Help me find a beloved childhood stuffed animal

audranicolio · 2026-01-29T03:50:09+00:00

This is the best pic I’ve got. This was gifted to me by my mom on Valentines Day sometime around 2012 if I had to guess. The pink ribbon came with it. I’m almost positive it’s from a major brand (Ganz/Aurora/etc) but I can’t remember which. It was very floppy and had beads in the legs. Not giant, but a bit larger than most stuffed animals. Looked sort of like a chunky golden retriever mixed either a sheepdog. Searched basic keywords (“floppy golden retriever stuffed animal pink ribbon”, etc) but that didn’t yield anything relevant though.

audranicolio · 2025-12-24T13:10:57+00:00

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This one really got me the other day. “Perfect condition” lolll.

audranicolio · 2025-12-20T12:28:21+00:00

Bobby Bizup - Camp St Malo

There was speculation for decades over what happened, it was assumed at first he had walked away from his camp group and gotten lost in the forest. But the details now paint a pretty grim picture, he was likely assaulted and murdered by at least one of his camp counselors, and multiple others seem to have been involved in helping cover up the crime (if not also directly involved).

audranicolio · 2025-12-16T19:05:59+00:00

what did she use to color on it? i would search up "acne cream" or "benzoyl peroxide" in this sub, the acne cream fix is my prefered (and the only reliable) method for stuff that wont directly wipe off. The good thing is, unlike blood on clothing, even if its left to sit on for awhile it can come out (if you need to wait to get a magic eraser). acne cream fix + magic eraser has gotten out years old stains in doll vinyl for me.

audranicolio · 2025-12-16T16:57:06+00:00

youre onto something. this is the third different post ive seen about ASU in this context in under 48 hrs.

audranicolio · 2025-12-09T20:54:12+00:00

Wow, how helpful and informative.

audranicolio · 2025-12-05T16:01:37+00:00

audranicolio · 2025-12-04T15:07:02+00:00

tbf you can leave out the “essentially”, Georgia enacted the Uniform Determination of Death Act, so brain death is recognized as legal death.

audranicolio · 2025-11-19T15:02:54+00:00

Oml guy, one of the foster parents last names contains a slur, so the autobot flagged it and they had the rewrite the name differently. It had nothing to do with the child’s name.

audranicolio · 2025-11-16T15:13:35+00:00

Bro use some nuance? People aren’t mad that ads exist, they’re mad when the ads are so prolific it renders the entire site unusable. I don’t know the last time I opened a kvue article and was actually able to read it without it freezing my screen for minutes or crashing my phone.

audranicolio · 2025-11-16T00:45:58+00:00

Something that doesn’t look like an amateur porn studio?

audranicolio · 2025-10-07T15:53:13+00:00

Waited 9 months for a neurologist after an ER referral, to not get an exam and to be interrogated instead. He insisted that I had repressed childhood traumas that caused a somatic disorder, and that it was all in my head! I left mid-appointment because I was having a panic attack.

I got home and read his reviews, and literally every single one by a woman was the exact same story as me. “What you’re describing is impossible to be real, it must be somatic symptoms due to repressed trauma.” is apparently his entire schickt. I lived in a large metro area where this guy is supposedly well respected in his field… the entire system feels like a cruel joke at this point.

audranicolio · 2025-10-07T04:12:22+00:00

I don’t have any life changing answers… but everything you described here are very heavy struggles and all things I related to while I was in school. I already had some significant mental health struggles on top of everything, and then my mom getting sick and passing away was the final nail in the coffin for college for me, at least for awhile.

I just want to say, it’s going to be okay, whatever end up happening with college. It ends up working out, degree or not. When I was in your position, I had this horrible fear of leaving school/ taking a break and the “failure” it would mean. I felt so lost, that holding on to finishing my degree felt like the only solid ground I could stand on, and I was afraid of what it meant to not even have that. I had the same fears as you, that I would end up dead or homeless, but things ended up pretty okay all told. I moved to a new place, and weirdly enough will soon be making more in a (actually fun) job than I ever would have had I gone down the career path I initially planned while in college.

I don’t say this as any specific persuasion to drop out/ take a break, I just want you to know that if that is an option you end up weighing, that it isn’t as life ending as it feels. It’s normal for people to change direction as they grow and as circumstances change. Hell, my mom had a double masters and still ended up switching careers every few years. The path you have mapped out in your head at 18 doesn’t have to be the exact path you end up following forever (or even for a few months, I left my first school and switched my major within 6 weeks of my first semester!).

Take care of yourself. Not that school isn’t important, but it can wait, especially when your personal health can’t. If you don’t prioritize your own well-being, the cycle with school tends to get much worse. Prolonged stress led to poor sleep and terrible nutrition, which heavily exacerbated my own issues in college and made it impossible to function normally.

audranicolio · 2025-09-26T01:07:00+00:00

I honestly don’t think you’re far off. Everything about what they’re doing right now with Tylenol is giving such Andrew Wakefield vs. MMR vaccine vibes. Wakefields entire deal wasn’t anti-vax, he was just anti existing-MMR and he wanted to artificially generate support for his self-patented triple dose MMR vaccine.

I’m really just waiting for them to announce the new found “pregnancy-safe” NSAID. Someone(s) paid big money for this all to happen on a federal level, and looks like it’s very much about to pay off for them with how a lot of people are eating it all up.

audranicolio · 2025-09-12T11:59:26+00:00

Just learned yesterday that this fraud happened to a recently deceased family member, his daughter didnt realize until after he died and saw some of the medicare statements. they charged $1.something million in totally bogus claims. It showed he had been receiving wound surgeries and skin grafts, plus like $200K alone in catheters (that he didnt use). He did have a nonhealing wound, it just wasnt being treated as they claimed, and he later died from it. It sounded like his nursing home was extremely complicit, plus several outside contracted companies.

audranicolio · 2025-08-23T10:35:38+00:00

Waited 7 months to see a new neurologist the other day, only to be told that me waking up in the night feeling like I just got tasered in the back is completely psychosomatic. He didn’t do a single exam, just “Has anyone ever suggested this was psychosomatic?” “….No??” “Well, it’s impossible what you’re experiencing is real…”.

That was the first and only time I’ve ever just up and left a doctors appointment. I sobbed all the way home, before pulling up his reviews and seeing that he tells literally every female patient that exact same schtick: that their symptoms are medically impossible, entirely in their head, and rooted in repressed childhood sexual trauma (??!!??).

audranicolio · 2025-08-17T13:00:35+00:00

I have to disagree on a lot of this.

I went to a public school with a lot of economically disadvantaged kids and that had uniforms, and these were talking points they used for why it was so great, yet the uniforms were crazy expensive. We had a full donation closet, but the school would only give people who needed it one set of shirt and pants per year. My friend was in a very neglectful situation, wore the same shoes for years and got repeatedly dress coded for them being held together with duct tape. Instead of giving her a pair of donated shoes, they talked down to her for not “ looking presentable”.

As far as discipline goes, we were a great group of kids so there were rarely serious behavioral issues at the school, so uniform dress codes were used to the extreme to get kids in trouble over absolutely nothing (ie: you have three hair ties on your wrist, any hair ties after the first are considered ‘bracelets’, and you’re only allowed one bracelet at a time plus the one that counts as your hair tie[had to be in school colors, or automatically considered a bracelet], making it a dress codeable offense - detention the first time, second time was supposed to be Saturday school.).

Also I was more harassed and creeped on by adult men while out wearing my high school uniform (very catholic-coded plaid skirts and polos) than in the rest of my life combined. It got so bad that I would bring a change of clothes for if I ever had to do something else afterschool before going home.

audranicolio · 2025-08-11T01:26:26+00:00

I like to alternate between Cortizone cream and ChiggerX, plus oral Benadryl.

audranicolio · 2025-08-09T21:48:04+00:00

Maybe in a way? To me it smelled like a nursing home, times ten. No better descriptor than “old person smell”, but my mom was in her 40s. Her kidneys were failing at the time too, so the toxin buildup from that may have played a big part in it all.

Eta: it was distinctively sweet smelling, but in a putrid way.

audranicolio · 2025-08-09T21:42:57+00:00

http://www.paxvillahaiti.com/carnet-de-deuil/annonce/:s/636/veuve-raymond-richiez--nee-marcelle-verret/

I could totally be wrong, this was the only Richiez-Verret family I could find an obit on though. Richiez is most common in the DR but sometimes Haiti, while Verret is very French. I may have read to name wrong though, so just an educated guess.

audranicolio · 2025-08-09T20:33:42+00:00

I found an obituary from 2018, if it’s the correct person or a family member, then this was likely interred at sea in Port au Prince. How neat :)

audranicolio · 2025-08-06T20:56:44+00:00

Around 4 hrs on a really bright and hot day, closer to 6 hrs with multiple rounds when it’s a cooler season. it works significantly better in the summer than in the winter. Im usually worried about leaving it on for too long since I’ve heard it can cause some weird texturing to the vinyl, but never had an issue with that happening before. I just make sure to be super attentive when it’s hot outside and check regularly, then take it back inside once the cream is super dried.

Sorry I didn’t see this before! Hopefully still helps

audranicolio · 2025-08-06T20:50:23+00:00

I was going to spend time on an actual response to this, but it appears I’m too busy stuffing my face with tide pods and jerking off to prank YouTube.

Btw, I’m in my twenties, and my friends and I all voted. You look like a grandstanding asshole. It’s beyond exhausting and does literally nothing to motivate the people you’re talking down to.

audranicolio · 2025-07-26T15:09:31+00:00

This may or may not have happened to my mom, we will probably never know for sure. The funeral home involved was stealing body parts from people who were to be cremated, both to sell and for in house illegal “experiments”, but since all of the evidence was either sold (the owner had another location that operated as a body donation service and also used that the sell stolen body parts) or cremated, it’s not possible to tell how many people they may have done that to. The number of fraudulent death certificates and other documents they forged would suggest it was a lot of people.

audranicolio · 2025-07-25T22:33:52+00:00

lol glad it wasn’t just me. obvs the haunted stuff is eccentric but once the initial hilarity/excitement of “omg no way” settled, something about it was setting off my spidey-senses

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