• ❤️ Welcome to Sunday's Dear Diary thread!
• 🧡 Fantasy Seasons Megathread
• 💛 Daily Image Suggestion Thread
• 💚 Image Of The Day from AS8
• 💙 5 Days - AS8 Episode 5
• 💜 6 Days - QOTU S2 Premiere

I don't care at this point if no one agrees with me but I hate Jen. I think she's selfish, quick to anger(How most of her problems begin by the way ) and ever noticed how from the very beginning up until this moment (Season 2 E 5) everything has been about her grief,her dead husband,finding who run over her husband, killing Judy's fiance Steve just because she couldn't accept some truth he said about her.Her anger and anxiety made Judy buried Steve in such a hurry she didn't even get to have a proper goodbye. When Judy sang a song for Steve my heart dropped. It was one of the toughest scene I've watched. It shows what an aweful friend Jen was. Everything is about her outbursts and what she feels is right for her, god I can't stand the way she yells and treats her children like they have no feelings. Haven't they lost enough? Ted was the only one who took care of them and taught them things. In a course of a day they've lost a father figure they probably won't have again in their life. Judy on the other hand kept giving and giving and giving without almost getting nothing in return. I did like how the series actually captured the nature of women friendship. The truth is one will always love and give more than the other, Equal tread is a rare find. In this case it's Judy. From the very beginning of the movie everything's been about helping Jen and giving up everything she can for Jen that she lose Steve in the process. Steve in my opinion has always been there for Judy,he took such good care of her and even made sure she doesn't get into trouble. But Judy somehow threw him under the bus for Jen. In the current episode, Jen telling Judy they've been spending alot of time together and it's feeling very codependent makes me want to throw dog poop at her. Maybe that's what she told Ted and it made him relay on Bambi for love and respect instead. Ted uffff that no use melon of a man. Stay at home husband? Really? Gross 🤢, cheated on Jen,made her feel worthless,stopped touching her, couldn't understand his worthlessness made it impossible for Jen to respect him as the man of the house, and yet here Jen is asking Judy to go kill herself in multiple occasions? Isn't she the one who hit Ted and drove him away from the house? Am I missing something here? Overall I love how realistically this whole thing is written. But I've been binging since yesterday midnight and I thought I would stop a second to vent here.(Is it bad for me to want Judy to end up with Ben and part ways with Jen? She deserve happiness and I don't think she'll ever achieve that with Jen) .

Is this gallstone pain?
Long post ahead, just to warn you guys!
F/21/160lbs 5’10
For the past 8 years, once a year, I would wake up with dull pain that would rapidly intensify within minutes into a terrible, terrible ache that I could not find relief from. It would be right under my rib cage on the left, middle and right side, and right between my shoulder blades on my back exactly on the opposite side of my front abdomen.
The pain lasts hours and I can’t sit, stand or walk around without it hurting horribly. That’s an understatement. It feels like 10 million full rusty knives are slicing me up inside.
This year, I have had dozens of these attacks that last 5+ hours and span days, leaving me unable to eat solid food for days or keep anything down. About 99% of the attacks happen at night or early in the morning.
The pain is so intense I throw up and I’ve noticed that during these attacks, the food that I vomit is from meals hours before. For example: I had a bad attack and the next day at 1pm I had a salad. Flash forward to 12 am later, I threw up the whole salad. That’s almost 12 hours of undigested food sitting in my stomach.
This pain is killer guys. I just want to end it when these attacks happen. My quality of life is dropping, and I fear the next time it’ll happen, I can’t even eat without being scared. The pain is anywhere from a 7-9/10 when it happens.
On multiple occasions I’ve noticed dark dark urine (could be very dehydrated since I usually can’t keep stuff down during these episodes) but also yellowing of eyes and skin a few times.
I have 5 large gallstones. Im 21 and my bile duct is 5mm, which the tech told me was unusual for my age but still within normal range. No gallstones in my ducts and no gallbladder wall thickening.
The only thing that helps me during these episodes is pressing into my intestines, holding where I feel immense pressure and pain, and slowly working and pulling it down from under my ribs until the pressure eases up a little. This relieves pain 5/10 times temporarily. On a CT scan the small intestine right under my ribs where I feel the pain looks to be pinched and thin, but I was told to get another CT before confirming if it actually is (was told it could just look that way) so I’m wondering if this isn’t gallbladder related at all, but maybe actually partial/full bowel obstruction?
The only reasons why I question if it even if my gallbladder is because of the constipation and because of the pressure/pain in my intestines I get that I can relieve by holding and moving, and the fact that the pain is my complete upper quadrant and not just my right upper quadrant.
Edit; wanted to add that during my last episode a few days ago I had a feeling in my stomach that felt like being on a rollercoaster where your stomach just drops. Like an anxiety feeling, but I don’t get that normally. It was nonstop, just this dropping stomach feeling for hours in addition to the pain.
Also wanted to add that stomach ulcers have been ruled out. Will be testing for celiac next week

Feel free to prove me wrong, I’ve been looking …

Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 of season 1 along with episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, and 12 of season 2 have the Cartoon Network logo. Someone should replace them.

Information

VCT Pacific is one of three international leagues where teams play to qualify for Masters and Champions. It features partnered teams from Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
Coverage: Liquipedia VLR.gg THESPIKE rib.gg
Official Information: Website VCT 2023 VCT Pacific
General Resources: VCT Ruleset Global Contract Database subreddit guide to VALORANT Esports
Pacific League:

• Patch: 6.08
• Map Pool: Lotus Haven Pearl Fracture Ascent Bind Split
• Dates: March 25 – May 28, 2023
• Location: Jangchung Arena, Seoul, South Korea — Offline (LAN)

Schedule

Match	JST/KST (local time)	EST	CEST	IST	PHT/SGT	AEST
PRX vs DRX	4:00 PM	3:00 AM	9:00 AM	12:30 PM	3:00 PM	5:00 PM

Streams

• English: Twitch / YouTube / Facebook
• Korean: Twitch or Twitch / YouTube / AfreecaTV / Naver
• Japanese: Twitch / YouTube / AfreecaTV
• Tagalog: Twitch / YouTube / Facebook
• Bahasa Indonesia: Twitch / YouTube / Facebook
• Thai: Twitch / YouTube / Facebook
• Vietnamese: YouTube / Facebook
• Mandarin: Twitch / YouTube / Facebook
• Hindi: Twitch / YouTube or YouTube / Loco

Broadcast Talent

Host	Commentators & Analysts
Victoria "Chubbyninja" Cheng	Seth "Achilios" King
	Clinton "Paperthin" Bader
	Nicolas "Tasteless" Plott
	William "chobra" Cho
	Brendan "valdes" Valdes
	Kentrell "heyimquack" Kwek

^{See Liquipedia for talent from non-English streams}

Format

• Regular Season (Mar 25 - May 16)
  • Single Round Robin
  • All matches are Bo3
  • Top 6 teams advance
• Playoffs (May 19 - May 28)
  • Double Elimination Bracket
  • Lower Final and Grand Final are Bo5
  • Top 3 qualify to Masters: Tokyo

It's a bit late, but I've been thinking about the grey knight community post and wanted to share my reactions and thoughts.
List of Changes
Flash-Step: auto advance 6" + Fly; currently this has 0 damage implications. No assault weapons, no advance and charge. There MAY be something when the index releases, but I sincerely doubt it. That being said, this will still be a very useful ability. Movement is the most important part of the game. You can guarantee you'll get your units into cover, or out of LoS, or onto an objective, or into a screening position. Even being able to move over units (probably your own when you accidentally move block yourself), or on top of buildings (For +1 AP, and possibly denying charges) is going to be super useful. I think I've seen a lot of people dismissing this ability, but after teleport assault I think it's going to be the most definitive GK ability.
2+ armor, army wide: This pairs nicely with game-wide AP decreases. It also lets GK dodge the "space marine 3+ in cover" curse. GK should have an armor save against almost every weapon. I like this, as in 8th and 9th I resented that GK didn't have an invuln. Overall though, I think GK are going to feel about as durable as they do now, as the benefit is only going to be a 16% increase for some units against certain weapons.
Mono-Force Weapon Profile: Locking every force weapon into the halberd profile is meh. I feel mixed about it. On one hand, I thought it was kinda cool to choose the weapon of each of my little dudes. On the other hand, all it boiled down too was "spam whatever is best right now". I really wanted them to lock down the weapon balancing act so the way I loaded out each squad WAS an actual choice. I am bummed that they removed the thunder hammer and the warding stave. Having the option for anti-tank or invulns gave GK squads flexibility within shifting metas. Its weirdly a bigger nerf than it should be now that GK has lost most of its anti-tank.
Purgation Squad: All of their ranged weapons lost Heavy, which is nice as you'll probably want to move and shoot them each turn with 12-24" range. With the loss of Tides, all weapons will probably be stuck at 24" range too. But with the free deepstrikes and the ability to shoot from behind cover, I think Purgations squads might be one of the best targets for teleport assault. You should always be able to have a target for a purgation squad to shoot at without exposing themselves to counterfire. It might be pretty easy to keep 3 of these alive the whole game with 0 investment. That kind of return on investment might make 3 of these squads an auto include (especially if you're spamming Dreads in the elite slot for anti-tank, instead of NDKs). Target wise, they are basically geared for different versions of anti-infantry. Psycannons with a strength of 8 will only tickle light vehicles now (like T9 rhinos) , but seem like very cost efficient anti-marine guns. At a glance these seem the most competitive ranged option now (given the low range on incinerators, and that the storm bolters on every GK model do the same job as psilencers), but that really depends on how they're pointed.
GMNDK: I've seen a lot folks really angry about the loss in BS/WS. Personally, I like the loss in WS/BS! They've had to artificially limit units like this (like tau commanders, smash captains) to one per detachment. I think the GMNDK outcompeted the NDK profile by too wide a margin. They fill the same role, just the GMNDK does it better. It seems like here, they're trying to differentiate them a bit. With the cheaper strats and the full re-rolls vs monsters/vehicles, it seems like they still only want you to take one of them as a tech-piece. Both previewed strats would be awesome on the GMNDK at 1CP. And now there's design space for the NDK to have its own unique rule to differentiate its role further! Weapons wise, the psilencer losing AP and the incinerator gaining range makes me consider swapping them out. The psycannon looks like it got worse; losing AP and not having enough strength to threaten heavy tanks will really set it back. I think we'll still have to take it anyways, since our other anti-tank is so limited. I like the toughness increase. even though most anti tank will rise to match it, infantry S4 weapons will now wound NDKs on a 6. NDK's used to take a lot of damage from S4 weapons wounding it on a 5+, and with their 4+ invuln it was one of the more reliable ways to kill them. Melee-weapon wise the great-hammer really seems like the only way to go now. The dude is kitted out for going HAM on veh/mon, so there's no reason to take a sword that is kinda shit against infantry. Maybe it'll be different on the NDKs.
Purifying Flame: This was disappointing. It makes purifiers about as good at killing GEQ equivalents as purgators with psilencers, while still retaining their melee capabilities. A nice shooting buff, but even though it has better range I would say it's worse than before, as killing light infantry has never been a GK issue, and those guaranteed 3 mortals could do work into characters, monsters and vehicles. And even then you hardly ever considered this unit. Purifiers could have an ability that makes them relevant on their datasheet, but unless its really good I think these guys might sit out 10th edition as well. Has there ever been an edition where purifiers were relevant?
Haloed in Soulfire: For 2CP, this seems too expensive. This kind of CP only feels worth it on a Paladin brick. Which who knows, maybe that'll be optimal. But for 1 CP, it seems pretty worth it on a GMNDK. I think this will let you operate your singular GMDNK with similar impunity as the Sigil of Exigence allowed.
Radiant Strike: Same deal as Haloed in Soulfire. Exact same. Too expensive for anything but a paladin brick or at half price for a GMNDK. It further cements the role of the GMNDK as an anti-vehicle/monster unit.
And the best for last!
Teleport Assault: 3x re-deepstrike, starting from 2nd turn
This is huge. There have been comments saying that its easy to screen out, that skilled players won't let it work. I think this is one of the most bonkers abilities in the game. I'm astonished something of this power level has been given to any faction, let alone grey knights. So previously, we could kinda do this, with Gate and Teleport Shunt (on interceptors/NDKs). But we were limited to either a 7+ roll (which you often spent 1-2 CP on to guarantee it went off when you needed it, along with the range limitation) or 2CP to shunt either NDKs or interceptors, which then couldn't be targeted by the stratagem later.
​
It is true that it will be relatively easy for large armies/good players to screen you out of obviously advantageous positions. However, there's no opportunity cost for this ability. There's no range on Gate or a failed psychic test to limit you. You're not limited by CP, and you can target units that have already been targeted by it. Your shooting units are threatening the whole board the entire game with this ability. Your opponent can't kill off your librarian, or wait for you to be out of CP. On top of that, you perform jukes. You can deploy units heavily to one side of the table, then force your opponent to move units over there to counter you, then you can remove all of your units onto the other side of the board. Your opponent won't be able to match your mobility, and will have committed resources to a side of the board where they can't contribute. In other words, its a chess fork: if they don't move units to respond to where you are piling up units, you will sweep that side of the board, possibly into his backline. And if they do move units onto that side of the board, you can freely redeploy onto the other side of the board, losing literally nothing. I think a lot of Grey Knights playstyle in 10th edition will revolve around leveraging this army rule.
CONS
Anti-Tank damage looks a lot worse. Currently, we can hit big models with empyric amplification to power up NDK shooting, and Swordbearers can give all vehicles +1 to hit and wound. Storm bolters can plink off 1-2 wounds reliably with psybolt ammunition. Paladins with thunder hammers can go to town. Every unit has a smite, every unit can inflict mortals in melee and we have the mortal wound librarian. Quite a few options for reliably dealing damage to high toughness and high save targets. None of these will be in the next edition. Mini-psycannons and big psycannons won't be able to cut it with the new toughness'. They each needed +2 strength to be relevant against tanks in this brave new world.
GMNDK melee will slap cha/mon/veh, but it seems like we still have no reliable ways of getting it, or anything else, into melee.
Thats basically only leaves the lascannons/multimeltas on dreadnoughts, razorbacks, land raiders and stormravens. Everything (except dreads) are also paying for transport capacity, so they tend to be pretty inefficient as weapons platforms. And with the new mobility rules for grey knights, transports seem kind of redundant. Their points costs may prove me wrong, but I don't expect any of those 3 vehicles to become viable anti-tank for grey knights.
That leaves lascannon/missile dreads. I hope I'm wrong. I don't look forward to an edition where we spam 6 dreads as our only viable anti-tank. And thats even if Ven Dreads are still a thing.
As a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if dreads can't be targeted for teleport assault. It has precedents; there have been editions where dreads couldn't be targeted for gate. But then again, there have been editions where land raiders could be targeted by gate, so who knows.
So I'm a bit worried for the future of GK into the mega-toughness tank meta, but I'm excited out the wazoo to try out the new teleport assault.
​
Well, if you made it this far, thanks! I'd love to know what you think, as we've still got about a month to agonize over this until the full index releases.

Kyle Kitchens is undisputedly the best defender in the league.
In 2021, he recorded the league's most sacks with 12.5 and most tackles for loss (20.5) - in 10 appearances for the Leipzig Kings.
In 2022, he recorded a league-best 16 sacks. In addition, he was also the player with the most tackles for loss (33.5) in 12 matches for Berlin Thunder.
Highlights: Defensive Player of the Year - Kyle Kitchens Season Highlights - YouTube
List of individual Awards

• High School All-Georgia Team (2012, 2013)
• AP All-America Second Team (2015, 2017)
• AFCA All-America Team (2015, 2016², 2017)
• CoSIDA All-America Second Team (2015, 2017)
• d2football.com All-America Team (2015², 2017)
• Don Hansen/FB Gazette All-America Team (2015 [HM], 2017)
• CoSIDA Region Player of the Year (2015)
• SAC Defensive Player of the Year (2015, 2017)
• CoSIDA/Daktronics/CCA All-Region Team (2015, 2016, 2017)
• College All-Conference First Team (2015, 2016, 2017)
• GFL North All-Star Team (2019)
• ELF Defensive Player of the Year (2021, 2022)
• ELF All-Star Team (2021, 2022)
• American Football International All-Europe Team (2021)
• Team MVP (2021)
• ELF MVP of the Week (1× 2022)

In the earlier seasons adrianna was never shown drinking alcohol when she was sober. But for some reason in season 5 episode 1 she's drinking champagne, episode 3 beer and so on. Whatsup with that?

I’m rewatching season two currently. Maybe I’m in too emotional of a place to judge it effectively, as someone who is BRCA positive and was recently diagnosed with stage IV/metastatic breast cancer at age 30, this episode really upset me.
For a recap, Derek and Addison’s friend finds out she is BRCA positive and is asking Addison to perform a preventative hysterectomy and double mastectomy. Izzie, is upset by this and says she’s giving up her womanhood and any chance of having kids because she “maybe” might develop cancer one day (85% likelihood) and she’s ignoring the 15% chance she won’t, and if she does - she’ll fight like hell, her mother also died of ovarian cancer.
I am not any less of a woman without boobs or the ability to have less children. If I knew I was BRCA1 positive and you told me that there was even a 10% chance less I wouldn’t develop cancer, I would jump on it in a literal second. Did I want more children and my boobs? Absolutely, but it’s not in the books. I am fighting like hell, but the reality is that I will not get to see my 4 year old grow into adulthood. Izzie was wrong.
I guess I just feel like sometimes greys gets it very right, and sometimes very wrong. Maybe it’s just me being too close to the source, but I feel like this episode was…gross…even 10+ years ago.

Long post ahead, just to warn you guys!
For the past 8 years, once a year, I would wake up with dull pain that would rapidly intensify within minutes into a terrible, terrible ache that I could not find relief from. It would be right under my rib cage on the left, middle and right side, and right between my shoulder blades on my back exactly on the opposite side of my front abdomen.
The pain lasts hours and I can’t sit, stand or walk around without it hurting horribly. That’s an understatement. It feels like 10 million full rusty knives are slicing me up inside.
This year, I have had dozens of these attacks that last hours and span days, leaving me unable to eat solid food for days or keep anything down. About 99% of the attacks happen at night or early in the morning.
The pain is so intense I throw up and I’ve noticed that during these attacks, the food that I vomit is from meals hours before. For example: I had a bad attack and the next day at 1pm I had a salad. Flash forward to 12 am later, I threw up the whole salad. That’s almost 12 hours of undigested food sitting in my stomach.
This pain is killer guys. I just want to end it when these attacks happen. My quality of life is dropping, and I fear the next time it’ll happen, I can’t even eat without being scared.
On multiple occasions I’ve noticed dark dark urine (could be very dehydrated since I usually can’t keep stuff down during these episodes) but also yellowing of eyes and skin a few times.
I have 5 large gallstones. Im 21 and my bile duct is 5mm, which the tech told me was unusual for my age but still within normal range. No gallstones in my ducts and no gallbladder wall thickening.
The only thing that helps me during these episodes is pressing into my intestines, holding where I feel immense pressure and pain, and slowly working and pulling it down from under my ribs until the pressure eases up a little. This relieves pain 5/10 times temporarily. Does anyone have any experience with this?
The only reasons why I question if it even if my gallbladder is because of the pressure and constipation I get that I can relieve slightly, and the fact that the pain is my complete upper quadrant and not just my right upper quadrant.
Im not looking for any medical advice. I just want to know if any of this sounds familiar :( I need someone to tell me I’m going to live. Should I get my gallbladder taken out??????

I’m rewatching greys anatomy seasons two, the episode where Addison’s friend is getting a preventative mastectomy and hysterectomy.
Izzie can’t wrap her head around “removing her womanhood and any chance of having children just in case” because there’s a 15% she might not get cancer and if does, she can fight it, even though there was an 85% chance she would.
I know it’s just a show, and maybe I’m too sensitive, but the way it was portrayed made me so mad. I’m BRCA1 positive, and just received my MBC diagnosis after an original stage III diagnosis last year. If I was told I was even 10% less likely to get cancer with preventative surgery - I would do it.

Season 3 episode 6 Red Sky at Morning
At 35:23 in the episode Sam is starting a spell to help save Bella.
If you listen to the first 5-6 words.......I definitely heard Castiel and some other -iels. Are some spells "good" spells were you're summoning an angel or am I just over thinking this? Castiel is a real angel in religious texts and they obviously end up with Castiel in the show, so I'm curious if anyone can translate what he is saying that would include Castiel
Just thought it was interesting

Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 of season 1 still have the Cartoon Network logo. Please someone replace them.

I decided to go back into comp this season for support. Season 2 was the last season I queue support in comp and finished Silver 2. I had a 40% win rate and was averaging 12 elims per 10 minutes playing Ana. I did not play well with Ana and personally now think Ana is one of the most complicated support heroes in this game to play well in consistently.
I climbed all the way to Plat 5 this season using Bap. Bap is much easier to play than Ana because he can duel, apply a lot of pressure, and pump out decent heals.
Yes, I was not playing perfectly each game, I think I was barely going above 50% to start (currently rocking a 63% win rate) after blitzing my placements. But I went 5-1 this week and got placed in Plat 5.
His strategy of pressuring the other team by dpsing, not being afraid to take duels, and off-angling absolutely works. Dueling and off-angling is still a work in progress for me but I am seeing a lot of improvements in my games.

This is it! The final thread of the season and I have finally caught up with the scores for the table.
The past few weeks have seen incredible highs and lows, and they have left u/DickMoveDave in a commanding position. Their lead has stretched to 170 points, and with only 10 matches left it may be an unassailable position. Having said that, there were plenty of scores in the past month which were just shy of the 200-point mark, so the right few results might see someone else pip the title.

Table:

Place	User	GP	W	D	Points	Acc	PPG
1	u/DickMoveDave	291	37	112	2600	51%	8.93
	Sutton (total)	367	29	144	2600	47%	7.08
2	u/A_B28	294	32	115	2430	50%	8.27
3	u/happytampon	288	29	125	2410	53%	8.37
4	u/jackgrealish	247	34	100	2360	54%	9.55
5	u/gerbilmuncher	278	33	104	2360	49%	8.49
6	u/CaptainCabinets-	284	30	111	2310	50%	8.13
7	u/TheDonkeyCow	291	30	110	2300	48%	7.90
8	u/Krb019	296	24	116	2120	47%	7.16
9	u/witheoffthepost	296	23	108	2000	44%	6.76
	Sutton (Average)	278	22	109	1970	47%	7.08
10	u/SuperVillain85	238	25	86	1860	47%	7.82
11	u/JMStitch	258	13	104	1560	45%	6.05
12	u/chevillanski	264	18	84	1560	39%	5.91
13	u/SpaceboyMcGhee	204	16	88	1520	51%	7.45
14	u/paneless	205	14	76	1320	44%	6.44
15	u/h4v0k_9935	155	13	64	1160	50%	7.48
16	u/loveonthedole	151	14	60	1160	49%	7.68
17	u/Pejob	139	15	54	1140	50%	8.20
18	u/peetzs	137	16	49	1130	47%	8.25
19	u/Foreign-Plane-5170	127	12	51	990	50%	7.80
20	u/TheLenderman	149	9	61	970	47%	6.51
21	u/Mole451	166	9	61	970	42%	5.84
22	u/3nRoute	109	11	42	860	49%	7.89
23	u/Fusho_Intoku	79	7	33	610	51%	7.72
24	u/newirisha	72	6	26	500	44%	6.94
25	u/DavidGamer602	33	2	12	200	42%	6.06
26	u/Listen_Boss	23	2	10	180	52%	7.83
27	u/has922	10	2	4	120	60%	12.00
28	u/Jmacadd	30	1	8	120	30%	4.00
29	u/Desperate_Hyena_4398	11	0	6	60	55%	5.45

Plenty of players have absolutely trounced Sutton this year, with our average accuracy (48%) and PPG (7.55) both a fair bit higher than Sutton's (47% and 7.08).
Also, u/DickMoveDave can outscore Sutton despite predicting 76 fewer matches!
I will post a results thread as soon as I can, including the results of the mini-league, so keep an eye out for that.
Good luck everyone on the final day! UTV!

Fixtures:

Arsenal vs Wolves
Aston Villa vs Brighton
Brentford vs Man City
Chelsea vs Newcastle
Crystal Palace vs Nottm Forest
Everton vs Bournemouth
Leeds vs Tottenham
Leicester vs West Ham
Man Utd vs Fulham
Southampton vs Liverpool
As always, your predictions must be submitted before kickoff. I tend to give a grace period of a few minutes but in today's case (all kickoffs at the same time) I will likely be a bit stricter.
Again, thanks everyone for your patience with me all season, best of luck!

In the spirit of Demon Slayer season and the upcoming episode. I have tinkered with an original character that I think can fit in the story. Tell me what you think. (If anyone can create an oc art that would be great)
Character
Hoshimi Taikyo
Birthday: January 1
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Height: 5’8
Partner: Single
Rank: Hashira
Star Breathing Technique- Star Hashira
Generation- Taisho period
Appearance: She’s somewhat tall, slender, and lean. She has an oval-shaped face, fair skin, dark hair with two side buns and ponytails at each side, a long neck and
She wears a black standard demon slayer uniform and wears dark purple star-shaped petals hairpin on each bun. She also wears a dark purple haori with golden traditional Japanese star patterns. She wears gold straps around her calves and a zori with dark purple stips.
History: A daughter of a prominent physicist and astronomer, her father who was personally mentored by Albert Einstein himself, and painter, her mother, she wished to be like her father when she grows up. However, at the age of 16, her life turns upside down when a demon, a former customer of her mother who was in love with her, kills her father. She was saved by Gyomei. She then decided to join the corps out of gratitude and passed the selection after 8 months of training she picked up star breathing after trying Flame breathing but could not master it preferring to make wide swings around her and beheading demons while not getting so close to them. She was informed about the first breath and its forms but could not replicate but after stargazing, she came up with star breathing.
Relationships
She's friends with Shinobu, Mitsuri, Uzui, Kyojuro, Muichiro, Kanae( when she was alive), and Gyomei but not close with Giyu, Sanemi, and Obanai ( though they respect each other).
Weapon: It is an Odachi. Her katana is an Odachi nichirin blade measuring at 274.32 (9 feet). It is incredibly sharp even at the tip. The color of the blade is Dark Purple and the handguard is a series of Dark Purple petals forming a shining star with the brim encased in gold while the hilt is Dark Purple with Black crisscrossing stripes overlapping it. The scabbard is long and black and has to be carried across her back. She also has to untie the scabbard and then unsheath the sword before attacking.
Star Breathing
This breathing style mimics the stars and relies on the user’s strength, speed, enhanced reflexes, agility, locomotion, and expert swordsmanship. This is only used by Hoshimi but she has a tsuguko.
Visualization guide: The user visual herself creating and manipulating dark space with colorful stars sprinkled across it.
1st form to 5th form –Dark Blue Space
6th to 10th form-Dark Purple Space
11th form and up-Dark Space * all have colorful stars sprinkled across them*
Forms

• Star Breathing -First Form- Horizontal Slice (Where the user dashes forward creating a long horizontal slice at the enemy)
• Star Breathing -Second Form- Maw of the Dread Star of Heaven/ Fangs of Amatsumikaboshi (Where the user undulates their sword at an incredible speed showing the sword to be vibrating which, when unleashed on the enemy, creates a wide elongated jagged slice attack that shreds flesh and bones)
• Star Breathing -Third Form- Shimmering Aurora of Moonlight ( Where the user flies upside down over the enemy while creating whirling slashes resembling an aurora distracting the enemy while slashing them)
• Star Breathing -Fourth Form- Rings of Saturn (Where the user of spins on one leg while holding the sword with one arm creating a series of consecutive circular slashes which becomes wider after each spin. This is used as offense and defense)
• Star Breathing -Fifth Form- Star Lance (A powerful thrusting attack at the enemy made at a short distance)
• Star Breathing -Sixth Form- Rainbow Halo of the New Moon (Where the user leaves above the enemy and creates a circumferential slash above the enemy)
• Star Breathing -Seventh Form- Star of the Blessed Night (Where the user uses one arm to unleash crisscrossing vertical and diagonal slashes at a close distance)
• Star Breathing -Eighth Form- Night Owl (Where the user glides silently in the air and adjusts their bodyweight to the gravity directed to decapitate the demon from behind)
• Star Breathing -Ninth Form- Everglow New Star (The user unleashes a singular slash from a great distance)
• Star Breathing -Tenth Form- Planetary Year Axis Spin (Where the user spins themselves consecutively creating circular spinning slashes across or around the enemy and the surrounding area as a way to evade, defend or decapitate multiple targets)
• Star Breathing -Eleventh Form- Great Star, Dead Space (Where the user unleashes nine lateral slashes intended to stop the force of any attack)
• Star Breathing -Twelfth Form- Constellation: Crown of Ryuuza (18 connective feints in the form of a dragon made to deceive the opponent while making the slashes)
• Star Breathing -Thirteenth Form- Red Star Dragon Serpentine Slash (Where the user creates a long writhing slash around the enemy)
• Star Breathing -Fifteenth Form- Orbital Slash (Where the user leaps in the air creating a series of spherical slashes protecting the user from any attack)
• Star Breathing -Sixteenth Form- Worm Hole (Where the user leaps in the air, spins continuously in one area then spins inwardly to another point before spinning continuously for a wormhole-like attack made to drag in and pulverize a demon or demon blood art into pieces from one point to the other )
• Star Breathing -Seventeenth Form- Comet of a New Galaxy (A powerful and forceful thrusting attack resembling a comet made an incredible speed, usually done from the air to pin and pulverize any part of the enemy on the ground)
• Star Breathing -Eighteenth Form- Black Hole of Destruction (Where the user continuously unleashes overlapping spins made to cause an illusion of the surrounding to bend toward the center and is made to drag in and pulverize demons and/ or demon blood art)
• Star Breathing -Nineteenth Form- Stellar Nebula of the New Sun (A continuous series of spinning and erratic slashes that destroy surrounding areas, raise dust, stones, or clumps of dirt, or splinter wood that disorients the enemy while slashing them at the same time)
• Star Breathing final transformation: Asteroid of the New World (Where the user dashes forward or upward with a powerful thrust, attacking at the highest speed the user could muster that pierces the enemy or pins the enemy incapacitating them or obstructs their movement)