Thomas and friends knapford station

So I'm finally getting back to "maybe I should go do something" after a few years of the dark.
Naturally, most of the places I USED to go are gone, or work better for younger people.
What's good to do now in Hunstville for a guy in his 30s to just relax and not spend terribly much money, but where he won't feel alone in a crowd? I like hidden gem bars, pretty much anything food, and I'm nerdy but not "hang out at the deep and play magic" nerdy. Wouldn't mind a friend or two who DOES play magic, cafeteria rules, but eh.
Tldr, I'm bored at home and where I used to go where everybody knew my name is gone and I need a friendly place to be.

Today I played Minecraft on a world I worked on for a few days. When I wasn’t working of course. And I finished the game. I had a house, pets- cats and dogs and others, a dog named Man; he was a good boy. cave system/mining system, friends with a few villages, nether portal and end portals, my house had many rooms storing a ton of things, a farm with most crop, a tree farm because on my map I deforested the entire map, I defeated the ender dragon did all the end stuff ended up able to fly kinda. Defeated the wither. My own inner demons. Stopped selling sugar cane… and deleted the world because in old games when you finish the game it rolls credits and all your progress is over. So I gave myself that old timey feeling.
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Description: You, [The listener] have been enlisted to help the heroes organization in their attempt to take down one of their biggest adversaries; who just so happens to be attacking the hero's base. Don't worry though the heroes have an ace up their sleeve. All you'll have to do is be the perfect distraction. So be a good civilian and keep the villain occupied for us a little while longer. Let's just hope that obsession they have saves more than just yourself.
Alternate Description: You, [The Speaker] are the Super Villain known as Tempest. You've recently launched and attack on the heroes main headquarters. Knowing the heroes are at there wits end they'll no doubt send a lovely distraction. Good thing everything is going to plan.
A/N: So this is the first script I've ever posted so I appreciate critiques! If anyone wants to make anything from this I'd like that a lot. You can monetize it if you like, Just be sure to credit me!
*[SV] stands for Super Villain
*And anything else in [these] is just a suggested sound effect
Anyways that's all enjoy!
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Yandere Super Villain [A4A] ASMR Audio Roleplay
[Slow Footsteps>]
[SV] Oh, my love where are you?
[SV] I hate that those blasted idiots seem to have gotten you involved with this.
[SV] But I’m genuinely curious how that conversation went down. Suddenly snatching you on your way home saying ‘The horrible and vicious Tempest seems to have some connection to you can you maybe convince them not to annihilate the heroes headquarters?’ Ugh, those worms would instead put an innocent’s life at stake than actually try fighting me head-on. What cowards.
[SV] If you are worried my love that doesn’t apply to you in the slightest. No, no you can do no wrong in my eyes. Heck, I’d enjoy it even if you took that kind of initiative but I know you well. You keep your head down, your life – private, only letting a select few into your tight-knit circle. That’s the reason why I couldn’t get closer than those distant photos they found, you’re like a cryptid. So elusive and wonderful I can hardly imagine a being beyond perfection like you.
[SV] Oh my! I seem to be caught gushing about you again, my bad. I’m supposed to be ignoring your distraction while the heroes charge the rear side of the building, taking out what has to be the monstrous golems I have to look at to activate.
[Clicking]
[SV] Don’t bother trying to contact them on your little comms device that’s been deactivated for a while now my love. And if you must know your hero ‘friends’ are all finding out that my golem can, in fact, act of its own free will, right about–now.
[Distant Growling, Explosions, Screaming, Rumbling]
[SV] Don’t worry Baby it was just a simple trick of suggestion. I knew they’d eventually find that old lair of mine and especially revisit all those files I ‘left’ behind. What a lucky mission to have found the Tempest’s collected memorabilia of some random civilian. And of course what better use of that discovery than to use you against me during my grand attack? They’re just so easy to play into, I even got them to bring you to me! See how that just works, I guess it's wrong to say they're complete idiots; more like predictable idiots.
[Slding DooOpening Cabinet]
[SV] Anyway that's enough chit-chat it's time for us to take our leave, my love. Ah, there you are! Ah~ to see you up close is a dream come true! I can’t help but just–
[Kisses]
[SV] Ah maybe one more–
[Kisses]
[SV] But you’re just so cute–
[Kisses]
[SV] How can I not take you home?-
[Kisses]
[SV] Uh oh? Have you been struggling this whole time? Well, Baby that just goes to show how strong I am for you. And although your struggling face is sooo cute I need you to be sleepy for our great escape. I don’t want you to get scarred by the gross leftovers of my golems.
[SV] Plus the bombs going off in a few are going to be scary, so how about you breathe into this for me, okay? “No?”
[SV] You say that but you can’t really stop me. You’ll stop holding your breath eventually and when you do I’ll whisk you away from the danger– ick! I unintentionally made that sound like a hero line, let me try again.
[SV] You’ll breathe this in and when you’re all sleepy we’ll start heading home, okay? I’m not asking you, breathe.

Hihi it's been a while since I felt like I hit a collecting wall. This sub ends up being very same-y after a while, same few people posting the same stuff, myself included lol, and only wanting the same couple of expensive alt arts, or having/wanting paypal only
Haves
Umbreon Vmax alt art
main binder
low end ultra rare binder
holo/rares binder
I also have a number of TSS for both modern, expanded, legacy etc. I don't have much from the gen 3 era, but if you're looking for any playable general staples from other formats I might be able to throw some stuff together

• Umbreon Vmax $650
• Typhlosion $350 Paypal, $380 trade
• Alakazam star $135 Paypal, $150 Trade
• Charizard Base $380 Trade Only
• B. Skull Dragon $350
• Horus Lv 4 UTR $120
• Volcanic Doomfire UTR $100

deck wants

• 2 Klefki SV
• 1 Sprigatito 70 hp SV
• 4 Meowscarada ex Paldea Evolved
• 3 Tinkaton Paldea Evolved
• 1 Tinkaton ex Paldea Evolved
• 1 Squawkabilly ex
• 4 Iono non-holo
• 3 Luminous Energy
• 2 Superior Energy Retrieval
• 2 Artazon

I'm not using presale prices for Paldea Evolved cards, the most I'll value Meowscarada ex at is $5, the Tinkaton ex at $4, Squawkabilly ex at $10, regular Tinkaton at $1.50 and Iono non-holo at $3 based on trends of playable cards of the lowest rarity. And please don't ask me for alt arts or other high value cards for these. You know you wouldn't give those cards up for the lowest value ultra rares
other wants
Priority:

• Charizard CD Promo
• Alph Lithograph HGSS

Wishlist:

• Espeon star
• Lillie Dreams Come True
• Clefairy CHR Dream League
• Friends in Alola
• Sightseer FA

Prices are going to be based on tcgplayer sold/lowest gold star and ebay recent sold. If buying cards, F&F only, and minimum of $35. $4 BMWT only no PWE, free shipping at $75.
For trades I only do BMWT, and I'd ask you do the same.

Backstory, about 30 years ago my friends dad described a scene in a movie he saw and it made him laugh and laugh. I was talking about it to my friend and neither one of us has an idea what it was. Lots of google searching doesn’t help The scene is some “heroes” are trying to escape and they see a tank? It’s on a bridge and they fear they are gonna be blown away. But the turret can’t swing because of sides of the bridge have it stuck forward. It could be a famous movie for all we know but that’s all we remember. Thanks a lot!

I've singlehandedly built a spawn over the past 4 years and my goal is to make an open world Towny PvP Server, so I'm looking for a couple chill players :) Just come in, create your own town and invite other players! the only community this server has is me and a couple friends... we all play in survival aswell, but will be happy to help you with every problem you encounteplay with you. :) IP: FrozenPvP.minecraft.gs

My girlfriend and I are coming up on our one year anniversary. Some context, before this relationship, I was married and spent the last decade with my ex. I didn’t jump the boat, and found my current relationship without even looking. It was as if the universe pushed us together, and in my heart I know it was for a myriad of beautiful, and significant reasons. She taught me to love again, to value myself no matter what kind of position life had settled me in. She loved me when I thought myself totally unloveable. She gave me the courage to grow. Renewed my confidence. Helped me to trust again. And yesterday—she put an expiration date on our relationship. I guess that’s a tad incorrect, I knew from the git go that she was young, and specifically not looking for a forever partner. She is a total free spirit, and believes herself to be destined for multiple experiences. I built up her love, gave her unconditional love. Praise. I fed her daily, empowering and validating her. I love her. But she has growing to do, growing that needs done by herself. She wants to focus on her career, on owning herself. Loving herself. And in my soul I always knew this would be one of those experiences where life sets you up with the most joyous of challenges to build you up and test you. It has been a resounding success. I have passed all of my trials. I proved to myself that I am still capable of being an amazing partner. That I can sustain, and maintain a healthy, loving relationship. My final challenge is being comfortable being alone. Learning from what she could teach me. And becoming even better for whatever next relationship coming my way. But in this time she’s become my best friend. My lover. My student. My mentor. We developed skills together. Spoke the most profound philosophy. Read esoteric texts together. I have so much love…. With suddenly no place to channel it. I’m terrified of losing all that we have. But she considers it letting go. I want to be a man capable enough of providing her my utmost respect and ceremonious wishes during this time of transition. But my heart is aching. And no amount of closure, or positivity keeps the sea from swelling in my eyes. I want to learn to be happy alone. I want reassurance. I want to appear strong; for both of us. Can anyone, will anyone, please post anything inspirational. Quotes, personal stories, anything. I just want to work on mending my heart and healing. Thankyou everyone. May colors find you when your world is dreary & gray.

So she was my first girlfriend and we'd been dating since college started for her and I was a junior in college. We'd known each other in high school but we're just friends until we met up one day in college. She just graduated recently and is moving to her new iob that she starts this summer and we've both been really excited for it even though it meant we would continue long distance dating. Through circumstances we've basically been long distance the entire relationship and I always thought that we could make it work. Since we only saw each other maybe 2-3 weeks out of the whole year I was always trying to get intimate. It was fine at first but she started to feel too pressured to do it and I didn't understand when she tried to communicate it because she would end it with "no it's fine" but to her it led to being intimate feeling like an obligation rather than something she looked forward to. Fast forward some bit and she says that she basically fell out of love with me as a boyfriend and it felt more like we were just friends that she had a sexual obligations with and couldn't see me in the romantic way anymore. It hurts a lot because it's definitely my fault and something I should've recognized a lot earlier than now when she brought it up as part of the reason she wanted to break up. It's the main reason actually and the only reason that's to be my fault because she says I've been a great boyfriend in every other aspect but she has commitment issues and it's scary to look into the future the same way I do. I'm two years older than she is and am established in my career field and have been ready to settle down, we've had the conversation before and it basically would end with she knows l'm ready but since she wasn't I wouldn't propose until she told me she was ready. The part where it felt like she was too pressured leaked to other aspects of our relationship like in this part and the commitment issues she had only got worse because she cou longer see me in the romantic sense. She wants to be single and she says that she wants to be able to be attracted to me again when she's ready to commit to someone. It hurts and I don't know what I can do beyond give her the space she needs and understand that's an important boundary she needs in this time of life because she wants to discover who she is as a person that's not in a relationship and needs the freedom there in order to grow as a person. She wants me to do the same because in other aspects of the relationship she felt that she wasn't fair to me because I always provided more in terms of stuff like being more attentive, emotional support, etc and thinks that I deserve someone better and would probably be happier and I just don't know it because she's my first girlfriend and first love. We've agreed that sometime down the road when I fix my problem in the relationship and she fixes hers we can potentially reconnect but she can't make any promises and doesn't want me holding onto that hope. Until then we both wanter'+ be friends but honestly not sure if I can handle 1 y well or if it would just lead to more heartbreak. Honestly looking for thoughts from you guys/gals on what I should be doing? I don't know how much time Ineed to be giving her before even reaching back out. What other things can I do or keep in mind? Am I wrong to have hope when she tells me she wants to be attracted to me again and just needs the space? She also says that she can’t promise anything because then that’ll just keep the “obligation” part there and she needs to be truly free from obligations.

Hello,
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Willing to trade, and negotiate but but no lowballs please. All items are ship price, and usually ship the following business day. Still adding items to list as I go thru storage.
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Edit: Did numerous transactions here, before bot - on mushroomkingdom.
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Prefer PP F&F - if G&S is absolutely necessary, can be discussed.
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All titles are ESRB (NTSC-U), only PAL/Asia/JP if noted.
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Have
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Switch Physical

• Xenoblade Chronicles: DE [BNIB] x3 - $40
• Octopath Traveler 2 [BNIB] x4 - $40
• Moero Chronicles Hyper [BNIB] - $75
• Shantae Pirate's Curse [BNIB, no card] - $450
• PM Studios Steelbook - $45
• Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana (Standard)[BNIB] - $80
• Final Fantasy X/X-2 (Asia - both on cart) [BNIB] - $100
• Panzer Dragoon Classic Edition [BNIB] - $60 (can also throw in the 'Saturn sized' manual they made - not really a manual, though - had to contact support after shipping)
• Fight Crab (JP) [BNIB] - $30
• Super Meat Boy (BestBuy Cover) [CIB] - $45
• Remothered: Broken Porcelan [BNIB] - $22
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light [BNIB] - $150
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 SE [Game included - BNIB] - $300
• Omega Life Labyrinth [BNIB][Asia] - $375
• Aleste Collection [Gameboy Micro LE][BNIB] - $350

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PlayStation 4

• Demon Pit [BNIB] - $80
• Senran Kagura: Estival Versus [Disc Only + GameStop case] - $30
• Castlevania Requiem Ultimate Edition [BNIB] - $350

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PlayStation 5

• Farcry 6 Gold Edition/Steelbook [BNIB] - $50
• Resident Evil 4 Remake CE [BNIB] - $260

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PlayStation 4 Physical

• Nier Replicant Ver.1.22474487139 White Snow [BNIB] - $330
• Quantic Dreams Collection [BNIB] - $30

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Other

• Shantae PS5 Slipcover - $20
• Nier Automata L Pre-order Shirt [In plastic still] - $40
• Legend of Zelda Hand Drawn Game Guide [Sealed] x2 - $200
• Gris Special Reserve Replacement Box (unfolded) + Art Cards - $30

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Want

• PayPal
• Switch games from below, BNIB or CIB only.
• Lists

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Huge Wants
PayPal!
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Switch (Physical, NIB/CIB only - no carts/digital/GameStop cases) I will buy the following:

• World End Syndrome (Only PAL)
• Empire of Angels LE
• The Letter: A Horror Visual Novel LE

This question was posed to me the other day. Wondering what you guys think:
You have $5k in the bank. It’s your last shot at doing something meaningful with your life. You are a male, moderately good looking with some sales, and finance experience - however you have no real network to leverage. Your last 20 ideas have been abysmal failures and you’ve included friends on them and they’ve lost money and don’t want to talk to you anymore. You live in a major city and are within walking distance from a major university. Investing in an index isn’t an option because a ten year time horizon isn’t really doable. You have 5 years to take that $5k and do something with it to gain a chance at freedom. Let’s say you have about $2k coming in per month and about $1000 of that comes out in living expenses.
GO

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a fantastic evening. It was relatively warm out today, so I spent most of it with friends. I'm feeling a little lonely tonight, so I'd love someone to talk to. I am looking for someone that is willing to talk longterm. I'm not looking for anything specific, just don't ghost me after talking for an hour, give or take. If there's a problem, let me know.
A little bit about me:
- I am a college student
- I live in Michigan
- I am an actress, bookworm, musician, writer, big sister, etc.
- I love any and everything to do with marching band
- I work a part-time job
- I am HILARIOUS 90% of the time
What I am looking for:
- Non-ghosters. Sorry, I'm scared of ghosts.
- Someone that can take a joke
- Someone that has TIME to put into this
- A friend
I'm almost positive I've hit all the bases. If you managed to stay this long, shoot me a message! Tell me about your favorite fruit. Rant about your day at work. Please put effort into your intro message. I will not be responding to one-liners. Have a good day! I hope to hear from you soon!

I send daily gifts from modern region. Need friends from anywhere but Modern, Continental and High plains.

I don't even know what to do about my anxiety at this point. I'm on a lovely vacation with boyfriend and friends and just fled to my bedroom in tears because I burnt a grilled cheese. I'm on klonopin as needed but it feels like by the time I realize I'm anxious and need my meds it's too far gone and I spiral into a meltdown. It's embarrassing, it makes me hate myself, and it is very uncomfortable to those around me. I wish I could just be a normal person who doesn't let small things like mixed up recycling and burnt sandwiches send me into full fledged meltdowns. I try to just remove myself from the situation and go breakdown in private but even then I feel rude or like I'm making others uncomfortable because it's "always something" with me. I just feel like such an unpleasant person to be around. I hate that I'm like this. I wish my brain could function normally. Advice welcome, I hate this feeling so much.

TITLE: MOXIE MORTEM (120 pgs)
GENRE: Sci-fi/Action/Comedy
LOGLINE: When a nihilistic orphan discovers his conscious immortality, he and his friends must expose a corrupt mayor and save the district’s toxic water supply, or risk resetting in an uninhabitable wasteland.
COMPS: The Sandlot in an apocalypse
This script is finished, I’m just wondering how the first few scenes come across?l. TIA
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ViolrIWxzB5mlx5aiVLIdMi1YSGt7wzv/view?usp=drivesdk

Story Brief: I play a chaotic evil character, rest of the party tries to abandon and murder me on sight, then blames me for being everything wrong with chaotic evil when I defend myself.
Yeah.
This was a very long time ago on a play-by-post site that you've never heard of; I think the site was called mydndgame.com? I checked, but that domain is up for sale as of the time of this writing so if that's what it was it sure didn't last very long. With the story I'm about to relay to you, I can't help but imagine why that might be!
I am uncertain how this party came to be but we were a group of five, all apparently some flavor of autist. The campaign was in the Dalelands of Toril (I think that's right?) and we were all starting at level two. The party composition was a human ranger, a half-orc bard/barbarian (bardbarian!), a dwarf paladin, and my character was a human wilder. For those unfamiliar: wilders are the charisma version of the psion in the same way sorcerers are to wizards, except that wilders are actually really good as you'll learn later.
Our first quest was to clear out a den of orcs who have been doing Generic Evil Bad Guy Things to our starting town. Knowing the reputation that chaotic evil characters tend to have I laid my intentions on the table very early in an attempt to allay concerns. Ashley was chaotic because I want to take the Pyrokineticist prestige class and Evil because she just really likes burning shit. Seeing as I rolled very well on my mental stats (int 16, wis 15, cha 19; the GM was using 2d8+6, IDK why) I felt that Ashley would be very friendly, amicable, and also neurotically aware of her situation. In her own words: "I can burn human villages and be hunted as a villain, or burn orc villages and be paid as a hero. The choice is obvious; we're having barbeque porkchops tonight!" The players acknowledged this and seemed to be mildly enthusiastic.
Thus we get to the actual roleplay.
We keep it simple, start in a tavern and introduce our PCs. The bardbarian and dwarf are having a drunken arm wrestling contest and regaling each other with tales of their machismo ("I once suplexed a polar bear off a cliff!" "Reminds me of that time I gave my coat to an orphan girl and had to walk through a blizzard for eight hours warmed only by the celestial hearth of my god!"). The ranger and I enter town from opposite angles and meet up at the bowyer's shop; he's buying a bow while I am having my crossbow repaired after I got a little overenthusiastic with my last Fire Ray. The ranger is immediately distrustful of my wilder; I don't know why, but "grizzled ranger wilderness man" is such a classic trope I don't think much of it and we end up entering the tavern together.
Shortly after we are all in the same ingame space together, a big ol' royal guardsman or soldier or somesuch enters the tavern and calls for mercenaries. The others answer the call, while my wilder listens from the corner given that she's not best friends with the law. We are told of the orcs and the troubles they are causing on the road, and that parties who like gold and killing orcs ought to prepare to embark with him in the morning. Yeah, I thought; Ashley likes both of those things -- one is a good target for fire, and the other buys resources she can use to make more fire. I feel Ashley is not likely to volunteer without her weapons on her -- she wouldn't be taken seriously! -- so I narrate how I'll wait an hour for repairs to be completed and approach the group then, since we have until morning.
Ashley goes to get her crossbow, returns -- and the party is gone. So much for waiting until the morning.
I make some quick Gather Information checks (I had the intelligence so I sprinkled cross-class ranks into K:nobility and various social skills) to figure out what happened, then set off at a brisk hustle to follow.
Upon catching up with the party, the ranger immediately fires an arrow at my wilder.
Ranger: [to the party] "Heh, can never be too careful." Wilder: [hiding behind a tree] "Whoa mate, check your eyes; I am not an orc!" Ranger: "Just because you're not an orc doesn't mean you're friendly!" Bardbarian: "She could be a highwayman, be careful." Wilder: "We met in town, remember? I was the one who suggested yew for your bow!" Ranger: "If you're friendly, why are you hiding? Show yourself!" Wilder: [Comes out with hands up; pointless gesture since I can kill people with my brain, but they don't know that yet] Dwarf: "I use detect evil." Wilder: [Is evil! And also has her imp patron following her without being aware of it!] Dwarf: "She's evil. Get her and her demon friend!" Wilder: "Wait, why is Char here? According to my backstory he- WHOA!"
Ashley is wearing a chain shirt, has 17 dexterity, and won initiative so she has her buckler out and is using Total Defense so her AC is... high. She danmaku-grazes through two sling bullets, an arrow, and two darts.
Wilder: "Please calm down! I just want to kill orcs with you and get paid!" Dwarf: "We don't work with evil people!"
Another round of Touhou dodging ensues.
GM: "Round three. Ashley's turn." Wilder: "I said CALM THE FUCK DOWN!"
I activate my Wild Surge and expend my psionic focus on my Psionic Shot feat and launch my Fire Ray at the ranger's bow. 5d6+5 damage.
Ranger: "You bitch! I knew you were bad news the moment I met you!"
They keep fighting...
I down them all in a single shot each. Including the level six NPC guardsman who attempted to intervene once it became clear that the party couldn't roll above a fifteen to save their lives. I suggest to the GM that the fire cauterized their wounds so none of them are actually dying, but he's a very RAW person and declines while pointing out that I was throwing entire virtual fistfuls of d6s. The entire party ends up bleeding out because -- surprise -- the chaotic evil character didn't think to put any ranks in Treat Injury. Ashley gave the fallen PCs the most respectful sendoff she knew -- burning their bodies in a massive forest file -- while speculatively wondering how that scene could have proceeded differently and not at all subtly hinting to the GM to rewind so we could take the scene again from the top.
The response to this was to start making the usual noises and ALL-CAPS POSTS about how I'm an edgelord and chaotic evil PCs should never be allowed and I'm terrible and awful for destroying their equipment and getting mad when they attempted to blah blah blah. I don't need to tell you what they said. I was just astonished, refreshing the page throughout the say as they rant and rave, all the while thinking to myself "I have Asperger's syndrome and even I can read the social cues better than these nutters."
They weren't even good roleplayers. I was throwing out paragraphs and they were writing two-liners. The ranger didn't even end his posts with periods. So when I refreshed the page and found I was banned from the game, I couldn't help but sigh in relief. What could I have even said to these people to justify myslef? "It's what my character would have done?" Because it actually wasn't; I was trying my damnedest to hold her back in spite of all possible reason to go full bore on the strangers trying to murder her!
I'd still love to play Ashley again sometime. I think she has a lot of potential as a character to explore what it means to be evil, how ever is often perceived by others, and how even good people can work with evil in pursuit of a greater goal.

3rd time this happened recently, messaged a guy asking for help and they were keen so i turned on my console and started the game, added them as a friend and sent them a message, and they totally ghost. i can actually see they are heisting and have started the challenge without me. why cant people just send a 2 second message letting people know they've changed their mind instead of ghosting me and leaving me wait. thanks Glittering_Kick4260 i was just trying to help, ghosting peope as a trend is the most infuriating thing and childish asf

I (18)M was at dinner with my family, just eating at the table. Not everyone had been seated yet. My dad was getting his food, and our guest, who is literally my dad’s repulsive side piece (whole other story, too drained to delve into. They are/used to be really touchy. So gross.) sat across from me. My brothers girlfriend sat diagonal to me. We made eye contact and began laughing over a Zelda-related inside joke. My dad took personal offense to this, and told me to stop laughing and wipe the smart smirk off my face. I was mad because I feel like he’s pissed because he feels that he’s being called out for knowing his side piece should not be eating dinner with his family. Later, he walked into my room, called me disrespectful, and walked out. Apparently he would never do that to my friends, however, side pieces dog chases after my cat, and they both encourage it. My cat hates it and hisses. The dog thinks this is so fun. AITA for “laughing” at a guest?

I was talking to a friend about my last experience at an assembly.
I was seated midway down in the auditorium, during the morning program.
At a point a young man enters the stage to be interviewed. He had recently been baptized, 18-19 years old and was asked what problems and troubles he had to go through to dedicate himself.
It was evident but he was also introduced as a young man with autism.
So when he answered the question with: “I’ve struggled with porn and masturbation” …. Within seconds I got out of my seat, gathered my things and stormed out. I was shaking, angry and in disbelief … seeking refuge in the bathroom where a sister came over and asked if I was okay. I was crying! I said that I can’t believe they allowed this young man, this autistic young man to humiliate himself like that in front of a thousand people. Her response; “he wanted to share that!” … I said it wasn’t right.
It isn’t right for a young person, to share intimate details that will put them in a humiliating light in front of strangers. It should not be allowed! How dare the speaker, the people responsible to allow this young, autistic man to share those personal matters with strangers!!!
The sister didn’t get it. He eyes glazed. I never sat foot in a Kingdom Hall or assembly hall since.
Ps. Didn’t make it better that the assembly in question was in PA right after the CSA cases came to light.
Was I over dramatic?
It still riles me up.

This mostly refers to the US and other countries undergoing similar changes.
Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Having a medical condition like celiac can be a part of intersectionality because it can put you at a disadvantage. With the majority of sufferers being women, and many others belonging to other groups, I would say that most of us have some form of intersectionality.
Many people are aware that intentions behind legislation are not usually black and white. When legislation creates division, be it economic status, social status, religion, political affiliation, disability, sexuality, identity, or something else, more than anything else, there is a problem because if you aren't standing up for others needs and rights, who will be there to stand up for yours?
I think this poem sums up why this is so important:
Martin Niemöller - First They Came
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
What happens if anything certified to be gluten free skyrockets in price to the point that it is not affordable to feed ourselves and we are starving? Would you rather be standing in a small group of hungry people with celiac, or a larger group made up of all different types of people to stand against that?
We already, in the US, don't require for the labels on food to say "may contain gluten" when I know that for some of you that is the difference between a pricey hospital stay and being able to sit on the couch and watch TV. There is a bill coming up to get anything with gluten in it to be clearly labeled, which is awesome, so spread the word between groups you're in, and be willing to spread issues back to the celiac community where you can. For best results, we, as people belonging to disadvantaged group(s) need to support each other.
You see what's happening with legislation all over the US right now if you live here, and honestly, I've spoken to a lot of people who don't live here who are very aware and scared for us, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community.
When you are a part of multiple disadvantaged groups, bring issues up between them. We stand stronger as a larger group educated on many issues as opposed to many smaller ones educated on our own issues. You might remember what insulin used to cost. I had to watch my friend waste away mentally because he couldn't afford to move out of his abusive parents house and buy himself insulin, and now that it's more affordable, he is still stuck because he is so mentally unwell he can't care for himself.
Can you imagine what would happen if things certified gluten free actually were suddenly so expensive you couldn't eat? People who created legislation allowing for it would be telling you "oh, well at least you do have something to eat still," and not enough people would understand why we were so upset and hungry because it still exists, even if it is not affordable at all, if we didn't talk about it.
When someone has intersectionality and belongs to multiple groups, they are educated on issues from both groups and have the power to speak to those issues between those groups so that people understand them. Allying yourself with others from disadvantaged positions and standing up for them makes you stronger and protects you in the long run, but only if enough people do it.