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I don't care if it is some generation gap or the norm.

Ghosting people that considered you a friend or a lover for years is wrong. Period. End of story.

You owe it to them to at least give a sentence as to why.

"I'm not that person anymore."

"We've grown apart."

"I need to focus on me."

Anything. Ghosting is wrong. Blocking someone is not a breakup.

Put your big adult person pants on and use your big adult words to put your big adult feelings out there.

Hey Lauren, this applies to you, too.

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Let me get this straight:

The generation that posts every emotion, every passing thought, every connection to the world wide web will not give their phone number to new friends for "privacy reasons"? But they just accept tracking cookies, walk around with AI wire taps, and live stream their locations?

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I have been screaming into the void until my voice has gone hoarse. There is only silence now.

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Someone loves you, but it ain't you

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The average wedding in D.C. metro is $100k. One day, 100k.

I think it would be extremely exciting to be a wedding planner. There are approximately zero open wedding planners in the area. Small businesses are all so hush hush here, and everyone is so pushy. It is impossible to just shop around for a florist.

There also is a deficit of venues in the area. It is cheaper and easier to do a wedding elsewhere.

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Alfred: Step one: Make pies and cover them in poison.

Kate: That’s step one? What’s step two?

Alfred: Tell their widows they were thieves.

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there used to be so many stars in the sky that you would have to scrape away a dozen of them that splattered on your windshield every time you drove somewhere, but now they're being over-hunted to make american flag merchandise. very sad

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file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

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"Good Morning, Rose"

My short story for the wlw anthology GLIMM*R!

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guy who doesnt realize hes commanding a small army and thinks a lot of people are just going along with his bit

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Dick: The real reason Howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion.

Jason: This sounds like a joke but I read the book. This is the literal reason.

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Fucked up that you have to go to work during the winter. Should be curled up in a little nest with several months' supply of food stocked up right now.

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NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

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"--fix their hearts or die"

I feel I need to add some context here, as the wording of that phrase I use in the comic has led to some on other platforms thinking this is me saying that we have to fix toxic people.

In the context of the scene I'm talking about, Cole is saying that it is up to toxic people themselves --not us-- to fix their hearts, or die. Whether that last part is meant to be taken literally or metaphorically, I'll leave up to you. Basically, if such people are unwilling to change themselves for the better, then they are --as I say-- lost to us.

Unfortunately, some people are just too far gone, and cannot be fixed.

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Listen, craft boutiques and stores are good for you. Maybe it's practicing self control. Maybe it's being exposed to 1000 colors and textures and patterns at the same. Either way, you need to stroll through a craft store soon and just restore yourself.