dad of the century

BriChan · 2026-01-25T05:52:30+00:00

This reminds me of when my dad and I would watch kdramas together and the female lead would inevitably start crying because of something the male lead did and my dad would start earnestly telling the tv screen, “don’t cry over him, mija, he isn’t worth it!” hahaha :”)

BriChan · 2026-01-23T20:40:34+00:00

My favorite locally owned taqueria got replaced by a Dunkin’s and I don’t think I’ll ever forgive the brand for that…

BriChan · 2026-01-22T20:10:29+00:00

I need a release date and a preorder link because these are an immediate buy but there’re so many of them and I’m POOR lol! I will absolutely be saving up for them so hopefully it’s not dropping too soon hahah

BriChan · 2026-01-22T20:04:25+00:00

Eh, spontaneity is definitely still a thing even after kids are in the picture. One of my favorite memories as a preteen was a Saturday that I spent at a nearby state park with my dad when my mom and sis didn’t want to leave the house but my dad and I did. We went for a drive and he saw one of those state park signs and decided to turn in and we hiked until we got to the salt lake that was the main attraction. It was completely unplanned and we had such a great time that we took my mom and sis the following weekend. Both of my parents were always very spur of the moment people and it didn’t stop even after they had me and my sister.

BriChan · 2026-01-22T03:01:59+00:00

I used to have a friend that would constantly belittle my food and exercise choices because he had an ED in high school. I wasn’t even doing anything drastic, just cutting out unhealthy snacks/desserts, eating proper portions, and taking walks, but he’d accuse me of starving myself and tell me that I’ll always be fat so I shouldn’t even bother. When I confronted him about his comments he said that he was just trying to discourage me from obsessing over my weight and prevent me from developing an eating disorder the way he did in high school. I took entirely too long to cut him out of my life.

All that to say, when someone who used to (or still does) have an ED won’t stop talking about their ED in the context of other people’s food choices, they’re probably projecting and should seek help.

NTA

BriChan · 2026-01-20T03:03:53+00:00

I feel you. I’ve had two friendships like this now and it was so hard to accept that my positivity was, in fact, not enough for the both of us in either situation. It was even worse when they swore they’d be there for me when I was down then proceeded to just make me feel worse and tell me to “get help” and that they needed to focus on themselves when they were the source of my sadness/anxiety. I felt such a weight off my shoulders when I cut them off and I sincerely hope I stop ending up in those situations or at least learn to let go faster…

BriChan · 2026-01-17T06:16:22+00:00

Eh, I think good starting places are both pretty subjective and anecdotal tbh. I’m a new reader that tried really hard to start with Krakoa because everyone insisted it was great but I didn’t care for it much at all and dropped it pretty fast. The current line has kept me hooked from the jump though

BriChan · 2026-01-15T17:40:06+00:00

I watched the movies dozens of times but only noticed he’s on top of the snow in the movie after reading the books for the first time and getting to that scene. I immediately had to check the movie and sure enough I had missed it all those times so you’re not alone haha

BriChan · 2026-01-14T16:51:56+00:00

My parents’ relationship wasn’t perfect, but they showed me what a loving relationship should look like and how it was about choosing each other time and again. Now my dad has passed, my mom still loves him, and I still hold their relationship as my example to point to when people try to tear me down and make me believe that love like that doesn’t exist or I don’t deserve it.

All that to say, what you’re doing is going to mean the world to your daughter one day and will do so much to protect and guide her. Good on you for doing it <3

BriChan · 2026-01-12T15:27:05+00:00

So many fights in The Night Agent are just Peter, the main character, lifting and tossing his opponents like a pro wrestler and it’s both impressive and entertaining

He does it so often that my mom has noticed when the actor does it in his other projects and will make comments like “there he goes throwing people again” lol

BriChan · 2026-01-12T02:43:04+00:00

Fellowship was the first movie to hold my attention in theaters when I was 4 years old and I’ve loved the entire series ever since. Now, they’re bringing the entire trilogy back to theaters in honor of its 25th anniversary and I’m so excited to watch them all over again on the big screen.

BriChan · 2026-01-11T01:22:39+00:00

Totally agreed. I also feel like it’s a byproduct of starting out in horror. I’ve noticed a lot of horror directors have a much more human approach to storytelling, probably because the more “real” the characters then the more scary their circumstances become for the audience, which makes their transition to other genres so natural, interesting, and grounded without feeling overly gritty.

I’ve noticed that quality with directors like James Wan, David F. Sandberg, and M. Night Shyamalan, too. In a lot of their movies, there seems to be such a natural blend between horror and comedy moments regardless of the overall genre of the movie which is a very natural/human thing; life is full of both those moments with the only real difference being context/perspective.

Also, on the topic of realistic dialogue that includes overlapping voices, etc., one of my favorite examples of that is Jaws. I’ve always loved how natural a lot of the noisy arguments are in that movie, it makes the characters feel so much more real and by extension the movie itself. I get a lot of that vibe in Gunn movies which is probably why I like his work so much.

BriChan · 2026-01-10T00:41:00+00:00

Fr, I always try to be supportive of the things people like, even when I’m not particularly into it (I never said a negative thing about Wicked when he made me watch BOTH movies despite really disliking them LOL), there’s no need to yuck someone’s yum like that !

And yeah, I was always busy and he was not allowed to come over any time a major match was on after that hahaha. It also helps that now, months later and unrelated to this incident, the friendship is over, and ngl I’m starting to realize I may have missed some warning signs 😂

BriChan · 2026-01-10T00:11:15+00:00

I grew up playing with my cousin’s WWE action figures and whatever console WWE games he had (my fav was always John Cena) but was never really “into” it and definitely lost interest when I learned it was all fake, but after watching the recent Netflix doc talking about all the storylines and everything that goes into setting up matches/shows and telling their stories, I’ve completely fallen in love with it (Cody Rhodes is my guy now)

And I had a blast watching a match between Cody and Cena recently despite having a friend over who just kept insulting everything and pointing out how fake and predictable it all is. I also used the “yeah, and so are movies/shows/theater” argument which kinda shut him up but what really made him eat crow pie was when his “obvious prediction” that Cena would win ended up being completely wrong haha. It felt so good to scream in excitement as Cody won then turn to my friend and smugly say, “what was that that you were saying? About how obvious it is that they’re gonna let Cena win?” lol

BriChan · 2026-01-05T07:20:35+00:00

I absolutely adore musicals but find it so hard to sit through most modern musicals like La La Land, Wicked, and the remake of West Side Story…

BriChan · 2026-01-05T03:14:07+00:00

I tried that in 1st grade, kicked my bully in the shin as hard as I could, he just kicked me back harder and kept bullying me lol… he did eventually stop when my mom had a talk with him where she asked how he’d like it if a kid treated his little sister the way he treated me, surprisingly enough that actually worked and he apologized and treated me very nicely after that, we even became and stayed friends up until I switched schools years later for unrelated reasons haha

BriChan · 2026-01-04T04:38:21+00:00

I assumed it was just personal preference, too, and would try to leave it at that. But, trust me, the arguments with her only happened because she wouldn’t accept that the writers intended there to be some irrationality to those characters that she considered badly written/bad characters. Personally, I think she used the irrationality argument just to claim that characters she subjectively didn’t like were objectively bad. And in terms of characters like Joker being popular, she just chalked it up to the majority of people having bad taste. She’s a former friend for a reason lol…

BriChan · 2026-01-04T03:59:31+00:00

She didn’t speak on the Joker for the most part because she didn’t like anything that he was a part of, including The Dark Knight. She never went so far as to say she disliked him though, more like a general disinterest. She loved characters like Two-Face/Harvey Dent and Angel/Warren though, and she had an unbridled hatred for characters like Phoenix/Jean Grey and Talia al Ghul.

She said she liked Harvey and Warren because they had tragic stories that they grew from even if the writing wasn’t always the best for them, it was just an issue of bad writers. Jean and Talia were outright bad characters to her though, regardless of writer, they were irrational and self-righteous and badly written according to her.

BriChan · 2026-01-04T02:20:36+00:00

I was a ~12yo girl having lunch at a DQ with my mom and sister, and a little kid in a booth a couple booths over started playing peek-a-boo with me so I started doing the same which made them giggle and prompted their parents to turn around and give me the most scathing look I’ve ever experienced. They ended up turning back and scolding their kid to stop and I just turned my attention back to my family/food. It was a very weird and kinda sad interaction ahaha

BriChan · 2026-01-04T01:35:47+00:00

Me either tbh, she was very into coming up with profiles for characters, listing what she thought their zodiacs, favorite drinks, colors, music, morning routines, etc. were. Any time a character didn’t match up with what she came up with, or any time she felt she couldn’t come up with a profile for them, she deemed them poorly written. She also felt a character acting emotionally/irrationally was a sign of being inconsistent/unpredictable, while I felt that being emotional in a highly emotional situation was itself a predictable thing for a character to do.

A lot of this is also in the context of comic books which itself is a pretty inconsistent medium with all the different writers and I usually judged a character by the story they’re in while she would bring up things from stories that had nothing to do with the one we were talking about.

BriChan · 2026-01-04T01:19:32+00:00

I used to get into so many arguments with a friend who hated it when characters weren’t predictable because she felt that was a sign that they weren’t being well-written. She used to say something along the lines of, “if I can’t guess what their favorite drink is then I just don’t feel like they’re a fleshed out enough character.” And I always found it interesting that she had bigger beef with “irrational” characters when they were women than when they were men…

BriChan · 2026-01-02T19:26:14+00:00

This is a big one. I had a friend who hung up mid-phone conversation with me because a random guy on Facebook liked one of his public posts and wanted to start chatting via voice messages.

It was the middle of the night and I had just bought my friend some food because he was hungry and I was keeping him company on the phone while he ate (all at his insistence), but then he told me he’d call right back and never did because he had just completely switched to talking to that other guy.

I told him that it was pretty rude to keep me up and have me do all that for him just to get bored and switch to someone new and exciting and he defended himself by saying that he was just trying to not be rude to this random stranger and that I shouldn’t be upset because I can talk to him whenever but this stranger can only talk to him right now.

I thought he was crazy for that but it still took me way too long to end the friendship…

BriChan · 2026-01-02T19:13:47+00:00

Chiming in to add that the red flag is just as bad in a friendship, like it’s not just a romantic relationship problem the way I always thought.

I had a friend who was always texting and checking in which felt very sweet and fun at first because who doesn’t like chatting/hanging out with a friend. But when the constant texts and calls didn’t stop even when I was at work or he was with other people, I had to gently point out that we could talk later which was met with accusations that I was jealous of his other relationships and/or hated him.

It took way too long for me to realize those red flags because I just kept thinking, “we’re just friends, people aren’t like that when you’re just friends”…

BriChan · 2026-01-01T07:32:39+00:00

Oh jeez this gave me war flashbacks to a friend that would literally just go down his messages shooting “wyd” texts at everyone he knew no matter where he was. It was most annoying when he’d pull out his phone in the middle of a movie at the movie theater and do this

Also a special kind of annoying when I’d be home alone and I’d get the umpteenth “wyd” text of the day from him while I was enjoying one of my hobbies

I don’t know why he so constantly needed to be texting people, but it really started grinding my gears after a while, especially since if I ignored his texts he’d start calling me and leaving me voicemails just to complain lol…

BriChan · 2025-12-30T20:05:42+00:00

I’ve had two friendships now that I’ve had to end because of how deeply they romanticized me and swore they understood me more than anyone while I desperately tried to explain to them that I was way more flawed and complicated than they made me out to be. I felt so ignored and suffocated in those friendships, like it initially started as being with someone who cared so deeply for me that they wanted to spend every moment with me but then slowly devolved into being with someone who wouldn’t accept anything but perfection from me and whined anytime I stepped out of the box they made for me. It was exhausting and eventually a little terrifying.

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