Moving forward

...what doesn't bother me about her character would be an easier list.

Essentially, I despise Nero because she takes no accountability for her actions, and the narrative around her does backflips so she doesn't have to. Mostly by minimizing the things that the historic Nero did.

For instance

The historic Nero was married to Claudia Octavia. He hated her because she was, frankly, more popular than him. When his mistress got pregnant, he banished her. When the Romans complained, he murdered her. Then he went on to murder the pregnant mistress during an argument, and castrate and marry a random slave boy who looked like said mistress.

Fate brings up this incident in Extra's manga, only to be sure to make it clear that Octavia killed HERSELF. It was absolutely not Nero's fault, and Nero got to be tragic about it. And if there was something bad, it blamed Agrippina, Nero's mother, who historically might have been the only reason the early reign went well.

This continues and only gets more obnoxious in FGO. To the point that we have the particularly egregious scene in the summer race where Nero has the audacity to say this to Boudicca.

"Yeah, Boudicca, let's just have fun. Why are you taking this so darn seriously? It's not my fault that your daughters (plural) were raped on Rome's orders!"

This is honestly where my feelings for Nero turned to loathing.

Draco is just continuing the trend of finding ways to justify her, pretend that we should feel sorry for her, and cater to her pity party, but now we get to pretend she was justified in ordering the suicide of Seneca.

If FGO had the guts to actually make Nero take accountability without blaming someone else for her actions, I might enjoy her. But honestly, at this point, in the hole they've dug, there's nothing they could do to salvage her for me.

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There are honestly two core reasons for why I hate LB6, but I'll add another one.

Also this is long so I'm adding a cut to be nice to people who don't want to read this.

Maggie Menu

The diet you are feeding your dog places a huge burden entirely on the pancreas, forcing it to produce large amounts of amylase to deal with the starch, cellulose, and carbohydrates in plant matter. (yes, even with your supplements) The carnivore’s pancreas does not secrete cellulase to split the cellulose into glucose molecules, nor have dogs become efficient at digesting and assimilating and utilizing plant material as a source of high quality protein.

When this stuff sits in the pet’s intestine (yes even with your supplemented enzymes) it not only irritates the lining of the bowels but also provides the perfect warm, wet environment with plenty of undigested sugars and starches as food for bacteria.

1) “side reminder that some dogs can have vegan meat and be completely nourished and content, loving and excited over their meals.”

This is an assumption. The assumption that dogs are omnivores remains to be proven, whereas the truth about dogs being natural carnivores is very well-supported by the evidence available to us and is understood by many science welfare groups, universities, and doctors of veterinary science.

Dogs and wolves share 99.8% of their mitochondrial DNA, those who insist dogs did not descend from wolves must disprove the litany of scientific evidence that concludes wolves are the ancestors of dogs. And guess what? The wolf is a carnivore. Since a dog’s internal physiology does not differ from a wolf, dogs have the same physiological and nutritional needs as those carnivorous predators.

By stating otherwise you are ignoring and disregarding the work of contributing doctors, educators, and researchers who have compiled over 300 years of research and observations of the wild canine.

2) Do dogs and cats eat meat? Absolutely. With the right nourishments, can they live, thrive, and live a happy and healthy life without it?

No. But congratulations, you got one thing right, dogs and cats eat meat. Can they live a happy and healthy life without it? No they cannot. Cats and dogs health is largely dependent on the body’s ability to digest and make use of the food that is a part of their natural diet that is supplemented from meats. By creating a lack of naturally produced (meat, not supplements) protein in the body of the animal, you are putting your animals at risk for something called protein-losing enteropathy. Although this condition can affect any breed or age of dog, some dog breeds are more likely than others. That being said, feeding your dog and cat an all vegan or vegetarian diet and expecting them to thrive on it is a gamble at best.

There is an entire array of problems that can arise from a lack of natural protein. 

Occasional bouts of diarrhea

Chronic diarrhea

Weight loss

Lack of energy (lethargy)

Difficulty breathing (dyspnea)

Enlarged abdomen

Legs and feet may be puffy or swollen (edema)

Cancer in the intestines

Infection in the intestines

Bacteria such as salmonella(from rotting plant material)

Fungal infection

Intestinal parasites like hookworms and whipworms

Inflammation of the intestines (inflammatory bowel disease)

Food Allergies

Stomach or intestinal ulcers

Congestive heart failure

Problems with the movement of lymphatic fluid out of the intestines (lymphangiectasia)

3) “He/She seems healthy to me, and also seems interested in the food you’re about to feed them.”

Hey, wrong again. This dogs nose is dried out, it is almost a pale white pink, this is an indication of dehydration or something more serious. The eyes are not clear and bright as they should be, they are red and puffy around the edges, the lining of the eyelids should be pink rather than red. This dog also has a blank stare on its face, and the nose is not pointing at the food, this means the dog is uninterested and is a sign of lethargy. This dog is begging for this meal to be something nutritious. I work at a highly respected veterinary hospital and I see this more often than you would think, I know how to tell when a dog looks malnourished, and so would you if you worked and studied every day in the field of veterinary medicine.

Do. Not. Feed. Your. Canines and Felines. VEGETARIAN OR VEGAN. NO.

Humans can “handle” drinking only soda and never having regular water. But they won’t be healthy doing it. Same with dogs and cats and vegan/vegetarian foods. Actually, no, that’s still not an adequate comparison. Because vegetarian/vegan diets can and do kill cats and dogs, and leave them unhealthy and miserable while it’s happening.

This is animal abuse, because you are purposely denying your pet something they need to be properly healthy. I know that sounds harsh, but it is the actual truth.

I spent years trying to figure out what was wrong with one of my dogs. His fur was falling out, he was constantly itchy, he had goopy eyes. It turns out, in addition to being allergic to corn, the food we were feeding all of our dogs barely had any animal protein in it. We switched them to an all-meat based food, and BAM. His fur grew back, his coat was shiny, his eyes cleared up, and all the other dogs, who seemed fine before, suddenly had more energy, the old one that had arthritis suddenly didn’t have it anymore, one who had old hip damage could suddenly walk pain free (note the hip damage wasn’t from the food, but from him being a rescue who’d been hit by a car), they all got beefed up and super muscly, and they were all a million times happier than before. They were getting bare minimum before and were at basic standards of health; after the switch they had almost exclusively meat and were a billion times healthier and happier.

Weirdly, one of Fate's strengths as a series twofold.

The first is Nasu's ability to take critique. Like as much as I'll rail on the guy for some of his choices, he legit accepts when something doesn't work or was bad. Like when he did Extra Encore. It was pretty much universally panned, with Nasu eventually agreeing that it didn't work, and he wasn't experienced enough with TV writing to do a good job.

And because of this, he's able to use his multiverse concept to it's fullest as a way to rewrite or ignore things that he did early on that he knows either didn't work or won't work with the characters now.

For example, in HF, Sakura in the VN is pretty indifferent to the fact that she is killing innocent people. We're supposed to more or less accept that and decide that because she's suffered, it's ok. However, once the movie comes around, Nasu takes the chance, as a better writer and someone who probably heard and considered what was said about the original FSN, to change that. He makes it clear that Sakura is completely unaware of what she's doing, and when she realizes it, is horrified.

And he can do this BECAUSE he made it clear that there are multiple parallel worlds in Fate, and while most are nearly identical, there are small changes, which allowed for rewrites and revisions as Nasu grew from the college student he was into a more stable writer.

The same thing seems to be happening with Gil, if we ever got a Fate Route movie, I doubt we'd see the whole 'using kids as fuel' that the original had, because Gil's character has solidified from 'whatever Shirou needs to overcome', and Nasu is more familiar with it.

While normally, Nasu would be pretty well stuck with what he wrote in FSN, because of the fact that there ARE different universes, he can easily say 'oh this is what's happening in THIS universe,' and thus get rid of plot developments, concepts and such that honestly didn't work.

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So, I mentioned a few times a little about the fact that Morgan being Uther's daughter and how I hate it. Since I got a few people mentioning that they wanted to see my thoughts on it, I'll give a few at least.

So, before we begin, I'm going to give a quick refresher on Morgan's backstory, just so people don't have to read back over things I've written or other stuff.

Morgan is almost always (other than in Welsh sources were she doesn't get mentioned until Arthur is mentioned going to Morgan the Healer) the daughter of Igraine and Gorlois, who Malory calls Duke of Cornwall. She and her sister Morgause (and their sister Elaine who doesn't much show up in the stories) apparently had a good relationship with their father, since he's called a 'good man' pretty consistently. However, Gorlois appears to be a political rival of Uther Pendragon, for the more or less shaky throne.

The problem occurs when Uther invites Gorlois to a feast to work out an alliance, but on seeing his wife, Igraine, he immediately wants her. Igraine seems to notice his interest, and immediately runs to her husband, who immediately takes her at her word and leaves.

Uther declares war. And while he talks about betrayals and such, the real reason is he wants Igraine THAT bad.

However, since Gorlois is himself powerful, and Igraine is actually faithful to her husband, Uther employs Merlin to make him look like Gorlois. Some stories say that he kills Gorlois on the battlefield others say that it was in his own house. Regardless, he is taken for Gorlois and Igraine sleeps with him.

Uther later reveals himself as Uther, breaks the news that he killed Gorlois and that Igrain slept with HIM that night.

He pretty much forcibly marries Igraine, and sends Morgause to be married to his ally Lot and Morgan into a nunnery where she is later married herself (girls used to be educated in nunneries).

This is a motivation. Morgan has absolutely EVERY reason to hate Uther Pendragon, the man who killed her father, raped her mother and tore her happy family apart. She has every reason to struggle with her feelings for Arthur, moving between hating and aiding him, sewing the seeds of his destruction and then coming to save him. She has every reason to despise Guinevere who not only accused one of Morgan's lady's of adultery, but also throws the chance of the happy family Morgan can never reclaim in the dirt. She has every reason to hate Lancelot, who comes in to the same thing she saw Uther do.

What making Morgan as the daughter of Uther does is completely nullify her reasons and motives. It makes her a villain with a nearly incomprehensible motive. She wants to take over Britain but she couldn't do it anyways because she'd have to be a man and she wasn't going to hide that. She hates Artoria for particular reason other than 'she's in my way'. She just seems to be there because the story needed a villain. This utterly erases Morgan's pain and rage, and it seems like all it's there to do is exonerate Uther.

Uther's defining act, and the thing that Arthur is born from, is a horrific deed that should solidify him as a monster. He knew perfectly well Igraine wasn't interested, but he forced her to marry him anyways. By making it having never happened like that, it makes Uther a more heroic figure than anyone whose name is "the Terrible One" should ever be.

Make Do and Mend: Darning

OMG DIAGONAL!!!

To keep it S–T–R–E–T–C–H–Y–!

Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo. He found respect and kinship in Guda as a fellow survivor and sacrificial lamb

Musashi Miyamoto, a traveling swordsmaster without a home. Guda gave her companionship and trust that no other person ever has

Liz.