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2014.11.10 05:12 Katelyn Nacon Fan Page

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2015.02.14 11:17 hutch991 MONSTA X

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2012.05.16 02:49 razorsheldon Uplifting News

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2024.05.22 01:25 SixStarz6 Birthday Yesterday and super sad

No family , no friends and now I know why I have given up more than once before. My wife tells me there were all kinds of birthday wishes on facebook. When it was actually 2 of her friends that I don’t know and one friend that I have known for as long as I have known my wife. I am not out to her.
I am out to nobody but my wife. It’s been a rough few years. Last time(done it a few times) I quit hormones we moved and when I finally realized it’s not going away and HRT had to be permanent, I lost contact with all my close trans friends and now I hate myself.
The guilt my wife makes me feel when I do something towards my transition just brings me so far down I don’t want to wake up in the morning.
My main dysphoria is hair. Any hair drives me nuts. Body hair is manageable with an epilator now that I have been doing it so long. But the face is truly driving me nuts. I am about to do a 3 hour Electrolosis appointment. And adk for forgiveness after. And what do I do instead of focusing on myself. I start a charity. I take money I don’t have so I can get my charity a legally a 501c3 tax exempt status. I don’t know how to run a charity. All I want to do is help others. But I am so sad for myself I can barely keep things afloat.
My wife does not know how to talk to someone. Without seeing all the negatives and none if the good things.
She knows nothing about my charity. And really nothing about my transition. What I do instead of discussing things with her is I just go do it and ask forgiveness later. Told her when I started HRT just enough to get my mind right. Knowing full well I would need enough to make my breasts grow. I knew I wanted full dose including progesterone. If she found out I was taking progesterone. She would want to know why. Not sure she would like it if she knew I wanted big breasts in the first place and that’s what I actually planned. She did not like it when the nipples got Huge but she got used to them.
She keeps saying she is still attracted to me. But she never makes the first move. And when I try she doesn’t want it. Damn I am horny and my libido has not changed. I can still perform well. It sucks so bad.
Got my nails don’t light pink. She made me feel like crap and then the next day got over it. Got my toes white. Gave me crap about them then 30 mins later said she really likes them. She always asks why I want something. I tell her because it makes me happy. She just does not get it at all.
She really does not get why a man like me wants to get my nails done. Yes I said man. If I even tried my female name and pronouns with/around her it would be a big fight.
When all this came to light she told me she likes men. And she is not attracted to women. And not sure she would stay with me if I transitioned fully. So fast forward and no body hair. Painted toes and hands. 38D and still growing. I have way more women’s clothes than male clothes. I wear capris and flip flops almost everyday. I am pretty feminine except for my face. She said she would not stop me but probably won’t stay if I go all the way.
She also said the I can experiment with makeup and get a wig and leave the house en fem if I was going out with other girls. But I know the first time she saw me fully made up it would not be a good experience for me. Already told me I would be an ugly woman. So that’s why I am scared to death to go out fully dressed. Besides I know nobody in Southern California any more to go out with.
You know I would just leave but I do love her very much and I am financially secure with her. I know I would survive without her. But no more vacations and etc. I thought a slow approach would work. It seems it is but the time it is taking is getting to me.
Sorry I am just rambling about things that make no sense. Probably better if I quit existing. No body fucking cares!!
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2024.05.22 00:01 ikieneng My fanfiction - episode 4!

My fanfiction - episode 4!
The next part is here! This episode is so long that I had to split it, and today, you're finally getting part 3 of 3.
You can find the previous episodes in the side bar! (Community info page in the app)
DISCLAIMERS (the same ones as before)
The point of this fanfiction is not to be a straight-up continuation of events with the same themes, intensity, and tone. If you go into it with those expectations, you are probably not going to like it. Rather, it’s supposed to be how I wish things went if these events were real life. The resolution you want for a real-life situation isn’t often the right choice for a show, but it can be incredibly beautiful. Think of what you’re about to read to be a separate show then.
Episode 1 of this fanfiction begins after the episode “2:00” (season 2 episode 4), so it replaces the episode “Cake” and the ones that follow it. This fanfiction expects you to have seen the entirety of seasons 1 and 2, so you should watch those first.
I myself am bursting into the story here. The narrator and me are the same. While my character is like 95% real me, don’t take events about my life described here as facts. Some aspects of my life have been changed for the story. In my head, I started writing like an “alternate me” character in 2016, fulfilling a lot of the things that I wish I had in life, adding that to my story. I’m not really from Ukraine. I speak fluent Ukrainian as a foreign language, I started learning it in 2014, and I’ve talked to tons of people from there, but I’m not from Ukraine. I also don’t have as much money as I do in the story. I wish lmao.
If you want to post your own fanfiction, feel free to do so! To get your own post flair for your fanfic, and to appear in the side bar, please message me.

Part 3 (days 3 and 4)

We’d wake up on day three, and still, nothing would be any different - we’re still locked up. We’d both feel really worried not knowing if we’ll have to forfeit our whole plan because we might run out of food and water and take the risky route - calling the police and getting ourselves into a situation where we’d have to be freed by force, which would be so dangerous because the Turners have proven that there’s nothing they’re not prepared to do to us to “get Jericho back”. Leanne would ask me “What do we do if we call the police, and Mrs. Turner comes up here and tries to hurt us?” At first, I’d insist that we start thinking about that when we do run out of food the next day, but she’d insist we should come up with a plan. I’d point at the corner on the edge of the attic facing Spruce Street, the corner that’s to one’s right when coming up into the attic,
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and say “Then you’d curl up and hide over there, and I’d take the radio, you’d take the metronome, and I’d sit down in front of you, shielding you, and if she gets in here before the cops do, we’ll defend ourselves. And we’d record everything on my phone. And we should probably hide behind the sofa. Maybe then, she might not notice we’re still up here at first. She’d probably be in a state of panic.” She’d look at me with sad, but touched eyes and just hug me and say thank you. I’d reply “Of course”. After some silence, I’d tell her “If anything happens to me… Please bring me back”.

She’d be touched by that, but say that if she reanimates me, the Church of Lesser Saints will come after ME as well because they’ll believe that I’ll be obligated to join. With a worried smile, I’d say “I know... But they’re probably already gonna do that, right? Because I won’t let them get to you!” We’d both nod with the same half-happy, half-worried expression. “And if things go terribly wrong and you have to bring me back, we can try again!”

I’d ask if I’m getting it right that the “great sins” they think she’s committing are not spending time with the Church and helping another family from the one that was assigned to her. She’d say yes and add that there’s a lot more they hate her for, like her “disobedient and rebellious streak”, disobeying their instructions, putting curses on people, and now, leaving the Marinos.
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After a few seconds of silence (out of shock that this is how the Church of Lesser Saints frames it), I’d be like “If you disobey so many of their instructions, then...”, look her directly in the eyes, and go “Good! Keep on disobeying them! I’m actually kind of stunned that this is how they frame your actions, because that is so manipulative. Wanting to have a life where you don’t have to worry about your every step being watched and controlled, where you can actually freely explore what you believe – not what they tell you to believe, but what YOU believe, where you can do totally normal human things like listen to music, and where you can go wherever you want and make some basic decisions for yourself and work wherever you want, that doesn’t make you...” (doing the “quote-on-quote” with my hands while I say it) “quote-on-quote ‘disobedient’ or ‘rebellious’, it makes you a normal human being. If they forbid every little thing that people do that makes you happy, if you then look for happiness elsewhere, that’s on them. You can’t take every bit of joy away from people and then expect them to just deal with it. You wanting to run away, that’s the logical result of their bullshit. And you didn’t ‘leave’ the Marinos, you were taken. Don’t let them think you’re at fault in any way!” She might have never heard any verbal confirmation before that her feelings about leaving are valid, and this would be so reassuring to her. She’d tell me that whenever she did things like not be there for meals at the Church, skip assemblies, or curse people without permission, she would be brought before May and the rest of the community, get questioned about her behavior, and she’d have to self-flagellate to receive forgiveness.
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I’d go really still and quiet when she mentions the self-flagellation, which she’d then explain is a frequent punishment. That would freaking break my heart... I’d ask her when was the last time she hurt herself, and it was a little less than two weeks ago, before she was forced to leave the Turners. Very carefully and quietly, I’d ask her if it would be okay if she can show me her scars and add “You do NOT have to if you’re not comfortable, PLEASE don’t do it if you’re not”, and after a second, she’d nod and show me her back. My heart would break for her even more seeing her scars, I’d just express how horrible it is that they made her do that… I’d show her some of my cut wounds from when I self-harmed, which I hadn’t done in like three and a half years at that point. I’d want her to know that way that I get the urge, that I really do, but I’d tell her that hurting oneself achieves nothing. All it does is make you feel horrible mentally and physically, and every time you do it, there’s a risk of infection and even death. I’d just tell her I understand while taking her in my arms. I’d ask her to please look me in the eyes and tell me she won’t hurt herself again, and that when she feels like doing it again, to please talk to me first. She’d quietly say “I promise” while looking me in the eyes, and after some longer embraces, we’d both smile a bit, that would make me really happy to hear! I’d ask that when we’re out of here, if we can call a doctor sometime soon and get them to look at her scars to make sure none of them are infected, if she’s comfortable enough, and she’d nod and smile at me a little bit some more.

We’d eat after that. We’d run out of tomato soup that meal, and I’d tell her that when we’re getting out of there, I’d get her all the tomato soup in the world! “We’re gonna fill a whole hotel fridge with tomato soup!” “And with Ben & Jerry’s?”, she’d ask, and I’d say yes and say that we’re probably gonna need more than one fridge. I’d say we’re gonna pick the nicest and most expensive hotel to stay at, an idea that she’d love! “You still think Allentown is a good idea?”, I’d ask her, and she’d think my reasoning from the day before makes sense and say yes. We’d look for the nicest hotel in Allentown online and see that there are “only” three-star hotels in Allentown. Leanne would ask if getting such an expensive place to stay is really okay, and I’d say “Money is not an issue, don’t worry about it” while reaching across her back and like caressing her right shoulder, looking her in the eyes, and smiling. “And besides, let’s spoil you, you fucking deserve it after all this!” We wouldn’t book anything yet because we wouldn’t know when we can get out of there yet, but looking at all those insanely nice hotels would lift our spirits a bit.

After eating the first half of that day’s rations (only two half day’s rations would be left after that…), we’d think that it would probably be a good idea if we started writing the document for the police right now. Writing it can take hours upon hours, and there’s no point in delaying the rescue to write the document after I leave if we can do it right now, so we’d begin right that moment. It would begin something like “My name is Daria Horenko, born July 30, 1999 in Odesa, Ukraine, residing in 501 Pembroke Ave, Philadelphia 19050, Pennsylvania...” (I don’t live there. I have no idea who does. Please leave them alone lmao) “...I sent this statement to my Facebook friend Liam [...] (residing in Tipperary, Ireland, using Facebook as Liam [...]) as a PDF file and told him to call the Philadelphia police and read this statement to them if I don’t come back online and confirm that I’m okay by 10 PM Philadelphia time / 3 PM London, UK time on December 22, 2022. If he is reading this to you, it probably means that there was no sign of life from me by that time, and that I’m not safe, probably kidnapped and locked up by Dorothy Turner, Sean Turner, Julian (I’m not sure about his surname, but I’m referring to Dorothy Turner’s brother - redhead, not very tall, moderately overweight) in the attic of their residence at 9780 Spruce Street, Philadelphia 19139, Pennsylvania”, and then document everything I’ve seen in chronological order and everything that Leanne has told me, with a link to our video and photographic evidence, references to DNA evidence that can probably be found in the hole in the basement if they haven’t covered it up by now, and a statement at the end saying that I’ve written it together with Leanne to make sure that everything is correct. That would take a really long time, hours for sure. But when it’s done, I’d run spell- and grammar checks on it and send it to my printer at home, to be queued for printing when I get home and turn it on. We’d also know that today (December 21) or tomorrow will be the day when we leave one way or another, so I’d schedule a text message to 911 in 30 hours from that moment. The message would say “This is a scheduled message. If you’ve received it, then Leanne Grayson (born October 13, 2001)...” (We only ever learn Leanne’s birth year from the gravestone. October 13 is Nell Tiger Free’s birthday, so October 13, 2001 being Leanne’s birthday is kind of my headcanon)
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“...and me (Daria Horenko, born July 30, 1999) are probably not safe, abducted and locked up against our will by Dorothy Turner, her brother Julian, and Sean Turner in the attic of their house at 9780 Spruce Street, Philadelphia 19139, Pennsylvania or somewhere else on the property. We need help immediately. The Turners should be considered dangerous and very clearly willing to use violence and intimidation. We need help NOW. Details in our prepared statement: [the link]”. Because we’re holding out hope that we won’t have to call the police from inside the attic, the document would include information on what our plan is to get Leanne (and me) out of there as safely as possible and call the police from the taxi, but that if we run out of rations, we won’t have a choice but to call the police while we’re unarmed and while the Turners still have the upper hand.

We would debate whether we should include information about the Church of Lesser Saints right away or tell the police about them later because we know how that sounds, considering that this would hurt the credibility of our testimony,
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but we’d modify the document and include the most important information about them as well, with more believable explanations - how they forced Leanne and other members to self-harm (meaning that current members or those who recently left), where they’re currently operating from in Lancaster,
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that they faked their deaths, that they forced Leanne to leave the Turners, and the necessary lie that they took the real baby, and that Leanne hasn’t seen it since that day and doesn’t know where they’ve taken it. We’d also include names and stuff, and most importantly, reference the baptism tape and say that it shows May and George watching us from the sidewalk outside the church less than three weeks ago, and that piece of evidence would change everything in regards to investigating the Church of Lesser Saints and make the police believe us. We’d add that it’s probably among the other DVDs in the Turners’ living room, and that I’ll try to get it when leaving the building if our original plan is still going to be an option, rip the DVD at home, and add a link to the video file to the document. We’d modify the scheduled text message as well, and we’d charge both phones, mine first because the scheduled message is so important, but it’s an iPhone, so we could charge it to 100% rather quickly and then charge hers. And we’d add that we’d want the police to get Leanne’s things from the Marino estate. All her stuff being there would be further evidence that she was taken suddenly and against her will. We’d also add what number Leanne can be reached at for now with the Samsung Galaxy phone. And then, I’d send the document to Liam on all platforms where I know how to reach him, followed by a message to alert the authorities if I’m not back online confirming that we’re both okay in what’s now probably more like 29 hours, the phone number of the Philadelphia police, and caps at the beginning saying that it’s an actual emergency.

Out of nowhere, I’d ask her if she’s seen “Titanic” lmao, and with her near total isolation growing up, she wouldn’t have seen it. “I’ve only seen movies on TV”. I’d be like “I can show you lots of movies if you want! I got several subscriptions to streaming services, and also a bunch of stuff offline on an external drive at home.”
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Back on talking about “Titanic”, I’d tell her it’s wonderful and so freaking romantic, albeit over-the-top at times for sure and a bit overrated. It has that glossy feeling and some superficial characters to it that all James Cameron movies have, but it’s still really wonderful. After explaining the plot to her (since she’s grown up so isolated), I’d tell her about one scene that I’m thinking about a lot from time to time - near the end of the movie, when old Rose is done telling the researchers her story, she says that she doesn’t even have a picture of Jack, and that has hit me so hard from the first time I’ve seen the movie.
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She has no physical memories of him, she can never see his face again, and she can never show people what he looked like. That just rips my heart. I’d ask Leanne if we can take some pictures together. We’d look pretty horrible because we haven’t been able to shower in days, but we wouldn’t care and take them anyway and really, genuinely smile so hard. I’d send them to her email address (leanne_grayson@icloud.com, that email address is on her resume in the show),
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manually sync my gallery with iCloud, and I’d send them to Liam. I’d ask what phone she got back at the Marinos’ and if she’s got any pictures of herself in her iCloud gallery, but she’d tell me she’s rarely ever taken pictures of herself, only for the resume she applied at the Turners’ for, and I’d be like “Whaaaaat? But you’re so beautiful!”, and she’d smile hard, a bit embarrassed. I’d look her straight in the eyes and say it again and say that I mean it for real, she is so incredibly beautiful! It’s probably so rare that anyone’s ever said that to her in her entire life (her mother definitely didn’t, and given that the Church of Lesser Saints believes that anything that feels good is dangerous,
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it’s rather unlikely that they did), Tobe saying it in “Balloon” might even have been the only time ever…
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I’d then add “Inside AND out!”, and she’d smile some more in a bit of embarrassment and then look me in the eyes and say “You, too, Daria!”, and as you’d expect, I’d smile so hard and even with my eyes!

It would be rather late by then, so we’d eat and listen to some more music together from the Spotify playlist I created for her and talk so much about what we’re hearing.

After dinner, she’d bring the topic up on her own (this is kind of making fun of these fan theories) - she’d tell me that some in the Church of Lesser Saints think she’s the Devil or Lilith because of her rebelliousness, and how she’s inspired doubt in some people in the Church. I’d make such a weirded-out face. After realizing she’s serious, I’d say “If you are the Devil, then hail Satan! Like, seriously, if YOU are what God is threatening will happen if we don’t follow him, then that’s literally the weakest threat I’ve ever heard of. Then God is the villain here. We need more people like you in the world!” Shy as she still is, she’d still be almost embarrassed to hear this (she’s so not used to compliments), and I’d make it clear I’m serious, that I really think she’s fricking wonderful and the sweetest, and that she clearly has a huge heart full of so much love, and that she deserves so much better than what she’s ever experienced! Almost in denial, she’d see in my eyes that I really mean it and just smile and hug me, and then, we’d both smile even more! I’d rub her back a lot in that moment and promise her again that everything will be okay. “I’ll make sure of that!”

After some more music together, knowing that tomorrow will be the day we leave, no matter which plan we’ll go with, we’d make sure we haven’t forgotten anything. Looking around, I’d realize I have to give her my earphones with a cord because the internal mic of my Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini is essentially useless. I’d tell her that when I call her the next day to tell her it’s safe to come downstairs now, she should answer the call, plug in the earphones, and then, it will take a few seconds until I can hear her, but then, it should be fine. We’d set a code phrase that I’ll mention to let her know if the Turners got me and it’s NOT safe to come down. She’d suggest “tomato soup”, and I’d smile and say yes, that’s gonna be our code phrase. “And if it IS safe to come down?”, she’d ask, and I’d suggest “ice cream”.

I’d realize that we should probably find her fresh clothes in the attic and a coat right now, so as I said, it’s not too obvious that she’s been locked up for a long time the second she walks out of the door, because if she’s in dirty clothes or nightwear, with it being obvious that she hasn’t showered in days, and I get her out of there and into a taxi to drive off while I got a gun, it would look as if I was kidnapping her, so we’d find her a nice dress and coat up there, and I’d turn around and close my eyes while she puts it on, and when she’s done, I’d tell her again that she looks amazing! 😊
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And she’d smile and thank me this time, sort of the way she says it to the makeup artist at the street fair in S3E5 “Tiger” in that typical way of hers that’s so adorable for real,
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and she’d look in my direction and say “You look really beautiful, too!”, really shy, before peeking me in the eyes for a moment, and we’d just look at each other for a moment. “Can I have your pictures?”, she’d ask me, and I’d say yeah, open my iPhone, and select ALL pictures of myself in my gallery and send them to her email address, and send her those that are too large via a Google Drive link (iCloud isn’t great for sharing files lol), and then, I’d take her Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, download them all (which would take a while because that phone is ancient), and set one of the pictures we’ve taken together as her wallpaper, and then set it as my wallpaper on my iPhone as well! 😊

We’d consider if there’s anything else we’ve missed. She’d mention that parts of the floor screech, especially one tile, so when I sneak out, I gotta be careful on the stairs, especially with that one tile.
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After a few seconds, she’d ask me if we wanna book a hotel now, and I’d smile and say sure! “Did you like any hotels in particular, out of the ones we looked at?” She’d say “The one with the big jacuzzi looks great” with big eyes and enthusiasm in her voice, like she does during some of her conversations with Tobe in S3E5 “Tiger”. “You’ve ever been in a jacuzzi?”, I’d ask her, and she’d go “Nooo, but I wanna try!” in the same tone,
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and so, after lying down now, we’d look up which hotel she was talking about and book a two-room suite in that hotel in Allentown for three weeks. I’d add “So we can easily look out for each other, and so you’ll also have some privacy.”, and she’d smile and nod, that consideration would probably mean a lot to her.

We’d then get ready for bed. For the next day, I’d get some better clothes as well and put them on while she’s turned around with her eyes closed. I’d take the last ration of food out of my backpack, put the clothes I just took off at the bottom of it, above Leanne’s Bible (the porcelain baby and card are already in one of the other pockets), and put my phone and the chargers in another pocket. I’d look around and ask her if there’s anything else I should take with me to safeguard, and at first, she’d also look around because she wouldn’t know how to answer right away, but she’d then point at Mrs. Barrington with her face,
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and I’d be like “Well, I think she’s a little too big for my backpack, but I can talk to the police when we’re out of here, maybe we can try to get her!”, and Leanne would nod with a big smile again.

We’d lie down on the mattress and share the covers again. Just like the night before, I’d lie down on the side of the mattress that’s closer to the stairs, in case Dorothy changes her mind and tries to assault Leanne again… On the mattress, she’d suddenly hug me really tight, break into tears, and thank me over and over again, and I’d just hold her tight, say “Of course”, and assure her that everything’s gonna be okay, that we’ll get out of there tomorrow. I’d wipe some of her tears off her face 🥺 On the mattress, we’d just look each other in the eyes and both just smile more and more, and after a minute or two, she’d kiss me on the lips for a tiiiiny moment and then, we’d just smile at each other even harder! She’d say “I’m not supposed to do that” while still smiling just as hard and looking me directly in the eyes! “Says who?”, I’d reply. She goes “My aunts and uncles”, and I’d say “I don’t think they’re a reliable source!”, and we’d kiss each other some more and longer, and both feel each other’s smile on our lips, and peek at each other a few times in between 😊🥰❤️ We’d both put our arms around each other before telling each other good night and before I promise her one more time it’s all going to be okay!
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At some point during the night, she’d wake me up, and when she does, I’d realize I had a nightmare, like, not from my night terrors, and she’d tell me I had a nightmare, that I was sniffling in my sleep, and that I told her two days earlier to wake me up if this happens. Still feeling terrible (the feeling of immediate dread always takes a while to subside for me), I’d thank her. I’d ask what I was saying, and she’d say that I wasn’t speaking English. I’d consider if I should tell her for a moment, but then, I’d take a deep breath, look up for a second, and with a heavy voice, slowly say “What if we try plan A tomorrow, and I fail? I’m scared… I don’t wanna mess this up… I don’t wanna fail you…” And she’d slowly look at me and just say two words: “You haven’t!” I’d look at her and almost laugh a bit out of joy. I’d smile and just cuddle up to her a bit, and she’d do it back. I’d say I’ll try to listen to music for a while to calm down because doing something else makes it much easier for me to zone out of the feeling of dread again. “Why only you?”, she’d ask. “I don’t wanna keep you awake”, I’d say, “You need the sleep”, and she’d say “It’s okay” and just smile a bit, and so, we’d listen to some music together for about half an hour.

I’d tell her that my sleep is so horrible (she’d say she can tell) because I don’t have my meds, and I’m really fricking looking forward to taking them again. Without them, the quality of my sleep is terrible, and it takes so long for me to fall asleep at all if I don’t take them. She’d ask if I’ve taken them for a long time, and I’d say that I haven’t taken these particular meds for long because whatever I take, my body builds up some resistance to them pretty quickly, so after a while, I always have to get new ones, but I’ve taken sleeping meds for years now. “It sounds like they’re really helping you, right?”, she’d ask, and I’d nod and say “Yeah, they really do. I’m also taking antidepressants, and they were an absolute gamechanger for me. It’s okay if I don’t take them for a few days because they don’t work in the moment, but they like rewire your brain over time, and they’re the best thing that’s ever happened to my mental health. Before I started taking them, it was so hard for me to avoid bad thoughts or resist them, like, it was hell, but ever since then, it got sooo much easier, and not letting things get to me or not letting bad things really take over me is just so much easier now.” After a while, I’d say “I was at a psychiatric clinic voluntarily for six months, but I also had nowhere else to go, and the doctors and employees really abused their power. They only intervened when there was physical violence, they didn’t intervene in any other conflicts, so because of them, the patients constantly bullied each other. My doctor switched to another department while I was there, so I got a new one, and the new one wasn’t perfect, but at least, she cared. I got really lucky to get a place at a living group for mentally ill people, which was when I could finally leave. But honestly, all my experiences with mental health professionals since then have been better. I went to a different clinic for four or five days voluntarily in 2019, and even they were far better. “That sounds scary…”, she’d say. I’d reply “It was. But things got much better after that. I had lots of setbacks, like, you know, but if you get help, it’s always better.”

After the current song’s over, we’d lie down to try and sleep again. We’d smile at each other again in bed, and I’d give her a short-ish kiss before saying good night, and we’d both smile even harder after that 😁 And we would fall asleep for good after a while (it would still take me longer than her).

In the morning, Leanne would wake me up again. She’d show me that the door is unlocked and open by a little bit now (they’re “letting” her out for a few hours…),
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and we’d both just embrace and chuckle in huge joy, as we can go with plan A now, the less risky one! We’d remember to quiet down after a few seconds and whisper from then on out. I’d go to the toilet roll, take eight pieces, rip them into two bands of four pieces each, and roll each of them up into a little bunch. I’d give them to her and tell her to put them into the wall pieces of the door when she gets out (so it looks like the door is closed while it can’t actually lock) and give me an audible signal when the third floor is clear, so I’ll get out with my backpack, take out the toilet paper, and hide in her room.
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“Is there anything you want me to get from there?”, I’d ask. “No. Everything is here or at the Marinos’.” I’d go “Okay” and move on - since I’m almost definitely unable to come down to the second floor right away (I’m using American English in all of these episodes. “First floor” in American English = “ground floor” in British English; “Second floor” in American English = “first floor” in British English; “Third floor” in American English = “second floor” in British English, etc.), she’d give me a signal when coming back upstairs. We’d agree that when she comes back upstairs, if it’s safe to go to the second floor, she’d shout something, maybe in conversation, maybe some sort of cry, doesn’t matter, and if not, she’d kick something. She’d be locked upstairs again after that, so I’ll have to tell when to get further downstairs myself, which I’d do as soon as I’ve heard absolutely no sounds from inside the house for at least a few minutes. On the first floor, I’d get the DVD from March 11, 2001, and if the baptism tape isn’t clearly labeled among the tapes, I’d unplug the DVD player from the TV, turn on the player, open the DVD slot, and if the tape isn’t in there, I’d take all unlabeled tapes. I’d then listen in on the basement door for a few seconds, and if I hear no sounds from down there, I’d quietly open the basement door and go downstairs, and if no one’s there, I’d get out through the side entrance down there, out through the back gate, walk back to Spruce Street, drive my bike home, take a shower, watch the tape from March 11, 2011 like she told me I could, hide it somewhere at home, print out the document for the police, take it with me in an envelope, print out a second version of it to give to the taxi driver, so I can say “If I’m not back in an hour, please call the police for me and read this to them”. I’d then call a taxi (a taxi with a large trunk whose driver is allowed to drive to Allentown and back), load my gun, and leave for the Turners’ and get Leanne.

We’d see that Liam has replied by now. Of course, he’d be super worried, but he’s got our backs for the plan, and that would be really reassuring. We’d look each other in the eyes, and then, I’d hug her sooo tight for several seconds, and we’d have one loooong kiss (hoping it’s not the last time we see each other…) before she goes downstairs while looking back at me on the way before putting the toilet paper in the door. I’d then put on my backpack. Once Leanne loudly shouts “Mister Turner?”, that would be my signal, and I’d hide in her room for about 45 minutes before she’s “let” back upstairs and shouts “You can lock me in now, Mrs. Turner”,
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which is when I’d sneak into the storage/guest room and wait. It would take like five hours until I hear nothing for a while, which is when I’d sneak onto the first floor, look around to make extra sure no one’s there, and go to the living room. I’d get the tape from March 11, 2011, and the baptism tape would be among the labeled DVDs, and I’d put it into the box of the March 11, 2011 tape (I’d put the original DVD loose in there and use the spot inside the box for the baptism tape because it’s probably more important. I then wouldn’t hear anything from the basement, so I’d slowly and quietly go down there. No one would be there, so I’d leave as planned and go home and take a shower. I’d watch the March 11, 2011 DVD. I’d be surprised to see the interaction between Leanne and Dorothy for sure, but sort of knowing her, I wouldn’t think anything bad of it. I’d actually get it because of my past celebrity crushes (which I know isn’t what she was feeling for Dorothy) and the desire to meet them, especially with Blanche. I’d get why Leanne wouldn’t want the police to see it, it would look bad for her. I’d wrap up the DVD in a thick piece of paper and tape it to the back of my closet, between the closet and the wall. I’d burn the piece of paper in the DVD case in my bathtub with a bucket of water next to me just in case. I’d test if the DVD of the baptism tape still works (it does), rip it, upload the video file to Google Drive, add it to the document for the police, cancel my printing queue, print the document (two versions of it. The one for the taxi driver would just have a short introduction at the beginning, like, that I’m the person who ordered the taxi), order the taxi, pack my things for the next couple of weeks and anything that Leanne might need, so I’d include any clothes that I think could fit her, and go to the taxi. I’d tell the driver to get me one block away from 9780 Spruce Street (which isn’t actually a real address, by the way) and wait there for me. Before leaving for the Turner house, I’d give him the envelope with his version of the letter for the police and tell him what I said I would tell him. I’d then get my backpack with the gun in it from my luggage in the trunk, and walk to the Turners’ house.

I have already "written" so much more in my head, but I've now reached the end of what I've actually written down, so it will take longer until the next episode is out now! Hope you've enjooooyed this one!
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2024.05.21 23:57 evatao What would closure look like? My (31F) ex-best friend (32F) reached out after almost 10 years…

((Cross-posted to relationship advice, delete if not allowed. I am adding here because I was diagnosed as Autistic four years ago, and y’all have given me great advice in the past))
My best friend from elementary through high school and I had a falling out our last year of college. We went to different schools and were setting up to have very different lives, so I think we would have naturally fallen apart, but I cut her off for a few reasons:
  1. She told me what to do when my parents divorced, although I told her I wouldn’t tell her the full story because it was not mine to tell. She also pressured me into talking about the divorce (it was bad) before I was ready.
  2. I felt that she never listened to me and steamrolled over me when it came to my own opinions.
  3. I was always the one to reach out and initiate/plan our encounters, or even just to talk with her.
I told her these things, to which she got defensive and started gaslighting me, so I cut her out. I didn’t initiate contact, which naturally led to our relationship dying, and when she initiated I was receptive but did not plan or suggest planning anything.
The only negative thing I think I did was delete a comment she made on an old picture on FaceBook of us, something about wishing we were still friends, because it was public and my family asked me about it, so I got embarrassed and deleted it. I replied to her privately and told her to message me a time that worked for her so we could Skype (I was in another country at that point). She never replied. That was almost 10 years ago.
Eventually I removed her on everything — not blocked, just removed — because I didn’t want to be tempted to look her up and didn’t want her looking me up. I also removed her family, so they couldn’t contact me on her behalf (which happened once when I initially cut her out).
Now, she reached out a week after my birthday, with a follow request on Instagram. Her mom reached out to my mom (they are still friends) and said my old friend wanted to wish me a happy birthday and asked for my phone number. I told my mom not to give out my phone number, that my old friend had reached out on Instagram, and that I would talk to her through that if I wanted to, which is a message my mom passed on to the other mom.
I talked to my therapist about the whole thing, our friendship and breakup and everything, and she told me to think about what I would want for closure… I am in no hurry to answer her, so I looked up the definition of closure and did some Google research on closure, but I still don’t have an answer.
I do feel bad about how it ended, but I also don’t particularly want to rekindle friendship. I’m curious as to why she reached out at all, after all this time, as we’re vastly different people now (her Instagram is open to the public so I looked).
I was diagnosed with Autism almost four years ago, and my life is much better now. I realized she never really knew me, because I was so heavily masked. I wonder if my undiagnosed Autism played a role in how it all turned out…
I plan to continue working with my therapist, but I would like to hear more opinions, and I’m not comfortable sharing all the details with my current friends, so I ask you, Reddit…
In my situation, what would you do? What would closure look like for you in this case? If you’ve been in a similar situation, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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2024.05.21 23:47 evatao What would closure look like? My (31F) ex-best friend (32F) reached out after almost 10 years…

My best friend from elementary through high school and I had a falling out our last year of college. We went to different schools and were setting up to have very different lives, so I think we would have naturally fallen apart, but I cut her off for a few reasons:
  1. She told me what to do when my parents divorced, although I told her I wouldn’t tell her the full story because it was not mine to tell. She also pressured me into talking about the divorce (it was bad) before I was ready.
  2. I felt that she never listened to me and steamrolled over me when it came to my own opinions.
  3. I was always the one to reach out and initiate/plan our encounters, or even just to talk with her.
I told her these things, to which she got defensive and started gaslighting me, so I cut her out. I didn’t initiate contact, which naturally led to our relationship dying, and when she initiated I was receptive but did not plan or suggest planning anything.
The only negative thing I think I did was delete a comment she made on an old picture on FaceBook of us, something about wishing we were still friends, because it was public and my family asked me about it, so I got embarrassed and deleted it. I replied to her privately and told her to message me a time that worked for her so we could Skype (I was in another country at that point). She never replied. That was almost 10 years ago.
Eventually I removed her on everything — not blocked, just removed — because I didn’t want to be tempted to look her up and didn’t want her looking me up. I also removed her family, so they couldn’t contact me on her behalf (which happened once when I initially cut her out).
Now, she reached out a week after my birthday, with a follow request on Instagram. Her mom reached out to my mom (they are still friends) and said my old friend wanted to wish me a happy birthday and asked for my phone number. I told my mom not to give out my phone number, that my old friend had reached out on Instagram, and that I would talk to her through that if I wanted to, which is a message my mom passed on to the other mom.
I talked to my therapist about the whole thing, our friendship and breakup and everything, and she told me to think about what I would want for closure… I am in no hurry to answer her, so I looked up the definition of closure and did some Google research on closure, but I still don’t have an answer.
I do feel bad about how it ended, but I also don’t particularly want to rekindle friendship. I’m curious as to why she reached out at all, after all this time, as we’re vastly different people now (her Instagram is open to the public so I looked).
I plan to continue working with my therapist, but I would like to hear more opinions, and I’m not comfortable sharing all the details with my current friends, so I ask you, Reddit…
In my situation, what would you do? What would closure look like for you in this case? If you’ve been in a similar situation, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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2024.05.21 22:24 carlbowles Why does Facebook not remind me of people's birthdays anymore? How do I get them back?

I used to get reminders everyday on Facebook when it was a friend's birthday, however I no longer get them.
I've changed no settings and I've gone into both the app and phone settings and ensured birthday reminders are turned on.
My friends posted on my wall recently for my birthday so I assume they still get reminders, just wodnered how I can get them back.
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2024.05.21 20:45 ElizabethKenobi0621 Brothers chaotic marriage

TLDR my brother married a psychotic girl who abandoned her kids multiple times
My brother married an actual psychopath. My brother (40) married the scummiest scum of the earth. Who can only be described as a whore, a psycho, sociopath and an all around terrible human being. It was against the wishes of EVERYONE. For back story…She had a child by another man… and only had him (in november) to live off the government. he met the stray hoe took care of her and her unborn child. they started dating in september and by christmas she had drained his bank account. He moved in with her days after christmas. Proposed. And got married sometime between march and june i honestly can not be bothered to know exactly when. The night before brother was admitted to the er for staph infection in his berries. After the “wedding” that was in the back yard of some pastor . they had a “reception”. Where i photographed/observed the following. A used tampon on washing machine. Shit filled diapers littering the nursery. A surreal amount of clothing on the bed. I said nah im good. And went home. The wedding was in may and she got my brother to legally adopt her child. Im forever convinced if not for my brother she would casey anthony her child. She Munchausened her kid and my brother. Self diagnosing the kid with autism. Pushed or made my brother fall and get multiple concussions. Drugged him with date rape drugs to keep control of him. She was a frequent flier to the ER going to the emergency room for unnecessary reasons. She refused to parent her child insisting that its the worlds job to teach him the bare minimum. She refused to clean as well. Her cockroaches had cockroaches. Cleanliness was mental illness for her. She kicked my brother out asking for divorce. But realized she had to leave bc he paid the bills. She stayed with whoever the hell would take her. Was forced to walk wherever she needed to go. And uttered the words “well i had to walk in the rain so theres my bath for the week” after growing tired of not having his card and money she came crawling back. She avoided parenting like the plague. Every excuse. Uti. Migraine. Yeast infection. Its a tuesday. When her son was 2 she left to go to another state and go to school for being a truck driver. Had no qualms of leaving her kid behind for weeks. Then she dropped out of 18 wheeler school. It seems the wheels on her bus fell off. For someone who doesnt believe proper hygiene was important she didnt believe bathing him and basic care was important. Feet encrusted in dirt and dirt under overgrown nails. It was so noticeable that when i cut his nails his teacher made comment about it. Her family was just as absent as you would expect. Her mother only went to the first birthday party when the child was 6. And didnt even know her own grandchild. Asked another child at the party if he had the best birthday! My mom looked at her and said “yeaaa thats the wrong kid…” Fast forward when the first born was 6 and she birthed her second. This had no change and her parenting never improved. Another child encrusted in dirt. After the youngest turned a year and a half my brother had knee surgery and stayed with us (me mom dad) to recover because she would have made him cook clean and parent. While he was healing for the week he was there she moved in her boyfriend AND girlfriend. By the way she not only a hoe she is a promiscuous hoe with no moral compass. I promised my mom id never call CPS however when the second was 2 i had a friend call cps. Like a special ops team cops went in at 2 am and gathered the children and brought them to me and my parents. We had the 2 year old and a friend of the hoe had the 8 year old. For 2 weeks my brother agonized over his kids being taken. And she had a vacation. She treated it as if having your kids repo’ed as a right of passage. Told the world. Told the teacher. And had the time of her stupid life. In the 2 weeks i had them i had minions collecting screenshots of statuses of her being a bad mother. Which was super easy bc every thought made it to facebook. Such as. “My dentist suggested i brush my teeth at least once a day” “i guess i was doing (brother) with the wrong meds and made him sick” “why dont grandparents raise our children” i gathered these gems and photographic evidence of the state of the house and cleanliness of children to cps, police and eventually divorce lawyer. During their time together the hoe broke my brother mentally spiritually emotionally physically financially. The food stamps ran out in the first week of every month spent on junk soda and unnecessary nonsense. They had to ask my mother for money that accumulated to the tune of $10,000 over 10 years. She is also a gofundme whore. She would start a gofundme 10-12 times a year for any and everything. She decided at one point to go back to school and did an amazon wishlist for school supplies and a gofundme for “gas food and other expenses”. Being the trash human she is she is friends with people of unsavory character. An actual crack head bought her entire amazon wishlist. Which she put on facebook. Yikes. At one point she found a dog and instead of finding the owner she finders keepers that poor pup. Making yet another gofundme for dog expenses. I told my friends i would paaaay them to claim the dog as theirs so my mother didnt pay for yet another mouth to feed. If youre curious about the gofundmes and if they were ever fruitful… when a bull milks a calf will her gofundme work. The final year of their marriage was no less chaotic. The christmas of 2019 she posted on facebook that its so wonderful that her husband is out working and her boyfriend is sleeping next to her and her girlfriend is cooking. Tagging the aforementioned on facebook. My brother was humiliated because infront of church members family and friends his marriage and all the stupidity that came with it was out in the open for all to judge. My brother was at the time a corrections officers and let his kind nature and naivety get him in trouble. A person asked him to take some taco bell to an inmate and in what could only be called a moment of stupidity (sorry mom) he did so. what he didnt know is they put drugs in it and when it was scanned he was arrested. My mom and dad had to bail him out too him home and around 3 am he called me “they voted me out” beyond confused i asked what the hell does that mean? As it turned out. Hoe boyfriend and girlfriend unanimously voted him out of the house. Mind you. Single wide trailer housing 4 adults 2 kids a dog and cats. June of 2020 he moved back in a month later if the children followed. after the actual breadwinner left the house the unemployed baboons could not pay the rent and were kicked out. The three went down to two with the girlfriend being let go. Hoe and boyfriend moved in with her mother. And boyfriend wrecked the car in my brothers name. Dui and head on collision. Car gone! The children stayed with us. The youngest was 2 at the time and began calling my mom “mommy” which pissed off the hoe. And she never contacted them. At the hearing for the divorce she stated all she wanted out of the relationship was not money or visitation. But her maiden name back. TAKE IT. AND LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE. She also used a photo of her kids on a gofundme to get sympathy and posted that to a fetish website. Seeing as the photo was them shirtless i believe that was on purpose. She dumped boyfriend and found a new love in new hampshire. She was in NH for 8 months with her new boyfriend and he lost his job so they moved back down. After a summer of no contact she called and told the children “when i get home we are going to….” And listed about 10 events places and activities to look forward to. None of which she delivered on. After not spending time with them again and choosing to give up her weekend with them to play video games for 30 HOURS STRAIGHT. She eventually in 2024 decided that her and her boyfriend were moving to Massachusetts. Seeing how she is a practicing witch my only hope is the salem witch trials reconvene. She married the dude she abandoned her kids for. On mothers day the children who no longer give a damn she exists were forced to call and tell her happy mothers day. Where the 6 year old proceeded to tell her the older brother got a phone and didnt wanna give her his number. She assured him that as his mother its quite alright to give mommy dearest the number to which the youngest said yea no he doesnt want to. The mouths of babes. She cried and posted on facebook not only do her children hate her but she had to give up her cats too. And wished the “real mom’s of the world a happy mothers day” shes a shit cat mom too! A week after we had spaghetti for dinner and the 6 year old said “i never used to like spaghetti. I only tried it at… whats her names house? Jordan? Yea her house” With their father engaged to a good Godly woman with morals and standards the worst mother to ever mother has been replaced and so far we are all living happily ever after. The moral of the story is if you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas what if you lay down with whores end up with bedbugs and that was a very costly moral
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2024.05.21 20:30 Minespidurr There’s no support system in this country

It’s either be born into a loving supportive family with lots of friends or you’re fucked. No one wants to meet new people and our culture demonizes and actively takes pride in insulting, emasculating, and alienating perceived outcasts and people who have no one. Haven’t lost your virginity? Well you must be an inferior human being or incel! Don’t have any friends? You need to get out more! The hyper individualism is so pervasive and oppressive.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for taking personal accountability, but beyond a certain point the current state of civilization and our downward spiral does have a noticeable impact. Social interaction is becoming more commodified than ever. You need money to do practically anything involving people that’s interesting as an adult. Otherwise you’re constantly in survival mode and forced to navigate through the cesspool of social media, which is honestly a total minefield of glorified toxicity and manipulative games.
I try to compensate for my neglect from a young age. I post memes to Facebook that no one likes. I post messages that are serious and no one cares. I post stories on Snapchat that people look at, but no one ever bothers actually interacting with me. People who claim to be my friend don’t even take the time to wish me happy birthday. What more can I do? It’s like I’m destined to live a life of isolation.
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2024.05.21 20:29 ARedditor397 (05-22-24) One-Piece Character Birthday's

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2024.05.21 20:16 Available_Yellow_570 Aitah for not reminding my husband to call his mom on Mother’s Day (and not wanting to go to her big birthday bash)?

I know Mother’s Day was a few weeks ago, but I have heard multiple comments from friends and family that have me questioning things. I (f 32) have been married to my husband Logan (m 39) for eleven years now, together for twelve. We share two kids, Danielle (f 10) and max (m 8). A little background: met my husband when he was in the military and stationed in my home state of Utah. His entire family live close to each other in Florida. I am an only child while my husband has four siblings. I have always wanted to have siblings and tried whatever I could when we were dating/engaged to make my husband’s siblings and family, part of my family only to be constantly ignored. Since Logan’s family lived across the country and didn’t want anything to do with me, I didn’t end up meeting them until we were already married and I was pregnant with our first. My family- mom, grandparents, aunts/uncles, and cousins are big on giving gifts for any holiday/special occasion. It has rubbed off on me and I spend months in advance trying to find the perfect gifts for birthdays and Christmas. Now onto my problem with my husband’s family. A year ago before Mother’s Day 2023, I had Logan call his mom, Ruby, in hopes of getting ideas of what she would like for both her Mother’s Day as well as her birthday. I was in the kitchen cooking dinner while their conversation was going on, but I did end up overhearing a part of it that broke my heart and has basically amped up the spiral of me not caring about his family at all. Logan’s mom told him on the phone that she has basically hated every gift we have ever got her and she wanted to declutter her house and didn’t need us to send her any more junk… a straight up dagger to my heart! Well Mother’s Day was coming up this year and I had been telling Logan for weeks to find out what Ruby wanted. Well he finally called a week before Mother’s Day and talked to her for like half an hour. On the call there was zero mention of any of our birthdays from the previous week- Logan, Danielle, and I have birthdays in the same week, but there was mention of Max and how he broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder sliding into home base at a baseball game and how she “saw” it two weeks prior! So she saw it somewhere. She isn’t on Facebook so it had to be her daughter (another problem on her own) who told her or showed her. And yet neither one of them reached out to see if he was ok or anything! Nor any concern about the heart surgery I had a few weeks before our birthdays. I straight up told Logan that I’m fed up with their bs. They don’t care about us at all . They have zero concern or care about us and have nothing to do with us . She obviously doesn’t like or care about me, fine whatever, but to know your grandson is broken and possibly severely injured and to just not give a sh!t enough to reach out on her own, is beyond disgusting. When Mother’s Day rolled around, I did not remind or coerce Logan into calling his mom and I keep telling him that I do NOT want to go to Ruby’s big birthday bash (put on by her daughter) at the end of the summer. He keeps trying to convince me that their blatant disrespect is just how they are and I should just ignore it. I was originally totally fine being petty about not reminding Logan to call his mom, but after discussing it with several friends and family, it is about a 50/50 split on me being the asshole and not doing bettemore to make his mom like me. So am I the a$$ hole? What would you do in my place?
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2024.05.21 19:55 redpandamon Favorite Book Edition?

Hi all!
My husband is a huge fan of Sanderson, specifically The Stormlight Archive. I am new to the series, he's started reading them to me before bed and I am loving it so far! :D
Anyway, I am really looking to knock his thirtieth birthday out if the park, so I started looking into various editions of the series, and WOW there is a lot...I'm a bit out of my element between UK special edition this, and US hardcover that, and after nearly a month of google/ebay/facebook/etsy posts, I'm turning to you Reddit.
Do you have a favorite edition, or know of something special I could hunt down for him?
Thank you!
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2024.05.21 19:29 Nekisha7 I saw this photo video in tiktok and felt a heartache

"Me remebering my 13th birthday where I invited 10 of my friends and only 2 showed up and it was the age where i decided i didnt want to celebrate my birthday anymore. My family cooked so much food and I was embarrassed."
this was the text on the photo video.
Naalala ko noon debut season ng mga kaklase ko. I saw my classmates attending and enjoyed the event, kaya i dreamed din to have my own debut. I was so excited nung umoo sila mama, ako gumawa invitation, naghanap ng catering service, venue, fitting ng gown, and everything. Pero nung mismong debut koi didn't felt the happiness, mostly ng mga ininvite ko specially my close friends didn't attend my debut, while I attended theirs. I know its kinda childish to think of it pero na butthurt ako doon. after my debut, I didt post my pictures in facebook. no one asked din for their photos, kaya i feel like they didn't enjoy the event.
Two years went by, sinamahan ko si mama sa bangko and sinabi niya sakin na tapos niya na daw bayaran yung ni loan niya for my debut. Sobra akong nalungkot to know that two years din binayaran ni mama yung debut ko. Sana pala nakinig nalang ako sakanya na humiling nalang sana ko ng laptop or something na magagamit ko sa school.
After non, i dont celebrate my birthday anymore with my friends. Madalas sa bahay nalang bili cake or litson manok, minsan one bucket ng jollibee. ayoko ng mag celebrate ulit ng mga milestones ko sa buhay kasi feeling ko mauulit lang ulit yun. na trauma na ako for the pain that I've caused to my mom. Hiyang hiya na ako humiling ng ganun kalaking bagay sa mama ko. nahiya ako sa laki ng ginastos.
kayo ba anong kwentong heartache niyo?
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2024.05.21 19:17 back2keyboard Tell Her I Tried

Hi! I found this group years ago, and obsessively read new posts every day for a couple of years. Decided on my own to go NC via ghosting, got ambushed at my apartment, and officially stipulated the terms of NC to my uBPDmom and my dad. It's been a few years. A couple of deaths happened, but I maintained NC. I have no intention of making the NC permanent, but I also have no desire to speak to them. I needed this group for a few years, then one day I didn't. I had to read posts multiple times a day, then I'd check in once a month. I used to desperately search for scraps of information on BPD so I could understand, then I was looking for others I could help and support. Then I realized a year had passed and I hadn't been to /raisedbyborderlines. I was happy you were here for me in case something upsetting happened. And even happier that I didn't need to lean on the support any more. My previous account was saved to my phone, and I have a new phone now. This is a new account for the recent BPD drama that tried to rattle me. (I'm sorry, Mods, I do not remember my old account name...)
Cat tax: https://gamerant.com/baldurs-gate-3-cutest-cats-bg3/
Backstory:
uBPDmom I am NC with occasionally breaks NC with sparse text messages. Usually during holidays and my birthday. Sometimes it's manic "why won't you talk to me please just tell me what i did wrong". Guilt and pity aside... I ignore these. It's been over 5 years.
When my grandpa died I was NC with my parents. One day I got a bunch of mystery texts that I ignored. (Can't remember specifics. They probably said, "call me") Then I had missed calls from uBPDmom. I again ignored because of NC. Then grandma called and said, "it's serious. You should get here." and I flew across the country to see grandpa before he died. I didn't talk to my parents while I was there, but I did speak to my older sister. My dad caught me off guard and hugged me, but the next time I saw him I was expecting it and said no. I managed to stay away at a hotel room (which I'm grateful for because I needed to be alone) and when I was around people I focused on spending quality time with grandma.
Two years after that, when my grandma died, I got cryptic text messages. They said "call your grandma" and my phone had missed calls from uBPDmom and missed calls from a blocked number. uBPDmom actually called my husband (Huge deal. They don't like my husband) and said to him, "have [my name] call her grandma." She refused to specify further, even though he asked. Grandma played it cool when I reached out via text. She said she was recovering from pneumonia in the hospital. She's fine. It's not my job to worry. She lived a full life with no regrets. She has plans with friends. I believed her. A few days later a distant cousin messages me on Facebook telling me she's been trying to get a hold of me about grandma but my family members blocked her attempts to reach me. Did I know anything about what's been happening with grandma? I texted my older sister and asked what was going on. She texted back, "Grandma died this morning." But grandma didn't die suddenly. She was hooked up to oxygen and decided she didn't want to go back home. She chose to end her life in a legal and humane way at the care of hospital staff. My dad and uncle flew from out of state to help her settle her affairs. (They might have been there for weeks, plural. Not sure. I wasn't there)
They knew what her decision was for over a week, and never told me. I don't begrudge my grandma her choice. I'm actually impressed. Grandma clearly didn't want me to worry, and she got to go out on her own terms. What a legend. I'm glad she's at peace. I'm not mad at her. I'm mad at my parents and my older sibling. I thought, "Sure they're terrible, but if something important like death happens, they'll tell me. Or make sure I know." I was so stupid... They knew for a week and aside from uBPDmom's cryptic messages, no one told me. If you're going to break the NC rules, why not tell me the actual news? My cousin only reached out because she thought it was suspicious my family would go quiet when she asked about me. When she asked how I was taking the news, they changed the subject. Their caginess made her mad, so she asked for my phone number so she could talk to me herself. My parents and sister refused to give her my number. (I am not NC with my sister, btw) Cousin contacted me a different way, but lived in a different time zone. I didn't see it in time to say a final goodbye to grandma. One where I knew we were saying goodbye.
Nowstory:
That's the back story. Here's what brought me back to /raisedbyborderlines after a few years of not needing to post in this support group. Yesterday, I received cryptic text messages from uBPDmom. (Sensing a pattern from my backstory?) A few minutes later I had a missed call. She left a voicemail that simply said I needed to call her. I ignored this too. My husband tells me that he missed a call from uBPDmom. Uh oh. They hate him.
Husband and I talked. Someone else could be dead or dying. Someone could be getting married. Either way, what did I want to do? I told him my decision, and at my request he texted uBPDmom requesting specifics for the phone call. She texted back that she wanted me to call her. He asked what it was regarding. She said, "family news." He texted back that I wasn't up for a phone call but he would pass along a message. She texted back, "tell her I tried."
... and that's where I'm at.
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2024.05.21 19:15 CarTots Lamborghini Veneno 2 Seat Remote Control Ride On With 4WD Car Tots Ride On Toys

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2024.05.21 18:19 Coolasauras Would the new AI integration in windows help blind people use their computer with voice commands?

Would you be able to say stuff like "Open firefox and go to facebook", then "text Aria happy birthday "; fill out forms online using vocal commands as input and such?
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2024.05.21 16:33 Remarkable_Command83 Update to my post from three weeks ago, "I invited my female friend to a party, my ex-girlfriend went ballistic!"

I was dating "Mary" for about four years. She broke up with me about five months ago; it was all amicable enough. We were able to hang out a little bit, no problem at all. Then a mutual friend of ours was having a party that we both got invited to. I invited my friend "Ellen" to the party. Ellen and I have been friends for years. We went out at one point about six years ago for about a month, it totally did not work so we went back to being friends. Mary saw at the party that Ellen was there. Mary came up to me, and YELLED at me in front of everybody about it, left, unfriended me, and blocked me on chat. Am I the Jerk?
Also, while we were going out, Mary invited her ex-husband to a few large random events and parties. I talked to the guy, introduced him around a little bit, played darts with him.
Update: "Ellen" texted me to call "Mary" and tell her that Mary's facebook account was probably hacked, because Ellen just got a weird message from her.
Update: Mary has unfriended me on facebook, and I am pretty sure blocked me on text. I had already bought her birthday card though, for her birthday which is next week. Should I send her the birthday card? Thank you in advance for your input.
Latest update, this morning: I just got a text from "Mary" for the first time in three weeks. She said she still has strong emotions from the breakup, and that she does not want to be enemies.
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2024.05.21 16:06 theothermeisnothere Any idea my Facebook scheduled posts in several groups are posting hours before the scheduled times?

I have several private groups and each of them are showing the same type of behavior. Today, for example, I had a post scheduled for 6am. It actually posted at 3am. A post scheduled in another group for 4am posted at 1am a couple days ago.
I checked to make sure my system time and time zone are both correct. They are.
I don't think Facebook has any time zone setting (or I haven't found one). Does it?
Any idea why this might be happening and how I can fix it?
BTW, I also noticed that I've been getting birthday announcements for FB friends starting about 9pm the night before. I don't know if these things are related or not though.
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2024.05.21 15:15 emotionally_drained7 I wish it wasn't my birthday

Because then I could just have a regular disappointing day instead of an extra disappointing day.
I got two cards this morning, one from my husband that is so far from anything that applies to me and another one from my kids that they didn't even get to sign for me because God forbid should my husband take 10 extra minutes and include them.
I have running around to do with all 5 kids after school, so it's a busy night, but I'm pretty certain there will be no cake or little trinkets because "birthdays aren't that big of a deal" to my husband. But they're a big deal to me, and I make them a big deal for everyone else in my life. But we all know that doesn't matter when you're married to a narc.
I spend everyday of my life serving my family, and I just wish more than anything else that I could have a day where I'm made to feel as special as I try to make them feel. Of course I don't blame my kids, they're too young to do anything on their own, but almost all of them are old enough to recognize that this won't be like anyone else's birthday. Why doesn't mom get the same birthday celebration? Because mom's not doing it for herself.
My parents want to take us all out later in the week for ice cream to celebrate, so I'm thankful for that, but honestly I just want to forget about it all. It's just a reminder of the fact that my husband can't be bothered.
I've been so strong lately, not letting him get to me, but today I am weak and sad. I'll be doing paperwork, straightening up the house, folding clothes and making dinner with my 2 year old before I pick the other kids up from school, and I'll try not to let the Facebook birthday notifications trigger me: " Happy birthday! Have fun celebrating with your beautiful family!" Sure, I'll try.
Thank you all for being here and letting me get it all out.
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2024.05.21 15:01 SoPeachy_7997 Today's Birthday from My Facebook Friends & Animal Crossing: New Horizons - May 21, 2024

Today's Birthday from My Facebook Friends & Animal Crossing: New Horizons - May 21, 2024

Facebook

Today's Birthday is:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Today's Birthday is:
June
Happy Birthday!
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2024.05.21 08:30 lanjiolover Migrant worker, in S’pore for 12 years, reunites with daughter he left behind in Bangladesh as a baby

Migrant worker, in S’pore for 12 years, reunites with daughter he left behind in Bangladesh as a baby
[ They finally meet ❤️🎉 ]
I shared our Nee Soon East cleaner Mazibur's story in Parliament a few months ago. So glad to welcome his family to Singapore and so glad that he finally finally got to meet his daughter Jannat 🥰
Mazibur came to Singapore in 2012, leaving Jannat when she was only 22 days old. All these years, he has not returned to Bangladesh and has never met his own daughter 😢
Jannat turns 12 years old this year. Mazibur has missed all of her birthdays and milestones growing up.
When I went to Bangladesh a few years ago to meet all our Nee Soon East cleaners’ families and have lunch with them, I met Jannat.
It is sad that I got to meet Mazibur’s daughter before he did. Jannat wrote to me and what she wrote tore through my heart. She said, “Take care of my father, I love my father a lot”.
As I shared in Parliament, I promised her I would.
It's a happy day for Mazibur as he is reunited with his family ❤️
I hope Mazibur and his wife Taslima, his son Harun and Jannat will have some nice family time together ❤️❤️
Thank you Mazibur and all cleaners for working hard to make Singapore a clean city 💪🏻
Facebook/Louis Ng Kok Kwang
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2024.05.21 07:12 Heatfan239 46 days NC She (Dumper) texted me. Thoughts?

46 days NC She (Dumper) texted me. Thoughts?
46 days since BU. I texted her last Wednesday she just texted me 2 hours ago. Thoughts?
She dumped me on 4/4. The first picture is when I initiated contact last Wednesday on 5/15. Obviously she was short with me so I left it at that.
For context we were still friends on Facebook / followed each other on Instagram and were friends on Snapchat. Last night I went out to a cool rooftop spot with live reggae music and some food trucks. Besides me going shooting with some friends 2 weeks ago this is the only post I’ve done on my Instagram Story. (She didn’t watch the shooting range one but around 4 hours ago 6pm I noticed she watched the rooftop story)
I just pulled up to the gym and seeing that she watched it honestly gave me hopes that she was thinking of me.
She’s been posting bikini pics (showing her boobs off) / posted having drinks at a bar a couple times/ selfie that same night that she made a post out of / went on a boat (found out it was with a girl and her BF she met on Bumble BFF) has slept with 4-5 guys that I know of and messaged a guy that was hitting on her while we were dating 3 days after she dumped me. I haven’t watched any of her stories or reacted to any of her posts (because she used my iPad when we were dating and this whole time I’ve had her Instagram account logged in on it). This was me torturing myself keeping tabs on what she was doing. I saw her complaining to her friends about a guy she wanted to date and how he wanted a relationship but he told her he wanted to do threesome and couple sex. I saw her bragging about how she liked this same guys dick a week before and how when she went on the boat this past weekend a guy was supposed to come but he flaked on her.
So I’m at the gym talking to a buddy of mine about how despite our first interaction where I initiated contact that I’m still contemplating on reaching out to apologize and see if she’d be willing to meet up. He leaves and at 730 (1.5 hours after she saw my rooftop story) she texts me starting with picture 2 and ending with the last picture.
The cruise was something we booked back in January for her Birthday. We both put down a $250 deposit mine on my credit card and hers with her card. On 4/10 I found out she canceled it on 4/5 the day after she dumped me. So I called Royal Caribbean and the supervisor explains the deposit is non refundable and it’s against their policy to go against that rule. I said ok no problem I’ll call my bank. My bank starts the claim dispute process and initiates a temporary credit which is standard with any fraud dispute. I tell them I had no knowledge of the cruise being booked and the $250 charge on my card. (I know I lied but due to the circumstances and her canceling the cruise I wanted to try to get my money back)
So between her monkey branching not going as well like I mentioned above. I think she saw my story that I was out “having fun” and it triggered her so she reached out the only way an avoidant would which was super petty. I think I handled it well despite how she was saying I don’t have time to talk and just to text and being pretty snappy with me. Then when she realized how dumb she looked asking me to give her my $250 I got back she transitioned to oh you never mailed my brush / dryer and hair products. The only thing she asked of me was to return some Amazon packages that she had bought and had delivered to my house for the apartment we were supposed to move into 4/30. It was a spare dryer ($20) and other cheap hair products that she bought to keep at my house since she came here every weekend. Since she didn’t mention it I didn’t bring it up even though after she dumped me I almost texted her about them as an excuse to initiate contact but chose not to.
After the last text about do not contact me again I noticed she had removed me from Snapchat / Instagram / Facebook. I did love this Girl a lot and I messed up big time. Not sure how to proceed or if I even should.
I’m thinking I’ll send her things back, text her a picture of the return label and use this opportunity to send her a closure letter. Ive been wanting to reach out again to make one last effort to meet up, apologize, reconnect and see if she’d reciprocate effort.
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2024.05.21 06:09 Heatfan239 48 days NC she (Dumper) texted me. Thoughts?

48 days NC she (Dumper) texted me. Thoughts?
46 days since BU. I texted her last Wednesday (first picture) she just texted me 5 hours ago (pics 2-6).
She dumped me on 4/4. The first picture is when I initiated contact last Wednesday on 5/15. Obviously she was short with me so I left it at that.
For context we were still friends on Facebook / followed each other on Instagram and were friends on Snapchat. Last night I went out to a cool rooftop spot with live reggae music and some food trucks. Besides me going shooting with some friends 2 weeks ago this is the only post I’ve done on my Instagram Story. (She didn’t watch the shooting range one but around 4 hours ago 6pm I noticed she watched the rooftop story) I just pulled up to the gym and seeing that she watched it honestly gave me hopes that she was thinking of me. She’s been posting bikini pics showing her boobs off / posted having drinks at a bar a couple times/ selfie that same night that she made a post out of / went on a boat (found out it was with a girl and her BF she met on Bumble BFF) has slept with 4-5 guys that I know of and messaged a guy that was hitting on her while we were dating 3 days after she dumped me. I haven’t watched any of her stories or reacted to any of her posts (because she used my iPad when we were dating and this whole time I’ve had her Instagram account logged in on it). This was me torturing myself keeping tabs on what she was doing. I saw her complaining to her friends about a guy she wanted to date and how he wanted a relationship but he told her he wanted to do threesome and couple sex. I saw her bragging about how she liked this same guys dick a week before and how when she went on the boat this past weekend a guy was supposed to come but he flaked on her.
So I’m at the gym talking to a buddy of mine about how despite our first interaction where I initiated contact that I’m still contemplating on reaching out to apologize and see if she’d be willing to meet up. He leaves and at 730 (1.5 hours after she saw my rooftop story) she texts me starting with picture 2 and ending with the last picture.
The cruise was something we booked back in January for her Birthday. We both put down a $250 deposit mine on my credit card and hers with her card. On 4/10 I found out she canceled it on 4/5 the day after she dumped me. So I called Royal Caribbean and the supervisor explains the deposit is non refundable and it’s against their policy to go against that rule. I said ok no problem I’ll call my bank. My bank starts the claim dispute process and initiates a temporary credit which is standard with any fraud dispute. I tell them I had no knowledge of the cruise being booked and the $250 charge on my card. (I know I lied but due to the circumstances and her canceling the cruise I wanted to try to get my money back)
So between her monkey branching not going as well like I mentioned above. I think she saw my story that I was out “having fun” and it triggered her so she reached out the only way an avoidant would which was super petty. I think I handled it well despite how she was saying I don’t have time to talk and just to text and being pretty snappy with me. Then when she realized how dumb she looked asking me to give her my $250 I got back she transitioned to oh you never mailed my brush / dryer and hair products. The only thing she asked of me was to return some Amazon packages that she had bought and had delivered to my house for the apartment we were supposed to move into 4/30. It was a spare dryer ($20) and other cheap hair products that she bought to keep at my house since she came here every weekend. Since she didn’t mention it I didn’t bring it up even though after she dumped me I almost texted her about them as an excuse to initiate contact but chose not to.
After the last text about do not contact me again I noticed she had removed me from Snapchat / Instagram / Facebook. I did love this Girl a lot and I messed up big time. Not sure how to proceed or if I even should.
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