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Hi, everyone!
I've had two monitors from two different studies and sponsors request access to our subjects' photo identification in order to perform SDV. This doesn't sound right to me...
My site recently switched to eSource. Within our screening eSource there is a checklist for the staff member conducting the visit which includes a reminder to make a copy of the subject's photo identification and upload it to our internal database. We do not include a copy within our eSource as we do not feel it has study-related data that isn't already being collected elsewhere. When collecting demographic data, we ask subjects directly and record the information contemporaneously within eSource, making it the technical source of the information. Therefore, photo identification should not be required to SDV. The same concept applies to things like vital signs. We don't take a photo of the vital signs machine and upload it to eSource for proof of the recorded values...
I'm positive I read somewhere that sponsors should not have access to personal identifying information such as full names, addresses, full dates of birth, or photos of subjects. Isn't this the point of using subject initials instead of full names? I explained this to one of the monitors and they were satisfied, but the other monitor keeps giving me pushback. I'm trying to look through ICH GCP guidelines for an actual citation to provide but am having a difficult time finding anything specific enough. Am I just mistaken and it actually is allowed?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

I recently purchased a cd for a very low price, and the stock photo included the parental advisory label. The cd I received is actually edited, which defeats the album (Eminem) imo. I was just going to take the L and consider it a lesson about buying items with stock photos as it was cheap and I don’t want to deal with a return.
Anyway, I was wondering what others would do in this situation? I’m primarily a seller so maybe thats why I'm hesitant to INAD, but I also work hard to deliver items as described.

I posted 2 months ago. Dinner generic joe-shmo with a made up name, like Dave, said reach out to him. He didn't help.
I called optimum Just now, my bill was$100 more than my new contact the retention department gave me last month. 45 mins of the run around, for then To Say a supervisor Will call me tomorrow.
BS! i know this game. For the last 6 months optimum retention department promises a lower bill, if i just party in full the current Bill, and then find out the new bill Is even higher than the original bill
I'm switching ti Verizon!

I haven’t been collecting long at all. Roughly 2 years, which is a fraction of the time most people in this hobby has been collecting. Recently I’ve noticed this weird trend with pricing.
I’m not here to complain about pricing or anything. I know that’s a tired complaint in these circles.
Usually, it’s far cheaper to collect locally then buy online for these types of hobbies. Funkos, trading cards, you name it. Usually it’s always cheaper to buy from Facebook Marketplace or Goodwill. You may not always get the best condition, but usually buying locally is far cheaper than eBay or Mercari.
However, the past year, everything I find locally is twice if not more than you can buy it from eBay with shipping included.
I found Super Mario Land 2 for the Gameboy is pretty beat up condition for $55 and Michael Jackson on the Wii for $60 at Goodwill the other day. Video game stores up-charge a good 20% on even the cheap, unwanted license crap. I found Shrek 4 on the Wii at a local game store for $35. I found someone selling tons of used games on Facebook and for most of their stock they were charging an extra $10-$15. (The worst being Zelda Link To The Past for $65) On the games I found to be fairly priced, I wanted 18 of them. I asked if he’d offer a discount since I’m buying quite a few and he said no. I still bought a few from him, but still.
I’m genuinely not upset or anything. Collecting for me is about patience and trying to find the best deals. Finding a game you’ve been hunting for at a good bargain is the best feeling in this hobby. I just find it so odd. Do these games even sell for those prices? Do people not do research on the items they’re buying? Or do they prefer to pay twice as much to have the item now instead of waiting for shipping?

I know I sound like a massive stalker in the title, but I promise I am not. I can prove I actually know, and am on good terms with, this woman if I have to.
Backstory;
About 10 years ago I(28f) made a penpall, named Paula. There was this meme on 9GAG about penpalls, and this idiot (I wanna say James?) posted his address in the comments (somewhere in Yorkshire), saying he was open for penpalls. Back then I was studying to become an English teacher (in the Netherlands, where I'm from/still living), and was compelled to write a letter.
So I wrote one, and on the back of the envelope, I wrote something along the lines of: 'if you're not James, some idiot put your address in a 9GAG comment.'
Well, turns out James was away for the weekend and his housemates were freaking out about the pile of clearly handwritten letters showing up (I've always imagined a Harry Potter situation with the hogwarts letters in my mind). Apparently I was the only one to have mentioned anything on the envelope, so they opened mine. I got a message from one of his housemates, Paula, explaining the situation. She mentioned James had gotten a bunch of letters and would have penpalls for the rest of his lifetime, and if I'd like to be penpalls with her instead.
We exchanged letters for a while, mental health got in my way and we lost touch.
I've been thinking about her a lot lately, and I would love to surprise her with a letter. I hardly use Facebook, but apparently we're still friends and she seems quite active. So I could totally ask her for her address, as I assume she no longer lives in the same house as 8 years ago. But I'd really love to surprise her instead.
While i don't want to put out too much information about her out here on Reddit, I think her fiance is called Jake, and they're somewhere in Yorkshire, somewhere near Leeds.
I'm just wondering if i could find her address with her name (first and last) and the area? Her last name is uncommon, as she's not originally from the UK.
Again, I can prove (Facebook messenger screenshots) that I know her, that I am not bothering her, and that we were friends
Apologies if I'm in the wrong subreddit for this and I'd totally understand if this would get removed.

This is the twentieth track from Prince’s 20th album, Crystal Ball. Originally recorded in 1993, the song was intended for inclusion on Come. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? How would you rank it among the rest of Prince’s discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?
Studio version
SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4: Not good. Regularly skip. 5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on. 7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit. 8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall. 10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.
Rating Results 1. Crystal Ball: 9.45/10 2. Dream Factory: 8.43/10 3. Acknowledge Me: 8.51/10 4. Ripopgodazippa: 7.74/10 5. Love Sign (Shock G's Silky Remix): 7.55/10 6. Hide the Bone: 8/10 7. 2morrow: 7.47/10 8. So Dark: 7.69/10 9. Movie Star: 9.48/10 10. Tell Me How U Wanna B Done: 6.07/10 11. Interactive: 8.91/10 12. Da Bang: 7.63/10 13. Calhoun Square: 8.74/10 14. What’s My Name: 6.35/10 15. Crucial: 8.53/10 16. An Honest Man: 4.82/10 17. Sexual Suicide: 7.99/10 18. Cloreen Bacon Skin: 6.49/10 19. Good Love: 20. Strays of the World:
Disc 2 Overall Rating:

Paid for 4 nights at curry village canvas tent cabin for 1 double bed and 3 single beds through national park reservations (only found out after that it’s a legit but 3rd party site) for my friends and I. They charged a 94.88 reservation fee on top of 1043.72 price. Unfortunately we can’t make it anymore and have to cancel but don’t want to lose the reservation fee so if anyone wants to purchase the reservation from me lmk. I will change the name on the reservation. I already paid for it in full. If this post is not allowed I will remove it. Thank you!

I (17NB) have liked her (16NB), i'll give her the fake name Angela, since about October 2022, and we've known each other since middle school, mostly just as acquaintances until last year where we started to get closer and hang out more.
Because we have similar schedules and share 2 classes, we started getting lunch together every day in September, originally with a male friend but it changed to just us around January. We also started texting more then.
However, last summer, I found out that she liked someone else, and since then I've put the thought of asking her out or confessing away, until yesterday.
We were texting, and she promised to send me a photo of her earrings if i listened to a song. When she sent the photo, I don't know what came over me, I just started flirting. I'll paraphrase the conversation below.
A: (photo) it's kind of an ugly picture but i love them (the earrings)
Me: I should have just come to school
A: I know my beauty astounds
Me: also it's not an ugly photo i don't think you could do that
A: i look dead
Me: you're very photogenic
A: (basically called me a liar)
Me: i'd say it's a great photo
(replying to "i look dead" ) you would be a very cute zombie then
A: you're a sweet talker (my name) dear
(skipping a bit here)
A: Teach me your ways
Me: I'm just like this
A: I'm doomed
Me: keep walking around looking like that and you won't need it
A: Omg my heart can only take so much
I know the conversation is a little cringey but i don't know who else to ask!! She is queer and has dated women before. Should I just give it a shot? I'm nervous and I really don't want to mess it up, i'm also autistic and even though I usually mask very well it becomes very obvious in new or unexpected situations. I really like her. Help!! I'll probably delete this as soon as I get good answers. Do you think I should just go for it?

I am new here and just want to get this off my chest! So i hope you can help me with some advice. Been with long term relationships, 3 to be exact longest was 4 yrs, minimum 2 yrs) so pretty much I can say that I handle relationships well. Reposting this from my other reddit acct. Also, never experienced any cheating from all those. Recently, I have been dating and the usual is pogi boys na have pretty decent followers sa somed. Until I met a guy that I like, nageffort pa nga sya after 2 days na nagusap to travel 2 hrs so we can meet and did the same effort to go to and visit him naman. There are some things that are new or maybe hindi ko lang narerealize pa. 1. What is it with them about posting tiktok or reels to show off their body, or even dance na may mga kaldag or even pacute cute lang na parangtrying to flirt ba. dont get me wrong I am all for it, but we have talked and agreed that we both are exclusive. One time minessage nya saken yun video na talagang kapag nakita online kulang na lang icomment ng mga tao na ang sarap mo or kaldagin mo din ako. So the overthinker in me, told him sana wag mo ipost okay na ako lang makakita, but he did it anyway and told me hindi naman ako nagrereply sa mga chats nila. He also said na this is the only outlet he has kapag stress ( sabe ko talk to me about it baka i can comfort you) and yet he continues to post stuff. One time i saw him always checking how many likes na yun stories nya or plays etc. i dont have issues abt it support ko sya, pero im afraid na syempre I trust him but i do not trust the people around him, syempre temptation is everywhere baka biglang me tempt.

1. He is a party person gusto nya umiinum. So one time we went out with my friends sa isang bar. Is it true na kapag kunware may nakita kang guy tapos nakipagtitigan ka na hindi ka aware na you did? Ganun kasi yun isa kong nakadate pero i couldnt absorb nun at maintindihan kar ako im aware palagi, just like veryone else kpg me pog lingon ka. But this guy, he said nakikipagtitigan daw yun isang friend ng friend ko tapos titingin din daw sya i asked why? Kasi curious daw sya kung magjowa sila nung isa. moved to another bar na puro sayawan. I can tell he is really drunk, so sa table namen may isang guy na pumoporma dun sa isang girl na kasama namen, naobserve ko 5 times he was always dancing close to the guy so hinila ko sya 3x dito ka sayaw with friends. Pero he finds his way back dun sa guy na malapit. Yun trigger ko na was he was dancing tapos tumitig na sya sa guy like it was more than 5 secs nakatingin and that was my when i walked out and nagpahangin. 30 mins nawala but he did not look for me. My friend then approached me saying na uy he asked if my other friend is str8 daw and when i went back sa bar kinakausap na nya yun isang friend ng friend ko na beks. I was devastated. So the morning i told him abt how i felt kasi paguwi namen lasing na lasing na sya and nakatulog agad. His response was hindi na nya maalala lahat ng ginawa nya after our first bar, and if it was flirting nakita ko daw ba na nagexchange sila numbers facebook or even naghawakan? Which is true, pero the fact na hindi sya makaalala ng anything kpg lasing how can i be so sure kpg ndi nya ako kasama? true din ba na kapag lasing na lasing you dont remember anything?
2. I dont demand time talaga but our setup is somehow LdR kasi malayo, both of us are new sa gantong setup. For me no matter how busy i am, i find time to update and message him, but for him either it will take 2-3 hrs to respond or kpg reply one liner. He tells me he is responding if not busy naman. Communication is impt for me the mere fact na kahit sabihan mo lang ako na im doing soemthign or office na ako i would appreciate kasi i respect your personal time. Pero sometimes i feel like ako lagi yun mageeffort to message and he is obliged to reply. Even sa mga. Calls ko ndibsya sasagot or kpg sasagot mabilisang usap lang, pero kpg sya na tatawag akobnaman sagot agad.

Sorry ang haba ng story. If youve reached this part sana you can advise me. TIA.

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New Kids on the Block is an American boy band from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Members:
Jonathan Knight
Jordan Knight
Donnie Wahlberg
Danny Wood
Joe McIntyre
In the early 1980s, Maurice Starr discovered pop/R&B quintet New Edition, and guided their early success. After breaking ties with them, Starr and his business partner, Mary Alford, sought to create a white counterpart act. Fifteen-year-old Donnie Wahlberg impressed Starr and Alford with his rapping skills, becoming the group's first member. He was initially joined by his younger brother Mark, who left the group after only a few months. Donnie then recruited his school friends Jamie Kelly, Jordan Knight, and Danny Wood to join the group; Knight was followed into the group by his older brother Jonathan Knight, while Kelly left the group early on.
When a search was made to find a Michael Jackson-esque singer to replace Kelly, Starr recruited 12-year-old Joey McIntyre, who initially struggled to fit in with the group. With the final lineup in place, Starr rehearsed the boys after school and on weekends and eventually secured the group a recording contract at Columbia Records.
Originally, the group was called Nynuk (pronounced "na-nook"). Nikki Van Noy, the author of the group's official biography, wrote in 2012 that the name Nynuk is "meaningless", although a 1989 article by Rolling Stone suggested a possible connection to Nanook of the North. Columbia demanded Starr change the name of the group. Subsequently, they settled on New Kids on the Block, after a rap song that Donnie Wahlberg had written and arranged for their first album. The group was signed to Columbia's black music division and originally marketed to black audiences.

Uhm, hey everyone? my name is Nick (almost 19) and I’m from Russia. I guess I should answer few questions before you decide to text me or not.
What am I looking for? I’m looking for people who could be close to me, who would understand and accept me for who I am. I can guarantee all the same attitude to you. Also I’d like to find someone who would have a lot in common with me, not only with interests, but with personal traits. Also I’d like to mention the fact that Americans are more preferable (since I want to improve my language level as well and need a person who’d speak it well)
Why do I look for friends here? I have friends from my country, but I want to expand my circle of friends. When I was a child, I dreamed about having a foreign friend, and now I can afford it! Foreigners are more interesting people to me, ‘cause we’re all absolutely different
What am I like at what are my interests? I’m protective, but emotionally closed person, so sometimes I may behave cold. It’s not because I may find something’s wrong with you, but because I am who I am. In heart of hearts I may take care of you and your condition, since I’m really attentive to others. Also you can rely on me on any matter, I’ll understand and support you. Also I should mention I’m straight honest, quite misanthropic, persistent and stubborn, but in fact I’m really nice and kind to people who I found out cool
Okay, it’s time to talk about my interests. I’m not into videogames, series, films or anime, and they only thing I played is sonic games :-/ Most of my spare time I prefer to spend drawing pictures, listening to music, having a walk or sleeping. From time to time I read books, and mostly they are any works of John Douglas (love him sm). As for music, then I listen to twenty one pilots (I love them sm as well, and if you too, it would be really great), and any sort of metal performers
Also I’d love to say I have a pet snake!
What could we do together? Literally anything. We could have a long conversation about anything, sharing photos and videos with each other, watching films together, play some games if it’s not too much for my laptop, and so on. I’d love to spend some time with u.
Thanks for attention 👋

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It took a month for Zanwy to recover from losing her wing. The shaman said everything went well, but afterwards she developed a fever for three days, and couldn’t move from the pain for over a week. Even after the fever broke and the pain faded, she was still too weak to move, and could not eat for some time. I visited her every day, bringing her food, making sure she ate even a little, and peeling the chard scales off the wound to help it heal. The shaman never even returned once to check on Zanwy. Her parents and siblings stayed with her, but that may have only been because they lived there too. After she recovered her strength, we started making plans on what to do. She knew the swarm wouldn’t accept her anymore, and I never felt at peace within it, so our plan was to leave.
“Are you ready?” I asked Zanwy as we overlooked the cliff edge. Even though I could fly now, I was not strong enough to carry her, so she needed to climb down. Which, after a month of infrequent meals and not moving much, seemed risky. “We could wait a few more weeks. Until you recover.”
“No. I can’t stay here.” One claw after the other, her wing pressed tightly to her back so she didn’t catch an updraft and twist, her belly flat against the rock, and her head pointed to the ground, she climbed down carefully. Of course, I could have glided down, but I didn’t. It felt wrong now somehow. The rocks shadows had moved over an inch before we made it to the bottom, with the forest we loved so much as our first destination. We thought that maybe the first place we should go could be past the furthest point we’d gone together.
Walking through those familiar rolling grassy hills and past the jumper’s nests, I listened to these familiar sounds one last time. Taking it all in, I heard, of course, that penetrating roar of the swarm, but there was also the small wet splashes of the jumpers moving about, the small howl of the wind as it made waves in the tall grass, the crunch of that same grass under our claws as we walked, and Zanwy’s slight panting. She was out of breath, but was keeping quiet, hoping I wouldn’t notice.
Eventually, we reached the edge of the forest, and stopped to eat red-berries. We sat in the grass and ate the red-berries that had fallen out of the treetops. Once we’d had our fill, and juice dripped from our snouts, I asked Zanwy, “How do you feel?”
“Off balance. Walking is a lot harder than I remember it being.” Zanwy said, limping slightly.
“Can you climb?” I looked up to the branches we always run along.
“I… no. I don’t think so.”
“What if I helped you?”
“Maybe, but jumping along the branches would be hard.” A drop of berry juice ran down her mouth and landed on the grass as she licked her claws clean.
“Okay, we can just-”
“No, I wanna try.” Zanwy said.
Getting Zanwy up the tree truck was clumsy and hard. She rested her tail on my head as I climbed below her, pushing her up for support. It took a few minutes but she and I made it to the strong branches. The branch swayed with the wind, and Zanwy flared her one wing, before quickly realizing her mistake and pulling it, and herself, closer to the branch. Using my wings to balance myself, I walked over to her. “Should we go back down?”
“Not yet. Just let me…” She slowly stood back up, and kept her wing pressed to her body. The nub where her missing wing had once been pressed itself down too, mimicking the movements of the other like an invisible mirror. Pushing off, she jumped to another nearby branch, and landed safely on the other side. Once again, I heard heavy panting, but she couldn’t hide it as well right now. “See, I can do it!” Zanwy yelled excitedly as her tail swayed back and forth from the edge. I followed suit, and lept to the branch next to her. It took a while, but she found a rhythm, and we ran along the branches for nearly an hour, until the sun began to set.
“It’s almost night. Let’s find somewhere to sleep.” I suggested.
“Yeah, let’s head back to the ground.” Zanwy agreed.
“You don’t want to sleep in the trees?”
“No. Without my wing… I don’t wanna risk falling by accident. Do you mind sleeping with me on the ground?”
“Okay, let’s find somewhere safe.” We spent a few minutes looking around, and found a tree with a hollow spot near the base. It was cramped, but empty. By the time the moon rose we had already settled down. Zanwy rested closer to the back of the hollow, and I slept near the entrance.
“It’s cold.” She said, and yawned. Since we were under a tree, the walls of the hollow couldn’t be heated with fire directly. So slowly and carefully, Zanwy and I used our fire to heat the dirt under us instead. Small embers of grass charred, caught fire, and burned away, leaving the ground much warmer; enough for us to sleep comfortably.
That night, I dreamt of Zanwy. She was flying around, soaking up the sunlight with her wings. I was the too; flying right beside her. We danced in the sky together. Zipping and diving about. It was so quiet. It was just us; as a perfectly happy swarm of two. Later that night, I woke up feeling sluggish and dizzy. A moment later I realized how cold it had gotten, and that the heat from the ground had long since gone. Zanwy was still asleep, and I didn’t want to wake her up.
Controlling flames is easy… to a point. But once something is on fire, you don’t control how it burns. That was something my father taught me when I breathed my first flame. The grass had already burned, so I assumed it could burn again. Because of that, I thought it would be safe to use more this time. I assumed wrong. One breath was all it took, and the walls turned yellow with fire. I tried to put it out by beating it with my tail and wings, but that only spread it faster.
“Zanwy! Get up!” I shouted. Dragons may be harder to burn, but enough fire can char and blacken even our scales.
Zanwy startled awake, “what’s going on? What happened!?” The flames started creeping closer, so she scrabbled to her and we both ran out of the hollow. It didn’t take long for the rest of the tree to burn, and for the fire to spread to the nearby trees. We ran away as fast as we could, the smell of smoke in our noses, and the sounds of crackling flames left behind us. Once we’d gotten safely out of the forest, I told Zanwy what happened.
“I’m sorry.” I told her.
“I guess the forest isn’t as used to fire as our nests are.” She said. She was upset, but was trying to not let me hear it. “Let’s just find someone else to sleep for tonight.” It was dark, but we could both see well enough to spot a rocky outcrop.
“Rocks are harder to burn than trees.” Zanwy said, crawling into an opening between the rocks. We crawled inside, and made sure there was nothing that could burn this time.
“Looks safe to heat these up.” I suggested. Zanwy agreed, and we spent several minutes making the place warm. “Much better.”
We finally got to sleep again after that, and woke up to beams of light hitting our eyes from the opening in the rocks. I rolled my head away from the light, and covered my eyes with my wings. I was all set to go back to sleep, until Zanwy said, “Woah… look at this, Blinx.”
Sliding one of my wings down, I peaked an eye open. With the sun out, the cave we were in became a lot brighter. Enough to see that it was much deeper than we’d realized. Zanwy, who’d slept further in than I did, noticed it first.
“This hole is really deep.” She said. “And it gets darker inside too. Do you wanna go explore it?”
I stood up, and my stomach growled. “Sure, but let’s eat first.” We left the cave in search of food. Outside, we found three things. One, some tasty slitherers under a big rock. Two, some water under another rock. And three, a burned down forest. Well, not the whole forest, but a lot of it that we could see. In the distance, white smoke rose into the sky from a few different places. A lot of the grass around the rocky area had been burnt up too.
“I guess we slept through the worst of it.” Zanwy said.
“Are the fires out now, at least?”
“Yeah, the smoke it white, so nothing’s burning anymore.” The was a moment of quiet, and I thought about how lucky we were to escape that tree in time, and how careless I was.
“I’m… sorry. We almost got hurt because of me.”
“Forget it. Name one dragon who hasn’t accidentally burned something with their breath. Let’s just go look at that cave. That’s why we left, right? To explore?” She said.
“Yeah, let’s go.”
The cave itself was very deep, and the walls were made of stones of lots of different colors. As we climbed down, we had to squeeze between rocks, and scrabble with our claws to make holes as we went deeper and deeper down. Eventually, the light from outside didn’t shine, but we could still see fairly well, though not as far, and without any colors. The cave quickly went from colorful, to just shades of gray. As we went along, the sounds of our claws on the stone did something strange. The sounds started happening several times, and coming from all around us.
“Do you hear that Zanwy?” I asked.
“Hear what?”
“Listen,” I said, and tapped the stone with my claw. Suddenly, the same tap came from above, below, and beside us; like a tiny swarm was clattering all around the rocks.
“Let me try.” She said, and scratched a stone. Once again, the sounds repeated. “Oh wow!” We decided to go deeper, and find out what was causing the sounds to do that. Eventually though, we entered a big open area in the cave.
“What is this?” I asked, hoping down into the area, and looking around.
“I don’t know. Maybe it’s the village of another species!” Zanwy said. “Hello!” She cried out with her mind in a way that any species could hear and understand, but there was no answer. As we continued to look around, we found all kinds of things. There were strangely small hard clay nests all around, but they were filled with tiny rocks and ash and mud. There were also lines of white mud on the ground. I followed them, and they led to the center of the ‘village’.
“Find anything?” Zanwy asked, walking over.
“No, but I am getting cold.”
“Yeah, it was much warmer aboveground.”
“Do you wanna warm up?”
“No, you go ahead, I’m going to keep looking around.” She said. As she walked away, I used my fire to warm up the rocks below me. Suddenly, light started to shine from the mud lines, revealing that I was standing on a large, circle with a strange pattern on it. The light got brighter and brighter, and I tried to run, but found that I couldn’t move. “Blinx!”
“Zanwy!” Without warning, I felt dizzy, and I could move again. Then I heard the sounds of something behind me, but it wasn’t Zanwy. Growly, I tried to make myself look bigger, and threatening. Whatever it was, it stood on two legs, and was rubbing its eyes. In its hand was a broken tree branch, with a rock at one end. The cave village had been filled with light, but it came from all around.
“What the?” The creature mumbled, looking at me. “Are you a dragon?” I growled at the creature, while looking around for Zanwy, but she wasn’t there.
“Who are you? Where’s Zanwy?” I demanded. I let the flames build up in my mouth to show that I was dangerous.
The creature grabbed her head. “Telepathy. That’s new. My name is Jess. I’m a wizard. Who are you?”

So, I want to preface this by saying I write solely in third person, and write a minimum of two paragraphs per response. I recently turned 18, and I’d prefer whoever I write with to be between the ages of 16 and 22. This story won’t include anything sexual, but there will be a lot of romantic tension and ideally some emotionally heavy moments! Bonus points if you have an original character in mind for this, and want to build a friendship outside of just being writing partners! There’s two chapters to this story, we can obviously write both but I’m more than okay with skipping over to the second chapter.
Our characters have been best friends since kindergarten. I’ve been to every one of your birthday parties, we’ve walked home together ever since we were in the second grade, we’ve even invited each other to family vacations, etc. We’ve always been close, in spite of how different we are. You were always more of an introvert, but I couldn’t be any more different. My outgoingness even landed me a small acting gig in a local commercial, which ended up snowballing into something bigger.
The first chapter of this story opens with what your character thinks is just another sleepover. My little brother keeps pestering us, all while you’re in awe of him and cheering him on. You’ve always thought of him as your own brother, and he even has a mild crush on you. Slowly, over the course of the night, our characters start to uncover some romantic feelings for each other. It’s always been looming over us, especially when other people pointed it out, but we’ve never paid much attention to it. After all, why can’t a boy and a girl just be friends. Later on, things come to a boiling point, only for my character to tell you that he’s moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. You’re understandably heartbroken. The morning after is awkward and uncomfortable for more reasons than one.
The second chapter of this story opens three years later. Once I left town, we didn’t stay in touch. That wasn’t really your call. Every time you tried reaching out, you would never get the responses that you expected. You suspect it’s because I were too busy to keep up with you. To fill up the empty space, you started getting into songwriting and playing the piano because you needed some way to put into words just how angry you are at me. Instead of letting it eat you up inside, you wanted to channel it into something creative. You put some of your songs up on social media and gained a small following. You started getting messages from people in the industry who wanted to sign you to a record deal and eventually, you decided to bite. While in the midst of sending out college applications, you signed with a record label.
You got an apartment in Santa Monica and started going to recording studios to work on new music. You put out your first song, that one song you’d written years ago that kept resonating with you. Obviously it was about me. All of our old friends could tell it was about me. Suddenly, you’re everywhere. Your face is on billboards, your name is in tabloids, it was... terrifying. You get an invite to an industry event, from some CEO. You figure it’s a good way to make connections. After all, you’re the new girl in town. Everybody wants to talk to you... except me.
From the minute we spotted each other across the crowded room, I never once looked your way again. It made your blood boil. You want to scream at me, make a scene, and let everyone know what an asshole I am... but you couldn’t. Instead, I’d beaten you to the punch. I gracefully made my way to you and pulled me aside.

Okay, so for this post there are a lot of people involved (this has been going on for a while) so I'll list up here who's who. This is my wife's family. I'll be using code names when appropriate:
Father-in-law - FIL
Mother-in-law - MIL
Wife(oldest daughter) - Wife
Second daughter - Sarah
Third daughter - Lana
Fourth daughter - Ruth
Second daughter's husband - BIL
Third daughter's fiancee - Karl
My daughter - daughter
Second daughter's older son - Danny
Second daughter's younger son - Aaron
And me as me
I know this is long but bear with me TL;DR Brother-in-law has snapped the last straw for the family and we are all starting to cut ties with him

 BIL's family has their own side of the story that I'm barely familiar with, so it won't be brought up here. We first met BIL way before they got together; Sarah bought a house as a group of friends with her boyfriend at the time, and BIL and his second wife at the time. We didn't interact with him much. We just heard a few stories about him from their friend group. Eventually this situation broke down and BIL and his second wife left and vandalized Sarah's home on the way out. They let their dogs poop all over the floor, stole some miscellaneous items, poured water in their lawn mower gas tank, etc. He did this to Sarah, his future third wife. We thought this guy was out of our lives forever. Sarah eventually came to stay on my couch after she sold the house. She lived with me and my wife for roughly 3 months. Then she went and rented an apartment a few miles away. No sooner than a few weeks did we find out she was dating future BIL, and a few weeks after that we found she was pregnant. He met the family and stated that he wanted to be a part of it. He blamed all his past transgressions on his second wife. We questioned him at the time if he was still with his second wife. He said no, and that he was officially divorced. My wife looked up the public court records and found out that he didn't file divorce papers until 11 days after we asked that question. A small lie but considering our history of knowing him it was concerning. BIL is a big gun enthusiast. About 1 months after they told us Sarah was pregnant, while cleaning a gun at home he shot himself in the hand. Again, we were concerned but Sarah assured us he was a changed man and this was just an unfortunate accident. His hand healed but he didn't do his physical therapy that seriously so his hand is still kind of jacked up. I feel this is important because he kind of has a history of not following through on what he says. During Sarah's pregnancy we found out that BIL seriously beat one of their dogs back when they bought the house together. We also figured out he diagnosed himself with bipolar, but refused to go to a doctor to get an actual diagnosis. The whole family at the time was distracted by all of this because during Sarah's pregnancy my wife went through a major medical struggle that resulted in multiple surgeries and a months-long stay in the hospital. We were so focused on that the BIL details just kind of came and went at that moment. Sarah gave birth to Danny during COVID lockdown. We were so excited and we all were very active in Danny's life. Time would pass and we just kind of got used to BIL being despite the fact that he often would miss family events. BIL and Sarah would move into a house on my in-laws property just down the road from in-laws house. MIL became their primary caregiver as she could work it around her job and still make decent money. As 4 years have passed my MIL, FIL, Lana, my Wife and I all take shifts of watching their now 2 kids for them, for free. MIL also watches my daughter but significantly less that their son's. 2 years would pass after Danny was born and everything seemed OK. There would just be hints in they way he talked about who he really was. He would say something in casual conversation like "man, there seems like there are too many black people in commercials these days" or "I don't know why we are forcing women's sports to be a thing." Bigoted stuff like that, but veiled enough so there was plausible deniability. I would often call him out on it, so he really grew to not like me. This all changed at his 30th bday. He had a big party with a lot of alcohol and weed with dozens of friends. My wife and I didn't go because we are not party people. Lana and Ruth went to the party. Sarah was also there. During this party BIL went outside and decided to "mud" his jeep through the creek beside their house. This was possibly with Karl but I'm not sure of that to this day. Karl has recently come into the picture prior to this event and was previously friends with BIL for a long time. The jeep got stuck and flooded for obvious reasons. After trying to get it out of the creek by multiple means, they gave up and left it there. I believe it took almost 2 days to get it out. He went back to the party and as everyone got progressively drunk and high, my 2 sister-in-laws Lana and Ruth (I believe) criticized BIL for getting his car stuck in a creek while playing. BIL verbally assaulted them and demanded they get out of his house. They left in tears. They drove separately, and Lana had gotten buzzed so they both got in Ruth's car and drove to my house. They sat and vented to my wife and I for a while, and eventually I offered that we should go do something fun to take their minds off of it. My wife and I drove them to Taco Bell and we got some food and drove around town for a while and made jokes in the car. After they cooled off and were in a better mood they said that Lana needed to go get her car from the party. In a flurry she accidentally left her keys inside her sister's and BIL's house. We drove them over just in case anything sketchy happened but Lana and Ruth didn't want us to go inside, so we waited out in the car. She didn't think it would be a big deal to walk in, but as her and Ruth did BIL immediately got in her face and demanding she gets out or else. Ruth went to talk to someone else at the party and didn't notice this at first. BIL shoved Lana against a wall and held her there. Everyone apparently stood in stunned silence as this happened. He then shoved her to the ground, grabbed her around the ankles and started pulling her across the floor. As he was threatening to do even worse, Ruth ran up and jumped on his back and gave him a head lock. She screamed at him to stop but before BIL could anything about this everyone finally woke up and pulled them apart. Ruth helped Lana up and they ran out of the house onto the front porch sobbing. My wife saw this and got out of the car and yelled at them to get back in our car. We drove up to the in-laws house. By then it was past midnight. MIL was about an hour away working her job and FIL was up in his room asleep. The sisters went and woke him up and explained the situation through tears. They also called MIL to inform her of the situation. He got ready and ask me to go with him down to the house to get some answers. The sisters stayed up at the house. We drove down in his car and when we got out the entire party was ready for us and greeted us at the car. Literally over a dozen people, most of whom I did not recognize started screaming what happened at both of us simultaneously. Everyone was clearly very drunk. FIL looked overwhelmed, so I raised my hands and tried asking everyone to stop for a second and go one by one telling their bit of the story. BIL stopped me mid sentence and pointed his finger in my face. I noticed he had his other hand on a holstered hand gun. He yelled out "You don't have a say here! You're barely even part of this family." For context, I had been with my wife for over 11 years at that time and he hadn't even married Sarah yet and had been there about 2 1/2 years. FIL backed up and told me that I need to stop talking and that I was being a problem. I backed off and went over the yard to Sarah and Karl. I asked Sarah what happened and she told me that she didn't see what happened and that she wasn't very aware of what was going on now. Karl would barely answer the same question. I walked back over to FIL but he told me to back off and that I really wasn't needed there. Admittedly I felt pretty insulted and just decided to walk back to his house and get my car and go home with my wife. We eventually left after FIL came back to the house. We found out later that BIL had pulled his gun out and threatened to kill himself if FIL didn't leave. Out of fear of what he would do, my in-laws were pretty afraid to take action at this point. A lot of the situation was his word against someone else's and Sarah went on a tour around to the friends and convinced them not to take any of this to the police. She then tried to smooth things over with the family and offered that BIL would apologize to everyone. He then refused, stating that Ruth was the real aggressor and that she assaulted him. He eventually agreed to apologize to just FIL for causing a problem and I think some half-hearted apologies to Lana and Ruth. The whole situation was swept under the rug but an unease has existed over the family since then. He stopped coming to family events pretty much altogether. About 4 months after this situation, prior to my daughter being born, he told MIL he was going to bring Danny up to their house so she could watch him for a few hours while he took a nap. His job works long hours so this wasn't out of the ordinary. However, he didn't show up for a while and my MIL started questioning what going on. She called but there was no answer. She drove down to his house and knocked but there wasn't an answer, only Danny crying in the background. She let herself in and found BIL asleep on the couch with Danny actively trying to wake him up. MIL tried to wake him up but nothing for a few minutes. She gave up and wrote a note to let him know where Danny was. BIL didn't notice Danny was gone for 2 hours. He finally woke up, drove up to in-laws house, and yelled at my MIL for just taking Danny without informing him. He took Danny and then left. A few months after that, after my daughter was born, He fell asleep while watching Danny again. This time we found out because when he woke up the front door was open and Danny was gone. He called in-laws for help finding him. My in-laws have a large property (about 200 acres) with a ton of it forested. Danny wandered 1/4 of a mile into the woods and I believe it took roughly a little over an hour to find him. Family questioned him hard this time but he just recoiled back into their house and didn't talk to us much. Sarah continued to defend him and said it was just an accident. Again the police were not notified about any of this. There was always this idea that if we went to authorities about any of this they would just run for it. They would then surprise everyone with the news that they were pregnant again, despite the fact that Sarah had used the morning after pill. This whole time they hadn't married yet. They announced that they were getting married but Sarah told Lana that it was mostly just to help BIL not have to go through bankruptcy a second time. I wasn't sure if this would do anything to help that situation, but that's what Sarah said at one point leading up to the wedding. About a month before the wedding, however, he threatened Sarah that if she insisted on inviting my wife to the wedding he would demand to invite a friend of his that Sarah hated. This friend also used to date BIL I believe. This was his ploy to force Sarah to not invite my Wife or me. The 2 other sisters and MIL all stood in solidarity with us and said that they would also not go if we weren't invited. He eventually relented and they got married a little before Aaron was born. As more kids were added, MIL's childcare duties got much harder. Eventually my wife and I started paying her (not much but something at least. $150 a month) to watch our daughter, but we also did chores for her, bought her food often, and eventually my Wife started taking a few shifts to watch all 3 children. To date, BIL and Sarah have never compensated any of us for our work. It's a little frustrating but we've tried to understand because Sarah and BIL seem to be bad with money. They objectively make more than us yet can't afford to pay MIL anything. Last Thanksgiving, in the middle of dinner, Sarah and BIL decided to have an "intervention" and talk about how we were not treating BIL fairly. They addressed everybody but really honed in on me specifically. This seemed to be because the rest of the family kind of dance in eggshells around them, while to be frank I'm pretty honest about how I feel about them. They seemed to think I was causing the family to turn against him and questioned why I would do that. I told him he lacked humility. He said he didn't understand. I told him that if he admitted to his mistakes and actually apologized about any of the stuff I previously wrote, instead of blaming everyone and everything else then the whole family would feel a bit different about him. A lot of talk was about the 30th b-day and other times when I just ignored him and how he had already apologized about the party. I reminded him that he didn't apologize to most of the family and he blamed Ruth. He then stated that Ruth was the cause of a lot of the problems at that party. He also made a big deal about how the family doesn't trust him with my daughter and kept emphasizing how he has never held her. We finally tried to come to an agreement. I told him I would try to talk to him more and try to understand him better and he said he would try to come to family events more. He also wanted more of a relationship with my daughter. We left and my wife and I were skeptical but we said that if this is who Sarah really wanted to be with, as long as BIL wasn't perceived as a threat he could have more contact with our daughter. We have had way more of a relationship with his kids than he has had with our daughter so I tried to sympathize with that imbalance. Karl also stated later that having known BIL for a long time, he thought he was very sincere. To date, BIL has not asked or tried at any family events to spend any time with my daughter, despite having numerous opportunities. Now to the current situation. About a month ago Lana and Karl announced that Lana was pregnant. This was a revelation due to Lana having a medical condition that made it harder to get pregnant. A lot of excitement was brewing in the family because of this. Karl has been seeming like a good partner to Lana, and proposed to her a little before the pregnancy happened. This is especially pertinent because Lana and Karl moved into a house together right beside BIL and Sarah. A few days ago they were over at Sarah and BIL's house when an argument broke out between Sarah and BIL. BIL demanded that Sarah wasn't an "obedient enough wife" and that if she wanted there marriage to work then she was going to have to get better at serving him. She was upset and they weren't coming to an agreement so he was going to leave, but apparently he was very high so Sarah refused to give him the keys to his car. He got extremely mad and then got a gun, held it to his head, and threatened to kill himself if she didn't hand over the keys. Fortunately, Danny and Aaron were taking a nap during all of this. Sarah called the police during this whole exchange and the operator heard a lot of what BIL said over the phone so based on that they arrived at the house. He apparently drove away and it took the police a bit to find him but once they did he turned himself over. They admitted him to a mandatory 72-hour stay at a psychiatric ward for a mental health assessment. Sarah then came up to the rest of the family (not me or my Wife) and gave them Danny and Aaron. She then went and confided with Lana and Karl about how abusive BIL had been and how life was just miserable right now. A lot of us, especially Karl and my in-laws, were telling her that she needs to leave BIL and file for emergency custody of her children. She seemed to be listening to us and turning a corner, but inexplicably the psychiatric ward allowed BIL to have a phone call with Sarah and they had a long conversation. Suddenly, Sarah shut us all out and completely changed her story. She started defending BIL again. BIL was then let out of the psychiatric ward a day early. Since Karl was working at the time, Lana came to stay with us and then over at her in-laws. We are especially concerned about her safety around BIL due to her being pregnant. They have since cut nearly all contact with us for 4 days now. They have only told Karl that they were getting a new TV because the old one mysteriously broke somehow. They have continued to post on social media like nothing has happened. They have spent 2 days with BIL's family so we aren't sure what their opinion of this is, though we do know a sibling of his has also told Sarah to leave him prior to this latest situation. We don't know what their plans for childcare is because they are wholly reliant upon us. Lana is very reluctant to ever be home alone. Ruth is as well. There are so many other details I haven't mentioned. There have been holes in walls they've had to fix. There is some evidence that BIL is cheating on Sarah, but that evidence is somewhat inconclusive. The bigoted comments for a while now have gotten increasingly misogynistic. It's a lot of 'we need to respect proper gender roles' kind of stuff. There's just too much and I've already written a book on here. I don't really know what to do at this point. Because a lot of this stuff has been swept under the rug it's hard to tell how seriously CPS or police would take our claims. FIL has threatened to kick them out of their very cheap rental they're in now. Who knows what they would do in that scenario. I know this post is detailed and because of that BIL or Sarah might see it, but at this point I wonder if I even give a shit. They've already eluded to keeping their sons from us in the past and the vibes we are getting now is that they are already doing it. And from the bottom of my heart, fuck BIL. 

I just realized that the main antagonist of my campaign (a Lasombra Sabbat priest attempting to take over Santa Cruz) needs a couple of minions that the party can actually face down and reasonably fight, either physically or socially. So I have created two of them: the Shaw Brothers.
They are a pair of identical twins named Benjamin and Timothy, who were born in 1799 to a very religious family in Virginia. Identical through most of their childhood they started to diverge from each other personality wise in their late teenage years, when Benjamin began to chafe under his father's strict and demanding ways.
Eventually, after a spat, Benjamin ran away from home and became a traveling rapscallion who carved a path of hedonism and youthful chaos across the southern half of the Union. He got involved in all manner of things, some criminal some not, and eventually ended up on a riverboat on the Mississippi playing cards with a mysterious stranger late into the night. He was a remarkably good gambler and managed to whittle down his opponent until the stranger had only one thing left to bet, immortality. Benjamin naturally doubted this offer, but seeing as it was both late and night and he had already won so much he decided to humor the stranger. He won that hand too, and was swiftly Embraced into the night by the mysterious stranger.
The stranger was a vampire (obviously) of clan Brujah who took Benjamin to New Orleans, where they got involved in the mess of vampire politics that place was in the early 1800s. Eventually Benjamin grew tired of vampiric politics, and he found his new Sire somehow even more controlling than his father had been. Despite being a Brujah his sire was of the domineering sort who strong-armed anyone who stood against their wishes. Eventually he was able to free himself by using the Capture of New Orleans during the Civil War to trick his sire into going near an ammo depot which he then had an agent detonated Now free from his master he left to find a new group which would grant him the freedom he desired, whereupon he fell in with the Sabbat. Their message greatly resonated with him, particularly the "vampires are better then all the mortals let's rule them" part.
After a few years with them he decided to see what had become of his brother, and so traveled back to Virginia.
During this time Timothy had become a priest, gotten involved in the Second Great Awakening, and eventually got into what amounts to a turf war with a rival pastor. Said rival pastor sent goons after him to beat him up, so when Benjamin found him he was laying injured on his death bed.
Benjamin explained to his brother that he had finally found faith, and he offered to share that new faith with Timothy. Timothy accused him of being a monster against god, which Benjamin didn't deny. He instead offered Timothy first revenge against the pastor who had wounded him, as well as the ability to usher in a new golden age with the return of the Dark Father. He also used a wee bit of Presence as well. Eventually Timothy gave in and was Embraced by his brother. They then killed that pastor and his goons together, and when the Presence and initial bloodlust wore off Timothy bitterly accepted his new state.
Later the two of them joined up under that Lasombra and now serve as his muscle.
Benjamin is a social Brujah, who is also fair in a fight (Presence, Potence). Meanwhile Timothy is much more confrontational, and is a crack shot with firearms who has experience fighting as a member of the Underground Railroad close to the front lines (Clerity, Potence). Benjamin is by far the most dangerous of the two, with him having both half a century and a generation on his elderly brother. He is also a narcissistic sadist who lacks the civility Timothy at least continues to possess. But what he lacks in morals he more than makes up for in charm, clever social manipulation, and a cruel cunning.
Together the two are a dangerous tag-team who will provide a strong challenge for my players.
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So, what do all of you think?
P.S. I also made some minis in HeroForge for reference:
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So a little back story about my exs lil sister, we’ll call her Anna, Anna is a year younger than her older brother less than a year younger than me. I met her from my ex I’ll call him Chad. We met when I was 13 and he was 14. I met Anna the following year when I was 14 and she was 13. Drama didn’t start right away, but she didn’t take school seriously her freshman year she ended the year with about 4 credits and next year her sophomore year only got 2 and after her sophomore year she dropped out saying for “mental health” even tho she was doing online school, no job, and was just trying to act like a bad ass. Anna was living with her father and step mom with her brother and half sister, she started getting rebellious smoking weed, smoking nic, having sex with a lot of guys and also going partying. She would run out of her house to go do whatever she wanted, one time I was even was on FaceTime with my ex as she was throwing a tantrum she locked herself in the bathroom screaming that she doesn’t care about her step mom or half sister because their not blood and she doesn’t care if they die, because they tried to take her phone away. She then ended up calling one of her boyfriends to pick her up and she ran out of the house and into his truck, her parents ended up calling the police and she texted her parents off a different phone and when her parents asked where she was her response was “it’s none of your business” she returned the next morning. It turned into a normal thing of her skipping school, sneaking off, breaking things in the house and going into her parent room to steal her phone. She then told her school she was being abused, which got debunked almost instantly since her brother testified and video recording from the neighbors driveway, because she claimed her dad staged her by her head and slammed her head into his truck door, her step mom had a video of her on the porch yanking out her own hair, no damage to the car and video shows her screaming at her house. Her mom locked her out because she didn’t feel safe with her being aggressive with a 2 year old in the house. Her father then put up cameras around the inside and outside of the house just to always have evidence of her lies. One time of her taking the bus to school she got in a fight with someone age 11 when she was 14 then posted on instagram bragging about getting charged with assault. She then made a claim that she wanted to kxxl herself so her family took her to a mental hospital the doctor told her parents she had no mental issues she’s just spoiled and will act out for people attention. Anna would constantly go to social media to complain about getting mistreated by her family. It got to the point her family knew there was not much they could do to help her, and they felt worried for their baby growing up around that. They ended up moving her into a family friends house where her parents stayed in contact with the parents of the other house and they gave money. There was parents and a daughter two years younger she became best friends with it was going well for the first few months but then Anna started to steal from the daughter I’ll call her Nat, they started to not get along and the friends Nat introduced her too she started talking shit about Nat to them. Anna was now 15 attempting to get jobs but couldn’t hold a job because of her bad attitude, well after 9 months Anna slept with Nats boyfriend, Nats boyfriend told Nat about what happened, the mom made Anna call her boyfriend and tell him how she cheated. The tension was too high and the parents told Anna parents they couldn’t take care of Anna anymore, Annas parents then talk to family, and Anna Uncle agreed to let her move in, she was 16 at this point and she moved in with her uncle and his girlfriend. She got a job at a sub place, but she kept smoking and having sex with random people. Well, she started getting into a lot of vocal arguments with his girlfriend and her uncle ended up texted my boyfriend asking if she can live with him. Her uncle said she was just selfish, and doesn’t like being told no. At this time her brother was living in a house with 3 guys with no extra room. I had my own two bedroom apartment, so I talked to her parents and they felt like I was a good choice and I asked Anna because even tho I wasn’t a fan of her I still felt like she needs her own room and she agreed. So her uncle drove her and her stuff to my place. Her family gave me some money to get her some furniture and they gave me a run down, also told me they’re are going to call to check up on her. I asked if she had any allergies or mental issues, she told me no but that she’s likely going to tell me a huge list of what’s wrong with her. So first day she moved in I took her to get fast food and asked some questions. She said she was abused by her parents Nats boyfriend pressured her to sleep with him and that her uncle was manipulative. Every story she told me she made herself a victim. She then asked me if I had any mental issues which I said I have PTSD and MDD and she asked me what MDD was, I explained it to her. I then asked her if she had any issues and she gave me a LIST she said anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder , bi polar disorder, OCD, MDD, and PTSD. Even tho she had to ask me what MDD meant, but I didn’t confront her because her parents warned me that if I doubt her she will act out. So the first week, I got her a job where I work, started to teach her to drive and helped her set up a bank account went to the Apple Store so she could buy herself a new phone. Instantly I could tell why she kept getting fired, she was on her the entire time and everytime I looked over she was taking photos or videos of herself. She did not want to work so I did a lot of her work just so I didn’t get a bad rep. About day 4 she asked if she can invited a guy over that she knew on Snapchat. I said sure MY MISTAKE. This guy was a wanna be gangster, and he brought his friend, in front of him she acted awful, swore she was a fighter and badass, they ended up fucking and next day he was still there he did some Molly and drank a lot. My friend came over and Anna started to threaten her and say she could beat her ass in front of the guys. I took her into a room alone and told her to knock it off. We’ll later that night the guys wanted to bring over some girls, I was trying to sleep and my friend told me how, she told they guys she can drive them with my car. IVE ONLY TAKEN HER DRIVING TWICE. So I agreed to pick the girls up but told them I would be driving them back that night. It’s going good for a while until Anna starts talking shit about one of the girls and called her ghetto, this girl was 13 and Anna was 17. That girl confronted Anna, Anna swore up and down she didn’t say anything, then after 10 mins of pressing her Anna admitted she called her ghetto. This girl beat her ass. Anna started crying and this girl came up to her and said that wasn’t a fair fight, that she can get 5 mins to put her hair up and get some water but they were gonna run it again. Everyone is in my living room talking then they go outside and she gets her ass beat again, Anna then goes into my bathroom in my bedroom, anytime I went in she told me to kick them out. I told her she wanted them here she has to tell them to get out but I’ll have her back. It got to the point I tried to sleep on my couch, so the guys tried getting Anna to go to her room so I could sleep but she screamed at them. So the two girls went in and told her she needs to go to her room. Anna picked up a bunch of my stuff on the counter and threw it at the sink. The 16 year old girl got pissed and wanted to fight her, but I said she had enough and if she needed to get it off her chest we can fight, we ended up scrapping. It got late so I went to drive them home… pt 2?

hi, i wanted to ask if groningen is a town where all ages are welcome. i mean i know that sounds weird cause obviously people of all ages live there! but whenever i roam around the streets, i see mostly people who look 25 tops and it made me worry weather if i were to move there longterm, i'd stick out. not on the street i guess? but if i went to events, or parties for example - i'm worrying if young people in groningen are so used to just how young the population is, that they'd look at me and think what is that person doing here or not give a f but there being wayyyyyyyyyyy less groups to join opportunities etc than for the very young people.. and i'm worried about finding friends, too! cause i worry if people in groningen that are over 25/maybe 30, are in small circles and have these friends from primary school that by common prejudice! are said to be a lot of dutch people's few close friendships, and just generally that they're not looking to get to know someone who just came there (whereas younger students i would assume are more interested in that and also often expats themselves even) maybe this sounds dumb to some but please be nice..
i also have some of these thoughts because a dutch guy who lives in groningen told me when they were 24, that for groningen they'd be "old" and how incredibly young groningen is etc, and because in the groningen-group on facebook it also seems like most people moving there are like 18-22.. so if you have experiences to share or maybe encouraging words or so, that'd be really cool

I found out my old best friend from high school (a little over a decade ago) died in a way we had extensively talked about. I had even bought him a necklace that was “protective” from that. I had a very dramatic response. It’s been months of intense crying and I just couldn’t get any ground to stand on with my grief. I finally reached out to another friend to maybe talk through some of it and the past.
After talking about two different things he did to me…I realized I forgot(repressed?) months of memories(the chaotic ones) towards the end. Enough that I even forgot him and I had finally gotten together after years of will they won’t they in a very dramatic way…while also hiding it from everyone that knew us. I think the only proof I have is a photo somewhere of our hidden facebook status change as he hid everything with me and apparently didn’t even talk about me to our other close friends. And then after some months of a stalemate with where we were going with boundaries in our relationship…he came out to me and said he didn’t want me to fall in love with some other guy. That he was in love with me and everything I was but that he couldn’t be with me in the way I needed. He tried to say I could basically cheat on him when I said monogamy was important to me and he was the only person I wanted. We tried to walk it back to friends, but I was pretty messed up after all of that and he still held firm on not wanting to be in my life if there was another guy. I never even got to tell anyone that we were together or else I would have outed him since we were so compatible and people would have questioned it. Through the years I tried to be supportive of his relationship, all of which he ignored. The one time he tried to contact me was a month and a half before my wedding, which now I finally remember why I didn’t invite him. I panicked and did not pick up the phone. I had texted him if he wanted to hang out we should do that sometime. He never contacted me again.
And now I’m just sitting here all wound up, very anxious and shaky after days. I’m kind of scared I forgot some major events between us. I think I just told myself it was all fake on his part. Obviously he hid me for a long time and downplayed it. I kept asking myself why did I feel like I didn’t mean anything to him but what I felt was real? I even very publicly chose him over another guy after they got in a dumb fight over me. I don’t know how to process anything anymore. I loved him with everything in me. I literally held out hope one day we’d still be able to be friends again. I don’t think everything was entirely fake on his end as he kissed me while my nose was running all down my face after that momentous blow up. I don’t think I would have done that. That's pretty much all the humor I can muster.