The SA was so uncalled for. I read the entire thing but everything after that seemed bad, it really gave me the ick
Guys the pardon scene got me curious on how all of this worked and it's actually very interesting how immense legal power vestal virgins held. In this case, If a Vestal Virgin accidentally crossed paths with a condemned prisoner being led to execution, she could grant them an official pardon.
Vestal virgins were also allowed own personal property and write their own wills, were granted vip seating at events, and many more powers that put them beyond 'ordinary citizens', (males)
Also, I came to find the following:
Emperor Domitian executed four Vestal Virgins starting in 87 CE. (...) Since the emperor was always Pontifex Maximus, Domitian ran the trials and had no trouble securing convictions.
The first three convicted Vestals were actually not buried alive. Domitian allowed them to choose their method of execution. Only for the last, the Chief Vestal Cornelia in 91, did he insist on the ancient punishment. (...)
Cornelia used the big public spectacle of her immurement as a platform. She announced to the crowd before the descended the steps: “Caesar thinks me unchaste, me who performed the sacraments under which he won, he triumphed?” Because, of course, a successful Domitian meant the favor of Vesta; if the empire was doing well, then surely that meant Cornelia was actually innocent.
On her way down, Cornelia stumbled, and the soldier accompanying her put out a hand automatically to help her. But Cornelia kept her balance without him and shied away from his touch — a sign to those watching (according to Pliny the Younger who recorded the incident) that this Vestal was so chaste she would not even accept the sacrilege of a man’s touch on the way to her execution
like, a moving company already operates on thin margins: trucks, fuel, equipment, insurance, storage costs, licensing, and labor all add up quickly.
If they're charging less than others while also spending additional time providing extra services, they're reducing the number of jobs they can complete each day and bringing in less revenue per hour. Unless the sexual services somehow generate enough extra income to offset all those costs (which seems unlikely) they're heading toward a cash-flow crisis.
I cannot unsee this model of business at serious risk of bankruptcy. I'm also not covering the gym, protein bills, etc
I love how that is what's bothering you lmao
I like the way u think
This just sounds like one of the exams I’ve just taken lol
LMAO!!!! Look. If prostitutes looked like THAT? I'd be bankrupt and their cash-flow would be just fine
Maybe they are rich
Yup there are all sexy rich male heirs. For some reason this turns me on even more, lol. One less thing to worry about. They don't need a business model, they just need to spend all their money. Please service me and then give me a share of your welth. Lol. Nothing is sexier than financial security, than sexy rich men with no hidden agenda (apart from sexual satisfaction). I'm sure lots of men would go an work for free in that company anyway, no hiring costs, you just need A.I. to manage schedule employee rotation. Work out is provinded within the company's activity (moving furniture), and food probaby will be provided by the party host. Only problem, fuel costs, so many out of office appointments, lol :-))
-He already has the tatas;
-He wants to get pregnant;
-secures him and Shuraka the Daddy/Dilf title;
-We wanna see babies;
...
The plot is basically Jess being conditioned to accept his advances (rape ), despite him being A FREAKING VAMPIRE WITH WINGS AND SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH. Not blaming the victim, but he could easily overpower him, right, RIGHT???
I guess you didn't read and only looking at the arts? It is stated that Jess was weaker than Yohan when he didn't drink fresh blood, and he wanted to suck up to Yohan to use him so he let Yohan did anything to him. As for the train scene, Jess was trapped inside the train because it was day time and he can't let Yohan blabber, and he is too weak at heart to properly attack Yohan so he wait until the night and look where that get him. After that it was just a scene because his strength is not yet coming back and he still weaker than Yohan both psychically and mentality. But by the time his strength come back, he was already fallen for Yohan sweet talking about love, being abandoned, and won't leave each other etc.
i'm not gonna read this mate
media literacy is dead because why are you complaining about plot you didn’t read. embarrassing.
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no seriously...why are people in the comments complaining so much without even reading it??
'cuz they're pathetic bitc
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They be saying anything they want nowadays a dumb move i say
next tournament I'm gonna sign up and offer myself as a candle holder in their bedroom
Ahahaha I'll be the very bedspread
Hahaha, we will go en masse and offer ourselves as decoration.
Help me sign up too, I want to be their chair
when kirino is saying that he stopped wearing lipstick and also the panel of his empty gaze at the end broke me sm I'm sobbing
Can someone explain to me why things got to this point (I'm from a small town in italy so I'm not that versed in american history at all)?
it is racist towards black americans because of the history. they still suffer through racism to this day and being called “slave” is such a horrible term putting down people just because of their race along with the treatment of slaves. the black americans suffered immensely throughout history
to this day
Many, MANY reasons... The whole thing is tone-deaf. It leans heavily into racist tropes like the slave/master dynamic and the white savior narrative. It's the same as trying to romanticize a Nazi/Jewish relationship or an Imperial Japanese soldier/comfort woman relationship. The history behind those dynamics makes them really disgusting to treat as romance.
Also, as other people have pointed out, the enslaved characters barely feel like characters. They don't have much agency and mostly exist to thank a rich white protagonist for "saving" them, which just makes the whole thing feel even more tasteless.
Another thing people have pointed out is Ezra's design being... odd, to say the least. It feels like they wanted him to be "exotic" while still fitting conventional beauty standards.
At the end of the day, it's a story that uses the horrors of slavery as a backdrop for a romance (big no no).
Oh, I got it, thank you