’m not sure where she works but wherever it is, it’s not somewhere that Liam can easily just hang out and wait for her at her job. 

If I were the one to rewrite Malia’s character, honestly, I would have her in special ed cause there’s no way she can just join Stiles in class. She needs lots of therapy first. But her dad is a single dad so he can’t just homeschool her, so special ed or an IEP or something just not mainstreamed. It’s debatable if she would realistically be able to walk, talk, write, read, eat normally at the dinner table, after living for 8 years straight as a coyote.

Now about Theo. I figure he’s got a lot of medical trauma. I interpreted his wanting to take everyone’s powers as his way of trying to survive the doctors inevitably succeeding in reviving the beast. He was expendable at that point. He always was, really, imo they don’t need him to keep people out of their business if they can just make people forget they were ever there. But he was more of a trophy to them I think cause he was the first chimera. 

If Corey remembered anything from Dr.Valack’s book then he probably has medical trauma too. 

Want Stiles’ original body destroyed? It’s been a while since I watched season three but isn’t his body afterwards made by the nogitsune? Wonder how he feels about that. Assuming I remember properly. 

Isaac probably flinches easily at stuff that reminds him of his dad. I flinch when I hear loud noises. My mom also liked to throw stuff when mad so I could just be projecting. 

If anyone instigates pack bonding time and labels it pack meetings (like the fanfics) then it would be the puppy pack. Scott is shout to leave for college and most of the remaining pack members are already friends.

I just don’t understand. She was upset with Liam in that one scene for nearly killing Scott, but she says nothing to Theo who actually did it at the hospital battle. And she either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about Chris’s history threatening to hurt or trying to kill her son??

Like she doesn’t seem like the kind of mom to just let that slide cause she likes him. With Chris specifically.

I don’t mean like wanting revenge, I mean like morally emotionally etc how is she okay dating a man that hunted her son.

I just don’t understand. She was upset with Liam in that one scene for nearly killing Scott, but she says nothing to Theo who actually did it at the hospital battle. And she either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about Chris’s history threatening to hurt or trying to kill her son??

Like she doesn’t seem like the kind of mom to just let that slide cause she likes him. With Chris specifically.
Asking because so many people just keep writing them together. I’m not sure what to do for my own fanfic.

I don’t mean like wanting revenge, I mean like morally emotionally etc how is she okay dating a man that hunted her son.

I already checked crunchyroll and Spy Family and Solo Leveling are both audio described in english. I will keep my crunchyroll subscription just for them honestly. I'm so happy. But does anyone know of any other anime on crunchyroll that has english dub and audio descriptions? You won't believe how happy I am even to have two options. I thought if/when I go blind someday, I would have to give up anime entirely. I grew up on the 90s and early 2000s shonen anime, so if anyone knows of where I could get those with audio descriptions, I'd love it.

I have the bundle with Disney, Hulu, and HBO as well as Netflx and Crunchyroll. What do I do if the official streaming platform doesn't have audio descriptions for my favorite shows?

I mean one that handles her character more realistically. No kid who's been trapped as a coyote for 8 years can just go back to normal life - and be all caught up in school - after mere months in a psych ward.

I want to see a fic that deals with the fact Malia doesn't remember the gunman at first and fully blames herself for her family's deaths. I want to read about Malia adjusting to being human again - one who hasn't worn clothes, used a fork and plate, or even spoken a single word in 8 years.

Does she feel safe sleeping in a bed, or does she prefer to sleep under it like a den? She'll be hyper independent and asking permission to go places is probably a foreign concept at this point idk.

What does she tell her dad? How does she feel about the fact that her dad unknowingly tried to kill her? Does her dad still talk about the coyote that got away? How much does he even know?

All this doesn't even touch her mental state. She probably resigned herself to living like that for the rest of her life as penance for what she did to her mom and little sister.

If anyone has any fanfics to suggest please let me know in the comments. I think there was so much potential with her character, and the writers just fumbled it.

For me, I started with Cyndaquil and just having reached Goldenrod I have on my team Quilava, Ghastly, Flaffy, Slowpoke, Larvitar, and Teddiursa. I'm about to get a Scyther up at the bug park. I have Togepi in the box knowing the move Flash and someday I'll teach him Fly.

I'm excited to use all the pokemon I didn't have access to playing it as a kid! Ampharos, Scizor, Larvitar (as an early game catch), and Slowking. I remember seeing the Pokemon Movie 2000 and wanting one on my team and being disappointed that it required trade. So its going on this team whether its great or it underperforms.

I don't know if I'll keep Teddiursa or Togepi yet. So far I love this game, its everything I wanted Crystal to be looking back.

I have adhd so I tried to bullet it and make it easy to skim. I haven’t read Drarry in years and tbh back then I preferred Dramoine, pairing I now don’t like. Because I’ve never really done more than duo my toes in…just assume I haven’t read it even if everyone else has. I read a handful of Drarry 8th year fics and that’s it.

Here are my preferences:

- they’re still in school (or in 8th year, I love 8th year fics)

- no minors still in school dating adults that are inappropriately too old for them. So like Fred and Hermione would be fine, but not Bill or Charlie and Hermione.

Tropes I’m not fond of but still will read:

- Severus Snape is Draco’s godfather

- Pure blood culture that involves betrothals and they’re all rich and well mannered and basically what you find in an Indy Harry fic. I just would prefer to read a different take on pure blood society.

Tropes I will not read, with rare exceptions:

- wrong boy who lived fanfics

- character bashing fics (this includes the Weasleys giving Harry love potions and Dumbledore stealing from Harry’s vault)

- Indy Harry fics. I read too many way back in the day and I just can’t anymore.

I feel like I shouldn't, but idk if that's religion speaking or my love of books speaking? But I like putting sticky tabs in it so my favorite verses or passages are easy to find; I've tested it and so far they haven't removed text along with them. I like to highlight the odd verse here or there that really speaks to me and is useful, but I have to restrain myself or else I'd be highlighting a lot. I think that would look bad. I need to find a happy medium.

What do you all do? If you mark in, highlight in, or do anything like that in your bibles, what do you do? Any ideas or tools you can recommend?

I feel like I shouldn't, but idk if that's religion speaking or my love of books speaking? But I like putting sticky tabs in it so my favorite verses or passages are easy to find; I've tested it and so far they haven't removed text along with them. I like to highlight the odd verse here or there that really speaks to me and is useful, but I have to restrain myself or else I'd be highlighting a lot. I think that would look bad. I need to find a happy medium.

What do you all do? If you mark in, highlight in, or do anything like that in your bibles, what do you do? Any ideas or tools you can recommend?

I don’t mean to offend anyone or hurt anyone or bring up bad memories. I’m just interested in talking to others who have done this, if that’s okay? Is this the right place?

I basically grew up going to that sort of church. Church attendance was hit or miss as a kid but became regular when my mom converted when I was in like 4th or 5th grade. Those lessons really messed me up, and home life wasn’t ideal either to say the least.

I want to ask…for those who are still Christian’s, how do you navigate being a Christian and reading your Bible and even your own opinions on this or that when you have been told that x is the only correct answer for a given topic?

I’m at a point where I believe the bible is written by humans about each author’s journey to understand and know God. Especially the New Testament. The Old Testament was written by and for the Jewish people, so I think it should first be understood through that lens. As their history and culture and journey and faith. I don’t believe the bible is the inerrant, literal, perfect word of God. I don’t believe in the creation story or much of the beginnings of Genesis period.

Most controversially, I believe that everyone will be saved. Christian Universalism. I don’t believe that a mere human like me would be more loving than God. I wouldn’t want someone tortured forever so why would God? Doesn’t make sense to me and it also causes me lots of mental suffering believing that. Like no wonder I was such a depressed kid who hated herself. Even at church I was being told I wasn’t good enough, and worse.

Please, if this is the wrong place let me know. I don’t mean to hurt anyone. I’m just having trouble reading my Bible and trying to relearn how God actually sees me if the church I grew up in was wrong about a lot of things. Which they were. There’s dramatic if brief stories I could tell but this isn’t the place/time.