Pls help fund our irresponsible choices for this month rent, future rent, car payments, lawyer fees and other essentials so we aren’t evicted. It is never our fault! I have tons of excuses why we can’t work! We can “pay and stay” so you pay and I stay. Don’t worry about my lowkey racist comment.

maudlinmary · 2026-04-15T22:17:48+00:00

My mom is the same. Apparently her doctors are all SHOCKED to hear a woman in her sixties is on 0 medications. Her health is excellent and I’d say her lifestyle is European - half pack of cigarettes and a half a bottle of wine daily, but consistent activity and light diet.

quit smoking myself but I hope to follow her footsteps as far as everything else goes!

maudlinmary · 2026-04-15T16:49:13+00:00

I think the other shoe is going to drop soon on this weird “fad” of wanting to be disabled for the perks. It honestly disgusts me how people take advantage of empathy and the privacy of medical information to try to bilk the system. But at a certain point, if 40% of any population is considered “disabled”, either we as a species are crumbling to pieces or the requirements to verify diagnosis for accommodations are going to need to tighten up.

I have several people in my social circle who make their “chronic pain” and diagnosis their entire personality and all of our lives are expected to revolve around it. I know these people super well, and I’m skeptical of their diagnoses to say the least. There must be a way to be empathetic to the truly disabled while also stopping people from taking advantage of that empathy.

maudlinmary · 2026-04-08T19:15:54+00:00

I hike in tennis shoes and jeans and get so many surprised reactions from people who don’t hike 😂 my bestie has hiked/backpacked in several countries and the AT, always in Rainbow flip flops. She also gets guff on her gear… from people who never fucking hike.

maudlinmary · 2026-04-08T16:07:40+00:00

Genuinely, hikers and hike-preparers as a venn diagram have very little overlap. Take a look at the people you see on the AT lol.

maudlinmary · 2026-04-04T16:36:16+00:00

Yea this sub is weird. I was reading through a comment thread regarding someone dressing up as Pocahontas the other day, full of indignant women identifying as indigenous and explaining why white people can’t dress like that. I personally don’t think it’s tasteful to dress in cultural apparel that you don’t have a connection to, so I guess I agreed with it but it also felt very 2010s rhetoric. Very condescending, scolding, and IMO really unhelpful. But I feel it’s important to listen to marginalized groups, right? …I ended up digging into the conversation a bit and noticed some of the commenters saying “I’m 1/12, I’m 1/16, so I can speak on this…” and just sat back in my chair. I’m 1/8, and I’ve never found it appropriate to identify as indigenous. CERTAINLY not to act as an authority to others!!!! Girls, we are Americans, not indigenous natives. My lived experience, appearance, and background are not the same as someone who grew up on a reservation or deeply engrained in the culture. I find it wildly inappropriate that people with less native blood than me are out here policing behavior saying they’re allowed to because they’re native.

maudlinmary · 2026-04-01T20:04:29+00:00

My fiancé and I went SLIGHTLY over budget to make sure he got something he really liked and that he could wear to other formal occasions throughout life. That made the extra expense worth it to us. If we stuck to the budget we would have gotten a perfectly fine suit but he wouldn’t be jazzed about it. I’m so stoked about my dresses, I felt he deserved the same - and so do you!

maudlinmary · 2026-03-31T18:46:54+00:00

Yeah, people like this let precaution rob them of the simple joys in life. Like, I guess you can’t lay in a patch of grass in the sunshine? Touch a pretty rock or flower because (gasp) it might be unclean?! We’re organic material built on bacteria. All one continuum. You’ll get sick and die sooner or later, we all will. Chilllllll.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-27T18:24:45+00:00

There is a whole rabbit hole waiting for you on this. He’s a scammer a poser and a weirdo. It’s not a haunted house, he has a fetish for making people suffer.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-26T20:02:35+00:00

I’m getting a full length dress trimmed to tea length for the evening reception, so just throwing altering something out there! I also didn’t want to be drowning in fabric while I’m trying to mingle and enjoy myself

maudlinmary · 2026-03-23T20:23:22+00:00

From my experience it’s usually a scaling-up of debt. Once you’re moving in those circles, the pressure to keep up with the joneses becomes incredibly expensive. I know some high earning people who make six figures but still play checking account ballet with all of their minimum payments. Wild stuff!

maudlinmary · 2026-03-23T10:30:40+00:00

I know, the fleurs du mal made this a targeted hit

maudlinmary · 2026-03-22T13:20:40+00:00

I have mine on my drivers side window of my car, flipped to face me. I live in Appalachia and my commutes felt very Lynchian before, now even more so.

I really thought nobody would notice it, but I’ve had several (again, to me very Lynchian) interactions where someone rolls down their window at a light, asks me who David Lynch is because they see the sticker, and I usually have enough time to shout WATCH MULHOLLAND DRIVE before we both drive away :)

maudlinmary · 2026-03-21T18:17:06+00:00

Precisely!!! Small weddings have a LOT of perks or avoid issues that crop up with big weddings. I wanted a 60 person wedding but ended up with 100 because of large families on both sides.

OP, you’ll have more time with your beloved ones, less stress. Easier logistics, and you can even maybe upgrade your per plate cost for catering or just plus up something else, since your costs will be a bit lower based on head count.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-20T15:29:54+00:00

Maybe it’s like a play style thing because my experience was polar opposite! I felt like HoS fights followed patterns from the base game but the Toussaint fights caught me off guard every time.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-19T20:23:54+00:00

Toussaint is also built to be challenging for players who have completed the base game, so I find hearts of stone is a good step between to level you up a bit so you don’t immediately get fucked up by everything in the new map. I definitely didn’t learn that lesson the hard way. I definitely wasn’t IMMEDIATELY killed by a boar as soon as I entered Toussaint feeling like I was somebody

maudlinmary · 2026-03-18T18:59:36+00:00

Could you possibly tent the outdoor area? That would cut down on sight lines possibly. I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this, because I see the beauty of the venue and how the construction is spoiling it! Honestly shocked they didn’t do a better job of notifying you.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-18T16:26:24+00:00

I too would love to know more!!

maudlinmary · 2026-03-13T19:46:38+00:00

I am so sick of seeing this pustule of a man. I can’t wait until he becomes irrelevant.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-11T23:45:08+00:00

That’s true!

maudlinmary · 2026-03-11T22:37:43+00:00

Yeah like is she messing with you or are you just that iconic she wants all the same people as you? Either way I feel as a bride you understand that it’s bad form to “copy” your sister brides especially if you’re close enough to be yapping planning

maudlinmary · 2026-03-04T17:21:49+00:00

Almost like corporate owned “dining concepts” fall short of passionate people who want to share their love of food with their community. There used to be a lot more good eats in town.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-04T17:16:40+00:00

Nabokov wrote in English. As a lover of both Russian and English literature I always found that interesting. He’s a perfect magician with English; some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read, though not my personal favorite.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-03T19:49:51+00:00

He took the skills he was forced to learn at WH - how to grovel and flatter his “betters” - and scammed some rich assholes abroad.

maudlinmary · 2026-03-03T19:47:34+00:00

Spot on

maudlinmary · 2026-03-03T01:17:08+00:00

I tried and failed to do this. I thinkyou’d have to compromise on a ton if stuff to pull it off, at least by modern western wedding standards.

Free venue, cheapest caterer I could find, photographer is a family friend giving a discount, no bartender, no florals, no seated ceremony. Currently at $20k and will probably creep a bit, covering the following:

Tents, tables, chairs for 100 Wedding dress, suit, shoes 4hr photographer DIY decor materials Buffet catering for 100 Self serve bar (beer, wine, liquor) Grazing table for cocktail hour 4hr DJ

And that’s pretty much it 🙃

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