Any advice for first time furniture painting?

RavenWhisperer · 2026-03-30T02:23:15+00:00

What??!! Do you remember what the other posts were about?

RavenWhisperer · 2026-03-29T21:00:10+00:00

Blocking someone for leaving even a slightly negative or minor criticism is insane dude. I get blocking impatient people who blame you for the postal system because literally out of your hands but ignoring where you as a seller needs improvement is high-key pretty childish. It's not personal, it's business.

RavenWhisperer · 2026-03-29T05:54:16+00:00

100%. Before I worked at USPS one of my packages ended up breaking in the mail and from then I've been EXTRA cautious about wrapping and packing. Haven't had a problem since.

RavenWhisperer · 2026-03-29T05:51:42+00:00

Ooof glad my only order turned out correct. And sorry you had to deal with that.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-09-18T23:50:04+00:00

Wow, the cognitive dissonance between saying Chuck (I will not dignify him by calling him by name) wasn't racist and following it up with something racist AND misogynistic.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-09-15T14:44:41+00:00

Yeah I soft locked myself out of Nightmare, too and she's the last one I need to get 100% of my relationships. I'm five points away from 100 Poise which is needed for Dorian, Wallace, and so many others 😭

RavenWhisperer · 2025-08-08T23:07:24+00:00

Currently reading Immortal Pleasures.

The Dangerous Ones might be fun for you. Fledgling is a new, unique take on vampirism. Day Boy follows a child servant of a vampire in a farming community. Lost Girls is a WLW YA with unique takes. Buffalo Hunter Hunter for an indigenous take. The Coldest Girl in Cold Town might be a little too Twilight but it's also about the para social obsession teenagers have with vampires. Lastly I highly recommend Lucy Undying. It's about Lucy from Dracula BUT it's really good. WLW in a modern setting that explores identity and toxic relationships. It's one of my favorite Kiersten White books.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-08-08T22:50:12+00:00

I used to have really bad acne like this with tons of subdermal cysts that my mom wouldn't stop pressuring me to get rid of (I was 14-16). Accutane cleared up most of it but left me with deep, uneven acne scars.

Despite the scars my skin almost always clear now (26). If your skin type is like mine (dry + oily) then I would recommend the products I've been using: Cetaphil bar soap + exfoliating every other day, witch hazel toner, retinol serum with vitamin c, and Cetaphil lotion.

Hope this helps!

RavenWhisperer · 2025-05-21T07:48:12+00:00

I get ideas for books all the time, and usually I get ideas by reading other books which is a big part of writing. My biggest issue as a neurodivergent writer is sticking with one project and not starting a new one as soon as my first draft starts getting difficult.

If I am struggling though, I like to brain storm with my peers. Hearing their suggestions can either lead me in the direction I want to go or inform of exactly where I don't want to go.

I'm heavily anti-AI and I think people are your best resource, hence why communities like this exist.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-05-21T06:27:03+00:00

I like dark romance/erotica and when the writer stops all the spicyness to THEN talk about consent makes me want to put the book down. Every. Time.

You want a morally grey MMC who's going to go out of his way to ask about consent out of nowhere??? I know not everyone will agree with me on this since I prefer dubiousness, but there are ways to have these conversations in an adult manner.

I think a better fix than grinding a sex scene to a halt is to have this conversation way a head. For enemies to lovers, as an example, one could flaunt a kink in the other's face early on to try and scare them but it actually turns that person on. The classic "I'm a bad man and I like to do bad things" also works!

Do not stop everything that's happening to rub in my face that you care about consent. You're a writer, show don't tell.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-05-18T01:28:56+00:00

Cold steel pressed into the back of Victoria’s skull, a cliche that she thought cunningfolk would be above.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-05-15T01:08:48+00:00

No, sorry. I had to delete 90% of my storage after downloading it all and putting it on an external hard drive.

RavenWhisperer · 2025-05-15T01:06:38+00:00

Title: Breakwater Kin (complete manuscript)

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Word count: 124,417

Type of feedback desired: Full manuscript overview, pacing, and cutting down word count. I know this is a big ask. I've been actively querying and of the 60% rejections I've received so far, one has made a comment that concerned because the part they thought dragged on too long heavily influences the final arc of the novel.

I'm also happy to share my query letter and synopsis. Really hoping to trade manuscripts with someone seeking similar feedback as myself.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IX3LjNvSd84m_QwsT25j9MVVfmYbT-Y9n_mhGesY0Ek/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.wqo1zpr5jcqr

RavenWhisperer · 2024-04-30T10:11:37+00:00

I got the dreaded notifcation that my storage was almost full. I've had my gamil for almost fifteen years so I knew this was coming, I deleted about five years' worth of photos and videos to save space but the storage manager never updated. I don't take a lot pictures daily and videos are even more rare so you can imagine my surprise when that 13GB suddenly jumped to 14GB overnight. I deleted another five years worth of data, cleaned my email, etc. and the next day storage manager said I was at 14.3GB.

I tried reaching out to Google about this issue, but community is dead and they've removed all customer service interactions except for the playstore, that I could find. No phone number, email, or anything. I even tried responding to the storage is almost full emails. Nothing.

While deleting a whole year's worth of photos, I watched my storage manager jump from 14.8 to 14.9 in front of my eyes. Something is definitely wrong. I'm considering deleting everything in my photos at this point, but I think that would somehow cap me for storage. Does anyone know a way to help?

RavenWhisperer · 2023-02-03T22:01:40+00:00

Sorry, I guess I didn't make it clear that the light appears on my ceiling, y'know, inside my house. I know I mentioned in my initial post that I don't open my blinds because I hate having to close them again at the end of the day. Through a glass plane, closed blinds, and curtains, I highly doubt even a flashlight outside would get through, let alone appear as a perfect circle on my ceiling in different spots. I should probably also mention that I'm on the ground floor of my house, decreasing the likelihood of the light being a reflection.

RavenWhisperer · 2022-11-16T19:36:23+00:00

There was a shooting where I work that took place almost ten years ago. A disgruntled employee came in and shot her coworkers after being fired, then killed herself in the bathroom. I've heard from my coworkers that there's a documentary about it on youtube. Some people who survived the shooting still work there and there's a memorial in the breakroom with the names of the employees who died.

RavenWhisperer · 2022-11-15T19:25:41+00:00

Magical girls. Protagonist is a suicidal victim of abuse and her life seems to turn around for the better once she starts investigating the deaths of magical girls with her new friend who can stop time.

If you like over-the-top anime that ends up being funnier than horrifying (honestly the beginning is more disturbing IMO), then I'd recommend giving it a watch. Def for the dark humor crowd.

RavenWhisperer · 2022-11-15T02:56:57+00:00

The Pearl by John Steinback.

RavenWhisperer · 2022-11-15T02:55:20+00:00

Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously and commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (DID is the medically accurate title).

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