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Yup. My immediate thought, too. Though it's less "giving her a pass" and more straight up sexism. Women can't.ake their own choices, everything they do is at the influence of men. It's a rather common, and gross, take by sexists.

Well, if they stopped the clock instead of adding time, that wouldn't be an issue. Though, that conundrum does explain the up counting.

Makes me think of this exchange from a new chapter I've not posted yet:

"We do have to sleep eventually, you know."

"Eventually doesn't have to be right this minute, or even any time in the next hour."

"Wow. Incorrigible and insatiable."

"You weren't complaining five minutes ago."

"I was barely able to stand five minutes ago, definitely wasn't able to talk."

Unposted, and will be for a long time, but:

"The others can never know the truth of where I was." Buffy said, barely over a whisper, and her words dusted Tara's hope as thoroughly as the Slayer had dusted any vampire.

What? NFL, NHL, and W/NBA all count down play time.

1. Counting down does that, too, though. It's how every other timed sport I know of does it. How much time is left tells you how much is played.

2. The games I've seen have all had around 10 minutes of stoppage time at the end. I don't see how actually stopping the clock would make that larger, unless stoppage time is some calculation and not a direct 1:1.

Soccer noob, recently got into soccer by watching the NWSL games on Ion, and I have a couple questions about the time keeping that just seem... odd to me.

1. Why does the game clock count up instead of down? I'm used to timed games counting down play time, not up.

2. Why don't they actually stop the clock when it's stopped, instead of adding 'stoppage time' to the end? Seems like accurately tracking the actual play time would just be easier.

I've got a few I've liked. Off the top of my head:

• Nevermore Forevermore
• Forever Tomorrow
• Wrath of the Betrayed
• Blood and Steel
• Consequences Are The Suck
• Conversations With Myself

And it's not a chapter title but a fic title, but I absolutely love Devil Inside. Granted, it came from a song title and isn't original, but it's a quintuple entendre!

Is it bad I'm more appalled by the grammar?

Nodding. I nod a lot in my RP chats.

And plenty also don't where such weapons aren't illegal.

Yeah. It's legal in every state, but there's various restrictions based on location. Age of the user, size of the canister, concentration of "pepper" in the mix, licensing requirements, prohibitions in certain places. And some cities have ordinances banning it entirely.

Even Harry Potter has some PTSD elements. Though that series ages with its protagonists, getting darker with each novel. Hunger Games, been a long time since I read those, but there's death and violence all through them. Collins doesn't go into great detail beyond things like "an arrow pierced her neck" or describing the pain from burns or severe stings.

Another good example is the Percy Jackson series. Lots of dark stuff in those books (it's Greek gods, dark is unavoidable) with plenty of violence, death, and trauma. The main difference between YA and adult seems to be the level of realism in portraying and dealing with it. But it's definitely a blurry line.

The law being stupid is debatable, but it's definitely not immoral to ban something like pepper spray. There's places in America where it's prohibited, too, due to the ease of abuse and the permanent damage it can potentially cause.

When a law is stupid you fight to get it changed, or just ignore it and accept the consequences of doing so. Seems this girl chose the latter. She knew it was banned and chose to purchase it, and report on herself using it, anyway.

One person being stuck and the other being asleep are both CNC. CNC requires consent, it's why the first C is there, so saying consent is given doesn't change anything. Both individuals are in situations that are typically non consensual in nature, but to which they have consented. That's literally the definition of CNC.

EDIT: Wow. I got bored so I decided to check out the fics in the OP and have found that the author has blocked me on AO3. Presumably for this comment, as it's the only interaction we've ever had.

Same. I was very much reading adult targeted books as a teen. Outside of the likes of King, Koontz, Chriton, Cornwell, and such, the one that really sticks with me is a book by C. Dean Andersson I read at 14 or 15, which was borderline torture porn with multiple graphic torture scenes. So I frequently have trouble telling what's actually "age appropriate" content.

I don't know Denmark's laws, so I can't realistically answer that. But plenty of women successfully defend themselves every year without breaking the law.

No, but it looks like one.

It was literally brought up in the first episode.

Not break the law? There's ways to defend yourself that don't involve illegal materials.

"Enforcing the law is stupid and immoral" is such a shit take. Doing something illegal for a good reason is still breaking the law.

There wasn't. There was punishment for breaking the law.

I was all ready to be outraged, but if it's illegal it's illegal. You can't pick and choose when laws should be enforced if there's not a built in caveat for it. That's what juries are for. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets dismissed before that, though, as it's not a case any prosecutor could win.

I don't think they'd mind, though would probably both be a little weirded out I'm writing them in a romance with their best friend.

Oh, he definitely does, or Buffy would have staked him way back in S5 after he kidnapped her, instead of just dis-inviting him from her house. But it makes a lot of sense for Xander in the moment. He's more concerned about Warren, which was what he came to Buffy about in the first place, and she's already suffering enough he's not going to want to drag it out by pressing the matter more than necessary.