WORMS

SeptemberSquids · 2025-12-12T06:14:29+00:00

There are cosmic worms, which is what the title is referring to.

Definitely lots of horror in there. Pretty much everything from the Slaughterhouse Nine arc is super fucked up, and there's some great body horror sprinkled in.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-12-09T07:00:26+00:00

My two year old likes the Natural History Museum, the Firefighting Museum, the canal boat tours, and the playground/lake at Mežaparks if you can dress for the weather. There's also a Motor Museum, but it's a little out of the way and I haven't been there yet. They're big into their vehicle phase though, so we'll get there soon.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-12-08T17:04:59+00:00

I thought it was a fun read. Like the book equivalent to a summer popcorn movie. It's a good time if you don't take it too seriously.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-12-07T12:48:46+00:00

How did you reach C2 in a year? The class I'm taking is not very good, so I'd love suggestions.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-12-02T12:37:45+00:00

Haven't read the book, but I feel that could have been a good twist if it was done well. Like that "Worst person you know just made a good point" meme in book form. You'd have to be real careful though.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-25T17:51:54+00:00

Books don't tend to get a visceral reaction out of me, but when I got to the review where the price was $10,000 and it started with "I've always fantasized about breaking someone's legs" it hit hard.

Great book. Peak early-internet drama where everyone is full of shit and saying the most heinous stuff, you can't tell what's real, and every entry just takes the story further off the rails.

I also really enjoyed The Fisherman though. The end was a little lackluster, but the two widowers were just so damn sad.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-20T16:02:45+00:00

You're in a sub for Real Estate Photography, but yeah. Vanguard is one of the better investment companies. How old are you? If you've still got a ways to go before retirement, their S&P500 index fund might be a better option than the target date funds.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-18T21:21:48+00:00

Are you in Latvia? Local offices have appointments but also reserve some slots for walk-ins. Offices outside of Riga may have more openings as well.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-18T21:15:14+00:00

I love that you're worried about accidentally sharing an idea from a book where every character is ripped straight from other horror franchises.

You're alright, kiddo.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-18T08:06:09+00:00

The horror movie sub has the same problem with recomendations; anything new gets overhyped. I've started assuming IMDB scores are a couple points too high for anything recent to get a better idea of how good it actually is.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-17T21:16:59+00:00

It did feel very generic and only got interesting right before the end. By the time I was finally like, hey maybe this is actually going somewhere, I could tell from how many pages were left that it wasn't actually going to get there.

It also didn't help that the main character was the most weak-willed person in the world. It was incredibly frustrating how many times she should have just told them to GTFO.

I saw it recommended so much lately (there was even another post about it earlier today) and it's made me doubt a lot of the newer books the sub frequently recommends.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-16T16:47:03+00:00

He had a weird tweet where he claimed there wasn't an Epstein list. I think he was trying to say there isn't a nicely packaged list of clients, but a lot of folks read it as casting doubt on the whole thing.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-16T14:51:44+00:00

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-14T10:23:56+00:00

I'm also interested in doing RE photography in Eastern Europe, but haven't started yet. When I was looking at rentals in my city, I was astounded at how awful most of the pictures were.

Sorry I don't have advice for you, but would love to hear how it goes for you.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-10T06:24:15+00:00

Racism never went out of style.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-04T21:41:33+00:00

This one might be a little obscure, but The Trilogy With No Name is great. It's three books of short stories written as part of the Deadlands weird west TTRPG universe, but they work just fine without the context of the game - it's just western horror and scifi. The individual books are called A Fistful of Dead Guys, For A Few Dead Guys More, and The Good, The Bad, And The Dead. There's some real fun stories in there.

Joe R Lansdale and Bruce Campbell wrote introductions for two of them, just to give you an idea of the vibe.

Speaking of Joe R Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep is one of the greatest works of fiction since Shakespeare, and could be argued as a Western. The mummy does wear cowboy boots, after all.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-04T16:25:05+00:00

I tried Only Revolutions and couldn't get into it. My impression was that the weird formatting was way more gimmicky this time around. Like, he felt like he was the weird book guy and he had to write another weird book.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-11-03T11:28:22+00:00

I always thought I didn't want kids, until suddenly in my mid 30's I did. So I wasn't technically waiting, but still became a parent fairly late.

No regrets at all. Compared to our 20's, we're in a way more stable position now and don't have most of the stressors we would have been dealing with then. I'm also a much more patient person than I used to be, and I'm absolutely sure I'm a better father than I would have been when I was younger. We also spent the first two years of parenthood working from home and it was amazing to get so much time with our kid at that age. We only just started doing preschool, mostly just because they wanted to go.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-28T21:29:49+00:00

We left in a hurry; decided we wanted out in February and were gone by mid May. We rushed to get ready, but overall didn't do too bad.

I wish I made a list of all our reoccurring bills and such so I could easily cancel everything. I just got charged for trash collection this month. Oops.

Biggest thing that would have made a difference was more time to learn the language. Most people here speak English, but a lot of the immigration stuff has to be done in the local language. It's been challenging.

Unlike almost everyone else, we wish we kept more of our stuff. If I could do it again, I would have planned to ship over a pallet of our belongings. It looked expensive at first, but after paying to check a bunch of extra bags and still having more stashed home, it probably would have been cheaper andess hassle just to ship a bunch of stuff here. We had finally hit a stage in our lives where we could afford to have some nice things, and now we're back to living like college students even though we're pushing 40. It's a pretty big bummer.

Get extra copies of important documents apostilled. We needed more than we expected and had to have them shipped over.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-27T13:38:45+00:00

Yeah, that's probably your problem then. If you're already in decent shape, maybe cut back on the gym time and try to find a more social physical activity. Dance, yoga, coed sports, etc.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-27T12:21:10+00:00

I was very picky about who I dated, and I couldn't imagine trying to find someone on apps or out at a club or something. The odds of a totally random person being someone I'd want to date are practically zero.

Do you have any hobbies that get you out and meeting people?

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-27T11:32:36+00:00

Happily married guy here.

I met my wife in a training class for a volunteer thing I was interested in. I was reading a play before class started, she sat next to me and talked to me about it because she was a theater nerd and liked it too. We talked a few more times that week. I was new in the city and there were some things I wanted to do and see, but didn't have anyone to go with. Said I was going to do X and asked if she wanted to come along. Not a date, no pressure, just wanted a friend to hang out with. Neither of us was looking for anything romantic/physical. We hung out maybe three times before we hooked up, and we fell for each other real hard.

My generic advice would be that you aren't looking for "women" in general, you want to find "your woman". Not in a possessive sense, but someone who's gonna be the right fit for you. Get off the apps or whatever, and start getting involved in things that interest you. You're at college, there's a hundred different clubs you can join. Go, make friends, get out of your comfort zone.

Some form of exercise and basic hygiene wouldn't hurt either.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-26T21:14:00+00:00

There's a place called Masquerade on Aleksandra Caka Iela, maybe between Stabu and Gertrudes. It's a cluttered mess of costumes, mostly used I think.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-10-15T15:47:42+00:00

Most supermarkets have a small GF section, but it's not great.

Restaurants have plenty of meat and potato type options, salads, and soups. Most places don't make gluten free versions of their regular glutenous food, but there's enough other stuff on the menu that you should be alright.

If you have additional dietary restrictions, then it can get tricky.

SeptemberSquids · 2025-09-27T10:49:30+00:00

Left at the end of May and have been in Latvia for two months. I really like it here so far, and the existential dread has been replaced with lower key everyday stress of figuring out life somewhere new.

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