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WN Chapter 155

2023.05.28 08:33 nekotantei_19 WN Chapter 155

......and well, this is what the Nine-Headed Dragon Archipelago Kingdom ceremony looks like. You can choose between a shiro-muku (traditional kimono) and a shiro-uchikake (traditional wedding kimono), and it's very glamorous. Your groom has a good figure, and I think he would look better in a crested hakama than Ichiha, don't ya think?
......Hmmm. It's better to be simple, not such a strange thing. I see. The bride wants a weddin' dress, right? If so, we recommend this plan. This is the 'Let's get married in a historic temple in the Republic of Turgis' plan. A friend of ours recently had a weddin' with this plan...... .
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The Temple of Sappuer in the Republic of Turgis. This temple, similar to the Parthenon in Souma's old world, has existed since before the founding of the Republic and was one of the oldest structures in the world. It was in this temple that Kuu performed the inauguration ceremony and the marriage ceremony with Taru and Leporina. Today, a man and woman were about to get married at the Sappuer Temple.
"Velza and Halbert. Congratulations on your marriage"
"Congrats" "Congratulations!"
Receiving congratulations from the country's head of state, Kuu Taisei, and his wives, Taru and Leporina, were Halbert Magna, dressed in a white tuxedo, and Velza, who would become his wife today. Velza is wearing a pure white wedding dress, and the dark elf's brown skin reflects the pure white dress, which further accentuates Velza's beauty. Then Halbert scratched his cheek with a somewhat furtive look on his face.
"O, oh. Thanks, Kuu. I never thought I'd be congratulated by the head of another country"
"Ukkyakkya! Don't worry about it. We've known each other a long time"
Halbert and Kuu. Although they came from different countries and backgrounds, they had many opportunities to fight together, such as defeating a deformed ogre in the Republic and providing reinforcements to the then Union of Eastern Nations when it was attacked by a demon wave, and they recognized each other as comrades-in-arms. It was Kuu who suggested that Halbert and Velza's wedding be held at the Sappuer Temple.
"The Temple of Sappuer is the most famous historic site in our country. We need to take this opportunity to show the rest of the world that there is more to the Republic than leisure skiing, hot springs, and seafood, and to attract tourists"
"That's what this is about. Our marriage is just a bonus then"
"I'd say it's just 50-50. It's for the sake of the country, and I want to celebrate my friend's marriage. It's a win-win situation"
"Hee hee, I'm delighted. I can't believe I'm being blessed in such a beautiful place"
Velza smiled as she said this, and Hal was in a "......well okay" mood. Incidentally, Halbert and Velza's wedding, like Tomoe and Ichiha's, will also be broadcast live in the countries of the former members of the Maritime Alliance. Since it was the wedding of the hero [Hal the Red Oni] who defeated that Fuuga Haan (in reality, he only clipped his wings, so it is much exaggerated), it attracted a lot of attention, especially within the Kingdom of Friedonia, and Kuu used it for publicity sake. Therefore, the cost of this ceremony is shared half by the Kingdom and half by the Republic.
Then, Hal's first wife Kaede and second wife Ruby came to the five of them. They were both in dresses to attend the ceremony.
"You both seem to be......ready to go. You look lovely"
"Oh, Velza. You're such a pretty bride"
"Thank you, Lady Kaede and Lady Ruby!"
The first through third wives gathered together and happily talked with each other, their husband notwithstanding. Both Kaede and Ruby accepted that Velza would be his third wife before the man himself, Halbert did. It also means that Velza worked hard to make that happen.
(I noticed that the moat was filled in, the walls were collapsed, and the gates were left open with a sign that said 'Welcome' on it......)
Halbert thought of this as he looked at the three women. Halbert's feelings for Velza were initially just that of a big brother for his cute little sister. I thought she would adore me because I saved her life, and I never imagined that we would have a relationship that went beyond that.
But Velza, on the other hand, was working to become his wife from the beginning. I heard that before Kaede and Ruby's marriage, she had already asked her directly to be his third wife, and he had fulfilled the condition of 'graduate from one of the academies' that was given to her at that time. She was also studying at the academy to become Halbert's secretary in order to help the Magna family in the future.
She has taken care of Bill, the child of Halbert and Kaede, has shown filial piety to Glaive and Elba, who will eventually become her in-laws, has put in roots in Kaede's family, the Foxia family, and through her father Sur has established a connection between the Magna family and the God Protected Forest. Before conquering Halbert, she had conquered all the people around Halbert.
Before he knew it, Kaede, Ruby, and his parents were pestering him to 'hurry up and marry Velza'. And when he was told of Velza's efforts up to that point, although he was amazed at her persistence, thinking that she adored him so much was both cute and teasing, and he had no choice but to immediately wave the white flag and give in.
As Halbert was thinking this, Lucy, the facilitator, came to call for them.
"Vellie. Halbert. Please get ready"
"O, yeah" "All right, Lucy"
The wedding was attended by members of the Magna and Foxia families, dark elves from the God Protected Forest, and friends from the academy, including Tomoe. Souma also wanted to attend, but as expected, he decided against it because it would be too much for his schedule and security to travel to the Republic for one of his vassals, even if he is a friend. Well, it is being broadcast live, so it is being watched by many people.
Then Kuu snickered and gave Halbert the thumbs up.
"Ukkyakkya! Look forward to seeing you after the ceremony is over. In addition to the inn we have prepared for the attendees, we have reserved a small hot spring inn exclusively for Halbert and Velza. I hope you enjoy your first night as newlyweds to the fullest"
"Hey, why the heck are you mentioning that at this point!?"
Halbert huffed and turned to Kaede and Ruby, both of whom were looking at him with pasted-on smiles.
"......Well, it's tactless of me to meddle with tonight. I have no choice"
"You should teach her properly. Lady-killer?"
"........."
The aura that was brewing behind the two smiling women made Halbert break out in a nasty sweat. Velza, on the other hand, was.......
"I know I have my shortcomings, but I'm looking forward to working with you"
He imagined (fantasized?) a lot of things at this moment. She looked at Halbert expectantly with her hand on her cheek. Halbert looked up to the heavens, unable to say anything.
The wedding itself was solemnized without incident, and with the blessings of many people, including Tomoe, Ichiha, Yuriga, and Lucy, Velza became Halbert's wife, which was a long-cherished dream for her. And after the end of the ceremony.
"I wanted Lucy to receive this"
"Eh, to me?"
Velza presented Lucy with the bouquet she had prepared.
"What I received from Tomoe-san and the others, I now give to you. May happiness come to you"
"Ah, ahaha......thanks"
Lucy accepted the flowers with an embarrassed smile.
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---And time goes back to the present.
"......and well, this is what it looks like in the Republic. I think I even went a little off on a tangent, but what do ya think? It's goin' to be quite a nice weddin'"
Lucy said to the two prospective couples in front of her. But they only laughed in a troubled manner and seemed to be in no way interested in getting married. Lucy senses this and comes up with the next plan.
"Hmmm. If neither the Republic nor the Archipelago Kingdom is acceptable, then the only plan left would be 'Let's get married at the historic association of the Euphoria Kingdom and walk through the Arc de Triomphe as a couple' ......"
"Oh, um......."
Then the bride was more hesitant to interject.
"Yes? What is it?"
"I'm sorry. Actually, I've already decided on the country where I want to have the ceremony......"
"Eh, is that so? That was presumptuous of me. And what country do ya want?"
"The Kingdom of Lastania"
At the bride's words, Lucy was dumbfounded for a moment.
"The Kingdom of Lastania ya say? The area has already recovered quite well, but I don't think there were any particular spots for weddins. Sorry, we don't have any plans that we offer either......"
"No, I don't care about the plan or anything. It's just...... that country is where my adopted father Hein rests"
So said the bride......Sami Chima with a small smile on her face. She was thinking of him. Günter Lyle, the taciturn groom seated next to her, gently hugs her shoulder.
"I am getting married to Lord Günther this time, and I want my adoptive father to see my bridal gown from the afterlife. However, both Günther and I belong to the Euphoria Kingdom now, and it is difficult to secure a place, personnel, and food for a wedding in another country. So I talked to Ichiha about it, and he suggested I ask Lucy, who has contacts in many countries"
"I, I see......so that's why ya want it. I'm sorry for ma hasty......recommendations"
Lucy bowed her head and Sami hurriedly shook her head.
"I am not a good talker, so it was difficult for me to start the conversation. Günther is usually a man of few words"
Günther, who sat next to her, was embarrassed, his mouth tightened in a pout. For all his stern face, he seemed naïve, like a large, quiet dog. Lucy gave a single cooing cough.
"I'm relieved to hear ya say so. ......It's fine! Our company will do everything in our power to make sure that your late Father can see his daughter as a happy bride and feel at ease!"
Lucy then thumped her chest.
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--- After Sami and Günther had left.
After office hours. Lucy was in the manager's office, putting away the remaining documents, when suddenly there was a knock at the door and a young man entered.
"Thank you for your hard work, Representative. I brought you some tea"
"Evenin'. It's after business hours now, so just talk normally"
"......Yeah? Then......how're the customers who came today?"
"It's a little complicated, but we'll make it work. We have to make a splendid ceremony for the bride"
He asked Lucy while offering her a cup of tea, and he was the number two of 'L. H. W.' and Lucy's right-hand man. And.......
"That's obvious......but is it okay?"
"Huh? What is?"
"You're offering them a great wedding, but ours should be a modest affair"
Yes, he was also Lucy's lifelong companion. He was originally an employee of Lucy's family's Evans Trading Company, but Lucy was drawn by his business acumen and honest character and pulled him into this 'L.H.W.'. As they worked together right and left on this new venture, they developed a bond that led to their engagement.
"But if you're a representative, you're connected to the royal family, and you could have made the ceremony more magnificent, couldn't you? ......Well, when I put it like that, it makes me wonder if it was really a good idea for you to get engaged to a regular guy like me"
To those words, Lucy laughed at him with a cackle.
"What're you talkin' about? This is 100 percent my ideal weddin' and husband. Many of my friends are in the upper echelons of society, and we've had our share of dramatic stories ......but I'd rather get married to a normal person and have a normal, happy family than ta have that kinda thin' happen ta me. ......Well, I guess it won't be completely normal, though, since we'll have royalty at the weddin'"
"I, Is that how it's supposed to be?"
He tilted his head, not quite grasping the female mind. Seeing him like this, Lucy giggles. She really likes that kind of honest response back. Then Lucy patted the engagement ring he had given her and said, with a lovely smile similar to that of a revered little raccoon princess.
"Let's be happy together, darlin'♪"
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2023.05.28 08:24 Nice-Ascot-Bro Questions/critiques about some of the announced features

This was a good show, and I think setting realistic expectations was a good idea (I don't expect to see any of these updates until 2024-2015). That said, I do have some small critiques.
Toontown Remastered
I'm so glad to see Toontown Retextured and Toontown Reorchestrated are back. Those two updates have been in the pipeline forever and this is great. I'm a little worried though, since the trailer shows that some of the "Billboarded" 2D elements like trees and lampposts will remain billboarded. Even on TTO, I was not a fan of the 2D trees and lampposts. I guess if it is just an HD texture update then it's fine to not add new 3D models, but I always wanted to see Toontown's graphics get updated to be fully 3D.
Gags N' Gears For Good
Awesome idea. I always love the "Newman's Own" theory of charity. ie you sell me a product that I already want to buy, and then the profits go to benefit charity. I have so many other ideas if you're taking unsolicited suggestions-- phone cases would probably be very popular. You could do phone cases to look like field office remotes, the shtickerbook, toon faces, etc. New Posters (like an updated Toontown Map, or the Cog Galley, or just concept art) would probably sell well too. Maybe even a full coffee table book of Concept Art, like "The Art of Toontown Rewritten" or something. And real versions of Toon clothes could be huge-- my brother custom-made a watermelon shirt so he could dress like a Toon. I have toon gloves that I bought at the real-world Toontown in Anaheim, California. Or something more subtle, like if you sold a lapel pin or a necktie that had the Cog Emblems on them, then I promise you that I will wear a Lawbot tie and a Lawbot lapel pin when I sit for the bar exam to become an IRL Lawbot. There is a lot of demand for Toontown merch.
Also, please talk to a real lawyer or several before you proceed because Disney is infamously litigious-- they once went after a daycare for having an unlicensed Mickey Mouse mural. Disney attorneys are almost certainly keeping an eye on TTR, but they probably won't sue because Disney executives do not want newspapers to print the headline "Multibillion-dollar Walt Disney Corporation files a lawsuit to shut down a charity campaign run by a group of dedicated Disney fans." Disney is already facing a lot of pressure from politicians and regulators, so they probably don't want more bad publicity, but I'd still be extra careful if I was selling unlicensed Disney merchandise.
Also, I have a small pet peeve about the blanket. It looks great and I want it. However, the in-game Donald's Dreamland quilt is, well, a quilt. I am not at Momocon so I cannot see what the physical blanket is made of, but it seems to be a high-quality throw with a quilted texture printed on it. A great piece of merchandise. But there's a part of me that wishes that an actual Donald's Dreamland quilt could exist. I mean it would probably be quite expensive to produce and sell an actual quilt (as opposed to a throw blanket) but I would love to own it. Maybe there could be a cheaper throw blanket and a more expensive quilt as multiple options? Just an idea
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2023.05.28 08:20 HubristicBiscuit What the hell is this about? - photo taken in New Zealand grocery store, May 2023. Big Brother rules here, stay away or bring Marines and save us, again.

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2023.05.28 08:18 AlexSciChannel My personal rewrite of the Infinity Castle arc - Part 1

For the record. It is an amazing arc and croc-sensei did spectacularly on it. I just think it didn't reach its peak potential. Structurally I think some of the battles should be reorganized. In my rewrite most of the arc will stay the same, though there will be new sequences and new characters.
Hashira training arc preemptive rewrites:
In order for my Infinity castle rewrite to work I'll have to add a character that's introduced in this training arc. Though the rewrites here aren't that extensive so it's just a small section.
First off, I didn't like how the Demon Slayer corps didn't even attempt to fill in the empty spots for Hashira left behind by Kyojuro and Tengen. So here I am introducing a new character that is going to be Rengoku's former Tsuguko and now the current Flame Hashira as she has replaced Rengoku after his death. I don't wanna put too much thought into names or this will come off as fanfiction so I'll just call her Yurei for convenience sake.
The basic character profile is that she was student under Kyojuro after he saved her from a Demon that killed her family yada yada. She always lived in the shadow of her fellow senior disciple-mate Mitsuri Kanroji who was also a student of Kyojuro's and originally the first pick to be his Tsuguko. That was until Mitsuri decided she wanted to be a Hashira herself and entered the ranks without replacing anyone. So the Tsuguko position fell to Yurei being the second choice for Rengoku's succession. So there's a bit of jealousy between this new character has Mitsuri.
She is teaches one of the rounds of the Hashira training that takes place before Mitsuri. It focuses on [insert cool anime martial art aspect here]. The point here is that Tanjiro isn't liked by the new Hashira and is purposefully and unfairly withholding him from progressing to the next round. Stemming from jealousy that Tanjiro was there in Rengoku's last moments and she felt like he valued him more as an apprentice despite never officially being his master. The goal here for Tanjiro would be to resolve this inferiority complex and show that Tanjiro is just a nice dude that doesn't want to steal other people's mentors.
She stops hating on Tanjiro but tells him to make sure he completes Mitsuri's training round faster than he did her's to prove her regimen is more difficult that Mitsuri's. That's it for Hashira training.
Muzan's conversation with Kagaya Ubuyashiki Rewrite:
This entire scene in the Infinity Castle arc I thought was perfection and really no need for changes. This is simply my alternative version that includes some cool ideas. So if you don't want to hear it and just want to see my rewrites for things I thought could be improved, you can skip this section.
So my alternative for this scene keeps basically all the dialogue in the exact same way it was depicted in the manga but has a new scene after it. Instead of Kagaya kamikazing his own home, he unsheathes a family heirloom sword with a pitch-white blade. Now I know what you're thinking. Kagaya isn't a fighter, and that's part of his charm that you don't need to be physically strong to be a good leader. But hear this out.
I am going by logic that since the Ubuyashiki family were the first victims of the Demon scourge and leaders of Demon Slayers, it would be hard to believe they didn't have any in family defenses. In my rewrite I have them be the progenitors of a new type of breathing, Light breathing.
This breathing style has 15 forms total, second most behind Moon breathing, and not a single one of these forms are used for attack. Yep, heard that right. In this rewrite, Light breathing is an evolved version of basic recovery breathing utilized to its maximum potential. In the lore it would've been used for seemingly inhuman feats of healing and regeneration from physical trauma and disease. It would also make sense that this style would be created by the Ubuyashiki family during efforts to find ways to mitigate their curse. And although it has no effect of canceling out curses or magics, Kagaya uses it to temporarily heal the physical effects of his curse.
Thinking Kagaya wants to fight, Muzan instantly unleashes a fury of attacks. And this scene we get to see full destructive utilization of all Muzan's blood demon arts, not limited by any poisons or miracle medicines procured by Tamayo yet. Kagaya doesn't attack, but instead, in his new temporary healthy state, uses Light breathing to deflect attacks, continuously mend wounds, and temporarily blind/stun Muzan. Kagaya won't throw a single attack the entire fight, thus preserving his Buddha like nature.
In reality, the confrontation is to stall for time until the demon slayers arrive. Using his mystical foresight, Kagaya skillfully calculates how to evade each of Muzan's destructive attacks. Muzan realizes this and thus procures situations where even if Kagaya can forsee different ways of how he evades in the future, all options will involve him being fataly injured. But even after he is gravely mutilated by Muzan's attacks, the Light breathing forms he uses in response heals all wounds and poisons completely.
Another fact about Light breathing is that, the breathing method itself is derived from Wisteria plants' respiration and transpiration of chemicals. So in a sense it mimics the qualities of Wisteria. Thus including another added affect. Any demon in close proximity of someone using Light breathing has their Blood Demon Arts temporarily weakened at an exponential level and so is their regeneration slowed down massively. This comes into play when Kagaya thinks he's stalled enough and then detonates his house, killing him and his family. Muzan doesn't die but since he regenerates almost instantly, it was essential to be in proximity to the Light breathing so Tamayo could have time to insert the medicine and give the Hashira an advantage.
The sequence of events immediately before and during entering the Infinity Castle stays the same.
First Round Infinity Castle Battles - Shinobu vs Douma Zenitsu vs Kaigaku:
Nothing changes from the manga. Perfection. Just think, it should be more apparent that they take place semi-simaltaneously.
Second Round Infinity Castle Battles - Tanjiro & Giyu vs Akaza Urokodaki, Tengen Uzui, Shinjuro, & Nezuko vs Jigoku Uzui (New Upper Moon 5):
The events of the Akaza fight are not changed and neither are the events surrounding it.
Simply adding another battle that takes place at the same time. This battle is with the former Hashira and certified Nezuko protection gang, fighting against Tengen Uzui's brother and current demon shinobi, Jigoku Uzui. I chose the name because Tengen means heaven and Jigoku means hell.
(Flashback) After the dispatch of Gyokko in the swordsmith village, Akaza was tasked with finding a good candidate to replace him. He stumbled upon the ruthless shinobi culture cultivated by the Uzui family. Seeing how they're a group of efficient warriors that don't hold any ethical qualms, Akaza challenged both Tengen's father and Jigoku to combat at which they fought him at the same time. If Akaza won they'd agree to become demons, and they'll keep they're clan but as long as they're loyal to Lord Muzan. But if father Uzui and Jigoku won, Akaza would leave them alone. The fight devolves and eventually involves Jigoku's children joining in. Akaza defeats Jigoku and kills his father as well as a few of his children. Recognizing the ones that have survived as strong and Jigoku as a worthy adversary, he gives him and his surviving children Muzan's blood to be turned to demons. The Uzui clan is now loyal to Muzan and Jigoku Uzui has been nominated as Upper Moon rank 5.
(Current) I think it will be an interesting dynamic with Tengen encountering his brother again and this time as a Demon. It will make for lots of drama as well as an interesting fight between two shinobi and two swordsmen. Nezuko would stay asleep most of the fight with Urokodaki directly protecting her. Speaking of, in this rewrite Jigoku was sent by Muzan to directly collect Nezuko and bring her to him.
Now about Jigoku's Blood Demon Art. I decided he should have the full arsenal of basic shinobi weaponry like Tengen and his wives, however his main weapon and instrument of the Blood Demon art is that of a double sided kusarigama. Basically a staff with dual sickles on each end and a chain holding a miniature mace extending from the staff's center. The blood demon art entails rapid spinning of the dual sided kusarigame of which blood tendrils extend from the ends causing extreme destruction while boosting speed.
At first, Jigoku is overwhelmed by the pure skill of these three master former Hashira. Even though they're rusty techniquewise, their coordination is perfected through endless battle experience. Jigoku's head is severed but wait, it's not over. Three more demons sprout from his neck and seperate. Jigoku's sons/Tengens nephews turned demons. Jigoku regrows his head and the real battle begins.
The fight plays out as a team battle with constantly switching opponents and locations around the Ubuyashiki estate. When it comes to the oldy swordsmen, Shinjuro is almost a mirror image of his son Kyojuro when Tengen sees him in battle, warming his heart. The only difference is that the sincerety that once inhabited the former flame Hashira is gone and has been replaced with a new layer of ferocity when fighting. Shinjuro isn't only fighting to protect or for honor, but to utterly crush his opponent in raging fire. Urokodaki still has that veil of sympathy and sincerity but his fighting style is different from Giyu's. The former fights in the style of a raging river controlled yet violent, while Giyu's is more calm and feeling, using current like movement to use the energy of the attacker back at them.
The 3 Uzui demon brothers all have Upper Moon 5 on their eyes despite not being the main threat. From strongest to weakest, there's the eldest brother, the youngest brother and the middle brother.
In the second half of the battle Nezuko wakes up and realizes she has limited time as a Demon left as she is slowly reverting to being a human. So she participates in the battle aiding the former Hashira. I thought this would be a good parallel to take place at the same time as the Akaza fight as it would be brother and sister fighting different Upper Moons simultaneously. She would also use her exploding blood to make Urokodaki's blade turn red.
At the climax of the battle Tengen manages to get a Demon Slayer Mark over his right eye with a series of parallel curved lines, increasing in size the further up the forehead they go. This is supposed to mimic soundwaves. Eventually all heads are severed with Jigoku's specifically being cut off by a marked Tengen. But one of the Demon brother's head was instead ripped off by Nezuko and not by a nichirin blade. So they don't disintegrate, which gives headless Jigoku enough time to surprise attack Shinjuro, stabbing him through the heart with one of the broken off kusarigama blades, killing him. Tengen avoids the attack of the headless Jigoku because he's also a Shinobi and Nezuko protects Urokodaki. Nezuko uses one last push of power to use her exploding blood to completely disintegrate the body of one of the headless demon brothers before any of them can reattach their heads. Now all demons left are headless by nichirin blades, they disintegrate.
Last Note: probs gonna continue into multiple parts. Don't really care if anyone reads the whole thing. Only for my personal peace of mind so I don't forget. Sorry if this is too long. If you do end up enjoying, thanks.
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2023.05.28 08:15 tasha345 Is it possible to play split-screen and remote at the same time so 3 people can play on two devices.

Hi everyone!
I am a new player but my brother has been playing for a little while. We each have our own Nintendo switch. We had been playing split-screen on my brothers switch for a little bit, and my sister asked if she could join. She does not have a switch.
Is it possible for my brother to split screen his switch so they can both play but I can join the same world remotely from my switch? Is there a solution where three people can play on 1 or 2 devices? I am happy to make a new world if that is the problem.
And if so, how? And if not, are there any solutions?
Thanks a bunch 🌹
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2023.05.28 08:11 TheBeeOfBygone 22M/US. A Path To True Friendship

So,what brings me here and why is this going be a long post? Well, I'm on a journey of sorts to rewrite some of, maybe, my wrong way of thinking and and life living and this is a post for hope and olive branch to make some wrongs right so to speak.
So, about me. I'm 22, gay, live alone, financially independent,wanting of nothing in that aspect of life. I consider myself a nice, soft spoken with the ability to stand up for himself but don't have the energy to do so; person who tries to think happy thoughts and help those less fortunate. I really have nothing to complain about, but yet, here I am 22 with not one friend in the world. First, I'm not blaming the world or others of my intolerance of human connections and my war on friendship,which I have raged for the last 5 years of my life. I have waged so hard, I stopped vocally talking to anyone in the world. It's been almost two years since I vocally talked to another human. You ask.. how is that possible? I have developed communication of nods and eye speech so to say to avoid happening to use my vocal cords. I even work from home to avoid contact with humans. I know this is very weird. I told myself 4-5 years ago I could learn so much about others by just listening and not talking. Now, to this day, I still, think that is holds some truth but maybe I'm missing something by not letting others hear my voice? Maybe their is something that can be relayed by sound and not silence; like how sarcasm over text can't be depicted correctly.
So, why am i like this why? First, I have had nothing happen to me violently or trauma that changed me. I, honestly, not sure why I started shutting everyone out. I decided one day that friendship was fake and its been so long since I had anything like that, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing or even if I am? Now, 22, maybe I'm thinking their is something to "go to war" for someone with so to speak; I mean someone to play games with and pick on each other. My brother left my life a few years ago and we used to talk baseball every day and we don't speak anymore so is it that? I mean we never were very similar and I can't even say if I liked him.
I think my biggest issue and why I'm here. I don't know if I like something or don't. It seems i just do stuff like a robot and not because i enjoy it. I don't know how to know who I like being around or what game I like playing or if I like a movie. I know this sounds off but I don't know what it should feel like to have a friend, a word I'm scared to say. How do you know if you enjoy someone's company or not? How do you know if someone is your friend or not or they just blowing smoke up your x-mas chimney? So, I figured Reddit might hold some answers or maybe, someone feels like me. I guess I'm just lost. I think some of it is I don't like myself at all and don't like being compliments. I'm more of make the other person feel good type.
So, know these are posts to make a friend but I wanted to be open about how I feel and maybe someone will read this and not be afraid in their post to admit their imperfections and maybe more people will find friends on here and not be scared to know others don't know what their doing in making friends. Anyways, that's the back story. Now, on to a little about me and what I'm looking for in a friendship.
Well hobbies wise, I'm into video games, I'm mostly into sim, strategy, and Rpgs. I play on PS5 (moved from PC a few months ago). I play more slower pace games as I think my reflexes are too slow for shooters, so only game I play competitively is Rocket League (I'm bad at that too).I'm also into sports (big 3; MLB, NBA NFL); I'm a bit of a sports nut. I also like to cook and love to learn new recipes. Other than that, I spend my time listening to asmr (monk chanting is my fave), daydreaming I am somewhere else (mostly Mars) I love anything about space. I spendway too much time wishing I was somewhere else so I probably need to ground myself. I like to read but never do. I'm in the beginning stages of learning about camping, survival (and stealth camping seems so fun).
So, what type of friend am I looking for? I'm going to list some a few things I want. I'm not listing them to be picky or be mean but I think if I got any chance of finding a long-term life long friend (which is what I'm looking for), I will hopefully find someone who into lots of stuff I am to make the best possible chance. First, I need the person to understand the things I listed by me above and be understanding and respectful about it. I won't become friends quick and not sure how long it would take to use the word friend. I can't become instant friends; that thought scares me to be honest. I move slow and like others very slow. That doesn't mean I won't respect you. You will always get that but a friend connection I can't say how long or it will ever happen. This is all new so not sure how it will go. So, anyone who wants to voice chat right away or want personal details about my life, i won't give them that; it will take a long time.
Others things I want in a person- I need someone from the Usa as I am and makes it easier time zones wise. I am CST (MidSouth) US so if you were too, that be great. It be cool if we could meet one day way down the line. I'm looking for someone who wants to and can talk regularly chat via here, text. I don't want someone who talks once a week, as I need someone not pushy but can drive the friendship until i get used to having someone to talk to. That doesn't mean you will have to lead the conversation all the time but maybe be more talkative. I'm quiet with new and more of a listener so I can come off as dry but don't intend to be. I thought about ages and I'm open to all but I'm 22 so someone my age would be cool but I'm an old soul so open to everyone I suppose. You do need to know this is platonic and I will not tolerate any weird stuff; only sfw here. I don't want any part of stuff that is not. You will get the same respect from me.
It will also be nice if you were a sports/gaming fan. It help with that start but we can be into different stuff but games seem to bring others together, so maybe it can with me and, hopefully, my future friend.
So,yeah this is A lot. If you made it this far, you either were intrigued really bored, or love the pain of listening to some random on Reddit making himself a fool. Whatever the reason, if you feel the urge,send me a instant chat message and say hi, drop a recipe, or just tell me I'm crazy asf and don't deserve a friend. Whatever it is, I will reply quick.
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2023.05.28 08:06 exoboy1993 Let's talk about the ''bastardization'' of contemporary creole.

As an introduction, I want to point that my family comes from Jeremie, so far away from the metropilitan area and most of them grew up in the small town, using their own local expressions, vernaculars and tropes.
I've been speaking creole fully with my father,mom, auntie, uncle and grandparents and was raised under their vocabulary and pronounciation ('é pa moun mòn yo yé men ou ka santi yo soti provens tout bon) which means that hearing us speak, there's very few french words or french composite words however listening to alot of recent street interviews, news speaker, young kids slang, it seems to me that more and more people are speaking this new 21st century frenchified version of creole where literally 3/4 of what they say ends up becoming french-composite words while I was raised with specific different word closer to our linguistics and natural syntax.
I'm seeing a lot of young kids too spoutering a lot of ''you know'' , brother'', or simply having a very limited vocabulary when people ask them questions.
This is a discussion I was having with my mother and thought it was just me but my entire family chimed in to agree ''Pale yo vin lèd'' ''É tankou pèp la fin pèdi tut sa ki té gen valè, menm pale yo pa ka pale''
For example, if I say menjenyen (to try your best) (to , simanyen (to sow), uvri (to open but I'm hearing Ouvè now in videos 😬), kichoy ( thing, thingy), .

I was writing a book and was sending parts of it to a friend in the country and he had a hard time reading. I felt really dissapointed. Creole is not that hard to understand so seeing that people can't even read it is a big ''fking'' downvibe for me.
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2023.05.28 08:04 Beeflink28 Rate my fun 2000 point list!

I am completely new to nids and had a very fun (and probably terrible gameplay wise) list idea! This is also just for a kill each other only no objectives game with my brother. Any way i could still keep the theme but make it better? (I don’t care if it’s particularly legal) (also keep in mind i am playing against t sons)
So heres the list:
Hq:
the swarmlord (for distraction)
neurothrope (for distraction and countering)
x2 tervigons (to support my gaunts)
Troops:
x44 termagants (for distraction)
Heavy support:
x3 exocirne (for laying down fire while everything else is distracting and blocking the way)
x2 tyrannofex (for laying down fire while everything else is distracting and blocking the way while acting as meat shields for the more damaging exocrines)
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2023.05.28 07:35 Thick-Key-1234 Family problems, dont read if you're sensitive to

My mom hates our family. Idk what to do anymore, I have tried so hard to be a good kid my whole life but my little brothers had to come in and ruin it. My mom told me how she dreeds my little brothers coming home. They're always fighting with eachother the moment they step through the door. I think my mom loves all of us because we are her children, but I don't think she likes any of us as people. I'm her therapist. I think it all went downhill when my grandpa died. He was the one person in my moms life she could rely on. My mom is a christian and before she goes to bed everynight she says she "leaves all her problems with God" so that she can wake up happy in the morning. I think she has some unresolved childhood trauma. Her family used her as the scapegoat, they treated her like she was useless and made her feel like she was fat & I think she's afraid to be alone. Her boyfriend (I'll call him C) is an asshole, he's never physically abused any of us or anything but he used to verbally abuse (make fun of my little brother I'll call him "B"). When he started making fun of B I guess it became a sort of popularity contest in our house, if you just go along with whatever C says then you wont be next. I remember once he was being an ass about something, I have no idea what it was, but I remember begging my mom to make him stop, I think my exact words were "mommy, please, make him stop" or something along those lines, and I just remember him mimicking me, a little 9 year old girl begging her mother to make the grown as man in her living rolm playing video games on the tv to stop making her upset. And in responce, my mom laughed with him. C is basically a man child, he's 15 years younger than my mom and had a messed up childhood so I feel like his relationship with my mom is almost as if my mom is his new mom, he always says stuff about my mom being his mom, I've always found it incredibly creepy but if I bring it up to my mom she'll just wave off my concerns. She does that a lot, she'll always wave my concerns off. Anyways, in my house B is the new scapegoat, I feel so bad for him, he the kindest, most caring, kid you'll ever meet. Idk why I make fun of him, I feel like it's almost a cooping mechanism. My mom sees herself in B and so she feels like we're (me and B's twin brother "A") just as bad as her brothers. Idk why she refuses to understand that the 35 year old manchild that does nothing but cause her problems, is an issue. I can't deal with being the tharepist anymore, she'll dump all her problems on me and then get mad at me if I'm in her personal space for too long. We never spend time as a family, my mom works a full time job as the boss of her branch of a large company, so she's very busy all the time. I get it, I love alone time, I just wish she would care about me sometimes, she so busy with her job and the twins I never get taken care of.
I guess I just wanna know if things will get better? I always had hope that when we all become adults we would become friends but her family (my uncles) have a lot of problems so likely mine will be too.
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2023.05.28 07:25 georgeludd124 I have a problem software and or hardware

My brother stepped on my vr cord and broke it. I ordered a new one but i tested it on the 3.0 and it drops connection every 5 minutes or so . I don’t know what’s causing this if it’s dropping volts or something because when I plug a flash drive it it doesn’t randomly disconnect like that . This usually wouldn’t be a problem but the 2 other 3.0 ports don’t recognize the quest as 3.0 when I plug it in help
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2023.05.28 07:24 Prestigious-Sell-816 LISTENER SUBMISSION WIBTA for not showing up to my fathers 40th birthday/Father’s Day party?

Names changed for obvious reasons.
My (19F) father (39M) is turning 40 next month and he invited me to the party he will be having to celebrate. It is going to be on Father’s Day. A lot of family backstory! My mother (38F) and father have been divorced for 5 years. I hav 2 full blooded siblings. Janice (10F) and Phil (18M) along with a step brother Isaac (12M) and a half brother Henry (6M). I may have the ages wrong for my step brother and half brother but that is because I have not seen them since I was 16 and didn’t really keep tabs on their ages since we didn’t spend time together. But that is besides the point. Needless to say the reasons for divorce were messy. My father had an affair with my mothers friend Mora (38F) from high school and wanted to have an open relationship. My mother who is Christian said absolutely not and my father dropped the divorce on her.
My mother got 75% custody over us and moved out of the house that my father rented. She moved in with my grandmother who is a rockstar for taking in me and my siblings. Due to my mothers medical condition she is unable to work or drive so, she had been a stay at home mom since I was born. My father was the one who was providing for our family financially with his job as a member in the army.
My father married Mora about a year or two after the divorce. She had his child a year into dating and after he had introduced us to her. There was some drama with Mora and my mother. Just for example: Her and her sister threw eggs at my grandmothers house (I was there when it happened and watched her do this), she fought my mother outside the school parking lot for my conference (she lost by the way), and called my mother unfit and lazy despite knowing her medical history (I know this because she and I had followed each other on her Facebook where she posted these things).
My father never stood up for my mother in this time and stood by what his new wife was saying and doing. He spent less time with me and my siblings and more time with her child and my half brother. I want to note that my two full blooded siblings Janice and Phil are on the spectrum and have autism. My half sibling and step brother do not. It is blatantly obvious that my father favors them because they are “normal” and “easier to deal with.” These are quotes from his mouth which he told to my stepmother when he thought that I wasn’t around.
He missed very important moments in my life. I want to be an actress and I had landed a gig at a theatre in my state that is fairly well known when I was 16. I invited everyone to come see me and everyone came except for my father. His reasoning was because it was too far of a drive and that gas was expensive. My great grandfather who is well into his 80s made a point to come. He lives only 30 minutes from my father and has a similar financial situation to him and he made sure he could see me. So, I see my fathers excuse as complete nonsense.
There are other things my father has done to me and my family but if I were to list everything I would run out of room. So, should I show up to my fathers big 40th birthday when he has missed major milestones in my life and after everything he has done to me and my family?
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2023.05.28 07:22 ArwenandEowyn My cat is dying, and my work is making my life hell

Our boy, Mel, is dying from end stage renal failure. His bonded brother died on New Year's day 2022, having been diagnosed 8 months earlier. He was 12 1/2. Mel will be 14 in June. He was diagnosed on March 19th this year, and being the stronger boy, we thought he had more time left.
But over the past 5 days he's been having nausea and vomiting, cries a lot, is wobbly and disoriented. All the signs, that the end is near. Much sooner than we expected.
My heart is shattered. He was, he has always been close to me. He doesn't love many, but those he does, he loves fiercely. I don't know where else to post this.
And it doesn't help that I've had to take on a client, who for lack of a better word, is a K*ren. She makes my life hell, and is a nightmare to deal with. But I need the money. And I have to plaster on a fake smile and deal with her, while my heart is breaking.
I can do anything, deal with anyone, if only I knew my loved ones were OK. Our cats have been my family. My true brothers and sisters. And now Mel is slipping away. 💔
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2023.05.28 07:14 kuigen My personal songs chart Top 50

My personal songs chart in May 27
  1. Fireflies - Owl City {-}
  2. Sexy B*tch (feat. Akon) - David Guetta {+1}
  3. Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - Gotye {-1}
  4. Viva La Vida - Coldplay {+1}
  5. Sure Thing - Miguel {-1}
  6. Faithful (feat. dvsn & Pimp C) - Drake {+4}
  7. Titanium (feat. Sia) - David Guetta {+2}
  8. Heat Waves - Glass Animals {+20}
  9. Good Time - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen {-2}
  10. What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke {+5}
  11. Fast Car - Luke Combs {-3}
  12. Thinkin’ Bout Me - Morgan Wallen {-}
  13. You Proof - Morgan Wallen {+19}
  14. Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) - Drake {+10}
  15. Waffle House - Jonas Brothers {+8}
  16. Daylight - David Kushner {-3}
  17. Karma - Taylor Swift {-1}
  18. La Bebe (Remix) - Yng Lvcas & Peso Pluma {-7}
  19. One More Night - Maroon 5 {-2}
  20. See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth) - Wiz Khalifa {+1}
  21. Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton {+4}
  22. Whatcha Say - Jason Derulo {New}
  23. N95 - Kendrick Lamar {New}
  24. Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran {-4}
  25. 6 Foot 7 Foot (feat. Cory Gunz) - Lil Wayne {+9}
  26. Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran {+7}
  27. Drinkaby - Cole Swindell {-13}
  28. MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT - Lil Mabu {New}
  29. Go Crazy - Chris Brown & Young Thug {-11}
  30. Sorry - Justin Bieber {-24}
  31. Baby Don't Hurt Me - David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray {+4}
  32. Search & Rescue - Drake {-13}
  33. Ella Baila Sola - Eslabon Armado & Peso Pluma {-6}
  34. They Don't Love It - Jack Harlow {-8}
  35. Something in the Orange - Zach Bryan {+5}
  36. Fall In Love - Bailey Zimmerman {-7}
  37. Every Breath You Take - The Police {+12}
  38. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool & DCup {New}
  39. Party - Bad Bunny & Rauw Alejandro {+8}
  40. Suga Suga (feat. Frankie J) - Baby Bash {+4}
  41. Dancin’ In The Country - Tyler Hubbard {-11}
  42. Bury Me in Georgia - Kane Brown {New}
  43. The Kind of Love We Make - Luke Combs {+5}
  44. Princess Diana - Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj {-22}
  45. Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z) - Rihanna {+1}
  46. Vanilla Twilight - Owl City {New}
  47. AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Beyoncé {New}
  48. Hello Seattle - Owl City {New}
  49. Last Night - Morgan Wallen {-4}
  50. Miracle - Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding {New}
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2023.05.28 07:10 angelcano Bought this sketchbook more than three years ago. It's time to fill it in.

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2023.05.28 07:06 Ventingshit Broken Brain

Some reason my brain doesnt want anything. I see people wanting… desiring things in their life. It maybe relationships, food, electronics, clothes, drinks, or certain lifestyle. My brain wants nothing. It looks at things and yawns. It wouldnt care if it were homeless or not. It has feelings but it is very fleeting.
During early college/university my brain would tell me “oh please oh please. Lets get a apartment and have no furnitures. It would be so cool!” Where would I sleep? “On the floor. With blanket and singular pillow.” Where would I sit? “You wont. You can just lay down and look at the ceiling.” What about stove and fridge…? “None. You can just walk to grocery store and get something you dont need to cook.” It is a dream to come to an empty home… abandoned home.
My brain always craves nothingness… emptiness. Always seeks extreme lack of existence. This applies to human interaction. Doesnt want any.
I would ask my brain time to time “What are you trying to say to me?” and it would respond “What do you mean? I am not sure what you mean.“ It is almost like it knows something is wrong but doesnt know what. Everytime I ask to clarify, I just get an error message. ————————————
My parents would say I am the lucky one. Can accomplish month worth of practice for average person…in 2-3 days. Blessed with a gift, I guess. Ability to just magically understand something and when someone asks “how did you do that?” I would respond “It just makes sense. It is well balanced that way.” Always stand out as “smart one“ or “skilled one”… always someones pick.
My parents would always tell me “I wish you and your brother switched.“ Yeah, I guess. My brother always want to achieve and create things. Sadly he received “bad genes” where he would spend all day doing something for months and wouldnt improve at all. He feels useless and untalented as he sees me create something and clearly flourish every step while making it look easy.
My parents would also comment how I am so confident and standing tall… always trying new things and exploring while my brother is ”stuck,afraid, and going nowhere.”
Kind of funny. Kind of unfortunate. Funny for blaming me for their misfortune. Unfortunate for them not realizing. Oh, well. That is life. ——————————-
Here I am… existing. Technically capable of doing… achieving anything due to blessing but my brain just yawns. “For what?” it wonders.
“Hey lets read 30-45 textbooks a month. We have the proof that we can.“ I say.
“Then what?” It says.
“Why not achieve something brilliant? We can technically understand anything if we actually cared about it.” I say.
”Why…? Whats the point when we are going to have the same dilemma?” It says. “Why go for things when…… dont technically exist? I cannot tell the difference between $3 meal and $30 meal. I cannot tell the difference in value. Everything seems same to me. You talk about brilliance and becoming this… person you think is extraordinary… when in reality that person is no different than any other person on this earth.” It says. “Its all in your head.”
Every time it hits me with these responses I become speechless. I dont have anything to say back to it. All I can mutter is… “then what…?” Which then my brain responds “thats what I am trying to figure out. I dont want to engage in the fluff you try to talk to me about. You are wasting time with those ideas. Dont drag me into it.“
———————————-
The emptiness. The confusion. Trying to find the truth. Trying to do the right thing. The perspective. Consistently changing brain space. Seeking something that doesn’t exist. Not wanting things that already exist. In a weird limbo that I cant seem to escape from. Opening a gift box with nothing inside. Not able to see something that is right front of me. Not in right condition to properly notice.
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2023.05.28 07:05 7spaghetti7 Home Loan - Financial Recourse?

About 12 years ago, my brother bought a unit with part of the loan being in my mum's name, as she had a better interest rate. My brother paid the fortnightly installments into her account, and the mortgage was paid from there. I don't know a lot about this deal, and I don't think her name was on the property, but there was a 'X owes Y because Z' document.
Fast forward to about 18 months ago, it's time for mum to sell up and move in with my husband and I, brother is not happy about this. When she sold her home, the outstanding mortgage was discharged, and my brother, being a signatory to that account, helped himself to what was remaining, and has not paid anything towards the $70k outstanding.
We have now found that he was sold the unit and bought a house with a new partner.
Does mum have any financial recourse to get any of the money back, even re-starting the weekly payments? She likely won't want to go to court, but is in a position where the NZSuper + what we contribute to her needs doesn't go very far.
Thanks for reading, and any responses are appreciated.
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2023.05.28 07:00 RNH00 Should I go through with ending my friendship?

Hi all, I [M22] have been friends [F22] with someone since we were sixteen years old, and I think I should end the friendship with them completely. I'm going to keep this as simplified as possible, but it can get confusing at times. We were long-distance friends, as we met on a penpal website, but we have seen each other in person, and we have another trip planned this summer. About a year and a half ago, I let her know I had strong feelings for her, which were not reciprocated, which is fine, but I felt awkward and kept doing stupid things on my part. She tried to go back to normal entirely afterward, and I did too, but it was very uncomfortable to hear her talk and see her date other guys. I came close to ending it last year, because of this as it was very anxiety-inducing, but ended up not as I enjoyed the friendship.
Fast forward to the end of 2022, and I transferred from my CC to a university. I began to start getting over her and came close to it. Around this time, our friendship took a worse turn as she became very hot and cold, with her being all in and then out depending on if someone new, friendship/or relationship-wise, came into the picture for them. After one night out drinking with her work friends, came close to texting me something very out of pocket. When I pushed her a bit a couple of days later out of curiosity, she asked whether I would be ok if we were still virgins by the next time we saw each other, would I be down to lose it to each other? This brought me back into it with her, but again she was still very in and out of it with me and, at times, what seemed to be very inconsiderate of my side. A month later, she told me about how she ended up losing her virginity to one of her work friends instead, and it was a very uncomfortable moment for me and I told her it felt a bit unfair to do all that when I was just getting over her, and the apology they gave me felt a little lacking and more, not condescending but the tone of voice was they did not seem to take it seriously enough. I began again trying to get over her by going on a couple of dates with a few girls, but those never worked out. This continued with her doing some other things that came off similar to the virginity thing, with us at one point talking about if I got into grad school near her, we could move in together and also started half-jokingly looking about what the apartment market was around the area. Recently though, I've had quite enough of it, with them again going from texting me every day, talking about how they wished I was there with them at their brothers' wedding one day and being very talkative wit me for a couple of weeks and at one point begging for me to a get a haircut she finds attractrive, to now compelely stopping talking to me and ignoring my texts as she's now dating a new guy they met on tinder.
I talked to my therapist about this, and I think the best route would be just to end the friendship now, as she doesn't seem to have much respect for my own feelings and treats me as what seems to be a friend of convenience. There is a good amount I have left out as well, like her only texting me during these periods of cold for stuff they need my help with. I really kind of want to know if I'm being irrational here to end the friendship. I tried texting her Wednesday if she wanted to call this weekend, as I wanted to talk to her about this, but she never responded and has been MIA for a week now. The most frustrating part is I have a plane ticket to go out and visit her, as I said earlier, we planned for a second trip this summer. I have already written out a long message to send over to them, letting them know I would rather not be part of the friendship (I'll leave the message below and let me know what y'all think), but still have anxiety that I may regret it if I do, as I definitely have my own part that played to make this friendship not what it used to be. What do y'all think? Sorry for the long story.
Message: "Hey, I wanted to tell you this over the phone and not text, but since it doesn’t seem like you’re able to, I’ll just tell you here. This friendship is not working for me anymore. It feels like we’re not putting in the same amount of effort as the other. I have felt more as a friend of convenience for you for a while now, with you being hot and cold. It goes back and forth between you being fully invested In this friendship to suddenly being someone completely distant and incredibly dry to talk to. It has become a constant cycle that makes me feel as though I did something wrong whenever the 180 occurs.
It also seems we’re not on the same page within this friendship. I still do have strong feelings for you, but it’s very obvious you don’t, and there is nothing wrong with that, as no one can control their feelings. However, after I told you how I felt earlier last year, it seemed you were more focused on minimizing how I felt, and it completely made me feel as though I created a problem between us. That awkwardness for myself still hasn’t stopped because you kept talking about stuff later on, like, if we’re still virgins by the next time we see each other, we could lose it to each other. It’s made it very hard for me to move on, and I think it’ll be better if we just stop being friends, and I will be canceling the plane ticket."
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2023.05.28 06:53 No_Statement_668 AITA FOR BEING UNGRATEFUL?

Ok so I’m (f13) and my younger brothers are soon to be (12,8) and my parents are (38m,39f)
It’s been a couple years since we all broke apart and we’re no longer the happy family, but to keep us all together we were spoiled.
Our parents would continue to hurt us and make us feel unworthy of everything, then they’d suddenly feel bad about us not eating so they’d just ask us to demand what we want.
This went on for a few years and then they started giving us materialistic things to cover for the damage, I got a tablet for my birthday then an iPhone 11(currently)
My brother last year had an iPhone 7 then an iPhone XS, later and iPad and now iPhone 12 which he’s literally going to change to 11pm because of its size. My dad would tell me that he’s a boy and he needs these, mother would be happy for him and would tell everyone this crappy accomplishment.
I simply asked to change to a new iPhone for my 14 birthday which is still 6 months ahead but I’d promise her to replace it after being over 16
I was immediately slammed down for being spoiled and ungrateful and that I am a very spoiled kid.
Honestly, I felt kind of envious of my brother who gets many things and I should be the one to compromise. I hate that, they should be equal but they always buy him iPhones, drive him out the house, let him go to parties and stuff but I’m not allowed because I might start dating?
I live in a brown and conservative family if that helps. All im asking for is a new iPhone because u also want to change mine after a year AITA?
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2023.05.28 06:51 ramdytis3c Modern Brothers - New Beginning [Cause Org Records]



Modern Brothers - New Beginning / Key Cm, BPM 122, 5:17, MP3 12.72 Mb, AIFF 55.94 Mb
Modern Brothers - The Feeling / Key Cm, BPM 122, 7:29, MP3 17.99 Mb, AIFF 79.16 Mb

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2023.05.28 06:34 bimbo_wannabe_ [I Accidentally Joined The Mafia In South Brooklyn] Chapter 5: The Dead Are Especially Nosy Down Here

[I Accidentally Joined The Mafia In South Brooklyn] Chapter 5: The Dead Are Especially Nosy Down Here
Previous Part: https://www.reddit.com/redditserials/comments/13sxdo9/i_accidentally_joined_the_mafia_in_south_brooklyn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
These last few parts have taken a lot longer for me to write than I thought. A lot of shit has gone down in the last two months, and a lot of it, frankly, is kind of a blur. But I figure, if you've stuck with me this long, then you deserve to know how it all ended up so I'm going to try my best to remember every detail of what happened.
Me? I've spent every free hour I've had, just lying in bed. I've got a lot of healed wounds that still hurt me pretty damned badly.
Blood loss from multiple gunshot wounds and then drowning in the East River, dying and then being brought back while still human, incidentally, takes a lot out of a guy.
But… I'm getting way ahead of myself.
Where were we, again?
Oh yeah, that's right. The funeral without caskets, inside of a Ukrainian restaurant just off the boardwalk in Brighton Beach. That's where I left off at.
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Antoni's corpse and I had spoken together for a while longer, about Beccs and their baby, actually, sitting there in the floor in front of the three empty bathroom stalls. The next moment, as usual, he was… just gone.
It took a while to slow the bleeding, and it took even longer to try and clean myself up with just hand soap and paper towels and the water from the sink. Nobody came into the bathroom again, and as I left, I saw why. There was a sign on the door that read 'Out of Order' with something printed below it in Cyrillic that I imagined probably said the same thing as the English.
My new winter coat had been left on the floor in front of the door and the Emergency Exit at the end of the hall had its alarm disabled and had been left propped open with a brick.
I took that as a clear message that they didn't want me rejoining the party, so I exited into the alley and sat on a milk crate chain-smoking until 2 PM when the funeral ended.
The weather app on my phone said it was 10 degrees outside, but oddly enough the cold air felt soothing on my bruised face. My eyes were nearly swollen shut, and every now and again I had to pull some of the toilet paper out that I'd stuffed in my pocket to wipe another trickle of blood from my nose when I sniffed a little too hard and moved the clots loose.
At 1:57, I started to hear people exiting the restaurant, so I moved onto the sidewalk to wait for Becca. The people leaving the funeral only glanced at me for a second and then looked away with a bored expression, like I wasn't even there. Finally, only Becca and Toni's immediate family were still inside.
Tatiana gave Becca a hug, Igor, a gentle handshake, and Antoni Sr. bent down, cupped his hands around Becca's face and pressed a chaste kiss to her forehead. I could see that his right hand was bandaged and he was holding it straighter than his left. Good. I hoped the fucker had broken it when he'd punched me in the jaw.
As Becca exited, I could tell she was angry even before she stomped over to me and shoved me three times in quick succession. Like Jimmy, Becca was a lot stronger than she looked, but now I knew why. I couldn't do much but ball up and take the hits.
"Where the fuck did you go? You just took off and left me there by myself. 'He wouldn't have left without saying goodbye if he had a choice.' You knew, you cocksucker, you knew, you knew he was dead!"
"Yeah, I knew! Antoni was in the news. But we gotta get the fuck out of here, Beccs, you're making a scene, another one, and I gotta get outta this neighborhood before something worse happens to me."
The high color of anger in her cheeks dropped away immediately into a pallid white. She'd been so pissed she'd never once registered the state of my face.
"Jesus Christ, Tony, what the fuck happened to you?"
"Your little Polish sausage's Daddy Dearest just beat the fuck out of me in the men's bathroom, that's what the fuck happened."
"Why would he do that?" Becca asked, but I didn't answer. She looked back to Skovorodka, following my gaze. Antoni Sr. was still standing there, just inside the front door, watching me with narrowed eyes, his hands folded neatly behind his back like a soldier at ease. It reminded me a lot of how Antoni used to stand while we were waiting for the train together.
"Fuck," she muttered, then "Shit," and grabbed me by the arm. "Come on."
"Why would he do that?" She asked me again as we climbed the stairs to the train platform.
"Antoni was Mob, Becca, Bratva. His whole goddamned family is. Him and his brothers and his father and his fucking Russian uncle, and I'd say your Mama Tatiana probably isn't in the dark about what her brother and her hubby and his sons do to make a living, either. I don't know why the Zabrowskas were on the Avenue, but suffice to say it was probably for nefarious reasons, and Jimmy found out about it and took care of business.
"Only I don't think he realized exactly who he was taking out at the time he did it, or else he never would have put the body in the River for somebody to find. And then the other three showed up to avenge their brother, only two of 'em never made it past Bianchi any farther than Antoni did."
"The fuck are you trying to say?" Her tone says she already understands just fine and doesn't want to.
"I'm saying your dear sweet Mamma killed your boyfriend, Becca. She removed all the identifying marks from his body, ate what she wanted, then pulled all his teeth out and chewed off his hands and his feet. They dumped the body in the East River and they found him about 5 days ago, floating off of Battery Park."
"Oh God. That's why. I asked Tatiana where Antoni was going to be buried and she told me in the public cemetery on Hart Island. They're not claiming the body because they don't wanna go to the cops. For the last week I been cussing him for everything he was worth, and he's been laying in the fucking morgue." She pressed her hand to her mouth, and I saw her bloodshot eyes filling with tears again.
"Please don't cry, Becca, cause I'm gonna start crying again and I've cried enough for today."
She sniffed back her tears and swallowed hard.
"But I don't understand, Tony, what the fuck does that have to do with you?"
"They knew, Beccs, they knew how the Zabrowskas died, who killed them, and they knew I helped Moretti get rid of the bodies afterwards. That's why Antoni's father went after me. The uh… the fucking Pakhan thought Jimmy sent me there to rub it in their faces that they weren't going to be able to bury any of their boys."
"How the fuck would they know that?" She barked at me.
"Somebody's feeding them information and not some asshole on the street, somebody from inside the Camorra."
"Who would do that?"
I saw her eyes darting about wildly as she tried to think of the answer to her own question.
"I don't know, uh, the driver that brought Moretti, he didn't look like he was too fond of Bianchi, maybe he's a fucking option."
"Frankie? I mean, him and Ma have never gotten along. He's never liked her and the feeling's mutual but… that doesn't make any sense, Frankie's always been loyal to the Camorra. Rossi always said he practically muttered the Omerta in his fucking sleep, that he was a soldato down to the bones."
"I have no idea, Becca, but it gets worse," I said quietly. If it didn't hurt so goddamned bad, I would've squeezed my eyes shut.
"How the fuck could it possibly get worse, Tony?"
"First you gotta promise you're not gonna hit me again."
Her hand balled into a fist, and I couldn't help but flinch.
"I'm gonna knock you the fuck out right now if you don't stop wasting my time, Cipriani."
"I sold her out, Becca. Bianchi. I told them where she lives and how to find her tonight."
"You what!?"
"I had to! He was gonna cut my fucking fingers off, and I don't know if he was going to take all four or just three but I wasn't about to fucking find out. I kind of need those fingers seeing as I'm a fucking southpaw!"
I held my left hand out to her, curled my fingers inward, but the third finger just… stayed straight. "Ah, fuck, I didn't even notice that."
"Jesus Christ, the tendon's been cut," she whispered, and when she pressed her hand to her mouth again she looked less like she was swallowing back tears and more like she was trying to swallow back vomit. I couldn't really blame her. I felt pretty nauseous myself.
"You know, I'm, I'm not worried about Ma," she said, finally. "It wouldn't be the first time somebody's tried to take her out. She's harder to kill than they think."
"Would, uh, would cutting her head off work? Cause if so I think they're already pretty aware of how to get the job done. They… they know Bianchi's not human, Becca."
Her face got paler, if that was even possible, and her eyes were the size of saucers.
"This is a goddamn nuclear disaster. Jesus fuck."
We stood the last few minutes waiting for the train in silence. As the doors slid shut and we sat down, Becca began laughing wildly.
"So you're in hysterics for real, huh?" I asked.
"You're gonna have to forgive me, I'm a little slow on the uptake today, but I just got it, Polish sausage… only, he wasn't little, you know, he was hung like a fucking horse, and it's a goddamn tragedy for women everywhere that the man isn't on this earth anymore. And he knew how to use it, too. Best sex I ever had in my life… only sex I ever had in my life, but that's not the fucking point." A short, barking sob tore out of her.
I groaned. "You know, that is way, way more information than I ever wanted to know about you and Antoni's sex life. You couldn't, uh, you couldn't let that one pass by, huh?"
"I never pass up the opportunity to make a good dick joke. And he had Good Dick."
I laughed and regretted it as it tightened muscles in my stomach that were still a little angry about being used as Antoni Sr's personal punching bag.
"Touché, Miss Rebecca, touché."
"The two-faced bastard, I gotta give the motherfucker that much, you know, it's a uniquely personal way to say Fuck You to the Underboss, getting his teenaged daughter pregnant. I am so, so goddamned tired of being a pawn in other people's games. He's lucky he's already dead or I'd kill the bitch myself," she whispered.
"It wasn't a game, Becca, what happened between you and Antoni," I whispered back. I knew because Antoni's corpse had told me as much. "Don't ask me how I know, cause I don't wanna talk about it, but it wasn't a game. You didn't know about him and he didn't know about you and it was a big, fucked up coincidence. You loved him, and he really, truly loved you... he worshiped the ground you walked on." Actually, he had said he worshiped the boots she walked in, but I figured it was a translation issue. "It was a regular old Romeo and Juliet: Brooklyn Edition."
She squeezed her eyes shut, snorted and at the same time choked on another sob.
"Yeah, but Romeo and Juliet ended in a double suicide, not a murder and a single mother." Her tiny hand went to her mouth again, and she wasn't able to hold back the tears this time. "I miss him, Tony, I miss him so fucking much."
"You know, Beccs, I miss him, too." I miss him when he was alive, not looking like a walking nightmare, and talking my goddamned ear off half the time, but I wasn't about to tell her that. "He was the first friend I made down here."
"It's fucking stupid. I still remember every single thing he said to me those first few times I met him."
"Odd as it is, I do too, Beccs. He was that kind of guy, I guess, he didn't have to work hard to make an impression on people. It was, uh, three days after I moved in, I think. I was in the basement, getting ready to do my laundry that morning, fighting with the stuck knob on that machine down at the end? And he walks in with his clothes basket balanced on his hip and reaches past me and just… turned the fucking thing, like it wasn't even stuck to begin with. 'It has an attitude, but it likes me,' he says, and I say, 'I can see that.'
"And he, he told me his name. 'Zabrowska,' he says, 'Antoni.' And I laughed and said, 'Nice to meet you, Toni, I'm Tony.' 'Really?' he says, and I say 'Yeah. Really. Antonio Alessio Gioele Cipriani, the third, if you please.'"
"Goddamn, that name is painfully Italian. No wonder you tell everybody 'Just call me Tony,'" Becca snorted.
"Thank you, Miss Rebecca, I can assure you I didn't pick it myself. But, 'Ah,' Toni says and kind of taps his hand in the center of his chest, 'Junior.' And I laughed again and said 'Our parents were goddamned creative when it came to the baby naming, right?' And he laughed, too, and shook my hand.
"And uh, a few days after that he showed up outside of my apartment and asked me if I wanted to go watch a game with him and his brothers at the sports bar down the street. It was Poland vs Korea. I still don't know shit about soccer, I've always been more of an American football kind of guy, but I did learn quite a few Polish swear words that day. Apparently they'd all bet money on the home team winning that game."
"I bet you did. Poland kept catching red cards that whole game. I bet on Korea, of course, and altogether I won 8 grand from four extremely pissed off Polish dudes when we stomped their ass all over the pitch. I had no idea how seriously the four of them took soccer. Antoni wouldn't even talk to me for three days. Probably didn't help I made an ass of myself laughing at all of them. Course, I woulda bet more if I'd known they were good for it. Dry cleaners, my ass," Becca spat.
"Well, in Antoni's defense, he probably did work at a dry cleaners like he told us, just like you work at a bodega, and Jimmy and me work at a restaurant, and Pops works at a hardware store. We all got day jobs. You know, I hate to bust your balls, Becca, but did it… never occur to you to ask Antoni if the tattoos meant something?"
"No," she said weakly. "I mean, I knew they were prison tats but Jesus Christ, half the people I know have been to prison. You've been to prison, half of my cousins have been to prison, hell, Pops has been to prison. You weren't here then, but all of 2016 to 2020 I was wearing a 'Free Rossi' t-shirt everyday, a lot of people in this neighborhood did. Ma got him off on the Murder 1 charges but numbers are numbers, and she couldn't get him out of the Tax Evasion. But I figured, if Antoni didn't wanna talk about it, then it was none of my business what had happened before we met each other."
She'd minded her own business a little too hard this time.
"What did you and Antoni talk about, Becca?"
"Everything! And anything, and nothing, all at the same time. He'd complain about living with his brothers, about Misiu always leaving hair all over the bathroom, and how Ciech always left sugar all over the kitchen counter after he made his coffee. And I'd complain about having to pick up all the empty bottles of makgeolli after my Dad in the morning. I'd help him wash all the dishes his dirty ass brothers would leave piled in the sink, and fold everybody's clothes.
"We got along well, me and Antoni, we were actually very compatible, we were both neat freaks when it came to our housekeeping. We even folded our towels the same way. And he'd bitch about how Igor could never balance the register correctly at the end of the day, and I'd bitch about how my Dad never checked our invoices correctly, and I was always having to cuss out the distribution reps for shorting us on our deliveries myself.
"And we'd watch TV together. He always made fun of me for the lame ass old Chuck Lorre sitcoms I loved to watch, and I'd make fun of him for all the stupid cop dramas he watched, every Law and Order known to man, and Blue Bloods and shit. We just… talked to each other, like we were two regular people, just living our lives. It was simple and it was easy, and it was enough, it was goddamned enough for me. Our relationship was the one normal thing I had going in my fucked up life."
She cracked at the end, sobbing brokenly. She turned her head to the side, pressed her face into my bicep as she wrapped both arms around mine. Tears filled my eyes, as well, and now I was wiping snot out of my nose as well as blood. I felt goddamned sorry for the kid, and I felt like she had a right to cry, but I had to distract her, for my own sake.
"So tell me, when was the first time you talked to Antoni? Was that the same day he asked you out?"
"No, there was some time between the two. He'd been there about a week, I guess, after they moved in. They got there back in like April. I'd fucked with him the first day, you know, asked him where the hell the accent came from, and he said Poland, and I told him welcome to America cause I felt like being a dick. And he said that he'd already been in country five years and I laughed at him and told him, goddamn, I couldn't tell cause he still sounded like he was fresh off the boat. And he got this look on his face, like he was trying to decide if he needed to be offended or not, so I told him I was just fucking with him, that he was doing better than my Mom, God rest her, cause it was seven years after she got here from Seoul before she even learned a word of English and my Dad was the one that had to teach her."
"Makes sense. I moved in in June, Toni mentioned he'd only been in the building about two months hisself."
She nodded, I could feel the movement in the sleeve of my coat where her cheek was pressed to my arm.
"Him and his brothers started coming in every day after that and you know, I kind of had my eye on him from the first time I talked to him. He was goddamn gorgeous, quite literally the walking definition of 'tall, dark, and handsome.' He had those incredibly blue eyes, and that fucking accent, man, shit put me in knots everytime he came in. I learned them all pretty quick, and Antoni was easy. He got the same thing everyday, box of Newport 100s and a pack of Russian Cream Backwoods with a large slushy. You know I gotta keep the cups behind the counter because motherfuckers'll fill it up and walk out when I get busy. I saw him when he came in, and went over to the ATM, so I had his shit sitting on the counter waiting for him."
Becca had a talent for memorizing all of the regular's orders, it wasn't unusual to see a long line of cigarettes, blunts, medicine, sometimes even crack pipes and Chore Boys, and anything else she kept behind the counter, set up neatly next to the register. She also had a talent for running both registers at the same time when the line got overly long and she was there alone. Sometimes I had no idea how she kept up with it all, but that was just Becca.
"And this drunk asshole came in, right after, he didn't even belong in the neighborhood, he stayed in Bed-Stuy, but he was with his cousin, and his cousin I knew and he was shooting me apologetic looks so I was already on guard. I was in a bad goddamn mood that day, anyway. And the drunk bitch, he walked over to the bathroom and tried to open it."
"Key's behind the counter," I said, and she nodded.
"And the key costs five dollars cause people make a fucking mess in the bathroom and I ain't cleaning that shit everyday for free. Well, drunk fuck got pissed and started talking a bunch of shit and threw his five dollars down on the counter, and you know, I can't stand that. You don't throw money at me, I ain't a goddamned stripper, you can put that shit in my hand or you can get the fuck out my store. And, I said 'Naw, son, for you it's gonna cost ten, five dollar Drunk Dick surcharge for being an asshole and cutting my line.' And the motherfucker… he called me a fucking stupid little bitch, and he told me people like me needed to be sent back to my own country."
I made a sound of disapproval, already seeing where this was headed.
"I hate that stupid shit. Where the fuck am I getting sent back to? The fucking hospital in Manhattan where I was born? Everybody in the store just kind of stopped and stood there, and dude's cousin? He just shook his head at me and walked right out the store and left him there."
"He wasn't gonna get involved, huh?" I asked.
"Fuck no. He wasn't stupid. I… uh, I was seeing red by that point so I balled up his money and I threw it across the store and told him to get the fuck out. I don't even remember half the shit I said to him, but I was yelling and he was yelling back and all of a sudden Antoni was… just there. I never even noticed him walking up. He was a big motherfucker, but goddamn he was quick and quiet when he wanted to be."
Becca laced her fingers through the fingers of my right hand and I gave them a squeeze as she readjusted her head against my shoulder. I turned mine to press a kiss to her hair. She was short enough that I didn't have to worry about bumping my nose. As I turned back, I noticed that there was a puddle of water on the seat across from us, and a pit formed in my stomach immediately. My face felt cold as the blood drained from it. The puddle of water made me more than just a little nervous to see it.
I had new enemies stacking up quick, and the last thing I needed was a pissed off, jealous ghost because his grieving fiancée was getting a little handsy with me. But… Antoni never showed himself, so I could only assume he approved of my offering her comfort in her time of need. Either that or he was waiting till I was alone to express his displeasure.
"'Is there a problem here?' was all he asked and the drunk bitch turned around and he got even more pissed. He goes 'Man, fuck you, white boy. Mind your own goddamned business.' And Antoni kind of got in his face, and goes, 'I have made it my business. She told you to leave. Either remove yourself or I will remove you.'
"And the liquor must've given him a bigger set of balls than he actually had, cause he took a swing at him. And Antoni, he just kind of… leaned back a little to avoid the swing and then leaned back in and… he knocked that bitch out cold with one punch. And then he picked him up, literally picked him up, and threw his ass out on the sidewalk, and kind of dusted his hands off afterwards."
"Well, if he's anything like his father then he could throw a hell of a right cross."
Becca laughed weakly.
"Yeah, his Dad boxes, they all did, you know, from when they were young. Antoni told me he got in his Dad's face once when he was about 16, and Old Papa Zabrowska coldcocked him in the kitchen, and when he woke up on the couch, his Dad dragged him out back in the alley and beat him bloody. Told him if his little grown ass thought he was a man, then he was grown enough to get his ass stomped like a man."
That made me feel a little better, to be honest. At least I wasn't the only one I knew who had caught an ass kicking from Antoni Sr.
"I bet he didn't talk shit to his Pops again after that, huh?"
"I asked him that exact question, he said 'Oh no, no, never again. I learned my lesson.' Toni and his brothers, though, were always getting in fights, even when I knew them. He told me it was hard on their Mama, back in Kraków, having four hormonal, teenaged boys with just shy of a year between each of them, you know cause… us fucking Roman Catholics ain't too fond of any method of contraception."
"I didn't know you was Catholic, too, B."
"Of course. Rossi is a devout Catholic, and that's how he raised me, and Nia, she's an Angel, you know, a Fallen One, that's what they call themselves, but she's even got real wings. A little more leathery and less feathery, but… same thing. She goes to Mass daily, turns out demons are actually very religious. Both of my parents were atheists, and that's how they raised me, but after some of the shit I've seen, you know, it ain't too unbelievable that there's a Big Guy upstairs."
She sniffed again, wiped at her nose and I offered her a bit of toilet paper from my pocket.
"That's how it all got started, the War in Heaven. God created Adam, the first living human body, and he told all the spirits in Heaven to kneel to him. And at least half of them weren't too fond of that idea, and the Morning Star stepped up as representative and said they wouldn't kneel to anyone but God. And they, uh, they lost the War, and He banished them all to Earth, to wander without bodies of their own while the other side got to come to Earth one at a time, to live their lives.
"But… then there was the first murder, Abel. Cain beat him to death with a rock, and the blood on the ground, the first human blood ever shed in violence, it called to God, but He wasn't the only one it called to. The blood, it gave him a way inside of a body. Lucifer. He was the First One. He's still here, you know, I've met him. He has a particular fondness for Nia, he calls her Young One, cause according to him 1607 wasn't all that long ago."
"I guess it isn't when you're that old."
"But, back to what I was saying about Toni, all of them were packed into one place together like fucking sardines, the four boys sharing one bedroom in a two bedroom apartment, and all having vastly different personalities. Tatiana is little, like me, and I don't imagine she could do much to break them up when they got to fighting about everything from who ate all the leftovers to who got the top bunks on the beds."
"Probably not," I answered.
"I mean, I could practically smell the testosterone in their fucking apartment whenever I walked in, and it was probably even worse back then. And apparently, that had been their Dad's method of keeping them from tearing up his wife's house all the time. Whenever a problem inevitably developed, he'd just take them down to the gym and throw them in the ring without any gloves and tell them to fucking handle it, and whoever was still standing at the end was the one that won the argument.
"Uh, but, uh, when Toni hit the guy, all, all I could do was stand there with my mouth hanging open like a fucking fish. I mean, I was in love, right that fucking second, standing there. The hormones were running on overdrive, my head was practically spinning with how fast all the blood rushed south, you know? Everybody was still standing there and Antoni tried to get back in line and I said, 'Uh-uh. Take your shit and go on.' And he goes," Beccs began laughing again, laughed so hard there were tears in her eyes once more.
"He goes, 'Am I in trouble?'''
I had to wrap my left arm tight around my stomach because I couldn't stop myself from laughing either. The makeshift bandage on my left hand that I'd wound out of paper towel had soaked through, I was going to have to change it soon.
"He didn't say that, Becca."
"Yes the fuck, he did. And I went, 'No, you dumbass, it's on the house, and in case I gotta translate, that means it's free. Small price to pay for a security detail.' And he just kind of blinked at me for a second, before he nodded his head and grabbed his things off the counter, went and filled his slushy up."
"You probably scared the piss out of him for that second, he probably thought he'd been found out. That's what they call it, what he was, Obshchak, Security Group."
"He stopped before he left, and told me thank you. And I said 'No, dziękuję', thank you. And then I winked at him and said 'Miłej nocy, piękna.'" She straightened up as the train began to slow for our stop.
"And what did that mean?"
"Have a good night, gorgeous." She said with a watery grin.
"Smooth, B, real smooth. Nothing quite like hitting on a man in his native language. "
"I mean, you know us, Tony, we got Southern Hospitality down here. As long as you're not an asshole, I do everything I can to make sure everyone feels welcome when they come inside. That's why there's a sign on the door that says 'DMZ.' They might have beef on the streets but don't nobody take that shit inside my store. And that means asking the Mexicans down the street if they need a bolsa, and making sure I ordered Farid's miswaks so he didn't have to walk all the way down to the Pakistani store, and sometimes it means learning a little bit of Polish so I could flirt with the new guy downstairs the next time he came in."
We exited the train, made the switch, and stood on the platform waiting for the next to take us back to Avenue U. As I glanced to the side, I could see a puddle forming on the platform next to me, drip by drip. It was already freezing around the edges. As it turned out, I wasn't the only nosy fuck around here.
"And apparently the flirting was well received by our dearly departed half-Russian friend."
"Apparently, cause about a week later I was having a busy fucking Friday night and my Dad had already gone home, and I was trying to shut her down but motherfuckers kept coming inside right up until 11. I made DeAndre from downstairs stand at the door and tell people we were closed and that he was the last customer for the night and after I rung him up I told him to flip the sign on the door and I'd lock it when I finished my cigarette count… only, I forgot to ever lock it, and DeDe's traitorous ass, he fucking set me up. He knew I had a thing for Antoni, and when he saw him coming down off the platform and rushing down the sidewalk, he let him in and told him he was the last customer for the night and to flip the sign on the door."
She closed her eyes for a moment.
"It took me… exactly 16 minutes to notice he was there. I know, cause after I was done pissing myself when I figured out I wasn't alone, the Polish smart-ass showed me his watch. He'd set a timer when he realized I wasn't paying any attention to him, and then just stood there, waiting to see how long it would take. I had my earphones in, and it took four songs," she held up her hand and ticked them off with her fingers. "'Savage Like', 'Money, Sex, Drugs', 'Proud' and 'Only.'
"I turned around and screamed like a little bitch when I saw him. And then I got pissed, cause I was embarrassed, I'd been singing along to all the songs cause I thought I was alone in the store. I started screaming at him. 'What the fuck, you can't read? The sign says Closed.' And he goes 'No, it didn't. It still said Open. I turned it myself.' I hadn't counted down my register yet, so I just went ahead and grabbed his shit and rung him up, cussing DeDe the whole time and I asked him how long he'd been standing there, and he showed me his watch. And he says, 'You shouldn't wear those, it's dangerous,' talking about my headphones, and I said, 'What are you, my fucking father?' And he got kind of a funny look on his face."
I released a weak snicker, holding my stomach tight again. I couldn't resist fucking with them both a little bit.
"He kinda had a point, Becca. Although, I can tell you he was probably less concerned about being your father and more concerned about becoming your Daddy."
"Oh, so now you got the dirty jokes," Becca said flatly.
"What can I say, B, you're a bad influence on me."
"Eh," she said after a moment, "You wouldn't be the first. You know, months later he told me that he'd stood there that long because he didn't think he'd have the nerve to ask what he wanted to ask the next time if he left, which, you know, what the fuck? What am I, scary?"
I couldn't help but laugh again.
"Yes, Becca, you are, you're fucking terrifying half the time. You might be a short fuck but dynamite comes in small packages, you know? He was probably afraid you'd tell him to suck your dick and ban him from the store for a month like every other poor motherfucker I've seen ask you out, and he probably didn't want to go through your particular brand of ridicule in front of an audience, on top of that, with all the other customers laughing him out of the store."
"It ain't my fault I'm this size," she said after a moment, shooting me a perturbed look.
"No shit, Sherlock. It's genetics."
"It ain't even that. It's the blood. I mean, my parents were both tall, you know, for Koreans, anyway, my Mom was 5'6. I probably would've been too if I'd had the chance, but, you know, the blood it… stops things. Why do you think Jimmy looks the way he does? I mean, Pops believes in 'aging gracefully,' as he says, but old Giacomino is a vain fuck, and he's got more of a taste for 'the Stuff' than Rocco ever had. He turned 65 this year, he's only two years younger than Pops, he was already 34 years old when he met Nia for the first time. He tells people he's got a good plastic surgeon, when they ask. And the same thing happened to me. My body wanted to stay 8 years old, forever.
"Rossi had to get hormones, fucking estrogen and progesterone and HGH, off the black market to force my body to start puberty and to fucking grow. It's not like we could go to a doctor and explain why I needed the prescription. I mean, these tits aren't even mine. Ma bought 'em for my sixteenth birthday so I wouldn't feel so goddamned self-conscious. Nia's not exactly flat-chested, as you know, neither was my Mom, and it kind of gave me a fucking complex when I was growing up."
"I mean, is she? I haven't really noticed," I replied, evasively.
"Yes, you have, you lying fuck. There isn't a straight or bisexual man, or a lesbian or bisexual woman for that matter, that comes within fifty feet of Appolonia Bianchi that doesn't notice all of her unnatural charms. It made for some interesting 'family' trips during the summer when we'd leave the city, lemme tell you. I asked Pops once, you know, if he ever got jealous when she'd show up with some random dick she'd run across, cause I used to think it was pretty shitty of her.
"I said she could've at least kept things on the downlow and not throw it in Rocco's face every few days. But he told me no, he loved her, he understood her nature very well and he'd accepted what she was years before I was even born, and that she loved him too, and more importantly, respected him. She always introduced the men to him because that was what he'd asked of her. That it was the one aspect of control he had in the situation, giving his 'permission' for her little liaisons. That it made him feel better to let them know they might be getting a piece, but she'd be ending every night lying in his bed, regardless of what they did."
I nodded. "I guess I can kind of see his point."
"But, the blood, that's how I ended up pregnant. I mean, I'm not a dumbass, I know how babies are made, but I wasn't worried about using condoms with Antoni, neither of us wanted to. I told him if he gave me anything I'd cut his dick off, and he knew I was serious, too, and he considered it a proportional response. I didn't even think I could get pregnant.
"I stopped the birth control when I was 16 because it was making me gain weight and my cheer coach bitched me out in front of fucking everybody, and Rossi's guy said I needed to keep taking it to keep my hormone levels even. So I told Antoni I didnt want to get into my medical history, but suffice to say I was probably fucking sterile anyway, so he didn't have to worry about it, and he told me he wasn't worried about it at all. But apparently my fucking parts work better than I thought."
"Or maybe he had some damned determined swimmers, who knows."
"I don't know why I was even concerned about not using condoms anyway. Technically we were all excommunicated as of 2014. Pope said the mafiosi lifestyle isn't compatible with the Catholic one. You know, I wonder how Antoni would feel about all this, I wonder if he'd be pissed, think I lied to him about not being able to get pregnant."
"You're just gonna have to take my word for it, B, but he's not angry in the least, he's pretty fucking proud of hisself." I'd say his chest was stuck out but he didn't have much of a chest left these days, so I just kept that part to myself. "Pretty sure he said he wasn't worried about it because he was hoping you were wrong about being sterile."
Beccs gave me a strange look but the train arrived at just that moment. The people exiting did quite a bit of staring, unlike the people leaving the funeral, but I just tucked my arm around Becca and shouldered my way past them and found us a seat. The drops of water followed us into the train.
"What's with the present tense, Tony? Is that some kind of cliche 'he's lookin' down on you' bullshit?"
I snorted and wiped the bubble of blood from my nose, staring at the puddle of water that was starting to form in the seat next to us. I could feel the cold emanating from Antoni all along my left side. Oddly enough, it was easing the intense ache in my nearly severed ring finger.
"He ain't looking down on us, B, I can tell you that much."
"So it's a Hell joke?"
"No, not really. But then again, I'm pretty sure we're all in Hell right this second, Miss Rebecca, so yes, yes it is."
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2023.05.28 06:25 IceQueenWeiss Selling epic games account + coupon 25% expire june 15

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2023.05.28 06:24 ImAmInsane A schizophrenic attorney submitted this to the court in the carroll v trump case

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.151.0.pdf
The attorney does not represent either side nor does she have any relation to any party as she claims. Its over 50 pages but here's some fun quips from it.


“First, defendant is my half-brother. He suffers from bipolar disorder, as do I, as this mental illness runs in the family, which we have traced back to John & Edward Rutledge, signers of the US Constitution & Declaration of Independence. No one, judge, no court, no legislator, and no President has ever figured, discerned, or agreed on what those documents mean or intended, a reflection of their authors…”
“… the documents weren’t written (or signed) by highly trained, educated lawyers should at Cambridge and Oxford ,such as John & Edward Rutledge, but rather by their servants, their love slaves… For example, have you ever met a 3/5 person? I haven’t either, but there “it” is, a 3/5 person, still in the main text of the US Constitutions.”
“… the cases should be dismissed due to his bipolar illness and temporary insanity…”
“Partying, drinking, drugs, dancing, mental illness were all problems of the Founding fathers & mothers, who were busy binging and having sex orgies & sex with their African and Caribbean servants…”
“This court must decide its pending case of Carroll v Trump pursuant to British substantive and procedural law.”
“Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist dictator, had similar delusions of grander as Hitler, but not as competent and skilled as Hitler.”
“As President Biden has, by Juneteenth Order Amendment, declared that Judaism is the official, national religion of the US and all states.”
“The government of Iran will become secular- they picked the wrong religion.”
“Now, there’s more to mention about Chester, PA, including the new Kobe & Gianna Bryant Olympic Stadium.”
(She spends 6 pages naming random musical artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Adele, followed by 2-3 pages naming random military ship names.)
“The tenth reason to dismiss is this case can easily be settled…: Plaintiff, Trump, Chester City PA, Brooklyn NY, Dr Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, and the NYC Board of Rabbis each get 16%. The Temple of Emanuel gets 4%.
“As a result, the case pending before your honor, must be dismissed, with prejudice.”
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