Just started watching the L Word in honour of Pride month and I can’t shake how much Mia Kirshner (Jenny) looks almost identical to Ana De Armas!!
Main differences are eye colour and Ana is more tan but it’s crazy to me how similar they look - idk lol super random and apologies if someone’s already brought this up
Either way posting this in appreciation of both actresses and loving The L Word, I can’t stop watching 🤩🤩🤩

So when I was psychotic I had so many stories being told in my head and the entire time i was channeling through my mouth. There was a story of a Heavenly island turned hedonistic paradise where heroin was smuggled to the island and adults indocrinated their kids by shooting them up in the stomach, a story of a hellish origin of life that it all started in chaos and a gladiator arena and the winner became god. A story of Odin and the Norse gods being the true gods and I believed every single story, at the time I was desperately searching for the true God.
When I bowed down to Odin because i thought he was angry things got bad, I ended up getting what could only be called an adrenaline attack, where fear and energy built up and built up where I thought GOD was gonna flood the earth again or even nuke the world, after that it's almost like I lost my free will I got down on my hands and knees and did a symbol with my hands almost like this 🙌 but with my finger tips touching and I said "everybody go holm" and it all felt scripted while saying this I ended up seeing in my minds eye very vivid scenes of people getting in cars or getting on motorcycles to go to safety it was more vivid and detailed than real life. The end of the scene showed cosmo and wanda from fairly odd parents cackling maniacly.
I said more but the details are blurry. I ended up getting up and busted out a window screen and started running, hid in a random car and parkoured over a railing it felt like I had super human agility and I ended up back where I started, when I walked in and sat on the couch what could only be described as tv lines like on an old TV appeared and a pentagram of baphomet appeared in the air, then came this hot and humid feeling then then this stench that could only be described as poop, vomit, urine, and death could be smelled and I didn't even gag I ended up getting carted away in an ambulance but I'd like to know if anyone else has a similar experience or knows what this could've been, alot more happened in the following 30 days but if you want more details I'll answer in the comments, thanks.

Hi y’all! I’m pretty new to indie fragrances and fragrance in general, and reading through you guys’ recommendations and thoughts has been incredibly helpful!
I’m temporarily living in a super humid (70-90% is normal), super hot (coming up on 95F/35C soon and it’s not even July 🥲) area for work, so a lot of my scents are starting to overwhelm haha. I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for your favorite hot-weather scents! I don’t have a super strong likes/dislikes list yet and I’m wanting to explore a variety of scents, so throw anything at me!

before I get into it, I'd like to say this inarguably the best theme park i've experienced, considering that i've been to SFOG, Dollywood, CGA, Adventuredome, and BGT.
Not pictured: Cocoa Cruiser, Trailblazer, Wild Mouse - simply didn't have time for any of the above but I feel like none of the above is a super unique experience I would have missed out on

1. Superdooperlooper
2. ... Disappointing is a kind description of this ride. I chose not to look at POVs for any coaster so they could all take me by surprise and the only surprise I felt on this ride was when we hit the brake run. I was certain there would be more coming and then we were in the brake run. Post-loop the ride slowed down so much me and my sister were having a conversation about how boring the ride was as it was going. Nothing super about this looper I fear.
   
3. Laff Track
   
4. "You were good, I'm waiting for you to be great." The ride was shorting than I was hoping for and it didn't spin as much as I wanted. I can't really complain, I enjoyed it but left it wanting more.
   
5. Comet
   
6. This ride deserves better than this ranking but it's competition is simply too stiff. Thoroughly enjoyed this and it did was it was supposed to.
   
7. Fahrenheit
   
8. I came into this park thinking I would be converted to an Intamin fanboy considering I had only been on one (Cheetah Hunt) up to this point, but the significant rattle was not comforting at all. Layout was great but the valleys after each element was felt much more than I wanted.
   
9. Storm Runner
   
10. I won't even lie this is an unfair ranking. The launch was so much fun and I loved it but the ride felt like 20 seconds in duration. The rattle was less noticeable in comparison to Fahrenheit, but the rest of this list provided me the same thrill while also having a better length.
    
11. Lightning Racer
    
12. Lightning > Thunder. Thunder may win every single time but Lightning has a special place in my heart. Ok ok it may not make sense I put Fahrenheit so low because of rattle yet have no complaints about this ride but the rickety feel gives it character.
    
13. Great Bear
    
14. This ride just feels so fast and I love it. The best invert I've personally been on, as SFOG's batman is just too intense for me, but this one was smooth and more graceful.
    
15. Jolly Rancher Remix
    
16. May be overrating this ride because I've never been on a coaster this style but man I love this ride. I've never experienced a ride in which I had to rub my eyes midway through to remember where I was. The flavored scent was the cherry on top.
    
17. Candymonium
    
18. The drop is just so good the rest is the cherry on top. Side note I never knew some B&M hypers used seatbelts.
    
19. Skyrush
    
20. Thighcrush this Thighcrush that blah blah blah. Personally my thighs were just fine and the way the restraints are let me get airtime I haven't experienced before. I only started feeling it on the brake run but they like loosened the restraints while we sat which is ???? feel like that is a safety hazard as I could've jumped off the ride but oh well.
    
21. Wildcat's Revenge
    
22. Mouth was gaping the whole ride. Only reason this doesn't beat Iron Gwazi for me is the drop on Iron Gwazi was unforgettable and this one was pretty mid. What an amazing ride and worth the wait. I think i saw 5 trains of people clap after hitting the brake run and it was deserved.
    

Hi everyone :)
I find browsing this sub to be so helpful, but can’t find many posts that relate to a very important piece of my particular dilemma. Hoping to find someone who can relate. I am an American who has been living in Norway for a long time with my Norwegian partner. We aren’t married but we have a house together and I’m basically very settled here. Moving back to the US is not at all in our plans for many reasons. I’m in my 30s now and really considering having a child with my SO, who is older and much more successful than I am. He really wants kids, and I’m undecided. It’s something that I, like many of you, think about a lot. Unlike many of you, me deciding «no» on the kids issue doesn’t just mean a breakup - it also means me leaving my entire life and career I’ve built up here, as my residency here is legally contingent upon our relationship (I am not a citizen and don’t intend to become one.) I feel the pressure and I feel myself leaning more and more «yes» where before I couldn’t even imagine EVER wanting kids. However … I am super worried about becoming a full-time 24/7 mom with no opportunities for breaks like the occasional night working late / going out for drinks / weekend away to remember who I am on my own.
Explanation: As an expat, I don’t have the built-in support network of family or lifelong friends here that so many of my parent friends enjoy and take for granted. My partner isn’t close with his family besides his mom, who would be able to help us a bit, but she’s not exactly young or spry and I wouldn’t want to overburden her. My parents have only visited me one time, five years ago, and my sister in the US has her own family to take care of, so I’m not counting on any real support from my side either. (Also - au pairs/nannies have recently been made illegal here, even for families with two full-time working parents.) To add another layer, my SO is most likely soon going to be in a career position where he is only physically home 2.5 days a week, on most weekends, for a very long period of time (years). I am okay with this concept for now, as I work full time and have a lot of things that keep me occupied otherwise. These things will no longer be relevant to my life if I am essentially becoming a single parent for 75% of the time. I don’t want to stand in the way of his career and asking him not to take this opportunity is not something I would do.
Obviously, there are many positive things about living in Norway and I am not worried about any healthcare or financial aspects of potentially becoming a parent. But I just can’t imagine never being able to have any independence. I hope this doesn’t sound too whiny. All of my friends here have big families and they can always drop their kids off with grandma or grandpa or aunt X or uncle Y and go do anything they’d like to. The women I have discussed my reservations with are like «oh it’ll work out! It always works out for us!». But I want to excel in my career too! I want to have time to do all the things too!
When I last discussed this with my SO he basically agreed that yeah, it would «really suck for me» for a few years while the kid(s) is a baby/toddler and I’m working full time while he’s not there and I don’t have anyone else to rely on. I’m not trying to demonize him, he would be a great dad and I know he would help as much as humanly possible in any way he could. But what I would need is human help and relief. We also have two large and very active dogs that I need to walk for at least an hour every day, kid or no kid. When I think about how my days would actually look, I start despairing. I do not want to be a stay at home mom and giving up the career I’ve worked for and fought so hard for is not ideal, so I can’t simply quit working. My SO wants it all - the prestigious career on the road and the family waiting at home - and although he deserves it, I feel like it would come at my expense. I feel like I would grow to resent him and the kid(s) for erasing my identity fully.
Sorry this is so drawn out but wow that felt good to write. Can anyone in a similar situaiton offer any input?

I bought a new monitor a few days ago (CoolerMaster Tempest GP27U)
I'm having a very weird issue with it, and I'm not sure whether it's cause of the monitor, or because of my pc, a cable, or windows itself. Im experiencing a few different issues of similar nature, so here's a list of the issues im having:
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When opening a programs like games, or media players, my monitor will go black, and show "Scanning signal". It does that for a few seconds, and then either shows my screen again, or shows "No signal" then "Scanning signal" again until it works again. The same happens when closing programs. For a few programs it only seems to happen when closing, and for a few only when opening. Sometimes my other monitors also start going back and forth between displaying anything or not.
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When exiting sleep mode, my screens take a lot longer than before I added my new monitor to show any image. This is also paired with the going back and forth between "Scanning signal" and "No signal"
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Occasionally, when the above 2 issues occur, or, when I unplug and replug display cables (Have been doing this to try and fix stuff myself). All 3 of my monitors will lose signal, and nothing at all will fix this except a forcible shutdown of my entire pc.
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When switching between true fullscreen and borderless, it also takes quite long to get image again. However, this might just be a windows thing, I don't use exclusive fullscreen often so this might not be a new issue.
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When having gsync enabled for windowed apps, apps like minecraft take forever to display, and my monitor will lose signal like 6 separate times before showing anything again. nvidia settings do say that the monitor might not be compatible with gsync though, so this might not be an actual issue.
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Some technical info: GPU: Nvidia 2070 SUPER Windows: 10.0.19045 Build 19045 Monitors: 1. CoolerMaster Tempest GP27U (4K 160hz, Adaptive sync on, HDR on) 2. Philips 276E8VJSB (4k 60hz) 3. Acer Nitro VG270 (1080p 75hz)

My car was having trouble turning over recently, last week it completely died. Got the battery tested and it was completely dead. Got a new one put in, the guy (AAA) told me he tightened my terminal as it was a bit loose. And to go have it checked out.
It is already doing the hit and Miss start thing again. Battery was just replaced a few days ago.
Is it worth taking in and paying someone to check terminal, should I try tightening it myself or could it be an entirely different issue?
Thank you.

I'm making a one-shot for some of my long time players that enjoy puzzles and figuring stuff out, so I made an entire dungeon that is a series of challenges/puzzles and each one will hint to a larger puzzle in the last room. In order to solve the last room, they need to look at and think about all the rooms they've done before and the hints they got from each room to put it all together...
The overarching puzzle is extremely adaptable to whatever is in the rest of the rooms, but I need EXACTLY 25 DIFFERENT rooms for it to work... And I've got 19 rooms done and 0 ideas left.
Resources available: Players have no magic. They are limited to non-magical classes and have no magic items. They have basic adventuring gear and I have full control over their starting items, although I'm trying to avoid "use this item for this puzzle" types of things. Generic items, generic puzzles, figure it out.
The dungeon itself has magic and the mechanisms are all black boxes as far as the players are concerned. (aka, how did that door open when we solved the puzzle? Magic. What activated the puzzle? Magic. What spell even causes a door to open when you kill something in a dream? Magic.)
I specifically don't want meaningful combat. For example, there's a room where they will fall asleep and dream of fighting some super high CR enemies. If they die, they wake up and take some psychic damage. They can go back to sleep and try again with full HP. They can kill the enemies by regular old mechanical combat, but if they remember it's a dream and they can lucid dream the enemies are dead, that's also fine. If they figure out some other nonsense to bypass "beat the thing in your nightmare", more power to them.
There's also a room where they are fighting a bunch of enemies... But the door at the far end is open. They just need to get PAST the enemies, not necessarily through them. If they burn a ton of resources on needless fighting... That's their problem to deal with later.
Some of the other rooms I have include: -Convincing a bored immortal person to let them past. The person is locked to the room and can't leave and enjoys having someone to talk to more than being alone in a room. -A magic jar in a room that strongly hints at needing to be filled with blood and requires enough blood to severely weaken them (but the jar will also take any liquid, so dumping your canteens in first will save a ton of HP) -A simple puzzle that requires coordination between them but they're inside of a Silence bubble. (leaving the room, planning, and going back in is OK, but table talk in the room is not) -hit a target at range (They don't have traditional ranged weapons, but it's still mostly 'Roll to attack until you win'... This was bottom of the barrel and will be the first to go if I get extras, but I honestly just need 25.)
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I scoured this subreddit and several other resources for ideas and I've implemented everything that I have found, but everything I'm getting now is either already added or doesn't quite fit what I want. You're my last hope!

I've been writing down my dreams in an app called Dream Catcher. The dream I had last night seems connected to one I had last July.
Now this is probably going to be a lot to read but quite a few of these details are replicated in the more recent dream so I feel that they're worth mentioning.
The dream that I had last July started with me playing a video game on the Wii U (which makes sense as that was my main game system back in middle school) Then eventually it shifted so that I was in the backseat of my parents car playing the same game (the Wii U is not portable but I digress)
I looked up at the windshield and saw a beautiful girl walking by who was remarkably slender in appearance.
My dad was holding up a DS like a phone and said that I have to reach level 36 to be able to talk with this person.
Then I was sitting outside at a bus stop and that girl asked me if I'd heard of this band which both was and wasn't the Beatles (you know how dreams tend to be)
So we talked about that band for a while and at some point I ended up in a room that looks like the basement that I had fallen asleep in in real life. around this time I was staying at my aunt and uncle's house and sleeping in their basement on a couch that had a big window behind it.
The girl was sitting beside me on the couch instead of the bus stop, she was showing me this phone game via a screen on the wall that looked like a projector screen but with nothing projecting it. She said that you can unlock songs by that band by playing through this game.
The game was one of those ones where you raise a little pet animal, in this case it was a cutesy raccoon.
She told me I needed to unlock something for her. (Something in my head was telling me that I needed to unlock her in this game so she could stay with me)
She looked like an average girl my age and was very beautiful and cute
At some point I went to open the blinds above the couch and the girl started to panic and asked "why are you doing that?"
I said "just to make sure you're not imaginary", she looked sad, disappointed, like what I just said confirmed that none of this was going to work out in their favor.
I opened the blinds and there was nothing but bright white light, which didn't look abnormal or anything, I feel like I've kind of seen that before in real life. She said "what if I am imaginary?"
I said "are you?" she kind of ashamedly nodded yes,
I said "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to" "I can still play the game, I can get to your level"
She said "no, don't, it's over now" At this point I was on the couch beside her and she leaned in to give me a hug.
The whole room was fading to white as if it were the end of a flashback in a movie.
Then I found myself walking back into the room, and she was sitting on the other side of the couch where I was and there's a new girl sitting where she used to sit,
my girl didn't want to fully acknowledge me but kind of looked over with a glance that conveyed
"I don't want to talk to you"
Like she was mad at me for what I did.
the other girl was probably aware that something happened between me and the first girl due to her acting similarly, They looked over at each other,
My girl said "just go, you don't belong here" as the dream was fading to white and I could feel myself waking up I said:
"I'm sorry it had to be this way".
So that was just the first dream that I had a while ago, the one that I just had last night went like this:
This dream also started with me playing the Wii U, both times it was a Super Mario game
A lot of the earlier part of the dream is pretty fuzzy but at some point I ended up walking with that same girl through her neighborhood at night, which looks like it was close to my irl neighborhood but was in a spot where it couldn't exist in real life.
She was telling me about the different houses and said that one of them is where the Beastie boys lived
At this point when I was writing down this dream I started to describe the girl, and I happened to describe her as "remarkably slender" just as I did when I wrote down the first dream (without realizing that was how I previously described her)
I said she looked like an average girl my age but was very beautiful.
I can still picture her face.
Within the dream I couldn't remember where I'd met her. She kind of felt like a childhood friend that I'd recently reunited with. Within the dream I was actually intending on asking her how we had met.
At some point I think she realized that it was getting so late that she should go home. (I think that happened before this next part) A portion of the night sky opened up, well I guess it more looked it turned pink as if a movie projector was shining on it, and some character that I could only assume to be the girl's father appeared
I am retroactively picturing her father as the king of all Cosmos from the katamari games.
He said it is time (my child?) to return to the world of toys, a child's room where everything is a toy. (He really hammered in the point that they're all toys) my girl looked at me with eyes that conveyed that her secret was out.
(So it's worth noting that both of these dreams point out that this girl isn't real, because she was explicitly stated to be imaginary in the first one, then she was explicitly stated to be a living toy in the second one) ("living toy" in the Toy Story sense I guess, not like a robot)
We turned and walked towards her house. She explained that every morning she always has to go back to her world in which she's a toy.
When we got to her house it was kind of like one of those houses that used to be a camper and was converted into an actual house.
The girl said "I have to go back now" and walked through the screen door which I guess was some kind of a portal or barrier between the worlds, she literally walked through it without opening it.
I asked her if we could hug through the portal.
We both reached out to hug but I couldn't reach my arms through, but she could, so she hugged me very tightly and then said good bye.
That's the end of the dream.
While I was looking through that app where I have written down my dreams in I even found two other instances of meeting "some girl" in a dream, I hadn't even realized that until reading through them earlier today.
one was just an offhand mention that probably didn't mean anything.
And in the other dream her and I were both young kids, in a play center.
I don't know if it was the same imaginary girl in those two instances but they were worth mentioning nonetheless.
Could anyone figure out what's going on here?
Why do I keep having dreams about this same imaginary girl?
What could this mean / say about me?

Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out and see if anyone here has any experience with these birth injuries?
(content warning: birth trauma, birth injuries)
5 months ago I gave birth to my happy, healthy baby girl. She is awesome- I truly feel like I won the lottery. I am completely in love with her and am loving motherhood more than I ever could have expected.
However, I did have a traumatic birth (vaginal delivery) with her which left me with some pretty serious birth injuries, one of which is permanent. My daughter had to be resuscitated at birth and thankfully is perfectly healthy today.
I won’t go into detail re: my birth story but in the past 5 months I have dealt with: 1) pubic symphysis diastasis (mine was severe enough that I would scream when lifting my foot one inch off the ground while in the hospital- and I had SPD in my third trimester so I’m no stranger to pelvic pain), 2) super painful muscle spasms in my pelvic floor, 3) what we suspect are torn pelvic floor muscles or ligaments stretched beyond rebound limits- hard to tell, 4) stubborn scar tissue on one of my two internal second degree tears, 5) a hematoma on said scar tissue which has since popped (that was fun), and 6) stage 2/3 bladder prolapse.
I had kidney stones while pregnant and did 12 hours of unmediated back labor before I got my epidural so I know what extreme pain feels like and the pain from these postpartum complications- it didn’t even register on a pain scale for me. I remember trying to walk from the bathroom to the bedroom 5 days postpartum and just being absolutely stunned that you can experience that level of pain and still be conscious. It was the worst pain of my entire life.
I have been in pelvic floor PT since 6 weeks postpartum and I do my home exercise program daily. I am religious about doing all the things I need to do to keep my symptoms manageable (using proper technique when lifting objects, etc). Most of the above issues have resolved aside from the prolapse but I am becoming very disheartened by the reality that the prolapse is something I’ll have to try to manage lifelong. It is really negatively affecting my quality of life. I had 2-3 good days so I pushed myself too far by allowing myself to hold my daughter for longer periods while standing/walking and dancing to music while holding her which caused a major exacerbation in prolapse symptoms which I am still recovering from. I haven’t even thought about running, jumping, or lifting anything heavier than my daughter as the little I try to venture out and do seems to cause a major symptom flare up.
I’m only 5 months pp so of course there is time left to improve, but I’m discouraged that my symptoms are still this bothersome this far out despite me doing my PT exercises religiously and being very careful about what I do throughout the day. There isn’t an hour during the day that I don’t have to think about what I’m doing/ how I’m doing it and how it will affect my symptoms.
Is there anyone else on here going through this? My husband and I had always planned on two kids but the thought of enduring another recovery anything similar to this is just not something I can fathom doing. How careful I am about lifting things and how religiously I do my PT exercises not to mention all the follow-up appts I’ve had for postpartum complications is something I don’t think is even possible to manage while caring for two young kids.
Obviously, if we ever had a second, I would go for an elective c-section, but a subsequent pregnancy itself would put a lot of strain on my pelvic floor. I just don’t think I’m willing to risk my quality of life for a hypothetical second child. I’m only 27 so I have time to decide (but on the other hand, if I recovered this poorly at 27 I can’t imagine how bad another postpartum recovery would be for me years from now). My pelvic floor PT has also commented that the ability to “bounce back” from pelvic floor trauma significant decreases starting mid to late 30’s in her clinical experience. That fact alone puts me off from trying to do this again too far in the future.
I apologize for the wall of text here. I’m just hoping to find someone who can relate to this and be my crystal ball so to speak. If you endured something similar, what did your recovery look like 1-2 years down the road?
I’m so sorry if any of you can relate to my experience- it is truly unbelievable what we go through physically and emotionally to bring these babies into the world.
To anyone reading this in the future- I’m more than happy to circle back around and update on my postpartum recovery progress.
And I cannot recommend pelvic floor PT enough- we have resolved all issues above (except for the prolapse) with PT alone and are still working on muscle strengthening to alleviate prolapse symptoms. PT has been life changing!

I am hoping to start Spravato soon and after talking to my therapist, I don't really know what "better" is. I have had lifelong treatment resistant depression and anahedonia/dysthimia. I literally don't know what it feels like to have a prolonged good mood, have a "thing" that I find super enjoyable or not have the haze of moderate depression in my every day life. Although I have had a few bouts "can't get out of bed" depression, my depression is more persistent and low grade without really being able to find things pleasurable or feel happy. I was also diagnosed as an adult with GAD, mild ASD and ADHD.
Can anyone describe what feeling better felt like to them and how it impacted their life?

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The world is a custom Minecraft map consisting of many remade biomes and more! There will be 3 teams: The plains, The forest, and The Swamp. (Teams are randomized, but you can take a form to be a King of a team) There will be a select amount of lives you will have, too. The next season will start when we have 18 or more players, so apply now!

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Want to join? DM me on Discord, I am Super540#6901. I'll send you a small questionnaire consisting of questions such as "What's your time zone? Or How old are you?" Then, if you pass, you will be invited to the main Discord server where you can meet the other members and talk together in text or VC.

Thank you for reading, see you on the realm!

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My 2010 g37 convertible sometimes will crank no start but after a few repetitive tries it starts up and drives fine. Sometimes while driving it will stall out but then once shut down it will start back up like there was no issue. I've replaced my fuel pump, crankshaft position sensor, all ignition coils and spark plugs and I still have this same problem. What else could it be? Autozone tested my battery, starter, and alternator which passed there test. I can't figure it out and I've been trying my best to not take it to the dealership.

I had the crunch master 6 seed crackers last night which are GF and (I’ve had them before with no issues but it’s been a little while) and as I’m chewing it I immediately get shooting nerve pain in my left arm and left side of face, which is unique to my wheat and oat reactions. So at this point I only ate the one cracker. Then after a few minutes I get the weird heaviness in my body that I get with my allergic reactions so I took medicine. But then like 2 hours later I’m super itchy and my ears face chest and legs were flushing 😭I checked the ingredients and the only one I’m suspicious about is millet which is somewhat related to wheat and I found some evidence online about millet cross reactivity with wheat and rice. Ugh this sucks if that’s the case because I know that it’s used in some GF things but luckily not much else I normally buy has it. I just hope I don’t start reacting to corn and rice at some point :/

First time poster, long time lurker!
This may sound weird and perhaps I am being high maintenance, but I started chatting with a girl and we have been trying to find time to get together. Her schedule was super busy, so we texted for a while before we were able to meet.
Then we finally met up, she came by my pool to chill, I felt we were having good back and forth and then she said she had to go leave to sell some furniture. We chilled for an hour maybe less, found it weird but the energy was good so I took it as bad timing.
Now it’s been a month or so since we’ve chilled, and similarly she’s always trying to schedule something right in between her activities and it kind of throws me off. Example “I’m off work at 4 and meeting some friends at 6, wanna grab a quick drink at 5?” And it’s kind of always like that. Her availability is always like an hour window. Even if it’s a little longer, she always would have some social event to race too afterward.
We’ve texted now for 2 months, saw each other only once for that hour lol. The connection and energy seemed good but at this rate I think it’ll take us forever to even determine if we’re a match ? Idk, the whole giving me a one hour time window makes me think she doesn’t really respect me/value me or my time/schedule. We don’t really know me another that we’ll so she doesn’t owe me anything, but it seems to lack basic dating etiquette in my opinion. Am I wrong ?
I’d like to get everyone’s thoughts on this?
Last week I finally alluded and made the joke that it seems our schedules are working against us. She laughed and said I know we should definitely connect this week. I said I’m free these days then she said her typical “cool let’s meet after work but I need to make my (insert activity) at this time”, giving us again like an hour to meet or so.
I actually responded with, well would you rather meet the other days I’m free when you have more time? And she said no I think this would work great! Not taking my hint at all.
Just want to ask the gen pop if I’m being weird about this ? For social friends meeting up quick for lunch or something makes sense but for a date idk, it just seems off and knowing I’m on this time limit sort of fucks with my mojo. It’s fine if you already know each other, not if you’re trying to get to know each other.
Personally if I have a workout class at 6 or 7 I’d either say I’m not free that evening or meet them after, but that’s just me. If I have plans with you, you have my full attention.
Today she suggested the quick meet again and I want to say something or just ghost tbh.
Let me know your thoughts ! All comments appreciated.
TL:DR been trying to make plans with a girl for a while and she only is ever available for a one hour window between activities. Is she not respecting time our am I weird ?

As the title suggests, I replaced the battery and starter on my 2006 Ford Taurus. Shortly after (maybe about a day or two) a message saying " check charging system" appeared on the dashboard. A couple of days after it has completly stopped and is stalling when trying to turn on the ignition. Any help will be much appreciated!

Hello! My name is Sav, and I am a fairly experienced roleplayer who's been RPing and writing for 10+ years! I'm 30, and I really want to get back into the hobby. Do you like writing with someone who loves fandoms, angst and is super excited to get to know you??? I might just be the person for you!
A little about me: I'm a long-winded writer and I appreciate length in my RPs -- I usually respond with multiple paragraphs, but I can adjust to match my partner. I prefer more than one or two line replies! I am pretty busy on the regular (job, personal life, etc.) but can promise at least one response a day! I also love to plot and chat outside of our roleplay, so some (a lot of) OOC chatting is something you can expect from me. I prefer playing female characters and I am open to FxF, FxNB or MxF ships! I am open to lots of different genres, plots and ideas after discussion and plotting! I'm definitely also open to doubling and playing multiple characters.
What I hope for from you: A multi-paragraph RP style with some OOC chatting! Willing to plot and chat with me, maybe even you're just excited about our plots as I am! Willing to play a character of any gender against a female character from me! Be over 21 (I am not comfortable roleplaying with someone under 21!). Is cool and friendly. :)
What I hope for our RP: I'm interested primarily in RPing a storyline from or based upon the BioShock games and universe. I am not currently interested in any other fandom or ideas -- Because these games are ruining my life! Here's what I'm looking for! - Rapture Timeline (Pre-games, BioShock 1, BioShock 2)
I am either interested in playing a canon character or an OC. I'm really interested in doing a storyline before the "fall" of Rapture, that maybe moves into the war and the subsequent nightmare scenario Rapture becomes.
I do have an OC -- Josie, an accomplished recruited lifestyle journalist brought to Rapture by Ryan as a prominent force for society & culture documentation... She's meant to be writing glowing articles about Rapture's best and brightest, but she seems to write little more than a gossip rag these days. In the search for a more meaningful story, she is going to start to uncover more and more about Rapture's true nature. If you're interested in her, she's here! I can also brainstorm other OCs, but I'm primarily interested in working with this one.
Below are the "ships" I am interested in exploring during this vague timeline. I have bolded the character I would like to play! These are super specific but this is where I'm at right now! I am open to doubling if there's a ship you'd like to explore that isn't on my list.
Brigid Tenenbaum x Frank Fontaine/Atlas Definitely interested in exploring this interesting and potentially incredibly toxic ship. Either looking for something before the war -- perhaps when Brigid is working for Fontaine Futuristics. Or looking for something during the war or after, where Brigid meets Atlas... Very interested in seeing how that goes down!
Brigid Tenenbaum x Sofia Lamb For this I mostly see something pre-civil war. Perhaps Lamb wasn't always the zealot she was. Perhaps Brigid and Sofia found something in common living in male-dominated Rapture. Or some kind of enemies to lovers situation in 2. Who knows!
Brigid Tenenbaum x OC The world is our oyster here! Got ideas?? Bring 'em on!
Brigid Tenenbaum x Rosalind Lutece Oooh a crossover ship! Can you tell I have a favorite character?? I can see these two getting along. Maybe Rosalind has opened a tear and come to Rapture -- Or maybe it's a universe where she's always been there. We can get super creative here!
Eleanor Lamb x OC This would need to take place post-BioShock 2. I don't have any solid ideas, I just love Eleanor and would love to play her. A chance for us to plot!
OC x OC Obviously completely down to play OCs! My OC mentioned earlier, Josie, a journalist, is my primary OC for BioShock. Definitely interested in something that starts before the war or in the middle of it -- And explores how characters we obviously didn't see in the game are managing to survive.
Also -- Platonically I would love to explore something with Tenenbaum and Jack. I just don't want this mistaken for a romantic ship, as I think their dynamic is strictly motheson.
There are other things I might be interested in exploring! Tbh I am very willing to play any of the following: Brigid Tenenbaum, Eleanor Lamb, Diane McClintock, Jasmine Jolene, even an OC! I also really love the dynamic between Jack and Brigid Tenenbaum, so a non-ship RP there could be fun. So any idea you might have, feel free to toss it my way! -
Columbia Timeline (Pre-game, BioShock Infinite)
I am mostly interested in playing a canon character, and exploring some alternate timelines or moments in the game. This one is a lot more vague, and I'm a little less interested in Infinite, but I thought I would mention it nonetheless.
I don't even have any particular ships to mention, but I would like the chance to play Elizabeth. I just adore her. She's my preference -- But I could be persuaded to flesh out a Vox Populi OC.
Also a crossover ship between Elizabeth and Jack might be fun! I haven't finished Burial at Sea yet, but I do know the gist of what happens and canon is just a sandbox for us to play in anyway!
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I hope someone out there is in the mood for a BioShock roleplay and will reach out! Looking forward to hearing from you! :)

hi so i’m taking the mcat for the 3rd time now and i’m getting really anxious about how it’s gonna go. When I was doing my practice tests i was getting 510+ but then when the real deal came, i didn’t even break a 500. This happened twice. And now i’m starting to think like what if it happens again? Is it all worth it?!?!? It seems like after putting so much time and effort, it’s just not working out!
For my first take (it was second year summer, studied 3 and a half months but was working and took orgo in the summer) - I heavily focused on content for the first 1.5 months since it took a long time for me to get through the material. I had a strong understanding for chem but everything else was pretty new to me - I did about 10 practice tests (all of AAMC + Blueprint FL and Diagnostic tests) all ranged around 505-515 - I bought uworld and did some questions but didn’t end up finishing all of it. - I did the JW cars daily but that’s about it until I reached AAMC material - I found that I didn’t review my practice exams properly- I didn’t make any anki cards and gave up on having a log system of tracking my mistakes - I did the miledown anki but i started like only one month before my exam and i don’t think it worked the best
For my first retake (third year summer): - I studied full time for 3 months and took about 12 practice exams. All ranging 510+ and in the range i wanted. - I didn’t make anki cards for my mistakes but I reviewed the exams with more time - I finished all the uWorld questions and thought it helped me - I didn’t memorize the physics equations properly so i did my chem section on the actual exam, I freaked out and started guessing for all the questions - I also tried doing JW daily and did about 3-4 passages a day. - I also did a bunch of Jack westin questions to solidify my knowledge but i started doing this near the end of content review
Right Now (my SECOND RETAKE): - Studying for 2 months only - Doing 3 passages daily for CARS, made my own anki flashcards while going through Kaplan textbooks, did 30 questions on Jack Westin for each chapter i did while doing content review. After that, I reviewed my anki flashcards every day. Occasionally i would read the miledown review sheet for stuff i was confused on. Tried watching youtube videos to solidify any hard concepts. Focused on memorizing all physics equations (i also just finished taking the second physics in april so i remember stuff from it) - For the last month, I’m just grinding by doing questions from the AAMC and really trying to know every single question they ask and the reasoning behind it - I’m reviewing the Anki miledown deck and set a deadline so I can finish it before my test date. Which means i’m doing about 1000 cards a day :( But i’m finding Anki to be super helpful - I’m continuing to do 3-4 passages a day for CARS - I think i have to do about 8 practice exams only - I’m also going through the miledown review sheet and kaplan review sheets to make sure i am remembering everything - Unfortunately all of this takes me about 10-12 hours of studying a day. Somehow idk how i’m not burnt out yet but i’m just telling myself that i’m giving this my last try
Does anyone have any tips on anything I should do or change ? My goal is a 510+ ideally a 515. I have been getting it during my practice tests but i’m scared that going from less than a 500 to 510+ seems unrealistic. Ugh this has been a long journey and to everyone struggling too i’m rooting for you guys ❤️

Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out and see if anyone here is one and done due to permanent birth injuries?
(content warning: birth trauma, birth injuries)
5 months ago I gave birth to my happy, healthy baby girl. She is awesome- I truly feel like I won the lottery. I am completely in love with her and am loving motherhood more than I ever could have expected.
However, I did have a traumatic birth (vaginal delivery) with her which left me with some pretty serious birth injuries, one of which is permanent. My daughter had to be resuscitated at birth and thankfully is perfectly healthy today.
I won’t go into detail re: my birth story but in the past 5 months I have dealt with: 1) pubic symphysis diastasis (mine was severe enough that I would scream when lifting my foot one inch off the ground while in the hospital- and I had SPD in my third trimester so I’m no stranger to pelvic pain), 2) super painful muscle spasms in my pelvic floor, 3) what we suspect are torn pelvic floor muscles or ligaments stretched beyond rebound limits- hard to tell, 4) stubborn scar tissue on one of my two internal second degree tears, 5) a hematoma on said scar tissue which has since popped (that was fun), and 6) stage 2/3 bladder prolapse.
I had kidney stones while pregnant and did 12 hours of unmediated back labor before I got my epidural so I know what extreme pain feels like and the pain from these postpartum complications- it didn’t even register on a pain scale for me. I remember trying to walk from the bathroom to the bedroom 5 days postpartum and just being absolutely stunned that you can experience that level of pain and still be conscious. It was the worst pain of my entire life.
I have been in pelvic floor PT since 6 weeks postpartum and I do my home exercise program daily. I am religious about doing all the things I need to do to keep my symptoms manageable (using proper technique when lifting objects, etc). Most of the above issues have resolved aside from the prolapse but I am becoming very disheartened by the reality that the prolapse is something I’ll have to try to manage lifelong. It is really negatively affecting my quality of life. I had 2-3 good days so I pushed myself too far by allowing myself to hold my daughter for longer periods while standing/walking and dancing to music while holding her which caused a major exacerbation in prolapse symptoms which I am still recovering from. I haven’t even thought about running, jumping, or lifting anything heavier than my daughter as the little I try to venture out and do seems to cause a major symptom flare up.
I’m only 5 months pp so of course there is time left to improve, but I’m discouraged that my symptoms are still this bothersome this far out despite me doing my PT exercises religiously and being very careful about what I do throughout the day. There isn’t an hour during the day that I don’t have to think about what I’m doing/ how I’m doing it and how it will affect my symptoms.
Is there anyone else on here going through this? My husband and I had always planned on two kids but the thought of enduring another recovery anything similar to this is just not something I can fathom doing. How careful I am about lifting things and how religiously I do my PT exercises not to mention all the follow-up appts I’ve had for postpartum complications is something I don’t think is even possible to manage while caring for two young kids.
Obviously, if we ever had a second, I would go for an elective c-section, but a subsequent pregnancy itself would put a lot of strain on my pelvic floor. I just don’t think I’m willing to risk my quality of life for a hypothetical second child. I’m only 27 so I have time to decide (but on the other hand, if I recovered this poorly at 27 I can’t imagine how bad another postpartum recovery would be for me years from now). My pelvic floor PT has also commented that the ability to “bounce back” from pelvic floor trauma significant decreases starting mid to late 30’s in her clinical experience. That fact alone puts me off from trying to do this again too far in the future.
I apologize for the wall of text here. I’m just hoping to find someone who can relate to this and be my crystal ball so to speak. If you endured something similar, what did your recovery look like 1-2 years down the road?
I have so appreciated all the posts on this subreddit detailing the positives of raising an only child- it has been a great source of encouragement when I was in a very dark place earlier on postpartum. Y’all seem like a very fun group of devoted parents. I’m so sorry if any of you can relate to my experience- it is truly unbelievable what we go through physically and emotionally to bring these babies into the world.
To anyone reading this in the future- I’m more than happy to circle back around and update on my postpartum recovery progress. And I cannot recommend pelvic floor PT enough- we have resolved all issues above (except for the prolapse) with PT alone and are still working on muscle strengthening to alleviate prolapse symptoms. PT has been life changing!

Little back story, was new bike day last Friday. Upgraded to a Fuel 7 from a Marlin 6, had the Marlin for 2 years but just until the last couple months never even had it on a trail. Started going out with some homies and decided it was time to go full suspension.
First trip to the trails on it with the boys the day after and I’m riding like a moron, Mr confident. Hit a small kicker to a flat, ended up way higher in the air than usual and came down hard. I think I landed and rolled a little ways but maybe I didn’t, either way ended up washing out and slammed hard on my hip. Knocked the wind out of me, didn’t lay there at all just got up to make sure I didn’t fuck myself up too bad (probably a dumb move but didn’t wanna be the dude laying on the trail).
The boys gather around me, check me over, pull the weeds out of my helmet, straighten my bars out. I’m hurting bad though, back feels super janked, jumped back on the bike and pedal out the rest of the opener loop trail. Back at the truck it’s only getting worse, sit out the rest of the ride.
Get home and cleaned up, pain isn’t nearly as bad but I know work is going to suck the next day (I’m a carpenter so fml). Got through the last couple days but I’m still pretty stiff and don’t have full range of motion bending and what not. Off to the chiropractor this coming Saturday.
Anyways I’ve thought about the crash quite a bit because MTB has been all I’ve done recently and I’ve become extremely passionate about it. The main thing that keeps coming back to me is take it fucking easy. I’ve maybe been on the trails 15 times total, I’m not a pro or a YouTube or even a seasoned rider. Every trip out can just be fun, I don’t have to make insane progress each ride.
I’m sure I’ll crash more times but hoping they don’t all take me out of commission like this one has. Also, investing in pads ASAP.