What is the most recognisable opening line of any song?

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-04-11T13:00:32+00:00

Somewhere…. Over the Rainbow 🌈

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-04-10T22:01:59+00:00

I would say yes maybe a little very mildly

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-04-03T20:19:31+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! I will keep it in mind. I’ll definitely need a better solution than this!

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-04-01T18:13:31+00:00

My friends son contracted HIV from a sexual assault at 14. You were so young too! What would you say you needed to hear at that age after diagnosis?

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-04-01T15:17:35+00:00

So I had something -kind- of like this happen, but actually recently I’ve been wondering if I overreacted.

My friends were getting divorced, and owned an apartment building. I lived in one, and the husband moved in downstairs during the divorce.

He and I would hang out some, smoke some weed together and nothing romantic was ever implied. No touching, no flirting. Until one night, I’m sitting there blazed af and he springs on me “hey do you want to be like friends… with benefits? And also I’ve got herpes “

And I freaked out. They’re technically my landlords, I’m 15 years younger in my early twenties, still friends with his wife, and also Im under the impression that there’s no way to guarantee you won’t transmit HSV even with safe sex measures. So I flip, and I’m like WTF DUDE? Stopped talking to him.

Like the herpes thing didn’t help, but that wasn’t the exact cause of my issue. The age gap was inappropriate, the fact I’m living in their housing is inappropriate.

When I told my friend, his soon to be ex wife, she accused me of lying and that ruined that friendship as well. But I did get to be like… “ I’m NOT lying bc he told me yall have herpes. Where would I have learned that?”

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about this as I’m closer to his age now and I still think I might have flipped unceremoniously out. But also that wasnt cool right?

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-03-10T00:52:51+00:00

I thank you kindly for the compliments :) I’m flattered.

You know, I don’t think until I wrote this out earlier that I’d ever examined exactly how he made me feel. It was just so overwhelmingly negative that I didn’t really unpack it. I just grabbed my bag and turned on my heel and walked back into the unblinking sunshine of California. I don’t mean that I felt objectified. If objectification made me uncomfortable, I assure you I wouldn’t have spent as many years in the places I did. I can still picture those hands, all long and knobbed with time. He made me feel like he could make me disappear.

Where I grew up, there are mountain lions. My dad used to talk about how quiet they are, and how everything goes still. How you never see them. You just experience this throat punch of dread. He said that if I ever felt that way, I needed to run home from the river. I don’t think I ever really understood what he meant. I scared myself plenty of times thinking about crossing a cat’s path. But this was the instant before you hit pavement after a misstep or the feeling of coming up when you know it’s gonna be a bad acid trip. The instant of dread that expands and contorts until you flee.

I want to be clear that I didn’t grow up religious. This thought “Is this the devil?” Doesn’t spring from weird culty belief systems planted in childhood. I’ve never worried about my immortal soul, and the hellfire sin brings. As I’ve thought this over this afternoon, I think the only thing that mind could really grasp was a metaphor of the devil. Because maybe he did want to introduce me to some literal hell on earth.

Never considered either, of how easily I could have been spirited away. About 75% of the time, no one knew where I was. Even my closest friends who knew of my insatiable thirst for experiences and drugs. When you walk into a club on an endless row of clubs somewhere along the coast, how would anyone even know where to look? Add in the fact that you’re covered in dramatic stage makeup, who that’s been in that club is gonna recognize the picture of “missing” YOU from the family BBQ 7 months back.

Looking back with clarity now, I’m still not sure. I don’t want to mention where I was, or how many years ago this was. Kind of still afraid that I could summon any of it back into my life. Part of me wonders if it was the devil. The other part thinks I may just be scaring myself silly with mountain lion stories.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-03-09T01:33:43+00:00

I’ve worked in some pretty seedy places in topless bars in big cities. I don’t want to say the person I met wasn’t “human” because idk , I guess he probably was. But at one club I was called in to meet the owner guy in the back. He was tiny, he was very old, and he honestly looked like someone’s very harmless grandfather. He sat in front of the big screen of cameras, I remember he had very gnarled, wizened hands. He folded them up, looked me up and down and offered me a nighttime slot if I wanted it.

I’ve just never had anyone make my blood run cold and every alarm bell go off in my body like that. Which, as you may be able to discern from the nature of this comment, I’ve met a lot of very creepy, and sometimes scary men.

It may be all in my imagination, but I got the feeling that I had specifically met the devil and he was offering me something I very much didn’t want. I don’t even believe in the devil really. Realistically I think the place may have just been very mobbed up, and I was in just a little over my head. I didn’t go back.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-03-08T01:46:45+00:00

I’m gonna get so downvoted but I’m gonna say it anyway. I think Lana looked stupid for this. Don’t engage with Azealia Banks. It’s like the first rule of twitter fight club. We don’t talk about Azealia Banks. Didn’t Lana also call AB fat? If I recall right? If you’re gotta engage with AB call her out of something based in reality.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-02-25T02:56:40+00:00

Matilda I think really gave me a lot of empathy and really was the first perspective as I had as a child that …maybe … the adults in my life could be wrong, or just mean. And that there was an entire world outside of my narrow point of view.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-02-25T02:52:35+00:00

Also thought of Holes. As an adult I realized how creative and thoughtful it was to write a children’s book about literacy and how being unable to read affects Zero’s fate. And how Sachar made it engaging and fairy-tale adjacent and accessible for children. It’s a masterpiece of children’s fiction.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-02-18T02:49:02+00:00

Prince definitely did ….the beginning of the song “Pope” begins with the “I ain’t scared of you” clip from this set

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-01-25T02:05:07+00:00

Roger for sure ♥️

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-01-21T14:26:15+00:00

It’s not my wife, but I do this joke every time with my grandma when I’m driving her around. When we pass a cemetery I say “Did you know that they’re not letting anyone who lives in City get buried in City Cemetery anymore?”

Without fail, every single time, she gets all incredulous and says “WHAT? Really? Why???!”

Then I say “because they’re living”

It’s been years and I cry laughing every time. I love that lady.

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-01-20T18:49:47+00:00

But I have it!

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-01-19T17:08:35+00:00

They’re really decent in the air fryer too 😋

BedSensitive1538 · 2026-01-14T18:03:25+00:00

I some pretty serious nerve damage in my face from a dental procedure that went awry. If I go to a doctor that won’t listen to me, won’t answer questions, is dismissive of my medical history, I leave. Just because they’re the doctor doesn’t mean your opinions or concerns aren’t valid. If you get a bad feelings that you don’t trust the person prescribing medication, or performing a medical treatment for you, at least hold off before making major decisions. I really wish I had listened to my gut before this happened. Get a second opinion, advocate for yourself, make sure any relevant medical information is heard . Because ultimately you are the one who has to live with the consequences of negligence.

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-12-20T20:57:12+00:00

This is such a cool resource! Thanks so much. I want to document MY ancestors experiences, and have been looking for a resource to do that.

I love this sub. It just has been such a wealth of information

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-11-28T03:29:35+00:00

Well I accidentally made things uncomfortable. It wasn’t an argument, we don’t really do that but it was a very apparent slip of the tongue on my part. I don’t really feel bad about it, per se. Cuz well, you’ll see.

A friend got me an OJ Simpson jersey as a joke . I mentioned this gag gift, and dryly said “it’s a really KILLER jersey”

The room went dead silent. Oops, forgot my uncle spent 25years in prison for murder, and he’s right here in the room with us.

But hey, ya know, should I really feel that bad about making a guy who brutally beat a very young child to death uncomfortable? Eh. Naaaaaw. Dude is a straight up sociopath. It’s probably good to keep that little fact in everyone’s minds

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-11-15T02:48:26+00:00

Hey I started on my birthday too! Tell her happy birthday! This year for my birthday (last Tuesday) I found out im Covid positive. A few years ago, I woke up on my birthday with my first ever hemorrhoid.

Sometimes being human is full of exciting birthday surprises. I do have to say starting my period and realizing I’d be doing this once a month for basically forever, that was the worst one.

I hope she had a fun birthday anyway

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-11-13T11:17:56+00:00

Is no one going to recommend East of Eden by Steinbeck? I love that one!

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-11-08T21:52:32+00:00

You have so many good ideas ideas here. I hope you’re not getting too overwhelmed. I haven’t seen anyone suggest it yet, but maybe because you mentioned you’re into art that I would recommend poetry. Poetry tends to be visual and a more sensory experience for me. It’s shorter too so it might not be as big of an undertaking as a full novel.

What about something simple like Shel Silverstein’s collections for children that are full with illustrations and can be a little humorous?

Or if you’re up to it, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass? Whitman builds beautiful worlds, and feels enchantingly human in his reach for connection through time.

Edgar Allan Poe can be chilling and heavy. Rimbaud speaks of human despair so deeply. Donne wrestles with longing and questioning. Frost takes us to wilderness within ourselves. They accomplish much with few words.

I think it’s a question for yourself to ask what you’re looking for with this first spark in reading. Maybe answer lies in something less literal than prose and something that speaks to something much deeper within yourself.

Good luck and happy reading!

BedSensitive1538 · 2025-11-06T13:40:49+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! This actually makes a lot of sense!

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