Material for anyone who wants some:

While this search doesn’t show it, M/M and multi-M pairings make what I would say is the majority of pairings on this site lol.

And to be fair, Europe thrived a lot more after the plague, since massive labour shortages meant the value of labour shot up dramatically, improving the quality of life and culminating in the Renaissance.

I shan’t claim this person to be reasonable, but u believe this is what he’ their referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor?wprov=sfti1

This wasn’t correct even before then lol.

Royalty would marry for diplomacy, whether externally to other royalty, or internally with powerful nobility.

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While swans are mostly monogamous, there are instances where they aren’t as well: https://chipperbirds.com/swans-monogamy/

Of course, if monogamy is an ideal to be strived towards, swans do do a much better job than humans.

Ah, but the question is, is this a moral universe? Or an apathetic universe?

Mangione II?

Even if they didn’t get to play, they still spent the whole day with a smile on their face - that’s more than what most of us can say…

I don’t think it’s a waste - we know he can bring things with him when uses the Speed Force (his clothes), so being able to travel without needing to run and use up stamina isn’t the worst decision.

SpongeBob seems like a socialist utopian paradise, much like Star Trek.

All those people who saw it, felt concerned, and still did nothing is absolutely horrifying and 100% true

The answer is middlemen.

Considering Mary seems to be around 12-13 from the literature we have? You’ll age out of it, I guess? Cold comfort…

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and then kneecap life while it’s distracted trying to figure out how the hell you did it

I haven’t watched SBSP, so take this with a pinch of salt: Patrick looks like he’s the grown up Bart Simpson under the sea.

But the inverse also applies - there’s not much stopping wizards from portkeying/apparating into the Oval Office or the pentagon and magibombing them, or Avada-ing key targets. Wizards are probably the worst kind of guerrilla fighters - ones unchecked by range. And as far as food is concerned, food multiplication is a thing. I personally believe that in the long term, the way muggles would win would be through subverting wizards, not by pure overwhelming force.

But they were able to setup the core of their commercial and governance infrastructure in the middle of London, with no particular notice from muggles - not to mention, we know that the government already knows about wizards (MoM liaises with the PM). So there must be a quid pro quo already in place, with the government tolerating and aiding in the existence of a semi-independent polity in their heartlands in return for unspecified benefits, probably defence against foreign wizards.

True enough, the capabilities of Magic haven’t been explored enough canonically to disprove that - but if the government learned of Magic, the first thing they’d do is subvert some wizards to their side, who might be able to counteract them - in many ways, it’s a battle of statecraft as it is of actual power.