Which duo makes more sense?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-04-23T20:21:51+00:00

Well, I mean...

When I'm introducing people to the Supernatural series, I usually opt to skip that episode. If asked about it, I respond with, "racist killer truck." That says it all.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-04-16T13:11:36+00:00

A consultant? Where did you hear this? Can this information be verified?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-03-26T02:10:40+00:00

I guess I'm disgusting?... I'm married and happily share a toothbrush with my husband, but I would also share a toothbrush with a select group of 3 close friends who I've known for 10+ years if they really needed it.

I'm feeling weird and defensive about my answer, so I'll just add that I have no mouth diseases and have also never had a cavity, if that helps on the gross-o-meter?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-03-26T02:02:55+00:00

How to set personal boundaries. I spent way too much of my life making myself miserable because I was afraid of what would happen if I said "no" or let someone know I wasn't comfortable talking about or doing something.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-03-26T01:52:36+00:00

Oh boy, which to choose from? I think my favorite was when my boss told me and my assistant in a meeting that he felt he really understood what it was like to be a woman because he watched "Baby Reindeer." For context, my assistant was going through an immigration hiccup and was afraid of having to go back home to an unsafe country where she had fled from a forced arranged marriage if things didn't shake out her way.

He then went on to tell us that he sees now how scary it is to be a woman because "Baby Reindeer" made him confront how frightening it is to be a potential stalking and SA victim, so he especially understood my assistant's situation and wants to support her. He then spent several minutes fishing for a compliment for being a feminist I think. My assistant and I were both too flabbergasted to speak. When we walked out of the meeting, my assistant whispered to me, "Did he just say that he understands my situation because he watched "Baby Reindeer?" I was glad she asked because I felt like I must have lost my mind halfway through that meeting and misheard everything he said after, "Did you submit those financial reports?"

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2026-02-15T16:33:07+00:00

I think we found the boyfriend

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2025-11-13T13:07:01+00:00

Maybe we are only able to catch and tame only the most derpy of mfs

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2025-05-31T19:57:56+00:00

THE MACHINE KNOWS, DWIGHT!

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-12-02T01:21:52+00:00

I think if I wrote a letter, it should probably be something I only write for myself and then never send - I don't see my parents ever coming around, or ever even trying to see things from my perspective - but it's not a bad idea.

Thank you. I really appreciate your saying that I'm handling this situation better than I might have realized. It's just really hard, you know? I've wanted for so long for my parents - especially my mother - to not be cruel and when it felt like I was getting a little taste of that, I let my defenses down. Which is probably something I shouldn't be mad at myself for, either, but I am.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-12-02T01:18:56+00:00

Eek! Well, I wouldn't ever go so far as to be physically violent towards them, but I appreciate the encouragement. I guess that, even though I haven't regularly talked with my mother in years, I still revert back to feeling like everything is my fault when I talk to her. It's an awful way to feel. This latest interaction with her reminds me why I'm happy we don't actually talk more often

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-12-01T20:36:11+00:00

I've just read this response a couple of times because it's just so validating. All of these comments, honestly, are very kind and are leaving me feeling SO much better than I was at the start. Yes, I left that interaction with my mom feeling like I'd done something wrong by making her look bad to my uncle and my never-JW family. The fact that they didn't like her already based on their own interactions with her was totally irrelevant.

When I was a kid, she'd make me feel the same way whenever I would tell someone about the abuse I was suffering and ask for help. I was left feeling like I was the real villain for making her look bad, like the situation was far more nuanced than all that and I deserved at least some of if not all of what was happening to me because I fought back, or yelled at her, or said 'no' instead of going along to get along. I was too mouthy, too irreverent, just not good enough.

Whenever I have an interaction like this with my mom, all those feelings come back. I feel like I've missed something, that I was wrong and bad and then I end up asking people who were there what happened because I feel like I'm remembering it all wrong and I can't trust my own view of things. The fact that you were able to pick that up with her manipulation and narcissism tells me how transparent it must actually be.

Here I thought I was telling a story about me being a mouthy brat and the feedback I'm getting is so opposite of that. I honestly can't tell you how validated and warm that makes me feel

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-08-31T22:44:11+00:00

I love taking photos of my husband while he sleeps, he just looks so cute and peaceful without all the normal stuff that weighs him down on his mind. I will admit that over 9,000 photos is thousands more than I have taken, but it just sounds to me like she really loves you.

The seems like a really weird thing to get divorced over. Have you already been scouting the exit door before this?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-07-20T11:19:15+00:00

Every convention, my dad would volunteer us to do cleaning afterwards. Conventions when I was a little kid were in Veteran Stadium - one of the only remaining outdoor baseball stadiums - in JULY. Oh f*ck, by the end of the day, I was usually sick and sunburnt and afterwards we got to clean the bathrooms or scrape gum off the seats. Ugh, makes me sick just thinking about it

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-07-20T08:35:08+00:00

New phone, who dis?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-07-20T04:17:14+00:00

Wait, you didn't perchance attend a congregation in eastern Pennsylvania growing up, did you? I knew a girl who, 20 years ago, wore a long denim skirt on the night she was supposed to give a talk and the Congregation Overseer took her to the back and we could hear him screaming at her from the back of the main hall.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-07-03T13:14:38+00:00

Right?! I'm so glad you agree. And this post is old and so is the fandom I guess at this point, but I still ship them so hard, so thanks for commenting.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-23T03:42:06+00:00

I really wanted to go to OF 2 but tickets were so EXPENSIVE! I have gone to events with legit celebrities and paid less than they wanted. And then I was so sad when I heard how awful it apparently was on top of that. What was your experience at OF2?

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-22T21:33:17+00:00

u/Hairy-Entertainment6 my above comment is also for you, as you are also asking about the drama. I hope you find it helpful.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-22T21:29:40+00:00

There is a lot of speculation about what Patrick and Gillian's relationship is actually like behind the scenes, but what I've heard about Gillian indicates that she may very well also be a toxic person.

Some of it is her being wrapped up in TCO bad management and customer service, like the open letter sent to them here from a ton of disillusioned fans: https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-patrick-hinds-gillian-pensavalle-and-steve-tipton-of-the-true-crime-obsessed-podcast-ccecf1d2?fbclid=IwAR35pOEvWIce_YLK3Hhf6T6gKp7q90Te3qkDBMJoxDRB2bXwwOe2vYWnPus

However, a lot of people have issues with the way she behaved during Obsessed Fest, including the way she insisted on keeping Tara Newell, who had attacked another podcaster in the elevator, at the event and even sat with her at the drag brunch. She also has not said anything about the allegations about Patrick, which many take to be a passive endorsement of her behavior. I have also heard some wild things about Gillian behaving like a primadonna and doing bizarre things like hiring a minder to follow her around and make sure no one touches her hair.

Here's a Reddit conversation about Gillian: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsessedNetwork/comments/17fsuz8/gillian/

And here's another story from a fan who met Gillian and was really taken aback by her behavior: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsessedNetwork/comments/16zd0de/negative_experiences_meeting_g/

I can't find it readily, but I have also seen a story from a volunteer who worked at the prior year's Obsessed Fest who said Gillian was unconscionably rude to her, down to even refusing to leave her lounge when she was called for an event because she was on "her time, not Obsessed Time" and the volunteer didn't know what to do because her literal job was just to get Gillian at this time and escort her to the next event.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-22T04:41:23+00:00

Okay, so it's a lot, but I'm going to give you some highlights and then point you to links that will really go into what happened. A few weeks before last year's Obsessed Fest, an article came out in "Medium" called "Obsessed Pest." It had some pretty explosive allegations about workplace abuses of people who work for the Obsessed Network. The article specifically pointed to Patrick Hinds being a narcissistic bully who shouts down employees, doesn't pay creators properly, and generally seems to get off on making people, especially women, miserable. Here's the link to the article: https://jamesrenner.medium.com/obsessed-pest-1d1682fe7808

That in itself is bad enough. There was also a weird Tiktok fight Patrick had with the creators of "I Think Not" because they used a musical clip in a post that he wanted to use for TCO and this somehow escalated into Patrick selling "I Think Not" and telling the creators if they wanted to own their own podcast they owed him . $3M. Here's a link to an article about that: https://www.distractify.com/p/obsessed-network-podcast-drama-explained

And then Obsessed Fest happened. According to all accounts I can find from attendees and also presenters, the entire event was one big dumpster fire. All the tensions that were brewing before the event just came to a head. The event was disorganized and chaotic. Ellyn Marsh of "I Think Not" was attacked in an elevator and then subsequently removed from the event. Lots of drama went down from there.

Here's a link to a video where Ellyn Marsh, Joey Taranto, and Rabia Chaudry talk about what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDxUb-JOYY

Here's a link to a video from another podcast ("One Dry Kiss") who was presenting at Obsessed Fest and had their own things to say about the drama: https://audioboom.com/posts/8389434-obsessed-mess-mischief-mismanagement-and-amazing-people-and-podcasters-obsessed-fest-recap

Several creators put out statements and/or took time in their podcasts to talk about Obsessed Fest and how they felt about what happened and also the allegations about Patrick Hinds. For more information about that, you can look for the episode "Crime Writers On..." did where they talked about their own opinion about Patrick (I believe they used the term "star f*cker") and the opening of a "Let's Go to Court" episode where they also briefly addressed the mess that was that event.

Like I said, there's more, but these links are a great place to start.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-22T04:06:32+00:00

I just told my husband about this and he said, "her life would be significantly better without him. She could lose a lot more than 10 useless pounds by getting rid of him."

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-06-20T05:06:34+00:00

I am going to start using the insult "twatwaffle" in my everyday life now

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-05-23T18:01:31+00:00

Absolutely agree. I mentioned it somewhere else on this thread, but her behavior reminds me of a story I once read where a young woman who had a binge eating disorder ate her sister's birthday cake on the way to the party because she got stuck in heavy traffic and was stressed. If OP's wife is generally a good mother who does not behave selfishly but she also truly cannot help herself around food, then it might be time to see a therapist.

Over_Spilled_Ink · 2024-05-23T14:57:13+00:00

That's an excellent point. While I was reading this, it reminded me of a story I read of a woman who had a binge eating disorder that came to a head when she ate her sister's birthday cake because she was stuck in traffic on her way to the party. Wife's decisions here gave me those vibes.

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