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⌈ Secret Post #4912 ⌋

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Secret makers mining thread

[(Anonymous)]

The usual drill

Re: Secret makers mining thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'very emotionally evolved beyond my WIPs for my small fandom. The only reason I'm determined to finish them is because currently there is no slash fic for any pairing - so I wrote a story for every possible pairing. I really want to finish and post them damn it.

Re: Secret makers mining thread

[(Anonymous)]

I much prefer 2010: The Year We Make Contact as a movie than 2001:A Space Odyssey. I get art in movies. But when your art gets in the way of telling a coherent story, I personally think you've missed the mark. As a fan of the books, 2010 is a better adaption. The story is more interesting even on its own. Sure, 2001 looks pretty, but that's all it is, and that to me is never enough.

Re: Secret makers mining thread

[(Anonymous)]

While rewatching Cardcaptor Sakura on Netflix, I remembered a really bizarre idea I had when I was a kid. For some reason, I was absolutely certain that Sakura, Tomoyo, and Syaoran were Kit, Ruthie, and Stirling from the American Girl books in an alternate dimension. I have no idea how I came up with this theory and it makes absolutely zero sense, but I remember writing these really long manifestos on why it had to be true.

Vent thread

[philstar22]

I have a vent, and maybe others do too.

Thanks for the confirmation

[philstar22]

My sister basically confirmed today that I was right to cut her off from knowing about my life and me. I can't trust her, and I should have trusted my instincts.

Anyway, she had called yesterday to talk to my mother, and my mother was busy with something, so we were talking while waiting. I had started talking with her more the past couple of months since she's had some rough personal stuff and I've been trying to be a caring sister.

Sister asked about my job interview, so clearly parents had told her about that. I said that I had been told to call Tuesday if the attorney hadn't called to let me know whether I got the job or not. The attorney had told me during the interview that she gets busy and forgets things so that I should call to remind her Tuesday. So I called Tuesday afternoon around 2:30. No one answered the phone, so I called an hour later. My sister tells me that I need to be careful not to call too much because she likes to lecture people, especially me, and always thinks she knows better. I say that thank you, I know that, but I was told to call and she currently is understaffed and is answering the phone herself sometimes and I don't think two calls an hour apart is too much.

I thought that was the end of it, but my sister clearly didn't like my answer. She goes behind my back today and calls and talks to both of my parents, telling them (yes telling, not asking) that they need to talk to me and tell me to not call the office again.

She wants to control my life. She thinks she knows better. And I'm really done this time with sharing any of me with her because she clearly isn't trustworthy.

Anyway, I called the office again today and was able to leave a message. Turns out the attorney is out of the office with something unexpected. I also talked to my current "boss" who hadn't actually returned the call requesting a reference, so that's another rant. He did say he'll give me a positive reference, but I don't know when he'll actually call.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

This is the anon who posted the other day about getting an IUD, so - some medical stuff ahead, but like, minimum details.
I got really worried about things like 'What if it gives me blood clots and I die', so I wrote down a list of questions and had my mum come in with me so I wouldn't be too anxious to ask them. The doctor answered my questions (yes there's a risk of blood clots but it's super tiny, no I probably can't get a hysterectomy damnit), and I agreed to go ahead with it. I also happily accepted the offer of laughing gas to take the edge off.
But they got started! Before! They gave me! The gas!
It really fucking hurt!
It was all over in a few minutes, and I was okay after, just a bit achey and crampy, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that was unpleasant. I really hope I don't have to do that again for another five years!

(also, I have a psych appointment today that I've waited six months for, it's going to cost a fucking bomb and I really hope I get the result I want!)

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

My dad's ego is huge and made entirely out of tissue paper. He's jealous of my therapist and I'm too empathetic for my own good so I'm upset that he's upset, and I tried telling him he matters to me too but he hasn't responded yet and after a stressful meeting earlier where I had to corral three grown adults like I was the adult and they were me, the emotional labor is so much I've been curled up on my bed for over an hour literally staring at the wall because fuck people, fuck the world, fuck everything, I just want to die so I'll never be stressed again and never worry about what anyone else feels especially when I really shouldn't because it's not my damn fault my therapist does her job well enough that I'm closer to her than to my parents and my dad needs to get his own goddamn therapist instead of hinting he feels like I don't love him enough or whatever and then going "lol jk" because I've done that more than enough to know exactly what it means and it means "I'm upset but I don't want to bother you so I'm gonna pretend it's cool" but I know it's not cool and I can't fsjkrgdzehgsrjkdc rgjeilzdthkrlaeodrjhnkcfxr qarwe thyejkathweicfgawike jthkser,c te hjxde rjk e

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I've been wondering if I have OCD but feel like I can't come forward to any medical professional, let alone afford to go to one, because I've been able to live with it for so long and have been able to cope with it when it gets 'bad'.

(WARNING - SLIGHT DESCRIPTIONS OF VIOLENCE)
I tend to have a lot of obsessive thoughts and can't stop thinking about certain things, which sometimes are harmless; like I get songs or sound bytes stuck in my head on a loop, which isn't really the bad thing - but I do notice that when I get more intrusive/disturbing thoughts they get repeated in my head in the same way and I have a hard time not-thinking about it or distracting myself from it.
The one I deal with the most is getting handed sharp objects like knives or scissors by other people (I instantly get images of either getting stabbed or imagine hurting the person handing me it and over think how it would feel and what happens after) - and one of the main reason I can't watch anything realistically gorey in media is because I know it'll stick in my head forever and I'll catch a scene on a loop in my head (like the man getting with with a bottle in Pans Labyrinth).

For the most part I take a moment to think that yep I'm thinking this and move onto doing what I was already doing - but once in a while it'll get to me and I'll feel frustrated/distressed over not being able to stop thinking about something, leading to either a sob-fest by myself or resorting to drinking to help numb up (although I'm thankfully been doing that less since lockdown began with very little access to alcohol in the past three months).
It's not necessarily getting worse at the moment, but it is something I'm becoming more aware of it being there. I had bad experience in the past with seeking help with mental health issues so I'm avoiding that option unless I get really bad, but I don't know if this is just something I'm making a big deal over nothing or if its something I'm suppose to keep and eye on idk.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Grr. My neighbors who have, over the last year or so, cut back my pomegranate, dragonfruit, and loquat (and killed the loquat) for overhanging their yard just cut down half my big apple tree that’s over 30 years old and overhangs their fence, and threw the branches full of unripe apples into my yard.

They’ve never spoken to me about my fruit trees, but when they were cutting back the enormous pine in their yard whose roots routinely invade my sewer pipes and branches are entangled in my power lines, they couldn’t cut it back to their fence line or let me hire someone to do it because it might kill the tree. They have a fire pit under that giant fucking fire ladder of a tree.

They don’t even eat the fucking fruit when they butcher my trees without asking.

If I ever win the lotto, I’m gonna use the money that doesn’t go to friends and charity and family to buy the house from their landlord, kick out their “nightly bonfires while loud and drunk in 95 degree Santa Ana weather, firing mortars during fire warning season” asses, turn that non native pine into mulch, plant an orchard in its place, and rent the house to a bunch of people who always wanted a garden.

They‘ve also called code compliance on my (legal) chickens and complained about my clothesline; meanwhile, there is a rusted van on blocks in their backyard alongside junk heaps under tarps and a small pile of stolen road and freeway signs.

Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

Are they as creepy as the feel like they would be? I feel weird at the idea of pawing over a dead person's things.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve never been to an estate sale (that I know of), just a bunch of yard sales. I have a friend who went to an estate sale that had a ton of American Girl items. All were in near mint condition and many were rare. She was thrilled with her haul, but afterwards felt strangely sad because the lady who had owned the dolls had died alone and her beautiful collection had been left for scores of strangers to paw at and dismantle.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

To me it just felt like a really large garage sale and wasn't creepy at all,.. If it helps, I've been on the other side where an estate sale had to be arranged for a relative who'd passed away. We were just grateful to have the estate sale people handle it and it was nice to think that other people would find a use for all of the things that we couldn't/didn't want to keep.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[greghousesgf]

I've been to a few of them, they just seemed like yard sales with more expensive stuff.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

I've always wanted to go. I suppose I never really thought about the fact that I would be pawing over a dead person's things...as I often frequent antiques/second hand shops all the time, and some of those things could ostensibly be from someone who is no longer living...

I also always figure that the people who passed away either willed it away in this manner, or their family/caretakers are choosing this on their behalf. We don't take any of it with us, ya know?

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been to one because I'm too lazy to search them out, but I helped with my grandaddy's estate sale, and it's really not that bad. The family want people there. They know most of the stuff is dated and not worth much, but they've taken the time and energy to organize and run it because they want to see things go to people who will enjoy them, they don't want to have to deal with all those things themselves, and of course they're hoping for some compensation for their efforts.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[(Anonymous)]

No, they're not as far as I know. I love garage sales and I know a few of them have been estate, I've helped my mother and aunt set up one for my grandmother after she passed and it was no different than any other garage sale really. I'm sure some people do get a little attached sometimes they actually have other people they hire to do the selling for them, but idk I'm always respectful with what people want to sell things for, so yeah.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[cakemage]

I've been to a few while I was out yard saling of a Saturday (gods, do I miss going to yard sales). I usually don't bother stopping at them anymore though, because although they're generally not that creepy (sometimes sad, though), almost every one I've been to has consisted mainly of overpriced junk that either smells like old pee, old cigarette smoke, or some unholy combination of the two. That may just be unique to my town, though.

Re: Anyone ever been to an estate sale?

[xpaperplanex]

I used to be an avid estate saler and I love them so much. You can get a lot of really good quality things for reasonable prices. I never found it creepy. I mean, something has to be done with the stuff. As much as families might want to, you can't keep everything. Also, a lot of people have living estate sales when they're downsizing or moving into a retirement home/to Florida, so it's not necessarily a dead person's things.

Youtube Videos You like to Rewatch?

[(Anonymous)]

I keep coming back to a lot of the animated fan videos of gamers dialogues - one of them being Markiplier Fatal Frame 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqq-cqNgco

NOBODY FREAK OUT

[(Anonymous)]

BUT THERE IS GOING TO BE A NEW POKEMON SNAP.

https://youtu.be/7Vj8zt_tBtk

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