For me, I thought Demanitus's words to Eugene about being the moon were part of his plot for Eugene.

I thought by telling him that, that he wanted Eugene to take the moonstone, since he was with Rapunzel and was her intended, and together they'd join them as the two halves of the magic space rock that wanted to be together. Maybe do it as a marriage ceremony or something.

Clearly past me was wrong, and we all know what happened instead.

Let me preface this by saying I have hypchondriasis, and constantly fear dying of various ailments.

But I'm also getting older (36 next month) and in the risk age unlike years ago. I live a sedentary lifestyle like severely, on the computer 24/7, or lately my phone with my legs curled up rarely ever straight.

But I'm not overweight, I'm 5ft1 and 85-90lbs.

The last week or two my leg behind my right knee and down the calf has a stiffness feeling to it. Like no pain or red or heat. Just stiff, and I wouldn’t say heavy, but slightly heavier than usual.

And of course I'm freaking out. My aunt is trying to tell me it's just getting older, and not moving much, made worse by not drinking enough water. But I'm not convinced.

I told her if I get cleared, I'd finally start using the treadmill daily. But I can't decided if I should go get it checked just to make sure. I've seen so many stories of gamers in their 30s that just died from DVTs out of nowhere but most were overweight...

Should I wait or get checked?

I saw this going around social media with real court documents about their plan to destructively scan every book in the world.

Like, I like Claude, it's the only one I willingly pay for.

But this feels like betrayal

Anthropic, why?

One Twitter account already got packed up. If Disney or their lawyers ever come to the subreddit, we need to be able to point to the source links and have the excuse 'well these pages were posting it.'

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Like seriously guys, if you don't like the leads, why are you even here?

"Oh but it's the same characters (flanderized) and starts after the movie to the wedding."

1. Directly contradicts the movie's literal intro.

>once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens. And from this small drop of sun, grew a magic, golden, flower.

A SINGLE DROP OF SUNLIGHT. Not half of a magic space rock power source. Not from far out in space. A drop of sunlight. From the sun. Now unless you're changing it to a sun from another galaxy or star system, your space rock doesn't work. Even if it is a different sun it still doesn't work because 'single drop,' of sunlight. Not half of something else.

Spacerock lore = contradicts movie lore.

2. The hair-braiding girls in the wedding short were the same age as in the movie not 3 years older. Only months or a year has passed.

3. The tears were supposed to be the last of the sundrops powers.

It is an AU.

Honorable mention: Eugene's whole thing was that Rapunzel was the first one to see him and accept him, having a best friend-to-brother makes no sense.

Feel free to add your own.

It also gave us all the execution and tower trauma we desired. Rapunzel isn't as put together as in the series, she's constantly comparing people mentally to Gothel in conversations and rushes into wanting to fix things for others as she feels lost without her hair at first, struggling to figure out what kind of princess she wants to be.

Her and Eugene actually get to TALK about the execution and how it affected them. >!Rapunzel even calls the crown 'an expensive hat stolen from the wrong family.' !<While Eugene deals with self worth thinking he'll be kicked out sooner or later, and treats himself as disposable by being reckless in helping, until he gets a talk by the minister diplomacy >!where he gets proposed position of Spymaster. !<

The parentage is SO MUCH BETTER THAN DEADBEAT EDMUND. >!Instead of a King who couldn't even provide money. Eugene's parents are Marietta Fitz and Andreas Herbert, printshop owners of "Herbert & Fitz" who wrote The Tales of Flynnigan Rider, and were friends with the Asteran Queen, and helped overthrow the tyrant king. Andreas died in the insurrection, Marietta died after giving birth, Solena the woman who got Marietta out of Astera stayed behind as an orphanage caretaker. She saw him born so there's no doubt or chance of retcon.!<

They help each other, talk, and support one another so much while also splitting up to investigate things in their own scenes.

>!And Rapunzel after getting a taste of magic again for a few minutes outright states she doesn't miss magic or her hair and decides to abolish executions.!<

ROOTBOUND IS WHAT THE SERIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!!

Source: My Australian friend mailed me the book so I could read it early since it came out there on June 1st.

Up to 1827, any criminal with literacy (which we know Eugene is as he said he read the Flynnigan Rider book) which was rare, could escape the death penalty by reading a biblical scripture and proving themselves literate and thus Clergy.

This scripture, Psalm 51:3, and written in latin, came to be known as the 'neck verse' due to saving criminals from the noose. It became so abused that many criminals who couldn't read but knew of the loophole would simply memorize it from literate criminals to escape their sentence.

If successful the sentence would be turned over from the high penal courts to the church courts who were more lenient and typically dropped death sentences but branded the criminal on the thumb to make the loophole a one time only deal.

So, Corona clearly has a religion. They marry in a church under a priest with a sun bible, there's iconography, and other hints.

But stealing the crown wasn't just a death sentence for theft or grand larceny, it was high treason (it was treason to steal from a monarch and high treason for it being a crown which represented the state) which wasn't just to be hanged but, hanged, drawn, and quartered

Going by the belief churches held back then of the monarchy 'the divine rights of kings' where they believed the royal line was ordained by god.

Do you think Eugene could have evoked the Benefit of the Clergy to escape the charge of high treason?

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They did absolutely nothing with making him a Dark Prince outside eugenics cleansing of his rogue blood to blue blood to make him acceptable to reform and assimilate into the Kingdom.

But if they had made him from a Saporian family from before the Kingdom's merge, or even a Separatists family that he got separated from (pun not intended), that Andrew recognized him and revealed later or some such trying to use him.

We could have had a better identity crisis and parallel to Rapunzel without recycling 'lost royal.' He and Rapunzel's marriage could have paralleled General Shampanier and Herz Der Sonne, in uniting the remaining outliers of Saporia and Corona.