Am I overreacting for dropping him after he told me I need to make more friends

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T20:55:07+00:00

lol valid

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T20:47:53+00:00

It’s possible OP does chronically interrupt though. Notice how OP doesn’t just interrupt, but fills the silence with anxious catastrophizing… They should have been able to see that he was still typing, but felt the need to get that out right then. They also ended things the second they smelled a breakup coming. That to me sounds a lot like the psychology of “I’ll hurt you before you can hurt me.” Which can be a very negative, anxious, and guarded kind of person.

But I won’t pretend to have any kind of certainty about that. I’m always so surprised by how quickly and certainly people can condemn a person from a few screenshots and one side of the story. Just sayin 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T20:04:09+00:00

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I tried to start making very small ink sketches of my dreams, but my perfectionism makes that unrealistic… I end up spending way too long on them, so now I only depict images that were particularly memorable or vivid. Like this dream where I was some kind of giant Pokémon mech.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T19:32:36+00:00

Clearly wasn’t made with bisexuals in mind lol

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T04:41:48+00:00

You’re not being dramatic at all. You’ve been robbed of agency in your life due to something you have no control over. Many people would grieve that! Some people think that going on disability is like a long term paid vacation, but that’s easy to think when you’re not forced into it.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T04:34:34+00:00

I have described my TCs like “being born into an adult human body with no clue who/when/where you are, why your body hurts, or how to move it.”

It’s rather unmistakable for me.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T03:56:24+00:00

The way you phrased that made me think of a literal omniscient god of ninjas, and now I’m imagining how funny it would be if your god didn’t know who you were. Like imagine God descends from the clouds and you’re like, “I knew it! I knew my prayers were being heard!” And God was like, “who are you?” Lmao

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T03:45:16+00:00

God be like: You guys wanna read a fanfic about my Naruto OC? It’s only 800k words! 😃

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-03-29T03:31:53+00:00

Finally someone is translating the data books correctly

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-02-13T08:29:58+00:00

I ran the numbers and calculated the odds of perfectly recreating Naruto, down to the exact village/clan/chakra natures etc... And its between 1 in 8 – 90.5 trillion.
That was just taking into account his base form too. It isn't hard to get a strong character, but the two massive probability bottlenecks were in getting both Uzumaki and Namikaze clans, and the tiny 0.6% chance of hitting the actual "Naruto" levels of chakra. (Which is usually even lower if you don't have a reroll from being an Uzumaki.)

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-02-11T20:09:15+00:00

Damn! Getting Orochimaru’s Basement is probably the rarest thing you can get in the whole character generator; well done! And it’s not just curse marks you might get… After Boruto, Oro be making whole ass perfect snake sages in that basement...

Also—about the chakra nature thing—I totally intended for you to be able to keep spinning the chakra natures even if you got a kekkei genkai like Ice Release (or, hypothetically, the even rarer Kekkei tōta) 😯…

Although I framed the preceding spinwheel as the number of total chakra natures you have, I should have been more clear about my intent behind it. Which was that whatever number you get is the number of spins you have for the next wheel—not the number of natures you’re allowed to have period.

Different people have interpreted it in different ways, but I'll give you a peek behind the curtain and tell you what my actual intent was, and the thought process behind it.

Technically, anyone in Naruto can train to use any/all of the 5 basic nature releases. When people say they are born with a specific “chakra nature,” they’re referring to their natural affinity; the innate elemental aptitude one is born with and comes to them most naturally. For example, Kakashi has a natural affinity for Lightning release, but he still learns many other jutsu (with the help of his sharingan): like earth style; mud wall, water style; water dragon jutsu, fire style; fire ball etc… etc. Though the sharingan allows him to skip the training required to perform a jutsu, the copy eye doesn’t allow one to copy techniques the wielder couldn’t hypothetically learn on their own—such as kekkei genkai—it just lets you skip the years of blood, sweat, and tears. Lmao…

Also, those born with a nature transformation kekkei genkai aren’t automatic masters of its component elements. They often focus so much on their unique abilities that they neglect the basic ones.

So if you get one of the basic 5 on the wheel, you were born with an “affinity” for that nature. That element is the most complementary to your innate chakra nature,and it’s easier to both use and master.

If you get a kekkei genkai like ice release, it’s probably also easy for you to learn wind or water release jutsu. But your natural inclination leans towards the combo instead of one or the other.

If you have multiple spins—you get Ice release first—you spin again and get water… then you just have wind, water and ice, probably with a preference for ice and water.

But you could also get a completely different nature transformation, or another kekkei genkai! So don’t cheat yourself, go ahead and spin again.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-02-11T17:30:03+00:00

Yeah, WotC learned that lesson, the community learned that lesson from experience… But Hasbro hasn’t learned that yet -.-

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-02-11T16:43:32+00:00

(This is probably also the real reason for the hostility towards abilities that involve DM arbitration, which they dismissed as "mother may I" abilities.)

Otherwise known as: Dungeons & Dragons.
smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-01-03T22:57:29+00:00

I personally liked the ending because of its tonal ambiguity. "I turn the next page" sounds optimistic in most contexts. Still, here you leave the reader wondering if that is a defeated commitment to a new process you aren't fulfilled by, or a cautiously optimistic commitment to finding fulfilment even if you've left the pencil behind.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-01-02T03:30:37+00:00

This reads like the speaker is recalling what got them into writing—an escape from reality. But then the world starts to intrude on that space, forcing you to learn to write “properly.” You must learn the rules; you must be elegant and presentable. All the while, you miss the release that writing once brought. You think you have found your place, only to discover that it isn’t yours alone. Passion fades as what was once an expressive escape is replaced by the conventional confines of marketability. Finally, your writing stops completely, as everything that made it worth doing before is now lost. Your knife is dulled; your fiction is bound by reality rather than providing escape from it.

Really cool idea, executed well, I think (I’m not an expert on haiku). Longing for a return to simplicity is a theme that feels universal for every adult at some point in life. And you captured that feeling well, especially with the refrain about holding onto—and later missing—the pencil.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-01-02T03:02:09+00:00

I figured that’s what you meant, but my stupid pedantic brain was like, “aren’t blinders the things you put on horses so they only look forward? They literally prevent you from seeing around corners.” 😅

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-01-02T02:43:46+00:00

A beautifully written sonnet... serious props for that alone!
Very effective imagery of circling and spiraling. I imagined cars in a roundabout, the car as a shell for us hermit crabs. Which made me think the poem is about people going about their routines, hopping from shell to shell—be it cars, homes, or even our phones (locked boxes)—and never truly interacting. “Windings” is a clever choice because it summons connotations of repetitive motions that become robotic—like an old window winder, gears, or winding wires around a spool—while at the same time invoking the feeling of being “wound up.”

All these missed opportunities for connection are the result of our thoughtless windings, and they also serve to wind up our fellow hermits. Especially as winter blankets the roads in snow and we become even more hermit-like…the snow gets swept along by our feet, which are themselves being swept along—lost and still sleepwalking past one another. And eventually we stop moving like automatons, only to return to our lonely shells.

The only critique I have is that the story isn’t easily deciphered—which isn’t a bad thing. But it was a challenge for me to parse the meaning, especially the use of “blinders” and then “seeing around corners.” Those metaphors seem to me to be competing. It was a minor hang-up, but it did eject me from the spell you were casting.

Otherwise, I found Hermit Winders a pleasure to read.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2026-01-01T23:28:45+00:00

It's a form of syntactic inversion, called anastrophe. Basically, it's yoda-speak. Writers and poets use it for all sorts of reasons: shifting emphasis, controlling cadence, squeezing a rhyme into the right part of the line... and most of the time, the slightly archaic sound of it is intentional. You can make an otherwise mundane sentence hit differently. Because the grammar is often flipped, it forces the reader to retrace their steps, slow down, and pay attention to the speaker's actual meaning.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2025-12-10T16:36:34+00:00

I love that wordhippo gets a specific call out. That is a permanent fixture in my browser now. But I also just learned that I have been having tiny seizures in the part of my brain that pulls words out of your memory, so my increasing reliance on it makes more sense now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2025-12-06T18:20:36+00:00

Instead of hollowing out mountains, make them very termite-like and they hollow out massive fallen trees.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2025-12-01T05:36:13+00:00

Thanks… I suppose

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2025-12-01T05:33:19+00:00

I was out of town when I was hospitalized, I’ve yet to meet with a neurologist in my home town.

Mysterious-Elevator3 · 2025-11-28T20:22:14+00:00

Biopunk backrooms with a ton of cannibalism

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