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2008.08.26 16:28 Weird

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2009.02.06 06:07 Etymology: appreciating word origins

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2024.05.19 03:16 argusknight12 Gm4A Heroes or horrors

Super hero’s! We all love them and dreamed of being them right? Well after reading some comics I’ve fallen back in love with them and want to do a story about them!
So what I’m looking for is anyone who’s semi lit. And love to share ideas for characters and other things you’d love to see! Now onto the world you’ll be playing through.
The basic idea is the mega corporation of Cadmus has been secretly trying to create super soldiers to merge their genetics and arms divisions and sell to the highest bidders. The rules being damned the human trials being made on those they could get their hands on, orphans, the poor, criminals, and anyone else that society wouldn’t notice vanishing into the night. Eventually they succeeded and the first success finally comes to fruition and meta abilities started blooming in the subjects. With these new abilities what will you do? Will you stay in your cell waiting for rescue or will you claw your own path to freedom!
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2024.05.19 03:14 Acceptable_Answers Feeling isolated in school rn

This is a follow up to this post https://www.reddit.com/GayBroTeens/comments/1akyx0l/came_out_to_my_school_in_a_muslim_country_today/
Turns out, my class ain't exactly as accepting as I thought they were. They're currently now avoiding me like the plague. I feel like people now only care about who I wanna fuck as though it's the only side of me that exist.
I'm happy that I can be out to someone but now i'm just a one dimensional gay guy who creeps around. I've tried to talk to people but they seem to think that just talking to me would get me interested in them. Any time I think some guy would actually be (at the very least) treating me nicely, it turns out they have some kind of weird innate distrust of anything I do. I could literally walk around a room and they will speculate on my next 'target' when I was just going to the toilet.
I was once a pretty shy kid, never talking if I didn't have to. I'm semi out of my shell rn but I still don't really know how to interact with people. Anytime I wanna talk to people, it just becomes awkward. I just really want a friend but people seems to think that I just want a "friend" with the word "boy" preceding it.
Even when I get to talk to girls, they'll think of me as their mandatory "gay best friend". I constantly hear other people talk shit about me as though i'm just an imaginary rainbow powered robot that walks and talks, not like an actual human being.
Perhaps I pretended to hit on someone because people thought it was funny. I just wanted people to be happy and laugh. I don't want them to be sad or bored but perhaps I misplayed a move. I'm sorry if I played too far into the stereotype of the heart shaped pupil gay guy. It's my fault for being too short-sighted to see what kind of trouble my actions would bring.
Is it bad that I regret my actions and want to change it? Is it too late now and I should bear any bad repercussions that comes my way? Is it bad I want to change course because i'm afraid of the consequences?
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2024.05.19 03:09 alligat0rre Word problem that threw me for a loop

Hey, so this is the word problem:
"There are three different pipelines connected to a swimming pool, through which it can be filled up with water. Pipe nr.1 fills the pool up in 3 hours , pipe nr.2 makes it full in 2.5 hours , pipe nr.3 in 1.5 hours. Now, you want to top the pool up with using all three pipelines, but the third one is closed after 22.5 minutes. How many hours does it take to fill up the swimming pool?
Give your answer in hours , with two-digit accuracy."

Here's how I solved it:
I assumed all 3 pipes start filling up the pool simultaneously. Then, after 22.5 minutes, pipe nr.3 is shut down. 22.5min = 3/8hrs. So, in 3/8hrs, pipe nr.3 would have filled up 1/4th of the pool.
Hence, pipes nr.1 and nr.2 have to fill up the remaining 3/4ths of it.
Let x be the time it takes pipes nr.1 and nr.2 to fill up 3/4ths of the pool:
1/3x + 1/2.5x = 3/4
5/15x + 6/15x = 3/4
11/15x = 3/4
11x = 45/4
x = 45/44 = 1.02hrs
So it took pipes nr.1 and nr.2 a total of 1.02hrs to fill up the remaining 3/4ths of the pool. The other 1/4th was filled up by pipe nr.3 while pipes nr.1 and nr.2 were also pumping water, so 1.02hrs should be the total time it took to fill the entire pool, no?
But then there's this answer here - https://brainly.com/question/33451975 that gives a different solution of 61/56 = 1.09hrs. He seems to add 3/8hrs (the time during which all three pipes were pumping water) to 5/7hrs (the time it would have taken all three pipes to fill up the pool IF the third pipe wasn't shut down) and that doesn't make sense to me.
Can you guys point out where I'm going wrong with this?
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2024.05.19 03:09 Legitimate_Roll121 My thoughts on "polarity doctrine" and the perversion and exploitation of the concepts of divine masculine/divine feminine

Hello everyone! I wanted to write and share something constructive for this space, that hopefully goes beyond snarking specific names and personalities and helps those who have been harmed in one way or another find a bit of understanding around what happened to them and why.
I've shared pieces of my story here before but the gist is: I am not from the coaching world. I'm from the general spirituality world - from a spiritual modality that has an aspect of divine feminine and divine masculine that has always interested me, but few others in the community. I learned about this whole specific mess listening to love & light confessionals, and went deep into the rabbit hole. The perversion of understanding of masculine/feminine energy dynamics was horrifying but also enlightening. I'm big on learning how NOT to be from people who give me the major ick. This is why I've done a lot of deep diving in general on cults, gurus, and manipulative spirituality in general - and there's a lot to take away if you can go in with this mindset. I'm also hella autistic and love infiltrating niche internet subgroups whose experiences are much different than mine so I can - again - learn from the experieneces of others, and gain more empathy and understanding of the vast human experience.
I was a very forward facing person for the nonprofit I volunteered for for over 4 years. There was no "guru" that I supplicated, however there was a person formally in charge who abused their power and the willingness of others to help the organization, and was known to be cruel in private, when it suited them. I didn't see this person as above me - in fact in a lot of ways they were quite pitiful and needed a lot of help/support in their role - which is what I did, willingly and for practically free. At one point, the entire org sat down and did a call in of this person, however, they were able to push everyone that they couldn't control out of the way and rewrote the story with themselves as the victim (we all know this one). The final falling out happened at the end of 2019, so luckily for them Covid gave them some time to figure out how to run their events without me (they hired a paid staff).
Anyway, I gave many many hundreds of hours to this cause, and then the person in charge was able to take advantage of me and then push me out of the community I had served very seriously for 6 years with rumors that I had been trying to steal money. This is so far beyond the truth, and everyone involved directly knows this, but no one came to dispell the rumor. So, I've been heartbroken by supposedly "spiritual" leaders of a community, that's for sure. In fact listening to Katya was part of the cult deprogramming that me and a group who had left together went through (this group also used, abused, and betrayed me but that's another story!)
So, this isn't going to be about me, I just wanted to share my background. This is about what the divine feminine and the divine masculine "REALLY" are. This may get a bit woo in here but I can't imagine anyone here is afraid of woo. In fact it's the mystery of the spiritual experience that allows these people to cause so much harm. So let me try to remove some of that mystery.
The creation is polarized, in many ways. One of those ways is masculine/feminine. The masculine force is the will, the conscious mind, and that which puts the infinity of possible experience into order. It in and of itself is quite fallible. The feminine force is the subconscious mind - all that is - and the untapped potential of this reservoir. The masculine reaches for the feminine, and if the will (masculine) is properly configured, the unmanifest creation (feminine) will give him something in return. The masculine NEEDS the feminine but the feminine doesn't really NEED the masculine, however it does desire the masculine's attention being focused it its direction (instead of random mundane wordly experiences). And the feminine wants the masculine's attention consistently, lest the feminine will not be consistent at all in its response. This attention can be forceful or gentle, but it must be consistent.
Every human has a balance of masculine/feminine energy in them, and while women are socially conditioned to tend towards feminine expression and men towards masculine, biological sex really has very very little to do with it. There are of course, positive feminine expressions and negative, and positive male expressions and negative. What these polarity goons do is mostly focus on a mix of positive/negative masculine expression for the man, 0 female expression, and then only positive feminine expression for the woman with maybe, possibly, a bit of positive masculine expression (only during working hours when you're in seperate offices, and only if you're paying the bills, ofc)
Typically, we are attracted to partners who "balance" out our spiritual energy - so the "polarization" in a relationship can be anywhere from hyper masc/hyper femme to barely masc/barely femme - and again, this is NOT a hard and fast rule and has almost NOTHING to do with sex other than a general (mostly cultural) bias. The hyper femme/hyper masc scenario can definitely be more, well, exciting and dramatic than a relationship between two people who have very little polarized charge in that way between them. But that's likely why few of these polarity gurus have any experience in longevity of relationships - they are fueling their "twin flame" relationship with manufactured drama and trauma bonding. In reality, in a relationship, you are supposed to grow together and be more willing to meet each other where you are at in the moment, instead of demanding they be a near perfect idealized form before you offer them any attention/respect.
The reason these male teachers push polarity doctrine is literally because of their own wounding of the expression of the masculine/feminine. Men (especially USian men) have been taught that expressing any aspect of their feminine selves is repulsive and weak and probably gay. So, their solution to their own inability to be vulnerable is to attack women - for being "too masculine" - aka some balanced expression of both, normal! They want their women to be 100% pure unformed childlike energy with no will of their own, just a will that can be given to the man. They want them to embody this feminine space as close to 100% of the time so that they are forced into their masculine 100% of the time. Girlies, if you are in your masculine, this makes them feel more in their feminine and - gosh that's just icky and disgusting. You don't want your man to get a boner for you when you're in the masculine - that might make him GAY! In the very least it's totally beta to be attracted to a masculine woman and basically gay anyway. No thanks!
I'm sorry to be facetious, but this is in general a lot of the subconscious and even sometimes conscious thought processes behind these hyper polarity relationships. These are not evolved, embodied people. These are people who are still very invested in the old fashioned human status quo that has served them for a long time. We had the thread a few weeks back with the Desire on Fire lady (ugh her name escapes me) talking about how her husband had to "put her in her place" for being "too masculine" and how he really just "didnt want her" when she was in her masculine, when she was literally just running her business. Masculine wounding almost ALWAYS shows up as men being jealous of women being better at them in their own field - or really successful publicly at all - and this is why women STILL have a hard time breaking into male dominated spaces. We are systemically kept out because men die inside when they feel inferior to women. They were told this wasn't supposed to happen!!!! In fact, the person who spiritually abused me was a man - I see now how he "kept" me as a pet because of my high standing in the community. But this meant I was still firmly below him in certain ways - a much more comfortable place for me to be, someone who challenged him on his "expertise".
This polarity movement is taking a true spiritual concept and distorting it just to set women back. They don't want you to have an opinion or agency - other than "me want money" and "me want sex". They want you to play on Instagram all day and recruit ladies for them to sexually assault at your joint "retreats". They want you to only feel valued if you're made up and dressed up and "desired" by men. None of this internalized self worth stuff, only external male validation is allowed. Ladies, if any of you reading this are with some sort of this type of man, please, I beg you, choose the bear. This is the type of man who leaves you as soon as your body culminates too many signs of being aged. They are entitlted to a specific cartoon image of what they think a "woman" is, and sadly this culture has made young women INCREDIBLY easy to manipulate, so finding another partner is often quite easy for older men. It's all by design.
Here's another spiritual truth that is often obscured: One of the polarities of divinity is the left hand path and the right hand path. The left hand path is the path of control, wealth, using others, egocentrism, etc. The right hand path is about acceptance, generosity, helping others, and sacrifice. The middle path is a path with little to no power - it's the path of comfort, the path most people are on.
When one walks the middle path - i.e. has not really begun to truly develop their spiritual side - they do not yet have spiritual discernment. What happens when they come across someone who has been using spiritual principles to "build their wealth/power" is that they see someone with a spiritual light - and this isn't super common on social media. When we're hungry for it, we're like a moth to the flame. That's why they always know they'll be another mark. The problem then is when we don't have discernment, we cannot tell which "hand" the light is coming from, and often it's very easy to confuse the left hand for the right and vice versa. For instance, I am giving up a large part of my day to write this purely to help others in this community - Carly or MAL or someone might stumble upon this and see it as "evil". But that's because they see the light, but to them it's against their light, so I'm the evil one. But all I'm trying to offer is freedom of mind, and they're mad because they want your bag, and this is dependent on you being confused and them keeping a crumb of clarity behind a paywall. 💰
Now, some of these girlies are walking the "left hand path" a lot better than the others. I dont know many coaches beyond those talked about here, but I would say someone like MAL has a pretty firm grasp on who she is - a scam artist, a liar, and a user. She's always making up stories and whatnot - she's a pathological liar. She will do anything to get her way. This is pretty serious when you've been behaving this way for years and years. Her image is very rigid and polished, and despite showing up unprepared and offering word salad to her paying persons, her "outer circle" (social media feed etc) is much more curated than most of the other coaches I've seen. She's at the top of the pyramid so she has a huge amount of control and influence. If she cracks someday, we'll see it, and usually people struggle to return to the top once they falter. I'm sure she's already showing some signs of paranoia, which is the first sign a high control person is starting to become unhinged.
Then there are the messier girlies, like Carly, and Karen who has recently been more thoroughly exposed here. These ladies show up very vulnerable to social media, and often are struggling with illness - as someone has said here before, Carly's early coaching gigs were about health and dealing with chronic illness, until she realized that space wasn't sexy or profitable. I'm not saying this is the root of all illness, but transient illness can be a sign of a spiritual mismatch in intentions/action - especially with these people who claim to be "healers" or adjacent to that space. You have to walk your talk, or your body begins to show your hypocrisy. There is a part of these ladies who feel they are truly "helping the planet" and get confused internally when the reaction of their "offers" isn't for people to fall down at their feet worshipping them. This is why they say stuff like "wealth is a mindset!" and other magical thinking - most of them have lived privileged lives and have never been "out" of abundance. They think their "luck" is a carefully curated vibration that they can rub off on others. And like, while I believe that being in the vibrations of someone who is more spiritually mature can help "elevate" someone - these people are playing with spiritual practices and, while seeing some results, truly have no clue what they are talking about and dealing with. People who truly understand manifestation, whether left or right hand, are not busting their ass all day on Instagram trying to recruit lukewarm clients for peanuts. Carly tries SO HARD to sell that all of her work is "easy" and she can "take a walk in the middle of the day!" and not work while she's bleeding and whatnot. But girl, you're hustling and thirsty all over Insta all day every day - this is not abundance, this is not wealth and gratitude, it's giving "big empty black hole in my soul that will never be filled except with more money" energy, babe.
Then there are the girlies like xogingy and The Content Queen whose whole brand seems to be just being a mess all over the place. This sells because it makes people think "well I'm messy maybe I can be messy and rich/successful" but the mess for these girls is much more embraced and embodied than with the prim types like Carly and Karen, who want to be pure luxe and sexy and divine feminine perfection. But the luxe and sexy types are really doing the recruiting for their sexual in-person retreats (or clothing optional zooms) because they're just mega horny all the time (which - btw - is another sign of spiritual imbalance)
And that's the thing - being horny all of the time means your energy body is JACKED. It's not a sign of a free flow of creative energy to crave sex all of the time. Of course a major aspect of this is the sexual magic - yes, there is magic in sex, and I think it's where these folks get most of their magic, because they follow left hand sexual magic practice exclusively (control BDSM). They do play rapes (and borderline real rapes and, in some cases, actual real rapes on their clients/partners), orgasm denial, humiliation, pain rituals - all stuff that truly, objectively, isn't good for the soul. And notice how it's almost always one sided - the male being in total control of the female - though, Carly's substack did have a story about how they did a "role reversal" where she raped/humiliated him and that was um, something I read. 😳 But generally it's the women's job to always be turned on and "dripping wet" and whatnot, so that when her masculine partner gets a boner she's ready for him to slide it in. And then that's always the best sex, the sex that you "surrender" to.... On the contrary, sex between "right hand" practitioners tends to leave both partners feeling quite satisfied and sated - heck, even if only one happens to orgasm! Whereas control oriented sex often has orgasm denial which intentionally leaves the person craving more.
All this is to say, no one should feel guilty for being duped, or conned, or confused, even still. Almost all of these people have weaponized spiritual concepts in some ways and are wielding them with the intention to separate you from your money. They actually do have something that works. But they will NEVER sell you the whole story. And the fact is, this experience likely did happen to you because your soul was aching for some sort of uplevel - or initiation. It's just that initiation rarely looks like getting what we want. MAL et al makes it look like initiation is giving a rich lady 5 figures, popping a bottle of champagne, and roleplaying as that rich lady to which you just gave all that money (or at least, roleplaying as her social media feed). But if you're truly in it for the soul, your experience is going to help you uncover your soul. And part of uncovering our souls at this point in time seems to be having some serious spiritual trauma. And I know some people here probably only did this as "playing around" and not serious and unfortunately, playing with spirituality can be can be dangerous in and of itself. These is not to victim blame at all. It just is the nature of the spiritual path that it may growl and bite at you to test your growth. It's not just a sexy pleasure party 24/7, unless you want to step on a LOT of people to get there.
Anyway, this is very long and I'm not sure it's going to even fit into a reddit post at this point. But I just wanted to share some of the spiritual insights I've had over the years (been on my spiritual journey for over a decade at this point). I don't know it all, but I do know that I live with a general peace of mind that I wish I could sell in a coaching package or voxer group. But I can't/won't do that. So I'll keep to my lifelong duty of making longwinded, mega autistic posts on internet forums that might help a few people orient to a less painful or confused frame of mind, free of charge.
But on that note, before I finish, I'll offer my general spiritual advice: Firstly, take a short time every day to do some sort of sitting/meditation. Learning how to quiet the mind is a skill, and it's the first skill required to learn discernment. Once we can quiet the mind, we can start to learn which thoughts are our own and which thoughts we have absorbed from others - and if you haven't begun this process yet, you may be surprised to find out that the vast majority of your thoughts are actually just society, family, teachers, social media, advertising, etc etc, repeating in your mind and taking up valuable real estate. This is the real hurdle to "manifestation" - clearing away all the false desires that get in the way of our true desires. Subsequently, learning about chakras and tuning into my energy body has also given me a good base for insight and clarity that comes from within my own body.
Secondly, just try to think of others before yourself more often than not. Don't justify manipulating people for your own benefit. Oneness means you treat others how you want to be treated - in a gentle, and nurturing way. When we harm others, especially from a spiritual place, we perpetuate harm, and therefore accept that potential harmful treatment of ourselves. Treating others sincerely with reverence and respect, and setting boundaries so that we don't allow people to treat us with disrespect, is how we generate a reality that treats us with reverence and respect by default. A lot easier said than done, but it is possible.
Love and light to you all.
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2024.05.19 03:09 ludicwriter Crazy in my dream within a dream

Hey. I’ve started having these recurring dreams maybe within the past few months, and they are within multiple dreams.
It’s hard to explain/describe but I’m crazy or am losing my memory within those dreams, I do things that don’t make sense. And when I wake up from that dream which is within another dream, I’m telling someone about it, about that dream and about how I was going crazy.
I used to have a really strong connection with my dreams several years ago where I would lucid dream and would remember it vividly.
I’m not quite sure where I’m going with this post but I had to just get it out of my system. Has anyone else dreamt something similar to this?
Thanks for reading :)
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2024.05.19 03:09 kjhoe Why does my bf (26M) hide his Reddit from me (22F) ?

I am (22F) and my bf (26M) have been dating for over 2 years. We both have Reddit accounts but he insists on keeping his private and will not share his username because (his words) “ I don’t know, well it’s the only social media app I comment on”.
My question started because I shared a Reddit link with him and he complained that he cannot see it because it takes him to chrome. I said we could just share our usernames with each other and that’s where he gave the explanation.
What am I missing here? I would like advice if this is just wanting privacy in the relationship or if he is hiding something from me?
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2024.05.19 03:08 Melodic-Grape-7254 What’s been your experience dating with loose skin?

I’m a M25, starting to lose weight. My goal weight is about 170-180, and I’m currently 260. So it’ll be a while before I need to worry about this, but loose skin is something I am not looking forward to at all. I’m actually scared of it. I’m worried I’ll look horrible after putting in all the work to lose the weight. It causes major anxiety just thinking about it.
I’ve never been in a relationship. My weight is one reason why because I’m not attractive at the weight that I’m at. I carry my weight very poorly in my opinion. I want to lose weight to increase my dating options, and I’m just worried that while I might look good in clothes I’ll look horrible when I take them off.
What’s everyone’s experience with this? Any words of wisdom or encouragement are appreciated. It really stresses me out thinking about it but maybe if other people say it’s been okay I’ll feel better. Thank you :)
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2024.05.19 03:08 mrbunnybearxoxo Client Surprises Me with 2 Possible Human House Guests the Day of a Housesit

background:
I've provided regular repeat drop-ins for a sweet well-trained pup for the past few months. Occasionally they will send last-minute requests/cancellations or ask me to drop by later in the day which I have easily accommodated each time. Eventually, they requested me to house-sit for a weekend a few months in advance. They had initially wanted me to "stay the entire time" so I clearly stated I could provide those services with an added cost. After comparing the costs they settled for a house-sit that would allow me to enter and exit their house for at most 6 hours.
morning of the house-sit:
I get a text message detailing that 2 other human guests would "possibly" be present during the house sit. I have never encountered this predicament before (after 1.5 years of consistent work on Rover) and was shocked and offended that such an important detail was left out as I would have never agreed to these terms; the clients emphasized that they would still prefer I stayed the night because there was no guarantee those human guests would arrive.
When I arrived it was just the dog and they
presently:
I haven't encountered any human guests which makes me wonder if they only stated "possible" human guests as a scare tactic to check up on the house and dog while under my care...which is ironic given they have given me consistent 5-star reviews for the drop-ins I have provided in the past and they also have a camera in their living room.
Yes, I could have canceled on the client as soon as they told me of these "human guests" but I'm only staying for a few nights, those guests are of the same sex as me, and I didn't want to disturb their weekend getaway. Outside of how unorganized and last minute the clients are, the dog is well-trained and an easy pup.
However, I would strongly hesitate to book house-sits with them moving forward.
TL;DR:
Clients booked me for a house sit with overnights and surprised me with other possible human house guests the day of. These other human house guests have yet to show themselves but it is keeping me on edge.
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2024.05.19 03:08 randomthought12345 Drank yesterday

Went to hangout with a friend at all bar keep telling myself I wasant gunna drink I just Wanted to get out the house but he had a bucket waiting so I said I just have a few. Ended up having more then a few then one thing lead to another and cocaine got involved spent 85 dollars for a gram was driving all over the place knowing damn well I should be and which I can think of so many other things I could have spent that money on stayed up till 2pm finishing up the bag like a fiend started drinking at 9pm missed my tios funeral this is a new low for me and I have had plenty. These last couple years I kind knew the drinking was developing into a problem but it’s been really showing latly. So I always say I’m not gunna drink again or make halfway promises to myself and break them. But I am DONE with drinking and I only like coke with beers so two birds with one stone. This is my first time posting or really admitting it to other people about how I been feeling and one of my experieance. It’s time to get my life on track and be better. I just came here to vent and get some tips and maybe some motivational words. Thanks for reading
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2024.05.19 03:06 Zealousideal-Ad-9264 "Nice guy" ex won't leave my friend alone because I won't talk to him

For a little back ground I've been married for 10 years and a few years ago we had something horrific happen in our family and me and my husband both did not cope well at all. We both (mainly me) handled it incredibly badly and our relationship started to break down. Also on mobile and really need to vent so sorry if format is weird and I'm all over the place. Sorry this is long
During this time I got a new job and I loved it and loved my colleagues and made some great friends. During this time "Nice guy" and I started a friendship and I felt comfortable enough talking about my marriage problems. At the time I thought he was just being supportive and not aware of other motives. Eventually "Nice guy" convinced me to cheat on my husband and be with him obviously my husband found out and we took a break.
During this time I started dating "Nice guy" and after a few months I realised I didn't want to be with him, there was no attraction and I found out I hated more about him than I liked and some of it is disgusting such as littering, spitting and the one that really irked me (because I used to work in a fast food chain) was leaving the table a riot because its the workers job to clean it. Anyways During this time I was still in contact with my husband as we had to be due to the family situation and had to know about legal matters.
So I dated "Nice guy" about 6 months maybe less as I had personal things going on as well as mot being attracted and not liking his behaviours. So I broke it off and tried to let him down nicely as possible but unfortunately he mistook this as a "break". Never once did I say break I said finished. I removed his number and didn't have social media at the time apart from reddit and removed him from whatsapp.
During the time we were together my best friend who moved to the otherside of the country so he has never met her added him on Facebook just being curious they never really spoke before this.i just also want to add I'm when I broke it off I got the full shebang of "I don't understand I'm a nice guy" "why would you throw away the one person who ever truly loved you" (lol I've had previous partners and got friends and family that love me) and we can't forget the "I can change."
Anyway I get radio silence for a about a month I get a message on freaking goodreads asking me to contact him because he misses me. I just ignore and delete I've got my own stuff going on and I've really only new him the 9 months I had the job. Next day I get a text saying new number and same misses me. I didn't want to deal with it so I just reply pretending to be someone else and just say they have the wrong number.
Then I get another text the next day and says oh hi OP this is random initial not his. So I have a friend who starts with this initial and she was the last person I had gone out with on a night out she has never had my number ever and wouldn't be able to get it as no one in that friends group have my number and also we weren't super close we would talk now and again. So I say the same thing wrong number and block the number.
Now back to my best friend who lives on the otherside of the country basically he has never met her, never spoke to her until a few weeks ago says he's just wanting to make sure I'm okay my friend replies dryly she's fine. Now to finally get to the title my friend has replied to one message being dry but over the course of the week has sent 16 messages to her which doesn't seem like a lot. I would post but I don't know how to edit the video she sent to protect her name. But these aren't like one word messages these are pages long about how much he misses me and loves me she didn't even open the messages. She accidentally only opened it today and showed me.
Also after I broke it off I left my job due to more illness related than anything else but he was also apart of it and I hate that. I've also still got my work badge that I haven't handed back because I do not want a conversation with him.
Me and my husband and currently going to couples therapy and have talked about everything and trying to fix our marriage my best friend isn't aware of this yet as we've only started the process and don't want People involved yet which is why she hasn't told "Nice guy". I am also very convinced that if he new my address he would turn up. But yeah 16 messages doesn't seem a lot but when there pages long and over a short span of time.
I also don't think she's blocked and deleted him because she tends to just ignore Facebook and let people delete her and she just ignores the messages anyways.
Oh I also wanted to add he admitted to people he was proud that he broke up marriages as his ex was also married. At this point I'm just waiting for a message on some weird app again or another new number. He doesn't know or understand what reddit is so he won't message here but he would know clearly its about him and I would love to just name and shame him.
Sorry its long just had to rant
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2024.05.19 03:06 RussianLoveMachine Kitchen & laundry/pantry floor plan help!

The current layout in a fully gutted kitchen below: https://imgur.com/nGIH4C7
Two tricky parts to note. One, the load bearing wall that we can't shorten. Plus the corner windows that create the "rounded" top left corner start about 24 inches off the floor so you can't just put a countertop across them without bricking up the window. We are getting new windows in the kitchen so not the end of the world, but this is a brick house so more $ to change window sizes. Will mention, the closet is the only one we have for the front (not pictured but right below dining room) and back entrance, so we want to avoid getting rid of it.
We would like a large island since we don't want to re-build another breakfast nook. My wife also wants a more walk in butlers pantry (+/- dry bar in between the kitchen and dining room). There is an exhaust fan in the laundry area, so I think storing things in there shouldn't be bad. My wife is ok with closing the passage between the kitchen and dinning, but I think it's a bad idea.
Here was our initial leading layout after much deliberation. It would extent the width of the laundry/pantry by 1.5 ft (7.5 width). We would brick up the left most window on the top wall. Although, I just realized we can just shorten the window so a cabinet goes under it, but it would be close to the stove though (not sure if good idea). Btw, it was my idea to put the sink by the window rather than island because I do the dishes most often and I don't like interrupting an island. Each block is 1x1ft btw if you want approximate measurements. https://imgur.com/OeI9dIc
We talked to our contractor and he felt that bricking up a window is a bad idea (we didn't ask about just resizing to be honest). He felt that we are planning too large of a pantry given our kitchen size. He is probably right, we are simple cooks and can't say it is our passion. He recommended something more simple and cheaper (we asked him to always give us those options). It keeps the pantry/laundry width the same at 6ft, but blocks off the entrance to dinning: https://imgur.com/o1CCDFd
He is probably right about the size. However, I really don't like closing up the extra entrance to dining from kitchen and my wife kind of likes our original layout. We came up with a mix of the two (although we made the closet smaller and decided to stack the washer and dryer). This saves the pass through, gives my wife that little wet/prep bar before the dining room, and the fridge is in a slightly better spot. However, we are confused about what to do with this empty ~6' 6" x 9' 9" to the left of the kitchen and above the back door. https://imgur.com/GL0BVv3
Love to get some feedback. Thoughts on pantry/laundry size. Thoughts on layout of the 3 options we came up with so far. Perhaps you can recommend something completely different?
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2024.05.19 03:05 Jotinhra uni work help (i dont know where to go anymore)

This code was a template that was provided by my uni, and had to adapt to work with what the teacher asked. Ive been around this code for 2 weeks and i have no idea why it always returns a 0 value. This is supposed to take in a txt file that has coordinates that are used to make a graph, number of people, number of supermarkets, coordinates of the people, coordinates of the supermarkets. Code uses the coordinates to create a graph, and is supposed to find the best possible solution to bring each person to a supermarket (once 1 person goes to the supermarket, another cant enter the same one)
The code perfectly reads the file, since at the end it identifys how many markets, people, etc are in. But for someon reason it never gives me any solution. its always 0.
Im sorry if this is a shit post, im not very experienced in this and my english isnt the better. Aprecciate any help i can get. thank you in advance.
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#define MAX_NODES 1000
typedef struct {
int x, y;
} Coordinate;
typedef struct {
int start;
int end;
} Arc;
typedef struct {
int num_arcs;
Arc arcs[MAX_NODES];
} Graph;
typedef struct NodeType {
int node;
struct NodeType *next;
} NodeType;
typedef NodeType* SolutionType;
int M, N, S, C;
Coordinate supermarkets[MAX_NODES];
Coordinate citizens[MAX_NODES];
Graph graph;
int visited[MAX_NODES];
int visited_token = 0;
int max_solutions;
void initialize_graph() {
memset(&graph, 0, sizeof(graph));
}
void add_arc(int start, int end) {
graph.arcs[graph.num_arcs].start = start;
graph.arcs[graph.num_arcs].end = end;
graph.num_arcs++;
}
void read_input(const char* filename) {
FILE* file = fopen(filename, "r");
if (file == NULL) {
perror("Error opening file");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
fscanf(file, "%d %d", &M, &N);
fscanf(file, "%d %d", &S, &C);
printf("Number of supermarkets: %d\n", S);
printf("Supermarkets positions:\n");
for (int i = 0; i < S; i++) {
fscanf(file, "%d %d", &supermarkets[i].x, &supermarkets[i].y);
printf("Supermarket %d: (%d, %d)\n", i + 1, supermarkets[i].x, supermarkets[i].y);
}
printf("Number of citizens: %d\n", C);
printf("Citizens positions:\n");
for (int i = 0; i < C; i++) {
fscanf(file, "%d %d", &citizens[i].x, &citizens[i].y);
printf("Citizen %d: (%d, %d)\n", i + 1, citizens[i].x, citizens[i].y);
}
fclose(file);
}
int IsSuperMarketNode(Graph *graph, int node, int target) {
for (int i = 0; i < S; i++) {
if (node == (supermarkets[i].x - 1) * N + (supermarkets[i].y - 1)) {
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}
int Find_Solution_Citizen(Graph *graph, int totalVertices, int visitedToken, int *visited, SolutionType *solution) {
int target = totalVertices - 1;
NodeType *visitedList = NULL;
int nextList[MAX_NODES];
int nextListSize = 0;
// Initialize the nextList with arcs that start from node 0
for (int i = 0; i < graph->num_arcs; i++) {
if (graph->arcs[i].start == 0) {
nextList[nextListSize++] = graph->arcs[i].end;
}
}
visitedToken++;
visited[0] = visitedToken;
if (nextListSize == 0) {
return 0;
}
int foundSuperMarket = 0;
while (nextListSize > 0) {
int pos = rand() % nextListSize;
int nextNode = nextList[pos];
if (IsSuperMarketNode(graph, nextNode, target)) {
NodeType *newNode = (NodeType *)malloc(sizeof(NodeType));
newNode->node = nextNode;
newNode->next = visitedList;
visitedList = newNode;
foundSuperMarket = 1;
break;
}
if (visited[nextNode] != visitedToken) {
NodeType *newNode = (NodeType *)malloc(sizeof(NodeType));
newNode->node = nextNode;
newNode->next = visitedList;
visitedList = newNode;
visited[nextNode] = visitedToken;
for (int i = 0; i < graph->num_arcs; i++) {
if (graph->arcs[i].start == nextNode) {
nextList[nextListSize++] = graph->arcs[i].end;
}
}
} else if (visited[nextNode] == visitedToken) {
// Remove the node from the nextList
nextList[pos] = nextList[--nextListSize];
}
}
solution[visitedToken - 1] = visitedList;
// Remove arcs if a solution for a citizen is found
if (foundSuperMarket) {
for (NodeType *v = visitedList; v != NULL; v = v->next) {
for (int i = 0; i < graph->num_arcs; i++) {
if (graph->arcs[i].start == v->node) {
memmove(&graph->arcs[i], &graph->arcs[i + 1], (graph->num_arcs - i - 1) * sizeof(Arc));
graph->num_arcs--;
i--;
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < graph->num_arcs; i++) {
if (graph->arcs[i].start == visitedList->node && graph->arcs[i].end == target) {
memmove(&graph->arcs[i], &graph->arcs[i + 1], (graph->num_arcs - i - 1) * sizeof(Arc));
graph->num_arcs--;
break;
}
}
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
int Find_Solution_Citizens_Aleatory(Graph *graph, int totalVertices, int numberSupermarkets, int numberCitizens) {
int maxSolutions = (numberSupermarkets < numberCitizens) ? numberSupermarkets : numberCitizens;
int visitedToken = 0;
int *visited = (int *)malloc(totalVertices * sizeof(int));
memset(visited, 0, totalVertices * sizeof(int));
SolutionType *solution = (SolutionType *)malloc(maxSolutions * sizeof(SolutionType));
memset(solution, 0, maxSolutions * sizeof(SolutionType));
int val;
do {
val = Find_Solution_Citizen(graph, totalVertices, visitedToken, visited, solution);
visitedToken++;
} while (val != 0 && maxSolutions != (visitedToken - 1));
// Gather results for output before freeing memory
int solutions_found = visitedToken - 1;
for (int i = 0; i < solutions_found; i++) {
printf("Solution %d: ", i);
for (NodeType *current = solution[i]; current != NULL; current = current->next) {
printf("%d ", current->node);
}
printf("\n");
}
// Free the allocated memory
for (int i = 0; i < maxSolutions; i++) {
NodeType *current = solution[i];
while (current) {
NodeType *next = current->next;
free(current);
current = next;
}
}
free(visited);
free(solution);
return solutions_found;
}
void parallel_find_solution(int num_processes, int max_time) {
key_t key = ftok("shmfile", 65);
int shmid = shmget(key, sizeof(int), 0666 IPC_CREAT);
int* shm = (int*)shmat(shmid, (void*)0, 0);
*shm = 0;
key_t sem_key = ftok("semfile", 75);
int semid = semget(sem_key, 1, 0666 IPC_CREAT);
semctl(semid, 0, SETVAL, 1);
struct sembuf sem_op;
pid_t pids[num_processes];
for (int i = 0; i < num_processes; i++) {
if ((pids[i] = fork()) == 0) {
srand(time(NULL) ^ (getpid() << 16));
int local_solutions = Find_Solution_Citizens_Aleatory(&graph, M * N + 2, S, C);
sem_op.sem_num = 0;
sem_op.sem_op = -1;
sem_op.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;
semop(semid, &sem_op, 1);
if (local_solutions > *shm) {
*shm = local_solutions;
}
sem_op.sem_op = 1;
semop(semid, &sem_op, 1);
shmdt(shm);
exit(0);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < num_processes; i++) {
wait(NULL);
}
printf("Maximum number of citizens that can go to supermarkets: %d\n", *shm);
shmdt(shm);
shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
semctl(semid, 0, IPC_RMID);
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
if (argc != 4) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s \n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
const char* input_file = argv[1];
int num_processes = atoi(argv[2]);
int max_time = atoi(argv[3]);
read_input(input_file);
initialize_graph();
parallel_find_solution(num_processes, max_time);
return 0;
}
txt file for input: 3 3
2 2
3 2
3 3
1 1
2 2
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2024.05.19 03:05 Major_Dot_3336 Allergy to anti-seizure medications (keppra)

i just posted yesterday about an “episode” my mom had that i’m still not sure what it was. she had a benign tumor removed about 4 years ago and recently had an out of the ordinary medical problem while we were at a store. the only way i can describe it is “aphasia” where her words didn’t match the conversation and when we left she vomited after mumbling and staring off. this has happened once before (without vomiting) 2 years ago.
she had a major allergy to keppra that she was on after her surgery. her doctor told her she would be screwed if it came back because she’s allergic. has anyone had any experience with allergies to medications given after brain tumor removal surgery?
i’m worried it could have come back or that she had a seizure/stroke. she refused the hospital and has tried every excuse to explain it away (that she gets nauseous when too hot, food poisoning, & not sleeping that night). she is on a waitlist for the next avail. appt. at neurology.
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2024.05.19 03:03 StillRare7904 " I did so much for you". Yeah no shit, I think I'd rather date a rock

I hate when men say this. My ex used to say this too. I went on the first date 3 days ago and he paid. I insisted and paid 40% because I don't wanna hear these words later.
Yes he did pay more, he also travelled extra for the date while he's sick.
I needed reassurance while he was with his friends and he said "Even after this you don't believe me, I did so much for you". He had feelings for his girl bestfriend in the past, he blocked her but I overthink. I need reassurance and he says I start fights when I'm voicing what bothers me.
F men. I won't do 50/50 because I am a traditional woman. I would obviously pay for the man sometimes but in the first date they are supposed to pay. I wait for marriage, I don't have guy friends and I would spoil my man with all the love.
My goodness, I made him feel so loved, I let him sleep on my chest, I played with his hair, I massaged his face, I gave him a handwritten letter and a brownie. I bunked my classes to meet him. I cried when the date ended and he had to leave because I wanted to spend another minute with him. Didn't he see that? We've been friends for 6-7 years and we just started dating after a long talking stage.
What is an appropriate response when a man says this?
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2024.05.19 03:03 Then_Comb8148 What would prevent a conquest?

Ok so in my story, a spaceship that can hold like 500 people (think of the aurora from subnautica, except with today's tech, and a bit smaller) crashes onto an alien planet, into the middle of a national park. Said park is surrounded by a city the size of new York, but the humans who crashed there have no idea and believe the planet to be uninhabited. Anyways, around 350 of them survive by some miracle, and they start building a camp. They claim this "new" land as their own country and have yet to venture out of the park when police find them.
So a human ship crashes into an alien central park. I need a reason the aliens don't just decide to take them out, (or at least capture them/take their land away). Ok byeee
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2024.05.19 03:02 ConfusedCatastrophe Dealing with dysphoria

So a few hours ago I had a sudden major dose of dysphoria. I think I can safely say I know what I am now.
How do you folks deal with the dysphoria? How do you deal with the fact that you never grew up as the gender you're supposed to be? This is the worst I've felt about this ever, and I just feel like crying, and that everything is pointless.
I haven't even started transitioning, in any sense of the word, and I already feel like giving up
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2024.05.19 03:02 Langel01 Seeking Guidance on Self-Studying "Theory of Literature" by Wellek and Warren

Hi everyone,
I'm a 21-year-old Biotechnology student from Mexico, and I've recently developed a deep interest in literature and literary criticism. I want to embark on a self-study journey with the book "Theory of Literature" by Wellek and Warren, which was recommended to me by a professor in the field. I got the book from my university's central library, but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed about how to approach it effectively to maximize my learning and make the best use of my time.
Here are some specific questions I have:
My curiosity for literature started a few months ago when I discovered that it is a form of art that allows us to experience the human condition across different contexts and historical periods. I've been fascinated by reading letters, chronicles, and accounts from ancient civilizations, as well as enjoying various novels with intriguing narratives. I've also been listening to literary critiques by Jesús G. Maestro on YouTube, which I find very insightful.
My goal is to study literary theory as a foundation and then delve deeper into literary criticism. Eventually, I'd like to explore different schools of thought within literary criticism or discover new branches of literature that captivate me.
Any advice specifically on how to tackle this book would be incredibly helpful. Additionally, any general tips or guidance on studying literary theory or exploring literature would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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2024.05.19 03:02 ariesissun2k2 help me i'm a perfectionist and a chronic procrastinator

help me i'm really stuck in a weird cycle of thoughts
hello everyone , this is my first time posting here i'm usually here just to read posts and occasionally interact. first i want to apologise if my english is bad its my 2nd language. secondly i want to introduce myself i'm a 22yo(M) medical student 1 more year to go so i can graduate. i have ocd and i deal with perfectionism a lot which in the early years it was benefitial for me it got to where i am i was always praised by my teachers and family but deep down i felt like i didnt do enough work to be having all this good feedback and that i needed to do more so i stayed on this mentality of doing everything perfectly to avoid judgement / failure and feelings of inferiority. moving forwards this mindset became toxic for me as i started med school [ which for context : its a journey where you get tons of informations in a short amount of time and you have to learn the best you can from it and the reality is that its impossible to be able to be perfect in it; yes thats what i think .. me the perfectionist... words easy to say but very hard to apply and internalise in my mind] it started giving me anxiety in the first years but i managed to keep holding on thru it without burning out which means i did the best work i can so i can shut down the voice of "you didnt do well" ... i worked hard in the first years i was so productive but this didnt stay like this over the years i started running out of energy and started losing interest and my perfectionism started to manifest as procrastinating my tasks because in my mind ; if u start it i won't be able to give my best in it ; i will feel bad for not understanding it from one take or i will forget it anyway or i won't be able to understand perfectly the whole chapter for exemple and i won't be able to be good in it and therefore i will be "mid" "judged" "inferior" comparing to my peers who i percieve as ppl who are productive and loving what they are doing and they are hard working and deserves the scores they get. and somehow with all of this i manage to buckle up in few weeks and work hard to get a score that will satisfy the inner perfectionist in me. BUT so to sum it up : its like this procrastination made my feelings of "you don't deserve those scores and this places" even worse cuz if i had it when i was ACTUALLY doing efforts and working hard ... then automatically i still have it ... but even worse than before when i'm a chronic procrastinator.
these thoughts didn't let me enjoy the med school experience i don't feel like i satisfied the "little kid me" who always dreamed abt it.
perfectionism is a hell of a personality trait it gives you what you need in early stages of your life but as you move forwards and you meet the real life it becomes your enemy and destroy your self-esteem.
as for now ; i'm in a freezing mode i have 4 weeks left to study for an exam and its been 3 weekq that ive been planning to start studying it but i couldnt cause of this problem i did well all year long but i burned out and i can't bring myself to do anything but i NEED to pass this exam and my brain won't stop criticising me abt how i wasted 3 weeks (again the perfectionism shit).
please if there's any medical student who relate to me. comment or dm me and tell me how do you cope what solution you found for yourself or at least lets have a conversation about this.
also my final exams are in 3 weeks and i have A HUGE AMPOUNT of lectures to study and i'm having so much anxiety because ik once i start studying i will get more anxious about not doing it effectively and start the loop again !!
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2024.05.19 03:01 YipeeKiYay26 Restart issue on Win10, Win11 Pro N and Win11 Pro

Hi, guys,
I don't know what else to do, just decided to post here. For the last couple of months, every time I'm playing (I only play simracing games), my PC just restarts totally randomly. No BSOD, no error show. Just black screen, restarts and turns on totally normal, like nothing happened.
It started while playing F1 23, on Win10. Thought it might be high temps, so decided to monitor them. My CPU (Ryzen 5 3600) and my GPU (RX 6700 XT) temps while gaming are around 65º to 75ºC. Put some new thermal paste, cleaned the fans, fresh OS install to Win11 Pro N, again the same issue. Totally random restarts. It does not matter which game, eventually it happens. From ACC to EA WRC, to F1 23 or LMU.
Whats even more strange is that, when I can play, the performance seems to be perfectly normal. The restarts only happen when I'm on menus, or while starting the game. On my "normal" use, like web browsing, Word/Excel, Photoshop, everything works perfectly normal. No stutters, no freezes, just a normal working PC.
Also, on C/Windows there's no minidump logs, whatsoever. I read that Windows just creates a dump file after a BSOD, so I don't know if that's why I can see anything.
Just today, installed Win11 Pro and was able to play WRC for around 25min. After that, I switched to ACC and couldn't even get to the menus. Tried 3 times. Sometimes I can play a game for 40min other times just for 10min before it restarts.
Event Viewer logs some errors around the time of the restart, but it seems I can't find the root problem. GPU, Chipset, Win Updates, peripherals (Thrustmaster) are all up to date. Also, no overclocking whatsoever.
Here's what I tried until now:
Disabling XMP
Disabling fTPM/TPM
Deleting the AMDRyzenMasterDriverV20 in Registry.
Using CCleaner to make a Registry Cleanup
Installing just the AMD driver, without Adrenaline.
Changed the USB port that connects the peripherals hub to the PC.
Uninstalled Ryzen Master.
Does anyone have an hint of an idea of what might be? Or at least a software recommendation that is able to tell me why the PC just restarts, so that I can have a starting point?
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2024.05.19 03:01 LobbyTakesMemes [565] You’re still sleeping

I wake up in the school bathroom I begin to examine the room, “It’s evening” was the first thing that came to mind as I saw the ebony-colored sky through the bathroom window.
“You’ve slept a lot”
The phone is dead, no way to communicate, and I only have my burgundy backpack with some damaged notebooks, a pencil case with a chewed-up pencil, a pen that no longer writes, and a broken calculator that still works despite being taped together.
“You need to go home” “Run”
I open the bathroom door and find myself in a long hallway suffocated by shadows: the only way forward is to venture into the darkness.
“They forgot about you” “But he didn’t”
Looking for a way out, I notice the light from a malfunctioning streetlamp coming through an open window leading to the school courtyard. I pass it and step outside, Once outside, I can feel the cold of a mute winter night on my skin.
“They left the gate open”
I manage to get out, I start heading home, and my path is lined by a row of streetlights. The road separating the parallel sidewalk from the one where my feet are planted is lifeless, and I am accompanied by a deafening silence that tickles my eardrums.
“Remember the way home” “It’s not far” “But stay cautious” “You know what happens if he catches you”
I’m not alone, my inner self keeps repeating it, The sensation of being watched creates an anxiety that slowly makes me want to vomit, but every time I turned around, there was no one behind me, so I resumed my walk home.
“You’re close” “He knows it”
I’m almost home, I’m near the gate, and I don’t know if mom and dad are still awake. I’ve been walking for a long time, the sky is now pitch black, and the sound of my footsteps breaks the silence that envelops the environment. I’m standing in front of the gate, but the anxiety I accumulated suddenly releases, and I am unable to insert the house keys into the door lock.
“He caught you” “You failed” “Now you will face the consequences”
I sensed an unknown yet familiar presence behind me. I knew very well that if I turned around, I would discover what I didn’t want to see. I didn’t have the courage to turn around and started crying so hard that I could no longer breathe.
He placed his cold, sweaty hand on my shoulder and whispered these words: “You never woke up.” “You’re still sleeping.”
A coma is a very long lucid dream. The brain creates a series of dreams that reflect reality as surreal scenarios and vivid dreams, while others can have almost real experiences that cannot be distinguished from reality.
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2024.05.19 03:00 EggplantAdditional36 First few paras from my attempts at a novel. Would love any wisdom/critique

Hi All
My first post here. Amateur with no publications this far. Love words but am more comfortable with poetry. Currently editing the first few chapters of my first attempt at a novel and am stuck with opening paragraphs pasted here . Would love your thoughts/comments/words of wisdom on the first few paragraphs:
'' Lorenzo D'Cunha is going to die an untimely yet necessary death. He does not know it yet, but he will be an unwilling and ignorant accomplice to his own decimation. Like that fictional frog in boiling water, his complacency will bring about his final end. I cannot take sole responsibility for it. Lorenzo’s stupidity is equally culpable. His recklessness and poor intuition are going to cost him dearly.
Perhaps if he had completed what he’d started, when he tried to choke me with his bare hands a few months ago, he would still be alive. Our macabre fights and violent song and dance routines have gotten more absurd over time. The scenarios for his beatings and the near-death experiences that he provides me without my consent, become more dramatic with each episode. Much like the scenes from tragically comical and long-winded Bollywood movies. The kind of movies that he and I grew up watching.
The last ordeal started with him dragging me by my hair and tying me up to one of the ornately carved legs of the large rosewood dining table in the middle of the hall in our home. Then begins his systematic repeated punches to my chest and gut, using both his fists and his feet. Not my face of course. No visible bruises. And as usual he makes loud accusations and threats and calls me vile names, while I play my part, pleading for mercy and apologising for unknown, yet seemingly malicious sins."

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2024.05.19 03:00 AutoModerator SPOTLIGHT ON Makjang - May, 2024

Welcome to our Spotlight On post series where you can share your picks of dramas that deserve the spotlight! Each Spotlight On post is focused on a genre or theme, as you can see in the post title. Based on this genre/theme, you are welcome to share your views about dramas you have watched that fit the topic of this post, which is:
Makjang
Makjang dramas (막장 드라마): A drama that is difficult to understand or accept based on common sense and moral standards of an average person. These dramas will often feature things such as forced situations/settings, tangled relationships, affairs, and birth secrets. Other hallmarks of makjang dramas include switched identities, revenge plots, power struggles, death (lots of it, especially due to murder), incest (often shown as undertones rather than real relationships), amnesia, blackmail, and evil rich people.
The word makjang (막장) is actually not an officially recognized word but rather a non-standard form of the word kkeutjang (끝장) (noun), which means the end or the conclusion (such as death or complete failure). In popular culture, the term makjang is used to represent the idea of having reached the extreme. In the context of dramas, makjang can refer to stylistic, tonal, or narrative elements in dramas that chooses to play up the outrageous and extreme in otherwise normal dramas or to the genre of dramas characterized by these outrageous and extreme elements. For more information, see the post Makjang 101: Taking Things To The Extreme for more information and explanation.
You are invited to share short (or long) reviews of dramas you have watched that fit the topic of this post and an explanation of why you think the drama deserves the spotlight, including whether you would recommend the drama or not.
Our suggested format/structure for comments is:
Drama Name
We strongly encourage you to share your MDL profile so that others can compare their tastes with yours to get a better understanding of preferences and dislikes, which will help in understanding if the feedback provided is applicable for them.
Please remember that every individual watching goes in with their own life experiences and biases so not everyone will see the drama in the same light or enjoy it in the same way.
Just because someone did not enjoy a drama that you loved is not a slight against you as a person.
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