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Attitudes like this honestly piss me off more than conservatives. You didn't get the options you wanted, so you decided to just give up, take your ball, and go home. Grow the hell up. We don't quit just because shit looks bleak, we keep on pushing until we can see the sun poking through the clouds, because that is the only way we will ever see it. If we give in to despair now, we will never get there. Even if it seems pointless, or like things aren't getting better, I can guarantee you it can always, ALWAYS be worse. And THAT is your reason to vote.

I'm sorry if that reason isn't as optimistic as you were hoping for, but that's the reality that we live in. And it will never get better if we just bitch about unfairness and bury our heads in the sand. If we want things to get better, we need to make them better. And that starts with you. Please, be better than this. I know you have it in you.

An internal browser is a good idea, but in the interim, this problem can be solved by changing your default browser/app settings. You should be able to make it so that any link automatically opens in Firefox, or make it so that clicking on YouTube links prompts you to select which app you'd like to open the link with. Not sure what type of device you're working with, but on Android you can change these settings by going to Settings > Apps > (insert app name here) and looking under the "Defaults" header.

Lol had to try 🤷‍♂️

Depending on how you look at it, this might be kinda the opposite of what you're asking for, but I thought I'd throw it out anyway in case you may still be interested: The Ideal Sponger Life is about a Japanese salaryman who gets isekai'd (willingly and intentionally, for a change) and marries the queen of a desert nation who needs a husband for political reasons but is reluctant to marry any of her statesmen (again, for political reasons).

The manga/novel (hasn't been animated just yet) mainly focuses on the political relationships between the nations of the isekai world, and the MC struggling to figure out how to reconcile his cultural differences while also being a decent diplomat for the sake of his nation and his wife.

Part of that is the fact that MC's marriage was initially purely political, but he and the queen grow to genuinely love each other. However, polygyny is the common practice in this new nation, especially among aristocrats, so MC is basically required to have a harem of wives, even though he very much doesn't want any other than the queen. This results in him having to find clever, politically acceptable ways to avoid advances from (shrewd, surprisingly well written) women who want to join his harem to garner power for their families.

In summary: It's a political fantasy story that is only technically a harem, and even then it's not ecchi/oblivious MC/blah, but an integral part of the political intrigue in the story. Don't know if that's still a deal breaker for you, but just give the first volume or two a shot. I went in with very low expectations and was blown away with how well the worldbuilding and characters were executed.

Divine Gate was exceedingly mid (not surprising, it's based off a mobile game), but its OP One Me, Two Hearts is a banger

My favorites are flesh fries

He's definitely stretching something

The juxtaposition of the fourth and fifth paragraphs here really threw me for a loop

I can't imagine a world in which calling a bird a "tit" in the first place was not the product of a poorly thought out public poll

For manga, I've always purchased from Barnes & Noble and Books a Million, mainly because they're near my house and I'm more of an in-store shopper, but they've got solid online presences and a satisfying catalogue. Plus, both have pretty good membership reward programs (B&N in particular is $40/yr and gives you 10% off pretty much everything, free shipping, and a $5 reward for every cumulative $100 spent, plus some other stuff).

And if those places don't have what I'm looking for, there's always Amazon

Good chapter, but man, I'm never reading mangadex comments again. People can be so whiny and fragile over the smallest thing.

I just threw up in my mouth a little

I regret to inform you that your girlfriend is a robot

This is my favorite type of one-shot. Profoundly casual, and yet casually profound. 10/10

This is art

If they're getting death threats just for not backing Gym, imagine what would happen if they turned around and voted for a Democrat

I'm a writer rather than an artist, but I think I experience some similar frustration when I'm working on stories of my own. I know how I want the story to go in my head, but when I put pen to paper it comes out wrong somehow, or just not quite how I imagined it, and I end up scrapping it and starting over a million times.

I don't know how feasible this advice is for art, but I can share a lesson I've learned the hard way: Just put something on the paper. That's all you need to do. Even if you hate it, at least it's something. Once you've got something, you can work with it, mold it into the shape you want it to be, or at least something close. The temptation to edit your work as you create it is powerful, but it must be avoided at all costs. Perfection is the enemy of progress.

Like I said, I'm not sure how well that advice transfers over to drawing/visual art (or maybe I just completely misunderstood the issue in the first place, lol), but I hope that helped somehow 🙂

Had the same thought. We got Roy Cooper here in NC as well

This is a valid point, but to be fair, the majority of Americans didn't vote for Donald Trump