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⌈ Secret Post #6854 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It'll be open until Sunday's FS post goes up. You can leave your comment secrets here:

https://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/3289166.html?thread=1146956622#cmt1146956622

Hope you're having a good weekend!

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What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

I had a calzone from a local place.

Re: What's for dinner?

[philstar22]

We have some leftover pot roast in the fridge, probably just mike some of that.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Made improvisational crab cakes from bits of leftover things in the fridge and freezer. Pretty good.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Leftover chicken teriyaki.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Leftover tacos.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Barramundi, new potatoes and spinach, with parsley sauce I made and froze in a fit of efficiency last week.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Pizza from Mellow Mushroom!

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Wild mix rice
Split peas (cooked from dried with herbs)
Roasted potatoes, carrots, and red bell peppers
Aldi Green vegetable mix
With sunflower seeds

I'm grateful for the food but also I am so tired of being poor and cooking for a vegan. 😓

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Went out with mother-in-law and had pasta carbonara and creme brulee for dessert!

Re: What's for dinner?

[greghousesgf]

I'm making a baked pork chop with herbs and lemon and buttered noodles.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds amazing! I had some leftover Chili's chips with the new queso they just came out with. It's ok, but nothing amazing, I wouldn't get it again with the price they charge. It's too salty, and I say this as someone who loves salt and adds it to most of my meals.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

Suicidal ideation and depression.

What are your favorite horror books

[(Anonymous)]

Need a spooky read.

Re: What are your favorite horror books

[kaijinscendre]

I basically only read horror. Here are my recs that I read in 2025.

When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
The Hike by Drew Magary (only kind of horror)
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Blackwater Saga by Michael McDowell if you want an epic
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

From previous years.
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Anything by Grady Hendrix or T Kingfisher
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson, Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele, and Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk for anthologies.

Re: What are your favorite horror books

[greghousesgf]

Needful Things by Stephen King

Re: What are your favorite horror books

[(Anonymous)]

Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare (she's written a lot of spooky, gothic stuff that's pretty good)
Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Alison Littlewood, The Unquiet House
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions
Sarah Rayne, The Bell Tower (I've read a few of her books and liked them, but can't remember the specific ones so I just chose one at random)

Re: What are your favorite horror books

[(Anonymous)]

Slade House by David Mitchell.

Photo/video filters these days are crazy

[(Anonymous)]

Mainly photo filters, I guess. But wow. I'm of course not going to post photo comparisons here, but someone I know posted this filtered/altered image of herself that has just blown my mind. She looks very different from her real face, but it's like... not a blurry picture, and she's not perfect-looking. It's just rearranged her features to look more attractive but not made her into a total Barbie/flawless face, but it's still such a crisp, sharp image that I honestly can't believe it. I'm used to filters that are much more obvious. The filtered picture still has pores and skin texture? Some fine lines even? Fake freckles?? It's impressive, but also kind of scary.

And someone ELSE, has posted selfies and even videos of herself where she is somehow shaving off, like 80 pounds from her actual weight. I thought she had lost a shitload of weight until I saw photos someone else had tagged her in, and she's still the same size. These photos also don't look really warped and weird and blurry.

Technology is crazy.

Re: Photo/video filters these days are crazy

[(Anonymous)]

Right? I'm old, so when I was a kid we didn't have cell phones never mind cell phone cameras and filters and it's like a weird special effects magic to me.

Re: Photo/video filters these days are crazy

[(Anonymous)]

Not exactly a filter, but I looked up my estranged sister a while back out of morbid curiosity and saw that her (professional?) LinkedIn profile pic is a recent photo of her that has been put through one hell of an AI program. Like the eyes are kinda still recognizably hers, but she's about half her actual weight, has perfect glowing skin, a razor-sharp jaw, pouty lips and freckles. It was so bizarre.

“Is There Any Real Benefit In Marriage For Women?”

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.boredpanda.com/does-marriage-benefit-women-discussion/?cexp_id=137117&cexp_var=2&_f=homepage_featured

The older I get, the more I think it's better to be single. It's not that I hate men, it's that I value my own peace and tranquil space a lot, and it's hard for me to share that space with anyone else no matter how much I like them. It's also difficult because frankly, I've had too many relationships with men who weren't bad partners, exactly... just not great, and not good enough to make me want to stay with them long term. Especially not in a co-habitation situation.

Every single relationship with a man I've ever had kind of went downhill in the personal responsibilities department where even if they seemed mature and competent when we first met, as soon as we got serious and started sharing an apartment they lapsed back into this child-like mentality where they began to slack off with the household chores and I ended up feeling like their mom, not their girlfriend. We'd have talks about it, they'd agree that oh yeah, it's not fair that we both work similar hours but somehow I'm the one who ends up doing most of the cleaning and cooking, and when it's their turn to do dinner, dinner is frozen pizza or takeout. Things would improve for a short time, then they'd backslide again and the next time we have a talk or a fight, they'd be all sulky and complain about how I was being too hard on them, etc. followed by some weaponized incompetence where a grown mad suddenly forgets how to do laundry or grocery shop, followed by a break-up. I'm just tired of parenting my boyfriend because he wants to enjoy his home life like his childhood, where mom cooks and cleans and takes care of everything for him.

What I would like? To have my own private space, with room enough for me and a guest if I wanted one. To live in a community with my friends nearby, someplace walkable and quiet and safe, with lots of trees and nature. We'd all be able to meet and hang out when we wanted to, but everyone has their own sanctuary to retreat to as needed.

Re: “Is There Any Real Benefit In Marriage For Women?”

[(Anonymous)]

Life goals. I've almost achieved what you want. It's so peaceful. Scary sometimes, but not as scary as being in a relationship with an abuser.

It;'s a good idea to keep reiterating this sort of thing to the young 'uns. They may listen, they may not, but at least they won't feel as alone.

Re: “Is There Any Real Benefit In Marriage For Women?”

[philstar22]

I can't speak for anyone but me. But I've come to realize that I don't actually want a long-term relationship. I don't want to have a romantic partner I live with. Some of that is the massive reduction in my sex drive post hysterectomy. But even before that, I think honestly sex was the only part of a relationship that I was actually interested in. And now I just don't need even that. And I'm saying this as a bi woman who could have a relationship with a woman too.