Oh man, you just unlocked memories of a handful of cryptid and urban legend websites I used to crawl as a kid that were all linked together.

Used to spend hours trying to be quiet in the living room reading weird nosleep-style stories. Fuck I miss the early web. Web 4.0 sucks.

I think it’s okay to tell someone your feelings for them, if and only if you don’t make it their responsibility to manage and regulate those feelings.

All relationships are reciprocal to a degree. Liking someone is normal, if they don’t reciprocate those feelings that’s okay, doesn’t mean anything has to change. If you respect them as a person and don’t just see them as someone to fill a role in your life then you should be able to sublimate romantic feelings into a healthy plutonic feelings.

Don’t force anything, pay attention to expressed boundaries and learn to differentiate for yourself when you’re giving too much.

Turns out the next grift was become the legal system

As another incredibly horny Violet out in the world, it’s always odd to read comments like this. Straight up had the thought “ but I never posted that meme on Lemmy” 💀

I do 5 9.5hr days, my life is a mess. I don’t get anything done

Hey. This happened to me a few years ago. Had a great friend group of many years, started dating my best friend in the group. They raped me, then slandered me and accused me of accusing them of a bunch of stuff before I talked to anyone.

All my friends believed them.

It was fucking devastating. Honestly, I still couldn’t tell you what hurt the most out of that situation but suffice it to say losing everyone in my life at the same time really fucked me up for a number of years after.

My lived experience aligns with yours in that 98% of people are lying, cheating, selfish bastards. People are lazy, and don’t really care about what’s right but rather what’s convenient, and it’s usually more convenient to just not examine the situation and go along with the group. After all, they don’t want to lose their friends too *sigh

In the end, people will be people and believe whatever. There may be some self reflection needed from you in this situation but don’t ruminate on what they do or don’t think about you. Focus on being someone you like and are happy with.

I had the same problem socially with being tight in the local music scene, small venues, hard to make new friends because everyone is cliquey. Honestly it was super weird to read your post because it mirrored my experience post break up almost exactly (minus the rape trauma hopefully).

5 years later I have a handful of good friends and people I’ve built new meaningful friendships with. It’s hard to meet people, let alone people you really vibe with, but for me, I met them all in the oddest of places at the oddest of times. It sounds cliche, but you just have to stay open and keep going out. You don’t have to open up and be vulnerable with everyone you meet, but stay friendly, and be vulnerable with the people that reciporicate over time, and be forgiving/ give people the space and time to be human/ adults/ busy.

Pro tip! Scratch your tongue with your fingernail, if you can feel the ridge, so can she.

It would be so easy to implement a big red “oh fuck” button that, notifies customer service, puts the car into limp mode, and directs it to pull over.

Similarly with modding your car. The second you do fun work on it, something expensive breaks and you can’t even give it the beans. How catastrophic the new failure is is directly correlated to how excited you were to do the fun mod.

This is it for me but for acknowledging good things in my life out loud. I can go weeks with something pleasant and the second I start telling people in my life about it it evaporates within the week.

To the point that get sorta dodgy when bestie asks me for life updates, I’m in my head like is this too good to actually share? Am I ready to let this go?

I just want to share nice things :(

I’m indispensable at a small company. Some weeks I have a literal hour of work to do for multiple weeks. Some days it’s a deluge of bullshit that never ends. The majority of the time I get paid fairly well to make memes, craft, and read.

Not music but my city has a surprising handful of puppetry troops that put on absolutely phenomenal performances.

They use really elaborate hand built stages, puppets, and other contraption. projectors and paper cut outs for wild visual overlays, compelling emotionally engaging scenes and It’s always for crowds of ~30 or fewer people sitting on a floor. It really feels like the textbook definition of childlike wonder. They are by far the events I get most hype about when I see a flyer / post.

I don’t think it’s about specific behaviors but the way they’re carried out.

I think trashy is socially tone deaf, inconsiderate, selfish, and thoughtless actions.

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Depp was actually really good friends with Thompson and lived with hunter for a few years before the filming of the movie so he was kinda the perfect person to cast.

Yeah, machinists don’t judge when you start talking about being real into cnc

He said a lot of uh… memorable stuff😮‍💨

“I liked you better when you wanted to kill yourself” Abusive ex to me

A poem my brother wrote

Nothing changes, and it changes all at once. Nothing moves, nothing exists. Nothing is important, so we should learn nothing, we should study nothing, get close to nothing, be kind to nothing. We must come to understand nothing so well that we could maybe even see nothing in ourselves. Because nothing matters, nothing is important, and I think that’s something.

Hi bamo!

Sappho - Fragment 147 - bits of a text that was mostly destroyed by time, the remaining words gave us this