Is it too much to ask that this makes it onto the channel but that my family doesn't realize it's me?
Probably, but here we go.
Who: Mom, Brother, SIL (sister-in-law), Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, Dad, and me
When: between 2020 and 2022
Where: the beach and the mountains
What: a wedding
Why: true love ❤️
Our story goes way back to before the wedding in 2022 but after the engagement of Brother and SIL in 2020. It starts in 2021 on a week long vacation to the beach for Mom's 50th birthday. We were staying in a very picturesque condo with 3 separate bedrooms that had direct beach access and the unit was absolutely beautiful with the most amazing views off the patio. On this vacation were 6 people: Mom, Brother, SIL, Aunt, Cousin, and me. We were roomed in pairs: Brother and SIL, Aunt and Cousin, Mom and me. This vacation had been planned months in advance and Mom was so excited she planned out a week of fun activities including a sunset cruise to see dolphins, mini golfing, restaurants, of course beach time, and more.
It was supposed to be a lovely week that was unfortunately marred very quickly by a nasty fight. We arrived late on a Friday and were scheduled to be out by the following Friday. Sunday night after dinner there was a massive argument between SIL and I. I don't even remember all the details now. It culminated when she called me a brat and I called her a b**** and we stormed off to our separate rooms. From here there are 2 versions of the rest of the night.
Mom's Version: While I had a massive panic attack - because I'm Mentally Sick™ - Mom went to the bedroom where Brother and SIL were. She tried to talk to them and tell SIL that she was been very mean to me. She implored SIL to apologize to me, but SIL was being stubborn and refused to talk to me. Mom eventually left the room and came to help me calm down in our room.
SIL's Version: While I had a massive panic attach - because I'm Mentally Sick™ - Mom went to the bedroom where Brother and SIL were. SIL says that Mom started screaming at her and Brother calling them all sorts of nasty names and other terrible things. She even accused SIL of being an abusive person. Meanwhile, Brother was having an epileptic seizure on the bed due to the stress of it all. SIL started crying and having a panic attack of her own as well. Eventually, Mom left the room and came to help me calm down in our room.
I believe that there is some truth in both. I think Mom thinks she was talking nicely and that SIL was being a hard a** but she was coming across a lot louder and meaner than she thought. I also think that SIL was being a little stubborn but for good reason. If she had come out to talk to me I think the fight would have escalated further and the place would have burst into a ball of flames.
Regardless, SIL and Brother stayed in their room for the next day and a half. They only came out for food and water and didn't speak to anyone else. Aunt and Cousin tried to stay out of it but were very much in the middle and it put a bad stain on their vacation. Things cooled off by Wednesday (Mom's birthday) and we all got along mostly for the rest of the week. I apologized to SIL and she apologized to me and we've been good since then. Sadly, the same is not true for SIL, Brother, and Mom.
Throughout the following months things continued to deteriorate between Brother, SIL, and Mom. I don't know all of the details of what contributed to the downfall of their relationship. I do know that Mom continued to make wild accusations at them and then backtrack and try to apologize. This cycle continued up until the wedding.
There was one big accusation that Mom made during this time that was the nail in the coffin for her. She accused Brother of marrying SIL only because she was pregnant. What's absolutely crazy about this is that Brother proposed a year and half before the wedding. They also had their location and date reserved over a year before the wedding as well. So this wasn't even close to being a possibility, but it reallyyyyyy set off Brother and SIL.
While Mom initially got a Save the Date for the wedding, she did not receive a wedding invitation when they sent out the actual invitations. She was crushed by this news that everyone else in the family got an invitation and she, the mother of the groom, did not. Mom eventually started to tell those in the family who were going - primarily Aunt, Uncle, Dad, and I - that we shouldn't be going in solidarity with her. She said that we were "choosing sides" and "against her" because we still planned on going.
Here's the thing: Dad was officiating the wedding and Uncle was a groomsman. Also, Aunt and Uncle were supplying their homemade wine for the wedding. This left Aunt and I in a tricky spot where we wanted to support Mom while she was going through a rough time, but didn't want to skip the wedding. After all, why should we forfeit our spots when Mom kept doing things to dig herself a hole.
Are you ready for the cherry on top of this putrid mess of a wedding cake? SIL and Brother did end up inviting Mom to the wedding and sent an invitation. But they did so 2 weeks before the wedding with some stipulations. She had to sit in the back during the ceremony, she wasn't allowed to go to the reception, and her 28 year old boyfriend was not allowed to come. I think there were other things as well, but those are the main ones. This sent Mom into a frenzy where she continued to make more accusations at Brother and SIL for having the restrictions and not trusting her to behave. She also continued to accuse Aunt and I for taking sides after their "disgusting behavior."
I tried to talk Brother and SIL into inviting her and at least allowing her to come to the reception. I promised I wouldn't allow anything to happen and if something did I would take Mom out. All this to no avail.
Mom decided not to go the wedding. Her reason: she already had other plans that she didn't want to cancel. She reserved a cabin in the woods for some "me time" with her boyfriend and our half-sister. Yeah, not sure how that's "me time" but that ain't my business I suppose. *insert Kermit drinking tea*
I understand that she wanted to go to the cabin she had already paid for for a weekend away. I understand that this whole incident was traumatizing for her as well since she was being excluded from her only son's wedding. She still made the decision to not go though even with the conditions to her invitation.
At the end of the day though, it was a beautiful wedding. Everything went smoothly and though Aunt and I missed her quite a bit, we were able to have a wonderful time despite her absence.
I still stand by my choice to go to the wedding because it's not like me not going would stop the whole wedding. Nothing would have changed other than I would have missed out on a fun party and one of the most important events of my brother's life. However, I want to know what you guys think. Should I have gone? Should I have done something more to try to support my mom?

I got married on April 20th and I cannot stop thinking about the wedding. Not in the way you might think.
It wasn’t magical. It wasn’t nice. It was barely tolerable. The only thing I remember fondly of it was my husband. He truly saved the day in my mind.
My mom didn’t show up on time, groomsmen didn’t show up on time, one groomsman backed out the night before the wedding, left for the venue late, someone forgot the rings, someone forgot every single decoration for the wedding that we didn’t get to until guests were already arriving, my mom shared the cake with guests that was meant to just be for my husband and I, fell during our first dance, my mom fell down stairs with my son causing both of them to get injured, I didn’t get many of the picture I wanted to get, the wedding venue’s music system broke ten minutes before the wedding started, tripped walking down the aisle, veil fell off repeatedly, no one really danced at the reception, everyone left (fairly early) before the send off, someone forgot the pens for the guest book so barely anyone got to sign it. People just talked amongst their tables.
The whole thing just felt very awkward.
I want to be able to remember my wedding fondly but it’s to the point where I can’t even see wedding ads or videos without thinking “why couldn’t mine have been like that?” and stupidly getting jealous.
I guess why I’m writing this other than to get it off my chest, is to see if anyone else had a disaster wedding and how you manage with the thoughts of it now?
I will say though, for every bad thought I have about it, I remember how amazing my husband was that day. How he cried when he saw me. How his vows were the sweetest. How cute he was at the reception. How lucky I am to be married to him, even if it wasn’t the way I wanted. How the fact I even get to call him “my husband” is still crazy to me.
TL;DR: My wedding was a disaster, want to know if anyone else also had a disaster wedding and how you stop thinking about it.

The day of Dylan's wedding, I was helping out pretty much the entire day. I had to go pick up the wedding cake and take it to the venue and then I was helping the bride (F20) (let's call her Aria) with her dress, it needed steamed. So I did that while she and her maid of honor did their hair and makeup. I already had my hair and makeup done, I did it in the morning, all I had to do was change into my dress eventually. A couple hours went by of the three of us downstairs just getting ready and I got changed and then went upstairs to see how things were. At that point, Jayden and a few other people were there, Nathan was also a groomsman. Jayden said hi to me when he saw me but we did talk again until after dinner.
Pretty much everyone was in the back after dinner ended and that's when Jayden started talking. He had heard me and two of our friends talking about him. He didn't hear what we were saying but he heard his name come up. He kept asking who was starting drama and I told him, "Um, you Jayden. You started this drama a long time ago. You are aware that we've all been talking about this situation for weeks now that you caused, right?" He ended up apologizing and said that he didn't mean to hurt me, he sounded genuine but after everything that happened, I wasn't sure if I believed him or not, I wanted to but at this point, I knew that he was two-faced. But we ended up getting along for the rest of the night for everyone's sake.
After the wedding, Dylan and Aria left to go to New York to visit some of Aria's family, Nathan was busy with work and his "wife" and kid, and Jayden left his mom to North Carolina. She decided to move there about two years ago but Jayden wanted to stay here so now he has two roommates at his house. Jayden had quit his job about two weeks before the wedding and so he was having money problems- he obviously didn't have much now since he was unemployed again and his mom was talking about selling the house here. That meant he would most likely have to move down to North Carolina but he really doesn't want to. I guess while he was in NC, he talked to his mom and worked things out. As far as I'm aware, I think his mom is holding off on selling right now. Jayden was only supposed to be in NC for a week but while he was down there, he got sick and had to go to the ER. Turns out his appendix was about to rupture. And while he was in the hospital, he would video chat me because he was obviously bored. He finally started feeling better about a week later and him and I were on the phone the night before he came home. He was saying that we could hang out the next night but of course, I didn't hear from him.
A couple of weeks went by after we hung up that one night and I hadn't heard from him. Eventually, he ended up texting me again after a few weeks and was saying that he missed me and has been thinking about me. He was saying that I'm a good person and I have a big heart and whatnot. We ended up meeting up a few nights later for a little while but I haven't heard from him since. I think that was like over a month ago at this point.
I texted Mauve telling her all about this and I told her that I honestly missed Jayden too and that I actually never stopped missing him. Even when he acted like I didn't exist and even when I was mad at him, I never stopped missing him. But ever since the last time we talked, all the feelings that I had for Jayden slowly died down. (Maybe to some of you, this story doesn't seem that bad, but it was just the fact that Jayden had ghosted me after a nine month time period that sucked). I decided recently that I just need to move on, so I did just that. I have been focusing on myself, just working and making my money. And in my free time, I have just been watching YouTube and reading mostly. But ever since the wedding, at the beginning of February, I really haven't been doing much beside that, so I decided to redownload Tinder, mainly as a joke. I was never planning on using dating apps ever again because it's always the same, but since I have had nothing going on and not much human interaction, maybe it couldn't hurt. I ended up matching with this guy (M25) (let's call him Jace), we've only been talking for a little over a week now but he is super nice and we've hung out a few times. I'm sure I will end up writing a story about him eventually once we start hanging out more but I have a good feeling about this one :)

So many eyebrow raisers and ‘well… you do you’ moments in weddings through out my life. A grab bag of wedding cringe so to speak… 💖
Note: I wrote this a year or so ago for the wedding shaming sub, they seemd to really like it so I thought you guys would too. Enjoy 💖
I have been in so many weddings throughout my life, more than I can count really. I donned my first flower girl dress starting at the innocent age of four or five and continued to slap on bow butted gowns when asked well into my adulthood. This is just a brief list of moments appropriate for this sub, some shameful and cringy, others just bad circumstance, while others are vendor error. Anyway, if anyone wants any further detail or for me to elaborate on any of these situations just let me know.

1. I was about 7 years old and a flower girl in this wedding. A groomsman locks his knees and passes out mid ceremony. Cracks his head on an altar rail and delays the ceremony by an hour-ish. He was fine and participated in the second half of the ceremony and reception just now adorned with a lovely forehead knot and bruise that fortunately didn’t totally clash with the wedding colors. I will never forget collective gasp and preceeding crack/thud that rang through that little Methodist church. (Btw, this was the third wedding in which I had worn the same rented flower girl dress lol)
   
2. 16 years old, bridesmaid in a first cousins wedding. The limo driver driving the brides party to a park for photos in between the ceremony and reception gets insanely lost. We, the brides party, arrive over an hour late to the reception which caused much chaos and inconvenience at the reception. The DJ was good at stalling so it seemed cause everyone was having a blast by the time our frustrated, hungry, pastel floral adorned booties finally showed at the reception. (Not even bringing up the fact that I was not even originally supposed to be a bridesmaid in this wedding. Two of the bridesmaids dropped out a couple weeks before the wedding, my sister and I just happened to be the same dress sizes as the two dresses that needed to be filled.)
   
3. 18 years old and just a guest at my dads FOURTH wedding. The wedding ceremony and reception is held in the driveway at his house. The “aisle” the bridal party walked down was the sidewalk from the front door to the driveway. None of that in itself is terrible, I’ve seen some very elegant and tastefully done backyard style weddings and receptions. And to be fair they did have an event tent set up over the driveway with chairs, tables with linens, cloth napkins and proper place settings but what was served on these proper place settings is where this fits into the sub. My father had buckets of fried chicken and all the styrofoam containered sides and fixin’s from KFC as the meal for his wedding reception. I love my dad, may he rest in peace. BTW, this was his 4th wedding but not his last. 🤦‍♀️
   
4. 20 years old and I’m the maid of honor in my lovely big sisters wedding. Our father, who art in heaven now (I hope), who art also supposed to give my sister away, disappears 15 minutes or less before the ceremony is to start. I literally run around the entire block looking for him and he nor his truck are to be found. He disapproved of my sister‘s future husband so much he just left without telling anyone because he refused to give her away. On top of that, the officiant was my grandmother‘s preacher who proceeded to call my sister Alicia for the entire ceremony. Her name is Allison. My sister is no longer married and fortunately she and my dad reconciled before he passed away. That I’m super grateful for but the wedding well it was kind of a shit show.
   
5. 24 years old In this one and I am a bridesmaid in my high school best friends wedding. The ceremony was lovely but the reception had its issues. The caterers put the buffet out as soon as guest started to arrive at the reception. They were only supposed to serve hors d’oeuvres and appetizers until the bridal party arrived. They did not have a “day of“ coordinator so there was no one there to intervene because the bridal party and all of the brides and grooms family we’re having photos taken. There was no designated cocktail hour so the guest went directly to the reception space after the ceremony, saw food and started eating. The brides mother left photos a little bit early to let the caterers know to start putting out the buffet and saw that it was almost entirely gone! Fortunately, she acted fast enough to make the bride and groom a plate. That is the only reason they got to eat at their own wedding reception. The rest of the bridal party basically ate what little scraps we could gather up from the buffet and cake. My mother took me out to an all you can eat restaurant after the reception. Lol
   

That is all I can think of for now. I’m sure there is more and I’ll add to it if anything else comes to mind. Again, if anyone wants elaboration on any of these weddings feel free to ask. Additionally, one thing I’ve learned from participating in weddings and matrimonial events is that no wedding is perfect. Something IS going to go wrong no matter what but it’s how you respond to whatever goes wrong that determines your day.
Edit to clarify: The KFC situation was not out of financial necessity or limited funds/resources (plus have seen how expensive KFC is these days?? Haha). It was a personal preference made by my dad and his bride. It’s more of about the disconnect in aspects of the wedding. Anyone assuming KFC was served because they were poor is wrong. 💖

I will never admit this outside of my conversation with my hubby, but I regret having a high big wedding. We had about 180 9 bridesmaids 9 groomsman We should have kept it to 80 max, people are so rude and entitled. I've had guest, cancel or better yet invite other people without my permission.. I've had guest immediately assumed bc of who I am that they can invite other people like. For instance I had a prima ask if her 3 kids could bring their gf.. like wtf no 7 people & I said NO minors like uhh . I also I regret accepting a padrino gift from a family friend, a week before the wedding she insisted on changing the cake flavor, like wtf. The amount of stress I've been dealing with isn't worth it for just one day smh 😒 Lastly my sister keeps making slick remarks saying how I should of cancelled on any time I say that I'm stressed smh 🤦🏾‍♀️ Yes my fiance is very involved! But it's still too much stress smh 😒

I've been commissioned alot this year for my aura portraits where I paint your Aura as well as imagery based on my psychic readings . I'm also doing commissions for written erotica here's a sample :
They say that the brain is mostly made of grey matter, and we interpret the collection of empty spaces, so a rose isn’t simply a rose it’s a collection of data
People are always searching for deeper meaning
To find a way out of our their bodies the techno-sphere, the gritty slum, the acidic city
It’s like feeling kind of deep stress
That paralyzes half your movements
So you feel like you’re seeing the future
Yet you can’t completely fulfill, execute or channel it out
I just let the primal urge and possibility of being impregnated flood my pleasure center’s I would never want a kid.
Yeah it would break my brain
I want to feel his flesh on my flesh, the teasing of felling the pressure of his stalk against my wet lips is sometimes more pleasurable then entering me . It feel’s like a water nymph attaching itself to a water lily frond and with all of this invisible pressure of it’s bodily fluids surging through it’s body breaking away its musculature and rupturing it’s shell . It feel’s like the stinging tongue of a barnacle almost seems impossible that this shell has any life in it yet it stings .
Like reality is a mix of free will and determinism
And there’s the hag’s with the three strings of fate
Potentially some higher version of myself
Pulling the puppet strings of my body
(Yet there’s this) resistance
(Yet there’s shudders in the air where movement would be)
I’m simply seeing these tunnel’s of light
I can’t completely do the things I’d like because everything is going haywire
Too many mixed up days and nights
Not having a regular circadian rhythm
That’s just how I like to live
So if my friends call me at 2 a.m , I’m going to be there
Whatever crazy stuff we are going to do; or mostly see
I usually see stuff too, like the grim reaper enter my home
Usually I start to smile …
I felt like I could let go of the need to do anything
In the mind
Like capture transcribe things
Sensation turns into geometry
Feels like being a cat
Like having legs bent at a certain angle
Like the animal instincts and impulses for
How animals must feel before they mate
Yet also visualizing
A lighter...
There’s a space like a void from below
Spurts light and animates the body
Goes within the root chakra
Travels up, makes my pussy spasm
And begin to open too
Like fruit ripens and juice comes out
Not squeezed out as if from a tube
It just drips, and not like
A fruit that’s fallen from a tree
Or the congealed then hardened bead of sap on a tree
Like when I was just holding the fruit in the palm of my hand
And the fruit just rested their
Felt like something more sweet then flesh
Feeling
Having sex
I mean for a long period of time pushes past the normal human threshold
Makes me feel like I’m losing consciousness
Kind of like the feeling you’re going to pass out cept
More alluring
More like a space like hypnagogia
Between waking and sleeping
A space of connection and of
My body recollecting things
Like when the position of my
Like when you positioned my pelvis a certain way
On the edge of the bed, so it’s like my ass was tilted up
When you pressed on the flesh of my ass it felt like
The shape of a raindrop, just the outline
The shape that your hand gives my flesh feels more beautiful
Then the actual form
It feels like finally trying my best to exercise really hard
I’m a very lazy person
So I could have better sex
So I’ve been working really hard
And just the way you had me positioned with my pussy, up against the edge of the bed
Felt like when ; I first started masturbating, when I was a teen
I used to masturbate for a longer amount of time
And ride my fingertips on the bed
So that the force of the bed would drive my fingers
Deeper into my pussy
Because it felt like a dick, yet I didn’t know what a dick was
I was a late bloomer, sheltered kid
Just the pressure
I was always fantasizing about ghosts, as a teen
So there was this ghost dick I was riding
The surface
It’s the double penetration of my past memories
Me furtively, for hours, trying to get off at, levitate by my fingertips
Hold my entire body up by my fingertips
On the bed and
You actually having sex with me at the same time
And remembering that
And I’m thinking wow
This is awesome; this feels much better then masturbating as a kid
Riding ghost dick
From doing so many crunches lately, I’ve been able to feel this muscle riding up
It felt much better because
From unfortunately not having sex for awhile …
No ! I got blocked on tindr why ( laughing)
I’m not a man sexually harassing people I’m just a businesswoman
(Soliciting my services)
I’ve been having trouble flirting with people lately
I feel heavy, so my flirt game hasn’t been the same
So I’m thinking crap
I haven’t had sex in Samantha years which is like 10 years
Cuz I feel like I experience time differently
So I’m like great
So then yet at that certain angle
That line that comes up
And the past memories
How deep you drove and curved into these spaces
Like uh , shiz
I felt my inner muscles, walls, caverns whatever you want to call them
I felt the grooves in my pussy, careening around tightening
So tight, I just visualized myself making porn
Or just really enjoying it
Then towards the end of having sex for awhile
The same sensation
Of how your dick pushed into a certain part of me
That felt like geometric shapes
Iron wraught gates of St.Peter’s Church , they aren’t quite a four leaf clover or a fluer de lis
When I turned back to look at you
Wow, I feel like I’m in Hentai
Seeing things in this positive light , immediately shapes my sensation
And reality in a way that I feel things so
That I didn’t think that the sound of you , thwacking against …
Reminded me of Hentai ,( where the scene cuts , the screen blacks out , and when you return they are still at it , seemingly for hours or even days )
It’s like what’s the device called?
An eternal energy machine , a perpetual motion machine, the infinity Tesla thing?
And the things that swing in science museum’s… focoult’s pendulum
Science!
So it felt like an endless swinging pendulum, except , you’re like the endless invisible kinetic motion and I’m the balls ? The empty void
When you grabbed my ass , towards you pelvis
Really low
I was like woah , I thought it wasn’t going to be possible for my shape to fit on your shape, at that low of an angle ,
I thought wow this feels really good , it remind’s me of one of my favorite sex scenes of all time
In the vagina dentata movie
Where her vagina like eats dicks
Well anyways , the stepson fucks his sister and he grabs her in the position that’s like doggie
Yet not , it’s on your knees, and the girl is brought up to the guy
Almost scooped up and held in a very primal way
There’s a pitbull in the room , a dog
She’s trying to escape yet actually enjoys it- kind of thing
( I like messed up psy*&%$ sex u acchh um anyways)
I was like okay this position feels like your literally inside of me
Just like before except way way waay deeper
So that I don’t feel it , It just turns me on
Like I’m driven up to the hilt of the base of your …past your dick
Driven up into you , like connected
It was awesome
When we were doing missionary
It felt like, extreme bliss of not having extreme tension in my body
All this static and angst and buildup of
Stretching out and fully
I made up a word called ‘plurplussed’ plurplussed relief
Like yawning involuntarily cept your whole body is swarming
All these closed off emotion
Hormones
Seeing myself
In this erotic painting ‘Hercules and Omphale’
This very thick , fleshy figure
Not just skin and bones which has been idealized by modern day culture
I’m just this round fleshy gorgeous being
And then when I kiss you I feel like
For the first time I feel like it’s not an eager kiss
Where I’m craning my neck to reach you as you recoil and my tongue licks the outer pout of your lips , (like an animal)
I’m just trying to teach your mouth because I want the sensation so badly
I feel more like a deeply erotic esperienced being
“A deep lover” and my mouth is breathing in the air between your lips and touching your lips
Like people on long caking-dry plateaus on top of canyons ,
The crags , a desert journey and haven’t seen things for awhile
It’s like people trying to remember thing’s
There’s deep love in this moment , and your trying to stop and pause
Touching the air with your wet fingertips trying to get a sense of direction cept your
Don’t know how to do that anymore , because of your cell phones
and it takes away
All meaning and connection to nature
to understand directions
Trying to remember when someone touched us the most deeply
We get angry because where conditioned
To delete people or to have this hatred because someone perceived you took from them
Because of this need to grind to the machine
So where trying to recollect love and what life was like
Before the mechanized age
So it felt like when I kissed you , it was something deeper like our souls trying to remember
Beyond our physical embodiment
Beyond , deeper then , then our current souls and our current ages
Having a debacle about something insignificant
Not seeing deeper things
Like when you first came into the room
I saw you as an angel in the sense that
I don’t know all of this white light
How I see everyone does all of these things that are helpful
They seem like theyre annoying
Yet they’re actually happy accidents
Feels like things barely touching each other, yet then they meet
When you touched my pussy
While we took breaks
It felt like a peach very engorged
And wet ,like eternally wet finally
It’s like sometimes when I’m around certainpeopleorsituations
I start uncontrollably squirting and dripping
It’s so awkward
At one point when we were having sex at that certain angle and you reached for my clit
It felt like qualm , that’s like serious love to give someone a good dick while touching their clit ,
That’s some deep love there
That’s the definition of deep love ( laughs)
I was visualizing having a really hot pussy
Because it’s hard for me to accept
That my pussy is so pancake pussy so chubby
So it was flat and only hair in the center
Wow it reminds me of this girl I saw at the beach the other day wow
I’m not gay yet
I would totally do whatever she wanted
That’s how I feel sometimes if I’m playing with women
S’like okay this is for you, not for me
Please you cuz you probably need it and not getting good dick
Want to see pictures of this hot girl?
He motion’s no
Okay
When I turned back to see you
I was like crap I can’t see anything
you’re blurry
I don’t know why
Anyways when we were in missionary and we where, fucking me so fast, I didn’t think it was possible
It’s like painful in a good way
It’s like um it’s like um
Construction sites, when I go on long jogs at night thinking
Oh shit this is my night; I’m just going to run all night
When I don’t have sex
I love when the asphalt get’s stuck in my shoes
Don’t ask me why , it turns me on
I’m looking at the construction site
Imagining they’re constructing my life for a better life
And the streets like my body
Like a jackhammer, you where fucking me like a jackhammer, I just didn’t want to use typical metaphors anyways
In missionary it felt like you where deep in my womb, uterus space
As I was thinking ‘ how’s it so deep in their!?’
Wow this feels so great
My pussy is wrapping around your dick
I’m like wow
It’s like oh wow
Like painful, it’s like um imagining your Prometheus or some sort of mythical figure
Your dick is the rock I’m pinned too
My legs are open in a certain way
When your spreading my legs and
This is so hot , this makes me want to do yoga and
You’re like deep up in my body
Like splitting away the pain
Splitting for healing
Driving in the healing
I feel like howyourrippedopenmypants is super cool it’s like a fashion statement
Humble, sheek , minimal
A faded tortoise with a skull for a shell on a crop top ,just barely grazing the top of my nipples so I can feel the exposure
My ninja pants remind me of my friend from back home Ever
Who was a giant slut
It was weird she was this tiny pixie redhed girl
Tried fingering in the bathroom
Cept it didn’t work because her pussy was too tiny
She gave head to people camping in her backyard
She was a Tai-Chi Kung Fu master
She had this giant school that she lived in
Yet she ended up sleeping with everyone and forget she was the master of this Kung-Fo
School
I was like , ‘ Ever snap out of it stop doing drugs’
I mean hippie drugs like Rape’
hippies are obsessed with Rape
dumb hippies
What was the point of this story?
Oh yeah , I love the Tai-Chi style
Your like so hot
Touching his pecs
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I (26F) have been recently engaged to my boyfriend of 4 years (27M), and we are in the planning stage of our wedding. We have decided to keep our wedding small, just immediate family and close friends as my fiancée is in medical school.
My brother, (22M) is your stereotypical youngest child, and was spoiled from day one. Things such as, getting away with things I would be punished for, a new car at 16, etc. I don't have many issues with him, except for the fact that he is very rude to my fiancée, who is a first-generation college student and comes from an immigrant family. (For context, I grew up in an upper-middle class suburb)
This is where the issues begin, my brother seems to always find issue with my fiancée, such as the fact that he didn't have enough money, and that he got me a "small ring" which no one finds issue with except him. My fiancée decided to be a bigger person, as I told him how meaningful it would be if my brother would be in the wedding party, as a groomsman. My brother, instead of being thankful for this meaningful gesture, reluctantly obliged at the persistence of my mother, and father.
My husband doesn't want to accept any help from my parents, which is why we are keeping the wedding small, which is what both him and I want, as we want to keep it intimate for us, (under 50 people) and my mother, offered to make my wedding dress, which keeps the budget down. Our wedding is set in about 6 months, and my brother continues to create issues with the rest of the wedding party, saying things like "If this were my wedding, I'd have..." or "Why does your tux look like that" or when my husband told him we weren't doing a cake, he laughed in his face and said "I guess someone is a cheapskate" although we made it clear that it was my idea to have cupcakes.
This was about 2 weeks ago, and yesterday we had another talk about more preparations at my house, such as tables, etc. This is where my brother begins to basically throw a tantrum because he isn't close enough to his friends table, which he made my husband invite, as we decided to have him closer to my parents and future in-laws, and he began to make more comments about our wedding. He even said "I bet you she (me) wont enjoy this cheap wedding" while laughing to my husband. Before this, I was unaware of what he said to him, as my husband didn't want me to have to hear it, but this time I was about 10 feet away talking to my mother. At first, I thought he was joking, as I couldn't believe my brother would say something that harsh to someone who has been so accommodating to him, until I heard, "I give this marriage 2 years at most until she realizes she wants someone... more." When I heard that I couldn't believe it, I told my brother to leave then and he did, with retaliation. I talked to my mother and husband and they both think he should stay in the party, but I don't want my husband to have these foul memories of our wedding.
So WIBTA if I kicked him out of my wedding?

Hi! I am originally from the Midwest (Northwest Indiana) and am a September 2024 bride. My fiancé grew up in the South (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas) and we live in Texas now, but our wedding will be held in my NWI hometown. Throughout the planning process it has become apparent that there are quite a few differences between Midwest and Southern style weddings, and I’m having to prepare my future in-laws for an event that is outside their norm + accommodate Southern traditions that I didn’t initially budget for (ex: groom’s cake). My FH and I actually attended a fairytale $100+K Texas wedding over the weekend, and even for such an elaborate event I was shocked at how different things were done than what I’m used to. A comprehensive list of differences I’ve learned so far…

1. Southern ladies love their bridal portraits/session. I am not doing this.
   
2. In the Midwest, a plated serviced dinner is the norm (guests choose their entree when they RSVP). In the South, a buffet dinner is more common and the food options are a surprise.
   
3. Groom’s Cake. I had never heard of this until I moved down here, and it is very important to my FMIL (she is paying for it). I have no idea what to do with this extra cake. When is it cut?! Does it get served or is it just to look at?! No one seems to be able to give me an answer, I’m being told “it’s just something you have to have.”
   
4. Grand Entrance. In the Midwest, the Grand Entrance into the reception is kind of a thing. The parents, wedding party, and the couple are announced with a big musical fanfare. Usually there is silly dancing or some kind of skit-like performance done when each set of people is called in (ex: bridesmaid throws her bouquet to the groomsman like a football, or bridesmaid/groomsman plans a funny dance move). It is cringe and awkward, and no one ever knows what they are going to do until 30 seconds before it happens, but it’s also entertaining for the guests and sets the tone for how fun the party will be. My FH looked at me like I had 3 heads the first time I talked about this part of the reception and neither his sister or mother had ever heard of such a thing. I thought maybe it was their more conservative Arkansas background, but the fancy wedding we just went to didn’t have Grand Entrances either. I asked someone at our table about it, and they also had never heard of this tradition. I am just picturing half our guests being very confused when the reception starts and my cousin comes in with his inflatable triceratops costume, dancing to Party Rock Anthem…because that IS happening 😂
   
5. My FH’s family is used to small church ceremonies followed by buffet or potluck dinner held in the church cafeteria or a rec center hall. Everyone goes home after they eat (no DJ or dancing). Our wedding is going to be very different, but I am gathering that their expectations are more of an outlieextreme than typical “Southern style.” My FMIL and SIL are excited that ours will be more of an event/party.
   
6. Cards/Gifts. I’ve always been taught that as a guest, you give a gift at the bridal shower and then bring a card full of money to the wedding (the etiquette is you “pay for your plate” if you are able). When we attended my cousin’s wedding in December, my FH was confused why I had a card to bring with us. I assumed it was because he was a man and the women in his life had always taken care of the card for him. But after going to the Texas wedding this past weekend, I was 1 of 2 cards put in the card box for a 300+ guest event. My boss and his wife were also at this event, and they did not bring a card because they said they had given a gift for the shower. This may come across as gift-grabby, but I’m now preparing myself for half our guests to arrive empty-handed.
   

Is there anything else I’m missing or should prepare for in terms of wedding cultural differences? Anyone been in this situation before and had to navigate expectations from two different families? Any stories or advice is welcome!

Edit: shortened certain details to make it easier to read but will answer any questions anyone has!
Warning as there is a mention of some violence that is necessary to the story. Written on mobile.
Hello. I've read and listened to a lot of stories here, but never thought I'd have to wrote one. I usually ask my mom for advice, but she's had several strokes over the last week and is no longer in her right mind, and my partner actually suggested I write here if I needed advice.Well, I need advice. Please help.
For some back story. I (23f) have been with my fiancé (23m) for 6 years. We are getting married in fall this year. I will admit that I am no saint, and I have spent a lot of time trying to better myself. I exhibited many narcissistic behaviors, lazy, rude, would yell at my partner and wouldn't hold a job. While only part of that is to blame on my autism, all of it stems back to me not holding myself accountable. I've cleaned myself up, gotten a job and have cleaned up our apartment and created routines to better both of our lives. Once my partner saw I had changed for the better, not just for him but for myself, and he saw that I thought I was ready, he proposed to me.
His mother (53f) and I have always had a rocky relationship. I'm not sure why, but she decided from the moment she met me that she was wary of me. She thought I was drama, even though I was a 17 year old when we started dating with anxiety. Even when I did her and her family favors like taking my fiances brothers to school, it didn't seem to mend our relationship. It is also in my opinion that she has a heavy drinking problem, and my fiance agrees. She has health problems that she says she has "no idea what they are from" but could possibly stem from that.
This leads to tonight. My partner had some mail he had to pick up. We try to avoid going there, as everything we do, she lectures my partner on things he does, like failing out of the army (he was injured and was in isolation and wanted to hurt himself. I know my partner, he never stops beating himself up over it) or never coming to see her, or she'll passive aggressively fat shame me, but this was an important piece of mail and unfortunately it's hard to get this address changed so we didn't have a choice.
We got there tonight and she was several beers in already on the couch, his stepfather sitting on the other couch. My partner explained to her that it's been a stressful night as my mother had several strokes and was in the hospital. I was still texting friends and family updates while we were there but my head was elsewhere.
She starts on a point that she has been on us about constantly; pushing the wedding back a year. My mother, since having her strokes, is even more excited about this wedding than ever. Her short term memory is destroyed right now, hopefully temporarily, but her long term is still okay. If we pushed this wedding back, it would devastate her, not to mention we would lose the money for the venue. My MIL says we should push the date back because the day is inconvenient, but my fiance and I both know is so she has one more year to try and break us up.
We told her at this point we'd lose money on our vendors. She said "just the venue" and we informed her about the cake, as well as the cupcakes for the couples shower too. In my exhaustion, I realized we hadn't told her about the couples shower yet. Instead of asking about it, she immediately starts yelling about how we don't include her on wedding stuff. The reason for that is because when we tried to include her, she tried to control everything. Example. She wanted to make the food. Early idea was comfort foods. We liked it, so we went home and brainstormed comfort foods. Came to her house with a list and then she changed her mind and decided Italian. We said "okay" and all sat down and made a full Italian spread. We all loved it, finalized it, done. Then we see her a few days later and she says "it'll be too late for dinner so let's do snack foods." When she tells us this, its 8:30 pm and shes eating dinner actively. At this point we're done trying. We make our plans and tell her gently we decided to do pizza since it's a costume party, but we asked her to do salads so it's less stress for her. It's more than this but this is the biggest contender. We would have paid her for this. But she holds money above our heads as well.
As she's yelling at us she says "DO YOU NOT WANT MY MONEY?!"
At this point, I'm losing my cool and I'm trying to stay calm but my partner isn't handling it but he looked scared too, but I was angry and upset and thinking about my mom and just couldn't keep my head on. I grabbed the back of his arm and told him. "3 seconds or I'm handling this." I had no intention of being violent, but now looking back, I'm wondering if she thought that's what I meant. I was waiting for him to talk to his mom. But he looked just as scared as I did at her. I was going to unload all the crap she has done to him over the years to emotionally abuse him, and I was just tired of seeing him hurt and me hurt.
He put his arm up to guard me, when she suddenly lunged at me, trying to scratch and punch at me, calling me obscenities while I'm just absolutely confused. The only thing I can manage to say is "why would you start this on the day I almost lost my mom" and she just keeps screaming at me obscenities and trying to get to me to hit me. At this point Alex's brothers have come downstairs and his stepfather is trying to pull her back. Alex pulls me to the door. I turn to tell her she has officially ruined her relationship with me as I've tried to make it work with her. She tells me I ruined her relationship with her son, and my fiance turned on her and told her that I didn't ruin that. He huddled us to the car and that's where we are now.
Please keep in mind that she has tried to also attack my fiances younger brother, who has mental disabilities and a hard time controlling his anger in a similar drunken stupor.
I know where I went wrong with saying 3 seconds. I think she may have misunderstood me, but I have never done anything to ever make her think I'm aggressive. I've walked away from every conflict she's ever been nearby to hear. I don't think I deserved to be attacked over wedding opinions.
If I ask my partner to tell his mom she's uninvited from the wedding, that most likely means his brothers couldn't go either, and his younger brother is still a groomsman. WIBTAH? Please help. I'm not in my right mind.
TLDR my fiance's mom attacked me after a 6 year strained relationship between us, WIBTAH if I asked him to tell her she's uninvited to the wedding?

I'm gonna continue this compilation series with Chris Brown. He first came on the scene in the fall of 2005 with "Run It!" (both the album and the single) and became one of the most popular artists during the mid-late 2000s. He was still largely relevant up until the mid 2010s but had a few hit songs here and there up until 2019 or 2020 so I'll stop it there.
Here, I will see which of his songs lean toward either the McBling, Electropop, Core 10s, or even the CovidTok eras.
McBling Era

• Chris Brown album singles - an early/mid 2000s McBling album
  • Run It! ft. Juelz Santana - 2005 (mid 2000s)
  • Yo (Excuse Me Miss) - 2005 (mid 2000s)
  • Gimme That Remix ft. Lil Wayne - 2006 (mid 2000s)
  • Say Goodbye - 2006 (early/mid 2000s cusp); also on the Step Up soundtrack
  • Poppin' - 2006 (mid 2000s)
• His albumless singles
  • Shortie Like Mine w/ Bow Wow & Johntá Austin - 2006 (mid 2000s)
  • Get Like Me w/ David Banner & Yung Joc - 2008 (mid/late 2000s cusp)
  • Make the World Go Round w/ Nas and The Game - 2008 (mid/late 2000s cusp); doesn't sound like a typical mid or late 2000s song but this is the closest that it sounds; it sounds a little similar to some hip-hop songs from the Y2K era or just a mixture of multiple eras
• Exclusive album singles - a McBling/2K7 cusp album (mostly late 2000s)
  • With You - 2007 (late 2000s)
• This Christmas soundtrack singles
  • This Christmas - 2007 (mid/late 2000s cusp); doesn't sound distinctly of any period tbh

Not distinctly McBling or Electropop (a.k.a. "2K7")

• His albumless singles
  • McBling leaning
    • No Air w/ Jordin Sparks - 2008 (late 2000s)
    • Feel the Steam w/ Elephant Man - 2008 (late 2000s); doesn't really sound distinct of any period
    • What Them Girls Like w/ Ludacris and Sean Garrett - 2008 (late 2000s)
    • Head Of My Class w/ Scooter Smiff - 2008 (late 2000s)
  • Electropop leaning
    • Shawty Get Loose w/ Lil Mama & T-Pain - 2008 (late 2000s)
    • Freeze w/ T-Pain - 2008 (late 2000s)
    • Work That! w/ Teriyaki Boyz and Pharrell - 2009 (late 2000s)
    • Drop It Low w/ Ester Dean - 2009 (late 2000s)
• Exclusive album singles - a McBling/2K7 cusp album (mostly late 2000s)
  • McBling leaning
    • Wall To Wall - 2007 (late 2000s)
    • Kiss Kiss ft. T-Pain - 2007 (late 2000s)
    • Take You Down - 2007 (late 2000s)
    • Superhuman ft. Keri Hilson - 2008 (late 2000s)
  • Electropop leaning
    • Forever - 2008 (late 2000s)
• AT&T Team USA Soundtrack album singles
  • McBling leaning
    • Dreamer - 2008 (late 2000s)
  • Electropop leaning
    • None

Electropop Era

• His albumless singles
  • Work That! w/ Teriyaki Boyz and Pharrell - 2009 (late 2000s)
  • Bad Girl w/ Rihanna - 2009 (late 2000s)
  • Better on the Other Side (MJ tribute) w/ The Game and various artists - 2009 (late 2000s)
  • Back to the Crib w/ Juelz Santana - 2009 (late 2000s)
  • Deuces ft. Tyga, Kevin McCall - 2010 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp); later added to the F.A.M.E. album
  • Make a Movie w/ Twista - 2010 (late 2000s)
  • Get Back Up w/ T.I. - 2010 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You w/ Bow Wow - 2010 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Champion - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • My Last w/ Big Sean - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • One Night Stand w/ Keri Hilson - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Best Love Song w/ T-Pain - 2011 (late 2000s)
  • Pot of Gold w/ The Game - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Body 2 Body w/ Ace Hood - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Better With The Lights w/ New Boyz - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Legendary w/ The Game, Keisha Cole & Ne-Yo - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • International Love w/ Pitbull - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Another Round w/ Fat Joe - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Strip ft. Kevin McCall - 2011 (early 10s); later included in the Fortune album
  • Why Stop Now w/ Busta Rhymes - 2011 (early 10s)
  • Birthday Cake (remix) w/ Rihanna - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Right by My Side w/ Nicki Minaj - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Take It To The Head w/ DJ Khaled and various artists - 2012 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • I Can Only Imagine w/ David Guetta and Lil Wayne - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Amazing w/ David Banner - 2012 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Put It Down w/ Brandy - 2012 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Celebration w/ The Game and various artists - 2012 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Everyday Birthday w/ Swiss Beats and Ludacris - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Rider w/ Ace Hood - 2013 (early 10s)
  • Put on My Niggas w/ Compton Menace - 2014 (early 10s)
• Graffiti album singles - a late 2000s Electropop album
  • I Can Transform Ya ft. Swizz Beats, Lil Wayne - 2009 (late 2000s)
  • Crawl - 2009 (late 2000s)
• F.A.M.E. album singles - largely an early 10s Electropop album
  • Yeah 3x - 2010 (early 10s)
  • No Bullshit - 2010 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Look at Me Now ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
  • Beautiful People ft. Benny Benassi - 2011 (early 10s)
  • She Ain't You - 2011 (early 10s)
  • Next to You ft. Justin Bieber - 2011 (early 10s)
  • Wet the Bed w/ Ludacris - 2011 (late 2000s/early 10s cusp)
• Fortune album singles - largely an Electropop album
  • Turn Up The Music - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Don't Wake Me Up - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Sweet Love - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Till I Die ft. Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa - 2012 (early 10s)

Not distinctly Electropop or Core 10s (a.k.a. "2K12")

• His albumless singles
  • Electropop leaning
    • Algo Me Gusta de Ti w/ Wisin & Yandel and T-Pain - 2012 (early 10s)
    • Ready w/ Fabolous - 2013 (early 10s)
    • For The Road w/ Tyga - 2013 (early 10s)
    • Memory w/ Asher Monroe - 2014 (early 10s)
  • Core 10s leaning
    • As Your Friend w/ Afrojack - 2013 (early 10s)
    • Beat It w/ Sean Kingston, Wiz Khalifa - 2013 (early 10s)
    • Episode w/ E-40 and T.I. - 2013 (early 10s)
    • Talkin' Bout w/ Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa - 2014 (early 10s)
    • No Romeo No Juliet w/ 50 Cent - 2016 (early 10s)
• Fortune album singles - largely an Electropop album
  • Electropop leaning
    • Don't Judge Me - 2012 (early 10s)
  • Core 10s leaning
    • None

Core 10s

• X album singles - an early/mid Core 10s album
  • Fine China - 2013 (early 10s)
  • Don't Think They Know ft. Aaliyah - 2013 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Love More ft. Nicki Minaj - 2013 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Loyal ft. Lil Wayne, Tyga - 2013 (mid 10s)
  • New Flame ft. Usher, Rick Ross - 2014 (early/mid 10s cusp)
• His albumless singles
  • It Won't Stop w/ Sevyn Streeter - 2013 (early 10s)
  • Sweet Serenade w/ Pusha T - 2013 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Show Me w/ Kid Ink - 2013 (mid 10s)
  • Main Chick w/ Kid Ink and Tyga - 2014 (mid 10s)
  • Hold You Down w/ DJ Khaled and various artists - 2014 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Only w/ Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Lil Wayne - 2014 (mid 10s)
  • Do Not Disturb w/ Teyana Taylor - 2014 (mid 10s)
  • Post To Be w/ Omarion and Jhene Aiko - 2014 (mid 10s)
  • Waves w/ Mr. Probs and T.I. - 2014 (mid 10s)
  • Hotel w/ Kid Ink - 2015 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Don't Kill The Fun w/ Sevyn Streeter - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Private Show w/ T.I. - 2015 (early 10s)
  • Fool Wit It w/ Kid Ink - 2015 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Fun w/ Pitbull - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Do It Again w/ Pia Mia and Tyga - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • How Many Times w/ DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, and Big Sean - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • All Eyes On You w/ Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj - 2015 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Body On Me w/ Rita Ora - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Moses w/ French Montana and Migos - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Play No Games w/ Big Sean and Ty Dolla Sign - 2015 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Player w/ Tinashe - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Sorry w/ Rick Ross - 2015 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Gold Slugs w/ DJ Khalid, August Alsina, Fetty Wap - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Something New w/ Zendaya - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • #BDAY w/ Tank, Siya, & Sage The Gemini - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Paradise w/ Benny Benassi - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Drifting w/ G-Eazy and Tory Lanez - 2016 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Bounce w/ Kid Red and Migos - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Call Me (When It's Over) w/ Rockie Fresh - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Wishing w/ DJ Drama Skeme, Lyquin - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • I'm The Man (Remix) w/ 50 Cent - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Do You Know w/ DJ Khaled and various artists - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Trap Out The Uber w/ Bricc Baby - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Leave Broke w/ Famous Fresh - 2016 (mid 10s)
  • Famous w/ Ray J - 2016 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • I Think Of You w/ Jeremih and Big Sean - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Bruk Off Yuh Back w/ Konshens - 2017 (mid 10s)
  • Jiu Jitsu w/ OneInThe4Rest - 2017 (late 10s)
  • Whatever You Need w/ Meek Mill and Ty Dolla Sign - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • African Bad Gyal w/ Wizkid - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Tone It Down w/ Gucci Mane - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Pie w/ Future - 2017 (late 10s)
  • Post & Delete w/ Zoey Dollaz - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Perfect w/ Dave East - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Always w/ A1 and Ty Dolla Sign - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Either Way w/ K. Michelle - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Love You Better w/ King Combs - 2018 (early/mid 10s cusp)
  • Freaky Friday w/ Lil Dicky - 2018 (mid 10s)
  • Date Night (Same Time) w/ Kirko Bangz - 2018 (late 10s)
  • Overdose w/ Agnez Mo - 2018 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Fairytale w/ Skye - 2018 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Buss It w/ Sage the Gemini - 2018 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Chi Chi w/ Trey Songz - 2019 (late 10s)
  • Light It Up w/ Marshmello and Tyga - 2019 (late 10s)
• Fan of a Fan: The Album album singles - a mid Core 10s album
  • Ayo w/ Tyga - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Bitches N Marijuana w/ Tyga and ScHoolboy Q - 2015 (mid 10s)
• Royalty album singles - a mid Core 10s album
  • Liquor - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Zero - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Back To Sleep - 2015 (mid 10s)
  • Fine By Me - 2015 (mid 10s)
• Heartbreak on a Full Moon album singles - a mid/late Core 10s album
  • Grass Ain't Greener - 2016 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Party ft. Usher and Gucci Mane - 2016 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Privacy - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Pills & Automobiles ft. Yo Gotti, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and Kodak Black - 2017 (late 10s)
  • Questions - 2017 (mid/late 10s cusp)
  • Tempo - 2018 (mid/late 10s cusp)
• Indigo album singles - largely a 2K18 album
  • No Guidance ft. Drake - 2019 (mid/late 10s cusp)

Not distinctly Core 10s or CovidTok (a.k.a. "2K18")

• His albumless singles
  • Core 10s leaning
    • Left, Right w/ Casanova and Fabolous - 2017 (late 10s)
    • Melanin Magic (Pretty Brown) w/ Remy Ma - 2018 (late 10s)
    • Stranger Things w/ Joyner Lucas - 2018 (late 10s)
    • Easy (Remix) w/ DaniLeigh - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Haute w/ Tyga and J Balvin - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Restroom Occupied w/ Yella Breezy - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Something Real w/ Summer Walker and London on da Track - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Back To You w/ O.T. Genasis and Charlie Wilson - 2020 (late 10s)
  • CovidTok leaning
    • Attention w/ Fat Joe and Dre - 2018 (late 10s)
    • Flight To Memphis w/ Smooky MarGielaa, Juicy J, and A$AP Rocky - 2018 (late 10s)
    • Must Be w/ Rockie Fresh - 2019 (late 10s)
    • G Walk w/ Lil Mosey - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Put In Work w/ Jacquees - 2020 (late 10s)
• Indigo album singles - largely a 2K18 album
  • Core 10s leaning
    • Undecided - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Wobble Up ft. Nicki Minaj and G-Eazy - 2019 (late 10s)
    • Heat ft. Gunna - 2019 (late 10s)
  • CovidTok leaning
    • Back To Love - 2019 (late 10s)

CovidTok Era

• His albumless singles
  • Type A Way w/ Eric Bellinger & OG Parker - 2019 (late 10s)
  • Blow My Mind w/ Davido - 2019 (late 10s)
  • Did You w/ 4B - 2019 (late 10s/early 20s cusp)
  • Out Of Your Mind w/ French Montana, Swae Lee - 2020 (late 10s/early 20s cusp)
  • Wake Up Dead w/ T-Pain - 2020 (late 10s)
• Slime & B album singles - a late 10s CovidTok era album
  • Go Crazy w/ Young Thug - 2020 (late 10s)
  • Say You Love Me w/ Young Thug - 2020 (late 10s/early 20s cusp)

That does it for this list.

Hello,
I been struggling with everything wedding related and I just feel like I can't do it. Is all becoming too real and too much, friends and family are spending so much money to get to our wedding (I moved abroad 10 years ago and having the wedding in my home country wasn't really a possibility) and I feel like they are going to be disappointed or that is not going to be worth their trip. This feelings have stressed me out so much that I just havent been planning the wedding and now we are 2 months out the only thing book and paid is the venue and photographer. We sent RSVPs but most people havent confirmed so I also dont know how many guest are coming. From the bridal party, I only have 2 confirmed bridesmaid that I m so grateful for but I don't know what is going to happen with the rest of the wedding and because of that they have no dresses and I havent picked a color to wear which is beginning to stress some of the groomsman. We have some ideas for flowers and cake but we are already over budget somehow and I dont want to spend more money on the wedding. We have talked with a restaurant for catering but is not finalized yet since they told me they would reach out when it was closer to the date.
Anyways I just needed to vent and see if anyone else was in a similar situation. Thanks for reading.

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Now, we were recently discussing who we want in our wedding with guests and bridesmaids and groomsman. He chose his only sibling his brother for his best man and I chose my best friend Nevae (which we both have good relationships with). When other grooms and brides maids came into question I suggested my brother, to be one of my fiancés grooms because my brother is really important to me, and my fiancée and him get along really well and have basically had a friendship ever since they met. My fiancé agrees that because my brother is important to me and him, that he would gladly have him as a groom as my suggestion.
He then asked if he could have his best friend since childhood, let's call her Molly, as one of my bridesmaids. Politely no.
Why this apprehension?
Molly has been horrible to me ever since we met. Now, I'm a school teacher so l've seen petulant little children that are sneaky little sods. When I say she takes the cake-she snatches that shit. Molly is a couple years younger than my fiancé and I, which has resulted her in only just finishing school, so l understand she may be immature compared to my fiancé and I. However, it does not excuse the multiplicative times she has questioned my ability to do my job, the importance of my job, often making comments like "teachers are just people who didn't get good grades in school", "you're teaching practice is disgusting (because she doesn't agree with my authoritarian approach)", "teachers get paid what they deserve" and so on, which hurts because I love and take pride in my job/ degree. Now I can take the criticism, l'm a big girl, however the worse thing is, she NEVER says anything mean or degrading in front of my fiancé. So it's really freaking hard to kind of 'prove' to my fiancé in what she is like to me. However, when my fiance took initiative and told his mother about what/how Molly has treated me and why l'm reluctant to engage with her, she replied with only "remember your relationship with Molly is important"
Now I know she is really close with my soon to beMIL, which is completely fine, but I was a bit hurt that she seemed to value her son's friendship over his relationship with me or at minimum my feelings. I've discussed this matter with my grandmother, who believes and agrees that I don't/shouldn't have her as my bridesmaid because it is my choice.
Eventually, I brought this up with my fiancée who agreed with the way I felt, and he was happy for me to decline his request, however, talk of this circulated to his mother and she is pissed. Which doesn't bother me, but my darling fiancé is a people pleaser, especially to his mother, and now is reconsidering his or I suppose our choice. Now things are a bit tense and my fiancé is feeling stretched both ways, which I do not want, but I'm feeling inclined to just submit and allow this . So, and be truthful like said, l'm a big girl I can take it, AITA?

Welcome to the Official 2024 Lineup Speculation Thread!

Howdy folks! It's about that time again where tours are being announced for this year and it's time to start looking at who could or could NOT be at ACL Fest this year! This thread is to provide a central place for all ACL lineup speculation discussion.
Here's how this works: artists get divided into 6 categories depending on their level of likelihood of playing this years ACL fest, categories are as follows-

• Confirmed - This is when they are confirmed by an official, credible source such as the artist themselves or a news article.
• Rumored - This is when they are rumored to be playing by a credible source; all sources will be vetted to the best of our ability, but there's never any guarantee it will turn out true, take it with a grain of salt.
• Likely - This is when certain aspects point to them playing ACL; tour route lines up with ACL dates or are playing one or multiple other fests (typically other Live Nation/C3 fests).
• Possible - Nothing to point them as likely or unlikely, just acts touring this year that would make sense for ACL to book.
• Out - Acts that would be violating radius clauses, have conflicting tour dates, or have said they are not playing this year.

Some notes on this process:

1. We are assuming acts that play in Central Texas before May to be in play.
2. We will not include any acts that played ACL in the past two years.
3. For the "tracked" festivals, we're only looking at are Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lolla Chicago and international, Shaky Knees, BottleRock, Jazz Fest, Boston Calling, Gov Ball, Innings, Okeechobee, Osheaga & Hangout. Also, to keep the list from not being stupid long, we'll only list an act if they're playing at least 2 tracked festivals or are playing a tracked festival and have ACL history.
4. We will use our discretion to determine the validity of a source/rumor. Sorry in advance if you disagree.

Lastly, if you have any updates you’d like to be reflected, feel free to comment below or DM me.
We are assuming ALL acts that played last year are OUT for this year, besides the great Asleep at the Wheel of course.

Confirmed

• The Beaches: Confirmed by the band themselves on a tour poster to play ACL on Saturday both weekends.
• CAAMP: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Another anonymous source who knows the band closely has stated they will be at ACL.
• Cannons: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Playing almost every US fest under the sun this year, including Boston Calling, Innings, Botttlerock, Lollapalooza & Governors Ball
• Carin León: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Tour skips Austin with a date in Houston Sunday October 6th and a date in Nashville Sunday October 13th. Could easily play both weekends (Friday or Saturday)
• Erin Ivey: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4.
• Foster the People: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4.
• Leon Bridges: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Anonymous source close to the artist has stated they will be at ACL this year. Playing Stagecoach and Boston Calling. Has not played ACL since 2015.
• Orville Peck: Now officially confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Tour skips Texas with a date in Phoenix on October 2nd and nothing until October 16.
• Penny and Sparrow: Confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4.
• Still Woozy: Now officially confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Tour routing puts them out for weekend 2, but as far as weekend 1 is concerned, they have it wide open.
• Sturgill Simpson: Now officially confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Playing Outside Lands in August. Has not played ACL since 2015.

Rumored

• Briscoe: Austin's own Briscoe is rumored to play ACL by an anonymous source who has credible knowledge.
• Chris Stapleton: Now RUMORED to play by anonymous source with credible knowledge. Tour skips Austin and has a gap from 8/25 to 10/16, making him easily available to play ACL. Has a history however of being open for ACL and not playing.
• Justice: Rumored to be playing ACL by an anonymous source with credible information. Last played ACL in 2018. Playing Coachella and iiiPoints in Miami the weekend after ACL W2.
• Pretty Lights: Rumored to be playing both weekends of ACL by an anonymous source with very credible information. Playing Bonnaroo and Electric Forest. Make sense as a contender for one of our bigger EDM names.

Likely

• Asleep at the Wheel: Not sure this requires explanation.
• Chappell Roan: Playing every fest under the sun: Coachella, Hangout, Governor’s Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo…list goes on. Her schedule is wide open after 9/17.
• Dominic Fike: Another artist popping up on most US festival lineups this year. Playing Hangout, Bottlerock, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo & Governors Ball.
• FLETCHER: Tour hits Dallas October 3 (A Thursday) with both ACL weekends wide open.
• The Hives: Tour hits Atlanta on October 2nd with a gap until a Mexico date on October 8th. Both ACL weekends open!
• Khruangbin: In addition to playing Coachella, Boston Calling and Bonnaroo, the band has both ACL weekends open with a New Orleans date in between. Please note there is the chance they have this open to play Levitation.
• Killer Mike: Playing a whole bunch of fests including Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. Tour skips TX. Has a gap in touring from Sept. 30 to Oct. 14 that fits ACL perfectly.
• Mickey Guyton: Tour skips Texas with a date October 3rd in Oklahoma and both ACL weekends wide open before resuming tour.
• Myles Smith: Tour Poster includes two blurred out dates in early October that scream ACL.
• Porter Robinson: Newly posted tour poster includes blurred out dates between October 1st and October 8th that scream ACL weekend 1. Conflicting tour dates put him out for weekend 2.
• T-Pain: Playing Bonnaroo and Bottlerock, tour with Pitbull lines up with New Mexico date October 5th.
• Teddy Swims: Has gaps Friday and Saturday of both weekends, with a show Sunday October 6th in Arkansas and the following Sunday (October 13th) in Oklahoma. Playing Lollapalooza among other fests.

Possible

• American Football: Among several artists who are looking possible as weekend 1 exclusives. They have a suspicious gap from Sept 29 to Oct 10 that could easily accompany ACL weekend 1.
• Arcade Fire: Playing Shakey Knees and has not played ACL since 2011.
• Avril Lavigne: Tour skips Texas entirely and ends mid-September, leaving October wide open.
• Bebe Rexha: Playing Coachella and Bottlerock. Has never played ACL.
• Black Pumas: Local Austin heroes last play ACL in 2021. New album out, suspiciously no TX dates this year. Gap in tour from Sept. 29 to October 27.
• blink-182: They play San Antonio in June, but as Shania Twain can attest, that does not make them out. Playing Lollapalooza and have no plans in October and would make an ideal legacy rock band.
• Brandi Carlile: Playing a handful of US fests and has a gap from August 20 to October 19. Has Not played ACL since 2018 and would be welcome back.
• Bruce Springsteen: Playing C3 Festival See.Hear.Now in September and has October wide open.
• The Chainsmokers: Love them or hate them, they are possible for ACL this year as one of our bigger EDM artists. They have not played ACL since 2016 and have no tour dates after Sept 28 in Las Vegas. Playing Hangout Festival.
• Commodores: Tour skips Texas and playing a few other US Fests. Have a date in Oklahoma Saturday, October 5th and all of weekend 2 open.
• Crowded House: Tour Skips Texas and ends late September right before ACL. Have not played ACL since 2007.
• Dave Matthews Band: Tour skips Austin and ends 9/1.
• Ed Sheeran: Playing Boston Calling and Bottlerock.
• FISHER: Playing Coachella and Lollapalooza.
• Four Tet: Playing Coachella and Lollapalooza.
• Gary Clark Jr.: Local Austin Hero is always welcome back to Zilker. No Austin Dates even with a new album coming in March. Also playing Bonnaroo.
• Gwen Stefani: Playing a few other fests, has October wide open.
• The Heavy Heavy: Tour skips Texas. Playing Bonnaroo & Boston Calling.
• Holly Humberstone: Playing Bottlerock. Last played ACL as a weekend 2 exclusive in 2021.
• Hootie & the Blowfish: Tour skips Austin and ends directly before ACL (9/28). Weekend 1 is open but they are playing a fest on the Saturday of weekend 2 so that weekend is implausible.
• IDLES: Lets preface this by saying they have an Austin date at Moody Amphitheater on 5/21. Normally May dates make an artist out but there are rare exceptions. The reason we are listing them as possible is they have a date in Mexico on 10/4 and then nothing until mid-November.
• Interpol: Playing Shakey Knees, Kilby Block Party and Bonnaroo. Tour skips Austin but they are playing San Antonio which makes them less likely.
• The Japanese House: Tour skips Austin. Also playing Bonnaroo & Lollapalooza among other fests.
• Jungle: Last played ACL in 2018. Playing Coachella and Lollapalooza.
• The Killers: Playing Governor's Ball and Boston Calling, often plays multiple festivals in almost any given year, has played ACL before and would be welcomed back.
• Lainey Wilson: Plays Lubbock Oct 10 and has weekend 2 free. Would be a W2 exclusive as she plays another fest during weekend 1.
• Lana Del Rey: It has been 10 years since Lana graced Zilker with her presence, and with a new album in September she is due to return. Also playing Coachella and Hangout.
• Laufey: Playing several other US fests and tour ends at the All Things Go festival in Maryland the week before ACL. Worth noting she is playing a sold out show at Bass Concert Hall on 4/19.
• Lizzy McAlpine: No Texas dates this year and playing Bonnaroo. Would have to be a Weekend 1 exclusive as she is in Belgium weekend 2. Playing Lollapalooza as well.
• Local Natives: Tour skips Austin, October wide open. Last played ACL in 2016.
• Marc Rebillet: Tour skips Austin and has a gap from September 30th to October 18th. Last played ACL in 2021. Rumored to be OUT by an anonymous source.
• Meghan Trainor: On a growing list of possible exclusives, this time for weekend 2. Weekend 1 routing would be nearly impossible however she has a free day October 11, with October 12 in Irving and October 13th in Houston. This means she is possible for Friday, Weekend 2 only, and that would be a lot of shows for her to play.
• Metallica: Last played ACL in 2018, which in ACL years, means they are due for a comeback. Tour ends in Mexico very end of September, so they could easily stroll over to good old Zilker.
• Metric: Playing Shakey Knees and have played ACL before.
• Miike Snow: Playing Shakey Knees, Just Like Heaven & BottleRock. Have not played ACL since 2016.
• Militarie Gun: Playing Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and serveral other fests. An October 12 date at Aftershock in California puts them out for Weekend 2 but they have weekend 1 wide open.
• My Morning Jacket: Tour Skips Texas and ends September 28 in NC right before ACL. Also playing BottleRock.
• The National: No Stranger to ACL and are playing several other US fest this year. With a Date in Mexico on October 10 they would most likely be a weekend 2 exclusive as they are in Oregon Oct. 3 and in California Oct. 6.
• New Found Glory: Tour has a gap from Sept 1 to an October 11th date in Dallas. Weekend 1 is wide open from them but weekend 2 close to impossible with an Arizona date on 10/13.
• Norah Jones: Playing Bottlerock; Tour skips Texas. New album this year.
• Pearl Jam: Tour skips Texas with a suspiciously empty October. They are also playing Bottlerock, and are one of the bands ACL loves to recycle like Mumford, RHCP and Foo Fighters.
• Pitbull: Tour ends in New Mexico on October 5th, has played tracked fests in the past.
• PJ Harvey Technically possible for weekend 1. Has Friday and Saturday of Weekend 1 open. However Weekend 2 seems unlikely as she is playing in California October 11th and 14th, but still possible.
• Post Malone: Playing Bonnaroo, Governor's Ball, and Rolling Loud among other music festivals. Has never played ACL fest despite being one of the biggest Texas artists ever, and with Posty Fest dying seems as if it's time for him to headline here.
• Queens of the Stone Age: Playing Bottlerock, have played ACL before.
• Renée Rapp: Now officially confirmed to be playing via a ACL phone booth set up in Zilker Park on 5/4. Playing Coachella, Hangout, Boston Calling, Lollapalooza, Governers Ball & Bonnaroo. Just like Dominic Fike or Chappell Roan, playing every fest under the sun. No dates after 8/25.
• Royal Blood: Last played ACL in 2015 and are playing Shakey Knees.
• Róisín Murphy: Tour skips Texas, October wide open. Playing Bonnaroo.
• Ryan Beatty: Normally a date at the Moody Center on 10/9 would make an artist out but he is breaking radius clauses for both Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo while playing them. He is actually somehow probable.
• Royel Otis: Like IDLES, they have a show in Austin in May (Mohawk, 5/8). Also like IDLES the have suspicious ACL-looking Gaps. Gap between a show at Nashville on Oct 1 and playing Denver Oct. 8. Also playing Kilby Block Party, Shakey Knees, BottleRock and more.
• Say She She: Tour Skips Texas. October is wide open. Also playing Bonnaroo and BottleRock.
• Sexyy Red: Playing Governors Ball & Lollapalooza.
• Shakey Graves: Austin native is no stranger to ACL and is overdue to return. In addition to playing multiple US fests they have a gap from August 21 to November 8 perfect for ACL.
• Skrillex: ODESZA set a high standard last year. It has been 10 years since Skrillex has played ACL and he would make sense as our EDM headliner. He has been extremely active lately as well.
• Smashing Pumpkins: On tour with Green Day but isn't playing the Austin show, active in late September. It is possible they are skipping Austin as the show is at an Amphitheater and most, if not all other tour dates are in Stadiums.
• Something Corporate: According to recent tour news, they are playing in Texas between October 1st and October 10th. They have not specified where and would have to be a weekend one exclusive.
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Tour skips Texas with a date in Madrid on 9/21 and October wide open before resuming tour in November.
• St. Vincent: Has play ACL many times (2007, 2014, 2018, 2021). With her averaging 3 years lately between ACLs it seems time to bring her back. Also playing Bottlerock among other festivals.
• Stephen Sanchez: Playing Bottlerock and Governor’s Ball among other festivals. No TX dates on your and a suspicious gap from Sept. to October 13, where he plays in Georgia.
• Stars: No Texas dates and gap in tour from Oct. 4 through Oct. 17.
• Stevie Nicks: Playing Bottlerock, was booked for 2021 and dropped due to a rise in COVID. Worth noting she is playing San Antonio on 5/18 which could make her less likely.
• Sublime: Playing Coachella among several other fest in the US.
• TV Girl: Playing Bonnaroo and Coachella.
• Tyler, the Creator: Playing Coachella and Lollapalooza. Last played ACL in 2021 as a replacement for DaBaby. While that may seem to soon, Tyler also headlined Lollapalooza in 2021 so possible as our top rap act.
• Victoria Monét: Playing Coachella and Govenor's Ball.
• The War on Drugs: Having just played ACL 2022 take this with a huge grain of salt. They are possible for a weekend 2 exclusive - unlikely for weekend 1 as they are in Oregon Oct. 3 and in California Oct. 6.
• Whiskey Myers: Has not played ACL since 2015. Gap in Tour from September 18th to October 16th with no Austin dates. Playing several other US fest this year.
• Whyte Fang: Playing Bonnaroo, Electric Forect and Lollapalooza.
• Zach Bryan: Tour skips Austin and October has no dates. Last played ACL in 2022 but would certainly headline this time around. Two dates in San Antonio may make him slightly unlikely.

Out

• $UICIDEBOY$ Playing Moody Center on 8/17.
• 21 Savage: Playing Germania Amp on 5/14
• 3 Doors Down: Playing Moody Center on 11/15.
• 311: Playing Moody Amp on 8/21.
• Aerosmith: Final Tour hits Austin on 11/6.
• AFI: Playing Germania Amp on 8/30.
• Air: Conflicting tour dates; Playing Moody Amp on 10/30.
• Air Supply: Playing HEB Center on 8/18.
• The Airborne Toxic Event: Playing Emos on September 11th.
• AJR: Austin date at Moody Center on 5/7.
• Alice Cooper: Playing Germania Amp on 9/24.
• Amen Dunes: Playing Empire Garage on 9/11.
• The Avett Brothers: Thier tour dates line up strangely well for ACL, but two dates late September at WhiteWater Amp likely make them out.
• AWOLNATION: Playing Moody Amp on 8/21.
• Barns Courtney: Playing Stubbs on 7/24.
• Barry Manilow: Playing Final Austin show at Moody Center on 8/19.
• Becky Hill: Plays Emos on 11/15.
• Ben Folds: Playing ACL Live on 12/11.
• Billie Eilish: Out due to conflicting tour dates.
• The Black Crowes: Playing Moody Center on 11/6.
• The Black Keys: Playing Moody Center on 9/18.
• Bleachers: Playing Moody Amp on 5/31.
• Blue October: Playing Whitewater Amp on 8/8.
• Boys Like Girls: Playing Stubbs BBQ on 10/26.
• Boys Noize: Playing Concourse Project on 5/26.
• Briston Maroney: >>> Out with conflicting tour dates.
• Busta Rhymes: Playing Moody Center on 7/18.
• Cage the Elephant: Playing Moody Center on 7/11.
• Cake: Playing Moody Amp on 9/13.
• Cat Power: Playing ACL Live on 9/23.
• Charley Crockett: Playing Moody Amp on 9/6.
• Charli XCX: Out due to conflicting tour dates.
• Cheap Trick: Playing Moody Center on 10/10.
• Chris Brown: Playing Moody Center on 7/17.
• Charles Wesley Godwin: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/30.
• Ciara: Playing Moody Center on 7/18.
• Cloud Nothings: Playing 3Ten on 5/19 AND High Noon on 6/6.
• Cody Jinks: Playing Whitewater Amp on 8/30 & 8/31.
• Coheed and Cambria: Playing Moody center on 9/7.
• Counting Crows: Playing Moody Center on 8/18
• Creed: Playing Moody Center on 11/15.
• Crumb: Playing Emos on 10/15.
• Cults: Playing Moody Center on 10/17.
• Cypress Hill: Playing Stubbs on 5/8.
• Dashboard Confessional: Playing Stubbs BBQ on 10/26.
• The Decemberists: Playing Bass Concert Hall on 5/15.
• deadmau5: Playing Concourse Project on 5/18.
• Denzel Curry: Playing Moody Center on 8/17.
• Dinosaur Jr.: Playing Moody Center on 9/27.
• Dirty Heads: Playing Germania Amp on 8/29.
• DJ Shadow: Playing Mohawk on 10/23.
• Don Omar: Playing HEB Center on 8/16.
• Drive-By Truckers: Playing ACL Live on 6/20.
• Echo & the Bunnymen: Playing Stubbs on 5/7.
• Eminem: Playing F1 at COTA on 10/19.
• Feist: Playing Moody Amp on 7/5.
• Fitz & the Tantrums: Playing ACL Live on 8/4.
• The Flaming Lips: Playing Moody Center on 9/27.
• Flatland Cavalry: Playing a Fest in Utah the Saturday of Weekend 1. Also playing a date in Salado June 27 which is likely within the Radius Claus.
• Fred Again..: Per a press release, Bonnaroo will be the DJs only US appearance this year.
• Future Islands: Playing ACL Live on 9/24.
• The Garden: Playing Stubbs BBQ on 5/18.
• Garth Brooks: Has a Las Vegas Residency both weekends of ACL.
• The Gaslight Anthem: Playing Stubbs on 8/9.
• Geese: Austin date at Moody Center on 5/6.
• Glass Animals: Playing Moody Center on 9/22.
• Goth Babe: Playing Moody Amp in September and has conflicting dates W1 of ACL.
• Green Day: Austin date at Germania Insurance Amphitheater on 9/10.
• Greta Van Fleet: Austin date at Moody Center on 5/6.
• Grouplove: Playing Moody Center on 11/3.
• Guided by Voices: Playing Mohawk on 10/25.
• The Head and the Heart: Playing Moody Center on 9/18.
• Heart: Playing Moody Center on 10/10.
• Imagine Dragons: Conflicting Tour dates. Shows in California during Weekend 1 and show in Utah Weekend 2. Would have to be W2 exclusive but would also likely be top 3, which does not have exclusives.
• Incubus: Playing Moody Center on 9/7.
• Iration: Playing Moody Amp on 7/13
• Iron & Wine: Playing ACL Live on 8/2.
• J.I.D: Playing Germania Amp on 5/14.
• Janet Jackson: Plays Moody Center on 7/27.
• Jeff Lynne's ELO: Plays Final Tour at Moody Center on 10/15, 2 days after ACL ends.
• Jelly Roll: Conflicting Tour dates. Playing in Pennsylvania October 5 & 6 and Chicago/Kentucky October 11 & 12.
• Jennifer Lopez: Plays Moody Center on 7/2.
• Jessie Murph: Playing Float Fest at COTA on 9/7.
• Jhené Aiko: Playing Moody Center on 7/13.
• Jon Pardi: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/30.
• Judah & the Lion: Playing Moody Amp on 5/4.
• Justin Timberlake: Plays Moody Center on 5/31.
• Kansas: Playing ACL Live on 10/26.
• Keane: Playing ACL Live on 9/12.
• Kelsea Ballerini: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/29.
• KiD CuDi: His foot is broken.
• the Kid LAROI: Playing Float Fest at COTA on 9/7.
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Playing Germania Amp on 11/15.
• Kings of Leon: Playing Moody Center on 8/14.
• Koe Wetzel: Out due to conflicting tour dates.
• Kygo: Playing Germania Amp on 9/28.
• The Last Dinner Party: Conflicting tour dates in the UK.
• Lil Wayne: Playing Float Fest at COTA on 9/7.
• Lindsey Stirling: Playing Moody Center on 7/24.
• Little Big Town: Playing Moody Center on 11/21.
• Lord Huron: Playing Moody Center on 11/26 & 11/27.
• Madison Beer: Plays Stubbs on 5/28.
• Man Man: Playing Parish on 6/26
• Marcus King: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/29.
• Maren Morris: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/30.
• The Marley Brothers: Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian Marley all performing 9/15 at Germania Amp.
• Mat Kearney: Playing ACL Live on 11/9.
• Matt Nathanson: Playing Whitewater Amp on 8/8.
• Megan Thee Stallion: Playing Moody Center on 6/13.
• Melanie Martinez: Playing Moody Center on 5/24.
• Miranda Lambert: Playing 3 nights at Whitewater Amp in May.
• Missy Elliot: Playing Moody Center on 7/18.
• Mitski: Austin date at Moody Center on 9/12.
• Modest Mouse: Playing Germania Amp on 6/26.
• Mother Mother: Playing moody amp on 6/23
• Motion City Soundtrack: Playing Scoot Inn on 6/7.
• NEEDTOBREATHE: Playing Moody Amp on 5/4.
• Neil Young: Playing Germania with Crazy Horse on 5/1.
• Nelly: Plays Moody Center on 7/27.
• Neon Trees: Playing Moody Amp on 8/21.
• NF: Austin date at Moody Center on 6/2.
• Nickel Creek: Playing Moody Center on 11/26 & 11/27.
• Nicki Minaj: Plays Moody Center on 5/12.
• No Doubt: Confirmed to be a Coachella exclusive this year.
• Nothing but Thieves: Playing ACL Live on 11/2.
• O.A.R.: Playing ACL Live on 8/4.
• of Montreal: Playing Mohawk on 6/25.
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Playing ACL Live on 9/28.
• Paul Cauthen: Playing Sips & Sounds Festival at COTA on 6/29.
• Pecos & the Rooftops: Playing Whitewater Amp on 6/15.
• Pepper: Playing Moody Amp on 7/13.
• Peso Pluma: Playing Moody Center on 7/19.
• Phantogram: Playing Moody Center on 8/14.
• Pixies: Playing Germania Amp on 6/26.
• Pond: Playing Mohawk on 5/7.
• Pretenders: Playing ACL Live on 8/7.
• Primus: Playing ACL Live on 8/21.
• Pusha T: Playing Moody Center on 6/28.
• Rage Against the Machine: Confirmed by drummer Brad Wilk to not be performing live anymore.
• Rainbow Kitten Surprise: Plying ACL Live 5/24 & 5/25.
• Randy Rogers Band : Playing Whitewater Amp on 6/1.
• Ringo Starr: Austin date at ACL Live on 6/9.
• Ryan Adams: Playing ACL Live on 6/15.
• San Fermin: Austin date at Parish on 6/11.
• Santana: Playing Moody Center on 8/18.
• Sarah McLachlan: Playing Moody Amp on 7/5.
• Sierra Farrell: Playing Stubbs on August 22nd.
• Sigur Rós: Playing Bass Concert Hall on 10/4, literally during ACL.
• SiR:: Playing Emos on 8/11.
• The Sisters of Mercy: Playing ACL Live on 9/29.
• Slightly Stoopid: Playing Germania Amp on 8/29.
• Sting: Out with conflicting tour dates as well as playing F1 at COTA on 10/18. Worth noting they are playing San Antonio with Billy Joel, a tour that has normally been played with Stevie Nicks.
• The Struts: Playing Stubbs on 7/24.
• Sugarland: Playing Moody Center on 11/21.
• Sum 41: Farewell Tour at HEB Center on 9/28.
• Switchfoot: Playing Whitewater Amp on 8/8.
• Taking Back Sunday: Plays Stubbs on 5/25.
• Tate McRae: Austin date at Moody Amphitheater on 7/17.
• Tedeschi Trucks Band: Playing in Boston October 4th and 5th of weekend 1 and are playing a festival in South Carolina the Friday of weekend 2.
• Thievery Corporation: Playing Emos on 5/30.
• Third Eye Blind: Plays Germania Amp on 8/2.
• Tiësto: Playing Concourse Project on 6/1.
• Timbaland: Playing Moody Center on 7/18.
• Tokyo Police Club: Final Tour hits Emos on 11/9.
• Tori Kelly: Playing Emos on 10/30.
• Treaty Oak Revival: Playing Whitewater Amp on 6/15.
• Troye Sivan: Out due to conflicting tour dates.
• twenty one pilots: Playing Moody Center on 9/3.
• Two Door Cinema Club: Plays Stubbs on 5/30 as well as Moody Amp on 9/26.
• Usher: Playing Moody Center on 10/7.
• Vampire Weekend: Playing Moody Center on 10/17.
• Weezer: Playing Moody Center on 9/27.
• Willie Nelson: According to our normal rules, two May dates at Whitewater amp make Willie out. However, if anyone could defy a silly little radius clause it would be him.
• X Ambassadors: Playing Mohawk on 6/12.
• Yellowcard: Plays Germania Amp on 8/2.
• Young Miko: Playing Moody Amp on 8/19.
• Young the Giant: Playing Moody Center on 7/11.
• Zacari: Playing Emos on 8/11.

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Trying to figure out what’s left to budget for, here’s what I have down as like my “checklist of things”, am I missing any? Venue, Catering, Photography/videography, DJ, Cake, Tableware/linens, Drinks/bartending, Bride/bridesmaid dresses, Groom/groomsman outfits, Guest list, Save the Dates/Invites, Thank you cards for gifts

I saw a post earlier today that said "Name every Bluey Character and Episode." While compiling the list, the post was removed. But I spent way to much time on this for it to go to waste! So here is every Bluey character and Episode! (Info from Bluey Wiki)
Alfie, Alfie’s Boss, Alfie’s Mum, Alt Energy Dog, Argentinean Backpacker, Bandit Heeler, Bella, Bentley, Bingo Heeler, Biscuits & Buttermilk, Bluey Heeler, Bob Heeler, Brandy Cattle, Bucky Dunstan, Buddy, Buddy’s Mum, Bus Stop Lady, Busker, Calypso, Captain, Checkout Dog, Checkout Lady, Cherry, Chew B’Deube, Chilli Heeler, Chilli’s Mum, Chippy, Chloe, Chloe’s Mum, Chris Heeler, Chubbles, Chucky, Chunky Chimp, Cinema Counter Dog, Coco, Cookie, Cookie’s Friend A, Cookie’s Friend B, Cornelius, Customer, Daisy, Digger, Docket Boy, Doctor (Baby Race), Doctor (Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound), Doctor (Exercise), Doreen, Dougie, Dougie’s Mum, Dusty, Employee, Fido, Flying Fox Kid, Frank, French Backpacker, Frisky, Grey Nomads, Gruber, Gruber’s Dad, Harley, Hercules, Honey, Hospital Kid, Hospital Kid’s Mum, Ice Cream Lady, Indy, Indy’s Mum, Jack Russel, Jack’s Dad, Jack’s Mum, Janelle, Jasper G., Jasper G.’s Mum, Jasper W, Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc’s Dad, Jerry Lee, Judo, Juniper, Juniper’s Mum, Librarian, Library Dog, Lila, Lila’s Brother, Lucky, Lulu Russel, Mackenzie, Mackenzie’s Dad, Mackenzie’s Mum, Major Tom, Marcus, Maynard, Mia, Missy, Mort Cattle, Movies Dog, Mrs. Retriever, Muffin Heeler, Nurse, Old Pug, Pat, Poffertje Dog, Pom Pom, Pom Pom’s Mum, Pony Lady, Postie, Pretzel, Radley Heeler, Rocko, Rusty, Rusty’s Dad, Rusty’s Mum, Sat Nav, Shiela, Shop Assistant, Shopper, Snickers, Snickers’ Mum, Socks Heeler, Sparky, Stripe Heeler, Surfer (Show and Tell), Surfer (The Beach), Takeaway Lady, Terriers’ Mum, The Terriers, Tiny C., Trixie Heeler, Truck Driver, Vet Corgi, Wendy, Wicket-keeper, Winnie, Winton, Yoga Instructor, Zara, Ziggy, Airport Afghan Hound, Airport Dingo, Barbecue Dad, Batsman, Black and Red Dog, Bentley’s Mum, Blue Candidate, Brown Voter, Bull Terrier Mum, Boxer Dad, Chemist Employee, Chihuahua Candidate, Coco’s Dad, Cookie’s Parent, Cornelius’ Girlfriend, English Cocker Spaniel Mum, English Pointer Pedestrian, Grey Dad, Hammerbarn Employee, Harley’s Dad, Hockey Player, Homeless Dog, Hugging Couple, Jean-Luc’s Mum, Juniper’s Brother, Missy’s Mum, Pitbull Voter, Poodle Candidate, Pomeranian, Produce Vendor, Roadworks Dog, Scruffy Samoyed, St. Bernard Cashier, Scottish Busker, Shichon Mum, Sketch Artist, Skink Owner, Stroller Mum, Sunglasses Dog, Trailer Owner, Underpants Dog, White Mum, Yellow Dad, Bull Terrier Kid, Boxer Kid, Coco’s Siblings, Cricket Batter, Doberman Kid, English Cocker Spaniel Kid, Grey Kid, Juicebox Kid, Kelpie Kid, Muffin’s Friend A, Muffin’s Friend B, Papillon Kid, Ruch J., Sadie, Scooter Kid, Stroller Baby, White Kid, Yellow Kid, Anna McNiell Whistler, King Charles III, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Joel, Vinny, The Wiggles, Auntie Mary, Banjo, Bosco, Casper, Chris Heeler’s Nana, Felix, Indy’s Sister, Jenny, Jules, Len, Lila’s Nana, Madge, Mrs. Terrier, Rocko’s Mum, Steve-o, Terrier’s Grandma, Winnie’s Sister
Unnamed 2016 Pilot Episode, The Weekend (Pilot Episode), The Magic Xylophone, Hospital, Keepy Uppy, Daddy Robot, Shadowlands, The Weekend, BBQ, Fruitbat, Horsey Ride, Hotel, Bike, Bobo Bilby, Spy Game, Takeaway, Butterflies, Yoga Ball, Calypso, The Doctor, The Claw, Markets, Blue Mountains, The Pool, Shops, Wagon Ride, Taxi, The Beach, Pirates, Grannies, The Creek, Fairies, Work, Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound, Trampoline, The Dump, Zoo, Backpackers, The Adventure, Copycat, The Sleepover, Early Baby, Mums and Dads, Hide and Seek, Camping, Mount Mumandad, Kids, Chickenrat, Neighbours, Teasing, Asparagus, Shaun, Daddy Putdown, Verandah Santa, Dance Mode, Hammerbarn, Featherwand, Squash, Hairdressers, Stumpfest, Favourite Thing, Daddy Dropoff, Bingo, Rug Island, Charades, Sticky Gecko, Dad Baby, Mum School, Trains, Army, Fancy Restaurant, Piggyback, The Show, Tickle Crabs, Escape, Bus, Queens, Flat Pack, Helicopter, Sleepytime, Grandad, Seesaw, Movies, Library, Barky Boats, Burger Shop, Circus, Swin School, Cafe, Postman, The Quiet Game, Mr Monkeyjocks, Double Babysitter, Bad Mood, Octopus, Bin Night, Muffin Cone, Duck Cake, Handstand, Road Trip, Ice Cream, Dunny, Typewriter, Baby Race, Christmas Swim, Easter, Perfect, Bedroom, Obstacle Course, Promises, Omelette, Born Yesterday, Mini Bluey, Unicorse, Curry Quest, Magic, Chest, Sheepdog, Housework, Pass the Parcel, Explorers, Phones, Pavlova, Rain, Pizza Girls, Driving, Tina, Whale Watching, Family Meeting, Faceytalk, Ragdoll, Fairytale, Musical Statues, Stories, Puppets, Turtleboy, Onesies, Tradies, Granny Mobile, Space, Smoochy Kiss, Dirt, The Decider, Cubby, Exercise, Relax, Stickbird, Show And Tell, Dragon, Wild Girls, TV Shop, Slide, Cricket, The Sign, Ghost Basket, Surprise!

🎉🎶 Hey party people! DJ Tommy Scott here, your go-to Dallas Wedding DJ, and I hope you're all geared up for an amazing 2024! 🥳✨ As we kick off the year, let's take a moment to reminisce about the fantastic tunes that had us grooving and celebrating love throughout 2023. 🎵💖
🕺💃 Without further ado, here's a list of the most requested songs that lit up the dance floor at weddings and events last year:
These tracks brought so much joy and energy to the dance floor, making each celebration a memorable one. 🎊💑 Whether you're planning your own special day or just love a good dance party, these hits are sure to keep the vibes high!
Stay tuned for more incredible beats and unforgettable moments in 2024. As always, if you're in need of a DJ to spin the tunes at your Dallas wedding, look no further than DJ Tommy Scott. Let's make your celebration one for the books! 🎶👰🤵
1 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) Whitney Houston 2 Dancing Queen ABBA 3 Mr. Brightside Killers 4 Yeah Usher 5 Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) Neil Diamond 6 Cupid Shuffle Cupid 7 Shut Up And Dance Walk The Moon 8 Don't Stop Believin' Journey 9 Party In The U.S.A. Miley Cyrus 10 September Earth, Wind and Fire 11 Hey Ya! OutKast 12 Cha Cha Slide DJ Casper 13 Wannabe Spice Girls 14 Livin' On A Prayer Bon Jovi 15 Wobble V.I.C. 16 Crazy In Love Beyonce feat. Jay-Z 17 Man! I Feel Like A Woman! Shania Twain 18 Low Flo Rida 19 I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas 20 Uptown Funk Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars 21 Get Low Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz 22 Dancing In The Moonlight Toploader 23 Everybody (Backstreet's Back) Backstreet Boys 24 Levitating Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby 25 Tennessee Whiskey Chris Stapleton 26 Can't Help Falling In Love Elvis Presley 27 We Found Love Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris 28 Friends In Low Places Garth Brooks 29 Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison 30 Marry You Bruno Mars 31 Love Shack B-52's 32 Footloose Kenny Loggins 33 Come On Eileen Dexys Midnight Runners 34 24k Magic Bruno Mars 35 Can't Stop The Feeling! Justin Timberlake 36 You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC 37 Despacito Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee 38 Perfect Ed Sheeran 39 Hot In Herre Nelly 40 Party Rock Anthem LMFAO 41 Forever Chris Brown 42 Timber Pitbull feat. Kesha 43 All The Small Things Blink-182 44 Shake It Off Taylor Swift 45 This Is How We Do It Montell Jordan 46 My Girl Temptations 47 Hips Don't Lie Shakira 48 Danza Kuduro Don Omar feat. Lucenzo 49 Higher Love Kygo and Whitney Houston / Steve Winwood 50 The Way You Look Tonight Frank Sinatra 51 Twist And Shout Beatles 52 We Are Family Sister Sledge 53 Time Of Our Lives Pitbull and Ne-Yo 54 Girls Just Want To Have Fun Cyndi Lauper 55 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 56 Give Me Everything Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer 57 Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of..) Lou Bega 58 Fireball Pitbull 59 Jump Around House Of Pain 60 I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys 61 Dynamite Taio Cruz 62 Bye Bye Bye N'Sync 63 I Like It Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin 64 Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard 65 Wagon Wheel Old Crow Medicine Show 66 Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) Stevie Wonder 67 Summer Of '69 Bryan Adams 68 You Make My Dreams (Come True) Daryl Hall & John Oates 69 Baby Got Back Sir Mix-A-Lot 70 Everytime We Touch Cascada 71 Beautiful Crazy Luke Combs 72 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 73 Y.M.C.A. Village People 74 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 75 Sugar Maroon 5 76 Raise Your Glass Pink 77 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross / Marvin Gaye 78 Cotton Eye Joe Rednex 79 In Da Club 50 Cent 80 All Of Me John Legend 81 Africa Toto 82 Love On Top Beyonce 83 Don't Stop Me Now Queen 84 Billie Jean Michael Jackson 85 Shout Animal House 86 Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry 87 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Beyonce 88 Stayin' Alive Bee Gees 89 Truth Hurts Lizzo 90 You Make Me Feel Cobra Starship 91 Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd 92 This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) Natalie Cole 93 Better Together Jack Johnson 94 Stand By Me Ben E. King 95 Just Dance Lady GaGa 96 Celebration Kool & The Gang 97 Gold Digger Kanye West 98 DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love Usher 99 At Last Etta James 100 Turn Down For What DJ Snake feat. Lil' Jon 101 Happy Pharrell Williams 102 Sexyback Justin Timberlake 103 Good As Hell Lizzo 104 Temperature Sean Paul 105 Build Me Up Buttercup Foundations 106 Don't Stop Til You Get Enough Michael Jackson 107 Levels Avicii 108 All Star Smash Mouth 109 Starships Nicki Minaj 110 (I've Had The) Time Of My Life Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 111 Shots LMFAO feat. Lil Jon 112 Chicken Fried Zac Brown Band 113 Macarena Los Del Rio 114 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles 115 Ignition (Remix) R. Kelly 116 Fancy Like Walker Hayes 117 Jessie's Girl Rick Springfield 118 Let's Groove Earth, Wind & Fire 119 Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver 120 L-O-V-E Nat King Cole 121 Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley 122 No Scrubs TLC 123 Crazy Little Thing Called Love Queen 124 Fly Me To The Moon Frank Sinatra 125 About Damn Time Lizzo 126 Love Story Taylor Swift 127 Sweet Child O' Mine Guns N' Roses 128 Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) Big & Rich 129 One More Time Daft Punk 130 Closer Ne-Yo 131 Wonderful Tonight Eric Clapton 132 Country Girl (Shake It For Me) Luke Bryan 133 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) James Taylor 134 Piano Man Billy Joel 135 Just The Way You Are Bruno Mars 136 Take On Me A-Ha 137 Can't Take My Eyes Off You Franki Valli 138 Suavemente Elvis Crespo 139 Any Man Of Mine Shania Twain 140 Return Of The Mack Mark Morrison 141 Old Time Rock N Roll Bob Seger 142 Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 143 No Diggity Blackstreet 144 Hotel Room Service Pitbull 145 Valerie Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse 146 Moves Like Jagger Maroon 5 147 Die A Happy Man Thomas Rhett 148 Feel So Close Calvin Harris 149 No Hands Waka Flocka Flame 150 A Thousand Years Christina Perri 151 Fat Bottomed Girls Queen 152 Pepas Farruko 153 Old Town Road (Remix) Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus 154 Pony Ginuwine 155 Wonderwall Oasis 156 Mi Gente J Balvin and Willy William 157 I Don't Want To Miss A Thing Aerosmith 158 Lover Taylor Swift 159 Juice Lizzo 160 One Dance Drake 161 Cake By The Ocean DNCE 162 I'm Yours Jason Mraz 163 Dance Monkey Tones And I 164 Speechless Lady GaGa 165 Marry Me Train 166 You Are The Best Thing Ray LaMontagne 167 Proud Mary Creedence Clearwater Revival / Tina Turner 168 Hooked On A Feeling Blue Swede 169 Gasolina Daddy Yankee 170 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Proclaimers 171 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 172 What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong 173 Club Can't Handle Me Flo Rida 174 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Wham! 175 Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen 176 Sex On Fire Kings Of Leon 177 December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) Four Seasons 178 Push It Salt 'N Pepa 179 Mamma Mia ABBA 180 Rock Your Body Justin Timberlake 181 Thunderstruck AC/DC 182 Brick House Commodores 183 Bad Habits Ed Sheeran 184 Electric Boogie (Electric Slide) Marcia Griffiths 185 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I. 186 Get Lucky Daft Punk 187 Don't Stop The Music Rihanna 188 Your Song Elton John 189 Unforgettable Nat King Cole 190 Dreams Game 191 Uptown Girl Billy Joel 192 Super Bass Nicki Minaj 193 Respect Aretha Franklin 194 Wake Me Up! Avicii 195 Fergalicious Fergie 196 Believe Cher 197 The Git Up Blanco Brown 198 Let's Stay Together Al Green 199 Unchained Melody Righteous Brothers 200 Thriller Michael Jackson
Cheers to love, laughter, and a year filled with fantastic music! 🥂✨ #DJTommyScott #DallasWeddingDJ #2024PartyVibes

I(27f) have not been speaking to my dad(57m) for months because of who he's been dating for the past year and a half(maybe longer).My dad lives in a different state from my brother and I but he lives in the next state over so sometimes he drives over to visit us. It all began when my dad came into town last summer around his birthday. My older brother Jason(31m) called me to let me know our dad was over at his place, and to warn me that our dad's new girlfriend Ana would be there. I knew by the tone in Jason's voice that something was wrong so I asked him what the problem was and he replied "his new girlfriend is pretty young". My dad has been no stranger to dating younger in the past so I wasn't super surprised, I simply asked "how young?" Jason tried to down play it but I kept pressuring him until he told me "She's younger than you." My dad has been married multiple times his youngest wife was 27 but I was still in high school at that point in time and didn't give it too much thought at the time. I knew when my brother told me this I would have an issue with this kind of relationship with a HUGE age gap, but still I decided to go to my brother's place to wish my dad happy birthday(big mistake). I thought when I got there we were gonna sing happy birthday and small talk about life but I was so very wrong instead I walked into a trap. I entered my older brother's apartment and greeted my dad, my brother, and my brother's wife Lisa. Then off to the side was my dad's new girlfriend but she wasn't a new person, I had met her prior to that day at a gathering for my grandma( my dad's mom). After we said hello my dad introduced me to Ana and right after Lisa announced she had to go run some errands. My brother said he would walk her out to the car which left me alone with my dad and his new girlfriend. My dad immediately started telling me about his new girlfriend and how they met and how certain people in the family were being judgmental towards his relationship with her but what was important was how me and my brother Jason felt about it that mattered to him. I didn't know what to say or do and the whole time Ana is looking at me like she's on the verge of breaking down into tears. At the end of his speech about his very 'valid' relationship he asked me if I was okay with it and let me know that my brother Jason gave his sign of approval already. Here's where I messed up, it's always been hard for me to stand up to my dad and say what I believe in because anytime I did growing up he would shut me down, I was the child that was seen and never heard. I never wanted to be in trouble because he was the one to discipline my brother and I as kids and I think that fear is still there. I told my dad that I was okay with it but I really wasn't, in my opinion it's creep behavior. He was happy to hear me say it and his girlfriend looked relieved, my brother came back up heard the news we visited for a short while then I made my exit. When I got back home I told my boyfriend and friends about the situation and thankfully they all agreed that it was gross my dad was dating a girl younger than me. The more I sat with it the more I felt wrong for telling my dad I was okay with it when in reality I wasn't, and after talking with my therapist about it I decided to be honest with my dad the next time he visited no matter the outcome. A couple of months go by before he visits again and once again he's at my brother's place but thankfully his girlfriend wasn't with him this time. I told my brother that I wanted to talk to our dad about how I truly felt about his relationship, what I didn't realize is I was once again walking into a trap. When I get to my brother's place my dad and him were sitting on the couch playing with my brother's kid I said hi and sat next to my dad. We sat in silence for a little bit before I finally worked up the courage to talk to my dad about how I really felt. I turned to my dad and said "I wanted to talk to you about your relationship with Ana, I know the last time we were together I told you I was fine with your relationship but I'm actually not. I think she's way too young for you and it honestly I think the age gap between you two is gross." After I said it my brother and dad were quite for a second before my dad looked at me and says " I know you believe that sort of stuff but like Jason says it's perfectly normal for a guy to want a younger girl." My jaw was on the floor my dad had never spouted this nonsense before and to make matters worse my brother chimed in and said "Yeah it's in our DNA to seek younger women and it's just our dad having preferences." It's important to note that my older brother is in the off brand pitbull lookalike tatter tott loser cult, so of course he would agree with that kind of thought process. I think the cherry on top of the 'grasping for straws cake' was when my dad opened his mouth next and said "Exactly! It's just my preferences, what if I disapproved of your bf cause he's white and that's like how you're acting right now." This is funny for a multitude of reasons number 1 because both my brother and I are biracial and guess what race our mom is? Yeah you guessed it white. Number 2 because every single one of my dad's wives and girlfriends all through out the years have been white, this is the first girl I've seen him date who's from the same culture as him. My dad ended his rant by saying I should still have a relationship with him even though I don't approve of his relationship. For a while I did keep in contact until I really sat with it and talked with my friends about it I realized where do I draw the line? If I say I stand for something I should stand for it and I know a lot of people give passes to family members but I'm not one of those people. One of the final things that pushed me into the realm of no contact was when my Grandma(his mom) visited me for my birthday at the nail salon. My mom had surprised me with it and I don't visit my Grandma often so I was very happy to see her. After we caught up I decided to talk to her about the situation with my dad since I figured he was talking about her with the judgmental family bit and then she dropped the bomb. She said "It's disgusting she's way too young for him and THEY'RE RELATED THAT'S HIS OWN COUSIN." Now at first I thought maybe she was exaggerating because we do have people we call family but they aren't actually related they're really friends of the family. Shortly after that talk with my grandma I went no contact with my dad, if my grandma isn't talking to my dad because of it then I could stand in my beliefs too. For a while my dad would call and I would let my phone go to voicemail eventually he got the message and stopped trying to reach out. That was the last I heard about my dad until a month ago when my mom informed me that Lisa told her he proposed to Ana. Then my mom told me Lisa said my dad had knocked Ana up but it ended in a miscarriage which she was worried about them even having kids together because they are RELATED. That was all the confirmation I needed to know my Grandma was telling the whole truth and nothing but it. A few days after we had family from out of town on my Mom's side visiting so we all got together and went to Olive Garden. My brother Jason was sitting on the other end of the table so we didn't talk during the dinner. When we finished eating and were getting ready to leave I walk over to my brother Jason and joking asked him he was gonna tell me that dad proposed to the child. With that one question all hell broke lose my brother turned it on me at said "well you don't care to have a relationship with your father so I didn't think you'd care." a full blown argument broke out after that, I brought up points that if I brought home some 60 year old guy they would freak out and ask if something was wrong with me or if he was my sugar daddy or something. My brother didn't even dispute that one I tried to explain to him that if any guy my dad age was going out with someone who is(found this out last month) 20 I would think it's groomer behavior and it makes it even worse that she's related and they've been going out for a while I think since she was 18 or 19. No matter how many points I brought up my brother said I was still in the wrong for not having a relationship with my father because of it. When I talked to my mom about it she understood and immediately thought it was gross too she even said "That's like if I started dating one of your little brother's friends." My little brother is 23 and that's still older than the girl my dad is engaged to. Even though she agreed with my view, like my brother she said it's kinda sad for me to give up having a relationship with him. Half my family is split on the matter some of them agreeing with me like my grandma and the other half either thinks family comes first or they don't see the issue. All of my friends and my boyfriend have said I'm not wrong and that my dad is being a creep but half my family is now cut off because of this. I have to accept the fact that my dad may never walk me down the aisle, and I may not even make it right with him before either of us dies but I still feel like I'm in the right. Am I wrong for cutting off my dad for being 57 dating a 20 year old that is also related to him?

Hello, bosom friends!! Welcome to the second discussion of Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Windy Willows) by Lucy Maud Montogmery. I'm excited to be discussing sections of The First Year Ch. 13 through The Second Year Ch. 8 with all of you kindred spirits. A quick reminder: we have a strict no spoiler policy at bookclub and if you're not sure what constitutes as a spoiler you can check out our spoiler policy here. If you must post a spoiler, please use spoiler tags that are made using this format > ! SPOILER ! < without the spaces between the characters and without the spaces in front of and at the end of the sentence. Next week on Tuesday the 16th Liath-Luachra will be leading our final discussion. You can find the schedule here and the Marginalia post here. Let's get to it.
Continuing The First Year

• 13 Anne convinces the slightly aggravating Mrs. Gibson to let Pauline go to the wedding by agreeing to stay with Mrs Gibson while Pauline has a break. Anne is so is so grateful that she kisses Mrs. Gibon's cheek. With Pauline going to the wedding, a new problem arises, Pauline attire which is going to be her "black taffeta." Anne and Pauline agree that it's too big and too gloomy for a wedding. However, they are unable to convince Mrs. Gibson to provide Pauline with a new garment. While picking lilies and bleeding-hearts, Anne tells Pauline that she is going to loan her her silver-grey poplin. Pauline doesn't think that Mrs. Gibson will approve of such a garment, and Anne tells Pauline that Mrs. Gibson doesn't have to know about it. Anne tells Pauline that Pauline can wear the silver-grey poplin under her black taffeta and Mrs. Gibson will be none the wiser. Later, Anne hides the dress in a parcel under a lilac-bush and Pauline smuggles it inside her home.
  
• 14 Anne comes to the Gibsons' home early Saturday morning to find both Mrs. Gibson and Pauline in a good mood. Anne helps Pauline into the dresses, the grey one underneath the black one, and does Pauline's hair. Pauline has to pass inspection from Mrs. Gibson and Pauline worries that she'll discover the dress underneath the black one, luckily she does not. Mrs. Gibson then wastes time talking about this and that, then gives Pauline a bottle of sarsaparilla wine to give to Louisa, (this woman really tested my patience) and sends Pauline on her way. Pauline makes it in time for the train. Anne and Mrs. Gibson spend some time on the porch with some tea. They have a lovely dinner and then Anne sets up Mrs. Gibson for her nap. It's after her nap that Mrs. Gibson becomes bad-tempered and nothing appeases her. They wait up for Pauline but when night time falls, Anne guesses that Pauline will not be home until Monday because Jim Gregor does not travel on Sundays.
  
• 15 Pauline returns, looking ten years younger. She gives Mrs. Gibson a bouquet from the bride, and Mrs. Gibson is disappointed it isn't cake. Pauline assures her that there is also cake but that she wasn't able to bring back the wine bottle as it broke. Louisa gave her one that was exactly the same but Mrs. Gibson states there's no way it can be exactly as the old one. While walking Anne out, Pauline goes into detail about the wedding and an old beau of hers, Captain Isaac Kent, and how he complimented her hair. She also tells Anne about how she caught up with her old friend Mary how they reminisced over the old home Mary used to live in. Anne is pleased with herself for being able to help Pauline have the day at the wedding and asks Dusty Miller that if he thinks she'll end up like Mrs. Adoniram Gibson. Dusty purrs that he doesn't believe so.
  
• 16 Anne arrives at Bonnyview for Sally Nelson's and Gordon Hill's wedding. The Nelsons are giving a dinner for the wedding guest at Dr Nelson's summer home. Sally shows Anne to her room, which she'll be sharing with three other women. Sally admits Amy was to share the room with all of them, but that Sally intervened because Amy hates Anne for being a bridesmaid instead of herself. Sally admits she couldn't have anyone one who was "so fat and dumpy". (A little harsh Sally, sheesh.) We get the introduction of Aunt Mouser (what is it about opinionated old women in this novel?). As soon as we meet the lovely Aunt Mouser, she hounds Nora for being the only sister left to be unmarried. Aunt Mouser mentions a Jim Wilcox and it's a touchy subject because Nora and Jim had a falling out last January. That night at dinner, everyone is having a good time, mostly because no one can take Aunt Mouser seriously. Anne thinks to herself that Nora is attractive in her own way and believes that she would be better friends with Nora than Sally. After Nora disappears from the party, Anne bumps into her on the shore behind the house. Nora confides in Anne stating that she loves Jim Wilcox but that she doesn't want to be the one to call him because he can come to her of his own accord. Nora tells Anne that she's always wanted to be friends with Anne because she loves her laugh and says that she's had no real girlfriends because she always had Jim. When Nora and Jim were kids, Nora would put a light up in the little window in the attic whenever she wanted Jim to come over and he would sail right over. When they finishing talking on the shore, the dancing is over and a groomsman, Jud Taylor, makes the comment "Hello, Nora! When are we going to have a chance to dance at your wedding?" Nora, being on edge, slaps him and goes upstairs without looking back. (The Nelson girls sure are spunky.)
  
• 17 The next afternoon is dedicated to getting last-minute things done. Anne is helping Nora with salads. Nora admits to Anne that she is jealous and spiteful of hates the look of happy people at the time. While getting ready, Anne and Nora compliment each other. The wedding goes on with no problems, despite Aunt Mouser's worries. Nora plays a "stormy" Wedding March and hugs Sally fiercely afterwards. Nora and Anne clean up after the wedding party is over and start preparing for a shore dance. Anne is having a good time until she notices Nora's face and gets a bright idea. She goes to the attic and sets up a hand-lamp in the attic window. Anne thinks that there's a chance that Nora will be upset with her but doesn't worry about it because maybe Jim will come. Jim does not show up and Anne forgets about the light because it can't be seen from the bottom due to the surrounding trees. However, at two o'clock int he morning, Aunt Mouser creeps into the girls' room saying that she has heard something in the house. Everyone takes it for a burglar and soon the whole house is up to investigate. In the library, they find Nora and Jim. Aunt Mouser thinks Jim is chloroforming Nora (did anyone else lose it at this part? I just imagine this little old lady in distress, yelling "He’s chloroforming her!"). When they realize it's Jim, Dr. Nelson demands an explanation, but Jim is confused because in his mind Nora summoned him, yet Nora has no recollection of summoning him. Anne admits it was she who left the light in the attic and Nora, of course, is livid. More chaos ensues, but when it's settled and done, Jim and Nora have come to the agreement that marriage is in their future. (What a happily stubborn couple.)
  
• 18 The school is closed, and Anne will spend two months at Green Gables. We learn that Jen Pringle gave Anne a bouquet and wished Anne a happy vacation. What's more is she'll be spending a weekend at Green Gables. Little Elizabeth is bummed out that Anne is going, but Anne promises to write her a letter every week, and this lifts her spirits. Anne thinks about inviting Katherine Brooke to Green Gables but can't bring herself to do so because she feels Katherine would be a kill-joy anyway. Nora and Jim will be married in the following September and Sally states she believes that "they’ll be happier fighting with each other than agreeing with anybody else." (I can't help but to think of the couple from The Notebook but I prefer Jim's and Nora's story.)
  

The Second Year

• 1 The two months of summer vacation go by with no significant events. The Widows and Rebecca Dew are happy to have Anne back at Windy Willows for her second term as principal. Elizabeth is also glad to have Anne back and was worried that Anne might have found Tomorrow without her. Back at the school, Anne's pupils are glad to see her and Jen even ask Anne for help to make ten halos angel heads for a Sunday school concert. Katherine Brooke is cold as always the Anne is very excited for her second term. Anne and Lewis Allen plan to reorganize the dramatic club and decide to ask all the families connected for a subscription. Lewis also plans to compete for a prize offered by Country Homes for the best photograph of an attractive farmhouse. Anne asked Aunt Kate if they can have Lewis Allen over for dinner and she does this in front of Rebecca Dew. Aunt Kate says that she's afraid they can't afford an addition to their dinners, but Rebecca Dew says that they are not so poor they can't afford to feed a poor hard-working boy who's trying to get an education.
  
• 2 Lewis and Anne are going through the Dawlishroad one afternoon asking for subscriptions. Anne is asking the men while Lewis is asking the woman. It rains and they take shelter in an old deserted blacksmith forge. And Anne worries that the rain may last, but it does not. They take a side road and come up onto a house and barn and the barn looks more kept than the home. Lewis is convinced that this is the house that will win the price for him. After taking a picture of the house, a gentleman opens the door and is rather rude to them and closes their door and their faces before they can explain more about their high school dramatic club. Before leaving, a little boy named Teddy Armstrong offers him some food, and is being followed by his big black Newfoundland dog, Carlo. The little boy apologizes for his dad's behavior and decides to make up for it by offering them something to eat. They learn that Teddy's mother has died, and that Jim isn't usually kind to strangers but loves Teddy. Anne ask Teddy if he would like to have his picture taken and Teddy agrees and asked if Carlo his new film can also be in the picture. Lewis tells him that if the picture comes out well, he will send it to him by mail.
  
• 3 It takes about 3 weeks before Lewis develops his pictures and on a Sunday night he brings them to the supper at Windy Willows. Anne and Rebecca Dew agree that the little fellow Teddy looks like Lewis. Louis thinks it's just a coincidence but when Rebecca Dew mentions that Jim Armstrong also came from New Brunswick, where Lewis was born, Lewis decides he will investigate when he delivers the picture. Anne states Teddy will be disappointed about not receiving the letter in the mail and Lewis says that he'll send Teddy something else by mail to make it up to him. The following Saturday, Anne and Lewis make their way to Glencove to deliver the picture. On their way there, they run into a Mr. Merrill. Anne mentions to him that they are going to deliver Teddy his picture. Mr. Merrill drops the devastating news that Teddy Armstrong has died. Mr. Merril tells them that Jim is beside himself, all the more because he doesn't have any good pictures of Teddy. When they arrive at Jim Armstrong's home, Carlo looks up at Anne as if to ask where his playmate has gone. (If you weren't crying before, this had to get you.) Jim answers the door and apologizes for his rudeness the last time they were there, then asks them to come in. Lewis gives Jim the picture and when Jim unwraps it and sees what it is, he burst into tears. Jim explains how he can't see faces in his mind like most people do. Since his Little Fellow died, he couldn't remember what he looked like. And now he has a picture of Teddy from the very people he was rude to. After speaking about Teddy for a bit, Jim seems a little less reserve. Lewis hands him another photo and asks him if that photo reminds him of anybody. Jim says that it's very reminiscent of his Teddy and asks who is the little boy. Lewis says it was him when he was 7 years old and thought that he should share the picture because it was very reminiscent of Teddy. Jim ask Lewis what his mother's name was and when he replies "Mary Gardiner". James states she was his half-sister. After discovering this new relation James invites Lewis to come live with him as they're all that each other has now.
  
• 4 With the Christmas holidays in sight, Anne is determined to ask Katherine Brooke to spend the holidays with her at Green gables. Rebecca Dew believes Anne will be successful in getting Katherine to go with her. Because when Anne says a certain thing will happen, she has a way of making a body believe it will happen. Anne makes it to Katherine's boarding house and is greeted by Mrs. Dennis, Katherine's landlord. Mrs. Dennis is surprised that Katherine has friends and mentions to Anne how Katherine is sulking because Mrs. Dennis made a comment about how she dresses and denied her having a dog. Anne convinces Mrs. Dennis to let Katherine have a dog, and Mrs. Dennis tells Anne that she can tell Katherine the news. Anne then makes her way to Katherine's room to invite her to Green Gables. It takes some convincing, but Anne gets Katherine to agree to go to Green Gables so long as and doesn't wish her a Merry Christmas.
  
• 5 This chapter opens with Elizabeth praying that Anne will have a Merry Christmas. Davy meets Anne and Katherine at the station. On the drive home, Anne is reminiscent of her first drive home with Matt. We learn that a lot has happened at Green Gables, including Josie Pry having a young man, Charlie Sloan being engaged, and Diana giving birth to a daughter. After settling at home, Anne and Katherine decide to go for a snowshoe walk. Katherine and Anne are having a wonderful time and feel no need to talk to each other as they make their way to the Lake of Shining Waters. They stand and admire the scenery. Anne notices that Katherine is crying and is taken aback by this. Katherine pours her soul out to Anne about how Anne's life is perfect and she's never known the difficulties of life and therefore could not understand the difficulties that Katherine is going through. Anne gives Katherine a summary of her childhood before Green Gables. And with that, Katherine warms up to Anne and they become friends.
  
• 6 Life at Green Cables is very merry. Katherine and Davy and Dora go to the woods for a Christmas tree. Anne is down about cutting down a tree, but feels better when she learns that it was going to be stumped and plowed through in the spring anyway. Gilbert comes to Green Gables and looks a little older, so much so that Anne wonders if he's really Gilbert or a stranger. On Christmas Day, Davey is so excited he makes up so much noise it said that he could wake the seven sleepers at an unearthly hour. Everyone receives wonderful gifts, including Katherine, which comes to surprise to her she didn't expect any gifts. Anne gets her a puppy and Katherine is shocked and states that Mrs. Dennis won't let her keep a dog. But Anne says that she's already arranged it with Mrs. Dennis. (I honestly squealed at this part) Gilbert takes Anne and Katherine to go see Diana's new baby. One day, Anne learns that there's a concert in the hall with a party to follow at Abner Salon's place afterwards and she wants Katherine to go to both of them. Anne convinces Katherine to give a reading. She's reluctant to do both, however agrees to do so and at her reading captures her audience within the first line. At the dance, she dances with so many partners she has a blast. After leaving Green Gables Marilla invites Katherine to come again anytime.
  
• 7 Anne is back at Windy Willows and grateful that she lives in a place that she likes and seems friendly to her. One day Mr Hamilton's dog chase Dusty Miller and Rebecca Dew is not having it. She gives Mr Hamilton a piece of her mind because of the chase. One day Elizabeth comes over and tells Anne that although she has been invited sing at a concert, Mrs Campbell will not allow Elizabeth to do so. Anne makes the effort to convince Mrs. Campbell to let Elizabeth to sing in the concert by asking if she can borrow "the Rev James Wallace Campbell's Memoirs." While doing so Anne mentions that it's a good thing Elizabeth will not be singing in the choir because Maple Phillips is going to sing and is said to have such a wonderful voice that there is no way Elizabeth would be able to compete with her. This is all that is needed for Mrs. Campbell to allow Elizabeth to sing in the choir concert. Anne knew that this would work because Rebecca Dew told her that the Philips and Campbell plans have always been "rivals in the matter of good voices". There is a dance at Carrie Pringle's place. Katherine attends and shows up with a dark red silk dress and a new hair style. She looks so different that people who have worked with her for years failed to recognize her. Anne is happy with her newfound friendship.
  
• 8 This chapter is my least favorite, as it feels like just a bunch of gossip from old cousin Ernestine. She is the cousin three times removed of the late Captain MacComber. Honestly, not much happens here except some gossip between the widows and cousin Ernestine. Ernestine tells Anne that she feels she's tempting Providence by being so happy and to watch her sore throat because diphtheria and tonsillitis have the same symptoms until the third day and would be a pity if Anna died so young.