#friendship — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #friendship, aggregated by home.social.
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‘Amazing community’: how people are making new friends and connections as adults
By Nicola Slawson and Jane ClintonAs concern about loneliness and social isolation grows, we spoke to people who have joined groups and set up activities
#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Friendship #Communities #Mentalhealth #Hobbies #UKnews #England #Society #TheGuardian #NicolaSlawson #JaneClinton
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Harry S. Truman famously advised: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
https://abc7chicago.com/story/obamas-family-dog-sunny-dies-former-president-says/19842923/ -
Stay Local! Support Mt Juliet Restaurants This Weekend https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/14473/ #bar #beer #burger #calories #chalkboard #cheese #cheeseburger #date #double #drink #eat #fast #fat #food #friend #friendship #fries #greasy #hamburger #happy #interior #junk #loft #lunch #man #meal #meat #meeting #menu #Montana #MontanaDining #MontanaFood #MontanaGroceryStores #MontanaRestaurants #people #relax #restaurant #spend #table #talk #time #together #unhealthy #woman #young
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Stay Local! Support Mt Juliet Restaurants This Weekend https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/14473/ #bar #beer #burger #calories #chalkboard #cheese #cheeseburger #date #double #drink #eat #fast #fat #food #friend #friendship #fries #greasy #hamburger #happy #interior #junk #loft #lunch #man #meal #meat #meeting #menu #Montana #MontanaDining #MontanaFood #MontanaGroceryStores #MontanaRestaurants #people #relax #restaurant #spend #table #talk #time #together #unhealthy #woman #young
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Stay Local! Support Mt Juliet Restaurants This Weekend https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/14473/ #bar #beer #burger #calories #chalkboard #cheese #cheeseburger #date #double #drink #eat #fast #fat #food #friend #friendship #fries #greasy #hamburger #happy #interior #junk #loft #lunch #man #meal #meat #meeting #menu #Montana #MontanaDining #MontanaFood #MontanaGroceryStores #MontanaRestaurants #people #relax #restaurant #spend #table #talk #time #together #unhealthy #woman #young
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Stay Local! Support Mt Juliet Restaurants This Weekend https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/14473/ #bar #beer #burger #calories #chalkboard #cheese #cheeseburger #date #double #drink #eat #fast #fat #food #friend #friendship #fries #greasy #hamburger #happy #interior #junk #loft #lunch #man #meal #meat #meeting #menu #Montana #MontanaDining #MontanaFood #MontanaGroceryStores #MontanaRestaurants #people #relax #restaurant #spend #table #talk #time #together #unhealthy #woman #young
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A thread 1/1
Went to the funeral wake/vigil of my friend.— Her aunt's too kind insisting to give me a ride home [takes 30mins by car]💔I ddnt bring my phone. Almost 6pm when I arrive & I felt very shy too scared to go ahead inside the chapel. The first 1 that noticed me was her Older brother & cousins.
I thought they forgot 'bout me LOL. I mean these people knew me as a kid playing with dirt & rocks with their beloved sibling💔🥺
#suicideawareness #mastodon #fediverse #update #friendship #RIP -
A thread 1/1
Went to the funeral wake/vigil of my friend.— Her aunt's too kind insisting to give me a ride home [takes 30mins by car]💔I ddnt bring my phone. Almost 6pm when I arrive & I felt very shy too scared to go ahead inside the chapel. The first 1 that noticed me was her Older brother & cousins.
I thought they forgot 'bout me LOL. I mean these people knew me as a kid playing with dirt & rocks with their beloved sibling💔🥺
#suicideawareness #mastodon #fediverse #update #friendship #RIP -
A thread 1/1
Went to the funeral wake/vigil of my friend.— Her aunt's too kind insisting to give me a ride home [takes 30mins by car]💔I ddnt bring my phone. Almost 6pm when I arrive & I felt very shy too scared to go ahead inside the chapel. The first 1 that noticed me was her Older brother & cousins.
I thought they forgot 'bout me LOL. I mean these people knew me as a kid playing with dirt & rocks with their beloved sibling💔🥺
#suicideawareness #mastodon #fediverse #update #friendship #RIP -
A thread 1/1
Went to the funeral wake/vigil of my friend.— Her aunt's too kind insisting to give me a ride home [takes 30mins by car]💔I ddnt bring my phone. Almost 6pm when I arrive & I felt very shy too scared to go ahead inside the chapel. The first 1 that noticed me was her Older brother & cousins.
I thought they forgot 'bout me LOL. I mean these people knew me as a kid playing with dirt & rocks with their beloved sibling💔🥺
#suicideawareness #mastodon #fediverse #update #friendship #RIP -
A thread 1/1
Went to the funeral wake/vigil of my friend.— Her aunt's too kind insisting to give me a ride home [takes 30mins by car]💔I ddnt bring my phone. Almost 6pm when I arrive & I felt very shy too scared to go ahead inside the chapel. The first 1 that noticed me was her Older brother & cousins.
I thought they forgot 'bout me LOL. I mean these people knew me as a kid playing with dirt & rocks with their beloved sibling💔🥺
#suicideawareness #mastodon #fediverse #update #friendship #RIP -
There is nothing the residents of the Valley of the Dolls like more than a poolside barbecue. #doll #dolls #barbie #barbies #ken #kens #littlechaps #littlechapfamily #johnlittlechap #lizalittlechap #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #pool #pools #poolside #barbecue #barbecues #friends #friendly #friendship #gathering #party #soiree #party #parties #sunny #sunworshippers #sunworshipper #sunworship #gathering #social #sociable #socialize
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There is nothing the residents of the Valley of the Dolls like more than a poolside barbecue. #doll #dolls #barbie #barbies #ken #kens #littlechaps #littlechapfamily #johnlittlechap #lizalittlechap #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #pool #pools #poolside #barbecue #barbecues #friends #friendly #friendship #gathering #party #soiree #party #parties #sunny #sunworshippers #sunworshipper #sunworship #gathering #social #sociable #socialize
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There is nothing the residents of the Valley of the Dolls like more than a poolside barbecue. #doll #dolls #barbie #barbies #ken #kens #littlechaps #littlechapfamily #johnlittlechap #lizalittlechap #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #pool #pools #poolside #barbecue #barbecues #friends #friendly #friendship #gathering #party #soiree #party #parties #sunny #sunworshippers #sunworshipper #sunworship #gathering #social #sociable #socialize
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There is nothing the residents of the Valley of the Dolls like more than a poolside barbecue. #doll #dolls #barbie #barbies #ken #kens #littlechaps #littlechapfamily #johnlittlechap #lizalittlechap #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #pool #pools #poolside #barbecue #barbecues #friends #friendly #friendship #gathering #party #soiree #party #parties #sunny #sunworshippers #sunworshipper #sunworship #gathering #social #sociable #socialize
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🌩️🤖 #Cloudflare wants the impossible: be best friends with #Google while ghosting #AI overlords! 🦄✨ It's like wanting to inhale donuts without the calories—sweet dreams! 🍩💤
https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/ #friendship #dreams #sweettooth #technews #HackerNews #ngated -
🌩️🤖 #Cloudflare wants the impossible: be best friends with #Google while ghosting #AI overlords! 🦄✨ It's like wanting to inhale donuts without the calories—sweet dreams! 🍩💤
https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/ #friendship #dreams #sweettooth #technews #HackerNews #ngated -
🌩️🤖 #Cloudflare wants the impossible: be best friends with #Google while ghosting #AI overlords! 🦄✨ It's like wanting to inhale donuts without the calories—sweet dreams! 🍩💤
https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/ #friendship #dreams #sweettooth #technews #HackerNews #ngated -
🌩️🤖 #Cloudflare wants the impossible: be best friends with #Google while ghosting #AI overlords! 🦄✨ It's like wanting to inhale donuts without the calories—sweet dreams! 🍩💤
https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/ #friendship #dreams #sweettooth #technews #HackerNews #ngated -
🌩️🤖 #Cloudflare wants the impossible: be best friends with #Google while ghosting #AI overlords! 🦄✨ It's like wanting to inhale donuts without the calories—sweet dreams! 🍩💤
https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/ #friendship #dreams #sweettooth #technews #HackerNews #ngated -
Bridesmaid proposals: a sweet gesture – or another way to make weddings ludicrously expensive?
By Guardian StaffBeing a bridesmaid is a big commitment. Now, asking prospective candidates is becoming an event in itself, sometimes with a heavy price tag
#Weddings #Marriage #Lifeandstyle #Relationships #Friendship #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Bridesmaid proposals: a sweet gesture – or another way to make weddings ludicrously expensive?
By Guardian StaffBeing a bridesmaid is a big commitment. Now, asking prospective candidates is becoming an event in itself, sometimes with a heavy price tag
#Weddings #Marriage #Lifeandstyle #Relationships #Friendship #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Bridesmaid proposals: a sweet gesture – or another way to make weddings ludicrously expensive?
By Guardian StaffBeing a bridesmaid is a big commitment. Now, asking prospective candidates is becoming an event in itself, sometimes with a heavy price tag
#Weddings #Marriage #Lifeandstyle #Relationships #Friendship #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Bridesmaid proposals: a sweet gesture – or another way to make weddings ludicrously expensive?
By Guardian StaffBeing a bridesmaid is a big commitment. Now, asking prospective candidates is becoming an event in itself, sometimes with a heavy price tag
#Weddings #Marriage #Lifeandstyle #Relationships #Friendship #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Not every goodbye is gentle — some friends fade quietly, some leave angry, some just disappear. None of it means you were unforgivable. Full piece on friendships, letting go, and why presence matters more than permanence: [link]
#SelfImprovement #Mindfulness #Friendship
Follow Pause.Reflect.Rediscover for more, and I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.https://pausereflectrediscover.com/why-every-friend-wont-stay-and-why-that-s-not-betrayal-6119b8598f2c?sharedUserId=flowingthought -
Maple Moonrise – Glamour and Gleam
When Friendship Becomes Art
Lo, in the east is a glamour and gleam,
Like waves that lap on the shores of a dream,
Or voice their lure in a poet’s theme!
— L. M. MontgomeryMy friend Resa McConaghy was working on a drawing of me when a box of fabric arrived. She was preparing a post called La Belle Époque, and the newly arrived fabric caught her attention. She draped it over the drawing, took a photograph, and somewhere in that curious meeting between image and textile, another idea began to emerge. An Art Gown was born. Resa named her creation Maple Moonrise.
Her imagination did not stop with the naming of the gown. Maple Moonrise, she tells us, is a neo-goddess, Canadian born simultaneously on the Pacific beaches of British Columbia and the Atlantic shores of Prince Edward Island. And she dedicated Maple Moonrise to me.
I am overwhelmed by that thought. I am still trying to find the words to describe what it feels like to have a friend take fabric, imagination, artistry and hours of work and create something that carries a little of my story within it.
Maple Moonrise, an art gown by Resa McConaghy. © Resa McConaghy.The Art of Seeing Possibility
I have followed Resa’s Art Gowns for many years. Again and again, I have watched fabric, lace, remnants, ribbons, bows and notions pass through her hands and emerge with new lives. Her gowns are beautiful, but beauty is only part of their story. Behind the Art Gowns is a mission.
Resa encourages us to learn a few sewing skills to prolong the life of our garments, to step away from mass-produced ideas of fashion, and to discover the creative possibilities of NOS or new old stock, along with used textiles and notions that might otherwise be forgotten or discarded.
Her vision reaches even further. She hope manufacturers will bring together designers and engineers willing to think differently about existing products and find imaginative ways to reuse them in mass production.
There is something wonderfully hopeful in that idea. Resa is not simply asking us to use less. She is asking us to imagine more. And Maple Moonrise shows us what that can mean.
The lace that became Maple Moonrise arrived in four unusual panels. Instead of forcing the material to conform to a predetermined design, Resa began experimenting with what was already there. She draped it, photographed it and allowed the shape of the lace to help determine the form of the gown.
Maple Moonrise, an art gown by Resa McConaghy. © Resa McConaghy.Listening to the Material
Even the magnificent asymmetrical train grew out of the material itself. Rather than cutting away fabric merely to make both sides match, Resa incorporated it into the design.
Her comment was so very much Resa: “No waste here!”
Those three words contain much of the philosophy behind Art Gowns. What already exists does not need to be discarded simply because it does not conform to our expectations. Sometimes the irregularity is precisely where the creative possibility begins.
And then there is the light. The lace changes as the light moves across it. Shimmering gold, brown, reddish brown, the colours of maple syrup and autumn leaves. Beneath it, the luminous satin seems almost liquid.
When I look at Maple Moonrise, I see both earth and sky. The warmth of maple in the lace and moonlight flowing through the satin. Perhaps our neo-goddess has dressed herself in a little of both.
When Friendship Becomes Art
Maple Moonrise is also a story about friendship.
Resa and I create in very different ways. She works with fabric, lace, line, texture, art, form and movement. I am drawn to words, literature, history and conversation. Yet our paths have crossed again and again because beneath those different forms lies a shared belief in the importance of creativity.
I believe that friendship itself is a creative act. We notice something in another person. We encourage it. We respond to what they create. Their ideas influence ours, and ours sometimes find their way into theirs. Over time, without quite realizing it, we become part of one another’s creative stories. And every so often, friendship becomes something we can actually see. Today, it became a gown.
Thank you, Resa, for Maple Moonrise. Thank you for allowing me to become part of its story and for reminding us to look again at what is already around us. In your hands, reuse becomes elegance, resourcefulness becomes artistry, and forgotten materials become something worthy of wonder.
Your Art Gowns remind us that sustainability need not be simply about doing without. Creativity offers another possibility. We can repair and we can reuse. We can transform and we can look at something whose first purpose has ended and imagine a second one.
Perhaps that is why Maple Moonrise feels to me like much more than a gown. It is a testament to imagination and a celebration of friendship.
And somewhere between the Pacific and Atlantic shores, between maple and moonlight, between fabric and friendship, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s words seem to have been waiting for our Canadian neo-goddess: “a glamour and gleam.”
I cannot think of a lovelier description for Maple Moonrise.
Rebecca
#Art #ArtGowns #Creativity #Friendship #Glamour #MapleMoonrise #ResaMcConaghy #Sustainability -
How surrogacy helped my sister and friends | Letters
By Guardian StaffHazel Davis responds to a letter about the regulation and ethics of surrogacy
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/16/how-surrogacy-helped-my-sister-and-friends
#Surrogacy #Pregnancy #Children #Familyfilms #Friendship #Parentsandparenting #Health #Society #Family #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Recently added titles (July 2026)
Yamada checks his phone for messages from Nishi outside the Municipal Center and Library in an episode of the new season of You and I Are Polar OppositesBuilding upon the titles listed for July/August, September, October, November, and December 2021, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2022, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2023, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2024, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of this year, and January, February, March, April, May, and June of this year, this post notes recent titles with libraries or librarians in popular culture which I’ve come across in the past month. Each of these has been watched or read during the past month. No films, animated series, or other entries with libraries (or librarians) to add for this past month, but I did come across some in webcomics and anime. There may be spoilers for these series, so be aware.
Animated series recently added to this page
None for this month.
Anime series recently added to this page
- I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day, “Friends” (s1 ep 3)
- I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day, “Accomplices” (s1 ep 4)
- Detective Conan aka Case Closed (s2 ep 22)
- You and I Are Polar Opposites, “Dilemma of a Winter’s Night” (s2 ep 2)
- You and I Are Polar Opposites, “New School Term” (s2 ep 4)
While Ascendance of a Bookworm continues into a second cour (with no more episodes with libraries or the protagonist Myne as a librarian), Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia (set in the 13th century) has the protagonist aiming to get back her book of Eucidlis from an arrogant imperialistic Mongolian princess, and Draw This, Then Die! has the protagonists cleaning the room of a manga book store on the second floor to become their club space, in the second episode of season 2 of You and I Are Polar Opposites, “Dilemma of a Winter’s Night”, Yamada meets Nishi in the middle of winter break as a pretext to see her. While he doesn’t confess his feelings, and nor does she, he wrongly thinks the library doesn’t have a “nice” atmosphere, even though it does. They choose between going to the study room where talking, food, and drink are forbidden, and a free space, with Yamada going with the latter.
Otherwise, in the episode, Nishi admits she comes to the library “quite a bit,” which Yamada finds commendable, and admits he can’t study at all, at home, as it is far too distracting. He admits that inviting her there was just a pretext by accident while she admits that she comes there every day, and has finished all her homework. He is shocked, she admits she wanted a pretext as well, and he stops himself from saying they should date, feeling it isn’t a right place. He ends up being quiet during their date-not-date while studying.
There’s another library scene in the episode “New School Term”. Even the description on Crunchyroll indicates this, saying, “Suzuki takes Yamada to the school library, with an ulterior motive in mind. Nishi is happy that Yamada came, but anxious that others might find out about their relationship.” Shenanigans ensue, while Nishi and Taira work as library for their student library duty. At one point, Taira even wants to process the book returns, while Nishi isn’t sure how to handle Yamada there, and Suzuki offers to help Yamada with reshelving books at another point. She also came to see Yamada. Funny enough, no one else comes into the library except them which seems strange (and they comment on this later, saying few people come there anymore), because this is the school library after all! I also like how Taira helps out Nishi and even gives Yamada a book recommendation, showing he is a true friend. I liked how Yamada and Suzuki enjoy reading books in the library, while showing the library duties, like checking in and out books in a way that seems relaxing, making it seems like something you do every day. There is a cute moment where Yamada and Nishi say each other’s full names.
Then there’s the awful news that Crunchyroll removed Black Lagoon, along with other series like Blood Blockade Battlefront and Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, as has been reported elsewhere, without any warning. I have an account on that streaming service and the history (which shows what anime series I have watched) doesn’t even mention it at all! I mention this here because that series has a library scene as I noted in my post on here on July 2nd, in the episode “The Succession” (s1 ep 20), first saying that in the episode “Yukio is reading a book by Martin Heidegger as shown in the 20th episode (“Succession”) of the classic crime thriller anime Black Lagoon, which is replete with having girls with guns, particularly hothead Chinese-American Revy.” I went into further detail, saying:
…Yukio is reading a book by Martin Heidegger, as she tells her friend Maki, in the school library, calling the book philosophical and “very powerful.” In contrast, Maki says she likes skincare guides and modern horror books, with Yukio saying she remembered Maki saying she liked Anne Rice. They talk a bit more with Yukio saying she sometimes feels like she is caught inside of book worlds, and viewers see some of the library bookshelves. She says she doesn’t like Stephen King and Maki says she thought Yukio would like Edgar Allan Poe. She says she doesn’t like the ones that imagine the night, and she does not like the world as it makes her scared, that it is not romantic at all.
There is a second scene in the episode in the reading room where Yukio is thinking about the gang war between the Russian mafia and Japanese yakuza, and does not listen as much to what Maki tells her and decides to not tell her troubles. The reading room is shown briefly in the next episode, but not enough to mention it here. It is worth noting that Heidegger was directly involved with the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, and even banned from teaching after the war until 1949 (when the ban was lifted). He also never expressed remorse for being involved with the Nazis, which is funny because Hannah Arendt, who became known for her political theory against authoritarianism, including Nazism and fascism. I’m not sure why Heidegger was mentioned (in the manga as well), except to possibly indicate that Yukio was intellectual, nihilistic, and his existential philosophy was appealing. At the same time, I seriously doubt she was a Nazi as there was an earlier plot line in the series where the protagonists stole loot from a submarine filled by wannabe Nazis/neo-Nazis and killed a bunch of them, but rather a bit of a mob boss, if I have to guess. At the same time, during his life, Heidegger had intellectual contact with Japanese scholars like racist Hajime Tanabe (who later regretted defending claimed Japanese state and racial superiority) and pro-militarist Shūzō Kuki over the years, influencing his work, according to Reinhard May.
This all comes when I came across recently this video of an anime fan expressing anger it was removed (along with Crunchyroll locking their anime store behind a paywall effectively), along with this video on the fading, yet important, legacy of the series:
A late entry here is the third episode of I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day. In that episode, Sheena Totsuki goes to the library of her school-of-sorts/orphanage/training institute, to study. She had wanted to go with Mimi Kagari, but she is unable to so because Mimi left to fight enemies. While there she meets her school friends, Lizzy Seiran and Ali Maud who are a couple themselves, and she reveals what Mimi’s guardian (Fran) told her. Later in the episode, however, Mimi reveals her secret to Sheena, shocking her beyond belief. In the scene itself, you see the wonder of the library which is well-used by students, and seems like a place to relax (and study), with wooden tables, and all the books you’d like to read.
Sheena, and other girls at the school, studying in the school library. Note the ornate tables and books on the bookshelves. Sorry for the blurriness.Sheena’s friends talk to her in the library. Sorry for the blurriness.Sheena shushes her friends because they are in the library, while other patrons look over at her her. Sorry for the blurriness.Sheena is reading a book when someone calls out to her. Sorry for the blurriness.There was an additional library scene in the fourth episode of that same series, with flashbacks to Sheena thinking of Mimi, and a new scene of Mimi balancing books on her head, while Sheena is learning about resurrection magic, and is surprised by Airi and Seiran. One of my favorite parts (shown below) is when the bell rings and breaks Mimi’s concentration, annoying her, as she almost trying to show off a bit by balancing books on her head.
My favorite part of this episode, because Mimi is really showing off hereLast but least is episode 50 of Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed), “The Library Murder Case” / “The Book Without Pages”. I have been looking forward to watching this episode for a long time, but I finally got to watch it this month, at long last, an episode which fulfills so many stereotypes when it comes to fictional librarians and libraries. I’ll write a whole post on this, but to give the quick and short version of this, Conan Edogawa, a kid detective (wasn’t always a kid) works with his school friends of sorts to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of a librarian, and soon suspect the library director. They learn that there are fake books in the children’s section where drugs were being stored, and this is why the director murdered that librarian. He even tries to kill all of them too, but they turn all the bookshelves into dominos so they fall on him, allowing the police to come in and arrest him, taking him away, while they find the body (which was on top of an elevator). It’s gory, but also feeds into many stereotypes, which, perhaps, is not at all a surprise for an episode that came out on March 1997. Some even put some parts of the episode as one of the top scariest moments in the series!
Comics recently added to this page
- The Burning Scheme, Issue 4
- Literary Link [issues 1 to 11]
- My Awkward Princess, “|CH 12| Library Hours“
- My Awkward Princess, “|CH 13| Routine“
- My Awkward Princess, “|CH 14| Almost Everyone“
- Pinky Promise, “Episode 15“
- Pinky Promise, “Episode 16“
In the fourth issue of The Burning Scheme, the protagonists, Vera at Sierra Verde Preparatory School, go to the library together, for a group project, with one of them, Calliope, saying the other (Vera) is “pretty.” Vera doesn’t like this closeness and leaves shortly thereafter, to the disappointment of Calliope.
In the episode “CH 12 | Library Hours” of My Awkward Princess, Alice Evelyn and Luna Charlotte do library service together, with Luna annoying Alice, and Luna getting “tamed” by someone else when they give her a lollipop. At one point, Luna catches Alice when she falls, to her annoyance, saying Luna just wanted to touch her, when in reality she just wanted to make sure she wasn’t hurt. And Alice thanks Luna. All this time she is giving instructions to the student vice-president who is relatively incompetent.
Otherwise, in the episode “|CH 13| Routine”, Alice is overworking herself in the library, feeling it will get better the next day and that there cannot be any distractions because the student council depends on her. She feels that she is almost perfect. One day, Luna is with her in the library, believes with Alice believing she should not slow down, and that she has keep working. She pushes it off, despite blood coming out of her nose, saying she isn’t her problem, telling her to stop distracting her, while Luna is deeply worried.
In the episode after this, “|CH 14| Almost Everyone,” Luna goes to the library to read, with Alice asking her why her section of the library isn’t organized yet, and starts bossing her around. Luna finds Alice, who she calls “puppy,” entertaining, and thinks back to when Alice thanked her for catching her, saying that doesn’t happen. Later, in the stairwell, Alice gives her cookies and tells her to show up the next day on time, making Luna blush because Alice gave her sweets (remembering that she likes them), and calls her “dangerous.”
The new version of Literary Link is finally out! That series focuses on libraries at its center, as noted in the series description: “Delinquent Faye Scott just wants to keep her head down and get through her latest sentencing — finish her community service and make it across the graduation stage as unscathed as possible — but her old enemies aren’t letting her go without a fight. However, a certain library volunteer might be the one to show Faye just the kindness she needs to change her life for the better.” I wrote a review about this series a while ago, saying:
I was going to add in some issues from Love and be Loved, but I had already added that into a posting I did on recently added titles in April, so I nixed that for this post:
Lastly, there are two issues of Pinky Promise. In the first of these, the protagonist, Eva, tries to remind the school group to stay on task (picking books for their presentation), as they work together in the school library, and threatens to tell their teacher, Miss Cielo, that they are wasting time. Another classmate tells Hallie that Eva is too serious about school, asking her to convince Eva to not report them. Through it all, Eva is worried about Hallie and the group she is a part of, and when admiring her, she thinks back to a sexy dream she had, leading her to begin blushing. After her fellow classmate believes something may be wrong, Eva denies it, then gets up to find a book. Following this, Hallie gets up to follow Eva.
In the next of those issues, Eva thinks about her reaction and how embarrassing it was, while she starts to look for a book. Hallie comes behind her, startling her, when all she wants is to check in on her. Eva keeps blushing and denying that anything is up, saying she had been different since that morning, after Hallie spent the night at her place. She notices that Eva has been avoiding her, with Eva literally turning her head away, as she stands in front of a library bookshelf. She ends up admitting she can’t look her in the eyes because of a dream she had, where Hallie was touching and kissing her. Even after she says she is embarrassed and shouldn’t have dreamed about it, Hallie teases her about it, saying she is being “naughty,” with Eva saying it is only because she has been teasing her so much lately. Hallie gets close to her and says she is cute every time she teases her, something Eva thinks about later.
Films recently added to this page
None for this month.
Other entries recently added to this page
None for this month. However, there was the recent news that…
- HIDIVE will be streaming The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie on July 14th [English dub]
- The Apothecary Diaries Anime Film’s Trailer Reveals Title, Cast, December 11 Opening
The first of these has libraries as central to the series itself, with library scenes in 16 episodes (“I Was Stolen Away” (s1 ep1), “I Died” (s1 ep 2), “I Want To Hug You” (s1 ep 3), “I Have A Problem” (s1 ep 4), “We Split Up” (s1 ep 5), “I Melted It” (s1 ep 6), “We Swapped Places” (s1 ep 7), “I Had A Dream” (s1 ep 8), “Karta 9: I Hate Yamada” (s1 ep 9), “Bonus Dangers” (s1 OVA), “We’re Searching” (s2 ep 1), “I’m growing up” (s2 ep 2), “Yamada Likes…” (s2 ep 4), “We’re Overflowing” (s2 ep 7), “I Want to Be Closer to Yamada” (s2, ep 10), “I, We, Fell in Love” (s2 ep 13, series finale)), as it is a key meeting place of the male and female protagonists, Kyotaro and Anna Yamada respectfully. As for second series, there’s one library scene I briefly described in a post last year:
In terms of a place of knowledge, consider the 10th episode of the drama/mystery/romance entitled The Apothecary Diaries. In the latter half of the show’s 10th episode, entitled “Honey,” Gaoshun, an assistant of Jinshi, tells Maomao that he will search the court library for information about past events in the rear palace. Later, an assistant behind the information desk helps him. He finds a relevant book and he gives it to Maomao. In it, she learns about events in the past, and that a baby was delivered by Doctor Luomen (her dad!), moving this story in an interesting direction!
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Know Your Enemy: Aquarius Full Moon 2026 (Readings for All Zodiac Signs)
July 30th 2026 – Reina LeFay
It was the f**k around of times, it was the find out of times. If new moons are made to f**k around, full moons are the times we find out what happens when we mess with the wrong person, the wrong situation, or the wrong spell. Like in the movie Hereditary, where a séance tricking the mother into believing she is communicating with a passed on loved one leads to the release of a demon, or in Talk to Me, where what seems like a fun game about letting spirits possess your body, leads to something far more sinister; This full moon in Aquarius is where we find out that actions not only have consequences, they can change your life forever.
Because this isn’t just any ol’ full moon in Aquarius, it’s conjunct Pluto, as in Hades, the god of the Underworld. Trips to the Underworld can either [read here].
#aquarius #aquariusFullMoon #aquariusFullMoon2026 #astrology #astrologyReadings #bible #buckMoon #buckMoon2026 #family #fiction #friendship #fullMoon #fullMoonJuly2026 #hereditary #horrorMovies #hughJackman #jeanValjean #jesus #knowYourEnemy #lesMiserables #life #musical #narcissist #NatalChartReading #newMoon #protectYourEnergy #rageAgainstTheMachine #Relationships #Spirituality #talkToMe #victorHugo #Writing -
Here is my Review of The Ramparts of Ice Season 1 w/ Spoilers: https://youtu.be/bXdbY7Dm5Sw #TheRampartsofIce #Season1 #Netflix #StudioKai #SliceofLife #Drama #Comedy #Friendship #Romance #Anime #TV #Streaming #Review
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The Wild Card: A Novel
"Don’t fold now. This could be love."
Sale: $4.99 to $2.49
by Carolyn Brown
Rating: 4.4/5 (8,003 Reviews)
#books #womenfiction #contemporary #romance #smalltown #texas #diner #friendship #love #booksky
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Two friends. Auch, France, April 2023.
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This Curmudgeonly old Hermit doesn't attend many social events, but prefers those that are Dog Friendly. With Will Renninger at the Shy Bear Brewery. #hermit #hermits #hermitting #curmudgeon #curmedgeons #grump #grumps #grumpy #dog #dogs #dogfriendly #canine #canines #pet #pets #shybearbrewery #shybear #localbusiness #localbusinesses #mifflincounty #pennsylvania #brewery #breweries #craftbeer #friend #friends #friendship #friendships #goingout #social #sociability
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Visual Art Interpretation – My Hopes and Dreams for the Next Year
This feels less like a list of resolutions than a marquee-map of my identity and desire: a radiant, hand-made 2027 filled not so much with tasks to accomplish as with the people, callings, loves, and practices that make my life feel alive.
The bright red border and repeated golden lights give it the appearance of a theater sign, a carnival ride, or an illuminated road. It seems to announce the year joyfully: Here is what I hope will shine. But inside that celebratory outline, the words do not sit neatly in straight lines. They curve, turn, reverse, overlap, and require the eye to travel. That seems important. My hopes are not separate boxes. Pastor, husband, author, musician, PeaceGrooves creator, friend, artist, woodworker, child of God—all of these identities wind through and around one another.
The words I placed inside the year—Sing, Play, Memories, God, Laugh, Journey, Pastor, Author, Husband, PeaceGrooves, Friends, Art, Church, Love, Woodcraft—are striking to me because so many of them are relational or creative. Even the roles are not primarily about achievement. Author is near Husband. Pastor winds along the same road as Journey. PeaceGrooves circles alongside Friends, Church, Love, and creativity. I did not imagine the coming year as productivity alone. I imagined it as belonging, expression, vocation, joy, and connection.
The Word I Did Not Write
After finishing the piece, I realized that I did not write health or healing anywhere inside it. Those things matter deeply to me, especially in light of some of the physical concerns and uncertainties I have been carrying. And yet, perhaps their absence does not mean they were forgotten. Perhaps I instinctively wrote the life I hope healing will allow me to continue inhabiting.
I did not write healing, but I wrote Sing-Play: the hope that my body and spirit can still release themselves into music.
I wrote Laugh: the hope for lightness, delight, and joy.
I wrote Journey: the hope that I can continue moving forward.
I wrote Husband and Friends: the hope of remaining present in love and relationship rather than retreating into worry or isolation.
I wrote Pastor and Church: the hope that I can continue serving meaningfully among people.
I wrote Art, Author, Woodcraft, and PeaceGrooves: the hope that creativity will continue flowing through me rather than being swallowed up by discouragement, exhaustion, or fear.
Perhaps healing is everywhere in this drawing without having been named. It is hidden beneath almost every word: Let me be well enough, free enough, encouraged enough, and alive enough to keep inhabiting these loves.
But perhaps the omission also tells me something tender and difficult about myself. When I think about the future, I often think first about what I can give, create, serve, love, and build. I may not always think first about what I need. This picture invites me to remember that somewhere in the glowing year ahead, there must also be room for my own care. I am not only the husband, pastor, artist, author, musician, friend, and creator. I am also a person who needs healing, rest, gentleness, and grace.
The Smear Between Author and Husband
One of the small accidents in the piece occurred in the space between Author and Husband. Water smeared the color there, and I had to cover it as best I could. I was mostly able to hide the mistake, though I know it happened. I know that beneath the finished surface there is a place where the colors once ran together in a way I did not intend.
That accidental smear now feels strangely meaningful. Author and Husband are two of my most intimate identities: the part of me that creates worlds and gives language to inner experience, and the part of me that shares an actual life in love and covenant with another person. Perhaps those two identities were never meant to be sharply separated. My writing rises from my lived relationships, from tenderness, memory, fear, faith, longing, disappointment, and love. And my creative life inevitably spills into the life I share with my wife.
The water touched the border between those words, and I tried to repair it. That is not a failure of the picture. It may be one of the most honest parts of it. Life does not remain perfectly inside the lines. The roles I care most about do not remain untouched by mess, vulnerability, or accident. Sometimes the colors run together. Sometimes I try to cover what went wrong. Sometimes a trace remains, visible mostly to me.
Yet I did not throw the picture away. I continued working on it. I allowed the imperfection to become part of the finished whole.
Perhaps that is an image of grace. A life of grace is not a life where nothing ever gets smeared. It is a life in which even the smeared places can be incorporated into the beauty.
Church: Almost Illegible
I also noticed that Church almost looks like “Churgh.” It is there, but it is not the clearest or most immediately readable word. That, too, feels symbolic.
Church is deeply present in my hopes for the coming year. It is part of who I am, part of my calling, part of my relationship with God and with community. But church is not always simple or perfectly clear. It can be difficult to read. It can be beautiful and messy, life-giving and exhausting, sacred and profoundly human all at once.
In this picture, church does not appear by itself in a clean, isolated space. It is crowded into a circling path alongside other words: Love, Friends, Art, perhaps even the movements of creativity and ministry surrounding it. That seems truthful. For me, church is not separate from love, friendship, art, imagination, service, or reconciliation. It is entangled with them.
The fact that the word is only almost clear may express something I feel: church is something I continue to believe in and belong to, while also still trying to see clearly. It is present. It matters. It is part of the year I hope to live. But it is not polished or uncomplicated.
Perhaps that is what makes it real.
The Shape of the Year
The large number itself is not simply filled in. It becomes a winding course. The words curve around turns and corners; some appear upright from one angle and upside down from another. To read the whole image, I almost have to rotate it, follow it, and let my eyes travel through it.
That feels like an honest representation of the year ahead. I do not know exactly how it will unfold. My hopes do not form a straight road or a neatly numbered plan. They form a brightly lit labyrinth. Something that appears upside down from one position may look different once I travel farther along the curve. Something that seems peripheral now may become central. Something disappointing may redirect me toward an unexpected opening.
This drawing does not say, Here is my plan to master the next year.
It says, Here is the glowing path I hope to inhabit.
That is truer to my life. Music feeds ministry. Woodcraft feeds contemplation. Writing feeds faith. PeaceGrooves gathers together my imagination, my longing for peace, my love of play, and my desire to offer something meaningful to others. Marriage and friendship keep my creative life from becoming merely solitary. Church places my personal dreams within a larger body. God is not outside all these things, looking down upon them from a distance, but present among them.
My life is not a ladder climbing toward a single success. It is a winding, illuminated journey through many loves.
The Lights Around the Border
The repeated yellow bulbs around the border give the piece a vintage, celebratory feeling. They make the year look like something being announced: a show beginning, a stage opening, a bright invitation to enter.
There is something almost exuberant about it. I did not draw a quiet little calendar page or a restrained list of intentions. I drew the year as a spectacle of hope. These dreams are not small to me. They are worthy of light. Music, laughter, love, friendship, art, faith, craft, writing, church, PeaceGrooves—these are not hobbies or decorative extras around the edge of life. They are among the things that make life worth living.
And yet the lights are not machine-perfect. They are hand-drawn. Each one is slightly different. Some are rounder, some rougher, some more irregular. That matters too. The brightness of this coming year is not a slick commercial promise that everything will be perfect. It is the brightness I have carefully drawn around my hopes with my own imperfect hand.
Most moving of all, the lights continue around the bends. They do not shine only along the smooth or impressive stretches. They follow the narrow turns, the dips, the places where the shape curls inward. The light does not abandon the complicated places.
What This Picture Says to Me
This is a picture of my hope not merely to survive another year, but to remain fully myself within it.
I want to sing and play.
I want to laugh.
I want to remember.
I want to journey.
I want to love and be loved.
I want to remain a husband, a pastor, an author, an artist, a craftsman, a musician, a friend, and a dreamer.
I want PeaceGrooves not merely to exist as a project, but to become an expression of something deep within me: my longing to imagine, create, and make peace.
I want God not as an abstract religious idea floating somewhere outside my life, but as a living presence woven among music, love, creativity, friendship, church, memory, laughter, and journey.
And perhaps beneath the entire picture is the word I did not write: wholeness.
Wholeness includes health. It includes healing. But it is larger than both. It is the hope that all these different names for myself will not compete with one another, break apart, or fade away, but somehow curve together into a single radiant life.
The smear between Author and Husband, the almost-illegible Church, the reversed words, the crowded pathways, the uneven bulbs, and the wandering design do not lessen the picture. They make it more truthful.
My hopes for the next year are not cleanly arranged or perfectly protected from mistakes. They are handmade. They are entangled. They are vulnerable. They are colorful. They are imperfect.
And they are still shining.
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Photo of the Day 4th June 2026.
On This Day 4th June 2015. 'Throw Thursday 4th June 2026.https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/04/photo-of-the-day-4th-june-2026/
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Photo of the Day 28th May 2026.
'Throw Thursday 28th May 2026.https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/05/28/photo-of-the-day-28th-may-2026/
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Twisted Wonderland: Rose-Red Tyrant
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I imagine the reason he felt he could welcome people from faraway places so easily was because he was one of those people... and faced persecution because of it in his childhood. A reminder that people are good. #Friendship #welcome #mennonite
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A nice obituary from December 31, 2024 about my Great Uncle Herman Neufeld (my mom's Uncle).
I never really knew him as I grew up 4000km away... but he had a positive impact on people, especially Jamaican workers, in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
"Herman, who died Dec. 31, became very involved in the Niagara Workers Welcome services and other outreach programs. He considered the farmworkers his friends and neighbours, and treated them as such."
#Friendship #welcome #mennonite
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God sent me an angel
My best friend, I swear she’s an angel sent from above Maybe the only reason I’m not in a psychward. She’s the only one who understands me She’s gets me laughing like nobody else can She’s got a special place in my heart I love her so And I hope she knows I wish she […]
Reblog: Lovely poem!
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Glenn Close and Jeff Goldblum on Films, Friendship, and a Prank Involving “the Biggest Bras and Panties That You Could Buy” – Vanity Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHUwAZdQFBg
Friendship, and a Prank Involving “the Biggest Bras and Panties That You Could Buy”
The stars of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Wicked: For Good reminisce about dance parties, The Big Chill’s lost epilogue, and the joy of gazing into Josh O’Connor’s eyes.
By Rebecca Ford, December 10, 2025
In Reunited, Vanity Fair hosts a conversation between two Oscar contenders who have collaborated on a previous project.
Glenn Close and Jeff Goldblum had a ball making The Big Chill, which follows a group of 30-somethings who reunite for a weekend after a friend’s unexpected death. There were dance parties, pranks, and lifelong bonds formed on the set of Lawrence Kasdan’s film, which was packed with actors who would go on to become big stars: Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams, in addition to Close and Goldblum.
In the 42 years since Close and Goldblum starred in that seminal film—which earned the former her second Oscar nomination—the actors have remained close while building diverse, powerful résumés. Proof of their illustrious careers comes just minutes into our Reunited conversation, when Goldblum asks Close if she’s kept a lot of her costumes, and she reveals that she’s actually got some 1,000 pieces archived at Indiana University. “It makes me so happy,” Close says.
This year she took on another transformative role as devout church lady Martha Delacroix in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, while Goldblum reprised his role as the Wizard in Wicked: For Good. Each a legend in their own right, these two continue to surprise audiences with whimsical but grounded characters—and they’re the first to say they’re having a blast doing it.
Here, the longtime friends discuss The Big Chill’s lost epilogue, what they do when they’re not agreeing with a director, and working with legends like Mike Nichols, Kasdan, and Sanford Meisner.
Editor’s Note: Watch the movie if you can. It’s good, and not just because I helped work to make it. More on that in a later post. –DrWeb
Vanity Fair: What do you remember about the first time you met?
Glenn Close: We did a table read [for The Big Chill]. Did you do the table read in New York?
Jeff Goldblum: No. I was out here and had an audition or two with Lawrence Kasdan and [producer] Michael Shamberg.
Close: I had dated Kevin [Kline]. He’s remained my friend, but I had dated Kevin and he was dating my best friend—
Goldblum: Mary Beth Hurt.
Close: And then he had broken up with her for Diane Venora. Mary Beth was asked to read the part that Mary Kay [Place] ended up taking. And Diane Venora read the part that JoBeth [Williams] got, and Mary Beth found herself riding up in the elevator, I think, with Diane Venora—and she still was in love with Kevin. And Bill Hurt was her ex-husband!
Goldblum: Wow. That’s a movie.
Close: I always thought that’s why she didn’t get the part. It was too politically laden.
Goldblum: That’s a riot. How long did you go with Kevin? I don’t want to pry.
Close: Not very long. I think maybe we broke up when he ditched me for Gilda Radner at the Tonys.
What do you two remember from filming The Big Chill?
Close: We had the best time. Do you remember? There was an epilogue to The Big Chill originally, and it’s actually what made me really want to do the movie, because it made me cry. This epilogue was all of us at college. We all flew to Atlanta and we shot the epilogue first.
Goldblum: Yes. With my big fake beard and a wig. Did you ever see a cut of that movie with that in?
Close: Yes.
Goldblum: I did too. I’ve always been moved by that too.
Close: Remember the epilogue [which was cut from the final film]? It was Thanksgiving, and of course [my character] was organizing everything. Everybody was around the table, and I had asked Kevin Costner [whose scenes were all cut from the finished film] to carve the turkey. And the last line was Kevin Kline saying— …
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Glenn Close and Jeff Goldblum on Films, Friendship, and a Prank Involving “the Biggest Bras and Panties That You Could Buy” | Vanity Fair
Tags: Atanta, Beaufort South Carolina, Big Bras, Big Panties, Classic Trailer, Conversation, Epilogue, Films, Friendship, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Pranks, Scene Cut from Ending, The Big Chill, Trailer, Vanity Fair, YouTube
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CW: mh? crush/squish
Tuesday was the first day of college to study social pedagogy and I already love it.
It's going to be every tuesday apart from holidays for the next 3 years and from now on I can bring my dog Platon.It's going to be all about emotional and social competences, group dynamics and reflection. I have a love-hate relationship with these things. On the one hand I think they are exactly what society lacks and I want to study them and be able to teach people. AND I want to be a social being with friends and (a) partner(s).
On the other hand IRL group dynamics and social interactions have been the death of me.I tend to be the outsider in each group and feel even more so. The feeling of being excluded crushes me and I stut down even more. It's a vicious cycle I've been working on and I might be better equipped to deal with now, after many years of therapy (for depression and social anxiety), than ever before. But also I am more radical now than ever before (thanks to the Fediverse) and that tends to get in the way of people warming up to me.
At one point there was an introduction round with names, (I was the only one doing pronouns - just like I'm the only one wearing a mask), experiences in the psycho-social field, what brought us to social pedagogy and what are our hopes and fears for the college. For my fear I mentioned the group dynamics thing, which was probably a good choice. I could have mentioned my fear of falling in love with another member of the group and I could have named a name, even though this was the second time I saw her.
And that's my much bigger fear and something I hate about me. I'm going to spend the next 3 years with these 19 women and 6 guys. I don't really know any of them yet, don't know what they're like and if they are compatible with me (for friendship or whatever). But I already know I'll only have eyes for that one woman for 3 years just because she is "my type".
I hate judging people by their looks which has to be all this is - I'm not that good a judge of character that I could possibly claim that I'm crushing on her character. I mean. The women I fall for tend to be the same type of character apart from looks too, but still.
I wish there was a potion that protects from falling in love. Lacking that I'll have to manage with skills, distractions and probably therapy again. Maybe it will work out and I won't have my next depression. Oh and just in case you're wondering: No, I don't think there is a chance in hell that she could ever like me too in any way other than platonically. Absolutely no way.
Not that a friendship couldn't be enough. I'm asexual and don't really believe in romance either - at least nor mono-normative romance. I named my dog after platonic relationships after all. But my inner therapist tells me its not a good idea to be friends if we feel differently about each other.
Why can't there just be a college for ace queerplatonic partnerships, so I could fall for people who are like me? Oh yeah, because you can't monetize that. Damn you capitalism.
#mh #MentalHealth #SocialAnxiety #NotJustScared #crush #squish #love #asexual #QueerPlatonic #GroupDynamics #friendship
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Boobear the 29 year old cockatiel poses in the window with his girlfriend, Nyota the storm lovebird rescued from Hurricane Isaac in 2012!!!! Love is real!!!
(this is Boobear's hatchday month, he was banded july 1996, please show him some virtual 🎂 )
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Pet #Pets #PetBirds #Rescue #Cockatiel #Lovebird #Love #Friendship #Snuggle
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this morning I harvested some dill from my flowerpot. as I was cutting it I realized it was Very Fresh Dill, and wanted to tell an old friend, who would totally get the allusion, but we've been out of touch for years. time is a weird thing.
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In den letzten Wochen habe ich euch anlässlich der Waltraud-Schiffels-Preisverleihung mein Umfeld gezeigt. Menschen, die mich begleiten, mich tragen, mit mir kämpfen und mich lieben.
Alle – bis auf eine.⬇️
#Love #Friendship #BestFriend #BFF #Grateful #Thankful #Happiness #Support #PositiveVibes #GoodVibesOnly #Emotional #Blessed #Soulmate #Besties #Inspiration #Motivation #Unbreakable #Forever #Always #BestFriendGoals #SelfLove #StrongTogether #MyPerson #HeartFull #Memories #Smiles
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TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner ‘The Life Of Chuck’ Latest Indie To Test Box Office Revival With Neon Gifting Campaign – Specialty Preview
#News #BadShabbos #DANDADANEvilEye #DangerousAnimals #Friendship #GarlandJeffreysTheKingOfInBetween #HundredsOfBeavers #IDon039tUnderstandYou #JaneAustenWreckedMyLife #Pavements #SecretMallApartment #SpecialtyPreview #TheLastTwins #TheLifeOfChuck #ThePhoenicianSchemehttps://deadline.com/2025/06/indie-films-opening-the-life-of-chuck-i-dont-understand-you-1236424260/