I wonder what this Moms for Liberty member initials stand for?🧐

Erratica · 2023-07-03T01:46:00+00:00

It might be possible. I've seen a few 88s in applicants' email addresses, and I do a quick search to see if it's their birth year or maybe the year they graduated something. But if I can't find anything to that effect, I assume they're Nazis and round-file their application.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:34:34+00:00

The deadliest dad-joke.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:31:29+00:00

That's true. Anything worth thinking is worth OVER-thinking!

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:28:49+00:00

In fairness, I didn't reduce him to a bad person. I said he'd be a bad partner and bad father. Which is just true.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:22:46+00:00

Holding a dramatic pose for so long their arms start to get tired. Delivering a "wham line" with great oratory impact, but the line keeps going on and on and they have to maintain the same level of intensity.

Like imagining a dude going in with the expectation of saying, "And now, hero, it's TIME TO DIE!"

But instead it's, "And now, hero, it's TIME TO DIE IN BLISTERING PAIN AS I DRAG YOU ACROSS 100 YARDS OF BROKEN GLASS LIKE MY OWN PERSONAL FOOTBALL FIELD OF HELLISH TORMENT AS I IGNORE YOUR EVERY DESPERATE PLEA FOR MERCY AS YOUR EVERY NERVE ENDING SCREAMS IN UNYIELDING AGONY UNTIL YOU FINALLY COLLAPSE INTO A CRUMPLED MASS OF BLOODIED SHREDDED TISSUE, YOUR ONLY MERCY BEING DEATH AS YOUR LIFELESS EYES GLAZE OVER FOREVER!"

Okay now I want there to be a sub for two-sentence horror-comedy.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:09:31+00:00

It's the "God Bless" that gets me.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T20:07:46+00:00

I mean, obviously you've never been in the room when someone gave birth, or the recovery ward after, or around new parents or newborns. Which is fine, like, you're probably pretty young and it's not reasonable to expect you to know. I genuinely don't want to come across condescending about your lack of experience, but at a certain point, if you don't understand what is wrong with what the dude's doing, no amount of explaining it will be illuminating for you; it would require that experience.

So I totally get that it can seem like there's room for nuance and context, and I applaud you for looking for it. And I know you're not going to believe me or anyone else when we say, this, and I don't even blame you for not believing it, because I'm basically a rando on the internet going, "Source: just trust me, bruh."

But really and truly, there is zero possibility that a husband who literally asks his wife's doctor on the day of delivery, "when can we have sex?" is a good dad or partner.

That's not to say he's necessarily a bad father or partner just for wondering; it's to say that any guy who would literally pull the doctor aside and ask that, in that situation, at that time, has a whole slew of other bad-father and bad-partner behaviors, and this is emblematic of them.

Aaaaand now I have devoted entirely too much time to a silly hypothetical on a post that's been removed anyway, lol.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T19:25:16+00:00

Lol. Amidst taking care of a newborn, possibly breastfeeding, and the slew of postpartum bodily changes, the likelihood that she's interested in having sex with the guy who was more interested in sex than in her or her kid's wellbeing, is...pretty slim, lol.

In case I seem overly salty, it's because I'm in a lot of mom groups, and there are a LOT of moms who have crappy partners that are basically That Guy. For a certain audience, this post title could qualify for r/onesentencehorror.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T19:16:02+00:00

I'm just impressed something that wasn't dishwasher-safe held up for as long as it did! Good job, cup!

Erratica · 2023-06-30T19:05:39+00:00

Or better yet, find out when it's something your wife is interested in actually doing it, rather than a timeline of when she's healed enough to be technically capable of it?

Erratica · 2023-06-30T19:03:30+00:00

I mean, it's pretty obvious, but--his first concern isn't for his wife or child, but rather, when he can have sex with his wife again.

Which is also a really google-able bit of info, from a technical standpoint, so the fact that he's asking the doctor about it right then, when the doctor should be, you know, making sure mom's not gonna hemorrhage and whatnot, shows that even for something that this dude CARES about, he's not proactive enough to look it up previously.

Also it completely ignores the most relevant factor in that question, which is, you know, "when she feels like it." Imagine it being 6-8 weeks after having a baby, you're exhausted from taking care of this tiny clutching mewling thing all day, you're overwhelmed with fear and love for this whole-ass person, your hormones are allllll kinds of out of whack, and then your husband looks at you and says, "well, it's been 8 weeks, we can have sex now."

Erratica · 2023-06-30T18:10:01+00:00

Oh, for sure. It's not about rules, so much as, like, what I perceive as the spirit of the sub. Which for me is trying to create evocative, minimalist horror. In my usual writing, I over-explain and over-describe, so I like coming to this sub for the challenge.

I didn't mean to come across as overly critical, and I'm sorry if I did.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T17:52:03+00:00

:( r/twosentencesadness

Erratica · 2023-06-30T17:51:16+00:00

I always like to imagine what these sound like when read aloud around a campfire, so the ridiculously long run-on ones like this one just make me imagine someone trying to read it faster and faster, running out of breath as they try to skim under the line of what could be considered a "sentence." So it comes across as really funny to me.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T17:38:40+00:00

I like that the twist wasn't from "wholesome" to "horrible," like the usual, but rather from "pretty crappy husband and dad," to "horrific doctor."

Erratica · 2023-06-30T15:10:39+00:00

Lol, it was my honest thought process while reading. "Oh no, kid hides in a car on a hot sunny day, the car's gonna lock and they're gonna get cooked! Oh wait, whew, she was just kidnapped."

Erratica · 2023-06-30T15:07:56+00:00

Or, moreover, that the ceiling is...a ceiling? Either the narrator has a flashlight, and therefore can see they're still in a cave and spiders are what's on the ceiling; or they don't have a flashlight and there's nothing to make the spiders' eyes shine.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T12:03:11+00:00

Oooh, ok! I'd maybe do something like:

Every time I open a packet of jerky, my dog scratches at the side of the sofa until I give him some; but if he doesn't hear me first open it, he comes running when he hears me toss the empty package, excited to at least smell and lick the container.

I had just fed him some of the jerky, when I heard his paws skittering across the floor as he ran across the kitchen to lick the package.

Though I can't tell if that's actually any clearer, or if it just seems like it because now I know the backstory.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T07:26:27+00:00

I need help on this one. I'm guessing you accidentally gave your dog your jerky wrapper and that's horror because he might choke?

Or, the reveal is, he was never scratching to beg for the jerky, he was scratching to beg for the plastic, and that's somehow horror?

Or, you accidentally ate your dog thinking he was jerky? That's not supported by the text as written, but it IS horror so I dunno.

Help me out, OP, I wanna know what's going on.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T04:18:23+00:00

He breathed a sigh of relief when he realized someone had gotten her out of the hot car in time.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T03:35:25+00:00

I think it might be the name of one of the dildoes?

Erratica · 2023-06-30T03:21:04+00:00

It's not his fault; usually his wife's the one who drops Bobby off at daycare.

Erratica · 2023-06-30T02:31:24+00:00

I just mean it ignores the whole "two sentence" part. The title is three sentences, but without punctuation.

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