had the best swords

The adolescent in me can't stop giggling

Well I exist, despite it seeming that no one else in the world is aware of my existence.

Critter is adorable!

My first cat was also a stray kitten that my ex rescued. He was 2 pounds and completely stretched out was barely longer my forearm. The first time my Dad saw him he said "look at the paws on him, he's going to be massive"

The best part about having a cat that is 17 pounds of muscle and long legs is that there's so much of him to cuddle and hug, and he loves cuddles and hugs. The worst part is that when he decides to sit on my chest at 4 am, slap me repeatedly across the face, and scream for breakfast, it takes a surprisingly large amount of effort to get him off.

Consider yourself warned, and may you have many cuddles ahead of you.

This story always drives me insane. I'm a woman with endometriosis. When I was younger and was being dismissed as "dramatic" and "attention seeking", I absolutely had times where I went through a tampon an hour for 6 days straight (even overnight, had to set an alarm every hour to go swap), so 100 tampons for 6 days isn't actually ridiculous.

Star Wars. I really wanted to like it, I'm a huge nerd, but I just am not into it. I watched 4 and 5 and got maybe an hour into 6 and got up and walked away. I was so bored with the whole thing.

Not liking anime is so isolating as a nerd because people find out I'm into nerdy stuff and all they want to do is recommend anime to me and talk about anime and I have to explain that I don't like anime and won't be watching that show they love (insert show here).

Personally, it's the art form I don't like. I couldn't say why, but there's something about the style of drawing people that I just can't get past.

I accept that I'm in the minority, and I'm not criticizing it or talking down on it in any way. I understand there's an incredible amount of love and talent that goes into it, it's just not for me. Think of it as someone who says they don't like the Mona Lisa, they aren't saying it isn't a famous painting or shouldn't be well known, they're just saying they prefer other styles of art.

I'm picky. Some are ok, some just weird me out. I think it really just depends how close they get to portraying the human figure, when they start intentionally skewing proportions and making features anatomically impossible it's just creepy for some reason. If it's not a human character or if it's still sort of realistic to normal proportions it usually is fine.

Sure, I'm an edge case, but I'm just saying that this isn't entirely ridiculous. Are most women going to need 100 tampons for 6 days? No. But it's not like it's some absolutely absurd amount that no women would ever need, it's actually realistic for a very small percentage of us, and it's always told like hur hur this is so dumb. It's really not. It's worth asking.

There have been a couple times when I feel like I can't take anything more and I've thought about tapping out on life and then I think of my cats at home, waiting for me to come home, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting... And I realize that I can in fact take more if I have to.

I grew up in America in the 90s. We always played in the streets. When a car came you yelled "car!" and everyone skedaddled to the side of the road until it passed. I still see kids playing in the streets occasionally, depending on the neighborhood.

And we all laughed at the boomers posting on Facebook MY LAWYER ADVISED ME TO POST... IF YOU DON'T POST THIS NOTICE YOU AREN'T PROTECTED... I DO NOT CONSENT TO FACEBOOK USING MY PRIVATE POSTS IN ANY WAY

This is correct, but for some reason in my head I think of gray as warm toned (like with yellow or brown undertones) and grey as cool toned (like with blue or purple undertones).

I have no idea why my brain has decided this is the way.

Forgive me the sin of linking to YouTube, but this came to mind:

https://youtu.be/2AS68J9V0kk?is=QIXsD8TdQP_bV7c6

I just want to come back here and thank you for this simple suggestion. It's become my current ADHD obsession food. I've made it probably 6-7 times since reading your comment, and it's so good and so filling. I'll probably obsessively eat it for like another month and then forget it's a meal that exists for 5 more years until I become obsessed with it again, but such is ADHD life 😂

Hi me. It's never too late to try. I finally started getting the help I needed, and it was 2 years too late and after I already permanently ruined my chance at something really good that only happens once in a lifetime, but better late than never, right?

Good luck! I still have my ovaries and so I still have some pain, but it's so minor compared to what I used to be living with (like a 3-5/10 instead of a 9-10/10 on a daily basis) and not having to deal with bleeding 3 weeks out of the month is life changing.

The average person only lived to be 35 back in the day.

No, the average lifespan was like 35 back in the day. 40 year olds weren't some rare wrinkled old person, the average was affected by the extremely high childhood mortality. If you could survive the first few years of your life your chances of surviving the next 60 were pretty good.

For people who might not be in the US and don't understand why this is a bad idea in the US and proportionately hurts poor people, proof of citizenship is usually a passport. A passport costs $130. You need supporting documents like your birth certificate, SSN, and a drivers license/state ID to get it. For your first passport you usually have to make an appointment to go somewhere authorized like a library, post office, or courthouse to apply, and then they send the application off and it can take weeks to months to get back, depending how backed up the processing agency is (and I'm sure there will be artificial delays during voting years if this passes). Also, they are passing laws limiting where you can go to apply, so now libraries and the post office are losing the ability to process passport applications, so people will have to go to the county courthouse, which could be a long drive from where they live, especially if you live in a rural area. For people who don't drive, or only have one car that is shared with another working adult, or use public transportation that has a limited range (or just doesn't exist in most of the US), or are disabled and can't travel far, this can be a huge problem.

Also, all these places are only open during normal business hours, so you probably have to take time off work to go apply. Federal minimum wage is only $7.25/hr while the living wage is actually much higher (living wage for 1 adult living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment where I live was considered almost $23/hr in 2024), and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren't getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.

Ironically, if Greenland ever did become part of the US all those people that Trump is pretending to care about will instantly lose free or even affordable healthcare.

Why is Trump sending free healthcare to other countries while US citizens are dying of easily preventable illnesses because they can't afford medical care? I thought he was all about America first?/s