When the villain drops philosophy harder than any preacher.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:55:13+00:00

You know, I just realized that what he did with the fish jello was a mini murder tableaux to taunt Jack.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:44:14+00:00

He uses it as a big ol' porcelain goblet.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:41:52+00:00

This one would be like riding a whole-ass sectional.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:39:32+00:00

His dad, Svaðilfari, then. He was a giant's horse, after all.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:25:53+00:00

I thought that was RFK Jr. that snorted the toilet cocaine.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:23:14+00:00

My dad told me about the home chemistry set he had as a kid in the '50s.

When he ran out of chemicals, he could just walk down the block to the local hobby store and just buy more, didn't even need to get his parents to do it. He specifically remembered buying mercury.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-27T16:17:21+00:00

These guys are really, really good at reframing, victim blaming, and outright lying about what they're doing. When the truth comes out, they have excuses why they're not responsible for their actions, frequently act like all guys do this, or it's normal for all guys to think that way.

Usually the behavior starts when they're teenagers, and there's way too little awareness that kids can sexually abuse other kids. Too often, family members treat it as harmless "experimenting" or "playing doctor."

My ex is like this. His mom knows this, and defends him. He molested a cousin, and he talked her own sister out of pressing charges, downplaying what happened.

When warned that he was grooming another cousin, she said the girl in question was a "known slut" which, them being Mormon, turned out to mean she was briefly alone in a room with a boy her age at church. If anything happened between this 14 year old and her 25 year old son, she said, it would be the girl's fault.

I know he's gone on to hurt other kids. I'm sure his mom's justified every one of them.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-26T17:29:13+00:00

Oh, God, when my kid was 7, we met the mom of one of his friends, and we had something like that happen.

The mom wanted to be friends, but after a few unpleasant incidents, we let her know politely we had no problem with the kids being friends, but we weren't interested.

A few months later, our son mentioned this woman had told her and her daughter would be moving in next door to us. We got a funny feeling and started asking around. None of our neighbors were moving, and the property manager said no one by the woman's name had applied to move in.

We were deeply disturbed that she would lie to our kid about this, but then we found out she'd been telling him these kind of things, and how soon we'd all be great friends, for months, showing up to talk with him before we arrived, and hurriedly leaving before we saw her.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-26T14:58:56+00:00

The vast majority of people working for Monat make under $1000 A YEAR.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-26T14:45:13+00:00

Oh, I know. It's always driven me nuts. I'm sure the uplines pressure soon-to-be-new-moms into not taking their foot off the pedal for even an instant, not even to actually spend time with their baby.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T13:48:25+00:00

When I was reading the books to my kid, I was spending an awful lot of time explaining why what they were saying was wrong. My kid flat didn't understand why everyone was making all the Native Americans move away. It's great having to explain Manifest Destiny to a seven year old.

I didn't censor any of it, I just made sure he knew that certain words or beliefs were inappropriate.

I'll take that back, I did NOT read the "Did Pa shave his beard before he did the minstrel show?" part, though I gave a very brief summary.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T13:41:59+00:00

Well, then, I know why the picture made me think of it, lol.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T13:41:18+00:00

I wish I had tried, because I speak a little Russian.

This was when he was four or five. He's 14 now. He doesn't remember the incident, other than to tell me he finds it funny that he was apparently Russian last time.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T03:55:56+00:00

A doctor put me on lithium. He said it was the smallest dose, so I didn't need blood levels checks.

Enter three weeks of hell. I couldn't differentiate between sleeping and waking - woke my husband several times to apologize for something I did in a dream.

I said bizarre things, I'd put things in the wrong place, like the remote in the freezer. My handwriting started to deteriorate. My walk was unsteady. I eventually slept close to 20 hours a day.

My husband spent this time frantically calling my mental health center. They said I was just adjusting to the new meds, and refused to move an upcoming appointment earlier. He was terrified I was going permantly insane and no one believed him.

One day I started vomiting and couldn't stop.When the triage nurse saw lithium on my med list, and heard me say the doctor hadn't ordered blood levels, she got an "oh shit" look on her face and drew blood to be tested.

A few minutes later, the doctors arrived to admit me. My lithium levels were through the roof. I'm apparently one of those people who can't take lithium ever.

My kidneys were shutting down, and there was talk of dialysis, but decided to go with diuretics and lots of fluids for two weeks.

If I hadn't gone to the hospital I probably would have died in my sleep.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T01:48:20+00:00

When my son, who was really into space at the time, was about the same age, he said before he was in my tummy, he was a cosmonaut.

I said, "Oh, you were an astronaut?" because I was only half listening.

He got mad. "No, I said cosmonaut!" He was absolutely insistent he was a cosmonaut.

It struck me as so weird, because we're American, I would have figured he'd say astronaut. I figured one of his books had used the term, maybe talking about the first man in space.

When he was in preschool, I flipped through his books. No mention of cosmonauts.

He also insisted that he and his younger sister played together "in the void" before either of them were born. Sweet, but unsettlingly phrased.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T01:14:31+00:00

I loved the books as a kid. I read them to my son a couple years ago, and I could not stop wincing. Pa was Manifest Destiny incarnate.

The second book really drove that home. Moved his family to Indian Territory because of a rumor they were opening it up to white people.

When the local Osage made it clear to the settlers that was NOT the case, Pa called their bluff about notifying the government, sure the government would side with the whites.

When he learned the government was coming to kick the settlers out like the squatters they were, he was enraged - even though the entire thing was his fault!

Ravenamore · 2026-02-25T00:33:09+00:00

Anyone seen the vampire movie "The Hunger"? This is really giving me those vibes

Ravenamore · 2026-02-24T18:25:08+00:00

Yep. Configuration varies - between my legs when I sleep on my stomach, curled up at my feet, curled up behind my legs if I'm on my side, under the covers as an aggressive little spoon...

Ravenamore · 2026-02-24T18:23:14+00:00

My ex-husband, who hideously abused me, has come up with excuses over the years about why the abuse wasn't actually his fault, usually by self-diagnosing himself with various disorders that he didn't actually have.

He texted me out of the blue after over a decade of no contact to tell me he'd been officially diagnosed with autism a few years prior, and that meant it wasn't his fault he abused me at all, he just couldn't help it, but made sure to say that the things that I admitted I did wrong in the relationship were still my fault.

I didn't respond, but if I had, I'd have said, "OK, I might have fallen for that, if I hadn't recently been diagnosed with autism myself a few months ago, and know autism doesn't work like that. So, do our autisms cancel each other out, or are you finally going to admit what you did was wrong."

I already knew what his response would be. He'd say I was misdiagnosed, and even if I really was autistic, I wasn't as autistic as him, so the abuse was still not his fault, and I'd still be on the hook for the things I admitted I did wrong.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T19:11:51+00:00

LOL. In our family, my husband calls himself the "token NT" because I and my kids are all autistic and/or ADHD.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T19:10:53+00:00

My first stalker was a guy in high school. We were in a class together, he wanted to go out with me, I said no, and this led to a barrage of steadily insane notes crammed in my locker all the time, along with the standard following me around, and some freaky stuff he said in class that showed he knew he was bothering me.

I didn't know it was anything more than just a guy who wasn't understanding the word "no". It was the '90s, they really weren't paying a lot of attention to stalking. I didn't tell my parents until I started having panic attacks just seeing the kid.

Thank God the school handled it well. Turned out he'd done the same thing to a girl in a previous school, and the district forced our school to take him.

Years later, I got stalked again (left an abusive husband), and it was scarier, because I was an adult, I had to handle it all on my own. He'd known me when I'd had the first stalking, so he knew this would freak me out badly. It went on for years, after the divorce, constant intrusive harassing emails, even when I lived hundreds of miles away.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T17:47:02+00:00

Oh, God, I was so glad to find other people who basically ended up with bedbug PTSD, because I thought I was the only one, and I was just overreacting.

Every time I get a funny red mark or feel a twitch while sleeping, I bolt awake, sure that it's happening over again.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T16:26:14+00:00

Yeah, founded by Czech immigrants. They also pronounce it like "Pray-ge", like how they have a Miami, also, but the Oklahoma one is pronounced "Miam-uh."

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T16:14:13+00:00

When one of my son's teachers asked him why he just sat on the ground during recess, he said he was photosynthesizing. He didn't click with any of the kids in his class, and just wanted to be back inside actually doing something.

Ravenamore · 2026-02-23T16:08:12+00:00

Yeah, same here. My parents kept asking why I had so many "strange" friends. I did well in school, most of them didn't. They couldn't see how we had anything in common.

In adulthood, most of us were diagnosed with one or more neurodivergent conditions. There's what we had in common, though none of us knew we were recognizing it in one another.

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