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Sorry if the format looks weird Im on the mobile version. I(16f) never delt with entitled parents so this is all new for me.
For some background my Dad bought a small house(2 bed one bath) near a beach from my grand aunt and the house has always been in our family. It's on a small patch of land with some yard to the sides of it with an old metal shed with some glass windows towards the back. Everyone in our family uses it and we rent it out when no ones there.
We went down this weekend because it was going to be fun and we needed to get ready for renters. It's close to a community park/pool so it's always a little loud and sometimes busy. Behind us is another small house with barley any yard. My parents went out to get some hardware when I stayed home to work on some school work. They can take a long while because traffic is absolutely terrible most of the time. Kids tend to play on our lawn but Don't get really loud so we dont mind . I heard a loud bang on something metal but I didn't see anything from the window so I went back to work. Again I heard it around 5 to 7 mins later. I went outside this time because I didn't know what it was. Apparently there were 2 boys(10-12 years old) playing kickball in our yard. They seemed suprised when I stepped outside the house. I asked them what they were playing and they said kickball. I asked if they could try avoid hitting the shed and the house. They agreed and went back to the house behind ours when I left. 15 mins go by I hear it again but I assumed it was a mistake because kids can't really control their kicks sometimes. I hear it again 4 times in the next 10 minutes. I went back outside and found the kids on my family's land again but with the parents. The boys didn't change and were still kicking at the house/shed. When they saw me they stopped playing. I asked the parents and the kids this time to help the kids avoid hitting the house. They seemed to be annoyed by me and told me they are watching them and that I should mind my own business in a pretty snarky way. I was pretty suprised because an adult never talked to me like that . I said said I wouldn't mind if they would just stop hitting the house and shed. They said I was being an ungrateful kid on vacation. I responded saying that the yard they were on was owned by my family and so is the house they are hitting so I Don'twant it to get damaged. They couldn't care less and pretty much said well they're kids and they Don't know better. I suggested they could play in the park(5 to 10 min walk away) so they wouldn't hit anything and would have more room to play. They seemed offended and said they weren't paying for that stuff and I was putting their kids in danger. I said I it was open to the public free of charge and it was right next to a police station. They seemed to ignore that and said if I dont get away from them and their children they would call the police for harrassment and putting kids at risk. I'm annoyed at this point and I reminded them that their own my dad's property and that they could've damaged the property. They seemed angry that I said that and went quite for a bit. The kids seemed somewhat embarrassed and the oldest seemed mortified and asked if they could just go to the park. The mom said Your right (kid name) we shouldn't waste anymore time on this ungrateful brat. They left promptly with the Husband and the younger kid in toe. I was shocked and stood there for a bit and soon went back inside. Definitely a new experience and one I Don't want again but will probably encounter again in life.

This is just a rant and I apologize if it annoys anyone. I just left an allegedly full service Hilton. Second one I’ve stayed in this month. FWIW, I’m Diamond. No one thanked me for that. I had to ask for my bottles of water and F and B credit at both properties. I had to request housekeeping at both properties. One never showed, the other came at 4 pm. One property had a permanently closed lounge. The other had only a buffet or room service breakfast. The buffet was horrendous. I’ve never been to prison but I think they serve the eggs I was offered. My university had better breakfasts. This am we decided to try room service since the buffet was so dismal. Guess what ? Someone went to the buffet and scooped some of the same eggs and two of those dry as the desert Turkey sausage links ( I had requested patties). There were two pieces of dry toast - no butter, jelly, nada. A glass of OJ that came from a machine. Fun fact, those machines are not cleaned very often ( source, I worked at a hotel ). Both properties had bell carts but no bell staff. I’m just tired of paying full service rates for Hampton Inn ( or less ) amenities. I’m not even aiming for Diamond again. Time to see what Bonvoy can do for me.

My friends at work talk about silly things in detail for hours. Like they talk about the breakfast they had, the bad movie they watched last week, the old man who crossed the street - whatever sh** it is, they were able to talk for hours in detail. And I am not able to talk about anything not more than a few seconds. I also do lot of stuff, but if you ask me, how was your weekend I would answer it with not more than 2 sentences. Last week, my colleagues, talked about how muesli is a good breakfast compared to couscous for nearly an hour. Seriously, Come'on, I don't even know what Muesli contains, I just buy, eat it and forget about it. How are they able to talk about these silly things for hours. I don't know whether something is wrong about me. I can't conclude but came up with few theories, 1. I am not observing the surrounding or not living the moment. I am just living in my own world and not giving any attention to the presence. 2. I don't have any opinions on anything. I just accept the world as it is and I never question anything. 3. I may have opinions. But I think myself, that those opinions are not worth it to share. So I just hold it back. 4. I don't have any general knowledge about my world. I may be a dumb guy. (But I doubt it. I am an engineering graduate, an experienced programmer and recently immigrated to an European country. So I may not that dumb. But seriously my knowledge about mueseli and couscous is zero.) What it could be? I keep feeling down because I am not able to contribute to those conversations.

Father's Paranoia Getting Worse.
Hello. So, my father has been having a paranoid meltdown for the past week and a half and it's escalating to the point where I'm becoming scared to live under the same roof as him.
It all started when he lost his bank card. We searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Fast forward a day later and he believes that the neighbors have a spare key to our apartment and waltzed in and stole it. Our neighbors were shady and they were drug dealers, but there was nothing indicating that they ever came in here, because our door has a deadbolt lock and I doubt they had a key for it.
This spiraled into him thinking he's being gang stalked due to him "seeing people" he knew from online message boards (like Reddit and Quora) driving near his work. He has changed our wifi, he has added an alarm system, Door Bar, and a makeshift chain to our door to get evidence of someone breaking in. It's almost like he WANTS to have evidence of someone just walking on in here.
Our neighbors actually got evicted and thrown out a few days ago and this SHOULD have put him in a better state of mind, but he just found new excuses to say that we are still in danger. Saying: "It's now too empty and too quiet" as if anyone knows we even live here. I'd add a picture of the door to this post but sadly, I cannot.
My father is also a substance abuser. He's addicted to a drug called Kratom and ingests copious amounts of caffeine. So that doesn't help. I wrote him a note about him needing to get therapy two days ago and he read it at work. Sadly, a drunk hit our car before my mother came to pick him up (the damage was negligible btw) and this just spiraled him further.
He's going to keep adding more and more security meanwhile there's nothing there. He's refusing us to leave the house unless there's someone here to guard the place. It's gotten so bad to the point where he refused to order a new bank card and he's refusing us to buy food. We have been living by eating the bare minimum and this is starting to terrify me.
What do I do? Any advice would be appreciated and I hope the gods put this post somewhere someone can see this. If you need proof about the door, I can send it in DMs and any resources that anyone can provide would help. Thanks.

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I swear I was just posting about how nervous I was to start work like yesterday. it's been nearly a month. I don't drink on workdays cos I know I can't stop once I start.
but on my off days, I went ham. it's just been this cloud of dullness while I'm at work and I don't even remember my time off. next thing I know the alarm is blaring at me to get back to work.
all that's happened in the last month is I accomplished fuck all but went along for a ride with the arrow of time - and the kicker is I don't even remember most of it.

Long story short — not sure if my husband has been committing marital rape for years and if it’s a good enough reason to divorce. I think it is. The marriage counselor and my therapist don’t.
Married for 8 years, this was always an issue. I feel sick to my stomach about it.
Look up what the fourchette is for women. It’s the thing that gets cut during an episiotomy — when a doctor needs to make an opening wider during birth to slide out the baby.
During all sex — vanilla, kink, rough, whatever — it turns out my husband intentionally slides his penis against it, even though he knows it hurts me. And he said that he likes that it hurts me.
It hurts when my husband rubs against it, dry, no lube or even spit, and without foreplay. And that’s how sex always is even though I have begged and said — I need the lube and fire okay for sex not to hurt.
I tell him it hurts, he keeps going. I ask him to reposition, he does for a second, then switches back to the position that hurts.
I have lain down, shown him the exact part with my hands, and explained all this so many times.
I have made it abundantly clear this isn’t a kink for me, or something I want happening to me in any context. And he still does it.
He only just revealed that…
…he has been intentionally not doing what I’ve asked for because he likes that it hurts me.
I asked a bunch of people I know and they said that:

1. They’ve had partners that get hurt from certain sexual things so they always prioritize not doing those things to those partners.
   
2. Men can feel the fourchette with their penis and know if they’re hitting it.
   
3. Stats show this is the most commonly injury (specifically on the fourchette) when people get raped. Something like 70 percent of victims experience a fourchette injury.
   
4. It does not take nearly a decade to learn to not hurt someone this way.
   

My husband and some BDSM apologists think I’m just kinkshaming him. But, I’ve been talking to my friends and they’ve said that even with rougher and kinkier sex, they still make sure that everyone is aroused and wet and that nothing actually hurts like that. And that people consent to the types of pain.
My therapist said this is just his love language. Which I know is garbage. She also says I consented to this by letting it happen for so long.
Please note — I mean BDSM apologists as in the people who justify non consensual stuff, so, abuse, as a kink. By no means am I saying that the majority of BDSM enthusiasts are like that.
The people who essentially claim that rape is kinkshaming. Yes, they exist, and please — no “true Scotsman” fallacies about how they’re not BDSM enthusiasts.
Not everyone into BDSM is non-abusive, the same way not everyone into vanilla, or asexual, is non abusive. Any and every group identity has some abusers in it, from used car salesmen to firefighters to BDSM enthusiasts to people who are allergic to peanuts.
And yes I’ve been in the scene for years, over a decade, and know about RACK, SSC, etc.

Hi FromTVEpix folks,
I've been reading a bunch of the theories posted around the traps, and I wanted take a slightly different critical approach to them. A lot of theories tend to start from a precise set of features which support their hypothesis (think of the Tarot, Slaugh, Victor's Imagination, Viking, Colonial Curse, Eldritch Entity, or Simulation / Dream / Purgatory theories), and extrapolate from there. This is an understandable function of the general mystery the show engenders, but I think that limited approaches can conceal a lot of the features which run counter to their hypotheses. I'll give two examples.
The Slaugh theory, for instance, begins with the assertion that the creatures are identical to the Irish folk monsters, and then extrapolates on several bases (including a gesture towards the eerily similar book The Watchers by A.M. Shine) to ground the theory. However, how would a creature from the folklore of Ireland explain the cables without wires or the spiders in the forest at the end of season one? No satisfactory explanation is available.
The Simulation / Dream / Purgatory theories are sloppy, I'll agree, but not impossible. The Jungian symbolism (i.e. the monsters being the shadow self, Fromville being manifested from the collective unconscious of the participants) gives this theory its depth and credibility. But this, as many have acknowledged already, is lazy; it would be too easy for the writers to cash in their chips and throw up their hands, and I would certainly find it an incredibly disappointing denouement.
I would like to focus instead on the themes of FROM, as I think they can draw to the surface some of the substrate which these theories embroider upon, and provide anchoring points for some of the theories over others. These are just some preliminary thoughts, and I'm excited to see how these themes develop as the seasons roll on. If people find this kind of analysis interesting I'll continue to post in this style.
Spoilers ahead!
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Liminal Spaces
The town the character's wander into along the circular road is a sun-bleached vision of American rural decay. I'm from Australia and we have many towns like this. Small towns, typically built for working communities, that are abandoned as soon as their economic purpose is served, sometimes even half-finished. Flight from rural to urban locations, particularly in pursuit of work in response to the economic crises of the last few decades, could also be an explanation of this general character. The ghost towns left behind, the ruins of things—these are liminal places.
This theme connects to the first and elaborates it. The buildings in Fromville are clearly not all from the same era. I think it might make for dull watching in the series itself, but I hope at some point we get some kind of architectural survey of the buildings and their styles. Colony house resembles a plantation style homestead; the town a 60s or 70s pitstop; the church building—while probably not a church to begin with—with its stone construction looks to be older still, perhaps even early colonial; the cave paintings in the caverns evoke the Lascaux galleries; and the odd shrine which Boyd finds the talismans in seems medieval in character. These are all forgotten and decaying places—places which you pass through, not linger in. Additionally there are decaying stone structures all around the place, including ritual structures like cairns and henges.
(I would love to hear from a heritage specialist on this, please comment below!)
You find similar scenery in novels by Steven King, or TV series like True Detective. There they appeal to a general sense of social decay. This leads into the second major theme:
Disintegration and Anomie
The people who are arriving in the town, like the architecture, are in some way cast adrift from the world. This can be caused by something as serious as drug addiction or the deaths of children, or something as facile as retirement or the sale of a company. The fallen tree literally cuts them off from these paths, causing them to deviate into Fromville. The world there is thinly held together and, much like twenty-first century life, a fine line separates its residents from extreme conditions of deprivation. Throughout the series this theme of anomie, the breakdown of social relations and moral values, and the attempt to maintain those relations and values is frequently returned to. In the most recent episode a food shortage kicked off a xenophobic response from at least one resident of Colony House.
Arguably this is a theme of much cultural fodder, as it is the stuff of everyday life, however here it has a more biting purpose. The creatures which stalk in the night are, for all intents and purposes, just as human as the Fromville residents, up until they get close. The distrust this creates, which clearly plays on the character's minds even during night-time encounters with other humans, reflects a general decay of human bonds. The "games" they play with people further cement this, reflecting an anarchic hunger and violence. Additionally, the existence of these creatures also creates rifts between the human characters, causing further disintegration, and sometimes, as in the case of Colony House, death. Isn't the reason that fool invites the creature inside his feeling of being misunderstood by the others?
The characters pursue their own disorganised agendas, held together (nominally) by Boyd and Donna. This precarious balance is easily upset, and when it does not only do the relations begin to disintegrate, the landscape and architecture do also. When they try to intervene into Fromville, the place responds violently, as if any attempt to rectify the state of affairs (i.e. by leaving) will simply displace their social disintegration into the environment, causing a new wave of social disintegrations. I couldn't help but think of the metabolic rift: how human disconnection from the environment, despite our reliance on it for subsistence, is caused by our mode of social organisation. This ecological aspect is particularly interesting to me, and I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this topic. There are some counter-indications, such as the forest's imputed ability to move, but this could also be connected.
Folklore
The folkloric aspect of this show is just so fascinatingly conceived! I don't think that the creatures in Fromville are vampires, draugar, wendigos, na slaugh, etc., but they are surely drawn from some kind of prototypical creature which contains elements of each of them. We have seen, for instance, that they do not bleed when cut (despite being warm to the touch!), that they can shape-shift, that they knock on doors and call out resident's names. Most of these folkloric creatures, from a functional perspective, are explanations for some kind of fundamental social transgression, such as incest, murder, cannibalism, sacrilege, or infanticide. The inhumanity of the creatures is a reflection of the human capacity to defy social norms, and all are described in language usually reserved for the dead: desiccated, bloated, decaying. This relates, blatantly, back to the theme of disintegration and anomie—each of these folkloric creatures are the embodiment of the most vile aspects of human societies.
Arachnids and annelids have been significant symbolic presences in FROM. Spider-webs are obvious symbols of entanglement, and their method of paralysing victims and digesting them extra-orally seems to cohere with the theme of disintegration. This makes me lean towards the Pitcher Plant theory, that Fromville is some kind of digestive system for a larger, more horrifying eldritch entity. But this is not the only symbol. Worms, a symbol of the boundary of death and life, have become a major symbol in season two. While they have a contemporary gothic resonance, they have had more positive symbolism in different periods, particularly as the object of increase rituals designed to ensure a better harvest. I'm excited to see where this goes, but I wonder if these animals are only present as thematic pap to differentiate each season.
I don't know as much about talismans, but they are pretty ubiquitous, and are subsumed within the category of apotropaic magic. The protection of a home by some kind of magical object is as old as the hills. This protection of domestic space, in contrast to the violence of the outside world, foregrounds the theme of social disintegration. To say that the talismans clinch a particular theory on account of their etchings or designs seems a little premature to me, as most etchings on stone using simple tools are sharp-angled.
At the end of the day FROM is a melting pot of different cultural symbols, and so I think the assertion that they are all drawn from American history (or from the cultures of its emigrants) is a little ill-conceived. Despite having Chinese characters there is little to no reference to Chinese folklore or mythology—Tian-chen Liu notably wears a cross. With that said, it might be possible that her name represents I Ching hexagram 25 ䷘, which would be quite welcome. Maybe someone with more experience with the I Ching could contribute here.
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Thanks everyone who got to the end!

Not in the sense of knowing who I am. Fully aware who I am. But I have been avoiding other gay people for long time I.e clubs etc. I’m in my late twenties so still time to explore but fuck me why am I only having this realisation now? This is incredibly frustrating but that’s how I feel getting a bit of decent exposure to “the scene” as we gays call it. Sure I can’t stand the music, but the vibe is alright and just wished I put myself out there bit more but again still got time so not all that bad just frustrated. Still not exactly sure why I have avoided it, but I think I’m now aware. Which is strange. Thought I was pretty much aware of what affected me hahaha.
My life has changed a lot over past 2-3 years ptsd used to cripple me couldn’t get a job but now I’m well on career ladder and love myself bit more. Just anxious as fuck with scale of changes and figuring out who I am so late.

So...this might be a bit all over the place, I can't order my thoughts so well. Also might be long. Sorry! There's also so much I can't decide what to tell you and what to leave out.
I have been in a relationship with my husband for 15 years, married for 5. We have been in marriage counselling since December 2022, which was his idea. I have fibromyalgia and CFS, and I was fired from my 'normal' 9-5 job in 2018, because my body couldn't deal with it anymore. After it ended, out of necessity, I started my own business from home. I've been building it slowly since then, and while I don't take money out of it to live off, I'm at a stage where it keeps itself running plus a little cushion. I work at home and significant amount of my time is spent pushing it to grow, so I can get back to having a decent income. I have recently been given a small disability benefit so I now have a little income from that. My dad died in 2009, and my inheritance paid for the house deposit and a decent chunk of renovation, plus I paid my half of everything for 4 years before I lost my job. Husband has been solely paying bills for the last 4.
My husband has been desperate for children for a couple of years, but I'm terrified I can't look after them, especially since there are days I can't even get myself in the shower. He told me children is the only reason he got married, it wasn't important to him, which I hadn't appreciated before. He's a reasonably high earner, but with him paying for bills and everything I thought it was sensible to try and get my business in a position where I could pay someone to help me at home with children. He doesn't agree. He also keeps sitting down with me and telling me to get a job. He said most people wouldn't have supported me past a year of having no proper income. He says he hates my business and feels it's robbed him of children. He won't accept that it's very difficult to get a job with a chronic illness when you've been fired for that illness and you still have it, and he says there must be lots of jobs from home. I've been looking for an age but I can't find anything I'm qualified for, that would allow me days out with no notice when I have bad days, or that pays well enough for me to give up my business that I'm really proud of. I asked him to sit down with me and go through what work I can find, but he refused.
The therapist told us to fact check his fears and budget what we currently have. According to my calculations with what I know our joint bills and his personal ones to be, plus what I know of his income, I think he should have a decent chunk spare per month. He says he has no money, yet parcels continue to arrive for him, and he keeps paying for golf lessons and his PT. He won't allow me access to his bank account to go through it with him though. He's actually refused to do most of what the marriage counsellor has recommended and by his own admission hasn't been trying. He's gotten himself am individual therapist recently though so maybe that's the start of it?
I struggle with intimacy sometimes, as a result of being in pain a lot of the time, and some meds I'm on make me not all that interested. We had a dry spell just before we started counselling. I am a physical touch love language person though, I need touches and hugs. He's been refusing to touch me, even avoiding brushing past me in a hallways, since we started counselling. He says he thinks any touching will give me hope that this can be fixed and he doesn't want to do that. He's said that the dry spell because of my health struggles is exactly equivalent to him choosing not to touch me at all, and how dare I tell him I have issues with him withdrawing physical affection as a result. As an honest aside - through all of our relationship, he hasn't listened to most of what I've told him I like, regarding intimacy and sex. He hasn't done what I've asked of him. As a result, sex is a bit about endurance for me. We've even had times where I've told him it hurts and the response has been it's OK because he's nearly done. It doesn't make it something I want to use my energy on, when I have it. There was once a rhythm method fail very close to a conversation about how I wasn't ready for children yet, it's the only one in 15 years and bothers me.
He has complained about hugging me for quite a few years now. For example; if he works nights, he'll sit and play xbox right up until the last minute and then if I ask for a hug before he leaves, he'll complain I'm making him late and he doesn't have time. He also tells me regularly that everything is always on my timescale though, and I'm not sure this is the case? If I ask for help emptying pans in the kitchen or putting the washing out, he'll tell me to give him a sec and then I wait there until he's finished with his TV show or gaming to help, however long that takes. He spends all the free time he has at home watching TV or gaming, most housework is my responsibility but I haven't the energy most of the time so it doesn't get done. Last time I asked him to hoover for me he asked me why angrily, although he did do some.
What do you call it when someone responds to you in a hard tone that's quite spiky? I don't like it and it makes my anxiety worse when he does it, but pretty much all conversations use it now. He mostly doesn't ask me how I am or what I've been doing or anything about my life - maybe 2 or 3 days a month he'll ask me how I am. He says he doesn't want to, he's not usually all that interested and honestly, that's how he treats most family and friends. Pretty much all our conversations are about things that he's doing or cares about. He's never told me he's proud of me or that I'm beautiful or he likes how I look, unless in response to me asking if I look OK. He tells me then I look nice or fine. I don't need compliments much but on our wedding day would have been nice.
I'm confused a lot of the time. What if I've made this all worse in my head and imagined bits of it without meaning to or knowing? I struggle to make basic decisions without asking him, because I worry about being criticised. The other day I had to ask what vegetables to add to dinner. It's like there are two different people in him and I feel like I'm walking on eggshells. I run through the pros and cons of everything I want to say before I say it, so I can try and work out if it'll get a spiky response or not. I don't always get it right.
Whenever I have raised something I don't like in our relationship he's 9 times out of 10 refused to address it and countered with the things he hates that I do. The worst one of those conversations I remember ended in me crying, and him telling me I should probably go and talk to the doctor about antidepressants - so I did.
The only thing I've really done is taken him to get our cat when I knew he didn't want one. I need animals in my life, I'm really sensitive (I think HSP) and they calm me, but his family are fairly ambivalent about pets. I've apologised a few times for how I went about it and he adores her now, but he still keeps bringing it up as one of the things I've done that upsets him and how he doesn't like cats. He'll always bring up old hurts, and I've asked him what he hopes to achieve from it but he can't answer me.
Finally, he's responsible for the 3 most painful things anyone has ever said to me. The worst was the day after my Nan's funeral. At her house, the last time I'd ever be there, I asked him if he was OK (she loved him and I thought he might be sad) and he said did I think we might nearly be done because he was bored. It was so painful I couldn't breathe.
Is this me misunderstanding our communication? How do you know if you're imagining things? What if there is never anyone else for me? What if I eventually leave and regret it? I can't work out what's going on and I'm so anxious about it. Apologies for the length, thank you if you made it this far.

I suffered with a bad chronic illness through 12-18, & it often made me want to die & I always felt alone, even when others were near it was like I was far away or they wouldn’t get anything. I dropped out of school & gave up my life cause no one could help not even doctors. So most of the time I’d stare off at walls alone daydreaming, if I wasn’t doom scrolling or self destructing. I also went through other hard life events & along the way I made these “friends”. I made up lots of characters but these ones stuck & seemed like chunked off parts of me made into Imaginary friends (before I knew abt tulpas). I seem to get to know them more everyday, one of them (S), is impulsive, “invincible”, & overly confident & has been 19 forever. She protects me, stands up for me, & makes sure I have fun but also hurts me when shes trying to help. The other one (F), is around 12 & is stuck in time, & still sees the world though wide eyes & still shows genuine emotion, too much at times. & then there’s me (M), the original who manages everything. Idk who I am but I don’t like it, I’m shy & I hate life cause it’s overwhelming. I seem to become like them without realizing sometimes, I notice because I’m not like them & then suddenly I am. & they usually just come & go if they want mostly when I’m alone or else I’m “watching” them, & can usually deny them as well.
I feel we live everyday together & I talk to them in my head. They reside in the mindworld where I’ve created an imaginary storyline for them, & they want things I don’t & do things I wouldn’t but I try to manage life so they get what they want but since I live most of the life I usually get the final say. I go by my name though cause I never tell anyone of them & often feel odd for having imaginary friends, so when they’re out they have to act like me. I feel we communicate ok but sometimes I feel this has gotten out of hand especially during stress, they just bother me & want to take over the life for themselves.. I want to make everyone happy but I also want to maintain my real life so I can make something of it. Sometimes I think they’re psychosis or some mental shit but I know they’re just imaginary friends. I also think they’re the only reason I’m alive, cause they let me do what I have to but never could & they’re my only source of unconditional company, but not without being a pain in the ass sometimes. We also share most of the main memories just some parts feel emotionless to some of us like a made up story usually suppressed. S doesn’t want me spying on hers (don’t wanna anyway 🙄) & F doesn’t like much of mine. I’m the one who manages it all, & I’ll tell them what they need if they’re out.
-M

Hello. So, my father has been having a paranoid meltdown for the past week and a half and it's escalating to the point where I'm becoming scared to live under the same roof as him.
It all started when he lost his bank card. We searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Fast forward a day later and he believes that the neighbors have a spare key to our apartment and waltzed in and stole it. Our neighbors were shady and they were drug dealers, but there was nothing indicating that they ever came in here, because our door has a deadbolt lock and I doubt they had a key for it.
This spiraled into him thinking he's being gang stalked due to him "seeing people" he knew from online message boards (like Reddit and Quora) driving near his work. He has changed our wifi, he has added an alarm system, Door Bar, and a makeshift chain to our door to get evidence of someone breaking in. It's almost like he WANTS to have evidence of someone just walking on in here.
Our neighbors actually got evicted and thrown out a few days ago and this SHOULD have put him in a better state of mind, but he just found new excuses to say that we are still in danger. Saying: "It's now too empty and too quiet" as if anyone knows we even live here. I'd add a picture of the door to this post but sadly, I cannot.
My father is also a substance abuser. He's addicted to a drug called Kratom and ingests copious amounts of caffeine. So that doesn't help. I wrote him a note about him needing to get therapy two days ago and he read it at work. Sadly, a drunk hit our car before my mother came to pick him up (the damage was negligible btw) and this just spiraled him further.
He's going to keep adding more and more security meanwhile there's nothing there. He's refusing us to leave the house unless there's someone here to guard the place. It's gotten so bad to the point where he refused to order a new bank card and he's refusing us to buy food. We have been living by eating the bare minimum and this is starting to terrify me.
What do I do? Any advice would be appreciated and I hope the gods put this post somewhere someone can see this. If you need proof about the door, I can send it in DMs and any resources that anyone can provide would help. Thanks.

So last night me and my bf attended his childhood friend’s gender reveal. My bf best friend rode with us since the event was 1hr away and we all live within 20-30min from eachother. I drove (civic) to my bf house and parked, and then we took his car (SUV) to get his friend and go to the venue. I needed up driving to the venue because my bf wasn’t ready to leave when we needed to so I took his car and picked up his friend solo to save time.
Anyway, none of us were familiar with the area the event was in. My grandmother and best friend both live relatively close to the event, but personally it didn’t help since the event was in a strangers (to us) house. For days and hours beforehand I kept asking my bf to find out information about the party. The invite said 3, but my bf kept pushing back the time until we arrived at 7, still appearing before his friend. So to sum that up my bf clearly slacked in the info department. But I’ve noticed that is a commonality amongst guys (at least according to other f writer on Reddit), so even thought it annoys me it not even what sent me other the roof.
We understood that my bf friend and the mother of his unborn child are not in any form of relationship. It was one of those “accidental” one night stand situations. So the event was hosted by the girls family while he was just instructed to invite some people close to him. With that being said him and my bf have always been close, basically family. Leading up to yesterday I’d been asking about who else I might know at the event, but my bf always just told me his bff only.
Well 10min into the event we are all chilling and drinking until two girls enter. Now I know I’ll sound crazy but one of them looked like a spitting image of me. They approached our area and greeted everyone except me and my bf. Assuming it’s because they didn’t know him & thus me there was not reason to take offense. The one who looked like me kept looking over at us, so I gave a few smiles to make way for approach. But then the group shifted outside to allow the smokers a chance to smoke. Absent of the girls my bf pulls me aside & tells me that the girl who looks like me is his ex (let’s call her M).
M and my bf dated before my partners previous relationship, meaning there is a whole relationship between us. However when his second relationship ended him and M rekindled up until about 2mo before we met. I learned about her towards the end of our first year dating (we been dating for 3 going on 4) after finding sex tapes they’ve made in his phone.
Immediately I was embarrassed. I was embarrassed for smiling in her face when she didn’t smile back. I was embarrassed that whenever me & my bf came near she would turn away and start laughing with her friend.
Finally we left. The 3 of us sat in the car a while before leaving trying to pinpoint a bar with good food. I noticed that less than 5min after we left, the girls left. My bf kept telling me it was a coincidence, while remaining admit that he didn’t even know his friend knew those girls.
We settled for a Mexican bar. I was talking otp to my dad outside when my bf & his bff went inside to find us a spot. By time I got inside they’d already downed two mixed drinks & a round of shots. I understood from that I was the designated driver.
We left around 1am. I dropped my bf friend off first before returning to my boys place to switch into my car. He seemed to be wide awake and sobering up as we FaceTimed my whole drive home.
I live in an apartment complex with street parking. Since it was so late I had to park a few blocks away. I gave my bf a heads up when I was getting out the car since on nights like these I stress the importance of talking to him for the illusion of safety. Well he must’ve responded “okay” before throwing his phone away bc half a block into my walk two hammered guys cross the street over to me. In hindsight it was also clear that I wasn’t in top shape either but I stumbled to keeps things together.
I had a AirPod in and kept calling out to my bf but couldn’t get a response. The two guys blocked my way to where I had to walk through them to pass. I was in the clear after for about half a block when I dropped my keys accidentally & stumbled to pick them up. That’s when the two guys begin following me, this continued for a few blocks. One was singing something intended to be romantic, while the other kept offering to help me end my night, detailing my beauty, and made soft animal noises at me.
I ended up walking past my house towards a nearby local bar to create the illusion that someone may be waiting for me. I had hung up on my bf and continued to call him repeatedly receiving voicemail each time. I started to fear he fell asleep so when I reached a more trafficked area, I pulled against a wall to check behind me. The guys had turned up the corner at the start of the block, but I waited for a while in place before back trailing. I didn’t want them to be taking a seat nearby and run into them on my way back home.
I sent a bf a few frantic text just to update him. Maybe bc I was intoxicated but I felt so scared. Mentally preparing myself for the worse case scenario I felt almost disconnected from reality. I managed to make my way back home SAFELY, and right as I enter my building my bf calls me. He tells me in an upbeat tone that he was simply out of the room. I frantically summarize what happened in his absence and his response was “Ohh I’m sorry. I’m just really drunk. I had a lot of fun tonight tho, did you ?” All I could say was that I was tired and would call him in the morning.
Anyway he called me this morning in a great mood. Wish the same could be said for myself. I really felt let down by him yesterday in multiple instances, but don’t know if any of them are major enough to risk an argument over. I woke up this morning feeling down, not necessarily sad but definitely down. I’ve never felt more confused.

I have recently received a cockatiel from my relatives who couldn't care for it anymore so i have some questions about cockatiel care

1. I want prepare perches from natural wood and most of the trees around me are acacias and chinese banyans (fig tree) and wonder If these are safe for my birbo, also how do i disinfect/prepare to insert them into the cage?
   
2. what toys should I get him?, (and yes i do know that small bells,mirrors,inorganic rope toys are bad choices and screw happyhuts)
   

3.is a diet of millet with occasional veggies and hardboiled eggs sufficient?(yes he does have a cuttlefish bone)
4.How do i get him to eat aforementioned veggies,fruits herbs and other stuff that he should eat because mostly he's just afraid of the food and/or not interested in it
5.I have tried the taming method of sticking my hand in the cage for 5 minutes a day for 3 days with seeds in my hand and he just attacks me and no progress is being made, am i doing it wrong or should be patient?
6.is preening every 20 minutes normal? or is he just molting
7.are plastic foodbowls and water tubes alright or
should i replace them with metal ones? and lastly no. 8 how can I teach him cool tunes? he somehow sings a mangled half of dominic's screm song lol
Sorry for my bad English and bad typing skills.

Yesterday, while I was waiting at my bus point near Uppal, a guy approached me and asked me to call a number. It turned out to be his number, but it was switched off. He explained that he had come from Andhra Pradesh to write an exam in Hyderabad, and after the exam, he lost his phone on the bus. He then requested me to call his brother, but even his brother's phone was switched off. At that point, he messaged his brother, informing him about the lost phone and asking him not to inform their mother, since their father recently passed away.
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It was evident that he was hesitant to ask for money, as he only had around Rs. 200, which was insufficient for his needs. I gave him Rs. 500. He then messaged his brother again, asking him to UPI transfer Rs. 500 to my number. After that, he asked for Secunderabad route and left
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After a few hours, I checked the number he provided for his brother on truecaller, and it matched the name he had mentioned. However, his brother's phone is still switched off and there is no whatsapp for his number, and I'm unsure about what to do next.
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What steps can I take in this situation?

Want to build my first PC! this is a pre-build PC in a local store near me, is it worth it? Ofc the price are so high!

I really hope that fist of the north star gets an anime remake in the near future that covers the entire manga. The reason I want this so badly is because I think there are many aspects of the original anime that can be improved upon.
The art:
Fist of the North Star has some of the best art in all of manga. So the anime had a tall task adapting Hara's art into animation 40 years ago. They did a pretty good job at the time but with enough time and budget I think that a modern anime could really improve the art/animation and make it more on the level of the manga's detail. There were also some odd color choices that I think could be improved upon.
Attract new fans:
I don't think this one is as important, especially in Japan where fist of the north star is far more popular than in the west. But it would be nice for more westerners to recognize this amazing series and a new anime could potentially do that. Of course there are always drawbacks with big fandoms, as is seen with jojo, a great series cursed with many annoying fans
Most importantly, reduced censorship:
When I was first deciding to read the manga or watch the anime of Fist of the North Star, the main reason that I read the manga was due to the anime's censorship. I had heard people talk about it, but I did not know the extent. When I watched anime scenes after reading them in the manga, I was stunned to see how completely censored everything was. Almost all gore scenes from the manga are replaced by white blood, omission of violence all together or vague shadows that barely show anything gruesome. All of this combined, makes the fist of the north star anime one of the most censored I have ever seen. None of this comes close to replicating the brutality of the manga. One of the biggest parts of fist of the north star is the over the top violence so the anime seemed partly hollow to me without it. For some reason I expected that the censorship wouldn't be so bad because it was older and anime was often less censored back then but fist of the north star was actually more censored than many anime adaptations today. The uncesnored version of the fist of the north star movie is the perfect level of gore so it's a shame that Japanese parents threw a fit over it and made toei censor it. I understand that the anime will never replicate the level of gore from the manga, due to restrictive Japanese censorship laws but I do think that if it was aired at a late-night time slot, there could at least be more gore than the original anime. And if they have to censor it in the tv version and uncensor it in the blu ray, it would at least be better than no uncensored scenes at all.
Downside, the voices:
But the one downside of any new fist of the north star anime is of course the voice cast. Though I have my fair share of issues with the original anime all of the japanese voice actors were perfect. And when I have watched new adaptations, the new actors have rarely compared to the originals. But this is unfortunately a necessary evil, as many of the original actors are either too old or have died. Though I don't understand why certain actors like Toshio Furukawa as Shin were recast. His voice still sounds pretty young even in his old age

So I recently installed my whole small-ish system. I have a Multiplus 24/3000-70 and a CerboGX, an MPPT 150-70, Victron Smart Shunt and a Lynx Distributor.
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I'm waiting on VE Direct cables to arrive so right now ONLY the multiplus is connected to the cerbo.
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What I'm unclear on is if the bluetooth VEBus dongle adds anything to this system. Primarily I'm curious if it has any benefits because of the smart networking feature (the MPPT and the Shunt are in a network allowing them to talk to each other outside of the cerbo). Can the inter-device communication happen over the cerbo entirely?
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Also I can't seem to see what's going on with the inverter easily when near the devices without using the VRM portal to do so. Would adding the bluetooth dongle enable me to connect locally and update things quicker?
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And in general are there ANY benefits AT ALL that I would have by adding the bluetooth dongle?

I've looked around and the only dealers near me are like office designer places where you have to make an appointment. Is there something else I should be looking for?

I (22m) work in a hotel as a housekeeper. Today one of my coworkers (30f, also a housekeeper) came into work visibly unwell. Her face looked puffy and her voice was nasely. She was clearly very sick and when asked, she said she had a sinus infection.
I think I should also let it be known that I have a very poor immune system. This is due to my barely controlled asthma and the medication I take for it. Nearly every time I become sick (and I'm not exaggerating) I end up in the hospital with horrible asthma symptoms. The last three times were no exception, with the most recent one being the worst. I wasn't close to dying or anything, but the pain I experienced was so bad I still haven't figured out a way to describe it. This has left me genuinely terrified of getting sick. I wear a mask everywhere and avoid all situations that could end with me picking up even the most mild infection.
Now I understand how the world works. I really do. You work to survive: to keep food on the table and a roof over your head. This woman is also a mother to four small children, including a diaper age baby. Not working for her (and most of us at this hotel) would mean serious financial setbacks that will likely impact our lives in big ways. Even I know this from experience and I don't have any children to care for.
However, despite my sympathy for my co-workers financial well-being, I was upset with her willingness to spread a contagious infection to the rest of us. My other coworkers thought I was being dramatic, but and illness to me, even one as seemingly insignificant as a sinus infection, terrifies me due to my experiences in the past. I wasn't willing to take a chance. I told my manager that either she was being send home or I was leaving. I was met with no sympathy and told it was "just a sinus infection". And while I understand that to most people that's not a big deal, it is to me. So I left and said I wasn't coming back until this coworker was either home or symptom free.
My family (understandably) have all taken my side and think management made the wrong call letting a sick employee stay. Especially one that goes into guest spaces as much as a housekeeper does. Yet all my coworkers that overheard and the manager think I was being dramatic, and to be honest, I feel like I was too. Not because I said anything rude (I didn't even keep talking to this coworker after confirming she was sick) but because maybe it really isn't a big deal? A sinus infection is not likely to send me to the hospital, even with my asthma. And now I'm the one missing what will probably be at least a week of work. I may even face punishments for it, I'm not sure. So I ask the strangers on the internet, WITA?