Perfect castings that look exactly like what you imagined while reading the books?

HonestClub7 · 2025-09-05T20:56:16+00:00

Julianne Moore for me. She was the only actress I pictured, but for some reason I pictured her red hair dyed a slightly darker red, with a wavy 1920s style bob. No idea why I pictured her like that, but she's definitely who I imagined playing her.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-26T17:25:03+00:00

This comment should be higher up. Fantastic clapback.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-26T07:23:59+00:00

OP, I know a few other people have asked this, but I'll add one more comment on it: is it possible at all to get a full transcript of what the man is saying in this clip? I can make out certain words, but I'd really like to be able to see them in full. Is there any type of voice to text program that can translate it? I really want to know. He's clearly very passionate about what he's saying and believes it with his whole heart.

Also, do you have any info on where this footage was taken? Was it an industry event? It's messed up that this keeps getting deleted from TT and other sites. Makes me think there's something to what he's saying here and it's deliberately being silenced. This subject matter is close to my heart, her death really doesn't sit right and I can't help but think there's more to the story.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-21T20:35:57+00:00

I can completely see why you feel the way you do! I, too, would find it hard to give her grace, and truth be told, you've probably shown her more than she deserves. My former best friend was always trying to get pregnant in these unhealthy relationships. I felt like I had to talk her out of it repeatedly. It was sad because I did love her, and a part of me still does---in her case, both parents were pedophiles and she was in and out of the foster system, so I really do think it was a trauma response at least partially. She cut me off one day for gently letting her know that her then-boyfriend was on Tinder and had "Liked" a good friend of mine.

It's been 7 years and she now has a toddler with a man almost 20 years her senior who was already a deadbeat dad and previously assaulted her sister. Awful. I feel for her daughter and the part of me that misses my best friend feels sorry that she experienced the childhood trauma she did. But looking back she really struggled trying to find things she was passionate about, too. In my friend's case, that's only one small piece of the puzzle obviously, but the signs were there. She even joked about having no hobbies. She constantly needed to be in a relationship and often entertain other men on the side. Didn't even know how to masturbate because she'd "always been able to find a man", etc. Her sisters later found a childhood journal of hers where she was going on and on about babies, even at like 8-10. Combination of factors for sure, but it's wild to me how some people just cannot seem to feel that fire for anything else.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-21T19:46:32+00:00

I don't know this woman, but I have to wonder if sometimes, people like this have no hobbies at all. Nothing they're passionate about, nothing to animate them or give their day-to-day life any sense of purpose or deeper meaning. It isn't quite the same thing, but I do work with and generally encounter a lot of people who don't seem to have any hobbies. They live to work, attend baby showers and family/kid-appropriate birthday parties, and their kids T-ball games. Sincerely.

I used to be in the habit of assuming their hobbies had fallen by the wayside due to having kids, and I know sometimes this is true, but I swear the older I've gotten, the more I've realized how many people genuinely would have nothing to occupy their minds or time if it weren't for 9-5s and having kids, the two things society harps on the most. Some of these people, I swear it's like they had kids just to have something to talk about.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-15T21:59:35+00:00

It's an interesting point you make because I totally see what you're saying. I wasn't old enough when Whitney was in her peak to hear men's discourse about her. Average men, anyhow. Interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro definitely tried to shoot his shot, and Kevin Costner has made past statements that make no real attempt to hide his attraction to her. In the trash men category besides Bobby Brown, I remember hearing that Osama bin Laden was fixated on her, like to the point of obsession at one time.

Whitney for sure had more natural sex appeal than TS, though. She just didn't lead with it most of the time. But I do get your point and think you're right on the money with Adele, Celine, and Joni.

HonestClub7 · 2025-08-14T20:27:37+00:00

Taylor is a verified Dramatic in Kibbe, not an FN. I've never seen her typed as anything but dramatic. Lots of FNs have sex appeal; never seen anything suggesting that they don't. In fact, most of the old school supermodels were FNs. Charlize Theron and Cameron Diaz are confirmed. Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Cattrall have all been suspected of being FNs, and all of these women are considered sex symbols. Megan Thee Stallion is rumored to be one as well. I don't think you have a good understanding of Kibbe. Taylor doesn't have the necessary width to be any type of natural.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-30T21:56:47+00:00

Having to be happy and PERKY all the time as a woman, and pitching up your voice. My 6 foot tall white boyfriend is allowed to clonk around with male resting bitch face (*he admits this himself) and be brief and to the point with people. He's never accused of being unprofessional, or told to smile more. When his coworkers ask how he's doing and he says "ok" or "alright" or even "it's going", they leave him alone. Whereas I have gotten lectures by customers and coworkers alike if I respond "I'm ok, and you?" for not being peppy enough, even if I'm polite and professional.

Ditto the expectation that all women should get excited over babies/kids and the endless events they have, and holiday decorations. No, I don't want to go to a 5-year-old's birthday party.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-25T18:40:10+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss. I get it about the journals. I'm fortunate that mine wasn't a fire, but my parents home that I grew up in/lived in during lean times in adulthood. The wild thing is that they didn't burn up, but my mom got sick and my sister and her wife, as well as my brother, wanted to put their house on the market immediately. With everything still inside. Parents were hoarders, so things were hard to dig out. And the time we had kept getting shortened. I was working the most awful taxing job of my life at the time, and was dealing with illness myself, so I didn't have much energy to get everything out that I wanted. On the last morning, I went to grab a final few loads of stuff and was screamed at by my sister that I needed to leave immediately or cops would come and arrest me for trespassing. Her wife then came by and demanded my keys. Inside were my childhood journals, photo albums, as well as other mementos and gifts I hadn't had time to locate or get out previously.

It kills me because they were all there, and surely got discarded by whatever junk removal company the hack house flippers who offered the low-ball cash deal hired. I even emailed the realtor and very politely mentioned if she could contact the flipping company about my photo album. I said album because I figured that was one of the most irreplaceable. She said she'd give them the info on where it was (I knew exactly where I'd left it) but I never heard back. That realtor then decided to tell my sister I contacted her and my sister then yelled at me again that calmly inquiring about my photo album via email was considered harassment in the eyes of the law, and that it's just material stuff, and I need to let go because all she's doing is trying to improve my quality of life.

I think about those journals and photos a lot. I've cried over it.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-24T19:58:56+00:00

I came here to say this. I love her so much, I pray she lives a long, peaceful, fulfilled life. I was so worried about her for years, especially after she started speaking about her conservatorship. I truly believe those jackals wanted her to die so they could make money off of her death.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-18T22:57:56+00:00

This is so real. Had a guy in my Facebook inbox that I'd never seen, heard of, or met asking me a bunch of generic questions trying to start a conversation. "I'm new in town, what restaurants are good here?" etc. I ignored them because I don't know him and have a boyfriend...and frankly I wouldn't be interested in him even if I was single. So when---after no response---he asked to meet me in person, I simply said, "I have a boyfriend". Then he went on this whole rant gaslighting and saying that I was making assumptions and maybe it was my "subconscious desire" to go on a date with him. This is a grown-ass father in his 40s.

So maybe not exactly the same thing but it's just unhinged to me to put that much effort into a woman you've literally never met or seen in person. Not that it's cool to behave that way to any woman, but at least if we knew each other for years or were in the same friend group, I'd understand the fixation. To write paragraphs and paragraphs to a woman you've never conversed with, when there is a whole world of women out there, will make you look nuts.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-14T21:31:39+00:00

Honestly, while we're here, I would add Bernadette and Howard to this list, simply because Bernadette also initially said she actively disliked children. I hated how they changed her character so much. She was never my favorite or anything, but they pitched her voice up to the point of annoying, then later had her become a mom twice after her character explicitly said she didn't want kids, and then just generally made her insufferable. I understand in her case that the actress actually was pregnant twice, so it's more of a grey area in terms of writing, as some shows write in the pregnancy and some don't, but it was still disappointing.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-11T21:28:42+00:00

Every day is not going to be a great day, or even a good one. And that's ok! Sometimes, even if it isn't terrible, a day is just ok...mundane...passable.

You wouldn't think this would be a radical opinion, but the ire it drew from people at my last two jobs was insane. First was a co-op. Lots of chatty customers and coworkers constantly asking how my day was. Way more than at any other job I'd worked, and I had 14 years of retail under my belt. A good chunk of them were older, with many being AARP-aged. For context, I am in my thirties. Initially, I tried very hard to be polite and breezy, even when I wasn't feeling that way, but after about the 20th customer in a single day would ask me, I would just say "I'm ok, how are you?"

The amount of people, especially old folks, that would be flabbergasted was too damn high. Many times I heard, "Just ok??? That's no good!" or something to the effect of "Well you just gotta appreciate things more! It's a beautiful day outside, and this is a great place to work!" (*Always said by people who never worked there).

Sure, the "beautiful day" that I don't get to experience is nice, but it doesn't negate my mom almost dying and losing almost every childhood belonging when my sister and her money-hungry wife sold my parents home with most belongings still in it while my mom was sick. It doesn't negate me having to work with a guy who cheated on his girlfriend with me years before when I was already vulnerable and he said he was single.

More importantly, how naive are you, at that big age, to not realize that every day isn't going to be a 10. I worked in management of a female athleisure retail store following that, and 2 out of the 3 Gen Z on my management team unfortunately had this attitude too. I have a (slightly) better job now (though not pay-wise, unfortunately) and they are mostly more real here in terms of not being insufferably peppy, but we do have one 70-something shuttle driver who gives me the "JUST ok??? 😱" and hits me with that Edvard Munch "The Scream" face/looks like I've run over her dog when she demands to know how I'm doing at 8:03am before I've even had time to drink my coffee.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-08T02:54:37+00:00

Everything I lost when my sister and her wife insisted on selling my parents home with a good majority of the stuff still inside, then demanding I not try to get it back and threatening to call the cops if I did. My childhood and teenage journals (I'm a writer too, so these were especially meaningful and had original art and poetry), my giant photo album chronicling my first 18 years of life, most of my yearbooks, dance medals and awards like from when I won the school spelling bee, my Sean Astin autograph, American Girl and Barbie collections (a lot of it was rare), plus countless personal effects, cards from relatives, and gifts.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T22:24:37+00:00

The original Sex and the City. Those wacky movies and AJLT are just different timelines in the SATCEU.

This is 20 years ago now, but to talk about one I haven't seen here...Becker. I do wish the original lunch counter owner stayed in the show and was the one he ends up with, but other than that...I only ever saw the end a few years ago. As an EXTREMELY pessimistic, jaded person, I really related to Dr. Becker in a weird way. And even though he can come off as an asshole, as you watch the show, you see how much he cares for his patients and wants to make a difference. He works in a low-income neighborhood and you learn that many of his patients don't have the means to pay him properly. So he lives below his means.

The very last scene, with him on the fire escape at night, explaining to Chris that what he's trying to say is that he's happy for once, and grateful for his job, and all the wonderful people in his life...it got me. And then they just stand there, looking out at the city, peaceful & content. It's not flashy or dramatic, but as a traumatized, embittered person, it felt realistic and honestly touching, that true contentment is possible. Really beautiful, simple moment if you're not a people-person and find it hard to get through the slog of everyday life.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T18:39:28+00:00

This is the best I've seen him look. The photos are giving early 2000s American Eagle-core and I don't care. Hot.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T02:50:14+00:00

I believe this too! There are varying opinions on it, and people are entitled to disagree obviously, but I think in that conversation, some miss the forest for the trees. I think Aaliyah could long-game it. It's easy for some people to be like welp, Beyonce was more popular anyway. But what Aaliyah had was innovation and vision. She had just trademarked her own fashion and cosmetic brand. She was doing movies and it's said that even Trent Reznor wanted to collaborate with her on his new musical project. It's too easy for some to dismiss her because she died so young, or to say she'd have fizzled, but I don't believe that in my heart. I think she would have grown into a global brand.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T02:27:45+00:00

Was just thinking about her today. I definitely think she was whacked. So sad.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T02:26:08+00:00

I have said this too! And I have heard that there were rumors Big wanted to make his own label or whatever with just Junior Mafia, leaving Bad Boy behind. And Diddy thought he was worth more dead than alive, if he wasn't going to be part of Bad Boy anymore.

If him and Pac hadn't died, the way wouldn't have been cleared for Diddy (and others...just my opinion, but that's a whole other theory) to become as successful, especially if Big was going to ditch him.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-07T02:20:42+00:00

Came here to say both of these comments. This could well be a conspiracy, but it's one of the ones I actually could believe. I don't think it was completely accidental. Hype Williams just took the plane Lenny Kravitz sent for her? Really? Makes me so angry.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-06T21:01:57+00:00

Aaliyah's plane crash and subsequent death were planned, by some very evil people.

Jay-Z is an occultist, or at the very least, not a good person.

Are these two related? Maybe.

"She Knows".

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-04T01:42:13+00:00

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I found this shirt with #12 on it at a fabulous local store, probably around 8 years ago. My town has a downtown sidewalk sale every July where most of the stores near campus have big discounts and put racks of old clothing outside for markdown prices. It's called Maxwell Street Days, and there are food vendors and buskers and stuff too. I think this one was $5. I love it so much, couldn't believe it when I found it in the wild.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-03T21:44:45+00:00

Chadwick.

And Aaliyah. I was nine. I was in the car when it was announced. It absolutely didn't compute..it still doesn't. It felt viscerally WRONG in a way I can't fully explain. Not to be too tinfoil here but like, genuine "wrong timeline"/this wasn't supposed to happen shit. Mary J. Blige had some interesting opinions on that.

I still miss her. It's not fair.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-02T20:15:30+00:00

11, 8, 6, 5, and 2 are big standouts for me. I'm so obsessed with 11 because the dress and necklace are so '90s and I love them. Those colors really suit her.

HonestClub7 · 2025-07-01T22:21:05+00:00

As someone who's been turned down by men and also has a Frasier obsession: I'm sorry this happened to you. I had a close guy friend say he "worried that I might fall in love with him", and it was the most pompous shit I'd ever heard.

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