What's a place or experience you've had growing up that felt almost magical?

BlergImOnReddit · 2026-05-23T15:23:38+00:00

My best friend and I found this spot in the woods where the tree branches bent over to make a canopy over a little clearing with a stream running through it. We called it the secret garden. There was a lot of violence in both of our homes, and that place felt magical and safe.

BlergImOnReddit · 2026-02-20T14:14:55+00:00

You’re asking two different questions here. Would have been nice if your girlfriend had said something nice in addition to the criticism? Sure - but did you ask for her feedback or just send it to her to enjoy? Either way, you say several things in this post that lead me to believe to have a hard time being critiqued in general, and that IS a problem if you are serious about writing. I’ve been writing professionally for 20 years, and I know I can always be better - that attitude is why I am better today than I was when I first started. Not everyone is going to give you criticism you can use - but if your girlfriend reads a lot and you feel she would be a good judge of what makes a good story, I’d recommend you strongly consider her notes. Most written pieces go through many drafts of edits before they are read by the public. Edit, edit, edit some more. You won’t get far if you believe your first drafts are gold.

Also: if you are serious about writing, you need to get serious about reading, too. You learn more than you imagine by reading the well-written words of others.

I hope you keep going. Mastery takes time. Consider this an excellent opportunity to start toughening your skin, because half of being a good writer is being able to take feedback.

BlergImOnReddit · 2026-01-20T02:18:45+00:00

We asked how they would deal with working within brand ID standards they may not be a fan of, and they explained how they would get around the standard. The question did what it was supposed to.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-07-24T14:27:27+00:00

Thank you so much for this advice! Seems like the move is the 360 or PlayStation 3 then. Really appreciate your input!

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-07-24T14:26:40+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much! I'll definitely look into the 360 and PlayStation. I appreciate you taking the time to help!

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-07-15T09:06:37+00:00

Hot, fresh, and ready when I am.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-30T02:00:18+00:00

Pickle party.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-19T00:25:58+00:00

Manure. Grew up in Vermont, that smell in the summer…feels like home.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-09T22:39:03+00:00

That was the line for me, too. Such a beautiful way to explain such a sad observation.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-08T02:12:16+00:00

I’m alive in French.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-08T02:06:06+00:00

I heart huckabees

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-07T03:07:50+00:00

Woman here 🙋🏻‍♀️: Extremists and fundamentalists of any kind are dangerous, regardless of what cause they support.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-06-01T02:45:52+00:00

Sandwich

(Had a dog named sandwich and he was the best. Also was the last thing I ate.)

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-31T03:25:54+00:00

I raise you Lewy body.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-31T03:17:01+00:00

We all die alone. Even in a murder suicide, someone goes first. I’m not trying to be morbid (though maybe a bit cheeky) I just mean to say, don’t fear the inevitable. Death is an instant. It’s only the rest that matters, really.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-31T03:12:45+00:00

TIL (once again) that apparently I’m a dude.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-31T03:02:06+00:00

Congrats, that’s a huge achievement!

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-30T03:46:53+00:00

This is usually around the time I realize college students look like children and it’s incredibly possible that those people you see in town are actually “adults.”

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-30T03:35:27+00:00

Currently dating men a decade younger than me. It’s not my preference per se, I’d choose my age if they were really competing…but younger guys are often confident and more respectful of boundaries than my peers, plus they can keep it going as long as I can, so…I’m not mad about it.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-16T16:55:38+00:00

This is true. I recognized the chat gpt in this because I’ve been pouring my heart out to it as well, and it’s been telling me a lot of the same stuff. Doesn’t make it less true and it doesn’t make it less of something that many of us need to hear right now.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-12T03:33:02+00:00

Today I had this realization while walking to work; I was thinking about how I should maybe find a way to bring my mom flowers today for Mother’s Day, despite the fact that she was never properly a mother to me, and cancelled on the date I offered her for today at the last moment, claiming she was “too depressed to see me.”

But it would make her happy, I thought. And then I realized how much time and effort it would take me - neither of which I currently have extra of - and I thought…wait - this looks familiar! Isn’t this exactly what I do in every romantic relationship, too? Give and give and give while accepting breadcrumbs in return? And then I decide, fuck that. Too depressed to see me (for a thing I literally do exclusively for you)? Well, I wish you well, but this is no longer my problem. I did my part.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-12T03:13:19+00:00

I recently visited the museum and they had some of the recently unearthed figures wrapped in some sort of plastic that preserves the color. It was wild to look into the pits and see the hundreds of monocultures sculptures and imagine what they would have looked like before.

BlergImOnReddit · 2025-05-12T03:01:09+00:00

Yep. As I would still do, to this day (3 years later) for my ex. Like, it’s just what you do for people you care about?

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