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Brandi Wells was last seen by family and a close family friend in Tyler, Texas on August 2, 2006, and the same night in Longview, Texas at a popular club. The Graham Central Station nightclub surveillance video shows Brandi Wells entering the club alone at 10:30 pm, and seemingly leaving alone at 12:30 am (August 3). The End of Innocence https://g.co/kgs/mssvWH
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2023.06.03 02:34 luciliddream I am not a psychonaut
I'd like to share my story of my recent trip and how I realized shrooms aren't for me. Similar thoughts from my partner.
I haven't taken shrooms in 13 years, husband hasn't in about 9 years. After a year of discussion, true research, and education. We set up a great cozy environment at home and took 1.25g of PE cubensis in some lemon tek.
What followed was... absolutely nothing exciting lol. I just wanna put it out there that we had a fun time watching bee movie and overall a "good" trip. I appreciated the opportunity to step out of reality esp the pains that come with my illness. But still the trip didn't quite exceed any expectations and certainly not like the things I see described by psychonauts. I'm an avid forager and actives has been seen a huge peak on general mushroom forums. I kinda missed/wanted to see what the hype was about. My partner and I wanted to feel shrooms as adults vs in our past as teenagers.
Not worth it :/
Laughing or crying in repetitive waves while having intense visuals wasn't that fun. To be completely honest - I didn't expect the lack of emotional control and having to "just go with it" or ride it out. My husband had more stomach activities which made it way less pleasant. He said that his high was diminished because his ups were nauseating but the downs mentally exhausting and too "quick". Our trip lasted 4.5 hrs which was more than enough.
We discussed several deep subjects but in the end it felt entirely drug induced. Once sober we laughed about how "less deep" it felt compared to our normal sober conversations. It didn't remind me of a trippy, mindblowing, life altering experience - as it is often described by psychonauts - AND even by us in our own past youth shroom experiences. It felt...like a drug /shrug
I waited 3 months to fully uncover my feelings about this recent trip and my conclusions are: we are not psychonauts and shrooms aren't really for us.
We are really glad that we came to the conclusion and we have had a great frame of mind about drug use in general after this trip. I personally found out I dislike drugs that ride MY high instead of me riding THE high. My husband described it as a funny fever, unpleasant.
In conclusion, sometimes you find out by doing what you want, to understand you don't want what you're doing.
Thank you for reading, I vow to leave this thread up so others may be able to relate to a very mediocre experience on mushrooms.
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I haven't taken shrooms in 13 years, husband hasn't in about 9 years. After a year of discussion, true research, and education. We set up a great cozy environment at home and took 1.25g of PE cubensis in some lemon tek.
What followed was... absolutely nothing exciting lol. I just wanna put it out there that we had a fun time watching bee movie and overall a "good" trip. I appreciated the opportunity to step out of reality esp the pains that come with my illness. But still the trip didn't quite exceed any expectations and certainly not like the things I see described by psychonauts. I'm an avid forager and actives has been seen a huge peak on general mushroom forums. I kinda missed/wanted to see what the hype was about. My partner and I wanted to feel shrooms as adults vs in our past as teenagers.
Not worth it :/
Laughing or crying in repetitive waves while having intense visuals wasn't that fun. To be completely honest - I didn't expect the lack of emotional control and having to "just go with it" or ride it out. My husband had more stomach activities which made it way less pleasant. He said that his high was diminished because his ups were nauseating but the downs mentally exhausting and too "quick". Our trip lasted 4.5 hrs which was more than enough.
We discussed several deep subjects but in the end it felt entirely drug induced. Once sober we laughed about how "less deep" it felt compared to our normal sober conversations. It didn't remind me of a trippy, mindblowing, life altering experience - as it is often described by psychonauts - AND even by us in our own past youth shroom experiences. It felt...like a drug /shrug
I waited 3 months to fully uncover my feelings about this recent trip and my conclusions are: we are not psychonauts and shrooms aren't really for us.
We are really glad that we came to the conclusion and we have had a great frame of mind about drug use in general after this trip. I personally found out I dislike drugs that ride MY high instead of me riding THE high. My husband described it as a funny fever, unpleasant.
In conclusion, sometimes you find out by doing what you want, to understand you don't want what you're doing.
Thank you for reading, I vow to leave this thread up so others may be able to relate to a very mediocre experience on mushrooms.
2023.06.03 02:33 GopherDrive Vitamin D Deficiency - A story for all those Googling Symptoms!
For near to a year my life has been on hold… it’s been absolute hell at times.
I wanted share my story with anyone who is going through the same thing, in the hope it can help those who have searched the same thing.
Over a year ago, I went through a pretty stressful time in work and my personal life. My life was wake up, work 12 plus hours, home… bed and repeat.
Things were going wrong and stress levels high.
I found myself getting emotional more, and as we headed into Autumn, pains in my hi, groin and stomach started occurring.
I started to find sleeping on my side painful and the pain travelling to my testicle… what in earth was going on with my body.
I went to the Docs but was told I most likely pulled a muscle.
Alongside this, I wasn’t sleeping well and more stress with life endured into the winter.
I began coughing, which went on for weeks…. Followed by enlarged tonsils and a large unsightly puss like spot on my tonsil.
At this stage I started to make the ultimate mistake… Googling.
I went to the Docs and was told I had tonsillitis… which was a relief… but the doctor then wanted to do a stool test when I mentioned I still had pain in my stomach and groin…
The docs call a week later… we’ve found blood and you’ve got H Pyoli …. Great another illness!
More antibiotics later and low and behold both Tonsilitis and H Pyoli returned… what the hell was by body doing.
Back onto Google I went. I may as well done a course in becoming a Doctor with the vast amount of reading I done over the months!
Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know if you type in ‘cough, swollen glands, groin pain, blood in poo’ what Google is going to throw back at you.
We’ve seen the adverts… cough for over 3 weeks and blood… it’s not a good sign.
From then on I become obsessed with googling and checking my body for new symptoms.
Other than Cancer, the other worst things illnesses populated, including HIV…
I wracked my brains, surely not, how, who, when, it shouldn’t be possible… but I have to know. I hit a low point and tested… negative… tested again…negative….3, 4, 5, 6 times all negative… my brain on overdrive… each test causing more stress anxiety waiting.
I was also asked to do a bowel cancer test… I kept the whole thing to myself and worried in secret not telling friends or family what I was going through.
My mental health was rapidly changing.
Then one night I woke up at 2am… in searing pain. Calves tight and cramped, pins and needles in my hands, my feet, my shins. Burning pains in my muscles… sweating., my blood felt like it was boiling, and my knees and ankles felt bruised. My body was telling me something and it wasn’t good. I wanted to go to A and E, but I felt stupid about going, so rode the pain out.
The pain was unbearable and painkillers were doing nothing for me.
3 weeks passed, with these pains being with me 24:7 and the only rest from it was sleeping. It felt like nerve pains, and the only way to alleviate the pain was though heat or ice on my back or at the source of the pain.
My appetite had gone, I was loosing weight, I couldn’t sleep, my tongue was looking odd, my skin was getting bad More symptoms … great
One day it all got too much. The pain grew more intense and I ended up have a full blown melt down and in a panic called the Docs who ordered a blood test.
As I waited for the blood results, I’d never felt so low… had the HIV tests been incorrect… how has this happened, how long do I have left, I don’t understand…it’s impossible… but here’s a another symptom… it can’t be a Coincidence.
I had no one to talk too for months, how could I even begin to have that conversation with anyone… how have I arrived at that conclusion just because Google led me that way…another set of std tests…negative, but does little to comfort me. The damage is done … thanks brain, thanks Google.
My blood results come back…
The Doctor asked me… have you been under a lot of stress.
“Yes “I burst out, “I can’t been begin to explain”
Well that explains why your Vitamin D levels are at less than 10% of what it needs!
I never realised how important Vitamin D was to so many things, and I had ploughed along for over a year with essential no Vitamin D, no proper functioning immune system and eventually my body was starting to play up and constantly get ill.
Now I opted to tell the full story here, because I’m sure people are going through a similar thing of these random pains and wouldn’t even think of Vitamin D deficiency and it’s certainly not what Google will Chuck at you.
I’m two months in to taking very high dosages plus antidepressants and I’m on the mend… hopefully not too much longer.
Please, please don’t do what I did. Please see a Doctor, DO NOT GOOGLE!
Googling made my stress 100% worse and it was obsessive. Don’t try and play doctor as your two clicks away from the worst illnesses.
I’m now recovering from Anxiety as well, thanks to vitamin d deficiency and my unhealthy google obsession!
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I wanted share my story with anyone who is going through the same thing, in the hope it can help those who have searched the same thing.
Over a year ago, I went through a pretty stressful time in work and my personal life. My life was wake up, work 12 plus hours, home… bed and repeat.
Things were going wrong and stress levels high.
I found myself getting emotional more, and as we headed into Autumn, pains in my hi, groin and stomach started occurring.
I started to find sleeping on my side painful and the pain travelling to my testicle… what in earth was going on with my body.
I went to the Docs but was told I most likely pulled a muscle.
Alongside this, I wasn’t sleeping well and more stress with life endured into the winter.
I began coughing, which went on for weeks…. Followed by enlarged tonsils and a large unsightly puss like spot on my tonsil.
At this stage I started to make the ultimate mistake… Googling.
I went to the Docs and was told I had tonsillitis… which was a relief… but the doctor then wanted to do a stool test when I mentioned I still had pain in my stomach and groin…
The docs call a week later… we’ve found blood and you’ve got H Pyoli …. Great another illness!
More antibiotics later and low and behold both Tonsilitis and H Pyoli returned… what the hell was by body doing.
Back onto Google I went. I may as well done a course in becoming a Doctor with the vast amount of reading I done over the months!
Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know if you type in ‘cough, swollen glands, groin pain, blood in poo’ what Google is going to throw back at you.
We’ve seen the adverts… cough for over 3 weeks and blood… it’s not a good sign.
From then on I become obsessed with googling and checking my body for new symptoms.
Other than Cancer, the other worst things illnesses populated, including HIV…
I wracked my brains, surely not, how, who, when, it shouldn’t be possible… but I have to know. I hit a low point and tested… negative… tested again…negative….3, 4, 5, 6 times all negative… my brain on overdrive… each test causing more stress anxiety waiting.
I was also asked to do a bowel cancer test… I kept the whole thing to myself and worried in secret not telling friends or family what I was going through.
My mental health was rapidly changing.
Then one night I woke up at 2am… in searing pain. Calves tight and cramped, pins and needles in my hands, my feet, my shins. Burning pains in my muscles… sweating., my blood felt like it was boiling, and my knees and ankles felt bruised. My body was telling me something and it wasn’t good. I wanted to go to A and E, but I felt stupid about going, so rode the pain out.
The pain was unbearable and painkillers were doing nothing for me.
3 weeks passed, with these pains being with me 24:7 and the only rest from it was sleeping. It felt like nerve pains, and the only way to alleviate the pain was though heat or ice on my back or at the source of the pain.
My appetite had gone, I was loosing weight, I couldn’t sleep, my tongue was looking odd, my skin was getting bad More symptoms … great
One day it all got too much. The pain grew more intense and I ended up have a full blown melt down and in a panic called the Docs who ordered a blood test.
As I waited for the blood results, I’d never felt so low… had the HIV tests been incorrect… how has this happened, how long do I have left, I don’t understand…it’s impossible… but here’s a another symptom… it can’t be a Coincidence.
I had no one to talk too for months, how could I even begin to have that conversation with anyone… how have I arrived at that conclusion just because Google led me that way…another set of std tests…negative, but does little to comfort me. The damage is done … thanks brain, thanks Google.
My blood results come back…
The Doctor asked me… have you been under a lot of stress.
“Yes “I burst out, “I can’t been begin to explain”
Well that explains why your Vitamin D levels are at less than 10% of what it needs!
I never realised how important Vitamin D was to so many things, and I had ploughed along for over a year with essential no Vitamin D, no proper functioning immune system and eventually my body was starting to play up and constantly get ill.
Now I opted to tell the full story here, because I’m sure people are going through a similar thing of these random pains and wouldn’t even think of Vitamin D deficiency and it’s certainly not what Google will Chuck at you.
I’m two months in to taking very high dosages plus antidepressants and I’m on the mend… hopefully not too much longer.
Please, please don’t do what I did. Please see a Doctor, DO NOT GOOGLE!
Googling made my stress 100% worse and it was obsessive. Don’t try and play doctor as your two clicks away from the worst illnesses.
I’m now recovering from Anxiety as well, thanks to vitamin d deficiency and my unhealthy google obsession!
2023.06.03 02:33 autotldr German far right surges in polls, alarming mainstream parties
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The compromise package negotiated between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy leaves neither Republicans nor Democrats fully pleased with the outcome.
Approval in the Senate on a bipartisan vote, 63-36, somewhat reflected the overwhelming House tally the day before, relying on centrists in both parties to pull the Biden-McCarthy package to passage - though Democrats led the tally in both chambers.
In the end, the debt ceiling showdown was a familiar high-stakes battle in Congress, a fight taken on by McCarthy and powered by a hard-right House Republican majority confronting the Democratic president with a new era of divided government in Washington.
After the House overwhelmingly approved the package late Wednesday, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell signalled he too wanted to waste no time ensuring it became law.
As for discontent from Republicans who said the spending restrictions did not go far enough, McCarthy said it was only a "First step."
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the spending restrictions in the package would reduce deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, a top goal for the Republicans trying to curb the debt load. In a surprise that complicated Republicans' support the CBO said their drive to impose work requirements on older Americans receiving food stamps would end up boosting spending by $2.1 billion over the time period.
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2023.06.03 02:28 TescoValuedMilk hi, i really need immediate guidance in regards to someone who used black magic on my family :(
asalamalakum! ive been seeking immediate guidance. ive resorted to the Internet because my local masjid is over an hour away and cannot go alone (my parents are somewhat strict on that)
anyways, I've been needing ways to help me in regards to someone who has used black magic on my family. ill give a description as to what happened, so one can tell me how I can remove my house of this curse, but also the one that appears to be on me.
this is quite a long story, so buckle in
in summer 2021 my mother met a woman who was searching for financial support. my mother who is charitable (and honestly the best mother I could ever ask for) decided to help. we didn't know much about the woman, aside her family was in unfortunate circumstances regarding money. they eventually became friends, and the woman offered to give us a kitten in regards, which we accepted since ive been searching for a kitten to adopt for a while. we ended up visiting her home and the cats were adorable, I was too oblivious however to notice odd remarks about the woman. she never used mashallah, subhanallah or inshallah, or any sort of common graceful language. instead most of her remarks seemed envyful. always angry or sorr of passive aggressive. she made "jokes" telling my mom to breakup with my dad, or she wanted to take me and my brother as her child. i passed it off however, going along with her statement that these were simply "jokes".
soon after, my parents decided they needed to go visit family for urgent matters abroad. this meant me and my siblings needed somewhere to stay that had a responsible adult. this turned out to be that woman's house. it felt remarkably stressful, there were constant fights between her kids and my siblings, most of them spurring out of nowhere. i noticed another commodity though. for background context, my family is highly financially stable or what you would consider higher end of the middle class, so my mother gave me a card loaded with money just to take care of my siblings and do a grocery shop for the woman. the woman would constantly ask to borrow the money for items that were insanely unnecessary and went against my parents wills. i didnt notice this at the time, but looking back (and having a brief recording on my brothers phone) If I ever disregarded or said no, the woman's lips seem to speak in tongue very quietly, I know arabic but whatever she was saying did NOT sound like arabic and suddenly... I felt the need to allow her to use the money for (such unnecessary things).
£600 left from my parents. £500+ taken from the woman herself. none of it felt like it was even my decision. my siblings were just as confused. i ultimately thought that well, she was extremely financially unstable - so I felt charitable too! of course, I didn't know this woman was some magician at the time. we ended up adopting the kitten from her once my parents back and went home. the kitten was... interesting at best. wrecking parts of our home, being highly mischievous but was undoubted extremely kind just to me. for everyone else, she was calm, but at times aggressive - but to me it felt like we had the closest of bond. i became insanely attached to her.
skip forward to July 2022. my mom and the woman are best friends! again, we had 0 awareness that she was a magician. she came over to our house for a week - my mom however had underlying suspicion and just to be safe, made sure not to reveal our address to her and drove her over. anyways - she came over and the most ridiculous and weirdest of anomalies occurred. I'll summarise them, but essentially - she seemed to envy our family. it felt weird, but me and my mother both noticed it. she always talked about how she "wished" to have our washing machine, "wished" to have our family dynamic, "wished" to have our house. okay.. this is normal.. I mean.. it would make sense.. right..?
our home has been completely normal forever, but out of nowhere - there is an ant and flies infestation in our kitchen out of nowhere. the woman seemed unphased at it, often smiling whilst me and my family were in panic trying to figure out how this happened. she said that "she will handle it" and sprayed some sort of liquid, we didn't know what it was - and once again whispering something that was not arabic, it was just tongue speaking... and then the infestation was gone. we also found out the woman was taking pictures of everyone in our family. often when we are sleeping and just walking about. we also found out she slept for every day of ramadan and wasn't really fasting. we didn't know the length or truth of that though.
After she went, my mom and I was left with weird... underlying thoughts. just suspicions until the breakpoint. the grand reveal, may you say. my mom and the woman ended up having a fight because my mom refused to hand the woman money, and the woman decided to reveal she is a magician, as well revealing her lineage (her mom, grandmother etc..) are magicians, swearing to "ruin" and "take" everything from us. her intentions was to take my dad and both me and my sister away from my mom, and sworn to "take us down" financially etc. this left my mom completely broken and betrayed. I felt nothing but anger. i was not scared of whatever she was going to send us. i was furious and wished that things could be different..
I personally had a feeling that everything she said was not true. I'll be honest, i was gaslighting myself to believe that - until the worst thing that could've happen started to occur. This is the sort of "Part 2" of the situation.
Every Friday, we wash clothes as well as Monday- but that's beside the point. Every single Friday, we noticed one or two of the clothes, mainly shirts that have sleeves, would come out with it tied together in a knot with a black bobble. It looked like a human did it - it was no washing machine fault. Again, this only happened every single Friday. This never happened to any of my 2 littlers clothes. Just me, my sister, my brother and my parents. This happened every single Friday and after seeking some guidance, we learnt it was work of black magic and/or Jinn. We learned the type, which was shaitaini Jinn, because it never happened during Ramadan. It still happens to this day, but we only wash on Friday if its urgent, we switched to Thursday - but when we do.. it happens. We don't wish to know what it means, but i wish to ask you all if you know any sort of way to remove this curse.
Furthermore, I feel like I've been affected tremendously worse. I am not scared of Jinn. I swore that I would stay brave and know that Allah swt would always protect me because he loves me and I love him, but I've been starting to feel wrong.. as if i was going crazy. At every waking moment, i always have thoughts of Jinn in my head. It feels like poison. I always recognise and ask myself "why am I thinking of this?" and I started to drift away from religion. I was constantly always thinking about it, and it feels like a mix of sadness, madness and anger. The woman's face constantly appears in my mind and it disgusts me. The thoughts of Jinn constantly invades my mind and strengthens this sort of fear. I don't like it. i feel like I'm going insane, I constantly check my surroundings and im always always aware when I'm in my house that there can be Jinn. I've been constantly listening for noises, checking positions of objects and consistently worried about if there's possibly one in me. Oh, further update. The cat is gone, we don't know where it is - but we know its far away. But i still feel like I have a strong connection to it. A strong strong emotional connection to it. We found out the Sehr was done on that cat - most likely - or that cat is a Jinn itself. I'm never not thinking about the cat, and it was again only affectionate about me but no one else. We took that cat from the woman.
I need assistance and guidance. I feel like I'm going mad and the only one in my family who is desperate to repair all of this. if anyone requires some sort of photo evidence of that washing machine thing, I will send it to you.
Thank you..
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anyways, I've been needing ways to help me in regards to someone who has used black magic on my family. ill give a description as to what happened, so one can tell me how I can remove my house of this curse, but also the one that appears to be on me.
this is quite a long story, so buckle in
in summer 2021 my mother met a woman who was searching for financial support. my mother who is charitable (and honestly the best mother I could ever ask for) decided to help. we didn't know much about the woman, aside her family was in unfortunate circumstances regarding money. they eventually became friends, and the woman offered to give us a kitten in regards, which we accepted since ive been searching for a kitten to adopt for a while. we ended up visiting her home and the cats were adorable, I was too oblivious however to notice odd remarks about the woman. she never used mashallah, subhanallah or inshallah, or any sort of common graceful language. instead most of her remarks seemed envyful. always angry or sorr of passive aggressive. she made "jokes" telling my mom to breakup with my dad, or she wanted to take me and my brother as her child. i passed it off however, going along with her statement that these were simply "jokes".
soon after, my parents decided they needed to go visit family for urgent matters abroad. this meant me and my siblings needed somewhere to stay that had a responsible adult. this turned out to be that woman's house. it felt remarkably stressful, there were constant fights between her kids and my siblings, most of them spurring out of nowhere. i noticed another commodity though. for background context, my family is highly financially stable or what you would consider higher end of the middle class, so my mother gave me a card loaded with money just to take care of my siblings and do a grocery shop for the woman. the woman would constantly ask to borrow the money for items that were insanely unnecessary and went against my parents wills. i didnt notice this at the time, but looking back (and having a brief recording on my brothers phone) If I ever disregarded or said no, the woman's lips seem to speak in tongue very quietly, I know arabic but whatever she was saying did NOT sound like arabic and suddenly... I felt the need to allow her to use the money for (such unnecessary things).
£600 left from my parents. £500+ taken from the woman herself. none of it felt like it was even my decision. my siblings were just as confused. i ultimately thought that well, she was extremely financially unstable - so I felt charitable too! of course, I didn't know this woman was some magician at the time. we ended up adopting the kitten from her once my parents back and went home. the kitten was... interesting at best. wrecking parts of our home, being highly mischievous but was undoubted extremely kind just to me. for everyone else, she was calm, but at times aggressive - but to me it felt like we had the closest of bond. i became insanely attached to her.
skip forward to July 2022. my mom and the woman are best friends! again, we had 0 awareness that she was a magician. she came over to our house for a week - my mom however had underlying suspicion and just to be safe, made sure not to reveal our address to her and drove her over. anyways - she came over and the most ridiculous and weirdest of anomalies occurred. I'll summarise them, but essentially - she seemed to envy our family. it felt weird, but me and my mother both noticed it. she always talked about how she "wished" to have our washing machine, "wished" to have our family dynamic, "wished" to have our house. okay.. this is normal.. I mean.. it would make sense.. right..?
our home has been completely normal forever, but out of nowhere - there is an ant and flies infestation in our kitchen out of nowhere. the woman seemed unphased at it, often smiling whilst me and my family were in panic trying to figure out how this happened. she said that "she will handle it" and sprayed some sort of liquid, we didn't know what it was - and once again whispering something that was not arabic, it was just tongue speaking... and then the infestation was gone. we also found out the woman was taking pictures of everyone in our family. often when we are sleeping and just walking about. we also found out she slept for every day of ramadan and wasn't really fasting. we didn't know the length or truth of that though.
After she went, my mom and I was left with weird... underlying thoughts. just suspicions until the breakpoint. the grand reveal, may you say. my mom and the woman ended up having a fight because my mom refused to hand the woman money, and the woman decided to reveal she is a magician, as well revealing her lineage (her mom, grandmother etc..) are magicians, swearing to "ruin" and "take" everything from us. her intentions was to take my dad and both me and my sister away from my mom, and sworn to "take us down" financially etc. this left my mom completely broken and betrayed. I felt nothing but anger. i was not scared of whatever she was going to send us. i was furious and wished that things could be different..
I personally had a feeling that everything she said was not true. I'll be honest, i was gaslighting myself to believe that - until the worst thing that could've happen started to occur. This is the sort of "Part 2" of the situation.
Every Friday, we wash clothes as well as Monday- but that's beside the point. Every single Friday, we noticed one or two of the clothes, mainly shirts that have sleeves, would come out with it tied together in a knot with a black bobble. It looked like a human did it - it was no washing machine fault. Again, this only happened every single Friday. This never happened to any of my 2 littlers clothes. Just me, my sister, my brother and my parents. This happened every single Friday and after seeking some guidance, we learnt it was work of black magic and/or Jinn. We learned the type, which was shaitaini Jinn, because it never happened during Ramadan. It still happens to this day, but we only wash on Friday if its urgent, we switched to Thursday - but when we do.. it happens. We don't wish to know what it means, but i wish to ask you all if you know any sort of way to remove this curse.
Furthermore, I feel like I've been affected tremendously worse. I am not scared of Jinn. I swore that I would stay brave and know that Allah swt would always protect me because he loves me and I love him, but I've been starting to feel wrong.. as if i was going crazy. At every waking moment, i always have thoughts of Jinn in my head. It feels like poison. I always recognise and ask myself "why am I thinking of this?" and I started to drift away from religion. I was constantly always thinking about it, and it feels like a mix of sadness, madness and anger. The woman's face constantly appears in my mind and it disgusts me. The thoughts of Jinn constantly invades my mind and strengthens this sort of fear. I don't like it. i feel like I'm going insane, I constantly check my surroundings and im always always aware when I'm in my house that there can be Jinn. I've been constantly listening for noises, checking positions of objects and consistently worried about if there's possibly one in me. Oh, further update. The cat is gone, we don't know where it is - but we know its far away. But i still feel like I have a strong connection to it. A strong strong emotional connection to it. We found out the Sehr was done on that cat - most likely - or that cat is a Jinn itself. I'm never not thinking about the cat, and it was again only affectionate about me but no one else. We took that cat from the woman.
I need assistance and guidance. I feel like I'm going mad and the only one in my family who is desperate to repair all of this. if anyone requires some sort of photo evidence of that washing machine thing, I will send it to you.
Thank you..
2023.06.03 02:27 FriendlyFriend333 24 [M4F] #Fontana/SoCal/InlandEmpire - Nerdy guy looking for a genuine connection ❤️
Hi there! My name is Daniel and I'm from Southern California (the Inland Empire, specifically). I'm just looking for someone to have a genuinely great time with. I'm not a very picky person and I don't really care much for looks. I more so value your personality and how well we vibe, so pretty much anyone is welcome to get to know me! (I mean that in the most non-conceited way possible lol). I would just ask that you be 21 and older.
My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
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My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
2023.06.03 02:27 Sharinganprincess91 [F4M] Fandom Roleplay. Looking for more partners. (Super freaking bored and looking 🙃😞)
Side note: I've added a password, so read carefully. If you message me WITHOUT the password, your messages are automatically IGNORED. tired of getting hit up with people who don't read 😒. It's ridiculous cause I've ignored 5+ chats cause none of them contained the password. Things are written for a reason.
Facts about me:
1: if you don't like 50/50 mixture of sex scenes and story, don't bother hopping into my inbox. I'm fine with sex scenes, but when it's constantly back to back, the roleplay itself gets boring.
2: Be literate. No one liners. I like to write..it's annoying when I send a 2-3 paragraph response and I get 3 lines...just...no. I am not accepting people who are just starting out! If you aren't experienced in writing or roleplaying, kindly stay out of my inbox.
3: Be okay with playing canon characters. I'm mainly doing fandom roleplays right now and it's going to be Canon x my oc. No, I'm not doing double ups. Do not even ask, because the answer will be no every time. I do not give a shit if you think that makes me 'lazy' or 'selfish', if you've got a problem, you can simply ignore or block me. Commenting on my post to bitch and whine about me not doubling up will only result in me blocking you. The ONLY time I'll double up, and if I'm confident enough, I'll only do female characters. I suck at males. Got a problem? Not my issue. Block and move on.
4: Roleplay in third person. I can't and won't adapt to first. Don't even bring up the idea of you playing first person and me playing third. Believe it or not, I've been asked this twice and that is just a hell no for me. The only time I do first, is when I'm writing into my book.
5: if you don't know how to share ideas, then don't bother messaging me. I'm tired of carrying the story when the other person doesn't help. If you've got ideas, then PLEASE speak up! Your opinion on the roleplay matters too! I'm an easy going person, and easy to get along with (dispite my rules).
6: DO NOT control my character. I control what she says, does, hears, sees, ect. I don't control yours, so don't control mine. HOWEVER, if it's highly necessary and needed, then run it by me first and ask me. Just leave me some wiggle room so I can make a decent response. Failure to comply by this rule, results in immediate drop of the rp.
End Note:
Yes, I've updated my rules just a tad. I do not care if it makes me sound mean or rude, because I'm neither of these things. I'm just tired of putting these rules down for a specific reason and they go ignored because I can tell when someone hasn't read them, and lied about it. I'm just trying to get my point across and roleplay. I'm a very easy going person who loves to make friends on the side (which I've somewhat given up on making friends...only a selective few have actually gained my friendship).
Do not hop into my inbox with a simple 'hey' 'hi' 'sup', etc and for God's sake, don't message me with a 'rp?'and proceed me to flash me with your talliwhacker. I promise you, you'll get your feelings hurt and I'll be here laughing at ya 😂. Nobody wants a peen on their screen. Do not send me an image of your one eyed noodle. Thank you. The password is pineapple.
Fandoms & Pairings
Deadpool (Wade x my oc)
The Adam's family
Pokemon ((MAYBE. Don't be nasty about it either!))
Bridgerton (or something like it. Can be Oc x Oc)
Disney Decedent's (or anything Disney) (oc x oc)
Orange is the new black (this can be oc x oc).
Criminal Minds (REALLY wanna do)
Marvel:
Loki x my oc
Spiderman (Tom Holland) x my oc
Dog The Bounty Hunter (REALLY wanna do):
Dog Chapman x my oc
The walking dead (REALLY wanna do!!):
Daryl X my oc
Batman x my oc
Lucifer (Netflix show series) x my oc (really wanna do)
The Originals: Klaus x my oc (PLEASE !! I REALLY wanna do this one!)
American Horror Story: Tate x my oc (REALLY wanna do)
Dragon Ball Z - Super (vegeta x my oc) (really wanna do)
Naruto: Minato x my oc
Harry Potter (thanks to the wonderful world of rp, the characters will be 18 or older. For me, I'd like it if it was Draco x my oc. REALLY wanna do)
Game Of Thrones (I'm still very early in the show, but I think we could think of something!)
Once Upon A Time:
killian x my oc, REALLY wanna do 🥺.
Avatar the last Airbender:
Zuko x my oc
Twilight:
Jacob x my oc
(Course, our version will be alot better than the movies).
If any of these interests you, message me!
End note part 2:
Congratulations! You've made it to the end. Still interested? You've got the password. Message me and let's get started 😁.
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Facts about me:
- I have been roleplaying since 2012. Yes, I got experience under my belt, and yes, my ideas usually have really long reads, but don't let that scare you off! After the starter is off, I may lower myself down to a decent paragraph or two, sometimes three! It all depends on what I've got to work with.
- My timezone is EST. I'm awake from 9am - 2am and I'm usually free unless I'm busy doing house chores, out of the house, asleep, or playing video games on my switch. I'm usually become REALLY active at or around 8pm.
1: if you don't like 50/50 mixture of sex scenes and story, don't bother hopping into my inbox. I'm fine with sex scenes, but when it's constantly back to back, the roleplay itself gets boring.
2: Be literate. No one liners. I like to write..it's annoying when I send a 2-3 paragraph response and I get 3 lines...just...no. I am not accepting people who are just starting out! If you aren't experienced in writing or roleplaying, kindly stay out of my inbox.
3: Be okay with playing canon characters. I'm mainly doing fandom roleplays right now and it's going to be Canon x my oc. No, I'm not doing double ups. Do not even ask, because the answer will be no every time. I do not give a shit if you think that makes me 'lazy' or 'selfish', if you've got a problem, you can simply ignore or block me. Commenting on my post to bitch and whine about me not doubling up will only result in me blocking you. The ONLY time I'll double up, and if I'm confident enough, I'll only do female characters. I suck at males. Got a problem? Not my issue. Block and move on.
4: Roleplay in third person. I can't and won't adapt to first. Don't even bring up the idea of you playing first person and me playing third. Believe it or not, I've been asked this twice and that is just a hell no for me. The only time I do first, is when I'm writing into my book.
5: if you don't know how to share ideas, then don't bother messaging me. I'm tired of carrying the story when the other person doesn't help. If you've got ideas, then PLEASE speak up! Your opinion on the roleplay matters too! I'm an easy going person, and easy to get along with (dispite my rules).
6: DO NOT control my character. I control what she says, does, hears, sees, ect. I don't control yours, so don't control mine. HOWEVER, if it's highly necessary and needed, then run it by me first and ask me. Just leave me some wiggle room so I can make a decent response. Failure to comply by this rule, results in immediate drop of the rp.
End Note:
Yes, I've updated my rules just a tad. I do not care if it makes me sound mean or rude, because I'm neither of these things. I'm just tired of putting these rules down for a specific reason and they go ignored because I can tell when someone hasn't read them, and lied about it. I'm just trying to get my point across and roleplay. I'm a very easy going person who loves to make friends on the side (which I've somewhat given up on making friends...only a selective few have actually gained my friendship).
Do not hop into my inbox with a simple 'hey' 'hi' 'sup', etc and for God's sake, don't message me with a 'rp?'and proceed me to flash me with your talliwhacker. I promise you, you'll get your feelings hurt and I'll be here laughing at ya 😂. Nobody wants a peen on their screen. Do not send me an image of your one eyed noodle. Thank you. The password is pineapple.
Fandoms & Pairings
Deadpool (Wade x my oc)
The Adam's family
Pokemon ((MAYBE. Don't be nasty about it either!))
Bridgerton (or something like it. Can be Oc x Oc)
Disney Decedent's (or anything Disney) (oc x oc)
Orange is the new black (this can be oc x oc).
Criminal Minds (REALLY wanna do)
Marvel:
Loki x my oc
Spiderman (Tom Holland) x my oc
Dog The Bounty Hunter (REALLY wanna do):
Dog Chapman x my oc
The walking dead (REALLY wanna do!!):
Daryl X my oc
Batman x my oc
Lucifer (Netflix show series) x my oc (really wanna do)
The Originals: Klaus x my oc (PLEASE !! I REALLY wanna do this one!)
American Horror Story: Tate x my oc (REALLY wanna do)
Dragon Ball Z - Super (vegeta x my oc) (really wanna do)
Naruto: Minato x my oc
Harry Potter (thanks to the wonderful world of rp, the characters will be 18 or older. For me, I'd like it if it was Draco x my oc. REALLY wanna do)
Game Of Thrones (I'm still very early in the show, but I think we could think of something!)
Once Upon A Time:
killian x my oc, REALLY wanna do 🥺.
Avatar the last Airbender:
Zuko x my oc
Twilight:
Jacob x my oc
(Course, our version will be alot better than the movies).
If any of these interests you, message me!
End note part 2:
Congratulations! You've made it to the end. Still interested? You've got the password. Message me and let's get started 😁.
2023.06.03 02:27 Notimeforvapids I thought maybe I should ask here too. It can also apply to Barbie dolls and such id just like to know everyone’s way of choosing a doll for your mini-me
I was wondering how do you all go about picking your Mini-me’s? Do you guys go for the more “skin” colored ones? Or do some of you all have a monochrome mini-me? I really want to make one of me and a partner but part of me wanted to do monochrome shadow high mini-me’s since we’re into alternative more goth/visual kei aesthetic. Do you pick a base doll that you think resembles you? I was thinking of going for a lime green/ or Zooey doll since I have green hair and usually do heavy black wings lol but also the inner saboteur in me is like “you know you don’t ACTUALLY look like that, don’t flatter yourself” 😭 ( I really flog myself way too much im working on it) ah sorry for the ramble but yeah I was wondering how you all go about choosing your mini-me’s
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2023.06.03 02:26 FriendlyFriend333 24M [relationship] Nerdy guy looking for a genuine connection ❤️
Hi there! My name is Daniel and I'm from Southern California (the Inland Empire, specifically). I'm just looking for someone to have a genuinely great time with. I'm not a very picky person and I don't really care much for looks. I more so value your personality and how well we vibe, so pretty much anyone is welcome to get to know me! (I mean that in the most non-conceited way possible lol). I would just ask that you be 21 and older.
My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
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My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
2023.06.03 02:25 TheRealBrokenbrains Killington 6/1/2023 Closing Day - Mowin the Lawn 2 - When there's no glades to ski, I'm still looking for a challenge... so grass it is. Closing day was awesome. Top to bottom skiing, only had to take your skis off to walk to the lift. So many great people and the stoke was high... as was I.
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2023.06.03 02:25 CompelledfromLurking Darkmoon in the DeepChapter 13: Barbs Between Brothers
"My Prince!"
The captain of the airship fell to one knee, removing his hat and bowing his head as Vegoram strode aboard with a contingent of guards. "How may I serve, Highness?" Vegoram smirked. "I'm told this is the... vessel that the King's Warden had arrived on," he said, waving a hand over his nose. The captain raised his head and pushed himself off the ground. The Prince glared. "I did not command you to rise!"
The color drained from the weathered captains face as he returned to the floor. "I beg your forgiveness, my Prince! It is beyond rare for us common folk of the sky to be in the presence of royalty such as yourself. I forget my place." Vegoram scoffed. "Indeed you do. Now tell me, did the Warden arrive on this vessel or not?" The captain kept his gaze leveled on the floor before him. "Indeed he did, my Prince," he responded. "We've sailed with him on many occasions. Called him Hark, we did. Quite a shock for us lot when we heard him called 'Harkanon'."
Vegoram stomped his foot and leaned over to shout into the man's ear. "You will not speak that bastards stolen name!" he screamed. A voice from the ramp rose from behind him. "Not sure that's the appropriate attire for a customs officer, my Prince." Hark walked to the top of the ramp and smiled as his brother nearly tripped on his fine floor length robe while he whirled around in rage. "Quite the demotion, Vegoram." The Prince took a breath and composed himself. "Just making sure your ship doesn't leave without you, brother," he said, speaking the last word with so much venom that Hark thought the crew might get sick by proximity.
Vegoram had a smile on his face that made Hark feel afraid of the man for the first time in his life. "Mission accomplished, Highness," he said, saluting sarcastically. "May we never share the pleasure of each other's company again." Vegoram sneered, then gestured for his men to escort him down the ramp. The captain rose, rubbing the knee he had been kneeling on and shot Hark a terrified look. From the dock below, Hark could hear Vegoram berating someone else. He rolled his eyes, sighed, and leaned over the railing. The King's steward locked eyes with him.
"Lord Harkanon!" he shouted over Vegorams insults. "You are summoned to dine with the King."
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The captain of the airship fell to one knee, removing his hat and bowing his head as Vegoram strode aboard with a contingent of guards. "How may I serve, Highness?" Vegoram smirked. "I'm told this is the... vessel that the King's Warden had arrived on," he said, waving a hand over his nose. The captain raised his head and pushed himself off the ground. The Prince glared. "I did not command you to rise!"
The color drained from the weathered captains face as he returned to the floor. "I beg your forgiveness, my Prince! It is beyond rare for us common folk of the sky to be in the presence of royalty such as yourself. I forget my place." Vegoram scoffed. "Indeed you do. Now tell me, did the Warden arrive on this vessel or not?" The captain kept his gaze leveled on the floor before him. "Indeed he did, my Prince," he responded. "We've sailed with him on many occasions. Called him Hark, we did. Quite a shock for us lot when we heard him called 'Harkanon'."
Vegoram stomped his foot and leaned over to shout into the man's ear. "You will not speak that bastards stolen name!" he screamed. A voice from the ramp rose from behind him. "Not sure that's the appropriate attire for a customs officer, my Prince." Hark walked to the top of the ramp and smiled as his brother nearly tripped on his fine floor length robe while he whirled around in rage. "Quite the demotion, Vegoram." The Prince took a breath and composed himself. "Just making sure your ship doesn't leave without you, brother," he said, speaking the last word with so much venom that Hark thought the crew might get sick by proximity.
Vegoram had a smile on his face that made Hark feel afraid of the man for the first time in his life. "Mission accomplished, Highness," he said, saluting sarcastically. "May we never share the pleasure of each other's company again." Vegoram sneered, then gestured for his men to escort him down the ramp. The captain rose, rubbing the knee he had been kneeling on and shot Hark a terrified look. From the dock below, Hark could hear Vegoram berating someone else. He rolled his eyes, sighed, and leaned over the railing. The King's steward locked eyes with him.
"Lord Harkanon!" he shouted over Vegorams insults. "You are summoned to dine with the King."
2023.06.03 02:24 FriendlyFriend333 24 [M4F] Fontana/InlandEmpire/SoCal/CA - Nerdy guy looking for a genuine connection ❤️
Hi there! My name is Daniel and I'm from Southern California (the Inland Empire, specifically). I'm just looking for someone to have a genuinely great time with. I'm not a very picky person and I don't really care much for looks. I more so value your personality and how well we vibe, so pretty much anyone is welcome to get to know me! (I mean that in the most non-conceited way possible lol). I would just ask that you be 21 and older.
My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
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My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
2023.06.03 02:24 caseygibs [WTS] Glock, Rail Panels, Dead Air, Pistol Mount, POF Muzzle Brake
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/7ZbtgqE Grip Plug Pics: https://imgur.com/a/oLirDsH Dead Air Cap Tool Pics: https://imgur.com/a/nUZyLn0 POF Brake Pics: https://imgur.com/a/g1zQp5E Panel before and after bevel (no WD-40): https://imgur.com/bo9Ipjp Finished Panel: https://imgur.com/VqEYmhU
I'll take pp ff, venmo ff or zelle. NO NOTES, MAKE ZELLE A PIZZA. Will ship out next dayPlease pm me with any questions. NO CHAT NO CHAT
Glock 19.5 Weighted Grip Plug (CUSTOM MADE) 1045 steel in black oxide weighing in at 1.94oz and a bronze plug weighing in at 1.73oz. The steel plug is more of a press fit and the bronze a slip fit with some small machining defects, but doesn't affect the function in any way. These will fit any compact sized gen 5 Glock frame and they also fit the G45 and G47. They are threaded for an M4 bolt, which is included. Asking $60 shipped
Glock Mag Loader New never used. Add on $5
G10 Rail Panels (NOT RAILSCALE BRAND) I have 7 "3 slot length" available, made by me. All panels are minidot style with bevels on the long sides. Each 3 slot panel comes with mlok hardware for $15 shipped EACH. G10 is layered glass fabric and epoxy resin, so as the black top layer is machined away for the bevels and dots, the epoxy becomes visible from the top, that is why they're not solid black. WD-40 makes the epoxy darker again, but still lighter. SEE PICTURES for before and after bevel and WD-40.
Dead Air MK2 Cap Tools (CUSTOM MADE) I have 1 available. They don't have all the same features, but the pins do fit the cap pockets. The finish is black oxide. Asking $30 each shipped
Magpul Daka Pouch (small) Never used. $20 Shipped obo
Madhouse 9mm Pistol Mount Gift from a friend and never used it myself. $30 shipped https://madhousedesign.com/product/gcs-single-mount/
POF Triple Port Muzzle Brake 1/2x28. Very light salt, less than 500 rds, does NOT come with the locking nut or shims. $40 shipped obo
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I'll take pp ff, venmo ff or zelle. NO NOTES, MAKE ZELLE A PIZZA. Will ship out next dayPlease pm me with any questions. NO CHAT NO CHAT
Glock 19.5 Weighted Grip Plug (CUSTOM MADE) 1045 steel in black oxide weighing in at 1.94oz and a bronze plug weighing in at 1.73oz. The steel plug is more of a press fit and the bronze a slip fit with some small machining defects, but doesn't affect the function in any way. These will fit any compact sized gen 5 Glock frame and they also fit the G45 and G47. They are threaded for an M4 bolt, which is included. Asking $60 shipped
Glock Mag Loader New never used. Add on $5
G10 Rail Panels (NOT RAILSCALE BRAND) I have 7 "3 slot length" available, made by me. All panels are minidot style with bevels on the long sides. Each 3 slot panel comes with mlok hardware for $15 shipped EACH. G10 is layered glass fabric and epoxy resin, so as the black top layer is machined away for the bevels and dots, the epoxy becomes visible from the top, that is why they're not solid black. WD-40 makes the epoxy darker again, but still lighter. SEE PICTURES for before and after bevel and WD-40.
Dead Air MK2 Cap Tools (CUSTOM MADE) I have 1 available. They don't have all the same features, but the pins do fit the cap pockets. The finish is black oxide. Asking $30 each shipped
Magpul Daka Pouch (small) Never used. $20 Shipped obo
Madhouse 9mm Pistol Mount Gift from a friend and never used it myself. $30 shipped https://madhousedesign.com/product/gcs-single-mount/
POF Triple Port Muzzle Brake 1/2x28. Very light salt, less than 500 rds, does NOT come with the locking nut or shims. $40 shipped obo
2023.06.03 02:23 FriendlyFriend333 24 [M4F] #Fontana/InlandEmpire/SoCal - Nerdy guy looking for a genuine connection ❤️
Hi there! My name is Daniel and I'm from Southern California (the Inland Empire, specifically). I'm just looking for someone to have a genuinely great time with. I'm not a very picky person and I don't really care much for looks. I more so value your personality and how well we vibe, so pretty much anyone is welcome to get to know me! (I mean that in the most non-conceited way possible lol). I would just ask that you be 21 and older.
My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
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My interests:
~ As stated in my title I would consider myself the typical nerdy type (gaming, anime, comic books, super hero movies, etc.) If you like share any of those interests then I think we'll get along great lol
~ I'm Black and Cherokee, I'm bilingual (English and Japanese), around 5'11" but 6 feet tall on a good day. I'm also trying to get better at working out as well so an exercise buddy would be great also lol
~ On top of being your typical nerd I am also a huge horror movie fan to the point of considering making my own horror movie. I have a couple ideas and I would love to share them with someone who's interested in hearing them.
~ I listen to any kind of music except country cuz it all sounds the same to me lol. So if that's a deal breaker then I apologize but I just can't get into it. I also used to rap and sing and have been thinking of doing it again. I have made about 9 or 10 songs in total. Let me know if you'd like to hear something I've made.
~ I love coffee and boba so random coffee and boba runs will be a thing. One of my favorite things to is visit a coffee place I've never been to and try out their coffee and see if I'm adding it to my list or favorite spots or if I'm just never going there again. I know, it sounds weird but I promise it can be kinda fun.
What I expect from you:
~ Good communication and someone who likes to go one random coffee or boba runs. Anime lovers and gamers are a plus as well. Would love a gamer friend/girlfriend. Also, I like cuddling while watching horror movies so if you like doing the same then that would also be nice 😌.
2023.06.03 02:23 Notimeforvapids Question about Mini Me’s
I was wondering how do you all go about picking your Mini-me’s? Do you guys go for the more “skin” colored ones? Or do some of you all have a monochrome mini-me? I really want to make one of me and a partner but part of me wanted to do monochrome shadow high mini-me’s since we’re into alternative more goth/visual kei aesthetic. Do you pick a base doll that you think resembles you? I was thinking of going for a lime green/ or Zooey doll since I have green hair and usually do heavy black wings lol but also the inner saboteur in me is like “you know you don’t ACTUALLY look like that, don’t flatter yourself” 😭 ( I really flog myself way too much im working on it) ah sorry for the ramble but yeah I was wondering how you all go about choosing your mini-me’s
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2023.06.03 02:23 AutoModerator Biaheza - Dropshipping Program (Updated)
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The course focuses on practical steps that take you from zero to a profitable dropshipping store in no time.
Biaheza's Dropshipping course guarantees real results, not just theories!
Experience the thrill of launching your own store and making over one thousand dollars on day one. Biaheza will guide you through every step, explaining how to scale your business for even greater success.
You will learn how to:
- Dominate with TikTok ads
- Create a high-converting website with ease
- Learn to create a simple yet powerful website that achieves world-class conversion rates...
.,, and more!
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2023.06.03 02:22 Acrobatic-Canary5903 Question
Hello! I’m at a little bit of a hold up with my health and was looking for some advice.
I have been in a very high stress job for the past three years ( I’m 26) and it has effected me in a lot of ways. I have PCOS and have not taken care of myself in response to the stress and am now feeling the consequences. I was on anxiety medicine for a year but that wrecked me. I have a hard time remembering my wedding due to being so high. I know it’s my fault but I’m unsure where to go from here.
My symptoms are: Brain fog Not feeling inside my body Minimal memory Panic attacks Tingling pain on the top of my head Fatigue Little emotion Have no creativity and no dreams
I have a blood work appointment tomorrow but it’s been three years and I’m over it.
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I have been in a very high stress job for the past three years ( I’m 26) and it has effected me in a lot of ways. I have PCOS and have not taken care of myself in response to the stress and am now feeling the consequences. I was on anxiety medicine for a year but that wrecked me. I have a hard time remembering my wedding due to being so high. I know it’s my fault but I’m unsure where to go from here.
My symptoms are: Brain fog Not feeling inside my body Minimal memory Panic attacks Tingling pain on the top of my head Fatigue Little emotion Have no creativity and no dreams
I have a blood work appointment tomorrow but it’s been three years and I’m over it.
2023.06.03 02:21 Acrobatic-Canary5903 Question: looking for answers
Hello! I’m at a little bit of a hold up with my health and was looking for some advice.
I have been in a very high stress job for the past three years ( I’m 26) and it has effected me in a lot of ways. I have PCOS and have not taken care of myself in response to the stress and am now feeling the consequences. I was on anxiety medicine for a year but that wrecked me. I have a hard time remembering my wedding due to being so high. I know it’s my fault but I’m unsure where to go from here.
My symptoms are: Brain fog Not feeling inside my body Minimal memory Panic attacks Tingling pain on the top of my head Fatigue Little emotion Have no creativity and no dreams
I have a blood work appointment tomorrow but it’s been three years and I’m over it.
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I have been in a very high stress job for the past three years ( I’m 26) and it has effected me in a lot of ways. I have PCOS and have not taken care of myself in response to the stress and am now feeling the consequences. I was on anxiety medicine for a year but that wrecked me. I have a hard time remembering my wedding due to being so high. I know it’s my fault but I’m unsure where to go from here.
My symptoms are: Brain fog Not feeling inside my body Minimal memory Panic attacks Tingling pain on the top of my head Fatigue Little emotion Have no creativity and no dreams
I have a blood work appointment tomorrow but it’s been three years and I’m over it.
2023.06.03 02:21 LoveMangaBuddy Read My Cute Baby Is A Wingman - Chapter 163 - MangaPuma
Top hacker Ann Jiujiu sneaks into an auction, intending to steal a gem, but unexpectedly loses her baby! Instead, there is a child who looks exactly like her son, only a bit dumb? When the little fox An Jiujiu meets the big black wolf Ji Jinchen, she hides from him, but he still catches her firmly. Since we can't escape, we'll train him to be a good dog, and what's the fate of marriage, we already ... Read My Cute Baby Is A Wingman - Chapter 163 - MangaPuma. Read more at https://mangapuma.com/my-cute-baby-is-a-wingman/chapter-163
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2023.06.03 02:20 evandav13 Gilberto Perez on COLLEGE
From The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium (1998).
"Nothing in the strange world of Buster Keaton's comedy is stranger than the ending of College (1927). In that picture Buster plays a bookworm who strives to become a jock. The top student in his high-school class, and so averse to sports that he makes his graduation speech into a diatribe against athletics, he yet arrives at college the next fall with suitcases full not of books but of athletic equipment. With the dauntless determination characteristic of the Keaton hero, the little scholar involves himself in a pursuit for which he's quite unsuited but which is, under circumstances equally characteristic of Keaton, what's expected of him in his courtship of the girl he loves. Outraged like all his other classmates by his diatribe at graduation, she'll see no more of him, as she promptly informs him after the speech, unless he changes his attitude and takes up sports. And so he changes his attitude, neglecting all his studies at college and instead spending most of his time on the sports field. Although he seems inept beyond hope at the various athletic activities he doggedly tries out, he succeeds in winning her in the end, for he summons up unexpected abilities when she's in danger and he comes to the rescue, running much faster and jumping much farther than he ever could before, managing with no trouble now an obstacle race over the hedges in his path and a high pole-vault into the window of her room. With undiminished momentum, he quickly disposes of the villain, a brawny dolt who has been his rival for the girl's affections, and proceeds with her to church forthwith, not even pausing to change his athletic clothes before they are married. Then follows a very peculiar epilogue. No sooner are the newlyweds out of church than a dissolve transports us many years later to the middle-aged couple in their home, sitting among their several children; this in turn swiftly gives way to the couple in their advanced years, abidingly sitting at home beside each other; this in turn to the closing shot of their adjacent graves.
"The element of sadness in Keaton's comedy has often been noted, and it certainly emerges in that brisk final depiction of aging and death. Coming on the heels of the triumphant happy ending, the sudden sadness of the epilogue takes us by surprise; but I don't think it constitutes such a break with the rest of the film as some believe. "'What is this abrupt slap in the face doing at the end of an otherwise unquestioning love story?' wrote Walter Kerr in The Silent Clowns. "It takes no more than eleven seconds of playing time to deliver its chill, and yet it undoes on the spot all of the yearning, the struggle and the victory, of the narrative."1 Evidently perturbed by the chill, Kerr misrepresents the epilogue as portraying a disappointed, even embittered couple, when nothing of the sort is suggested: all that we get is a brief summary of a long, uneventful marriage. It seems to me wrong, or only half right, to view the epilogue as a brusque reversal of a hitherto romantic story. Although the hero is unquestioning in his devotion to the girl, the romanticism of the story has been tacitly called into question all along by the conveyed sense that the girl is as unreasonable in her peremptory demands as is the hero in his stubborn pursuit. If Keaton is a romantic, he's a singularly unsentimental one. Granted, we'd have expected the story to end with Buster's getting the girl, but the epilogue merely shows us that he gets to keep her: surely not the undoing but the exact fulfillment of his wishes. If the epilogue brings about a reversal of the happy ending, it does so by way of being a logical continuation of it, indeed a visual equivalent of those famous romantic last words: and they lived happily ever after.
"Seeing the couple's whole life together go by on the screen in so short a time has, of course, none of the reassuring effect of those words. Yet even the disconcerting briskness of those final eleven seconds carries forward unbrokenly the haste of the climactic rescue and ensuing wedding, as if confirming Buster's aim to get things settled once and for all. College is not the only one of Keaton's films to conclude with the grave. In Cops (1922), a short film in which he's surreally chased by every cop in the city, "The End" appears inscribed on a tombstone capped with Buster's porkpie hat. The plot of Cops, however—unlike that of any of his full-length movies—has an unhappy outcome. Rejected by the girl he loves even after he manages to elude all the cops who have been after him, Buster suicidally puts himself back in their midst: an unusual ending for a comedy, to be sure, but not so strange as the way that in College the romance turns sad, in spite of its triumph, by being literally carried out to its conventional conclusion in the couple's staying together for the remainder of their lives.
"Although not quite in the class of Keaton's very best— Our Hospitality (1923), Sherlock Junior (1924), The Navigator (1924), The General (1927), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)—College seems to me a splendid film that has been generally underrated. It surpasses, I believe, Harold Lloyd's better-known college comedy, The Freshman (1925), which preceded it and no doubt influenced it. The hero of The Freshman is also an incompetent athlete who redeems himself in the end by performing unexpected feats, in his case by winning the decisive football game of the season. (Apparently to avoid too close a comparison with the Lloyd picture, football is one sport omitted from College.) In giving such prominence to athletics, however, both comedians were merely reflecting a fact of campus life—in which sports are often more important than studies—and making use of material naturally befitting the physical comedy of the silent screen. Their comic conceptions, in any case, are fundamentally different. For Lloyd, athletics are part of the image of the big man on campus his ambitious but unknowing hero wants to become, whereas Buster only wants the girl, a more realistic goal as well as a more romantic one. Lloyd's hero is a thoroughgoing incompetent, a classic fool, whereas Keaton's is only a fool for love, a bookworm out of his element on the sports field and quite aware of his problem. When, after knocking over every other hurdle along the racing track, he succeeds in clearing the last one, Buster, instead of deriving any satisfaction from that success, gravely appraises it as a fluke, and then tips over that last hurdle too, feeling that it might as well conform to the pattern of the others. Such disdain for flukes is inconceivable in the Lloyd hero, who'd get nowhere without them. Unlike Lloyd, Keaton never plays the kind of comic character who is preposterously deluded about himself and what's going on around him.
"Buster usually has a good grasp of his situation, as good a grasp as one can expect from, as Kenner put it, 'a visitor, not native.' He is a visitor to the sports field in College who knows that the odds are against him there but nonetheless keeps trying because he also knows that the girl won't have him any other way, because he is a compliant visitor desiring to participate in a situation in which a girl's ideal boyfriend must be a jock.
"Why should Buster unprotestingly comply with the undue requirements laid upon him by others? One answer is provided in College by the figure of a dean, friendly to the promising young scholar and built small like him, who may be regarded as an embodiment of what his scholarly future would be like. Disappointed that Buster has been doing poorly in his studies, the older man, when he hears the explanation, tearfully reveals that he himself loved a girl once but lost her to an athlete. Buster would rather take on the alien territory of sports than end up alone like the dean. If all comedians are outsiders, Keaton is the outsider who will not give up the attempt to join in, to connect with others. Chaplin's Tramp, by contrast, is more or less self-sufficient, "an aristocrat," as Robert Warshow put it, "fallen on hard times." Lloyd's bespectacled democrat is a blundering free enterpriser, motivated by self-interest, patently inferior to his fellow men but aspiring to rise above them in the land of opportunity. Buster is unique in earnestly seeking a genuine togetherness. If he seems the loneliest of all comedians, it's because he's the one to whom companionship matters the most.
"That loneliness is hauntingly conveyed in those distant long shots, typical of Keaton, in which he appears as a tiny figure amid large empty surroundings: in the river town during the storm, or practicing by himself in the college stadium, or—in The Frozen North (1922)—coming out of a subway exit into an arctic wilderness.
"Robert Bresson—another practitioner of the deadpan approach, in a different way from Keaton's but with a similar sense that life is not a matter of personality—once defined originality as the failed attempt to do the same as everybody else, a definition that applies exactly to Buster. For all his efforts to join in, and all his eventual successes in meeting the forces outside, inside he cannot shake off the sense of his singularity. He thinks, therefore he stands alone in a world where no other minds are discernible, only systems of behavior. Ultimately he remains even more isolated than Chaplin's Tramp, since it's not Buster's individual qualities that single him out—these he hardly lets interfere in his transactions with others—but the very fact of his individuality, of his possessing the inner dimension of a self in the realm of the formula.
"Buster is not, then, Grierson's "romantic achiever of all things" but a bewildered equilibrist whose mind runs counter to the achievements of his body: a new kind of clown who may not so often trip over physical objects but who, so to speak, keeps tripping over his thoughts. The charming incompetence of the traditional clown was the conception of an earlier time, with more room for eccentricity than has been allowed in our ruthless century. Things were not so good then, of course—things never have been— but at least the clown could thumb his nose at the world and expect the world to let him be. He would puncture our lofty pretensions with his reminder of the claims of the body, of the fact that in our flesh and blood we all fumble our way through life. That conception hasn't lost its validity, and Chaplin can still use it to portray a doughboy in Shoulder Arms (1918) or a factory worker in Modern Times; but he was looking back to a Victorian humanism that decidedly fails him when portraying a Jew under the Nazis in The Great Dictator (1940). Keaton reverses that conception: to our age of increasing mindlessness he offers a comedy of mind. Although he never dealt with contemporary issues as Chaplin did, he accurately depicts the landscape of our time in its vast inhuman organization. He reminds us of the claims of consciousness against a mechanistic order, of the fact that our expert procedures and outward accomplishments take no account of our inner nature. Whereas the old clowns would assert our right to our idiosyncrasies, he asserts our need to live with one another in a community that does justice to our individuality. The sadness that emerges at the end of College underlies all of Keaton's happy endings: it is the sadness of inescapable isolation, of knowing that he does not in the end, any more than he did at the beginning, belong in a world where happiness is available only as a convention. Yet Buster has done his best, and leaves us with the haunting image of his solemn and solitary figure, at once purposeful and detached, bravely attempting the impossible."
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"Nothing in the strange world of Buster Keaton's comedy is stranger than the ending of College (1927). In that picture Buster plays a bookworm who strives to become a jock. The top student in his high-school class, and so averse to sports that he makes his graduation speech into a diatribe against athletics, he yet arrives at college the next fall with suitcases full not of books but of athletic equipment. With the dauntless determination characteristic of the Keaton hero, the little scholar involves himself in a pursuit for which he's quite unsuited but which is, under circumstances equally characteristic of Keaton, what's expected of him in his courtship of the girl he loves. Outraged like all his other classmates by his diatribe at graduation, she'll see no more of him, as she promptly informs him after the speech, unless he changes his attitude and takes up sports. And so he changes his attitude, neglecting all his studies at college and instead spending most of his time on the sports field. Although he seems inept beyond hope at the various athletic activities he doggedly tries out, he succeeds in winning her in the end, for he summons up unexpected abilities when she's in danger and he comes to the rescue, running much faster and jumping much farther than he ever could before, managing with no trouble now an obstacle race over the hedges in his path and a high pole-vault into the window of her room. With undiminished momentum, he quickly disposes of the villain, a brawny dolt who has been his rival for the girl's affections, and proceeds with her to church forthwith, not even pausing to change his athletic clothes before they are married. Then follows a very peculiar epilogue. No sooner are the newlyweds out of church than a dissolve transports us many years later to the middle-aged couple in their home, sitting among their several children; this in turn swiftly gives way to the couple in their advanced years, abidingly sitting at home beside each other; this in turn to the closing shot of their adjacent graves.
"The element of sadness in Keaton's comedy has often been noted, and it certainly emerges in that brisk final depiction of aging and death. Coming on the heels of the triumphant happy ending, the sudden sadness of the epilogue takes us by surprise; but I don't think it constitutes such a break with the rest of the film as some believe. "'What is this abrupt slap in the face doing at the end of an otherwise unquestioning love story?' wrote Walter Kerr in The Silent Clowns. "It takes no more than eleven seconds of playing time to deliver its chill, and yet it undoes on the spot all of the yearning, the struggle and the victory, of the narrative."1 Evidently perturbed by the chill, Kerr misrepresents the epilogue as portraying a disappointed, even embittered couple, when nothing of the sort is suggested: all that we get is a brief summary of a long, uneventful marriage. It seems to me wrong, or only half right, to view the epilogue as a brusque reversal of a hitherto romantic story. Although the hero is unquestioning in his devotion to the girl, the romanticism of the story has been tacitly called into question all along by the conveyed sense that the girl is as unreasonable in her peremptory demands as is the hero in his stubborn pursuit. If Keaton is a romantic, he's a singularly unsentimental one. Granted, we'd have expected the story to end with Buster's getting the girl, but the epilogue merely shows us that he gets to keep her: surely not the undoing but the exact fulfillment of his wishes. If the epilogue brings about a reversal of the happy ending, it does so by way of being a logical continuation of it, indeed a visual equivalent of those famous romantic last words: and they lived happily ever after.
"Seeing the couple's whole life together go by on the screen in so short a time has, of course, none of the reassuring effect of those words. Yet even the disconcerting briskness of those final eleven seconds carries forward unbrokenly the haste of the climactic rescue and ensuing wedding, as if confirming Buster's aim to get things settled once and for all. College is not the only one of Keaton's films to conclude with the grave. In Cops (1922), a short film in which he's surreally chased by every cop in the city, "The End" appears inscribed on a tombstone capped with Buster's porkpie hat. The plot of Cops, however—unlike that of any of his full-length movies—has an unhappy outcome. Rejected by the girl he loves even after he manages to elude all the cops who have been after him, Buster suicidally puts himself back in their midst: an unusual ending for a comedy, to be sure, but not so strange as the way that in College the romance turns sad, in spite of its triumph, by being literally carried out to its conventional conclusion in the couple's staying together for the remainder of their lives.
"Although not quite in the class of Keaton's very best— Our Hospitality (1923), Sherlock Junior (1924), The Navigator (1924), The General (1927), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)—College seems to me a splendid film that has been generally underrated. It surpasses, I believe, Harold Lloyd's better-known college comedy, The Freshman (1925), which preceded it and no doubt influenced it. The hero of The Freshman is also an incompetent athlete who redeems himself in the end by performing unexpected feats, in his case by winning the decisive football game of the season. (Apparently to avoid too close a comparison with the Lloyd picture, football is one sport omitted from College.) In giving such prominence to athletics, however, both comedians were merely reflecting a fact of campus life—in which sports are often more important than studies—and making use of material naturally befitting the physical comedy of the silent screen. Their comic conceptions, in any case, are fundamentally different. For Lloyd, athletics are part of the image of the big man on campus his ambitious but unknowing hero wants to become, whereas Buster only wants the girl, a more realistic goal as well as a more romantic one. Lloyd's hero is a thoroughgoing incompetent, a classic fool, whereas Keaton's is only a fool for love, a bookworm out of his element on the sports field and quite aware of his problem. When, after knocking over every other hurdle along the racing track, he succeeds in clearing the last one, Buster, instead of deriving any satisfaction from that success, gravely appraises it as a fluke, and then tips over that last hurdle too, feeling that it might as well conform to the pattern of the others. Such disdain for flukes is inconceivable in the Lloyd hero, who'd get nowhere without them. Unlike Lloyd, Keaton never plays the kind of comic character who is preposterously deluded about himself and what's going on around him.
"Buster usually has a good grasp of his situation, as good a grasp as one can expect from, as Kenner put it, 'a visitor, not native.' He is a visitor to the sports field in College who knows that the odds are against him there but nonetheless keeps trying because he also knows that the girl won't have him any other way, because he is a compliant visitor desiring to participate in a situation in which a girl's ideal boyfriend must be a jock.
"Why should Buster unprotestingly comply with the undue requirements laid upon him by others? One answer is provided in College by the figure of a dean, friendly to the promising young scholar and built small like him, who may be regarded as an embodiment of what his scholarly future would be like. Disappointed that Buster has been doing poorly in his studies, the older man, when he hears the explanation, tearfully reveals that he himself loved a girl once but lost her to an athlete. Buster would rather take on the alien territory of sports than end up alone like the dean. If all comedians are outsiders, Keaton is the outsider who will not give up the attempt to join in, to connect with others. Chaplin's Tramp, by contrast, is more or less self-sufficient, "an aristocrat," as Robert Warshow put it, "fallen on hard times." Lloyd's bespectacled democrat is a blundering free enterpriser, motivated by self-interest, patently inferior to his fellow men but aspiring to rise above them in the land of opportunity. Buster is unique in earnestly seeking a genuine togetherness. If he seems the loneliest of all comedians, it's because he's the one to whom companionship matters the most.
"That loneliness is hauntingly conveyed in those distant long shots, typical of Keaton, in which he appears as a tiny figure amid large empty surroundings: in the river town during the storm, or practicing by himself in the college stadium, or—in The Frozen North (1922)—coming out of a subway exit into an arctic wilderness.
"Robert Bresson—another practitioner of the deadpan approach, in a different way from Keaton's but with a similar sense that life is not a matter of personality—once defined originality as the failed attempt to do the same as everybody else, a definition that applies exactly to Buster. For all his efforts to join in, and all his eventual successes in meeting the forces outside, inside he cannot shake off the sense of his singularity. He thinks, therefore he stands alone in a world where no other minds are discernible, only systems of behavior. Ultimately he remains even more isolated than Chaplin's Tramp, since it's not Buster's individual qualities that single him out—these he hardly lets interfere in his transactions with others—but the very fact of his individuality, of his possessing the inner dimension of a self in the realm of the formula.
"Buster is not, then, Grierson's "romantic achiever of all things" but a bewildered equilibrist whose mind runs counter to the achievements of his body: a new kind of clown who may not so often trip over physical objects but who, so to speak, keeps tripping over his thoughts. The charming incompetence of the traditional clown was the conception of an earlier time, with more room for eccentricity than has been allowed in our ruthless century. Things were not so good then, of course—things never have been— but at least the clown could thumb his nose at the world and expect the world to let him be. He would puncture our lofty pretensions with his reminder of the claims of the body, of the fact that in our flesh and blood we all fumble our way through life. That conception hasn't lost its validity, and Chaplin can still use it to portray a doughboy in Shoulder Arms (1918) or a factory worker in Modern Times; but he was looking back to a Victorian humanism that decidedly fails him when portraying a Jew under the Nazis in The Great Dictator (1940). Keaton reverses that conception: to our age of increasing mindlessness he offers a comedy of mind. Although he never dealt with contemporary issues as Chaplin did, he accurately depicts the landscape of our time in its vast inhuman organization. He reminds us of the claims of consciousness against a mechanistic order, of the fact that our expert procedures and outward accomplishments take no account of our inner nature. Whereas the old clowns would assert our right to our idiosyncrasies, he asserts our need to live with one another in a community that does justice to our individuality. The sadness that emerges at the end of College underlies all of Keaton's happy endings: it is the sadness of inescapable isolation, of knowing that he does not in the end, any more than he did at the beginning, belong in a world where happiness is available only as a convention. Yet Buster has done his best, and leaves us with the haunting image of his solemn and solitary figure, at once purposeful and detached, bravely attempting the impossible."