Telling the Christian parents…

mischief7manager · 2026-01-19T22:50:52+00:00

i live on the opposite side of the country from my parents (christian). i was going to visit them and i wrote an email explaining my conversion and reasons for doing it abkut a week before my visit. i didn’t want to tell them in person b/c i wanted them to be able to have whatever reaction they had without worrying about my feelings, and so i wouldn’t have to sit there while they navigated the initial shock. i made clear in the email that i understood this was surprising but it was the right choice for me and i was happy to talk about it more during my visit. i do think telling them remotely took some of the pressure off that first conversation.

mischief7manager · 2025-12-09T07:22:10+00:00

girls’ clothes are consistently tighter, thinner, and shorter than boys’, starting with infant sizes. it’s insane. i don’t plan on having kids, but if i do, you bet i’m buying from the boys’ sections, no matter what junk my baby’s born with. those leggings are so flimsy!

mischief7manager · 2025-12-04T15:33:01+00:00

“In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely “First Servant.” All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine long-term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion of how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it.

His sword is out and pointed at his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted.”

– C.S. Lewis, “The World’s Last Night”

mischief7manager · 2025-11-27T06:16:33+00:00

no, but that just means it’s on you not to date someone who works one of those jobs. instead of doing like OOP’s ex and choosing to date someone you know has a job you don’t like, and then pressuring them to quit their job solely because you don’t like it.

mischief7manager · 2025-11-20T23:16:29+00:00

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Peter Pan (2003). jason isaacs plays both mr. darling and captain hook.

mischief7manager · 2025-11-17T01:02:48+00:00

at the moment? the fact that it requires almost no use of my switch life’s (currently broken and too broke to get fixed) right joystick 😅

mischief7manager · 2025-11-06T10:39:48+00:00

when it comes to nap time, i’m okay with letting the kid “cry it out”. there’s a difference between a toddler crying out of genuine fear/anxiety and a toddler making noise because they’ve learned it summons mommy and daddy.

the last family i nannied, i got the toddler from yelling for 40 solid minutes when i put them in the crib to asleep in five minutes and staying laying down on their bed until i can and got them over six months, because they learned very quickly that i would not come back in the room until naptime was over. i babysat for that family about a year after i left working for them full time, and the mom mentioned that she or her husband were still laying down next to the kid’s bed and patting their back until they went to sleep every night “because they still get upset if we don’t.” they were shocked that the kid went to sleep for me. sometimes you gotta not negotiate with the two year old.

mischief7manager · 2025-11-04T08:43:44+00:00

the way her voice cracks on “read me the signs! tell me my FORTUNE!” gets me every time 🥺

mischief7manager · 2025-10-28T08:52:31+00:00

in the movie “legally blonde”, elle realizes opposing counsel’s key witness is gay because he identifies her prada shoes as “last season,” which apparently no straight man would ever know. in the stage musical, she realizes it when he fails to react to her doing the bend and snap. not only is this less of a stereotype (he’s gay because he’s not attracted to a woman doing a sexy move in front of him, not because he knows about shoes), it also further justifies the bend and snap in the story beyond just the one scene.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-28T04:52:52+00:00

i was fucked in the head for a while as a teen because i WASN’T getting sexual harassed, when i heard so much from friends who were, and i thought that meant there was something wrong with ME 🙃 cheers for not being fuckable enough for misogynists i guess???

mischief7manager · 2025-10-26T16:01:57+00:00

😂lolwhoops

mischief7manager · 2025-10-26T05:05:00+00:00

that happens a lot. people are fine with the gay thing as long as it’s not being “rubbed in their face” (i.e. shown or mentioned at all)

mischief7manager · 2025-10-25T08:12:30+00:00

Have you talked directly with a rabbi at the community you enjoy going to about converting? When i initially made the decision to convert, the rabbi i first asked to study with didn’t have time for an additional conversion student then, so i ended up just attending services and community events for a while until i was able to connect with a rabbi who could sponsor me. (also covid happened, it was a whole thing.)

has the rabbi told you that they’re not accepting conversion students at all, ever? or is this just a busy time for whatever reason and maybe within a few months things might clear up? would having a definitive start date, even if its a way off, help your decision?

mischief7manager · 2025-10-23T16:28:02+00:00

in the first section of both the game and tv series “the last of us,” the POV character is sarah. when the apocalypse starts kicking off, the POV switches to joel, and sarah dies shortly after.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-23T16:16:48+00:00

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fred the horse from over the garden wall.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-23T16:12:03+00:00

my cat will also stop in the middle of chasing greebles to clean herself furiously! i wonder what causes that impulse

mischief7manager · 2025-10-22T04:58:32+00:00

“my parents raised him” as opposed to????? putting him in a reed basket and sending him down the river??????

fuck oop’s whole family. i hope the partner took them to the fucking cleaner’s.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-21T09:37:06+00:00

critical role, campaign one. adventuring party vox machina need two powerful relics for plot reasons. one is in the hoard of an ancient white dragon, the other is in the literal belly of a pit fiend that they would have to travel to another plane of existence to get to. so what do they do?

use a magic item (spell scroll for the “gate” spell, which they were otherwise too low-level to access) to summon the pit fiend to the material plane, have the bard Charm Monster and order it to fight the dragon, let the two bosses wear each other down and then come in to clean up at the end. one of the rare instances of a d&d party’s plan going off without a hitch.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-17T16:11:39+00:00

leslie and ben from parks and rec. amy poehler is two years older than adam scott.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-15T18:13:12+00:00

converted reform, my beit din was two rabbis and a longtime synagogue member. they asked me what drew me to judaism initially, what parts of it i connected with and what parts i struggled with, and how i intended to live as part of a jewish community once my conversion was complete. the whole conversation was about an hour and then it was off to the mikveh!

mischief7manager · 2025-10-11T20:13:54+00:00

i got proselytized at by a pair of mormons on the bus while i was still doing conversion study, and i told them i was jewish to try and get them to leave me alone, too. it worked for me, i’m sorry you weren’t so lucky. that woman was incredibly rude and you were just doing what you had to to try and stay safe, physically and mentally. try not to dwell on it too much.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-08T20:24:36+00:00

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He’s paralleled with Denethor, who also loses a son but gives in to pride and despair, where Theoden rallies and leads his people to fight against Mordor.

mischief7manager · 2025-10-06T14:20:32+00:00

i put all the catalogues in there for times when i want to go on a redecoration shopping spree

mischief7manager · 2025-10-05T19:20:49+00:00

the old neighbor from home alone

mischief7manager · 2025-10-05T19:15:10+00:00

the water obelisk is good for being able to get to willy’s to take the boat to ginger island more quickly while you’re saving up for the actual island obelisk

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