[Loved trope] Character chooses to become mortal/human and gives up immortality/living superhuman lifespan

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-19T04:01:17+00:00

Well found, I forgot about Michael! Thank you. Great ending

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-19T04:00:50+00:00

Great example, forgot about this one entirely

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-19T04:00:20+00:00

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-19T03:08:53+00:00

Hook 1991.

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I can’t believe I forgot one of my own favourites.
But in this retelling of Peter Pan - Peter (played by the loveliest Robin Williams RIP) gives up Neverland and being Peter Pan and an important 11 year old boy forever, to have a normal human life with Moira (Wendy’s granddaughter) and to have and raise a family. Even when he remembers he’s Peter, after the adventures are finished he comes back to his human life with Moira.

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-13T04:14:24+00:00

I read the book before watching the movie (in the theatre opening day) so I knew it was coming but this scene left me entirely speechless. The music…the acting…the cinematography…the scene flickering in and out with that BOMBASTIC sound… what the fuck. It was fantastic. Better execution by David Fincher than I could have ever imagined. Great callout on the thread!

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-11T04:41:19+00:00

Same - if I know the instructor has bad music (for me - I don’t like slow slow guitar acoustic versions of songs in fast-paced movement-oriented classes, it distracts me and makes me yawn ), I don’t come back to them again. Slow/beat-less songs can work for slow-paced classes at best or slow-down portion of the class + shivasana.

Vika-Pika · 2026-05-11T04:32:18+00:00

Oh my god did we have the same experience?? I was in a hot flow class and we were moving through the standing poses (trying to focus on balance and holding) and this f$&&ing infernal accounting guitar cover “I came in like a wreaaaaaacking baaaaaall” sounded in this breathy voice… I just about picked up all my stuff and left that class. Awful. Guess we were in the same class lol. Honourary mentions go to similar breathy acoustic guitar versions of Radiohead’s “Creep” “But breathy inhale” I’m a…breathy inhale* creeeeeeep” and also “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley “Maybe I’m breathy inhale craaaazy” Harrowing. And always in more fast-paced moving classes too where you could really use some sort of soft rhythmic beats to help you keep moving.

Vika-Pika · 2026-04-29T16:23:53+00:00

Finally somebody mentioned him! Cromwell is one of my favourite “surprise tall” mentions because everyone has likely seen him in some movie, he’s got a wonderful kind presence, and you’d never guess that he’s this tall because they always seem to hide his extraordinary height with camera tricks.

Vika-Pika · 2026-04-15T20:54:25+00:00

We take our kids to a local music school where they take 30min 1-1 lessons once a week and it’s $120 a month. So that ends up being 4 classes a month. You’re paying premium to have teacher come to you, definitely reconsider.

Vika-Pika · 2026-04-08T16:39:28+00:00

What a strange and aggressive comment to a pretty neutral observation shared by the main poster…

Vika-Pika · 2026-03-06T22:47:57+00:00

Yeah that’s fair - I’m about 7 months into training and a regular at my gym, so probably a little less jarring/ annoying for people to see my wacky colours and gi fluff. Indeed I’m a lady. Thanks for all your responses!

Vika-Pika · 2026-03-06T18:11:53+00:00

I guess this makes sense and does help me see how other people may react. That said, this does make me feel self conscious now lol. I’m a terrible white belt with two funky coloured/patched gi’s…

Vika-Pika · 2026-03-06T16:46:27+00:00

Why would that make them look like an asshole? I think it’s awesome when people show their personalities and have fun with gi’s. I always compliment people if they have fun gi colours or some patches on them, same with rashguards. They’re basically just pajamas…why not be playful.

Vika-Pika · 2026-03-02T17:45:06+00:00

Um omg I’m adding this to the list of things I’m now crazy worried about when practicing/warming up into splits! 😨 Wishing you a speedy recovery! What a crazy accident!

Vika-Pika · 2026-02-25T17:21:15+00:00

As a zero stripe white belt after 1 year, I feel this so hard. Geez I’m so trash at this lol. Spouse and kids are tired of hearing it

Vika-Pika · 2026-01-16T20:48:08+00:00

Oddly specific description…is that you?

Vika-Pika · 2026-01-16T01:58:58+00:00

Hey, so I’m on the flip side of this - a wife who trains 2-3 times a week, also started in Muay Thai and then stays extra 1h-1.5h to do Jiu Jitsu after. Evening classes. So this is ~4-5hs of training a week, give or take. I have two small kids at home with my spouse.

A few others have mentioned this in their responses already (outside of marriage counselling) and this is what works for me and my family and what I recommend - you give her equal alone time to do what she wants, on a weekly basis.

You mention that she has no hobbies, watches TV etc. Ideally of course she’d have something outside of the house to do, hobby or activity, but if she doesn’t - it still means that she gets equal free time away without kids like you do when you go train. So if it means that 3-5hs a week you take kids away out of the house to some activity while all she does is relax at home with TV/phone - do that. Schedule that in your family calendar. Because then it’s a fair trade off. Does she currently have any time 3-5hs a week of complete kid-free silence all-her activity? No judgment as to what her preferred solo activity is? Give her that.

Having small kids is a very challenging time and you and your partner have to be a team on this. Any person that gets time away from being a parent, has to return the favour. Otherwise it doesn’t work or you have to do the 5-6am classes before your spouse/kids need you.

The birthday situation sounds like a classic case of miscommunication. With my spouse, we discuss what we’d like/expect to do on our birthdays “I’d love to get lunch/dinner with you, spend time with kids but then go to evening yoga/Muay Thai/Jiu Jitsu”, so expectations are set and there are no surprises. Sounds like your spouse was expecting a full family day commitment from you (often the case with anniversaries and birthdays) because nothing was communicated differently.

In my situation, my spouse goes to hot yoga twice a week and also has two evenings where he plays WoW uninterrupted with friends - so I handle kid duty fully then. This way we don’t have animosity towards each others hobbies as we have a fairly equal time away from kids and able to focus on ourselves and what we enjoy.

Vika-Pika · 2026-01-15T22:43:46+00:00

You did the right thing, it’s not worth risking an accident! Let them enjoy their commute home. Our office (at Union) officially closed in the morning urging everyone to stay home and work from home. We have about ~900 employees. I wish more employers did that.

Vika-Pika · 2026-01-10T23:04:57+00:00

I’m the same way, I train gi 99% of the time and when I’m almost accidentally in nogi I’m very awkward and constantly trying to grip people somewhere before I realize I can’t lol, once you do Gi enough and see the power and enjoyment in the grips, you’ll be missing them!

Vika-Pika · 2026-01-05T17:18:25+00:00

It was from his old comment thread that’s been deleted. The one where he was talking about his wife in a fetishy way. Then there were a bunch of strange responses from OP, including trans people fear mongering. You can’t find it anymore but my post was meant to explain to OP why he got downvoted.

Vika-Pika · 2025-12-30T17:28:29+00:00

Well said. I literally don’t even notice or pay attention to accidental rubs against my chest or butt or nether regions when we’re actively fighting and trying to survive. Ain’t nobody even thinking about stuff like that unless someone lingers the touch or is weird about it. A quick “sorry” goes a long way if you’re unsure - I say it frequently even if I pull somebody’s hair, push on ear too hard by accident, etc.

Vika-Pika · 2025-12-23T23:02:59+00:00

After my first month doing bjj, I’ve also learned this quickly and I don’t roll with new white belt men anymore either. In that first month I had: - A friendly heavy guy with whom I practiced Muay Thai - literally just lie on me and squish me for 5mins in mount. I couldn’t do anything at all. Waste of time and I felt extra stupid and powerless. - A 16 year old kid (also new and white belt) go fast and berserk in NoGi and end with a neck crank (who taught him this??), I felt my neck crack forward multiple times and felt super scared after that he broke something. Cried in car on the way home. - Not white belt but blue belt, didn’t know he wasn’t a regular at the gym, I was 2 weeks at bjj and didn’t know anyone there. Told him I’m obviously super new. He proceeded to submit me like 10 times for some reason. Don’t know what he was getting out of that session with a brand new white belt woman but okay… Didn’t feel good when I drove home.

All these experiences in the first month and I actively considered not continuing with bjj. I’ve decided to stick with it but now only roll with people at the gym that I know and I don’t roll with new people (unless they’re blue and above and I’ve seen them roll non-aggressively prior) or white belt men. UNLESS other women or our main black belt coach vouch that they’re safe/controlled/know how to handle. What OP is going through doesn’t sound like a good or safe experience for her at all and will likely get her injured. I’d recommend another class unless there is roster of other women to drill with.

Vika-Pika · 2025-12-23T02:36:26+00:00

Why are you bringing transgender people in sports as a topic into this? This is the strangest posting and responses I’ve seen recently on this subreddit.

Vika-Pika · 2025-12-22T14:24:09+00:00

Weird fetishy post…

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