yeah, people have pointed out how ironic it is that for all Musk’s stupid invocations of The Matrix, Vivian is the one whose life story has played out like Neo
It’s very common for former “designer babies” to have trauma from not just the fact that they were basically a product sold to their parents as superior healthy optimized children, but also because biology doesn’t work like that & the science is overhyped so many parents become resentful & abusive when the perfect kid they paid a lot of money for ends up just being a regular imperfect human being.
The first “designer babies” are already fully grown adults & many of them are speaking out about how messed up it is.
people should NOT be allowed to say they met their partner online when they used a dating site or app. if you say “we met online 🥰” i expect to hear that you got into an argument in a homestuck fanfic comment section and fell in love. that you met in a furry discord server and got married. not that you swiped on tinder until you met fucking josh who lived 3 miles away.
if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they’re always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I’m telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, “send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!” that’s u. u want to be that guy