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16 Jan 2019, 11:22 am

That dreaded moment when you start the last chapter of an incredible book and you know you're going to either cry, or rue yourself for not having written it yourself, or both. My money's on both. :(


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16 Jan 2019, 12:37 pm

It happened ^ .

I'm absolutely speechless. What a truly extraordinary, incomparable work of art. I need my smelling salts now.
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16 Jan 2019, 1:16 pm

My timing sucks ass sometimes.


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16 Jan 2019, 1:39 pm

There are trolls on reddit and they're having the opposite affect to what they intended. Someone seriously tried to imply a rape victim is as much to blame as a rapist... Someone else tried to justify paedophilia. Some right sickos out there... Trying not to waste my time getting involved with such lost causes...

I have so much more guilt than other people.

I can't wear jeans. I tried to wear jeans today and was fine all morning then I had lunch and felt bloated. I'm sure if I got a different fit it would be different but still. Scared to put this on here in case I get fat shamed - I'm regular weight and was underweight when I bought my jeans. Up until I was in my mid twenties I was underweight all my life and you could see my ribs because I didn't eat.

I really miss football and want to see it on Saturday and I'm not even sure about if it's on TV. I really want to go to the CSC sometime but my stepdad never invites me out to go there and I'm not going alone because I'm a youngish woman and I don't think that's a good idea.

Someone is flying aeroplanes which is annoying.

Tonight I'll go back to writing formal poetry.

Spent too much time on here and on Reddit and didn't get any art done :( This is a pattern. I get into a drawing rut or a not drawing rut. Right now is a not drawing rut.

I'm too much of a confusing person for other people to understand and I don't know how to present a precis of myself. Closest I can do is to mask myself and show who they want to see.

Hunger isn't on YouTube anymore which is annoying cos I love that movie but not enough to pay for it when I don't have the money.

I've been writing a lot about granddad and his heart lately. I can think of nicer muses. I hope the family don't mind if anything gets published.



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16 Jan 2019, 6:04 pm

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I have had absolutely ENOUGH of my college getting in the way of things I'm trying to pursue!!
I am this close to dropping out because I would rather spend the next 10 years working three jobs to pay my student debt back than continuing the rest of this year.

I'm studying at a Performing Arts major and the past three years the teachers keep telling me about how no one is going to call us after we graduate. I have been working extremely hard to build a network and actually get to the point where I get approached by directors and theatre-makers for their projects.

Even better, I was approached for a project of a huge theatre group that the college always mentions by [theatre group name], if you're ever able to get there. Unfortunately, there's an exam show during some of the dates that we also have to play the other show. There was, however, an option to have a resit exam. I thought the exam would be a director working with our graduation projects and presenting them, but apparently, we're gonna work on a whole new show altogether four days a week.

With a director, I must add, whose full name was mentioned every they were mentioned. They kept talking about "full name director" and how important they are for me and networking. They also told me about how the theatre won't challenge me in the skills that I'm not so good at while college is actually challenging us in those skills
(OH MY GOD THE HYPOCRISY, they were so disappointed when I picked theatre over circus as my major and have tried to convince me to pursue becoming a solo performer instead of an actor countless times)

The teacher even told me he is having actual doubts about me passing the exam due to my dialogue scenes not being convincing because of my Asperger's.

I tried to stay calm and not get angered (Because last time I was a bit angry the teacher was afraid I was going to punch him) but in hindsight I wished I said some more things about it rather than trying to stay mature and professional, even when the teachers were clearly looking down on me.

Now I have to contact the theatre group about it and I'm legit worried I have to quit the entire project altogether which sucks because I honestly don't even care about the project itself, the whole group there is just great and it's a great environment where I can be myself and feel at home. I'm gonna be extremely sad!

This isn't even the first time I had to abandon a project due to my college. I have been approached by various gigs such as a music video, fashion project and photoshoots but every time my college said no because I would be absent too much. I have never heard of those people again.

If education was free I would've dropped out of this college a long time ago!

I started writing this around 3am-ish and it's 6 am now, whoa

sounds frustrating. soon you'll graduate, and if your current desirability for projects is any indication (and i think it is), you'll have plenty of exciting opportunities.



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16 Jan 2019, 6:06 pm

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Like being a hemotologist while also being a vampire.

Studying sexuality or nudity in art while also having a pornography problem/addiction.

again, going great lengths to be hard on yourself. progress is a worthy goal. perfection as a goal only makes us neurotic. as we 12-steppers say, "progress, not perfection."



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16 Jan 2019, 8:17 pm

Okay, so now a repetitive noise in the living room at times that sound like an audio phone or messenger or noise a appliance makes when waiting for action. It's a bit annoying. I'm debating with myself wether to tell the neighbor myself to turn it off or down. Don't know if that's wise. I called the noise patrol officer but no response.



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16 Jan 2019, 8:29 pm

Caesar wrote:
I have had absolutely ENOUGH of my college getting in the way of things I'm trying to pursue!!
I am this close to dropping out because I would rather spend the next 10 years working three jobs to pay my student debt back than continuing the rest of this year.

It is your choice to drop out. In some cases, it is better to drop out than graduate. After the recession, plenty of people with bachelor degrees work at Starbucks or unemployed


I'm studying at a Performing Arts major and the past three years the teachers keep telling me about how no one is going to call us after we graduate. I have been working extremely hard to build a network and actually get to the point where I get approached by directors and theatre-makers for their projects.

The teachers are not precognitive. They do not know what is going to happen before it happens.



Even better, I was approached for a project of a huge theatre group that the college always mentions by [theatre group name], if you're ever able to get there. Unfortunately, there's an exam show during some of the dates that we also have to play the other show. There was, however, an option to have a resit exam. I thought the exam would be a director working with our graduation projects and presenting them, but apparently, we're gonna work on a whole new show altogether four days a week.

With a director, I must add, whose full name was mentioned every they were mentioned. They kept talking about "full name director" and how important they are for me and networking. They also told me about how the theatre won't challenge me in the skills that I'm not so good at while college is actually challenging us in those skills
(OH MY GOD THE HYPOCRISY, they were so disappointed when I picked theatre over circus as my major and have tried to convince me to pursue becoming a solo performer instead of an actor countless times)

The teacher even told me he is having actual doubts about me passing the exam due to my dialogue scenes not being convincing because of my Asperger's.


Get a psychologist to write you a letter to give the office of students disabled

Reasonable accommodation

I tried to stay calm and not get angered (Because last time I was a bit angry the teacher was afraid I was going to punch him) but in hindsight I wished I said some more things about it rather than trying to stay mature and professional, even when the teachers were clearly looking down on me.

Anger is just an emotion, not a crime



Now I have to contact the theatre group about it and I'm legit worried I have to quit the entire project altogether which sucks because I honestly don't even care about the project itself, the whole group there is just great and it's a great environment where I can be myself and feel at home. I'm gonna be extremely sad!

This isn't even the first time I had to abandon a project due to my college. I have been approached by various gigs such as a music video, fashion project and photoshoots but every time my college said no because I would be absent too much. I have never heard of those people again.

If education was free I would've dropped out of this college a long time ago!

I started writing this around 3am-ish and it's 6 am now, whoa



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16 Jan 2019, 9:56 pm

If I were to choose between every 2 weeks of dysfunction and the ability to conceive, from not having to deal said dysfunction and not able to conceive...

I'd take the latter in a heartbeat.


Really, what's the point of not having to trust myself 2 weeks a month for having a female body when I have no real interest in romance, let alone having children?
What's the point of pursuing that when you cannot trust yourself half the time, when at your best self still clearly choose the latter?

Really!.. Why waste over 30-40 years of my life wrestling these inconvenient sensations just for something I don't ever had a use for?



Yes. I'm damn aware that I'm only 23. But the cycles gave me bigger inconveniences to my progress and even my future. In fact, I may as well become worse over the years despite modifying my lifestyle little by little... My very productive and competent self appears at certain times, only to end with an inconvenient bodily state.
It might be as well be the very one I have no name for, the one I've been trying to pinpoint for most of my life. The very one that subtly bothers me in my waking life -- another layer of nuisance along with others.

But in the end of the day, I refer myself as female -- not a woman. Kinda why I have little issue with this; I have no issues with being identified as a woman, being addressed as a 'she' or a 'lady' and I have no issues with being less of a 'woman' or 'lady'.
'Womanhood', while it's one huge influence in my life in general, it barely touches my inner world and core. :|

I only know how to be one on the outside, but never in spirit... I've been surrounded by so many women in my life, seen lots of things they do and do best. Heck, even my mom's one most active of the local advocates I've known.


And before someone assumes, no. I'm not trans. I'm not a man in a female body either.


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16 Jan 2019, 10:32 pm

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If I were to choose between every 2 weeks of dysfunction and the ability to conceive, from not having to deal said dysfunction and not able to conceive...

I'd take the latter in a heartbeat.


Really, what's the point of not having to trust myself 2 weeks a month for having a female body when I have no real interest in romance, let alone having children?
What's the point of pursuing that when you cannot trust yourself half the time, when at your best self still clearly choose the latter?

Really!.. Why waste over 30-40 years of my life wrestling these inconvenient sensations just for something I don't ever had a use for?



Yes. I'm damn aware that I'm only 23. But the cycles gave me bigger inconveniences to my progress and even my future. In fact, I may as well become worse over the years despite modifying my lifestyle little by little... My very productive and competent self appears at certain times, only to end with an inconvenient bodily state.
It might be as well be the very one I have no name for, the one I've been trying to pinpoint for most of my life. The very one that subtly bothers me in my waking life -- another layer of nuisance along with others.

But in the end of the day, I refer myself as female -- not a woman. Kinda why I have little issue with this; I have no issues with being identified as a woman, being addressed as a 'she' or a 'lady' and I have no issues with being less of a 'woman' or 'lady'.
'Womanhood', while it's one huge influence in my life in general, it barely touches my inner world and core. :|

I only know how to be one on the outside, but never in spirit... I've been surrounded by so many women in my life, seen lots of things they do and do best. Heck, even my mom's one most active of the local advocates I've known.


And before someone assumes, no. I'm not trans. I'm not a man in a female body either.


have you considered treatments for PMS or PMDD?



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17 Jan 2019, 5:24 am

Edna3362 wrote:
If I were to choose between every 2 weeks of dysfunction and the ability to conceive, from not having to deal said dysfunction and not able to conceive...

I'd take the latter in a heartbeat.


Really, what's the point of not having to trust myself 2 weeks a month for having a female body when I have no real interest in romance, let alone having children?
What's the point of pursuing that when you cannot trust yourself half the time, when at your best self still clearly choose the latter?

Really!.. Why waste over 30-40 years of my life wrestling these inconvenient sensations just for something I don't ever had a use for?



Yes. I'm damn aware that I'm only 23. But the cycles gave me bigger inconveniences to my progress and even my future. In fact, I may as well become worse over the years despite modifying my lifestyle little by little... My very productive and competent self appears at certain times, only to end with an inconvenient bodily state.
It might be as well be the very one I have no name for, the one I've been trying to pinpoint for most of my life. The very one that subtly bothers me in my waking life -- another layer of nuisance along with others.

But in the end of the day, I refer myself as female -- not a woman. Kinda why I have little issue with this; I have no issues with being identified as a woman, being addressed as a 'she' or a 'lady' and I have no issues with being less of a 'woman' or 'lady'.
'Womanhood', while it's one huge influence in my life in general, it barely touches my inner world and core. :|

I only know how to be one on the outside, but never in spirit... I've been surrounded by so many women in my life, seen lots of things they do and do best. Heck, even my mom's one most active of the local advocates I've known.


And before someone assumes, no. I'm not trans. I'm not a man in a female body either.


I feel the same.

Only thing I can say which might help is: once you hit your thirties, there are advantages to being female. Not going to go into much depth when not on the adult forum but you get increased pleasure after your period. At least I do. Increased creativity at certain times, too. My cycle feels more of a cycle now than it did when I was younger when it was just 'oh look there's blood and I feel like I'm going to die, surprise!'

Obvious things include heat pads, regular medicine, chocolate. Some women like to exercise but I never did, it's bed rest for me if I don't have commitments. But I assume you've tried all this.

Look into something like the pill? I couldn't swallow it myself (literally) but it helps some women manage their periods, limiting them to once every three months instead of once a month (I think this is how it works, I can't take pills so I didn't look very far).

And after that you're right, you're just a person. Don't be too hard on yourself to be feminine, not every female is. Not every man is masculine, not every woman is feminine, not everyone is either.



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17 Jan 2019, 5:55 am

Probably better not to name names but...

1 this neighbour who led me on

2 how I can't say someone's attractive cos everyone hears his surname and thinks 'ugly'

3 how racialised who's attractive and who isn't is and that's a problem

4 how ridiculous it is that I can't flirt with people from the local village and our neighbourhood without being called deluded

5 it's sometimes good to just have brief flirtations with people who are attractive but not very nice

6 I'm bi. People who judge this are bigots



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17 Jan 2019, 7:03 am

I'm wondering if I'm okay.
I'm lonely too.
The man that left me didn't live with me.
I still feel an empty place.
I'm still feeling somewhat pissed and shocked.
Some anger left over from being over stimulated.
I kind of wish I had a punching bag.
And, one of my goals would be to get a house in the woods.



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17 Jan 2019, 9:53 am

Happy 199th Birthday to Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)

Anne died of TB at the age of 29, just five months after Emily who was 30, and eight months after Branwell who was 31. Their sisters died of TB aged 10 and 11, twenty five years before.

I'm thinking about how the course of life and literature would have been changed by such a simple yet miraculous thing as antibiotics, and I'm praising Anne for her courage in the face of Victorian misogyny.

Rest in peace, Anne (Acton, Annii) :heart:


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17 Jan 2019, 10:09 am

Simply trying to make a better way..



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17 Jan 2019, 11:16 am

A search of this https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... od+teacher won't solve all my problems.