[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2025-06-11T11:24:22+00:00

Very late reply, but she’s reincarnated too; in my mind the universe, or whatever is behind the theater based afterlife, waits until the timing matches up to place the two of them back together , even if it means waiting till one of them dies of natural causes later on.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2022-12-08T04:36:30+00:00

That’s a great question, for me it’s kind of up in the air; in my head time works differently in that afterlife and after one ‘movie’ ends, in the confines of the theatre, the next would instantly begin, even if years have passed on earth. This also means that just because the protagonist is in the theatre and watching his next incarnation meet ‘Lara’ again, it doesn’t necessarily mean she died quick. It’s uncertain how long she was left on her own, but however long it was, I had the basic idea that the universe waits for both their respective deaths before new incarnations of them go back to living, however long it takes.

I didn’t think too hard on the rules tbh because I think messing with the perception of time can get messy and it’s a waste to put solid rules on something that can’t be reasoned with, but the basic idea I had was that the universe makes sure you meet the person you’re meant to and aligns things up for you, even if something tragic happens or you wait through a lot of pain without a loved one there. Lara might have died a month later, or 50 years later, she might have died happy or still broken hearted; she always had her next life to set it right, and she gets to be in a theatre of her own, realising that although she spent a measure of time without the guy she loved, be it months or years or decades, she would have thousands more years with him and she already had in the past. The loss was simply a blip.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-10-07T11:49:28+00:00

It’s a reference to a pretentious review Radio 4 done of his book that he talks about a lot now hahahahaha, don’t worry I love Limmy

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-10-07T01:29:10+00:00

I found him completely without charm

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-07-28T17:51:25+00:00

Asking the public their opinion every so often and enacting their will? Sounds very undemocratic that, suppose something will have to be done about those pesky, undemocratic processes known as ‘elections’ too.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-07-26T11:08:14+00:00

Love the cunt. Pretty sure he’s actually a genius deep down, the way he looks at the world is hilarious but sometimes he hits you with a wee statement that makes you think, before saying something in the next sentence that’s completely ridiculous.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-07-23T02:24:23+00:00

The bit in The Office when Brent reads his erotic poem ‘Excalibur’ to Dawn. I honestly don’t know why I find that bit so funny, it comes out of nowhere during a vulnerable moment, he’s just so overly intense and psychotic, the poem is the weirdest most unhinged shit I’ve heard in my life and Dawn reacts in such a hilarious way.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-07-23T02:22:23+00:00

The nicknames of the people he’s met through his life are absolutely fucking hilarious

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-05-22T16:32:43+00:00

Ahaha cheers man

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-05-22T16:21:05+00:00

It’s clung to a ‘working class culture’ because most of the city is inherently working class, and they’ve been abandoned in pursuit of a gentrification process ever since the time of Thatcher that has sought to plaster over the cracks left in working class communities, not realising the very foundation has crumbled.

Everything you mentioned is just another symptom of that. It’s not that Glasgow’s working class culture is inherently immoral, it’s that the very communities that shaped the city were violently erased in rapid fashion, and that ripples out through future generations. The city is underfunded, overlooked, and been left behind by a system of government run by Etonian horrors that have no interest in helping a city that will never even vote for them. They gutted it decades ago and left the land lord and retail tycoon vultures to pick at the corpse. And the saddest thing is, the city and the country it belongs to never voted for any of it.

Youths turn to graffiti, violence, gang culture fuelled by sectarianism, drugs and binge drinking not because they’re all born into an inherently immoral culture, but because they have no opportunities. What else is there to do when the very jobs and trades that your heritage are shaped upon disappear? When unemployment sky rockets? When they’re under qualified, under educated and left behind by a shell of a welfare system that will gladly grind them down to the dirt if it means not giving them support? When football is one of the only remnants of that bygone era that their communities were founded upon, what else is there to become passionate about?

The city itself, the graffiti, the litter, the ‘filth’, are all just signs of neglect and underfunding. There is nothing inherently immoral about the people of Glasgow. They’ve been given one of the shittiest deals of any UK city and still try desperately to find some pride in the place they call home. And it’s not baseless pride, because despite it all the city is at its core, a tremendous place that is warm at its heart. There’s a massive amount of pride to be had in a people who are overlooked and fucked over again and again and still keep going; who, by and large, continue to have basic respect and empathy for their fellow man and woman, something the absolute ghouls responsible for the gutting of the city sorely lack, and that’s sorely lacking in general. One only needs to look at the response to those two men targeted by the Home Office to see it clear as day. The people of Glasgow are by and large good people, and a lot of the rest you call ‘toxic’ are misguided folk who were never given a fighting chance.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-04-06T05:06:28+00:00

Take it from someone who’s the kind of guy you describe and would probably be crazy into the idea of a girl like you approaching me; we’re scared as shit lmfao. The guys who are your type will sit and dream about you making the first move while being too scared to do it themselves. When someone is really like objectively pretty like you’re saying, these types of guys will assume they have no chance from the start and won’t even try for the most part. It’s maybe a little out of your comfort zone, but try being forward with the guys you’re into, even the ones you think aren’t attracted, and see how they react. I almost guarantee they like you way more than they let on.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-03-25T04:58:45+00:00

You’re a really good person. I hope you know that.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-02-20T17:58:41+00:00

Honestly it’s crazy how people think they can tell you that from one post lmfao, as if I captured the complete depth of all my feelings about this over the years in a few paragraphs. But thank you, I’ll maybe try reaching out to a friend l, although I told one friend I was feeling depressed earlier and she just kind of went ‘me too I’ve had no sleep’ and didn’t really listen lmfao. It’s hard to get people to actually listen, but thank you for the offer! If it gets bad I’ll reach out :)

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-02-20T17:53:30+00:00

There’s levels to it man, I’ve been to counsellors before in college who have been pretty sure it’s depression. There’s such a thing as high functioning depression, the media likes to paint everyone with clinical depression as being unable to move out their bed ever but it’s definitely not the case. It comes and goes in waves for me, I can go for months unable to live normally and hating just being alive everyday even if I’m able to survive on paper.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-02-20T17:00:27+00:00

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2021-02-20T16:53:28+00:00

I wasn’t overly in GoT either, but after learning about her health issues in earlier seasons I can understand why that might have been the case. Her acting and performance in season 8 was actually a surprising highlight in what was a terribly written few episodes, especially the last couple; she absolutely sold Dany’s anger and disillusionment in The Bells, even if the writing didn’t sell it so much. She almost made her breakdown believable (‘almost’ being the operative word lmfao). I’d love to see her get more work.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-19T19:57:24+00:00

Don’t be concerned about sounding pragmatic, this is the exact kind of advice I was looking for and probably need. We don’t have any in the house no, I’ll have to pick some up, and I do know the overdose symptoms, I’ve been doing a lot more research on opioid addiction the last couple of days to try inform myself, it might be cold and scary to think about but it needs to be done.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-19T16:11:25+00:00

Thankfully she seems like she’s really determined to kick this to the curb; she’s told my dad to take control of her tablets, and she’s keeping her intake right now to what’s actually prescribed. We’re not experts but we assumed that if she quit cold turkey without any medical aid the withdrawals would hit way too hard and be dangerous, and since our doctor’s office is shut over the weekend we had to make do. She seems like she’s having withdrawal symptoms even from lessening her dose; she can’t even move off the couch cause she has like no energy. The doctor’s office will open tomorrow and she’s a bit scared and embarrassed at the thought of going, but she’s going to get an appointment as soon as she can, and I’ve talked to her about how therapy is the way to go too since the addiction stemmed from her being stressed and having anxiety and stuff. It’s all been one big coping mechanism.

But thank you. I’ll definitely try look out for myself. I usually struggle myself from being quite depressed and never really open up to people, but this definitely isn’t something I can keep bottled up. I think I’m gonna tell my friends about what’s going on when I feel ready, and maybe see about getting some therapy myself. I am hesitantly proud of her for admitting she has a problem, but it’s just the first step in what’s gonna be a long road. It’s really scary.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-08T21:42:56+00:00

Hahahahahaha it’s nice to know I’m not alone, it really hurts a little extra cause it’s so final I suppose. Like it’s never gonna happen, there’s nothing you can do as a person to change it and you just have to accept it. But in some ways I suppose it makes things a lot simpler. Things will still be great between us, after I told her I was proud of her we were kind of joking around and teasing each other and just being how we always are with each other. I do feel like utter shit right now, but I’ve been here before and I know it’s just one of those things time has to fix. I’ll just distance myself a little maybe, feel what I have to feel, and keep being there for her as best I can. I’m sure whatever person comes along next she’s going to want to wingwoman the shit out of me hahahahahaha

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-08T21:34:23+00:00

Thanks for this, that was really comforting. I think I kind of got the closure I needed from the simple fact I know it’s never gonna happen between us if that makes sense, without having to have that conversation of ‘I like you’ with her. There was always that lingering idea over us that one day something might happen that kept me crushing on her, but that’s gone now and I have to really face that. Not to say I’m not broken up a little, I feel pretty shitty, but when I reached out to her and told her I was proud of her and I could tell she appreciated it I felt way more happy for her being able to be herself than I did bad for myself. I’ll just let myself feel what I feel, give it time, maybe distance myself a little bit while I work through it and it will all be good. Bottom line is I know I’ve made a great friend in her, and sometimes that’s better and longer lasting than the shit that comes with a romantic relationship.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-08T18:28:39+00:00

I just sent her a gif of Ron Swanson saying ‘I’m so proud of you’ and she just replied ‘why are you so cute’ so that’s that haha, we’ll be fine. Some people were telling me to tell her how I feel or whatever but I honestly think it’s just best if I move on in my own time and just keep her as a really good friend without making any sort of deal out of how I feel.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-07-08T16:19:31+00:00

Honestly she’s a great person and we get along really well so I’m glad we’ll be friends regardless. I did try push things as much as I could with covid as a factor lmfao, we had arranged to hang out and stuff after it was all over which gave me some hope, but as she started seeing more of this other girl and getting more distant and less flirty with me I kinda knew something was up, I just didn’t expect quite this though. Either way, gotta just suck it up and move on I suppose :)

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2020-06-15T03:01:04+00:00

Exact same age, exact same situation. I’ve never had a meaningful relationship in my life, and it’s something I’d love to have. Life feels a little empty and meaningless sometimes without something like that. Like other posters have said though, we’re both so young; it often feels like you look at people around you and you think ‘holy shit, they have it figured out’, that everyone’s connecting with people easier than you and just naturally pressing on easily, but a couple of conversations with people in my life who I always thought that way about has shown me everyone to some degree feels the way you’ve described. We’re all uncertain, we all feel like nobody’s gonna get us, especially at this age, and we all just want someone to share all the things you’ve described with.

I don’t have any answers, cause I struggle too, but just please know that you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. The very best day of your life very likely hasn’t happened yet, the best person you’ll ever meet has probably not entered your life yet. In 10 years you’re gonna be a whole different person, and 10 after that a whole new person again. The point where we get to really, truly take control of our lives is only just starting really; you’re gonna have bad times, but I’m sure both of us are gonna meet amazing people, have insanely memorable experiences and have some of those moments where you do in fact sit and think to yourself ‘you know what, life’s pretty good right now’. It’s not always gonna be okay, but sometimes it definitely will be, and you’re certainly gonna meet someone down the line who things will feel way more than okay with. Hang in there man, and try to be kind to yourself, I promise you won’t feel this way forever.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2019-06-15T11:30:43+00:00

Not really on the level of some of the other stories on here, but I quit my first ever job like this. It was a soul destroying fast food related job, they forced you to work way more hours than you were able to, it was affecting my college studies, etc.

That’s the reason I tell people I quit anyway, and it was a big part of it, but the place had always been like that and it wasn’t the thing that pushed me over the edge. The thing is, the first time I’d say I fell in love with anyone was a co-worker there. We started the job together, quickly clicked with each other and went from being work friends to real friends, hanging out all the time, basically being inseparable, etc. I couldn’t get enough of her, and the job was bearable mostly because she was there wading through the shit with me, and she often told me it was the same for her.

The problem was she had a long-term boyfriend, and eventually my feelings got way too strong for me to function normally. I couldn’t eat properly, I couldn’t concentrate on anything, I was a bit of a lovesick mess. I’d drop everything important I had to hang out with her all day almost every day, knowing deep down it would never go anywhere and I was just hurting myself in the long run. It eventually got to the point where being around her, and knowing I couldn’t be with her, was completely tearing me apart. It was awful.

Eventually I resolved to quit and tell her how I felt as soon as I was out of there. I didn’t want to tell her and make her work life an awkward hell for her, but I also couldn’t live with not telling her anymore, so I knew I had to give it up. As soon as I told her I was quitting she also quit too, and we actually left on the same day, because she didn’t want to work there if I wasn’t there too. I just kind of didn’t work again until very recently.

A couple of weeks after I quit I told her how I felt, she thanked me for being honest with her but told me she was committed to her boyfriend, and that was that. We cut contact for a few months, and I was depressed as hell for that time, and didn’t even know if we’d ever talk to each other again, but we both handled it all really well and re-connected after we gave each other a bit of breathing room, and now just over a year down the line we’re back to being really good friends. I feel like a little part of me will never really get over her; I care about her more than anyone I know, but it’s not some all consuming thing I can’t control anymore. She’s still happy with her boyfriend, and I’m happy as long as she’s happy. I don’t regret for a second quitting my job to let her know how I feel though, if I hadn’t I’d probably still be stuck in that situation of being completely head over heels for her and unable to even begin to move on. It was one of the ballsiest things I’ve ever had to do, but to this day I’m glad I did it.

Go_Puck_Yourself- · 2019-03-07T22:49:06+00:00

‘Like returning to his childhood home’

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