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2009.09.16 20:23 Petarded For residents of Somerville, MA
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2010.03.23 12:10 emacsen OpenStreetMap: Geo News you can use!
News and cool links about the OpenStreetMap project
2023.06.03 19:17 ExpensiveSummer45 (US)(SELL) Sephora Bestsellers + Popular TIKTOK makeup!
Items will be shipped through Priority Mail via USPS (shipping fee will range from $8-12 depending on weight of item(s), will discuss further at the time of transaction)
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/6Tzx7yP
all items were purchased either through Sephora or the brand's main website (can guarantee authentic by providing proof of purchase if necessary)
(if you are viewing this on the app, slide to the right to see prices)
** SOLD items are deleted **
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Proof: https://imgur.com/a/6Tzx7yP
all items were purchased either through Sephora or the brand's main website (can guarantee authentic by providing proof of purchase if necessary)
(if you are viewing this on the app, slide to the right to see prices)
** SOLD items are deleted **
| Item: | Price (USD): | Condition/Reason for Sell | Availability: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huda Rose Quartz Palette | $45 | used 2 times / too many similar palettes | Available |
| PAT McGRATH LABS blush in Nymphette | $27 | used 2 times / already have a similar blush | Available |
| PAT McGRATH LABS blush in Cherish | $27 | swatched only / too dark on me | Available |
| PAT McGRATH LABS blush in Divine Rose | $27 | used 2 times / its pretty but dont really reach for it | Available |
| MINI Fenty Contour Stick in Amber | $11 | used 2 times / too many contours | Available |
| Kosas concealer (shade 1N) | $18 | used 4 times / too dark | Available |
| PAT McGRATH foundation (light 2) | $45 | used 3 times (shade was too light for me) | Available |
| Tom Ford cream color for eyes eyeshadow in Opale | $25 | swatched / super pretty but don't really reach for it | Available |
| Tom Ford cream color for eyes eyeshadow in Sphinx | $25 | swatched / also super pretty but don't reach for it | Available |
| Natasha denona chroma crystal (metal bronze) | $15 | swatched / impulse buy | Available |
| Laura mercier caviar stick (intense amethyst) | $18 | swatched / shade doesn't match my skin | Available |
| Bodyography glitter pigment in Stellar | $16 | used 2 times / impulse buy | Available |
| Hourglass scattered lights in Smoke | $23 | swatched / very impulse buy | Available |
| Touch in SOL medallist (honey brown) | $8 | swatched / too many glitters | Available |
| GXVE beauty (twinkle) | $15 | swatched / too many glitters | Available |
| Chanel les beiges bronzer (390) | $35 | used 5 times / realized I prefer powder bronzer | Available |
| Mini benefit professional | $5 | used once / too many pore filling primers | Available |
| Benetint benefit mini | $12 | used once / too many blushes | Available |
| All nighter spray | $20 | used 3 times / I already have a full size spray | Available |
| PAT McGRATH intensifeyes artistry wand | $20 | swatched / don't know how to use it | Available |
| Hourglass veil primer mini | $16 | used once / too many pore filling primers | Available |
| Nars mini concealer in Affogato | $10 | used twice / too light | Available |
| Clinique Pansy pop | $20 | used once / too purple | Available |
| Smashbox 24 hour primer | $10 | used 5 times / don't really need it because I rarely wear powder eyeshadow | Available |
| Charlotte Tilbury Cream Eyeshadow in Oyster Pearl | $25 | used twice / already have similar shadow | Available |
| Pat mcgrath labs Gloss in Aliengelic | $15 | used 2 times / doesn't suit me | Available |
| Charlotte Tilbury Blush Wand in Pinkgasm | $25 | used 2 times / doesn't suit me | Available |
2023.06.03 19:17 HighPartTime BC OZ-Sherbet cookies🔥
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2023.06.03 19:15 shampaln FINALLY finished season 10
idk why i initially found this season so boring. it's one of the only seasons that's entertaining from beginning to end.
this was a really attractive cast. stephanie especially was so sexy... her face, body, voice, everything except the tragic way she did her makeup lmao
alicia is probably one of the worst villains on the show. like at least valentina, julie, and erica(s8) were funny.. alicia is irredeemable. like ailea-tier. her wannabe stasi moment made me cringe so hard. also yk damn well nobody calls you "chi fly" in real life.
the editing of the fights really pissed me off. these were good fights and we deserved to see them without that corny imovie shit
shannon had me cracking up with her idioms and metaphors but i would absolutely never be friends with someone like her in real life. there's no reason that a 27 year old ex-military woman with a build like that should be claiming she's getting bullied by 21-22 year olds half her size. when all the girls were saying that they felt bad for shannon because she never stood up for herself.. what?
the reunion was giving baddies west.
also i don't think jenn lost a single fight idgaf. the narrative that rocky got jumped and still beat jenn's ass is propaganda. obviously i'm not expecting anyone to win a fight where they're being jumped but cmon
i wish shannon wasn't cast at all honestly yall i do not like her. i think my main issue with the season & reunion was that the show clearly wanted us to love shanrock, but i didn't. kinda like how season 13 wanted us to love jada.
submitted by shampaln to BadGirlsClub [link] [comments]
this was a really attractive cast. stephanie especially was so sexy... her face, body, voice, everything except the tragic way she did her makeup lmao
alicia is probably one of the worst villains on the show. like at least valentina, julie, and erica(s8) were funny.. alicia is irredeemable. like ailea-tier. her wannabe stasi moment made me cringe so hard. also yk damn well nobody calls you "chi fly" in real life.
the editing of the fights really pissed me off. these were good fights and we deserved to see them without that corny imovie shit
shannon had me cracking up with her idioms and metaphors but i would absolutely never be friends with someone like her in real life. there's no reason that a 27 year old ex-military woman with a build like that should be claiming she's getting bullied by 21-22 year olds half her size. when all the girls were saying that they felt bad for shannon because she never stood up for herself.. what?
the reunion was giving baddies west.
also i don't think jenn lost a single fight idgaf. the narrative that rocky got jumped and still beat jenn's ass is propaganda. obviously i'm not expecting anyone to win a fight where they're being jumped but cmon
i wish shannon wasn't cast at all honestly yall i do not like her. i think my main issue with the season & reunion was that the show clearly wanted us to love shanrock, but i didn't. kinda like how season 13 wanted us to love jada.
2023.06.03 19:15 The0Rusted finished building my enkidu,looking good :D
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2023.06.03 19:14 flashcardsrock 21F what does my chart indicate about my future spouse, astrologers have said that my spouse could be from a religion other than mine, what can indicate this?
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2023.06.03 19:05 N-I-K-K-O-R Am I the only one disappointed by the lack of BMW’s in GT7?
I think this is one of my favorite gran turismo car rosters since gt2 minus the how few bmws are in this one. Even a few of the ones that are in I think are completely awful or pointless. Like the two variations of the e30 m3? The street version and gr4 version of the 10 year old m4. The Sprint vs endurance m6. Instill don’t know how these are any different. The 73 and 71 csl. The i3
Meanwhile we one somewhat modern bmw the m2 comp
We have no m1 or m5 or m8
We don’t have the old v12 850
We don’t have an old 2002
We don’t have an e36 era m3
Zero m5’s
No i8’s
You can’t even name another main stream manufacturer that is nearly as under represented in this game.
submitted by N-I-K-K-O-R to granturismo [link] [comments]
Meanwhile we one somewhat modern bmw the m2 comp
We have no m1 or m5 or m8
We don’t have the old v12 850
We don’t have an old 2002
We don’t have an e36 era m3
Zero m5’s
No i8’s
You can’t even name another main stream manufacturer that is nearly as under represented in this game.
2023.06.03 19:03 ShiftGold Fashion and self-expression
For the longest time, I have struggled to develop my own fashion sense. The main reason is because my mother constantly imposes her own fashion choices on me. It seems that she could never understand or take into account of what I want, and only thinks that I ought to want what she wants.
Fashion is a deeply personal thing and I feel this is one of the areas where parental emotional neglect comes through. My mother would often criticize me own clothing choices in front of relatives, making me feel ridiculed. I could feel that whenever I make purchases that she doesn’t agree with, she treats them lesser, such as doing laundry with them against their label instructions, or suggesting I donate them after a while. In contrast, the clothes she picked for me has been dry cleaned, and she often insists I wear them. Whereas she would constantly look for problems in the clothes that I pick, and say something like “don’t ever wear that again.”
This goes beyond clothing. She would insist on what color I dye my hair in, so much so as skipping over me to talk to the hair stylist directly, or mention how I’m drawing my brows wrong. In fact, when I first see her, the first thing she always says is “let’s see what you’re wearing today”, and gives her verdict.
In case anybody asks, I’m a 27 year old female, and she still treats me like this. I wonder if anybody feels ashamed over their own clothing choices like I do and feel like a piece of myself being denied whenever I’m criticized.
submitted by ShiftGold to emotionalneglect [link] [comments]
Fashion is a deeply personal thing and I feel this is one of the areas where parental emotional neglect comes through. My mother would often criticize me own clothing choices in front of relatives, making me feel ridiculed. I could feel that whenever I make purchases that she doesn’t agree with, she treats them lesser, such as doing laundry with them against their label instructions, or suggesting I donate them after a while. In contrast, the clothes she picked for me has been dry cleaned, and she often insists I wear them. Whereas she would constantly look for problems in the clothes that I pick, and say something like “don’t ever wear that again.”
This goes beyond clothing. She would insist on what color I dye my hair in, so much so as skipping over me to talk to the hair stylist directly, or mention how I’m drawing my brows wrong. In fact, when I first see her, the first thing she always says is “let’s see what you’re wearing today”, and gives her verdict.
In case anybody asks, I’m a 27 year old female, and she still treats me like this. I wonder if anybody feels ashamed over their own clothing choices like I do and feel like a piece of myself being denied whenever I’m criticized.
2023.06.03 19:01 CameraAcceptable1907 Is there a minimum/recommended amount of worms for a 10litre container? I don’t want to spend more on new ones
I am one month into my worm farming and I love it. I have an indoor setup from Recyworm.
I have decided to start two additional 10 litre outdoor bins using a couple of plastic tubs as an insurance in case anything bad happening to the main bin.
I saw a guy on YouTube adding only 27 worms to a cardboard only bin as an experiment. I don’t want to buy anymore worms, I’m happy to wait while the population builds up.
With it being outside I was hoping a couple of local garden worms would find their way in. I found 2 worms that looked like red wiggles when digging the hole.
TLDR - I started a new bin 1 month ago with 250grams of red wigglers, approximately 500 worms. How many would you move over to add to two new 10Litre outside bins?
Appreciate you thoughts
submitted by CameraAcceptable1907 to Vermiculture [link] [comments]
I have decided to start two additional 10 litre outdoor bins using a couple of plastic tubs as an insurance in case anything bad happening to the main bin.
I saw a guy on YouTube adding only 27 worms to a cardboard only bin as an experiment. I don’t want to buy anymore worms, I’m happy to wait while the population builds up.
With it being outside I was hoping a couple of local garden worms would find their way in. I found 2 worms that looked like red wiggles when digging the hole.
TLDR - I started a new bin 1 month ago with 250grams of red wigglers, approximately 500 worms. How many would you move over to add to two new 10Litre outside bins?
Appreciate you thoughts
2023.06.03 19:01 Entire-Ad-7229 When will the Zenbook laptop be back in stock?
 | To piggy back to the previous post I made, I would like to know when this laptop will be back in stock since the Zenbook laptop is the laptop that I originally wanted to buy but couldn’t due to money issues and now it’s out of stock and I just don’t know when it will be back in stock. I would like to have the laptop before I go study to have the laptop all set and not take the one I currently have and thus end up having two laptops when I don’t think it’s necessary and it’s a bit of a burden. submitted by Entire-Ad-7229 to horary [link] [comments] As for the interpretation is the querent is the laptop in this case? If it is then I think the first house in this case is the 11H. And if I’m asking when will it be back in stock, do I look at the second house for that or Venus? If I look at Venus, Venus in the home of the moon and also currently applying a trine to the moon. Venus is also on a cancer angle (i don’t know if that counts) and Venus is also sitting on a cardinal sign although in a succeedent house. Would that be an indicator of time? If so, I read that cardinal signs are quick so I’m not sure if the angle (28°) is an indicator of time. I would love help with this interpretation since it’s the first time I make an horary question of the sort. |
2023.06.03 19:00 CataclysmBN CBN Changelog: June 3, 2023. Play as Feral, shields in vanilla, Necropolis improvements and improved explosions!
 | Cataclysm: Bright Nights changes for: May 17- June 3, 2023. submitted by CataclysmBN to cataclysmbn [link] [comments] Cataclysm: Bright Nights changes for: May 17- June 3, 2023. Bright Nights discord server link: https://discord.gg/XW7XhXuZ89 Bright Nights launcheupdater (also works for DDA!) by qrrk: https://github.com/qrrk/Catapult/releases Bright Nights launcheupdater by 4nonch: https://github.com/4nonch/BN---Primitive-Launchereleases TheAwesomeBoophis' UDP revival project: https://discord.gg/mSATZeZmjz This changelog is really Feral! We are not only bring Ferals to the game we give player ability to play as one! This way zombies will see you as friend! Everything great, right? Not really - now you have to look for humans and kill them regularly or there will be consequences. Of course you can try to hunt other Ferals to satisfy your killing urges , but this way zombies will see you as enemy. You know that mods some mods adds shields to the game? Well, now shields in vanilla game! And shields mechanics even improved - for example now you can block ranged attacks with shield! Check out improved explosions! Now explosions will do more damage to environment, including ground! And do not forget to visit improved and reworked Necropolis! If you do not find it yourself - there is new quest that guide you there! Big thank to:
Content/Balance:
Bugfixes:
Infrastructure:
Previous changelog: https://www.reddit.com/cataclysmbn/comments/13kaqma/cbn_changelog_may_17_2023_lab_finale_overhaul_npc/ Changes so far: https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/wiki/Changes-so-far Download: https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/releases Bugs and suggestions can be posted here: https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/issues How to help: https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/wiki/Want-to-help%3F
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2023.06.03 18:59 Chaos42000 Is there any synergy/reason on why ppl play dark lady in raging pend?
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2023.06.03 18:53 pewomss Can someone help me see the light at the end of the tunnel?
This is a very dramatic title for what is objectively a not so horrible situation i'm in but still.
Long story short, I have some form of complex trauma (confirmed by multiple therapists and psichiatrists, although i don't have a cptsd diagnosis and don't even know if that's a thing in my country) from multiple prolonged events in my childhood, mainly around parental neglect/abuse and bullying/ostracism from peers(the worst stuff happened before i was a teen).
Now i'm in my early 20s, and doing somewhat better than when i was in my teens. I can go places by myself, i don't spiral as often as i used to,i go to uni, i exercise and meditate,i'm at a healthy weight for the first time in my life, etc., all the day-to-day stuff i got mostly under control.
But i still feel so fucking lonely, full of shame and scared to let life just happen to me instead of trying to control everything.
I don't have any friends, only people i talk to because of university, or a couple people from my high school i see once every few months. Sometimes people will casually invite me to do stuff like going to the movies or the pool but they rarely follow through, though i don't do it either, mostly out of fear they didn't really mean it and I'll come across as overtly needy.
Literally today there was the big yearly pride event in my town(i'm queer), and it would have been the first time i thought i felt comfortable enough to go, but even though i had a person to go with and it was a 15 minute walk from my house I still couldn't get myself to do it. I told myself what i always tell myself, that there's gonna be a next time, that i can channel the regret i feel over missing out on stuff into getting better, etc. But i am getting older, and i won't magically wake up one day feeling like i am finally ready to do everything i'm too scared to do now.
I think one of my main issues is that most of the stuff i want to do (mostly around my passions and my career) requires being around people or interacting with people in some way, and i only feel safe when i'm completely alone. I know rationally why that is, but i never felt like it improved even a bit, even though i have been in therapy for half a decade at this point(mostly cbt which i know isn't recommended for cptsd, although my cbt therapist was actually great beside not being trauma-informed). I can interact with people (in a casual way) more often know, but it's mostly because I've built some defense mechanisms that then make it. harder to actually get to know people more deeply. I know there's a lot i still haven't tried therapy-wise, it's just really overwhelming and demoralizing sometimes.
What triggered me into finally making this post is feeling summer approaching once again, and once again i'm in that time of the year when i feel the most alone, when most people i know are making experiences with their friends and i'm home alone gathering the mental strength to go buy an ice-cream at the shop down the street. It's almost become a recurrent thing the past few years for me to have a mental health crisis around July-August, and I think it's partially because of how isolated I feel.
I know one of the biggest things holding me back is my toxic shame and inner critic. When i was younger I thought that when i lost weight, when i "looked better", etc. i would finally feel comfortable with myself and charismatic and make some friends. Now there's really nothing left to blame except my personality or at least the one i project externally to others.
Even if i'm not inherently unlikeable/alienating, and it's just my trauma making me interact with the world in this way, it often feels like dealing with a child that is 100x more motivated and 100x more creative than you in getting their way. I feel the part of me that feels like changing is actually worth it and possible and like i could belong somewhere getting smaller and smaller every day.
I guess i wanted to know if anyone who felt as unsafe and alienated from other people as me and has been making some improvement has any words of advice and/or encouragement to give me, or even just if anyone who's in a better headspace than me right now has something nice to say. Sorry if this came off as me rambling or being repetitive, i'm tired and slightly dissociated right now.
submitted by pewomss to CPTSD [link] [comments]
Long story short, I have some form of complex trauma (confirmed by multiple therapists and psichiatrists, although i don't have a cptsd diagnosis and don't even know if that's a thing in my country) from multiple prolonged events in my childhood, mainly around parental neglect/abuse and bullying/ostracism from peers(the worst stuff happened before i was a teen).
Now i'm in my early 20s, and doing somewhat better than when i was in my teens. I can go places by myself, i don't spiral as often as i used to,i go to uni, i exercise and meditate,i'm at a healthy weight for the first time in my life, etc., all the day-to-day stuff i got mostly under control.
But i still feel so fucking lonely, full of shame and scared to let life just happen to me instead of trying to control everything.
I don't have any friends, only people i talk to because of university, or a couple people from my high school i see once every few months. Sometimes people will casually invite me to do stuff like going to the movies or the pool but they rarely follow through, though i don't do it either, mostly out of fear they didn't really mean it and I'll come across as overtly needy.
Literally today there was the big yearly pride event in my town(i'm queer), and it would have been the first time i thought i felt comfortable enough to go, but even though i had a person to go with and it was a 15 minute walk from my house I still couldn't get myself to do it. I told myself what i always tell myself, that there's gonna be a next time, that i can channel the regret i feel over missing out on stuff into getting better, etc. But i am getting older, and i won't magically wake up one day feeling like i am finally ready to do everything i'm too scared to do now.
I think one of my main issues is that most of the stuff i want to do (mostly around my passions and my career) requires being around people or interacting with people in some way, and i only feel safe when i'm completely alone. I know rationally why that is, but i never felt like it improved even a bit, even though i have been in therapy for half a decade at this point(mostly cbt which i know isn't recommended for cptsd, although my cbt therapist was actually great beside not being trauma-informed). I can interact with people (in a casual way) more often know, but it's mostly because I've built some defense mechanisms that then make it. harder to actually get to know people more deeply. I know there's a lot i still haven't tried therapy-wise, it's just really overwhelming and demoralizing sometimes.
What triggered me into finally making this post is feeling summer approaching once again, and once again i'm in that time of the year when i feel the most alone, when most people i know are making experiences with their friends and i'm home alone gathering the mental strength to go buy an ice-cream at the shop down the street. It's almost become a recurrent thing the past few years for me to have a mental health crisis around July-August, and I think it's partially because of how isolated I feel.
I know one of the biggest things holding me back is my toxic shame and inner critic. When i was younger I thought that when i lost weight, when i "looked better", etc. i would finally feel comfortable with myself and charismatic and make some friends. Now there's really nothing left to blame except my personality or at least the one i project externally to others.
Even if i'm not inherently unlikeable/alienating, and it's just my trauma making me interact with the world in this way, it often feels like dealing with a child that is 100x more motivated and 100x more creative than you in getting their way. I feel the part of me that feels like changing is actually worth it and possible and like i could belong somewhere getting smaller and smaller every day.
I guess i wanted to know if anyone who felt as unsafe and alienated from other people as me and has been making some improvement has any words of advice and/or encouragement to give me, or even just if anyone who's in a better headspace than me right now has something nice to say. Sorry if this came off as me rambling or being repetitive, i'm tired and slightly dissociated right now.
2023.06.03 18:53 mystereangelique Comment booster quelqu'un à trouvé du travail ?
Bonjour, je suis une femme de 26 ans et je suis en couple depuis 7 mois avec un homme de 27 ans. Tout se passe bien hormis le fait qu'il ne travaille pas ...
Il est développeur web et il a été licencié pour cause économique en août 2022, et depuis il ne travaille plus. Je ne l'ai jamais connu en train de travailler puis ce que nous nous somme mis en couple en novembre 2022.
Moi je suis une personne qui a toujours travaillé et qui ne connait pas de période de chômage dans ma carrière et pour moi travailler c'est important.
Il cherche sans plus dans sa branche mais j'ai l'impression qu'il ne fait pas vraiment d'effort... J'aimerais avancer avec lui mais je vous avoue que si il n'a pas de travail c'est compliqué. Cela commence à me stresser. Il me dit qu'il veut vraiment trouver du travail.
Ma question est la suivante : - est ce que c'est difficile de trouver du travail dans son secteur et dans notre ville (Angers) ? Et - qu'est ce que je pourrais faire pour lui donner un coup de pouce sans paraître trop insistante ?
Merci
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Il est développeur web et il a été licencié pour cause économique en août 2022, et depuis il ne travaille plus. Je ne l'ai jamais connu en train de travailler puis ce que nous nous somme mis en couple en novembre 2022.
Moi je suis une personne qui a toujours travaillé et qui ne connait pas de période de chômage dans ma carrière et pour moi travailler c'est important.
Il cherche sans plus dans sa branche mais j'ai l'impression qu'il ne fait pas vraiment d'effort... J'aimerais avancer avec lui mais je vous avoue que si il n'a pas de travail c'est compliqué. Cela commence à me stresser. Il me dit qu'il veut vraiment trouver du travail.
Ma question est la suivante : - est ce que c'est difficile de trouver du travail dans son secteur et dans notre ville (Angers) ? Et - qu'est ce que je pourrais faire pour lui donner un coup de pouce sans paraître trop insistante ?
Merci
2023.06.03 18:50 SchemesOfMiceAndMen [H] Control, Resident Evil HD and Zero, Grid, Tropico 6 El Prez, The Ascent, Walking Dead Saints, Aliens Fireteam, Hot Wheels, Blasphemous, Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, Zero Caliber VR, other great games [W] Lists, offers
https://www.reddit.com/IGSRep/comments/13zi2w3/schemesofmiceandmens_igs_rep_page/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Hello! I have a bunch of old Humble Bundles and some other keys up for trade. I have them organized 2 ways: 1) by specific humble bundles, 2) alphabetized at the very bottom. Hopefully that makes it easier to find what you are looking for!
I'm mostly interested in trading with people who plan to activate immediately instead of retrading later.
Humble Non-Choice Bundles :
In Your Face VR
Superfly
Battle Group VR
Zenith: The Last City
Humble Spring into VR Leftovers
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Humble VR Emporium Leftovers
House Flipper VR
Zero Caliber VR
Scary Games to Play in the Dark
Propnight
The Blackout Club
Them and Us
SCP: 5K
Amazing Adventures
Beyond a Steel Sky
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The First Cases
Resident Evil Decades of Horror
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Humble Capcom
Strider
Bionic Commando
Street Fighter V
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Humble T1D
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Super Meat Boy
Rad
Pine
Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Humble Extras
Oxenfree
Vikings Wolves of Midgard
Gabriel Knight 3
Battalion 1944
Deadbeat Heroes
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Oh My Godheads
Niche
Magicat
Evergarden
Equilinox
To the Moon
Sims 3
Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff
Sims 3 Late Night
Sims 3 Date Night
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Medal of Honor (Origin)
Burnout Paradise (Origin)
Mirror's Edge Origin
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising Origin
Popolous Origin
Humble Choice Bundles:
April 2023 Choice
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Revita
Founders' Fortune
October 2022 Choice
Disciples Liberation
Epic Chef
Railroad Corporation
Golf Gang
August 2022 Choice
The Ascent
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Gas Station Simulator
In Sound Mind
Humble June 2022
Phoenix Point GOTY
Siege Survival Gloria Victis
GameDec
Pumpkin Jack
I am Fish
Humble May 2022
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Command and Conquer Remastered Collection (must activate by June 7th)
Spellcaster University
Embr
Humble April 2020 (5 Choices Left)
This is the Police 2
Raiden V Director's Cut
Driftland: Magic Revival
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
TruberBrook
Shoppe Keep 2
Capitalism 2
Humble June 2020 (5 Choices Left)
Supraland
Grid Ultimate Edition
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice
Felix the Reaper
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Overload
The King's Bird
Humble August 2020 Leftovers
Wargroove
Little Big Workshop
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Humble September 2020 Leftovers
Golf with Your Friends
Vampire the Masquerade Coteries of New York
Fun with Ragdolls the Game
Strange Brigade
Catherine Classic
Humble October 2020 Leftovers
Tropico 6 El Prez Edition
Iron Danger
Autonauts
Shadows Awakening
Fantasy Blacksmith
Goat of Duty
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
Basement
Humble November 2020 Leftovers
Darksiders 3
Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition
Crying Suns
Darksburg
Rover Mechanic Simulator
Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt
Humble December 2020 Leftovers
Shining Resonance Refrain
Zwei: The Arges Adventure
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
Tabletop Playground
Humble January 2021 Leftovers
PC Building Simulator
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Total Tank Simulator
Not Tonight
Vampire TM: Shadows of New york
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
Humble February 2021
Outward + The Soroboreans + Soundtrack
Endless Space 2 Digital Deluxe
Trine 4
The Wild Eight
Train Station Renovation
Boomerang Fu
Werewolf: Heart of the Forest
Humble March 2021
Control Standard Edition
Xcom: Chimera Squad
Elex
Kingdom Two Crowns
WWE 2K Battleground
Hotshot Racing
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Cyber Hook
Pesterquest
Wildfire
Boreal Blade
Ageless
Humble April 2021
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
F1 2020
Shenmue 3
Main Assembly
Rock of Ages 3
In Other Waters
Aven Colony
Colt Canyon
Skully
Popup Dungeon
Humble May 2021
Darksiders Genesis
Hellpoint
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3
Fury Unleashed
Size Matters
Retimed
Family Man
Vane
Humble Alphabetical List
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The First Cases
Ageless
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Autonauts
Aven Colony
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Basement
Battalion 1944
Battle Group VR
Beyond a Steel Sky (might keep)
Bionic Commando
Boomerang Fu
Boreal Blade
Burnout Paradise (Origin)
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Capitalism 2
Catherine Classic
Colt Canyon
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising Origin
Command and Conquer Remastered Collection (must activate by June 7th)
Control Standard Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3
Crying Suns
Cyber Hook
Darksburg
Darksiders 3
Darksiders Genesis
Deadbeat Heroes
Disciples Liberation
Driftland: Magic Revival
Elex
Embr
Endless Space 2 Digital Deluxe
Epic Chef
Equilinox
Evergarden
F1 2020
Family Man
Fantasy Blacksmith
Felix the Reaper
Founders' Fortune
Fun with Ragdolls the Game
Fury Unleashed
Gabriel Knight 3
GameDec
Gas Station Simulator
Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Goat of Duty
Golf Gang
Golf with Your Friends
Grid Ultimate Edition
Hellblade Senua' Sacrifice (might keep)
Hellpoint
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hotshot Racing
House Flipper VR
I am Fish
Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition
In Other Waters
In Sound Mind
Iron Danger
Kingdom Two Crowns
Little Big Workshop
Magicat
Main Assembly
Medal of Honor (Origin)
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Mirror's Edge Origin
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Niche
Not Tonight
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Oh My Godheads
Outward + The Soroboreans + Soundtrack
Overload
Oxenfree
PC Building Simulator
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Pesterquest
Phoenix Point GOTY
Pine
Popolous Origin
Popup Dungeon
Propnight
Pumpkin Jack
Rad
Raiden V Director's Cut
Railroad Corporation
Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Retimed
Revita
Rock of Ages 3
Rover Mechanic Simulator
SCP: 5K
Shadows Awakening
Shenmue 3
Shining Resonance Refrain
Shoppe Keep 2
Siege Survival Gloria Victis
Sims 3 origin
Sims 3 Date Night origin
Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff origin
Sims 3 Late Night origin
Size Matters
Skully
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
Spellcaster University
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Strange Brigade
Street Fighter V
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Super Meat Boy
Superfly
Supraland
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Tabletop Playground
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
The Ascent
The Blackout Club
The King's Bird
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
The Wild Eight
Them and Us
This is the Police 2
To the Moon
Total Tank Simulator
Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt
Train Station Renovation
Trine 4
Tropico 6 El Prez Edition
TruberBrook
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Vampire TM: Shadows of New york
Vampire the Masquerade Coteries of New York
Vane
Vikings Wolves of Midgard
WWE 2K Battleground
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners
Wargroove
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Werewolf: Heart of the Forest
Wildfire
Xcom: Chimera Squad
Zenith: The Last City
Zero Caliber VR
Zwei: The Arges Adventure
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
Fanatical, GMG, other Keys:
Aragami
Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gold (requires Uplay login)
Atari Vault
Biped
Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead
Cat Lady Card Game
Clustertruck
Crown Trick
Deponia Doomsday
Dustforce DX
Everspace
Everspace Encounters Dlc
Everspace Upgrade to Deluxe Edition
HoPiKo
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
Horizon Chase Turbo
Kill It With Fire
Liberated
Monster Slayers
Monster Slayers Advanced Classes Unlocker
Monster Slayers Fire and Steel Expansion
Monsters Den Chronicles
Moon Hunters
Neon Abyss
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Quest Hunter
Shadowhand RPG Card Game
Shieldmaiden Remix
Skyhill
Slain Back from Hell
Spirit Hunter Death Mark
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Swords of Gargantua VR
Tangledeep
The Dark Eye Memoria
The Long Reach
Tokyo Xanadu eX+
Wayward Souls
XIII Classic
I'm mostly interested in trades. Let me know what you got! Thanks!
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Hello! I have a bunch of old Humble Bundles and some other keys up for trade. I have them organized 2 ways: 1) by specific humble bundles, 2) alphabetized at the very bottom. Hopefully that makes it easier to find what you are looking for!
I'm mostly interested in trading with people who plan to activate immediately instead of retrading later.
Humble Non-Choice Bundles :
In Your Face VR
Superfly
Battle Group VR
Zenith: The Last City
Humble Spring into VR Leftovers
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Humble VR Emporium Leftovers
House Flipper VR
Zero Caliber VR
Scary Games to Play in the Dark
Propnight
The Blackout Club
Them and Us
SCP: 5K
Amazing Adventures
Beyond a Steel Sky
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The First Cases
Resident Evil Decades of Horror
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Humble Capcom
Strider
Bionic Commando
Street Fighter V
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Humble T1D
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Super Meat Boy
Rad
Pine
Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Humble Extras
Oxenfree
Vikings Wolves of Midgard
Gabriel Knight 3
Battalion 1944
Deadbeat Heroes
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Oh My Godheads
Niche
Magicat
Evergarden
Equilinox
To the Moon
Sims 3
Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff
Sims 3 Late Night
Sims 3 Date Night
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Medal of Honor (Origin)
Burnout Paradise (Origin)
Mirror's Edge Origin
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising Origin
Popolous Origin
Humble Choice Bundles:
April 2023 Choice
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Revita
Founders' Fortune
October 2022 Choice
Disciples Liberation
Epic Chef
Railroad Corporation
Golf Gang
August 2022 Choice
The Ascent
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Gas Station Simulator
In Sound Mind
Humble June 2022
Phoenix Point GOTY
Siege Survival Gloria Victis
GameDec
Pumpkin Jack
I am Fish
Humble May 2022
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Command and Conquer Remastered Collection (must activate by June 7th)
Spellcaster University
Embr
Humble April 2020 (5 Choices Left)
This is the Police 2
Raiden V Director's Cut
Driftland: Magic Revival
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
TruberBrook
Shoppe Keep 2
Capitalism 2
Humble June 2020 (5 Choices Left)
Supraland
Grid Ultimate Edition
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice
Felix the Reaper
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Overload
The King's Bird
Humble August 2020 Leftovers
Wargroove
Little Big Workshop
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Humble September 2020 Leftovers
Golf with Your Friends
Vampire the Masquerade Coteries of New York
Fun with Ragdolls the Game
Strange Brigade
Catherine Classic
Humble October 2020 Leftovers
Tropico 6 El Prez Edition
Iron Danger
Autonauts
Shadows Awakening
Fantasy Blacksmith
Goat of Duty
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
Basement
Humble November 2020 Leftovers
Darksiders 3
Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition
Crying Suns
Darksburg
Rover Mechanic Simulator
Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt
Humble December 2020 Leftovers
Shining Resonance Refrain
Zwei: The Arges Adventure
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
Tabletop Playground
Humble January 2021 Leftovers
PC Building Simulator
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Total Tank Simulator
Not Tonight
Vampire TM: Shadows of New york
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
Humble February 2021
Outward + The Soroboreans + Soundtrack
Endless Space 2 Digital Deluxe
Trine 4
The Wild Eight
Train Station Renovation
Boomerang Fu
Werewolf: Heart of the Forest
Humble March 2021
Control Standard Edition
Xcom: Chimera Squad
Elex
Kingdom Two Crowns
WWE 2K Battleground
Hotshot Racing
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Cyber Hook
Pesterquest
Wildfire
Boreal Blade
Ageless
Humble April 2021
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
F1 2020
Shenmue 3
Main Assembly
Rock of Ages 3
In Other Waters
Aven Colony
Colt Canyon
Skully
Popup Dungeon
Humble May 2021
Darksiders Genesis
Hellpoint
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3
Fury Unleashed
Size Matters
Retimed
Family Man
Vane
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot The First Cases
Ageless
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Autonauts
Aven Colony
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Basement
Battalion 1944
Battle Group VR
Beyond a Steel Sky (might keep)
Bionic Commando
Boomerang Fu
Boreal Blade
Burnout Paradise (Origin)
Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box
Capitalism 2
Catherine Classic
Colt Canyon
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising Origin
Command and Conquer Remastered Collection (must activate by June 7th)
Control Standard Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3
Crying Suns
Cyber Hook
Darksburg
Darksiders 3
Darksiders Genesis
Deadbeat Heroes
Disciples Liberation
Driftland: Magic Revival
Elex
Embr
Endless Space 2 Digital Deluxe
Epic Chef
Equilinox
Evergarden
F1 2020
Family Man
Fantasy Blacksmith
Felix the Reaper
Founders' Fortune
Fun with Ragdolls the Game
Fury Unleashed
Gabriel Knight 3
GameDec
Gas Station Simulator
Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Goat of Duty
Golf Gang
Golf with Your Friends
Grid Ultimate Edition
Hellblade Senua' Sacrifice (might keep)
Hellpoint
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hotshot Racing
House Flipper VR
I am Fish
Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition
In Other Waters
In Sound Mind
Iron Danger
Kingdom Two Crowns
Little Big Workshop
Magicat
Main Assembly
Medal of Honor (Origin)
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Mirror's Edge Origin
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Niche
Not Tonight
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Oh My Godheads
Outward + The Soroboreans + Soundtrack
Overload
Oxenfree
PC Building Simulator
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Pesterquest
Phoenix Point GOTY
Pine
Popolous Origin
Popup Dungeon
Propnight
Pumpkin Jack
Rad
Raiden V Director's Cut
Railroad Corporation
Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Retimed
Revita
Rock of Ages 3
Rover Mechanic Simulator
SCP: 5K
Shadows Awakening
Shenmue 3
Shining Resonance Refrain
Shoppe Keep 2
Siege Survival Gloria Victis
Sims 3 origin
Sims 3 Date Night origin
Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff origin
Sims 3 Late Night origin
Size Matters
Skully
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
Spellcaster University
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Strange Brigade
Street Fighter V
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Super Meat Boy
Superfly
Supraland
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Tabletop Playground
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
The Ascent
The Blackout Club
The King's Bird
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
The Wild Eight
Them and Us
This is the Police 2
To the Moon
Total Tank Simulator
Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt
Train Station Renovation
Trine 4
Tropico 6 El Prez Edition
TruberBrook
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Vampire TM: Shadows of New york
Vampire the Masquerade Coteries of New York
Vane
Vikings Wolves of Midgard
WWE 2K Battleground
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners
Wargroove
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Werewolf: Heart of the Forest
Wildfire
Xcom: Chimera Squad
Zenith: The Last City
Zero Caliber VR
Zwei: The Arges Adventure
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
Fanatical, GMG, other Keys:
Aragami
Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gold (requires Uplay login)
Atari Vault
Biped
Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead
Cat Lady Card Game
Clustertruck
Crown Trick
Deponia Doomsday
Dustforce DX
Everspace
Everspace Encounters Dlc
Everspace Upgrade to Deluxe Edition
HoPiKo
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
Horizon Chase Turbo
Kill It With Fire
Liberated
Monster Slayers
Monster Slayers Advanced Classes Unlocker
Monster Slayers Fire and Steel Expansion
Monsters Den Chronicles
Moon Hunters
Neon Abyss
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Quest Hunter
Shadowhand RPG Card Game
Shieldmaiden Remix
Skyhill
Slain Back from Hell
Spirit Hunter Death Mark
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Swords of Gargantua VR
Tangledeep
The Dark Eye Memoria
The Long Reach
Tokyo Xanadu eX+
Wayward Souls
XIII Classic
I'm mostly interested in trades. Let me know what you got! Thanks!
2023.06.03 18:45 FrauAmarylis I did a Trial Run of Parenting to be sure I didn't want Kids:
In my late 30s, I hosted an exchange student, "Elsa". Partly to be sure I didn't want a kid. Here's how it went:
I wanted to do the summer program, but they talked me into 11 months. I lived across the street from the high school, which was convenient. My husband was going to be abroad for work for most of it, and I'm a former teacher and principal. (DINKER- Retired at 38.)
It was exactly as I thought.
My husband was the Good Cop/Disneyland Dad who swooped in from work with dad jokes or to take us fun places or to cook dinner and do his usual chores, but he wasn't around to do much of the parenting, and he often was too lazy to enforce the rules (paying for her latte, when she was supposed to pay for it- the $ guidelines are very strict in the exchange program), not checking if her chores were done, etc.
So, I had to be "the bad cop" who followed through with daily drudgery of parenting- teaching her she has to carry her ID at all times, not bringing it to her at school when she called saying she forgot it again, taking her to doctor appointments, arranging carpooling and outings, learning who her friends were, hosting her birthday party, figuring out she was lying when she said her teacher lost her assignment, communicating with her parents and the exchange liason meetings, following the parenting expectations for the exchange program, help her figure out her US clothing sizes, register her for school, etc.
None of my friends cared to ask about me anymore, only they asked about her and my husband (who was abroad). I put a pink rinse in my hair at the time, and looking back, I think maybe it was to get some attention back on myself. Everyone mentioned my pink hair.
And she hated her mom and worshipped her Disneyland Dad who gave her free reign with his credit card- every 2 weeks she spent $500+ at the mall, with her US friend who had an actual job and had to pay her own stuff. (Also- her dad had cheated on her mom, causing their divorce, and lives with his mistress, but kept a flat so ). I had to cajole her into sending her mom a birthday card. Her poor regard for her mom really bothered me.
Elsa lied all the time, even about trivial things. In her country she has used public transportation solo since age 8, so if her mom tried to give her a consequence for misbehaving, she would get on the train and go to her dad's house.
Elsa's divorced parents didn't communicate with each other, so they believed her lies. We were watching Mrs.Doubtfire, and for the first time she wasn't on her phone- she was actually smiling and enjoying the movie- and I asked her if it was because she tricked her divorced parents like the kids do in the movie, and she just had a guilty smile.
Elsa told me I'm the first person who ever followed through and made sure she did everything she said she would do. She said it was an adjustment for her, but it seemed she kind of liked the structure and consistency I provided.
I took her to Hawaii to vacation with my mom and I, and my husband and I took her on a road trip up the CA coast, and we had a pool she loved, she loved my convertible, and I took her to amusement parks, to Hollywood/LA, sports games, hiking, whale/dolphin Watching (her favorite animal is dolphin), etc. The Exchange Liason said I was the best and shared that the other host families were struggling because their kids didn't like the exchange kids getting all the attention.
Since age 8, she's lived one week with her mom, and the next week with her dad and she hates that custody arrangement. It was clear that her mom did the Parenting and her dad spoiled her and took her on annual lavish vacation. But she hated the dad's mistress, and when Elsa left on exchange, the dad wasted no time getting rid of his flat and moving in with the Mistress. This upset Elsa, but she could never share her feelings with her dad.
She loved our house at the beach, our CA weather (and winter daylight), living in one home instead of switching every week, and my cooking.
Does Elsa want kids?
Elsa had requested a host family without kids. (That's us!) She spends a week at her Grandma's every summer with her cousins, and by the end she hates being around those little kids. But she advised that she does want to have one or two kids. I asked why, and she had a hard time explaining it (she was 17), and it sounded like she wants a Mini Me, a child of her own. When I asked her about taking care of the baby when it's sick and stating up all night, etc. And she just shrugged.
We were duped: We chose Elsa from the application pool, because she said she was Outdoorsy and loves the beach, wanted to go to museums, liked travel, and wanted to improve her English.
Besides swimming in the pool, Elsa is Far From Outdoorsy! She can't ride a bike, she won't step on sand, and she refused to go in any museums (she'd wait outside as we went in) or go hiking. Elsa is ftom a country where they say babies are "born with skis on", and Elsa doesn't ski.
Her mom had been on exchange in the 80s, and has a job with Microsoft where she speaks English all day, and I've video-chatted with the Mom and she speaks nearly perfect English (for example, far better than the Germans when I lived there, although Elsa and parents aren't German). (I have a teaching certification in language acquisition, so I have a better understanding than most people.) Elsa's family never hosted a student in "exchange".Americans were always troubled upon hearing that I didn't have a kid living on exchange with Elsa's family. Elsa's mom loved her exchange and her mom still has her cowboy boots, insists on an American clothes Dryer in her flat, and is in touch with her Texas "Mom and Dad".
We also learned that Elsa's family owns a home in Florida and she Vacatons there every year, which is likely why she didn't have to learn how our stores, sales tax, etc worked, like tge rest of the exchange kids did. (I also worked in law enforcement, so I noticed all the details that weren't adding up, and Elsa was frustrated tgat I caught her in lies all the time.)
Americans all assumed Elsa was American. They didn't hear any accent. We were never given photos of her before we chose her, but she has green eyes like my husband and I (only 2% of Americans have green eyes, lol), and the same hair color as me, so people were in shock when they were told she's not our kid. Elsa and us, we all found it amusing.
How it Ended: The exchange program rule was that the kids had to participate in a sport or activity outside of school, because American high school kids are very busy with jobs/sports and Exchange kids find it hard to make friends. Despite being very outgoing and social, This was true for Elsa.
My friend asked Elsa how her activities were going and I heard Elsa say that she quit them.
(Also, despite all the amazing trips, Elsa was mad that I didn't take her to San Francisco yet, and tgat I didn't let her skip school to go to Disneyland with an exchange student who was finishing her exchange early.)
There were some other things that I knew the other exchange kids were doing (things that the kids signed and pledged to do in the exchange contract), like cook a meal from their country, celebrate a holiday from your country with your host family, etc. And after 6 months and her national holiday passed, Elsa had never done any of it.
Elsa was annoyed at me for catching her in a lie about where she was, and advised that she just wants to be my "roommate". She wants me to cook, clean,provide room and board (her own bedroom with private bath in our million dollar beach house), but not be concerned with where she is or what she does.
I advised that what she is describing is the University international student program- but she would have roommates AND have to pay Tuition, room, board, and cook and clean for herself. Of course, she isn't interested in that.
So, I told Elsa to ask her one friend at school if she could live with them, because I'm going to rent out her room, since she gave me the idea about how much better roommate life is than the exchange.
When the time came to move out, after 6 months, Elsa didn't want to go. This new situation was atypical and she would share a room and a small house with 4 other kids and their parents, and they don't cook, lol.
It was a drama to get her to go.
My opinion: The way Elsa treated her own parents is the main reason that validated my choice to remain childfree by choice.
I don't believe in year-long exchangestudent to the US, for many reasons, unless it is someone from a disadvantaged country who speaks little English- of the 14 students in our group- there was only 1 kid tgat was like that and he really did benefit from the long exchange, and he really did suffer culture shock, and he really was very grateful for all he was provided for a year. Just do the summer one if you want, although some of my teacher friends have terrible stories about those, too.
Elsa's older half-brother (he's my age) was correct. He had found out that Elsa's host family was a military Colonel and a retired School Principal, and he told her that she'd never make it. He was correct!
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I wanted to do the summer program, but they talked me into 11 months. I lived across the street from the high school, which was convenient. My husband was going to be abroad for work for most of it, and I'm a former teacher and principal. (DINKER- Retired at 38.)
It was exactly as I thought.
My husband was the Good Cop/Disneyland Dad who swooped in from work with dad jokes or to take us fun places or to cook dinner and do his usual chores, but he wasn't around to do much of the parenting, and he often was too lazy to enforce the rules (paying for her latte, when she was supposed to pay for it- the $ guidelines are very strict in the exchange program), not checking if her chores were done, etc.
So, I had to be "the bad cop" who followed through with daily drudgery of parenting- teaching her she has to carry her ID at all times, not bringing it to her at school when she called saying she forgot it again, taking her to doctor appointments, arranging carpooling and outings, learning who her friends were, hosting her birthday party, figuring out she was lying when she said her teacher lost her assignment, communicating with her parents and the exchange liason meetings, following the parenting expectations for the exchange program, help her figure out her US clothing sizes, register her for school, etc.
None of my friends cared to ask about me anymore, only they asked about her and my husband (who was abroad). I put a pink rinse in my hair at the time, and looking back, I think maybe it was to get some attention back on myself. Everyone mentioned my pink hair.
And she hated her mom and worshipped her Disneyland Dad who gave her free reign with his credit card- every 2 weeks she spent $500+ at the mall, with her US friend who had an actual job and had to pay her own stuff. (Also- her dad had cheated on her mom, causing their divorce, and lives with his mistress, but kept a flat so ). I had to cajole her into sending her mom a birthday card. Her poor regard for her mom really bothered me.
Elsa lied all the time, even about trivial things. In her country she has used public transportation solo since age 8, so if her mom tried to give her a consequence for misbehaving, she would get on the train and go to her dad's house.
Elsa's divorced parents didn't communicate with each other, so they believed her lies. We were watching Mrs.Doubtfire, and for the first time she wasn't on her phone- she was actually smiling and enjoying the movie- and I asked her if it was because she tricked her divorced parents like the kids do in the movie, and she just had a guilty smile.
Elsa told me I'm the first person who ever followed through and made sure she did everything she said she would do. She said it was an adjustment for her, but it seemed she kind of liked the structure and consistency I provided.
I took her to Hawaii to vacation with my mom and I, and my husband and I took her on a road trip up the CA coast, and we had a pool she loved, she loved my convertible, and I took her to amusement parks, to Hollywood/LA, sports games, hiking, whale/dolphin Watching (her favorite animal is dolphin), etc. The Exchange Liason said I was the best and shared that the other host families were struggling because their kids didn't like the exchange kids getting all the attention.
Since age 8, she's lived one week with her mom, and the next week with her dad and she hates that custody arrangement. It was clear that her mom did the Parenting and her dad spoiled her and took her on annual lavish vacation. But she hated the dad's mistress, and when Elsa left on exchange, the dad wasted no time getting rid of his flat and moving in with the Mistress. This upset Elsa, but she could never share her feelings with her dad.
She loved our house at the beach, our CA weather (and winter daylight), living in one home instead of switching every week, and my cooking.
Does Elsa want kids?
Elsa had requested a host family without kids. (That's us!) She spends a week at her Grandma's every summer with her cousins, and by the end she hates being around those little kids. But she advised that she does want to have one or two kids. I asked why, and she had a hard time explaining it (she was 17), and it sounded like she wants a Mini Me, a child of her own. When I asked her about taking care of the baby when it's sick and stating up all night, etc. And she just shrugged.
We were duped: We chose Elsa from the application pool, because she said she was Outdoorsy and loves the beach, wanted to go to museums, liked travel, and wanted to improve her English.
Besides swimming in the pool, Elsa is Far From Outdoorsy! She can't ride a bike, she won't step on sand, and she refused to go in any museums (she'd wait outside as we went in) or go hiking. Elsa is ftom a country where they say babies are "born with skis on", and Elsa doesn't ski.
Her mom had been on exchange in the 80s, and has a job with Microsoft where she speaks English all day, and I've video-chatted with the Mom and she speaks nearly perfect English (for example, far better than the Germans when I lived there, although Elsa and parents aren't German). (I have a teaching certification in language acquisition, so I have a better understanding than most people.) Elsa's family never hosted a student in "exchange".Americans were always troubled upon hearing that I didn't have a kid living on exchange with Elsa's family. Elsa's mom loved her exchange and her mom still has her cowboy boots, insists on an American clothes Dryer in her flat, and is in touch with her Texas "Mom and Dad".
We also learned that Elsa's family owns a home in Florida and she Vacatons there every year, which is likely why she didn't have to learn how our stores, sales tax, etc worked, like tge rest of the exchange kids did. (I also worked in law enforcement, so I noticed all the details that weren't adding up, and Elsa was frustrated tgat I caught her in lies all the time.)
Americans all assumed Elsa was American. They didn't hear any accent. We were never given photos of her before we chose her, but she has green eyes like my husband and I (only 2% of Americans have green eyes, lol), and the same hair color as me, so people were in shock when they were told she's not our kid. Elsa and us, we all found it amusing.
How it Ended: The exchange program rule was that the kids had to participate in a sport or activity outside of school, because American high school kids are very busy with jobs/sports and Exchange kids find it hard to make friends. Despite being very outgoing and social, This was true for Elsa.
My friend asked Elsa how her activities were going and I heard Elsa say that she quit them.
(Also, despite all the amazing trips, Elsa was mad that I didn't take her to San Francisco yet, and tgat I didn't let her skip school to go to Disneyland with an exchange student who was finishing her exchange early.)
There were some other things that I knew the other exchange kids were doing (things that the kids signed and pledged to do in the exchange contract), like cook a meal from their country, celebrate a holiday from your country with your host family, etc. And after 6 months and her national holiday passed, Elsa had never done any of it.
Elsa was annoyed at me for catching her in a lie about where she was, and advised that she just wants to be my "roommate". She wants me to cook, clean,provide room and board (her own bedroom with private bath in our million dollar beach house), but not be concerned with where she is or what she does.
I advised that what she is describing is the University international student program- but she would have roommates AND have to pay Tuition, room, board, and cook and clean for herself. Of course, she isn't interested in that.
So, I told Elsa to ask her one friend at school if she could live with them, because I'm going to rent out her room, since she gave me the idea about how much better roommate life is than the exchange.
When the time came to move out, after 6 months, Elsa didn't want to go. This new situation was atypical and she would share a room and a small house with 4 other kids and their parents, and they don't cook, lol.
It was a drama to get her to go.
My opinion: The way Elsa treated her own parents is the main reason that validated my choice to remain childfree by choice.
I don't believe in year-long exchangestudent to the US, for many reasons, unless it is someone from a disadvantaged country who speaks little English- of the 14 students in our group- there was only 1 kid tgat was like that and he really did benefit from the long exchange, and he really did suffer culture shock, and he really was very grateful for all he was provided for a year. Just do the summer one if you want, although some of my teacher friends have terrible stories about those, too.
Elsa's older half-brother (he's my age) was correct. He had found out that Elsa's host family was a military Colonel and a retired School Principal, and he told her that she'd never make it. He was correct!
2023.06.03 18:44 Firmslasher 30M #NYC Looking for company to watch the new spiderman movie. In 4DX
As the title says, maybe we can get some food too. Looking to view the movie in flushing main street.
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2023.06.03 18:44 CIAHerpes The Leatherman building has something strange in the basement
The building had a reputation for being haunted. Kids would dare each other to go inside, but unlike other places around town, they would actually see something- or at least claim that they did.
Little Jamie Curry, 9-years-old, went into the basement of the abandoned Leatherman’s complex on a dare and saw a zombie. He said he knew it wasn’t just some guy in an outfit because the zombie had a grapefruit-sized hole in its chest, and he could actually see right through the middle of the thing. He had run right past his group of friends who were patiently waiting outside, screaming and wetting himself as he went.
Another young kid from my town, Alicia DeSilva, 11-years-old, said it was all a bunch of garbage, that she wasn’t afraid of a run-down factory building, except for maybe the asbestos which her uncle told her “rots your lungs from the inside”. She had said she would even go inside it at night. Why not? After all, there were no such things as ghosts or boogeymen.
One of her friends told Alicia that if she went inside Leatherman’s main building at night, grabbed something from the basement and brought it back out for their mutual inspection, the friend would pay Alicia five dollars. Alicia had gasped. Five bucks was a good amount to someone like her. With five dollars, she could even get a kit so that she could finally fix her bike tire. They all met in front of the building, and Alicia disappeared into the dark fire doors on the side of the building, full of bravado and still laughing as she went inside.
Except unlike Jamie Curry, Alicia never came back out screaming and wetting herself, never had a chance to tell some unbelievable story about what she encountered in the fetid basement of that place. Her body was never found. The police were called after a few hours, and they searched the entire building from top to bottom. They were able to follow some fresh footprints in the dust that might have been Alicia’s, but when they got to the basement, the prints just disappeared- as if the person making them had simply gotten sucked up into the ceiling. And yet they did find one thing, the only real evidence left in the entire building that night. What they found still gives me nightmares sometimes.
One of her eyeballs was inside a snowglobe. The glass and foundation of the snowglobe were all intact, and there were no signs of foul play anywhere on the decoration. It was as if it had been manufactured that way- with that blue, staring eye floating lazily next to plastic mountains and white glitter snowflakes.
In my nightmares, I often see an old woman shaking that snowglobe, an old hag who cackles and whose split lips form into a dreadful smile as she stares directly at me. The eye and the glitter all hang suspended in the water for a moment, then begin to fall slowly, the eye spinning rapidly as it drifts down the front of the globe. And when it’s stopped, I see it is looking directly at me, and it still looks frightened.
***
OK, so that last paragraph was pretty dark. But what I’m trying to communicate is just how terrifying that place is. The kids in school know what’s going on, though, at least in a general way. After all, Alicia and Jamie came from among them, and they’re not the only ones. Others have gone into the building before. And Matt wants me to go with him tomorrow to look at it.
Maybe that’s why the dreams are getting worse. Maybe that’s why I’ve woken up screaming twice in the last few hours. Because there was something else, too, something else I saw in my nightmares. In that building, around the back walls, there were dozens of kids. Their skin was chalk-white, their hair and eyes all pure black. They were dead. And then thousands of “Missing” posters started to fly down, all of them of smiling children. I looked between the ones surrounding me and the posters and noticed that some of them showed these same kids. I turned to run but little rotted hands started pulling me down and then, I was sitting straight up in bed, yelling and pleading.
I really don’t want to go in that building tomorrow.
***
OK, so Matt and I went inside the doorway. No way was I going in the basement. But just the front doorway… well, that wasn’t too bad. I even stuck my head in and looked around inside.
Matt didn’t see it, but I did. There was something huge in the front hall. It wasn’t much more than a silhouette. It looked like a very tall, very thin man in a suit whose neck was all twisted and strange. It came off his chest like a snake’s, turning and curling back on itself, and at the end it had this reptilian face. Everything about the man was hairless and slimy. I could smell the strange stuff on his skin.
But by the time I had gotten Matt’s attention and pointed it out to him, the guy was gone. I don’t know how he disappeared so fast.
Matt was making fun of me as we walked home afterwards, pointing at random alleyways and asking, “Do you see him there, too?” and then laughing. It wasn’t that funny. I’ll prove to him there was someone in there.
***
I convinced Matt to come back with me. I need to see what’s in there. He wasn’t thrilled about it, but I told him an older kid offered to pay $10 for a souvenir from the place, and that I’d split it with him if he went with me. All of this was total crap, of course. But I want to see what was in there, and I definitely want these dreams to stop.
“You know, you’re lucky you have a friend as brave and manly as me,” Matt said, puffing up his little bird-chest. “After what happened to those other schmucks, everyone has been avoiding this place like the plague.”
“Yeah, but unlike all of them, you know it’s just a building,” I said. He gave me a funny look then.
“It’s just a building, but you know something actually happened,” he said. “I was talking to my dad about it, and he said maybe a homeless guy was living there, totally deranged, and maybe he cut out Alicia’s eye and kidnapped her.” He stated this was the seriousness of a news anchor recounting bits of total bullshit for the audience. I smiled at his grave expression, repressing an urge to laugh. He looked over at me disapprovingly. “It could have happened, you know. Homeless people are homeless because they’re crazy. My dad says so. Maybe one of them just went really crazy and started taking souvenirs off of people’s bodies.”
“I guess,” I said. We were most of the way through the old industrial part of town now. Shuttered factories and condemned buildings stretched out on both sides of the street. A fat, limping raccoon walked lazily out of a nearby alleyway. He gave us a sideways glance, stopping for a moment, then kept on maneuvering his round frame forward. Something that Matt had said had given me pause.
“You know,” I said, “it’s kinda weird that we don’t have homeless people out here. We have all these empty buildings, yet most of them camp out on the sidewalks on Main Street. I’ve never seen a single homeless person sleeping in one of these buildings, and I’ve never seen one even close to the Leatherman building. It’s like they have some sort of sixth sense to avoid the place.”
“Clearly they’re smarter than you and me,” Matt muttered. We were walking past the rusty metal chain link fence around the property. He looked pale and his eyes were wide. “Are you sure you want to do this?” Right then, my instincts screamed at me to run.
“Yes,” I said simply, walking in first, taking the flashlight out of my pocket. “I need to know. For sure. Either way, I’d like evidence. Either it is my imagination, or something supernatural actually exists within and around this building.” An old, musty smell permeated the huge hallway. I looked up and down it, wondering what was missing. Then I realized- it had no graffiti. It had to be the only abandoned building I’d ever been in without tons of graffiti scrawled on the inside.
In some places, the walls had begun to buckle, and whole sections were crumbling and coming down. Farther ahead, the ceiling had collapsed inwards, blocking half of the main hallway off. Downstairs, lights started turning on, and the entire building started to come to life. I looked at Matt, who was looking dazed.
“Bro, what the hell is that?” he asked. I had no idea.
“Someone’s in here with us,” I said. “Let’s go check it out.” He looked at me like I was insane.
“Are you mad? What if it’s cops? What if it’s tweakers pulling out all the metal?”
“We’ll be quiet, and just peek around the corner,” I said. “I think we’re meant to see this. Don’t you want to know what’s going on here?” He scowled.
“I’d much rather get home alive,” he said, but he followed me reluctantly. There was a rhythmic hum coming from the floors now, as if machinery were coming to life. A sign, dirty and covered in spiderwebs, pointed to a staircase on the right. I looked down it, seeing bright light flood into the stairwell corridor, despite the fact that there was no electricity running to this building. We started down the staircase to the basement level. There was a smell of ozone in the air, a cyclical rhythmic humming that popped and buzzed. I took a deep breath, wondering what I would see down here. Then I poked my head around the corner.
There were conveyor belts stretching against the basement, their legs embedded into the cracked concrete floors. Beams and pillars ran up from the floor to the ceiling every ten feet or so. And it looked like there were countless workers just sitting on each side of the conveyor belts, sitting in crooked wooden chairs with splintering legs and backs. But it was the workers who caught my attention most of all. They looked… strange.
“Does something look off to you?” I whispered to Matt, who had been standing behind me only a moment earlier. But I got no reply. I figured he was too engrossed in the bizarre nature of what we were seeing to respond.
The workers, if that’s what they were, looked blurred, as if in an overexposed picture with a long shutter speed. Their skin appeared to writhe and crackle, some of their heads constantly turned from side to side, and their limbs… all of them appeared to be missing limbs. I saw pale, white bodies without arms, without legs, even without heads, but they all still continued working in unison, moving in that jerky, blurred way.
“Jesus, Matt, do you see?” I asked suddenly, my eyes widening. “Do you see what they’re doing?” I looked forward in horror as I saw human bodies rolled down the conveyor belts. The people were still alive. They were naked, many of them crying and covered in blood. As they passed by the workers, the blurred hands quickly took pieces of their skin off. Glistening sheets of it were raised by other workers walking along between the lines, and they would give an admiring look at the large pieces of skin, smiling eerily as their heads writhed from side to side and blurred in my vision.
And I saw the kids from my dream, the kids from the missing persons posters, all in the corner. They were huddled, emaciated, with wide, staring eyes. They trembled and cowered as some of the workers came over to grab them and throw them on the belts.
I turned to get the hell out of there, and that was when I realized Matt was no longer behind me. I caught a glimpse of something dark and massive moving at the top of the stairs, disappearing around the corner. I was alone. I know I should have stayed and looked for Matt, but instead, I ran. I got out of that place and went home and hid under my blankets.
I thought 13 was old enough to deal with this, but it has gone way beyond what I thought.
***
Matt’s parents are calling. My parents stand at the bottom of the stairs, my mother holding the landline in her thin hand, my father looking disturbed. They tell me that Matt is missing, that he never came home last night. What should I tell them? Certainly not the truth. If I started talking about the things in that building, I would be forced into a psychiatric ward before the week was up.
The police stopped by and asked me a few questions. I told them all straight-up lies. “No sir, I haven’t seen him, and I have no idea what happened to him.” But what else could I say? That he was taken by something from a nightmare?
I have to go back. I have to try to rescue Matt. I shouldn’t have ran like I did, but seeing those things cutting up people like that… it scared the shit out of me. Tonight, once my parents go to sleep, I’m going to sneak out, and everyone will think I’m a hero if I bring him back. If I don’t, I’ll probably end up as just another stupid missing kid who ended up way over his head.
***
I went back. I made it out, but I think they’re coming for me. There was something in the basement.
All of the conveyor belts were gone, the lights were off, the rhythmic hum had disappeared. It was as if the other night was all a hallucination- except for, of course, Matt is still missing. His parents are freaking out, and I can’t even tell them I know what happened to him, kinda.
Going into the building alone was terrifying. My legs felt like wood, and I kept glancing behind me every second as if I were hearing imaginary pursuers. But I walked through to the staircase, and I saw nothing.
I went down to the basement, peeking my head around the corner. It was just a mostly empty basement, some broken furniture and old boxes stacked in one corner. I shone my light all over and saw no one. But there was a light coming from the far corner, a faint, glowing, orange light. A feeling of dread came over me.
I crept slowly forward, trying to find the source of that light. A faint smell of smoke and roasting meat seemed to creep through the air. Off past the last line of boxes, I saw what looked like a small crater on the floor. There was a hole there with glowing fire underneath. Cracks spiderwebbed out from it in all directions for a few feet. More curious than afraid now, I peered forward and looked down.
Beneath the abandoned building, there was another world. It had fire licking the walls and ground, and in the middle of this inferno, I saw Matt. His face was a map of blackish-purple bruises, his head was cocked at an unnatural angle, and I saw blood pouring out of his ears and nose. He looked up at me, and the bones in his neck grated together. I saw his spine was broken and his entire throat was crushed inwards.
“Help me,” he croaked. “You brought me here, now help me. You can’t leave me. They’ll come for you next…” All around him, I saw hands reaching up- the pale, jerky hands of those strange workers. They grabbed Matt and dragged him back down to the fire. I saw other horrid creatures in the flames, some laughing and insane, others shrieking in agony. Large, black insectile silhouettes moved through the smoke and flames. And then, like one, they started coming up towards the hole, coming up to the building where they would be free.
I ran then, and I never went back. I know now that Matt is dead. I can’t sleep. Every time I look out the window, I see shapes in the front yard- blurred humanoids with missing limbs, hiding in the bushes and trees, and constantly inching closer.
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Little Jamie Curry, 9-years-old, went into the basement of the abandoned Leatherman’s complex on a dare and saw a zombie. He said he knew it wasn’t just some guy in an outfit because the zombie had a grapefruit-sized hole in its chest, and he could actually see right through the middle of the thing. He had run right past his group of friends who were patiently waiting outside, screaming and wetting himself as he went.
Another young kid from my town, Alicia DeSilva, 11-years-old, said it was all a bunch of garbage, that she wasn’t afraid of a run-down factory building, except for maybe the asbestos which her uncle told her “rots your lungs from the inside”. She had said she would even go inside it at night. Why not? After all, there were no such things as ghosts or boogeymen.
One of her friends told Alicia that if she went inside Leatherman’s main building at night, grabbed something from the basement and brought it back out for their mutual inspection, the friend would pay Alicia five dollars. Alicia had gasped. Five bucks was a good amount to someone like her. With five dollars, she could even get a kit so that she could finally fix her bike tire. They all met in front of the building, and Alicia disappeared into the dark fire doors on the side of the building, full of bravado and still laughing as she went inside.
Except unlike Jamie Curry, Alicia never came back out screaming and wetting herself, never had a chance to tell some unbelievable story about what she encountered in the fetid basement of that place. Her body was never found. The police were called after a few hours, and they searched the entire building from top to bottom. They were able to follow some fresh footprints in the dust that might have been Alicia’s, but when they got to the basement, the prints just disappeared- as if the person making them had simply gotten sucked up into the ceiling. And yet they did find one thing, the only real evidence left in the entire building that night. What they found still gives me nightmares sometimes.
One of her eyeballs was inside a snowglobe. The glass and foundation of the snowglobe were all intact, and there were no signs of foul play anywhere on the decoration. It was as if it had been manufactured that way- with that blue, staring eye floating lazily next to plastic mountains and white glitter snowflakes.
In my nightmares, I often see an old woman shaking that snowglobe, an old hag who cackles and whose split lips form into a dreadful smile as she stares directly at me. The eye and the glitter all hang suspended in the water for a moment, then begin to fall slowly, the eye spinning rapidly as it drifts down the front of the globe. And when it’s stopped, I see it is looking directly at me, and it still looks frightened.
***
OK, so that last paragraph was pretty dark. But what I’m trying to communicate is just how terrifying that place is. The kids in school know what’s going on, though, at least in a general way. After all, Alicia and Jamie came from among them, and they’re not the only ones. Others have gone into the building before. And Matt wants me to go with him tomorrow to look at it.
Maybe that’s why the dreams are getting worse. Maybe that’s why I’ve woken up screaming twice in the last few hours. Because there was something else, too, something else I saw in my nightmares. In that building, around the back walls, there were dozens of kids. Their skin was chalk-white, their hair and eyes all pure black. They were dead. And then thousands of “Missing” posters started to fly down, all of them of smiling children. I looked between the ones surrounding me and the posters and noticed that some of them showed these same kids. I turned to run but little rotted hands started pulling me down and then, I was sitting straight up in bed, yelling and pleading.
I really don’t want to go in that building tomorrow.
***
OK, so Matt and I went inside the doorway. No way was I going in the basement. But just the front doorway… well, that wasn’t too bad. I even stuck my head in and looked around inside.
Matt didn’t see it, but I did. There was something huge in the front hall. It wasn’t much more than a silhouette. It looked like a very tall, very thin man in a suit whose neck was all twisted and strange. It came off his chest like a snake’s, turning and curling back on itself, and at the end it had this reptilian face. Everything about the man was hairless and slimy. I could smell the strange stuff on his skin.
But by the time I had gotten Matt’s attention and pointed it out to him, the guy was gone. I don’t know how he disappeared so fast.
Matt was making fun of me as we walked home afterwards, pointing at random alleyways and asking, “Do you see him there, too?” and then laughing. It wasn’t that funny. I’ll prove to him there was someone in there.
***
I convinced Matt to come back with me. I need to see what’s in there. He wasn’t thrilled about it, but I told him an older kid offered to pay $10 for a souvenir from the place, and that I’d split it with him if he went with me. All of this was total crap, of course. But I want to see what was in there, and I definitely want these dreams to stop.
“You know, you’re lucky you have a friend as brave and manly as me,” Matt said, puffing up his little bird-chest. “After what happened to those other schmucks, everyone has been avoiding this place like the plague.”
“Yeah, but unlike all of them, you know it’s just a building,” I said. He gave me a funny look then.
“It’s just a building, but you know something actually happened,” he said. “I was talking to my dad about it, and he said maybe a homeless guy was living there, totally deranged, and maybe he cut out Alicia’s eye and kidnapped her.” He stated this was the seriousness of a news anchor recounting bits of total bullshit for the audience. I smiled at his grave expression, repressing an urge to laugh. He looked over at me disapprovingly. “It could have happened, you know. Homeless people are homeless because they’re crazy. My dad says so. Maybe one of them just went really crazy and started taking souvenirs off of people’s bodies.”
“I guess,” I said. We were most of the way through the old industrial part of town now. Shuttered factories and condemned buildings stretched out on both sides of the street. A fat, limping raccoon walked lazily out of a nearby alleyway. He gave us a sideways glance, stopping for a moment, then kept on maneuvering his round frame forward. Something that Matt had said had given me pause.
“You know,” I said, “it’s kinda weird that we don’t have homeless people out here. We have all these empty buildings, yet most of them camp out on the sidewalks on Main Street. I’ve never seen a single homeless person sleeping in one of these buildings, and I’ve never seen one even close to the Leatherman building. It’s like they have some sort of sixth sense to avoid the place.”
“Clearly they’re smarter than you and me,” Matt muttered. We were walking past the rusty metal chain link fence around the property. He looked pale and his eyes were wide. “Are you sure you want to do this?” Right then, my instincts screamed at me to run.
“Yes,” I said simply, walking in first, taking the flashlight out of my pocket. “I need to know. For sure. Either way, I’d like evidence. Either it is my imagination, or something supernatural actually exists within and around this building.” An old, musty smell permeated the huge hallway. I looked up and down it, wondering what was missing. Then I realized- it had no graffiti. It had to be the only abandoned building I’d ever been in without tons of graffiti scrawled on the inside.
In some places, the walls had begun to buckle, and whole sections were crumbling and coming down. Farther ahead, the ceiling had collapsed inwards, blocking half of the main hallway off. Downstairs, lights started turning on, and the entire building started to come to life. I looked at Matt, who was looking dazed.
“Bro, what the hell is that?” he asked. I had no idea.
“Someone’s in here with us,” I said. “Let’s go check it out.” He looked at me like I was insane.
“Are you mad? What if it’s cops? What if it’s tweakers pulling out all the metal?”
“We’ll be quiet, and just peek around the corner,” I said. “I think we’re meant to see this. Don’t you want to know what’s going on here?” He scowled.
“I’d much rather get home alive,” he said, but he followed me reluctantly. There was a rhythmic hum coming from the floors now, as if machinery were coming to life. A sign, dirty and covered in spiderwebs, pointed to a staircase on the right. I looked down it, seeing bright light flood into the stairwell corridor, despite the fact that there was no electricity running to this building. We started down the staircase to the basement level. There was a smell of ozone in the air, a cyclical rhythmic humming that popped and buzzed. I took a deep breath, wondering what I would see down here. Then I poked my head around the corner.
There were conveyor belts stretching against the basement, their legs embedded into the cracked concrete floors. Beams and pillars ran up from the floor to the ceiling every ten feet or so. And it looked like there were countless workers just sitting on each side of the conveyor belts, sitting in crooked wooden chairs with splintering legs and backs. But it was the workers who caught my attention most of all. They looked… strange.
“Does something look off to you?” I whispered to Matt, who had been standing behind me only a moment earlier. But I got no reply. I figured he was too engrossed in the bizarre nature of what we were seeing to respond.
The workers, if that’s what they were, looked blurred, as if in an overexposed picture with a long shutter speed. Their skin appeared to writhe and crackle, some of their heads constantly turned from side to side, and their limbs… all of them appeared to be missing limbs. I saw pale, white bodies without arms, without legs, even without heads, but they all still continued working in unison, moving in that jerky, blurred way.
“Jesus, Matt, do you see?” I asked suddenly, my eyes widening. “Do you see what they’re doing?” I looked forward in horror as I saw human bodies rolled down the conveyor belts. The people were still alive. They were naked, many of them crying and covered in blood. As they passed by the workers, the blurred hands quickly took pieces of their skin off. Glistening sheets of it were raised by other workers walking along between the lines, and they would give an admiring look at the large pieces of skin, smiling eerily as their heads writhed from side to side and blurred in my vision.
And I saw the kids from my dream, the kids from the missing persons posters, all in the corner. They were huddled, emaciated, with wide, staring eyes. They trembled and cowered as some of the workers came over to grab them and throw them on the belts.
I turned to get the hell out of there, and that was when I realized Matt was no longer behind me. I caught a glimpse of something dark and massive moving at the top of the stairs, disappearing around the corner. I was alone. I know I should have stayed and looked for Matt, but instead, I ran. I got out of that place and went home and hid under my blankets.
I thought 13 was old enough to deal with this, but it has gone way beyond what I thought.
***
Matt’s parents are calling. My parents stand at the bottom of the stairs, my mother holding the landline in her thin hand, my father looking disturbed. They tell me that Matt is missing, that he never came home last night. What should I tell them? Certainly not the truth. If I started talking about the things in that building, I would be forced into a psychiatric ward before the week was up.
The police stopped by and asked me a few questions. I told them all straight-up lies. “No sir, I haven’t seen him, and I have no idea what happened to him.” But what else could I say? That he was taken by something from a nightmare?
I have to go back. I have to try to rescue Matt. I shouldn’t have ran like I did, but seeing those things cutting up people like that… it scared the shit out of me. Tonight, once my parents go to sleep, I’m going to sneak out, and everyone will think I’m a hero if I bring him back. If I don’t, I’ll probably end up as just another stupid missing kid who ended up way over his head.
***
I went back. I made it out, but I think they’re coming for me. There was something in the basement.
All of the conveyor belts were gone, the lights were off, the rhythmic hum had disappeared. It was as if the other night was all a hallucination- except for, of course, Matt is still missing. His parents are freaking out, and I can’t even tell them I know what happened to him, kinda.
Going into the building alone was terrifying. My legs felt like wood, and I kept glancing behind me every second as if I were hearing imaginary pursuers. But I walked through to the staircase, and I saw nothing.
I went down to the basement, peeking my head around the corner. It was just a mostly empty basement, some broken furniture and old boxes stacked in one corner. I shone my light all over and saw no one. But there was a light coming from the far corner, a faint, glowing, orange light. A feeling of dread came over me.
I crept slowly forward, trying to find the source of that light. A faint smell of smoke and roasting meat seemed to creep through the air. Off past the last line of boxes, I saw what looked like a small crater on the floor. There was a hole there with glowing fire underneath. Cracks spiderwebbed out from it in all directions for a few feet. More curious than afraid now, I peered forward and looked down.
Beneath the abandoned building, there was another world. It had fire licking the walls and ground, and in the middle of this inferno, I saw Matt. His face was a map of blackish-purple bruises, his head was cocked at an unnatural angle, and I saw blood pouring out of his ears and nose. He looked up at me, and the bones in his neck grated together. I saw his spine was broken and his entire throat was crushed inwards.
“Help me,” he croaked. “You brought me here, now help me. You can’t leave me. They’ll come for you next…” All around him, I saw hands reaching up- the pale, jerky hands of those strange workers. They grabbed Matt and dragged him back down to the fire. I saw other horrid creatures in the flames, some laughing and insane, others shrieking in agony. Large, black insectile silhouettes moved through the smoke and flames. And then, like one, they started coming up towards the hole, coming up to the building where they would be free.
I ran then, and I never went back. I know now that Matt is dead. I can’t sleep. Every time I look out the window, I see shapes in the front yard- blurred humanoids with missing limbs, hiding in the bushes and trees, and constantly inching closer.
2023.06.03 18:40 CosmicBonobo Knowing Me, Alan Partridge, Knowing You...
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2023.06.03 18:37 Entire-Ad-7229 Should I buy the Vivobook laptop?
 | Basically, I wanted to buy a Zenbook laptop but I didn’t have money at the time and now it’s out of stock. There is another laptop (Vivobook) that is pretty equivalent to the Zenbook and it’s in stock. I am inclined to get the Vivobook because I don’t know when the Zenbook will be back in stock although I feel inclined to wait a bit more to see if it will be back in stock and buy it then. submitted by Entire-Ad-7229 to horary [link] [comments] As for the interpretation, I am represented by Mercury and the laptop by the moon? I’m not sure if electronics are represented by the 11H. Currently the moon is not making any aspects to Mercury but it will be applying a trine later on. Does this mean that I should wait a bit longer to make a decision? |
2023.06.03 18:33 rafeizerrr There are more "sound based moves" than there are fairy types moves, so why not create the Sound type?
according to bulbapedia there are 33 total fairy type moves that can be rounded down to 27 moves excluding the following z/max/g-max moves
I always thought the idea of creating a sound type was a bad one mainly cause I used to think they would have to create to many new moves at once, but seeing how many "sound-based" moves there are already compared to the newer type added to the series I'm starting to change my mind.
GF already refers to sound moves with abilities (soundproof, liquid voice), moves (Throat chop), interactions (being able to hit pokémon behind substitute) and itens ( Throat Spray); there are already a lot (31) of possible sound type moves and even possible sound type pokémon (Exploud line, Noivern live, Chimecho line ...) so I ask: what's exactly stoping them?
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- twinkle tackle
- Nature's madness
- Let's snuggle forever
- Max starfall
- G-Max finale
- G-Max Smite
I always thought the idea of creating a sound type was a bad one mainly cause I used to think they would have to create to many new moves at once, but seeing how many "sound-based" moves there are already compared to the newer type added to the series I'm starting to change my mind.
GF already refers to sound moves with abilities (soundproof, liquid voice), moves (Throat chop), interactions (being able to hit pokémon behind substitute) and itens ( Throat Spray); there are already a lot (31) of possible sound type moves and even possible sound type pokémon (Exploud line, Noivern live, Chimecho line ...) so I ask: what's exactly stoping them?
2023.06.03 18:31 Antadmin042 Fresh gaming build for ~$2000
Finally starting a new build after my laptop dying and wanting to move back to desktop. I'm mainly looking to do 1440p gaming and a little bit of office work on it. Trying to keep it with a white/black color look. I'm not anywhere near a Micro Center unfortunately. This is what I have so far and wanted to see if anyone would make any changes or if it was good to go. Thank you!
PCPartPicker Part List
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PCPartPicker Part List
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 4.7 GHz 12-Core Processor | $409.00 @ Amazon |
| CPU Cooler | Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 White ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler | $51.90 @ Amazon |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard | $278.79 @ Amazon |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5200 CL40 Memory | $114.99 @ Newegg |
| Storage | TEAMGROUP MP34 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | $79.98 @ Amazon |
| Video Card | ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card | $629.99 @ Newegg |
| Case | Lian Li LANCOOL 216 ATX Mid Tower Case | $99.99 @ B&H |
| Power Supply | Super Flower Leadex V Pro 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $164.99 @ Newegg Sellers |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit | $117.98 @ Other World Computing |
| Monitor | MSI Optix G274QRFW 27.0" 2560 x 1440 170 Hz Monitor | $299.99 @ B&H |
| Keyboard | G.Skill KM360 Wired Standard Keyboard | $49.99 @ Amazon |
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
| Total | $2297.59 |
2023.06.03 18:21 Daffodil_Imperium Join me now! Mail Time!
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