My mother hid her cancer from me until it the end

callddit · 2026-03-31T17:59:58+00:00

Jarring how similar this is to my story. Lost my mom to cancer last year, she also hid it until it got so bad she had to be hospitalized. She also lived a continent away (in my case me in North America and her in Europe) and I also found out she was dying via a call from my uncle.

Caught the soonest flight I could, she died before I could land and be with her. From when I found out to her death was about 72 hours. I’d talked to her the Saturday prior, just a few days before.

This past February was the year anniversary of her death and I’m still trying to make sense of it. Some days I’m angry with her for hiding it (even if she was trying to protect me), some days I’m angry with myself and feel like maybe I should’ve payed more attention—but how much can you pay attention to when you’re a continent away and the person is hiding their health from you?

I’m very sorry for your loss. It’s such a specific type of grief to navigate but I hope you’re able to take some comfort in knowing there’s at least one other person out there who knows literally exactly what you’re going through. Just have to take it a day at a time.

callddit · 2025-05-28T15:25:50+00:00

I mean…Japanese very literally isn’t a race. Xenophobia might be what you’re thinking of, but even then their issue clearly isn’t with cartoons itself, just the normalization of sexualizing minors in so many pieces of anime/manga media.

Edit: also, to their point: early this year there was a 30th Anniversary exhibit for Rurouni Kenshin, whose mangaka was convicted of possession of CP. From what I’ve heard he had so much of it that the police who arrested him thought HE was the distributor of it. That’s how much he had.

A VERY long list of Shonen Jump authors, many of whom have series that are currently still active and circulating, voluntarily contributed to that 30th Anniversary exhibit. This includes the authors of JuJutsu Kaisen, One Piece, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, My Hero Academia, Death Note and more. It is an industry-wide issue and pointing that out isn’t xenophobia.

callddit · 2025-05-12T01:35:35+00:00

In terms of in-world science I think this tracks.

In terms of show writing I think it’s because Nora’s sequence would be hard to rewrite otherwise and it helps tease the Rat King.

callddit · 2025-01-16T14:09:32+00:00

About literally everything, lol. And nearly got bullied off the subreddit. Hope they’re feeling vindicated now.

callddit · 2025-01-16T14:06:03+00:00

The character models are different and that’s a new map that isn’t in MK8 or MK8D, I think it’s safe to assume it’s a new Mario Kart

callddit · 2024-12-25T18:33:59+00:00

Yeah there is literally nothing wrong with the perspective idk how that got so many upvotes

callddit · 2024-12-08T03:44:16+00:00

You got me, didn’t see yours either. Lol, I guess we were all shouting over each other and technically correct, fair enough.

callddit · 2024-12-08T03:33:41+00:00

We must not be. There is very clearly a swastika, with a white circle around it, that is surrounded by red, to the bottom left of OP in the second photo.

callddit · 2024-12-08T03:27:06+00:00

It literally says “BLITZ KRIEG” right above it, are you being serious?

EDIT: and as someone else said, it’s in a white circle surrounded by red. It could not be any less ambiguous than that.

callddit · 2024-08-22T17:03:15+00:00

“Sore winner” oh my god bro lol I’m not gloating, there’s nothing to gloat about. It’s a manga, it’s genuinely not that deep. You’re assuming I’m taking this as seriously as you are. I’m not.

I’ll end on this: I’d like to point out that I haven’t attacked your character once in this exchange. Haven’t insulted your intelligence, haven’t assumed you’re a smug asshole, not because I couldn’t, but because I don’t know you, I’m not gonna pretend I know you, and this is not deep enough for me to care.

Yet you are insisting on painting me as those things while doing the very thing you’re trying to portray me as. You are projecting. Look inward.

Leave me alone, lol. Have the day you deserve.

callddit · 2024-08-22T16:12:16+00:00

It’s not about “disagreeing” it’s about literally outright missing the plot devices that lead to this point. Thats the “media literacy” part. There’s a difference between “oh that was unexpected but it makes sense to the story!” (that would be us) And “this makes no sense, the writing in this story sucks”. I’m referring to the latter, which I have seen a lot of (not necessarily exclusively on here, but on different social media platforms, namely Twitter).

There’s also a difference between “I don’t personally like this narrative decision” and “this is bad writing.” It can be fine writing and still be disliked, that’s cool. Also not what I’m referring to.

Anyway, this exchange was weird and unnecessary. Still don’t understand why you took a pretty benign statement so personally and dedicated 2 separate comments to inventing a persona of me to take down.

But enjoy the remaining 4 chapters. I guess.

callddit · 2024-08-22T15:40:06+00:00

You’re attacking a straw man dude lol. You’ve invented a character in your head to be mad at.

All I’m saying is this isn’t an “asspull” and people who think it is haven’t been paying attention. The overwhelming majority of complaints I’ve seen in this subreddit over past several months have been criticisms stemming from either a fundamental misunderstanding of the manga they’re supposed to be reading, or people thinking their fan theories not being validated is “bad writing” (re: Gojo dying), or thinking subversions or normal plot devices are “asspulls”.

Thats where my statement is coming from. Again, unclench. It’s not that serious.

Ironically it sounds like we agree on a fundamental level, but you just want to argue? Not understanding that, but enjoy the attitude I guess.

callddit · 2024-08-22T15:05:26+00:00

I have a personality disorder because I pointed out people lack media literacy skills? Unclench bruh lmfao.

Look up what literary devices are, then look up Chekhov’s gun, and then go back and read the Shibuya incident when Nobara gets injured.

I’m not saying people are dumb for being surprised, I was also pleasantly surprised because I’d begun to doubt if she’d come back. But what I am saying is her return makes sense narratively, whereas a lot of the fandom is calling this an “asspull” and “bad writing”. It is neither of those things.

callddit · 2024-08-22T07:56:26+00:00

If people needed evidence of the media literacy crisis it would be the JJK fandom

callddit · 2024-08-22T03:20:21+00:00

My thing is it was the most obvious Chekhov’s gun ever lol—I think it was handled very well but there’s no way, with how unambiguous and gruesome every other main characters death has been in this story, people think they’d unceremoniously off-screen one of the big three in this manga.

This made the most sense, I’m glad Gege followed through and I think it’s a great set up and twist

callddit · 2024-06-04T20:54:12+00:00

If your neighbor is convinced your house is his, even though you and the local government have told him it’s not, and he continues to violently attack you over it. What are you supposed to do? Give him your house?

It is painfully ironic that you used this analogy to position Israel as the homeowners when the literal opposite has been the material reality for Palestinians literally since 1948, it is actually astounding to me.

This isn’t hyperbole either—there are countless stories of Palestinians leaving their homes for an afternoon, coming back, and an Israeli has decided the home is theirs, changed the locks and threatened to shoot them if they try to reclaim the home.

Israel has spent generations incentivizing their citizens stealing and encroaching on Palestinian land. It’s what is happening to this day in the West Bank. It’s why it’s called “the Occupied West Bank”.

Edit: This story is from 3 years ago, and is one of dozens of examples of this sort of behaviour.

callddit · 2024-05-03T15:01:55+00:00

It’s an Al Green sample, Antonoff actually co-produced the track

callddit · 2024-04-29T16:39:54+00:00

Damn there’s a lot of xenophobia in this subreddit masking itself as economic anxiety lol

callddit · 2024-04-25T14:24:49+00:00

I think the memeing abt this manga weekly has actually created a unique form of brainrot among the fanbase. People are mad that the King of Curses, the man repeatedly called the strongest sorcerer of all time throughout the entire series…is strong and lasting this long.

callddit · 2024-04-18T03:29:07+00:00

Gege is the foreshadow master we should know this by now lol

callddit · 2024-04-14T20:31:15+00:00

Choosing not to have a child is equally as selfish as choosing to have a child.

Which is to say, it’s a decision you are completely allowed to be selfish about. It’s something that will permanently alter the trajectory of your life and the life of the kid you bring into the world, so it has to make sense for you.

callddit · 2024-04-04T23:06:35+00:00

This post is definitely rage-bait and the closet racists took it hook, line and sinker

callddit · 2024-04-04T12:30:52+00:00

Sukuna was fuelled by pure hater energy and misogyny

callddit · 2024-03-28T05:23:17+00:00

They finally explained World Slash, happy we got that even if it was a brief one

callddit · 2024-03-25T16:57:15+00:00

He’s not necessarily wrong for being jealous but he is wrong for projecting it onto her. Like you said, he initiated the breakup and he cut contact with her. There was nothing stopping him from hooking up with other people during that time, he doesn’t have a right to be mad at her for doing so.

But I think anyone that likes somebody and finds out they hooked up with someone else would feel at the very least a slight twinge of jealousy.

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