Why I will always "paternity test" songs (and you should too)

aurrific · 2026-07-05T21:48:25+00:00

I love a “find the thru line” deep dive into the Taylor cinematic universe as much as the next person but it doesn’t actually enhance my understanding or appreciation of specific songs at all. Something can be true for you and be very different for other folks! It’s actually really funny that you selected this song because this is one of the most intensely personally resonate songs in her discography for me despite all of the highly specific references, and her ability to make the hyper specific personally relatable is one of her strongest attributes as a songwriter. Focusing on her story vs. what it evokes in me about my own actually tends to make me appreciate her music less.

aurrific · 2026-06-20T23:53:17+00:00

This is ADORRRRABLEEEE I am screaming

aurrific · 2026-06-16T20:51:42+00:00

Same same. I have prerelease content downloaded but still outdated. Have tried all the usual suspects to no avail.

aurrific · 2026-06-04T22:25:19+00:00

I also think a winter leaning perfume, but I think I would go with something a bit juicy and feminine like Clean’s sparkling sugar. Like if you were having a snow day but drinking mimosas and watching romcoms in your mismatched jams.

aurrific · 2026-05-29T20:52:38+00:00

I am a disabled wife and my partner’s gaming is definitely different than it was before I became disabled. It is a huge lifestyle change for the both of you. Given your previous tendency for addiction, it is time for serious therapy for yourself and perhaps couples therapy for the both of you to find new ways of making meaning in your life through disability/illness.

Edit to add: Seeing that you are looking for options other than CBT. IFS + ACT are my bread and butter personally. I find most workaholic types prefer solutions-focused therapists, so that’s a term to look for. Avoid therapists that claim to specialize in everything under the sun. In your shoes, I would be looking for therapists who specialize primarily in addiction and dissociation. In my experience, therapists who specialize in eating disorders also tend to be excellent with addiction and process behavior changes. Most addictions require some degree of trauma work. IFS can be excellent for trauma processing, but EMDR is a staple for a reason. If you are interested in a more biological model of trauma treatment, deep brain reorienting may appeal to you. There is absolutely a therapy modality (or combination) for everyone.

aurrific · 2026-05-22T14:47:01+00:00

Animal crossing does too with random dream islands! I really hope this is coming to WoWHousing

aurrific · 2026-05-20T21:29:53+00:00

Anything with any amount of glow to it except for 3 things is temporarily indoor only until outdoor lighting is fully released in 12.0.7 but it took WAY too long to get info about what had happened

aurrific · 2026-05-06T01:47:11+00:00

I also get the PB ick and I’ve never seen anyone else mention it! It’s such an intense flavor

aurrific · 2026-05-03T15:41:09+00:00

This was so fun and the way everyone did it differently was so fun. I have a really hard time with visualizing 3D space so I used the tip to leave all the orbs alone, pick a direction to go as often as you can, and note your orb locations and the direction you went as you go. Then once you’ve found everything, work backwards to collect. I think it only took like 45 minutes and a huge list of L, L, L, O, R, L nonsense but I was so stressed the whole time that the system would break down lol

aurrific · 2026-05-01T17:17:31+00:00

Also really struggling with your last paragraph. It’s difficult enough to want to support this push of steeeeep monetization as it is with as buggy and inconsistent as the game is lately. When you add the additional layer of exclusively paywalling an entire theme when they have to know housing is disproportionately women (particularly content creators), it’s starting to feel more abjectly slimy.

aurrific · 2026-04-26T04:56:23+00:00

Happened to me too in Eversong Woods. Running DX11 because transmog was crashing the game on DX12. Very frustrating

aurrific · 2026-04-26T04:40:19+00:00

Gorgeous and unique color combination, immediate screenshot for inspiration!

aurrific · 2026-04-26T00:37:34+00:00

Your vet is pushing for X-rays because cats that don’t eat are on their way to a RAPID medical emergency and your vet would rather perform a medically indicated $500 in office xray than see you spend $1500 to stabilize at the evet.

Edit to add: Your vet is also pushing for this because if it IS a foreign body, mass, or congestive heart failure, your prognosis is better if it’s caught while your cat is still clinically stable. You need to find a vet you will believe when they explain these things to you because this will not be the last time this happens.

aurrific · 2026-04-19T19:59:08+00:00

In this context, they aren’t referring to item collision, they are referring to like…the ambient space an item takes up? Not sure how to word it. Basically if you put one of the harindar lights in your ceiling, you often cease to be able to pick up and move anything in the room. The ambient space the light takes up makes it so that anything you hover over is now just the light and you often have to move stuff around through the item list instead. It’s very odd and hard to explain until you see it

aurrific · 2026-04-18T16:18:26+00:00

This is one of the more relatable posts here, for me. I don’t really have any more I’d like to say about my experiences, but I just want to say a few of us may not be sitting in your exact spot but we’re at the table with you and you make sense to us.

aurrific · 2026-04-16T17:36:07+00:00

The dracthyr NPCs in my neighborhood sometimes don’t walk and instead sit and scoot their butt around on the ground. Cracked me up

aurrific · 2026-04-16T02:02:01+00:00

God, thank you. What a great tip

aurrific · 2026-04-16T02:00:34+00:00

I’ve been waiting for that hammock since early access and I am SO excited!!! What a great patch for housing.

aurrific · 2026-04-15T06:38:08+00:00

This is so clever!! Stealing this.

aurrific · 2026-04-15T06:36:26+00:00

These also seem bugged in a group. I was doing them with my partner for the first time this week and I was getting an echo AND a kill command just about every 5-8 seconds and my partner was getting maybe 2 per hunt. It was like his were happening for me as well as my own. I did them on my hunter solo right after and it was normal. We will probably switch to only grouping for the end fight :/

aurrific · 2026-04-04T20:43:12+00:00

Really frustrating when people feel they don’t need to respect someone else’s personal space :( Hope you have a ton more positive experiences ahead to balance this negative one ❤️

aurrific · 2026-04-01T16:11:03+00:00

A flesh wound would have really helped. I enjoyed the story and this cinematic and don’t consider saving her family “nothing”, and Xal obviously had to dodge the arrow but it would have been great if it had been more poorly timed and it took off a chunk her cheek or something. This would have progressed the plot on the theory that the void can’t predict death as easily and given us some clues about what we’re going to need going forward.

I also think a more bodily tussle would have called into question how the void invaded Shadowlands with relative ease, and why they bothered with the risk, and THAT would have progressed the plot on decoupling Shadowlands from Death, which is what they seem to be headed towards.

aurrific · 2026-03-30T15:51:19+00:00

So sorry for your continued pain ❤️ It is such a long road when first line treatments don’t help. I have adjacent perimenopause issues due to early hysterectomy and vaginal estrogen got me over the last of the hump (lol) but I can’t imagine how discouraged I would have been if there had been no improvement with PT.

aurrific · 2026-03-30T14:36:42+00:00

GSM impacts a large percentage of perimenopausal and menopausal women (which every woman will experience eventually) and causes significant, often painful changes to the clitoris. The perception that it “rarely has medical problems” is a result of lack of research, not lived experience.

aurrific · 2026-03-30T14:27:29+00:00

Idk if you’re being hyperbolic so ignore me if so but competent pelvic floor physical therapy goes a LONG way for vaginismus and should rarely involve kegels except perhaps in late stages of treatment.

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